Chapter 243: That Shadow

"I'll tell you anyway." Li Yan simply came up with a trick.

Li Xin: "......"

After arranging a place to live, on the second day, Li Yan directly rushed to visit the meal, saying that she would naturally come to eat for dinner.

Li Ke didn't have anything to say about Li Yan's visit, but he also saw that this girl should have something to say.

Coming here, Li Ke's meal is naturally relatively simple.

However, stir-frying is still possible.

Although I had heard it a little before, but after I really ate it, Li Yan was still a little stunned, this ...... It's really delicious.

"How? It tastes good. Li Ke asked with a smile.

"Well, sure enough, the rumors are true." Li Yan nodded seriously.

"Let's have some tea." Li Ke smiled and asked Yang Anning to pour a cup of tea for each of them.

"Thank you." When Yang Anning brought her tea, Li Yan said thank you.

"The little lady is polite." Yang Anning said with a smile.

"Brother, in fact, my little sister came here today because I want to tell my brother." Li Yan paused, and then spoke directly.

"Oh, you say?" Li Ke was a little curious.

"Brother, I want to ask you for something." Li Yan paused, and then spoke directly.

"You say, if I can help, I will definitely help." Li Ke nodded and said with a smile.

"If one day Datang needs to be reconciled, and Your Majesty finds my father again, I hope Your Highness can help persuade Your Majesty to let me go to Harmony." Li Yan said softly.

Li Ke was stunned by her, this ...... You speak so directly, you have my style. But with a kiss? Who told you to kiss?

"And pro? Who said to be close? Someone told you about it? Li Ke was stunned for a moment, to be honest, he really didn't know about these things, this kind of thing was decided by his father and the officials of the Ministry of Rites. At this time, has anyone already mentioned that he wants to make peace with Tubo?

"Nope." Li Yan shook her head slightly.

"Then why do you say that?" Li Ke was really curious, and sat up straight.

"I guessed it myself." Li Yan said directly, "In the third year of Zhenguan, after His Majesty canonized the current Xue Yantuo Khan Yi Lost Yi Nan as the True Pearl Khan, Jieli knew that the end was coming, so he asked for a decree and wanted to do a son-in-law salute and ask to marry my Tang princess." Because the time was ripe for the Tang Dynasty to use troops against the Eastern Turks at that time, His Majesty did not agree. ”

"But after taking the Eastern Turks, in order to stabilize the relationship with Xue Yantuo, the Tang Dynasty canonized a clan girl as the county lord and pro-Xue Yantuo."

Li Ke was silent for a moment, he knew about this, that's right, Datang has already been with him, but he was just a county lord and a canonized clan girl, she made her own contribution to the stability of Datang, but because she didn't even get the title of princess, she didn't even have the right to be in the history books, so she disappeared into the vast history.

Li Yan continued, "In May of the eighth year of Zhenguan, Murong Fuyun, the leader of Tuyuhun, was severely reprimanded by His Majesty for "wantonly plundering" while "sending tribute", Murong Fuyun was afraid, and wrote to His Majesty to ask for marriage, asking to marry the princess of the Tang Dynasty. ”

His Majesty agreed to Murong Fuyun's request and told him that it was okay to marry the Tang princess, but he had to go to Chang'an in person. Later, Murong Fuyun did not dare to go to Datang due to excessive fear, so he ended up today. ”

"But if Murong Fuyun goes to Chang'an in person, His Royal Highness will definitely not want his life, he is afraid that he will be the same as Jieli at that time, and His Majesty will definitely marry Murong Shun, and at that time, he will inevitably canonize the daughter of the clan as the princess of the Tang Dynasty, because Tuyuhun has a huge area, and it is impossible to be like Zhenzhu Khan, just a county lord."

"And the little sister has learned about the situation of the clan, except for the real princess of the Tang Dynasty, there are not many women of the clan who are of the right age, and my sister Xin'er and I are two of them, but Your Majesty can't let us both go to make peace, that's too unkind, so one of me and Xin'er must go to make peace, but I can't let Xin'er go, so it can only be me."

"And there are still many small countries around the Tang Dynasty, Tubo, Goguryeo, Gaochang, Yanqi, with the growth of the Xue Yantuo tribe, Your Majesty may also strengthen the relationship with Xue Yantuo, and I also heard that in the eighth year of Zhenguan, the current Zanpu Songzan Gampo in Tubo also asked the Tang Dynasty to marry a princess."

"Don't hide it from my brother, in fact, the prescription I gave my brother is not that I am looking for it on purpose, but that I have been prepared over the years, I have taken the initiative to learn some of the languages and cultures of these more powerful subject countries around me, as well as what their people need, and I have thought about what I will bring with me if I go to make peace with my relatives, and what I will know. Because only in this way can we help Datang stabilize a subject country to the greatest extent. ”

Speaking of this, Li Yan smiled bitterly, there was something she didn't say, in fact, Xin'er and her are the same, they are also taking the initiative to learn these, and even learn better! Because she can't guarantee that His Majesty will send both of them out to make peace.

If you don't have to marry and kiss, it's naturally good, but if you have to be married, as the daughter of the Tang royal family, then they can't fall into the reputation of the Tang Dynasty, and they always have to make some contributions to these and pro-country countries to be able to reflect their value and have more right to speak. So that they can live better in a foreign land where they have no relatives, and they can also make a better contribution to maintaining the relationship between Datang and the subject country.

If you don't have a choice, you can only enrich yourself, make yourself stronger, and adapt to this choice.

Looking at the girl who was talking, Li Ke's spirit was a little trance, she was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and Li Xin was only twelve or thirteen years old, but her pattern was so big and her heart was so broad-minded, Li Ke listened to it with some admiration, but in addition to admiration, he could also hear the grievances in her tone.

Undoubtedly, whether it is Li Yan or Li Xin, both of them belong to the kind of women with high intelligence, but this is a feudal society, and in such a society, it is very difficult for women to get ahead.

From the perspective of future generations, looking at the upper and lower 5,000 years, how few women can leave their names and deeds in the official history by virtue of their own ability, rather than their status? Putting aside the empress, women who have a very high status because of the emperor.

What Li Ke can know, in addition to literary talents such as Cai Wenji and Li Qingzhao, there are only Wu Zetian, Wang Zhaojun, Princess Wencheng, Princess Pingyang Zhao, Qin Liangyu, which are very few women who know through history books.

Like Diao Chan, there is no such person in history. Li Ke knew all these things from watching TV series, otherwise he wouldn't have known about it.

Li Ke suddenly thought of the historical evaluation of Princess Wencheng: erudite and versatile, had a great influence on the civilization of Tibet, not only consolidating the western border defense of the Tang Dynasty, but also spreading Han culture to Tibet, after the death of Songtsen Gampo, she continued to live in Tibet for 30 years, committed to strengthening the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and Tibet, and was deeply loved by the people of Tibet.

And she can also be said to have done it, truly strengthening the relationship between Datang and Tubo. It's not like the Eastern Turks, who raised it for decades, felt that they were strong, and felt that they could do it, and began to rebel.

In Tibetan Buddhism, she is considered to be the embodiment of Green Tara.

Looking at the pretty and quiet girl in front of her, Li Ke seemed to see the shadow in the history book in her.

Those who can leave a name in history must have something extraordinary.