The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 585

The state banquet in Qianyang Palace lasted until the evening. On top of the state banquet, Yang Tong followed the standard of commercial banquets in later generations, and gave back gifts in public. Of course, they were all glass products called colored glaze.Oriental colored glaze is a combination of traditional culture and art. The colors are flowing and beautiful; the quality is crystal clear and dazzling. It is the exquisite, delicate and implicit embodiment of the oriental people, and it is the integration of thoughts, emotions and art.

When the products of various colors are presented one by one, the radiant and magnificent magical colors dazzle the eyes of the sitting men and women.

Yang Tong did not treat everyone equally, and gave back according to closeness. For example, the representative of Tubo, Lu Dongzan, got a high-end product, a set of wine utensils. The countries in the Western Regions, the Queen of Silla, and Ashina Simo obtained not only a lot of colored glaze, but also various exquisite products. It is obvious that a lot of thought has been spent on these countries. This is also to let others know that these countries are Yang Tong’s focus. 'client'.Of course, Yang Tong would also kindly remind him that similar products are sold in Beishi Royal Stores—the Supply and Marketing Cooperative. When these people go to see them, they will find that there are many luxury goods to buy, and they want to buy everything, but it is not them. What should I do if the money in my hand can buy everything?There are big business travelers in Luoyang from all over the world. At that time, I am afraid that they can only borrow money from these business travelers.

It was also at this state banquet that Yang Tong proposed the concept of an 'embassy' and clarified its functions. The current international situation is not as complicated as in the 21st century. Most of its functions are to communicate with the host country's officials and speak out on behalf of the country's business travellers.

Countries in the Western Regions are very familiar with this, because the Great Sui Dynasty was established in their countries, and they also know that it has a huge role and can strengthen bilateral relations.It’s just that there is no embassy on the side of the Sui Dynasty. The monarch stated on the spot that he would send important ministers to settle in, and some important ministers who represented their country as envoys were more thoughtful and planned to fight for the position from the king after returning. They have a great meaning of 'reluctant to miss Shu'.

After a long commotion, the banquet was completely dispersed.

When Yang Tong and Wei Fengwu arrived at Huiyou Hall, the hall was brightly lit. As soon as the husband and wife entered the hall, they saw two empress dowagers, two empress dowagers, Princess Nanyang, Princess Lujiang, and several concubines chattering. Talking and laughing from time to time, Yang Tong's sons and daughters were running and playing in the hall, and there were more than a dozen strange-looking boxes in the corner of the hall. From the appearance, these boxes were full of exotic styles.

"See husband, eldest sister!"

"See father and mother!"

Seeing the arrival of the emperor, everyone saluted one after another.

"This is not the former court, and the family does not have to be formal." After Yang Tong took his seat, he looked at the boxes and said with a half-drunk half-awake smile: "Others say, 'If you sit at home, disasters come from heaven', I don't think so." What? This is called 'people sit in the court, benefits come from the sky.'”

Everyone laughed at the words!

Speaking of this matter, I have to mention the envoys who entered the court. Among these countries, there are two special countries, that is, Xiangxiong and Tubo.

Langri Zanpu of Tubo has made outstanding military achievements in recent years. At this time, the Tubo Kingdom is in the transition period from the tribal alliance system to the imperial centralized system.However, the Tubo Kingdom headed by Langri Zanpu has not yet made a change from a tribal alliance to a centralized imperial structure, and Langri Zanpu cannot control this transition from decentralization to integration, from relaxation to centralization. He did not know how to integrate the forces of all parties, and he did not know how to govern. Therefore, the Tubo Kingdom under his rule was the same as the former East and West Turks. It was only strong by him. The personal prestige of this strong man controls the ministries, but as long as this strong man dies, the essence of the tribal alliance will be exposed.The current Langri Zanpu, just like Shibi Khan, did not take care of the internal affairs, but wanted to conquer a country when he saw it.

Among the objects he wants to conquer is the Xiangzhung country west of Tubo, which is also called Yangtong. Compared with Tubo, which is like a local tyrant, Xiangxiong is a serious ancient civilization with 2000 people. With many years of history, it is a centralized country with its own language. They are not a completely closed country, and they have exchanges with the Central Plains, Western Regions and other places.

However, what this country believes in is Buddhism. Zhang Zhung Buddhism is not only the core of Zhang Zhung culture, but also the source of Tibetan Buddhism and the general root of all Buddhist teachings.And when in a country, the whole people believe in sects that cannot fight back when hit or cursed, the combat effectiveness of the country's army can be imagined.Therefore, this country with profound heritage has naturally become the key target of Tubo's attack.But at the time of the life and death of the country, the Buddha also showed his power.Because this is a country with a long history, the royal family has a very high prestige for the country. With an order, the young and strong of the whole country put down the Buddhist scriptures, took up their swords and went to fight Tubo.

