Tibet

Chapter 414

The next morning was the coronation ceremony of the new king. It was still early for the ceremony, but the decoration had already begun. The city was decorated with lights and festoons, and colorful flags were flying near the palace. Thousands of soldiers were busy preparing.

At dawn, Li Ye came to the Sapphire Merchant Hotel near the palace. When he entered the gate, he saw Xiaokang waving to him.

"This way! This way!"

Li Ye followed Xiaokang to an independent stone house, "She's inside!"

Without hesitation, Li Yue pushed the door open and entered the stone house. When he walked into the back room, a familiar figure threw himself into his arms, hugging his waist tightly like a ball of fire. The two of them kissed each other without a word On the bed, lovesickness for too long, waiting for too long, talking is a waste of time, greedily asking for each other
After lingering for more than half an hour, the two of them finally had a rest. Ah Ling leaned into his arms and gasped in a low voice: "I'm so afraid of losing you. Only at this moment can I believe that I am your woman."

"Can the method you mentioned be realized?" Li Ye asked, stroking her hair.

Ah Ling nodded, "They are already worrying. If you add more fire and build a Buddhist temple next to Guangming Temple, it should be done."

This method is good, Li Ye smiled and asked: "Did they doubt our relationship?"

Ah Ling raised her head, her eyes were as bright as jewels, she shook her head mischievously, "How could it be? They never dreamed that the silver saintess of the Saintess Society would be the woman of General Datang."

Li Ye thought for a while, and asked a little worriedly: "What if it's not you who is sent here?"

Ah Ling laughed, "You think of me as a silver saint too uselessly, I will decide who to send?"

"So you became the Silver Saintess, where is your territory?"

A Ling nodded, "It can be said that it was supposed to be the princess of Bahana who became the silver saint, but you gave my father the place to step up strength, and the mother-in-law became stronger all of a sudden, and I became the silver saint." !"

It turned out that it was for this reason that Ge Luolu's two-in-one combination did not expect to have such a consequence.

Ah Ling sighed, "I really don't want to, it feels like being buried in a tomb, and there will be no bright future, I would rather live happily with my man."

"Is the saint not allowed to marry?"

A Ling smiled wryly and said: "The Saintess Society is actually a power organization, not a religious organization. In order to achieve political goals, they will arrange for the Saintess to marry someone, and assassinate someone. We are actually just puppets, the real power holders." They are seven old women, and the golden saint is just one of them, not even He Daier."

Li Ye smiled and said, "Then let the Saintess Council arrange to marry you to me!"

Ah Ling shook his head, "They will definitely choose the most beautiful one, but it won't be me!"

At this time, there was a knock on the door outside, and Xiaokang said anxiously: "Princess, the time is coming."

A Ling was startled, and quickly sat up, Li Ye also got up and put on his clothes, opened the window, looked at Xiaokang in the yard and said with a smile: "This little lady is not bad, where did you find it?"

"I don't know much about her life experience. I only know that she was brought from Tang Dynasty by Sogdian human traffickers. She was only seven years old at the time. Not long after she arrived in Samarkand, the human trafficker died of illness. She lost her support. The local people saw her. She was pitiful, so I sent her to the Saintess Association, because I was the only one who could communicate with her, so she followed me, Ah Ye, take her away! She will be sent to training next year, I don’t want to.”

"Row!"

Li Ye agreed, "I'll take her back to Datang and give it to her parents."

"Take me away and give it to my man!"

Ah Ling put his arms around Li Ye's neck, whispering like a dream, and the two kissed for a long time, reluctant to part.

Time was running out, Xiaokang knocked on the door again, and Ah Ling hurried away through the back door with Xiaokang.

Li Ye sat for a while, then got up and went out, leading a few soldiers on horseback to the palace.

The coronation ceremony of the new king was grand and enthusiastic. All the kings and tribal leaders in the middle of the river came. The three popes of Zoroastrianism and the three red-robed saints of the Order of the Holy Maiden also attended the ceremony.

Even the deputy governor of Khorasan, Aziz, also came to participate. He was not only the representative of Ziyad, but also the representative of Caliph Abbas.

After the coronation ceremony, there will be a grand banquet, which is completely different from the fixed seats in the Tang Dynasty, but somewhat similar to the buffet in later generations. Everyone can eat and sit at will, and there are no fixed seats.

Aziz, the deputy governor of Khorasan, sat next to Li Ye and said with a smile: "The governor Li is in Samarkand, so I won't have to go to Suiye again. Our ransom has been prepared, and the caliph urges us to hand over as soon as possible!"

Li Ye nodded, "Receive at Juzhan, there is my army over there, you give the ransom to my generals, and then you receive the prisoners at the iron gate of the canyon."

The Iron Gate Pass was the place where Hamill and his defeated soldiers were ambushed, and it is also the narrowest place in the Juzanti Canyon.

"What about the time?"

Li Ye thought for a while and asked, "When can you hand over the ransom to us at the earliest?"

"The ransom is in Mulu, I can deal with it when I go back!"

Li Ye nodded, "It's September 25th now, and the vice-governor will hand over the ransom to Ju Zhanti before September [-]th, and then on the last day of September, we will send the prisoners to Tiemenguan."

"The number is 800, that's right!"

"It's almost the number of people, we will not hide, we will return them all!"

"Okay! I'll go back this afternoon."

Aziz toasted Li Ye with a glass of wine, got up and left
Not long after, Constantine sat next to Li Ye again.

"I didn't expect His Majesty the King to become Pope."

Constantine laughed and said, "One of the three popes represents the secular world and must be held by the king. This is an agreement we have reached with Zoroastrianism!"

"How influential is Zoroastrianism, I mean the West?"

"We have the Guangming Temple in Persia, the Guangming Temple in the Great Qin Kingdom, and even preached in the Frankish Kingdom. We have Guangming Temples in Tochara, Gandhara, Tianzhu, and even Tang Dynasty."

Li Ye smiled and said, "Does the Pope want to talk to me about the matter of redemption?"

Juzhanti was seized by Tang Jun from the big cannibal, and its ownership already belonged to Tang Jun, but the Sogdians had the priority to redeem it.

This point, both sides are very clear.

Constantine pondered for a moment and said, "I discussed with Cao Nur, the king of Dongsao, and several other kings yesterday. We want to confirm that the Tang army is going to garrison in Juzhan?"

"I plan to station two thousand troops in Juzhanti."

"Are the expenses and supplies of the army borne by the country to which Juzhanti belongs?"

Li Ye nodded, "This is inevitable. The monthly expenditure of [-] yuan must be borne by the country to which Juzhanti belongs. This is my redemption condition, and you don't need to pay additional money."

Constantine sighed, 24 gold coins a year is really meaningless.

"We have made it clear that we will not redeem Jizhana. If Jizhanna wants Jizhan, we can submit Jizhan to it, but the prerequisite is that Jizhana is not allowed to levy trade taxes in Jizhan. "

Li Ye glanced at King Murdo in the distance, nodded and said, "I'll go back and talk to him, but I hope to make a formal transfer agreement to clarify the terms of both parties."

After a pause, Li Ye said lightly again: "I want to remind again that Juzhanti already belongs to Tang Jun, and only Tang Jun can sell it."

"Please rest assured, Li Dudu, Juzhanti no longer belongs to us, and we will not sell Juzhanti to Bahanna again, because there are still many details involved, such as trade taxation, Guangming Temple, the status of the Sogdians, etc. We need to sit down with King Bhanna and discuss it."

(End of this chapter)