Chapter 440: Clear tears are like water (2)

With Zhou Xing's "high level", when it comes to Qinling, he can get confessions truthfully. In just a moment, the confessions were brought out, and the high efficiency made Wu Zetian very shocked.

Then he opened the confession and saw that he was so angry that he almost jumped. This group of idiots dared to tell a person of unknown origin that the future strategy formulated by the eldest son of the Tubo was dared to tell a person of unknown origin. He wanted to show this confession to her husband immediately and flow all the goods to the South China Sea islands and to Jiaozhi, which was polite to them.

He endured it and said, "Zhou Qing, what happened today cannot be revealed to anyone. If I heard a little bit of the wind, how did you interrogate these prisoners just now, I will add it to you and your whole family."

Come in advance and ask you to get into the trap.

Zhou Xing's face changed and he said, "Yes."

But this guy is very smart. He has already boarded the prince's big ship. It seems that the quality of this ship is pretty good, so why change the ship? So he found Di Renjie and said obscurely: "The origin of the Hu staff member, King Yong, is unknown."

"Why?" I still didn't remember that the Han people had the ability, but the Hu people had no ability? Look at Hei Ya Changzhi, Li Jinxing and others did a good job in Qinghai.

"The queen doesn't let her say it," she pointed out and left in a hurry.

Di Renjie began to think hard, but ordinary people still couldn't guess it, but Di Renjie was also very good. With Zhou Xing's prompt, he gradually came up with it. He had to write a letter to the prince immediately, and you can stop talking. The spies from Qinling attacked King Yong and became the closest confidant. There are still many things to ask clearly, where did that girl Dangxiang come from, and what did she say to the queen of heaven to reconcile?

You have to know the trends, otherwise how to arrange them?

This incident was going on silently, and only a few people knew about it.

Duan Fuqing also woke up there. He didn't expect that his three accomplices would be arrested. A queen would always keep her trustworthy when speaking. But he thought that this demon queen was really bored and was playing with herself as a little rat?

Looking at Li Xian with a worried look on his face, he said, "You should invite Mr. Zhang and others immediately, I have something to say."

Thinking that he had thought of something clever again, he immediately sent someone to invite Zhang Da'an, Gao Zheng and the others to come. When everyone arrived, Duan Fuqing said, "The Queen of Heaven called me into the palace, and I already knew it was my idea."

Everyone was quiet and looked sad. This queen was reacting too quickly, right?

He also said: "Everyone, don't worry, it was my mistake. I wanted to make Your Highness look up, and I did it too urgently, so the Queen of Heaven suspected that she found me. The situation has changed, but the current strategy is to completely withdraw. Your Highness, have you finished writing and annotating your book?"

Li Xian nodded and had already finished it. How long has it been? But he deliberately suppressed the manuscript in his hand and could not be put down. Once he was put down, how can he meet with all his confidants?

"That's right, present it to the Emperor tomorrow, and then really leave the guests behind closed doors. Mr. Zhang, don't argue in the court, just watch the opportunity."

"Mr. Li, why?"

"The Queen of Heaven already knows that if there is any action, the Queen of Heaven will inevitably be angry. And if I am not wrong, the Prince must have made some transactions with the Queen of Heaven. Now the Queen of Heaven is not afraid of being in power. If you advance, you can take power and retreat. Don't believe it, you can take a look in two days to see if Di Renjie will impeach Wu Chengsi again. I promise not!"

"What should I do?" Li Xian asked anxiously.

The bronze fairy who treated Mr. Li as a life-saving person did not expect that it was just a straw and it had no effect in his hands. He was very anxious.

"Your Highness, don't worry, and listen to me. When your Highness retreats, the Emperor really doesn't know. This retreat will be completely retreated, but the Emperor still needs someone to restrain the prince and balance the court. The Queen of Heaven and the Prince again come together. How can the Emperor think? Is it impossible to abdicate immediately? Is it impossible! Then it will only force the Queen of Heaven and the Prince to break up, and then your Highness's chance will come. The Queen of Heaven is unwilling, and His Majesty can only establish a party by himself, and is sick, and his impression of His Majesty changes, and the opportunity comes again."

