On the third day after Northern King Li Ke returned to Chang'an, the Tang Dynasty held a court meeting. In addition to officials above the fifth rank in the capital, there were also two envoys from Tubo and Tuyuhun, Lu Dongzan and Fu Zhen. () The ministers in front of the Taiji Hall slowly took their seats, but the officials of the Tang Dynasty looked stiff and seemed not energetic enough. It seemed that Shuofang defeated everyone's spirit in the battle. Although such metaphors were too exaggerated, there were traces to follow. In the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, many wars had passed, even if they encountered Turks.

The powerful nomadic people, the Tang Dynasty did not expect that Shuofang would be so cowardly in this battle. The officials of the Tang Dynasty had the complex of vocalizing the people of the great country. They were defeated by the Turks and the Turks were also great countries. Everyone thought it was nothing, but they were defeated by small countries like Tubo and Tuyuhun, and lost more than 100,000 elite troops. This was a humiliation for the officials of the Tang Dynasty who praised themselves as the people of the great country. Even the central ministers Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji frowned, and they seemed to be very worried about today's court.

Li Ke was watching the distressed expressions of the crowd with normal interest, and saw Li Tai coming to his side.

"Third Brother!" Li Tai was not as active as before, and seemed to be influenced by the atmosphere in front of the palace.

"Fourth brother! Why is his complexion so bad!" Li Ke asked with concern.

"I didn't sleep well last night. Thank you for your concern!" Li Tai said with a smile.

Neither of them mentioned the war about Shuofang. They were chatting about family matters without saying a word, and then they saw two people in different clothes walking into the side hall in front of the hall.

"Are they Tubo and Tuyuhun the envoys?" Li Ke asked lightly.

"The third brother of the Tuyuhun envoy knew him. He was the Zuoxian King Fuzhen. The Tubo envoy was Lu Dongzan, who was the great prime minister of Tubo!" Li Tai said lightly, and he was very disdainful of the two in his tone.

At this time, Wang De selected ministers to go to court, and Li Ke and Li Tai followed a group of ministers to slowly walk into the Tai Chi Hall.

Li Shimin's complexion today is not very good, far less energetic than Li Ke saw in the imperial study that day. It can be seen that the Tubo and Tuyuhun envoys came to Chang'an to put a lot of pressure on him.

After performing the kneeling ceremony, Li Shimin said lightly, "My dear friends, today's court meeting mainly meets two envoys from Tubo and Tuyuhun. Let's see how Tubo and Tuyuhun explain this Shuofang war! You first talk about your own opinions and how the Tang Dynasty should treat them!"

"Your Majesty, please summon them to the front of the hall and listen to what they say. It's not too late for us to discuss!" Changsun Wuji said.

"Then Xuan Tubo and Tuyuhun envoys entered the hall!" Li Shimin said lightly. He seemed to be very uninterested in such a court, and he was a little bit ineffective or perfunctory.

The eunuch shouted Xuan outside the hall!

Tubo envoy Daxiang Lu Dongzan and Tuyuhun envoy Zuoxian Wang Fuzhen strode into the Tai Chi Hall.

"Tubo envoy Lu Dongzan met with the Emperor of Tang!"

"The Tuyuhun envoy Fu Zhen met with the Emperor of Tang!"

Both of them stood and bowed, as if they had forgotten the Tang Dynasty's kneeling ceremony.

The ministers in the palace were very angry when they saw the arrogant look of the two. Many generals glared at them. Fu Zhen seemed to have learned the lesson from the last time, and he was very restrained, but the Tubo envoy Lu Dongzan looked like he was not afraid of heaven or earth, showing how powerful you could do to me.

"The two envoys come to Chang'an, you're used to it these few days!" Li Shimin asked lightly. He naturally wouldn't ask if they didn't ask the purpose of the envoy.

"I'm still used to it!" Fu Zhen replied.

"Back to the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, the women in the Tang Dynasty are good, but I don't think it's good or not!" Lu Dongzan exclaimed loudly.

“Bold!”

"Damn it!"

