According to the Tang law, the law of cheap nationality is better than livestock, and the identity goes without saying. Breaking away from the lowly status is equivalent to having a free body.

Lu Xiaoxian also promised to give them silver taels and let them start a family by themselves, but none of the forty-five strong slaves left. As a result, these people became Lu Xiaoxian's brothers.

Lu Xiaoxian has two residences in Luoyang City.

One is in Guandefang, which was given to him by Li Qianli and his wife.

The other one is in the workshop, which was given to him by the Zhang brothers.

After Lu Xiaoxian moved to Xiuye Fang, the mansion of Guandefang was used to house forty-five brothers, although it was a little crowded, but it was still able to live.

These days, he stays in Luoyang, and he is about to have a problem. If there is nothing to do, Lu Xiaoxian doesn't want them to cause trouble, so let Xing Feng take them Fan Yang with him.

Purchasing industry is Xingfeng's strength, and Cen Shaobai is better at running industry, if these two people cooperate well, they will definitely complement each other.

"Yes! Son! Xing Feng responded happily.

Lu Xiaoxian said again: "You know! I don't lack silver, don't be reluctant to spend the silver, you have to establish a foothold in Fanyang as soon as possible! ”

……

No one expected that Wu Zetian finally decided to send Wu Tingxiu, the king of Huaiyang, into the Turks, and accept the Turkic Khan as a concubine.

This decision surprised everyone, including Lu Xiaoxian and Tunyugu.

Lu Xiaoxian finally understood, he met Wu Yanxiu in Yingtianmen that day, he went to His Majesty to talk about something, and he must have invited himself to go to Turkic.

The most frustrated is Tun Desire Valley, because there is a word first, Tun Desire Valley can only knock out his teeth and swallow it in his stomach.

During this time, Li Chongjun had only one thing, to see off Wu Yanxiu.

According to Li Chongjun's thinking, seeing off is to drink and drink a lot. To what extent? It's not a state of drunkenness.

Wine, it's a good thing.

So, drink one by one.

At the wine table, Li Chongjun and Wu Yanxiu looked at each other and touched his glass: "Don't say it, it's all in the wine." ”

So, as soon as I raised my neck, I lowered my stomach.

Repeatedly, it was always Li Chongjun who touched him, talking and bumping.

After drinking too much, Li Chongjun always complained that Wu Yanxiu was stupid, why did he take the initiative to ask to go to Turkic.

Wu Yanxiu pointed to his chest and said, because it remembered death.

The two big men were crying so much that even Lu Xiaoxian's nose on the side was sour.

The send-off wine, delicious? Unpleasant? All sent off.

……

On the third day of the third month of the third year of Chang'an, a team of people was saying goodbye to the people who saw them off at the east gate of Luoyang.

The weather was gloomy, dark clouds were thick, and the cold wind blew on the cheeks, making it impossible to open your eyes.

Li Chongjun, Lu Xiaoxian and Wu Yanxiu officially saw them off.

Looking at the two good brothers, Wu Yanxiu couldn't help but have some tears in her eyes.

I can't forget because I didn't get it. People always can't let go of what they can't get, and they only know what it means to cherish when they lose it.

Since he can't get it, stay away from this place that makes him sad.

He still has a lot to do, and a lot of wine to drink, but now he has to leave for the Turks to fetch a woman from the Yi tribe!

Brothers, everything is in plain sight.

Li Chongjun made up his mind that from today onwards he would quit drinking until the day Wu Yanxiu came back, when he broke his vows when he was picked up.

Since ancient times, sorrow has been the most heartbreaking. I hope that the trip of the brothers to the Turks will be smooth sailing, and we will meet again when we come back!

Leopard Taowei General Yan Zhiwei took the spring official book, as a greeting envoy. Guo Zhen, the host and guest of the Ministry of Rites, is the deputy envoy of the welcome family. The lieutenant of the Yulin Army took Chen Xuanli with a thousand Yulin soldiers, carrying gold, silver, silk and clothes as a dowry to escort Wu Tingxiu to the Turks.

