Chapter 394 A Qiang Flute (1)

Hao Chujun couldn't help but look at Wu Zetian, then at the Cui Zhiwen brothers, and Li Xian in the distance.

This question was too timely, and he suspected that Li Xian had this IQ.

"Don't talk nonsense!" Li Zhi said angrily.

"Father, my son is not nonsense. My elder brother was born and died for the country, and now he is missing. Regardless of whether this rumor is true or false, my elder brother believes that my second brother should not seize the ministers and force my father to give up the power of governing the country. I feel very upset when doing this. There are also ministers, Mr. Zhang, I just wander around for a while, and you are all cold-hearted and pointed at by thousands of people. But I don't understand, my elder brother is both civil and military, kind and frugal. For such a crown prince, you dare to frame him for your own benefit. Do you deserve the salary given by the court, or the respect given by your father?"

"Come on, drag him down," Li Zhi shouted.

This is just to drag it down and let him leave, and not make trouble at the New Year banquet, and there is not even a single punishment. It is quite interesting.

A very few ministers have already understood that it is not only the queen who is unhappy, but the emperor is also unhappy in pressing Li Xian every step. It is just that the emperor is still patient in order to take into account the overall situation. His tolerance for Li Xian's nonsense is also giving a layer of meaning. Xiao Liuzi, give you a chance to train, but don't do it too much!

There are even more and more ministers who are turning to Li Xian, and in the end the emperor will forcefully take action to suppress it.

Li Zhi was afraid that he could force his benevolent brother to death. Once the regime was held in his palm, he might be able to force himself to death.

Li Xian was dissatisfied, and the guards pulled him out, and did not dare to force him. They just carried him, but they were not fast. Li Xian shouted: "Brother, my third brother miss you so much. You were so caring for us brothers at the time. You always brought gifts when you went out. The second brother opposed you many times, but you just said that he was still young. This time, he became unknown to life and death."

The atmosphere at the banquet was wrong. Li Zhi finally became annoyed and said, "Pull him back and beat him twenty times."

Li Lingyue ran over angrily and said, "Father, the third brother is right, why should I hit him?"

"Don't mess around," Li Zhi had no choice but to start a little bit of the topic and asked Liu Rengui: "You have been in Qinghai for a long time. Can you guess where Honger retreats? Is there any danger?"

That's right, Liu Rengui made a judgment in his mind that there was only one way to retreat to the Duomei tribe, but would it be safe to reach the Duomei tribe? I dare not say that, and this statement made the Yongwang Party even more rampant, so he said: "I am ashamed and can't guess it. But Your Highness rarely lie. How difficult was the two canals at the beginning? Now? Sooner or later, all the two canals will be fully constructed, and there is no national funding. Since Your Highness said that it can be withdrawn, there should be a solution."

Speaking of this, he also has a hope.

The prince gave very little to this letter and could not be sentenced.

But if it is dangerous... Thinking of this, he said again: "I heard from Your Highness's letter, and I did not explain any funeral. If he felt that there was a lot of danger, he would definitely give some funeral."

Yes, when Li Zhi heard this, his eyes lit up. No matter what, he used Xiao Liuzi to just restrain Xiao Wu. He didn't know these two aspects, and he was shocked. Xiao Liuzi was too cold and thin. He shouted, "Take the Qinghai map over."

This idea was wrong. Li Xian might not have been so kind, but he repeatedly lifted Li Xian to this position, but he could not compete for it and retreat, so he had to use some disgraceful means to win by skill.

After taking the map, how many people can understand it? Like Liu Rengui, he doesn't need to read it, so he understands the situation of the prince.

Everyone talked about it all, and they had all kinds of ideas.

Liu Rengui just sneered, and Hao Chujun asked quietly, "Grandpa Liu, do you know how the prince breaks through?"

"I don't know."

In fact, Liu Rengui was also confused. Judging from the tone of the prince's letter, he seemed very confident, but this was not Ming Chongyan's witchcraft, and the prince did not believe that. Moreover, the prince clearly stated that if he could come back, thousands of soldiers would come back together. Otherwise, everyone would not come back together.

This is back with the strength in your hands and the military talent.

What power can there be in his hand? Although thousands of soldiers may be moved by the prince and have strong combat power, they will eventually be thousands of people. Besides, when it comes to military talent, Pei Xingjian taught him, which may be better than Lun Qinling? I don’t believe it.

Hao Chujun said again: "I'm worried about another thing."

"What's up?"

"If the prince returns safely..."

"Isn't that a good thing?" Suddenly, he stopped talking. If the prince came back safely, his momentum would reach its peak. It would be better for the emperor to voluntarily abdicate. If he did not voluntarily abdicate, his reputation would be above the emperor. How could the father and son deal with it at that time?

