Chapter 501: Mission Details
A month ago, the envoys of the Turkic state took the initiative to show favor and asked to see the Tang Emperor Li Shimin, in view of the complicated situation at home and abroad, the Tang Emperor was naturally pleased, so he summoned the envoys of the Turkic state, and the two sides contacted to discuss border matters. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThis was supposed to be a normal diplomatic relationship between countries, but I didn't expect that one of the envoys' attendants was disguised by Ashina Jiemo, and everything was caused by him.
One day during the negotiations, he suddenly saw Li Xuanning, the county lord who was meeting the emperor with the crown prince, and he was greatly moved, and immediately instructed the envoys to add the condition that the county lord marry the Turks during the negotiations.
Emperor Tang was surprised and did not immediately agree, but quickly summoned the prince to discuss the matter.
At that time, the domestic situation became more complicated, and there were even rumors that some people had begun to plot a rebellion, and even the Wulin rivers and lakes were not peaceful, and the heads of most sects in the rivers and lakes were nowhere to be found or had ignored their affairs, resulting in increasingly fierce struggles between the factions.
The surrounding Nanzhao, Tuyuhun, Tufan and other countries frequently stirred up trouble, and a small number of troops disguised as people in the green forest sneaked into the territory of Datang to cause trouble.
Although the Tang Emperor also sent envoys to negotiate with neighboring countries with tense relations, the results were very small, the borders were not peaceful, and many villagers and towns became sparsely populated because most of the people had moved to the interior, which made the responsibility of defending the border even heavier.
Due to the frequent occurrence of drought and flood disasters in the country, the country has to build embankments and dig canals, which consumes a lot of silver taels all year round, resulting in a shortage of the national treasury, and even more corrupt officials and corrupt officials making profits from it, causing the people in many areas to have a poor livelihood and starvation, and the people have a lot of grievances.
Therefore, at this time, the Turkic State, as the largest neighbor in the north of the Tang Dynasty, was able to take the initiative to show goodwill and send envoys to negotiate, which was naturally quite valued by the Tang Emperor.
Originally, the Tang Emperor thought that the prince would be unwilling, but what he didn't expect was that he happily agreed, it seems that in the face of national affairs, the children's private feelings are put behind, and he does have the bearing of the prince, which makes the Tang Emperor somewhat impressed.
The crown prince Li Chengqian and the king of Wei Li Tai competed for favor with each other, and Li Shimin, as the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, more or less already knew, and this was what he had been worried about.
Li Chengqian has been in the crown prince of the East Palace for many years, but his prestige is always not good, and his reputation is not very good, while Li Tai, the king of Wei, is very well-behaved, and has a lot of royal spirit, but there is still a lack of fire in terms of affairs.
Emperor Tang knew very well in his heart, so he had not yet made up his mind, at this time, in the handling of the affairs of the Turkic countries' diplomatic relations, Li Chengqian's decision was beyond the expectations of Emperor Tang, after all, the prince loved Li Xuanning County Lord, but he didn't expect him to agree so happily, which also made Emperor Tang's heart put down a stone.
If the Turkic states can be stabilized, the Tang Emperor can also free up his hands to deal with some abnormal powers in the west and southwest one by one, at least adding a big bargaining chip to his victory in negotiations.
As the ruler of a country, such a decision is very wise.
General Yang Wen, the captain of the guard guarding Li Xuanning's side of the county lord, was extremely shocked when he got the news, he didn't expect the county lord to marry the Turks, and he was also selected as the leading general of the peace mission.
Yang Wen, who had drunk an astonishing amount of alcohol and had never been drunk, was drunk the night he learned the news, wearing shiny armor and clothes, holding a saber and sleeping for three days and three nights, and no one dared to disturb him.
After he woke up, the county lord's mansion had been emptied, and Li Xuanning had also been placed in the East Palace, and no one could easily meet each other before getting married.
Even he Yang Wen can't.
He almost grew up with Li Xuanning, if it weren't for the disparity in identity, he could be regarded as a childhood sweetheart among the people, but she grew up in the emperor's family, and he was just the son of a martial artist, and he was born as a slave of others.
Even though he has made countless military exploits when he grows up, although he has become a general, the blood in his bones has always been a slave in the eyes of the emperor's royal family.
Yang Wen had already realized this, but he was willing, as long as he could be by Li Xuanning's side, he would feel satisfied, and every time he saw Li Xuanning's appearance, he felt full of vitality.
When he was ordered to go on the expedition before, he knew that he could always see Li Xuanning County Lord when he returned, and he had such sustenance in his heart, he had always warned himself that he must come back alive and come back to stay by the county lord's side.
He did it, no matter the mission of the court or the secret order of the prince, he could always return with honor, so General Yang Wen also began to spread throughout the three armies.
And he just wanted to come back earlier, so that he could see the county lord.
When he was in Guyang County, the county lord was suddenly taken away by gangsters, and his whereabouts were unknown, but he was so anxious that he ran non-stop for thousands of miles after learning the news.
Fortunately, the county lord came back safely, and it was Li Tianqi who rescued the county lord, so Yang Wen had already regarded him as a benevolent duke at that moment, not only the benevolent duke of the county lord, but also his benevolent duke Yang Wen.
