Man Tanghong

Chapter 783

Yang Miaoyan's work efficiency was very fast, and she rushed to the Huai'an Palace in the evening to meet Huai'an Princess.

After being reminded, Li Shentong really restrained a lot. Instead of forcing people to go home and have sex in Fangshi, he instead arrested some wanderers wandering on the streets and forced them to marry.

Although it is a bit difficult to do so, it complies with the laws of the Tang Dynasty.

Because in the laws of the Tang Dynasty, when a man reaches the age of 16, if he is not married, the government will come to his door for an official match. If the official match fails three times, the marriage will be forced. If he does not comply, it will be a crime. , ranging from additional corvee service, to being dispatched to the frontier to guard the border.

In short, in the Tang Dynasty, there were no unmarried men who had reached the age of eighteen. Even if there were, they were married and widowed widowers.

It can be said that in order to restore the Dingkou of Datang, the officials of Datang can be said to do everything possible.

It is common to match an [-]-year-old with an [-]-year-old, and match an [-]-year-old with a [-]-year-old.

In short, as long as you still have the ability to give birth, you can't escape Datang's marriage.

That is to say, places north of Hebei Province, Duji Province, and Guannei Province, which suffered serious military disasters and where the ratio of men to women was seriously imbalanced, escaped in a short period of time, and the rest of the places could not escape.

After Li Shentong changed a method to promote Datang's population growth, there were fewer discussions about him forcing people to go back to have sex.

Wang Gui, Wei Zheng and others had just handed over the memorabilia impeaching Li Shentong, and the turmoil passed before it caused any waves.

Time flies to November, the weather is surprisingly cold, and snow has begun to fall everywhere. Logically speaking, on the grasslands in the north, the snow should be even stronger, and the people on the grasslands should also start the cat winter, but at this time, Turkic envoys appeared in Chang'an again.

This time, I came to the Valley of Desire, which I had visited once before, and brought a new list of items.

After the people from Honglu Temple got the list, they handed it to Sanxing immediately. After a short discussion, the three provinces took the list to Taiji Hall.

Li Gang frowned and put the list on the imperial case without saying a word.

Pei Ju, Xiao Yu, and Chen Shuda who were with him also frowned and did not speak.

Li Yuanji looked around the four of Li Gang, and while reaching for the list, he asked amusedly, "What's the matter? The Turkic lion opened its mouth this time?"

Li Gang shook his head and said nothing, motioning Li Yuanji to watch for himself.

After quickly reading the list, Li Yuanji also frowned, then did not speak, picked up the secret book on the imperial case and quickly read it.

Unlike Li Gang and others, he did not have the perseverance to memorize the classics of conquest of sages like Li Gang and others, so even if he concocted the secret book, he did not memorize it.

Li Gang and the others had memorized the secret book long ago, and had memorized which word was on which page and line. They could decipher the message Tang Jian sent back without looking through the secret book.

He had to turn the pages, and he had to look carefully.

After quickly flipping through the secret book, deciphering the secret words Tang Jian sent back one by one, and confirming that they were correct, Li Yuanji frowned even tighter.

Because the news that Tang Jian sent back was completely wrong.

The first two characters still refer to Turkic, but the last two characters become Xuancheng. They cannot be connected at all, and there is no way to form a paragraph.

Based on Tang Jian's experience in missions for many years, he should not have made such a low-level mistake, so the problem should lie with the Turkic people.

It should be that the Turks were too greedy and increased the amount, which caused this situation.

It's no wonder that the four of Li Gang frowned and didn't speak.

The crux of the problem lies with the Turks. Unless the Turks tell the truth, no one will be able to decipher the news from Tang Jian from the list.

The problem is that the Turkic people deliberately increased the amount in the middle, deliberately wanting to increase the autumn wind of Datang. This is something that is good for them, so how can they tell the truth?

More importantly, it is not easy for Datang to force people to tell the truth, because once the Turkic people realize that there is a problem with the numbers in the list, then Tang Jian and others will be in danger, and they will not be able to use this method in the future. Datang delivered the news.

Therefore, how to obtain the real list from the Turkic population without the Turkic people being aware of it has become the biggest problem.

The four of Li Gang probably couldn't think of a way out, so they frowned and didn't speak.

"What do you think?"

Li Yuanji put down the secret book in his hand, stared at Li Gang and asked the four of them.

Li Gang hesitated for a moment, but did not speak.

Xiao Yu also hesitated and didn't speak.

Pei Ju didn't even hesitate, and just sat there as a clay sculpture.

Only Chen Shuda said, "We can only let the people in Honglu Temple gather as much information as possible..."

Dealing with envoys is a special event for Honglu Temple, and getting news from envoys is also the responsibility of Honglu Temple.

However, since the Turkic envoys have made up their minds to fight the autumn wind, it is difficult for this news to be caught.

