Back to the prosperous Tang Dynasty to be the emperor

Chapter 574 Inside Story
"Your Highness, do you still remember Princess Honghua?"

After Li Xian sat down, Zhang Jianzhi was silent for a moment, but he didn't directly say the reason, but asked a seemingly irrelevant question.

"Aunt Honghua?"

Li Xian was waiting for Zhang Jianzhi to unravel the mystery, but he didn't expect that Zhang Jianzhi would do nothing if he didn't open his mouth. When he mentioned Princess Honghua, he was taken aback for a moment, and the suspicious look on his face immediately became stronger. ——Princess Honghua is the daughter of the clan. When she grew up, she was adopted by Emperor Taizong as an adopted daughter. In the 14th year of Zhenguan, she married King Nuohebo of Tuyuhun. It took one year earlier to marry Tubo Songtsan Gampo. In the third year of Longshuo (AD [-]), Tuyuhun was destroyed by Tubo. When Li Xian was in charge of Hexi, he asked for an attachment to him. Gao Zong allowed it, and sent someone to move Princess Honghua, his wife and other sons to Luoyang, and named him Princess Xiping. It really counts. Li Xian is considered to be very kind to him, but they have only met each other a few times, and there is no personal relationship at all. Li Xian naturally does not understand the relationship between Princess Honghua and his entry into the Eastern Palace. place.

"According to the news from Luoyang, since His Royal Highness arrived in Beijing, His Majesty was overjoyed and specially invited Princess Honghua and his wife into the palace to celebrate together. During the period, Princess Honghua mentioned the old things about Tuyuhun back then, and the Queen of Heaven took the opportunity to propose that Tuyuhun should be restored. Nuohebo, the leader of the Qinghai Kingdom, also cited the old example of Emperor Taizong's restoration of Li Simo's Turkic Khan, His Majesty is in high spirits, so he naturally agrees, how does His Highness feel about this?"

Zhang Jianzhi seemed to be ready to sell Guan Zi to the end, instead of talking about business, he talked about irrelevant gossip.

How do you feel?What can I think, it is not clear that Princess Honghua and Empress Wu are colluding, and while reaping the fruits of victory, they have added some obstacles to Li Xian - with such a Qinghai king by his side, Hexi is bound to be subject to a lot of constraints , This can't be called a good thing, Li Xian glanced at Zhang Jianzhi dissatisfiedly, but didn't answer. He just raised his eyebrows and signaled Zhang Jianzhi to continue talking.

"Princess Honghua thanked you with great joy, and said that the Tubo thieves are cruel. If you don't take advantage of their emptiness and destroy them, the country will be restored, and it will be difficult to defend. I implore the emperor to destroy the Tubo kingdom, and the emperor will allow it. This is the way. The original intention of the edict was that something happened, but something happened again. The prince who was sitting next to him suggested that His Royal Highness had been on the frontier for a long time and made great achievements. Nonsense, on the grounds that His Highness is a pillar, how can he only shepherd a land, and ordered His Highness to return to the court to serve in the government affairs hall after destroying Tubo, so rumors arose, and the words were scorching, saying that the crown prince will fall out of favor, and the East Palace may be changed Master Yunyun, the crown prince is deeply jealous, and has gathered his confidants to plan a countermeasure, and there may be a big change in the near future."

Seeing that Li Xian was already showing an expression of impatience, Zhang Jianzhi didn't dare to delay any longer, so his face became serious, and he explained the cause and effect one by one, but his words were obviously reserved.

"Sir, you are trying to stand alone on the stove!"

Even though Zhang Jian's words are reserved, Li Xian is a figure who has grown up in the conspiracy, and he can understand the general process of the matter just by listening to it——Although Gaozong has been dissatisfied with the crown prince for a long time, in fact, so far, he has not really said anything about it. The ground had the intention of changing horses, and the reason why he angrily reprimanded him in court was that the prince's proposal was really out of date. If the prince said so after the war, Gaozong might have agreed to it, but at this time Tubo Before it was destroyed, the prince was in a hurry to hide the bow. Isn't this because he is uncomfortable?No matter what the reason was, Gaozong had to make amends for this. The act of calling Li Xian back to the court seemed to be reused, but in fact it was not without the intention of releasing military power with a glass of wine. Stimulated by those rumors, the idea of ​​taking risks started to arise. Obviously, the first thing here must be "Ming Di" stirring up the wind and rain, dug a big hole, and waited for the prince to jump down. Undoubtedly, the reason why the situation has developed to the current situation is all caused by Zhang Jianzhi and others secretly working on it. They did not report to Li Xian until it was almost done. The most fundamental reason for the camp.

"Your Highness, the heavens have given it to you, and if you don't take it, it will be unknown. To this day, only Your Highness can revitalize our Tang Dynasty, and I will be honored to wait for you!"

As soon as Li Xian said this, Zhang Jianzhi knew that Li Xian had seen through the secret actions of himself and others, but he didn't feel ashamed at all.

Heh, the scene of adding the yellow robe was staged ahead of time, which is really interesting!Li Xian also wanted to enter the East Palace in his heart, but he never announced it. The actions of Zhang Jianzhi and others were fundamentally in line with Li Xian's original intention, but there are some things that can be done but cannot be said. Furthermore, Li Xian didn't want his subordinates to develop such an act of collusion and bullying. Even if the intention was good, it still wouldn't work. This is the emperor's intention, and it has nothing to do with the result, so he pretended to tense his face, slightly He frowned and said: "Since this is the case, let it continue to develop. Everyone in the court will avoid it and not get involved in it again. I don't want to see such a thing happen again. Please keep this in mind, sir."

