Yelu Jue smiled bitterly, lowered his voice, and said: "This is really a last resort, we suspect that some of you in the Tang Dynasty do not want us to return to the Tang Dynasty, and the Turkic Khan also has an ambush within your Datang, if this news reaches the ears of the Turkic Khan, my husband will die." ”

"Re-submission? ――Did you Khitan ever belong to our Tang Dynasty before? Lu Jinping raised his eyebrows and asked lightly.

He really didn't know about this, because he only knew that there was such a Khitan tribe, which was later the Jin Dynasty, but he didn't know much about the grievances between the Khitan and the Tang Dynasty, especially the relationship between the two sides in a specific time period.

In fact, before that, the Khitan and the Tang Dynasty were also good and bad, swaying back and forth between the Turks and the Tang Dynasty. Prior to this, the Khitan was subordinate to the Tang Dynasty, but later rebelled against the Tang Dynasty and united with the Turks to quell the rebellion. After quelling the rebellion, the Khitan actually fell to the Turks, surrendered to the Turks, and turned away from the Tang Dynasty. However, the Khitan did not have any good fruit to eat, and suffered extremely cruel slavery from the Turks.

Lu Jinping doesn't know much about this history, so he asked. But when these words heard Yelujue's ears, they were full of sarcasm, as if they were mocking the Khitan wall grass falling on both sides. made Yelujue's face flushed, his face was ashamed, he bit his red lips, and forced a smile and said: "It's our fault, so my husband Khan asked me to laugh and ask the Tang Dynasty for guilt, hoping to return to the Tang Dynasty and never rebel from generation to generation." ”

Lu Jinping nodded and said, "Of course, that's the best." However, I still have some doubts, since you are worried that someone in the imperial court may leak the news that you are going to submit to the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, it is not good for your husband, so why don't you worry about the assassin or other people in the Lingzhou Mansion who will find out the news and tell the Turkic Khan, then your husband is not just as dangerous? ”

"This is what my husband confessed, he said that Lingzhou Thorn Shi is very loyal, loyal to the Tang Dynasty, and will not do anything against the interests of the Tang Dynasty, because our Khitan submission to the Tang Dynasty will benefit both parties and do no harm. We can join forces against the Turks. That's why I came to look for the assassin history, but I didn't expect to see Prince Zhong, and God really helped me. ”

Lu Jinping smiled and said, "Then aren't you worried that I will leak the news to the Turkic Khan?" ”

Yelujue was slightly stunned. Then he smiled and said: "I'm afraid that the prince won't do such a bad thing, right?" You are the prince and the brother of the emperor, and you should know that we are looking forward to returning to the Tang Dynasty. How much of a benefit it is for both parties. At least you don't have to worry about the threat from our Khitan, and concentrate your forces on dealing with the Turks or Tibet, isn't it a good thing? ”

Lu Jinping nodded, lowered his head and muttered for a long time, then raised his head and said, "However, I only learned about this matter you said just now, and before I knew about it, I had already done another thing. That is, it was decided to ask the Turks for marriage and marry their princess. I guess Madame doesn't know about this, right? ”

Lu Jinping said this. I still weighed it in my heart, because since I had decided to intercede with the Khan, there was no way to hide this matter, and sooner or later it would reach the ears of the Khitan Khan, and of course it would also reach the ears of the Khan's wife, Yelu Jue.

Since Yelujie said just now, Khitan is looking forward to wanting to return to obedience, which means that he has rebelled before, and instead of rebelling again when she hears this news in the future, it is better to let her reweigh the pros and cons now. What's more, it's just that the Khan's wife came to talk about this matter, and there is no evidence, and it is unknown what kind of ghost they are fighting, so it is better to use this unconcealable matter as a test.

When Ye Lujue heard this, his face couldn't help but change greatly, and he looked at Lu Jinping in a daze, and the eager gaze in his eyes had disappeared without a trace. She turned her head to look at the few people sitting next to her, who had been humble, but now their expressions had changed to shock and disbelief.

For a while, there was silence in the teahouse, but Lu Jinping was sure from their reactions, that is, they really wanted to talk about it. If this matter really came from the idea of the Khitan Khan, it would be a good thing for the Tang Dynasty.

