"I know all these things you say! What Murong Kan said is basically true! Princess Honghua sighed, "Actually, now that I think about it, I shouldn't be so persistent!" Even if I return to the country, what can I do, Murong Nuo is dead, and I don't have many days left! When people die, the lights go out, everything turns into dust, it's really boring to think about! ”

Lu Xiaoxian can understand Princess Honghua's mood at the moment, she is seventy-six years old this year, and it is not easy to live to her age in this era.

"Lu Gongzi, can you stay in Chang'an when you come to Taozhou from Luoyang?" Princess Honghua asked suddenly.

"It's been two days!" Lu Xiaoxian nodded.

"Chang'an is a good place!" Princess Honghua's eyes flashed with brilliance.

"However, you went on the wrong day!" Princess Honghua's gaze was like a naughty little girl, "It's best if you want to go in March!" The spring grass is green, the wheat seedlings are green, the flowers are vibrant, the spring is full of joy, you can go out of the city to go to the green. The best place to go is Qujiang Pond in the southeast corner of the city. Of course, Fanchuan in the south of the city is also very good, and when I was young, my father would often take me there. There is Shenhe Yuan in the southwest of Fanchuan, there is Shaoling Yuan in the northeast, the Bashui flows through in the middle, the willows are like smoke, and the rain drops on the trees. It's a pity that such a scene can only appear in dreams! ”

Listening to Honghua's muttering to himself, Lu Xiaoxian suddenly understood why Princess Honghua dressed up so solemnly, and why she invited herself to the banquet, just because she had been to Chang'an, where there was a shadow of her childhood, and there was her haunting home. In her mind, she regarded herself as a guest of her mother's family.

"I am from the Li royal family, I have been familiar with poetry and books since I was a child, my parents love me, self-reliance and self-reliance, I should not have these experiences, but the world is impermanent, and in the end, I became a princess and the first princess of Datang! I was unwilling, but I couldn't resist. After arriving in Tuyuhun, I continued the stubbornness I had in Chang'an, and I didn't want to swallow bitterness after being bullied. Princess Honghua's eyes became a little dim, "So, at that time, I was competitive and did a lot of things that I didn't accept my fate!" ”

Marrying their own daughter far away is something that no emperor wants to do, and many times they will make peace with foreign clans after the daughter of the royal family and even the palace maid is crowned as a princess.

For the emperor, he can not only make friends with those surrounding foreign races, but also avoid war, but just sacrifice a royal woman and a small dowry, in exchange for the security of the border for many years, why not?

Princess Honghua is the first princess of the Tang Dynasty to marry, she is only eighteen years old, with the ardent expectations of the Tang Emperor and the peace mission of the imperial court, she left her hometown and walked into Tuyuhun, and lived a nomadic life of "having a city but not living, chasing water and grass, taking the tent as the room, and taking meat and cheese as food", and has been adrift for nearly 60 years.

From a certain point of view, making peace is an extremely irresponsible practice. How can a weak woman bear the security of a country?

"In the second year after I got married to Tuyuhun, King Xuan, the prime minister of Tuyuhun, conspired to kidnap me and Murong Nuo to surrender to Tubo. When my husband and wife learned about it, they fled to Shancheng on horseback. Soon King Xuan was defeated and the civil strife subsided. But the people in Tuyuhun are still panicked, and in order to appease the people, Taizong ordered people to hold festivals to comfort the people of Tuyuhun. With the full support of Datang, Tuyuhun quickly settled down. Since then, Tuyuhun has sent envoys to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty every year. ”

Lu Xiaoxian quietly listened to Princess Honghua's story.

"The good times did not last long, and later Tubo invaded Tuyuhun, and the minister of Tuyuhun Su Hegui fled to Tubo for committing a crime, revealing the true situation of Tuyuhun, so Lu Dongzan dispatched an elite division, took advantage of the weakness to attack, and broke Tuyuhun, so that Tuyuhun died in the country. As for the rest of the matter, you know all about it, so I won't say more! When Murong Nuo was alive, he hoped that one day he could recover the lost land and restore his homeland, and in Liangzhou for many years, he suffered every day in disappointment and hope. Now that he's gone, it doesn't matter to me whether he will return to the country or not! ”

Lu Xiaoxian heard the meaning of Princess Honghua's words, and she had regarded Liangzhou as her final destination.

"Actually, I'm lucky, since ancient times, after the princess who has been close to me left home, it is impossible to go back until death. In the thirteenth year after I got married and left Chang'an, I asked to return to Chang'an Province, and His Majesty Gaozong specially sent Zuo Xiaowei General Xian Yu Kuangji to meet me. Murong Nuo and I went to Chang'an for two months before coming back, from the time I got married at the age of eighteen to the present, those two months were the happiest and the most nostalgic for me! I'm content......"

Princess Honghua, dressed in full costume, had sparse white hair on her head, and her face was yellow, full of wrinkles, and shriveled as if there was no moisture at all. Her eyes were parched, the muscles on her face were stiff and wooden, and she couldn't see any expression, or no expression at all.

Looking at the old woman in front of him, Lu Xiaoxian's mood was extremely heavy, and the whole person became a little trance, and he didn't even know how to return to the post house from the princess's mansion.

Lu Xiaoxian decided to go back to Taozhou early tomorrow morning, and he inexplicably had an urge to escape from here as soon as possible.

