Yang Yuanqing lifted the curtain and walked in. Yu Wenshi stood up in a hurry and gave a deep bow, "Yu Wenshi and met His Highness the King of Chu.
Yang Yuanqing first met Yu Wenshi in the fourth year of Renshou. He returned to Beijing from Fengzhou and dealt with He Ruobi's three sons. He then met Prince Yang Zhao, who was also there at that time.
Thirteen years have passed in a flash. Yang Yuanqing is nearly thirty years old. Yu Wenshi has also changed from a handsome young man to a middle-aged uncle.
Especially the hatred and entanglement between Yang Yuanqing and the Yuwen family over the past decade has made him not have a very good impression of Yu Wen Shiji.
However, Yu Wenshi and was an envoy of the Tang Dynasty, who came on behalf of Li Shimin, had nothing to do with him.
"Please sit in the army Yuwen!"
Yang Yuanqing smiled and asked Yu Wenshi to sit down. He also sat on the bed. A personal soldier brought two cups of tea in. Yu Wenshi hurriedly took the tea cup and bowed, "Please forgive me for taking the liberty, can I let me visit first.
Let’s go to the Minister Qu Tu?”
Yang Yuanqing originally wanted to exchange a few greetings with him, but Yu Wenshi was impatient to get into the topic.
The smile on Yang Yuanqing's face disappeared, he picked up the teacup and said lightly: "Qu Tutong is a prisoner of war in the Sui army. My friendship with Li Shimin is not as good as visiting prisoners of war at will!"
Yu Wenshi Yidai, cursing himself in his heart that he could not speak, and then hurriedly said, "Please forgive my recklessness. I shouldn't have made this request in a hurry."
He took out a letter and presented it to Yang Yuanqing with both hands, "This is my lord's handwritten letter to His Highness the King of Chu. Please check it out."
Yang Yuanqing took Li Shimin's handwritten letter and opened it and read it. In the letter, Li Shimin's tone was very modest. He first thanked him for saving the Guanzhong soldiers from Goryeo. Then he hoped that the Sui and Tang dynasties would maintain benevolence and righteousness, and that the war would return to war and not abandon human ethics because of war.
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At the end of the letter, Qu Tutong and Shi Danai mentioned, Li Shimin called on him in a very sincere tone. ‘I beg your highness to let the two return to the Tang Dynasty to gather human relations and comfort his wife and children’
After reading the letter, Yang Yuanqing put it on the small table and sighed slightly, "I can understand the care of the King of Qin for his subordinates. The Sui army is a benevolent and righteous army and will not abuse prisoners of war."
He immediately ordered: "Bring General Shi Danai up!"
A personal soldier ran away, and Yang Yuanqing said to Yu Wenshi again: "I'm sorry. General Shi seems to have a bad temper. In order to ensure his personal safety, we have imposed some personal restrictions on him."
Yu Wenshi and the one who was more concerned about Qu Tutong, his lips moved, and finally restrained them. He met Shi Dana first.
After a moment, several soldiers brought Shi Dana in, but saw that Shi Dana had a wound on her shoulder and looked very haggard, but her hands were tied up.
Shi Danai was about to curse when he saw Yu Wen Shiji at first sight. He was stunned for a moment and immediately realized that it was the King of Qin who came to save him. His eyes turned red. Tears of emotion were almost rolling out.
He knelt down to Yuwen Shi and said loudly: "Please join the army to tell His Highness the King of Qin that Shi Danai is loyal to him and would rather die than surrender!"
Yu Wenshi nodded, "I will tell Your Highness, and I will also ask General Shi not to resist meaninglessly, take care of himself, Your Highness King Qin will definitely find a way to save you back."
Yang Yuanqing waved his hand and the soldiers immediately took Shi Dana down. Yang Yuanqing then smiled faintly and said, "In theory, there is a truce agreement between the Sui and Tang dynasties. It is okay to directly ask Yuwen to join the army to bring General Shi back.
But in this way, I can't explain to my brothers, this way! Since Shi Danai is a Turkic nobleman, we can follow the rules of the Turkic people and the Tang army can redeem him."
Yu Wenshi was very happy. As long as Yang Yuanqing was willing to open this opportunity, it would be easier to talk about Qu Tutong later. He hurriedly asked, "I wonder what your highness needs us to redeem him?"
Yang Yuanqing thought for a while and said, "What price should the generals of the Sui and Tang dynasties use to redeem themselves? We have no specific rules. In the future, if you have the opportunity to sit down and set certain rules, now since Shi Dana is from Turkic Tel, we will follow
The rules of the Turks: Khan redeems a million sheep, Ye Hu redeems a hundred thousand sheep, and Teller is an eighty thousand sheep. For your Qin King's sincerity, I will give in to another one, and 50,000 sheep can be redeemed.
Shi Danai.”
Yu Wenshi and secretly estimated in his heart that the 50,000 sheep was worth 100,000 taels of silver, and the offer from the King of Qin was 10,000 taels of silver, but now it is ten times the price.
He was secretly complaining in his heart, but he had no choice but to say, "I will go back and discuss with the King of Qin and will reply to Your Highness as soon as possible."
After pausing, he said again: "Your Highness, can you talk about the veteran General Qu Tu, or let me see him first."
Yang Yuanqing sighed, "Of course there is no problem when he sees it, but I heard that when the veteran General Qu Tu fell off his horse, he broke two of his ribs and stabbed into his body. He was seriously injured and could not move. He is still in Xiangcheng County,
I'm afraid you won't see him for a moment."
