Chapter 342 Big Hero, Big Liar

Li Xueyan's hand stagnated, looked at Qin Mubai with surprise and said curiously, "How to say?"

"Is this the second question?"

"Xue Yan will cook a pot of new tea for the general. How about asking a teacher?"

Qin Mubai couldn't help laughing. How to refuse such a request?

"Okay! Today, Qin was ashamed and had a talk with the princess.

"General Xie Qin!" Li Xueyan immediately took a new tea brick and began to grind it. With a little excitement, she said, "General, sit down for a moment and drink the old tea. The new tea will be good in a moment.

Qin Mubai nodded and took the tea in his hand. He couldn't help staring at Li Xueyan.

To be fair, her face is not as good as Wu Mei Niang. She is not as noble as Princess Gaoyang, and she is not as fierce and flying as Chen Yan, nor as gentle as the demon.

However, it would be too perfect to combine the advantages of these four women.

That's right, it's the little girl who is only fifteen years old, Li Xueyan.

At first glance, she has no highlights or defects, which probably gives the impression of a gentle and generous beauty.

But some people are of this type. They are not conspicuous when thrown into the crowd. After getting along with each other, they feel that he is different.

Just like an ordinary dish that can be seen on the table of thousands of families, it will not make people feel amazing and vulgar. However, only a chef with superb craftsmanship can stir-fry it with an extraordinary unique flavor.

Li Xueyan is probably this kind of woman. Her inner talent and characteristics completely surpass her appearance and family background. Obviously, she is gentle and low-key, and she does not regard her appearance and family background as the capital to show off.

If it hadn't been for the inner world being enriched to a certain level, could she be like this?

For a moment, Qin Mubai was not interested in the little woman in front of him, and decisively thought that the little woman was definitely not as simple as she looked.

How could an ordinary woman who came to the family sit alone with a strange man so calmly and naturally in such a late night to discuss the headaches of the prime ministers of the king?

So, Li Xueyan, a little girl in white clothes, is really a wonderful person.

......

Li Xueyan took a brand-new tile pot to boil tea. She squeezed her mouth and smiled contentedly and said, "I heard from my father that the general loves the bright moon. This kind of good tea should be simmered with the exclusive spring water green mud jar of Huyangyue Kiln. It's just that Xue Yan's skills are crude. Don't make fun of the general.

"The princess is too modest." Qin Mubai couldn't help laughing and said, "In the tea that Qin drank, only His Royal Highness the King of Wu's craftsmanship can be compared with that of the princess. The princess's craftsmanship is definitely not inferior to the tea museum in the palace.

"Real? Then the general should drink more." Li Xueyan smiled happily and blushed, and then said, "Where have we talked about just now?"

"Should and shouldn't."

"Hee hee!" Li Xueyan actually smiled, a little naughty, and said, "Then ask the general for advice. Why shouldn't Xue Yan go to Tubo and kiss?"

Now it's Qin Mubai's puzzled.

Is it really fun to "marry"? Is she really a newborn calf not afraid of tigers, or is she confused and ignorant?

The Tubo people are similar to "barbarians" in the eyes of the Tang people. Tang people think that they are uncivilized and uninformed, like beasts that drink blood, and women are even more unrespected, just like sacrificial animals, cattle and sheep at men**. In a family, it is common for father and son to share a daughter.

In the view of the Chinese people who are morally edified, this is not just as simple as hurting customs. And it is even more difficult for women to accept.

In addition, the Tubo Plateau has been covered with ice and snow for more than half a year, and thousands of miles of ice are covered with snow. Is it such a fairyland in Chang'an? Although Li Xueyan is not an orthodox princess, she is at least a well-girred princess. How can she survive when she goes to the barren land of the Tubo Plateau? The pain of homesickness alone can make people collapse!

Qin Mubai shook his head and asked, "Looking at the situation, is the princess willing to marry Tubo far away?"

"I took the initiative to ask for my life to marry Tubo." Li Xueyan's words were amazing, but as indifferent as before.

Qin Mubai couldn't help but be stunned. His hand holding the teacup paused and naturally asked, "Why?"

"One hundred thousand fights, why don't you cherish a woman from Xueyan?" Li Xueyan smiled and said, "The general is a leading soldier. You should know the horror of war and the cruelty of war. How many people have left their hometowns and lost their loved ones, and how many wives and children have been separated and died. Wouldn't it be cost-effective to pay for all this with a female snow geese?"

Qin Mubai was silent for a moment and was speechless.

"The general has a good plan in his heart, and he is a hero for a while to govern the army and the country. This sparse and shallow truth is definitely not necessary for Xue Yan to talk to the general." Li Xueyan said, "Xue Yan knows that she is young and has little knowledge, so she only wants the general to teach her. But why can't Xue Yan go to Tubo?"

Qin Mubai meditated for a long time, and he really didn't know how to answer this question for a while.

Li Xueyan was not in a hurry. She smiled faintly and said, "Is the general wondering why Xue Yan behaves so great, but deliberately damages the dignity of your seven-foot man? General, don't get me wrong. Xue Yan has no intention. Xue Yan is just sincerely asking for advice.