Early the next morning, without even eating breakfast, Lu Xiaoxian left the post house. When passing by the south gate of Liangzhou, Lu Xiaoxian dismounted and came to the bell tower.

The planks of the staircase had been dented by the treading of the staircase, and the gray corrugated was covered with rusty moss, and the grass was swaying on it. Standing upstairs and looking out, in the heavy mist, the mountains of the cangdai are gone, all the way to the sky!

Lu Xiaoxian sighed, the bell tower was a little smaller, and it couldn't tolerate turning around at will, a long-cherished wish of a floating slaughter, a long Amitabha Buddha, and a distant immortal moan, all came out in his soft breath.

When he got down from the bell tower, he saw a man in a light green official uniform waiting for him.

"Governor Xu Qinming? He wants to see me? Lu Xiaoxian didn't seem to understand what the official said.

Tang Cheng Sui system, its leader of the expedition is the marching chief or the general manager. In the seventh year of Wude, the governor's office was reinstated, the governor's office was the governor's office, and the governor's office was the governor's office, and the marching governor and the general manager remained unchanged. The metropolitan governor often leads the king of the sect and acts as the governor of Changshi. The rest of the governors were divided into upper, middle, and lower levels. In the first year of Zhenguan, most of the inland governors were abolished, but the Liangzhou governors were retained.

Liangzhou is bordered by the Tang Dynasty in the east, the Western Regions in the west, the Turks in the north, and the Tubo in the south.

Xu Qinming, the governor of Liangzhou, is in charge of the rank and the third grade, which can be regarded as a feudal official, how can he meet himself, which makes Lu Xiaoxian a little puzzled.

But if you don't see it, you can't say it! Lu Xiaoxian thought for a moment, and felt that it was better to meet!

In the flower hall in the backyard of the Liangzhou Governor's Mansion, Lu Xiaoxian met Xu Qinming, the governor of Liangzhou.

When Xu Qinming was fifty years old, he was not wearing a purple official robe, but civilian clothes.

After the two sat down and greeted for a while, Xu Qinming went straight to the point.

"I have heard the name of Lu Gongzi for a long time, although the governor of Bendu is in Liangzhou, but he also knows some things about Luoyang, dare to ask Lu Gongzi, what do you think of the future trend of the current court?" Xu Qinming looked at Lu Xiaoxian meaningfully.

After listening to Xu Qinming's words, Lu Xiaoxian "sighed" in his heart, it seems that this Liangzhou Governor has something to say!

After Wu Zetian became emperor, although it has been many years now, many people still miss the Li Tang Dynasty, but they were suppressed by Wu Zetian's thunderbolt methods, so they could only endure it.

The reason why Wu Zetian was able to establish the Great Zhou Dynasty and become a female emperor is related to her means, which is enough to show her ability. When Wu Zetian was full of energy, many ministers did not dare to return to Tang although they were concerned about Li Tang. And now that Wu Zetian is old and his energy is not good, these people are naturally ready to move when they see this situation, and Xu Qinming is undoubtedly one of them.

Alas! Lu Xiaoxian sighed, they still didn't understand Wu Zetian after all, although she was much more merciful now, if she really annoyed her, I am afraid that countless heads would fall to the ground.

Thinking of this, Lu Xiaoxian just smiled: "I'm just a common person, unlike Lord Xu, who cares about the court, I don't have any opinion!" ”

"If Your Majesty is a hundred years later, who does Lu Gongzi think is more appropriate to ascend the throne?" Xu Qinming looked directly at Lu Xiaoxian, leaving him no way out.

"I understand Lord Xu's intentions, as long as he is the heir of Gaozong, no matter who ascends the throne! Don't worry, I don't think those people from the Wu clan can compete with the Li clan! ”

"Oh! With Lu Gongzi's words, I am relieved! Xu Qinming smiled with a wrinkle on his face, and it could be seen that he valued Lu Xiaoxian's opinion.

"But! There's one thing I have to say earlier! Lu Xiaoxian's voice changed, "I don't object to Lord Xu's concern for the Tang Dynasty, but I can't gamble on the major affairs of the imperial court, let alone ignore the life and death of the people of Li to do anything to restore the Tang Dynasty." Otherwise, even if you succeed, you will be stinking for 10,000 years! ”

Xu Qinming's smile froze on his face: "Master Lu, what do you mean by this?" ”

"Let's take the current war as an example, is it a major event in the imperial court? If it fails because of some extraneous changes, will the people of Liangzhou suffer? Speaking of this, Lu Xiaoxian stood up and hugged his fists to Xu Qinming, "I am here, Lord Xu should be very clear in his heart, look at it yourself!" Leave! ”

After that, Lu Xiaoxian left the Governor's Mansion without looking back, leaving Xu Qinming alone there in a daze.

Just when Xu Qinming was stunned, two people came out from behind the screen, obviously these two people had been eavesdropping on the conversation between Xu Qinming and Lu Xiaoxian behind the screen.

One of them is the Right Guard General Zhang Qianxuan, and the other is the Right Guard General Fan Yunxian, who is currently under the command of Wang Xiaojie, the general of the Subian Road March, and is an important part of the First Battle of Tibet.

It stands to reason that the two of them should be in the barracks of the Liuchuan Camp when the big war is imminent, but somehow they will appear in Liangzhou City.