Chapter 224: The royal family must be formed

Seeing that Shi Zhongchen almost laughed like a flower, Ma Qianli couldn't bear it and asked, "Master General, do you like this poem too?" He was quite puzzled, how could a eunuch be interested in lovesickness? If it could be... No wonder, Manager General General, Shi, likes to stick fake beards when he is fine!

Shi Zhongchen said repeatedly: "I like it, my family likes this poem very much. If our family is not wrong, Wang Ping'an has written a poem..." Suddenly, he thought that the emperor had ordered that the poem in the restaurant not be leaked. Few people in the capital knew about this matter, and this news cannot be leaked from his own mouth.

He changed his subject and said, "Mr. Ma, how did you get this poem from Wang Ping'an? Didn't you just say you didn't recognize him?"

"I... Xiaguan really doesn't recognize him!" Ma Qianli's face turned red. Like Shi Zhongchen, he also had secrets that he could not tell. He said, "Xiaoguan didn't ask for it specifically because... it was because..." In a hurry, Ma Qianli really couldn't think of any good words. He didn't know that he could meet Shi Zhongchen and was asked this question.

Seeing that his master was in trouble, Han also hurried up to smooth things over and said, "If the villain goes back to the chief executive, the villain will go to the Inspiration Temple to play today. Suddenly, he saw the Wang family treating the people. He remembered a friend of the villain. He sells four treasures of the study and his daughter has suffered from lovesickness, so I asked for my friend how to treat lovesickness. As a result, Wang wrote this poem for me, saying it was a prescription, and drinking red bean soup, the lovesickness will be cured!"

Ah, there is such a strange thing in the world. Can lovesickness be cured with red bean soup? The officials were immediately uproared. Lovesickness is heart disease. Heart disease requires careful medicine to be treated, not external medicine and stones can be cured. Everyone knows this, but Wang Ping'an actually said that red beans can cure lovesickness. This is the first time I have heard of it!

Shi Zhongchen was also quite surprised and said, "You are Lord Ma's family? Well, let's talk about how this red bean soup is used to cure lovesickness?"

There were many resentful women in the palace, and they all circled around the emperor alone, but the emperor could not care about it alone. Some concubines even couldn't meet the emperor all year round and had all kinds of complaints. In the eyes of Shi Zhongchen, this was also considered a lovesickness. If red bean soup could relieve lovesickness, then passing this method into the palace would relieve the pain of countless concubines missing the emperor!

Han was just a guard, and he knew where to go to the palace. Seeing that he was lucky enough to talk to a big man like Shi Zhongchen, he was excited and hurriedly said, "The red beans are cooked and they will turn into scum..." He slammed and told him all the way Wang Ping'an said!

All the officials were stunned, and there was a quiet outside the Chengtian Gate!

Han Ye made a retelling remark with bi. After saying that, he realized that everyone's expression was wrong. He was scared and thought to himself: "I can't say the wrong thing, can't everyone have their daughters who have suffered from lovesickness? After I said this, they felt something that they began to think about going home to treat their daughter?"

Suddenly, with a loud bang, the officials laughed together. Are you wrong? If you step on the red beans into scum, you can cure lovesickness! Their laughter was so loud that even the soldiers guarding the palace wall were puzzled and looked down.

Shi Zhongchen laughed, haha. This method seemed to be used by the concubines in the palace no matter what. Imagine the emperor's face as a pile of scum, which is so great. Lovesickness can be cured, but where can the emperor's face be placed!

Shi Zhongchen shook his head, put the manuscript in his arms, and did not return it to Ma Qianli. He waved his hand to the officials and said, "Today is a happy day. We should have met the emperor and thanked God for his kindness. Unfortunately, the emperor and the two prime ministers have important national affairs. I am afraid that I will not be able to find time to summon you today. The emperor specially sent our family out and told you, asking you to go back to the yamen to handle official affairs. When will you meet the emperor again? Let me wait for another decree!"

The officials were disappointed, but they didn't dare to complain, so they had to salute Shi Zhongchen, thank the general manager for coming out to report it in person, and went back to the yamen.

Ma Qianli refused to leave, and before he returned the poem, Shi Zhongchen had not returned it to him, he was still waiting to go home to comfort his daughter. After he hesitating for a moment, he walked up and said, "Master General, do you see the prescription?" That means, it's useless to ask for this, why don't you give me back!

Shi Zhongchen laughed and said, "Let's go back now, do a good job for the emperor, and there is no future...you can do it!" He laughed twice and entered the palace.

Ma Qianli has been stinging words for most of his life, so how could he not understand the meaning of the four words "The Future of Vitality"? If he dares to talk about it again, what kind of poetry is needed? Be careful that Vitality becomes Wuliang!

He was puzzled in his heart, although the poem was well written, what was the Director Shi Da going to do to offer it to the emperor? Oh, could it be that a princess in the palace who also had lovesickness?

Not to mention that Ma Qianli was full of worries and was thinking about things outside the palace, but said that Shi Zhongchen entered the palace and came outside the Ganlu Hall. He leaned his head and looked inside. Seeing that the emperor was still discussing matters with the two prime ministers, he did not dare to go in and disturb him. So he waited outside the palace, intending that the prime ministers would leave and he would go in and report.

