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Although Tubo and Goguryeo sent envoys to come this time, they were nominally apologizing for guilt, but in fact they asked for the marriage to be accused of guilt.

On the surface, marriage seems to be a kind of surrender, but in fact, it is a manifestation of compromise. Throughout history, marriage between big countries and small countries does not exist, and even a "parental girl" is absolutely impossible. Marriage usually only occurs in one situation, that is, the opponent who cannot be solved when the Central Plains faces the opponent and is tired of dealing with it, gives a step when the other party releases goodwill.

Often for the party who requests marriage, this is also a manifestation of "victory", that is, I have the ability to force you to marry the princess to me.

The fate of a married princess is often miserable. In the barbarian land, women are regarded as a kind of property. Brothers die, brothers die, father dies, sons die, and a married princess often serves several generations of barbarian khans. The fate can be imagined.

The Central Plains dynasty has never easily married relatives, and the gentry also regards marriage as a shame. This time, the Western Turks advanced eastward, and all parties waited for an opportunity to act. After the crisis was lifted, they retreated to apologize. Only Tubo and Goguryeo did not retreat. Tubo soldiers stationed in Songzhou, while Goguryeo soldiers were facing the Bohai Sea. They disagree that the marriage would be a big fight.

Therefore, the Tang Dynasty paid great attention to the every move of the envoys of the two countries. Tubo was better, and he didn't have to worry too much about his behavior, while Goguryeo had squandered a lot of strength. The Goguryeo crown prince was domineering and causing trouble everywhere. In order to help him wipe his butt, the Ministry of Rites had to touch a lot of people every day.

After a few days of hard work, the Ministry of Rites began to think of Li Mu. If Zhulu Hou was there, how could he allow such people to be arrogant? It is not for the country and the people. With Zhulu Hou's personality, he would not allow anyone who is more arrogant than him to exist in Chang'an City!

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The Honglu Temple was full of customers, and the envoys from various small countries had to find a place to live on their own. The envoys of the Japanese moved out early, but fortunately they moved out early and rented a courtyard at a very cheap price. If they were later, they would definitely not be able to rent a house.

Now that the rent has increased, they have also done a business and rented out half of the yard. The rent earned is more than their original rent. Not only did they live in a waste, but they also spent some pocket money.

The person who rented their house was the envoy of Silla. Compared with Japan during the Tang Dynasty, the peninsula was much more developed. Whether in terms of ethics, culture or force, it was necessary to be in the lead. It was known that Japan had vaguely overwhelmed the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

Although Silla only occupies a corner of the southern part of the peninsula, their financial resources are still much stronger than those of Japan. The envoy of Silla is named Jin Chunqiu. His father is Izuki, the son of King Shimaji, and his mother is Mrs. Tianming, the daughter of King Shima. In the Silla society dominated by the bone system, Jin Chunqiu belongs to the true bone who has no qualification to inherit the throne.

The so-called "true bone" refers to Silla's special system, bone quality system. Two hundred years ago, Silla unified the Chen and Han tribes with force. In order to consolidate their privileged status, a hierarchy was formulated, called "bone quality system". The nobles determined their hierarchy and corresponding official ranks according to their bloodline. Different bone quality was not in harmony with marriages, and the bone quality was hereditary. Hereditary bloodline determined the level of respect for people. The maximum limit for holding official positions was formulated according to different levels. Only if they reached a certain bone quality level could a certain official position be granted. Therefore, a person's career was restricted by the hierarchy status that an individual had in bone quality system. Whether a person could achieve something could be said to be entirely reincarnated.

True bones are at the second level in bone quality, which is about the duke of the Tang Dynasty. However, it is not that a person is a "true bone" or a duke, but it just means that he has the qualification to be a duke, and it is also his "upper limit".

Above the true bone is the "holy bone". Only the bloodline of the "holy bone" can inherit the throne. The first intention of this system was to protect the royal power, but now it has become a shackle.

I don’t know if it’s a curse, but since the establishment of this ‘bone-grade system’, the bloodline of the royal family has not flourished. There are only a few people in each generation, which leads to a strange phenomenon. The ‘holy bones’ with inheritance rights are weak and sick, while the true bones without inheritance rights are much better.