"Goodbye, brothers!" Wu Yanxiu hugged his fists towards them.

The large group of people and the farewell crowd broke up inexorably and meandered away.

……

With a condescending posture and the supreme glory of the Great Zhou Empire, the Heqin army rushed all the way to the Turks. Yan Zhiwei was still intoxicated with the glory of being trusted by Emperor Wu at this time, and he was happily admiring the beautiful northern scenery along the way, but he didn't know that a disaster was beckoning ahead.

When Turkic Mo Si heard that Wu Tingxiu was going to marry his daughter, he was very angry, and in the southern courtyard of Heisha, he set up a knife and gun array to welcome Wu Tingxiu's team.

The swords and guns are shiny and murderous.

Yan Zhiwei presented the rich gift list, and after the acceptance of the silent sip, he suddenly turned his face, flew up and kicked Yan Zhiwei to the ground, and scolded: "You small officials, you can't bow down when you see Ben Khan!" My daughter wants to marry a child of the authentic Li Tang royal family, but you have brought a child of a martial family to humiliate me. We Turks have been blessed by the Li clan for many generations, and I have heard that the Li clan has been completely wiped out, and only two sons are still left, and I am now going to lead troops to assist him in ascending the throne of God. ”

Sipping the gold silk has been collected, but the woman does not marry, and she still says such a big truth, she is really a cunning and despicable person. Yan Zhiwei was really cowardly and incompetent, and he didn't know how to question the other party-for-tat, but on the contrary, he was frightened by this threatening words and collapsed to the ground.

Huaiyang Wang Wu Tingxiu was already dead, and in his eyes, such a dangerous scene could not make any waves.

Yan Zhiwei knelt down at the feet of Mo Si, trembling and begging Mo Si to keep his promise, and only chattered: "Great Khan, you have already received my gift from Da Zhou, not to mention that our emperor has also appointed many people in the tribe as officials, and there are more than 30 of them above the fifth grade alone, and I hope that the king will be gracious." ”

At this time, Mo Si suddenly became pleasant again, and said with a smile: "Why do you have to worry about it? Not only will I not kill you, but I will reuse you. You can stay in the Turks, and I can make you the Khan of the South. Your background and talents are enough to be on an equal footing with me, and you can enjoy power and wealth. ”

Yan Zhiwei had been trembling all the time, and when he heard that his life was worry-free, he let go of his heart.

In the face of the obscenity of the silent sip, Guo Zhen, the deputy envoy who came with him, kept standing straight, did not kneel, and was righteous and awe-inspiring.

Mo Si was furious and ordered someone to push Guo Zhen out and behead him, Pei Guozhen was not afraid of danger, scolded Mo Si for not being trustworthy, and reversed himself.

When he was in Luoyang, Guo Zhen treated Lust Valley well.

Guo Zhen came to the Turks with the Tunyu Valley, of course the Tunyu Valley couldn't watch him being beheaded by Mo Si, and hurriedly persuaded: "Khan, he is a messenger, you can't kill him." ”

Mo sighed and relieved his anger a little, and sealed Yan Zhiwei as the Khan of the south, and gave him the clothes of the three grades.

Except for Yan Zhiwei and those who were willing to surrender, the rest were all imprisoned.

Since Li Xian and Li Dan did not come, they could only play the banner of Yan Zhiwei, in any case, he was a high-ranking official of the Great Zhou next door, and he was from a prominent background, with the help of his submission and prestige, maybe he could achieve the goal of the army smoothly marching south and occupying more territory.

Yan Zhiwei and his puppet regime invisibly became his pawns, and he also used this to demonstrate and provoke Wu Zetian to the Great Zhou Dynasty, and used Yan Zhiwei as a khan as bait to lure other officials of the Great Zhou to surrender.

Then silently wrote a letter of inquiry and handed it to Wu Zetian.

