In the Sui Dynasty, marriage was humiliation. To put it simply, if you are not as strong as others, if they want to beat you, it will be easy for them.
In the end, I had to choose one of two options, either to be beaten and die, or to give in and agree to others.
Of course, this kind of marriage is also the difference between active marriage and passive marriage.
Between countries, initiative and affinity are based on equality between the two.
On the contrary, this passive reconciliation gives people the feeling that it is a method of reconciliation adopted in order to achieve the interests of peace between both parties, or to give in.
This makes people feel very unhappy.
Just like before, the Turkic people adopted a passive marriage with the Central Plains. Under the premise that the enemy was strong and they were weak, such a method of marriage made people feel very humiliated.
will hit you.
If you want to fight with someone, you won't be able to beat them in the end.
The only way to achieve peace is to marry royal women to foreigners.
Of course, for him, Li Er, the royal children can indeed be used as a tool for marriage.
For example, the princes, grandsons and ministers in the court, all of their confidants, and the heirs in their families have arranged for one person to marry his royal princess.
This method was, firstly, to win over the hearts of these ministers and at the same time to make them loyal to the Tang Dynasty for the rest of their lives.
For the sake of the court and the interests of his own royal family, Li Er was very much in favor of such a marriage.
For example, he arranged for his daughter Li Yue to move to Zhaojiazhuang.
Even as a father, he hopes that his daughter can find a husband.
At the same time, why don't you use your own daughter to achieve your own goals?
After thinking about it, he lowered his head and looked at Lu Dongzan in front of him.
As long as their Tibetan power is strong and can equal our Tang Dynasty, if they come to our Tang Dynasty in a low profile, they hope to make a marriage, son-nephew ceremony, and surrender to the Tang Dynasty forever.
In this way, Li Er might be happy and agree.
But when this Tubo came to our country for the first time, he started fighting with us in the Tang Dynasty, both civil and military.
In the end, they are no match for me, the Tang Dynasty. If I just believed his words and wanted to marry the princess of the Tang Dynasty, Li Er couldn't bear this kind of thing.
"My dear friends, what do you think about this matter?"
My dear, the Tubo people are coming over to make peace with each other. If this succeeds, then at least there will be no war in the southwestern border for 20 to 30 years after the marriage.
These 20 to 30 years are enough for Datang to recuperate and become stronger.
If this marriage is successful, there will be no war, no one will cause trouble, and the emperor's eyes will be fixed on the world. If he is gone, it will do no harm to the children of his clan.
Doesn't it mean that all the things they have done have been in vain?
For a moment, the clan members looked at each other, jumped out one after another, and began to dissuade them.
"Your Majesty, I think this matter is absolutely impossible, absolutely impossible.
These Tubo people came to our country, the Tang Dynasty, nominally to live in peace with our country, the Tang Dynasty.
But everything they do is the biggest provocation to Datang.
They wanted Wen Dou to compete with me, Datang. When they saw that Wen Dou was no match for us, they wanted to fight by force.
This time we killed and injured several soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. Everything they did showed their Tibetan ambitions.
Now, thinking about getting married to me, the Tang Dynasty, is simply wishful thinking, and I beg your Majesty to never agree to it!"
The disciples of the family were the first to jump out. Hearing what he said, Li Er smiled slightly.
Keep asking.
"My dear, where are the rest of you? Do you have any ideas?"
Seeing that the clan members were the first to stand up and say these words, Li Er was stunned.
I really didn't expect that the group of young people who were the first to stand up and say these words would actually have the same thoughts as me this time?
It's just that he is so smart. After thinking about it again, how could he not know what kind of evil intentions these people have in mind?
I sneered in my heart, after all, this marriage matter is not in my own interests!
"Your Majesty, I think we should make peace with the Tubo people.
As long as I wait and get married, the southwest border will always be peaceful.
Now our Tang Dynasty has just finished fighting the Turks, and its energy is also recovering. It is indeed not easy for wars to reoccur.
Now that he, a Tibetan, has come to our city of Chang'an, with such sincerity, as long as our marriage is successful.
The borders of our country, the Tang Dynasty, will be peaceful forever. This is also a good thing for our country, the Tang Dynasty. The advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
Therefore, Your Majesty, this marriage is a good thing both for my court and for the people of this world.
I sincerely ask Your Majesty to agree to the marriage."
"Yes, Your Majesty, please agree to this!"
After a minister finished speaking, he looked like he was laughing.
It's just that Li Er's expression turned very unhappy.
For a while, the ministers below began to argue about this matter again.
Hearing them arguing again, Li Er coughed lightly.
"Okay, everyone, this is the palace, not a vegetable market. I have my own thoughts on this matter.
Tubo envoy, it seems today that I cannot immediately agree to what you are saying.
Tomorrow morning, I will tell you the result of our discussion on this matter.
If nothing happens to you, go back to Honglu Temple first and wait for the news quietly."
"This is His Majesty the Tang Dynasty. I will take my leave."
Under the leadership of several guards, the Tubo group left the court, returned to Honglu Temple, and began to wait quietly.
