Chapter 525: The Concubine Ceremony
Li Jiancheng was pondering, and Chu Suiliang continued:
"Your Majesty, the minister has one more thing to report!"
"Hmmm! Say! Chu Aiqing, please speak! Chu Suiliang took out a note from his bosom, which was written in Chinese - to attack Tang suddenly. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Li Jiancheng looked at this note, the words on it were crooked, and he could see that this person's sinology cultivation was very poor.
"Who wrote this?"
"Your Majesty, when the minister first arrived in Xue Yantuo, when he just saw the big leader of Xue Yantuo, Yi Nan, he had not yet spoken, the big leader of Xue Yantuo Yi Nan looked arrogant, and the minister was about to tell him that the goods, cloth, grain and other things were exchanged for the Central Plains Ding people plundered by Xue Yantuo, but the big leader of Xue Yantuo Yi Nan spoke on the throne, and his sister-in-law Ba Zhuo shouted, saying that they Xue Yantuo did not have our common people in the Central Plains, and also drew his sword to face each other, and was reprimanded by Yi Nan, and then it was his eldest son who sent the minister out of the camp gate, There is such a small paper ball on the minister's body. After seeing the words on this note and listening to Chu Suiliang's words, Li Jiancheng smiled:
"Chu Aiqing, what do you think about this issue?"
"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that now that we want to deal with the Eastern Turks, then, we must implement the strategy of distant friendship and close attack during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, unite all the enemies of the Eastern Turks in the steppe, and after the Eastern Turks are completely eliminated, we will canonize Xue Yantuo as a Khan, and let them be the kings of the one domain in the steppe!"
"And what about when the Eastern Turks are wiped out?"
"Your Majesty, of course we will withdraw our troops, anyway, the grassland is windy and sandy, and it is not suitable for us Central Plains people to live. When the time comes, we Central Plains people will send troops to garrison there, and the teachers will be paid, so it is better to forget about them. I believe that when the time comes, Xue Yantuo will definitely be grateful to my Datang. ”
- Humph! Xue Yantuo, a steppe wolf who is more bloodthirsty than the Turks, according to the previous historical track, in order to deal with the Eastern Turks, Li Shimin secretly took the guerrilla general Qiao Shiwang as an envoy and canonized Yi Nan as the Zhenzhu Viga Khan, and gave him Qigu. Yi Nan sent envoys to pay tribute to Tang, and with the assistance of Li Tang, Hui Hui, Bayegu, Aqiu, Tongluo, Fugu, Xia and other tribes betrayed the Eastern Turkic Lingli Khan, all of whom were subordinate to Xue Yantuo. Subsequently, Li Tang and Xue Yantuo attacked the Eastern Turks together and defeated the Eastern Turkic Lili Khan, so Xue Yantuo dominated Mobei. Set up a tooth tent in the south of the Orhun River Yu Du Jun Mountain, winning 200,000 soldiers. The territory of the Khanate stretched from the Great Khingan Mountains in the east, to the Altai Mountains in the west, to the Hetao in the south, and to the Selenga River in the north. In order to distract the strength of Xue Yantuo's great leader, Yi Nan, Li Shimin ordered that the two sons of the Zhenzhu Viga Khan should be set up magnanly, and Tuli was lost as a small khan, and each gave a drum to divide its momentum; Therefore, it caused Yi Nan to be suspicious, so he provoked an incident, attacked Ashinasmo, and was pacified by Li Ji's army, and then, because Yi Nan died of illness, it was this sister-in-law who killed the eldest son of Yi Mang and set himself up as the Xue Sha Duomi Khan, and took advantage of Taizong's expedition to Goguryeo in Liaodong, rebelled against Li Tang, attacked Tang Xiazhou, and was defeated by Tang generals' loss of thinking power, which was not a fuel-efficient lamp. Moreover, from Chu Suiliang's words, Li Jiancheng heard that in the eyes of these Central Plains people, the threat of the northern grasslands to the Central Plains will never be taken seriously.
