Chapter 366: The Upper Kingdom and the Lower Kingdom

The Empress Xiao of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was born in the Lanling Xiao family, a political and cultural family in the Middle Ages. His father was Emperor Xiao Yue of Western Liang Xiaoming, and his mother was Empress Zhang. Datang's current Shangshu left servant shoots Xiao Yu, who is her younger brother.

After Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian established the Sui Dynasty, he chose her as the concubine of Yang Guang, the king of Jin. Empress Xiao was gentle and intelligent, knowledgeable and courteous, and knew a lot about medicine, and was quite familiar with the marquis, and won the favor of Emperor Wen and his wife and her husband Yang Guang, gave birth to three sons and one daughter, and made great contributions to Yang Guang's succession. After Yang Guang ascended the throne, although Empress Xiao was over forty years old, he was still favored and respected. Yang Guang had many immorality after that, and Xiao Hou's admonition was fruitless. After Yang Guang was killed, Empress Xiao, who was in his fifties, took his young grandson and the daughters of the royal family, and successively lived in the rebel Yu Culture and Dou Jiande, and Princess Yicheng welcomed him to the Eastern Turks.

Because of the beauty of his life, in his previous life, Xiao successively experienced the traitorous Xiangyu culture of Emperor Yang Guang of Sui, the traitorous Xiangyu culture of Emperor Yang Guang, the rebel warlord Xia King Dou Jiande, the Turkic Luo Khan, and the current Jieli Khan. In the original history, after the Tang Dynasty defeated Jieli, Li Jing welcomed the Xiao family back to the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin was fascinated by its beauty, and did not mind Xiao's age, and also included him in the harem. For this reason, Li Shimin is also quite criticized.

However, these things are very vague in the official history, and it has never been explicitly stated that the Xiao family has been possessed by so many men. It's just that the Xiao family lived in the place of those six "emperors". But this "residence" is very intriguing. There are so many beauties in the palace of the Sui Dynasty, why don't those men who are either British lords or traitors take other women to live in their own places, but take the Xiao family. It's no wonder that Wild History directly said that she had six husbands in her life.

As far as Xiao Shi himself is concerned, she has been displaced all her life and is also a hard-working woman. It's quite sympathetic.

Zhao Yunze was looking at Xiao. Xiao Shi is sixty-two years old this year, but his face and figure are like a woman in her thirties. The face is extremely beautiful, and between the eyebrows, eyes, nose and lips, there are naturally thousands of styles. The pig-killing knife of the years also fell to this woman. This woman is simply a treasure given by God to the world, Zhong Lingyuxiu in Jiangnan, all concentrated on this woman.

After Xiao was received by Princess Yicheng to the Turks, Ben and his grandson Yang Zhengdao lived in Dingxiang. Today, it appears in Jieli's tooth tent, which is quite intriguing. What is the purpose of Jieli doing this?

"Datang is making Wen Yanbo"

Wen Yanbo suddenly spoke up, making Zhao Yunze come back to his senses, and he hurriedly arched his hand towards Jieli and said, "Zhao Yunze, the deputy envoy of the Tang Dynasty."

"I have led the officials of the mission to see the Khan," Wen Yanbo said with Zhao Yunze.

Without waiting for Jieli to speak, Zhao Deyan, who was sitting at the front of Jieli's lower left, suddenly stood up.

"Dare to ask the two envoys, your courtiers of the Tang Kingdom pay homage to the king, but they bow down," Zhao Deyan asked.

"Naturally." Wen Yanbo said.

"Then I, the Turkic Khan, is also a monarch, and as a foreign minister, shouldn't you bow down to my Great Khan," Zhao Deyan asked.

Wen Yanbo smiled slightly and said: "Although the Khan is a monarch, the state is divided into upper and lower clans, and the envoys of the upper kingdom do not kneel down to the king of the country, and the etiquette system is like this, please forgive us for not bowing down to the Great Khan." ”

"What Lord Wen said about the country is divided into upper and lower countries, and I remember that when the Tang Dynasty was founded, the lord of the country, Li Zhiyuangong"

Oops, this guy is going to talk about Li Yuan's former vassal to the Turkic Luo Khan.

