Chapter 150 The Bangzi Must Die (asking for monthly tickets)
Hearing that the Prince of Hengshan, known as Xiaotian Khan on the grassland, praised her so much and even remembered his name and deeds, Po Run's eyes were filled with tears and he choked with sobs.

The reaction may seem exaggerated at first glance, but if you think about it, this is the fourth-generation successor of the Tang Empire, it is not exaggerated.

"Dog." Li Xiang turned to Li Wei and said, "Go and serve a cup of hot tea to brother Po Run."

Li Wei poured a cup of hot tea for Po Run and handed it to him with both hands.

Po Run thanked her repeatedly, took the hot tea and put it on the table.

"I heard from Jingren that you just told him that the Shandong gentry formed a caravan and headed for the grassland?" Li Xiang asked with a smile.

"Yes." Po Run organized his words and said, "This matter was told by Xueyantuo's Dadushe, the eldest son of Zhenzhu Khan, Yemang."

"Yemang said that the first stop of the Shandong noble caravan was Xueyantuo. They thought that the grassland people didn't know the value of wool and wanted to exchange a piece of tea cake for 200 kilograms of wool. But when Brother Jingren came to Huihe before, he invited people from all the grassland tribes together and agreed that the price of tea in exchange for wool was one tea cake for ten kilograms of wool."

"It's a pity that this Shandong noble family is so greedy. Zhenzhu Khan has ordered Dadushe to go to all the grassland tribes and explain in detail their intention to engage in profiteer business!"

What the hell? There's an unexpected bonus?
Li Xiang really didn't expect that he just wanted to trick the Shandong gentry, but he never expected that this Yi man would actually help him to exaggerate the situation.

As a result, the reputation of Shandong gentry on the grassland was completely ruined!

"Not only that, Dadushe also discussed with my father that he would publicize their bad deeds in various trading cities." Po Run said, "My father said that this news might be useful to the prince, so he sent me to Chang'an to discuss this matter with the prince."

Li Xiang raised his eyebrows. This Uighur leader has steps.

However, this outcome was beyond Li Xiang's expectations.

Now that it has come to this, should I add fuel to the fire?
The new issue of the magazine is about to come out, so why not put this matter in the magazine.

"Thank Chief Tumidu for me." Li Xiang said with a smile: "This news is very important to me."

"It is the honor of Huihe to share the worries of the prince!" Po Run said immediately.

Finally, he asked, "May I ask, Prince, what is the red thing in the 'Chang'an Specialty Authentic Anhui Beef Noodles' that Brother Jingren mentioned? Why do I feel warm after eating it?"

"It's peppers. I put peppers in it." Li Xiang said with some regret, "It will take until next year to breed pepper seeds. There are no stocks for sale in the past two years."

"Is that so..." Po Chun was full of regret. Although her mouth was very painful after eating that thing, the warm feeling was really comfortable.

It would be a wonderful thing to eat some of this "chili" in a tent during the cold winter when the snow is falling.

Li Xiang did not treat Po Run badly. This time when he went back, he rewarded Po Run with dozens of pieces of Shu brocade, more than ten pieces of silk, and some exquisite porcelain.

Po Run was deeply moved and immediately expressed his willingness to die for the Prince of Hengshan.

Li Xiang encouraged him with a few words. After they parted, he returned to the restaurant and heard someone calling him to go back.

"Brother, the Saint is calling you back." Cheng Chubi said worriedly, "I heard that the envoys from Silla just entered the palace and said that Goguryeo, together with Baekje, launched an attack on Silla in three directions 20 days ago!"

"Brother, you guessed right! Goguryeo will indeed attack Silla!" Li Jingren said with admiration.

Li Xiang sighed with emotion, told his brothers to look after the restaurant, and then hurried back to the palace with Li Wei and Fubao.

After Li Xiang left, the restaurant became lively again.

"What did I say? The prince is right, isn't he? Ha, Goguryeo is just ambitious and can't stand loneliness!"

"Who said no? The prince is indeed far-sighted! I was so blind that I believed some people's lies and even doubted the prince!"

These "certain people" naturally refer to the aristocratic families.

In the restaurant, no, in Chang'an, only the aristocratic families would go against Li Xiang.

Of course... As the celestial beings of China in this era, the aristocratic families are not to be mentioned, and their names are comparable to those of a mysterious man without a nose.

You can say you want to marry women from the five surnames, but you can't say anything bad about them.

"If you ask me, the prince saw through the clues and saw through Goguryeo's next move." Someone else sighed: "It is a blessing for the country and the people that our Tang Dynasty has such a grandson!"

"Grandson?" Someone nearby asked, "They all say the crown prince, so why is there a grandson?"

