Didn't the saint consider the root of the problem? Did he think that by sending hundreds or even thousands of people there and relying on the imperial edict of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he could straighten Adou? His idea was good, but the operation was another matter.
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This kind of thing should not be considered by Li Siye and Gao Xianzhi. As long as their Anxi Protectorate obeys the order and brings people to Qixi, the subsequent development will depend on how much the imperial court attaches importance to Ashina Xin.
Chuulu asked Shi Xin: "Why did you and Zhang Mo get into a fight just now? Aren't you usually very good buddies?"
"Bah." Shi Xin spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm: "What qualifications does that kind of thing have to call me a brother? I am a descendant of Ashina. What the hell is he? His father Zhang Xuan just painted for the concubines of the saints.
Just a painter!"
At this time, I remembered that you are a descendant of Ashina? If your ancestors knew about your current virtue, they would be so angry that they would jump out of the tomb.
"Zhang Xuan, is this the one who painted "Pounding Practice Picture"?" Li Siye then asked.
"I don't know."
At present, the gambling stalls in the West Market were too noisy with chickens and dogs barking. Gao Xianzhi turned to Shi Xin and said, "Let's go back to your house first and talk about it later."
The group returned to the Ashina Mansion in Guangdefang. Shi Xin invited everyone into the inner hall of the main room and sat behind a screen with pictures of beauties on their spring outing. Several people sat cross-legged facing the table. There were carved patterns on the sheep felt next to them.
There is an iron tea set with tea simmering inside.
This is the exquisite lifestyle of the Han people. No, the comfort of this life has exceeded 80% of the Han people in Chang'an City.
Gao Xianzhi and Li Siye looked at each other and explained their purpose to Ashina Xin.
After hearing what the two said, Shi Xin didn't have much reaction, but he clenched the tea cup tightly with his fingers, and even the lines on his forehead were wrinkled.
He sighed quietly, raised his head and glanced at the two of them timidly, and his tone seemed to be discussing: "I, can I not go?"
Gao Xianzhi stared, surprised by Shi Xin's idea, and asked coldly: "What do you think?"
Shi Xin suddenly looked very troubled. He looked like he was about to cry. He kept shaking his head and melancholy: "No, I can't leave Chang'an. I can't leave here. I can't let go of the golden sunset on Leyouyuan."
, I don’t want to let go of the morning bells and evening drums that have accompanied me for dozens of years. I don’t want to let go of the palace bells under the eaves of Longshouyuan’s jagged palace palace when the morning sun was born. I don’t want to let go of the Baqiao on the willow bank... The jade chariots cross the main hall, the golden
Whips are coming to the Hou family."
Li Siye glanced at Shi Xin angrily. He didn't want to go. He just didn't want to go. Why are you pretending to be a young man in front of me?
Gao Xianzhi suppressed an annoyed sneer and asked: "Are you reluctant to fight?"
Shi Xinqian chuckled: "To be honest, I'm used to the life in Chang'an, and suddenly I was asked to go to the bitter cold Qixi. Besides...that kind of place doesn't matter, what I want is fine, what if I go there?"
live?"
Gao Xianzhi gritted his teeth and asked him: "Then what do you want?"
"I'm thinking that you should go back first while I find someone to polish a statement. In fact, my health has not been very good these past few years. I have been coughing up phlegm and wheezing in winter. Cough! Cough! I hope your majesty can understand me.
If you are weak, please choose another worthy minister to go there. If that doesn't work, I can lead the Mengchi Protector in Jingyao..."
Gao Xianzhi finally couldn't bear it anymore, stood up from the ground and shouted angrily at Shi Xin: "Who do you think you are, you want to live in Jingyuan and lead the ten surnames of Khans! How come the Ashina family has such an unscrupulous rat like you!" Where is your ancestral home? Where is your home! Chang'an is not your home! Your home is at the foot of Tiantian Mountain! You have forgotten your ancestors! Humph!"
"Three generations of Ashina family heroes, stationed in Western Xinjiang to take charge of the Mengchi Protectorate, have made outstanding contributions! People like you who are just waiting to die have no face to see the Ashina Buzhen underground! They are occupying the latrine. Shit thing, he is in a high position and doesn’t realize it, it really pisses me off!”
Shi Xin was scolded like this by Gao Xianzhi, but he didn't react at all. Perhaps his ears were scratched by hearing the more sarcastic and ugly words like this.
Chuulu sat cross-legged behind Shi Xin and did not stand up to defend his master. Instead, his face turned red and he looked down at the ground in shame.
What happened to Gao Xianzhi today? He didn't seem to be an angry person. Li Siye noticed his abnormality and quickly pulled him out of the main hall, stood in the yard and whispered: "Gao Duhu, how can such a person be worthy of you?" So angry? No matter how unworthy or incompetent he is, that is his own business and has nothing to do with us. Even if he refuses to leave, of course His Majesty and Zhongshu will surrender him."
Gao Xianzhi adjusted his emotions and realized that he had indeed lost his composure. He smiled bitterly and explained to Li Siye: "I was really too impulsive just now. I was just angry that this kid was neglecting such a good family background and waiting to die. I felt resentful in my heart." Let me make you laugh."
oh.
He finally understood why Gao Xianzhi lost his temper.
Gao Xianzhi went to Anxi Kucha with his father when he was young. Because his father served in the Anxi army, he was familiar with it since he was a child and was good at riding and shooting. When he was twenty, he was awarded the title of general. It took him six or seven years to serve as the garrison, and now he has become the deputy capital. Hu, naturally knows how difficult it is to get promoted by fighting on the battlefield.