In this generation of Zhenping King, a scene that finally happened that worried the royal family. Zhenping King has no son! New Rome is about to face the situation where the royal family is unstoppable!

King Zhenping is 34 years old. If he is healthy, he may not be able to give birth to a prince, but the bad thing is that he is weak and is now terminally ill. When Jin Chunqiu left, he met King Zhenping, and King Zhenping was almost out of reach. His face was pale and he said a word to relieve himself. When he arrived in the Tang Dynasty, he didn't even know whether King Zhenping was still alive. Every time he thought about this, he couldn't help but want to cry.

He remembered Wang's voice, appearance, smile very clearly.

The next day he was about to set off. In the middle of the night, the officials in the palace passed the order and the king wanted to summon him.

Jin Chunqiu did not dare to be negligent, so he followed the eunuch to the king's bedroom and made it within three steps near the bed. This was a very great courtesy. Jin Chunqiu was grateful, but when he saw the king's face, he was not happy at all, and tears flowed down instantly.

I saw that King Zhenping was skinny and bone-bone-thin, his eyes were sunken and there was no flesh anymore. The eunuch helped him sit up, and he waved to signal Jin Chunqiu to come to him.

Jin Chunqiu hurried over, and King Zhenping said in an intermittent and weak voice, "I can't live for a few days... I have no descendants, my dear, I'll ask you, if this king dies, who in this royal family is qualified to inherit the throne?"

"The King--" Jin Chunqiu was so scared that he was unable to possess his body and hurriedly knelt on the ground. He was only 'true bone' bloodline, and he was only thirty years old. He was still a young and strong school in the court. He was a slight person, so how could he dare to talk about this matter?

"It's okay, I didn't let you make a decision, I just asked casually, don't you dare to answer?"

"This—" Jin Chunqiu hesitated for a moment and said, "When you return to the king, now the Holy Bone Bloodline is the Holy Bone Bloodline, and King Ge Wen is the Holy Bone Bloodline. If King Ge Wen... it should be followed by King Ge Wen."

"Ha..." King Zhenping laughed and said, "Even my dear, I think so, it seems that's true..." King Zhenping coughed violently for a while, took a pill, calmed down, and continued, "But what if I don't want him to inherit the throne?"

"This..." Jin Chunqiu didn't know how to answer, and thought for a while, and said carefully, "The king, the system is like this and the rules are like this, and it is difficult to change."

"What if I have a daughter alive?"

daughter?

Does the king want a woman to inherit the throne? How can this be done?

This kind of thought came to my mind instantly, but when he saw the face of King Zhenping, Jin Chunqiu did not dare to say it. King Zhenping did not ask him again, coughed, and said to himself, "Since I ascended the throne, I felt that the royal family was withered. So I made up my mind to investigate clearly, why? After investigating for many years, I ruled out one possibility after another, read a lot of medical books, and asked many doctors, and finally I found the reason."

"The reason is in the bone product!"

"Because of the limitation of bone product, different bone products cannot intermarry, which leads to the fact that those who marry each other are relatives. After looking through the records of the Imperial Medical Hall of all dynasties, I found clues. The disease that only a few people in one generation has increased a lot by the next generation. And more than one person, more than one family. From this, I infer that marriage between close relatives is the culprit that causes the blood decline. As expected, the king and the queen were cousins, and we both had nothing to do with each other."

King Zhenping said calmly, as if he was talking about other people's affairs, but Jin Chunqiu's forehead was already sweating. This is the secret of the royal family. Will he be silenced after hearing this secret?

"When I was twenty years old, Baekje was in the border. I disguised myself as a general and fought against the Goguryeo people. I was rescued by a Goguryeo medical girl. During my injury, we developed feelings for each other..." King Zhenping paused, as if he was trapped in memories. After a while, he continued to say, "Later, I returned to the country and received a letter from her. She was pregnant. Another year later, I received her letter and gave birth to a daughter for me."

Jin Chunqiu suddenly realized that this daughter came from this.

"Although I have never met again in recent years, I have always had letters. However, I have always received her letters, and she has never left an address, so I cannot contact him until the previous year--"

"I received her letter again, and she asked me to wait for her in a small village on the border. I came happily, but did not see her. There was only a little girl in her teens holding a jar of ashes in her hand and wearing the jade pendant that I gave her back then-"

"She is my child, her name is Gao Yue. Her mother turns out to be a royal family girl in Goguryeo." King Shinpei couldn't bear the grief and cried, "She is dead, and the letter I received is her final letter."

