[Wu Zetian] Queen's Road

Chapter 22

Princess Honghua belongs to the women's family and is also Li Tang's clan, so after paying homage to the second sage of the Tang Dynasty in Hanyuan Hall, Wu Xu stayed in the back hall to talk.

Princess Honghua is almost 40 years old this year. She is much older than Wu Xu and Li Xiaojiu, but she is well maintained. It can be seen that King Tuyuhun treated her well.

Wu Xu still doesn't know about Tuyuhun. Before that, her attention has been on the Wa country in the east, and she has no time to pay attention to the western part of the Tang Dynasty.Afterwards, Wu Xu became pregnant again, and Li Xiaojiu didn't allow her to bother about military and political affairs. Therefore, everyone unanimously concealed such a major event as Tubo's encroachment on Tuyuhun, and never revealed it to her.

Wu Xu didn't have any old friendship with Princess Honghua, so she was invited to the apse today because of Li Xiaojiu's words.

If it was a more lively master or a younger and more beautiful girl, Wu Xu would probably be interested in finding something to talk to Princess Honghua about.

However, this princess is not young anymore, and she still has a sad look on her face.

Wu Xu didn't even know what to say. After asking the princess a few questions about Tuyuhun's customs, she didn't know what to say next.

Awei and the others were able to wink. Seeing the awkward atmosphere between their wife and the princess, they were busy making many new snacks and tea.

Princess Honghua has been in the Western Regions for a long time, so she doesn't know about the changes in Chang'an's diet, and she can't help showing a look of surprise when she sees the novelty tea made by the Empress Dowager.

"This kind of milk dessert is exquisite..."

The staple food of the people in Tuyuhun is pasta and dairy products, but Wu Xu's small kitchen is so exquisite. After Princess Honghua ate one orchid buckle pancake, she ate several more in a row.The drink served was hot milk with sweet-scented osmanthus sugar, which had no fishy smell at all. After tasting it, Princess Honghua praised it even more.

"Miss, these foods are really memorable!"

Wu Xu smiled when she heard the words, "If Liu Niang likes it, just ask a maid to come to my small kitchen to learn~~~~" Princess Honghua lives in her mother's house, and Wu Xu called her Liu Niang a little more close meaning.

Moreover, Wu Xu let the other party's people into her small kitchen without any grievances. This trust moved Princess Honghua very much.

However, Princess Honghua didn't dare to take Wu Xu's politeness seriously, and immediately said: "My wife's kindness, I appreciate it..."

Wu Xu didn't care about the other party's refusal either, and said with a smile: "How about, when Liu Niang will vomit, I'll ask the palace servants to prepare more cakes for you to take back..."

"Then I would like to thank my lady..." Princess Honghua did not refuse this time.

The two of them were talking in a neutral manner, and they finally reached the back hall of His Majesty Li Xiaojiu's meeting.

Everyone got up to meet him, but Wu Xu'an didn't move.

Princess Honghua couldn't help being secretly surprised when she saw this, but she couldn't help being moved when she saw that everyone else was used to it.

She originally thought that Wu Xu's fierce reputation was nothing more than the malicious slander of those aristocratic families, especially after meeting Wu Xu who was too lazy to move, Princess Honghua thought that the Queen of Heaven was not as powerful as the outside world said at all.

Therefore, she did not confide to Wu Xu about the matter between Tuyuhun and Tubo, but put all her hopes on the wise and mighty Emperor.

Looking at it now, maybe Tianhou's energy is much greater than she imagined!

Princess Honghua couldn't help but secretly annoyed that she didn't seize such a good opportunity just now!

However, when His Majesty Li Xiaojiu walked into the apse, he was secretly relieved to see that Wu Xu's face had no abnormal expression—he was worried that Princess Honghua would tell Wu Xu about Tubo's encroachment on the Tuyuhun territory regardless.

Fortunately, Princess Honghua still doesn't know what the "Second Sage" of the Tang Empire means. If Wu makes any decision, even he, the emperor, can't refute it at will!

"Sister came from a long way, so there is no need to be so polite, please sit down!" His Majesty Li Xiaojiu, with a warm smile on his face, gave Princess Honghua a little support and asked her to sit down.

After Xie En, Princess Honghua took her seat, seeing His Majesty Li Xiaojiu sitting next to the Empress Dowager and whispering to her very intimately, she felt annoyed again...

Wu Xu didn't pay attention to Princess Honghua's expression, she showed a relieved expression when she saw Li Xiaojiu coming in.

"Why did you come here?" Wu Xu asked Li Zhidao quietly, turning his head.

"Except for a little accident ahead...cough!" His Majesty Li Xiaojiu quickly changed the topic as if he didn't want to talk about it. "How was your chat with Liu Niang?"

Wu Xu wrinkled her nose when she heard this, "You asked me to keep Liu Niang here, what are you planning?"

As soon as Li Xiaojiu heard Wu Xu's words, she knew that she was getting impatient, so she hurriedly apologized and said, "Liu Niang and her husband-in-law encountered a little trouble before, and it has been resolved...I don't know why she came this time... ..."

"What trouble?!" Wu Xu's eyes suddenly lit up when she heard the word 'trouble', as if she was very interested.

His Majesty Li Xiaojiu couldn't help but rubbed his nose with a wry smile. He knew that his family Ah Wu was very bored recently. If she found out that Tubo was making trouble behind when the Tang Dynasty had no time to look around, she might do something. Come on!

