Wang Lou walked quickly along the path of intertwined lights and shadows in the palace, but he was thinking in his mind about how to report to His Majesty and the Queen about the fight between His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Prince of Da Shi in Chang'an City.
At this time, His Majesty should be playing chess with the Queen, and His Royal Highness Princess Taiping is causing trouble nearby. His Majesty, the Queen and Her Royal Highness are enjoying themselves. Wouldn't the performance at this moment be too disturbing
It was originally a long journey, but even if he slowed down today, it was much faster than usual. Before he knew it, he had arrived at the door.
Walking quickly into the Penglai Hall, I saw Her Royal Highness Princess Taiping giving advice to His Majesty. The Queen was smiling brightly as she watched His Majesty and the Princess arguing over whether to vault the horse or move the cannon next.
"What's the matter?" Wu Mei glanced at Wang Lou and asked calmly.
"Go back to the queen, Your Highness, he..." Wang Lou began to sweat on his forehead. He lowered his head and saw Li Lingyue stealing the queen's chess pieces, but the queen noticed and slapped his little hand away.
"What happened to him? The censor impeached him again? Do you know what happened?" Li Zhi also turned to look at Wang Lou and asked casually without caring.
"Back to Your Majesty, Your Highness... Your Highness..." Wang Lou hesitated and didn't know what to say.
Wu Mei let out a long sigh: "It seems like he has done nothing good again. Tell me, what happened? Where are they now?"
Listening to Wu Mei's tone, Li Zhi felt that the matter seemed serious, so he put down the chess piece in his hand and looked over curiously: "Tell me, what happened."
"Brother Huang has done something bad again. I punish him by marrying Shangguan Wan'er." Li Lingyue looked up at Wu Mei and gave her advice.
Within three days, Li Lingyue had told her brother to marry Shangguan Wan'er no less than eight hundred times.
"Back to Your Majesty and Queen, Your Highness and the Crown Princess and others will go to Chang'an City for dinner today..."
"This is a good thing. Can't the prince go out to eat other than royal meals?" Li Zhi realized later and interrupted.
Wang Lou had no choice but to bite the bullet and said: "Your Majesty, Queen, when your Highness had dinner tonight, he happened to meet His Royal Highness the Prince of Dashi, Ben Saleh. His Highness the Prince treated him with courtesy, but he didn't want the Prince of Dashi to have a bad attitude. He was arrogant and unreasonable, and made things difficult for His Highness the Crown Prince for no reason, and then... His Highness had no choice but to have a fight with the Prince of the King of Food when the Prince of the King of Food made the first move. "
"What? Fight?" Wu Mei almost jumped up, this... His Majesty the Crown Prince Li Hong and the Prince of Dashi Kingdom got into a fight in the restaurant in full view of everyone!
Li Lingyue looked at her mother in surprise, and then at Wang Lou. Obviously, she didn't know much about fighting, and her expression varied between surprise and confusion. She didn't know why her mother reacted so violently to the fight between the royal brothers. .
"Who won?" Li Zhi asked a question that troubled Wu Mei. At this time, he actually cared about this
Don't you know that if this matter is known to the courtiers and everyone in the world, the reputation of Prince Li Hong will be ruined? He actually fights in a restaurant in front of everyone like a country man. What kind of royal education is there? went
"Your Majesty, His Highness the Crown Prince won." Wang Lou did not dare to answer Wu Mei's question, so he had to answer the question first.
On this night, the most depressing ones were brother and sister Ben Saleh and Ben Yeyue. Accompanied by four entourages, they returned to their municipal square in Datang, which was specially used for foreign envoys.
According to his idea when he met Li Hong at the beginning today, he planned to use the two events of Yeyue's kidnapping and Ben Qasim's death in the Tang Dynasty to pressure Li Hong to accept the conditions he wanted to achieve.
But he didn't want to admit it at all, which made his original plan to coerce the crown prince of Tang Dynasty into agreeing to pass on the secret recipes such as glass, perfume, soap and so on to Dashi, completely failed.
"I told you a long time ago that he is not the kind of person who is threatened. He simply refuses to accept soft or hard advice and has no weaknesses. Now, it's okay. It's even more difficult to get those secret recipes. Look. There is no hope." Yeyue looked at Saleh who had finished reading the doctor and said with some dissatisfaction.
Saleh touched the bridge of his nose, took a breath of cold air from the corner of his mouth due to the pain, and snorted coldly: "So what, even if the coercion succeeds and the goal is not achieved, we are not helpless. We can eat a lot." The cavalry has now arrived at their border city. As long as we defeat them, it will be difficult for them not to agree. Huh, a toad wants to eat swan meat and wants to marry you. It is just a dream. "
Yeyue sighed helplessly, put a glass of water in front of Saleh, sat down again and said: "The cavalry of the Tang Dynasty is not weaker than us at all. What's more, the cities in the four towns of Anxi are simply fortresses. We can Is the attack okay? I really have a headache, what should I do?" Ye Yue raised her head, feeling that there was nothing she could do against Li Hong.
