Moisturize things

The light became darker and darker, and night was about to fall, and the surroundings were very quiet. Only Sun's gentle breathing sound was left. She snuggled in Xue Chongxun's arms and her body was soft, with a layer of thin beads of sweat on her forehead and a look of tiredness and satisfaction.

"It's good to sleep like this for a while." Sun murmured.

He whispered, "You can't sleep here, go back to your room first."

Sun said with a hint of coquettish tone: "I don't even want to move for a moment."

When Xue Chongxun heard this tone, he recalled her usual appearance and couldn't help but feel a little different. Women are really strange.

At this moment, suddenly, he heard footsteps in the door, and Sun hurriedly sat up from Xue Chongxun's arms. Before the two had time to prepare, the wooden back door was opened with a "whistle" sound. Xue Chongxun suddenly felt a little angry, but when he turned around, he saw that Li Yan'er was standing at the door! Not only her, but there was also the girl Pei Niang, in Xue Chongxun's room.

"I don't even knock on the door, so there is no rule at all?" Sun almost cried. She was still sitting on Xue Chongxun's lap in dishevel. Then she stood up in panic, her hair was also messy... It's okay, but she saw her white little dress still thrown on the floor. She hurriedly grabbed it and stuffed it into her sleeves.

Li Yan'er widened her big eyes and stood there blankly without saying a word.

Xue Chongxun moved his eyes from Li Yan'er's face to Pei Niang's face, and Pei Niang blushed and hurriedly lowered her head.

At this time, Li Yan'er grabbed Pei Niang's hand and said, "It's not her business, it's the door I opened. I just asked Xiao Cui, saying that my mother and the husband were writing poems inside... I didn't see anyone when I entered the house, so I opened the back door and took a look..."

"Yan'er, I..." Sun really didn't know what to say, and she was so sad that she might even have the desire to die. She was no longer as strict as she was in front of Li Yan'er. The roles of mother and daughter seemed to be upside down. If Sun was a little girl who had done something wrong.

Xue Chongxun originally thought that Li Yan'er would turn around and cry and run away, or get angry, but she actually exonerated Pei Niang first. After a brief surprise, she didn't seem impulsive, so he calmed down when he saw this.

Pei Niang said, "The front mansion sent a letter in, saying that it was sent by Mr. Zhang from the people in the court. There was an urgent matter. The husband was not in the house, so I was afraid that I would miss the matter, so I came here and happened to meet the princess."

Xue Chongxun took the opportunity to change the topic and said, "Where is your faith?"

Pei Niang hurriedly handed over a letter. Xue Chongxun reached out to pick it up and said calmly: "We can't talk nonsense about our inner hut, understand?"

Pei Niang nodded vigorously, opened her innocent eyes and said, "Of course I know!"

"That's good."

Li Yan'er was stunned for a while and asked, "Mom, is it the husband bullying you?" Sun couldn't answer, his face looked extremely ugly.

In contrast, Xue Chongxun was much calmer. Although Li Yan'er was a wife, she was not as strong as her mother. This matter did not seem to be serious. He didn't say anything, so he opened the letter and read it. He saw that Zhang said the handwriting above, which was about the urgent report of the Western Regions. Xue Chongxun browsed it roughly, and probably the Tubo people were not honest again in the Western Regions.

Xue Chongxun asked, "Has the sender left?"

Pei Niang said timidly: "I haven't left. I'm a public servant. I have to wait for the husband's reply before going back. Why do you tell him?"

Seeing Sun's appearance, Li Yan'er finally figured out what was going on. Her big watery eyes flashed with crystal tears, and she raised her mouth and said coquettishly: "You bully people!" After that, she turned around and left.

"Yan'er, listen to me..." Sun hurriedly chased after him.

Pei Niang hurriedly asked to the door and stood there blankly, looking at a loss.

Xue Chongxun put the letter into her sleeve bag and glanced at her: "No need to reply, I'll go see the person who delivered the letter."

He didn't care about Pei Niang. The little girl has been in the Xue family since she was a child and was taken to the room. She had to live with her for the rest of her life, and Xue Chongxun still trusted her very much.

However, Li Yan'er was in trouble. Although she was young, she was still a married wife who was married by the Ming Dynasty, so she was always a little difficult to explain. Xue Chongxun felt a little embarrassed. Thinking that someone was sending a letter, she planned to meet her and go out for a while.

Seeing that the less important foreign guests were usually in the living room of the upside-down room opposite the main entrance hall, Xue Liu came up and confirmed that the customer was there, so Xue Chongxun went straight to the living room. He saw a clerk wearing a round neck and green clothes, who looked familiar, so he blurted out: "It seems that he had seen you somewhere."

The clerk hurriedly bowed and said, "The clerk of Zhang Xianggong. Zhang Xianggong's clerk in both the Ministry of War and the Political Affairs Hall are all handled by Huyi. Following up and down, you can sometimes see the King of Jin."

He paused and said slightly: "When the time comes, Mr. Zhang saw Anxi urgently reported that he had already written to His Majesty. He would discuss this matter tomorrow when the ministers of the Political Affairs Hall were on duty. Mr. Zhang said that he would like to know the King of Jin, so that you can know what to do, so he sent a Beizhi to deliver the letter."

Xue Chongxun sat down and nodded, "I already know when you go back and reply to Mr. Zhang."

