However, Tubo and Goguryeo sent envoys to come this time, although they were nominally asking for guilt, but in fact they were asking for peace in the name of asking for guilt.

Harmony seems to be a kind of surrender on the surface, but in fact, it is a manifestation of compromise. Throughout history, there has been no harmony between large and small countries, even if it is a 'clan girl'. Harmony usually only occurs in one situation, that is, when the Central Plains powers face an opponent that cannot be solved and are tired of dealing with it, when the other party releases goodwill, it gives a step.

And often for the party who asks for peace, this is also a manifestation of 'victory', that is, I have the ability to force you to marry the princess to me.

The fate of the princess is often tragic. In the land of barbarians, women are regarded as a kind of property, brothers die and brothers die, fathers die and sons succeed, a princess who is close to each other often has to serve several generations of barbarian khans, and the fate can be imagined.

The Central Plains Dynasty has never been easy to reconcile, and the scholars also regarded harmony as a shame. This time, the Western Turks advanced eastward, all parties waited for an opportunity to move, and after the crisis was resolved, they all withdrew their troops and asked for guilt, only Tubo and Goguryeo did not withdraw their troops, and the Tubo soldiers were stationed in Songzhou, and the Goguryeo soldiers were near the Bohai Sea.

Therefore, every move of the envoys of the two countries is extremely concerned by the Tang side. The Tibetan side is better, and there is no need to worry too much about acting in a low-key manner, but on the Goguryeo side, a lot of effort has been wasted, this Goguryeo prince is flying and domineering, causing trouble everywhere, and the Ministry of Rites has to involve a lot of people every day in order to help him wipe his buttocks.

After tossing like this for a few days, the whole Ministry of Rites began to think about Li Mu in unison. If the Hou is here, how can he allow such people to be arrogant? It's not for the country and the people, just chase the character of the deer marquis, he won't allow anyone more arrogant than him to exist in Chang'an City!

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Honglu Temple was 'full', and the envoys of various small countries had to find their own places to live. The envoys of the Wa Kingdom moved out early, but fortunately they moved out early, and rented a courtyard at a very cheap price, and if it was too late, they would definitely not be able to rent a house with this little money.

Now that the rent has risen, they have also made a sale, rented out half of the yard, and the rent they received was more than their original rent, not only did they live in the house for nothing, but also had some spare money.

The person who rented their house was none other than the envoy of Silla. During the Tang Dynasty, the peninsula was much more developed than that of the Wa Kingdom. Whether it is in terms of ritual, religious culture or force, it is necessary to take the lead in an all-round way. Knowing that at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Wa Kingdom was faintly overpowered.

Although Silla only occupied the southern corner of the peninsula, their financial resources were still much stronger than those of the Japanese state. The name of Silla's envoy was Kim Chun-chun, his father was the son of King Jinzhi, Il-so Kim Yongchun, and his mother was Lady Cheonmyeong, the daughter of King Jinpyeong. In the Silla society, which was dominated by the bone system, Jin Chunqiu belonged to the real bones who were not eligible to inherit the throne.

The so-called "real bones" refers to Silla's special system, the bone system. Two hundred years ago, Silla unified the Jinhan tribes by force, and in order to consolidate their privileged position, a hierarchical system called the "bone product system" was established. The aristocracy determines the rank and status and the corresponding official rank according to the bloodline, and the marriage of different bone products is not the same, and the hereditary bone products remain unchanged. Hereditary lineage determines the degree of respect of a person, according to different levels of the maximum limit of official positions, to reach a certain level of bones, can be awarded a certain official position, therefore, a person's career is restricted by the individual's hierarchical identity in the bone system, whether a person can achieve something, it can be said that it is completely dependent on reincarnation.

True bone is located in the second class of the bone system, which is about equal to the duke of the Tang Dynasty, but it does not mean that a person is a duke if he is a 'true bone', it just means that he has the qualifications to be a duke, and it is also his 'upper limit'.

Above the true bones are the 'holy bones'. Only the 'Holy Bone' bloodline can inherit the throne. This system was originally intended to protect the royal power, but now it has become a shackle.

I don't know if it's a curse, but since the establishment of this 'bone system', the blood of the royal family has not flourished. There are only a few people in each generation, which leads to the strange phenomenon that the situation is much better for the 'holy bones' who have the right to inherit are weak and sickly, while the true bones that do not have the right to inherit.

