Early the next morning, Cui Xiaofu did not go to attend the emergency meeting of the cabinet, she fell ill, the room was very quiet, filled with a strong smell of medicine, Biluo tent was lowered, the chief royal doctor in the palace was quietly packing up things, for fear of disturbing the queen mother's rest, the eunuch Feng Endao stepped forward and asked quietly: "Royal doctor Wang, how is the queen mother's illness?" ”

Imperial Doctor Wang pointed to the outer room, signaling to go outside to talk, Feng Endao understood, and walked with him to the outer room, Imperial Doctor Wang sighed and said: "Illness is caused by anger, but this is just the appearance, the real root of the disease is the long-term imbalance of yin and yang and needs to recuperate, and you can't get angry."

The Biluo tent in the room moved slightly, inside the tent, Cui Xiaofu turned over, her face was unusually pale, without any makeup, her loose skin was covered with fine wrinkles, she was like an old woman in her fifties, she closed her eyes, and seemed to be asleep, but in the quiet room, the words of the royal doctor came intermittently, and the long-term yin and yang were out of tune unconsciously, Cui Xiaofu's skin twitched twice, and actually shed two lines of sour tears, and the weakness of the woman was unscrupulously gushing out of her eyes at this moment.

But at this moment, the movement of the Biluo tent caused a misunderstanding, there was a rush of footsteps outside the tent, the curtain opened, and the face of a palace maid appeared, she wanted to help Cui Xiaofu to change clothes behind the screen, the palace maid suddenly saw the tears on the face of the queen mother, she was scared! With a thud, she took two steps back, trembling as she knew she had seen a secret that she must never see.

At this moment, Cui Xiaofu's weakness suddenly disappeared, and she regained her usual rigidity, she quickly wiped away her tears, and said coldly: "Don't help me up quickly!" ”

The palace maid stepped forward tremblingly and helped her up, and at this time, Feng Endao also rushed in, Cui Xiaofu waved her hand and ordered the palace maid to withdraw, staring at her back. Cui Xiaofu ordered Feng Endao in a low voice, "This palace maid has seen something she shouldn't see, you know what to do, right?" ”

Feng Endao glanced back at the palace maid, nodded and said, "Don't worry, the old slave will do it immediately!" ”

"Don't be in such a hurry, dress me first."

Cui Xiaofu sat up with difficulty, she took a breath and said: "Today's cabinet meeting mourning family will not go for the time being, in order to avoid suspicion, but this morning there is a special envoy to meet with Huifu, which is related to the national system. I have to meet him, get ready, and change my clothes. ”

Feng Endao was taken aback, he stammered: "The Queen Mother is not in good health, it's better not to go!" ”

"Not going?" Cui Xiaofu glanced at him in surprise, and saw that the sweat on his forehead was flowing out, and she was suspicious, "What happened?" ”

"No, nothing!" Feng Endao was even more flustered.

Cui Xiaofu sat up straight. stared at him silently for a long time, Fang said coldly: "Do you even want to deceive the mourning family?" ”

Feng Endau plopped! Fall to your knees. kowtowed a few times in a row, "The old slave didn't dare to hide it, the old slave said, don't be angry!" "Say!"

Feng Endao sighed, and then he said, "The Hui envoy has arrived at the Linde Hall an hour ago, and now the emperor is receiving him. ”

"Your Majesty?" Cui Xiaofu couldn't believe her ears. Li Yao was receiving foreign envoys. She sat for a while, a vicious fire sprang out of her heart, a few days ago he reviewed the folds without authorization, and he didn't even settle accounts with him, and now he is doing more and more, and he actually began to meet with the Hui envoys, she Teng! He stood up and said sharply: "Change the clothes of the mourning family!" ”

Feng Endao was so frightened that he persuaded again and again. "The Queen Mother should take care of the phoenix. Just bear with it. ”

Cui Xiaofu turned around like a whirlwind, stared at him tightly and said, "You still have to persuade me to endure." If you endure it any longer, the mourning family will be eaten by the tiger cubs. ”

Half an hour later, Cui Xiaofu, who had a little light makeup, came to the Lin De Hall in the company of nearly 100 palace maids and eunuchs, and the eunuchs at the palace gate were about to paging loudly, but Cui Xiaofu stopped her, she passed through one palace gate after another, and finally came to the inner hall where Li Yao met Hui Shichen, at this time Cui Xiaofu was already a little sick and unable to support, she leaned against the wall hard, waiting for the dizziness to disappear, but her ears clearly heard the shrill and slightly immature voice from the hall.

