The night of light snow sprinkled lightly, adorning the solemn and magnificent imperial palace, is another year of autumn and winter.
The swirling light snow falls on Tsinghua Terrace, before it accumulates, it turns into snow water, and the warm atmosphere of the earth spreads dew everywhere, which is fragrant and clear, as if entering the late spring moistened by the drizzle. Under the magnolia tree, the phoenix bird, the phoenix, and the crane spread their wings leisurely, singing a melodious and melodious cry from time to time.
Two rows of purple-clothed maids carried bamboo baskets filled with orchids, with fluttering sleeves, walked through Qiongyuan and entered Tsinghua Terrace, dancing like fairies of Yaotai. The water mist beside the five-color pool is misty, and Qing Chen is lying on his back on the jade couch, with Ye Tianling's robe casually covered on his body, and the wide-breasted long dress is scattered and hanging down, giving him a unique and elegant charm.
Ye Tianling was sitting upright in front of the couch, stroking Qing Chen's long hair beside him intentionally or unintentionally with one hand, and writing a few words on the memorial in front of him with the other. The inner pool of the five-color pool is connected to the greenhouse in the palace. After just taking a bath, he didn't want to go to the imperial study for a while, so he ordered someone to fetch today's memorials here. There are not many things, and they can probably be dealt with while talking and laughing with Qing Chen. It is a rare leisure day.
The maids came in to clean up the remaining medicinal herbs in the pool, and then sprinkled a spoonful of orchids into the pool. Qing Chen patted Xue Ying lying on his body, and put a memorial in his hand back on the case, "Is Yin Caiqian really allowed to stay in Beijiang?"
Ye Tianling bowed his head and hummed, and said later: "Since she insists on asking, I will grant her."
Qing Chen thought for a while, and said, "That's okay." Then he went to take down another memorandum with his backhand. Just as he touched it, his hand suddenly became empty. out of reach.
"What are you doing? Haven't you read everything here?" Qing Chen asked.
Ye Tianling didn't answer, but only clicked on the remaining memorials: "Look at these."
This means that she was not allowed to see that copy, Qing Chen asked strangely: "Why didn't you let me see that copy?"
Ye Tianling said: "It's worth not watching the boring trifles."
Qing Chen turned around to ponder his expression. Ye Tianling was writing with his head down, but she stared at her for a while, then put down the pen with a smile, "I came in just now, you hid something and didn't show it to me, let me talk about that first. What is it?"
Qing Chen tilted his head and blinked: "I won't tell you."
Ye Tianling pointed to the memorial and shook his head at her. Qing Chen glanced at her phoenix eyes, pulled her hair and stood up, Xue Ying jumped off her body and approached Ye Tianling. She opened the bead curtain and said as she walked, "If you don't show me, I will know what it is."
Ye Tianling said: "Then you don't need to read it."
"If you don't look at it, don't look at it." Qing Chen slipped his outer robe, stepped down the five-color pool along the shallow steps, and immersed himself in the water. The fragrance was enveloping the black hair, and the water in the pool was so warm that it made people feel relaxed. She leaned against the jade pool with half-closed eyes, fiddling with a Qinglan, but her mind turned to the memorabilia.
It must be another memorial requesting the emperor to register his concubine. After the last incident in the cold palace, this kind of memorial has not been interrupted. The emperor has been on the throne for more than three years, and the six palaces have been in vain until now, and the courtiers have long dismissed it, especially the faction that is opposed to the Feng family. They don't want to see the daughter of the Feng family controlling the inner palace, so naturally they have to put some thought into this matter. Before, they still couldn't figure out what the emperor was thinking, but they saw the empress' deep affection, even if they made some memorials, they also understated it, but suddenly there was an incident in the cold palace, it was as if the flood that had been accumulated for a long time had finally found an outlet, and suddenly rushed out. Come.
Ye Tianling seldom mentioned this to her, but in the past few months, seeing him promoting the relatives of the Feng family one after another, Qing Chen knew the general idea. For central balance, there is nothing more effective than letting these family members restrain themselves. The Feng family will not allow others to shake the queen's position no matter what. And Ye Tianling finally agreed with Yin Caiqian to stay in Beijiang, maybe there is also a reason for this.
He is guarding her, and no one can set foot in his and her home. Qing Chen exhaled slowly, sank into the water for a few minutes, and suddenly heard a low laugh behind him. She turned her head, and Ye Tianling was looking at something that Xueying took out from behind the hanging tent, laughing uncontrollably. Qing Chen was taken aback, and almost stood up from the water, "Xueying!"
Hearing the sound, Xueying jumped into Ye Tianling's arms with a "bass", her tail flicked back, and a pair of blue crystal eyes squinted at Qing Chen. Qing Chen was furious, and what Xueying pulled out was exactly what she refused to show Ye Tianling just now. At this moment, she held it in Ye Tianling's hand, which was a belt with a black jade base and a gold thread trim. Embroidered is...
Ye Tianling looked at it carefully, the smile on his face deepened, he looked and looked, and asked, "Is this... a dragon?"
Qing Chen wanted to grab Xueying over and beat him up, and stretched out his hand by the pool: "Give it back to me!"
