"Bang!" Wu Huifei slapped the table heavily, gritted her teeth and looked at her son and said, "Can you not be more proud of Mother? The opportunity you finally won for Mother was wasted by you like this!"

Li Mao stood in front of his mother and lowered his head and said, "Because the father wants to deal with the Yuan family, how can the Yuan family sit and wait for death? When the child is in the territory of the Yuan family, the Yuan family will definitely attack the child. Just like the Yan Xiao in Yangzhou dealing with Li Zhu and Li Ji, the horse bandits are even more brutal than the Yan Xiao. If the child does not leave, not only will all his subordinates be killed, but the child will be unable to save his life."

"Are you threatened in Liangzhou?"

Li Mao nodded, "We were followed by horse bandits all the way. Several subordinates who went to find out the news were cut off their heads and threatened to kill us within three days. My subordinates were unstable and they fled for a while. Half of them escaped in just two days. If they didn't leave, they would be left with one hand. The child had no choice but to leave Liangzhou."

Of course, Li Mao was talking nonsense with his eyes open. His mother didn't know anything. Besides, Wang Enze had been bribed by him, so he was not worried that his mother would know the truth.

Sure enough, when Concubine Wu Hui heard that her son's life safety was threatened, the anger in her heart gradually dissipated.

Although promotion is important, it is not as important as the life of a son.

She pondered for a moment and sighed, "It's really not suitable to let you take risks. Forget it, don't do the task anymore. You have to be honest in the past two years. Even if you pretend, you have to pretend to be a little bit like me. Don't be caught by someone anymore. Wait for the opportunity for your mother, and let your father improve you in an extraordinary way!"

Li Mao was overjoyed, "Thank you for your help!"

Concubine Wu Hui sighed, "When can you be more successful and let your mother enjoy your blessings."

"The boy will definitely work hard!"

It's so dry, without any sincerity.

Concubine Wu Hui was really disappointed and waved her hand to let her son go down.

At this time, the eunuch Wang Enze hurriedly walked up and said, "Empress, I have investigated it clearly. The corals in Wu Jieyu's room were not given to her by the emperor, but were brought to her from Yangzhou by the Thirty-Eight Langs."

"So, the corals in the Sheng Shangyu study were also brought by Thirty-Balang?"

"It should be!"

Concubine Wu Hui felt extremely uncomfortable. She discovered the tacit understanding between the emperor and Wu Jieyu. There was a coral in both rooms.

On the one hand, the emperor had too much blessing to Wu Jieyu during this period, which had already made her feel a sense of crisis, but in the words of the emperor, this blessing is a kind of compensation and she can tolerate it.

But what she was afraid of was tacit understanding. If there was a tacit understanding between the emperor and Wu Jieyu, they would quickly get closer in their hearts, deepen their feelings, and their favor would end.

This is the thing that Wu Huifei fears the most.

She must take measures to attack Wu Jieyu.

After drinking a sip of tea, Concubine Wu Hui asked slowly, "How can Doctor Chang reply?"

"Reporting to the Empress, Doctor Chang made two requests, one was that he wanted to open a medical hall in Pingkangfang and needed a piece of land, and the second was that he also wanted his son to enter the palace to be a Doctor."

"These two requirements can be done for him, but what about my requirements? Can he do it?"

"He just said to do his best!"

"Hmph! Go and tell him, I don't want to listen to anything and do my best. I want him to get the handle of Wu Jieyu's prescription!"

"Old slave obeys the order!"

Wang Enze left, and Wu Huifei's eyes became very dark. She basically couldn't catch the handle of Wu Jieyu. The only way was to use Wu Jieyu to dispense medicine to the emperor to make a fuss."

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Departing from Ganzhou and after another half a month of long journey, the Tang Dynasty's bride-sending team finally arrived in Beiting.

Everyone marched in a difficult situation in the vast Gobi Desert. At this time, a Tang cavalry came towards him. The leader was burly and had a long face. He was about thirty-seven or eight years old.

He turned over and dismounted, knelt down on one knee and bowed to Li Xiu and said, "I am the emissary of the Tianshan Army Gao Xianzhi to meet His Highness!"

It turned out that this person was Gao Xianzhi. Li Xiu knew before he set out that the commander of the Tianshan Army in Gaochang area was Gao Xianzhi.

Gao Xianzhi is also a descendant of the Goguryeo royal family, so I don’t know what it has to do with those guys in Luoyang?

However, since he was not removed from office by the court, it means that it doesn't matter much.

"General Gao is exempted from the gift, please come up and talk to him!"

Gao Xianzhi turned over and pointed to the tent ahead and said, "Your Highness and the princess have worked hard all the way. The Western Regions are windy and sandy, the air is dry, and traveling is very energy-consuming. Beizhi has built a tent ahead. Please follow me to rest!"

"General Gao thought it through very thoroughly, thank you!"

Everyone followed Gao Xianzhi to the tent area, with dozens of tents of all sizes, and there was also an army tent area not far away. The Tianshan army had 5,000 troops, and Gao Xianzhi should have brought 3,000 people.

Li Xiu rested in the tent for a while and sent someone to invite Gao Xianzhi.

Li Xiu asked with a smile: "I remember General Gao should be in Anxi, right?"

"Bizhi was originally the military envoy of Shule Town, Anxi. After the Battle of Shuye at the beginning of the year, he was seconded to Gaochang by General Gai and served as the military envoy of Tianshan Army."

"In other words, General Gao has been in Gaochang for less than half a year?"

“That’s right!”

