The word "side by side" king of the Tang Dynasty

In the Tai Chi Hall, Li Changqing and Li Xiuning are presiding over the court meeting.

After the enthronement ceremony half a month ago, all civil and military officials accepted Li Xiuning, an empress like Li Xiuning who, although she was a woman, was dedicated to her duties.

Li Changqing and Li Xiuning sat on the dragon throne together, accepting the worship of hundreds of officials and the reports on government affairs.

Although Li Xiuning is now the empress, she still has little experience, so Li Changqing handles government affairs most of the time, while Li Xiuning watches and learns.

For the officials, although they were a little uncomfortable at first, they got used to the presence of the two emperors after a few days.

To be honest, the daily court meetings were actually quite boring. The ministers asked for important issues through memorials or went to the palace to meet the saints in person. The real issues left in the court meetings were all nonsense.

After a minister reported on the locust plague situation in Jiangnan and other places, today's court meeting almost came to an end.

But just when Li Changqing was about to announce his resignation, another minister stood up and said:"Your Majesty, I have something to advise you." He sighed in his heart, but Li Changqing still showed a smile and said:"My dear, do you need anything? Do you want to advise me?"

The minister raised his hand and said,"What I want to advise you about is your majesty's marriage. Your majesty has now ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, but you don't have any concubines yet. You should pay more attention to it."

"Concubine? Don’t I have one concubine and six concubines? Why is there no such thing as a concubine?"

Li Changqing was stunned, not understanding what the minister's words meant.

But he quickly realized it, his face became strange, and he looked at Li Xiuning sitting next to him.

"Your Majesty, the Empress currently has no one in the harem. Even if she cannot have more than one male concubine due to etiquette, she should still find a man of good character to be her queen."

The minister continued, looking very serious.

This time it was not just Li Changqing, but other ministers also looked at each other with strange expressions.

Although Li Xiuning's expression did not seem to change, Li Changqing was sitting next to her and was very keenly aware of it. Her ears turned red and there was a look of embarrassment in her eyes

"This old and shameless guy, why are you bringing this up? Is it possible for me to follow the example of Changqing and draft a concubine? How is this appropriate?"

Li Xiuning thought through gritted teeth, and had the urge to ask the guards to drag the minister down to play a hundred games.

Li Changqing was also full of black threads. Li Yuan severed the father-son relationship with him before his death to help him and Li Xiuning, but now he has to help Li Xiuning chose a husband-in-law to be his queen? What a joke!

But what this minister said is still logical. Since ancient times, emperors must have a family before inheriting the throne, and they may even have children. Since

Li Xiuning proclaimed himself emperor, then he also Naturally, she should have herself.

But... she is the empress. She wants a harem full of beautiful men. It would be strange if everyone in the world didn't scold her to death. Moreover, the one she admires in her heart is Li Changqing, so how could she do this?

"I don't need to worry about it at this time, the empress has her own sense of proportion."

Li Changqing suppressed his displeasure and said calmly to the minister.

The minister wanted to say something more, but his arm was pulled hard by his colleague. The latter shook his head at him and motioned for him to stop talking.

The sadomasochistic relationship between Li Changqing and Li Xiuning was known to many people at the time, and it was not a secret among many veteran ministers. It’s just that this minister had just taken office not long ago, so he didn’t know about these old events, so That's why he said this.

Seeing his colleagues giving him crazy winks, and noticing the strange looks on other people's faces, this minister was not a fool. He immediately guessed something, his face suddenly changed, he smiled with difficulty, and said with a cupped hand. :

"Hey, what's that... I'm overly worried. Your Majesty, please forgive me. I just didn't say anything."

After that, he returned to his seat, looked at his nose, nose, and heart without saying a word.

But there was still silence in the hall, and the atmosphere was a bit strange.

"Your Majesty, I still have something to report."

Finally, Li Jing coughed, opened his mouth to break the silence, and stood at a distance to speak.

"General Li, please speak."

Li Changqing didn't want to talk too much about the previous topic, so he went down the steps of Li Jing.

Li Jing said:"Your Majesty, when you were fighting the decisive battle with the puppet emperor, the puppet emperor sent envoys to Tuguhun and Western Turks. , Tubo and the Three Kingdoms, lobby them to send troops to attack you.

When the Western Turkic army arrived at the border gate of Beijing, they retreated without a fight because they were photographed by the majestic city walls. They also used the lame excuse of sending grain to Beijing. The Tubo army had a marriage relationship with His Majesty, so they directly rejected the puppet emperor and sent people to inform Beijing. aspect.

Tuguhun was the most abominable. Taking advantage of the fact that General Li Ji was not guarding the northwest border, he led an army of 300,000 to break through the border and plunder wantonly. He was frightened back after hearing that your Majesty came to Chang'an."

"I think that we should send a large army to sweep across the Western Turks and Tuguhun, destroy their arrogance, and promote the power of the Tang Dynasty!"

In the last sentence, Li Jing's tone was cold and murderous.

What he hated most in his life was those who broke their promises and those who betrayed them. Xi Tujue and Tuguhun happened to have both of these points. They surrendered on the surface, but secretly Li had already betrayed him.

After hearing Li Jing's words, Li Changqing remembered that this was indeed the case. Li Yuan died after defeating Li Shimin before. There were so many things that happened that he forgot about it.

"Those duplicitous barbarians from the Western Regions deserve to die!"

Li Changqing said coldly,"But destroying the two countries is not enough. Since we want to fight, we must be more thorough and bring the entire Western Region into my territory of the Tang Dynasty!"

"I want them to know that those who obey me will prosper, and those who go against me will perish!"

"Li Jing, are you confident that you can conquer all the countries in the Western Region and unify the Western Region?"

Li Changqing's eyes fell on Li Jing, who burst out with light in his eyes, clasped his fists and said solemnly:"Your Majesty, Li Jing, is willing to conquer the Western Region for your Majesty and promote your Majesty's reputation!"

"good!

Li Changqing looked directly at Li Jing and said,"I have ordered you to be the Grand Marshal of the Western Conquest!" Conquer the countries in the Western Regions and promote the power of the Tang Dynasty!"

"Anyone who offends our Tang Dynasty will be punished no matter how far away they are!"_To read the ununderlined version of the novel, please download Feilu Novel A