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Chapter 488: White Hair Overnight

Li Tai and his team brought a large number of men to the outside of the Goguryeo Army camp and handed over the gift list first. In order to form an alliance with Gai Suwen, Cui spent a lot of money this time. He gave 5,000 taels of gold alone, 50,000 stones of food, and five beauties, which was much larger than the gifts given to Murqin before.

Although Murqin was unhappy, he had no choice. Gasuwen was like a savior to them. Whether he could take down Youzhou was entirely dependent on Gasuwen's 30,000 Goguryeo army.

The gift list was sent in and after waiting for a while, Gasuwen's personal guard came to report. Gasuwen invited them to the tent to have a banquet and had dinner again. It seems that the culture of dinner is not only popular in our Chinese nation, but also in foreign countries.

Li Tai and his group were led by Gai Suwen's personal guards to the tent, and Murqin and others were allowed to enter after unraveling their weapons.

As soon as he entered the tent, Gai Suwen, with a beard on his face, came up with a smile: "Disciple!Disciple! Haha, they are all distinguished guests!"

When Li Tai saw his hypocritical smile, he thought to himself: "This is the land of the Tang Dynasty, and we have become guests."

Although he thought so in his heart, he could not say it, and could only bow down and say, "My younger generation, Li Tai, has met Marshal Gai."

In order to win over Gai Suwen, he could be said to have given Gai Suwen enough face. He did not show off his airs and called himself a junior. Gai Suwen's vanity was greatly satisfied and he smiled and said, "The King of Wei in Tang Dynasty is polite, everyone is welcome to take a seat."

Everyone sat down in front of the desk. Gasuwen clapped his hands, and immediately many maids were holding food bowls to serve them. No matter which country, there were generally no women in the marching. However, Gasuwen's military camp was accompanied by many maids, because he was the Great Molizhi of Goguryeo, and Damolizhi was the supreme regent. Gasuwen killed Queen Rongliu, but did not call himself the king, but instead made King Rongliu's nephew Gao Baozang the king, and named himself the Great Molizhi. Gao Baozang was just a puppet. In Goguryeo, Gasuwen was the real king.

Gai Suwen led his troops to the expedition, which was basically the same as Li Shimin's personal expedition, so it was not surprising that he had maids in his military camp.

When Li Tai saw the food bowls he brought, he felt nauseous because these basins contained all kinds of meat and were extremely good-looking. These days, he ate meat every day in the barbarian camps of the three tribes, and it tasted very badly. He didn't understand why these barbarians liked to eat meat so much, and they ate so badly.

Although he was not in dealing with Li Hao, he had also secretly gone to Li Hao's Taibai Building for dinner. The meat dishes made there were really all the colors, fragrance and flavor. That was what people eat. What are these things?

Although he was nauseous, Li Tai had to endure it. He had to bow his head under the short eaves. Who made him ask for help? He really had nothing but the identity of the King of Wei.

After the banquet was served, Gai Suwen called a few Goguryeo dancers and performed a Goguryeo dance for them. To be honest, Goguryeo dances are really average. Since watching the Tang Dynasty dances, Murqin and others felt that these Goguryeo dancers danced like ducks, making people feel drowsy.

After the dance, Li Tai and Cui's old guys had to applaud against their will, but they were very enthusiastic to compliment Gai Suwen.

After watching the dance performance, the two sides politely complained for a while, and finally started to talk about the topic. Gai Suwen picked up the gift list on the desk, smiled at Li Tai, and said, "The King of Wei suddenly gave Yuan such a big gift, Yuan felt guilty."

Gaisuwen's full name is Yuan Gaisuwen. Yes, his surname is Yuan, but in the Tang Dynasty, in order to avoid Li Yuan's taboo, the Tang people called him Gaisuwen. In fact, the surname is Yuan, but not Gaisuwen.

Li Tai smiled and said, "Master Yuan is so serious. This is just a little bit of my intention."

Gai Suwen smiled and said, "Don't go around the corner, just say something if you have something."

Seeing that he was so direct, Li Tai nodded and said, "I will not hide it from General Yuan. I want to seize the Tang Dynasty. I hope General Yuan can help me."

"Haha..." Gasuwen picked up the gift list and shook it, sneering, "Do you want Yuan to work hard for you based on this?"

"Of course it's more than that." Li Tai said seriously, "But General Yuan should know that I can't come up with more now. As long as General Yuan can help me win the throne, I promised that all the territory east of Shanhaiguan would be allocated to General Yuan. In addition, I will also give generous gifts, ten times the gift list."

He said this, but he was roaring in his heart: "When I take the throne, I will destroy all of you, the barbarians, and want to occupy the territory of my Tang Dynasty, and dream!"

Gai Suwen raised his eyebrows and said, "Is the King of Wei really so generous?"

Li Tai said with a solemn expression: "I am willing to establish statutory power."

"Okay!" Gai Suwen slapped the table and said loudly, "How can Yuan refuse the King of Wei so sincere? The name of the letter will be exempted. Yuan can trust the King of Wei!"

