Chapter 361 Happy Event

After Yang Sixu returned to the court with triumphant success, he was allowed to return to the palace to be placed in the provincial eunuch. At the same time, he was granted General Mingwei. This is a military official, which is different from a official and has no specific position. From this, it seems that he is a stained person who cannot be valued, and such a reward is considered to be treated kindly.

One scene that impressed Xue Chongxun was Yang Sixu's look of worshiping in Zichen Hall. The eunuch had black and thin hair and had gray hair. He knelt on His Highness's butt with fear... He was so arrogant that he was full of awe of the throne that was high above. His appearance gave Xue Chongxun a pitiful illusion, but the ministers around him all had a natural expression. In fact, being able to worship the emperor first in the Daming Palace and be received by Princess Taiping should be a glory.

Within two days, Xue Chongxun held a banquet at the King of Jin's Mansion to entertain Yang Sixu, and agreed to welcome him. After that, he often had a banquet and had an opportunity to win over him. Xue Chongxun thought he was a rare military talent, so he naturally loved him sincerely... In Xue Chongxun's long-term plan, he had to establish more contributions in military and internal affairs to consolidate his status and prestige and reach the height of becoming emperor. These things require a large number of useful talents, so he was unwilling to miss Yang Sixu; and Yang Sixu also happened to find a new backer in the court, and was not valued by Princess Taiping, so he naturally moved closer to the King of Jin. One was willing to fight and be beaten, and the relationship between the two naturally hit it off and leaps and bounds.

At this time, Liu An finally proposed the "Two Tax Law", which is a new tax method, which is different from the current "Rent and Mediocre Measures". The essence of the new tax law is to use the amount of land and property as the tax evidence. Because it touched the interests of high-ranking and wealthy families, it was opposed by many scholars and officials as soon as it was proposed. Naturally, they would not say the real reason, but only quoted the classics and wrote various harms. "Striving for profit with the people" is the most popular saying.

Because there were too many opposing people and the "Autumn Defense" preparation period was prepared, news came from Longyou, Jiannan and Western Regions that Tubo people frequently appeared. Princess Taiping believed that it was not appropriate to increase domestic turmoil at this time. Xue Chongxun also agreed with his mother's intention, and the tax law reform was temporarily put on hold.

The two tax laws were something that Xue Chongxun had already decided to do, but the concessions were made at this time because he wanted to fight for another thing: the military power in the Tubo War.

Princess Taiping was reluctant to let him go to the border to take risks, so she said, "You don't even have children." The court did not have talents without having to take risks personally. At that time, Cheng Qianli, the Minister of War, Du Xian, the Protector of Anxi, and Zhang Xiaosong, the governor of Beiting, were all grown up as a group of people who could fight and fight in the Dingbian. Even the Secretary-General Zhang Shuo was a person who could write a writing and set a national policy and could advance to the military. She did not need her precious son to go abroad at all.

Xue Chongxun was unwilling to give up and couldn't find a way to convince his mother, so he felt a little depressed.

One day, he returned home from the Daming Palace after dark. When he was about to take a shower and go to bed, Li Yan'er was slow to leave in the room. Xue Chongxun had no idea about that, so he said, "I remember that a few days ago that the menstruation was about to come, and it would be fine so soon?"

Li Yan'er said aggrievedly: "Have you not come yet?"

Xue Chongxun suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind. He asked her about the time of last month. After counting on her fingers, he had been almost forty days... He looked at Li Yan'er up and down, and saw that she was lively and had no signs of irregularity, so he glared and said, "Can Yan'er be pregnant?"

"What are you pregnant with?" Li Yan'er stared at her big eyes.

Xue Chongxun smiled and said, "The older child is pregnant with a younger child."

Li Yan'er hurriedly touched her belly, and Xue Chongxun said, "Even if there is one, it will only be more than a month. What can I touch? Hurry up and call Yuwen Ji here to take your pulse."

He immediately called Pei Niang to call Yuwen Ji, and then rubbed his hands and walked back and forth on the floor several times, looking very expectant. In his mind, he was less than thirty years old and was not particularly anxious about offspring. However, if Li Yan'er becomes pregnant... the reason for his mother to say that he has no offspring, wouldn't it be easier to convince?

Xue Chongxun's eyes shone brightly, and the fire of ambition seemed to be burning. He had enough worries about the unknown future. When one day the military power regime was full of wings, it was just rightly close.

After a while, Yuwen Ji and Pei Niang came into the house. She looked at Xue Chongxun with no etiquette, so she sat in front of a case, put a cloth pillow on the case and said, "Princess, please sit down, I'll tell you the pulse."

Li Yan'er sat opposite her, reached out and lifted her long sleeves to expose her wrist and placed it on the cloth pillow. Yuwen Ji's fingertips gently placed on her pulse, and then calmed down. Xue Chongxun stood by her eyes with wide eyes and held her breath and looked at them, waiting expectantly.

After a long time, Yuwen Ji let go of her wrist and smiled and said, "Congratulations to the princess, I'm really happy!"

"There is no mistake, right?" Xue Chongxun asked with a happy mood.

Yuwen Ji gave him a blank look and said, "If you don't believe me, I can ask other doctors to take the pulse."

"I believe it, of course I believe it." Xue Chongxun said happily, "Men's or women?"