The clerk was very self-aware. He knew that Xue Chongxun was already very proud of his face when he met him in person, and his identity was too different and he didn't say much, so he consciously held his fists and said goodbye.

Xue Chongxun did not leave the living room immediately. He sat on the chair for a while, took out the letter and looked at it carefully twice.

Zhang Shuo roughly wrote about the situation of Anxi Town in the letter. The main incident was that the Tubo army attacked Xiaobolu (now Gilgit, the Khanate south of the Pamir Mountains, located on the main transportation route of Anxi Town to the north of Tubo). Xiaobolu was no match for the Tubo people at all, so he sent envoys to Anxi Town for help; Anxi guardian Du Xian believed that Xiaobolu was the outpost of the Anxi Army and must be rescued. On the one hand, he ordered the gathering of 4,000 Anxi cavalrymen, and on the other hand, he reported to Chang'an. He only needed the imperial edict to start a war against Tubo. In addition to this matter, the situation was also very bad. Zhang Xiaosong, the governor of Beiting, wrote a letter to the Tubo people and Turkish Shi people that the Tubo people were increasingly close, and Turkish Shi showed signs of rebellion against the Tang Dynasty.

Xue Chongxun was a little confused. He sat there and thought for a while, thinking: Last time the coup of Prince Li Chenghong, the Tubo envoys in Linde Hall were also present. The Tubo people probably found out that there were problems within the Tang court and thought that it was an opportunity to take advantage of it.

There are many ethnic conflicts in Tubo. Expansion is one of the driving forces to maintain the balance of their internal forces. If they do not launch a war, they will only collapse internal friction. No wonder they are not afraid of fighting. They want to ding when they see the cracks. After the Eastern Front is hitting the Western Front, they start again.

The main competition in the Western Regions was hegemony, not a place that concerns survival. In other dynasties, Anxi was not China's territory at all. Moreover, there was also the Ministry of War in the dynasty in charge of defense. The bureaucrats of the Ministry of War knew that they had valuable suggestions. When Xue Chongxun thought of this, he called Xue Liu and sent the letter to him to the prince to maintain information exchange with his staff.

The Ministry of War has not many problems, but the Political Affairs Hall is a bit troublesome. Now the place is a place of disputes and cannot be said at all, which leads to the mistakes between the central military and political affairs, and the efficiency of governance is extremely low. No wonder the Tubo people think that there is an opportunity to take advantage of it, and their views are not wrong.

Xue Chongxun sat for a while and saw that it was completely dark outside the door, so he slowly walked out to go back to his room to rest. Today was Pei Niang. She would usually chatter and talk a lot of nonsense in front of Xue Chongxun, but tonight it was an exception and seemed particularly silent, probably because she encountered Xue Chongxun's scandal.

He was also a little depressed. Before something happened, he realized that it would be a little troublesome to mess around. Now that it has been verified, it obviously has a great impact on his image in front of his family. However, Sun is also a relatively mature and steady woman, she didn't even control her. Xue Chongxun has a lot of determination... The next day, the prime ministers of the Political Affairs Hall did not say anything. The emperor didn't care about anything, and he didn't dare to take care of it. The left prime minister Lu Xiang first let alone the old man couldn't hold back, but now he was about to resign, just thinking about when to approve him to retire and return home. After the resignation was put on for a few days, there was no reply. Lu Xiang was kind and performed his duties and sat down at the Political Affairs Hall. Before Li Shouyi was angry, he threw the official uniform seal in the yamen and ran away.

It was obvious that for the sake of the hegemony of the Tang Dynasty in the northwest, it was necessary to declare war on Tubo; but in the afternoon, I received a letter from the Tubo envoy and wanted to negotiate peace with the Tang Dynasty. So there was a disagreement. Some people believed that tough policies should be implemented in the border areas, while others felt that the timing was wrong and it was not appropriate to take risks. Since we could negotiate peace, it was better to sit down and talk.

Among them, Dou Huaizhen did not argue with anything, and whether it was a war or a peace was not important. He took the opportunity to ask the Empress Dowager to obey the government again to resolve the disputes between the court.

Xue Chongxun visited the Ministry of Revenue and heard about the disputes between the Secretariat and the Secretariat, he had no time to go back to the prince's kingdom.

Wang Changling came to see him and sent the suggestions that Xue Chongxun asked him to write to him, about the matter of the empress dowager's attention. Xue Chongxun had no expected anything, but when he opened it, he was surprised and couldn't help but look at Wang Changling.

Wang Changling said calmly: "This morning, we all think that this is the time for Empress Dowager Gao to follow the government."

"Distance your sight?" Xue Chongxun blurted out. He had not finished reading the dense small characters on the suggestion in his hand.

"It's probably what Xue Lang said, just another way. When Empress Dowager Gao asked about politics, he could order Anxi Town to send troops in the name of the imperial decree and the Political Affairs Hall; the use of troops to Tubo not only concerns Anxi Town, but also the supply on the western front and the defense on the eastern front must be coordinated. Foreign wars are related to the prestige of the Tang Dynasty. If several decrees continue, who dares not obey? In this way, the decree of Empress Dowager Gao unknowingly left Chang'an with justification."

Xue Chongxun thought about it and smiled unconsciously: "It's interesting, this is called... moistening things silently."
Chapter completed!