Traveling through the Gaowu Tang Dynasty, Li Kuan and Li Shimin became the second sons of the Prince

"Your Highness, what are you writing?" - Wang Xuance discovered that since His Highness the King of Chu came to Silla, except for meeting the Queen of Silla on the first day, he locked himself in the study room in the mansion prepared for him by the Queen of Silla, holding a brush, writing and drawing on a booklet from time to time.

"Nothing, I'm writing a diary (the earliest mention of this term was in the Eastern Han Dynasty)." Facing the question from his trusted retainer, His Royal Highness the King of Chu, who always held Princess Sizi in his heart, closed the booklet and then looked up at Wang Xuance and Lu Yingke who followed him in: "What's wrong? Did the 'Princess of Silla' come here to apologize?"

“Your Highness… We must be kind…” Lu Yingke was the grandson of a great scholar after all, so he was always tolerant towards others: “Didn’t Princess Zhende apologize to you at the banquet…”

"Lu Yingke, could it be that you have fallen in love with her?" - His Royal Highness the King of Chu has always been very accurate in judging people: "I thought so... that day, you were drunk when someone offered you a glass of wine. It turns out that it is not the wine that makes you drunk, but the beauty..."

"Your Highness, I am a serious person!" Upon hearing this, Lu Yingke waved his hand and said, "Besides, he is the future heir to the throne..."

"So what?" His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu curled his lips upon hearing this. "Don't tell me that you still feel that your status is not worthy of others. If you dare to think so, I will write a letter to Master Lu and ask him to expel you, an unfilial descendant, from the family tree."

"Your Highness, I didn't mean that at all!" Lu Yingke felt very wronged: "I just felt that Princess Zhende could show her kindness to us so often at the banquet, so I guessed that she must have something to ask for."

"Hmm..." His Royal Highness the King of Chu nodded when he heard this: "You boy really haven't been blinded by beauty. Yes, the Queen of Silla does have something to ask of me."

"Your Highness, have you agreed?" Wang Xuance felt uneasy when he heard this: "Are you really planning to..."

"Don't mention the matter of the foot-warming maid again." His Royal Highness the King of Chu put down his pen and said seriously, "The Queen of Silla complained to me at the banquet last night, saying that in recent years, villages along the coast of Silla have often been invaded by Japanese pirates. She hopes that I will write a letter to the King of Japan to warn them not to invade again."

"Oh...I see..." Wang Xuance breathed a sigh of relief: "It's not a big deal if Your Highness agrees to this."

"No, I refuse." Upon hearing this, His Royal Highness the King of Chu crossed his arms and said, "Xuan Ce, remember, no matter who is fighting with Japan, I will definitely go to help him!"

"..." Wang Xuance, who was about to discuss returning home with His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu, suddenly realized that he was too happy too early: "So... Your Highness, you plan to... go to the Silla border to fight the Japanese pirates?!"

"Yes!" His Royal Highness the King of Chu nodded heavily and said, "But this time we will not use our own people to fight. The Queen of Silla will give me 20,000 troops. Although it is a little less, with the 800 archers I will mobilize to hold the line, it is enough to give those bastards a hard time."

"Your Highness, I suddenly remembered something." - At this moment, Lu Yingke suddenly raised his hand and said, "You have helped the Queen of Silla so much... If the Queen knows about this..."

“No…” His Royal Highness the King of Chu suddenly realized that having too many counselors among his retainers was quite troublesome—because there would always be someone who would pour cold water on him when he was happiest, but… this basin of cold water was indeed deserved: “Okay… Yingke, you have a point. I will write a letter now to explain the reason to my mother…”

"Your Highness, you can't write a letter to the Queen just for this matter." Wang Xuance didn't mention this because he obviously looked at the problem more deeply than Lu Yingke: "The clearer you explain, the more suspicious the Queen will be..."

"What should I do?" His Royal Highness the King of Chu was also in a dilemma: "I must fight the Japanese. Not only must I fight, but I must fight hard, otherwise the thoughts in my heart will not be clear."

"Then fight!" - A cold voice sounded from outside the door. Not long after, a little Taoist priest in a purple Taoist robe walked in slowly with a long sword on his back. "Your Highness, when I was strolling outside just now, I heard street vendors talking about Japanese pirates. These beasts are evil and deserve to die!

So in my opinion, we fight against the Japanese pirates to act in the name of justice and for the benefit of the people. Besides, if we don’t beat these beasts hard and teach them a lesson, no one can say for sure whether they will bring harm to our descendants in the future.”

"Wow..." His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu once again expressed his sincere admiration for Zhang Zhenxuan: "Zhenxuan, if you were a girl, I would definitely take you as my concubine."

"Your Highness... that's not necessary..." Zhang Zhenxuan knew that His Highness the Prince of Chu had work to do, but he really didn't know that His Highness the Prince of Chu had so much work to do: "You should gather the others and announce your decision."

"Of course." His Royal Highness the King of Chu nodded upon hearing this, and then he ordered Lu Yingke to call everyone into the study and announced his plan to go to Jinhaegyeong on the border of Silla to have a hearty fight with the Japanese pirates.

"Your Highness, the Japanese?" Pei Xingyan asked with some disdain after hearing the plan of His Highness the King of Chu: "Are you overestimating them?"

"Alas! Xing Yan's words are wrong. Even a lion will do its best to catch a rabbit, so I must be cautious. But this time we are helping Silla, so the Dou family troops don't have to go into battle themselves. Everyone should hold a large yellow crossbow and act as roaming crossbowmen." His Royal Highness the King of Chu said, and then looked at Li Huairen and others who were eager to try: "The same goes for you guys. When you arrive in Jinhaijing and go to the battlefield, you all take the large yellow crossbow and practice archery for me. Don't rely on the advantage of armor and ride your horse to fight on the battlefield. That is Silla's land, and naturally the Silla people will defend it with their lives. We are just going to help, there is no need to risk our lives, do you understand?"

"Don't worry, Brother Kuan, we know what's going on." After experiencing the baptism of the Battle of the Royal Capital, the "elites" of the Chang'an Bandits gradually realized that the battlefield was no joke. So in addition to being willing to listen to their boss's words, they also increasingly agreed that what Brother Kuan said was always right.