When Zhao Yunze heard Zhao Deyan's words, he chuckled in his heart. He didn't wait for Zhao Deyan to finish speaking, and immediately grabbed the words and said: "When the Tang Dynasty was founded, the Turkic lord was Luo Khan. If I am not mistaken, Luo Khan accepted the title of Great Sui back then. In other words, the Turks were vassal states of the Great Sui in the Central Plains. Now, my Tang Dynasty inherits the Sheji of Sui, and the vassal status of the Turks and the Tang Dynasty is naturally the same as when Chu Luo Khan was in power. Isn't it very clear who is the upper kingdom and who is the lower kingdom?"

As soon as Zhao Deyan heard Zhao Yunze's words, he still wanted to argue, but as soon as he opened his mouth, before the voice came out, Wen Yanbo took Zhao Yunze's words and said: "As my deputy envoy of the Tang Dynasty, Zhao Xiaowei, said, the Turks are the vassals of the Tang Dynasty. It is precisely because the Tang Dynasty is the suzerainty of the Turks that His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty took pity on the hardships of the Turkic people and sent a certain envoy to negotiate with the lord of the country about increasing the border city. If it weren't for that, who wouldn't I sell my Datang things to, and why did I come all the way to the Turks?"

"Haha, the envoys of the Tang Dynasty are guests from afar, Taishi, don't care about the upper and lower countries."

Wen Yanbo's words mentioned the actual interests of the Turks, which made Jieli Khan immediately express his position.

Zhao Deyan's lips squirmed a few times, but he didn't say anything in the end.

Zhao Yunze once again saw Wen Yanbo's wisdom. The old man's year in the Turks was not in vain, and he was clear about the mercenary nature of the Turks. People directly used interests to coerce Jieli and acquiesced to the status of Datang. That's it, you always say that you can't stand up in front of the Turks

Now that a small turmoil has subsided, Wen Yanbo continued to walk down according to etiquette. He presented a letter of state to Jieli Khan of the Tang Dynasty. The book was written in both Chinese and Turkic.

After reading the national letter, Jieli said: "The noble envoy of the Tang Dynasty, Ben Khan has already received a note from the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple of your country in advance, and has read the letter of your country. Ben Khan was very much in favor of increasing the border cities. Your envoy has just arrived, and he will rest for a few days to enjoy the desert scenery. As for the matter of discussing the border market, it is not too late to discuss it later. ”

"All the ministers are in accordance with the Khan's arrangement." Wen Yanbo arched his hand towards Jieli and said.

Jieli suddenly turned his head and said to Xiao Shi: "Ke Dun, didn't you say that people who haven't seen the homeland of the Central Plains for a long time want to know about the affairs of the Central Plains, why don't you and Taishi Zhao arrange a resting place for the Tang Dynasty envoys?"

"The concubine obeys the orders of the Great Khan." Xiao Shi lightly opened his lips, and his voice was soft and soft, and the smell made people itchy and crispy.

It's really a stunner.,It's already a lot old.,It's still so fascinating.,If you're young.,It's not a sin, it's a heavy taste.

Zhao Yunze finally understood Jieli Khan's intention of letting Xiao accompany him to receive the mission. From this point of view, Jieli is also very fond of this Empress Xiao, who is nearly ten years older than himself, and the title of "Kedun" exposes the fact that Xiao's commitment to Jieli. Could it be that people who remember history also admire Xiao, so the vague writing about the six husbands in Xiao's life is the real goddess

After a simple set of meeting etiquette, Wen Yanbo and Zhao Yunze retired to Jieli Khan, led the envoys, and followed Zhao Deyan out of the big tent. Xiao also took two "palace maids" and went out of the big tent with everyone.

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