"She was forced to death by her father and brother-"

King Zhenping cried for a while, and it took a long time to calm down and continued to preach, "I buried her in the place when I first met and took the child back to the palace. Because the queen had no children, she hated this child and asked someone to poison her. After evading for a few times, I had no choice but to look for a place outside the palace. But I didn't expect that the queen would collude with King Ge Wen and reveal the news to him. I hate my younger brother, who actually sent someone to kidnap my child, and used this as a threat to force me to abdicate-"

"How can I do what they wish!"

King Zhenping coughed violently several times and continued, "I am just pretending to be a snake to save the child's life. In addition, I sent people to investigate from all directions, and finally found a clue. In the hands of a slave-trafficking human trafficker, I found the jade pendant. Following this clue, I found it and learned that the child had been sold to the Tang Dynasty."

King Zhenping took Jin Chunqiu's hand and said, "This time you went to the Tang Dynasty to ask the Tang Dynasty to help Silla and resist Goguryeo. The second is to ask you to help me find my daughter and inherit the throne. I chose you as an envoy because I was interested in your youth and had little to do with all the forces in the court. If you help me find my daughter, I will let you be the prime minister." As he said that, he picked up a decree and handed it to Jin Chunqiu. "The decree is here, and it will take effect when the new king ascends the throne."

From a small envoy to become prime minister in one step, how many levels have been promoted to Jin Chunqiu himself. He took the order and felt it was hot and murmured, "If so, if so..."

"If you can't find it, I will also have a decree for you." King Zhenping took out another decree and handed it to Jin Chunqiu, signaling him, saying, "You open it and take a look."

Jin Chunqiu opened the order and was immediately scared. The order actually said that because King Zhenping had no children, he was willing to offer land to the Tang Dynasty, hoping that the Tang Dynasty would take over Silla and treat the people well. There were two other last wishes, one was to let the queen be buried with him, and the other was that he investigated and learned that his younger brother King Ge Wen was not from the royal bloodline, and begged the Tang Dynasty to send troops to kill him.

This decree is really a choice to break the death. Jin Chunqiu felt the determination of King Zhenping. If he found his daughter, he would let his daughter succeed to the throne. If he couldn't find it, he would rather Silla's country end than let his younger brother King Ge Wen succeed to the throne!

King Zhenping looked at the shocked Jin Chunqiu and said, "You already know the secret of this king. If you refuse to agree, neither you nor your tribe members will survive. You don't have to think about resigning to King Ge Wen after leaving the palace. I am still alive and no one can get up. My dear, make a decision."

"My name..." Jin Chunqiu understood that when King Zhenping asked him to come here today, he had no choice. He promised to be a life of nine deaths, and if he didn't agree, he would be a life of ten deaths!

In order to survive and as prime minister, he had no choice but to agree.

After saying so many words, King Zhenping seemed to be exhausted and his voice became much smaller. "My dear, I found out that the human trafficker sold all the slaves to a man named Yin Saner in the Maxing Street, Chang'an City, the Tang Dynasty. If you find him, you may know the news about my daughter."

He gestured for a moment, and the eunuch took out a box and handed it to Jin Chunqiu. He took the heavy hand and Jin Chunqiu guessed what was inside.

"There is one hundred taels of gold here. If there is news about my daughter, it should be enough to redeem it." He sighed and said angrily, "I will work hard to live. If you receive the news that I am dead before you come back, use the remaining money to settle my daughter well. Just take it as, I beg you."

After saying this, King Zhenping seemed to be asleep and never spoke again. The eunuch looked carefully for a while and signaled Jin Chunqiu to go out. Jin Chunqiu kowtowed three times, got up and walked out of the bedroom.

The next day he set off and after leaving the city, he was chased by a killer. Fortunately, King Zhenping was prepared. The palace guards defeated the killer and escorted a group from the waterway, got ashore from Dengzhou Port, and came all the way to Chang'an City.

The guard came in and said, "Sir, I found Yin Saner's residence."

Jin Chunqiu recovered from his memories and stood up and said, "No need to delay, bring a gift and go and have a look!"
Chapter completed!