Yang Miaoyan worked very efficiently and rushed to the Huai'an Palace in the evening to meet Princess Huai'an.
After being reminded, Li Shentong actually restrained himself a lot. Instead of forcing people to go home and have sex in the city, he arrested some libertines wandering the streets and forced them to get married.
Although this is a bit overwhelming, it is in line with the laws of the Tang Dynasty.
Because according to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, if a man reaches the age of sixteen and is still unmarried, the government will come to him to match him with an official match. If the official match fails three times, the marriage will be forcible. If he does not comply, it will be a crime.
If they are killed, they may be added to the corvee service, or they may be sent to the frontier to guard the border.
In short, in the Tang Dynasty, there were no men over eighteen who were not married. Even if they were, they were married and widowed. For the rest, if you can't do it, the government will force you to do it.
It can be said that in order to restore Dingkou in the Tang Dynasty, the officials of the Tang Dynasty did everything they could.
An eighty-year-old is paired with an eighteen-year-old, and an eighteen-year-old is paired with a forty-year-old. This is common in the Tang Dynasty.
In short, as long as you still have the ability to have children, you can't escape Datang's control.
That is to say, only those places north of Hebei Province, Duji Province, and Guannai Province that had suffered serious military disasters and had a serious imbalance in the ratio of men to women were able to escape the disaster in a short period of time. The rest of the places could not escape.
After Li Shentong changed his approach to promote the population growth of the Tang Dynasty, there was less talk about him forcing people to have sex.
Wang Gui, Wei Zheng and others had just handed over the memorial to impeach Li Shentong, and the storm had passed before any waves were made.
Time flies to November, the weather is surprisingly cold, and snow has begun to fall in various places. Logically speaking, the wind and snow should be heavier on the grasslands further north, and the grassland people should also start to have cat winter. But at this time,
Turkic envoys once again appeared in Chang'an.
This time it was Yugu who had been here once before, and brought a new list of items.
After the people from Honglu Temple got the list, they immediately handed it to the three provinces. After a short discussion, the three provinces took the list to Tai Chi Hall.
Li Gang frowned and placed the list on the royal eucalyptus without saying a word.
Pei Ju, Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda who were with him also frowned and said nothing.
Li Yuanji looked around the four of them, Li Gang, and while reaching for the list, he asked funnyly: "What's wrong? This time the Turks opened their mouths?"
Li Gang shook his head and said nothing, indicating to Li Yuanji to see for himself.
After Li Yuanji quickly read through the list, he also frowned, then without saying anything, he picked up the secret book on the royal eucalyptus and quickly read it.
Unlike Li Gang and others, he did not have the perseverance of Li Gang and others to memorize the classics on conquest of sages, so even if the secret book was concocted by him, he did not memorize it.
Li Gang and others had memorized the secret book a long time ago, and also remembered the word and line on that page. They could decipher the message sent back by Tang Jian without reading the secret book.
He had to flip through the book, and he had to flip through it carefully.
After quickly flipping through the secret book and deciphering the secret messages sent back by Tang Jian one by one, and confirming that they were correct, Li Yuanji frowned even more.
Because the news sent back by Tang Jian was completely wrong.
The first two words still refer to Turks, but the last two words become Xuancheng. They cannot be connected at all and cannot form a sentence.
Based on Tang Jian's many years of experience as an envoy, he should not have made such a low-level mistake, so the problem should lie with the Turks.
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It should be that the Turks were too greedy and increased the amount, which caused this situation.
No wonder the four of them, Li Gang, frowned and remained silent.
The key to the problem lies with the Turks. Unless the Turks tell the truth, no one can decipher the message sent back by Tang Jian from the list.
The problem is that the Turks deliberately increased the amount in the middle, deliberately wanting to beat the autumn wind of the Tang Dynasty a little more. This is something that is good for them. How can they tell the truth?
More importantly, it was not easy for Datang to force people to tell the truth, because once the Turks realized that there was something wrong with the numbers in the list, Tang Jian and others would be in danger, and they would never want to use this method again in the future.
Datang sent a message.
Therefore, how to obtain the true list from the Turks without the Turks being aware of it has become the biggest problem.
The four of them, Li Gang, probably couldn't think of a solution, so they frowned and said nothing.
"What do you think?"
Li Yuanji put down the secret book in his hand and stared at Li Gang and the others.
Li Gang hesitated for a moment and said nothing.
Xiao Yu also hesitated and said nothing.
Pei Ju didn't even hesitate and just sat there making clay sculptures.
Only Chen Shuda said, "We can only let the people from Honglu Temple try their best to gather information..."
Dealing with envoys is the specialty of Honglu Temple, and getting information from envoys is also the responsibility of Honglu Temple.
However, since the Turkic envoys had made up their minds to attack the autumn wind, it would be difficult to get this news out.
