Li Hong was very thick-skinned, and Yeyue, who was at least as pure as snow, never noticed that a live erotic drama had just been staged in this study.
And even if he discovered it, I'm afraid Li Hong would still act like an old god and wouldn't know what it meant to be embarrassed.
"Have you found your envoy?" Li Hong asked lazily as he looked at Ye Yue, who was like a money man, flipping through the pages in his study.
"No, but..." Yeyue suddenly turned around, her beautiful eyes a little wary, a little guilty and panicked. She looked at Li Hong's bright eyes, thought for a moment and said, "But you may have caused big trouble."
"Big trouble? What do you mean?" Li Hong asked curiously, what do you mean we are in big trouble.
"My envoy from Dashi Kingdom told my father that I was kidnapped by King Pei, your brother." Ye Yue looked at Li Hong and said as calmly as possible.
"Then what's the matter? Are you okay now..." Li Hong's eyes suddenly became dark, he looked at Yeyue and asked: "You mean, your country of Great Shi may use troops against the Tang Dynasty because of this ?”
"No, I didn't say that. But... if my father knew about my kidnapping, he would definitely be unhappy, and he would definitely ask Datang to give him an explanation." Yeyue became confused when facing Li Hong. He said with some sharp eyes and some panic, avoiding the knife-like eyes.
Li Hong stood up from the chair behind the desk and walked to Yeyue, who seemed a little reserved at first. He looked back and forth thoughtfully at Yeyue's tall figure and asked, "You must know something, right? You Didn't I say that you should have come to Datang on Yuan Day last year? Why was it so late for nearly a year? You haven't told me the reason these days. You always talk about him. , what are you hiding? "
"Then hand over Belus and I'll tell you." Yeyue looked at Li Hong's questioning eyes with some fear, stretched out her small white hand on her chest, and said in a low voice with a rogue tone.
Li Hong looked at the snow-white palm stretched out in front of his chest, clapped it like lightning and said: "Fart, Belus is now my minister of the Tang Dynasty, why should I give it to you? Besides, do you think you are big?" Who is the Shiguo? What do you think of asking me, Datang, to hand over our ministers? Besides, I haven’t settled the matter with you for the siege of Jiling City in Datang, so you should settle the matter first.”
Yeyue shook off her little hand that was a little painful from being beaten by Li Hong. Seeing that her little hand was a little red, she pouted and defended: "How can I beat him up? When we besieged Jiling City, you invaded other people's places, okay? King Perus of Persia is not from your Tang Dynasty, so why is he your minister?"
"There are many ministers in the Tang Dynasty who are not from the Tang Dynasty. Who told you that you must be from the Tang Dynasty to be a minister of the Tang Dynasty? If your father is willing to become a minister, I don't mind giving your father the position of eunuch." Li Hong stared, looking at Ye Yue who was pouting and puffing up her chest, and said confidently.
"Bah, bah, bah, don't think that I don't know what a eunuch is. You are unwilling to hand over Belus, and you also kidnapped me, the princess of the Great Food Country, then you have to give an explanation to our great caliph. You can't just How about bullying his daughter and taking away his enemy?" Ye Yue confidently included herself in the negotiation.
"Yeyue, you are getting thicker and thicker now. The Kingdom of Persia was destroyed by your father, and people came to our country, the Tang Dynasty, to ask for reinforcements and restore the country. I do it for your sake, and I don't want to do it for Persia. The king is here to teach you a lesson, it’s okay for you to be dissatisfied and unappreciative, but you dare to ask me to give you an explanation. You are very courageous, aren’t you?" Li Hong said as he stretched out his hand and pinched it gently. Yeyue's beautiful cheeks.
Ye Yue forcefully broke off Li Hong's hand on her pink cheek, and said angrily: "That won't work this way, that won't work either. You can't really let my father send troops to attack the Tang Dynasty, right?"
"Speak your mind." Li Hong looked at Yeyue with a sneer.
"I..." Yeyue looked at someone who was sneering, and then realized that after defending for a long time, she was led into the ditch by this guy without even realizing it, and she suddenly told the truth.
"You have been running out every day for the past two days. You have also seen the Persian Temple that is closed for winter in the West Market. At the request of King Belus of Persia, we, the Tang Dynasty, are willing to build him a Persian temple in Chang'an to prove that he has no The country is not yet subjugated, but if you, the big food country, are ignorant and really want to take this opportunity to attack our country, I don't mind sending troops to the hinterland of your big food country." Li Hong walked behind the desk, laid out his pen and paper, and faced it. Yeyue waved.
"What are you doing?" Someone came over reluctantly, still angry at how he had just told the truth.
"Why don't you do it? I will supervise you to write a letter to your father and tell the truth about your situation. If your father is still ungrateful and insists on attacking the Tang Dynasty, let your father be overthrown as caliph. Prepare." Li Hong pulled Yeyue who was standing aside, pressed her shoulders on the chair, and asked her to start writing.
