Chapter 264: Using your spear to attack your shield

The Ganlu Hall of Taiji Palace in Chang'an Imperial Palace, Ganlu Hall is Li Yuan's bedroom, where memorials, reading, meals, and praying for concubines to sleep.

At this time, there were rich dishes in the Ganlu Hall. Li Yuan held a small family banquet to entertain King Li Shimin of Qin, King Li Yuanji of Qi, and Princess Pingyang Li Xiuning. Seeing that his son was fine, Luoyang also successfully took it down. Although he lost the three towns in Hedong, Jinnan, and Li Yuan was in a good mood.

Although Dou Jiande is very fussy, in fact, he is the grasshopper in the autumn and can't jump for a few days. As long as Chen Ying conquered Dou Jiande's capital and captured Dou Jiande's queen Cao and the civil and military officials of the Xia Kingdom, even if Dou Jiande wants to fight, his generals will probably not follow him.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan felt a toothache again. It was not a good thing for this minister to be too capable. He defeated Wang Shichong. Although Chen Ying did not show off his good news, An Xing had already reported the details of the battle in Luoyang to him. Chen Ying was an indisputable first merit, destroying a country, rewarding a duke of his country, and upgrading from three levels was not an exaggeration.

However, Li Yuan was embarrassed by how to promote and reward Chen Ying.

The key is that Chen Ying is too young. He is just young and can only get a crown ceremony next year. However, at the age of twentieth, he is already the champion general of the current dynasty, the guest of the Eastern Palace, and the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Works. How can he be promoted? A young man of the twentieth age, who is the same as the six ministers and three ministers, Linggong, may even Pei Ji feel that he can't hold his face.

But the title is promoted.

Now Chen Ying is already the second-class duke of Liang, and then he will be the first-class duke. The last Duke of Yan is Luo Yi, Duke of Chu is Du Fuwei, and Duke of Wei is Pei Ji. Now he can only be promoted to Duke of Zhao or Duke of Han.

Just when Li Yuan's head was in a mess, Li Yuan observed that Li Shimin had few and a few desires.

On the contrary, Li Yuanji, who had always worried Li Yuan, did not make great achievements in the battle of Luoyang, but did not make any mistakes, which made Li Yuan very relieved.

Li Yuan looked at Li Shimin and said, "Erlang, don't be discouraged. Victory and defeat are commonplace!"

Li Yuanji glanced at Li Shimin with the light of his eyes and said in his heart: "Victory and defeat are common in military affairs, but Li Shimin was defeated too much, right? He defeated Xue Ju in one, defeated Wang Shichong in the second, defeated Wang Shichong in the second, defeated Wang Shiyun and Cijian in three. If it is not ten or three, it is not as good as me. I only have one defeat in Bingzhou."

Li Shimin said with a frustration: "I disappointed my dad!"

"Don't be disappointed, don't be disappointed!" Li Yuan clapped his hands and said, "Eat more vegetables, you can see that you have lost weight!"

Li Yuanji murmured in a low voice: "If there is no expectation, there will be no disappointment!"

Li Yuanji's voice was not loud, but Li Shimin could clearly hear it.

Hearing this, Li Shimin was furious and slapped the table: "Fourth brother, are you itchy?"

"So what? Let's talk about it?" Li Yuanji looked at Li Shimin without any weakness and said maliciously: "I'd like to ask my second brother for more advice!"

"You..." Li Shimin's face turned red with anger. In terms of skills, he was not only inferior to Li Jiancheng, but also Li Yuanji. Although Li Yuanji was not as treacherous and wise as Li Shimin, he could easily rub against Li Shimin on the ground in terms of skills. Li Shimin immediately woke up. If he really had a fight with Li Yuanji, Li Yuanji would never be polite to him. He might not get out of bed within half a year.

"What kind of morality is eating!" Li Yuan looked at the second and fourth brothers and pushed up, and said in a smooth manner: "Do you still eat or not? If you don't eat, you will get out of here, and none of them can worry about it!"

When Li Shimin heard this, he quickly sat down and had a meal.

Li Yuan looked at Li Yuanji and glared at Li Yuanji fiercely. Li Yuanji also imitated Li Shimin's appearance and tried his best to work hard towards the food in the bowl.

Li Xiuning said with her head down, "Dad, please pay more attention to your health and don't be so angry!"

"It's not just anger now, it's really a headache!" Li Yuan looked at Li Xiuning and said, "Have Chen Ying mentioned to you what he has not fulfilled?"

Li Xiuning tilted her head and thought for a while: "It really is!"

"Oh!" Li Yuan asked curiously: "What is his wish?"

Li Xiuning said: "He wants to ask his father to give him a marriage!"

