"Cui Mo, hoe medicine, pack these things quickly; Wen Xing, Xiao Luo, wrap those things; Qin Yun, Bi Yue,..." In the palace of Prince Qin, Princess Qin Tang Yuewan kept giving orders to the servants
With.
At the same time, she also said: "His Highness will lead his troops to the west in the next few days, all the way to Lake Balkhash. I asked the guards yesterday, and they said that there are more than two thousand troops from Lake Balkhash to Yiwu.
Even if you travel a hundred miles a day, it will take more than forty days to go back and forth. If you want to fight with the people there, it will take at least three months. It will be the twelfth lunar month when His Highness comes back, so you have to put on both autumn and winter clothes.
Take it with you."
"The empress is really kind to Your Highness." The maid Qianxue beside her couldn't help but say.
"He is my husband, and the late prince and the late princess are both deceased. If I am not kind to him, who will be kind to him? Besides, I am just doing my duty, it is nothing." After hearing what the maid said, Tang Yuewan said with a smile.
One sentence.
"What's not so good about this? Even His Majesty, after hearing about your Majesty, praised your Majesty and even said that he would reward your mother-in-law!" Qian Xue added.
When Yunxi came to Yiwu and heard that Tang Yuewan had not evacuated to Ganzhou with her children, but insisted on staying in Yiwu City and actively boosting the morale of the people in the city, he specially praised her when he met Shang Bing and his wife.
"The officials are ridiculous. But it is also a good thing that my father and brother can be rewarded by the court for this." Mentioning this, Tang Yuewan suddenly missed her natal family: "Speaking of which, although the officials changed the title of His Highness to Yiwu,
, but my mother-in-law’s family are all in the capital and have not been transferred here. I haven’t seen them in five years. I miss them so much.”
"I will talk to His Highness the next time he returns to Beijing, and we will go back to Beijing with him to pay homage to the officials and meet his family by the way."
Tang Yuewan was talking when suddenly a voice came from the door: "His Royal Highness has returned home!" Upon hearing this, Tang Yuewan hurriedly ordered the maids to get ready, and he immediately led them to greet Shang Bing.
When she walked to the second door, she saw Shang Bing's brows furrowed. She hurriedly went up to greet him and said, "I have met His Highness."
"Yue Wan, I told you that we don't need to salute when there are only members of our family in the house." Although Shang Bing didn't seem to be in a particularly good mood, he hurriedly helped her up and said.
After she stood up, Shang Bing took her arm and walked towards the inner courtyard together. As he walked, he asked: "Yue Wan, are you ready to eat?"
"No, I have been preparing all the necessary things for my husband for the expedition, but I haven't had time to eat yet." At this point, she suddenly realized and said to Shang Bing: "Is it possible that your husband hasn't eaten yet?"
Seeing Shang Bing nod, she said slightly surprised: "The government summoned you to a meeting with several uncles and generals this morning, but you didn't leave any food?" At this time, they had already entered the main room, and she took a look and put them on the table.
A note on the side said, "It's past noon now."
"The officials did allow me to eat, but I was not in the mood to eat, so I declined." Shang Bing replied.
"What did you say in the morning to make your husband not in the mood to eat at the official's house? Just now I saw that your husband's brows were furrowed, but what embarrassing thing did the official say?" She suddenly thought of something and whispered: "Is it the official?
Is the family going to withdraw our Qin Fan?"
"That's not true, but it's almost the same." Shang Bing sat down and asked them all to leave after the servants brought a plate of fruit and a pot of hot tea. Then he said to Tang Yuewan: "Today the officials called us
In the past, it was necessary to change the land."
"Change the title? Where will you change His Highness?"
"Change to the city of Samarkand."
Hearing this, Tang Yuewan was stunned on the spot, and it took a while to react: "Changed to Samarkand City? This, this, what's going on?"
"What's going on? The officials want to completely destroy the country of Samarkand, so they decided to appoint me as the commander-in-chief to lead the Yiwu guards and the miscellaneous barbarian soldiers to march westward and destroy the country in one fell swoop. After that, I was appointed to guard the place." Shang Bing.
