Chapter 23 The Order of Princess Jiaohe(1/2)
Du Xian's letters were spread to Tuqishi's royal court without stopping.
Sulu Khan, who was Tuqishi, looked at Du Xian's letter and was immediately furious.
As the top scholar of the Tang Dynasty, Du Xian was so outstanding in his literary talent.
An article that angrily denounced Sulu Khan's greed was written with passionate words and words.
At the same time, he also expressed the magnanimity of the Celestial Kingdom and advised Su Lu not to act in any way, be content with oneself, and be a good minister.
Du Xian's letters did not give Su Lu any face.
In Du Xian's eyes, Sulu's status is comparable to that of him.
A Khan of a vassal state has no higher status than his deputy vassal state, the deputy vassal state of Anxi, and his words are filled with a strong tone of the superior state of the Celestial Kingdom.
Although Sulu Khan knew Chinese and learned Chinese culture, in his heart as a foreign barbarian, he advocated strength and strength.
A big fist is the hard truth, and a strong person speaks vigorously.
The righteousness in Du Xian's letters seemed disdainful in Sulu Khan's eyes, which was particularly harsh.
Especially he is still the chosen son of God.
To be strict, the Tuqi Shi was a partial branch of the Western Turks. In the past, Su Dingfang destroyed the Western Turks. Because the Tuqi Shi was too remote, he did not work hard to go on an expedition. He only captured the Khan of the Western Turks to Chang'an and accepted punishment from the Supreme Kingdom of the Celestial Empire.
Tuqishi also preserved his strength and turned his back to the enemy. He then recruited the Western Turks' deserters and refugees to the table.
For a long time, Tuqi Shi's strength was not strong enough to dominate the Western Regions.
Not only that, there were frequent civil strife, and the Later Turks were bullied from time to time.
The real hero of Tuqishi's powerful hero was Sulu Khan.
Sulu Khan is like the legendary son of God, and is deeply favored by God.
Originally, Sulu Khan was not qualified to serve as the position of Tuqi Shi Khan, but because of the invasion of the Later Turkic Khan King Mochu, he killed the Khan of Tuqi Shi Shouzhong. Sulu Khan was lucky to become Tuqi Shi Khan.
At that time, Su Lu led a group of defeated soldiers and had almost nowhere to settle in the Western Regions where the strong prey on the weak. While paying tribute to the Tang Dynasty, he was determined to directly lead his troops to surrender.
At this moment, the Byzantine Empire came up.
The Byzantine Empire fought the Arab Empire and was defeated. It could only rely on the unrivaled navy and artifact Greek fire to barely defend the country.
The Byzantine army almost wiped out the Arab lion king and was in urgent need of allies.
As a nomadic people, Tuqi Shi is a natural instinct for riding horses and shooting archery, and field battles are particularly powerful.
In order to win over Sulu, Byzantium gave a lot of money to support him.
With the pie that fell from the sky, Sulu gained a foothold in the Western Regions and took over the rest of the people, becoming the hero of the Western Regions with 200,000 to 300,000 troops.
The Sulu tribe grew stronger and even though he still paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty on time, he had already had the intention of invading the border areas of the Tang Dynasty.
Tubo planned a siege of the Tang Dynasty, and Su Lu was moved at that time and decided to take advantage of the Tubo and Arab chaos in the Western Regions to capture Suye City and rob the four towns of Anxi.
However, under Pei Min's diplomatic means of being accused of far-reaching and near attacks, the Tang Dynasty stopped Sulu's attack on Yecheng by lobbying Byzantium.
Since then, the Tang Dynasty and Tuqishi have been in peace and contentment, and through transactions, each taking their needs, and making profits.
But Su Lu was in restless blood flowing from his bones, especially as he became stronger and stronger, and he couldn't help but be wary and aggressive.
Su Lu felt that it was particularly unworthy to trade with the Tang Dynasty. The cattle and horses that his tribe members worked hard to raise were exchanged for the few medicinal materials, cotton, medicinal materials, cloth, rice and grain from the Tang Dynasty. It was too unworthy.
He wanted to change the transaction amount, but he did not get the approval of Beiting Jiedushi Gai Jiayun.
Gai Jiayun is a powerful general and very brave. His general Gao Xianzhi is even more famous and is a well-known rising star in the Western Regions.
Su Lu was unwilling to get into evil with such people, and Du Xian was a scholar and a literati.
Scholars and literati are the most despised beings in Tuqishi.
Su Lu instinctively looked down on the scholar and thought he was weak and could be bullied. Then he wrote a letter to avoid Gai Jiayun and contact Du Xian.
result!
Sulu was humiliated nakedly.
This literati has the same temperament as the emperor, let alone a vassal Khan?
"The incompetent turtle, dare to humiliate me like this?"
Su Lu was so angry that he was furious that his teeth were itchy, and he almost tore the letter in his hand and swallowed it.
