louisehourcade Chapter 628 Negotiation
Chapter 628 Negotiation
Chapter 628 Negotiation
Li Shimin put down his pen, stretched his waist, and prepared to go to Lizheng Hall for dinner.
Princess Jinyang has just learned to call her Father Huang these few days. Although she can't pronounce the words clearly, Li Shimin likes to hear it very much.
In the past few days, both lunch and dinner are used in Lizheng Hall.
This made it even harder for those concubines who were already hard to be favored to see Li Shimin.
They all thought that if Princess Jinyang was born to them, would they be able to be as rich as their daughters.
But these are just thoughts. The important reason why Princess Jinyang is so popular is because she was born to the eldest grandson empress.
Another reason is that Princess Jinyang also inherited the asthma of Empress Changsun.
He suffered from several illnesses shortly after birth, and the imperial doctor asserted that it would be difficult to live to 20 years old.
Fortunately, Lin Xuan provided the specific medicine for asthma. Even so, Princess Jinyang was still very weak.
In order to survive, animals will abandon the weak children and leave the strong ones.
But people don't, on the contrary, they love thin children more.
Li Tai has been in poor health since he was a child, so Li Shimin loves him far more than Prince Li Chengqian, and Li Ke who is very similar to him.
Now he treats Princess Jinyang in the same way.
Li Shimin had just walked out of the Ganlu Hall when Yu Huan was already waiting at the door.
Just when Li Shimin was about to sit on it, he suddenly heard the sound of horseshoes.
Li Shimin frowned slightly. Horse riding was forbidden in the palace, and even he, the eldest grandson empress and the crown prince all sat in sedan chairs.
Unless there is an urgent report or some special circumstances, only horses can be rode in the palace.
Not long after, riding alone appeared in front of Li Shimin's eyes.
The surrounding guards quickly stepped forward, faintly surrounding Li Shimin.
"Back off." Li Shimin saw who was coming, waved his hands and said.
The horse stopped when it was more than [-] meters away from Li Shimin. The man on the horse got off the horse, knelt down on one knee, and said: "My subject, Li Junxian, has come to see your majesty and offended him. I hope your majesty will forgive me."
"What's the matter?" Li Shimin asked.
He knew that Li Junxian would not be able to ride a horse in the palace if there were no urgent matters.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, Songzhou has sent an urgent report from eight hundred miles away. The postman who delivered the letter was exhausted and fainted." Li Junxian said holding the secret letter in both hands.
Without Li Shimin's instructions, Li Mu hurried forward to take the letter and handed it to Li Shimin.
Li Shimin took the letter, looked at the wax, and opened it after making sure there was no problem.
After reading the contents of the letter with no expression on his face, Li Shimin said: "Call the elder Sun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Li Jing... and others to discuss matters."
After finishing speaking, Li Shimin returned directly to Ganlu Hall.
Li Mu didn't dare to delay, so he hurriedly arranged for someone to notify him.
Those lords and ministers in Chang'an have long been waiting at home to be summoned. After all, the courier made such a big commotion, so naturally they couldn't hide it from them.
Regardless of whether Li Shimin will summon them or not, it is always right to prepare early.
So when the messengers from the palace came to their residence, those who were summoned immediately followed into the palace.
Manna Hall
After Li Shimin and others arrived, they passed on the secret security to Li Mu.
Changsun Wuji was the first to get the secret security. After reading it, he silently handed over the letter, frowning and thinking.
The contents of the letter were not complicated. A month ago, Tubo and Yangtong used troops against Tuyuhun. Tuyuhun was caught off guard and lost several cities.
After Tuyuhun reacted, he quickly organized a counterattack with troops, trying to regain the lost ground, but was ambushed and suffered heavy losses.
Now there are not many Tuyuhun, and while defending the city to delay Tubo's footsteps, they sent people to ask for help from the Tang Dynasty.
