Don't be a prince

Ashina Xue forced her back, and said bitterly: "It's just embroidery, what's the problem, I can learn horseback riding and archery, how can I not learn this?"

After embroidering twice, the needle tip stuck her hand again, and Ashina Xue screamed out.

For her behavior of looking for abuse, Li Chengqian will not dissuade her twice.Although Yichun Beiyuan has pastures and sheep and horses, she will still feel bored after living for a long time. It is good for her to find some other interests.

Seeing that Su Yuan was not there, Li Chengqian asked Xiuxiu, "Where is Yuanyuan?"

Xiuxiu raised her head and said with a smile: "After King Wei left, Sister Su came over and saw that you were at work. After watching for a while, she returned to Guangtian Palace. She has to take care of the flowers and plants in the house herself. "

Li Chengqian nodded and didn't say much.Living in the palace for a long time, always looking for something to do.Just like myself, the reason why I have so much resentment towards the emperor's actions is that there is nothing to do.As long as people are idle, they will become nervous.Now that there are oil and hot air balloons to distract energy, who cares how the emperor prodigal.

Anyway, the current Datang is still Li Shimin's Datang, and he, the emperor, is responsible for breaking it.

But having said that, it's just rewarding outsiders with Tang's money and materials, even if it is a meat bun to beat a dog and be bitten back, at most it will be despised by the subjects.

It's nothing.

Suffer a long memory!

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Chapter 3 and Five

After the New Year's greetings in the first few days, Li Chengqian moved to the academy to study hot air balloons with Li Tai.

I have to say that Li Tai still manages the Institute of Engineering very similarly. Whether he wants wood products or iron products, he can assign them to top craftsmen to make them.These craftsmen are not simply affiliated to the engineering college, they have been bought by Li Tai, and they are theoretically considered to be members of the Wei Palace.

Experimenting with the smallest Kongming lantern, when the size of the Kongming lantern is big enough to hold a person, it finally reached the limit. Although the paper lantern is already very light, there is no stable fire source, and it always falls when it does not fly high. down.

But this did not dampen Li Tai's confidence, because starting from a small piece of candle at the beginning, the Kongming Lantern can now carry a lamp to the sky. Experiments have proved that the larger the Kongming Lantern is, the more objects it can fly. bigger.After the proportion changes, it will definitely be able to fly with people.

"Brother Huang, I dare not really believe that people can fly now. In fact, it's just a big Kongming lantern. How could people never think of it before!"

Li Chengqian said angrily: "You think that everyone has time to think about whether people can fly! Humans are creatures that seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Countless people have fallen on the flying sky, so theoretically, flying sky has become an inexhaustible thing." Things that are possible. Because of this, as long as future generations think of Feitian, they will take it for granted that it is impossible. To break through the cage, what is needed is not pure courage, but also a little ignorance."

Li Tai nodded, he agreed with this reasoning very much.

"Stop the experiment, wait for Huo Huanbu to find it first, and the power problem still needs to be resolved. Qingque, you can't expect to send people to the sky with candles. The letter from the East Palace to the Governor of Yanzhou has been sent , Wait until the Shizhi water in Yanzhou is mined before we can get the power to support the hot air balloon to take off. Moreover, before that, we have to study the graduate fire device. Without a power source that continuously supplies the flame, the hot air balloon still cannot fly. !"

Li Tai scratched his head and directed the craftsmen to dispose of the fallen Kongming lanterns, then turned around and said, "Brother Emperor, I have always wanted to ask why the Kongming lanterns that take people to the sky are called hot air balloons? Just like the bridge I supervised. Same, how good is it to name it with the king’s title or name? You see, according to legend, the Kongming Lantern was invented by Kong Ming, not only because of the story of the Three Kingdoms, but also because of this, Zhuge Liang’s reputation has also spread to the present.

The thing you made is definitely more powerful than the Kongming Lantern for praying for blessings. In that case, it might as well be called Gaoming Lantern, and it directly compares Zhuge Liang. "

When Li Tai said this, the craftsmen around him nodded their heads again and again, and even praised that the name of the prince should be passed on forever.

For such a scene, Li Chengqian really didn't catch a cold. Perhaps the emperor's father was able to accept the congratulations from the ministers without changing his expression.

"Okay, what kind of bright lights, we need to do things more simply. The things we are going to make take off with hot air, and the upper part will also be a sphere. It is more appropriate to call a hot air balloon. The world only needs to know that this thing is Prince Li Chengqian can think of it, there is no need to use my characters to name it."