In this generation of King Zhenping, a scene that worried the royal family finally happened. King Zhenping has no children! New Rome is about to face a situation where the royal family has no one to succeed!

King Zhenping Chinese New Year's Eve four, if he is healthy, he may not be able to give birth to a prince, but the bad is bad, his body is weak, and now he is terminally ill. When he arrived in the Tang Dynasty, he didn't even know if King Zhenping was still alive. Every time he thought about it, he couldn't help but want to cry.

He remembered the king's voice and smile very clearly.

The next day he was to depart, and in the middle of the night the palace eunuch sent a decree that the king was to summon him.

Jin Chunqiu did not dare to slack off, and followed the chamberlain to the king's bedroom, and was allowed to be within three steps of the bed. This was a very great courtesy, Jin Chunqiu was grateful, but when he saw the king's face, he was not happy at all, and tears flowed down instantly.

I saw that King Zhenping was already skinny, his eye sockets were inverted, and there was no flesh left. The chamberlain helped him sit up, and he beckoned, motioning for Jin Chunqiu to come to him.

Jin Chunqiu hurried over, and King Zhenping said in an intermittent weak voice: "I can't do it anymore, I won't live for a few days...... I have no heirs, Aiqing, let me ask you, if this king dies, who do you think is qualified to inherit the throne in this clan? ”

"Your Majesty—" Jin Chunqiu was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt on the ground. He is just a 'true bone' bloodline, and he is only thirty years old, and he still belongs to the Young Zhuang faction above the court, so he can be described as a soft-spoken person, how dare he talk about this matter.

"It's okay, I didn't let you decide, I just asked casually, didn't Aiqing dare to answer?"

"This-" Jin Chunqiu hesitated for a moment, and said: "Back to the king's words, now the holy bone bloodline, only the king, King Gewen is the holy bone bloodline, if the king is ...... It should be succeeded by King Gwen. ”

"Heh......" King Zhenping laughed and said, "Even Aiqing's age thinks so, it seems that this is really the case......" King Zhenping coughed violently for a while, took a pill, calmed down, and continued: "But what if this king doesn't want him to inherit the throne?" ”

"This ......" Jin Chunqiu didn't know how to answer, thought for a while, and then considered: "Your Majesty, the system is like this, the rules are like this, I'm afraid it will be difficult to change." ”

"What if the king has another daughter?"

Daughter?

Could it be that the king wants a woman to inherit the throne, how can this be made!

Such a thought instantly occurred in his mind, but seeing King Zhenping's face, Jin Chunqiu didn't dare to say it. King Zhenping didn't ask him again, coughed, and said to himself: "Since this king succeeded to the throne, he deeply felt that the royal family was withered. I made up my mind to investigate, why? After many years of investigation, one possibility after another was ruled out, a lot of medical books were read, and a lot of doctors were asked, and finally the king found the reason. ”

"The reason for this is in this bone system!"

"Because of the restrictions of the bone system, different bone products cannot intermarry, which leads to the fact that those who marry each other are relatives. This king looked through the medical records of the imperial medical hall of the past dynasties and found a clue that the diseases that only a few people had in one generation had increased a lot in the next generation. And more than one, more than one. From this, the king deduced that the marriage of close relatives was the culprit that led to the withering of the bloodline. Sure enough, the king and queen were cousins, and neither of us had anything to offer. ”

King Zhenping said indifferently, as if he was talking about other people's affairs, but Jin Chunqiu's head was already sweating, this is a royal secret, he listened to this secret, will he be killed?

"When this king was twenty years old, Baekje invaded the border. This king disguised himself as a general, fought against the Goguryeo people, and was rescued by a Goguryeo medical woman, and during the recuperation of his injuries, the two of us had a relationship...... "King Jinping paused, as if caught in his memory, and after a long while, he continued: "Later, this king returned to China and received a letter from her, she was pregnant, and after another year, this king received another letter from her, and she gave birth to a daughter for this king. ”

Jin Chunqiu suddenly realized that this daughter came like this.