"Brother Wang is free to deal with it. As long as they are overwhelmed and have no time to take care of both ends, we will have a way to break through the four towns of Anxi." Saleh frowned, a little dissatisfied with Yeyue's attitude. His sister would not I really like Li Hong.
"What else can you do? If you want to negotiate now, the initiative is in other people's hands..."
"Tomorrow you go and find the Princess Dalai from the Japanese country. Forget it, let's wait for a few days. After Brother Wang recovers from his injury, you can find the Princess Dalai. Isn't she also one of the people persecuted by the Tang Dynasty? ? As long as she can convince her father to cooperate with us in sending troops to attack Datang at the same time, it depends on how Li Hong handles the two wars. Then, I don’t have to worry about him asking for peace. " Saleh touched the corner of his mouth and felt that it was better to wait until the wound was better before seeing others again, lest others think he was disrespecting them.
"Her? Can she convince her father?" Yeyue felt doubtful, but felt that she could give it a try.
Saleh stood up and secretly rubbed his still aching chest. He looked at the glass window, where his embarrassed shadow was vaguely reflected, and said in a deep voice: "Whether it works or not, we have to give it a try. Besides, we have We are not really cooperating with them. The Japanese country is not worthy of cooperating with our noble people in white. We are just using her and promising some verbal benefits. I believe she will agree. "
Yeyue listened thoughtfully, holding her delicate chin with one hand, and said with empty eyes: "That's right, the Japanese country sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty because they wanted to learn the culture and technology of the Tang Dynasty, and then make their Japanese country progress. Prosperity, reaching the same height as the Tang Dynasty. In this way, their purpose is essentially the same as ours, and we can really try it."
"So, for example, these glass and other secret recipes can be given to them when the time comes, or the Tang Dynasty can be forced to agree to the jurisdiction of the Andong Protectorate, which can be ceded to the Japanese country. Don't they, the Japanese country, like land? Want to open it? To expand the territory? Just use these to lure them, it will definitely work." Saleh looked at his shadow on the window and sneered at himself, saying with satisfaction.
"Well, I understand. Then when you are healed, I will go find her secretly, and we will discuss it then." Yeyue nodded, but she still didn't think that she was doing Li Hong a disservice.
"While I am recuperating these days, you can interact more with the Dali Princess. You are both girls and have a lot in common. You can lay the groundwork and establish a good relationship first. Then you will be able to get twice the result with half the effort." Saleh Looking back, he opened his mouth to ask, don't you feel reluctant to treat Li Hong like this? But when the words came to his lips, Saleh swallowed them back.
He had watched Yeyue grow up, and he could feel that his sister really liked Li Hong, otherwise, she would not have saved him, and her whole body would be hung up on him.
Moreover, before that, when she pushed Li Hong away, Yeyue could not help but protect him in front of Li Hong instead of herself. All these subconscious actions were enough to show that her sister really liked the rogue prince of the Tang Dynasty. .
Someone who had gone to court returned to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and did not take the fight with Salah to heart last night. Instead, he began to wonder, who should be in charge of the Ministry of Works
Also, can Chen Jingzhi convince Belus
Belus is determined not to join forces with Saleh. After all, he wants to restore the country. But can Belus alone convince him that those so-called friends of Tochar and Tang Dynasty What about joining forces
After all, what Belus has now is a name, and what can be used by others is his name as the King of Persia and his influence in Persia. As for hard power, he doesn't have much at all now, so , How sincere is Tocharo, and would he be willing to sincerely cooperate with Datang under his help
"Go and find Zhang Jianzhi, the Minister of Rites." Li Hong said to Hua Meng while reviewing the memorial and thinking about what was in his mind.
Hua Meng had just left, and Wang Lou, who was with him, stood respectfully at the door of the study room of the Minister of the Ministry of Education, watching His Royal Highness the Crown Prince concentrating on grading the memorial, which was quite similar to when His Majesty and the Queen reviewed the memorial. Shadow also felt a faint sense of relief in his heart.
Therefore, Wang Lou did not disturb the Crown Prince's review of the memorial, and temporarily forgot about the Queen's order for him to immediately recruit His Highness the Crown Prince into the palace, and patiently waited for the moment when His Highness the Crown Prince finished reviewing the memorial.
"What's wrong? What kind of wind blew the eunuch Wang, the personal eunuch next to my mother, to this Shangshu Province? What advice can you give me?" Li Hong lowered his head and said in a low voice.
"Back to Your Highness, the Queen asks you to come over immediately after going to court and discuss anything important with you." Wang Lou said respectfully with a smile.
"If you're not in a hurry, can you wait for a while? I need to explain something to the Minister of Rites first?" Li Hong raised his head, looked out the window, and said to Zhang Jianzhi, who was walking over quickly.
"Yes, my servant is waiting for you."
(End of chapter)