Li Xiu knew that Yuan Tao had served as the military envoy of Yiwu Army for a long time. At the beginning of the year, after Gai Jiayun was changed to the position of Longyou Jiedushi, Yuan Tao took over as the Jiedushi of Beiting.

Although Gai Jiayun is also a regent, it does not mean that he and Yuan Tao are just fellow travelers. On the contrary, Yuan Biao is proud of his contributions and looks down on the regent at all, and his son Yuan Tao also looks down on Gai Jiayun.

According to convention, among the three major armies of Beiting, the Hanhai Army was headed by the Hanhai Army, the Tianshan Army and the Yiwu Army were supplemented by the Gai Jiayun, so the Hanhai Army should be transferred to take over as the Beiting Jiedushi.

However, under the control of the Yuan family, it was less than three years since they came to Beiting. Yuan Tao, the Yiwu Army, who had not made any contribution, robbed the position of Beiting Jiedushi.

This obviously violated the rules. In order to calm the internal dissatisfaction of the Beiting Army, the Ministry of War promoted Han Li to the chief of the Anxi Jiedu Prefecture, and the former Tianshan Army envoy Tian Renwan was transferred to the Hanhai Army envoy. According to Gai Jiayun's recommendation, Gao Xianzhi, the Shule Town Army envoy was appointed as the Tianshan Army envoy.

Obviously, Gai Jiayun recommended Gao Xianzhi to Gaochang to prevent Yuan Tao from sending his confidant to seize the Tianshan military envoy. This is also Gai Jiayun's response to the Yuan family's disobedience and ugly appearance."

The time is not yet ripe, Li Xiu did not have a deep chat with Gao Xianzhi and rested overnight.

The next morning, the bride sent-off team continued to head towards Gaochang City under the escort of the army......

The core area of ​​Gaochang State is today's Turpan Basin, which is also the jurisdiction of the Xizhou of the Tang Dynasty.

To the north of Xizhou is the Tianshan Mountains, to the south is the vast desert, and in the middle is a narrow oasis. Gaochang’s homeland is located in the center of the oasis.

As an entity of a country, Gaochang State was destroyed by the Tang Dynasty during the Zhenguan period. The Tang Dynasty set up Xizhou on the territory of Gaochang State and stationed the Tianshan Army. Now Gaochang State has no army or court, and it is more of a symbolic meaning.

Gaochang State only governs Gaochang City and grasslands and farmlands within a radius of hundreds of miles. There is no army, only more than a thousand guards.

However, the Gaochang royal family took advantage of their transportation advantages and the advantages of original wine to vigorously develop business and winemaking, and Gaochang's wines were sold well in the Tang Dynasty.

Business brought huge wealth to the Gaochang royal family, so although Gaochang King Qu Hong was just a nominal monarch, he was an absolute billionaire.

The people of Gaochang Kingdom still regard themselves as their people in Gaochang in spirit, so that King Gaochang still had a strong influence in the Western Regions.

Generally speaking, princes in the Western Regions will study and live in Chang'an for a long time, and also become hostages. Such a thing that princesses marrying her rarely happens.

However, King Gaochang played a major role in resisting the expansion of power from the thunder cavalry, and his attitude influenced other small countries in the Western Regions.

Therefore, the princess married Prince Gaochang, which is actually a reward for King Gaochang's loyalty to the Tang Dynasty for decades, and is also a hedge for Princess Tuqi Shi to marry Prince Yiwu.

Three days later, the bride-sending team arrived in Gaochang City, and Gaochang King Qu Hong and the Queen went out of the city to welcome the princess' arrival.

The deputy envoy to send marriage was Wang Wei, the head of the Honglu Temple, and he was responsible for handling all kinds of cumbersome responses and procedures.

Li Xiu and Gaochang King Qu Hong exchanged greetings for a moment.

Qu Hongnian was about forty years old and tall. He stepped forward and bowed to Li Xiu and said, "Thank you, Your Highness for sending you off thousands of miles away. I will remember your kindness in my heart."

Li Xiu smiled and said, "Marriage is a matter between both parties. In our understanding, it is actually the prince who becomes the prince consort of the Tang Dynasty. After getting married, the princess and the prince consort will also return to Chang'an to live. Is that true?"

"Your Highness is right. The princess just married to Gaochang according to customs, but as the prince consort, the prince will follow the princess to Chang'an until he takes over the position of the head of the family of the empress."

Some principled words must be made clear. A princess’ marriage is by no means a marriage between countries. Gaochang no longer exists. In fact, it is the princess who marry the prince of the Qu family, and Qu Hong’s eldest son will become the son-in-law.

You can call the king and the prince in other matters, but marriage is not the case.

Of course Qu Hong knew it well, and he would never improve what Changguo thanked the Tang Dynasty...

"Thank you for understanding the king!"

The two sides held a simple handover ceremony for property handover.

Qu Hong immediately accompanied the team into the city and headed to the VIP hotel.

Gaochang City was very prosperous, with people coming and going, and hawking sounds one after another. Most of them were merchants from various countries in the Western Regions, and there were also many Han people.

There are a wide range of commodities, including porcelain, silk and tea from the Central Plains, carpets from Persia, gems from Sogdian, tin ware and various Western goods.

Most of the houses are low and all have flat roofs painted white. There is also a Zoroastrian church in the distance, full of exoticism.

Gaochang Royal Palace is located in the center of the city and covers a huge area. It is surrounded by tall palaces, with various buildings inside it quite spectacular.

The VIP hotel they stayed in was located opposite the palace. It was originally the government court of Gaochang State. After Gaochang State was destroyed, the government center was converted into a VIP hotel.
Chapter completed!