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

But he was somewhat unwilling: "Your Majesty, you are the Son of Heaven. How can a Son of Heaven be controlled by others?"

"I have been controlled by others less often in my life?" Such a low-level provocation obviously didn't work on His Majesty Li II: "Wuji, you need to remember one thing - in the past, that brat might have ignored you for the sake of the Queen, but it's different now.

He has now learned to negotiate with me about the exchange of interests, and you... Wuji, if you still can't see Kuan'er's transformation, I can assert that you will suffer a lot at his hands in the future!"

"I have suffered a lot in the past..." Changsun Wuji felt that his brother-in-law was too presumptuous.

"That's just the beginning..." Upon hearing this, His Majesty Li II sighed slightly, and then said, "Do you know that before Changguang and Yongjia left Chang'an, they went to Yushan to meet the emperor, but the emperor didn't meet them at all. He just had someone convey a message: Kuan'er's opinion is my opinion."

"..." Upon hearing this, Changsun Wuji also fell silent.

Although he sometimes didn't want to admit it, but... once compared, whether it was himself or His Majesty, in some aspects of being a human being... it might really be...

It's a complete mess...

"Okay, if you have nothing else to do, you can leave." When Emperor Li II saw that Zhangsun Wuji had stopped talking, he was too lazy to say anything else: "I am tired..."

Really tired...

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His Majesty Li II was indeed exhausted both physically and mentally.

But some people were very excited - for example, King Chu, who was building a palace for his sister in Yazhou.

Of course, King Chu's excitement only lasted for two months.

Because two months later, Zhang Zhenxuan came back.

“Your Highness…” In the newly renovated Prince Chu’s Mansion in Yazhou, Zhang Zhenxuan looked at His Highness the Prince Chu, who was sitting cross-legged beside the railing and throwing shrimps into the fish pond below. He felt very complicated: “You…you can still…”

"Oh, Zhenxuan." Upon hearing this, His Royal Highness the King of Chu stopped what he was doing and started laughing: "Do you think I'll believe you if I say I can't? I always asked you if you knew how to use thunder magic, and you said you couldn't, so you thought I would believe you?"

"I understand what you said." Zhang Zhenxuan smiled and came to Li Kuan and sat down cross-legged. "In Chang'an, everything is gradually coming to an end, but Your Highness, I don't understand why you boasted to His Majesty..."

"Because I can do it." His Royal Highness the King of Chu smiled upon hearing this: "Goguryeo wants to fight, Pyu wants to fight, India wants to fight, and Japan also wants to fight! In the next few years, we will do these four things. When these four things are done, I will take you to the other side of the sea and conquer a large territory for my Dou family. By then, all your efforts will be rewarded..."

"Your Highness, that's not what I'm asking." Zhang Zhenxuan never cared about these things. Of course, he would not doubt the truthfulness of His Highness the King of Chu's words. He just couldn't understand: "Why do you insist on expanding the territory for the Tang Dynasty..."

"Because I intend to give Tianzhu to Zhinu, Goguryeo to Xiaoke, and Waguo to Qingque." His Royal Highness the King of Chu smiled upon hearing this and said, "I don't know when that foolish monarch will understand what I mean."

The territory is too large, and if you want to maintain rule, you must make some choices.

"But..." Zhang Zhenxuan felt that these plans would be troublesome and thankless if they were actually implemented: "This will take us a lot of time..."

"That's not the case." His Royal Highness the King of Chu thought for a moment and continued, "Lu Dongzan is now in Tubo to punish those Bon masters. I will give him some time to solve these problems, and then he will join forces with Tubo, Xueyantuo, and Tuyuhun to attack India. Of course, we will work together to fight India, but after the battle... ahem... a certain foolish Khan thinks that Tubo and Tuyuhun launched an unjust war, so it's not a problem to send troops to teach them a lesson, right?"

"Your Highness, this..." It was the first time that Zhang Zhenxuan discovered that it was possible for father and son to play like this even though they were not on good terms.

"As for Goguryeo... Zhenxuan, just wait and see. It won't be long before Quan Gaisuwen will commit suicide. Silla and Baekje will have no chance to please both sides. Because Quan Gaisuwen knows very well that if he cannot take down Silla and Baekje, the areas south of Jianzhou will become an iron plate. Goguryeo, Silla and even Baekje... will not be able to continue to exist in the future.

Because no matter whether it is that tyrant king or me, neither of us will miss such a good opportunity.

The Northwestern tribes are now as docile as cats. Even if the Tang Dynasty's military expenditure is reduced a little, it is enough to fight Goguryeo."

"Not enough..." Zhang Zhenxuan shook his head after hearing this: "You said earlier that you wanted Your Majesty to fight against Tubo, and now there's Goguryeo..."

“In the fight against Tubo, that incompetent monarch is the main force, and I will not participate.” His Royal Highness the King of Chu shook his head upon hearing this: “But in the fight against Goguryeo… that incompetent monarch only needs to send a few tens of thousands of troops to act as a pioneer - by then, I will be free anyway, so I can just march my fleet north and deal with them! - For me, the humiliation suffered by the former Sui soldiers can definitely be equalized by demolishing the Jingguan. If I don’t raze the capital of Goguryeo to the ground, I will not be worthy of my ability!

What’s more, the King of Goguryeo named his capital Chang’an… is he worthy of it?!”

The scolding from His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu made Zhang Zhenxuan realize what was going on: It turned out that his own king was still holding a grudge against him...

"What will be the final solution for Japan?" Zhang Zhenxuan knew that His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu was taking this opportunity today to give him a clear understanding of the Dou family's layout for the next few years.

"Zhenxuan, do you think that in all dynasties, sending troops to fight has always been based on a pretext?" His Royal Highness the King of Chu found that Zhenxuan was not very sensitive in this regard, so he reminded him: "If you were the king of the Japanese country, and saw that a powerful Tang Dynasty was about to annex all the surrounding countries, then what would you do when the Tang Dynasty sent troops to attack Goguryeo?"

"I understand the principle of 'lips and teeth are cold'." Zhang Zhenxuan nodded. "As long as Japan sends troops, the Tang Dynasty will have enough reasons to attack it, but...what if they choose to retreat?"

"Heh..." His Royal Highness the King of Chu snorted coldly upon hearing this, feeling that a piece of knowledge he had been waiting for for a long time had finally come into play: "As the orthodox dynasty of the Central Plains, my Tang Dynasty should teach a lesson to the descendants of Xu Fu, the traitor of the Qin Dynasty, who abducted thousands of boys and girls in the name of searching for immortals and established himself as the king of the Wa Island, for the first emperor Ying Zheng of more than 800 years ago. Is there any problem?!"

"Ah?! Is this possible?!" Zhang Zhenxuan blinked when he heard that.

"Why not?" His Royal Highness the King of Chu raised his eyebrows upon hearing this, thinking that in the future there will be a peerless warrior who, in order to legitimately go out and fight against foreign races, will not hesitate to look through all the history books and bring up the old story of Emperor Gaozu of Han being besieged at Baideng...