I have already established my power and prestige, so how did Li Shimin come back to life?

The news that Li Chengqian pardoned Ganye Temple was like a bolt from the blue, and it spread throughout the court the next day.

This news spread like wildfire, quickly causing an uproar among officials.

Even the young officials from Xianyang who had just entered the court were shocked, and some could not accept Li Chengqian's approach.

They looked at each other, their eyes full of confusion and doubt. In their cognition, this was simply a heretical act.

Those were all the concubines of the late emperor!

In their view, these women should have spent the rest of their lives in Ganye Temple, praying for the late emperor and maintaining their chastity.

How can we release them and let them get married again?

This is against etiquette and even more unacceptable from a moral perspective, as if it were a blasphemy against the dignity of the royal family.

Li Chengqian's actions were like a fairy tale to them. They challenged the deeply rooted ideas in their hearts and made their minds a mess. They could not accept it at all.

Li Chengqian did not hesitate to respond to the earnest and righteous memorials submitted by the court officials, and he responded to them all in the same way as Emperor Wu of Wei did in the past.

Wei Wu did it, so I can do it too!

He was resolute and left no room for maneuver. In his eyes, since Emperor Wu of Wei had set this precedent, why couldn't he, Li Chengqian, do the same?

He has his own considerations and his own understanding of the royal family and people's livelihood.

Although the status of women in this dynasty has improved compared to the past, it has not yet reached the ideal state.

The imperial court was relatively tolerant of women from ordinary families. If the opportunity was right, remarriage would be accepted by the world.

After becoming a widow, they can find new support in life and start a new chapter in their lives.

However, those women who were once concubines of the previous emperor were tightly bound by the shackles of traditional ethics. For them, remarriage was almost an insurmountable chasm, a taboo despised by the world and unacceptable by ethics.

Li Chengqian was well aware of the pros and cons of this matter, so he simply arranged Li Shimin's funeral this time.

One of the important reasons for this was that they did not want to see a large number of concubines in Ganye Temple being forced to be buried alive according to the old system.

In his opinion, these women's lives should not be taken away so easily, and they should have the right to survive.

However, his behavior made many civil and military officials feel uncomfortable, as if they were being crushed by a huge rock.

Filled with resentment and helplessness with nowhere to vent, the atmosphere in the court became increasingly tense.

……

The Tubo Prime Minister Lu Dongzan led the wedding procession across the vast land. The flying dust was like their complicated emotions.

The long journey made everyone in the team look tired, and they all held their breath.

The culprit behind all this was the unreasonable behavior of the Tang Dynasty, which ruthlessly shattered their originally beautiful plan and made all their efforts fail.

The wedding trip that was originally full of hope has now turned into a disaster.

They were filled with worry, thinking that this time when they returned to Tubo, not only would they not receive the Zamp's reward, but even whether they could withstand the Zamp's wrath was still an unknown.

They returned to Tubo all the way in a dusty state, their figures looking particularly small yet tenacious in the vast land.

While on the road, many soldiers in the team would secretly look at Lu Dongzan from time to time, their eyes full of awe and dependence.

In the hearts of these soldiers, Lu Dongzan is their mainstay. As long as this wise and majestic prime minister is there, the Zamp will definitely give them a lighter sentence.

When Songtsen Gampo heard the news that the wedding party was about to return in Tubo, he was filled with anticipation and joy.