The carriage suddenly stopped.

"Prince, someone blocks the road ahead." The coachman tapped the carriage a few times and said in front.

In Hanjing, few people dared to block Li Chao's road. Early in the morning, they were stopped in Nancheng, and Li Chao was a little surprised. When he came out yesterday, the carriage Li Chao was riding in Bashang without the logo of Li Shuzhi's family.

"Prince, I'll go down and deal with it." Ke Qing said.

Ke Qing got out of the car and came back a moment later.

"It's a man from the palace, and the eunuch Wang came in person."

When he heard that the eunuch Wang was blocking the road, Li Chao immediately understood what was going on. It was probably the palace that he had already learned about taking the prince to the brothel. It was not surprising that the prince's whereabouts must be kept in the palace at any time and would not return overnight. If he didn't know the situation in the palace, it would be their dereliction of duty.

Li Chao got out of the car, and Eunuch Wang stood there with a smile on his sleeve.

"Good morning, King Zhao."

Li Chao smiled and replied, "Eunuch Wang is too early. Is this early waiting for me?"

"Your Majesty asked our family to come and invite King Zhao to breakfast."

Li Chao responded with a smile, turned to the prince's carriage, and asked him to say hello. Chengqian also found that Wang Chengen was blocking the road and wanted to hide. Although he had become an adult yesterday, he was still a little guilty when facing the eunuch general manager beside his father.

"The two girls will be handed over to our family, and our family will personally send them to the East Palace."

Wang Chengen's words were unexpected.

Li Chao looked at Wang Chengen with a smile, and Wang Chengen replied, "What we are saying is the truth, but in fact we are also doing the order." As soon as this was said, everyone understood that this was the emperor's meaning.

Interestingly, the emperor knew where he took the prince yesterday. He asked someone to wait on the road in the morning and took the initiative to connect the two of them to the East Palace.

Cheng Qian was surprised and happy.

"Get in the car."

Li Chao, Chengqian, Wang Chengen, and the three of them sat in a carriage. Chengqian was a little embarrassed at first, but Li Chao was calm and Wang Chengen kept smiling.

"Your Majesty should scold me." Li Chao said proactively.

"No." Wang Chengen replied.

Royal Palace.

In the warm hall, a hot breakfast was already on the dining table.

Li Shimin sat there, his eyes were red, and he didn't sleep well last night.

The prince sat in front of him, uneasy.

However, Li Chao next to him looked calm.

"Everyone else retreated." Li Shimin waved, so except for Wang Chengen, who was standing behind the emperor, everyone else retreated.

There were only four people left in the hall.

"Your Majesty, yesterday..." Cheng Qian took the initiative to break the silence.

As a result, before he could continue to say it, Li Shimin waved, "Let's have breakfast first."

Li Chao was very obedient and directly picked up a soup bun in his bowl.

"It's actually a crab roe soup bun, and this skill is also very good." Li Chao exclaimed with a smile. Li Shimin gave Li Chao a blank look, ignored him, picked up a flower roll and bit it hard.

In fact, Li Shimin thought a lot about not sleeping all night last night.

He didn't think the prince did something wrong last night. The fourteen-year-old prince is considered an adult, and it's not a bad thing to come into contact with this early, as long as he doesn't get immersed in it. What he was more annoyed was that this kind of thing should have been done by him, who was the father, but Li Chao did it instead.

Thinking about it, his relationship with Chengqian is getting more and more distant, far less close than Chengqian's father-son relationship when he was a child. However, Li Chao and Chengqian have always had a good relationship, which made him jealous.

Next, the three of them ate breakfast and stopped talking.

Li Chao was very focused on eating, ate two soup buns, drank a bowl of porridge, and even ate two tea eggs. Li Shimin ate six flower rolls in one breath, just staring at the flower rolls.

Cheng Qian had no idea what he tasted, and only drank a bowl of porridge.

All are full.

The three of them sat there, staring at each other with big eyes.

Li Shimin sighed.

"Chengqian, you have grown up. After the New Year, I will go to Mount Tai for the Fengshan Mountains. You stayed in the prison country and the burden on your shoulders is heavy. I have neglected you in recent years. You have nothing to worry about what happened last night. In fact, this matter was told by the father to Wen Yuan. From now on, you will be an adult. Those two girls, I have asked the eunuchs of the king to send you the Eastern Palace, and I will enthrone them as eunuchs."

Cheng Qian was half-believing and half-doubting. What happened yesterday was actually done by the Grand Master on the order of the emperor?

As the crown prince, there are many concubines. The princess is called the crown princess. There are also two third-rank Liangdi, six fourth-rank Liangyuan, ten fifth-rank Chenghui, six seventh-rank Zhaoxun, and twenty-four ninth-rank worshippers.

In other words, there are also many places. If all the quotas are full, there will be as many as fifty-nine people.

Now, as soon as Li Shimin spoke, he directly awarded the ninth-rank courtesy of the two of them yesterday. Even if they were just right in the future, if they were not born well, Zhaoxun would have a chance.

However, with their background, it is impossible for Liangdi and Liangyuan to do so.

"Your Highness, why don't you thank Your Majesty quickly." Li Chao saw Cheng Qian still stunned there and reminded him with a smile.

Chengqian hurriedly thanked.

