Chapter 462 with a thorn

In the ice and snow, cook a pot of fresh mutton soup on a high fire, and grab two mutton oil scones by hand, which is already the supreme enjoyment in Yumenguan.

After wandering in the big military camp outside the city for a day, Qin Mubai and Xue Rengui were hungry, so no matter what the New Year's Eve dinner was, they were full first. Later, the two of them went to the kitchen and couldn't help laughing. It is said that it is difficult for a clever woman to drink without rice. The so-called New Year's Eve dinner, that is, pancakes and mutton soup, is just a few more milk wine.

However, Chen Yan prepared a lot of these things, enough for at least 20 people to eat. Qin Mubai asked curiously who she had invited. Chen Yan just smiled at first, and then she couldn't help asking him repeatedly before answering, "They have come thousands of miles to help you. Shouldn't you treat them to a New Year's Eve dinner?"

"Oh, the Turkic and Hui generals invited, it should be, it should be." Qin Mubai nodded and nag a few words, and walked out of the kitchen.

Chen Yan shook her head and smiled, "Pretold!"

Xue Rengui also laughed when he heard their conversation and said, "Mu Bai, I want to tell you something."

"I know what you want to say about the blood lotus, right?" Qin Mubai smiled casually, sat down next to Xue Rengui and drank a few mouthfuls of hot soup. He pouted and said, "In fact, these days, I have also been thinking about how to deal with this little woman."

"To deal with?" Xue Rengui was stunned, "She is not the enemy."

"It's not the enemy, but it's more difficult to deal with than the enemy." Qin Mubai frowned and said, "Actually, I understand Xuelian's intention. After my observation, I also have a little understanding of her character. She is a very straightforward and simple girl. She has a different wild charm, which is enough to attract any man. From the perspective of men and women, no man will refuse such a woman. But from the perspective of the overall situation, I have to think more about the consequences.

"What are the consequences?" Xue Rengui asked confusedly, "Although Xuelian is a grassland aristocrat, the Ashina family has already fallen. She is just a very noble bloodline in the eyes of the grassland people, and there is nothing special. She and her sister are recognized as great beauties on the grassland, and no man doesn't want to pursue them. But they have been in love for a long time. Although Xuelian is very good at martial arts and can bend her bow to charge the knife like a man, in fact, she is just a ignorant and young girl. Otherwise, how could I not even see your face and admire you so much just by some rumors?

"You're right at all. At the beginning, Princess Wencheng was just like her. Women are born for feelings, young girls who are in love at the beginning of love, and their pursuit of love is more blind and fanatical. This seems unreasonable to us, but in their hearts, they are naturally persistent and unrepentant. Qin Mubai sighed and said, "As I said, I don't know much about Xuelian, and I don't like it or hate it. The reason why I snold her is that I have no choice but to.

"Does it have to? What's the reason?" Xue Rengui asked.

"Politics." After Qin Mubai spit out these two words, he drank a few mouthfuls of soup and was silent for a long time.

Xue Rengui thought about it secretly and seemed to have some understanding, but he still didn't think thoroughly, so he waited for Qin Mubai's next article.

"Rengui, think about your experiences on the grassland carefully." Qin Mubai reminded, "When you arrive at the grassland, you will find that the Ashina clan has been destroyed by Xue Yantuo, right?"

"Yes." Xue Rengui nodded, "Yinan, the leader of Xue Yantuo, is arrogant and uncontrollable, trying to unify the grassland and establish a khanate. The first one to be destroyed was the Ashina tribe, a nobleman of the old Turkic Khanate. Xuelian's parents and clan were all killed, and the Ashina family was almost cut off and eradicated. And the Xuelian sisters survived because they went out to visit their aunt.

"Their uncle is the big leader of Huihu, right?" Qin Mubai said.

"Yes. Xuelian and Xiyan are half-sisters. Xuelian's mother is the royal princess who was married by the Tang Dynasty, and Xiyan's mother is Huiyu. One sister is married to Tu Midu. Xue Rengui said.

