After the Shangyuan Festival, Li Daozong, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites and King of Jiangxia, wanted to escort Wencheng to Tubo.
Li Yuanying rode a horse to send Princess Wencheng out of the city, and gave Wencheng a small purse.
Before Wencheng could ask, Li Yuanying explained to her: "This purse contains sunflower seeds. When you get there, you can find a sunny place to plant them." Li Yuanying is very fond of sunflowers, and even Zhuangzi changed it into a sunflower garden. It is because he likes the name Sunflower very much. Li Yuanying took Wen Cheng's hand, "The sunflower always faces the direction where the sun shines. As long as there is the sun, it will raise its head."
Wen Cheng nodded when he heard this, and said with a smile, "I've made a note." She got into the car with Li Yuanying's support, and after she sat down, she raised the curtain and looked at Li Yuanying who was standing beside the car watching her.
In the early years, Wen Chengcheng heard about Li Yuanying. He heard that he was a little devil in the world. He dared to do anything, and no one in the palace dared to provoke him. After hearing a lot, most of these clan children kept Li Yuanying at a respectful distance.
After getting along, she realized that the rumors were not credible.
No matter how reluctant you are, the wedding team must leave on time.
Li Yuanying led the horse and stood where he was, waving goodbye to Wencheng.
Wen Cheng kept raising the car curtain until Li Yuanying and the others could no longer be seen, then she withdrew her hand, and tears fell like broken beads. It was a long way to go to Shangao, and she would never see Chang'an City again, and she would never see the people in Chang'an City again.
Lu Dongzan was supposed to be at the front, but when he saw Li Yuanying was still standing there, he turned back and said goodbye to Li Yuanying. Li Yuanying said: "Wencheng is a woman who went to Tubo alone, I hope you will take care of her."
Lu Dong praised: "That's natural, and I will definitely not let the princess of Tang Dynasty be wronged." His seemingly peaceful eyes smiled, "When His Royal Highness King Teng grows up, he can come to our Tubo Come and have fun, we will treat His Royal Highness King Teng well then."
Li Yuanying didn't care whether he could go or not, he agreed generously and formally bid farewell to Lu Dongzan. It was not until the wedding procession could no longer be seen that Li Yuanying mounted his horse and returned to the city with His Majesty Li Er.
Li Yuanying was very quiet all the way, so quiet that His Majesty Li Er felt surprised, and left him alone to talk after returning to the palace.
Li Yuanying thought a lot during this period, mainly about the marriage of the daughter of the clan.
Although there are many clans in the Tang Dynasty and there are many daughters in each family, everyone was born in October of pregnancy by others. Wouldn't it be distressing to marry foreign parents far away? Anyway, if anyone asks him to marry his daughter far away in the future, Li Yuanying will never agree, even if he is not King Teng!
Li Yuanying expressed his doubts in his heart: "Since we want to marry, why don't they marry their daughters over, and we want us to marry our daughters over? Wencheng is only sixteen years old, and Songtsan Gampo is not too old, but Tubo is so far away, what should a girl do if she passes by and is bullied? Ordinary people’s married daughters still have their natal family to support them, but they have no relatives outside!”
His Majesty Li Er said: "Is my daughter of the Li family a weak person?"
Li Yuanying remained silent.
Seeing that he was depressed, His Majesty Li Er told him about the situation in Tubo. Although Datang won the last battle, the victory was not very beautiful. If Tubo was determined to harass the border of Datang, Datang would definitely be disturbed. If the situation between Tang and Tibet is not eased, the Tang Dynasty will face the attack from both sides of Tubo and Turks, and it will be easy to lose sight of the other and cause a catastrophe!
When His Majesty Li Er had just succeeded to the throne, the Turkic Khan led 200,000 soldiers to the Tang Dynasty, once approaching Chang'an City! The situation at that time was extremely difficult and dangerous, and a seed was planted in the heart of His Majesty Li Er: Turkic is the Tang Dynasty's trouble, and he must take all the Turkic ministries into Datang's possession so that he can rest assured.
Although the Eastern Turks are now defeated, the Western Turks are still threatening the Tang Dynasty. According to His Majesty Li Er's thinking, this threat must be wiped out so that the Tang Dynasty can continue with peace of mind. As for Tubo, they can free up their hands to deal with the Turkic ministries after they have been dealt with.
