Volume 1 Chapter 77 Princess Gesang 3
Li Hong walked down the jade steps slowly in front of everyone's eyes. He mentioned that he walked to the iron cage and looked at the mastiff inside. Then he walked to Anlai, shook his head slightly and said, "It's too few--"
Too few——? An Lai was stunned. There are still fewer six hundred cavalry? This bet is quite large, okay?
When everyone in the hall heard Li Hong's words, they kept silent for a while.
What does it mean to be too few? An Lai suppressed 600 cavalry and used people to bet. Is this bet still small? If you want to bet big, you have to have a dog that can win this big dog!
The expressions of the people in the hall were different -! Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu were also puzzled when they heard Li Hong's words. Could it be that the prince was more arrogant than Anlai if he was sure of winning?
"Your Highness, do you think the bet is small?" An Lai asked again.
"Small! It's really too small!" Li Honglang said, "I don't want to bet such a small bet!"
"Hmph, what kind of bet does Your Highness want?" An Lai snorted coldly. Is he despising himself? Then he spoke, "Please speak frankly-"
The dog in this world that can beat a mastiff has not been born yet. He is confident in fighting dogs, so he doesn't care about the size of the bet. His main purpose is to humiliate the prince of the Tang Dynasty in order to achieve the goal of humiliating the monarch and ministers of the Tang Dynasty.
"The Tang Dynasty scholar Sique people, if you add 600 more Tubo beauties, I would like to bet with you once!" Li Hong said lightly.
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As soon as Li Hong finished speaking, the ministers in the hall kept talking. The prince was too brave, right? He dared to humiliate An Lai and Tubo like this. The prince was too unpredictable, right? How could he force Tubo to make such a bet?
Anlai's face also turned ashen and gloomy. Sang Ying's angry face was already red. If Anlai hadn't been by his side, he would have drawn his sword long ago.
What is Jiaofangsi? It is a good place and a place that men want to go. It is a brothel officially run by the Tang Dynasty. Any family of Tang officials who are sentenced to be slaves or act as official prostitutes will be sent to Jiaofangsi.
Now, Li Hong preached that the people of Fangsique were missing and asked Tubo to send 600 beauties to Jiaofangsi. The intention was very obvious. He wanted to bully Anlai. He was naked contempt and disrespect for Tubo - to put it bluntly, he was provoking Anlai and Tubo's bottom line!
"Your Highness, you-" An Lai said angrily, but before he finished speaking, he was blocked by Li Hong, "What? Ambassador An, you can't afford to bet?"
Li Hong sneered in his heart, don’t think that you can be so arrogant and domineering at a banquet in the Tang Dynasty with a mastiff...
"Hmph, I want to know what your highness's bet is?" An Laiqiang asked, holding back his anger. Li Hong raised his lips slightly, "Chishui Ranch - Sixty Miles of Land."
When Li Hong talked about the "Chishui Ranch", the expressions of Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu changed. Li Hong really wanted to bet with the Tubo people with the Chishui Ranch, which was too much fun! They had to stop them.
However, when they heard Li Hong say "sixty miles" again, their expressions became relaxed again. The Chishui Pasture is a radius of thousands of miles, and it is not impossible to cut it out for Tubo.
"I'm afraid this is a little bit less!" In fact, An Lai was very satisfied with this bet, but he still said that. After all, they make a living by grazing, and the ranch is their life. He can trade six hundred cavalry and six hundred beauties for the sixty-mile ranch. He felt it was worth it, and he didn't believe that his own would lose. Have you ever seen a mastiff lose when fighting dogs?
"It's a little bit small, but you're worth such a little land!" Li Hong sneered.
"You--" An Lai was furious, as if he was yelling at Li Hong, but when he thought that it was the Tang Dynasty instead of Tubo, he would make things worse, which would not be good for him. Besides, wasn't he going to humiliate Li Hong and the Tang Dynasty tonight? A little impotent would cause trouble. Therefore, he restrained his anger and said in a deep voice, "Okay. I've bet with Your Highness!"
"Ambassador An, there is no constraint on the bet this time, don't make a mistake-" Li Hong said again.
"No, don't worry, Your Highness!" An Lai said straightforwardly, "Your Highness, let your dog come on stage!"
"The dog is still on the road, wait a little longer, let's drink, drink!" Li Hong said. Anlai could understand this, so he didn't say anything else, but ordered Sang Ying to cover the black cloth again on the iron cage.
Li Hong returned to his position and Gao Zong whispered, "Honger, how likely are you to win this bet?"
"Father, my son and I don't have any sons." Li Hong replied truthfully.
Seeing that Emperor Gaozong was puzzled, he explained, "This time An Lai wanted to fight with Erchen. He was like letting the Tang Dynasty lose both people and formation. Erchen knew that there was no good dog around him who could beat his mastiff, but he didn't want to lose the dignity of the Tang Dynasty."
Emperor Gaozong also understood Li Hong's explanation.
Indeed, did An Lai take out six hundred cavalry as bets, just want to suppress people with power? If the things Li Hong brought out could not match the six hundred cavalry, he would have lost in momentum before he started betting. But now it is different. Li Hong took out the sixty-mile ranch that Tubo wanted as bets. No matter whether he won or lost bets, at least he was not compared by Tubo in terms of momentum.