Finally, as for what Yeyue wrote in the letter, Li Hong did not read it, but gave it directly to the messenger, and the letter went from the East Palace to Dashi.
Before dawn the next day, Li Hong, under the service of Xiaoxue and Xia Zhi, put on his court clothes and started the last morning court before Yuanri.
The last court meeting before Yuan Day was long. I don't know if it was because Shangguan Yi and others had made sufficient preparations before, or because the ministers in the court no longer had any opinions on Li Xian's affairs in the past few days.
In short, from the beginning to the end of the morning court, not a single courtier raised any objection to Li Xian's rebellion. Similarly, Li Hong was not willing to spoil everyone's happiness at this time, and still hoped that everyone could live a peaceful New Year.
As Yeyue said yesterday, the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple have received questions from Dashi about the kidnapping of their princess Yeyue. This matter is not that difficult, so they can directly reply according to etiquette. As for Dashi, Li Hong thought that he should ignore Shiguo's aggressive and domineering attitude and just reply calmly.
Ren Yaxiang, Pei Xingjian, and Liu Rengui, who had just returned from Anton, were summoned to Shangshu Province by Li Hong.
Li Hong told the three of them what he had said from Ye Yue yesterday to see what they thought.
The three-day attitude was quite consistent. With the current military strength of the Tang Dynasty, they were worried that they could not find an opponent to continue to improve the status and treatment of the soldiers in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of War. Now there is such a good opportunity.
Naturally, the three of them hoped in unison that they could fight Dashi, and that they would be blocked by soldiers and covered by water and earth.
Li Hong looked at the three people with resolute attitudes in disbelief, and said with a breath of cold air: "Is this your attitude? That's a slap in the face. I think it's better to surrender! Why haven't you thought about using the four towns of Anxi as a heavy force? How about continuing to expand the territory?”
The three of them had expressions of concealment on their faces. After being pushed into a hurry, the three of them vaguely revealed their selfish intentions.
Now that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has not inherited the throne, with the current military strength of the Tang Dynasty, it would probably be a great victory to fight against Dashi. The goal of opening up the territory and expanding the territory can be achieved, but... if this achievement is written down in the annals of history, At that time, it was all thanks to His Majesty.
It would be better to wait until His Highness the Crown Prince actually ascends the throne, then completely gather the elite soldiers and generals of the three major military governors of Anxi, Yunzhong, and Tubo to have a big battle with Dashi, so as to take down Tocharo and a few other losers. Small country.
Faced with such selfish thoughts from the three of them, Li Hong didn't know what to say, so he had to wave his hands and let the three of them leave. There was no need to rest until the first day of the year.
As the saying goes, food and fodder must go before the soldiers and horses are moved. What the Ministry of War has to do at this time is to transport various materials to Anxi. Regardless of whether there is a possibility of war with Dashi, all this needs to be done immediately.
The three of them didn't understand the underlying reason why Li Hong wanted to start a war with the Great Food Country because of Ye Yue's kidnapping and the interrogation memorial from the Great Food Country.
Because the maps the three of them saw just now in Shangshu Ling's study were all about Nanzhao, Funan, Zhenla and other places, which were completely unrelated to Anxi.
But they didn't know that Li Hong was not very interested in expanding his territory to the west. Compared with expanding his territory to the west, Li Hong valued Funan and Chenla (Vietnam, Thailand) in the south. Waiting for a small country near the sea.
Li Hong held a charcoal in his hand and looked at the map on his desk. There was no point in expanding westward. There were too few things to get in a real fight, and the farther back, the longer the supply line. Even if he won, in this era The military technology cannot be completely defended.
Nowadays, this westward land has basically maintained the territory it had when the Tang Dynasty was the largest in history. If it expands further west, it is likely to repeat the mistakes of the Tang Dynasty in history, and it will be blocked by terrifying supply lines and the destruction of nomadic peoples. The riots dragged him to death.
Nomads are different from other ethnic groups. They exist together through tribes. If you regain this tribal leader today, they will be able to elect a new tribal leader within three to five years.
It will make you fall into a dilemma like a game of whack-a-mole. Press the gourd and lift the gourd. Finally, as the war progresses over time, just like the Tang Dynasty in history, it completely loses control of Anxi.
But if you go south, relying on the rear area of the Lingnan Protectorate, whether it is land or water, you can shorten the critical supply line and resupply soldiers in a timely manner.
More importantly, compared to Anxi, this place is not far away from Jiangnan, which is a prosperous land and a land of plenty. I have an absolute advantage in investing troops or money. Isn’t it a bit too much? Are you stupid? What's more, the warships built by oneself can't really just look at Japan, Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla, right? It's a bit of a waste of troops.
(End of chapter)