Chapter Forty-Eight: Wholesale of Jade Seals
Princess Yicheng stood in the middle of the tent in a daze, as if she was shocked by Queen Xiao's words. She didn't expect that her sister-in-law would turn against her at this juncture, and what she didn't expect was that Queen Xiao's heart was full of such resentment.
"Yicheng, at the beginning you came to pick me up from the grassland, I was really moved, I didn't expect you, a girl who married a steppe Turk, to ignore the anti-king from all walks of life at that time, and decided to come to rescue my sister-in-law in distress! But after arriving at the grassland, I realized that you decided to save my sister-in-law only because I had the heirloom jade seal in my hand! Ha ha...... When you got this thing, you actually offered me as a plaything to Jieli! I was so blind! Empress Xiao shed blood and tears, endured for many years, and finally broke out when she returned to the Central Plains.
Empress Xiao had a miserable life, although she was a princess of the Southern Liang Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties when she was young, but because she was born in February, she was regarded as unlucky, and she could only be raised by relatives such as uncles and uncles, and then grew up and married Yang Guang as his wife. She saw it more clearly and profoundly than those advisers and officials, and made a lot of contributions to Yang Guang's succession.
Emperor Yang was tyrannical, and Empress Xiao spoke out many times, but Emperor Yang disliked it. Later, in the troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang was killed in Jiangzhou, and the only people who were by Emperor Yang's side at that time were this beautiful queen and Emperor Yang's grandson Yang Zhengdao. At that time, Empress Xiao, a weak woman, pawned her jewelry under the gaze of countless anti-kings, only to exchange for a thin coffin to bury Emperor Yang of Sui.
After that, her fate was still bumpy, and she was exiled to Yu Wenhua and Dou Jiande. In the hands of Du Fuwei and others, except for the dignity of living with Du Fuwei, the rest of the years were reduced to the confinement of those anti-king dust. For the sake of young grandchildren. She blindly made compromises and forbearance, even if she paid more price, she did not reveal the slightest bit about her inheritance of the jade seal. It wasn't until Princess Yicheng came to greet her with Turkic soldiers from the steppe that Empress Xiao, who had always been lonely, told her sister-in-law, Princess Yicheng, the deepest secret in her heart, the secret about gold and jade. I didn't expect to be deceived again.
The people who followed Empress Xiao and Yang Zhengdao, who was still a child at the time, went into exile in the Turks, and these people worshiped Yang Zhengdao as the king of Sui. and got the canonization of Jieli. But he still couldn't get rid of the control of the Turks, and this so-called Sui king was actually a puppet.
In this way, ten years have passed, and Queen Xiao has been pretending to be obedient all these years. It wasn't until a few days ago that two grandmaster-level masters joined forces to attack the Turkic camp, and Empress Xiao saw the opportunity to see off the Turkic Taishang. Infiltrated the camp of Princess Yoshinari and Jieli. stole back the jade seal that was taken away from him. turned out to be discovered by Princess Yicheng, and then came to the door to ask for it. At that moment, the sky fell, and the entire Turkic king's tent was swallowed up by the deep cracks in the earth.
As for why the three of them did not die, but just fainted, until Li Kuan found them, it was all because Empress Xiao was too beautiful, and Jieli also occupied this beautiful woman, because Empress Xiao was born in Jiangnan. I was afraid of the cold weather outside, so I laid a thick carpet in the small felt tent that Jieli specially placed for her. It slowed down the tremor when the ground collapsed, and it was only then for the three of them to pick up a life. Most of the rest of the Turks were in the funeral procession, directly bearing the earth-shattering fission of the earth, and all died in that catastrophe.
Li Kuan saw the two women fighting, and he was full of interest, so he almost knocked the melon seeds in his hand. From Empress Xiao's words, Li Kuan knew that Princess Yicheng didn't have any good intentions to welcome Empress Xiao to the Turks, and she really had no relatives in heaven! As for the heirloom jade seal or something, Princess Yicheng, as the daughter of Emperor Wen of Sui, the former founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty, must know that the thing is in the hands of the emperor of the Sui Dynasty, and this princess dared to recommend herself and pro-Turkic back then, and she must also have a city in her heart, not a naïve woman. So she must have her own ambitions in her heart, and after learning that Emperor Yang was killed in Jiangzhou, her first reaction was that the jade seal representing the true son of heaven was the heirloom jade seal. With her understanding of her selfish second brother, such an important thing will definitely be kept close to her, and no one will be allowed to touch it. Therefore, after Yang Guang's death, this heirloom jade seal is most likely to be on Empress Xiao, who was waiting by Yang Guang's side at that time. This made her think, so that she would personally go to the Central Plains to meet her sister-in-law.
Of course, these are Li Kuan's own guesses, and he can't do it accurately, but he still stopped the conflict between the two women: "Okay, you two are now prisoners of this king, what are you arguing about?" Give this king a little quiet, or pull out and slap your mouth. It's really a pleasant thing to see that you are all beautiful and beautiful, and you have swollen and pretty faces! Haha......"
Li Kuan's laughter calmed down the two women, and they all turned their heads to look at His Royal Highness the Tang Dynasty Chu King who was sitting on the throne with a childish face.
"His Royal Highness the King of Chu, you must also know what the jade seal of the country represents for my Huaxia Dynasty, with this thing and your identity, when the time comes, maybe the person sitting at the highest place will be Your Highness!" Princess Yicheng looked at Li Kuan and said loudly.