He said with a hint of fireworks.
Of course he was dissatisfied with this. He had been working hard in Yiwu for five years, and suddenly a decree was issued to deport him to the city of Samarkand. Although he was asked to take away all the people, he would not be happy.
"Husband, this is a good thing!" After a while, Tang Yuewan said: "Husband, don't you sometimes complain that the court is too lenient? When you get to Samarkand, the court can't control it, so you can be lenient.
Isn’t it a good thing to show off your skills?”
Of course Tang Yuewan was not willing to leave Yiwu. She was not willing to move to Yiwu from Xi'an, and she was even less willing to move to the more remote city of Samarkand. But when she saw that Shang Bing was unhappy, she reluctantly found a way to move to Samarkand.
The man from Markhan City comforted him a little.
Shang Bing held her hand. They were husband and wife, and of course he knew that Yue Wan was unwilling to go further, but at this time Yue Wan endured her unhappiness to comfort him in order to make him feel better. "You are really me.
A good wife." Shang Bing said. Tang Yuewan also took advantage of the situation and leaned into his arms.
After a long while, Shang Bing said again: "Well, since the officials have made a decision, and Yiwu's officers and men are also very angry with the Xilu and willing to march westward, I can only take a look at it and search for this."
The benefits.”
"You're right. When I get to Samarkand, which is thousands of miles away from the capital, it will be difficult for the court to control it even if it wants to. Then I can flex my muscles." After that, he smiled and said to Tang Yuewan: "Wait a minute.
After destroying the city-state of Samarkand, my husband will take you to the mountains and rivers in the fiefdom, so that you can see with your own eyes the country that I have built for you."
"Husband." Tang Yuewan was amused by him and gave him a gentle hammer.
The couple were arguing for a while, and Tang Yuewan added, "Since we are all going to the city of Samarkand, I will order them to pack everything they can in the palace."
"I'm not busy." Shang Bing said again: "In a few days, I will lead my troops to the west. There will be battles along the way, but I won't lead you just like this. It takes four or five days from Yiwu to Samarkand.
Thousands of miles away, if we fight another battle, it will already be the end of October or early November at the earliest when we get there, and it will be almost the twelfth lunar month if we capture the city."
"Then winter will be unsuitable for traveling. We will have to wait until next spring before I send someone to pick you up. The people I send will not arrive until May. So you will have time to start tidying up the mansion in April or May next year."
"That's what I say, but I can't start cleaning up so late." Tang Yuewan said with a smile: "That would make me look too lazy. But since we are about to move to Samarkand, I'd better bring a few more servants to serve my husband.
Bar."
Shang Bing nodded and agreed. He also wanted to make himself comfortable. Of course, the palace maids would not take him with him, only the eunuchs.
At this time, there was a gentle knock on the door, and Qian Xue said from outside: "Your Highness, Your Majesty, lunch is ready. Your Highness and Your Majesty, do you want to eat now?"
"Yes. I happen to be hungry too. Are you hungry?" Shang Bing asked Tang Yuewan.
"I'm hungry too," Tang Yuewan said with a smile. The two of them immediately got up and went to eat.
The chef in the palace did not know that he would be forced to go to the city of Samarkand thousands of miles away with the princess and his wife, and because Shang Bing was about to lead his troops to the west, he tried his best to cook a good meal for Shang Bing. Tang Yuewan and Tang Yuewan were full of praise and compliments.
While eating, Tang Yuewan suddenly thought of something and asked Shang Bing: "Husband, since my husband has been transferred to the city of Samarkand, to which uncle or brother-in-law will I be granted the title?"
"Yiwu is still my fiefdom in name, but the officials appointed Song Xuan to guard Yiwu. I heard that the officials wanted the Song family to follow the example of the Mu family in Yunnan and guard it for generations."
"In addition, the Turpan area has also become my fiefdom in name, but it is stationed by Shang Lie. I think he will also guard Turpan for generations, but he does not have separate subordinate officials and does not have the power to appoint or remove officials." Shang Bing explained.