"Later, in a stunned battle, you defeated Xue Yantuo and almost killed the pearl Khan Yinan in front of the battle. Then, Li Xun led the king of the Tang Dynasty to arrive and began the battle against Xue Yanyi. When Qin Mubai said this, he paused and said, "At that time, the leader of Huihu took up the banner of the Xuelian sisters, the descendants of the Ashina family, and gathered the nine Tiele tribes in the name of the Tang Dynasty to form a coalition to fight against Xue Yantuo. It was at that time that you were elected as the commander-in-chief of the coalition and married Xiyan, the sister of Xuelian. Is that right?"

"That's exactly what happened. The host of marriage is still Li Wei. Xue Rengui said.

Qin Mubai smiled and said, "Aparting whether the Xuelian sisters are really emotional or not, they were used by her uncle in this way. This Huihu leader is confused, and his ambition is not below Yinan.

"Oh?" Xue Rengui was slightly shocked, "How come? I think he confessed his enthusiasm and loyally served the Tang Dynasty as the suzerain's country, so he promised to cooperate with him to fight against Xue Yantuo.

"You didn't do anything wrong. In that environment at that time, you must also join hands to fight against the enemy. At that time, Tu Midu must have been a sincere alliance, because his desire to survive was more urgent than you. Qin Mubai frowned and said, "However, people's desires will continue to expand and escalate. When seeing that Xue Yantuo, the grassland overlord, is knocked down, the leader of each grassland tribe will think about a question - who will be the next overlord on the grassland? Do you dare to say that Tu Midu won't think about such a problem? Will he have no idea?

Xue Rengui nodded gently and said, "That's right... At first, I was not very enthusiastic about me, because we were just a defeated division. Later, after the battle of the Erhun River, his attitude immediately changed, and he began to summon the grassland tribes to form a coalition army very actively. Although I was elected as the commander-in-chief of the coalition at that time, after all, all the tribes were summoned by him. Therefore, in fact, Xue was just a pioneer, and the real master behind the scenes was to spit out.

"Yes, this man is very resourceful, and everyone dares to take advantage of it." Qin Mubai smiled and said, "Do you think he is really so generous that he gave 40,000 elite iron riders as a dowry? To put it bluntly, he is trying to bribe you and me. Just like a businessman, he made a 'pre-investment' to make huge profits. Now Li Xun is fighting to destroy the Yinan. With his ability to clean up the stormy Xue Yantuo, it is a matter of time. As soon as Xue Yantuo was wiped out, the new hegemonic tribe on the grassland must be stubborn. There is no doubt that this hegemon title will fall on the Hui tribe with the strongest strength, rebellion and great achievements. And Tu Midu will also be greatly trusted and praised by the court and become the new uncrowned king on the grassland. Who can assert that in a few years or ten years, he will not become the second Jieli or Yinan?

"It's true... Now on the Mobei grassland, tribes of all sizes have been destroyed or annexed by Xue Yantuo, and there is still some strength left to compete with it." Xue Rengui said, "As soon as Xue Yantuo was destroyed, Huihu's family became dominant - but I'm surprised. With the lessons from the front car of Xue Yantuo tribe and Yinan, Huihu people and Tumiandu, how dare to have ambition?"

"Ha ha!" Qin Mubai smiled and said, "Ambition and desire are beyond people's control. If you want to learn from the past, didn't Yinan have it before? A few years ago, didn't Duke Wei just destroy the Turkic Khanate and capture the Khan alive?

"It's also..." Xue Rengui sighed and nodded and said, "As you said, this obsession is indeed an old-fashioned and ambitious. He sent out two cheap nieces and 40,000 cavalry in order to form allies in the Tang Dynasty, hoping to have a big reward in the future. Maybe one day he will follow the example of a man and sweat, and you and I will be quite passive.