After Chen Shuda finished speaking, Pei Ju tugged at his beard and asked this question, "What if the people from Honglu Temple can't get the news? We should pay them all the goods they asked for just like last time?"
This is also a problem.
If the real news cannot be obtained, then Datang would have really taken advantage of the Turks to pay them the goods they needed.
More importantly, this time the Turks got a taste of the bargain, and next time they will add some more goods to the list given by Tang Jian.
If things go on like this, the Tang Dynasty's purpose of using Tang Jian to understand the internal situation of the Turks will be ineffective.
"Then what do you think we should do?"
Chen Shuda frowned and looked sideways at Pei Ju to ask.
Pei Ju hesitated and said, "How about rejecting the Turks' request this time?"
Li Gang said in a deep voice: "It is not difficult to reject Turk's request this time. What is difficult is that if Turk comes to pay with a real list next time and we pay it back, then Jie Li will definitely suspect Tang Jian."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Xiao Yu couldn't help but said: "Maybe Jieli is not that smart..."
Li Gang glanced at Xiao Yu and said angrily: "Jie Licong's lack of intelligence will not affect the final result at all, because he also has advisers like you and me under him.
What's more important is that a group of old and young people from the former Sui Dynasty led by Yang Zhengdao were beside Jie Li.
What Jieli can't see, they may not be able to see."
Chen Shuda nodded and said: "It is already abnormal for us to pay the goods requested by the Turks in full before. If there is another disturbance, people will definitely find out the clues."
Xiao Yu stared at Chen Shuda and said, "Then what do you think we should do?"
Chen Shuda looked at Xiao Yu blankly.
This was the question raised by Li Gang, and it was not him. Why did Xiao Yu ask him?
Li Gang didn't pay attention to the small twists and turns between Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda, and cupped his hands toward the throne and said: "Your Highness, I can't think of a proper solution in this matter, so I can only make the decision up to you.
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Li Yuanji took a long breath.
The ball was kicked around and then kicked back.
Li Gang and the other four couldn't come up with a good solution. What solution could he come up with?
"How about, as Chen Qing said, let the people from Honglu Temple try it first, and then we can think of other ways?"
Li Yuanji asked tentatively.
Since I can't think of a better way at the moment, I can only let the people from Honglu Temple try it first.
I won’t say whether it will succeed or not, but it can at least help everyone delay a little bit.
Li Gang said solemnly: "I'm just afraid that there is only one chance to test. The people from Honglu Temple tested it before, and it frightened the snake. If we want to test it again in the future, we won't be able to test it."
Xiao Yu solemnly nodded and said: "Once the people of Honglu Temple are alerted, even if we come up with a method in the future, it may not work."
Pei Ju nodded.
Li Gang and Xiao Yu's concerns are very reasonable.
Many times, many things are like this, and there is only one chance.
If it is used as a test, then if you wait until you are fully prepared before taking the exam, you may not get the chance.
However, now there is no other choice but to let the people from Honglu Temple try it, so we can only let the people from Honglu Temple try it.
If you give it a try, you might still have a chance. If you don't try, you won't even have a chance.
"Let the people from Honglu Temple try it. If it really scares the snake, then immediately detain Yugu and let Jieli trade with Tang Jian and the others."
Li Yuanji made a decision after weighing it again and again.
If the people at Honglu Temple had alerted the enemy during the test, it would be difficult for the Tang Dynasty to bribe the Turks and let Tang Jian pass the news back.
At that time, Tang Jian had lost his role in the Turks.
All Datang could do was find a way to rescue them.
If the Turks sent an unknown person this time, then Datang would not be able to do anything to them.
But this time the Turks sent Prince Yugu.
If Yu Gu is detained and exchanged for Tang Jian with Jie Li, Jie Li will definitely exchange it.
After all, Yu Gu's status is more noble than Tang Jian's.
Jie Li is not crazy enough to risk his son's life against Tang Dynasty.
Moreover, both the Turks and the Tang Dynasty had precedents for exchanging envoys.
As long as Yugu is detained, Jieli will know what to do.
After the four of them, Li Gang, exchanged glances with each other, Li Gang said with a regretful expression: "If the people in Honglu Temple really misled the enemy, then that would be the only way."
Li Yuanji nodded and said, "I'll leave this matter to you and the people from Honglu Temple. I'll go see Yicheng and Tuli to see if they can do anything."
Li Gang and the four others were stunned. After thinking for a moment, they all nodded.
After all, Yicheng is Yu Gu's mother in name only. If she is willing to cooperate and negotiate with Yu Gu, she might be able to ask him something.
Tuli and Yugu are cousins, and they are also the little Khan of the Turks. Not only can he negotiate with Yugu, but he can also use his status to scare other Turkic envoys. If he is willing to cooperate, he should be able to ask some questions.