"Although we haven't seen each other again over the years, there have always been letters, but it has always been this king who has received her letters, and she has never had an address left, and this king has not been able to contact him. Until the year before that—"

"The king received her letter again, and she told him to wait for her in a small village on the border. Ben Wang was delighted, but did not see her. There was only a little girl in her teens, holding a jar of ashes in her hand, wearing a jade pendant given to her by the king back then——"

"She's my child, her name is Takatotsuki. Her mother turned out to be a daughter of the Goguryeo clan. King Zhenping could not bear his grief and wept: "She is dead, and the letter I received is her last handwriting." ”

"She was forced to death by her father and brother—"

King Zhenping wept for a while, and it took a long time to calm down, and he continued: "I buried her in the place where I first met, and returned to the palace with the child. The queen, having no children, hated the child and had her poisoned. After dodging a few times, the king had no choice but to find land outside the palace to settle down. But I don't want the queen to collude with King Gwen and reveal the news to him, and I hate my brother for sending someone to kidnap my child, and use this as a threat to force me to abdicate——"

"How can this king do what they want?"

King Zhenping coughed violently several times and continued: "This king is vain and wronged to save the child's life. In addition, people were sent to investigate in all directions, and finally found a clue. In the hands of a slave trader, the jade pendant was found. Following this clue, I learned that the child had been trafficked to Datang. ”

King Zhenping took Jin Chunqiu's hand and said, "This time you sent an envoy to the Tang Dynasty, first, to ask the Tang Dynasty to assist Silla and defend against Goguryeo. The second is that I want you to help this king find his daughter and inherit the throne. This king chose you as an envoy because he took a fancy to your young age and was not deeply involved with the forces of the DPRK and China. If you help the king find his daughter, he will make you prime minister. As he spoke, he picked up a decree and handed it to Jin Chunqiu: "The will is here, and when the new king ascends the throne, it will take effect." ”

From a small envoy to the sky in one step to become a prime minister, this is how many levels he has been promoted, Jin Chunqiu himself can't count it. He took the will, only felt hot in his hands, and muttered: "If yes, if it is a minister......"

"If you can't find it, I have a will for you." King Zhenping took out another will, handed it to Jin Chunqiu, motioned to him, and said, "You open it and take a look." ”

Jin Chunqiu opened the will, and was frightened when he landed, and it was written on this will that King Zhenping was willing to sacrifice his land to the Tang Dynasty because he had no heirs, hoping that the Tang Dynasty would take over Silla and treat the people well. There are also two wishes, one is that he wants the queen to be martyred, and the other is that he investigated and learned that his younger brother King Gewen was not of royal blood, and implored the Tang Dynasty to send troops to kill him.

This will is really a decision to break the net. Jin Chunqiu felt the determination of King Zhenping, if he found his daughter, he would let his daughter succeed to the throne, if he couldn't find it, he would rather Silla Guozuo end up here than let his younger brother King Gewen succeed to the throne!

King Zhenping looked at the shocked Jin Chunqiu and said, "You already know the secret of this king, if you refuse to agree, you and your people will not survive." You don't have to think about taking refuge in King Gewen after leaving the palace, this king is still alive, and no one can mess up. Aiqing, you make a decision. ”

"Minister......" Jin Chunqiu understood, today King Zhenping asked him to come here, there was no room for him to choose, he promised to die nine times, if he didn't agree, he would die ten times without life!

In order to survive and become prime minister, he had no choice but to agree.

After saying so many words, King Zhenping seemed to be tired, and his voice was much quieter: "Aiqing, this king has investigated and learned that the trafficker sold all the slaves to a person named Yin San'er in the horse shop at the entrance of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty, if you find him, you may be able to know the news of my daughter." ”

He gestured, and the chamberlain took out a box and handed it to Jin Chunqiu. Heavy, Jin Chunqiu guessed what was inside.

"Here is a hundred taels of gold, and if there is news of my daughter, it should be enough to redeem herself." He sighed and said angrily: "This king will try to live, if you receive the news that this king is dead before you come back, use the rest of the money to settle my daughter well." So it is, I beg you, this king. ”

After saying this, King Zhenping seemed to be asleep and never spoke again. The chamberlain looked at it carefully for a while, and motioned for Jin Chunqiu to go out, Jin Chunqiu kowtowed three times, got up and walked out of the dormitory.

The next day, after leaving the city, he was chased by the killer, fortunately the king of Zhenping had already prepared, the palace guards repelled the killer, escorted a group from the waterway, from Dengzhou port ashore, all the way to Chang'an City.

The guard came in the door: "My lord, I found Yin San'er's residence." ”

Jin Chunqiu relieved himself from his memories, got up and said, "Without further ado, bring a gift and go and have a look!" ”