Chapter 143 (1/2)
”Your Highness, since I was in charge of the Ministry of rites, I admit that although I have made no great achievements, I have never made a big mistake. As a minister of the Tang Dynasty, I naturally think of the Tang Dynasty and mediate with foreign affairs? I believe that diplomatic mediation is actually for the prestige and moralization of the Tang Dynasty to be recognized by other countries. Just like your Majesty's conferring Zen, all countries send envoys and ministers with them, and all countries come to our Tang Dynasty to celebrate. This is the prestige of the Tang Dynasty and the principal responsibility of the Minister of rites. ” Dai Zhide looks very ugly. The Ministry of Rites has always paid attention to etiquette. If, as his highness prince said, the Grand Tang Empire would not be extremely rude.
Li Hong shook his head and laughed bitterly, but the faces of other courtiers were startled. Dai Zhide's words were extremely tough. Although they had been disagreeable, they were limited by the monarch and his ministers. His highness said that, Dai Zhide could only listen to him. Even if he was dissatisfied, he could not refute the crown prince in front of all the courtiers.
”Dai Zhide, if this is the main idea of you as Minister of rites, I think you can quit the position of minister and return home.” Li Hong squints and stares at Dai Zhide's cheek.
”Hum, I don't know what I did wrong as Minister of rites. If your highness just let me resign to support the aged just because I contradicted you just now, I have nothing to say.” Dai Zhide wanted to carry it to the end, ignoring the pull of Li Yiyan, the Minister of the Ministry of government, and continued to be tough.
Li Hong didn't think so. He said slowly, ”if all the officials in the Tang Dynasty are like you, we'll wait for the destruction of the country. What's the Centennial industry? In those days, you were recommended by Wang xuance to the imperial court. Now, do you have half of his achievements in the Ministry of rites? ”
”Your Highness, don't you understand what you are talking about? Wang xuance, as an envoy to the western regions, naturally had some achievements, although he was less than half of him. But the minister admitted that he had not introduced people like Luoyou Saha! I have never been confined to the predicament of the Tang Dynasty because of the minister's opinion
Although Wang xuance was not convicted, everyone knows that the former emperor died of poisoning after taking some of his elixir pills!
Although Wang xuance was not convicted of this, he did not get any promotion since then, and he became a person forgotten by the court.
Although Li Zhi still used Wang xuance as an envoy to the western regions after he ascended the throne, Wang xuance at that time had already lost the style of ”one person destroying one country”.
What's more, Xuanzang's pilgrimage to the West for Buddhist Scriptures was far more influential than Wang xuance's ”one man destroys one country”. Naturally, all the popularity of Wang xuance was robbed by Xuanzang. So even now, Wang xuance has been dead for several years, and people still have different opinions about him.
Li Hong still had a faint smile on his face. A charcoal pen in his hand slid back and forth on the table top. He still said without hesitation: ”although you have never done anything like Wang xuance, now you are very much like the nibra minister who advocated borrowing troops to Wang xuance when Wang xuance” destroyed one country by one person ”
Looking at the bewilderment of all the ministers, Li Hong took the slender stick in Xiaoxue's hand, got up from his seat and pulled back the black cloth behind him. All of a sudden, it was a huge sand table of the Tang Empire, including the terrain and location of other countries around the Tang Dynasty, which were all marked in detail.
Li Hong looked at Dai Zhide with a sneer. Then he glanced at the ministers again and said, ”Wang xuance and Jiang Shiren went to Tianzhu with more than 30 people. On the way, they were robbed by aroshun, a small country affiliated to Tianzhu. At last, Wang xuance escaped alone and borrowed 7000 soldiers from nibra. Therefore, Wang xuance set up an extraordinary feat, that is, relying on himself and the 7000 troops borrowed, he destroyed the small country of aroshun, which killed 30 people such as Jiang Shiren on the way. But where is the nibra today? Dai Zhide, you are under Wang xuance's command. Do you still think that the value of reinforcements is high? ”
After Li Hong finished speaking, he looked at the courtiers: ”history is always conservative, history is always similar, and history can always give you great enlightenment in details! Dai Zhide, you strongly advocate sending troops to Koryo. If we send troops to Koryo again, we will be eaten by Tianzhu and Tubo just like nibura. Now nibora is half occupied by Tubo and Tianzhu. Why? Because he borrowed troops from the officials of the Tang Dynasty and destroyed aroshun! Aroshunna is a dependent country of Tianzhu. Why did Tubo follow the struggle? It was because the nibra destroyed the strategic balance there! Force the two great powers to feel crisis because of the action of Nepal! That's why we want to destroy him! Dai Zhide, do you want me to be like the nibra? ”
Li Hong throws the slender stick in his hand to Xiaoxue and sits back to his position.
History is always astonishingly similar. The example he just cited just now is that after a few years, the Tang Dynasty was too busy to take care of itself, just like the actual situation of the Nepal Brahma!
It's just that the lean camel is bigger than the horse, and the weak Tang Dynasty is not something that can be shaken by those small countries. But Anxi and Anton, who worked hard and paid for their lives and blood, were not forced to give up because of the lack of troops and the inability to maintain them!
Dai Zhide looked at the sand table behind him. He didn't expect that the prince's highness was using the counter evidence to prove that he strongly advocated sending troops was wrong. This made him speechless and did not know how to refute the evidence.