The Tang Dynasty: The Concubine of the Holy Soldier

Chapter 686 This bride price is really attractive
Chapter 686 This bride price is really attractive
Among the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, the ministers of the family and the ministers of the state all spoke to Li Er, asking Li Er not to marry the princess to the barren land of the Turkic barbarians.

And Li Er was very pleased to see these.

"A year ago, it was also for the sake of marriage. Only the King of Beiliang stood up and stopped me. Now there are so many ministers standing up to persuade me. It seems that my ministers in the Tang Dynasty are really passionate!"

Although Li Er also wanted to say it directly, how could my princess from the Tang Dynasty marry into a barren land like yours!
However, due to his status as an emperor, Li Er still cleared his throat lightly.

Fang Xuanling cupped his hands directly and said: "My Majesty, my Tang princess is a little younger, so it is very inappropriate to go to Turkic to get married now!"

Li Er was immediately happy. Although the previous ministers were all refusing, their methods were quite rude.

And Fang Xuanling's words were naturally very ingenious, enough for Li Er to refuse the request of the eldest son of East Turkic without losing face.

But before Li Er could open his mouth, the eldest son of East Turkic said directly: "Report to the King of Tang! No matter how young the princess is, as long as she comes to my East Turkic, I will definitely give the princess the best treatment! I also implore King Tang agrees!"

Li Er was completely stumped now.

"I didn't expect that the son of East Turkic would speak out so quickly before I had time to refuse! Wouldn't this directly destroy my thoughts?"

Li Er anxiously glanced at Du Ruhui who was at the side.

Du Ruhui understood, stood up and cupped his hands and said, "My lord, although the son of Eastern Turkic sincerely wants to become a vassal state of my Great Tang, and also sincerely wants to take back the princess of my Great Tang to Eastern Turkic, but my Great Tang The princess has a noble status and belongs to the royal family, so when the royal family gets married, the betrothal gift is naturally different from that of ordinary people."

"But now that the Eastern Turks have given all their heritage to me, Datang, how should I make this dowry? Holy Master Mingjian!"

Li Er was immediately extremely happy.

"That's right, my Tang Dynasty is a kingdom of heaven, so I naturally pay great attention to etiquette. Even ordinary people have to bring dowry gifts when they marry wives and daughters, not to mention that I am the lord of the world, and my daughter is very honorable. The betrothal gift is enough for them to drink a pot of East Turkic, and now all the money of Eastern Turkic is used to compensate Datang, so naturally they cannot afford this betrothal gift!"

"Then I can justly reject this Eastern Turkic heir!"

Before Li Er could speak, the princes and ministers below all raised their hands to speak.

Cheng Yaojin cupped his hands directly and said: "My Majesty, the princess of my Tang Dynasty is naturally not comparable to ordinary people. My princess of the Tang Dynasty wants to get married, and at least 50 taels of gold will be used as a bride price! The number of cattle and sheep It has to be calculated separately! Now that the Eastern Turks are impoverished, how can I, the Tang Dynasty, reward the princess to the Eastern Turks? Isn’t this letting the Eastern Turks sell their iron? As a kingdom of heaven, my Tang Dynasty can’t be so unreasonable. Compassionate to the many vassal states! The Holy One is a lesson!"

As soon as Cheng Yaojin finished speaking, many ministers wanted to laugh out loud.

"This old man went straight to Haikou, and returned 50 taels of gold!"

"To be able to say the rejection so nicely! You really deserve to be this old man!"

"This old man is really playing Turkic people like monkeys, and he actually asked for 50 taels of gold! Hahahaha!"

"This old man is really full of bad water. He can actually say that it is for the sake of the Turks that he will not let the princess marry. What an old man!"

But the eldest son of East Turkic touched his head in doubt and thought: "Does it take so much gold for the Ming media to marry the princess of the Tang Dynasty?"Then my Turkic is really not enough! '

Thinking of this, the eldest son of East Turk patted his head angrily: "If East Turk had prepared enough money earlier, I would have been able to marry the princess back home! By then, I wouldn't have to worry about the threat of West Turk! What a mistake! !"

The East Turkic son's expression of worrying about gain and loss was noticed by many ministers.

Some ministers discussed in a low voice.

"The son of East Turkic seems to have really believed the old man's words, and he is feeling annoyed now!"

"The son of East Turkic will not really believe it, right? Judging by the reaction, it seems to be true! It's so funny!"

"I didn't expect this old man to deceive the son of the East Turkic world! He really belonged to him!"

A group of ministers looked at the annoyed expression of the East Turkic prince, and they all held back their smiles, their faces turning red like a pig's liver.

But the eldest son of East Turkic didn't know it, and was still regretting it.

Li Er also suppressed the smile in his heart, coughed his throat and said: "East Turkic son, although you want to take my Tang princess, but my Tang Dynasty is a kingdom of heaven, and even ordinary people marry wives. Women have very strict etiquette, not to mention that I am a royal!"

"My royal princess's betrothal gift is naturally very precious! You Eastern Turks have already offered too many gifts to my Tang Dynasty, and the treasury must be in a deficit. If you are allowed to give this betrothal gift, it will definitely be a disservice to the Turkic people. A catastrophe!"

Li Erqiang suppressed a smile and said: "So let's discuss the matter of getting married again!"

All the ministers hurriedly said: "Your Majesty is wise!"

The envoys of the Western Turks were very proud. Looking at the dejected envoys of the Eastern Turks, they thought: "Sure enough, the king of Tang would not marry the princess to their Eastern Turks so easily. It's really hard to guarantee, but fortunately, I still have a chance now! It's not too bad!"

And the envoys behind him were already very surprised.

In their minds, the reason given by the East Turkic son is not too exaggerated.

After all, it is not worthwhile to send so many tributes just to become a vassal state.

Therefore, it is also a very normal request in the eyes of these envoys to ask the king of Tang to come down and reward a princess and relatives.

After all, Li Er, as the lord of a country, has many concubines in the harem.

Presumably there are also a lot of princesses, so in the thinking of these envoys, it is understandable to reward one of these East Turkic heirs.

But they never expected that Tang Wang would not even give a daughter to East Turkic.

These envoys all thought in their hearts: "It seems that the Tang Dynasty is really powerful and noble! The sons of the Eastern Turks offered so many gifts just to bring the Eastern Turks into the vassal state of the Tang Dynasty! What's more, the king of Tang Having received so many gifts, even a princess is willing to reward East Turks, it seems that they really look down on them!"

All the envoys swallowed their saliva one after another.

(End of this chapter)