After thinking about it, he said, "It's better to come back, not like now..."

As he said that, he looked at Li Xian with disgust.

Li Xian didn't know who was instructing him, the Cui brothers or the queen, but he tore the wound apart. There were many ministers who turned to Li Xian, but it was not easy to ascend the throne. If the queen had to pass this level, she had to have reputation and political achievements. No matter how many notes he had written, he was guilty of killing his brother. This brother was still a prince who was very popular with the people. Don't think of having a good reputation. What political achievements did he have?

Taizong also killed his brothers and even asked Yuchi Jingde to force his father to abdicate and abdicate. However, Li Shimin proposed the army first. Later, Li Shimin personally directed many battles. It can be said that half of Li Tang's foundation was fought by Li Shimin. Therefore, the ministers did not object. If Li Xian did this, he would die as quickly as he would.

It would be better for the prince to come back.

Liu Rengui missed him too.

...

The Qinghai Battle has started again, and it involves troops.

However, the plan has been modified to allow Wu Juji to send troops, not to send troops regardless of consequences, advance steadily, not seeking merits, but seeking no mistakes. It is enough to restrain part of the Tubo army stationed on the eastern foot of Jishishan. The war was mainly started in Qinghai.

Lou Shide and Heichi Changzhi continued to attract Tubo's troops from Momendao and Heixia River. Qi Biming led the main army to rush towards Wansu City, and a series of bloody battles occurred along the way. The Tubo people also had weapons to defend the city, so they took the gunpowder and took them apart to study.

There are so easy to study. There are only three raw materials: grinding them into fine powder, and then using water to form particles. The ingredients can be studied, and the proportions are also a difficult problem for the Tubo people today.

Similarly, there are catapults, Modao, Fuyuan crossbow, and horned crossbow. The Tubo people also wanted to get this technology and had obtained the physical objects many times, but the research has not made any progress so far. However, it gave the Tubo people some ideas and made some improvements to the original catapult.

When it is cold, the effect of bows and arrows is reduced, but the catapult still works.

However, knowing that the prince was about to leave Jishi Mountain, Pei Xingjian was very rational and let Wansu City go, but attacked various small checkpoints along the way, which happened to be covered by the catapult. The Tubo people were not outdone, and it was their weakness to attack and defend the city, so they attacked many times and fought field battles with the Tang army.

However, after attracting the sight of the Tubo people to the south, Pei Xingjian personally led his army out of Shicheng Mountain Road, Xue Ne and others out of Huangbei Road, and the two echoed each other and defeated Tubo's camp on Chiling. He also used some strange troops to leave Changningchuan Road and Daxue Mountain, which was a very hard road. Then he came to the back of Daba Dou Valley and attacked Pei Xingjian's army from north to south. After paying nearly two thousand soldiers' lives, he took down this important level again.

But without stopping, he went out again to attack the Yuwei Army camp, and then set off on the Haibei Road and drove the Tuyuhun people to Hehuang like cattle and sheep. Almost all the people in these thousands of square kilometers were captured, and the cattle, horses and sheep were left behind, either to reward the three armies, or to send them to the inland with the Tuyuhun people.

After hearing this, Nuohubo rushed over to ask for it. Pei Xingjian asked, "Khan, why are our prince of the Tang Dynasty in danger? Lun Qinling used 300,000 troops this time. Don't tell me that these are all Tubo troops. Also, who provided their food and grass?"

Nuohobo said stutteringly: "The prince promised me at the beginning."

"Then you go and talk to the prince."

Nuo Hebo left in shame.

This is also the feeling of Pei Xingjian and Li Wei after many conversations. He could not teach Li Wei's military strategy, so he could not learn it properly, so he had to discuss it while talking. He also talked about some issues, such as the people, the Tang Dynasty was not enough for insufficient land, but the invasion of land was serious, but in fact it was enough. On the contrary, there were not enough people. Now, there were not enough people, once the 340 million people were recruited, they immediately felt pressure. But what if there were 100 million people? The same was true for Tubo. A large-scale battle of hundreds of thousands of troops was conscripted, and the economy would be relieved at least in a few years.

These people are broken up and there is no need to care about their feelings. After decades, they will either survive and merge into one or die. Just die. The fewer people in Tuyuhun, the less troops Tubo can draw and the more difficult the logistics it will get.

This method is also in line with the ideas and concepts of the master and apprentice.

The battle lasted for a long time and lasted until March. The Tang army sacrificed nearly 20,000 soldiers, fighting fiercely. Tubo also paid the price of more than 30,000 soldiers. Since last summer, the Qinghai war has almost never stopped, and the soldiers sacrificed on both sides have reached more than 200,000, which has become a veritable meat grinder. But it is precisely because of this tragic that hundreds of thousands of Tubo troops have been firmly involved in Qinghai.

