"Today, a Turkic mission is visiting...... He specially sent Shi Jingwen, a servant in the palace, to go to the Turks to discuss trade between the two countries with the title of Jingjie. ”

The edict reviewed the history of exchanges between the two countries, and they were all selected to say. And this holy decree made countless people blush, and they had no friendship with the Turks. Even if you count a few dynasties up, the Central Plains Dynasty and the grassland peoples don't have any good friendship! Therefore, the friendship on this edict is all stiff. As for the actual friendship, let everyone make up for it themselves.

And the most important content is that Jingwen was treated as an envoy, granted a festival, and then sent out to discuss trade with the Turks. And Jingwen immediately shouted something that would definitely not insult the mission, and then he was going to go out to be this envoy diplomat. Although Jingwen has never been a diplomat, it is the first time for everything! Anyway, this time it's better to accumulate experience.

"The emperor has an order, the envoy Jingwen, and the deputy envoy Zhao Boyan will see the emperor in the Ganlu Palace!" The eunuch in the palace said.

According to tradition, every time an envoy went out to visit Wèn, the emperor would summon him. In fact, this has been the case since ancient times, and summoning an envoy is not only an emphasis on the envoy, but also a kind of etiquette to a foreign country, showing that he values him. At this time, the emperor will also assign some tasks, that is, what the envoy will do this time, and will tell the envoy about his bottom line, so that the envoy will notice that the negotiation process should not be lower than his bottom line.

As for this Zhao Boyan, he is Jingwen's deputy on this mission, and he is a Shaoqing of Honglu Temple. Originally, this Honglu Temple Shaoqing was a fifth-grade official, but now he actually wants to be a deputy for the seventh-rank official. But he was not happy at all, because he was sent by Li Daozong, the king of Rencheng, to envoy to the Turks, and obviously he didn't want to envoy to the Turks, he was forced!

"Chen Jingwen (Zhao Boyan), I've seen the emperor!" Jingwen and Zhao Boyan saluted together.

"Excuse me, do you know what happened when I came to you this time?" Li Shimin asked.

Jingwen immediately said: "Please make it clear to the emperor!" ”

Li Shimin said: "I came to you this time to arrange a mission. ”

Jingwen also knew that he was afraid that Li Shimin was going to arrange the task, but he just didn't know if the task was difficult or not, and whether he could complete it. If you can't do it, will you give yourself an account to the Turks? Therefore, Jingwen was also muttering in his heart.

"There are several missions this time. First, that is, to bring the sovereignty of Dingxiang City! Li Shimin said.

Jingwen couldn't help but secretly complain, this first task is a task that is not easy to complete. Dingxiang City is actually Jingwen's fiefdom, but now it is occupied by the Turks. The Turks also regarded Dingxiang County as their own companion capital, where was it so easy to come back? The ancients all said that if you want to return to the country, you must exchange blood for it.

Jing Wen didn't have this self-confidence, and he was confident that he would be able to return to a city that was regarded as a companion by the enemy. Accompanying the capital is extremely important for any country. I have never heard of a country that would cede its capital, and if the enemy really wants to force this government to cede its capital, I am afraid that a weak government will fight to the death. What's more, this Turk is not a soft persimmon, and it is impossible for them to really hand over Dingxiang City.

"Your Majesty, this is too difficult!" Jingwen pleaded.

"This is your fiefdom, don't you want to come back? What's more, I didn't ask you to really let the Turks withdraw from this Dingxiang, I just asked you to let the Turks admit that Dingxiang City belonged to our Tang Dynasty. Li Shimin said.

Jingwen deserves to be a descendant, and they immediately understood what Li Shimin meant. Li Shimin's meaning is obvious, that is, sovereignty has been established first. According to the theory of the rule of the state, sovereignty and governing power are two different things. Sovereignty is equivalent to ownership, the highest level of power. And the right to govern is actually equivalent to the right to use, no matter how you use it, it will eventually belong to the owner.

Just like the Manchu Qing Dynasty in later generations, although a lot of land was "leased" to foreign countries, the sovereignty still belonged to China and was not ceded. Later, China gradually recovered these lands on the grounds that sovereignty belonged to China.

Now, of course, Li Shimin knew that it was impossible to get the Turks to withdraw from Dingxiang, so he could only retreat to the second best thing and wanted to establish sovereignty first. As long as the sovereignty is established, it will be much easier to get it back in the future, that is, legal.

Because theoretically speaking, Dingxiang City was not actually snatched by the Turks from the hands of the Tang Dynasty. Dingxiang was actually the warlord at the end of the Sui Dynasty when the troubled times, the Turks wanted to pass from Liu Wuzhou, and the princess Yicheng of the Sui Dynasty, that is, the Turkic Kedun, wanted to revive the Sui Dynasty, and then let the old and young of the Sui Dynasty establish the so-called imperial court in Dingxiang. However, the real power was in the hands of the Turks, so it was transformed into a Turkic companion capital.

In fact, Datang did not really send troops to occupy Dingxiang, so there is some ambiguity in terms of sovereignty. The ancient national consciousness did not really rise, so if the Turks insisted that Dingxiang was obtained from Liu Wuzhou and had nothing to do with the Tang Dynasty, then it would be impossible.

As a generation of heroes, how could Li Shimin make this inherent territory of China not belong to the Tang Dynasty? Even if it's just a small county, that's not going to work. However, at present, it is not possible to really take it back, so it can only want to establish sovereignty first, and then temporarily cede the power of governance to the Turks.

This is also a helpless way, although it will also be a humiliation to give up the right to govern, but it is better than giving up sovereignty and power to others. If sovereignty is ceded to others, then I am afraid that there will be no legal basis for wanting to get it back in the future.

Again, now Li Shimin did not expect that three years later, there would be a heavy snowstorm in Turkia. At that time, the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Turks at one time, and only then did they directly recover the land. Now Li Shimin still thinks that the Turks and the Tang Dynasty will have a long-term tug-of-war, so he wants to establish sovereignty first, so as to provide a legal basis for returning to Xiangcheng in the future.

"Your Majesty, the minister must live up to his mission!" Jingwen said immediately.

Jingwen also felt that this is the dignity of the country. If you can't even get back the sovereignty of your own country, it can be said that you are truly losing your power and humiliating the country. Jingwen suddenly had a sense of mission now, and he finally felt the pressure of the mission of those diplomats in the late Qing Dynasty.