Great Tang princess

Chapter 201 Disappointed Li Yuechen
A welcome banquet was quite comfortable, and it lasted until the evening.

After the game ended, the other generals resigned and left, while Li Yuechen and Liu Rengui still sat still.

Liu Rengui seemed to have drunk a lot. Although his eyes were still clear, his face was already flushed.

And Li Yuechen only drank a few cups in total, nothing happened, and there was no reaction on his face.

Perhaps because he felt a little hot, Liu Rengui loosened his collar and felt better.

"Your Highness came here this time, and there have been some changes..." Liu Rengui said while staring at his apprentice.

Li Yuechen smiled awkwardly: "I can't hide it from Master, but before I came here, I personally killed someone..."

As he spoke, he explained what happened before.

Liu Rengui listened quietly, and after listening, there was a little distressed look in his eyes.

But then he returned to the usual way: "Since this is the case, it seems that His Highness has made up his mind."

"Master, don't worry, since I did it myself, I know that it will definitely not be the last one." Li Yuechen forced a smile.

To be honest, I still haven't fully adapted to the feeling of killing people myself, and I still feel uncomfortable when I think about it.

But she also knows that this step must be taken, so she is forcing herself to adapt.

In the future, she will appear on the battlefield in person, which means that she will still kill many people herself.

Although she was not used to it, she was indeed mentally prepared for it.

……

Perhaps because he felt the atmosphere was a bit depressing, Liu Rengui suddenly changed the subject: "Thanks for your Highness coming down, otherwise the old man might have to play and let Li Jingxuan come over to replace me."

Li Jingxuan?Don't you always get along with him?Li Yuechen thought in his heart.

"Didn't Master say that this person is not a general? Why do you want him to take over?"

Liu Rengui sneered and said, "Many of my performances here have been suppressed by him, and sometimes I really want to go back and beat him up personally..."

Li Yuechen understood. Although the master said he was complaining to his apprentice, there was also a hint of asking himself for help.

After all, there is a princess apprentice, asking the apprentice to help fight against political enemies or something... It's very normal.

For Li Yuechen, there is no objection to helping him.

After all, it is my master, so I definitely want to follow him.But having said that, Master's attitude made her feel problematic.

After thinking about it carefully, Li Yuechen said: "Master has difficulties, and my disciples will naturally help... But Master's thinking makes me very disappointed!"

"Ok?"

Liu Rengui suddenly raised his head and looked over in disbelief.

This apprentice's reaction was different from what he expected. At this moment, her expression was very serious, not at all the cute look she usually had.

After all, the princess is a member of the royal family. Once she becomes serious, the natural sense of oppression of members of the royal family will be released.

Coupled with the deliberate cultivation of Li Zhi and his wife, once Li Yuechen becomes serious, he really has the power and influence like a son of heaven.

"This...Your Highness misunderstood, I am not..." Liu Rengui felt that something was wrong with him, and immediately wanted to explain, but was interrupted by Li Yuechen raising his hand.

"What I mean is, if the master doesn't deal with Li Jingxuan, the apprentice can help him. It doesn't matter if the master does it himself, but the master shouldn't take the lives of his soldiers as the price of beating others!" Li Yuechen said seriously.

Her tone was very serious: "Master knows that Li Jingxuan is not a veteran of the battlefield, and the generals here are all inexperienced. Li Jingxuan will lead them, and he will definitely suffer defeat... Yes, he may be demoted if he loses the battle." ! But Master, have you ever thought about how many soldiers of our Tang Dynasty will be lost in a defeated battle?"

Liu Rengui's eyes widened, he didn't expect that what she cared about was actually this question.

Li Yuechen stood up, raised his finger and pointed to the direction outside the house, with a serious face: "Those soldiers are all my citizens of the Tang Dynasty! They fought bloody battles for the Tang Dynasty, but are they going to lose their lives for the self-interest of Master?"

"This..." Liu Rengui lowered his head, not knowing how to explain it.

It's not that he deliberately wanted these soldiers to die, it's just that he didn't think about it at all, he just thought that his memorials were suppressed, and Li Jingxuan was upset.

But thinking about it now, the apprentice taught me the right thing, and I really lost the importance of this matter.