Li Yuanying listened quietly, without interjecting, only depicting the territory of the Great Tang in his heart.
Anxi Protectorate, which was just arranged last year, cuts across between Turks and Tubo, forcibly opening up the passage between the Tang Dynasty and the Western Regions. This is a passage from the Tang Dynasty to the outside world, which can guarantee the trade between the Tang Dynasty and the outside world. contacts. However, the Anxi Protectorate is too far away from Chang'an, and there are too few people sent to guard the Anxi Protectorate. Datang's control over it is still too weak. Turks and Tubo can invade this traffic artery at any time, easily truncate it.
Therefore, not only can Gaochang's mouth be spit out, but this trade channel cannot be broken.
What they can do now is to train their troops hard, try their best to train strong soldiers and generals, firmly control the territory of the Tang Dynasty in their own hands, and then steadily solve the threats around them.
Li Yuanying clenched his not-so-big fist.
Li Yuanying said unwillingly: "Is there no other way? Must a girl leave her hometown and marry a foreigner?"
His Majesty Li Er said: "Songtsan Gampo is only twenty-four years old. He is brave and good at fighting. He has outstanding talents. I have seen it personally. Marrying such a man is not wronged Wen Cheng. As long as the Tang Dynasty is strong enough, no matter whether it is the Tubo Kingdom Both the lord and the lord of Tuyuhun have to treat the princess we marry well. Isn’t it better to marry the lord of a country than to marry an ordinary son-in-law? Don’t you always think that the sons-in-law I chose for Gao Yang and the others are not good, and you dislike them? Not capable?"
Li Yuanying said: "But that's too far away." Even he has never been to such a far place!
His Majesty Li Er said: "There is nothing perfect in this world, and her parents agreed, so why do you need to worry about it?"
Li Yuanying heard that His Majesty Li Er was getting a little impatient with his explanation, so he didn't ask any more questions, and went back to think about it alone. He thought about it all night, but he didn't think through anything. The next day, he found six people, Di Renjie, Tang Chen, Li Zhi, Dai Ting, Meiniang, and Wei Shu, and gathered in the tea room of Qianjintang. Discuss the affairs of Tubo and Turks.
Among these few people, the oldest is only sixteen or seventeen years old, and his face is very tender. Hearing that Li Yuanying wanted to discuss serious matters with them, everyone sat upright, waiting for Li Yuanying to start the conversation.
Li Yuanying spread out the map he brought, and told Di Renjie and others what His Majesty Li Er explained to him yesterday. He said: "At the beginning, Gaochang disobeyed the orders of the Tang Dynasty, refused to pay tribute, stopped the envoys, intercepted the caravans, and united with the Turks to attack the Tang vassal states, because Chang'an was far away from them, and the Turks were close to them. Although Gaochang is gone now, But the position has not changed, so those who face Gaochang’s predicament will become the Anxi Protectorate.”
It was the first time for Di Renjie and Tang Sui to see such a clear map of the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and they listened quietly to Li Yuanying's explanation without rashly expressing their opinions.
Mei Niang looked at the Anxi Protectorate's Mansion in the gap, thought for a while, and said: "The only way to do it once and for all is to turn the areas on both sides of the Anxi Protectorate's Mansion into the territory of the Tang Dynasty. There's nothing to worry about."
Li Yuanying also felt that what he said was reasonable.
Di Renjie responded, "It's a pity that we are still too young, otherwise we would have a way to take both Turks and Tubo into Datang's possession." He pointed at the location of Gaochang, "Just like Gaochang, he became the owner of Datang." part."
Tang Sui was a more practical person. Hearing this, he shook his head and said, "If it were really that easy, Your Majesty wouldn't have to worry so much."
This most straightforward method did not work, and there was a moment of silence in the tea room.
Dai Ting did not participate in the discussion, he made the tea and served it to everyone one by one.
Li Yuanying greeted him: "Don't be so busy, you can sit down and talk."
Dai Ting replied: "Your Highness said what to do, we will do it."
Li Yuanying knew that Dai Ting had always been like this, so he stopped forcing him, took a sip of tea, and looked at Li Zhi and Wei Shu who were silent.
Li Zhi held back for a long time, but still didn't speak. He doesn't like to talk big, and he can't think of a good way, so he doesn't know what to say.
