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

Although Baekje deserved a beating, King Chu still believed that it was right for it to join forces with Goguryeo to attack Silla.

He even hoped that his tyrant father would be smarter and not get involved in this matter - you know, the weakest time for a snake is not when it is injured, but when it has just eaten and is preparing to digest its prey.

Therefore, in Li Kuan's opinion, now that Goguryeo has joined forces with Baekje to fight Silla, the Tang Dynasty will naturally help support them and, when necessary, personally intervene to stabilize the situation.

However, this support and calming down the situation did not have to be put into action right away. Instead, it required planned support and orderly calming down the situation - the Queen of Silla should first feel a glimmer of hope before her eyes, and then strengthen her determination to fight to the death. Only after Silla had exhausted all means and fought Goguryeo and Baekje to the point of exhaustion, could the Tang army be deployed on a large scale.

By then, it would not be as simple as having a legitimate reason to attack - after the continuous wars between Goguryeo and Baekje, the soldiers were naturally exhausted, while the Tang army had already been recuperating for a long time. In this way, the losses of the Tang in this war could be minimized.

Perhaps this was cruel to Silla, but there have always been interests between countries. The remaining so-called "eternal friendship" was nothing more than a layer of window paper pasted on the surface by politicians after they put down the knife.

What's more, if the Tang Dynasty did not do this, after Goguryeo and Baekje were destroyed, Silla would dare to jump onto the table and start competing with the Tang Dynasty, its suzerain state, for the spoils as long as it still had a breath.

Others may not be able to foresee this, but His Royal Highness the King of Chu knows it clearly.

"Brother Kuan, what are you daydreaming about?" - Outside the gate of the Prince of Chu's mansion, just as His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu was lost in thought, Li Huairen, who was accompanying him, saw this and immediately said in surprise: "I heard from Zhenxuan that the time for the wedding ceremony was personally calculated by the old Heavenly Master, so you better not delay it."

"Hanzhang," after hearing what Li Huairen said, Li Kuan immediately called over Wang Hanzhang, who was at the door instructing the sedan bearers to prepare for the wedding.

"Your Highness, what's wrong?" Wang Hanzhang came over with a smile on his face when he saw the head of the family summoning him.

“You and Yingke must take good care of the old Taoist priest for me. Remember… don’t let him drink too much.” His Royal Highness the King of Chu was rarely as serious as he was today, but there was nothing he could do, since they were all his elders. “And Dou Aong, he can only drink two cups, so ask Huaiyu to keep a close eye on him!”

"Okay." Wang Hanzhang nodded and said, "I'll remember it."

"Then..." After explaining all these things, His Royal Highness the King of Chu finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Let's go!"

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At the same time, Chang'an.

"Zhang Nan, what time is it now?" His Majesty Li Er, who had been busy in the Taiji Hall all day, looked at the setting sun shining into the hall, and his tone was a little melancholy: "In the blink of an eye, that boy... has reached the age to start a family and build a career..."

At this time, Zhang Nan, who had just entered the palace, suddenly said, "Your Majesty, it is already three quarters past the hour of You."

"Then at the moment..." His Majesty Li II was silent for a moment, then asked, "What is the Queen doing?"

"Your Majesty, the Empress... has sent many gifts to the palace for the wedding of His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu today. Among them, Princess Jinyang, Prince of Jin, Princess Changle, Princess Lanling, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wei, His Royal Highness the Prince of Shu, His Royal Highness the Prince of Liang, His Royal Highness the Prince of Yan, Princess Xiangcheng, Princess Runan, Princess Gaoyang, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince have all prepared gifts for His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu. So right now, His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu's brothers and sisters are having dinner together in his original bedroom as a celebration." Zhang Nan's answer was somewhat irrelevant to the question.

"You haven't told me yet what the Queen is doing!" The tone of Emperor Li II's voice revealed his bad mood at the moment.

"The Queen is also here, but she's not in a good mood." Zhang Nan thought for a moment, and then said, "It may be because the palace has been busy with many affairs recently, and the Queen has spent too much time and energy on it."

"..." Faced with the opportunity offered by Zhang Nan, Emperor Li II had no choice but to give up.

Therefore, he did not say anything more, but just walked out of the Taiji Hall silently, stood in the corridor outside the Taiji Hall, and looked silently towards the south of the sky, lost in thought for a long time...

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The wedding of His Royal Highness the King of Chu was a grand celebration.

Not to mention the gentlemen in Chang'an - all the prominent families in the Tang Dynasty would choose to miss this opportunity to send gifts. Even the rulers of various countries far away in the Western Regions, and the rulers of the three kingdoms of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla in the north, which had already become a mess, chose to put aside past hatreds and offer their most sincere blessings to the King of Chu of the Tang Dynasty while the war was raging.

Of course, these blessings are not cheap, they are made of real gold and silver.

For example, the Tibetan Prime Minister Lu Dongzan sent a pony made of pure gold this time, while the Western Regions sent boxes of precious gems - if everyone didn't know that His Royal Highness the King of Chu owned countless glassware, they might have sent more in various ways.

By the way, the King of Japan is currently too busy dealing with internal strife to attend the wedding of His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu.

Well, maybe this is God's will...

After all, His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu has used his tough first half of his life to tell the whole world a very simple truth, that is, His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu is narrow-minded.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu got married. Who of you came to celebrate? His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu may not know exactly, but who didn't come...

That would be a way to die.

This is called word of mouth.

So when His Royal Highness the King of Chu learned that the King of Japan could not even govern a tiny country, he had a kind heart: when he had free time, he would send envoys to Japan to inspect and provide guidance on the King of Japan's administrative strategies.

Well, as for the selection of the envoy... Gangzi or Yuwen Qing... this is really a difficult decision...