After a moment, the manager came over with a jade box carved from a whole piece of top-quality jade and carefully placed the jade box on the table. This treasure box alone is a rare thing and its value is difficult to estimate.

Combas smiled, "I bought this jade box for five hundred taels of gold in Thunder Leaf City. I don't know how much it is worth, frankly, I don't know."

Combas slowly opened the box, and the light suddenly shone brightly in the box, which made Yang Bing and Sihua immediately exclaim. The box was covered with various precious gems, polished into various shapes, and under the light of light, it was dazzling and radiant.

The jade box is made of gold as a grid. There are two layers, the upper layer is twenty grids, and the lower layer is twenty grids. There are 43 gems, as small as apricot kernels and as big as walnuts. Each gem is extremely precious. Combas pushed the treasure box to the two girls and said with a smile: "Pick it yourself, take whatever you like, and you can do as much as you like."

Yang Bing and Sihua are both extremely smart girls. They also felt that buying gems this time was unusual and looked at their father timidly. Yang Yuanqing nodded, "If you like it, choose one."

The two of them immediately opened their eyes wide and looked for their favorite gems in the treasure box. Combas said to Yang Yuanqing again: "These gems are actually just my collection for more than ten years. They are basically Sogdian gems. I will take them out by chance when I meet a regular customer who really can't buy the gems. Moreover, I will give them one for each of my juniors as the elders."

Yang Yuanqing nodded with a smile. With Combass' wealth and his own power, a few gems are really nothing. More importantly, their friendship is theirs. Since he is willing to give his daughter as his heart, it doesn't matter.

At this time, Yang Bing chose an emerald gem, and Yang Sihua chose a cat's eye. Although these two gems are of excellent quality, they are not precious things after all. The two girls know that they cannot choose too expensively.

But Combas shook his head. He took out two diamonds from the innermost part of the gratice. The two diamonds were as big as longans and were polished very delicately. The light shone on the diamonds and was dazzling. He took two small jade boxes, put the two diamonds in, and handed them to the two girls with a smile.

"Each person has one, just treat it as a gift I give you.

Diamonds are the most precious gems in ancient and modern times, especially as large as longan, which is very valuable. Yang Bing and Sihua dare not accept it. Yang Yuanqing pondered for a moment, then nodded and smiled, "Why don't you? Uncle Kang!"

This means that they will accept it, and the two of them quickly stood up and saluted, "Thank you, Uncle Kang!"

Combas smiled, "I can't afford to thank the two princesses!"

He put the two gems they had originally picked into the small jade box and handed them to them. The two took the box, opened it and looked at each other, and there was a look of surprise in their eyes. They only wanted to get a small ruby ​​or a piece of beautiful jade at first, but they didn't expect that the final harvest would be diamond, so how could they not be very happy?

Yang Yuanqing smiled at them and said, "You sit aside first, and I will say a few more words to Uncle Kang."

The two sat aside and studied their gems. Yang Yuanqing then said slowly to Conbas: "I want to understand the situation of pacifying the Western Turks. Resistance in various places is everywhere. How is the progress?"

Combas quickly waved his hand and called the chief supervisor up and introduced to Yang Yuanqing: "This is my nephew, named Kang Bo. He came from Samarkand yesterday, and he knew the situation more."

The Sogdian, named Kangbo, stepped forward and bowed, "See Your Highness!"

"Please, please!" Yang Yuanqing said with a smile.

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

Kang Bo did not dare to sit down, stood aside, and said to Yang Yuanqing in fluent Chinese: "The reason for the uprising of Sogdian countries was that the Western Turks had been squeezed too much and the tax was too heavy. For example, I transported a piece of silk to Samarkand. I could earn sixty hangs with my capital, but I would have to pay for forty hangs with my taxes, and I would have to pay for twenty hangs with my taxes. I would have to deduct the expenses on the road, and in the end I would have to lose a little, and I would even lose money. It was this heavy tax that forced the Sogdians to rebel."

Yang Yuanqing nodded and asked again: "Have the Western Turks suppressed the rebellion?"

"No, it's even more serious now. At the beginning, it was just ordinary people who rebelled. Now the kings of various countries began to rebel. The war was full of war. The Western Turks were exhausted. The most intense war was in the city of Saiye. I heard that the king of Saiye was still a Han person."

"Han people?"

Yang Yuanqing frowned, "What's his name?"

"I don't know the specifics, it seems that my surname is Zhang."

Yang Yuanqing pondered for a moment and felt something in his heart. At this time, a personal soldier walked in quickly and said a few words to Yang Yuanqing. Yang Yuanqing's eyes showed a look of astonishment and couldn't help but laugh. There was such a coincidence.

He stood up and said, "I have something to do at the moment, so I have to go back. Lao Kang, thank you for your wish to give it to my little girl."

"Your Highness is so polite. I have not expressed anything when the child has grown up. I feel ashamed. Today I can only express my feelings."

Combas kept sending the father and daughter to the carriage, and then turned around and sighed to his nephew: "I hope the Sui army can intervene in the Western Regions and let the war be calmed as soon as possible."

...

The carriage left the Taipei City and rushed towards the royal palace. In the carriage, the two girls were hiding in a corner, each hiding in a corner to secretly look at their gems... The smile on their faces was as bright as peach blossoms. Yang Yuanqing sat behind the carriage, looking at the two daughters with their backs to their own. It made the children happy and the greatest relief for fathers.

"You two, do you dad tell your mother about the gem?"

"don't want!"

