Chapter 29: The Uighur Princess
The edict said that the Uighur princess was welcomed at the beginning of May of the 19th year of Chengsheng, and it was already the end of April when Li Yao came to Mazhou Pass, and it seemed that the Uighur princess was coming soon.
These days, Li Yao is mainly busy with horses, the military horses eliminated by the army are particularly obedient, because they are old horses, so they are more docile, these horses are used to plough the land, and novice rides are particularly good.
After the horses were purchased, Lin Qing personally took hundreds of herdsmen to send horses to Li Yao, which made Li Yao feel that this Lin Qing would come to trouble.
The ten reconnaissance squads that were scattered at the beginning also came back one after another, and according to their reports, the second prince did return to the royal capital, and the nearby county town was still the same as usual, and there was not much change. Other than that, no useful information was detected.
Now, I can only wait with peace of mind, waiting to meet my future wife.
As soon as Li Yao was about to go out for a walk, Bu Xingchao walked up to him, "Master Hou, the Uighur envoy is here!" ”
When Li Yao heard this, he said, "Bring him here!" ”
The Uighur envoy came in and said, "Is the Marquis here to welcome our Uighur princess to the capital of the Qi king?" ”
Li Yao smiled and said, "Your Uighur princess has been betrothed to me by my father, tell you Uighur princess, come here if you want to marry, and leave if you don't!" I don't have much time to wait! ”
The Uighur envoy's face changed, and he said, "Didn't you say that it was good, how could we, the Uighur princess and the prince of Qi, be married to you!" ”
Li Yao didn't pay any attention to him, and Bu Xingchao saw that Li Yao didn't want to deal with the Uighur envoys, so he said: "The meaning of the King of Qi has already been conveyed to you by the Hou Ye, whether or not you Uighurs choose to make peace or not is your business, now please go back!" ”
The Uighur envoy was not reconciled and said, "Master Hou, can I ask what is going on?" ”
Li Yao still didn't pay attention to him.
The Uighur envoy had no choice but to be unwillingly 'invited' out by the Buxing Dynasty, and then hurried back to explain the situation.
Li Yao didn't deliberately remain silent, but he didn't know what to say, he couldn't say it, my father wanted to fight your country, so he promised your princess to me!
Buxingchao sent the Uighur envoy away, and when he returned, he said, "Master Hou, what are you going to do now?" What if the Uighur princess doesn't come and kiss? ”
"Uighur princess?" Li Yao smiled and said: "What's wrong with the Uighur princess, foreign women are the least valuable, princesses are counted by piles, what is a princess!" I don't believe she'll come! ”
The news brought back by the Uighur envoy did shock the Uighur royal family, the Uighur princess was about to arrive at Mazhou Pass, if she was allowed to come back at this time, wouldn't it be more embarrassing for the Uighur royal family, and the war in Tibet was approaching, so it was necessary to let the Qi country remain neutral for the time being, so they could only use the dead horse as a live horse doctor and marry the princess to Ning Hou, but fortunately, there was a Hou Ye on the other side, who was the favorite son of the Qi king, and it was not a shame to marry the Uighur princess, so the Uighur royal family decided to still make peace with the Qi country, but the object of peace became Ning Hou.
Sure enough, as Li Yao predicted, the Uighur princess still came, but what Li Yao didn't expect was that the Uighur princess's dowry was so abundant.
5,000 Dawan horses, 5,000 ploughing oxen, 5,000 sheep. This dowry really solved a big problem for Li Yao. Now Li Yao doesn't have to worry about the problem of fiefdom reclamation.
The Uighur princess had 200 guards and 300 herdsmen, a total of 500 men, driving tens of thousands of cattle to stand outside the city. Li Yao, under the protection of an army of 10,000, slowly walked out of the city, according to the etiquette law of Qi State, the princess and the princess should not have more than ten guards at any time, that is, these two hundred, except for the maids, only ten people can be left to guard. Herdsmen are not considered guards and can follow.
Under the strong pressure of the Qi Kingdom, the Uighur princess brought only ten guards, and only ten maids. Now that the princess has received it, Li Yao is going back to the fiefdom to get married.
Without summoning, the princes were not allowed to go to the royal capital, so even if Li Yao got married, he had to return to the fiefdom to complete the marriage. Li Yao didn't go to see what the Uighur princess looked like, anyway, sooner or later, it would be his own, and he could see what he wanted in the future.
The Uighur envoy was going to follow Li Yao back, because he wanted to be a witness to his marriage, and Li Yao estimated that the royal capital would soon send someone to preside over the ceremony for him, after all, this was a flat wife, and the other party was still a Uighur princess, and this was Li Yao's first marriage, so it would definitely be more grand.
Now that the people had been received, Li Yao bid farewell to the Buxing Dynasty, led the reconnaissance group himself, and set out with the Uighur princess on the road back to the fiefdom.
When the reconnaissance team went back, it was not a scattering of stocking, but a regular follow-up of the large army, of course, there was still a reconnaissance company was scattered every day, after all, there were still 300 herdsmen to take care of, they could manage 5,000 cattle and sheep and 5,000 horses, Dawan horses, the breed is quite good, even the horses in Mazhou Pass are slightly inferior.
Dawan horses are also called sweat and blood horses, but Li Yao did not find particularly good sweat and blood horses in the horse group, but these ordinary Dawan horses can already complete the horses here in terms of speed and endurance, with these five thousand Dawan horses, the role of his own cavalry in the future is really immeasurable.
Su Feiguang's bandit troops also followed Li Yao, this was the first time they had seen so many horses, cattle and sheep, which really opened his eyes.
The journey back to the fiefdom was extremely smooth, and the bandit cottages on the road did not move, perhaps they were afraid of Li Yao's glorious record of defeating the bandit army composed of eight cottages on the road, so they did not come down this time to fight the tiger's beard.
Since the bandits did not come to rob, this also saved Li Yao a lot of things, Li Yao was too greedy for the five thousand horses and ploughing cattle, so he wanted to rush back to the fiefdom as soon as possible, and his intuition was that the Qi country was going to be in chaos, not only this time for the Uighurs, the eldest prince, the second prince, all kinds of eastward travel made Li Yao a little unclear, it seems that he is going to develop the military in a low-key manner. In troubled times, military strength is the only means of self-preservation.
After six days of hurrying, Li Yao finally returned to Yi County, when entering Yi County, Li Yao suddenly felt that the city wall of Yi County was not suitable for his future military layout, it seemed that he wanted to take a good rest for Yi County, this was his first fiefdom, but he could not be perfunctory.
When Li Yao returned to Yi County, Lin Qing had already sent 10,000 horses back to the fiefdom, and the county order was also using these 10,000 horses to reclaim wasteland.
Five thousand Dawan horses were placed in the green space with abundant water and grass in the east of Yi County, these are the treasures that Li Yao attaches the most importance to, but they can't be left with enough food and sleep!
After receiving the horses, cattle and sheep, the county commander said: "Master Hou, this time you got married, and the envoy sent by the royal capital has arrived, are you going to meet you?" ”
"All the messengers have been sent? So fast? Li Yao thought: "It seems that my cheap dad is really more anxious than me!" ”
Well, let's go meet the envoy of the royal capital, but don't be a eunuch again, then it will be a ruin!
Li Yao walked into the house and was surprised when he saw the messenger, why are you?