In the early years of the Zhenguan era, a royal banquet was held at the palace.
The spoiled Princess Yongping raised a cup of slow-acting poison and joined forces with the aristocratic clans across the court to force me into marrying into her family, hoping to seize control of the Pei family's troops.
Pei Lin, a former military engineer in his previous life, just smiled.
He didn't cry or make a scene. With a cup of plain wine and a pinch of incense ash, he performed a rigorous chemical analysis right in front of Li Shimin!
He exposed the princess's secret collusion with the aristocratic clans for all to see!
“Even a dog wouldn't become a royal consort!”
Pei Lin asked to have his noble title revoked and was sent to a poor border county.
The powerful figures at court laughed that he was courting death, while the haughty princess sat back, waiting for him to beg to return to the capital.
But a few years later, two hundred thousand Turkic cavalry swept south, and the Tang Empire stood on the brink of collapse.
Li Shimin fled in a sorry state to Lu Changfeng's fief, only to discover in shock:
The place had reinforced concrete walls dozens of meters high, and the people ate meat at every meal!
And Pei Lin, the good-for-nothing everyone had mocked, was reclining in a rocking chair.
Behind him stood rows of red cannon barrels and formations of fully armed musketeers!
Pei Lin blew a smoke ring. “Your Majesty, times have changed.”
That day, the Turkic army was wiped out, and the haughty princess knelt outside the city gates, weeping as she begged him to take her back.
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