Li Yuechen put down his hand slowly, and shook his head lightly: "Today, this disciple is very disappointed with Master! Master has been in the army all his life, so doesn't he have any love for those soldiers? Yes! I know that compassion does not control soldiers! But I can't Push the soldiers of my Great Tang into the fire pit myself?"

Listening to Li Yuechen's lesson, Liu Rengui did not refute, but just sat and listened.

"Master personally destroyed his image in the hearts of my disciples today..." Li Yuechen shook his head, "I don't want to say any more, that's all I have to say, I hope Master will think about those soldiers in the future, they are the ones who protect our Great Tang the backbone!"

Seeing Li Yuechen's disappointed eyes, Liu Rengui lowered his head: "Your Highness taught me that I did something wrong!"

As he spoke, he stood up and saluted respectfully: "Please rest assured, Your Highness, this will never happen in the future!"

Li Yuechen let out a long breath: "Master wants to punish Li Jingxuan, I can help, but I also hope that Master can remember today's promise!"

"Yes!" Liu Rengui agreed.

Seeing that the master agreed, Li Yuechen nodded, turned his head and opened the door to call Fulai who was outside: "Bring paper and pen!"

After a while, Fulai found a pen and paper and put it on the table.

Li Yuechen said: "Master, please ask Li Jingxuan to come over, but you can't let him serve as the guardian of Taohe, Master must sit in the town in person!"

"Yes!"

……

After returning to the room at night, Li Yuechen lay on the bed alone, looked at the ceiling and sighed.

In fact, this matter cannot be said to be entirely a matter of Master, rather it is a matter of the times.

In this era, there is a clear hierarchy, so people at the top rarely care about the feelings of people at the bottom.

Even like Liu Rengui, he didn't intend to let these soldiers die, but he didn't consider them at all.

Thinking of this, Li Yuechen felt that he really had to find a way to change this state in the future.

Classes can exist, and so can nobility!But never cross the bottom line!
It's really unexpected that such an unhappy thing happened when I just came here...

……

On the other side, in Liu Rengui's room, he was lying on the bed, but couldn't fall asleep because of tossing and turning.

His Highness brought him too much impact today, although this Highness said before that he wanted a peaceful and prosperous world.

But at that time, I thought she just wanted to invent more novel utensils.

But today Liu Rengui understood that what she cares about is the feelings of those soldiers.

This made Liu Rengui a little puzzled, why would a princess who was born in the royal family care about common people?
The most important thing is that the power and influence on her body today is so familiar!
It looks like she doesn't look like a princess, but like an emperor!
Thinking of all kinds of things that happened before, coupled with the degree of favor of the princess, Liu Rengui had a rough guess about how the emperor raised the princess.

He was ordered by the emperor to test the princess before, and he had this idea at that time, and now he is more certain.

The emperor was cultivating the princess in the way of a prince. Anyway, a woman can't be an emperor. Even if she is powerful enough to overthrow the emperor, she is just another Empress Lu type figure.

But in this way, at least it can ensure that the imperial power is always in the hands of the royal family, and it can also avoid fratricide to the greatest extent.

Because women cannot be emperors, there is no need for princesses to kill emperors.

That is to say, it keeps the brothers from killing each other, and ensures that the imperial power is in the hands of the royal family... What a good strategy!
Thinking of this, Liu Rengui couldn't help feeling admiration for the current emperor.

Moreover, judging from the intelligence and wisdom shown by this princess since she was a child, she is completely qualified for such a role!

However, Liu Rengui shook his head suddenly again. With such a person in power who cares about the lower levels, those high-level people will definitely have a hard time in the future.

……

The next day, Li Yuechen got up and returned to the original laughing atmosphere with Master, as if nothing happened yesterday.

But Liu Rengui had already paid attention to it, and when he said something to the princess in the future, he had to think it over carefully.

At the same time, we must also understand where the bottom line of this princess is, and it must not be crossed.

Although I am her master, I can't go too far, otherwise if this master-student friendship is gone, the consequences may be very serious.

Li Yuechen didn't know what the master was thinking, but took Fulai to go to the city to have a look, and get a better understanding of the situation in the border towns.

