Tang Dynasty: The seventh rank of official residence, and you will be given the Ten Thousand People

Shanzhou, Xingyuan.

After the marriage team rested for more than twenty days, a Habayashi guard with an order flag on his back held the order in his hand, ran quickly to the marching shaft, and said loudly.

"Reporting to His Highness King Yan, a group of Tubo cavalry was discovered outside Shanzhou City. The leader calls himself Gaili Xu, Deputy Tibetan Prime Minister, and is here to greet Princess Jincheng on the orders of the Queen Mother!"

"Stay back first!"

Signaling the scouts to step aside, Fan Xin glanced at the officials on both sides.

"Everyone, I am about to escort the princess to Baiquan. Just in case, all the military and political affairs of Luanyou will be handed over to Prime Minister Yao Chong of Fengge Luantai Pingzhangshi."

"You must do your best to assist Mr. Yao in handling the aftermath, do you understand?"

"I respectfully obey the order of the envoy!" All the officials bowed in unison.

"Okay! Go and invite Gai Lixu, I want to see him!"

While everyone was waiting, two burly men wearing Tibetan robes walked into the main hall surrounded by guards.

His eyes looked around and finally landed on Fan Xin.

One of them, an old man with a goatee, cupped his hand in the manner of a Han Chinese.

"The Deputy Prime Minister of Tubo respectfully wishes the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty to be enthroned!"

Fan Xin stood up and nodded, saying calmly.

"Holy Holy Gong!"

After speaking, he looked at the strong man with his nostrils pointing upward, and the latter snorted softly.

"This Governor is the general of the border garrison. He only received the order to escort the team to the royal city."

"There is no obligation to salute the Tang Dynasty."

Gai Lixu's expression changed slightly, he glared at his companion with a frown, and said to Fan Xin awkwardly.

"Don't be surprised, King Yan. Hui Duhu has been in the army for a long time and has no sense of etiquette. Let's talk about the matter of welcoming the bride."

Fan Xin smiled slightly and said nonchalantly.

"It doesn't matter. There are too many foreign envoys who have paid tribute to me in the Tang Dynasty. This one is worthy of me."

"Li Lang takes this general out for a refreshing break to wake him up!"

"I will obey your orders!"

Li Lang had long disliked this guy, and he had been pointing his nostrils at everyone since he got off the couch.

Therefore, he struck without mercy, grabbing the strong man with his two palms like steel claws and sharp hooks.

Wherever he passed along the way, there was even a muffled sound in the air due to the excessive exertion.

Seeing this, Hunji's expression changed drastically, and he was about to attack Li Lang with his fist, but the latter's claws slammed hard on his wrist.

Then he twisted his hands and heard a squeaking sound. The previously arrogant Hui Duhu screamed with a distorted face.

"General, wait a minute, Governor Hui is my Tubo general. He has a distinguished status. We must not throw him out!"

Li Lang stopped and looked up at Fan Xin. After receiving the latter's instructions, he let go of Hui Duhu.

As soon as his feet touched the ground, Hunji gasped for air and looked at Li Lang with fearful eyes.

"Huduhu, are you awake this time?" Fan Xin asked with a smile behind his back.

"Humph!"

Wiping off the cold sweat with his sleeves, Hunji gave a reluctant salute.

"Hunji, I respectfully wish the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty to greet you!"

"Good morning, Holy Gong, please take a seat, please." Fan Xin waved his sleeves and sat at the front seat.

After the two parties sat down, Galixu said with a smile.

"This time, in order to show the importance I attach to your princess, our Queen Mother specially asked me to come to the border to greet her."

"Then Chide Zuzan will personally guard the gate of Luoxie City. I wonder what Ambassador Tang thinks?"

"Yes, but I have one request, that is, wherever you pass along the way, the subjects of your country must pay homage to the princess as Ketun. How about that?"

"This……"

Gai Li's preface showed embarrassment. According to Tubo etiquette, a woman cannot be called Ketun before marrying the King of Tibet.

If Tubo subjects saluted the Tang Dynasty princess at this time, wouldn't it tell the world that Tibet was inferior to the Tang Dynasty?

"no!"

Before Gai Lixu could refuse, Hunji beside him became unhappy.

He originally looked down on the Tang people, but now the damn Tang envoy actually asked the Tibetan subjects to salute them. It was simply too much!

It wasn't until Li Lang snorted angrily that he calmed down and said.

"We cannot agree to this request. Before marrying the Tibetan king, our subjects will not show any courtesy."

Gary Xu also sighed.

"The King of Yan is a little embarrassed about the truth. The two countries are establishing a relationship on the basis of equality."

"We really can't agree to your request."

Seeing that the two rejected his request, Fan Xin felt a little relieved.

I am not afraid that the Tubo people will reject me, but I am afraid that they will agree to everything.

This proves that the Tubo people do not really want to get married.