Resolutely rejecting Li Tai's idea, the two brothers walked out of the yard of the engineering college and prepared to go back to their respective homes.

Li Ke is currently in the mansion preparing for the big wedding. Although Concubine Yang is helping him, he is not the eldest son, and Concubine Yang is not the queen, so he cannot use the House of Internal Affairs as a donkey, so it will take a long time to prepare.

At least before Li Ke got married, Li Chengqian was not planning to return to Chang'an.If his predictions were correct, the emperor would soon enter a period of rage. Although he had bet with him and sounded the alarm, those who predicted in advance often did not receive gratitude, but instead complained.for example:

Why didn't you persuade me more then?

Knowing this, why didn't you just slap me!

...

And so on.

For the whole first month, except for the grand court meeting that he had to attend and the fixed greetings, Li Chengqian didn't make do with the emperor at all.

Such days continued until the 20th of the first month, or the 28th of the first month to be precise.The imperial court, which had just started to walk out of the New Year's Eve, received an urgent report from Lingnan Feng An before it was completely back on track.The Liao clan in Dongwangdong and Xiwangdong of Gongzhou Road rebelled.Years ago, the chiefs and patriarchs of that area entered Chang'an for a pilgrimage and received a lot of rewards. As a result, after the year, they rebelled just after returning to their clan.

The rebellion of the Liao clan did not attract attention. The Liao clan had never returned to their hearts. The imperial court was not so much restraining them as it was occupying the land and guarding against others coming to snatch it.Anyway, that piece of land won't be developed anytime soon, so it's better to just let it go.

The imperial court didn't care if the Liao clan returned, because even if they rebelled, all they had to do was put down the chaos.As Gongzhou Road is close to Lingnan, it is enough to give Feng An an order to suppress the rebellion.As for the urgency mentioned in Feng An's letter, no one took it to heart.As the overlord of Lingnan for so many years, it would be strange if the Feng family was overthrown by the rebellion of several tribes.The reason why the situation is particularly serious is for the sake of future meritorious service.

The courtiers didn't care, and Li Shimin, the emperor, didn't care even more.In his opinion, it's just changing from Wynn's method to being a prestige when managing the bureaucrats. Although they were rewarded with something last year, the current situation is not enough to make him regret it.

Because of this incident, Li Shimin specially wrote a private letter, handed it to Li Jian, and asked him to send him to the prince's residence in the academy.

After reading the letter, Li Chengqian remained expressionless and wrote a reply, but he never mentioned the bet, but only introduced what he was going to do in the academy.After all, there must be a reason for the dignified prince to leave the palace and not return.It may sound absurd to study Feitian, but with Li Tai's evidence, there will be no trouble.

In this way, Li Chengqian completely hid himself.He didn't even take the initiative to inquire about Chang'an's news, but focused on supervising the brocade craftsmen making the ball of the hot air balloon.

A few days after the imperial court ordered Feng An in Lingnan to independently decide to attack and suppress the rebellion, the Hongling urgent report from the frontier fortress was sent to Chang'an.

Murong Fuyun, the khan of the Tuyuhun tribe, actually sent troops to plunder Shanzhou. When the frontier army of the Tang Dynasty reacted and was about to fight to the death, they had no intention of occupying the land at all. They grabbed some food, cattle and sheep, and returned to the village. In the territory of Tuyuhun.Because they left in a hurry, they didn't even plunder the border residents of Datang as herd slaves.

Upon hearing the news, Li Shimin immediately tore up Hongling's urgent report, and without explanation, he directly ordered the execution of all the envoys in Tuyuhun. Wei Zheng and others tried hard to persuade them to no avail.

If the prince hadn't asked Tang Jian to find an excuse to keep the Tuyuhun envoys, according to the time calculation, the Tuyuhun envoys would have just gotten together with their frontier army and returned to Tuyuhun territory together.

Originally, the finished product of the No. [-] hot air balloon sphere was about to be produced, but before Li Chengqian saw the finished product with his own eyes, he was tied back to Chang'an by Li Jian.

That's right, it's tied.

"Li Jian, let me tell you, you can do whatever you want by relying on your father's orders, and you will have to accept it when I find you alone in the future!"

Li Chengqian, who was tied into a wooden stake, lay in the carriage and couldn't resist at all. Although the pro-leader was still very close to His Royal Highness, Li Jian took out the emperor's imperial gold medal, and Li Chengqian could only let the pro-leader guards disperse .

