Emperor Huangji also felt a little disappointed after listening to the report of the eldest brother and prince, she did not express her opinion immediately, and asked, "Send someone to call Qianyu, there are some things I have to ask her again." ”

With a woman's intuition, she always felt that there was something wrong with this.

Soon after Qianyu returned to the prince's palace, the empress sent someone to follow her into the palace.

In order to protect her and her family, Pei Dilan reminded Qianyu to take precautions against the empress and others, including the empress's interrogation of her.

In the carriage, Chiba struggled to think about sad things, hoping that she would be able to cry tears. However, because he was already mentally prepared, he couldn't cry for a while.

She really had no choice but to take out some pepper and carefully apply it to her eyes, and now, her eyes were irritated and red, and tears couldn't help but flow. She took out a mirror invented by the Tang Dynasty and carefully wiped off the pepper with a handkerchief in front of the mirror. The effect is very good, obviously the effect of crying for a while.

The Empress's bedchamber.

The empress, the eldest brother, the prince, and the middle minister Kamazu are all there.

"Niece Qianyu, see Your Majesty." Qian Yu knelt on the ground and saluted.

"Excuse me, get up." The Empress said. She carefully observed Qianyu's expression and saw that her eyes were red, and the doubts in her heart were reduced a lot.

She asked, "Qianyu, you just cried?" ”

Qianyu nodded and said, "Your Majesty, Qianyu's life is hard." You marry Qianyu to the prince of the Great Food Country, they are too far away, Qianyu is gone, I don't know if I can see Your Majesty and your courtier's family.

For the sake of Your Majesty and the Yamato Kingdom, Qianyu is willing to marry the prince of the Great Food, he looks good, and he is also very good to the courtiers and the courtiers' families, and Qianyu has accepted this marriage.

However, I didn't expect them to be all liars, Qianyu is really miserable. ”

As she spoke, she remembered that the empress and others had used her again and again, and she felt very sad and aggrieved, and tears really flowed down.

The empress motioned for the maid to hand Qian Yu a handkerchief.

She said, "Okay, Qianyu, don't worry, I have something to ask you." Let's talk about how you met Li You. ”

Qian Yu wiped away her tears and said, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asked the courtiers to identify Li You's authenticity, and the courtiers went, but the Monobe Jiumiko still found a reason to shirk and didn't let me see Li You." I said that I was entrusted by my parents, and I wanted to thank Li You for not killing him, and I must see him in person.

I said that Li You is a good person, and my parents went to Asuka Temple to pray for peace and blessings for him, and they must be handed over to him with their own hands.

When they saw that I insisted, they knew that they could not hide it, so the prince called me to his room and told me the truth. That Li You is a fake, he is just a translator who understands the language of Yamato. Really Li You didn't come at all. ”

The Empress asked, "How did they explain this to you?" ”

Qianyu said: "Prince Pei Dilan said that Li You originally wanted to come, but their Tang Dynasty was about to change the dynasty, and the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty asked Li You to return to Chang'an.

Pei Dilan said that Li You did not deliberately deceive people, he was worried that His Majesty would think that he was not sincere, so that the conditions he had negotiated with His Majesty would be nullified, and in order to avoid extraneous complications, he specially discussed with the Minister of Things. ”

The Empress asked, "Do you think what they say is credible?" ”

Qian Yu shook his head and said: "I don't know, I don't think it's credible, even if Li You can't come for a last resort, just report to Your Majesty realistically, there is no need to deceive people." ”

The Empress asked, "Didn't you ask them why?" ”

Qian Yu said: "I was worried that there would be problems in my marriage with Prince Pei Dilan, and of course I wanted to ask for clarification, so I also raised this question.

Prince Pei Dilan said that this matter was caused by the Minister of Things, at the beginning, it was the Minister of Goods who asked his daughter Monobe Kumiko to propose to Li You to send troops to attack our Yamato Kingdom, Li You attaches great importance to family affection, and he wants to save face, and for the sake of Jiumiko's face, he proposed to send troops.