Among the ministers below, some wanted to stand up and say something, but Li Er waved his hand and arranged for them to withdraw from the court. The ministers shouted to see off your majesty.
Li Er returned to the Tai Chi Hall, summoned a group of close ministers, and began to discuss.
Regarding this matter, Li Er was very angry.
Tubo, a tiny place, actually wants to marry me, the Tang Dynasty.
Of course, if they want to get married, it's not impossible.
As long as they bring their Tibetan women to our Datang, we can have a marriage with our Datang.
But I didn't expect that these people were so ambitious that they wanted to marry a woman from the Tang Dynasty to a group of Tubo people. For Li Er, this was simply intolerable.
"Your Majesty, I absolutely cannot agree to this matter.
A little Tubo provoked me, the Tang Dynasty, twice.
Now that this provocation has failed, you are still thinking of coming over for a marriage ceremony, which is really unreasonable!"
"Your Majesty, if we reject their request, the Tubo people will definitely become angry and raise an army to conquer the Tang Dynasty!"
"If you want to fight, fight. Is it possible that our soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are still afraid of Tibet?
Are the Turks powerful? Aren't they finally wiped out by me, the Tang Dynasty?
Now that the Turks have been wiped out and the Tibetans have come again, how powerful can he be, no matter how powerful he is?
Is it possible that they are more difficult to deal with than the Turks?"
"Yes, Your Majesty, if you want to fight, fight. Is it possible that the Tang Dynasty is afraid of the Tubo people?"
One by one, the generals stood up and said indignantly.
"I know what you said.
The ambitions of Tubo are indeed very great, and my wise brother has also said this.
So whether it's marriage or not, we will eventually have a battle.
If we don't want to get married, we can fight freely.
If it's a marriage and a fight, then it's like losing your wife and losing your troops."
After His Majesty finished speaking, everyone below started talking again.
As for the Tubo marriage, it is absolutely impossible to make a marriage.
If we get married, the Tubo people can learn our advanced technology from the Tang Dynasty.
Now they can also judge by the various Tibetan items they have and the clothes of their guards that they are a country that is easier to deal with than the Turks.
Datang dealt with them with ease!
"Your Majesty, if we reject Tibet, we will send soldiers in advance to the southwest border to prepare for battle."
After all, the main enemies targeted by the Tang Dynasty at that time were the Turks in the north.
Therefore, most of the troops were concentrated in the north.
As for the southwest border and the border area, there are not particularly many troops deployed. Now it seems that protection must be done in advance.
Li Er nodded after hearing this.
"Well, you will handle this matter in the early stage and arrange 30,000 more soldiers to our southwest border.
At the same time, scouts are dispatched to conduct daily reconnaissance.
Whenever any trouble among the Tubo people is discovered, they should be suppressed immediately, and they can be killed first and reported later.
At that time, we will arrange for manpower to rush to Chang'an City to report!"
"This is Your Majesty, I will take your orders."
"Okay everyone, regarding the Tubo matter, this is how it will be settled.
If they want to start a war, we in the Tang Dynasty will accompany them to the end. It is completely impossible for them to make peace with them!"
"It's Your Majesty, Your Majesty is Holy Ming."
At Honglu Temple, Lu Dongzan and his party returned to the resting place. Everyone gathered together and started discussing again!
"Prime Minister, this Tang Dynasty man is just too much of a bully."
In front of a group of them, he actually said these words, saying that they have such arrogant ambitions, just to not give them the face of the Tibetan people.
"Yes, Prime Minister, why do I, a Tibetan, come here to be so ambitious?"
Even though I, a Tibetan, am very ambitious, I have all kinds of ideas.
But the Tang Dynasty said these things so simply and crudely, which made everyone feel like they had been endlessly humiliated.
Yes, this sentence feels particularly uncomfortable.
"Okay everyone, we are in the Tang Dynasty now, and the people of the Tang Dynasty can say whatever they want.
Is it possible that we can still shut their mouths?"
"It's the Prime Minister."
"It's the Prime Minister. After all, they Tang people have said that this matter will continue tomorrow."
Hahahaha, Lu Dongzan burst out laughing when he heard everyone say this.
"You guys still don't understand the character of the Central Plains people."
If I hadn't understood it before, I wouldn't have understood what the Central Plains people meant.
But later, after studying and living in the Central Plains for a period of time with my ancestors, I learned the terminology of the Central Plains people.
Including this time, no one really believes what this group of Tang people say, right? They just agree to allow it tomorrow, right?
What they said in the Tang Dynasty was just to deceive them, the Tubo people.
If they believe it, then they have been deceived.
Lu Dongzan asserted that the Tang people would never agree to what happened tomorrow.
In fact, there is no need to worry about tomorrow. Today in the court, what the Tang Dynasty said and did, and in the end, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty arranged for all of them to come back. What he said and did
These things have all revealed the true meaning of Tang Dynasty.
So just listen to some things and don’t take them seriously.
"Ah, Prime Minister, what is this?"
"Everyone, what I said is 99% possible, and there is still the 1%. I hope it's not what I imagined.
Okay everyone, it’s time to eat, let’s go eat first and we’ll talk about it tomorrow!”