So what makes him angry is that Ashina Xin, who can fight cocks and dogs, can directly become the Protector of Mengchi and the Khan of Jue by virtue of his ancestor's Yin Kung. Even his wife has been named Princess Jiaohe. This corresponds to the sentence in Poisonous Chicken Soup. The starting point of others is actually your end. Gao Xianzhi doesn’t know if he can get the second-level title before his death after struggling all his life. But the starting point of Shi Xin is with Khans with the same title as kings and counties are all barbarians. Why are you born with such a halo that you can look down on all the heroes?
Why do you want to occupy such a good position and lead the Khan from afar in the pit? Do you really think of yourself as the prince of the Li family?
Li Siye stroked his back and said, "Don't go in. I'll go over and give him an ultimatum. If he doesn't arrive in the morning, he will bear the consequences."
Gao Xianzhi nodded sadly, probably this time the gap had stimulated him quite a bit.
Li Siye turned around and walked to the main hall. He crossed the screen and stood in front of Shi Xin with his arms folded and said coldly: "Ji Qian Jue Khan, our words have been brought to you anyway. If you have the ability to ask His Majesty to take back his life, then you can do it." If not, the day after tomorrow, take the large banner and tooth flag given by His Majesty and meet us in front of the Zhuque Gate of the Imperial City. In addition..." He crossed his palms and looked in the direction of Xingqing Palace and said: "The saint's kindness is so great. , five hundred people have been allocated from the Longwu Army's thousands of cavalry to be your khan's personal guards, and our Anxi Protectorate will also prepare five hundred people's guards for you. The Tianshan Mountains are located in the north and south, and the Suiye River is located thousands of miles east and west. It is your mission and your honor to lead hundreds of thousands of people of the ten Turkic surnames. I hope you will cherish it."
"If you really don't want to part with your fighting cocks, you can take them with you when you leave. The grassland near Talas City is flat and there are a lot of grasshoppers. It's enough for you to hold a cockfighting conference."
After speaking, Li Siye strode away, leaving behind Ashina Xin with his mouth wide open and a sad look on his face.
Just after the people from the Anxi Protectorate left, Princess Jiaohe walked into the inner hall from the side room. The couple wept at each other and sighed: "I can't live such a comfortable life in Chang'an! I will soon be driven to the wild grassland west of the Tianshan Mountains.
Go up there? What's the difference between this and being exiled? Don't we just want to live a peaceful life?"
While crying, the princess came up with an idea: "Can't you write a letter to the saint? Just say that we are weak and can't adapt to the bitter cold in Qixi. Maybe the saint is soft-hearted and it will be fine."
Although Shi Xin stayed in his comfort zone and did not want to make progress, he was not really stupid. He knew that he would not dare to write such a memorial. He hurriedly shook his head and said: "Absolutely not. Saints value military merit the most and guarding the border the most. I can't excuse myself.
If you go to take office, the saint can see it at a glance. I am afraid that if you anger the saint, not only will you be deprived of your throne, but you will still have to go to Qixi."
"What should I do? Wuwu."
Chui Lu, who was guarding beside Shi Xin, couldn't help but murmured in a low voice, "I think it's good to go to Qixi to be the Protector of Mengchi. Didn't Your Majesty hear what General Li from the Protector's Mansion said? The Tenth Khan is sitting here."
Embracing the land thousands of miles away from the Suiye River, we will have the final say on the pastures in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and the Lord will be able to restore the Ashina clan to its former glory."
"You know nothing at such a young age!" Princess Jiaohe immediately scolded: "Suiye City is no longer Ashina's royal court, and Tianshan is now the territory of the Tuqi Shiren. Are you planning to throw your family master into the fire pit?
Push?"
Chuulu muttered and argued: "If you don't have territory, what are you afraid of? We have soldiers in our hands and the Anxi Protector's Mansion behind us. Khan, you can make me Aijin, and I will knock down all the pastures at the foot of Tianshan Mountain for you!"
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"Shut up, it will show that you are capable, go to the backyard and fetch water!"
Chulu didn't dare to disobey his heroine, so he had no choice but to move towards the backyard angrily.
The couple sat looking at each other sadly, silent for a long time. After a while, Shi Xin sighed helplessly: "It's hard to disobey your orders. In this case, let's pack up and prepare to set off. Let's ask the servants at home to pack all the valuable things. By the way, my
You have to bring a few chickens with you too.”
He walked out of the main hall and came to the entrance of the ancestral hall in the backyard. He shouted to Chui Lu who was carrying water in the yard: "Chui Lu! Stop carrying water and come here."
The young man ran over happily, bowed and saluted with his arms crossed, and said, "What are the Khan's orders?"
"Didn't you take the key to the ancestral hall? Open it and take out the large banner, tooth flag, festival summons and seal given by His Majesty."
Chuulu was secretly happy, Khan finally thought about it, the Ashina family was about to rise again, and he was going to become the Ashina family's honorary minister, Muma Grassland.
The door opened with a creak, making a squeaking and scratching sound. The yard was swept clean, with not a single weed or fallen leaf. They entered the hall along the stone path. On the stone altar table against the wall were placed three generations of
Continue to the memorial tablet of Jue Khan.
Shi Xin turned a blind eye to this and turned his attention to the flags and banners in the corner. Ever since the saint gave them to them, they had been eating ashes in the corner, which made his mood even more complicated and unspeakable.
Chuulu knelt down devoutly in front of the third-generation Khan's tomb. After bowing his head three times, he clasped his hands and said piously: "With the blessing of the third-generation old Khan, the Ashina family will return to the Tianshan grassland!"