"Well, let's chat casually, and you don't have to take it seriously." Qin Mubai smiled slightly and said, "Yu private, there is no need to say this. Your background is far away from your hometown and married to the barren land of Tibet. Life and death are unpredictable. Life is like death. This is just one of them. Second, the harsh natural environment of Tubo, although it is difficult for me to adapt to the strong man of Han and Tang Dynasties, let alone you? Therefore, if you go to Tubo, you will face all unknown fears and swishable pains.

"This snow goose naturally knows." Li Xueyan smiled disapprovingly and said, "Please tell me the deep reason."

Qin Mubai smiled slightly and said, "That's about national affairs and the nation. Qin is not easy to talk about. To put it simply, if peace can bring real peace, what's the use of the army? Since ancient times, how can there be war?"

"If the marriage is successful, Xue Yan said bluntly that it can bring at least 30 years of peace between Tang and Pan." Li Xueyan said, "Isn't this cost-effective?"

Qin Mubai smiled slightly, "What about 30 years later? Send another princess, isn't it to continue the war?

"The snow geese are incompetent and can only take on the business in front of them. If you go to the plateau, do your best to teach the Tubo people in a civilized way and minimize friction and war. Li Xueyan said, "If it is not civilized, there is no way to cultivate morality; if it is not cultivated, there is no way to cultivate morality; if it is not cultivated, there is no way to avoid fighting."

After listening to this, Qin Mubai had a smile on his face. In the smile, there is appreciation, emotion, and a trace of sadness.

Li Xueyan is indeed an unusual woman.

If you describe it in a rather vulgar but shocking enough word, she is great.

Women don't give up, they deserve the word hero!

"General, is Xue Yan wrong?"

"You're right. If you can really do this, you will sacrifice your own body to save tens of thousands of people from water and fire, and a monument will be erected for you in later generations. Whether you are a Han Chinese or a Tubo, you will definitely respect you as a good memory and a good word. Your name will be passed down from generation to generation. Qin Mubai said.

"So, why didn't the general let Xueyan go to Tubo to make peace?" Li Xueyan asked, and there was a trace of questioning in addition to confusion.

Qin Mubai couldn't help smiling and said, "I didn't let you go. I just felt that you didn't need to go."

"Please ask the general for advice."

"It's not enough to teach, it's just my own foolish opinion." Qin Mubai said, "At this time, and even 30 years later, it is reasonable and cost-effective for the princess to marry Tubo. Only you have been sacrificed, which has hurt the family reunion, and saved the grief of tens of thousands of people who have bleed thousands of families. From the standpoint of the state, this is of course much more cost-effective than the bloody campaign of millions of troops. But... from the perspective of a hundred years, a thousand years and even history, from the perspective of the nation, it doesn't make much sense for you to do so.

"What do you say?"

"Because of the contradictions and antagonisms between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, they are almost innate. It's like a mountain and two tigers. Sooner or later, you will die or die. Qin Mubai said, "Marrying you to Tubo is like Jiahu giving a piece of his prey to Yihu, temporarily slowing down the conflict so that the other party will not come to bite. However, the situation of this mountain and two tigers has not changed at all. Sooner or later, you still have to fight to the death. At this time, the prey is given to the other party, but the other party is nourished with strength, which is even more difficult. The tiger's nature is hard to change. Tomorrow, he will not remember that you gave him his prey one day. He will only remember that he still wants more prey and wants to occupy this mountain. Send it or not, it will only treat you as an enemy.

"Xueyan doesn't agree with the general's words." Li Xueyan said softly, but her meaning was very persistent. She said, "The metaphor of two tigers is appropriate, but Xueyan married Tubo, but did not send it to prey."

"Why not?" Qin Mubai smiled lightly and said, "The Hu people have always been married in the Central Plains, and all of them have taken away a large amount of gold and silver wealth and civilized technology such as agricultural and mulberry weaving astronomy and geography. Hu people learn from us Han masters, eat our clothes, learn from us, and then use these things to teach us teachers. You said you were not a prey, so how did you prepare for the court to settle down the marriage?

Li Xueyan's expression suddenly stagnated for a moment, and the color on her face was a little gloomy. She said, "Your Majesty is going to accept me to give Princess Wencheng as my adopted daughter, and my father will be the wedding envoy to the Tubo Plateau, and the other party will welcome her in person. The dowry given for the wedding is relatively generous, and I don't remember it very well. There are about... nearly 10,000 pieces of gold, silver and jade, several statues of Sakyamuni's golden Buddha, a lot of treasures, and hundreds of volumes of gold and jade bookcases. In addition, there are thousands of musicians, technicians and craftsmen accompanying them, and they also give a variety of cooking food, brocade quilts with various patterns, hundreds of classics of divination, clear identification of good and evil, dozens of construction and technical works, there are many medical classics and medical prescriptions, as well as many seeds of cattle, sheep, horses and cereal turnips. I vaguely heard from the people in the household department that these people and cars lined up for about a hundred miles.

