Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1402 Li Shimin Regrets Marriage

Li Chengqian punished those wealthy businessmen and dignitaries in Bazhong.

All the money and food obtained from the ransacking were used to help the people in the disaster-stricken areas.

In this way, the originally difficult matter was resolved.

While Li Chengqian and Ma Zhou were doing these things in Bazhong, the situation in Chang'an City was different.

Hot summer.

This morning, an official stood up and said, "Your Majesty, Xue Yantuo sent a letter."

Hearing that Xue Yantuo sent something, Li Shimin was a little surprised, and asked, "What did Xue Yantuo say?"

"King Xue Yantuo said that Princess Changle has reached the age for marriage. He wants to get married with my Tang Dynasty as soon as possible, and hopes to marry me as soon as possible."

At the beginning when Tang Dynasty was waging war with other countries, Xue Yantuo took advantage of the fire to loot them. Although the Tang army defeated them, they still signed a marriage agreement with them.

For the marriage, Xue Yantuo also sent a lot of dowry.

Now Princess Changle is getting older, and she has indeed reached the age of marriage.

King Xue Yantuo's request to marry the princess is not too much.

After the official said this, Li Shimin suddenly remembered that there was such a thing.

But when he thought about it, he couldn't help but smiled wryly. He had listened to Qin Tian's suggestion and was going to regret it afterwards, but even if he regretted the marriage, he had to find a reason, right?

Thinking in his heart, Li Shimin asked: "My dear friends, what do you think about this matter?"

None of these officials knew about the decision to renege on the marriage back then, and not many knew about it.

Now that Li Shimin asked, these officials were in trouble.

"Your Majesty, there is a marriage contract first, we are afraid that we will have to marry the princess."

"That's right, we even accepted other people's betrothal gifts. If we go back on our word, it may cause war and seriously damage the reputation of our Tang Dynasty. I am afraid that other countries will not trust us in the future."

"My lord, I shouldn't have agreed to this back then..."

Baiguan you said one sentence to another, anyway, they have everything to say, after Li Shimin listened to it, he found that more people agreed to marry the princess, and fewer people disagreed. After all, before the country, sometimes it is necessary to talk about credibility.

However, he really didn't want to marry the princess and go to Xue Yantuo.

While the ministers were talking, Li Shimin noticed that Qin Tian was standing in front of him very calmly, he smiled and said nothing.

Li Shimin curled his lips and said, "Qin Aiqing, what do you think about this matter?"

Qin Tian stood up and said: "My lord, when Xue Yantuo used troops against our Tang Dynasty, although our Tang Dynasty defeated them, other battles were urgent and we couldn't continue to fight with Xue Yantuo, so we proposed marriage as a way to delay the army. Now my Datang has no For other war victims, this marriage agreement will naturally be voided."

After the voice fell, the whole hall was suddenly silent, and then it was noisy again.

They never thought that Qin Tian was such a person, because it was Qin Tian who proposed the marriage at the beginning, but now, he actually wants to regret the marriage.

This kind of thing that can be changed at any time, Qin Tian didn't even feel blushed at all.

"It's really shameless."

Gao Shilian cursed secretly in his heart, but he didn't open his mouth. Princess Changle is Li Shimin's favorite princess. He knew that Li Shimin didn't want to marry Princess Changle. If so, he would not disobey Li Shimin's intention.

However, Gao Shilian did not stand up, but others did.

"Master Qin, it's a little too shameless for you to do this. It's okay to be shameless. In the future, my Tang Dynasty will have no reputation at all. How can my Tang Dynasty call on other surrounding countries?"

"That's right, that's right, this kind of behavior is simply too nasty, very shameless, how can I, Tang Dynasty, do such a thing?"

"Your Majesty, for my Tang's reputation, don't do this."

"........."

Everyone said that they wanted to crusade against Qin Tian. Li Shimin didn't open his mouth, but just looked at Qin Tian. At first, it was Qin Tian who proposed the marriage and then regretted the marriage. Now that something happened, he wanted to see how Qin Tian would solve this matter. .

At least the first thing that needs to be done is how to persuade these ministers.

Qin Tian was not in a hurry, and when all these people had said the same thing, he finally stood up and said, "What's so shameless about this, it's clear that Xue Yantuo was the one who troubled Tang Dynasty first and wanted to take advantage of the fire, so we plotted They seem to be evened out, right?"

"As for talking about credibility and not credibility, and how to make other countries surrender, you really make people feel ridiculous. Before the country and the country, there has always been only the exchange of interests and no interests. Why should they submit to you? You are not strong enough. Why do they submit to you? Only interest and strength are the reasons for other countries to surrender to us, not the so-called keeping promises."

As a politician, you must at least understand these most fundamental truths. If you don't even understand these, you will not be able to govern a country well.

After Qin Tian said this, the court hall suddenly became quiet again, and they seemed to be awakened by Qin Tian's words.

"That's right, that's right. Master Qin is right. It was Xue Yantuo who first troubled me, Tang. Even if I regretted my marriage, so what? I should teach them like this."

"That's right, that's right, Xue Yantuo is really shameless. After using troops against me in the Tang Dynasty, he still wants to marry the princess of the Tang Dynasty. There is no way."

"That's right. Before the country, there was never any friendship at all. There were only interests. We can use strength and interests to make other countries surrender."

"........."

With just a few words, the situation in the entire court was reversed. Li Shimin was a little shocked when he saw it, but Qin Tian was very calm here. He had already thought of this situation.

So it is very easy to find a reason to convince these officials. People in Datang are arrogant, and arrogant people are easily irritated, so Qin Tian just needs to be a little wronged by what Datang said.

At the beginning, Xue Yantuo made trouble first, and they wanted to marry the princess himself. So, after hearing this, can they feel comfortable?

Certainly not comfortable.

The officials are still talking, and the more they talk, the more they are filled with righteous indignation, wishing they could immediately regret the marriage, and even ignore Xue Yantuo.

And Li Shimin looked at the appearance of the ministers, and immediately nodded: "You are right, Xue Yantuo is not benevolent, why does my Tang Dynasty insist on righteousness, this matter of marriage, it may be invalidated."

Li Shimin agreed to regret the marriage. After hearing this, the officials not only didn't think there was anything wrong with it, but felt very relieved and very enjoyable.

"Your Majesty is wise, you should treat Xue Yantuo like this."

"My sage is wise, I, Tang Dynasty, never get married..."

"Holy Majesty is wise..."

(End of this chapter)