Chapter 305: Tubo Zamp's decision

The next morning, Cui Xiaofu did not attend the emergency meeting held by the cabinet. She fell ill. The room was very quiet, with a strong smell of medicine. The Biluo tent was low. The palace chief doctor Wang was quietly packing up, fearing that he would disturb the Queen Mother's rest. The eunuch Feng Endao stepped forward and whispered: "Doctor Wang, how is the Queen Mother's illness?"

Doctor Wang pointed to the outside and signaled to go outside to talk.

Feng Endao understood and walked out to the outside world. Doctor Wang sighed and said, "The disease is caused by worries and anger, but this is just an appearance. The real root of the disease is long-term irregularity of yin and yang... It requires rest and cannot get angry..."

There was a slight movement in the Biluo tent in the room. In the tent, Cui Xiaofu turned over. Her face was extremely pale and she had no makeup on her. Her loose skin was covered with fine wrinkles, like an old woman in her fifties. She closed her eyes and seemed to be still sleeping, but in the quiet room, the words of Doctor Wang, "The long-term irregularity of yin and yang."

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’Unknown to me, Cui Xiaofu's skin twitched twice before she got old, and shed two lines of sour tears. The woman's weakness surged out of her eyes unscrupulously at this moment.

But at this moment, the movement of Biluo's tent triggered a misunderstanding. A burst of footsteps sounded outside the tent curtain. The tent curtain opened and a palace maid's face appeared. She wanted to help Cui Xiaofu up and change her clothes behind the screen. The palace maid suddenly saw the queen mother's face full of tears. She was so scared that she took two steps back and trembled all over. She knew that she could never see the secret.

At this moment, Cui Xiaofu's weakness suddenly disappeared and she returned to her usual hardness. She quickly wiped away her tears and said coldly: "Why don't you help me up!"

The palace maid stepped forward tremblingly and helped her up. At this time, Feng Endao rushed in. Cui Xiaofu waved her hand and ordered the palace maid to withdraw. Staring at her back, Cui Xiaofu whispered to Feng En, "This palace maid saw something she shouldn't have seen. Do you know what to do, right?"

Feng Endao glanced back at the palace maid and nodded, "Don't worry, the queen mother, I'll do it right now!"

"Don't be so anxious, put on clothes with me first."

Cui Xiaofu sat up with difficulty, and she took a breath and said, "Today's cabinet meeting, Ai's family will not go to the forefront to avoid suspicion. However, this morning, the special envoy of the Uighurs met, which is related to the national system. You must go to meet him. Prepare for a while. The Ai family needs to change their clothes."

Feng Endao was startled and stuttered: "The Queen Mother is in poor health, so why not go!"

"Don't go?" Cui Xiaofu looked at him in surprise. Seeing that sweat was flowing out from his forehead, she felt suspicious, "What happened?"

"No, nothing!" Feng Endao became even more panicked.

Cui Xiaofu sat upright and stared at him silently for a long time. Fang said coldly: "Do you want to deceive the Ai family?"

Feng En said, "Pu!" and knelt down on the ground and kowtowed several times, "I dare not hide it. I said, "The Queen Mother, don't be angry!"

"explain!"

Feng Endao sighed, and then hesitated: "The Uighur envoy had arrived at Linde Hall an hour ago, and now the emperor is receiving him."

"Emperor?" Cui Xiaofu couldn't believe her ears. Li Yao was sitting there for a while when she met the foreign envoy. A few days ago, he reviewed the memorial without authorization, but he didn't even settle the score with him. Now he was getting more and more excessive. He actually started to meet the Uighur envoy. She stood up in a 'live' and said sternly: "Change clothes for the Ai family!"

Feng Endao was so scared that he advised him repeatedly, "The Empress Dowager should take care of the phoenix body and endure it."

Cui Xiaofu turned around like a whirlwind and stared at him tightly and said, "You have to persuade me to endure. If you endure it any longer, the Ai family will be eaten by the tiger cub."

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Half an hour later, Cui Xiaofu, who was lightly makeup, came to Linde Hall with nearly a hundred palace maids and eunuchs. The eunuch at the gate was about to utter a loud voice, but was stopped by Cui Xiaofu. She passed through one palace gate after another and finally came to the inner hall where Li Yao met the Uighurs. At this time, Cui Xiaofu was already a little sick and unable to bear it. She leaned against the wall with difficulty, waiting for the dizziness to disappear, but she could clearly hear the sharp and slightly tender voices from the hall.

"What does it mean to shelve disputes? Can I bargain for my territory of Tang Dynasty? Isn't shelve disputes acknowledging your Uighurs' possession of Anxi and Beiting? No! There is no room for bargaining for territorial issues. You either withdraw your troops and leave the Western Regions, or fight for one battle. Whoever wins will be the land."