So he opened his mouth and smiled.

"Well, since you two can't agree, let's forget it. How about we rest for a few days and then prepare to go to Baiquan?"

Galixu and Hunji looked at each other, somewhat reluctantly.

Especially Hunji, whose 20,000 soldiers and horses have been ambushed in Baiquan, waiting for the Tang Dynasty to enter.

Now it is estimated that it will be postponed for a few days.

However, Fan Xin is the King of Yan and his status is higher than them. The other party has spoken, so they have to give him face.

I can only agree to stay here for a few days.

……

While Fan Xin warmly entertained the Tibetan envoys, the ancient city of Baiquan far away in Tubo was filled with a chilling atmosphere.

Hundreds of Tibetan soldiers lay in a pool of blood, staring at the sky with their eyes open, looking like they couldn't believe it.

After wiping the knife on the corpse, Garmu sneered.

"Stupid Gai Lixu dares to reprimand the prime minister of the country in the royal city. He really doesn't care about life and death. Guda, have all the people in Gai Lixu been killed?"

"Go back to the Deputy Protector and kill them all without leaving a single person alive."

"That's good. Tell your subordinates that when the Tang people enter the city, they must kill them all and never let them leave Tubo alive!"

After arranging for the body to be burned, Garmu came to the city and looked at the dark forest in the distance, his fingers tightly clasped on the city wall.

This time, in order to completely destroy the alliance between Tibet and the Tang Dynasty, the Prime Minister secretly borrowed a cavalry of 20,000 people from the Later Turks.

After the Tang people are eliminated, both sides will take advantage of the situation to invade Tubo and eliminate the confidants of Queen Mother Chimalun, thereby taking over the entire Tubo.

However, what he didn't know was that a pair of eyes were hiding in the forest looking at the brightly lit Baiquan City.

"Liu Zi, according to the captured tongue, there are 20,000 Tibetans in the city, and the deputy chief is a man named Garmu."

"The mission they received was to get rid of the peace advocates in the country, and then kill the Tang Dynasty envoys to destroy the peace between the two countries!"

Jiang Ji held down a Tibetan scout and whispered.

Liu Zi took a deep breath, stood up from the ground and gave instructions.

"Tell the brothers to follow me and pretend to be Turkic cavalry into the city!"

"Yes!"

With an order, the 50,000 cavalrymen hidden in the forest rushed into action instantly.

The momentum was so frightening that the expressions of the Tubo defenders changed drastically. They quickly closed the city gate and looked at the approaching cavalry team with vigilance.

"Shut up!"

When he came closer, Liuzi jerked the horse's rein and shouted loudly in Turkic language.

"Open the door quickly, I am the deputy general under General Mo Chi, and I have been ordered to come to support you!"

Hearing these words, a Tibetan man who understood Turkic language was overjoyed.

"General Garmu, the visitor is a Turkic cavalry. He said he came to support us on the order of General Mochi."

"Oh, don't the Turks arrive in two days? How come it's so fast?"

Garmu's eyes rolled, and there was some doubt in his eyebrows.

But in the darkness of the night, he couldn't tell whether the people below were Turks. "Ask him, who did General Mo Chi want him to meet?"

The translator nodded and shouted below.

"Our General Garmu said, who does General Mo Chi want you to meet with?"

Karmu...

Liuzi coughed and said loudly.

"General Gu Yue Er was ordered by General Mochi and the Great Protector of Hunji to join General Garmu and deal with the pro-Tang people together."

After receiving the feedback, the translator told Garmu again.

"It turns out they are really Turks." Garmu's expression kept changing.

Finally, he waved his sleeves and robe and walked down the city wall, opened the city gate and greeted him.

As the distance between the two parties got closer, Liuzi's half-smiling face also appeared in the firelight.

"Ah! You are!"

Garmu's face changed wildly, and a cold air ran up his spine.

The army in front of us is not Turkic, it is clearly the Tang Dynasty army!

Without any time to think about it, Garmu shook the reins and ran towards the road he came from.

Mouth exclaimed.

"No, it's Tang!"

"Pfft!"

Pulling the knife handle out of Garmu's body, Cao Wei laughed.

"Kill me, brothers!"

...

One night passed, Cao Wei and Zhang Huan staggered to the city wall with their swords in hand.

"Lao Liu, we have killed all the Tibetan defenders in Baiquan City. What should we do next?"

Because they had killed too many people, the swords of both of them had been curled up, and they looked like they had been fished out of the water.

Stay away from these two people, Liu Zi said, covering his nose.

"Let the brothers take a rest, clean up the city, and then put on Tibetan clothes and wait for the prince to arrive."

Cao Wei and Zhang Huan nodded in agreement.

"Okay, let's send a message to Prince Feige now, telling him that he can leave for Baiquan."

……

Shanzhou, Mingyue Tower.

