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"Golden Mountain? Is there a gold mine in my Uighur territory?"
Mou Yu Khan asked sarcastically.
Zhang Ke Ke said with a smile: "I don't know if there are any golden mountains in the Uighur territory, but there are quite a few small tribes in the Modong area."
"Now there is a shortage of mining workers in Jinshan. The Tuqishi people have surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and the demand for miners is not small."
"If the Uighurs can recruit some 'laborers' from Modong, they will definitely be able to sell them for a high price."
Now Mou Yu Khan understood what kind of big business Zhang Ke Ke was talking about!
Since the split of the Eastern Turkic Khanate, the Modong Grassland has fallen into complete chaos.
Although the Uighurs nominally rule this area, these small tribes attack each other, competing for pasture and population, and fight fiercely.
Originally, the old Khan formulated the plan of "first west, then east", first wiping out the larger Geluolu tribe and Xigasi tribe in the west, and then going to deal with small tribes like Modong.
However, the old Khan failed to succeed, and the Uighurs also gave up the strategy of unifying the grasslands and retreated to their own territory to lick their wounds.
Zhang Ke Ke continued: "Although the Uyghurs do not have gold mines, they do have mines. We Datang merchants also need these ores."
"If the price is right, we Datang merchants can provide mining technology."
Now Mou Yu Khan understood what Zhang Keda meant. He was asking him to go catch slaves on the Modong grassland!
Mou Yu Khan had no psychological burden for this proposal.
The Uighurs are originally nomadic people, and those who lose in battle become slaves. This has been a rule on the grassland for thousands of years.
Some cruel tribes even kill all the males of the defeated tribe when they defeat their opponents.
Capturing him as a slave is already a very merciful way of dealing with him.
The grassland tribes in Modong are quite disrespectful to the Uighurs.
Mou Yu Khan immediately made up his mind and said: "It's time to clean up these tribes in Modong!"
Mou Yu Khan issued an order to summon the Uighur cavalry to march eastward and expose the tribes in Modong.
At the same time, in Fengxiang Mansion.
I sat in the guest house of Honglu Temple with a frown on my face.
Since the last imperial meeting, I have sent letters to Xiefu every day, asking to see the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
However, these petitions fell into the dust without any response.
Anda Xiefa was the Uighur envoy seeking marriage, in order to comply with the old Khan's order and propose to the current Mou Yu Khan a Tang princess as the Uighur's kedun.
Ketun means the Uighur Queen.
However, apart from proving that King Jianning defeated the Uighurs in the court, Anda Xiefu was not summoned by the emperor again.
However, the Tang Dynasty treated An Daxie with great courtesy, and the daily meals were excellent.
When An Daxie went out for a haircut, no one stopped him, and there were guards protecting him.
Honglu Temple would try its best to satisfy almost any outrageous request made by Anda Xiefa, and even hired two Uighur cooks to cook for him so that he could eat Uighur food.
Except for not meeting his request for marriage, I can meet all his requirements.
An Daxie's haircut was left to dry in Fengxiang Mansion.
Almost all of his entourage died in the last assassination. An Daxie was bored in the guest house, so he arrived at the Longyou Governor's Mansion to stay in the backyard early this morning.
After the last court meeting, in order to show the emperor's favor, this courtyard was built next to the palace and located in the core area of the Fengxiang Mansion court.
Assistant Manager An Da sent a greeting card, and soon the guards sent a message inviting him to come in.
Nowadays, Long You's status in Fengxiang Mansion can be considered embarrassing.
The last time the dragon bones were excavated in Lingzhou, King Jianning was implicated.
Officials from the Qing Dynasty faction in the court were quite disappointed with King Jianning.
Thinking that he is a villain who collaborates with Du Hongjian to forge auspiciousness.
Yan Zhenqing, who originally had a good impression of King Jianning, took the lead in writing a letter to impeach King Jianning. Naturally, no officials from the Qingliu family set foot in the Longyou Governor's Mansion.
The other faction in the court, the officials who supported the crown prince, naturally did not like King Jianning either.
They all support the crown prince, but their compositions are different.
Guo Ziyi and Li Mi supported the crown prince for the sake of the stability of the court.
Now that the world is uncertain, if the heir apparent happens again, the Fengxiang Mansion and the imperial court will really not be able to hold on.
Of course, there are many opportunists who seek refuge with the prince, waiting for the prince to ascend the throne and rise to great heights.
But no matter which faction they belong to, they are all unfriendly to King Jianning now.
The backyard of Longyou Dudu's Mansion has also become a forbidden area in Fengxiang Mansion, and few officials visit it.
But for Li Daoyuan and others, they are happy to be clean.
Before the arrival of Shang Bo's new envoy, they only had to be monks for one day and ring the clock.
Reading at midnight
Anyway, I gain a lot of experience every day, so I won’t lose anything if I keep it for future generations.
The visit from An Daxie's hairdresser made Li Daoyuan very confused.
Why does this old Uighur man come to see me?
But at least they were traveling together. At that court meeting, the old Uighur man also expressed enough goodwill that Li Daoyuan chose to meet him.
When he was led into the house by his subordinates, he only saw Li Daoyuan feeding the fish in front of the pond.
The pond only raised carps that are commonly eaten in the Guanzhong area, but these carps were quite fat. When Li Daoyuan scattered the fish food, there were even bold carps jumping out of the water and competing for the fish food in the air.
Such a grand and impressive way of feeding fish really surprised me.
"The Uighurs asked for a betrothal envoy, and I met the emissary who stayed with him."
After Li Daoyuan finished feeding the fish, he and An Daxie sat down by the edge of the pool.
"Messenger Anda, let's get straight to the point. What is the purpose of my visit to Liu Yidian?"
