bastard seizes tang

Chapter 74 Zheng Yuanshou

Li Ke has been busy dealing with the Kang family and his son recently, and he has no energy to distract. In addition, he is in Turkic, so the news is blocked, and he only just got the news when the Tang envoy went north.

Li Ke didn't know what the purpose of envoy Tang's visit was, but he knew that it was not a bad thing for him after all.

The envoy's name is Zheng Yuanshou, and he is the third rank official of Taichang Temple. He is the eldest son of Zheng Yi of the Zhu Kingdom in the former dynasty.

Zheng Yuanshou's background is not small. When the Tang Dynasty was founded, he had the merits of being a dragon, and he was also the number one figure above the Tang Dynasty. Li Ke naturally knew it.

Although Zheng Yuanshou was the envoy of the Tang Dynasty, Li Ke was the prince and represented the Tang Dynasty in Turkic. Therefore, Zhang Yuanshou was not in a hurry to meet Jieli Khan when he arrived in Turkic, but came to see Li Ke first.

When Li Ke returned to his big tent, Zheng Yuanshou was already waiting in the tent.

"Minister Zheng Yuanshou pays homage to Your Highness." Seeing Li Ke enter, Zheng Yuanshou bowed down and bowed.

Although Zheng Yuanshou is a courtier, he is one of the nine ministers, and his official position is not low. In addition, his status in the Central Plains family is not low. Li Ke will not neglect him in the slightest. Li Ke hurriedly stepped forward to help Zheng Yuanshou up and said: "Zheng Siqing has worked hard from afar, please hurry up."

"Thank you, Your Highness." Zheng Yuanshou thanked him and stood up.

After Zheng Yuanshou got up, Li Ke asked: "Si Qing came here suddenly, I don't know when the Turkic arrived."

Zheng Yuanshou said: "I came here on the emperor's order, and I passed by Yinshan Mountain just three days ago. This time, Prime Minister Wen has invited Ying to be the envoy to the north, but His Majesty is worried that Prime Minister Wen is old and weak, so he ordered the officials to go."

The Wen Xiang that Zheng Yuanshou spoke of was Wen Yanbo whom Li Ke met on the way to the north last year. After Wen Yanbo returned to Beijing, he was worshiped by Li Shimin as the Minister of Zhongshu, and he was in the position of Chancellor. However, Wen Yanbo is now five years old. In ten days, coupled with weak bones, it is naturally not suitable to go north, so as not to hurt the body.

Li Ke heard the words and said with a smile: "Wen Xiang, an old man, wants to go north to share his father's worries. My Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers are like this. Why worry about the Turkic troubles in the north?"

Although this place is in the Turkic territory, Li Ke's confidantes are all around the big tent. Li Ke is not afraid of being heard by others when he speaks, and his speech is much simpler and more straightforward.

Zheng Yuanshou said: "Since His Highness invited him to go north as a hostage, His Majesty will encourage himself every day. He will not forget the hatred of the Turks for seizing his son and the pain of humiliating the country. He will work hard to rule and sharpen his armor. He will welcome His Highness back one day."

Li Ke nodded and said: "Father is thinking about it. Although this king is thousands of miles away, I still feel it in my heart, but I don't know why Zheng Siqing is here?"

Zheng Yuanshou replied: "This time, I came here under the emperor's order, and there are only two things: one is to negotiate with Jieli Khan and welcome back His Highness; the other is to pay a visit to Jieli Khan and his subordinates. minister."

Li Ke was young, and Zheng Yuanshou was worried that Li Ke didn't know the seriousness and would easily slip up, so he didn't tell the truth, but Li Ke listened to Zheng Yuanshou's words, and couldn't understand what Zheng Yuanshou meant.

It is natural to try to welcome Li Ke back, but the so-called meeting with the emperor and ministers of Jieli may not be so simple.

In addition to spying on the news, the visit to Jieli's monarch and ministers may also have the meaning of alienation.

Li Ke paused, and said to Zheng Yuanshou: "This king is young and has not participated in the affairs of the court. Naturally, it is inconvenient to intervene in the important affairs of the court. It's just that this king has stayed in Turkic for a long time and has dealt with Turkic monarchs and ministers a lot. This king is here. I don’t know if the Minister of the Temple is interested in this meritorious service?”

