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Li Chao hugged Qingluan in his arms, he lowered his head, and his eyes fell on her face. "Stay, don't go back. Bring our daughter Ling'er and we can live here. Here, Ling'er can be happier and safer, okay? ”

"Ling'er is my daughter, and she is destined to become the king of the daughter country in the future. Dajinchuan is her home. ”

"But the Dongnu country is weak, and it is surrounded by Tubo, Tuguhun, and Six Edicts."

"We'll take care of our home, and you'll help us, right?"

Qingluan caressed Li Chao's chest with his hand, and his face became serious.

"I think you should come with me. You're here, and I'm actually worried about you. In the past two years, I have also invited a lot of readers from the Central Plains to come to the middle school, and I have also read a lot of your books. You should know this sentence better than me. You have the merit of saving the driver of Longxi City, the meritorious service of Xuanwu Gate, and the Pingtu Guhun, the destruction of Liang Shidu, the resumption of Shuofang, the retreat of the Turks, and the auxiliary government of the dynasty, and you also have many meritorious deeds, and the people of the world call you the prime minister of the salvation, call you the god of war, and call you the great master. ”

"Have you thought about it carefully, what will these make the emperor think? What's more, you are still rich and rival the country, it is said that even the emperor will ask you to borrow money, and even the imperial court will borrow money from the Li family, so you don't worry, the emperor will not be able to sleep? ”

Qingluan raised his head, "You are such a smart person, you must have known these things a long time ago." I'm telling you this now to remind you again. Don't let yourself get to the point where you have no choice, and don't let yourself regret it when that time comes. ”

"The king's suspicion you speak of is that of ordinary kings. Today, a generation of male lords, Ming Jun, would not do such a thing. ”

"The most ruthless emperor family, involving power, the emperor can do anything, you Han Gaozu, how many heroes and famous generals have you killed? Do you really have to go that far before you regret it? Come back to the country with me, the queen and I will worship you as the prime minister, let you lead the government and control the soldiers and horses. ”

Li Chao shook his head and smiled.

"I am also the prime minister of Datang now, why do I want to go to the East Woman Country to be the prime minister? According to what you said, I am a master of great achievements in the Tang Dynasty, will I not be a master in the East Woman Country in the future? ”

If it was an ordinary king who assisted, Li Chao would indeed have considered a way out. But he was assisted by Tang Taizong Li Shimin, this one is the broadest-minded, the change of Xuanwumen, he did not kill Cheng Yuanji. Afterwards, he did not kill Cheng Yuanji's subordinates, but pardoned these people, and even reused them, such as Wei Zheng, Wang Qi, Xue Wanche, etc., all of which were reused.

In recent years, many people in the imperial court have made secret recitals to the emperor, saying that Li Chaoquan is too favored.

But after Li Shimin received the recitals, he summoned Li Chao into the palace and showed him all the recitals.

The emperor said to him, "There is nothing to be suspicious between you and me. If we keep everything we hear in our hearts and don't say it, then we may cause misunderstandings. Now, I am showing you this just to tell you that I will not be suspicious of you, and I will trust you as always, and you should not misunderstand me! ”

Li Shimin even said at the court meeting, in front of hundreds of officials, that Li Chao and him, just like he and the prince, he trusted Li Chao and trusted the prince Chengqian.

Li Chao believed that these words were true.

Li Shimin has only been the emperor for two years, and their monarchs and ministers have a tacit understanding, which is like the beginning of the business, everyone is rarely suspicious. At least, those smart bosses will not be suspicious of their veteran heroes early.

If you want to be suspicious, you have to wait for the birds to hide their bows.

Li Shimin is not yet thirty years old, his country has just begun, and he is still ambitious, where can he cut off his arm now. Maybe wait another twenty years, when the emperor is late and begins to think about the succession of the crown prince, maybe he will worry that a courtier with too high merit like Li Chao will pose a threat to the new emperor.

But in history, Li Ji and the eldest grandson Wuji also made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty, but before Li Shimin died, he did not say that he would deal with these two great heroes.

Li Shimin asked the eldest grandson Wuji to be the auxiliary minister, and entrusted him with solitude. just demoted Li Ji, but also told the prince that he would reuse Li Ji as soon as he succeeded to the throne, and this was also because the prince was not kind to Li Ji, so that the new emperor could take the opportunity to show his favor.

Li Shishi, after all, is not Yang Guang.

He Li Chao is not Yang Su.

Li Shimin did not kill heroes, but he never killed them based on suspicion, and the ones he killed were all those heroes who plotted rebellion. For example, Hou Junji, such as being involved in the rebellion of several princes and princesses.

Li Chao dared to say that as long as he didn't touch Li Shimin's rebellion, that is, he didn't seek rebellion, then Li Shimin would not move him. Rich and rivaling the country, high meritorious, majestic in the world, etc., these Li Shimin can tolerate, even Wei Zheng can point at the emperor and scold, spray saliva on his face, he can endure such things, Li Shimin is a very powerful person.

Why did Li Chao go against him?

Being rich is not a rebellion, and having prestige is not a rebellion, for Li Shimin, collusion, secretly recruiting dead soldiers, and building weapons are rebellions.

Li Chao will only do this kind of thing when he is full.