For Li Xiaojiu, the more difficult neighboring country to the east of the Tang Dynasty is Goguryeo, and the west of the Tang Dynasty is probably Tubo...

With Datang's current strength, it is not a problem at all to fight against Tubo, or even win them, but it is not a good thing to be good at fighting!

Li Zhi thought for a while, and still downplayed the previous incident between Tuyuhun and Tubo. It was just a territorial dispute between the two in-laws of the empire. Now that the two have reconciled, Princess Honghua is here this time. Maybe it's just a simple return home to visit relatives...

After listening to Li Xiaojiu's words, Wu Xu couldn't help looking at him with disdain.

Do you think I'm an idiot?

How can a married woman return home to visit relatives without her son or daughter, and still sit at her younger brother's house and refuse to leave?

Something must have happened that she didn't know about...

After much deliberation, Wu Xu felt that Princess Honghua's visit must be for Tubo's affairs!

Therefore, Wu Xu directly said to Princess Honghua, "I see that Liu Niang has not seen her happy face today, could it be that she is worried about Tubo's invasion of Tuyuhun?"

Li Zhi and Princess Honghua didn't expect Wu Xu to be so straightforward, and they were a little confused for a while.

After a long while, Princess Honghua's eyes turned red, and she said: "To tell the truth, I came here to ask the Tang Dynasty to send troops..."

"What's going on?" Hearing this, His Majesty Li Xiaojiu was surprised. As far as he knew, the Tubo army withdrew not long after occupying the southwest of Tuyuhun. In fact, they only occupied a piece of grassland near Qinghai. After that, The Prime Minister of Tubo also decided to send a princess to Princess Honghua's son as a concubine, and the two families reconciled.

Now, according to Princess Honghua, the battle between these two families is not over yet!

"The emperor didn't know something. Not long before my concubine returned to Chang'an, the Prime Minister of Tubo personally led his troops to attack Bailan, an ally of Tuyuhun, and pointed his sword at the king's tent of Tuyuhun..." Princess Honghua cried while she said, "Yesterday, we I just got the news that the Tubo princess my son just adopted is not the princess of the Tubo royal family at all, but the daughter of a Tubo minister, and now this girl has kidnapped my son and disappeared..."

"I only ask the Emperor and Empress to be merciful and send troops to rescue my son..."

The Bailan Department is the only buffer between Tuyuhun and Tubo in the north. Once Bailan is lost, Tuyuhun will have no barriers in the northwest and can only be slaughtered by Tubo!

And now Tubo has kidnapped the prince of Tuyuhun with such a lowly trick as "beauty trick", which is obviously the idea of ​​completely annexing Tuyuhun!

Wu Xu couldn't help being furious: "It's no wonder that the Tubo envoy is not Lu Dongzan this time. It turns out that this guy went to do kidnapping!"

After speaking, Wu Xu asked Princess Honghua again: "How did the Tubo princess hijack the prince and escape from your king's tent? Could it be that she still has someone to support her?"

Logically, that beautiful Tubo spy should have been to Tuyuhun for the first time. How did she escape with the prince of Tuyuhun without anyone noticing?

After hearing Wu Xu's words, Princess Honghua couldn't help showing a look of embarrassment, and said: "After my son disappeared, King Khan investigated and found that my subordinate Su Hegui had defected..."

Got it!

What kind of Suhegui is this? It must have been abducted by that beautiful Tubo spy!

Wu Xu and Li Xiaojiu looked at each other involuntarily, and both of them understood the general situation of Tuyuhun now.

If Datang doesn't intervene, Tuyuhun will be annexed by Tubo in a short time!

Sure enough, just as the two had expected, two days after meeting Princess Honghua, an urgent report came from the Anxi Dadu Protectorate, saying that Tuyuhun Khan Nuohebo suddenly fled to the territory of the Tang Dynasty with thousands of subjects and asked for asylum. .

Pei Xingjian, the governor of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, stated in another secret statement that the Tubo army has about [-] people and has already occupied the Tuyuhun king's tent. His prime minister Lu Dongzan personally led the troops to station in the Tuyuhun king's tent and established a new king. The emperor quickly issued an order to send troops to conquer the unrighteous actions of Tubo!

After Li Zhi visited Pei Xingjian's secret copy, he handed it to Wu Xu.

After Wu Xu saw it, she just let out a long sigh: "It's a step too late!"

Realizing that Tubo was going to attack Tuyuhun, His Majesty Li Xiaojiu immediately sent an envoy to Tubo, hoping to dissuade the other party, who knew that Tuyuhun was captured by Tubo before the envoy arrived in Anxi!

How can it be so easy to spit out the meat that has been eaten in the stomach!

If it cannot be resolved peacefully, then there is only a fight!

But Wu Xu couldn't help but frown if he wanted to fight a tough country like Tubo.

"I don't know if this matter is Lu Dongzan's idea, or that little Zanpu's idea..." If it is the former, Wu Xu is still three-point sure to use diplomatic means to solve the problem; if it is the latter, it will be difficult up...

She remembered that little Zanpu from Tubo should be fifteen or sixteen years old this year, which is exactly the age when the second middle school disease started!

If the Tang Dynasty sent envoys to 'condemn', or asked Princess Wencheng to do ideological work, it would only be counterproductive...

"Awu, why do you need to worry, you should immediately transfer Su Dingfang, Xue Rengui, etc. to Longxi!" His Majesty Li Xiaojiu said lightly, marking the land of Longxi with his finger, "This piece of land must not be lost!"

The author has something to say: the Silk Road cannot be lost~