Chapter 67: The Pilgrimage
"Your Majesty! I don't know what the summoner is talking about? ”
Liu Bowen bowed, he knew that Li Xian was looking for him for the matter of the Tibetan envoy, and Zhang Xiaojing and the guards in the palace had already reported to him!
"I heard that Tubo sent an envoy to the peace talks, but is there such a thing?"
Li Xian asked.
"Tubo did send envoys over, but not for peace talks, but for peace!"
Liu Bowen corrected Li Xian's words, peace talks and peace are two different things, and they can't be confused!
"Since you are here to sue for peace, why don't you let the Tibetan envoys meet Your Majesty!"
Empress Wei walked out of the back screen and asked.
"There is a precedent in this dynasty that the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, and I ask the queen not to interfere in the government! Please let the Empress leave!"
Liu Bowen looked at Li Xian and saluted.
"Aiqing! The queen is also for the Tang Dynasty......"
"Your Majesty! Please also ask Your Majesty to let the queen retreat to the harem, this place is for Your Majesty to discuss the affairs of the world with the courtiers, the queen is a woman, it is really not suitable to interfere in the government affairs!"
Liu Bowen said in an accentuated tone.
"Presumptuous! I am the Empress of the Tang Dynasty, why not help Your Majesty deal with the government? Empress Zetian also helped Emperor Gaozong deal with the government back then, and no one said anything? ”
Empress Wei angrily reprimanded Liu Bowen.
Liu Bowen raised his eyes and looked at Empress Wei with a sneer, what kind of goods are you, you can also be compared with the Great Sage Empress Zetian, you can't even compare to one ten-thousandth of others.
is still trying to compare with the Great Sage Empress of Zetian, it is really a big joke in the world!
"During the Taizong period, Empress Changsun commanded the six palaces, never interfered in court politics, and silently helped behind Emperor Taizong, achieving the reputation of a generation of virtuous queens!"
"As the queen of the Tang Dynasty, you should learn from the eldest grandson, the left and right servants, why are you still stunned? Why don't you ask the queen to go back to the harem!"
Liu Bowen flicked his sleeves and ordered the left and right attendants to send Empress Wei back to the harem, this is not a place where she can go wild!
At the same time, it also made Li Xian understand that although he is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty is not for him, the emperor to call the shots, he is just a puppet that Li Jing puts on the surface.
As a puppet, you should have the consciousness that a puppet should have!
During the time you are the emperor, just follow the script, and you don't have to think about the rest!
The left and right chamberlains are all Li Jing's people, so naturally they will not resist Liu Bowen's order and step forward to take Empress Wei away!
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty......"
No matter how much Empress Wei shouted, it was useless, Liu Bowen did not forget to mention Li Xian, don't do anything too out of line, otherwise, it will be easy to have an accident!
Under Liu Bowen's coercion, Li Xian could only tremble and respond, but he was thinking about how to regain power, although he was a little intimidated, but he didn't want to lose power.
Now, the only one who can help him regain his power is his sister Princess Taiping!
"Your Majesty! You are a smart person, I hope you don't do anything to make mistakes, you should listen to the good words of loyal ministers like us, not the words of villains like Wei Xun!"
Liu Bowen finally warned Li Xian.
"I see, I haven't seen Taiping in a while, and I don't know how she's doing, so I wonder if I can see her?"
Li Xian nodded, after this incident, he had a clearer understanding of his identity, and his hatred for Li Jing became stronger!
"Your Majesty wants to see the princess, send someone to summon it!"
Liu Bowen said with a smile.
"Then, what about the Tibetan envoys?"
"Since they want to see Your Majesty, then summon the Tibetan envoys tomorrow morning!"
In the past few days, the specific content of the Tibetan envoys to Chang'an for peace talks has not been found, and Liu Bowen plans to say something in the early dynasty.
"It's decided, I'm tired, you stand down!"
Li Xian waved his hand.
Liu Bowen saluted and withdrew.
After Liu Bowen left, Li Xian couldn't wait to summon Princess Taiping into the palace!
Li Xian conspired with Princess Taiping to bring down Li Jing and regain power.
Li Xian cried to Princess Taiping about his desolation, and now the only one who can help him is his sister Princess Taiping, as long as Princess Taiping can help him regain his rights, then he will share the world with Princess Taiping!
After thinking about it, Princess Taiping also felt that only when Li Xian restored the imperial power could she maximize her interests, and since Li Jing seized the world, her interests have been shrinking.
In order to maximize her interests, she wants to help Li Xian no matter what, can her own brother still deceive her?
After weighing the pros and cons, Princess Taiping promised to help Li Xian regain imperial power.
……
The next day, early in the morning!
Hundreds of civil and military officials came to the court and gathered in the Xuanzheng Palace, waiting for the arrival of Li Xian, the son of the Tang Dynasty!
"Your Majesty has arrived!"
With the sound of a male duck, Li Xian walked into the hall wearing a crown robe, and the ministers knelt down and saluted under the leadership of Liu Bowen!
"See Your Majesty!"
"Everyone, Aiqing is exempt from courtesy!"
The ministers got up and knelt down, and the early dynasty officially began.
"There is a book, but there is no book!"
The eunuch beside Li Xian shouted instead of Li Xian.
"The minister has this to play!"
Zhang Wuji, the host and guest of the Ministry of Rites, lined up and saluted.
"What did Zhang Aiqing play?"
Li Xian asked.