"Wear, what kind of marriage?" When Li Yuan heard this, he really thought Chen Ying wanted to give Li Daozhen a title. Li Yuan's face suddenly became gloomy and he said coldly: "There is no door, just tell him, don't think that after making a few contributions, he can do whatever he wants!"

Li Xiuning suddenly realized it and it took her a long time to come back to her senses, knowing that Li Yuan was back to protect her. Thinking of this, Li Xiuning said softly: "Dad, you misunderstood. Chen Ying wanted to ask Dad to marry Luo Shixin!"

"Luo Shixin?" Li Yuan still had little impression of Luo Shixin. Although Luo Shixin was very outstanding in "Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties", it was a Romance after all. In fact, the generals Li Yuan was concerned about were at least at the fourth level or above, and they also needed to be brave and resourceful. Although An Xing mentioned Luo Shixin many times in the war report, Li Yuan had never seen Luo Shixin. However, when Li Yuan heard that he was giving Luo Shixin a marriage, he felt much more comfortable.

Li Yuan asked with a smile: "Whose daughter did Luo Shixin fall in love with?"

Li Xiuning said: "Qinghe Cui Yingying!"

Of course, Li Yuan knew that Luo Shixin was not a noble family, otherwise he would have had a deep impression of Luo Shixin. However, Cui's family in Qinghe was a first-class wealthy family. Even Li Yuan proposed to Cui, but Cui refused. Because Cui thought that Li Yuan's bloodline was impure.

The concepts of ancient people are different from those of modern people. Many modern people like mixed-race children. Some people are proud of their various bloodlines, and some stars even proudly claim that they have the bloodlines of China, Germany, Japan and France. However, in ancient times, mixed-race children had another title - hybrids.

This kind of person is the most shameful.

Li Yuan pondered and said, "This matter is probably really difficult to deal with!"

Li Xiuning said: "Chen Ying wants to exchange this gift for Luoyang's merit!"

"This..." Li Yuan laughed in his heart when he heard this. A kind decree was nothing to Li Yuan at all. Such an imperial decree for marriage was an imperial decree.

If a royal edict was used to exchange for a duke of the country, Li Yuan felt that this was much cheaper.

At this moment, the Central Constable Chen Qi opened his mouth and Li Shimin looked at the scene and said, "If you have anything, report it quickly, there are no outsiders here!"

Li Yuan nodded and said, "What's the matter?"

Chen Qi had no choice but to hand over the scroll of Dou Jiande's letter to the whole people or a manifesto to Li Yuan.

Li Yuan took the manifesto and looked at it and couldn't help but be furious. Dou Jiande's manifesto, the so-called "using the Xianbei mixed with Hu, and usurping the Central Plains throne, and splitting the soil to serve the Turks." He pointed the spearhead at Li Yuan. This not only cursed Li Yuan's ancestors, but also said that Li Yuan carried the world and asked the Turks to surrender to the vassals. This was actually a slander. In a furious manner, Li Yuan almost tore the manifesto apart! He said hatefully: "Dou Jiande is so arrogant. If I don't destroy him, I will not sit on this dragon bed!"

Li Shimin was very anxious, and Li Xiuning hurriedly persuaded him, saying, "Dad, the appearance of this manifesto is a good thing! We were worried that the 300,000 Turkish troops would be difficult to resist, but once this manifesto was issued, we would temporarily stop confronting Xia. As long as General Chen can withdraw from Hebei and let him take charge of the Turkic expedition, he will definitely be able to repel the invading enemy of the Turkic."

Li Yuan nodded slightly.

Seeing this, Li Shimin struck the railway while the hot: "Dad, Dou Jiande must be bluffing. Even if he deliberately delays time or wants to have any conspiracy, as long as the Tang Dynasty and Xia Kingdom temporarily stop fighting, see what else should Dou Jiande do? If he takes the initiative to bear the serious injuries to resist the Turks, with the more than 300,000 troops under Dou Jiande, even if he can defeat the Turks, there will probably be many people left."

When Li Yuan heard this, he turned angry and said that he was right.

Dou Jiande raised the righteousness of China and the barbarians and told the world all over. It seemed to have occupied the commanding heights of public opinion and won the initiative. Everything has its advantages and disadvantages. Once this manifesto was spread to the Turks, the Turks might not be able to put their main attack direction in Hebei. However, if Dou Jiande did not fight with the Turks, he would probably not be able to clean up the eternal infamy of Dou Jiande at that time.

In fact, Dou Jiande had this concern at first, but Ling Jing made a news report on Dou Jiande's concern: "From ancient times, successes have been the kings and princes, and defeated them! What are the differences between China and the barbarians, and the Tang Dynasty and the Turks, as long as we win the world, we will only look at how our new "History of Tang" was written in the end."
Chapter completed!