"You are not from the Tang Dynasty, and you don't know your majesty well enough, when today's son is a rare Mingjun, what you said will not happen."

Qingluan was suspicious when she saw Li Chao's appearance, but she also knew that this man would not go to Dajinchuan with him. It's just that, recalling that two years ago, she personally participated in the palace mutiny he planned, Li Shimin is an emperor who usurped the throne in the palace, put his father under house arrest, and his brother in seclusion, will such an emperor really be a Ming monarch?

"Your Majesty is ambitious, to be the first emperor of the ages, he has many things to do, and I am his good helper." Li Chao said with a smile.

Li Chao stroked her long silky hair.

"The Tibetans are getting more and more rampant, it's time to teach them a lesson."

When Li Chao was in Longyou two years ago, he subdued Tuyuhun and forced Tuguhun to make peace. He also persuaded the Dongnu, Bailan, White Wolf and other feudal domains to attach the Tang Dynasty and stabilize the southwest, and Li Chao opened the southwest silk tea trade road to the Tianzhu Continent.

At that time, although Tubo did not attach to the Tang Dynasty, it also reached a friendly agreement with the Tang Dynasty, and they paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty, which was regarded as a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty.

But now that only two years have passed, Tubo has begun to attack everywhere, and even threatened the war to the subject countries of the Tang Dynasty such as Dongnu. You must know that Dongnu Kingdom and other countries are now nominally already the territory of the Tang Dynasty, they are the Tang Dynasty's Detention Prefecture, and those kings and chiefs are the princes of the Tang Dynasty.

The imperial court didn't care much about these actions of the Tubo people, after all, in their eyes, the Dongnu Kingdom was just a state of confinement, and in fact it was just a place outside the reach of the whip, so they would let them fight if they beat it.

But Li Chao is different.

He has been staring at Tubo and has always been guarding against Tubo, because he knows that Tubo is the fierce enemy of the Tang Dynasty in his life. In history, the Tang Dynasty fought wars with more than 100,000 people in Tubo, I don't know how many times, and they still lost more and lost less, and even the capital Chang'an was once broken by the Tubos.

It can be said that in the end of the Tang Dynasty, Tubo was the biggest foreign enemy of the Tang Dynasty, and even the grassland tribes such as the Turks were just a foreign enemy in the early Tang Dynasty, and the time that threatened the Tang Dynasty was less than a hundred years.

But Li Chao has told Li Shimin many times, but Li Shimin doesn't think much of it, or that the Turkic and other threats are the most real at the moment, and even the threat of Tuyuhun is much closer than that of Tubo.

The imperial court did not pay attention to Tibet, but Li Chao had to pay attention to it.

Nowadays, there are often Tibetans who intercept the Han merchant teams on the trade routes and extort money from them. It is said that Tibet began to reform, and many places effectively imitated the meaning of the Tang Dynasty.

They set up a system of 1,000 households and 10,000 households, and started the whole people to be soldiers.

The number of troops increased dramatically.

Tubo not only fought with those small Qiang and Tang states, but also caused friction with Tuyuhun. Tubo expanded outward, and inevitably collided with Tuyuhun.

In the previous war between Li Chao and Tuyuhun, the Tubo people saw through the reality of the Tuyuhun people, and changed from awe to disdain. They have repeatedly taken the initiative to provoke Tuyuhun and create friction, and although it has not yet turned into a major war, there are constant border conflicts.

Li Chao knew this and felt that he could use it.

Since the emperor and the imperial court did not plan to take charge of Tibet now, let's use razing to control Tibet.

Let Tuyuhun and Tubo go to war, and then let these dog-legged people in the southwest of the Tang Dynasty, such as the Dongnu Kingdom and the White Wolf Country, watch the battle and mix it at any time.

Li Chao didn't want Tubo to win, nor did he want Tuyuhun to win, his idea was to let these two countries fight, stalemate, and no result, so that they would lose both.

If anyone is about to lose, Datang will come over to mediate, and then engage in some trade with the weaker side, sell them some arms at a high price, and then let them rest for a while, and then let them continue to fight.

If you can't fight it, you can also send a coalition of troops composed of Dongnu and others to mediate and support. In short, it is not allowed to let the Tubo or Tuyuhun people live at ease, let alone let them grow unscrupulously.

"I have approved all the ordnance that you want from the East Women's Country, and you can increase the number of them. As for the payment for goods, we give priority to the collection of slaves, one Tibetan slave is equivalent to three ordinary fangren slaves, and one Tuyuhun slave is equivalent to two fangren slaves. The second is to collect gold and silver. ”

"There is a limit to the number of ordnance purchased with gold and silver, but if you exchange Tubo slaves and Tuyuhun slaves for ordnance, there is no limit to the quantity, and we will give you as many ordnance as you can take out."

As Shang Shuling, a lieutenant, and the emperor's first favorite minister, Li Chao has no problem asking for this policy in front of Li Shimin.

"When I turn around, I will propose to Your Majesty to establish the nineteenth Dao of the Tang Dynasty, Xikang Dao. Please grant your mother, King Dongnu, the Governor of Xikangdao, the Governor of Dongnu and the White Wolf Qiang and other feudal domains, to form a joint army. Jointly maintain Xikang Taiping. ”