"What about the arrangements for the eldest brother-in-law of the King of Jin?" Tang Yuewan asked again. Yunxi's previous attitude was equivalent to publicly stating that he would transfer Jixi to a place in the Western Regions, so Tang Yuewan also knew about it.
"Ji Xi was granted the title of Tiemenguan and governed the area south of the Tianshan Mountains and north of the Kunlun Mountains; Ji Ye was stationed in Hashiha (Kashgar), just like Shanglie."
"Uncle Dai Wang was transferred to Bielsbali and was in charge of the Gurbantunggut Basin and the land of Seven Rivers." Shang Bing explained again.
"Uncle Daiwang has been transferred to Bieshibali? What should Shami Chagan do?" Tang Yuewan couldn't help but ask.
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"The officials have moved me to Beslopali. How will Shamichagan and the Mongolian tribes here be arranged?" At the same time, the acting king Zhu Gui, who was dining with Yunxi, also asked the same question.
"Of course the tribes in Yili will be your tribe from now on. You have to be careful with these tribes. They don't even listen to Shami Chagan. Even if they are afraid of the strength of the Ming Dynasty, they won't really listen to you. What's more, the army won't listen to you. You may stay in the Western Region forever. If you want to keep your fiefdom stable in the future, you will have to waste a lot of brainpower."
"As for Shami Chagan," Yunxi sneered twice: "Do you think I will let him stay and hinder you, Uncle Thirteenth?"
"I'm afraid it wouldn't be a good idea to remove Shami Chagan rashly," Zhu Gui said.
"Don't worry, Uncle Thirteen, I have told Shang Bing that he will find a reasonable way to get rid of Sha Micha." Yun He said again.
"What about the marriage that Shami Chagan and Shang Bing have agreed upon? Shang Bing will be transferred to the city of Samarkand, and Shami Chagan will also be removed soon, so there is little use in keeping the marriage going." Ji Xi interjected. .
"How can keeping the marriage be of no use? Although the use I originally expected is gone, it has a new use."
"The name of the Mongolian Golden Family is still very resounding throughout the Western Regions. It can be seen from the fact that Timur wanted to marry a man named Borjijin. Shang Bing continued to maintain the marriage he had agreed with Shamechagan back then. It will help appease the people in the Western Region."
"Secondly, the Mongolian tribes in Yiliba do not yet know that the real purpose of this Western Expedition is the city of Samarkand, and they thought it was just the land of Seven Rivers, so they are all happily willing to follow the Western Expedition, including Samarkand. Tribes directly under the jurisdiction of Mechagan. These Mongolian tribes who do not believe in Tianfang religion are very important to the rule of the original city-state of Samarkand. Shang Bing's continued marriage to Shamechagan will also help to comfort them. Especially The land of the original city-state of Samarkand believed in the Tianfang religion, and the majority of people looked different from our Ming people, so it was even more necessary to appease the Mongols."
"Not just him," Yunxi stared at Zhu Gui and said, "Uncle Thirteen, it is best for your eldest son to be engaged to a woman from a Mongolian gold family in order to better rule the Gurbantonte Basin."
"Yes, official." Zhu Gui agreed.
"Guan family, should I also let the crown prince be engaged to a woman from a Mongolian gold family? There are also many Mongolians in my fief." Ji Xi asked again.
"You can if you want, but I don't think it will be of much use." Yunxi said: "Your fiefdom is close to Uzang. There are many Xifan people and many people who believe in Tibetan Buddhism. Instead of letting your child marry a Mongolian gold family
It would be more useful for a woman to worship a Buddhist master from Uzang."
"Tibetan Buddhism? Officials are referring to Lamaism?" Ji Yi was a little confused.
Yunxi was stunned for a moment before he realized that there was no name for Tibetan Buddhism in this era. The Han people in the Central Plains called it Lamaism. He nodded and said: "It is Lamaism. I think the name Lamaism may make people mistakenly think that it is a separate religion."
It is a non-Buddhist branch, so it is called Tibetan Buddhism.'
"This is a good name. I will also call it Tibetan Buddhism from now on."
