On October 22, the eighth year of Wude, Tai Chi Palace.

Li Yuan had just finished his morning court and was about to go to court when he suddenly heard someone outside the palace shouting: "Border news! Border news!"

Li Yuan stopped suspiciously and listened carefully. It turned out that someone outside the palace was shouting, and his face changed slightly: "Come on, let's see why it's noisy outside!"

Soon, a guard walked into the Tai Chi Hall, knelt on the ground and replied, "Return to Your Majesty, the soldiers outside the palace heard an urgent report from the border. Therefore, it was a noisy."

"Please go to the palace!" Li Yuan said hurriedly, military affairs are a major event, and there is no tolerance for any carelessness.

The ministers who were about to disperse and returned home heard the urgent news from the border. Some showed cowardice, some were angry, some were nervous, and some were calm. They all kept silent and calculating.

A mess of footsteps came, and the ministers looked back and saw a soldier wearing a ragged leather armor covered with scars, covered with blood, and black and smeared into Taiji Hall under the watchful eyes of two guards. He knelt down at Li Yuan with a pounce. He said cryingly: "Your Majesty, on October 17, the eighth year of Wude, the Turkic army invaded Shanzhou. On October 18, the people outside our Shanzhou city were slaughtered all the people outside our Shanzhou city and besieged the city with their bodies! The governor of Shanzhou, Lord Zhang, abandoned the city and fled, and the chief clerk, Lord Li, died in battle. General Wang of Guidelang, led our border army to resist the Turks, and ordered the villain to come to report the news to death! Please avenge the people of Shanzhou!"

"Hmph!" When Li Yuan heard this news, he couldn't help but smash the armrest of the dragon chaise. He was furious: "Turkish! It's Turkic again! In the third year of Wude, attacked our Liangzhou and Shizhou, and in the fourth year of Wude, most of my army was attacking Liu Heita again. Thanks to Li Shuliang and Yang Shidao, he defeated him. In the fifth year of Wude, the Turkic attacked our Yanmen, Xincheng, Xinzhou, and Fenzhou again. At the beginning of this year, burning, killing and looting were like entering a no-man's land. Do you really think that my Tang Dynasty is easy to bully!"

Li Yuan counted the time and place of the Turks' repeated attacks on the border, and he couldn't help but feel angry: "I! I want to fight the Turks back! Tell the Turks that this Tang Dynasty is not a big Tang that is made of mud, but a big Tang that is attacked by the military!"

"Your Majesty calmed down." Seeing that Li Yuan was out of control, the ministers became more and more excited as they spoke. They knelt down and persuaded him.

"Stop the anger! Stop the anger! You guys only know how to calm me down! If you calm the anger, you won't offend the border? If you calm the anger, you won't kill my people? If you rob me of money?" Li Yuan became more and more excited as he spoke, and even a little vibrato was included in his voice. "Last year, you said that you must first settle the country before fighting against foreign countries. First solve the rebellion of the Tail and Fuzhou, and then deal with the Turks. What's the result? How many times did the Turks fall? How much did the Tang Dynasty lose? You know. Tell me! What's the use of me like you!" Li Yuan pointed to the ministers who were still kneeling and said.

"I am guilty of my crime! I deserve to die!" The ministers replied to Li Yuan in a formal manner.

Unexpectedly, Li Yuan was even more angry when he heard this: "Is guilty? If you really know that you are guilty, go to the border to kill Hu! If you can't go, do I have to give you three feet of white silk? Anyway, I say I'll die ten thousand times. Can I tell you to die once? You are just like the slaughtered people in the gates over there, just die once!"

When the ministers heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other, but they didn't dare to answer the conversation. A strange and dull atmosphere in the entire hall gradually spread.

Suddenly, a young man in the royal robe stood up and bowed to Li Yuan, saying, "Father, my son is willing to lead his troops to kill the Turks, save our soldiers and civilians in Shanzhou, and avenge the people who died under the sword of the Turks."

