Travel to the early Tang Dynasty and become a salted fish

Wei Zheng's words agreed with Li Chengqian's point of view, but he also pointed out that this matter was done too hastily, which was equivalent to holding him back.

Li Chengqian suddenly felt unhappy. Just when he was about to refute, he saw Li Shimin nodded and spoke first:

"Then Xuancheng, do you have any good insights?"

Wei Zheng lowered his head, pondered for a moment and then said:

"Your Majesty, in my humble opinion, this marriage can be agreed to."

"But the candidate for marriage cannot be the Cui family."

After hearing this, Li Chengqian immediately quit.

Just kidding, my goal is to marry the Cui family, and I have already reached an agreement with Cui Yingying.

If he regrets it now, not to mention offending the Cui family and losing a lot of support, he will definitely be attacked by the courtiers of the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes faction in the court in the future.

Thinking of this, Li Chengqian directly retorted:

"Father, I do not agree with Master Wei's words, I do..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted directly by Li Shimin:

"Gao Ming, why are you in such a hurry? It's not too late to listen to what Xuancheng has to say before making plans."

Seeing that his father had spoken, Li Chengqian was dissatisfied, but he did not dare to continue to refute. He just looked at Wei Zheng with a fierce look, full of warning.

However, Wei Zheng still looked like he couldn't see me and was just a tool. He hunched his body and lowered his head as he continued:

"The reason why Wei Chen does not agree to the marriage with the Cui family is mainly because the Cui family is now very powerful. If we marry the prince again, we may have worries that it will be too big to lose."

"Furthermore, the remaining families of the five surnames are no longer enemies of the Cui family. If the Cui family gets the care of the royal family again, then they will no longer be the opponents of the Cui family."

"Furthermore, Cui Yingying, the head of the Cui family, is an extremely powerful person. Looking at his methods over the years, they are all ruthless and courageous."

"If this marriage is successful, the other party will definitely take this as an opportunity to combine the five surnames and the other ones into one pot."

"At that time, what we have to face will no longer be the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes Alliance headed by the Cui family, but an unprecedentedly powerful Cui family that has no worries and is completely left to Cui Yingying."

"The harm and threats it can generate are no less than those of Great Zhou and Lingnan."

At this point, Wei Zheng stopped.

At this time, Li Chengqian finally couldn't hold it any longer and refuted directly:

"Wei Zheng, you are alarmist!"

"Cui Yingying is a female generation, and her ability to become the head of the Cui family is already the limit. What else do you want from her?"

"Besides, the marriage between our royal family and her Cui family is a blessing to her Cui family. She must be grateful, so how can she have any evil intentions?"

"Furthermore, their five surnames and Qi Wang are all just a group of businessmen who only know how to study. How can they threaten this?"

"I think you are an old fool. You just don't like my prince's kindness and you deliberately want to slander the Cui family."

Hearing this, Li Shimin couldn't sit still anymore.

I originally thought that my son was thinking about his family and wanted to find another way out for the Tang Dynasty through marriage.

But now it seems that he still overestimated the other party.

The other party was completely blinded by the immediate interests and wanted to cling to the Cui family in order to consolidate his position. He did not consider whether the consequences afterwards were something he could bear.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin slammed the table and roared:

"Shut up!!!"

Hearing Li Shimin's roar, Li Chengqian opened his mouth wide and wanted to continue, but he didn't dare.

He could only look at his father in a daze.

Seeing Li Chengqian's appearance, Li Shimin felt even more tired.

At this moment, he was even a little shaken. He wanted to replace this ineffective prince and establish another prince.

However, this matter is of great importance, and the Tang Dynasty is now surrounded by powerful enemies and is in a precarious situation.

If the prince were to be replaced rashly and easily, the ruling and opposition parties would definitely be shaken and disputes would continue, which would undoubtedly be fatal to the current Tang Dynasty.

Rubbing his temples, Li Shimin looked at Li Chengqian with hatred, and shouted angrily:

"Do you know where the roots of the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes lie? In addition to doing business, do you know how much information they have in their hands that even our royal family can't match? Do you know how terrifying it is for them to unite!"

Without waiting for Li Chengqian's answer, Li Shimin said again:

"Not only do they hold a large amount of land and population, but they also maintain countless tenants and slaves, and they have tens of thousands of private soldiers."

"In addition, they all have a large number of former officials and disciples in the court, and their prestige among the people is even greater than that of me, the emperor."

"Now that they have taken control of the lifeblood of our Tang Dynasty and monopolized all business, what do you think is their threat? Why do you think they can look down upon my royal family?"

"Do you think it's because I don't want to intermarry with them? That's because our Li family is putting money on our faces. That's because they don't look down on our Li family at all."

At this time, Li Shimin completely ignored his own face and roared directly at Li Chengqian.

"You said Cui Yingying is just a prostitute? Okay, let me ask you, which one of Chu Xin from Dazhou and Yang Hongyu from Lingnan is not a prostitute?"

"Have they ever taken your father and me seriously? Have they ever been afraid of me, the Tang Dynasty?"

"No, not only are they not afraid of me, Datang, on the contrary, they don't take me, Datang, nor your father in their eyes."

"In their eyes, Datang is just a lamb to be slaughtered, a lamb that poses no threat."

"Why do you think you can secure the position of the crown prince? Why do you think you can stand here and argue with me now? Why do you think our Tang Dynasty can still survive in the world?"

"Let me tell you, it's not that I am overpowering the whole country, nor is it that my army is guarding the borders so that the enemy does not dare to invade. It is that Chu Xin is afraid of Yang Hongyu and wants to use the Tang Dynasty as a buffer and does not want to face the enemy head-on."

"As for Yang Hongyu, do you think she is as easy-going and harmless as she seems on the surface?"

"You are wrong. Yang Hongyu's ambition is not much smaller than Chu Xin's."

"Now Lingnan has begun to expand in all directions, and is already training its troops with the surrounding small countries. They just haven't annexed the strength of the Tang Dynasty. They are just accumulating strength, waiting for the moment of shocking things."

"The current Tang Dynasty is far more unbearable and humiliating than you think. Do you think that if another Cui family rises in the middle, what can Datang do to resist? What can we use to balance the forces of all parties?"

Hearing what his father said, Li Chengqian suddenly broke out in a cold sweat and was at a loss for a moment.