"Okay, you should go back early and rest. Today I will take a day off in the palace, so don't have to come here." As soon as he was about to tell the prince, "I was young, you were only fourteen now, and when you are still growing, young people are most afraid of being beaten up."

Cheng Qian blushed, after all, he was just a young man who had just experienced it once.

"Go."

Chengqian retreated in a panic.

Only Li Chao and the Emperor were left in the hall, and Wang Chengen sent the prince out.

"I really want to beat you up."

Li Chao smiled and said, "Your Majesty, it's better to be in a mess than to be blocked. Your Highness is old and is about to be regent. You can't even know the personnel, right? Please rest assured that the place I went to yesterday was very clean, and the girls are all very good."

"snort!"

Li Shimin snorted coldly, "If you dared to take the prince to those brothels yesterday, I would have waited until today to call you, and would have been so polite to you?"

"To be honest, when I just received the news yesterday, I really wanted to take someone to catch the prince back and beat you up. You said, can I still feel at ease to let you be the left-behind Hanjing and the regent minister?"

Li Chao just smiled.

"Forget it, you're a scoundrel. Don't mess around again next time!" Li Shimin planned to choose some beautiful girls for the prince when he came back. Li Chao's daughter was only eight years old, and he said that he would wait until her daughter was sixteen before she could get married. Then he would have to wait for eight years before the prince could marry the princess into the palace.

In fact, Li Shimin thought he could marry him at the age of thirteen. When he married his eldest grandson, she was thirteen years old. But Li Chao refused, thinking that thirteen years old was too young and insisted on thirteen.

Eight years later, the prince was twenty-two.

Li Shimin could ask the prince to marry Li Chao's daughter twenty-two, but the prince must take a concubine first. Even he and the queen hoped to carry their grandson as soon as possible.

"Or why do you still follow me to Fengshan?" Li Shimin asked suddenly.

Li Chao said without hesitation, "I will follow the arrangements of your Majesty."

"You also know that the conquest of Liao has been scheduled. After the Fengshan period next year, I will move to Dengzhou, and the country will recruit imperial guards and the government troops to gather. After the autumn, the troops will be officially sent to Liaodong, and then water and land will advance together. Your southern Liaoning will be a bridgehead for attack. I want to let you be the commander of the water and Li Jing is the commander of the land."

Li Chao, who had just said that he was arranged by the emperor, shook his head immediately at this time.

"It is an incomparable honor to go to Fengshan with Your Majesty. But if I ask me to command the troops, I will not accept it."

“Why?”

"Your Majesty, I am a civil servant. The war is the responsibility of the generals."

Li Shimin was stunned by Li Chao's reason. What is this reason? You, Li Chao, have fought fewer battles, but after a moment of twisting your heart, Li Shimin just laughed.

"Since that's the case, then you should be the one who stays in Hanjing and stay and assist the prince in charge of the country. I may not be able to come back in two or three years after I go there."

"Go to Dengzhou first, maybe Youzhou later, or Liaodong." Li Shimin was determined to win the ambition to conquer Liao. After enduring for four years, the Tang Dynasty was ready.

After chatting for a while, Li Chao said goodbye and left the palace.

The conquest of Liao has been decided. Next year, Li Shimin will draw 200,000 troops to conquer Liao. Of which 150,000 will be attacked by land, one will attack from the front line of the Liaohe River, and the other will be transported from landing to southern Liaoning. One is the main force of the Tang Dynasty.

Another 50,000 water route was 20,000 navy, carrying 30,000 infantry and cavalry, crossed the east from the floating sea in Shandong, landed directly near Pyongyang on the peninsula, and attacked the capital of Goguryeo directly.

In addition, there will be more cooperatives joining the army next year.

Xue Yantuo, Khitan, Xi, Shiwei, and Wu will all follow the expedition and cooperate with the main land line of the Tang army to join the battlefield on the Western Front.

Silla and Baekje will also send troops to attack from the south of Goguryeo, cooperate with the Tang Dynasty's waterway army to join the southern battlefield.

Such a large army would have 300,000 civilians transporting food and grass. Fortunately, the imperial court has hoarded a lot of food and grass equipment in Yingzhou, Dengzhou, Jinzhou, southern Liaoning and other places in recent years, which is sufficient preparations for the conquest of Liao.

However, although there are so many soldiers, Li Chao believes that it is unrealistic to launch an offensive in autumn and destroy Goguryeo within half a year. After all, Goguryeo is not a grassland, it is also a semi-agricultural country with cities and fortresses. It is not the kind of person who defeats the main force of the enemy in one decisive battle and wins all in one fell swoop, and you have to fight it step by step.

The most difficult thing is the climate, geography, inconvenience of food supply, etc. in Goguryeo.

Li Shimin said that he might not be able to return to Beijing in two or three years, but in fact he had already considered these things and was ready. He did not confidently think that he could destroy Goguryeo in half a year.

The carriage arrived in front of Zhao's mansion, and Li Chao got out of the car and entered.

As soon as he entered, the old housekeeper ran over.

"King Zhao, Thirteen Niang is waiting for you in the front hall."

Judging from the old housekeeper's appearance, Thirteen Niang seemed to have to settle the score with her. Well, it seems that Cui Yingying had already met the girls who were sent back in the morning, and seemed to have some opinions.

"Where are Shiyilang and the others?" Li Chao asked.
Chapter completed!