"Three Aiqing, this matter is very important, plus Princess Ashina Yunge has come, I decided to bring this Princess Ashina Yunge back to Chang'an first, and hold a grand ceremony of concubines......" As soon as Chu Suiliang heard that a grand ceremony was going to be held, he immediately knelt down to Li Jiancheng:
"Your Majesty, this woman is just an ordinary Turkic barbarian, if the concubine ceremony is too grand, I am afraid it will cause dissatisfaction among the people of Chang'an again." Li Jiancheng knew that there was some truth in what Chu Suiliang said, but Li Jiancheng knew that when the time came, Chu Suiliang would definitely return to the grassland again to contact the Khitan, Xue Yantuo, and Yan Ya to buy slaves? Li Jiancheng can think of it with his ass, and it will be strange if the Lili Khan doesn't do anything out of it when the time comes. Chang'an, Taiji Palace, Cao Yuyan stroked her belly. The heart is very depressed, on the one hand, Cao Yuyan is pregnant, and pregnant women are the most susceptible to emotional influences, on the other hand, Cao Yuyan has heard that Li Jiancheng personally led people to the border to meet Princess Ashina Yunge, and soon there will be one more woman in this palace who is competing for his favor, and it is strange that Cao Yuyan's heart can be happy. Not only that, Cao Yuyan also heard that Li Jiancheng had already issued an order to seal that Turkic woman as the second grade of Zhaorong, and after returning to the palace, a grand ceremony of concubines was held, and she had been in the palace for so long, and she was just a beauty of the fourth grade, but the Turkic barbarian woman had a Zhaorong, which made Cao Yuyan's heart feel comfortable. At this time, Cao Yuyan's personal palace maid secretly came to Cao Yuyan's side:
"!"
"Oh! It's Hui'er! What's the matter? "Hui'er is the son of the original Qilu Cao family, because Li Jiancheng ascended the throne, Cao Yuyan was pregnant, Cao Yuyan missed her hometown on the grounds that she missed her hometown, and the Cao family also sent Hui'er into the palace, on the one hand, it can be convenient to pass on the news, on the other hand, Hui'er's appearance is not bad, and the patriarch of the Cao family hopes to have one more person by Li Jiancheng's side. Hui'er looked around:
"Niangniang, the master arranged for someone outside the palace to send a secret letter, please watch it!" Hui'er handed Cao Yuyan a secret letter. Cao Yuyan unfolded the letter - Yuyan Wu'er, I heard that my son has been pregnant with His Majesty's dragon seed, I am very happy for my father, and the hope of my family's re-prosperity lies in my son, in addition, Your Majesty's concubine is already known to my father, my son does not have to worry, as long as my son is happy with Lin'er and gives birth to the emperor's grandson for Li Tang, everything is fine! After Cao Yuyan read the letter, she crumpled it into a ball and said to Hui'er:
"Okay, the mourners have finished reading this letter, and swallow it for the mourners." Hui'er didn't dare to disobey, so she directly stuffed the paper ball into her mouth and swallowed it. After a few days of travel, Li Jiancheng and Princess Ashina Yunge's carriage entered Chang'an City together, but the people of Chang'an City did not have much enthusiasm for the arrival of Princess Ashina Yunge, and after shouting long live to Li Jianchengshan, they looked at Princess Ashina Yunge's car coldly.
