Your marriage was arranged by the Empress Dowager long ago. She wanted you to go to the capital of the Wu Dynasty to recognize your ancestors and acknowledge the current Duchess as your mother, and then bestow a marriage upon you.
This would have helped her win over the ministers and kept the Uda tribe at her mercy, which is why I strongly opposed it!
"She doesn't even consider that the emperor is far away and I am in the Di barbarian grasslands."
If you want power, fight for it yourself, don't waste your time in that birdcage.
"Empress Dowager Wu, don't even think about interfering in my family affairs!"
Song Liyun's face darkened.
Although the Wuda tribe currently relies on the Wu Dynasty and the Zhenbei Army, their future development will at least be one of guest and host, not master and servant. If the Empress Dowager interferes in everything, the Wuda tribe will become a puppet.
Lady Uya continued, "This is just my mother's guess; she doesn't know what her true intentions are."
Unfortunately, the tribe relies on the Wu Dynasty in many ways, so it's not good to turn against them. You shouldn't be too cold to Granny Xu and the others.
The Empress Dowager is the Empress Dowager; no matter what, she and Zhao Yanjiao have a decades-long friendship.
Song Liyun nodded and said, "Daughter-in-law, listen to your mother and be polite to them."
Duke Anguo and Zhao Tingduo are father and son. The "dowry" he brought to the tribe this time was also quite valuable.
Lady Uya is now wary of the Empress Dowager, but many of the children in the tribe are descendants of the Zhenbei Army.
The Wuda tribe and the Wuchao Zhenbei Army are inextricably linked by blood.
Not only were the guards around Lady Uya sent by the Zhenbei Army, but there were also some wounded and disabled veterans left behind in the tribe.
Madam Wuya's anger was more about matters between Zhao Yanjiao and her husband, and naturally not something that Zhao Tingduo and the younger Song Liyun could discuss.
Song Liyun brought up another matter.
"Mother, did Granny Xu just say that the Wu Dynasty court has made peace with the Di royal court?"
Zhao Tingduo nodded: "This kind of thing is not uncommon. The royal court used to harass the border every year, and the Wu Dynasty sent at least five or ten princesses and noble ladies from the grasslands. It was common for them to talk and fight."
"If problems can't be solved on the battlefield, how can a few women possibly solve them?"
Song Liyun remained silent; of course, that was impossible.
Force is the only way to get people to sit down and talk things out.
The Di tribes had been embroiled in conflict with the Wu Dynasty for thousands of years; how could a woman possibly resolve such a conflict?
After a year on the throne, the new emperor has stabilized the court and now needs to secure the borders.
Sending a woman to marry a foreign ruler was probably to give both sides enough time to mobilize their troops.
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