He didn't care what kind of evidence he established. He didn't want to help Li Tai at all. He just wanted to destroy the Tang Dynasty and then divide the Tang Dynasty with other races. He was confident that as long as he destroyed the Tang Dynasty, under his wise leadership, Goguryeo would definitely grow into a powerful country quickly, annex the other races one by one, and then replace the Tang Dynasty and become a country above the sky.

Seeing that he agreed, Li Tai was secretly happy and said, "Since Marshal Yuan agreed, let's talk about cooperation."

"Okay." Gai Suwen spread his hands and asked, "How does King Wei want to cooperate?"

Li Tai had already prepared and talked happily: "At present, we need to capture Youzhou, which is a military important place in the Tang Dynasty. We can serve as a stronghold to resist the imperial army. The Tang Dynasty had just encountered Tubo attacks, and its national strength and military strength were greatly damaged. Now we sent troops to attack Tuyuhun. I believe that even if the troops were sent, it would be extremely limited. At that time, Xue Yantuo, Uighurs, Khitan, and General Yuan, each side would add another 20,000 troops to destroy the troops sent by the imperial court first. Chang'an will definitely be empty. Take the opportunity to attack Huanglong, and a big thing will be accomplished."

Gai Suwen's eyes lit up when he heard this, touched his beard and pondered: "I can't tell that the King of Wei is quite talented as a military advisor, and this method is very wonderful."

Li Tai was praised by him and was secretly happy, but only for a moment of happiness, then frowned again and said, "But, this Youzhou is like a nail, blocking our way. I also hope that General Yuan can work with us to take it down. The most important thing is to kill Li Hao and never let him escape back to Chang'an."

"Oh? Li Hao?" Gai Suwen frowned and asked, "Yuan has heard of this name. I heard that it is your young general of Tang State, and there are quite some means to march and fight."

Li Tai nodded and said, "Li Hao is indeed good at fighting, and he has frequently used strange tricks, which is difficult to deal with. Therefore, we must kill Li Hao first, otherwise this person will be a big disaster."

Murqin, who was standing beside him, said: "This Li Hao is indeed very powerful. Youzhou has only 15,000 people defended, and we have 60,000 people attacked the city. It has been nearly a month now. We have lost more than 20,000 people and have not been able to take Youzhou down."

Gai Suwen grinned and said, "I really want to see Li Hao for a while and see how capable he is."

Gai Suwen is a well-known iron-fisted military dictator, with an inexplicable passion for war and he advocates force, so when he heard these people praise Li Hao for his excellent war, he was not convinced and wanted to compete with Li Hao.

Khitan coach Lamulun reminded: "Master Yuan, don't take it lightly..."

Gai Suwen directly raised his hand and interrupted him, asking, "How many soldiers and horses are there in Youzhou right now?"

Murqin replied: "About ten thousand people."

"What!" Gasuwen frowned and looked at them, and asked in surprise, "There are still ten thousand people? What have you done this month?"

Murqin explained: "Master Yuan didn't know anything. In fact, they had lost nearly 8,000 troops. In order to defend the city, Li Hao selected young and strong people from the people in the city to make up the numbers, and only ten thousand people were there."

"Haha!" Gai Suwen laughed loudly when she heard this, and said loudly, "So they are less than 10,000 people. Can't you even conquer Youzhou City in this way? Let's see that I will attack the city tomorrow and take Youzhou down in one fell swoop!"

Murqin, Gessa and Lamulun looked at each other and shook their heads secretly. They didn't believe that Gasuwen could have such great ability and be able to win Youzhou City in one day.

Li Hao already knew that the arrival of the Goguryeo army was sitting in the study of the Governor's Mansion, staring at the curtains in a daze. He had not been sleeping all night, thinking hard about the good strategies to defeat the enemy. However, he was not a god, he was just a time traveler, and time traveler could cheat, but this time he didn't bring any external calls. How could he expect to investigate a case? He would have encountered such a thing. If he had known this, he would have transported two cannons over. If he hadn't helped, he would bring tens of thousands of kilograms of gunpowder to let him taste it, but now he doesn't have these, and what he now has is ten thousand remaining soldiers.

Before I knew it, it was dawn and someone came to knock on Li Hao's door. Li Hao slowly stood up and went to open the door. Di Renjie stood outside the door.

When Di Renjie saw Li Hao, his face was full of shock, his eyes widened, he was stunned for a long time before pointing at Li Hao, and asked in shock: "Prince, your hair..."

"My hair?" Li Hao casually pulled his hair into his eyes, and saw that his originally black hair had become half black and white.

"It's white?" Li Hao stood there in a daze, and after a long time, he said, "Get me a basin of water."

Di Renjie hurried to fetch water. Soon, a basin of water was brought. Li Hao stuck his head over the basin and shone it. He saw that his temples were gray in the water, as if he was aged in his twelve or twenty years old.

"It turns white indeed." Li Hao smiled miserably, his smile full of bitterness. After a long time, he raised his head and sighed, "It's white, don't you see, the mirror in the high hall is sad, and the morning is as white as black hair turns into snow."
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