"It's just passive, it's just self-sufficient." Qin Mubai said with a deep smile, "I'm afraid that he will openly claim that you and I are his allies like Li You, the king of Qi who rebelled a few years ago - you see, we not only married his niece, but also received his soldiers and horses. This is all evidence! Or, if the Tubo people know these things and make rumors, we can't really jump into the Yellow River. It doesn't matter if you and I are wronged to die. I'm afraid that it will affect the military plan at that time, which will be very bad!"

Xue Rengui's face changed a little, "Then I will write a letter of divorce immediately and take a break from Xiyan! - Why does a man have no wife? Although Xiyan is a good woman and treats me with deep affection, he put the overall situation first. I am not greedy!"

"Don't be nervous. You don't have to divorce your wife." Qin Mubai patted Xue Rengui on the shoulder with a smile and said, "The country is picturesque and beautiful as jade. Which man doesn't like it? Who said that you can't have both fish and bear's paw? I have a way!"

"Oh, Mu Bai has a wonderful plan?" Xue Rengui smiled and said, "No wonder I see that you have always been confident and relaxed in the face of the wayward and domineering of Xuelian!"

"In fact, it's not a good idea. At most, it's just a bad idea." Qin Mubai raised a finger and smiled mysteriously, "One word - drag!"

"Drag?"

"Yes, hold her down first." Qin Mubai smiled and said, "It's neither strange nor warm; neither promise nor refuse. You don't have to worry that she will leave with anger. It's absolutely impossible! One, the more a woman like her who is strong and patient, the more she can't get it, the more she will think about it. On the contrary, if you let her get it easily, she may soon lose interest. Second, among the Huihu generals accompanying her, few of them are confidants who will always be fascinated by her - therefore, in any case, Xuelian will always follow me, even if I punch and kick, She won't go back!"

"Ha ha!" Xue Rengui laughed dumbly and shook his head and sighed, "No wonder Su Dingfang said that you are 'amazing and beautiful'. It turns out that you have long thought through the inside and outside, and you have also seen through the girl!"

Qin Mubai also smiled so much that he narrowed his eyes and whispered, "Actually, which man would think there are many women around him?" Ashina's blood lotus is really an exotic Qiba, with a different charm. As long as you see her man and don't covet or dislike her, that's a lie! However, a woman with a wild and complicated background like her is not something that ordinary men can afford to provoke. This Qiba has very poisonous thorns on her body.

Xue Rengui smiled, "In this world, is there any girl who is more difficult to mess with than Princess Gaoyang?"

Qin Mubai laughed and immediately lowered his voice for fear that Chen Yan would hear it. He said, "Actually, I can see that her little girl who is in love is sincere to me, and I don't have any evil intention to deceive or play with her. Love debt is the most difficult to pay. I don't want to be a bad guy. Therefore, I have to think of a perfect solution to make the wife lose his wife and soldiers!"

"It's up to you." Xue Rengui said with a smile, "This kind of thing, I just want to break my head. But you are good at it."

"In fact, I already have a preliminary idea in my mind, not only to solve the private problem of Xuelian, but also to solve the long-term stability of Mobei grassland in the long run." Qin Mubai frowned and said, "A few years ago, the Turkic Khanate was just destroyed, and this is immediately another Yinan rebellion. It seems that the Tang Dynasty set up a governor's garrison in the country to impeach and let the Hu people make their own "Jingbian Huairou" policy, which is not feasible. Not only is it that the Tang Dynasty spends a lot of money and food every year to support the garrison, and it won't take many years for them to still be resurrected.

"This is related to my national policy of the Tang Dynasty..." Xue Rengui couldn't help but be stunned.

"Yes! Such a big event can't be decided by me as a border commander. Therefore, I have to hold Xuelian first, at least until I take her back to Chang'an and see the emperor. Qin Mubai paused for a moment, took a sip of hot soup, and said with a smile, "That's not only the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, but also my old Mount Tai!" I want to take a concubine. I always say hello to him and give him some face, right?

"Haha, that is!"