The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 154 Marriage

The water of the Yellow River is rolling, and the waves are going eastward.

Li Tang's mighty sending-off fleet left Guangtong Canal and arrived in Hedong County. The rare treasures of Li Tang's country, calligraphy and paintings of celebrities, 200 million taels of gold, one million catties of pure copper, and silver purchased from Shangjun were included in the war compensation. The 600 million taels will be disembarked at Fenglingdu, and after a few days, they will be picked up by the warships of the Sui Dynasty. As for the food for compensation, it will enter Diaoyin County, Guannei Road. Only the dowry that really belongs to Li Xiuning will continue eastward go.

This is also Yang Tong's request. Of course there will be an extra procedure, but one yard counts for one yard. Li Tang wants that face, but he has nothing to do with Yang Tong. He can't let so many gold and silver treasures hang in Li Xiuning's private room. First, it does not belong to Li Xiuning; second, it does not want to cause pressure on Xiao Wu, Wugou, and Tianji. The dowry of Xiao Wu, the official concubine, is also very generous, but it is not half of the compensation. Tianji is a cow, sheep, and horse. As for Wugou, it's even more pitiful. If she enters the household alone, if the compensation is included in Li Xiuning's dowry, it will be too powerful, which is not conducive to the peace of the backyard, and is also not conducive to The relationship between the four women.

Li Xiuning didn't care at all, because he knew it wasn't hers. Looking at those, she felt out of breath. A fiasco in war had to be carried by a woman. One can imagine the pressure on her shoulders. When I think of the news that "the emperor prefers Princess Pingyang" spread throughout the Guanzhong, my heart hurts!
Li Xiuning was in a mess!Her heart was full of joy, loss, and a lot of apprehension and worry, and even more unwillingness, complaints, and grievances...

Recalling the anger of elder brother Li Jiancheng's fruitless fight, Li Xiuning only felt inexplicably chilled.Li Yuan's plan to rebel against the Sui Dynasty was an open secret of the Li family. Even his sister-in-law and younger siblings knew about it, but she was kept from it because she was a woman and an outsider... She was even used as a tool to win over Chai Shao. Wealth, if it wasn't for his strong temperament and never forgetting about Yang Tong, he might have become the Chai family at this moment.However, this is an ancient motto since ancient times, and Li Xiuning accepted it without complaint!Then he did not hesitate to risk his life, fought on the battlefield, was only one step away from death many times, and finally wiped out countless rogues, wiped out countless bandits loyal to the Sui army, and occupied most of Guanzhong by himself, thus Successfully let Li Tang advance into Guanzhong and enter Guanzhong

However, after Li Yuan became the emperor, not only did he not reward her as the number one hero in the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, but instead he completely dismantled the [-] to [-] female army under her command.

Li Xiuning is a woman, she has always had the ambition to be king and hegemony, she also didn't say much, watching the generals under her command very unwilling, dissatisfied, and reluctant to part ways.

But this time, she was really sad.

Li Xiuning already knew from his elder brother that in order to solve Li Tang's predicament, his father had to sign a treaty of humiliating power and humiliating the country, and spent all of Li Tang's treasury in exchange for a glimmer of life. She made Yang Tong a side concubine, and in order to save the face of the emperor and the court, all the compensation was sent to the Sui Dynasty in the name of "dowry". .

Thinking of this, Li Xiuning felt extremely sad.

But this time, she didn't have the strength to resist at all. This was an outright political marriage, which was related to Li Tang's life and death. Her father and Li Tang attached great importance to it, so she couldn't help but refuse it willfully.

"Third sister!" Li Jiancheng, the envoy to see off relatives, stepped off Li Tang's warship with his younger sister, and whispered along the way: "This time the meaning is different from the past. When you landed, you were the side concubine of King Qin of the Northern Sui Dynasty. The Yang family is gone!"

Li Xiuning was taken aback when she heard the words, and soon understood what Li Jiancheng meant, which reminded her of the conversation with her father:

"Ning'er, the Northern Sui Dynasty has a population of tens of millions, with more than three to four million elite soldiers, and controls the eight counties in Guannei and Hedong County. They are powerful. If I want to gain a foothold in Guanzhong, I must stabilize the Northern Sui Dynasty! If you have to rest for a year In time, we can take Longxi, Xihe, and Bashu without any worries! Father asked you, would you like to marry into the Northern Sui Dynasty and become the side concubine of the King of Qin?" Although it was a question, Li Yuan did not allow it. Doubtful tone.

"I...I am willing, but father, I can lead the army to fight for the Tang Dynasty, why should I marry?"

"Because you are smart...you always know what you want! What you should do! And Yang Tong is an ambitious person, but he is still a teenager after all, such a person cannot impress him with his beauty alone. And you don't Lack of beauty and wisdom... As a daughter of the Li family, you have to think about the Li family, not only to have children for your husband, but also to tie him with a gentle daughter's heart, so that the Tang Dynasty and the Northern Sui Dynasty will be together. Friendships are passed down year after year, do you understand?"

Father's words, even after a few days, made Li Xiuning feel pain!The meaning of the father is nothing more than to let himself charm the future husband and wear down the heroic ambition of the future husband, so that Li Tang can develop calmly. As for himself and the future children, the father will not take it to heart at all.

Is this still the kind and kind father?Li Xiuning felt that Li Yuan had changed, he had completely become a slave to power, his family affection had been completely replaced by his ambition for the great cause of the world, and his children were just pawns in his heart.

but!

After all, her most beloved elder brother did not disappoint her, after all, he still loves her elder brother, thinks about her happiness, and asks her to abandon political things, and be a little woman who cares for her husband and raises her children!
A heart gradually warmed up.

"Royal father can't do anything about it. Fortunately, you and Yang Yu are in love, and you can be regarded as lovers who will finally get married." Li Jiancheng sighed and said: "When you arrive in Yecheng, you should put yourself first, and your husband first. Everything is focused on the Yang family."

"Thank you, brother, for reminding me! I understand!" Li Xiuning didn't know why, but after hearing the news, she didn't feel any joy in her heart, but rather lost a lot.

At first, she thought that "marriage" meant Yang Tong, but in the end she found that it was not. Although it was the ending she had always dreamed of, but now it is not a fly in the ointment, and will Yang Tong treat herself kindly?You must know that Fenglingdu had a farewell day on that day, but it was "cutting the robe and judging righteousness"!
Li Xiuning has experienced many storms, and even hovered on the death line several times, but she has never been as chaotic as she is now.When she stepped on the ground with a brand new identity, she felt all kinds of emotions, and her whole body became terrified, and she couldn't say a word.My mind went blank, and tears flowed down my face...

Did she marry like this?

What is waiting for her?
Meet my brother... and when?
At the moment when she saw her brother for the last time, she thought of many, many things...

But Li Jiancheng looked at the back of his sister walking towards the dragon boat, feeling very sad in his heart, but he was helpless.This is just a political marriage, and most women in political marriages are unhappy, which he couldn't tell his sister clearly.He can only pray to God that his sister can be loved by her husband like a normal wife.

(End of this chapter)