Li Chengqian of the Tang Dynasty: Please say long live His Majesty

Chapter 14: Midnight Dream, Comforted by a Beautiful Woman

Inside the study, Yan Liben looked down at the secret letter and couldn't help but frown.

How could the secret conversation between the Crown Prince and His Majesty be leaked, and so accurately, and only this one thing?

Yan Liben handed the secret letter to Du Chuke, then looked up at Li Tai and said thoughtfully, "Your Highness, this secret letter was most likely sent by His Majesty. Your Highness, please do not use this line again."

Li Tai's face changed slightly. He had spies in the palace, which was not surprising. Who didn't have spies in the palace?

The key point is that it is difficult for these spies to pass on truly useful information from the palace.

The closer you are to the emperor, the harder it is for outsiders to infiltrate, and the same is true for Li Tai.

Of course, the emperor also knew about the existence of these spies, because the emperor and his court officials sometimes needed such a secret channel for information transmission.

The emperor would even deliberately keep these spies to let the ministers outside the court know that he was safe in the palace.

Of course, these spies are basically concentrated in the front court, and the further you go into the harem, the fewer such spies there are.

If someone really has placed a spy in the harem, then that person deserves to die.

Du Chuke looked calm, but Li Tai's face looked a little ugly. He also lived in the palace in his early years. Later, when he left the palace, not all of the people who followed him left the palace, and the rest stayed in the palace.

Li Tai quietly supported their families, and they occasionally leaked some useful and useless news from the palace.

Of course, this is not important. Li Tai is thinking about the future. What if one of them ends up with his father?

Unexpectedly, this line is no longer usable.

……

"Your Majesty must have a purpose for spreading the news." Du Chuke looked at Yan Liben and asked, "Lord Yan, what do you think your Majesty's intention is?"

Yan Liben pondered for a moment and said, "This depends on how Your Majesty wishes to deal with Tubo. Tubo is located in the northwest of the Tang Dynasty, separated by Tuyuhun, Dangxiang, Subi, and Yangtong. At present, conquering Tubo is not realistic. Moreover, Tubo has come to propose marriage again, but their sincerity is lacking..."

Therefore, the best way is to let them know their mistakes and then make amends themselves. Therefore, perhaps His Majesty asked me to pass this thing on to the Tibetans to warn them."

"Tell them that the prince is keeping an eye on Tubo, and the Tang Dynasty is keeping an eye on Tubo. It would be best for Tubo to give birth to a child with the princess as soon as possible. If not, then don't blame the Tang Dynasty for using tricks." Du Chuke nodded slightly, agreeing with Yan Liben's opinion.

The emperor did not want to break off relations with Tubo yet, but Tubo's sinister intentions were made clear by the prince.

The prince was dissatisfied with Tubo and even wary of it.

If Tubo cannot have children with the Tang princess soon, the prince will push for some means, even military force, to be used against Tubo.

In a very short period of time, Yan Liben and Du Chuke revealed everything.

"Your Majesty is using the Crown Prince to force the Tibetans, but he also lets Your Highness reveal this matter to the Tibetans. Wouldn't this make the Tibetans think that there is endless internal strife in the Tang Dynasty, making them more presumptuous and underestimate the Tang Dynasty?" After Du Chuke finished speaking, he frowned and looked at Yan Liben and Li Tai.

Li Tai, who had been secretly happy that the Tibetans would hate the prince in the future and that he could be used by them, suddenly came to his senses.

"The Tibetans have wicked ambitions." Yan Liben tapped the table gently, then said, "Your Majesty is testing the King of Wei. Therefore, this is the only way we can do. While revealing the news to the Tibetans, we must also sternly tell them that if they truly have ulterior motives, the King of Wei, like the Crown Prince, will not let them off."

After saying this, Yan Liben looked at Li Tai and said seriously, "After this news is passed on, the Wei Palace must cut off all contact with the Tibetans. In the future, any Tibetans who come to see us will not be seen."

"Let's ignore them for a while. They won't get a good look from the Crown Prince, so they'll have to come to Your Highness for help. At that time, they'll be under Your Highness's control." Du Chuke added the follow-up measures.

Yan Liben nodded and said, "But Your Highness needs to remember that the Tibetans dared to raid Songzhou in the 12th year of Zhenguan. If they really have no children with the Tang princess in the future, then they are very likely to raid the Tang again. At that time, all this may be Your Highness's business." Li Tai nodded solemnly.

If the Tibetans really raid the Tang Dynasty again in the future, he will have to bear great responsibility for having dealings with them.

What's more, if he became emperor, Tubo's raid on the Tang Dynasty would be an attack on him.

It's his business to deal with.

"I've remembered it." Li Tai nodded seriously, having already drawn a line in his mind regarding his interactions with the Tibetans.

Yan Liben and Du Chuke looked at each other and could see the other's relief.

"No matter what, neither the prince nor the Tibetans are the most important to Your Highness. The most important thing for Your Highness is to complete the compilation of the "Guo Di Zhi". Only then can Your Highness talk about other things. Otherwise, the opportunity may fall into the hands of others." Yan Liben gave a final reminder.

"Yes!" Li Tai bowed solemnly.

……

At some point, Yan Liben and Du Chuke had left, and Li Tai was the only one left in the study.

Only after he had a clear idea of ​​the matter between Li Chengqian and the Tibetans did Li Tai feel a little relieved.

At this moment, a light sound of footsteps appeared outside the door: "Your Highness."

Li Tai subconsciously looked up and saw his eunuch, Wei Fu. His expression turned cold and he asked in a cold voice, "How's the investigation going?"

Wei Fu bowed and said, "Your Highness, we have found a few traitors in the palace, but none of them are related to the Crown Prince."

"No, you haven't found it yet, keep investigating." Li Tai's expression couldn't help but become ruthless. Today, Li Chengqian said that someone had died in his mansion, and Li Tai's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

"Yes!" Wei Fu bowed solemnly, then spoke carefully, "Your Highness, some things may not be done by people in the mansion, but by people outside. There have been quite a few outsiders entering the mansion recently."

Li Tai's face suddenly darkened. If the problem was not with the people in his mansion, then it was most likely with the outsiders who had entered the mansion in recent days.

Ever since Li Tai began compiling the Comprehensive Geography, countless scholars and writers have come and gone from his residence. If one or two of them sneaked into the backyard...

"Check first, then seal several doors from the front yard to the back yard, and then keep an eye on outsiders entering the backyard." Li Tai clenched his fists tightly.

"Yes!" Wei Fu bowed slightly.

"Also, go to Shaofu Temple and find someone to spread the news that the prince used the Shaofu Temple to mobilize rattan armor to make mechanisms, and then find someone to guess what the prince is doing with those things." Li Tai sneered. He couldn't do the prince's affairs himself, but that didn't mean he couldn't find someone else to do it.

Prince, Royal Brother, and my younger brother will never stop causing trouble for you.

……

"Ugh!" A scream rang out in the dark room. Su Shu, who was lying on the bed, subconsciously opened her eyes and saw Li Chengqian sweating all over. He sat up suddenly, his body even trembling.

"Your Highness, what's wrong?" Su Shu tightened the gauze around her body, then sat up. Looking at Li Chengqian, she subconsciously grabbed his left arm, her eyes full of worry.

"It's okay, I just had a nightmare!" Li Chengqian turned around with a pale face and bloodshot eyes.

　This is our heroine.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)