The Songzhou defender didn't dare to delay, and immediately sent Tuyuhun's request for help to Chang'an by [-] miles.
After everyone finished watching, Li Shimin asked, "What do you think about this matter?"
"Your Majesty, Tuyuhun is my Tang Dynasty's vassal state. The Tang Dynasty should assist in this matter. However, the situation in the grassland is unclear and there is no way to mobilize troops. I feel that we should send envoys to Tubo to order them to withdraw their troops and make peace." Changsun Wuji said.
His subconscious meaning is actually to ignore this matter.
Everyone knows what is going on with the so-called vassal state, and with the unknown situation on the grassland, Datang has no time to pay attention to other things.
As for sending envoys to Tubo to make Tubo retreat, it was just a show.
Although Tubo also came to pay tribute, they did not claim to be a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty, so how could they listen to the Tang Dynasty.
Even if Tubo is a country belonging to the Tang Dynasty, it is impossible to spit out the meat of the mouth because of the Tang Dynasty.
The rest of the people agreed with Changsun Wuji's words, so they didn't say anything.
Even the military generals kept silent, and did not clamor to lead the troops to teach Tubo a lesson.
First of all, they knew very well that even if they sent troops, it would be for nothing to help, and they would not be able to make any contribution.
You can't ask for help from Tuyuhun, the Tang Dynasty has occupied Tuyuhun instead.
However, Tubo is located on a plateau and has natural barriers, so it is impossible to occupy it.
Another reason is that Datang is about to use troops on the grasslands to help Tuyuhun fight against Tubo.
"If Tubo is allowed to annex Tuyuhun and grow stronger, what will happen to the Tang Dynasty after Tubo digests the benefits?" Li Shimin said, looking around the crowd.
"Your Majesty, the small country of Tubo, even if it annexed Tuyuhun, wouldn't dare to offend Tang Dynasty?"
For some reason, Changsun Wuji felt that Li Shimin wanted to send troops to help Tuyuhun, but it was obviously not beneficial to help Tuyuhun, so he had to stop it.
"The current king of Tubo is called Songtsan Gampo. I have learned about him carefully. He was only 12 years old and succeeded to the throne in a hurry during the civil strife in Tubo. In just a few years, he not only quelled the civil strife, but also expanded the country. He is a hero of a generation, once Tubo annexed Tuyuhun, the power would increase greatly, how could Songtsan Gampo not use troops against the Tang Dynasty?" Li Shimin said.
According to the original historical development, it should be in the eighth year of Zhenguan that Songtsen Ganbu sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty to ask for marriage, but Li Shimin refused.
The envoy was worried about being punished after returning, and lied that Tuyuhun was behind it, so Datang rejected Tubo's marriage proposal.
In a rage, Songtsan Gampo attacked Tuyuhun, but Tuyuhun couldn't resist and had to flee.
After a few years of cultivation in Tubo, they invaded the Tang Dynasty in the 12th year of Zhenguan.
However, he was taught a lesson by Datang, and he could only reprimand and apologize.
From this point of view, no matter whether Tubo fought against Tuyuhun or against Tang Dynasty, it was all because of the refusal of marriage proposals and revenge in anger.
But is this really the case?
Songtsen Gampo succeeded to the throne at the age of 12. At that time, Tubo was in civil strife. However, it only took Songtsen Gampo a few years to quell the civil strife and expand Tubo's territory.
During the reign of Songtsen Gampo, it can be called the most prosperous period of Tubo.
How could such a generation of heroes start a war for a woman?
Of course, there are not no monarchs who are wise at the beginning and then stupid.
But Songtsan Gampo was not stupid in the later period, so he had planned to fight Tuyuhun. The so-called Tuyuhun obstructed Tubo from proposing to Tang Dynasty, which was just an excuse.
If he was really angry, in order to retaliate, he could not have taken a few years of recuperation after annexing Tuyuhun before attacking Datang.
(End of this chapter)