"What does it mean to put aside disputes, can my Datang territory be bargained? Isn't shelving the dispute an acknowledgment of your Hui Hui's possession of Anxi and Beiting? No way! There is no room for bargaining on the territorial issue, you either withdraw your troops and leave the Western Regions, or you will fight a battle, and whoever wins, the land will go to whomever it is. ”

"Your Majesty the Emperor, please calm your anger, please listen to the minister's words, Hui has always been a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty, although there are some contradictions, but it is also an internal dispute among the family, can not be compared with the Tubo people, the Khan of the minister also said, as long as I can let the Hui army borrow the past, and so on to defeat the Tubo people, we will immediately give up Anxi and Beiting, recognize it as the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and never break our word."

"Humph! Are you a three-year-old? If you really admit that Anxi and Beiting are the territory of the Tang Dynasty, then let the Yanqi Dijie Gangas lay down their weapons, and I can order Zhang Shangshu to let them return to China, as for the Tubo people, my Tang soldiers will naturally deal with them, and do not worry about your country. ”

Then there was a silence, half a sound, and then I heard the envoy say in a deep voice: "Before the minister left, the Khan repeatedly told the minister to talk to Mrs. Cui, may I ask the Empress Dowager Cui to be there?" ”

At this time, Cui Xiaofu's dizziness gradually disappeared, and she was just about to order the eunuch to report, but suddenly heard a sentence that made her heart ache:

"I am the son of heaven of the Tang Dynasty, with me, there is no queen mother, tell you the Khan, my words represent the Tang Dynasty."

Cui Xiaofu's heart sank suddenly, as if she had stepped into the abyss, and it was as if she had been punched head-on, she couldn't support it anymore, her body shook, her eyes were dark, and she fainted.

At the end of June of the seventh year of Xuanren, the Hui Loyal Khan urgently sent a special envoy to Chang'an to sue for peace, but the Tang Dynasty categorically rejected the request of the Hui to govern the Western Regions, and crowned Zhang Huan as the protector of the capital of Anxi, and fully recovered Anxi With the defeat of the Qarluq people in the northern court by the Tang army, the conflict between the Tang army and the Hui was inevitable.

Qiuci, Shule, Yanqi, Gaochang four military towns have been the basis of the Tang Dynasty's rule of Anxi for more than a hundred years, of which Qiuci is the center of the four towns, but also the location of the Anxi Protectorate, but at this time Qiuci is in the hands of the Tubo people, in fact, since the era of Wu Zetian, the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo battle for Anxi has never stopped, several changes of hands, until Gao Xianzhi took charge of Anxi, the Tang Dynasty finally stabilized the control of Anxi, but unfortunately soon after, Tang suffered the Anshi Rebellion, and was no longer able to protect Anxi, was finally taken away by the Tubo who took advantage of the situation.

At this moment, the sun slowly set into the light clouds dyed by the sun's brilliant colors, a scene before dusk, and a cloud of lilac smoke rose from the desert to the sky, staining the snow-capped peaks in the distance crimson.

Tri Song Detsen stood on the wall of Qiuzi, staring at the beautiful scenery in front of him with a serious expression, compared to four years ago, he also aged sharply, especially in the war between Tocharian and the Great Eclipse, he had been seriously injured, and it was even rumored that he had died, although he did not die, but his body was deeply damaged, and the sickness continued to torment him, so that he himself knew that his days were numbered.

Before leaving this world, Trisong Detsen still has several wishes to fulfill, one is to determine Buddhism as the state religion of Tibet and prevent the return of Bon; The second is to keep Anxi, the last overseas territory of Tibet, so that Tibet can benefit from the wealth brought by the trade between the East and the West in the future; His last wish was to establish the heir of Zampu, but this was his most difficult and urgent matter.

An early end to the Anxi War and return to Logos was the desire of Trisong Detsen, but the complexity of the situation in Anxi made him dare not be careless.

For this reason, he also sent a large number of scouts to inquire about the news of Hui and the Tang army, and just two hours earlier, he received the news of the Tang army's defeat of the Qarluqs, and Trisong Detsen immediately realized that perhaps his opportunity had come.

The Tang army's defeat of the Qarluqs means that they have taken control of Beiting, then, Zhang Huan's next target will inevitably point to the Hui Hui, the Hui Jiegan Garth is actually in the dilemma of being attacked by the enemy on the back of the abdomen, either go south to defeat himself, or go north to counterattack Zhang Huan, in short, he can not always stop in Yanqi and be in a passive state, and it is impossible for the Hui loyal khan to sit back and watch the Hui people in Anxi annihilate the whole army and ignore it, and will inevitably send troops to help.

It seems that it is much more likely that Jiegan will go north to join the reinforcements, and for the sake of long-term strategic interests, at this moment, Trisong Detsen finally made an extremely bold decision.

"Upon my order, the army will immediately withdraw from Qiuzi and retreat west to the city of Bachang."