"The Tubo State has repeatedly violated my Tang Dynasty territory, and the regent personally led the troops to expel the Tubo, and the Tubo State was defeated, and the envoys were sent to sue for peace!"
Zhang Wuji said.
"Tubo came to sue for peace, and it is also a good thing for me to be in the Tang Dynasty, where are the Tubo envoys now?"
Li Xian asked.
"The Tibetan envoy is waiting outside the palace for His Majesty to summon you!"
Zhang Wuji said.
"Announce them in!"
Li Xianyi called the Tibetan envoys in, and the eunuchs immediately stepped forward and shouted at the throat of the male duck: "Xuan Tibetan envoys come to see you!" ”
"Xuantu envoys come to see you!"
"Xuantu envoys come to see you!"
The voice was transmitted, and the Tibetan envoys who were waiting outside heard the summons to them, and then they followed the forbidden army to the door of the Xuanzheng Palace, and the eunuch led them into the Xuanzheng Palace.
"Habhatai, the envoy of the Great Fan, meet His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty!"
Habhatai and his entourage saluted Li Xian.
"Excuse yourself from being polite, Tubo sent you into the Tang Dynasty, what is the so-called?"
Li Xian asked.
"My Dafan has no intention of invading the Tang Dynasty, but why did the Tang Dynasty invade my Dafan, causing heavy casualties to my Dafan subjects, could it be that I forgot the oath of mutual non-aggression?"
Habhatai condemned the Tang Dynasty for being unkind, undermining the diplomatic relations between the two countries, and destroying the never-encraging treaty between Tubo and the Tang Dynasty!
"You Tubo invaded the four towns of Anxi in my Tang Dynasty, the hometown of Qinghai, what kind of face do you have to say that my Tang Dynasty broke the contract, you are unkind, don't blame us for being unjust!"
An official stood up and retorted, you are treacherous first, where did you come from, dare to accuse the emperor of the Tang Dynasty in the Tang court!
Habhatai is also not a fuel-efficient lamp, and the two sides launched a fierce war of words, and in the end, the Tang officials won the victory!
"Let's tell me what you're here for!"
Liu Bowen opened his mouth and stopped them from continuing to quarrel, another hundred years of quarrelling, Habu Hatai is not the opponent of the Tang Dynasty trolls, maybe they can't do anything else, but the spray is a good hand!
Habhatai took the opportunity to borrow the slope to get off the donkey, and then under the steps given by Liu Bowen, he didn't come here to have a war of words with a group of trolls, but to get the Tang Emperor to withdraw his troops.
"This time I came to the Tang Dynasty with sincerity, and I hope that the Tang Emperor can issue an edict to recall the Tang soldiers who invaded my Dafan and redefine the border between the two countries!"
Habhatay said.
"I, the Tang Dynasty, did not invade Tubo, but His Royal Highness the Prince Regent had to personally escort King Tuyuhun back to inherit the throne and help King Tuyuhun drive away the thieves who invaded Tuyuhun!"
Liu Bowen said with a smile.
Habhatai's face changed greatly after hearing this, now Tuyuhun is his Tubo, you Datang sent troops to rob it, isn't this an invasion of Tubo?
What does it mean to help King Tuyuhun inherit the throne and drive out the thieves who invaded Tuyuhun?
Doesn't this make it clear that he is a robber who robs other people's homes?
How can they endure this, but for the sake of the great cause of Tibet, they can only swallow their anger for the time being!
Whoever let the Tubo army on the front line can't beat the army of the Tang Dynasty, otherwise, they wouldn't be used here to suffer such a bird spirit.
"In order to show my sincerity in Tubo, I am willing to use the technology of purifying coarse salt into fine salt and share it with Datang!"
As soon as Habhatai's words came out, everyone was immediately shocked!
You must know that the fine salt refining technology in the Tang Dynasty is very valuable, and the fine salt refined every year is limited, and it can only barely supply the royal family and nobles to eat, and others can only eat coarse salt!
Nowadays, Tubo actually has the technology to refine fine salt, how can it not be surprising!
They didn't know that the so-called fine salt refining technology in Habhatai's mouth was actually the fine salt refining technology obtained by Li Jing!
Because Li Jing did not do confidential work, he was a household name in Tuyuhun, and Tuyuhun was far away from Chang'an, and Li Jing did not talk to Chang'an about this matter, and no one in Chang'an knew about this matter!
Tubo plans to use this as a condition to tempt Li Xian to withdraw from the army, and when the time comes, isn't this technique of refining fine salt his Tubo?
Since it is a new technology of Tubo, there should be no problem with sharing it with the emperor of the Tang Dynasty!
Only Tibet would be so selfless and share such a precious advanced technology with its enemies!
"How much fine salt can be refined?"
Li Xian got up directly and asked.
You must know that the fine salt refined by Datang is a ratio of 10,000 to 1, and 10,000 catties of coarse salt can be refined into one catty of fine salt.
"It can refine all coarse salt into fine salt!"
Habhatai smiled slightly, looking at the changes in the faces of the people and soldiers in this hall, he suddenly felt a feeling of raising his eyebrows.
There was a gasp above the main hall!
Tubo actually has such a powerful technology to be able to refine all coarse salt into fine salt, doesn't it mean that everyone in Tubo is eating fine salt?
Are the Tibetans already having such a good time now?
Actually living a life where everyone can eat fine salt, we don't know when we will be able to have such a good treatment?
Officials below the third grade have envy in their eyes!