Not long after the Turkic envoy returned, the prince sent a group of 88 people to the Turkic country to make preliminary arrangements for peace and kinship.
Since he had not received a report of the safe arrival of the 88-man regiment for a long time, the prince sent a small group to investigate, and only then did he find traces of the attack on the group, and the fine work immediately returned to Chang'an to report to the prince.
The stakes were so high that the prince did not dare to report to the Tang Emperor, so he secretly sent Yang Wen to go to the Turks with 300 warriors of the cavalry battalion and select a number of soldiers who were familiar with the Turkic language to investigate the truth of the matter in detail.
After Yang Wen led people to infiltrate the Turkic country, he disguised himself as an Orion, and went out day and night, until he met Li Tianqi escorting Yuan Da and Yuan Jieliang father and son, after separating from Li Tianqi and others, he felt some doubts, and only then did he learn the situation after carefully asking Yuan Da and Yuan Jieliang and his son: It turned out that there were three survivors in the mission, who were military warriors who grew up with Yang Wen in the early days.
Yang Wen secretly arranged for people to capture the prisoners, and finally investigated the truth of the matter, it was actually that Ashina Jiemo had long had bad intentions, he knew that the Tang Dynasty was already in internal and external troubles, so he deliberately sent people to ambush and attacked the eighty-eight people, in preparation for the Tang Emperor Lion to ask for a price again.
Why did Ashina Jemo cause these incidents in his own country? There are two reasons, the first is that if the Tang Dynasty did send an embassy, but no one in the Turkic country had ever seen a Tang mission appear, then Ashina Jemo can be said to be the Tang Dynasty's tricks, putting on a show, and having no sincerity, and he didn't want to marry the county lord to a foreign country, so he could just give a reason and let the Tang Dynasty be embarrassed; The second and most important point is to deliberately provoke the Tang Dynasty's level of patience to see if the Tang Dynasty swallows its anger and then asks for the price again.
After knowing Ashina Jiemo's conspiracy, Yang Wen was extremely angry, and he must know that his subordinates were all good men who were one in a hundred, and if they didn't want to deliver news to Chang'an in order to endure humiliation, they would never have become prisoners.
But what made him angry was that those three people actually fell into the mouth of the monster in the end.
Ashina Jemo of the Turkic Kingdom actually has some dealings with the demon world!
Yang Wenwen had no intention of ambushing Ashina Jiemo, but after thinking about it, he still decided to get rid of Ashina Jiemo, and after careful thinking, he managed to get the clothes of the Turkic soldiers, lurked near the camp and observed for some time, and found that he would always take more than 300 personal cavalry to the rear every once in a while to see his sister, but the stay was not long, and at the same time, due to the large number of people on the other side, Yang Wen did not find an opportunity, and has been waiting.
Suddenly, one day, Yang Wen received a spy express that Ashina Jiemo's sister was lost and then came back safely, and Ashina Jiemo planned to go to see her.
Finally waiting for the opportunity, Yang Wen judged that he would not leave so soon on this trip, so he drew up a plan of action.
Sure enough, just like the *** situation encountered by Li Tianqi, Yang Wen launched a sneak attack, but in the end, it fell short, allowing Ashina Jiemo to escape back to the camp.
Because he had been away for a long time, although he learned the truth of the matter, he did not make great contributions, so Yang Wen decided to infiltrate the camp to investigate and find evidence, so he asked his subordinates to return to Chang'an first and report the progress to the prince.
Yang Wen mixed into the camp to work as a coolie for many days, and finally saw the opportunity, and found a secret order stamped with his handsome seal in the camp tent of Ashina Jiemo, which was written by fox skin, and wrote the detailed instructions for ambushing the eighty-eight regiments, but for some reason it was not destroyed, and it was seen that the general who was big always had bad habits.
After Yang Wen got the evidence, he escaped, retrieved his equipment in a hidden place, and then came east wearing the stars and the moon.
Yang Wen and Li Tianqi told each other, confirming one by one, the friendship between the two deepened, and Li Tianqi also knew Yang Wen's feelings for Li Xuanning.
Although Yang Wen did not show any admiration for the county lord from beginning to end, it was inadvertently revealed in his words.
Yang Wenwen is massive, but I don't know why in this wilderness, in this wilderness, he said almost all the words in his heart to Li Tianqi as if he had met a confidant, and drank all the remaining spirits in his wine bag, and he also had seven points of alcohol.
Perhaps there is a saying that if you don't get drunk, everyone gets drunk, but this is indeed a strong drink that can intoxicate people. Yang Wen wanted to get drunk and wanted to forget the troubles in his heart.
But the water is more flowing when the knife is drawn, and the sorrow is even more sorrowful through wine. met Li Tianqi, who he regarded as his benevolent father, and he could be regarded as spitting out his thoughts through wine, which made him feel better.
Yang Wencheng lay on the ground in a big word, as if he didn't know the cold.
Li Tian used his sword, peeled off the bear's skin, and after roasting it on the bonfire, it lay under him.
Li Tianqi lit a bonfire again, and then he felt that his whole body had no strength and was exhausted, but fortunately, the wind suddenly stopped tonight, and it was not too cold, maybe God was also lamenting the situation of these two people, and he couldn't bear to be too harsh on them.