Yang Bing and Sihua jumped up together like frightened rabbits, waved their hands repeatedly, "Don't say it."

Yang Yuanqing laughed, "Then sit down, don't sneak in as if there is a secret hidden, and even turn your back to your father."

The two little ladies lowered their heads embarrassedly, and the carriage quickly arrived at the side door of the palace and stopped. Yang Yuanqing then said to the two: "Go back! Daddy is going to Jinyang Palace for something to do."

Yang Bing and Sihua jumped out of the carriage and walked towards the mansion with their hands. Yang Yuanqing kept looking at them crossing the bridge and entering the mansion gate, and then ordered: "Go to Jinyang Palace quickly."

...

It was already afternoon, and the Jinyang Palace had already gone to court. There were still some officials in the palace who had not returned home, especially the Ministry of Revenue and the Sinong Temple. Hundreds of officials were working overtime to distribute cattle and sheep to each county.

Yang Yuanqing's carriage had been stopped in front of Ziwei Pavilion. Zhu Suiliang, who had been waiting for the record room here, came up to welcome him, "See Your Highness!"

Yang Yuanqing nodded and asked, "Are you still here?"

"I'm still waiting for Your Highness!"

"Take it directly to my official room."

Yang Yuanqing walked into Ziwei Pavilion and walked straight upstairs. He returned to his official room, took off his outer robe, sat down at the table. At this time, the door opened. Zhu Suiliang led a man in hurriedly. The man was about thirty years old, tall and burly, with deep eyes. He was a Han man with the blood of the Hu people.

The man stepped forward and kowtowed heavily, "Free Li Zhaojun pays homage to His Highness Chu's wife!"

"Mr. Li, please get up!"

Yang Yuanqing winked at the personal soldiers beside him. The personal soldiers came forward to help him up. Yang Yuanqing asked with a smile, "I heard that King Xuanye's surname is Zhang Zhongjian?"

Li Zhaojun nodded and shed tears, "That's right, I came to ask Your Highness for help on the order of Guolou."

After saying that, he took out a letter, presented it with both hands, and his personal soldiers forwarded the letter to Yang Yuanqing. Yang Yuanqing opened the letter and opened it. As expected, the King of Shattered Leaf was Zhang Zhongjian, a bearded guest. After leaving Luoyang, he spent more than ten years in the Western Regions to explore the world. Finally, he established his own country in Shattered Leaf.

In his letter, Zhang Zhongjian begged the Great Sui Dynasty to send troops to rescue Sai Ye and was willing to merge his homeland and become a county in the Great Sui Dynasty.

Zhang Zhongjian also clearly stated in the letter that Yang Yuanqing was now facing a great crisis of rule, and the army suppressed the uprising everywhere, and its troops were distributed thousands of miles, which was a good opportunity to send troops to wipe out the Western Turks.

"It turns out that Mr. Li is the General of the Cavalry of the Thunder Leaf, and he is disrespectful." Li Yuanqing said with a smile.

"Zhao Yun dared not, beg His Highness the King of Chu to send troops to rescue the crisis of Sai Ye, given that most of the subjects of the Sai Ye Kingdom were Han people. The food in the city was insufficient, and at most they could support him for another two or three months. Beg His Highness to send troops!"

Li Zhaoyun was extremely anxious. He knelt down again, unable to control his emotions anymore, and cried bitterly.

Zhu Suiliang quickly helped Li Zhaojun up and comforted him in a low voice, which made his mood slowly stabilize. Yang Yuanqing waited for him to calm down before asking: "You said that most of the people in the Shattered Ye Kingdom were Han people. How many Han people were there? How did they pass?"

Li Zhaojun sighed and said, "From many channels, some were Han people from the Western Regions, some were Han slaves we bought from the Turks, but most of them were the families who fled to Saiye during the chaos in the Central Plains a few years ago. Most of them were from Guanlong. From the seventh year of Daye to the present, more than 30,000 people have been fled one after another. We provide them with food for travel. Now there are about 40,000 Han people from Saiye, accounting for about 20% of the entire Saiye country's population."

"Then how many Turkic troops are surrounding Saiye, how many troops are there in the Western Turkic tent, and where are the Khans of Shekui now?"

"His Royal Highness Huiji, there are about 20,000 Western Turkic troops surrounding Saiye, and there are not many troops. The main reason is that we are not equipped with enough troops and can only defend the city and it is difficult to confront them head-on. The Khan of the Shekui is now in the Turkic Khan's house. The specific troops are unknown, but they will not exceed 30,000."

Yang Yuanqing walked a few steps behind his back, and he also realized that this was actually an opportunity. The Western Turks ruled the rebels everywhere, and the 200,000 troops of the Western Turks were distributed in the territory from Kucha to the West Sea.

If Su Ding could only join forces with the Tielite countries headed by Qizhuo and attack the Western Turks together, this would definitely be a fatal blow to the Western Turks. Moreover, there were more than 40,000 Han people in Shuye. Zhang Zhongjian was willing to merge with the Great Sui Dynasty. This was a good opportunity for the Great Sui Dynasty to expand its power westward.

In fact, from the beginning, when Yang Yuanqing knew that the Western Turks did not attack Yiwu County, he had the idea of ​​attacking the Western Turks, but he planned to consider it after unifying the world.

But now Sai Ye is asking for help, which is the opportunity for the Sui army to send troops. Thinking of this, Yang Yuanqing resolutely made up his mind and said slowly: "I can send troops to rescue Sai Ye!"
Chapter completed!