Li Jian chuckled and said, "Your Highness, you still have the bad luck of looking for slaves? You don't know, the court is almost full of quarrels. Your Majesty wants to send troops to conquer Tuyuhun, and the generals collectively support them, and everyone clamors." Now is the time for the death of the lord and humiliating officials. However, the civil servants firmly disagreed to send troops, saying that Gaochang was destroyed, how could they attack Tuyuhun? Tuyuhun is not a small country like Gaochang, and the scale of the mobilization is comparable to that of Gaochang. The battle of Eastern Turks has begun.

Just when everyone was arguing, it turned out that Honglu Temple Minister Ju Guogong exposed your advice, and now everyone turned their attention to you.Let alone them, even the servants are very curious, how did you determine that Tuyuhun would launch an attack on Datang?I also guessed so accurately, it happened to be the first month. "

Li Chengqian, who was tied up, really didn't know what to say. Should I tell you that there is a browser called Baidu, a book called "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", and a book called "Old Tang Book"?

However, he also thought that the original event would not happen. After all, although the time is also the eighth year of Zhenguan, history has obviously changed because of his appearance.Even Gaochang perished a full six years earlier than in serious history.

But now it seems that the looting of Shanzhou is clearly in Tuyuhun's schedule, and has not changed due to the appearance of gunpowder weapons.In other words, they just wanted to see the power of gunpowder weapons with provocation.

However, they were disappointed. Although Datang dispatched gunpowder weapons when destroying Gaochang, such weapons had not been fully armed to the frontier army.The manpower of the emperor's secret organization has not yet been in place, and it is impossible to distribute such terrible things as gunpowder weapons.However, Longyou Dao's troops were scattered because of the need to guard the Gaochang area. There was no effective troops around Shanzhou, so they succeeded.

There are not many people who can ignore the palace ban and drive directly to the Tai Chi Hall in a carriage. Even Li Chengqian would not do such arrogant things.

However, when the carriage arrived in front of the Tai Chi Hall and Li Jian had no intention of untying it, Li Chengqian wanted to bite his tongue and kill himself.

The majestic prince was strangled by a wooden pole like wild game returned from hunting, and was carried away by two eunuchs.

Such a scene, even if the face is thicker than the city wall, will collapse.

The person on the stairway bump wanted to vomit, and finally entered the Tai Chi Hall, was placed on the ground, and was finally untied.

After regaining his freedom, Li Chengqian wanted to find Li Jian to use his fist theory.However, when he heard the emperor's father's cold snort, he could only bow down obediently and cup his hands.

The court that Li Jian called "noisy fryer" was as quiet as death at this moment.When saluting, Li Chengqian looked around and saw that everyone was practicing something, even Wei Zheng, who looked like he had nothing to do with himself.

Li Shimin's unemotional voice sounded: "His Royal Highness has such a temper, why, I asked Li Jian to tie you here, and you still have complaints?"

"Reporting to my father, my son dare not, but my father has an order, even if my son crawls, I will crawl over."

Over the past few years, Li Chengqian has gotten to know the emperor's father better. This man has countless Oscar statuettes, and he is a well-rested actor.Emotions and anger are invisible, which is a skill he has learned a long time ago.At this time, there was no fluctuating voice, which showed his mood.The angrier you get, the calmer you become.It was so calm that it sounded like a machine, which could only mean that his lungs were about to explode.

At this point, the fool will continue to be tough, and it is the best choice to just bend over and admit cowardly.

"Well, I'm still filial. Anyway, I'll believe your nonsense, but please explain to me clearly why you predicted the change in Tuyuhun? Also, how did you determine that the time is now? Don't tell me Call it a coincidence, how can there be so many coincidences in this world!"

Seeing that the emperor finally asked a question, all the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty stared at the prince. They were also very curious about the answer to the question.The prince's foresight was like divination.However, most of the fortune tellers are deceiving people, and I haven't seen anyone who has tested everything accurately.As for Yuan Tiangang's so-called magic, it is just that ordinary people and low-level officials are good at it.The real senior officials, including Wang Gui and others, did not really believe it.

There is no such thing as a coincidence, it can be a coincidence to this extent!This is the consensus of all.Therefore, everyone is very curious about how the prince predicted it.

Everyone in the hall focused their eyes on him, which made Li Chengqian feel great pressure.

Only then did he realize that sight can really sting.

With a sigh, Li Chengqian could only say: "It's actually very simple to report back to the emperor, just guess the unknown based on the known conditions. First of all, the Eastern Turks were destroyed. Although the Western Turks were also a grassland nation, compared to plundering the Tang Dynasty, They are more willing to plunder those countries in the Western Regions. Among Datang's current neighbors, only Tuyuhun and Tubo dare to attack Datang without worrying about the consequences, not even Xue Yantuo.