Yu Wenshi was shocked, "Your Highness said that the veteran General Qu Tu was seriously injured?"
Yang Yuanqing nodded, "I'm sorry, I have sent the best military doctor to treat him, but he is too seriously injured, and he is old, I can't guarantee that he will be safe and sound."
Yu Wenshi and his heart fell into the abyss. To put it this way, it would be normal if Qu Tutong died. He didn't know whether he should believe Yang Yuanqing.
But even if he didn't believe it, he had no choice but to say bitterly: "Okay! I'll go back and report to the King of Qin. When the injury of the veteran General Qu Tu improves, we will talk."
Speaking of this, Yu Wenshi hesitated for a moment and bowed and said, "I have another private matter, and I want to beg your highness to agree."
"You said, I can only do it, and I won't make things difficult for you."
"It's my wife and children. I'm grateful to you if Your Highness can let them go back to Chang'an."
Yu Wenshiji's wife is Princess Nanyang, and her son Zen Master Yuwen followed her mother. The couple had a deep relationship, but because of Yang Guang's death, the couple turned against each other.
Despite this, Yu Wenshi still loves his wife deeply and hopes that his son will return to his side and be able to reunite his family.
Yang Yuanqing heard that it was this incident and couldn't help laughing, "Princess Nanyang and your son Zen Master are now living in Jinyang Palace with the Empress Dowager. Except for the Empress Dowager, you cannot leave the palace at will. Your wife and children are completely free. You can
I will not stop you from sending someone to pick them up back to Chang'an."
Yu Wenshi lowered his head deeply. He also wanted to bring his wife and children back, but he knew that his wife would not forgive him anymore and she would not come back.
Thinking of the happy time when the couple was loving, now the wife and children were separated, and the sky was separated. I don’t know if I could meet again in this life, which made him feel extremely sad. His eyes turned red and tears rolled out of his eyes.
Yang Yuanqing had no good feelings for his father because he was Yuwen Shu. Now, seeing him in front of him, he actually burst into tears and felt a little pity for him in his heart.
When she sighed secretly, Yang Yuanqing patted his shoulder and said earnestly: "You can find an excuse to go to Taiyuan, such as talking about the rules of redeeming your body, and persuade her well. I also hope that you and your husband can reunite and father and son can
Reunion.”
Yu Wenshi wiped away the tears, nodded, and said with a choking voice: "Thank you for your concern, Shiji will say goodbye first."
He stood up and gave a gift to the chief, and Yang Yuanqing immediately ordered his personal soldiers to send him out of the camp.
Yu Wenshi left. It was already dawn. Yang Yuanqing returned to the central army tent, stood in front of the sand table and pondered for a moment, and ordered his personal soldiers, "Go and find Mr. Xie!"
After a moment, Xie Sili hurried over and bowed to salute, "Please give me the order!"
"Three days have passed. Go and ask Qu Tutong and ask him how he is thinking?"
"I went to ask him yesterday and he said there was nothing to consider."
"snort!"
Yang Yuanqing snorted coldly, "You go and ask him again and give him a last chance."
"Yes! I understand."
Xie Sili turned around and Yang Yuanqing paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back. Of course, he knew that Li Shimin sent Yuwen and came not for Shi Danai, but for Qu Tutong.
But how could he hand over Qu Tutong to Li Shimin? No matter how much he redeems it, once he is impressed by the thick coins, the person who leads troops into Taiyuan in the future is likely to be Qu Tutong. This person will either use it for himself or
If you kill it, there is no third way.
After a long time, Xie Sili came back hurriedly and sighed, "Your Highness, Bei Zhi has worn out his mouth, so he only said one sentence."
"What's the matter?"
"He said, I just want your highness to leave him a complete body."
This sentence made Yang Yuanqing's body shake slightly. After a while, Yang Yuanqing finally sighed helplessly. This is God's will and he should not disobey it.
Yang Yuanqing took out a red jade bottle from the drawer and handed it to Xie Sili, "This is the poison of the Sogdians, called 'Papamu', and it's dead at the entrance. You give it to him and tell him again, I will give it to him.
He was buried in Beimang Mountain, so he could go there with peace of mind!”…
In the tent, Qu Tutong had his hair loose, kowtowed three times to the northwest, and then sat cross-legged. He had already taken a shower and changed into a clean white dress.
His father and grandfather were from Qiang in Hexi. Although he did not live in Hexi, he knew that the rules left by his ancestors must go in white clothes and not bring any ornaments.
On the table in front of him was a bowl of wine, next to it was the jade bottle as bright as blood, only one inch in size. Qu Tutong picked up the wine bowl and smelled it, and laughed, "This is the King of Chu."
Is Your Highness the best Rose Wine?"
A personal soldier next to him said, "This is my lord's best pomelo wine. There are only two bottles in the world. He knows that Mr. Qu Tu is good at wine, so he specially gave him one bottle."
Qu Tutong picked up the wine bowl and sniffed it deeply, and squinted his eyes and praised: "What a good wine! I have to drink this wine, and I will die without regrets. Thank you King Chu."
He drank the wine and washed away the dirt from his body with the strong wine.
"happy!"
Qu Tutong put the wine bowl heavily on the table, reached out to take the jade bottle, unscrew the lid, he stared at the green viscous liquid in the bottle, and suddenly raised his head and sighed, "I, Qu Tutong, went wrong once,
You must never make mistakes again!"
He drank the bottle of poison and sucked it all, "Pu!" The bottle fell to the ground, and Qu Tutong committed suicide.