"You don't know this, do you?" The man said with a smile, "I heard that during the New Year's Grand Court Meeting, the Sage personally praised the Prince as his good grandson!"

"Wow, really? That's a blessing for our Tang Dynasty!" People around him said, "Our Tang Dynasty has saints in front and princes in the back, which can ensure that the Tang Dynasty will prosper for a hundred years. We are born in this era, which is really a blessing that we have cultivated for eight lifetimes!"

"Who said it wasn't?" Everyone laughed and fantasized: "I don't know how prosperous the future will be. Take now for example, a woolen coat can be bought for only fifty cents, and it's very warm - look."

As he spoke, the man shook his clothes and showed everyone his wool sweater: "It's very warm to wear, but the collar is too tight, like it's strangling my throat, making it a little hard for me to breathe..."

Li Jingren happened to pass by and pointed at the man and said, "You're wearing it the wrong way around!"

"Oh." The man immediately changed his clothes and said with a smile: "Sure enough, I put them on backwards..."

Not to mention what happened in the restaurant, let's just say that after Li Xiang returned to Liangyi Hall, all the ministers had already gathered in the Hall. Standing beside them were the trembling Silla envoys and the Goguryeo envoys who had not yet returned.

Li Xiang took a look and found that Silla... emmm, was the ancestor of Korea.

It must be said that both Goguryeo and Baekje were pretty good countries, but Silla and its descendants were exactly the same.

Although Baekje and Goguryeo are located in similar regions to Korea, they are not actually the direct ancestors of Korea.

For example, all kinds of movies made by Koreans are actually claiming to be their ancestors.

His real ancestor was bullied from beginning to end by this pretended ancestor for countless years.

Li Xiang really couldn't like Silla. Under Li Zhi's deliberate indulgence, this country unified the southern peninsula, and then took advantage of the weakness of the Tang Dynasty to unify the entire peninsula.

Silla was not loyal to the Tang Dynasty either.

After destroying Goguryeo, the Tang Dynasty established the Andong Protectorate in Pyongyang, attempting to fully control the Korean Peninsula, which aroused Silla's dissatisfaction.

King Munmu sent troops to attack the Tang army stationed in the Ungjin Military Governor's Office. Through the Tang-Sola War, he annexed the former territory of Baekje. At the same time, he accepted the remnants of Goguryeo and supported them in establishing the "Bao De Kingdom" to contain the Tang Dynasty's influence on the Korean Peninsula.

At this time, the Tang Dynasty was mired in the quagmire of war with Tubo and had to shrink its Haidong strategy. King Wenwu also adopted a flexible diplomatic policy and sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty to apologize.

The Tang Dynasty went with the flow and acquiesced to Silla's control over the area south of the Pae River on the Korean Peninsula. In the first year of Yifeng, it withdrew the Andong Protectorate to Liaodong.

In fact, when it comes down to it, Li Zhi's strategic vision was flawed and too short-sighted.

During the reign of Emperor Gaozong, Goguryeo was actually on the verge of extinction. For the sake of Goguryeo, Li Zhi even gave up Tuyuhun, a vassal state that was a containment of Tubo, in order to quell the lingering Goguryeo...

The result was that Tubo became completely powerful and became a major scourge to the Tang Dynasty for more than two hundred years.

If Li Shimin could meet Li Zhi of that era, he would definitely pull off his crown tassels and scatter all the tassel beads to the ground.

In fact, in terms of level, he is at the same level as Jiajing. It's just that in order to elevate Wu Zetian, later generations also elevated Li Zhi to highlight Wu Zetian's "ability".

In fact, neither of the couple was a strong man. If Zhu Houcong were to take over Li Shimin's legacy, he would not do worse than Li Zhi without the constraints of civil servants.

"Your Majesty, Goguryeo has already broken through more than ten of our cities. Wherever they go, it is like hell on earth!" The Silla envoy cried bitterly and said, "If Your Majesty cannot stop Goguryeo's invasion, then our Silla will really be destroyed by Goguryeo!"

It shouldn't be that exaggerated. Li Xiang estimated that in history, Silla lasted for two years before it perished.

"Is this really true?" Li Shimin turned his gaze to the Goguryeo envoy.

"Your Majesty, the Heavenly Khan of the Great Tang, Silla has repeatedly sent troops to harass our Goguryeo border. As the saying goes, this is intolerable. Our country has also been unable to tolerate this any longer. After repeated warnings failed, we decided to send troops to Silla." The Goguryeo envoy said neither humbly nor arrogantly.

"Your Majesty, he is slandering me!" How could the Silla envoy admit it? He pointed at the Goguryeo envoy and cursed: "Your country's powerful minister Quan Gaisuwen killed the king and re-established the throne. How can this be a minister's way? In order to quell domestic opposition, you ignored the truce between the two countries and brazenly launched a shameless sneak attack on our Silla. Afterwards, you want to turn the tables. It's really shameless!"