The letter said that the noble daughter of the Khan, when marrying the prince, the Wu family is a small surname, the door is not comparable, and she does not want to get married; Among the gifts given, the brocade was all fake, all the gold and silver were inferior, and all the grain seeds were steamed, and the seeds were not germinated. In the end, he said that he would raise troops to attack Hebei, and go south to King Qin, oppose Zhou for Tang and so on.

Immediately, Mo Si held high the banner of "Feng Tang and Zhou" on the grounds of "the world is subject to Tang En", raised more than 100,000 troops, attacked Jingnan, Pingdi, Qingyi and other armies, and committed concubines, Tan and other states.

The court was still in the dark, waiting for the good news of the peace with the relatives, when suddenly someone reported that the Turks had repented of their marriage and sent a letter.

Wu Zetian looked at it and couldn't help but be furious.

Chen Xuanli took Zhong Yulin and Guo Zhen tried every means to escape. When he arrived in Jinyang, there were only 12 out of 10 people left, which was described as haggard.

Seeing Wu Zetian and recounting the state of the envoy to the Turks, Wu Zetian hated and hated it, and took away all the official positions of Yan Zhiwei and pseudo-seals. Pei Huaigu was moved to the Ministry of Rites, and Chen Xuanli was also promoted to General Zuo Yulin.

General Wu Zetian immediately sent several armies such as Jingnan, Pingdi, and Qingyi, and the two sides started a war.

In addition to increasing the number of troops at the border passes, the empress issued an edict and changed her name to Chop Si. But Mo Si, who was renamed by the royal pen, was not beheaded, and his momentum became more and more intense, and it didn't take long for the soldiers to return to the city of Zhaozhou, and the city of Zhaozhou was surrounded by water.

The Turkic soldiers attacked the city of Zhaozhou very urgently, and the governor of Zhao, Shi Tang, turned over the city and defected to the enemy, and the city fell.

The side newspaper reached the Shendu, and the court was shocked.

……

The Turkic offenses are resolved by the ministers of the imperial court, and they have nothing to do with Lu Xiaoxian.

At this moment, he was looking at a letter with relish, and asked the visitor as he read it.

The letter was sent by Qin Huo and Hunnu.

Calculating the time, it has been more than a year since Su Mo Ya returned to the east, although he arrived in Dongmu City safely, the danger of this process can be imagined.

Just over a month after departure, the beggar Zhongxiang fell ill.

In desperation, the brigade had to stop for treatment. Due to the poor conditions, the beggar Zhongxiang finally died of illness. Zuo Rong was ordered to be in danger with the support of his subordinates and resolutely took over this burden.

At that time, Li Kaigu's crusading army reached the city of Jura, and the two sides were already close at hand, and the situation was extremely critical.

Zuo Rong judged the situation and believed that the intention of the Great Zhou court to exterminate had been decided, and it was impossible to ask the Tang court to surrender again, and it was not feasible to take refuge in the Turks. In the northeast, because of Goguryeo's new annihilation, there was no strong enemy, and the forces of the Great Zhou and the Turks were beyond their reach there. Only by insisting on returning to the east is the only way out.

So Zuo Rong took the opportunity to make a decision, led the clan with tens of thousands of people, and continued to run east in the direction of Kuhan Prefecture, the hometown of Su Mobu.

There are three major roads for the Zuorong Department to flee eastward: one is to cross the Liao River through Ru Luocheng and take Xiangping South Road to Liaodong County as the South Road; the second is to cross the Liaohe River in the east of Huaiyuan Town, and take Xiangping North Road to the domestic city as the middle road; The third is to cross the Liao River through Tongding Town, and then turn southeast to Xincheng as the north road.

Just when Zuo Rong had a headache about which path to choose, Qin Huo sent him Lu Xiaoxian's first tips.

In the end, Zuo Rong did not choose these three roads, but led his troops to surprise, crossing the Mangniu River at night through the mountain path back to Tianmen Ridge in the northeast of Yingzhou, this road seems to be far away, but under the cover of mountains and hills, it is indeed conducive to hiding his whereabouts.