Yuwen Ji said: "Just touch the pulse, why am I a man and a woman?"

"Aren't you a miracle doctor?"

Yuwen Ji: “…”

Li Yan'er asked pitifully: "It will hurt to have a baby, right?"

"That's ten months later. You're going to do it so far. You have to keep it well now." Xue Chongxun thought for a while and said, "Send Dong and Yao Wan to take care of you. They are older and more sensible and careful than those little girls. I just have Pei Niang here. Anyway, I can only be at home at night. Pei Niang, hurry up and listen to Yuhu to announce the good news to my mother-in-law."

Pei Niang replied: "Yes." Then she ran away briskly.

Xue Chongxun was so excited that he was busy arranging things. "It's late now, and my mother has to ask someone to report tomorrow." This was the first time he encountered such a thing. When he remembered that someone said that the child would be moving in his stomach, he squatted down in front of Li Yan'er and listened. Yuwen Ji smiled and said, "It's still early. I will prescribe a pair of decoctions for the princess tomorrow, so don't worry."

Li Yan'er asked, "Mr., do you have any voice?"

Xue Chongxun shook his head and said to his stomach, "You are reincarnated well, and you will be the prince after coming out of your mother's belly."

After a while, Sun and Cheng Ting both came, and there were some maids. Xue Chongxun's living room suddenly became lively, and he surrounded Li Yan'er and treated her as a baby until midnight, making her yawn.

The next morning, the Prince Jin Mansion sent someone to the palace to report the good news. Princess Taiping was naturally very happy when she learned that she was going to hold her grandson. She praised Li Yan'er and immediately sent people to send many precious medicinal supplements to the Prince Jin Mansion. After she summoned Xue Chongxun in Chengxiang Palace, she wanted to take Li Yan'er to the palace to raise, but Xue Chongxun felt that the people in the Daming Palace were so complicated that they refused, so Princess Taiping gave up.

At this time, Xue Chongxun took the opportunity to mention the incident of Tubo: "The Quanrong is a confidant of the Tang Dynasty. We just use military troops to defend the army, which is not a solution. Please allow my mother to lead the son to reinforce Helong and attack him while the autumn is high. After weakening the main force of the Quanrong, we can wait for an opportunity to make progress, so that our mother can achieve the ambition of being a guest in the world."

Princess Taiping, who was sitting in the upper throne, said reluctantly: "Soon, there may be something wrong with Jiannan, Helong, Western Regions, even Beiting and Youzhou. If you want to lead the troops yourself, you can only take care of one place. It is better to let the border generals set up defenses. Why do you have to compete with them for merit as a prince?"

Xue Chongxun hurriedly clasped his fists and said, "There are only small fights and fusses that can only cause the four barbarians to rob something, but only the threats of Helong and the Western Regions are the greatest. With Du Xian in charge and the Beiting Zhang Jiedushi as a support, the Quanrong can't help it for the time being. Only the Helong land is plump and grass, which is both a natural horse farm and a granary. The Quanrong and the Tang Dynasty cannot compete for dozens of times. When this beautiful season of war in autumn, the main force of the Quanrong will definitely break through Jishishan and expand eastward to plan for this place. The Tang Dynasty cannot wait for defense, and should mobilize the army to deal with it and wait for an opportunity to make progress... Who else can the mother besides the sons who can give this military power? "

Princess Taiping laughed when she heard this. As Xue Chongxun said, if she really wanted to concentrate her elite troops to hand over the power of a person, such power could be used to threaten Chang'an in addition to flattening the edge. If the person who obtained the power of military power came to "clear the king's side", that kind of thing would be really not fun. Her smile was that she felt that the mutual trust between Xue Chongxun and herself was happier than anything else.

But after she stopped her smile, she shook her head gently: "The northwest side is not a year or two, so hasty things that will not be achieved. What's more, the autumn high is when the barbarians and horse soldiers are proud. Isn't you going to deal with it when you choose this time to play with it?"

Xue Chongxun said: "It is when the Quanrong sends troops in autumn that our army can fight against it nearby. Otherwise, they will escape to the plateau. Even if I have a million troops, it will be difficult to find its main force. Only by constantly consuming the strength of Tubo is the way to maintain peace in the border."

Princess Taiping frowned and pondered for a long time. Because Xue Chongxun had said this matter these days, she stopped it many times but failed. She asked, "Are you determined to lead troops in the northwest?"

Xue Chongxun said seriously: "My mother is in power. Only by assisting you in achieving unprecedented civil and military achievements, will the people of the world in the future not scold us for ruining the country. Your reputation will be recorded in history for thousands of years and will be admired by all generations! The Quanrong occupied half of the west and has always restrained hundreds of thousands of troops from the Tang Dynasty and consumed nearly half of the national strength. It is difficult to achieve great achievements in the world. Please make a clear decision!"

The words made Princess Taiping King... the domineering aura come again, the mother and son were ambitious and the other was domineering. Princess Taiping also sat upright, looking straight ahead, as if thinking about something profound.

After being silent for a long time, Princess Taiping suddenly said in a daze: "No one knows her son is better than mother. I understand what you are thinking."

Xue Chongxun was stunned for a moment, and then Taiping said again: "But as long as it is what you want, I won't stop you... If you don't even believe, who else can I believe?"
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