So Lu Jinping smiled and said: "Don't worry, madam, our Datang has never been reckless, we are peace-loving, whether it is with the Khitan or with the Turks, we don't want to meet each other, so there is no problem with the Khitan returning to the Tang Dynasty, and I believe that the Turks will not stop it." If he does, we'll do some way to dispel her, because if the Khan agrees to marry his Turkic princess, I'll be the Khan's brother-in-law. Don't look at the monk's face, look at the Buddha's face. ”

Yelujue smiled, smiled a little reluctantly, and whispered: "I don't know how much of Lord Zhong said these words from the heart? However, what I said was from my heart, we returned to the Tang Dynasty because we wanted to unite with the Tang Dynasty to deal with the Turks, not only to free our Khitan from the enslavement of the Turks, but also to recapture the vast territories occupied by the Turks. ”

Lu Jinping thought for a while and said: "That's it, as I personally welcome it very much, the Khitan will return to the Tang Dynasty, but this matter is very important, I don't count it, can I ask my wife to take a letter of resignation, I will send someone back to the capital to ask the emperor to decide." I wonder what Madame thinks? You are worried that there are Turkic things in the court, you can rest assured that the letter I sent can only be opened by trustworthy people, and the news will definitely not be leaked. ”

Yelujue thought about it, turned around and exchanged glances with those people, and saw that they all nodded slightly, then turned to look at Lu Jinping and said: "Okay, I'll write immediately, although the prince has promised not to leak the news, but I still want to sincerely tell you that this matter is related to my husband's life and safety, and the news must not be leaked." ”

Lu Jinping nodded and said, "I promise." ”

Lu Jinping has already thought about sending this letter directly to Li Longji, Longji is a Ming Jun, at least in the early stage, he must know the stakes of this matter, and he will not let the news leak.

At that moment, Yelujue asked the few people who followed him to take out paper and pens from their bags, spread them on the table, and wrote a letter with the pen flying. Then, he stamped the seal with the jade seal and handed it to Lu Jinping for a look.

After Lu Jinping read it, the letter expressed his desire to return to the Tang Dynasty, and emphasized that he hoped that the news would not be leaked before the Khitan Khan returned to the Khitan safely. Lu Jinping nodded and signaled that the letter could be used.

So Yelujue took the letter back, folded it, sealed it with wax, and then handed it to Lu Jinping with both hands.

Lu Jinping took it and said, "Madame, is she waiting for news or going back directly?" ”

Yelujue thought for a while and said, "I believe that the prince will definitely send this letter to the emperor as soon as possible, and I hope to be able to tell the emperor to reply as soon as possible, so I will still wait here." If your emperor replies to the Khitan, I don't know whose hands it will fall into. I'm still waiting here, waiting for the prince to hand over the emperor's reply to me. ”

"What are your plans after giving it to you?"

Yelujue hesitated for a moment, looked left and right, and said in a low voice: "If the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty allows us to return to the Tang Dynasty, then I will immediately send a message to tell my husband to find an opportunity to leave the battlefield and return to the Khitan." If we talk about the marriage between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks, we hope that the Tang Dynasty can send troops to garrison the Khitan to prevent the Turks from retaliating against the Khitan. ”

Lu Jinping smiled, thinking to himself that this is not the establishment of a military base? This is what the modern rice country does, the national strength is strong, and the interests are safeguarded, of course, there is no problem. nodded immediately: "The emperor has the final say on sending troops to the Khitan to help defend against the Turks, but I will try my best to persuade the emperor to do so, don't worry, this is also good for our Datang." ”

Yelujue clenched his fists and arched his hands and said, "Okay, I am waiting for the news of the lord, we will stay at the Beilai Inn in the east of the city, and if there is news, please come there to find me." ”

"I remember, madam, you go back first, I'll be here as soon as there is news."

Yelujue reluctantly withdrew his gaze from Lu Jinping's handsome face, turned around and wanted to walk out, but after taking two steps, he stood again, looked back at him, bit his red lip lightly, and said, "I have a word to tell you, and I ask the prince to consider it carefully." ”

"Madame, please."

"The Turkic Khan is capricious, even if he is friendly with Datang, he will also fight against him, before this, didn't he fight with Datang again, good and fight? Counting it up, he is still the Turkic Khan or the nephew of your emperor of the Tang Dynasty, isn't it the same as sending troops to attack the Tang Dynasty with such a deep relationship? What if you marry a Turkic princess? For the sake of the interests of the Turkic tribes, he will not take his sister's marriage seriously at all, so don't take this matter too seriously. ”

Lu Jinping didn't know what Yelujue said about the fact that the Turkic Khan had asked the Tang Emperor to accept him as his righteous son. This is still in the period of Wu Zetian, just became a Turkic khan, in order to consolidate his position and strengthen his power, he once sent envoys to Wu Zetian to ask him to accept him as a righteous son, and Wu Zetian immediately agreed and gave him a canonization.

He relied on the power of the Tang Dynasty, so that the tribal chieftains who were half-hearted towards him did not change their disobedience to him, thus consolidating his position. It's just that after his position was consolidated, he still raised troops to attack the Tang Dynasty, and his son beat Lao Tzu, and the fight was not ambiguous at all.

Although Lu Jinping doesn't know this history, he knows that soldiers are not tired of cheating, no matter who it is, the Turks are like this, and the Tang Dynasty in Middle-earth is not like this? Including the Khitan, they are also going back on their word, and they will make different choices according to the change of the situation, which has nothing to do with morality, and is purely for their own interests. To paraphrase that phrase, there are no permanent friends, and there are no permanent enemies. (To be continued.) )