The Tang Dynasty had just finished fighting Goguryeo and didn't want to fight anymore, and everyone disagreed with the matter of sending troops, but Li You had a great influence in the Tang Dynasty, and he forcibly passed the resolution to send troops.

However, when he saw that the Minister of Monobu had changed his mind, he had no enthusiasm to continue to send troops, as long as he could sign some agreements that were beneficial to the Tang Dynasty, so that he could go back and have an explanation between the government and the opposition, it would be fine.

As for him deceiving people, it was because no one knew him anyway, so he didn't want to make trouble about the problem that he couldn't come, so he sent someone to pretend to be him. ”

The eldest brother and the prince interjected and said: "In the negotiated agreement, Li You, especially the Tang Dynasty, leased the Daejeon area of Shimane Prefecture for free, did he say why? ”

Qianyu said with some pride: "That Prince Pei Dilan has a good impression of me, worried that I won't believe his words, so he specially talked about this matter, he said that someone said that there is a large silver mine in the Datian area of Shimane Prefecture, so they want that place, and the reason why they say it is leased is because it will not take 100 years for them to dig up the silver mine there, and then they will not want that place." ”

"I see, no wonder." Nakatomi Kamazu said.

The trick to telling a lie is that at least nine out of ten sentences are true, and the crucial one is false.

What Qianyu said is basically true, and there is not a single lie, of course, it is more credible.

It's not that Qianyu deliberately told a lie, it's because Pei Dilan didn't tell her Li You's true intentions, and she didn't know that the Tang Dynasty's army was quietly approaching.

The reason why Qianyu cooperated with Pei Dilan was because she had now made up her mind to marry Pei Dilan, and this was done to save the lives of Pei Dilan and the others.

She said: "Pei Dilan said that he wouldn't let me tell that Li You was fake, saying that they didn't want to make trouble, and they wanted to sign the agreement smoothly, so they left Fujiwara Jing and returned to the Tang Dynasty." ”

What Qianyu said basically had no flaws, or no flaws at all, and the empress and the others basically believed what she said.

In order to be more realistic, and Qian Yu wanted to know the answer, she asked: "Your Majesty, my marriage with Prince Pei Dilan, the entire Fujiwara Kyoto knows, will this matter not count because Li You is fake, I will not have a face to see people in the future." ”

The empress was very satisfied with Qianyu's performance, and she said, "You don't have to worry about this matter, I will definitely take care of it, you go back and rest first." ”

After Qianyu left, the empress asked, "What do you think about this matter?" ”

The eldest brother said: "I think my cousin's words are still credible. ”

The minister Kamazu said: "The minister also thinks that what His Royal Highness the Prince said is true, except for the matter of the silver mine, the other situations are similar to what we have in our hands. ”

The empress said: "In this way, as long as an agreement is signed with the Tang Dynasty, war can be avoided for the time being." ”

The eldest brother said, "It looks like this. ”

Nakazu said, "If this happens, our previous plan will be nullified. ”

The eldest brother said: "Li You didn't come, it's a pity that there is an opportunity to completely eliminate the hidden danger." Also, just losing the silver mines in the Ota area of Shimane Prefecture is too cheap for the Tang Dynasty. ”

Zhongchen Kazuzu said: "Actually, as long as the threat of the Tang Dynasty people to us is temporarily lifted, the silver mine is in our place, and when they are built, they can seize it at any time, and those craftsmen they sent can be used by me in the future, and other people can also be used as hostages to blackmail the Tang Dynasty people." ”

The eldest brother and the middle minister are in front of the empress, and you and I discuss it sentence by sentence, which is not disrespectful to Her Majesty, but the empress advocates that the courtiers discuss the problem in front of her, so that she can listen to different opinions and finally make the right decision.

The Empress had basically made up her mind, and she asked, "What do you think should be done about this matter?" ”