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As early as many years ago, Li Yao had not yet traveled to Datang. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the Mobei area of the Tang border, that is, in today's Inner Mongolia, there is a tribe called the Turks, which often invade the border of the Yin Mountains in Mobei, and the Tang Dynasty naturally hates this Turkic and gathers an army to pursue the Turkic tribes.

The result is naturally the defeat of the Turkic tribes, the Khan Jieli of this tribe, even captured by the Tang army, so that the Turks perished, and the descendants of their tribes, since then did not dare to harass the Tang Dynasty in the Mobei area, Jieli Khan was also recruited by Tang Taizong at that time into Beijing, given a field house, awarded the right guard general, and died in Chang'an in 634 AD, Tang Taizong also gave Jieli to return to the righteous king at that time, said that the famine, with Turkic customs cremation.

Originally, with the death of Jieli, it can be said that it is impossible for the Turks to be difficult with the Tang Dynasty.

But after so many years of secret development, the nephew of the Turkic Khan Jieli, Tuli, is now openly rebelling, and established the "Post-Turkic Khanate" in the Mobei area, calling himself the Turkic Khan, and slowly developed in the Mobei steppe, and by 689 AD, the Later Turkic Khanate has expanded to the entire Mongolian Plateau.

At this time, the Tang Dynasty's military institution "Anbei Protectorate" on the Mongolian Plateau had to be forced to move south.

Eventually, the Anbei Protectorate moved to the Yinshan area, and also merged with the local Yunzhong Protectorate, which marked the end of the Tang Dynasty's rule in Mobei.

In the second year, that is, in 690 AD, Wu Zetian launched a coup d'état to pull Tang Ruizong Li Dan off the throne, she became the emperor herself, and changed the Tang Dynasty to Zhou, and turned the good Tang Dynasty into the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Therefore, Tuli was entangled in men and horses, and began to gather on the Yinshan border, and the war between the two countries was about to break out.

Mid-November 690 A.D.

That is, two months after Wu Zetian ascended the throne and became emperor, the Mobei area on the western border of the Great Zhou Dynasty finally came to the common people of the entire Great Zhou Dynasty who were deeply worried.

Half a month ago, the Tuli army had captured the Anbei Protectorate in Yinshan, and the thousands of people in the entire Anbei Protectorate and all the Great Zhou people in the Yinshan area were already controlled by Tuli, and Tuli used this as a threat to negotiate with Wu Zetian, so that Wu Zetian could exchange a large number of things with him for the lives of all the people of the Great Zhou in the entire Yinshan.

Wu Zetian was already anxious about this, and he didn't know what to do.

Early the next morning when Tuli's letter came to Luoyang, Li Yao was summoned by Wu Zetian to the early court.

Since falling out with Rouge and leaving Rouge, Li Yao has been staying in Yifu for six or seven days without taking a step, originally he was in a very bad mood now, and he was trying to use something to divert his attention, Wu Zetian suddenly announced that he would go to court, which was exactly what Li Yao wanted.

When he got up early in the morning, Li Yao cleaned up and waited for the maid ring in the mansion to dress, and the girl ring dressed Li Yao while smiling in Li Yao's ear: "Master, I have been waiting for you in the Yi Mansion for so many years, and I really haven't seen you go to court a few times, this is really the first time." ”

"Yes, I think I've been on it!" Li Yao replied with a dumbfounded eyelid.

He forgot that he had been in Datang for so many years, and whether he had ever been to the court.

Yahuan covered her mouth and smiled, and said happily: "Master, you must not have been to the court, your previous court clothes have not been moved there, and now you are the right guard general of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and now you are wearing this general in the court, sir, you are majestic." ”

"Little girl, hurry up and put it on for me, so as not to be late for a while. Li Yao shook his head and scolded Yahuan angrily, but he stopped urging her to talk to her.

Yahuan stuck out her little tongue and hurriedly put on Li Yao's general uniform.

Sure enough, this time he put on the suit, Li Yao's whole person looked much more majestic, which made Li Yao have a smile on his face, but don't look at Li Yao's smile on his face, he felt very uncomfortable, and it was not an exaggeration to say that the smile on his face now was a bitter smile.

