The Poor Son-in-Law of the Tang Dynasty

"Father, don't worry. I'm going to join the army. Ye Chen is right. I should make the most of my life. It's not worth dying like this."

Facing Ye Hong and Han Mingxia, Li Yingzi's attitude had obviously softened a lot, and there was no longer the arrogance of the young lady of the Li family in her eyes.

"You, you are still injured now, why don't you stay longer before leaving?"

Han Mingxia also said with concern.

"No need!"

Li Yingzi smiled lightly: "My body has almost recovered."

After speaking, Li Yingzi resolutely left.

Ye Hong and Han Mingxia sent her out of the house immediately, and when they watched Li Yingzi leave, they both sighed secretly and turned back.

……

Xiande Hall.

An urgent secret report was delivered quickly.

Emperor Li Shimin was discussing the people's livelihood with his ministers. Hearing the shouts, they all looked in the direction of the voice.

"Report-"

"The border is urgent!"

A soldier of the Jinwu Guard rushed to the bottom of the jade steps desperately, holding up a confidential letter.

The eunuch serving at the side hurried down, picked up the secret letter, and handed it to Li Shimin respectfully.

Li Shimin's heart sank, and he quickly opened the secret letter to check.

After reading it, Li Shimin was furious.

"Damn Songtsan Gampo, dare to invade the western border of Songzhou?"

Songzhou Western Territory has just resolved the disaster of the party, and this Songtsen Gampo came to provoke another, obviously dissatisfied with Li Shimin's refusal to marry him some time ago.

Li Shimin glanced angrily at the officials and shouted, "Who dares to fight?"

As soon as these words came out, the whole place was silent.

Songtsan Gampo is not Tuoba Chici, but Tubo is a powerful opponent with nearly 20 cavalry.

Although Tubo is now backward, its productivity is low, and its national strength is several grades worse than that of Tang Dynasty, the people of Tubo are tough and very belligerent.

The national power is low, but the army must also maintain a strong combat power.

Therefore, their common people would rather eat less for themselves, but also keep the army at its peak.

It can be said that once Tubo decides to fight, it will inevitably use all the power of the whole country.

Especially when fighting against an opponent like the Tang Empire, they must have the determination to defeat Chang'an, otherwise they will not win, and they will only end up being wiped out.

Of course, there is also a possibility.

That is, Songtsan Gampo wanted to use this to force Li Shimin to marry him. As long as the two countries marry and establish friendly exchanges, Tubo can develop itself next to the towering tree of Datang without worrying about anything.

But if Li Shimin really chose to marry because of Tubo's invasion, it means that he bowed his head, which is a sign of cowardice.

Li Shimin would never do this if he was not forced to.

"At a time like this, can't I even find a handy general?"

Li Shimin was suddenly heartbroken.

Although many of the people below are Li Shimin's former subordinates and are loyal to him, but it's the same thing.

Who wants to take the initiative to take care of this mess?
Now the standing army that the Tang Empire can use is only about [-].

The rest is either to move far to northern Xinjiang, or to guard various places, or to defend Chang'an.

If Tubo really tried its best to attack, no matter how capable the general was, taking 5 people there immediately would still give away their heads.

If you want to really eliminate Tubo, unless Datang also does his best.

But the problem is that Li Shimin will not do this. Once he does this, the vitality that Datang finally regained will be emptied again.

If Tubo didn't plan to invade on a large scale, but just harassed and forced Li Shimin to marry him, then it is estimated that this side led a large army there, and they withdrew before they reached the place.

You still have to go for a symbolic pursuit to frighten others, and when you come back, at most Li Shimin will add a note to the history books: a certain general led his army to repel Tubo, brave and invincible!
It's over.

There is no practical benefit at all, it can be said to be thankless.

Seeing the ministers below all pretending to be dead, Li Shimin sneered: "If you don't speak, then I will call the roll call!"

Hearing Li Shimin's words, all the generals became worried.

"His Majesty!"

Changsun Wuji couldn't bear it anymore, stood up immediately, and suggested: "I feel that it is not suitable for our country to fight against Tubo now. Why not send some people to appease and agree to marry Songtsan Gampo."

Changsun Wuji's method is an expedient policy.

If there is a real war, with the current standing army of only [-], it is a joke.

"A marriage with Songtsan Gampo?"

Li Shimin said angrily: "Auxiliary machine, when did you become so weak? What's the difference between this and paying compensation?"

"But Your Majesty, think about it, if we really go to war with Tubo, if we win Tubo, everything will be fine, but if we can't win Tubo, we also have to agree to marriage."

"Now we take the initiative and build a good relationship with Tubo, which can also reduce losses. After all, we don't have many troops at our disposal now..."

Changsun Wuji said seriously.

As soon as this remark came out, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty began to persuade Li Shimin, echoing the words of Changsun Wuji and wanting Li Shimin to agree to the marriage with Songtsen Gampo.

Li Shimin was a little moved by what everyone said to me.

Yes!

With just this few people, how can we fight?
It is too difficult to win!
But if they can't win, and they are so laborious and mobilized to conquer Tubo, Tubo will just run away with oil on their feet, and Datang will only increase losses. At that time, they still have to agree to marry Tubo.

It's just that Li Shimin is not reconciled!
He didn't want to marry a foreign race and rely on such humiliating means to seek short-term peace.

But he had to do it again.

For a moment, Li Shimin couldn't help feeling a little helpless.

He collapsed on the dragon chair, his face turned blue and pale.

Is it...

Are you really going to compromise?
Thoughts of compromise kept lingering in Li Shimin's mind.

Suddenly, there seemed to be a ray of dawn in the confusion.

For some reason, he remembered someone.

"Come on, tell Ye Chen—"

……

At this time, Ye Chen was crouching in the room drawing design drawings. As a modern person, of course he couldn't get used to sitting on the Hu stool.

Although there are stools, they are not too common, and most people are still used to sitting on the floor.

So Ye Chen had nothing to do, so he wanted to design some high-leg furniture, even simple sofas, and then find someone to build them.

If these things are used well, it is also a great business opportunity.

Because of these concepts, it is not too difficult for Ye Chen to design. As long as the design drawings are available, it is very easy to hand over to the carpenter.

As soon as the design was finished, there was a rushing sound outside the door.

"Young master! His Majesty summoned you!"

"understood."

Ye Chen put away those blueprints, then got up and walked to the door.

"Liu Baoer, keep these blueprints well, find more painters to copy and keep some of them, and then find some carpenters to build them for me."

With that said, Ye Chen handed those blueprints to Liu Bao.