[Wu Zetian] Queen's Road

Chapter 23 Sons and Daughters 03

Tianhou's wife gave birth to the fourth prince, which was naturally a great joyous event for the empire, and the ruling and opposition parties couldn't help but celebrate again.

Because he is not a noble master, the bigwigs from all states, provinces, and capitals pretended that the gifts they sent last time did not exist at all, and re-prepared generous gifts to send to Chang'an to congratulate the newborn little prince. .

Wu Xu became dizzy just looking through the gift list, and deeply lamented the prosperity of officials from all over the place.

And after the Great Tang conquered Tubo, the entire Western Regions and even the roads to Arabia will be completely unimpeded. In the future, the wealth of the empire will grow at a geometric growth rate, which is exciting to think about.

That is, how to resettle the aborigines in Tubo is a big problem.

Thinking of the harsh geographical conditions of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Wu Xu sighed again and again.

If it is not a big problem to move the Han people in the interior to the Western Regions, the old Turkic lands, or the old Goguryeo and Wa kingdoms, it is not humane to send people to the plateau to suffer.

And the aborigines in Tubo are obviously unwilling to leave their homeland...

In this way, the previous assimilation method of migration* and ethnic mixing will not work.

This is really a headache!

When Li Sanlang came back from Tubo, she must have a good talk with him about this issue - it is better to listen to the opinions of people who understand the local situation.

In other words, she seems to have heard that the day after she gave birth to Xiao Shiro, Li San and the others had already entered the customs, and they would be able to reach Chang'an in a few days...

Li Sanlang made great contributions to the eradication of Tubo this time, and his momentum in the court was unstoppable for a while, and it was just around the corner to replace Mr. Li Ji.

There are also Su Dingfang and Xue Rengui, these two generals cooperated very well in attacking Tubo this time, and because of this, she was really relieved to break the rumors that they were fighting openly and secretly.

Finally, there is Wu Minzhi...

Thinking that the marriage of Wu Family Dalang was finally settled, Wu Xu slept very soundly that night.

But what Wu Xu never imagined was that Wu Minzhi, her nephew Wu Minzhi, who she had always trusted, would actually do several stupid things in matters of marriage later on.

However, it is said that five days after Xiao Shiro was born, the Tang Dynasty's expedition to Tubo returned triumphantly.

This good news is like a note thrown into a calm pool, causing countless waves.

Unlike the conquest of Goguryeo and Japan a few years ago, Tubo and Datang have had friendly diplomatic relations for at least 30 years, and it can be said that there is no sign of war with it.

When Songtsan Gampo was still alive, His Majesty Li Er and Li Xiaojiu had always had a very close relationship with Tubo.

Even before the Great Tang eradicated Tubo this time, the relationship between the two countries had always been very good, and the noble children sent by Tubo to study in Chang'an had always received the highest treatment among all foreign students.

Even the opponent's prime minister, Lu Dongzan, lingered in Luoyang and Chang'an for almost a year before being brought back to China by the opponent's little Zanpu.

Later, the Prime Minister of Tubo sent a letter of credence for his family's little Zanpu, but His Majesty Li Xiaojiu politely rejected it.

At that time, I didn't believe that the decision to refuse to remarry with Tubo caused a lot of controversy on Chaotao.

Later, when Tubo took advantage of the Tang Dynasty's attack on the Japanese kingdom, it made repeated small moves, first encroaching on the Bailan tribe, and then destroying Tuyuhun. Only then did the courtiers realize how wise His Majesty Li Xiaojiu's previous actions were.

Tubo has always been Tang's confidant in the west, and its harm is even worse than that of Turks. Princess Wencheng was married at the beginning to reduce the friction between Tang and Tubo in the west, and to govern the Western Regions with peace of mind.

These decades have passed, and many people in the court have forgotten the original intention of Tang and Tubo's marriage, which is really a bit sad.

Now that Tubo is gone, Persia, Dashi, Tianzhu and other countries in the west are too busy to take care of themselves, and there is no threat to Datang's Western Regions. It can be said that in Longxi area, Datang has no opponents.

Moreover, Wu Xu felt that after several years of external expansion, it was time for Datang to recuperate for a long time.

Wars are not just for fun. Although Datang has not lost a single battle in the past few years, it has consumed a lot of money. It can be said that Wu Xu and Li Xiaojiu have spent all the money they have earned in the past few decades on these wars. up.

The second is to take good care of the newly acquired land. This is also very important. If it is not handled properly and it is betrayed, all the manpower, material and financial resources spent before will be scrapped!

However, Wu Xu is more worried about the management of the old site than the management of the new site.

The official rank system, administrative jurisdiction system, and military system used by the Tang Empire today are somewhat unable to adapt to the current development of the empire.

Wu Xu was terribly bored while lying on the couch, so she began to think about deepening reforms.

It's a pity that she was not a big shot in her previous life. Even though she often went to forums to watch military and political affairs and complain, she still had only a half-knowledge of how a country works.

Thanks to the fact that she had been an imperial court lady in front of His Majesty Li Er for a long time, she finally had some understanding of the administrative system of the Tang Dynasty. Later, she followed Li Xiaojiu, and she also represented the government for a period of time. In terms of means, Wu Xu believes that some of her ideas are considered progressive, so reform is imperative.