I had the idea of sending troops in an instant, but when I thought about it, I felt a little frightened.
He didn't take Du Xian seriously or seriously at all.
Gao Xianzhi was a little worried about Gai Jiayun in Beiting, but he was not afraid.
Just Gai Jiayun, the 20,000 soldiers under Gao Xianzhi were not enough for his army to get stuck in the teeth.
What Su Lu really feared was Pei Min from Hexi and Longyou.
He went to the tribute of Wanbang a few years ago.
He had seen the strength of the Longyou Army with his own eyes through Longyou. In addition, Pei Min defeated Tubo in the south and annihilated the Turks in the north, so he could not be underestimated.
Now Pei Min sits in Hexi and Longyou, holding an army of 140,000. Although he is quite far away from the thunder cavalry, he has to act cautiously.
"Khan, what's wrong with this?"
The charming voice came from behind Sulu with a bit of arrogant voice.
Su Lu frowned after hearing the voice, and said with some displeasure: "What do you know about women?"
Even if you don't look at it, Su Lu knows who it is.
The treasure he just married was a princess Jiaohe of the Tang Dynasty.
When Su Lu thought of this Jiaohe Princess, he felt a headache. He only felt that he had married a Bodhisattva and could not beat him or scold him.
If Princess Jiaohe was a real golden branch and jade leaf, Su Lu would have recognized it.
It is only rare on the skin, and it can drip out the tenderness of water, holding it in your hands to care for it and endure it.
It was Ashina Huaidao's daughter, a serious Western Turkic man.
As the Khan of Tuqishi, what kind of women do the Western Turks want?
When he went to a female Bodhisattva from the Western Turks, Sulu regretted it almost vomited blood.
Princess Jiaohe snorted in person: "I am the princess of the Tang Dynasty, and that Du Xian is a minister of the Tang Dynasty. How dare he not obey my teachings?"
Su Lu's eyes lit up and he thought to himself: "This fake princess always acts as a princess when I suddenly ride the horse. Why don't she go to Du Xian to show off? If not, let the girl know that no one will take her as a princess in her eyes. If it does, that's better. It means that this Bodhisattva is still a little bit, and it's not a loss to raise it."
Thinking of this, Sulu smiled, turned around and leaned closer with a little bit of flattery, and said, "Then it's all troublesome."
Su Lu immediately arranged his tribe members and asked them to select a thousand excellent horses and send them to Princess Jiaohe.
Princess Jiaohe also arranged her dentist and went to Anxi with the orders of Princess Datang.
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Anxi Grand Governor’s Office!
Princess Jiaohe's tooth officer was named Asuna Dou, who was the slave of Princess Jiaohe and married to Tuqishi.
Du Xian was working in the Governor's Office. When he heard someone spread the order of the princess, he felt panic and hurriedly planned to tidy up his clothes and accept the order, and someone invited Ashinado in.
He planned to welcome the princess' envoy with the courtesy of a minister.
Du Xian walked into the Grand Governor's Office with high spirits, facing Du Xian, the first leader of Anxi, with an intention to read the princess' order.
When I started to listen to the princess' orders, I felt strange.
This Western Region is not Chang'an, so where is there any princess?
But seeing Ashinado, a Hu man who was arrogant and arrogant, was even more suspicious and asked: "I dare to ask the envoy, I wonder which princess is the Lord?"
Asuna Dou raised his head and said, "It's Princess Jiaohe!"
"What!"
Du Xian thought his ears were bad, so he asked again: "Which princess?"
Asuna Dou said: "Princess Jiaohe personally conferred by His Majesty the Emperor of the Celestial Dynasty, Kedun, who was the thunderbolt..."
Du Xian was sure that he had not listened to the wrong person, and immediately became furious and shouted: "What qualifications does Ashina Huaidao's daughter have to read orders to me! Come and beat this guy who is wise to thirty sticks and throw him into prison..."
He was indignant and felt that he had been humiliated. He gave another order to beat all the thunderbolts and throw them into prison.
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Summer goes and autumn comes.
Autumn in the Northwest is the season when the horses are tall and fat.
On this festival that is most suitable for horse racing and military training, Pei Min staged a refreshing military exercise in Hexi and Longyou.
The Jiuqu Military Horse Farm in Longyou and the Shandan Military Horse Farm in Hexi are the two most important military horse farms in the Tang Dynasty.
The other Weinan military horse farms, Shuofang military horse farms, and Yanyun military horse farms are not as good as the Jiuqu military horse farms and Shandan military horse farms. These two military horse farms are all under the control of Pei Min.
As the saying goes, the moon is the first to get close to the water. The Longyou Army and the Hexi Army are the sons of the court. The treatment is second only to the Central Imperial Army. The number of military horses in the army is the highest in other military governors.
To be continued...