Gunpowder weapons are indeed unparalleled weapons of war. However, the leaders of the enemy countries will not give up without seeing its power in detail.Compared with waiting, taking the initiative is a good choice for them.Of course, this guess was not generated for no reason.I have asked the King of Hejian. When the Tang Dynasty attacked Gaochang, although Tuyuhun and Western Turks did not send troops to help, they still set up heavy troops on their own borders.Seeing the Tang Dynasty approaching, the Western Turks chose to flee. Although Tuyuhun also temporarily avoided the edge, the army pressed up again afterwards.Because of this, Erchen concluded that Tuyuhun might provoke Datang at the risk of dissatisfaction.

Although Gaochang is a small country, Gaochang was destroyed by the Tang army, which is still shocking enough.Because of this, even some countries that do not border on the Great Tang Dynasty all pay tribute to the Great Tang Dynasty, following suit and offering you the title of Heavenly Khan.At the time when Datang was at its most glorious, even if something happened to Kou Bian, in order to maintain its image, Datang would probably not directly ask the teacher for the crime.This must be the idea of ​​Tuyuhun Khan.

Treat yourself to others, push yourself to others.After taking on the role of Murong Fuyun, Erchen came to such a conclusion.If there is something wrong with what you said, please laugh it off, father! "

The words have been finished, but the hall is still silent.

The crown prince's explanation, how should I put it, sounds like that, but there is always a sense of disobedience.

Indeed, according to what the prince said, such a result can be deduced, but it is still too accurate, right?

Li Shimin also thought the same way. He found that he really couldn't see through the prince.If it is true as the prince said, all of this was deduced by him, then his ability to deduce things is comparable to Fang Mou's combination of judgment and judgment.

It can only be said that the blood of my old Li family is really excellent?

Not interested in entangled in this matter anymore, Li Shimin coughed lightly before saying: "I called you here today, just to ask your opinion on the matter of Tuyuhun. The generals are all in favor of sending troops to conquer non-officials, civil servants But I feel that attacking Tuyuhun just after destroying Gaochang is an arrogance. The two sides are in a dispute, and I don't know what choice to make, so I called you here. Tell me, what do you think should be done?"

What should I do?None of my business.

Li Chengqian didn't know what to say, obviously feeling the fiery eyes of the generals and officials.

Civil and military opposition is a common pattern in politics.Now that the two parties are in dispute, the emperor, as the arbiter, always has to choose one side.However, now the emperor's father threw this hot potato into his hands.

The prince is not the same as the emperor. No matter what choice the emperor makes, he should. If the prince, he is purely supporting one side. If he chooses military generals, he will definitely offend civil servants; if he chooses civil servants, he will inevitably attract military generals. Roll eyes.

It's hard to be small between the two big groups. Even the prince is very small in front of the civil and military groups.

At this time, a choice has to be made. It is not acceptable to be a fool, and will be despised by both parties.

After thinking for a while, Li Chengqian cupped his hands and said: "My son's suggestion is not to send troops. In any case, the current money and food in the treasury should not be used anymore. In order to prevent possible disasters, the only way to send troops is that there is enough money and food. Only when there is plenty of money. However, Tuyuhun did such a stupid thing, but it can’t just be forgotten. The son thinks that the father should take the lead in drafting an edict to reprimand Tuyuhun, ordering Tuyuhun Khan Murong Fuyun to enter the court to plead guilty. As for this edict, it should also have the joint names of our Tang generals, so that the deterrent effect is enough.

What Shanzhou lost was only food, cattle, sheep and property, and none of the residents even died. It is not a loss to deal with it this way. "

After saying this out of conscience, Li Chengqian didn't even have the face to look at the general.

Right now, it is estimated that they can only reprimand them.Not to mention that Gaochang's mobilization of troops has already consumed a lot of treasury, even the left-behind troops in Gaochang Xintu are still consuming the treasury.Moreover, the eighth year of Zhenguan was a year full of disasters, and there was no peace in the Tang Dynasty from south to north, from east to west.Where money is needed, go to sea.

In Li Chengqian's view, the most terrible thing is to cause a disaster in the mainland to be unable to rescue for a moment of face.

So, in the final analysis, his speech is still biased towards the side of civil servants.

As for the joint name or something, it is just a means to comfort the generals.

Chapter 3 and Six

If it was in the past, Li Chengqian would only feel that such a behavior of yelling but not doing anything was like a primary school student.But this year, it really has to be done like this!

