"Foreign minister Xue Yu, I have met His Highness, King Feng of the Tang Dynasty, the Great Protector of Anxi!" A young man in his twenties knelt down to Li Gong and said.

"Crown Prince get up quickly." Li Gong said repeatedly, and signaled the guards to help him.

"Xue Yu dared not get up. The foreign minister knew that he had made a big mistake and asked Your Highness to punish him." However, the young man said again, and kowtowed heavily.

Seeing him say this, Li Gong stopped. Xue Yu was the prince of Bakhanna. When Li Gong had just arrived in Anxi two years ago, the soldiers of the Dashi Kingdom forced Bakhanna's capital to thirst and block the city. The king of Bakhanna was Ashirandagan surrendered and surrendered to Dashi. Although Bakhanna did not send troops to fight with the Tang army afterwards, he also informed the Tang Dynasty that the Dashi Kingdom was about to invade Anxi, but after all, he had betrayed. Li Gong originally wanted to exchange a few words with him before talking about the betrayal, but since he took the initiative to mention it, Li Gong could only deal with the matter in advance.

After a while, Xue Yu could not hear any sound or see any movement of the guards. So he maintained the kowtow, his forehead was next to the ground, and his hands were on the ground, without moving.

After a while, his body trembled slightly. He had been kneeling for too long and could not hold on. But compared to the physical torture, Xue Yu felt even more desperate: "Does the Tang Dynasty not want to forgive the sweating?"

"Get up." He was thinking, and suddenly heard the four words coming from in front of him.

"Thank you, Your Highness." Xue Yu felt relieved, raised his upper body and kowtowed again, and then stood up. But because he had been kneeling for a long time, his legs were already numb, and he staggered before he could get up. If the guard had not been able to hold him up with his hands, he might have fallen to the ground again.

"Thank you, the guard." Xue Yu thanked the person who helped him, then turned his head and said to Li Gong again: "Thank you, Your Highness."

"At that time, the food was so strong that if you sweat, you would definitely be burned. I would not force others to do anything, and I would not blame Ah Silandagan's actions at that time."

"Thank you, Your Highness." Xue Yu said for the third time.

"But I must not be punished." Li Gong said again: "If I do not punish, wouldn't it be unfair to the foreign countries like Dabolu, which have always been loyal to the Tang Dynasty?"

"Please punish Your Highness, no matter how you punish Bahan, you will definitely accept it."

"Since that's the case, first, in the future, the Tang Dynasty sent troops to the nine surnames of Zhaowu. Bahan must send 5,000 soldiers and 5,000 civilians to join the army to fight."

"yes."

"Secondly, the food and grass needed by these five thousand soldiers and five thousand people are provided by the country of Bahanna. Moreover, Bahanna needs to provide enough food for 20,000 people to eat for a year."

"yes."

"Third, the country of Bahanna needs to contribute gold, silver and wealth worth more than 100,000 taels of gold to the Tang Dynasty."

"Yes." Xue Yu gritted his teeth and agreed.

"Okay, since the prince agrees to these three points, I am willing to accept Ba Khan again as a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty." Li Gong said with a smile.

"Thank you, Your Highness." Xue Yu was still sweating on his forehead, but he still felt relieved and said to Li Gong for the fourth time.

The conditions given by Li Gong were very harsh. It could almost be said that he had to put all the wealth of the whole country to meet it. However, he was still happy to become a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty again.

Xue Yu and his father Ashi Landagan have been closely following the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Dashi. At first, they thought that the Dashi would stalemate with the Tang army under the Suiye City. If the Dashi performed well, it would be able to seize the Suiye Town. If the Tang army was better, the Dashi would be defeated in shame.

But unexpectedly, Dashi easily took Suiye City; before the father and son could digest the news, another shocking thing came: a rebellion occurred in the Central Plains of the Tang Dynasty, and the elite Anxi was transferred back to the Central Plains to quell the rebellion.

After learning the news, Ah Silandagan sighed, believing that the Tang Dynasty had no power to fight back against Dashi, and Dashi Kingdom would definitely be able to seize the entire Anxi; Xue Yu also agreed with his father's opinion.

But unexpectedly, in Oluzhou, Dashi failed and suffered heavy losses; in the subsequent Battle of Gukou, Dashi was even defeated by the Tang Dynasty, and retreated back to the country of Zhaowu in a panic, and even gave up the country of Bahan.

After watching the Dashi army with one's own eyes withdraw from the Thunder City, Ashi Randagan immediately sent his son to the Tang Dynasty Anxi to become a vassal state again. The powerful combat power of the Anxi army in the Tangshi war was enough to destroy Bahanna ten times; their country had betrayed the Tang Dynasty, and in order to protect the country, it was worth it even if it paid the greatest price.

"I wonder when your highness will send troops to the country of the Nine Clans of Zhaowu? Which road will it be along? Foreign ministers can prepare early after returning." Xue Yu asked again.

"I will naturally wait until autumn and the weather turns colder. The weather is so hot at this time, especially when it is the hottest in a few days, you may die suddenly when you walk on the road. You can't choose to send troops at this time.

As for the route of troops," Li Gong pondered. Because of the climate of Anxi, everyone could guess the time of troops sent, and it was meaningless to conceal it, so they could just say it generously; but the route of troops was different. Although there were not many routes to the Jiuxian Kingdom of the Zhaowu surname, there were still a few. If you could hide the big cannibalism, you might be surprised and defeat the big cannibalism at a smaller price.

"I have not decided yet. After you go back, you only need to order to prepare food, soldiers, and people, and obey immediately after I pass the order."

"Yes." Xue Yu quickly agreed.

"You retreat." Li Gong said a few more words to him and said.

"Yes." Xue Yu agreed again and turned around and left.

"Your Highness, why don't you say a few more words to the prince Bahan to soothe people's hearts?" Xue Yu had just left, and laughter came from behind Li Gong.

"There are so many things to say." Li Gong said disdainfully: "Ba Khan's betrayal of the Tang Dynasty should have been severely punished, and even arrested Xue Yu and his father Ashi Landagan and sent them back to Kucha Town to imprison him. Now that I have pardoned Ba Khan's sins, he must be grateful, why should I comfort you again?

And I can't be too gentle to him. If he is too kind, he might think that although the Tang Dynasty defeated Dashi in the Battle of Gukou, he would definitely suffer heavy losses and would not be able to send troops for the time being, so he would push back on my request. In order to prevent Xue Yu from misjudging, he could only do this."

"Your Highness is right." Liu Qi smiled and said, "That's right."

"Have you met General Dabolu?" Li Gong stopped talking about Bahan, and asked about other things.
Chapter completed!