It seems to make sense, and they are silent.

But the queen was too powerful. Even the awesome Hu man in front of him began to be cowardly. He was even more self-confident and was not the opponent. He expressed his consent in silence.

In fact, Duan Fuqing had his own ideas. This queen was too evil and was not an opponent. Besides, her identity was leaked. It would be inevitable that the prince ascended the throne. But why did the queen keep herself and give some bad ideas? She realized that her ideas were just bad ideas in Wu Zetian's eyes and had progress, and these bad ideas happened to become the shield of the demon queen.

It’s better to retreat. No matter how you retreat, King Yong can’t think about it!

But once you retreat, *** and the Queen Party must fight, and there will be conflicts. Even if the prince ascends the throne in the future, one will hold real power, still have a wise empress dowager, and the other will hold real power, not weak, and there will be a new emperor with great righteousness. It is good for internal struggle, and only internal struggles will the Tang Dynasty not focus on the outside. This is its last loyalty to the great treatise.

The idea was good, but he neglected that they did not have internal fighting in Tubo? This fighting was even more fierce!

He left in depression. After a few days, Li Xian saw that Di Renjie did not impeach Wu Chengsi again. Without hope, he submitted the revised "Notes on Books of the Later Han". Li Zhi was very surprised. He did not compile the books and did not supervise the country, so he could not interact with powerful officials. Could this Xiaoliu really repent?

I didn't speak for most of the day.

Li Xian bowed and took his leave, accepted Duan Fuqing's kindness, and went to Mangshan to relax.

After walking around the mountain, Duan Fuqing said, "Your Highness, I will go to the toilet."

He carried his pants and ran to the dense forest, then looked around, fled and ran away. He really stayed in Luoyang and waited for death?

After running for less than two hundred steps, the two big men flashed out of nowhere, intercepted him from left and right, and said, "Duan Fuqing, the queen of heaven told you to stay by the side of King Yong, didn't you hear it?"

How do you know my name? Duan Fuqing became stupid.

"The method is very simple. We will capture you, a Tubo spy, then boil it with glue and stick it to your skin. When it gets cold, tear off the skin piece by piece. Then raise it and tear it down after scars."

"This kid is cheap, but it's my way. He uses iron wire meat to fill his meat, cut it with a knife, and then doesn't give him anything to eat, so that he can't eat his own meat and drink his own blood."

Stop talking, I returned to Li Xian obediently and didn't dare to leave at all.

Li Zhi didn't know that August came and received a good news and two bad news.

A good news, Li Wei sent it inadvertently obtained more than 11,000 prisoners of war from previous ones. The main sacrifices of this battle were Dangxiang people. The Tang army was not very sacrificed, so the Qinghai army reached more than 90,000. In addition, the 10,000 troops sent to Songzhou by the court, and the original thousands of soldiers from Songmao and the two states of Songmao were close to 110,000. If the Dangxiang people were urgently transferred, they could also call out 50,000 or 60,000 to participate in the war. In August, the castles were built, and several clearances were launched against the Qiang people and Tuyuhun people to shock them. There was no need for such an army. The original army in Songzhou could be retained, but Qinghai could lay off 40,000 troops.

How to decide the law, please make clear decisions. There are Central Plains soldiers, Tielet soldiers and other Hu soldiers, and see how the court chooses.

But there was also bad news, which no one expected. Since Liu Rengui's battle, he has been very obedient now. It turned out that he sent an envoy without a compass, so he used the ocean current to stop at Baekje and then to the Central Plains. However, when the court retreated, all the lands of Baekje were in Silla. The Japanese envoys came and were killed by Silla in Baekje. Only a small half of them escaped. They hurried onto the ship and came to the Tang Dynasty to complain about their grievances.