This has also kept the two countries in a state of war all year round. In order to speed up the unification of neighboring countries, Langri Zanpu decided to temporarily let go of Zhang Zhuong, who was stubbornly resisting, and go eastward with all his strength. In order to ensure the stability of the rear, he wanted to send his own sister Married to Zhang Zhung's new owner, Li Mixia, in an attempt to control Zhang Zhuong's internal affairs through the "wife line", it is best to be able to give birth to a prince who directly inherits the throne, so that he can occupy Zhang Zhuong without bloodshed.But Li Mixia is also a heroic hero, let alone a fool, I don't want your sister, don't do this with me.

Langri Zanpu is helpless, that's fine, if you don't want my sister, then I want your sister.

Li Mixia has only one younger sister, Li Tuman, whom she cherishes very much. When she heard that Langri Zanpu was so over the top, she immediately blew up, no matter how powerful your dog Langri Bingfeng is, I am not afraid of you, and want to marry me Baby girl, there is no crack in the door, let's continue to fight, even if I can't beat you, I can still bite a few bites off of you.

Therefore, Li Mixia, who risked his life, joined Langri Zanpu, and Tubo's center of gravity was in the east at this time, so the two sides fought inextricably. This is why Tubo joined forces with Tuyuhun to share the party items main reason.

In the final analysis, the war is about national strength and family wealth. Who has a rich family, a large land area, and a large population, while Xiangxiong Kingdom is small and sparsely populated, and its land area is less than one-third of that of Tubo, and the army has been a monk for a long time, so there is no one who is good at fighting. The general, how could he be the opponent of the Tubo army who has been fighting all the time, even if he wins once in a while, it is a tragic victory of killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred. After fighting for so many years, Xiangxiong's family is almost wiped out Therefore, after Li Mixia heard about the demeanor of the Sui Dynasty, he sent an envoy to enter the court to ask the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty to uphold justice and preserve Xiangxiong Guozuo.

But Langri Zanpu heard that Li Mixia sent envoys to the Sui Dynasty, headed by his own sister, so he also dispatched Tubo rookie Lu Dongzan to escort his eldest son Dazan Gampo to the Sui Dynasty with a delegation. It's nothing more than wanting to break Li Mixia's mind, lest the mighty Tai Sui hold back the footsteps of Tubo's hegemony over the plateau.

These two missions came to Luoyang almost one after another. It is not known whether it was the intention of the officials of the Honglu Division who had been merged into the Ministry of Rites, or because Xiangxiong and Tubo did not agree with each other. The two missions were actually arranged as neighbors.

At the beginning, the two sides were just sparring with cynicism, but after a few days, both sides became angry. Early this morning, the two sides made an appointment to fight each other. Ten warriors each went to Dingdingmen to fight each other. The result was naturally death. Ten were lost, and by coincidence, five each died, which made another tie.

As a result, Dazan Gampo actually jumped out and challenged Li Tuman, the princess of Zhangxiong, to a one-on-one challenge. Can you stop being so shameless?Unexpectedly, Li Tuman was a little chili pepper. Not only did she accept the challenge, but she also cut off an arm of Dazan Gampo, which made Tubo ashamed and sent to Tai Sui.

Of course, this was also the result of deliberate indulgence by the officials of the Honglu Division and the guards of the Sui Army. For the officials and soldiers of the Great Sui Dynasty, looking at a group of foreigners in this cold weather was not only cold, but also boring.Tubo and Xiangxiong are dog-eat-dog, on the one hand they don’t involve the people of the Sui Dynasty, and on the other hand there is excitement to watch, so the death of some barbarians doesn’t matter to them at all, and they enjoy scolding and fighting one-on-one with them.But after all, someone was killed, and even the eldest son of Tubo Zanpu lost an arm. Naturally, Honglu Division had to report to Zhang Xuan, the head of the Ministry of Rites, and the boxes on the ground were Princess Zhangxiong who took advantage of Yang Tong's alone summoning , a gift for court ladies.

The Shangshung Kingdom has been passed down for thousands of years, and is relatively familiar with the harem route.

"These things on the ground were given to you by Princess Li Tuman of the Xiangxiong Kingdom. As the saying goes, everyone has a share of the wealth that falls from heaven. Stay for a while, please ask the emperor to share it."

Saying that, Yang Tong looked at Empress Xiao, who already had a great-grandson, but she was still graceful and luxurious, youthful, and the years seemed to love her especially, and she was still so beautiful that she was almost monstrous!Just from the appearance, at most, she is considered to be in her early thirties, who would have thought that she would be a person approaching sixty.