Li Daoyuan didn't like these roundabout diplomatic rhetoric, so he asked directly.
Although An Daxie's haircut has been Chineseized for a long time, he is still a Uighur after all.
He also said directly: "I came to ask for an audience and to ask for a marriage."
Li Daoyuan said doubtfully: "You are asking for marriage from the Tang Dynasty court, what is the use of meeting me?"
The governor's residence in Longyou is just a small institution of Longyou in Fengxiang Mansion. Li Daoyuan, the governor's envoy, is only eligible to go to court during the imperial meeting.
Such a low-key official could not influence the court's decision-making at all.
Anda Xie's proposal to marry him failed, and everyone in Fengxiang Mansion knew about this.
An Daxie said, "The foreign envoys came to Fengxiang Mansion to ask the sage of the Tang Dynasty to marry the princess of the Tang Dynasty."
"However, before setting off, Mou Yu Khan also told the foreign envoy that if his request to marry a Tang clan relative fails, all he needs to do is establish a relationship with King Jianning."
Li Daoyuan was stunned. He didn't expect that this An Da Xie hairdresser would speak so straightforwardly?
An Daxie said, "The foreign envoy has been in Fengxiang Mansion for many days and finally understood one thing."
"What's up?"
"It was Longyou who defeated the Uighurs, not Datang."
Li Daoyuan was shocked, but he still pretended not to know and asked:
"Longyou is the Tang Dynasty. I'm afraid the envoy of Anda is not Hutu."
An Daxie did not fight with Li Daoyuan, but said directly:
"The Tang Dynasty is the Tang Dynasty, and Longyou is the Tang Dynasty. Foreign envoys still know this."
"The one who really defeated the Uighurs was King Jianning, not the Tang Dynasty."
"So when foreign envoys come to Fengxiang Mansion, they only need to establish a relationship with King Jianning."
After finishing speaking, An Daxie bowed to Li Daoyuan and said:
"This is my Uighur attitude."
After finishing speaking, An Daxie put down the gifts he had brought and left the Longyou Governor's Mansion to stay in the backyard.
Li Daoyuan watched An Daxie leave and get a haircut, and Zhang Duanyang walked out of the backyard.
"There are still many smart people in this world."
Li Daoyuan nodded and said: "This An Daxie Barber is a talented person. He has already seen that Longyou and the Tang Dynasty are not of the same mind."
"It is better to flatter the Tang Dynasty than to flatter us, Longyou."
Zhang Duanyang said: "Allowing a princess to marry the Uighurs will indeed damage the prestige of the Tang Dynasty. But if you just invite a daughter of the clan to marry the Uighurs, it will actually enhance the status of the Tang Dynasty."
"Before, the Fengxiang Mansion court was always unwilling to see me get a haircut. It just wanted to rely on the Uighur reinforcements to regain the two capitals, and at the same time, it didn't want to lose face by marrying the emperor's concubine."
Zhou Shi came out and asked: "Teacher, didn't the adoptive daughter do the marriage in the Tang Dynasty? Isn't this the same?"
Princess Wencheng and Princess Jincheng, who married Tubo, were not actually of the royal family of Li and Tang, but were the daughters of ministers who were adopted by the emperor.
Zhou Shi's problem is also Li Daoyuan's problem, and they all look at Zhang Duanyang.
Zhang Duanyang looked at Zhou Shi and said: "I ask you to study hard on weekdays, but you have learned everything in the dog's belly."
"In ancient times, it was a patriarchal society. Although she was an adopted daughter, as long as she entered the royal family tree, she was a princess!"
"The person getting married is not of royal blood, but of princess status!"
"Nowadays, the only country that can allow the Tang Dynasty to marry a princess is Tubo. Therefore, the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo is the country of the nephew and uncle, which means that the relationship between Tubo and the Tang Dynasty is not a vassal relationship, but an equal relationship."
"But the Uighurs have always been a vassal state that claimed the title of Tang Dynasty. If you marry a princess, it will be equivalent to putting the Uighurs and Tibet side by side and breaking away from the tribute system of the Tang Dynasty."
"If you marry a princess, there won't be this problem, so the royal bloodline is not the key, the royal title is the most important."
"You have to write your thesis carefully recently and don't go out to hang out anymore, otherwise I won't let you pass the pre-defense of my thesis!"
After hearing the thesis defense, Zhou Shi immediately lowered his head and ran back to the study.
The next day, the Uighur envoys sent a letter to the Tang Dynasty court, asking not to marry a royal princess, but to marry a daughter of the clan.
The royal princess is the daughter of the emperor, while the daughter of the clan can be the daughter of a prince or princess, that is, the princess of the Tang Dynasty.
If you are seeking to marry a daughter of the clan, it will indeed save the face of the Li Tang royal family.
After marrying the Uighurs, the emperor held a meeting in the Yanying Hall to discuss whether to agree to An Daxie's request to have a haircut and marry a daughter of the clan to the new Uighur Khan.
This time, the emperor and the prime minister quickly reached an agreement.
In any case, the Uighurs were a serious problem in the north of the Tang Dynasty.
If a daughter of a clan can be married to a Uighur, if there is friction between the Tang and Hui in the future, the princess can still mediate.
And now that the Uighurs are sending troops to assist the Tang Dynasty in regaining the two capitals, this request to marry the princess is not too much.
The Tang Dynasty did not marry a princess, but married a princess, which shows that the Uighurs were still vassals of the Tang Dynasty, rather than in-laws on an equal footing with the Tang Dynasty.
The emperor decisively issued the decree and agreed to my request to have a haircut and marry a princess to the Uighur Khan.
But this time, Ada Xiefa made a request that puzzled the court.