Ye Tianling strolled to the edge of the pool, suppressing a smile all the time: "Is it really?"
Qing Chen's pretty face flushed, and he gritted his silver teeth lightly, "You can't tell!"
Ye Tianling seemed to be unable to bear it any longer, and his shoulders trembled slightly with a smile: "It was true at first, I didn't see it."
Qing Chen didn't know whether to laugh or cry, she embroidered... Well, the stitching was a bit poor, but it's not that hard to see what it is, is it? Seeing the banter on Ye Tianling's face, Xueying jumped onto Ye Tianling's shoulder in twos and squatted there with a high air, I don't know how it has been flattering Ye Tianling recently, now it can even squat on its shoulder from time to time. "The guy who sells the owner for glory." She threw an orchid in the past, and Xueying turned around and ran away in a hurry.
Ye Tianling squatted down by the pool with a smile on his face, his white clothes were slightly loose, and his breasts were half open, "Is it embroidered for me?" He asked in a low voice.
Qing Chen glanced at him sideways: "No!"
"Oh?" Ye Tianling lowered his body and looked at her with a smile, "It's not for me, but for whom?"
Qing Chen raised his hand to grab the belt, but he dodged it in a flash, his eyes enveloping her deeply: "Is it for me?"
Qing Chen half-raised his head, looked at him charmingly, with a faint smile on his lips: "You are the Son of Heaven, you have to embroider dragons on your belt, I am not a dragon, why is it for you?"
Ye Tianling suddenly burst out laughing, feeling extremely happy in his heart, he took the belt and looked at it again. Qing Chen asked, "Is it a dragon?"
Ye Tianling raised his eyebrows: "Well, when you say that, it seems to be true."
Qing Chen pursed his lips, put his arms around his neck, "Really?"
"Well," Ye Tianling nodded solemnly, "It really looks more and more like it."
The sly light in Qing Chen's eyes flickered, he grabbed his hand with a little force, and pulled him into the jade pond. Ye Tianling didn't resist, and hugged her, and both of them fell into the pool. Qing Chen became naughty, and after standing still, he splashed water on him. Ye Tianling's freshly changed clothes were already soaked by her anyway, so he simply copied water to fight back. The two of them were laughing and hiding in the Jade Pond like children, layers of water droplets splashed, they had a great time playing, they didn't look like an empress at all.
Until Qing Chen got tired of playing and lying, Ye Tianling carried her back to the couch, dried her body, and nestled there comfortably. Xueying leaned over and was caught by Qing Chen, and his forehead was pointed to punish him. Xue Zhan came back from playing out of nowhere, and circled Qing Chen in circles. Qing Chen smiled at Ye Tianling: "Look, fourth brother, there is a beggar here."
Ye Tianling squinted his eyes and leaned on the couch: "Then please ask the empress to raise her hand high and let it go."
Qing Chen said: "Your Majesty's imperial edict, how dare my concubines disobey?" As he said that, he let go of Xueying's hand, and Xueying hurriedly hid beside Ye Tianling.
Ye Tianling was obviously in a good mood, and made an exception to allow Xueying to lie on his chest. Just as he raised his hand to touch its head, Qing Chen stretched out his hand and lifted Xueying away, "Who allows you to lie here?"
Xue Ying was thrown to Xue Zhan's side, and the two little beasts rolled into a ball. The fragrant and elegant sleeves brushed against her face, and she was already comfortably resting on his chest. There was a pleasant smile on his lips, this woman was actually jealous with a little beast.
He looked down at her with a smile in his eyes, and she raised her eyebrows slightly, as if it was a matter of course.
Ye Tianling said with emotion: "Woman." At this moment, Yan Xi outside said urgently through the screen: "Report to the emperor, Weizhou eight hundred miles urgent report!"
Ye Tianling brushed aside the beaded curtain and stepped down from the dragon couch, Yan Xi took the urgent report and went in, with a red seal of wax paint, it turned out to be a military report.
After Ye Tianling looked at it, the smile in his eyes sank a little bit, his eyes were shining brightly, as sharp as a sword's edge, he turned to Qing Chen and said, "This Wanqi Shuofeng actually started a war with Tubo."
Before the Shengwu Dynasty, a large area of territory in the northwest was originally controlled by the Western Turks. The Celestial Dynasty was at war with the Turks, and Tubo took the opportunity to expand northward and seize territory. After the Rouran tribe replaced the Turks, the two sides have been confronting each other.
Chilang Lunzan was ambitious. In the twenty-seventh year of Shengwu, Princess Jingsheng died of illness, and the relationship between Tubo and the Celestial Dynasty was once tense. Three years ago, King Zhan threatened the frontier and married the Western Regions, which made Tubo not dare to act rashly for the time being. Wan Qi Shuofeng had just established his footing at that time, recuperated, cultivated power, and tried to avoid troubles as much as possible.