After she told Li Xiaojiu about this idea, the latter didn't have any objections, and immediately called several young ministers from the Political Affairs Hall to discuss the reform.

Well, in fact, sometimes she always feels that Li Xiaojiu is much more radical than her.

Because of confinement, Wu Xu was not able to attend the meeting where Li Xiaojiu discussed the reform plan with his confidants.

But what's interesting is that, as the core of the imperial party and the leader of the Young and Strong faction in the Political Affairs Hall, Mr. Li, Mr. Li, did not attend His Majesty Li Xiaojiu's secret meeting, but went to Zichen Hall to listen to the teachings of the Empress Dowager.

Wu Xu was surprised in his heart, but he didn't say it out loud. When he saw Li Sanlang, he first praised him for his achievements in the battle against Tubo.

"Young lady's absurd praise..." Li Sanlang was still wearing a scarlet robe today, sitting upright outside the screen, so that Wu Xu couldn't see his expression clearly.

"Everything I do is for my Tang Dynasty forever..."

These words were really righteous, but Wu Xu, who was familiar with the other party's temperament, only felt an urge to twitch the corners of his mouth wildly.

"Li Xiangzhen is the pillar of the country..."

Obviously Wu Xu is not the kind of person who likes to treat high-sounding words as spoken words.

So, Li Sanlang smiled.

"Miss, let's not talk about the matter of Tubo, I want to congratulate my lady first..." Li Sanlang was referring to the happy event that Wu Xu gave birth to Xiaoshiro.

Wu Xu also smiled.

When she met Li Sanlang, she didn't pay much attention to the difference between superiority and inferiority. She often called the other party "Sanlang" without paying attention-this is one of the important reasons why His Majesty Li Xiaojiu always dislikes someone.

In fact, Wu Xu also regarded Li Sanlang as an excellent buddy, and the other party was obviously very skillful in pleasing the person he wanted to please. At least Wu Xu liked to chat with Li Sanlang about trivial matters.

Wu Xu recalled that when she and Li San met in Huai Erlang in the suburban palace of Beijing, it has been more than ten years in a blink of an eye, she had to be moved.

Li Sanlang arrived in Chang'an yesterday. At that time, he went directly to the palace to face the saint. After delivering Mansong Manzan, Princess Wencheng and others, he went back to the mansion to rest.

Today he was supposed to stay in the mansion to rest and wait for the reward, but unexpectedly he came to the palace.

Regardless of whether the other party came to visit her specially, Wu Xu was very happy.

"You haven't seen Koshiro yet, have you?" Wu Xu said while asking Awei to bring Koshiro in his arms for an exhibition.

The palace servants who follow Wu Xu are all old people, and they all know that Mr. Li is an important confidant of the Queen of Heaven, and has a good relationship with several princes (?), and this Mr. Xiao who came to visit the newborn in private is not counted. strangeness.Therefore, there is no pressure at all for this group of people to hug Xiao Shiro to meet a foreigner who has no blood relationship at all.

So, Li Dan, who was sleeping soundly, was once again thrown out for exhibition by his unscrupulous mother.

"How is it? My Shiro looks pretty good, right?" Wu Xu looked proudly at Li Sanlang's silent expression outside the screen.

Li Sanlang was silent for at least a stick of incense, and then he showed a smile, "Mr. Silang from the lady's family will definitely be a character who will break the hearts of all the young ladies in Chang'an..."

Wu Xu couldn't bear it when he heard the words, curled his lips and said, "I just want you to praise him, so stingy!"

"Yes...it's my fault." Mr. Li hurriedly apologized with a smile: "Si Lang is so beautiful, I really can't praise him with superficial words, please forgive me!"

Wu Xu couldn't help laughing out loud when she heard the words.

"Okay, sorry for your innocence~~~~" In fact, it is the first time Wu Xu has heard of the person who can make Chang'an's first handsome man say "beautiful". This person is still her son. How can she be unhappy? .

"I heard that the emperor named Shiro 'Dan' on the day he was born, but does it have any meaning?" In fact, Li Sanlang is more concerned about this matter.

Wu Xu couldn't help twitching the corners of her mouth when she heard this. How did she know if Li Xiaojiu was smoking? She gave her son such a name, which made her feel a sense of pain every time she called her son.

"When Shiro was born, it happened to be at sunrise..." This is probably the most important official statement at present.

Although Wu Xu was very distressed by the pronunciation of Xiao Shiro's name, he had to say that the meaning of this word was very good, much better than that of his second brother.

Among the four sons, Erlang's name was probably the most low-key, but that child was also so low-key that Wu Xu and Li Xiaojiu couldn't figure it out.

Maybe because of this, Li Xiaojiu gave Saburo a 'Xian' and gave Shiro an even more impressive 'Dan', probably because he wanted his two sons to fully demonstrate their abilities, so they don't grow up to be as gloomy as Erlang ╮(╯ _╰)╭

"Sunrise is dawn, it's really good to get Shiro's name..." After Li Sanlang said this sentence inexplicably, he suddenly changed the subject: "My lady, please forgive my rude question, have you been very fond of me recently?" A real person?"

The author has something to say: Li San is back, classmate Xiao Ming is going to be unlucky =. =