"Look! That's the Turkic princess's car! ”
"Hey! The barbarian woman also went to our Li Tang court. ”
"Okay, don't say it again, didn't the emperor explain it to us at the beginning? What else do you say, do you have to marry our princess or a woman from a good family to the grassland, and let other people's parents and children be separated......" The discussion of the surrounding Chang'an people did not affect the mood of Princess Ashina Yunge, Ashina Yunge's eyes are now full of the towering walls of Chang'an City, and there are so many people. and a lively market. 'This is Chang'an, is this the legendary Chang'an?' How can I see that there are so many people, and how can those people look at him so supportively. Originally, Princess Ashina Yunge had been holding her personal saber these days, thinking that if Li Jiancheng dared to force herself, she would kill Li Jiancheng, and if she couldn't kill Li Jiancheng, she would commit suicide. However, Li Jiancheng never came to harass him. This couldn't help but arouse the interest of Princess Ashina Yunge, who has always been conceited about her beauty. On that day, Li Jiancheng had seen his beauty again, but Li Jiancheng had never looked at himself on the way from Yan'an to Chang'an. I also heard a maid who was fluent in Turkic and Chinese say: Li Jiancheng only sealed himself a Zhaorong, and it was the canonization of his father, Emperor Taishang Li Yuan. This attracted the attention of Princess Ashina Yunge - in the Turkic steppe, whether it was a woman who was captured or a woman who was picked up by her relatives, as long as she arrived at the camp, her father and brother immediately pounced on her like a hungry wolf! On the day of the canonization ceremony, Princess Ashina Yunge wore a red wedding dress, under the leadership of the court lady sent by Li Jiancheng, from the royal road of the Vermilion Bird Gate, walked into the Taiji Palace, Li Jiancheng led the queen Zheng Wanzhen and the concubine Yang Yan in front of the palace gate of the Xuanzheng Hall of the Taiji Palace, and when Princess Ashina Yunge came, Li Jiancheng gave a look to the Duke Mingyu beside him, and the Mingyu Duke understood and shouted directly:
"Feng Ashina's Yunge is the nine concubines of the Tang Dynasty, Zhaorong, and is ranked in the second rank. Please Zhaorong Niangniang Ashina Yunge thank you! Bestow the house of the wind. After hearing this, the female officer next to Ashina Yunge Zhaorong explained it to Ashina Yunge Zhaorong in Turkic language, and after Ashina Yunge Zhaorong heard the words of the female officer next to him, he immediately knelt down to Li Jiancheng, and the female officer next to him replied:
"Concubine, Ashina Yunge Zhaorong has thanked the emperor for his grace! Long live the emperor, long live, long live! "When Ashina Yunge Zhaorong thanked him, Mingyu's father-in-law asked the eunuchs around him to give Ashina Yunge the Zhaorong treasure book, and when the palace maid next to Ashina Yunge put away the treasure book, Mingyu's father-in-law continued to shout:
"Please Zhaorong Niangniang to pay homage to the queen's mother, the concubine Niangniang!" After hearing this, the female officer next to Ashina Yunge Zhaorong explained it to Ashina Yunge Zhaorong in Turkic language, and after Ashina Yunge Zhaorong heard the words of the female official next to him, he immediately knelt down to Empress Zheng Wanzhen and Concubine Yang Yan, and the female officer next to him shouted to Empress Zheng Wanzhen and Concubine Yang Yan:
"Zhaorong Ashina Yunge see the queen mother, the concubine mother, I wish the queen mother, the concubine mother a thousand years old, a thousand years old!" After Ashina Yunge finished saluting, Li Jiancheng stepped forward and stretched out his hand to Ashina Yunge:
"Aifei, come with me!" Li Jiancheng took Ashina Yunge's hand and walked into the main hall together, Emperor Li Yuan was sitting on the throne of the main hall, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military were standing on both sides, and Mingyu's father-in-law shouted loudly:
"Your Majesty brings Xinna's Zhaorong to see the Emperor." Li Yuan smiled and looked at Li Jiancheng and Ashina Yunge Zhaorong kneeling and kowtowing to him. The ministers of civil and military affairs on both sides, Li Tangzong's relatives and relatives congratulated Li Jiancheng and said:
"Congratulations to Your Majesty." At this time, a person who looked like a palace maid ran into the hall in a panic:
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty...... Mingyu's father-in-law scolded loudly:
"Bold! Licentious! Li Jiancheng saw the palace maid and found that it was Cao Yuyan's personal palace maid Hui'er:
"Hui'er, what's wrong, so panicked!"
"Your Majesty, our beautiful lady suddenly had abdominal pain, and the imperial doctor said that she might be about to give birth."