"Sneer......" Empress Xiao, who was standing aside, let out a sneer: "Although I haven't seen the current emperor of the Tang Dynasty, but I have already heard of his prestige, this emperor is eloquent and strategic, and he is a rare figure in a thousand years, even from the clues of these years, this Emperor of the Tang Dynasty will definitely be able to guess that the jade seal of the country is in my hands." Moreover, the soldiers around His Royal Highness the King of Chu now must be your father's personal guards! Yoshinari: Do you think these people will rebel? Don't think everyone is stupid, okay? ”
"The jade seal of the country must be presented to my father, and you don't have to tempt me, this Wang Zhi is not on the throne, so that thing is just a decoration for me! And now the jade seal of the country has been on the way to Chang'an, and the Hongling envoy who is in an urgent hurry for eight hundred miles, the reason why I brought you here is mainly to know if there are any masters like the Turkic Taishang around Jieli, otherwise when Generalissimo Li Jing defeated the Turkic army, he ran away. Wouldn't it be a return to the mountains! Although it has been recorded in history that Jieli will be captured alive, after seeing the duel between the three grandmaster-level masters, Li Kuan no longer believes in the superstitious historical record. Because as long as there is a person with such skills around him, then if he kills Li Jing, the commander of the Tang Dynasty, among the ten thousand armies, Jieli will have a great chance to escape. So be sure to inquire clearly so that you can cope.
"How can there be too many such masters in this world, and the Turks are just like that!" Empress Xiao preemptively leaked the details of the Turks. Let Princess Yicheng, who wanted to scare Li Kuan on the side, glared at her angrily again.
"Oh! That's it! Li Kuan stopped talking, thinking about whether he still wanted to go to Dingxiang to witness the historical moment when Jieli was captured.
Without anything else to ask, Li Kuan motioned for the soldiers to take the three of them down. Then sit in the big tent in a daze. At this time, a jade seal suddenly appeared in his hand, which was carved with the pattern of nine dragons grabbing pearls, and one corner was replaced by gold. And under the jade seal, there are eight yang inscriptions engraved with the seal characters 'Ordered by the sky, both longevity and eternal prosperity'! The traces of red ink are stained with these quaint seal characters, showing a feeling of heaviness.
"This heirloom jade seal, I'm really not rare! You can have as many things as you want! Li Kuan muttered in a voice that only he could hear. With a flip of his hand, the jade seal disappeared between his palms.
Before I saw this heirloom jade seal. The system issued a task to find the jade seal of the heirloom country, and also gave a punishment for wiping out the host, but after finding it, Li Kuan found that this thing could actually be copied with energy points in the system. It seems that the main reason for the previous release of this task is that the fall of the Turkic royal court will change the course of history, and the system cannot make the same heirloom jade seal without a template, and this thing has a different meaning to the historical process, so there will be such a task. Now that there is a model, the genuine product was sent by Li Kuan, Xue Wanche and Tong Zhan with fifty Xuanjiawei soldiers to Chang'an. Presented to Li Er. Although Tong Zhan's temperament was a little violent, Xue Wanche could suppress it. Moreover, Comrade Lao Xue went all the way into the grassland with him this time, just to make up for the sins he committed back then, and once again rank in the court, so Li Kuan relieved to hand over this to him, which can be called the most important thing in Huaxia, and let him receive this credit. Since history has returned to the trajectory, it doesn't matter if the imitation is made, so as long as Li Kuan has energy, then it doesn't matter if he uses the heirloom jade seal as a floor tile to pave the floor, but it can't be used for outsiders. If Li Kuan is really forced to be in a hurry one day, he can also take countless heirloom jade seals and wholesale them to all the families of the Tang Dynasty at wholesale prices, ensuring that everyone can tell that this thing is fake! Of course, that was the worst-case scenario, and Li Kuan might never need it.
After resting for two days in this small town on the border of the grassland, Li Kuan estimated that Li Jing had attacked Dingxiang at about this time, and he decided to go and have a look.
Ordering the soldiers and horses, and taking his four prisoners, Li Kuan and his entourage of more than 180 people, more than 300 war horses headed towards Dingxiang, the snowflakes were still flying, the snow on the ground was getting thicker and thicker, and it was no longer possible to march at high speed on horseback. So the sleigh that Li Kuan prepared came in handy, without the knight of several hundred catties on his back, the speed of the war horse on the snow also accelerated, and the sleigh carried the baggage and the soldiers, and moved forward quickly on the snow. The howling cold wind blew all the faces red, and the blinding snow white was obscured by the black veil, so that the soldiers would not be stabbed in the eyes by the strong reflection of the snow.
It was still a few hundred miles from the town where Li Kuan was resting to Dingxiang, and the road was relatively calm, and there were almost no people except for the occasional wild beast. The Turks huddled in the city of Dingxiang, waiting for the snow to stop so that they could invade the Tang Dynasty and plunder. And Li Jing and the others had quietly approached Dingxiang City, and the large army responsible for receiving them had already set off under the leadership of Li Daozong and Li Shiji. Only Chai Shao is still staying in the camp, because this era is not like the historical record that Li Xiuning did not die in the hands of the Turks, so Chai Shao is still very relieved to stay in the camp of the army, preparing to welcome the return of the soldiers.
On this day, the sky finally cleared, and the clouds that shrouded the sky finally showed signs of dissipating. In Dingxiang City, Jieli began to order to prepare for cooking, and after eating this meal, the next meal will be eaten in Datang. For a while, wisps of cooking smoke began to rise in the city of Dingxiang, and lambs were slaughtered one by one, and then the most characteristic roast sheep of the Turks began to set up a fire. Although it was about to fall into the night, it still couldn't stop the Turks from wanting to enter the Central Plains to plunder, they were ready to set off tonight, enter the flower world of the Tang Dynasty earlier, and return to the grassland with countless grains, wealth and women earlier!
Outside the city, behind a hill several miles away from the city, a group of heavily armed Tang cavalry had been waiting for a long time, and they were also waiting, waiting for the moment when the sky was dark, and they would go out to harvest the lives of the Turks. (To be continued......)