Yipin Tang

Chapter 221 Coping
Seeing Li Er looking at him with an unfriendly expression, Wang Xiang smiled awkwardly, secretly thinking that it was a pity.

If it weren't for the presence of the delicate eldest grandson queen, Li Er, the emperor of the ages, would have been successfully fooled by him. However, their husband and wife teamed up to be invulnerable, and I am afraid that there is no chance.

Empress Li Erjing was more cautious as soon as she was reminded by the eldest grandson, and she was not in a hurry to speak. She picked up a piece of fat and tender mutton slices, rinsed them in the hot pot, dipped them in the chili sauce in the small plate next to them, and put them in her mouth to chew slowly. .

Empress Changsun can't eat spicy food, so she cooks clear soup hot pot in front of her. However, Li Er, who is of Hu people's blood, has a strong taste. He likes the new thing of chili very much, so he asked the royal chef to pick chili from the greenhouse to make chili sauce. They will all make a plate.

Wang Xiang was left on the sidelines like this, watching Li Er enjoying his food with gusto.

After eating three or four slices of mutton and seven or eight slices of fungus and shiitake mushrooms, Li Er finally spoke leisurely: "I said, since I canonized that little girl of your family as Princess Ruyi, she is no different from other princesses." , as for marrying Fanbang far away..."

"how?"

"Well, if Fanbang proposes a marriage, as the princess of the Tang Dynasty, he will naturally treat them equally."

Wang Xiang immediately said anxiously: "No! Then our second daughter should not be some kind of wishful princess."

"What did you say!" Li Er glared at Wang Xiang with wide eyes, this kid was getting more and more courageous.

"It's a child's play to confer the title of princess!"

Wang Xiang looked at Li Er happily and fearlessly, and said: "Of course I have no objection to the canonization of the princess, but I definitely don't agree with marrying Ernan to Fan Bangchen!"

Li Er immediately blew his beard and stared at him angrily, and his finger pointing at Wang Xiang was trembling. No one dared to contradict him like that except Wei Zheng, that smelly and hard old man.

There was nothing he could do about Wei Zheng and Li Er. The old man was not afraid of death at all, and even hoped to die with all his will and leave his name in history.But Li Er knew Wang Xiang's temperament, he was lazy and greedy for life and afraid of death, he didn't expect that he would dare to contradict himself like this today.

It is true that Wang Xiang is lazy, greedy for life and afraid of death, but if his bottom line is touched, he can do it desperately, and he believes that Li Er will never touch him because of this matter.

Sure enough, although Li Er was in a hurry, he didn't yell "Come on", he just trembled with anger, drinking again and again.

"Bold!"

"I'm angry too!"

Chen Gui, who was guarding the door, was terrified when he heard Li Er's violent drinking. Every time Wang Xiang came to see Li Er, he would either make Li Er laugh or be furious, this time it was obviously the latter.

Chen Gui knew what Wang Xiang was talking about when he entered the palace today, and now he regretted telling Wang Xiang about his marriage...

Xiao Si, who was playing in the side hall, heard that Li Er was angry, and wanted to go over to have a look, but was hugged tightly by the maid who took care of her. How dare she let Xiao Si go in at this time.

Wang Xiang's stubborn temper also came up. Faced with the furious Li Er, he did not back down, stood up and said proudly: "The great Tang, the country of the upper state, and all nations come to court, why do you need to make peace with Fan Bangxing? If you really want to get married, it is because my prince of the Tang Dynasty is marrying Princess Fanbang, there is no reason to marry the princess of Tang Dynasty to those native princes of Fanbang!"

This was the first time Li Er saw Wang Xiang's proud side, and he forgot to be angry, and asked, "Who is the aboriginal prince? Why didn't I know that there was a prince named aboriginal who came to participate in the Great Court Meeting this time? "

"..." The impassioned statement was interrupted by Li Er, and Wang Xiang lost his momentum. "Indigenous is not a name, but refers to a barbarian land, whose words and deeds are vulgar and uneducated. Think of me as a majestic Tang..."

"Okay, okay." Li Er hurriedly interrupted Wang Xiang to continue his speech.

"The minister hasn't finished yet."

Empress Changsun smiled, shook her head and said, "Sit down, Zixin. In fact, His Majesty does not want to make peace with Fanbang."

Hearing what Empress Changsun said, Wang Xiang looked at Li Er again, only to see that the anger on his face had dissipated long ago, and he looked a little helpless instead.

Let me just say, how could an arrogant emperor like Li Er be willing to make peace with Fanbang? After sitting down again, Wang Xiang said, "Since Your Majesty does not want to make peace with Fanbang, then it is not."

Li Er glared at him when he heard the words: "Things are not as easy as you said, they will definitely find an opportunity to propose a marriage with me at the Great Court Meeting in the past few days."

"When they propose marriage, His Majesty just refuses. What's the difficulty?" Wang Xiang remembered that Fanbang's request for marriage was often rejected in history, and it was not a big deal.

"Although the Tang Dynasty is a great country, the Turks, Tubo, Dashi, and Persia who came to participate in the Great Court Conference this time are not weak in national strength."

Wang Xiang scratched his head and said: "Hasn't Your Majesty already asked someone to make Tianleizi, even if those Fanbang are stronger, why should we be afraid?"

Hearing Wang Xiang talk about Tianleizi, Li Er lowered his voice and said: "Tianleizi is very important. Yuan Daochang made it alone, and he didn't make many. It is enough to deal with Turks, but if it is Tubo, Dashi... I need it." time."

Depend on!Wang Xiang was startled, didn't Li Er intend to kill all these powerful foreign nations?
Wang Xiang never thought of lightly fighting.

"So Your Majesty intends to use the method of marriage in exchange for time?" Wang Xiang frowned.

Li Er's eyes flickered, he shook his head and said: "It's not that I want to use the marriage method to exchange time, but Fanbang wants to use the marriage method to test my Tang's details, otherwise so many princes would not come all at once."

Wang Xiang said seriously: "Then His Majesty will be even more unable to agree to their marriage request. If he agrees to them, won't he tell them that Tang Dynasty is not as powerful as they think, and that he should delay it."

Li Er's eyes lit up, he glanced at Empress Changsun indistinctly, and asked indifferently: "What is the delay?"

"Your Majesty needs time, so let's postpone the marriage. If it doesn't work this year, it will be postponed until next year, and if it doesn't work next year, it will be postponed until the year after, until His Majesty is fully prepared."

"But we can't just refuse their marriage request, right? Wouldn't that make our Datang too arrogant and damage Datang's tolerant and friendly image?"

"Your Majesty can say that there is no princess of marriageable age in Tang Dynasty now."

Li Er shook his head and said: "That won't work. Since those Fanbangs came with the purpose of making marriages, they naturally know how to make marriages. Even if none of my daughters are of the right age for marriage, isn't there any princess among the princes who is of the right age for marriage? Besides, that little girl in your family will be 15 years old after the new year, and there are already many Fanbang princes who are looking for information about her."

Damn, is this forcing me to find a way? Wang Xiang despised Li Er severely in his heart.

"Then find a reason to make them retreat."

(End of this chapter)