The law and order of this kind of border town is actually very good, because many troops are stationed here, and few people dare to make trouble.

But at the same time, it is also very dangerous.

Because border cities may be breached at any time, once a war breaks out, ordinary people are often the first to suffer.

And because it is too close to the border, it is not as prosperous as the two capitals, and the number of people is relatively small.

There are also many Tubo people here. When there is no war, they are ordinary businessmen.

Li Yuechen was very conspicuous walking on the street, especially when such a pretty little girl was accompanied by dozens of heavily armed soldiers.

No matter where he went, the people in the vicinity would all get out of the way, for fear of causing trouble.

On weekdays, when those aggressive rogues saw the horizontal knife in the soldier's hand, they would lower their heads to give way like ordinary people, and they didn't dare to look up.

Taohe City is not big, only about a quarter of the size of Chang'an.

Even if you don't ride a horse, you can almost finish shopping in a day just by walking on two legs.

After walking around for a day, Li Yuechen had a general understanding of the layout and situation of the town.

Not far from here is a tributary of the Yellow River, and the water flow is relatively fast. If it can be used as a driving force, it should be possible to open some factories here.

After leaving the border, it is the place where Tuyuhun used to be, and Jishi Mountain is not far to the west.

I just don't know if this Jishi Mountain is really like its name. If the mountain is like its name, then it is a good place for stone mining.

Although it is quite a distance from Chang'an, as long as the road can be repaired here in the future, it is actually not too troublesome.

Of course, the premise is that Tubo must be completely taken down, otherwise, if there are frequent wars, who wants to work hard?
……

In the evening, Li Yuechen had dinner with the master, and asked about some things here by the way.

"I wonder when Master plans to start the war?" Li Yuechen asked.

Liu Rengui thought for a while: "Now is not the time, the supplies from Tubo will take some time, and they will not fight us!"

His idea is not to fight a guerrilla, but to have a decisive battle.

Tubo is different. They seem to know that the victory rate of large-scale wars with the Tang army is low, so they don't fight, but harass them from time to time.

So now Liu Rengui can only keep an eye on their movements while ordering the army to line up at the border. No matter where they attack from, other places can immediately respond first and provide support.

This period of time has been like this. Although they haven't met each other yet, Liu Rengui from Tang Dynasty and Lun Qinling from Tubo have been fighting like this for a long time.

However, Liu Rengui knew very well that Tubo's resources were poor, and its logistics was not comparable to that of Datang, so it would definitely not be able to last for too long.

And if they can't grab the house, many people will definitely die this winter. When the national power declines, they don't need Datang to do anything, and they will be finished.

Lun Qinling is naturally aware of this, so no matter what, there will definitely be a big war this year!
When Tubo is really running out of supplies, even if it is a hard way, it will definitely try.

After all, if you try, you have a [-]% chance, if you don't try, you have zero chance!

Li Yuechen nodded to show that she understood, then during this period of time, she should still practice and practice hard, if something really happened, she could just go straight to it.

……

Liu Rengui's memorandum was sent out three days later, saying that there is not enough manpower here, and Li Jingxuan, the secretary of the Communist Party of China, is needed to help. In addition, it is best to recruit some capable soldiers to serve as soldiers.

In fact, recruitment is not very important, but after all, in this era, the more people there are, the greater the chances of winning, so it is necessary to recruit more people.

Li Jingxuan is the main event, the key is to let him come.

As for how to deal with him at that time, it depends on Master Liu Rengui's opinion.

Li Yuechen did this not entirely for the loyalty between master and apprentice, but more for laying the foundation for his future plans.

What I want to do in the future has a lot to do with it, but it is impossible to do it by myself as a royal princess, and I need someone in the court to support it.

Compared with unfamiliar people, my master must be more at ease with each other, not to mention that with this relationship, Liu Huang and others will naturally be regarded as their own when they enter the court in the future.

With more supporters behind you, you can have more people under your command, and you can get twice the result with half the effort.

Li Yuechen is still very clear about this truth.

This is also the reason why Mingming was very disappointed with Master, but still helped him to rectify Li Jingxuan.

After all, he will still need his support and help in the future, so at this time, Li Yuechen is willing to solve some troubles for him first.

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