Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 317 Make Some Preparations
"Xuan! The Turkic envoy goes to the palace!"

After a while, a tall man wearing grassland-style costumes came up to the hall, and instead of kneeling down, he just cupped his hands, said long live, and stopped talking, waiting for Li Yuan to respond.

This kind of arrogance, how can I be an official in the court for nothing?He went out and said: "Last year, the Khan of your country sent an envoy to call my emperor brother. Now that you don't worship my emperor, is it because you want to rebel against the Turks?"

This is the skill, the skill of drawing the fire from the bottom of the pot. Don't say that you are rude and violate some taboos of mine, but say that you are rude and violate some taboos of yourself.The Turkic envoy was speechless, and knelt down and said: "Turkic envoy Horqin, pay homage to the Emperor of Tang Dynasty, long live the emperor!"

Just kneel down, it doesn't matter what you say, Li Yuan said: "Pingshen, why does Aiqing want to see me?"

The Turkic envoy cupped his hands and said, "Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, I came to the Tang Dynasty to discuss with the Tang Dynasty the matter of good-neighborliness and friendship and permanent peace."

When everyone heard it, it was exactly the same as last time.

Li Yuan sneered: "Okay, I am very relieved that Ji Li Khan wants to cease fighting and seek peace. The people of the Tang Dynasty also hope for peace between the two sides. I wonder if Ji Li Khan has other instructions?"

The Turkic envoy opened his mouth and said, "Auspicious Khan asked me to say that there are three conditions. First, the Tang Dynasty and the Turkic people open the mutual market, and the people can trade freely without interference from the government. [-] bolts of cloth and [-] catties of salt. Third, Princess Gaoyang of the Tang Dynasty will marry me as his wife Jili Khan. If these three conditions are fulfilled, our Turkic Khanate and Datang will be friends and neighbors forever, and Jili Khan will have a large salary. The Emperor Tang is a brother, and we will never invade each other again."

After the Turkic envoy finished speaking, everyone present cursed shamelessly.Why are the Turks so shameless?Let's look at the first mutual market. It was the same in the first month of last year. It was agreed that the mutual market has nothing to do with each other, but what is it really like?The horses that the Tang people wanted to buy could not be bought, but the grain and cloth that the Turkic people wanted were bought at will.You said that the government did not interfere, and you said that the Turkic Khan did not interfere?That's because the Turkic people are slaves, there is no government at all, and the slave owners do it according to their own ideas!It's shameless, right?In fact, if the slave owner allowed his parts to be traded fairly with the people of the Tang Dynasty, there would be no situation where the people of the Tang Dynasty could not buy them.

Xu Qing also said in his heart, this is paying tribute and getting married, and he is short of being a minister, the Turkic people are ruthless enough.The Turkic people only took one step back for the three conditions, that is, to pay Li Yuan as their brother.But this one is not a step backward, but a more shameless condition.Ji Li Khan married Li Yuan's daughter, but in the end he only called him brother, what is this?These three conditions are to attack the three advantages of the Tang Dynasty: the surplus under normal trade, the superiority and inferiority of etiquette seniority, and the development and lack of civilized etiquette (chaotic seniority).

At this time, the officer came out again and said: "Jili Khan married me, the princess of the Tang Dynasty, and he should call my emperor Taishan. Don't the Turkic people know etiquette?"

The Turkic envoy didn't flinch this time, but said disdainfully: "I, Turkic, have nothing to say."

A person who is shameless is invincible, and now the officer is speechless.

Sitting on the dragon couch, Li Yuan said: "Okay, but these conditions are not too harsh. My Tang Kingdom is rich all over the world and has hundreds of millions of people. This is nothing. However, since it is a peace between two people, Then I also have conditions. First, the Turks pay [-] BMWs to the Tang Dynasty every year. Second, there can be no Turkic tooth tents in the south of the desert. Third, all the remnants of the former Sui Dynasty will be sent back to the Tang Dynasty, leaving no one behind."

Well, there are no permanent friends between countries, only permanent interests. Since everyone sits down to discuss interests, let's talk about them.You want money, I want horses, you want to be equal to my Tang Dynasty, I want land, you want princesses, and I want people, so I ask you if I can?At this time, Li Yuan's domineering aura leaked sideways, and all the officials in the hall bowed their hands and said: "My emperor is holy!"

Li Yuan looked at the Turkic envoy with a smile, I have a support group, do you have one?
Before the Turkic envoy came, Ji Li Khan also hoped that the delay could last longer. He told the envoy that if Li Yuan made a request, only the land and horses would not be given up, and nothing else was important.

So the Turkic envoy said: "I can't accept this condition, and I ask the emperor to think twice."

Li Yuan smiled gently and said: "You can't decide these conditions, please write a letter back and report to Jili Khan."

The Turkic envoy also secretly scolded the Han people for being cunning. They obviously wanted to stop the war, but they had to care about these little things.So he said: "Emperor, I can't agree to the two conditions you mentioned, horses and land, people from the former Sui Dynasty can be sent back."

Li Yuan immediately nodded and said: "Okay, you reduce two conditions, and I also reduce two, no mutual market, no year-old tribute?"

Everyone present was digging their ears, did they hear correctly?Why, the last thing Li Yuan wanted was to marry off his daughter, why did he remove the Mutual Market and Sui Gong now, and leave the married princess behind?In the past, Princess Gaomi refused to agree, but now Princess Gaoyang agrees. Could it be that the emperor favors one over another?The Turkic people are also strange, what old tribute and mutual market, but the robbery is replaced by coercion, if we don't agree, we will still rob.But this Tang Dynasty princess can't be snatched easily, and she can also be used as a hostage.After thinking for a while, he said: "The emperor is wise, Jili Khan yearns to be a relative with Datang, so why do you care about other things? In this way, I can promise for our Khan that Khan will marry Princess Gaoyang as his wife, and I, Turkic, will also marry the former princess. Sui's people escorted him back."

Li Yuan said in disbelief, "Is your word credible? After all, it's a major national event. Does the word of you, a small envoy, count?"

Seeing that they were about to take the princess back, the Turks immediately agreed, "Here is the token that the Khan gave me, so that I will always negotiate peace with the Tang Dynasty. My words are the words of my Turkic Khan. If there is any violation, then let the Wolf God of the Prairie and the God of Grain of the Central Plains punish us together, so that our horses will be plagued by wolves and our food will be plagued by locusts. How about it?"

Hearing this, Li Yuan replied: "Since I have made such a promise at this time, I will trust you once. I hope you will cherish your status as a Turkic envoy and don't do anything that breaks promises. Minister of the Ministry of Rites, please tell me what you need to do when a princess is married." preparation."

Minister of the Ministry of Rites knew the elegant meaning when he heard the sound of strings, and secretly said in his heart that my emperor is wise. After thinking about it in his heart, there is no need to really talk about the etiquette of marrying a princess today, but to say it as difficult as possible. To marry a princess, you need to build a princess mansion. Considering the Turks’ nomadic pastoralism, you need to build five palaces on the grassland where the Turks are resident. You also need to send people to pick up the bride, and you need to prepare silk, satin, silver, gold... and more. ..."

After talking about the preparations needed to marry the princess, the Turkic envoy was immediately dumbfounded and asked, "After preparing these things, how long will it take to get married?"

The Minister of the Ministry of Rites pondered for a while and said, "At this time, I have to ask the Minister of the Ministry of Industry to find out..."

Pfft, I don't know what tongue you are talking about?

(End of this chapter)