When in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, they naturally had to abide by the rules of the Tang Dynasty, so the Silla envoys deliberately changed the surname of the Damoli branch of Goguryeo from Yuan to Quan.

"Do you have any evidence?" The Goguryeo envoy spread his hands, looking like a rogue.

“You…” The Silla envoy was so angry that he felt dizzy and couldn’t speak for a long time.

"Peace is the most precious thing for two countries to get along with each other." Li Shimin said in a deep voice, and began to set the tone: "Goguryeo is a vassal of the Tang Dynasty. I should have asked about such a terrible incident as the murder of the king by a powerful official. I didn't expect that Goguryeo not only did not send an envoy to apologize, but even sent troops to attack Silla, a friendly country of the Tang Dynasty!"

"Pass the order!" Li Shimin said loudly.

"I'm here." The docile Chu Suiliang immediately stood up.

"Use Goguryeo to withdraw its troops immediately, and order Molizhi Quan Gaisu Wen to come to Chang'an to apologize!" Li Shimin said in a deep voice.

"Yes." Chu Suiliang stepped back and began to choose his words carefully, preparing to write an emotional and eloquent imperial edict.

After comforting the Silla envoys with a few words, he ordered the two envoys to leave.

"Prince of Hengshan." Li Shimin looked at Li Xiang.

When working, one must refer to one's job title. Li Xiang understands this rule.

"I'm here!" Li Xiang said with his hands crossed.

"You predicted that Goguryeo would attack Silla." Li Shimin deliberately let Li Xiang show his face. "Now it is just as you said. What do you think about the situation that will follow?"

"I think we should send troops, but not at this time," said Li Xiang.

"Oh?" Li Shimin became interested and asked, "Why?"

Li Xiang thought to himself, why else? Silla can still hold on.

Even though more than 40 cities were captured by Baekje, Silla still managed to survive until the 19th year of Zhenguan.

"Now our Tang Dynasty is not fully prepared, and the navy has not been fully trained. Now is not the best time to send troops." Li Xiang said: "Besides, the three armies have not moved yet, and the food and grass must be stored in Youzhou before the army can set out. Therefore, we only need to issue an order to reprimand them."

"What's more, Goguryeo, Silla, and Baekje are evenly matched in Liaodong. Now Goguryeo has joined forces with Baekje, so Silla is retreating step by step. However, a centipede is still alive even after death, and Silla can still hold on. Therefore, there is no need for our Tang Dynasty to rush to send troops. We should wait until its national strength is weakened to a certain extent, and then send troops to attack Goguryeo." Li Xiang said with a smile.

"Your Majesty is right, but I cannot agree with one point." Chu Suiliang said, "Silla is a vassal of the Tang Dynasty after all. If we do not help it and weaken its national strength, it is not what a suzerain state should do."

In fact, there is nothing wrong with Chu Suiliang's idea. After all, he didn't have a bird's eye view and didn't know what Silla was.

His idea was not pedantic, but as the suzerain state, the Tang Dynasty would definitely not let the vassal states grieve over their loss. Otherwise, what else could the big brother do?
"What Doctor Chu said is correct, but Doctor Chu doesn't know something." Li Xiang began to tell Chu Suiliang: "Silla is fickle. In the past, Silla joined forces with Baekje to attack Goguryeo and took over the upper reaches of the Han River the following year. However, in the second year of Chengsheng in the Southern Liang Dynasty, which was also the second year of the Western Wei Emperor Fei, Silla suddenly betrayed its alliance with Baekje, sent troops to attack Baekje, and seized the lower reaches of the Han River."

"Such a fickle country, even if it becomes a vassal of the Tang Dynasty, if Goguryeo and Baekje are completely destroyed one day, Silla will definitely have secret conflicts with our Tang Dynasty!" Li Xiang asserted.

After all, he had a criminal record, and Silla was a foreign country, so Chu Suiliang did not speak for Silla and simply agreed with Li Xiang's statement.

In Li Xiang's conception, Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla, the three kingdoms on the peninsula would be completely destroyed.

He did not believe in the wisdom of later generations. A rat like Silla, who was capricious, ambitious and expandable, must not exist in the world.

Of course, Li Xiang himself admitted that he also had a bit of a later filter in his view of Silla...

Thinking of that southief jumping up and down and stealing here and there, Li Xiang felt disgusted to the extreme.

If I were to tell Sun Simiao that Chinese medicine was stolen by the descendants of Silla and turned into "Korean medicine", I'm afraid I would have to pick up a Mo Dao and roar into Silla...

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