Chapter 398: Changle (I)

As the eldest princess of the Tang Dynasty, Changle was obviously born illustrious, and since she was born, she has had an almost perfect family in this era, although as a princess of the royal family, she was born to learn a lot of things and have a lot of rules, but which lady in this era is not like this?

At least she has a father and mother who love her, so Changle's life is very happy, although there are many things to learn every day, until more than half a year ago, her father came back from a mission, and brought a piece of news that made Changle a little unbelievable.

That is, her father has already set her a marriage, and it is not like other princesses to marry those ministers or gate valve families, but like Zhaojun, the king of the Han Dynasty, she wants to marry! Marry Far Away in the Western Regions! Married to a leader of a big man, named Huo Gang.

When she first got the news, Changle's whole person was broken, her heart was full of fear and hesitation, she had a husband teach her to read when she was very young, although she was not very old, but she was already literate and read, and had read a lot of books, such as Wang Zhaojun's story, Changle naturally read.

For Changle, she has seen the story of the folk Zhaojun out of the fortress, Wang Zhaojun took the initiative to petition for the Han to marry the Xiongnu, built a bridge for the peace between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu, etc., she watched a good story, and it is these stories that the little girl naturally likes to watch.

But as a princess, she needs to read not only the story, but also receive formal history education, for example, she knows that Wang Zhaojun in history did not take the initiative to petition, and even did not seek peace with the Xiongnu, because Wang Zhaojun's era was the most powerful peak period of the Western Han Dynasty, and the Xiongnu Shan Yu she married had already belonged to the Han Dynasty and became a vassal of the Han Dynasty.

And she was just a palace maid that Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty gave to King Shan Yu of the Xiongnu at will, nothing more. Naturally, her role is not as great as in folk tales.

But there were many princesses in the Han Dynasty, so Changle knew that the real role of these princesses and relatives was to stabilize the relationship between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu.

As the princess of the Tang Dynasty, she needs to receive such an education, but although she also accepts the education of patriotism and loyalty, and she also understands the responsibility of being a princess, but as a girl, what she really cares about is the terrible thing about marrying a nomad, such as when the husband she married dies, she has to marry her son, even if it is a nominal son.

This kind of thing is very terrible for a girl, at least this is what her current education looks like, if she didn't quite understand what it meant at that time, but she knew that when she went to the grassland, she couldn't even take a bath for a few months, she didn't have vegetables to eat, she could only eat meat, and she lived in a tent built in the open air.

Such an environment always makes her collapse.

So when her father informed her, she was extremely frightened and at a loss, because she not only had to face such an experience, but also had to stay away from her father, queen mother, and all familiar people and things around her, such as her brother and sister.

Until her queen mother told her that Huo Gang was not the same as those Turks and Huns, he was not a Turkic but a Han Chinese, not only was he not a Turk, but he also defeated all the Turks in the Western Regions and had to surrender to his tribe, and he was just trying to save the thousands of people who followed him.

He led more than 1,000 cavalry, killed hundreds of thousands of Turkic tribes and abandoned their armor, and finally surrendered to him.

And not only that, he also led these people and the surrendered Turks to take root in the Western Regions and establish a powerful power on his own, and the source of all this is that he wants to lead more than a thousand people to live.

It is said that his ancestor was the Han hussar general Huo Quai, and he was as heroic as his ancestors, a big hero.

Huo Gang's experience has all the fantasies that a girl has about her future husband, and Changle is naturally no exception, although her father seems to have it, but compared to Huo Gang, her father at least has a strong army and so on, she thinks so.

And then, on the way to Dahan by the envoy group, Changle thought a lot, and at that time, those county lords, county lords and other little sisters who were about the same grade as her talked more about sympathy, and even her mothers and aunts were poor Changle when they saw her.

At that time, Changle had already accepted her fate, although she was unhappy, but she knew that, just like the history books said, this is the responsibility and mission of being a princess, and she didn't see that the ministers of the previous court would take the initiative to salute her after seeing her, and call Her Royal Highness the princess with a serious expression.