Seeing Li Yuanying looking at her, Wei Shu picked up the tea and took a sip, put the hot tea soup down again, raised her eyes to look back at Li Yuanying, and said, "Since we can't take Tubo and Turks under Datang's ownership for the time being, then we can slowly take a picture of it." Of."
Last time Wei Shu suggested that he could use the Fire Bull Formation to defeat the elephant army. Li Yuanying felt that her knowledge and ingenuity were different from those of other children of the same age, so this time he didn't call Gao Yang and Si Zi, but invited Wei Shu over. .
Hearing that Wei Shu finally spoke, Li Yuanying immediately sat up straight, and asked very interestedly: "Why do you draw it slowly?"
Wei Shu said: "It is written in "Grandson", 'Know yourself and know the enemy, and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles'. We are helpless now, maybe because we don't know enough about Tubo and Turks." Wei Shu picked up the "Tubo Landscape Handbook" brought by Li Yuanying, who had just given them a brief introduction. After introducing the origin of this booklet, she boasted, "This is very good. We have mastered everything that other people understand. There are more, and we may need to send people to Tubo and Turks to learn more about it."
Li Yuanying nodded straightly, Mei Niang and others also looked at Wei Shu together, feeling that this girl who was younger than Li Yuanying was very unusual.
Wei Shu said: "For example, you said that the old doctor Sun mentioned that ordinary people may not be acclimatized after entering Tibet, and Tibetans who are not born and bred are likely to fall ill. Then, why do Tibetans not fall ill? Is there something special about their diet? Is it where? I heard that all things in the world often generate and restrain each other. If there is any harmful thing in a place, there must be a natural enemy of this thing. Could it be that the Tibetans have any special food or medicine to deal with this kind of 'acclimatization'? ? If we find a way to deal with it, our army of the Great Tang will not be "unacceptable" when we go deep into Tubo!"
Li Yuanying's eyes lit up: "Sister Shu, why are you so smart? Let's do what we can first, and we won't suffer if there is a war in the future!" Li Yuanying raised the tea bowl, imitating his imperial brother, Toasting to Wei Shu, he offered tea to Wei Shu, "You gave me a very good, very good idea, and it is worth drinking this bowl of tea!"
Wei Shu had no choice but picked up the tea bowl and bumped it lightly against the one he was holding.
Li Yuanying drank all the tea in one gulp, and asked others to brainstorm how to find out the details of Tubo and Turks.
Mei Niang picked up the tea bowl and said, "There is a ready-made method for this."
Li Yuanying saw it and understood, selling tea!
Both Tubo and Turks live in the grasslands, eat meat all day long, and are so tired that they just sell tea to them! Not only to sell, but also to sell well, sell in different ways, and sell in a targeted manner.
Li Yuanying assigned the tasks to the friends: "Each of us took a pamphlet back to study, and each wrote a method of selling tea suitable for Tubo. Next time, we will bring everyone together to see who has the best method and who is the best to use. Who is it, or use multiple approaches!" After he finished speaking, he turned to Meiniang and ordered, "Meiniang, you can find a way to get a brochure about Turkic customs and customs."
Meiniang nodded in response.
After discussing the preliminary strategy, several people went back separately.
Di Renjie and Tang Sui were heading in the same direction, and they walked back together without letting Li Yuanying send someone to see them off.
Tang Sui and Di Renjie said with emotion: "I used to think I was quite smart, but today I feel inferior to the two girls." Whether it's Wu Mei or Wei Shu, he looks different from ordinary women, whether it's knowledge or knowledge, They are far superior to their peers, not to mention the dexterity and quickness of mind.
Di Renjie said: "Anyone who can make Yuan Ying look good is naturally extraordinary."
Tang Sui nodded, agreeing with Di Renjie's words. Not only was he not unhappy because Li Yuanying asked them to sit down with two girls and a servant to discuss things, but he was also a little proud: Li Yuanying liked them too, otherwise Li Yuanying wouldn't Get them together!
The two half-year-old teenagers speeded up their pace together with aspirations, and then said goodbye to each other at the fork in the road ahead. They couldn't wait to run back to their residences to seriously consider how to open the Tubo Turkic tea market and complete the first stage of the great plan to subdue Tubo Turkic.
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