"Come, come, two Tibetan envoys, I will give you a drink. After finishing this drink, we will have another one."

Fan Xin was wearing white clothes and sitting at the main seat, smiling at the two of them and raising his wine glass.

After the two drank the wine, they were about to say something when Li Lang came closer and said.

"Your Majesty, Her Royal Highness the Princess has sent you two cotton robes for you to pick up. She said it is too cold on the snowy plateau and your body and bones may not be able to bear it."

"Hey, it must be my wife." Fan Xin smiled bitterly and cupped his hands towards the two Tibetan envoys.

"I'm sorry, you two. I'll go take a look at the cotton robes first. You guys will wait a moment."

After saying that, he got up and went to the lobby downstairs. At this time, there was a Youzhou Army kneeling on the ground.

"Tell me, what did Liuzi ask you to do?"

"Back to my lord, the general only said four words, welcome!"

"I know, go back and tell Liu Zi that I will join him right now!"

After seeing off the messenger, Fan Xin straightened his clothes and walked to the second floor with a smile.

"I'm sorry for keeping you waiting for so long. Let's continue drinking. Someone is here..."

Gai Lixu and Hunji looked at each other and stood up to stop him.

"Your Highness King Yan, it's not too late to drink wine later. Chi De Zuzan and the Queen Mother are waiting in Luo Xie. Do you think it's time for us to set off tomorrow?"

From their point of view, Fan Xin was still trying to push back and block everything like last time.

Fan Xin slapped the table and agreed happily.

"Well, since the Queen Mother and Zuzan are waiting in a hurry, let's leave now instead of tomorrow."

After speaking, he led the people away from Mingyue Tower, leaving the two people looking at each other.

woo woo woo...

Amidst the low sound of the horn, Fan Xin, wearing a python dragon costume, rode on a donkey, with the princess's chariot behind him.

The team of four thousand people drove out of the carriage and headed outside the city.

Along the way, officials from various states bowed down one after another to send the wedding team off on their way.

After leaving Shanzhou, the marriage team headed towards Baiquan City under the leadership of the Tubo people.

This journey lasted for a month. When the wedding team arrived at the gate of Baiquan City, they saw densely packed Tubo defenders standing on the city in front of them.

"Your Highness King Yan, this is our important border town of Tubo. How do you think it compares with Shanzhou?"

Hunji, who had been silent before, suddenly galloped forward and said proudly.

Fan Xin raised his head and glanced at the Youzhou Army pretending to be Tubo people on the city wall.

He nodded with emotion.

"Yes, after seeing you for half a year, your army has become stronger."

"It's really sad."

"Hahaha, King Yan has given you too much praise. Since the battle at Fuqi, this general has deeply realized the power of your Tang army."

"So they were given rigorous training!"

After saying this, Hunji whistled towards the city wall.

The next moment, the city gate opened wide, and thousands of Tibetan defenders filed out.

They lined up on both sides and bowed their heads to the wedding procession.

"Please, Your Highness King Yan, leave the rest of the matter to me when we get to Baiquan!"

"General Lao Hunji is here."

Fan Xin kicked the black wind horse in the belly and led the convoy slowly into Baiquan City.

This time, in order to show the power of the Tang Dynasty, Li Longji specially brought ten carts of tea, twenty carts of seeds, as well as agricultural tools and medicinal books to the Tibetan people.

After arranging the Tang Dynasty and the pro-envoys to the embassy, ​​Hunji returned to his tent without even saying hello.

"The last general will see you, the Great Protector of Hui!" Two Tibetan guards said with their right hands on their chests.

Looking at the two of them, Hunji frowned slightly.

"Why are you so angry? Where's Garmu? Why doesn't he come to see me?"

"Back to the Governor, my humble position is as a local herdsman. Because I helped General Garmu clean up the rebels, I was promoted to guard here by him."

"As for General Garmu, it seems he went to the city to find a woman to drink with."

"This Garmu will die on a woman's belly sooner or later." Cursing secretly in his heart, Hunji raised his head and was about to order the two of them to get out.

Two strong men wearing Turkic costumes walked into the camp.

"Last General Gu Yue Liu, Cao Xiaowei, under the orders of General Mo Chi, is here to help you suppress the rebellion in your country!"

Hunji was overjoyed when he heard that the two people in front of him were sent by Mo Chi.

He quickly ordered the guards to serve highland barley wine and led the two of them to the inner tent.

"Thank you, Changsheng, for blessing me. I have finally brought you here. Is the journey going smoothly?"

Liu Zi nodded with emotion.

"It was a very hard journey back to the Protectorate. In order to avoid attracting the attention of the Tang army, we took a shortcut."

"Hundreds of fine horses and brothers were lost for this reason."

Hunji tapped his breastplate empathetically.

"You two brothers don't need to say anything. Once you kill this marriage team, everything inside will belong to you!"

(End of this chapter)