Chapter 2125 - A Letter from the Central Plains! (2/2)
Whoosh!
Seeing Ishbara Khagan’s rage, the generals in the tent fell silent, fear in their eyes. All of them dropped their heads, Wunu Shibi and Duwu Sili included.
While Wunu Shibi and Duwu Sili’s quarrel seemed to be over the alliance, in reality, everyone knew that it was about the War of the Princes between the Fourth Prince and the First Prince.
Ishbara Khagan massaged his twitching brow and turned to a nearby figure.
“Blackwater Shaman, what is your view on this matter? Have the gods sent down a decree regarding this ice calamity?”
“The gods have not sent down a message.”
Nearby, the Blackwater Shaman was seated cross-legged on the side, unmoved by the ferocity of the arguments taking place around him.
Ishbara Khagan deeply frowned.
The Blackwater Shaman had a transcendent status in the Western Turkic Khaganate, and he had always supported the Fourth Prince. For the Blackwater Shaman to have not sought a message from the gods with this fatal threat of the cold wave approaching was far too abnormal.
Whoosh!
As Ishbara Khagan was deep in thought, the flapping of wings came from nearby. A few moments later, a warrior entered the tent with a muscular messenger bird.
The warrior got down on one knee and said, “Khagan, a letter from the Central Plains.”
His one sentence caused everyone to pale.
The Central Plains!
Truly, when speaking of Cao Cao, Cao Cao would arrive!
They had just received An Yaluoshan’s letter urging them to join the alliance, and now, they had received a letter from the Great Tang!
It would be different if the letter had arrived at any other time, but it happened to arrive just as they were discussing whether to join the alliance.
The faces of everyone in the tent turned strange, with the pro-alliance First Prince and Wunu Shibi deeply frowning.
“This bastard!”
Wunu Shibi clenched his fists, hatred in his eyes.
Even now, he could not forget the humiliation he had received from Wang Chong at the feast of all countries.
The timing of this letter’s arrival was far too coincidental. He didn’t need to think very long to know that this was undoubtedly Wang Chong’s handiwork. But no matter how shocked and surprised he was, anything concerning Wang Chong had to be considered rationally.
“Read it!” Ishbara Khagan coldly ordered.
“This…”
The general looked at the letter and hesitated.
In the Western Turkic Khaganate, any letter from the Great Tang concerning Wang Chong would not contain pleasant contents. This letter would naturally be no different.
“The Khagan ordered you to read, so read. You can simply summarize the main contents. There’s no need to read it word for word,” the Blackwater Shaman suddenly said.
“Yes!”
The Western Turkic general felt as if he had been pardoned, and let out a long sigh of relief.
“The letter from the Great Tang’s King of Foreign Lands says that they already know about what has happened on the Western Turkic steppe and are willing to offer assistance. The Western Turks and the Great Tang have a history of friendship, and so both sides should continue this tradition.
“The Great Tang is willing to allocate a region for the shepherds of the steppe to move into to avoid the blizzard. The Great Tang is also willing to offer food supplies to aid the Western Turks.”
At this point, the general snuck a glance at the crowd.
The tent had fallen silent, and he could clearly see the strange expressions on everyone’s faces.
The Western Turks and the Great Tang had a history of friendship?
Was that King of Foreign Lands serious?
Over the course of several hundred years, the Western Turks had engaged in hundreds of conflicts with the Great Tang, if not thousands. Who was Wang Chong trying to fool here?!
But at a time like this, nobody openly stated this fact. As for the second part, regarding the Great Tang allowing the Western Turks to move into the interior and their willingness to provide supplies, the generals had to admit that they were surprised.
Anyone who had the slightest understanding of the King of Foreign Lands understood that this was completely out of line with his style.
This was like food raining down from the heavens, and for some reason, it made everyone feel extremely uneasy.