To put it loosely, Japan now also belongs to the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and constantly pays tribute to the Tang Dynasty and surrenders. So later, the Japanese drew maps, gave up their territory, and marked them as Tang Dynasty. These ***s actually became more and more eager and had a good face.

Li Zhi was furious and immediately summoned the prime ministers. He was so angry that he slapped the table. Just so happened that a large amount of gold, silver and treasures from Qinghai were presented, and the autumn harvest was coming soon. The Qinghai war seemed to be stopped for a while, and there were few troops and food, so the burden would be less. There were also 40,000 troops retreated from Qinghai. There were soldiers and food, and they would fight!

Dai Zhide and others looked at each other and thought, "It's okay to fight, but you have to stop. You can't fight for a long time. What if you encounter a major disaster, the treasury has no goods at all and Tubo is in trouble again?"

But seeing Li Zhi's angry look, he didn't dare to say anything.

Before the matter was over, Li Wei received the news first in Qinghai, and then went to the court. Li Zhefu colluded with the Western Turkic nobles to attack the Anxi Protectorate. A slut came with a slut, and another slut came. Li Zhi actually made these clowns angry.

Wu Zetian had no choice but to send someone to come from Chang'an and summon Ming Chongyan to Luoyang. Then he comforted him: "The affairs of the Western Regions are a confusing debt. Your Majesty, don't worry about it."

It's very confused. Even descendants, not professionals, cannot understand.

The Tang Dynasty started to operate the Western Regions from the fourth year of Zhenguan. It was the northern Turks, established Xiyizhou, and Pingchang in six years. In the 18th year, it was against Yanqi, and in the 22nd year of Pingqi, it was not until Li Zhi that he was in the hands of Helu that he officially established the Kucha Protectorate, so that Anxi was the Xizhou Protectorate. This was the forbidden property of the Tang Dynasty. Later, it was also established such a protective palace as Kunling and Mengchi. When Persia surrendered, it almost reached the Persian Gulf, but it was already out of reach, exceeding the scope of military deployment. In the fourth year of Xianqing, Khan, Xingxi, Ashinamishe, who returned to the Tang Dynasty, defeated the Turchar Zhenzhu Yehu and killed it in Shuanghe. The imperial edict was to establish the prefectures and county governments with Shi, Mi, Shi, Da'an, Xiao'an, Cao, Bahanna, Quda, Shule, Zhu Juban and other countries. In this year, the four towns of Kucha, Khotan, Yanqi, and Shule Anxi were truly formed.

What the Tang Dynasty wanted was its sphere of influence. It would be a small amount of taxes and some tributes to this area, and then the Tang Dynasty's laws were enforced, and no plundering each other. The next was preferential activities, and the governors were set up in the prefectures and prefectures, and the governors were all hereditary leaders. The territory was not rigid, and living habits and customs were allowed to be retained. The people's ministries managed their own management. In order to alleviate local pressure, there were very few troops. Only when needed, they asked the court and sent large troops to deal with it.

This policy was very successful at first, but it was coveted by the Tubo people.

Lu Dongzan ran back and forth several times and saw Li Shimin using various ethnic groups to fight for power. He even thought that Tubo was a good citizen and asked them to send troops to assist in the conquest of the Western Regions. There were not many soldiers, so Tubo could see the prosperity of the Western Regions. The Tang Dynasty had few troops, and the Gar and his son were greedy.

In fact, before this, Tubo began to make some small moves, first trying to win over Zhu Jubo, a small country, but its geographical location was very heavy, and it just stuck Kunlun Mountain, and it also trained Shule and Shuhan, the famous general of the Tang Dynasty, Geshuqueqijin, the two surnames of the ten Turkic surnames, Geshuqueqijin, were very close to Ban Qijin. Under Zhu Jubo's win, Shule saw that Tubo conquered Yang, was just separated by a snow mountain, and was also ambiguous. But the Tang people did not know. In September of the fourth year of Xianqing, Ashina Helu's general Ashigeqijin Duman was dissatisfied with Yutian's pro-Tang, Shule, Zhu Jubo, and Pantuo, and defeated Yutian, and was quickly pacified by Su Dingfang. In fact, at this time, Tubo had already begun to play a disgraceful role, and the Tang people did not know!

