Yipin Tang

Chapter 74 Don't Let Me Down
"The prince's new assistant to the prince has made meritorious deeds by offering auspicious potatoes, a reward of 500 liang, forging [-] horses, and [-] good horses. He is granted the title of Marquis of Jiayuan, entered the Chongwen Museum, and takes the post of the prince's governor."

Wang Xiang grimaced when he heard the long string of rewards, Nima, when did Li Er become so generous.

All the ministers present here are extremely envious. It is a great honor to be named a Marquis at such a young age. Although the Prince's House Chief Shi is only a seventh-rank post, it is of great significance. Everyone knows that a new star in Datang is about to rise. .

It is reasonable to say that Wang Xiang is only assisting the crown prince to present the potatoes, so he should not deserve such a generous reward, but no one here is a fool, and they can guess that the potatoes are most likely the ones presented by Wang Xiang, but the crown prince took the lead .The prince took the first merit, but the rewards that should be given are still indispensable, otherwise it will really chill people's hearts.Everyone was tacit, otherwise Wei Zheng would have stood up to oppose Li Er's award with his temper.

Seeing Wang Xiang, Li Chengqian just grinned stupidly and gently pushed him, reminding him in a low voice, "I don't want to thank you yet."

Only then did Wang Xiang hurriedly greet Li Er to thank him for the reward.

"Wang Jiancheng, oh no, I should call you Marquis Jiayuan now. The emperor let you take the post of chief history of the prince's mansion. From now on, you can be regarded as a member of my prince's mansion." Li Chengqian seemed very happy, and said to Wang Xiang joked.

People from the Prince's Mansion?Wang Xiang suddenly felt a little guilty. To be honest, although his relationship with Li Chengqian is pretty good, he doesn't want to have too much relationship with the Prince's Mansion. After all, no one knows whether history will develop according to the original track. One day if this guy gets hotheaded and rebels, he will suffer accordingly, but Li Er's reward is not something that can be refused casually.

However, as far as the current situation is concerned, many things have deviated from history. In history, Empress Changsun died in the tenth year of Zhenguan, but now she has asthma medicine, as long as there are no major changes, she must be fine.

According to historical records, it is precisely because of the death of Empress Changsun and Li Chengqian's leg disease that he suddenly changed his personality and made such a mess of rebellion. Now Empress Changsun has not passed away, but Li Chengqian and Wang Xiang have known him for so long and did not find out What's wrong with his leg, besides, he won the award from Li Er today and his position as prince is very stable, no matter how you look at it, there is no reason to rebel.

Now Wang Xiang is most worried about another thing. The early ripening of the potatoes has given Li Er a big surprise, but it is not necessarily a good thing for him, because the trip to Gaochang will be brought forward.

The so-called mission to Gaochang after the so-called autumn harvest was actually waiting for potatoes. Li Er would not act hastily if he did not see the output of potatoes. How can there be food to raise foreigners in captivity if they can't eat enough?

After the birthday banquet, Wang Xiang was recruited into the Tai Chi Hall by Li Er. Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and others were also in the hall. What surprised Wang Xiang was that he saw two unexpected people, Ju Yiya and Aquino.

It is not usual to go to court, so everyone sits below, but the atmosphere is more serious than going to court.

Changsun Wuji first introduced the identities of Ju Yiya and Aqinu to Wang Xiang and others. It turns out that Ju Yiya is the princess of Gaochang Kingdom. She is not the daughter of Gaochang King Ju Wentai, but the daughter of Ju Wenya. He is the half-brother of Ju Wentai, who is the king of Xizhou in Gaochang Kingdom who is in charge of Xizhou.

Ju Wentai was incompetent in politics, and fickle and untrustworthy. At first, he was afraid of Datang Tianwei's surrender to Datang, and then saw that the Turkic soldiers and horses were strong and turned to Turkic. Under the instigation of Turkic, he intercepted Datang's caravans and envoys many times. Frequently went south to plunder the border town of Datang.

Ju Wenya, as the king of Xizhou in Gaochang Kingdom, did not agree with Ju Wentai's approach. He always believed that the nature of Turkic is to be plundering and cruel, and being friendly with Turkic is to seek skin with tigers, and they will eventually be killed by them. Unlike the Tang Dynasty, the state of the state, etiquette Gaochang's way of survival is to belong to the Tang Dynasty.

Ju Wentai did not send envoys to congratulate Li Erda's birthday this time, but Ju Yiya and Aqinu came secretly by Ju Wenya's order, the meaning of which is self-evident.

In this way, it is even more intriguing for Li Er to let Changsun Wuji and Wang Xiang go to Gaochang as envoys. Ju Wentai's attitude towards Datang can be seen that he is determined to follow the Turks against Datang, and this trip must have something If there is no return, there is no need to go on a mission, Li Erduan will not be so confused.

Wang Xiang was also faintly curious about what Li Er was thinking.

Sure enough, after listening carefully, I realized that Li Er did not intend to send himself and Changsun Wuji to Gaochang as an envoy. To be precise, it should be an envoy to Xizhou. Xizhou was very close to Datang under Ju Wenya's governance , Datang caravans settling in Xizhou when they went to Gaochang, where the caravans could get Ju Wenya's asylum.

Ju Wenya had secretly sent envoys to Tang many times, but at that time Ju Wentai's attitude towards Datang was not as bad as it is now, so Li Er did not agree to his request, and now Ju Wentai is determined to hug Turkic thigh, then Li Er would not be polite to him.

The matter at the moment is very clear, the king of Xizhou wants to be the king of Gaochang, and for Li Er, a Gaochang king who is friendly to the Tang Dynasty is naturally more pleasing to him than a Gaochang king who is always against the Tang Dynasty, so the relationship between the two Interests are perfectly aligned.

Let Changsun Wuji and Wang Xiang go to Xizhou to appease Ju Wenya, let Changsun Wuji discuss cooperation with him, and establish the trade market that Wang Xiang said.

Since Ju Wentai completely turned to the Turks, Datang's caravans have been repeatedly blocked, and even the caravans going to Xizhou have become fewer and fewer. Without the caravans, the quality of life of the people in Xizhou has been greatly reduced.

Before Li Er sent troops to repel the Jingqi who went south from Gaochang, he secretly sent someone to Xizhou to meet Ju Wenya, and mentioned the establishment of a trade market. After hearing this, Ju Wenya agreed very much. He is a person who knows how to advance and retreat. With Gaochang's national strength, it is either dependent on the Tang Dynasty or the Turks. It is impossible to be single and do nothing else.
, so establishing a trade market is of great benefit to him.

As for the Turks, what can a nation that lives on plunder bring to Gaochang?Therefore, it is not unreasonable to say that Ju Wentai is incompetent in politics.

All the matters were negotiated by Li Er, Changsun Wuji and others. Wang Xiang is completely an audience, he has no power of decision or veto. All he has to do is to go home and get ready to go out with the mission in half a month. Xizhou, Ju Yiya and Aqinu also traveled together.

He could not object to all of this, because Li Er had great expectations for the trade market he proposed, and he bluntly said that he was worried about sending others.

"I hope that the foreign countries will beg me to establish the same trade market in their place after seeing the trade market you established in Xizhou. Don't let me down."

Thinking of what Li Er said to him at the end, Wang Xiang suddenly felt that the burden on his shoulders was quite heavy.

(End of this chapter)