They didn't have this attitude before, although they also greeted her, but she knew that those ministers greeted her very casually, but at that time it was different.

It was at that moment that Changle realized that her existence might be like this in her life, although she thought about what that hero-like man was like, maybe he was a hero, but just like her little sister said, the Western Regions was too bitter, it was said that she couldn't even eat enough, and it would always be yellow sand, and she might not even be able to take a bath for a year.

And this kind of thing lasted until the envoy came back after the winter, and after the Han people who followed the envoy came back to Chang'an, everything changed. Not to mention the things that Huo Gang sent, especially the mercury mirror, the kind of unprecedented, incomparably clear mirror was the first time Changle saw his own appearance very clearly.

That kind of mirror set off a huge trend in the entire palace and in the whole Chang'an City, and the whole Chang'an City was sensational because of the mercury mirror, and all the sisters who had seen her in the past and said words of sympathy for her ran over, their faces were excited, and they all wanted more mirrors from her.

Even her mother, and those aunts were no exception, and then many of the father's ministers outside the palace and the ladies and ladies were looking for all kinds of relationships with her and wanted to buy mirrors.

If it weren't for the fact that the queen mother personally made her decide to hand over the business to a shopkeeper in charge of running the mercury mirror business that that person sent him, I guess she would be embarrassed to refuse these people, or maybe she would have to give these mirrors.

It's just that even if the business is handed over to the other party, there are still countless people who want to have a relationship with her, climb friendships, and even a little girl sister who is just five years younger than her comes over to ask her for more mirrors.

It was the first time she felt at a loss when she was so old, even more helpless than when she just got the news that she was going to marry the Western Regions, because everyone around her seemed to be very enthusiastic, extremely enthusiastic, and everyone spoke very nicely, and she was embarrassed to praise her.

Some of the county lords who had not dealt with her before spoke to her more and more nicely, and they all complimented her, Changle knew this, and she didn't know anything. Do these people think it's okay to compliment her?

Changle remembered their previous faces, so although she was very happy on the surface, she also gave them some places, after all, they were also their relatives, and some face still had to be given, but although she wanted to give face, she still let her maids go out of the palace and told the shopkeeper that these people came to buy, and the others who got the places were sold at a low price.

And these people, up to 30% of the money! Let them always speak ill of themselves behind their backs.

But even so, they actually took the initiative to say good things to themselves, and they were happy and thanked themselves at the same time, although they may still scold themselves behind their backs, but looking at them like this, they feel happy, hum! Do you think she's young and doesn't understand anything?!

It's just that these are not as strange as the strange things he gave himself, such as his portrait, although he is ...... It's a little handsome, but how can this person be so shameless to give himself a portrait of him? And let myself send him a portrait.

Also, who knows if he painted himself better, maybe the real person is uglier than the portrait! In addition, she liked the music box he made for her, she liked it so much, she never thought that there was such an exquisite box in the world.

Although the two villains on it were very embarrassing, she didn't resist showing it off to the other sisters just once, they all wanted it! Hum! It is said that they all went back to find the most powerful craftsmen in Chang'an City, but no one can say that this box is made.

Even his father found the craftsmen in the palace, but after seeing his delicate box, the other party also said that he could not do anything.

And these are actually made by that person's own hands, why does he feel that he can do anything?

And there are also those books he sent, especially the mathematics, which Datang calls arithmetic, she has learned a lot, and now her arithmetic teacher doesn't dare to teach her, and even wants her to teach him.

Everything he sent, as well as his letter, seemed to open a big, new world to Changle, a world she had never seen before, in his letter, it turned out that the Western Regions was not only desolate and endless yellow sand.

There was also the meandering river, and the incomparably handsome horses like Red Cloud, and the huge Condor that could understand and even catch a sheep and fly in the sky, and many more, these were stories that she had never seen before, or even heard of.

There are snow-capped mountains over there, flocks of sheep all over the mountains, and people who also live in the Western Regions, which are obviously similar to what she knew before, but I don't know why, Changle suddenly felt that it seemed that the Western Regions he described were also very beautiful.