Li Ke's words were spoken suddenly, and Zheng Yuanshou didn't realize it for a while, but Li Ke was young, so he might not know what happened, what big things could he accomplish in Turkic?
Zheng Yuanshou didn't take Li Ke's words too seriously at first, but Li Ke's identity is here after all, even if it was just mentioned casually, Zheng Yuanshou would not be in vain.

Zheng Yuanshou replied: "Your Highness is face to face. I dare not be greedy for credit. If Your Highness has anything to say, please give me instructions. I will do my best to do it."

Li Ke said: "Although there are voices dissatisfied with Xieli among the Turkic ministries, these voices are only a minority at present. If Siqing contacts them rashly, it may be easy to leak the news. If Xieli detects it, he will lose the opportunity. Qing recommends someone, and Si Qing may try it."

Originally, Zheng Yuanshou only thought that Li Ke was thinking of returning, and he would definitely mention about his return to the court, but Li Ke's words did not mention half a word about how to welcome him back to the court, but pointed directly at the second point he said.

Li Ke actually understood what he said?This is just a nine-year-old boy!
Zheng Yuanshou looked at Li Ke in front of him, with unconcealable surprise in his eyes.

Zheng Yuanshou suppressed his own surprise, and asked Li Ke: "Your Highness, please give me instructions."

Li Ke said to Zheng Yuanshou: "Although Jieli is very popular in Turkic at present, there are many voices of opposition from Turkic ministries, but Jieli has a lot of prestige in Turkic. If Zheng Siqing visits Turkic ministries rashly, there may be troubles. Telling Jie Li Tusheng to be vigilant is not good for our Tang Dynasty."

At Li Ke's age, it is very rare to be able to see this step, but what Li Ke said next made Zheng Yuanshou even more surprised.

Li Ke paused, and then said: "I'm afraid it won't work if we win over the Turkic tribes, but I don't know if Zheng Siqing knows the Tie Le clan?"

Tiele!

Li Ke's words seemed to hit Zheng Yuanshou's heart with a heavy hammer, causing Zheng Yuanshou's heart to shake.

If you want to break the Turks, you must leave Tie Le first. This is the conclusion reached by the princes of the Tang Dynasty after a whole day of discussing politics in the political affairs hall. At this moment, it is said from Li Ke. How can Zheng Yuanshou not Surprised.

Zheng Yuanshou was not familiar with Li Ke, the only time he had seen Li Ke before was in the East Palace last year, and that time was discussing the proton matter.

That time when Li Ke took the initiative to ask Ying as a hostage, Zheng Yuanshou was indeed quite surprised, but at this moment, in this Turkic tent, Li Ke shocked him ten times more than that time.

"Your Highness, do you mean to start with Tie Le's Nine Parts?" Zheng Yuanshou was surprised in his heart, but asked with a pretended innocence on his face.

Li Ke nodded and said: "That's right, the Nine Divisions of Tiele succumbed to Jieli, and it was only because of the situation that they took Xieli as the main force. Xue Yantuo and Huihe are the strongest, so this kind of thinking is even more serious. If you secretly send someone to meet the barbarians of Xue Yantuo's tribe, you will be able to win them over."

Li Ke had dealt with Yi Nan before, and this Yi Nan was a truly ambitious man who always wanted to turn against the Turks and become a leader on his own, but what Yi Nan feared now was Xieli's military strength.

If Yinan can form an alliance with Datang, and Datang will support him and help him, he will be very happy to turn against Turkic.

Xue Yantuo's tribe takes Yudujun Mountain as its root, it is in the north of Turkic, and Tang Dynasty is in the south of Turkic. If Datang and Xue Yantuo's tribe echoed from north to south and launched a joint attack, it would be enough to make Jieli feel overwhelmed.

Zheng Yuanshou figured out Li Ke's meaning, immediately put away the original contempt, and turned to Li Ke with a serious face and said: "Your Highness's minister will send someone to inform His Majesty immediately."

(End of this chapter)