"Oh!" Qin Mubai couldn't help laughing, "My Tang Dynasty is generous. Marrying a daughter, I can't wait to empty my family. I'm afraid that I won't show the great trend of my Tang Dynasty, and I'm afraid that others will say that we are stingy.

"General, I also know that this dowry is extremely rich. Gold and silver utensils are only in the second place, mainly those classic medicine and seed farm tools, which are enough to let the Tubo people receive civilization education within 20 years. Isn't that a good thing? Although the Tubo people are enemies of us, they are also human beings!" Li Xueyan said.

"It is naturally a good thing to educate and get rid of ignorance. I have never denied it. Although you are a woman, you are broad-minded and very popular. Although you are an enemy country, you can treat each other equally. On this point, I, Qin, also sighed. Qin Mubai said, "However, if you teach them like this, it's like when the two armies fight against each other, you inform the enemy of our army's formation and deployment. Are you sympathetic and worried that the enemy will suffer heavy casualties, so aren't you afraid that your army will be defeated by the loss of blood?

"Ah! ...This!" Li Xueyan screamed and said, "Xueyan, I don't mean it!"

"The princess is shocked, it's a sin." Qin Mubai quickly arched his hand and said, "My comparison is a little too much, and the words are a little heavier, but that's the truth. The princess has the princess's kindness, greatness and innocence, which is admirable. Qin is a martial artist and a soldier. However, soldiers also have the kindness of soldiers.

"The benevolence of soldiers? How to say this? Li Xueyan asked in surprise.

Qin Mubai opened his mouth and was about to say that there was a sound of footsteps at the door, and at the same time there was a loud sound like a bell: "The kindness of soldiers is to stop killing by killing, and it is also good to kill!"

"Father!"

"Your Highness!"

The two of them hurriedly got up. Li Daozong entered and laughed: "Yan'er, you are too rude! He actually asked these many naughty questions, which annoyed General Qin and threw you into the pond.

"The prince spoke." Qin Mubai smiled and said, "The princess is smart, kind, pure, loyal and righteous. Qin is self-righteous."

"Okay, sit down." Li Daozong laughed and pulled the two of them to sit down on the stove and said, "I woke up and asked for tea to drink, but I didn't see the always clever geese serving me at my bedside. Ask someone, it turned out that he was pestering Qin Sanlang to say something out of the question.

"Father, you prefer to make fun of your daughter in front of others." Li Xueyan smiled and made tea for her father.

Li Daozong smiled and said, "Mu Bai, you are not an outsider. I have wanted to talk to you for a long time. Yan'er is a righteous death. Hearing that your majesty chose her beloved daughter to marry Tubo in the clan, she actually took the initiative to go. This made me feel sad and sad. Fortunately, the marriage is temporarily stranded, but I don't know what to think. Originally, I couldn't do anything in Youzhou, but it was a matter of the country, so I had to listen to your majesty's call and hurriedly from Youzhou with Yan'er to discuss the matter of marriage and Tibet. In the court, more than 70% of the people supported marriage, and a few of them were generals leading troops. I heard that you have always been against marriage. Moreover, your opinion has a great influence on His Majesty. At this moment, in public and private, I don't know if I should be grateful to you, hehe!"

"Why does the prince have to do this? Qin is just right and not right. Qin's opinions on Tubo have always been clear and resolute. The two are like two tigers on the same mountain. Unless one side falls, the war will never be extinguished. Qin Mubai said, "It's not wrong for the princess to want the Tubo people to accept the idea of civilized education. However, I can say very responsibly that they will only accept our civilization, but will not be subject to any education. They will always treat our Central Plains and Tang Dynasty with a hostile attitude. Therefore, we can only think of a way to fundamentally solve the problem, that is, to subdue Tibet on the plateau, integrate them into our Han nation, and completely assimilate and integrate them. This is the only way to treat the symptoms and root causes. Throughout the ages, who has seen such a thing happen with relatives? It's nothing more than a war, affinity, a war, a loss of a wife and a soldier. The dignity and honor and disgrace of a big country are maintained by sending a daughter. What kind of dignity and honor and disgrace? How can I bear to wait for Wufu and I wait for men? How should the descendants of history comment on it? They will say that we only think about what is in front of us. If there is no war and no bloodshed and death in our lives, we will have to have no sense of worry and throw the troubles and difficult things and the war we will face sooner or later to our children and grandchildren. Isn't this a great irresponsibility? - Our ministers who seek to govern the country are like cowardices. What kind of face should we use to stay in history to meet future generations!!!"

As soon as the sonorous voice fell, the room was instantly silent. Li Xueyan's face turned red, and she stared at Qin Mubai with wide eyes, holding her breath.

"It's magnificent." Li Daozong seemed to be unmoved and only raised his eyebrows slightly. The target was like a torch thrown on Qin Mubai's face, like a few words understatement, but like a sharp arrow penetrating into Qin Mubai's heart--

"Remember what you said, Qin Mubai. With these words, you are either a big hero or a big liar in Qing history.