"The Tubo people have ulterior motives!" Emperor Gaozong sighed.
"We have to be careful of the ambitions of Tubo people." Li Hong said. Emperor Gaozong and Li Hong were chatting here, while Empress Wu was no one talking on the other side, and he seemed very lonely.
Shaoqing saw Yan Zhuang hurried to Li Hong and whispered, "Your Highness, the dog is here."
"No matter what the result is, I'll give the dog owners more money later." Li Hong said, "Let them enter."
"No!" Yan Zhuang took the order and retreated.
After a moment, he saw him leading a middle-aged man to the center of the hall. Four personal guards were carrying two iron cages behind them, but they were all wrapped in red and black cloth.
"Zhang Shun meets Your Majesty, Empress and His Highness the Crown Prince!" The middle-aged man knelt down to Emperor Gaozong and said.
"Get up!" Gao Zong said lightly.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Zhang Shun stood up and bowed to the prince again, "Your Highness, can you start now?"
"What do Ambassador An think?" Li Hong turned his gaze to Anlai and asked.
"Please--!" An said.
Sang Ying lifted the black cloth covered in the iron cage again, and the figure of the mastiff appeared in everyone's sight again.
"Let's start!" Li Hong said to Zhang Shun.
"No!" Zhang Shun took the order. He walked to a cage wrapped in black cloth, and lifted the black cloth on the cage. He saw four puppies in the cage, which were shrinking into a ball. Zhang Shun took out a puppie from the cage, twisted the puppies' neck with a cruel sound. With a slight "click--" sound, he saw that the puppies had no chance to shout, and he lost his anger.
"Ah--" Everyone was surprised to see this scene, not knowing what Zhang Shun was going to do.
Zhang Shun threw the dead puppy into an iron cage.
In order to fight with Li Hong, An Lai starved the mastiff in the cage for several days. Now Zhang Shun threw a dead puppy into the cage. The mastiff rushed forward, sniffed, and ran away. However, as blood flowed out of the puppy's neck, the mastiff's eyes stared at the dead puppy. After hesitating for a moment, it rushed forward and bit the puppy hard.
Seeing this, Zhang Shun took out a puppy from the iron cage again. However, this time he did not pinch it to death, but threw it into the mastiff's iron cage. After tasting the smell of flesh and blood, the mastiff couldn't stop. Whether it was a dead dog or a living life, he jumped forward and bit the puppy.
"Wuwuwuwuwu-" The puppy screamed in pain.
Zhang Shun ignored the puppy's bark and continued to throw the remaining two puppies into the iron cage. Then he lifted the black cloth of another iron lingzi. The iron cage was a female native dog. It was only half the size of a mastiff, and its body was not as strong as a mastiff. But when he saw the mastiff in the iron cage swallowing the last puppy, he made a bark that was almost crazy, and he rushed out of the cage like crazy.
At this time, Zhang Shun nodded slightly to Yan Zhuang. Yan Zhuang glanced at Sang Ying. Sang Ying walked forward to the mastiff's iron cage and opened a small iron door. Zhang Shun also opened his own iron cage.
I saw the local dog jump out and plunge into the mastiff's iron cage.
Zhang Shungang's every move, Anlai and Sang Ying saw it, but they did not stop it, because they believed in the ability of this mastiff, not to mention that Li Hong's dog was still a native dog and a bitch. Therefore, they felt that no matter how much Li Hong used fraud, his dog could not beat his dog, and it would only be embarrassing. Moreover, the more Li Hong's small moves, they felt that Li Hong would be more completely embarrassed.
As for the scene where the civil and military officials in the hall were shocked by Zhang Shun's puppy to death, they had not yet come to their senses when Zhang Shun released a local dog twice as big as a small mastiff to fight with the mastiff.
Only a few people knew Zhang Shun’s intention when they saw this scene.
The four puppies are the bitch's children. Zhang Shun asked the Tibetan Mastiff to eat the four puppies, and let the bitch see this scene. He wanted to use his mother's wrath of revenge to make the mother fight with the mastiff.
However, the size of the dogs on both sides is very different, which has caused the blood of the mother. If you want to stay with the mastiff, you have no chance of winning!
Everyone was puzzled and turned their eyes to Li Hong.
But at this time, Li Hong didn't understand how Yan Zhuang arranged it, so how could he know what Zhang Shun was thinking in his heart.
Gaozong was very disgusted by this scene. He frowned slightly, as if he was a little angry. The other ministers had different expressions, some regrets, some were unbearable, and some were dissatisfied. Only two women admired the scene they saw. One was Empress Wu, who admired Zhang Shun's approach. To be successful, this is the quality that a person should possess. The other was Princess Gesang. She hated Zhang Shun's approach, but she admired Li Hong's daring to use such means in order to win this game.
Two women, two different mentalities.
But at the same time, they also exposed their scheming, Chen's family, and their tough personality - they are all women who are unyielding! (To be continued)
Chapter completed!