Later, Yang Tong found out that the same was true of the other Empress Xiao, so he asked Xiao Yuexian curiously, only then did he know that the Xiao family has a set of secret maintenance recipes from the inside out, which can be used by both men and women.Thinking about it carefully, Yang Tong found that not only Xiao Mian was young and handsome, but also Xiao Yu, whom he had not seen for many years, was also like this, so he asked her to write down a prescription and give it to his wives to use according to the prescription, so that Xiao's secret recipe for health care , of course it belongs to the Yang family.

"Okay!" Empress Xiao replied with a smile, in this family, she was the highest seniority, Yang Tong and Wei Fengwu respected her very much, which made her very happy.

The eldest daughter Yang Xifang ran over at this time and interjected: "Father, do I have a share too?"

In her eyes, the queen mother, concubine, and aunt who received gifts from the emperor from time to time are all extremely rich, and although their brothers and sisters also received a lot of rewards, they are all children. They are delicious and fun things, and they never give money. Even if they gave strange treasures, they were confiscated by her mother and concubine Lu Qinghua in a blink of an eye, saying that they were helping her to keep them, and then there was nothing else.When I asked my younger sister Yang Hui and younger brother Yang Zheng, I realized that they were the same as myself. Not long after my father got the reward, my mother confiscated it for the same reason.

"It's all there!" Yang Tong said angrily.

"Long live the emperor!"

Led by Yang Xifang, a group of children rushed towards Yang Tong.

This one bites the face, that one bites the nose.

"Don't move! Don't move! Don't move... I'm going to throw up!"

Yang Tong drank a lot tonight. Although he drank wine, everyone toasted a glass, which constituted a huge amount of alcohol. After a long day, he drank half to death. He was crushed by a bunch of cute babies and almost died Squirted out.When these children heard this, they all ran away in fright.

"Although it's a state banquet, you can't drink so much!"

Without waiting for others to react, Yang Qinfang ran to Yang Tong's side, smelling the smell of alcohol on Yang Tong's body, she couldn't help complaining.

All of a sudden, apart from chasing the children who were playing around, the adults looked at each other, and their faces became weird. This kind of thing should be done by Yang Tong's one empress and five concubines, but Yang Qinfang, a nun, rushed to coming.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Yang Qinfang poured the hangover soup deftly, carefully blew a few mouthfuls, poured spoonfuls into Yang Tong's mouth, her movements and expressions were quite gentle, like a little daughter-in-law .

The two Empress Xiao glanced at each other, and they both saw a deep worry in each other's eyes.

Yang Xifang was raised by Yang Tong. Although Wei Fengwu and Changsun Wugou thought it was inappropriate, they didn't think about other things, they only thought that Yang Qinfang was close to Yang Tong.However, Yang Qinfang's slight changes cannot be hidden from the two empress Xiao who are closest to her. She thinks of Yang Qinfang's stubbornness in refusing to marry, and after becoming Yang Tong's personal guard, she is in a daze from time to time and giggles and other signs. , the two knew that Yang Qinfang had a sweetheart - and this man was undoubtedly Yang Tong.

The two looked at Yang Qinfang who was behaving strangely, and Yang Tong who was half drunk and half awake, they couldn't help touching their foreheads and sighing.

It is also a kind of trouble to feel that your grandson is too good for the first time. No one is blind. Who doesn't like a good man with power, power and talent?If it was any other girl, they would be happy to see her success. After all, the heirs of the royal family are too weak, but the one who likes Yang Tong is Yang Qinfang, which is embarrassing.

In this weird atmosphere, a female official came quickly, bowed her skirt, and reported to Yang Tong: "Your Majesty, the Duke of Li has something very urgent, so come and report it."

"what?"

Yang Tong was a little dizzy and couldn't hear clearly.

"General Youwei and Li Guogong Shen Guang have a very urgent matter, please see the Holy Majesty!" The female officer said again.

"Oh?"

Yang Tong was taken aback, and asked, "Where is he?"

"Tong Ming Hall!"

The Hall of Tongming is the place where the emperor talks to others, or where the courtiers wait to be received. To the east of it is the Hall of Xuanzheng where the Chang Dynasty is held.Changchao, that is, the court meeting held every day, the number of people is small and the rank is high. It is a kind of court meeting for the monarch and ministers to do practical things.

"Let him wait for me at Dongshang Pavilion!" Ziwei City is too big, and there is a long distance from Huiyou Hall to Tongming Hall, which is fine at ordinary times, but Yang Tong is too lazy to walk now because of his drunkenness.

"Here!" The female officer saluted and left.

(End of this chapter)