[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-great-tang-ten-years-of-signing-in-in-tibet-retu":3,"chapter-great-tang-ten-years-of-signing-in-in-tibet-retu-great-tang-ten-years-of-sign-ins-in-tubo-returni-chapter-38":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Great Tang: Ten Years of Sign-ins in Tubo, Returning with a Million-Man Army",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2019268,3024,"Chapter 38","great-tang-ten-years-of-sign-ins-in-tubo-returni-chapter-38",38,"\u003Cp>They were of one mind, intermarried, and their influence was deeply intertwined, forming an extremely powerful force in the local regions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even in the imperial court in the capital, eight or nine out of ten officials came from aristocratic clans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is an irrefutable fact!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention anything else, just within their own Empress Zhangsun family, how many scions were filled with glory?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even a tiny servant in Empress Zhangsun Zhangsun Wuji’s mansion had a great chance of entering the court as an official.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this opportunity was something an ordinary person could never reach in a lifetime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Empress Zhangsun Zhangsun Wugou’s reaction, Princess Changle felt Wu Li Ke a deflated ball, her whole person wilting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, not everything was as beautiful as she had imagined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young girl seemed to have grown up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Qin Mu was taking Empress Zhangsun Zhangsun Wugou and Princess Changle to \"tour\" Yunzhou, Changancheng and the entire Great Tang were experiencing an unprecedented shock!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flames of war had ignited!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ever since Li Er announced the declaration of war against Tibet, the entire Great Tang had boiled over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every circuit and county became tense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Orders from the imperial court arrived Wu Li Ke snowflakes!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mobilizing generals, raising military pay, transporting grain and fodder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the Great Tang was already Wu Li Ke a war machine, beginning to operate at high speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the official roads across the land, warhorses galloped, and dust rose everywhere!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soldiers clad in armor rushed from all directions toward the same place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiannan Circuit!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pass closest to Tibet!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The winds and clouds changed color, and people were filled with panic!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People did not know why the imperial court had suddenly issued an order to declare war on Tibet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, they had already announced a marriage alliance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to normal circumstances.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This should have been the \"honeymoon period\" between the two countries!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sensation and fanfare surrounding the departure of the Tibetan envoy mission from Changancheng had long since spread to every corner of the Great Tang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone in their hearts looked forward to peace, hoping that there would be no more war between the two countries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But who could have imagined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reversal would come so suddenly, so rapidly!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many people had not even reacted yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vast majority of people still did not know what had happened to cause the imperial court to be so shaken and the Emperor to be so furious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was, of course, Li Er’s \"masterpiece\"!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the dignified Emperor of the Celestial Empire, to be played in the palm of a rebel barely in his teens, treating the entire Great Tang as a plaything!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kidnapping the Empress, tricking them into marrying off the Princess, and then leaving Changancheng in such a grand manner, even receiving a send-off from the Great Tang officials and nobles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such an unheard-of, humiliating disgrace—how could Li Er allow such a thing to circulate in the world?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had long since ordered everyone who knew the truth to keep the matter strictly confidential.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, death without mercy!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Changancheng, Duke of Zhao Prefecture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Clap! Clap! Clap!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the main hall, countless precious porcelains were smashed to pieces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Any single one of these precious porcelains would be worth at least ten million in silver!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These celadon fragments covering the floor were worth at least ten thousand taels of silver!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Empress Zhangsun Zhangsun Wuji’s eyes were red with rage; he looked extremely disheveled, still smashing the porcelains in the room, roaring and screaming while he did so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ahhh!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It infuriates me so!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the morning court session.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had been severely scolded by Li Er.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was he who had advocated for a grand send-off for the Tibetan envoy mission.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was supposed to be an achievement to claim credit for had become Empress Zhangsun Zhangsun Wuji’s greatest failure!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Coupled with being repeatedly toyed with by Qin Mu, he was now even seen as the world’s number one incompetent Prime Minister. ===== CHAPTER 84 =====\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>There was another more important matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Mu had kidnapped Empress Zhangsun Zhangsun Wugou and Princess Princess Changle, causing Empress Zhangsun Zhangsun Wuji’s political power to lose a major pillar of support.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially Princess Princess Changle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Er and he had originally planned to arrange the marriage between Empress Zhangsun Chong and Princess Changle immediately after the Tibetan envoy mission left the capital.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If things had gone smoothly, Princess Changle would have already become his daughter-in-law.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Empress Zhangsun family would have stepped onto the pinnacle of glory once again!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of this had turned into a bubble!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only did it fail to bring glory to the Empress Zhangsun family, but his own status in Li Er’s heart had plummeted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The once bustling Duke of Zhao Prefecture, where countless officials came to pay respects day and night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, the entrance was so desolate that not even a falling leaf would land there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone avoided it Wu Li Ke the plague!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything, everything was because of Qin Mu!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Qin Mu!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I will tear you into ten thousand pieces!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Empress Zhangsun Zhangsun Wuji clenched his fists and roared at the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the prison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was dim and lightless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Fang Xuanling, wearing prison garb, lay in the cell, his hair disheveled, his face devoid of life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was Wu Li Ke an eggplant beaten by frost...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despondent to the extreme!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Qin Mu? Your Majesty?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hahaha!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hahahahaha!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I was truly stupid to the core; I thought I could form a friendship across generations with him, I thought keeping my promise could bring back peace between the two countries.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And the result?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I was merely a chess piece in his hand!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Friend? Hahaha!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Fang Xuanling laughed in despair with a hoarse voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had once truly believed that Qin Mu considered him a friend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two had different political views, different statuses, and a massive age gap, yet they had developed a sense of mutual appreciation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Fang Xuanling had thought that by keeping his promise and letting Qin Mu marry into the Great Tang, perhaps there was still a little room for easing tensions between the two countries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Coupled with his efforts to clarify the previous matters between Qin Mu and Empress Zhangsun Zhangsun Wuji, perhaps they could turn hostility into friendship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wouldn't that be the most beautiful ending?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Fang Fang Xuanling had been wrong after all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had not expected Qin Mu’s heart to be so resolute! ===== CHAPTER 85 =====\u003C\u002Fp>",1092,"2026-06-15T19:07:31.042Z","2026-06-15T19:16:46.181Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","8ebea204e45196c7d0a3d6b6c274d569e1728af13d5665988364e4ee418e4e87","great-tang-ten-years-of-sign-ins-in-tubo-returni-chapter-39","great-tang-ten-years-of-sign-ins-in-tubo-returni-chapter-37",605,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fgreat-tang-ten-years-of-sign-ins-in-tubo-returni-cover.jpg"]