After Chen Shuda finished speaking, Pei Ju pulled his beard and asked this question, "What if the people from Honglu Temple can't get any news? We still pay them all the goods they want like last time?"

This is also a problem.

If the real news cannot be obtained, Datang will be really taken advantage of if he pays the Turks for the goods they need.

More importantly, this time the Turks got a taste of the bargain, and next time they will add some more goods to the list given by Tang Jian.

If things go on like this, Datang's purpose of using Tang Jian to understand the internal situation of Turks will fail.

"Then what do you say?"

Chen Shuda frowned into a Sichuan character, looked sideways at Pei Ju and asked.

Pei Ju hesitated for a moment and said, "Why don't you reject Turkic's request this time?"

Li Gang said in a deep voice: "It's not difficult to reject Turkic's request this time. The difficult thing is that next time Turkic will pay with the real list, and if we pay back, then Jieli will definitely suspect Tang Jian."

Xiao Yu couldn't help but said, "Maybe Xieli isn't that smart..."

Li Gang glanced at Xiao Yu, and said angrily: "Jie Licong's lack of intelligence can't affect the final result at all, because he also has advisers like you and me under his command.

More importantly, all the old and young of the former Sui Dynasty led by Yang Zhengdao were by Xieli's side.

What Xieli couldn't see, they might not be able to see. "

Chen Shuda nodded his head and said: "It is already abnormal that we paid the goods that Turkic wanted in full. If there is another disturbance, people will definitely see the clues."

Xiao Yu stared at Chen Shuda and said, "Then what do you say?"

Chen Shuda looked at Xiao Yu blankly.

This is the question raised by Li Gang, not him, why did Xiao Yu ask him?

Li Gang didn't care about the small twists and turns between Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda, he cupped his hands on the throne and said: "Your Highness, I can't think of a proper solution for this matter, so it can only be decided by His Highness. "

Li Yuanji let out a long breath of foul air.

The ball kicked around and kicked back again.

None of the four of Li Gang could think of a good solution. What solution could he come up with?
"Or, according to what Chen Qing said, let the people of Honglu Temple try it first, and then we can think of other ways?"

Li Yuanji asked tentatively.

Since we can't think of a better way right now, we can only let the people from Honglu Temple try it first.

Let’s not talk about success or failure, at least it can help everyone delay a little time.

Li Gang said with a sullen face: "I'm afraid that there is only one chance to test it. The people of Honglu Temple have tested it. They beat the grass and scared the snake. If we want to test it in the future, we will not be able to test it again."

Xiao Yu nodded solemnly and said: "Once the people of Honglu Temple start to scare the snake, even if we come up with a solution in the future, it may not be possible to use it."

Pei Ju followed and nodded.

Li Gang and Xiao Yu's worries are very reasonable.

Many times, many things are like this, and there is only one chance.

If it is used as a test, then wait until the preparation is complete, and then go, it is very likely that there will be no chance.

However, now there is no other choice but to let the people of Honglu Temple try it, so we can only let the people of Honglu Temple try it.

Give it a try, maybe you still have a chance, if you don't try, you won't even have a chance.

"Let the people from Honglu Temple try it. If they startle the snake, they will immediately detain Yugu and ask Jieli to exchange it with Tang Jian and the others."

After weighing it over and over again, Li Yuanji made a decision.

If the people in Honglu Temple startled the snake in the process of probing, then it would be difficult for Datang to bribe Turks to let Tang Jian pass the news back.

At that time, Tang Jian was useless in Turkic.

What Datang can do is to find a way to rescue them.

If the Turks sent an unknown person this time, then Datang would have nothing to do with them.

But this time the Turks sent Prince Yugu.

If you seize Yugu and exchange Yugu with Jieli for Tang Jian, Jieli will definitely exchange it.

After all, Yugu's status is more noble than Tang Jian's.

Xieli was not so crazy as to take his son's life against Datang.

Moreover, in the matter of exchanging envoys, whether it is the Turks or the Tang Dynasty, there are precedents.

As long as Yugu is detained, Xieli knows what to do.

After the four of Li Gang exchanged glances with each other, Li Gang said regretfully: "If the people in Honglu Temple really startled the snake, that's the only way to go."

Li Yuanji nodded his head and said: "Let's leave this matter to you and the people from Honglu Temple. I'll go see Yicheng and Tuli and see if they can do anything."

The four of Li Gang were taken aback, and after thinking for a while, they all nodded.

No matter how you say it, Yicheng is Yugu's nominal mother. If she is willing to cooperate and negotiate with Yugu, maybe she can ask something.

Tuli and Yugu are cousins, and they are also Turkic khans. Not only can they negotiate with Yugu, but they can also use their identity to frighten other Turkic envoys. If he is willing to cooperate, he should be able to ask some questions. thing.

(End of this chapter)