In the past few years, the internal affairs of the Celestial Dynasty were unstable, and Tubo took the opportunity to move around. On the one hand, Ye Tianling bestowed honors and appeasement, on the other hand, he supported Wanqi Shuofeng, helped him wipe out the remnants of Turkic forces, successively wiped out the wandering tribes such as Tongluo and Pugu, and unified Mobei. Today, Rouran is not what it used to be, and the conflict with Tubo is becoming increasingly apparent.
Five days ago, Wan Qishuofeng took the initiative to provoke a dispute, personally leading 30,000 cavalry to surprise the Tubo army with a quick attack tactic. Chilang Lunzan was no mediocrity, so he immediately led his troops to the north, and the two sides fought hand-to-hand in the area of the Liule River.
Ye Tianling had been patient with Tubo for the past three years, and deployed secretly. As soon as this military report entered Tiandu, he immediately decided to send troops to the northwest.
In February of the fourth year of Emperor Yao's reign, Ye Tianling offered sacrifices to the heavenly generals at Guangwu Terrace of Xuansheng Palace, and ordered General Nangong Jing of the Shang Army and General Tang Chu of Wuwei to lead 200,000 light cavalry troops to attack Tubo in two directions.
At the end of the month, Nangong Jingsuo led the left army to defeat the Tubo army in Dafeichuan, and the area of Tuyuhun, which had been annexed by Tubo, returned to the Celestial Dynasty. At the same time, Wanqi Shuofeng mobilized Rouran cavalry to attack fiercely. Tubo encountered enemies on both sides, and the battle was tight.
Chi Lang Lun Zan judged the situation and wanted to temporarily make peace with the Celestial Dynasty in order to ease the situation. Ye Tianling told the envoy in person, ordering Tubo to withdraw from Suiye, Yumi and other Western Region countries that had been under their control, Chilang Lunzan refused.
Ye Tianling took a tough attitude and immediately expelled the envoy to support Khotan's sending troops to the south. Ten days later, Khotan captured the capital of the Kumi Kingdom and wiped out all the Tubo troops in the city. The monarch of Xemi Kingdom was expelled from the country and went into exile in Tubo.
In April, Ye Tianling mobilized elite soldiers from Sichuan and Shu, with Yue Qingyun as the general of the left guard and the governor of Xizhou, from Tongshan Road in Yuanzhou, crossing Baishui, and attacking Tubo to the west.
The battle reports are like snow, and several letters are sent to the imperial capital every day. The lights of Wutai Hall are always bright, day and night.
Under the painstaking management of Chilang Lunzan for many years, Tubo has a strong national power, brave cavalry, and no shortage of capital to fight against the Celestial Empire. Over the past few months, the war has been repeated from time to time, and the ministers of the DPRK and China are quickly divided into two factions: the main battle group and the main peace group.
Ye Tianling is determined, and once he decides to completely curb the Tubo forces, he will not waver. On this matter, Ye Tianzhan agrees with him, and he is the leader of the faction that is fighting in the DPRK and China.
This is the second time that King Zhan clearly supported the emperor's political views after the Lintai Discussion.
In the dead of night, the master and the other faction headed by the Fengxiang lamp were pacing, King Zhan smiled sharply, and the emperor on the throne stared unfathomably, which reminded him of what Wei Zongping had said in prison talk.
This time against Tubo, Ye Tianling had never been on the battlefield in person, but his strategizing was still the decisive style of using troops in the past. After eliminating the objections from the DPRK and China, the battle situation was gradually stabilized, and then a large army was mobilized to cooperate with Wanqi Shuofeng for a quick attack.
At the beginning of June, he and Wanqi Shuofeng set up a plan to lure the enemy, pretending that the two sides were at odds, and deliberately released the Tibetan captives to lure Chilang Lunzan to attack Yecheng.
Chilang Lunzan really fell for the trick, and the 100,000 troops were besieged in Mingshahai, and almost the whole army was wiped out.
The two armies of Tianchao and Rouran took advantage of the victory to pursue and won all five battles. Chilang Lunzan was also injured by Wanqi Shuofeng in the battle.
After that, the Celestial Army took back several towns in the Western Regions one after another in one go, while Wan Qishuofeng led Rouran cavalry to gallop for thousands of miles and directly invaded the territory of Tubo.
When the news of the victory came, the whole court scrambled to congratulate, and the situation of the battle was already clear.
Chilang Lunzan suffered such a big defeat and found it difficult to continue. He finally realized that the situation between Rouran and the Turks was different. If he wanted to fight against them, he must not lose peace with the Celestial Dynasty, so he sent envoys again to ask Emperor Hao for a truce.
When the Tubo envoys arrived in Tiandu, they paid a private visit to Fengyan before the court meeting, and presented them with rare treasures, relics and Buddhist beads. The next day when the envoy entered the court, Feng Yan sent out a team to accept the peace, and Emperor Hao finally decreed to accept it this time. Tubo proclaimed its vassals and paid tribute to the Celestial Dynasty, withdrew from the Western Regions, and recognized the absolute rule of the Celestial Dynasty over the Western Regions.
In July of that year, the three parties formally withdrew their troops, each sent envoys to Yumen Pass, erected a monument of peace alliance, swore an oath with blood, formed a great peace alliance, wiped out old hatred, and renewed new friendship.