It is equally important, otherwise, the business of Wulu alone would be very dangerous.

...

There were also fierce battles in Chang'an City, but there were no sword lights or blood shadows.

After the New Year banquet, Li Xian asked Zhang Da'an to discuss with Gao Zheng and others.

Gao Zheng said: "Ming Chongyan will kill this man."

I originally thought that it was a wonderful move to lead Ming Chongyan to Chang'an, and he often treated the emperor's illness, so he could hear a lot of news in the palace. I didn't expect this guy to turn against him. This guy didn't carry this head well, and there will be more ministers like Ming Chongyan in the future, with two swords on his face.

Zhang Daan shook his head and said, "It's not appropriate."

“Why?”

"Why do you think the prince didn't want to kill this person back then? Because the emperor's illness is not difficult to kill Ming Chongyan. This matter has not yet subsided. If Ming Chongyan is killed, the emperor will be furious."

"But Ming Chongyan is so hateful."

"You must bear it even if you hate it." In fact, Zhang Da'an also hoped that Ming Chongyan would be born early and reborn early. Now seeing that King Yong had taken over the general trend, many ministers attached themselves to him, the emperor had already expressed dissatisfaction, and there was an unfathomable queen in the palace. At this time, the emperor immediately died of illness, and King Yong would naturally ascend to the throne. The longer the time delayed, the more changes would be. But reason told him that Ming Chongyan could not be killed.

As time passed day by day, several questions raised by Li Xian in the palace finally spread.

Chang'an's discussions increased, which was not important. There was no evidence, but there was a little doubt. Besides, there was also the emperor's self-criticism blocking it. But another piece of news finally made Li Xian unable to sleep or eat. Suddenly, a rumor came out of his palace that he was not born by the queen, but by the wife of Korea. In order to cover up his family, the queen claimed Li Xian. Even whether Li Xian was born by the emperor and the wife of Korea may not be known.

It can be compared. Helan Minzhi, who was born to the Korean lady, wanted to insult the little princess and the princess, and Prince Yong. No matter how the prince treats him, he is a brother, and he must take the eldest brother to death. They are all crazy people.

There is also evidence that people say that dogs do not despise their family poverty, and their children do not despise their mothers, and the prince and their parents also resist it, but they are still very filial. Why did King Yong want to kill his elder brother and his mother? If the queen had a son, would he do such a traitor?

Not only does it morally corrupt Li Xian's reputation, but once this rumor spreads, it is not the emperor's biological son. What qualifications are there to inherit the throne?

When the Seventh People Day came, I thought my eldest son was not dead, and Li Zhi was in good health and held a banquet in the palace. During the banquet, Li Zhi looked at Ming Chongyan and said, "Mingqing, I am seriously ill this time, and I will thank you for your treatment."

"I dare not."

"Come on, I will pass on my edict and grant Ming Chongyan the title of Taichang Temple Chief."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Originally, the matter ended here. According to the tradition of the People's Day, we had to enjoy the snow and cut ribbons, that is, cut flowers, cloth or paper. Li Zhi took his ministers to watch the palace maids cut ribbons. Ming Chongyan walked behind Wu Zetian and said to Wu Zetian: "I know some knowledge of some physiognomy, and I have just watched the faces of the princes and grandchildren."

"Oh, let's hear it."

There was a eunuch named Lu Bo not far away, who was Li Xian's confidant. The two were talking and might not pay attention. They immediately stood down after hearing this sentence.

Ming Chongyan said: "Among the few kings, King Yong is not worthy of use. King Zhou looks like Emperor Taizong, King Xiang and King Lu are the most expensive."

In other words, King Yong cannot be the emperor, so it may be Li Xian, Li Xulun and Li Lu. Of course, the younger the prince is, the better the queen is in power.

Wu Zetian smiled faintly and said, "You should not say this nonsense."

"Here!"

This conversation reached Li Xian's ears and felt more and more wrong. He called Zhang Da'an and several of his confidants to discuss.

Zhang Da'an also frowned, letting this villain make trouble in the middle, the consequences were also very serious. Especially under his treatment, the emperor's condition really improved. Maybe even the emperor could listen to his slander in the end. After thinking for a long time, he said, "Your Highness, you must do it cleanly if you really kill me."

As soon as he spoke, Li Xian's servant broke in and said, "Your Highness, it's not good. Just now in the East City, Ming Chongyan was intercepted by three assassins and stabbed two guards beside him to death. Ming Chongyan was also stabbed. The three assassins saw the yamen runners surrounded and escaped."

Li Xian was stunned and asked, "Did you do it?"

Several confidants shook their heads together.
Chapter completed!