Faced with Yiyang's fierce aura, Li Hong was unfazed, touched his nose, then pointed at Yiyang, and joked: "You won't always be so angry at home, right Quan Yi? How can this be possible? A hint of a good wife and mother..."
"Li... Hong! If you do this again, no matter what you say next, I will reject it." Yiyang's face darkened. The image of a good wife, loving mother, gentle and virtuous that he had finally cultivated, as soon as he arrived in the East Palace. It was easily exposed by him and destroyed in one fell swoop!
"Okay, no problem, let's just say it, three years, just three years." Li Hong stroked out the word "three" and said cheerfully.
"What three years?" Yiyang glanced at the consort next to him inexplicably, then looked at Li Hong and asked.
"I have no one left. Quan Yi fought with me in Tubo and is relatively familiar with Tubo. Pei Xingjian and Ma Zaiyuan returned to Chang'an a few days ago. I need a general to guard Tubo. It is best to have a royal princess to replace Aunt Wencheng. , become another holy savior of Tubo, and strive to fully integrate with Tubo within three years and become a part of our Tang Dynasty." Li Hong said at the end, his face became serious, and there was no joke at all. Meaning.
Yiyang and Quan Yi were stunned, or were shocked speechless by Li Hong's words, and asked them to go to Tubo for three years! This... The couple thought a lot, but they never expected that Li Hong would let them go to Tubo for three years!
"You... are you serious?" Yiyang glared at Quan Yi, who was about to stand up to take the order, and asked with some stuttering.
"Yes, seriously." Li Hong looked into Yiyang's incredible eyes and said firmly.
"Then you are not afraid that I will become another Princess Wencheng?"
"If you're afraid, I won't let you go."
"But... what can I do?" Yiyang was a little doubtful. What would be the use of going to Tubo? What can Li Hong do to help him? !
In her consciousness, it was entirely because of Li Hong that she could have the comfortable and stable happiness she had today, and still enjoy all the noble treatment of a princess even though her mother-in-law was deposed as a commoner.
Now, Li Hong wants to entrust such an important task to the couple, which is beyond their wildest dreams.
This is definitely not an exile. This is definitely not the kind of exile that the royal family would give their children. Otherwise, Quan Yi would not be given such important military power.
But we know that if Tubo has military power, and if he reaches the same level of influence as Aunt Wencheng in Tubo, or if Aunt Wencheng has a secret alliance with him, he can let Li Hong fight and conquer Tubo to break away from the Tang Dynasty and once again Be independent.
"You don't need to do anything. Just bring your business and bring back Tubo's specialties. That's enough."
"Is it that simple?" Yiyang felt that his tone had changed.
"It's that simple."
"I will live up to His Highness's trust and will definitely nail the Tubo tribe to death so that they cannot move." Quan Yi took a look, asked the princess's wife with his eyes, who had not responded for a long time, stood up and said firmly.
"Aunt Wencheng is active in Luoyang now. Not only does she always want to restore Tubo, but she also wants to ask Uncle Ji Wang to marry Li Chuyuan, which I have rejected. But I am afraid that Aunt Wencheng will spread this news back to Tibet. To create conflicts between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, it is necessary for a royal princess to go and speak out with her own example to prove to Tubo that the Tang Dynasty’s emphasis on Tubo has not changed.”
"So what I have to do is to make the people of Tubo forget Aunt Wencheng and remember me, Princess Yiyang?" Yiyang had an idea, and his brain became better after getting married, which surprised Li Hong.
"So smart, that's what I mean."
"But... but just the two of us, aren't we a bit weak?"
"Who said anything about you two? There are people you know well in governing Tubo, including the Minister of Household Affairs, Jinghui, and the Prince Zhan Shicheng, Lin Shiling, and Dai Zhide is still in Tubo. Within three years, the five of you will Isn’t there a way to do it?”
"Jinghui?" Yiyang's eyes flashed with joy. How can a businessman not be happy when he meets the God of Wealth
In recent years, he has dealt with the Minister of the Ministry of Finance a lot, so he is naturally very familiar with Jinghui, but when he heard Lin Shiling's name, the expression on Yiyang's face fell again.
She didn't know why, although Lin Shiling was just a small, sixth-grade Zhan Shicheng, she just didn't like him, and was even a little afraid of him from the bottom of her heart.
Ever since he was directly promoted by Li Hong from a lonely scholar to Zhan Shicheng in the Prince's Mansion, this man has been helping Jinghui manage the Royal Bank. Naturally, there will be intersections between him and him, although from beginning to end He didn't feel sorry for himself, but for some reason, he always felt that that person was like a poisonous tongue, ruthless, cold, and unscrupulous to achieve his goals.
Seeing Yiyang's originally excited expression suddenly wrinkled up, full of the boss's displeasure, he comforted him: "I know you don't like Lin Shiling, but whether it's you, Quan Yi, or Jinghui, you guys The three people's acting styles are all too aboveboard. Once we get to Tubo, where the poor mountains and rivers are full of unruly people, your methods may sometimes work, but most of the time, you still need someone like Lin Shiling who is a wicked person and needs to be treated ruthlessly, so You don’t have to worry about them making things difficult for you in Tubo.”