"Yes, the old minister should bear in mind His Highness' teaching."

Although Li Xian's tone of voice was not cold, it sounded very heavy in Zhang Jianzhi's ears. Startled, he quickly bowed his body and promised sincerely.

"Forget it, let's not talk about it. Mister is a lonely minister. If there is such a day in the future, it will be a trivial matter for Xuanma to pay homage to the minister. You and I have a chance encounter. After all, it will be a good story if it has a beginning and an end."

After hitting him with a stick, he should naturally give him a candy. Li Xian is naturally very familiar with this move, and he doesn't need to think about it at all, just open his mouth.

"Thank you, Your Highness, Long En, old minister."

Xuan Ma worship is the highest wish of scholars in the world. Even a wise man like Zhang Jianzhi cannot be exempt from the vulgarity. To be honest, the reason why Zhang Jianzhong chose to go to Li Xian instead of taking office in the imperial court after he was a Jinshi It was just that one day, when Li Xian personally promised, Zhang Jianzhi couldn't help but feel a strong sense of knowing each other, and the corners of his eyes became moist.

"Well, it's getting late, Gushang has to change clothes and take a shower, after all, the imperial envoy can't be kept waiting for long, sir, we're tired all the way, so let's go to rest first."

All the things that should be said to the left and right have been said thoroughly, and all the arrangements that should be made have been made. Li Xian didn't want to delay any longer, so he issued an order to evict the guests. He got up and turned back to the back tent by himself... "The Holy Son of Heaven has an edict saying: Tubo bandits have repeatedly harassed the border and violated the great Tang Tianwei. Fortunately, the British King Shenwu conquered Tuyuhun, wiped out the giant bandit Gar Qinling, captured The enemy is invincible, and I am very relieved. However, Tubo is still alive, and the border troubles are still difficult to solve. I hope that my son will continue to work hard to pacify Tubo, and do my best. I am in the eastern capital. Zetianmen was merged into the government affairs hall, and Tuyuhun originally belonged to the old land of Qinghai King Nuohebo, and now that he has been conquered, he should be allowed to restore the country, so as to show the magnanimity of our Tang Dynasty, this is yours!"

After the incense table, amidst the smoke, Zhang Kan, the deputy chief eunuch of the Qianyuan Hall of the Jin Dynasty, held the imperial edict masked in yellow silk in his hand, and proclaimed it in a dragging tone, with a clear hint of youthfulness in his high-pitched voice.

"My son and minister take the decree to thank you, my emperor, long live, long live, long live!"

Although Zhang Jianzhi had already known the content of the imperial decree in advance, when it was time to show his excitement, Li Xian acted full of sincerity, knelt down on the ground, and thanked him with a trembling voice.

"Your Highness, please accept the order."

Zhang Kannai is a newly promoted eunuch, he has no background, and he has not been transferred to the imperial study for a long time. It was only by chance that a few words caught Gaozong's eyes, and then he was promoted to the position of deputy head of the Qianyuan Palace Well, the reason why he was sent here to preach the edict this time is actually the result of being squeezed out by the servants, because everyone knows that Li Xian is not a very easy-going person, so no one wants to come to Li Xian to preach such ambiguous words. Ming's decree is afraid that Li Xian will go crazy and make trouble. Before Zhang Kan himself delivered the decree, he couldn't help but feel a little presumptuous. Seeing that Li Xian didn't seem to have any objection to this edict, he felt nervous. The stretched strings naturally loosened a lot, and hurried forward a few steps, held the rolled up imperial edict in both hands, and handed it to Li Xian.

"Excuse me, Eunuch Zhang. The camp has prepared some thin wine. How about asking Eunuch Zhang to give you a face?"

Li Xian stretched out his hands and took the edict, then straightened his back, stood up straight, and extended the invitation very politely.

"It's... that's fine, then the servant will be nagging His Highness."

Although Zhang Kan is a eunuch who has just been promoted, he has been in the palace for quite some time, but before that, he just stayed at the bottom and had no chance to see Li Xianzhi's demeanor, but he heard too many legends about Li Xian, In my heart, I was extremely afraid that His Royal Highness, the prince with great energy, was not very willing to deal with Li Xianduo. Once the order was delivered, he thought of leaving as soon as possible, but when he heard that Li Xian had issued an invitation, he He didn't dare to just leave like this, so he could only bite the bullet and agree.

"Hahaha...Okay, Eunuch Zhang is indeed a cheerful person, come, please!"

Li Xian seemed to be in a good mood. Hearing Zhang Kan's answer, he immediately burst out laughing, and let Zhang Kan into the camp with a wave of his hand.

Naturally, there can't be any good food in the army, there are just some big fish and meat, but the wine is good wine, there is not only a good "Nur Hong", but also a very strong "Victory Return". The generals are all big drinkers, and with such a hospitable host as Li Xian, the atmosphere of this banquet is naturally very hot, and Zhang Kan, who is not very strong at drinking, is knocked out. Basu couldn't even speak clearly, and was still drinking endlessly there.

"Your Highness, the Tubo envoy has arrived."

In the joy of this faction, Zhang Mingwu walked quickly to Li Xian's side, pressed close to Li Xian's ear, and softly reported.

"Ok?"

Hearing this, Li Xian's eyes sharpened instantly, and there was a faint gleam in them.

(End of this chapter)