Li Yuan stared at the young man in the king's robe and said to him for a long time: "Shimin, among my sons, you are the best martial arts and understand my heart the best. But you have been fighting outside for many years, and now you have finally got a rest. I can't bear to let you go to war again."

Li Jiancheng, who was also kneeling below, was overjoyed when Li Yuanji heard this. He had heard Li Shimin ask for a fight, afraid that he would get the position of the war and make achievements. Now that Li Yuan has rejected him, how can he not be happy?

Li Jiancheng thought for a moment and stood up and said to Li Yuan: "Father, I am willing to leave Shanzhou for my second brother. I hope my father will be right."

"Jiancheng, don't mess around! You are the prince, how can you go to the border to fight? Please stay here in Chang'an, and Yuanji, don't wink at this time, you can't go!" Li Yuan didn't know what Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji brothers thought. It's just that these two sons have special identities and the other is easy to be angry. It is definitely not enough to let them go. If Li Shimin goes, it's okay, but Li Shimin's prestige is already great enough. If he makes another contribution, I'm afraid...

So Li Yuan said to the ministers: "I have settled my mind. I will fight back in this battle. All the ministers should not kneel down. They all get up and discuss who should lead the army?"

The ministers discussed each other in circles, and they were nothing more than divided into three factions, one strongly recommended the generals under Li Jiancheng and the other strongly recommended the generals under Li Shimin. The other faction was completely neutral and indifferent, and they were happy to watch the arguments.

"Have you ever studied it clearly? Let me tell me?" Li Yuan asked when he saw that the ministers were almost talking.

"I think that Chang He, the commander of the imperial guards, can take this position!" Some ministers went out to answer first. Chang He was the one of the prince Li Jiancheng.

When Li Yuan heard this, he couldn't help but feel angry again: "You also know what Chang He is worth? If the Imperial Commander sent someone to guard the palace gate for me!"

"Your Majesty, I think that the Duke of Yiguo of Qin Qiong and Qin can take this position!" said a minister who was leaning towards Li Shimin.

"Duke Yiguo is really brave and powerful, and is a general who is like taking a rank from the Wanma Army. He just followed Shimin to fight for years and was injured. Now he finally took a break and immediately let him go to war, but he couldn't help but say that I was inhumane." Li Yuan rejected it again.

The entire hall fell into silence again, and Li Jiancheng could not send his Eastern Palace army out. Obviously, Li Yuan did not want Li Shimin and his generals to fight. This was a bit difficult to make a decision.

Suddenly, a sudden voice sounded: "I think that General Pingdao, Chai Shaochai, can take this position."

"Chai Shao?" Li Yuan thought to himself that Chai Shao was the husband of Princess Pingyang. The couple made great contributions to the founding of the Tang Dynasty. Although they were closer to Li Shimin, they could not add reputation to Li Shimin. This kind of general who had both talent and could not involve the interests of the royal family was naturally suitable.

However, Li Jiancheng thought that since Li Yuan was unwilling to send Li Shimin's generals, Li Shimin's generals would definitely not be able to participate in the war at will. Chai Shao and Li Shimin were better. At this time, he sent Chai Shao out, and Li Shimin undoubtedly lacked a big help. You must know that the war cannot end in one or two days.

"My son also recommends Madam Chai to lead the army to fight against the Turks!" Li Jiancheng said immediately.

"I'm going to reconsider!" Seeing that there was finally a general who Li Yuan did not object to, the ministers didn't understand what it meant. They all spoke in line.

"Okay! General Pingdao's son-in-law Chai Shao obeys the order!" Li Yuan said loudly. "Let the general Pingdao's son-in-law Chai Shao lead 30,000 troops to rescue Shanzhou! Go to war tomorrow!"

"I obey the order!" Chai Shao took the order and retreated.

"I want you to fight me back this time, beating me, beating me if you are afraid, and if you are afraid, you will hit me to the grassland! I want to ask the Centennial Immortal Master to pray for my soldiers on the expedition tomorrow!" Li Yuan suddenly involved Huang Junming, but he said to the ministers.
Chapter completed!