The civil servants who got the crown prince's support suddenly became excited, Cheng Yaojin was about to jump out to say something, but was held back by Li Jing.

Li Jing knew what kind of person the prince was, and it was absolutely impossible for the prince to do such a useless thing.At least in his understanding, the prince may seem weak, but when he is outside, he will never be as benevolent as some civil servants. Even, the prince is obviously a belligerent.Tuyuhun was so arrogant this time, it was absolutely impossible for the prince to choose to just endure it.

There must be other reasons for doing so.

Li Shimin on the throne did not expect that the prince would really dare to answer this question, he just wanted to embarrass the prince with this problem and kill his arrogance.After all, in the matter of dealing with Tuyuhun, it turned out that he, the emperor, had indeed failed in his duties, not only his failures in his duties, but even stupidity.In comparison, the prince's behavior can be said to be wise.

What happened to him back then happened to his son, what Li Shimin felt was not relief, but worry.The prince is breaking away from the ranks of the successful kings and heading towards the direction of the strong master Shengzu.It's obviously a good thing, but it's just awkward.

Li Chengqian did not expect that what he did would even arouse the jealousy of the emperor. To him, what the emperor did today seemed more like a sign of wanting to play tricks.After all, there is still a bet on this matter.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, I feel that Gaochang's military strength should be distributed to Longyou. It is impossible for Gaochang to be rectified in a short period of time. Although it is a new land, it must not be neglected. The army has already made a mistake, and it is not too late to make up for it now."

Although Du Ruhui was a civil servant, as Minister of the Ministry of War, he was able to speak in this regard.

"Gaochang can't be lost. As the throat of the Western Regions, Gaochang is very important. If it is lost, wouldn't my previous efforts be in vain?"

Hearing Du Ruhui's suggestion to mobilize troops, Li Xiaogong immediately panicked.As the general who conquered Gaochang, he knew how important Gaochang was.For Datang, the victory of this place is equivalent to a cornucopia, and it is unknown how much income it will bring to the court.A Gaochang, the tax paid is estimated to be comparable to four or five upper-class states.

Once such a good place relaxes its vigilance, it is likely to be handed over to others!

Li Shimin was not surprised to see that Li Xiaogong was so anxious that he shouted before getting up.To be honest, he also deeply knows how important Gaochang is to Datang.In terms of business, Gaochang is the throat of the Western Regions. After becoming the territory of the Tang Dynasty, it will greatly promote the business of the Tang Dynasty.From a strategic point of view, although Gaochang seems to be a piece of fat guarded by the two wolves of the Turkic Tuyuhun, as long as it is preserved, Datang will have a chance to attack the Western Regions.Regardless of whether it is in Kucha or other countries, it is all meat placed on the felt board of the Tang Dynasty.

It is absolutely impossible to deploy troops, but Gaochang still needs enough troops to suppress it.

After thinking for a long time, Li Shimin said: "Gaochang's troops cannot be transferred, and sufficient troops must be guaranteed in the territory. In this way, General Yunhui Fang Changliang was ordered to return to Longyou with troops from Longyou to strengthen the defense of Shanzhou and other border states. Gaochang, transfer the troops from Luoyang to Luoyang, Luoyang stays behind, and Lu Guogong Hou Junji is transferred to Gaochang to stay behind."

Hearing the emperor's arrangement, everyone nodded except Li Chengqian.

There is no doubt that it is normal for the emperor to make such an arrangement. The troops hoarded in Luoyang are not so much left behind, but rather a shield for the emperor to plant outside Chang'an against the country.Now that the emperor sent this army to the frontier, it can be said that he has let go of his absolute vigilance against the country.

However, in Li Chengqian's view, the emperor's arrangement was terrible.

In the final analysis, anyone can go to Gaochang, except for a few people like Hou Junji.Cheng Yaojin and the others seem to be careless, but they are indeed the most disciplined and never take a step beyond the rules.As for Hou Junji, for the sake of short-term benefits, he dared to touch the restricted area of ​​his courtiers, he was really short-sighted.It would be strange if such a person was sent to Gaochang, which is so rich and full of gold.

However, this is the emperor's arrangement, and he, the prince, shouldn't talk too much.

Still the same sentence, the emperor is still a qualified boss. During the Taiping period, it was hard to find both military and political achievements. Governing Gaochang was definitely the top way to obtain credit.For such a great contribution, he followed his old subordinates closely.

It is rare for an ordinary court meeting to last until noon, and today is an exception.