Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 108 Hui Xi asks to marry Si Zi
"Is there anything you want to list this time!"

When Li Shimin saw Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and Ma Zhou coming together, he already knew that something important was about to happen.

"Your Majesty is like this...!" Fang Xuanling bowed slightly: "Hui Xi sent envoys here, ready to ask my Tang Dynasty to marry the princess!"

"Oh?"

Li Shimin didn't care too much when he heard about asking for a princess, because Li Shimin never thought it was shameful to get married. Li Shimin didn't know how many princesses he sent to marry in his life. biological daughter.

In Li Shimin's Zhenguan dynasty, his martial arts were at their peak, and he was known as the Khan of Heaven. Why did he use a princess to marry him?

This should be a question for many people.

It's very simple. Because Li Shimin manages and controls Sifang Fanbang, he adopts the strategy of "you punch me, I cut you with a knife, you respect me with a foot, and I respect you with a foot."Obedient Fanbang, I will marry you as a princess.If you want to fight with me, I will beat you to death.

But this time back to Xi was different.

Because just when Li Shimin said 'oh' and didn't care too much, Changsun Wuji said at this moment: "Xi Xia, the Hui people are wolfish and ambitious, and what they want to marry is Sizi...!"

"What...?" Finally, Li Shimin's eyes glowed slightly red: "Bold. A group of savages dare to marry my son-in-law. It is absolutely impossible that I will never agree."

"Your Majesty, please calm down. If you don't agree this time, the Huishan people will suspend providing us with horses. If there are not enough horses, then our military operation against Korea will be suspended or impossible!"

Ma Zhou explained this difficult situation.

Li Shimin didn't expect that things would become so troublesome. Hui Xi threatened himself by selling horses. For a while, Li Shimin didn't know how to deal with it.

As a national strategic reserve, resources play a very important role in all aspects of the country's politics, economy, and life.During the Northern Song Dynasty, due to the loss of the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, the resources of war horses were scarce, and the title of war horse resources greatly restricted the combat effectiveness of the army in the Northern Song Dynasty. Therefore, in the 320-year history of the Song Dynasty, the defeat was consistent throughout, so the importance of resources is self-evident. .

From the period of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the court raised a total of 50 war horses, all of which were raised in the Hexi area.However, such a small number of horses is just a drop in the bucket for the vast Tang Dynasty.

In the Tang Dynasty, in this open era, not only men loved riding horses, but women also loved riding horses.

Especially women in the upper class of society, they have more opportunities to get in touch with some horse riding activities.

Especially the court ladies, from time to time go out with the emperor to go hunting on horseback.In addition to horse riding, playing polo was also a very popular recreational activity in the Tang Dynasty, and the aristocratic women in the Tang Dynasty especially loved this sport, and women were even more reserved than men on the polo field.

It is also because the demand for such horses is too great, and it is not enough to rely on raising them alone, so the Tang Dynasty bought them from Uighurs. However, these Uighurs usually mixed some thin horses with strong horses for Tang Chao, which was very good. Hateful. But there is no other way.

Some people must have doubts, isn't it possible to raise horses anywhere?Why do you want to raise horses in the grassland?The Tang Dynasty has such strong strength that it is entirely possible for the people of the Tang Dynasty to raise horses. After they are cultivated, they will be supplied to the court. This is much more affordable than buying horses from the Uighurs.

This is impossible. Horses are originally animals that live in grasslands. If they are kept in stables and the common people prevent them from trampling crops and prevent them from coming out to move around, then they will completely lose their nature. , How can such a horse go to the battlefield?How can it be used by the court?At the same time, a lot of money was wasted, which is really a waste.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, due to the narrow territory, the grasslands in the north were all within the sphere of influence of Khitan and Xixia. As a result, the imperial court had no place to raise horses.It is precisely because of this that the Northern Song Dynasty had to let the people raise horses. However, there is no way to compare the horses raised from the people's stables with the horses galloping on the grassland, let alone at the same level.

We all know that the quality of horses determines the military strength of a country. The useless war horses of the Northern Song Dynasty eventually led to successive defeats in the wars between the Northern Song Dynasty and Liao and Xixia.

Li Shimin needed [-] horses to attack Goryeo this time, but now that the Huiren came here, Li Shimin was really at a loss.

"Your Majesty, Sizi must not marry Huixi!" As an uncle, Changsun Wuji is still competent. For Li Mingda, who is most like his sister, he will never agree to marry Sizi to Huixi.

"But if you don't marry the princess, then Huixi will definitely not sell horses to us again. Then the Goryeo War will definitely not convince the ministers of the court...!" Fang Xuanling shook her head slightly.

Ma Zhou even said: "Not only that, Huixi will not provide us with horses in the future, so we will be at a disadvantage in the war against Tubo and other countries!"

"Let's increase the breeding of horses!" Li Shimin said: "We can build another horse farm, and then choose a place with rich water and grass..."

Before Li Shimin finished speaking, Ma Zhou immediately bowed and said, "It's too late!"

In a word, Li Shimin had nothing to say, so he had to ask: "When will the envoy of Huihe enter Chang'an!"

"After one month...!" Fang Xuanling bowed.

"Then we have to find a way to increase the number of horses within a month!" Li Shimin turned his back slightly and said, "It doesn't matter, no matter whether we can find this method or not, I will never let it go."

"Why don't you let Sizi find a husband's family first, after all Sizi is already 13 years old!" Changsun Wuji offered a plan.

"This is a bad strategy, but it is also a strategy. Wuji, you can help me find it. If there is no other way, I can only use this bad strategy, but it must be searched secretly!"

"Abiding by the order!" Changsun Wuji bowed.

At this time, Li Shimin sighed, and this sigh contained a lot of helplessness and sadness, the responsibility of the father, the bitterness of the emperor, and a sense of helplessness.

When people listen to it, they will feel that the emperor also has troubles.

"Boys, work hard, don't be afraid of hardship, and work hard!"

There is a construction site in front, someone will definitely ask, why come here, because Yin Hongzhi is in this construction site at this time, and Yin Hongzhi got Li Shimin's order to rush to repair the grain road.

In order to avoid suspicion, Yin Hongzhi left Chang'an directly, and has been at this construction site all this time.

What Yin Hongzhi wanted was to avoid Yan Hongxin.

But Yin Hongzhi never thought that the more you want to avoid a certain person, that person will definitely appear in front of you.

Because Yan Hongxin would never let Yin Hongzhi go.

(End of this chapter)