After getting dressed neatly, Li Yao left Yifu in the carriage of Yifu and went to the palace.

Along the way, Li Yao was thinking in his heart, in fact, as early as last month, when he and Qin Jing sent Cheng Boxian away, he already knew that after Wu Zetian ascended the throne, there would be such a day on the western border of the Great Zhou, because Wu Zetian at that time had faintly sensed that the mountain rain on the western border was about to come and the wind was overwhelming.

Otherwise, Wu Zetian at that time would not have let Li Yao go back and wait, no, now that Li Yao is finally waiting, Wu Zetian will definitely have to send him to the Yinshan area on the western border this time, so that he can find a way to save all the people of the Great Zhou in the Yinshan area.

Sure enough, the truth is just as Li Yao thought.

When he and a group of civil and military officials entered the Jinluan Palace, Li Yao just stood up, and before Wu Zetian came out, Di Renjie took the lead and said to Li Yao: "You should have heard about the incident on the western border this time, right?"

"Brother, it's up to you this time. Without waiting for Li Yao to answer, Qin Jing also walked over and reached out to pat Li Yao's shoulder.

"Uh...... During this time, I was not in a good mood, and I have been staying in the house, and I have heard a little bit about the things in the west, but it is not very complete. Li Yao was speechless for a few seconds before he reached out and grabbed his head with some stubble, and replied to the two of them awkwardly.

Qin Jing and Di Renjie glanced at each other and comforted: "Brother, I heard about you, Rouge is gone, right?"

"Ahh Li Yao replied uncomfortably.

"It's okay to go, but a woman, with your current status and status, brother, what kind of woman do you want, why do you think about her in your heart. Qin Jing didn't know whether to comfort Li Yao, or deliberately wanted to make Li Yao depressed, so he patted his chest and said such a word to him.

Li Yao was depressed on the spot, and the whole person was bored there and couldn't say a word.

Di Renjie smiled and said: "You won't understand his concept of love, and you will never understand." ”

"Old Di, do you understand?" Qin Jing asked rhetorically.

"I don't know very much about it, but looking at him because of Dong Mingzhu's death, he has been a monk for two years, and you can see that he is not an abusive person, there is a good saying, a man can be abusive, but he must not be abusive, according to the old man, I want to come, he should be this kind of person. Di Renjie smiled happily and shrugged his shoulders and said.

When Li Yao and Qin Jing heard this, the two of them were instantly amused again.

Di Renjie spoke, and there was always a deep meaning in his words, which had to make Li Yao admire him, and he can now become the prime minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty, which also shows one more point, that is, this person is not simple.

The two were happy for a while, Li Yao stopped smiling, and suddenly said to Di Renjie: "Don't talk about me, by the way, Di Lao, how is Brother Lou doing now? It seems that I haven't seen him since I went to the White Horse Temple two years ago, and he is okay now?"

"The teacher is very good, he went back to Chang'an City last year, it is said that when he went back, he was in the small Ganye Temple five miles away from Chang'an City, and met a strange person called Yuan Tiangang, the two can be said to be familiar at first sight, very talkative, the teacher took him to his own house, and talked with him every day about the ideal of life. As soon as Di Renjie heard Li Yao mention Lou Shide, he opened his mouth to explain to Li Yao.

"Yo, these two old bastards! they actually got a bunch of them, they really smell like each other!" Li Yao muttered as he listened.

He never imagined that Lou Shide would resign from his post and leave Luoyang and go back to Chang'an City to enjoy his old age, and he met Yuan Tiangang's old bastard, and the situation that the two are now together every day is even more unexpected for Li Yao.

However, the two old men can have a companion and be good friends in their later years, which is not a bad thing for them, and Li Yao is happy for the two of them in his heart!

And just when Li Yao wanted to answer Di Renjie, Wu Zetian was dressed in a dragon robe, walked out of the back of the hall slowly, and came out with her, and there was another one that surprised everyone, this person was Wu Zetian's favorite daughter, Princess Taiping.

Princess Taiping has never been to the court, why did she come to the court with Wu Zetian today? This thing seems a little strange! Li Yao and the civil and military officials in the palace are all a little puzzled.