The Tai Chi Palace heard a reprimand, but Li Shimin did not speak, and the minister could only scold him. After hearing this, Lu Dongzan only laughed a few times, then said nothing, and looked at everyone arrogantly. Li Shimin's face turned pale, he just stared at the court officials under the hall. There was no expression on Li Ke's face, but he was very happy. He needed the arrogance of the Tubo envoy. Only in this way can the central ministers of the Tang Dynasty be awakened. If you want to negotiate, you must first suppress the arrogance and ruthlessness of Tubo.

Seeing the atmosphere in the hall a little awkward, Li Ke felt that he could not sit idly by. Then he slowly left the line and asked Lu Dongzan, "Dare you ask the Tubo envoy, do you have any position in Tubo?"

Li Ke smiled and showed that people and animals were harmless, which made Lu Dongzan feel very comfortable. He saw him proudly, "I am a great minister in Tubo!"

"Big Prime Minister?" Li Ke was surprised, "What is this?"

There was a loud laughter, and a hearty laughter came from the hall.

"You - who are you?" Lu Dongzan didn't expect that the man who was less than thirty years old would despise him so much.

"I am Li Ke!" Li Ke said with a faint smile.

But Li Ke's smile is a kind of contempt and contempt for Lu Dongzang.

"Your Highness of the Northern King? Haha--" Lu Dongzan sneered. He had also heard that the Northern King of the Tang Dynasty was strong and his attitude towards foreign affairs was also very tough. Then, he had an idea in his mind. Since the Northern King in front of the foreign affairs general was very tough, as long as he subdued him, wouldn't the negotiation between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo become simple?

"Your Highness, you have been admired for a long time!" Lu Dong praised and said, "I heard that the iron cavalry around you are invincible in the world, I really want to ask for advice!"

"Haha, Da Xiang is so stingy. What's the good thing about a few people fighting! This time, I brought five hundred Eagle Guards cavalry, so let them compete with the 1,000 cavalry around you! There was no winning or losing between the two sides until they were all killed off the horse. What do Da Xiang think?" Li Ke said contemptuously.

"I'm just thinking!" Lu Dongzan agreed, "But the iron guards around me are all Tubo cavalry. Let them have a thousand pairs of your 500 personal guards. Does your priest feel that it is a disadvantage? Otherwise, I will give you 250 people to 500 people!"

"Great appearance, 250 people? I really don't like you, so I'd better go all of you!" Li Ke said domineeringly.

"Hmph! Since Your Highness said that, I won't force it!" Lu Dongzan was also angry by Li Ke!

Li Ke and Lu Dongzan made an appointment to fight with the cavalry around him. The ministers in the hall had their own ideas, but seeing that Li Shimin's expression eased, the ministers knew that the emperor also supported the duel, so they did not dare to say more.

"Your Majesty, let's go on the battle tomorrow! Let's listen to the purpose of the two envoys going to the Tang Dynasty today!" said Changsun Wuji.

"Well, two envoys, let's tell us your purpose in Chang'an!" Li Shimin said lightly.

"No need to say, as long as the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty agreed to the request from the superiors, Tubo and Tuyuhun were willing to repair the Tang Dynasty!" As Lu Dongzan spoke, he took out a brocade book and handed it to the eunuch in front of him. Fu Zhen also took the opportunity to hand his letter to the eunuch.

Li Shimin turned the letter of nationality and looked at it for a few seconds before his face became ugly. He said in a cold tone, "Today's court meeting ends here. We will talk about it in detail after tomorrow's battle!"

After saying that, he strode away from Ke Tai Chi Hall.

All the ministers knew that it must have been the letter of the country that angered the emperor, so they bowed and left the Tai Chi Hall.

Li Ke walked up to Lu Dongzan and smiled faintly, "Great Master, then we will see you at the school tomorrow?"

"See you at the school tomorrow!" Lu Dongzan said blankly. He didn't know why the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty left so soon. He hadn't said a lot of rhetoric and words he had prepared to show the power of Tubo yet!
Chapter completed!