After Li Hong finished speaking, Xiaoxue obediently walked to the bookcase behind him, opened a small drawer, took out a gold and jade crown prince token in both hands, and gently placed it on Li Hong's desk.
"Then there is Dai Zhide. He has been in Tubo for several years. At worst, we can't ask him for advice on anything?" Yiyang was still reluctant. No one wanted to have such a cold, cruel, and cruel person beside him. Not a sinister and vicious tongue.
"What virtues do you not know about Dai Zhide? When I was in charge of the country, I dismissed him as Minister of Rites. Why don't you know? I am afraid that you will rely on Dai Zhide for everything, so Lin Shiling must go this time." Li Hong He threw the exquisite gold-inlaid jade prince token to Yiyang and continued: "Take this, but don't use it easily, unless it is Lin Shiling's method that endangers your interests. , If it’s just for Tubo, this token is of no use at all, don’t blame me for not reminding you.”
Li Hong watched Yiyang take the token, a flash of joy flashed between his brows, and he said coldly.
"It's boring, I get it. But if you act like this, will your father agree?"
"Then why don't you rebel with Quan Yi first? This will give me more reason to assign you." Li Hong rolled his eyes at her, stood up and said.
"Are you going to die?" Yiyang looked at Li Hong who was passing by her, and angrily stretched out her fist to hit Li Hong's arm. She didn't know whether it hurt or not, but she felt a pain in her little hand, like Hit a rock.
"Don't worry, I let you hang around in Chang'an City every day, right under their noses, clinging to the royal family like a walking zombie. I'm afraid they've already been fed up with you, and wish you could stay as far away as possible." Li Hong continued to go out. Let's go, the tall figure said calmly.
Anyway, now that Yiyang has agreed and accepted the token, he is not afraid that she will regret it. If he doesn't hit her a few times, he will always feel that there is something wrong with him.
"Li Hong, can you put away your disgusting way of using people to face the front and not using people to face the back? I'm so angry, Quan Yi, don't stop me, I'm going to fight him desperately... Xiaoxue, let go I... By the way, what about Gao An? She is also wandering around Chang'an City as a zombie." Seeing that he was blocked by Xiaoxue and couldn't break free, he had to look at the annoying figure and asked.
"The arrangements have been made, let's go to the Jiangnan water town and enjoy it."
"Li Hong, I... why did I have to go to Tubo and she went to Jiangnan instead!" Yiyang was really angry to death. Why were the two princesses of the Tang Dynasty treated so differently
"Your consort is from Tianshui County, you deserve it." Li Hong's words came faintly from another room.
After a while, Quan Yi, who had followed Li Hong out of the study early, saw his princess wife, accompanied by Xiaoxue, grumbling and looking unhappy, walking out of the prince's study, deflating the temptation. The man's red lips would occasionally roll his eyes at Li Hong, who was talking to Yin King Li Dan, and then angrily ran to sit down in front of Yan Lingbin and others.
Li Dan is a lot thinner than before, but he still looks chubby. Now nine years old, he is much more energetic than he was two years ago. He is no longer the meatball that Li Lingyue bullied.
But his honest and unhurried character is still vividly displayed. Faced with Li Hong's teasing and joking, he is no longer as angry as before, but has been staring at the good guy on the coffee table since he arrived. Li Hong said it was his, while he was busy picking and choosing, and from time to time he asked his maid to take some to take back to the palace.
"Little fat man, my father and mother are going to spend the first day in Chang'an. You should eat less. Don't come back and see you turned into a meat ball. Li Lingyue will laugh at you again."
"Lingyue won't laugh at me. She already said that as long as I raise those chicks well, they won't laugh at me." Li Dan continued to pick at the coffee table and replied indifferently.
"Are you still helping her raise those chickens?" Li Hong's eyes almost fell to the ground in surprise. The little fat man is too honest!
"Well, I'm keeping them. It's good. I have to go there and see them in person every day and count them..."
"What do you mean?" Li Hong frowned a little. How many chickens do you need to count every day
Li Dan looked at the coffee table with satisfaction, and then had time to look at Li Hong, and said disdainfully: "Of course I'm counting to see if there are more ones. It turns out there are so many."
"There are only seven or eight of them, why are there more?"
Li Dan glanced at his imperial brother with a look of disgust, and said speechlessly: "You're so stupid, those chickens lay eggs, don't they hatch out chicks? With the chicks and the big chickens, aren't there too many?" Otherwise, how do you figure out which came first, the chicken or the egg?”
Li Hong, who was despised by the little fat man, was already in a sluggish state. Looking at Li Dan's serious look, he asked blankly: "Then do you understand which came first, the chicken or the egg?"
"No, it will take some time. Now I have just started to observe and have some clues."
(End of chapter)