"Your Majesty the Emperor, please calm down. Please listen to me. The Uighurs have always been vassal states of the Tang Dynasty. Although there are some conflicts, it is also an internal dispute between the family and cannot be compared with the Tubo people. My Khan also said that as long as our Uighur army can take over the road and once we defeat the Tubo people, we will immediately give up Anxi and Beiting, admit that it is the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and will never break our promise."

"Hmph! Do you think I am a three-year-old child? If you really admit that Anxi and Beiting are the territory of the Tang Dynasty, then let Yanqi Jiegangas put down his weapons. I can order Zhang Shangshu to let them return home. As for the Tubo people, my Tang soldiers will naturally deal with them, and there is no need for your country to worry about."

Next came a silence. After a while, I heard the Uighur envoy say in a deep voice: "Before I left, the Khan repeatedly reminded me to talk to Empress Dowager Cui. Can Empress Dowager Cui be there?"

At this time, Cui Xiaofu's dizziness gradually disappeared. She was about to die for the eunuch to report, but suddenly she heard a sentence that made her heart ache:

"I am the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. With me here, there will be no empress dowager. Let me tell you Khan, and my words represent the Tang Dynasty."

Cui Xiaofu's heart suddenly sank, as if she had stepped into a deep abyss, and she felt like she was punched in the face. She could no longer support her body, and she shook her eyes and fainted.

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At the end of June of the seventh year of Xuanren, the Uighurs Zhongzhen Khan urgently sent a special envoy to Chang'an to seek peace, but the Tang Dynasty flatly rejected the Uighurs' request to jointly govern the Western Regions, and appointed Zhang Huan as the Great Protector of Anxi, and fully took back Anxi.

As the Geluo people in Beiting were defeated by the Tang army, conflicts between the Tang army and the Uighurs were inevitable. Just as the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the Uighurs became increasingly tense, the Tubo people suddenly had abnormal movements.

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The four armies of Kucha, Shule, Yanqi and Gaochang have been the basis for the Tang Dynasty's rule over Anxi for more than 100 years. Kucha is the center of the four towns and the location of the Anxi Protectorate. However, Kucha is in the hands of the Tubo people at this time. In fact, since the Wu Zetian era, the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo fought for Anxi has never stopped. It has changed several times until Gao Xianzhi took over Anxi, and the Tang Dynasty finally stabilized its control over Anxi. Unfortunately, soon after, the Tang Dynasty suffered the disaster of the Anshi Rebellion and was no longer able to protect Anxi, and was finally taken away by Tubo who took advantage of the situation.

At this moment, the sun slowly fell into the light clouds dyed with bright colors by the sunlight. This was a scene before dusk. A ball of lilac smoke rose from the desert to the sky, causing the snow-capped peaks in the distance to be dyed crimson.

Chisong Dezan stood on the wall of Kucha, staring at the beautiful scenery in front of him with a serious expression. Compared with four years ago, he also aged rapidly, especially in the war between Tochar and Dashi, he was seriously injured. It was even rumored that he died. Although he was not dead, his body was deeply hurt. The pain kept tormenting him, making him realize that he had not had much time to come.

Before leaving this world, Chisong Dezan still had several wishes to fulfill. First, determine Buddhism as the national religion of Tubo and prevent Bon religion from resuming it; second, it was to preserve Anxi, the last foreign territory of Tubo, so that Tubo could benefit from the wealth brought by East-West trade in the future. His last wish was to establish the heir of Zanpu, but this was his most difficult and urgent matter.

To end the Anxi War as soon as possible, it was the wish that Chisong Dezan longed for, but the complexity of the Anxi situation made him afraid to be careless.

For this reason, he also sent a large number of scouts to inquire about the news about the Uighurs and the Tang army. Just two hours ago, he received the news that the Tang army had defeated the Geluo people. Chisong Dezan immediately realized that perhaps his chance had come.

The Tang army defeated the Gelulu people, which meant that they had already controlled Beiting. Then, Zhang Huan's next target would inevitably point to the Uighurs. Jiegangas of the Uighurs were in a dilemma of being attacked from both sides. He would either go south to defeat himself or go north to counter Zhang Huan. In short, he could not stop at Yanqi and was in a passive state. Moreover, the Uighur Loyal Khan could not sit idly by and watch the Uighurs in Anxi wipe out the entire army and ignore it, and would inevitably send troops to help.

It seems that Jiegangas is much more likely to go north to join the reinforcements. For long-term strategic interests, at this moment, Chisong Dezan finally made an extremely bold decision.

"Transfer my order, and the army immediately withdrew from Kucha and retreated west to Bachang City."

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Chapter completed!