Inside the hall.

Li Shimin couldn't bear the irritability in his heart and walked around the hall. Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling both stood up and did not dare to sit on the embroidered dragon pier anymore, and stood silently aside.

Changsun Wuji is not very old, but he is in his early fifties, but Fang Xuanling is much older, almost seventy years old. The two are very different in appearance and different styles. Changsun Wuji stood on the ground, his chest raised, and his eyes kept turning with Li Shimin's figure. But Fang Xuanling was not like this. He lowered his eyes and looked at the patterns on the carpet in front, as if he was thinking about something!

Li Shimin suddenly stopped, and made one hand into a palm, clenched his fists with the other hand, and slammed each other, and said loudly: "My Tang Dynasty must send troops, otherwise if this continues, the Turks will go south again within three years!"

Changsun Wuji took a deep breath, swallowed it slowly, and said, "Your Majesty, it is easy to send troops, but it is difficult to find reasons! The Turkic internal fighting, and the tribes are scattered in a group of sand, but if our Celestial Army goes on an expedition, they will immediately join forces to resist our army together, so we must worry!"

Li Shimin said no, he also knew the meaning of the four words "famous in the army", but the problem was that he could not find a legitimate reason! He looked at Fang Xuanling and said, "Aiqing Fang, what do you think?"

Fang Xuanling frowned and said, "My Tang Dynasty is the country of the Heavenly Kingdom. If you attack the foreign territories, you really need a reason to stand. Otherwise, it will cause panic among other foreign territories. Moreover, Goguryeo has not yet perished. If they take the opportunity to cause trouble and go to war together, the consequences will be unpredictable!"

Li Shimin nodded again, walked back to the desk, sat down slowly, tapped the table with his fingers, and said, "The reason is the reason!"

It turns out that the civil strife of the Turks, which had always been a headache for Li Shimin, is now becoming more and more intense. The Turks are nomadic peoples on the grassland. Nomadic peoples have a characteristic that they want to calm their external conditions, so that they have to keep calm within them! Since the Huns during the Warring States Period, history has used blood and fire to prove this iron-like fact countless times!

Since the Sui Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty has constantly provoked internal struggles among the Turkic tribes, and the same is true for the Tang Dynasty. The policies have not changed, but have been implemented more thoroughly. The Turks have indeed fought internally, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, from this year to next year, there has been no moment of peace!

But as the saying goes, heroes come from troubled times! This saying is extremely accurate. It is easy to use in any era and in any place. The Turks fought and fought, and even formed an outstanding tribe leader. This leader kept annexing the small tribes. According to the Tang Dynasty's detailed reward, this leader actually had the strength to control the strings of 100,000, which was comparable to the Turkic Khan!

Such a great power poses too great a threat to the Tang Empire. We can no longer watch the leader develop. Otherwise, according to the iron laws of thousands of years, once the tribes on the grassland are unified and obey the command of one leader, the leader's next order will not even be able to think about it. It must be a large army going south and robbing the Central Plains!

The era when this iron law was proved last time was not far away. The former Sui Dynasty was built after the destruction of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. The Northern Zhou Dynasty was another former nomadic nation. It was established by the Xianbei people, but it happened decades ago!

Although the Xianbei people have completely become Han people, the word Xianbei has become a historical noun, but the characteristics of the nomadic peoples are so clear that the monarchs and ministers of the Tang Dynasty do not want to understand them anymore. Not to mention others, it is Changsun Wuji, the current prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, but they are just following the surnames of the Xianbei people!

The difficult period of the founding of the Tang Dynasty had passed, and the national strength was getting stronger and stronger, but it still had to rest for a while before it could launch a large-scale war of destruction against the Turks. It is still acceptable to eat away now, but it is not enough to swallow the whale. To destroy the Turks, after all, it was the case in the Li Zhi era!

The problem Li Shimin faced was that it was not impossible to send troops to expedition the Turks, but if the situation expanded, everyone on the grassland came together to unite and resisted the Tang army, the consequences would be serious. Maybe it would promote the unification of the various divisions of the grassland and trigger a greater war!

Now, the question that the monarchs and ministers of the Tang Dynasty are discussing is how to find a reasonable reason to not only kill the increasingly powerful tribe, but also avoid fear from other tribes, so other tribes will not support them, so the reason is very important.

The hall was quiet for a long time. Fang Xuanling suddenly said, "The reason can be found, but it will take some time. We have to send someone to the grassland!"

Fang Shu Duan, Fang Xuanling is the best at strategy, and his ideas are often very useful!

Li Shimin was overjoyed and said, "It's still time. Even if we send troops, we have to prepare for a while, and we will not officially go to the war next year."

Fang Xuanling reached out to put his hand to hold his beard, gently stroked it, and said, "Borrowing troops will let the Turks borrow troops from us. What is the reason? Let the Turks find them by themselves. We just send troops!"

After hearing this, Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji were slightly stunned. Suddenly, the two of them showed joy together. Changsun Wuji said, "Borrow soldiers! Are you trying to find someone from a small Turkic tribe to complain, and then borrow soldiers from my Tang Dynasty?"

Li Shimin said, "Then you really have to look for this on the grassland. It is not possible for ordinary people to complain. You must have a royal family!"
Chapter completed!