In the second year of Longshuo, the Gongyue tribe formed Tubo in the south, rushed Yemeng north, attacked Shule again, and surrendered to Yutian. In the third year of Longshuo, Gao Xian, the Anxi governor, was appointed as the general manager of the army, and attacked Gongyue to save Yutian. In the second year of Linde, Shule, who surrendered to Tubo, led Tubo to invade Yutian, and ordered Cui Zhibian, the governor of Xizhou, and Cao Jishu, the general of the left military guard, to rescue Yutian again. At this time, it was still a stalemate. In the first year of Xianheng, it was officially entered and forced Yutian to surrender, and then wrapped Shule again. Yutian conquered Kucha. Yanqi was near Qiemo City in Tuyuhun, and it was even more lost. All four towns were abolished!

But I soon became unhappy. I was so poor that I had to strip my clothes naked. How could I be happy under the rule of the Tang Dynasty? So many tribes resisted.

In the first year of Shangyuan, Xiao Siye sent troops to Khotan. Before the troops arrived, King Fuzhexiong of Khotan entered the Tang Dynasty and saw him. He used Yuchi Fuzhexiong as the governor of Visha and divided his territory into ten states. Then the two divisions of Gong Shule surrendered. In fact, Tubo was leveraging the force to fight. It was too far away and the troops were not deployed much. It was uncontrollable all at once, and Khotan even drove the Tubo soldiers out directly. Seeing this, King Bai Suji of Kucha sent horses and Yin Poluo, and asked to surrender. The horse Li Wei stepped down was sent by Bai Suji. There was no town for the time being, but most of the four towns in Guanxi could return.

He rebelled inexplicably and surrendered inexplicably. Therefore, Wu Zetian said that this was a confusing account, so don't take it seriously.

But we must also take it seriously. Once Li Zhafu captured the Anxi Protectorate, the Western Regions would be decayed again. Li Zhi thought about it and issued an edict, immediately asking Wang Fangyi to go to the Anxi Protectorate first to stabilize the situation. As for Suzhou, he was not relieved. Tubo in the south would fight back at any time, Turks in the north and west, and there were many Hu people in the local area, so he couldn't tell whether they were loyal. Therefore, he issued an order for the first time to let Guo Yuanzhen be the chief minister of Suzhou. He was the top scholar and fought such a war again.

Guo Yuanzhen's good deeds came to an end. He was only in his twenties and was promoted to Suzhou Chief Secretary! After the edict was issued to him, he did not believe it for most of the day.

Li Zhi still has some intentions, but he has used the right person.

But he felt a sense of anger in his heart, and his condition became worse and worse. Ming Chong went to Luoyang. He prescribed a medicine for Li Zhi, pretended to behave and used some witchcraft. Wu Zetian called him over and said, "Mingqing, please trouble you."

"I dare not."

"Well, I heard about you in Xijing and I like it very much."

"As long as the queen likes it, I will be confused."

"Don't pretend to be pitiful. I have known this palace and I have learned it. I have learned it even if I have done it. Let's go back."

"yes."

But a few days later, Wu Zetian fell ill. In August, the weather was cold and hot. When Li Zhi fell, she became more government affairs, and she had to serve Li Zhi, and she caught a cold. She was a person, and she would always get sick. When Ming Chongyan heard that, he finally had an idea in his heart and said, "Queen Tian, ​​let me dare to squeeze the blood in your hands for you, which will help the cold."

Wu Zetian didn't remember that the patient was not hiding the doctor, so he stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "Mingqing, do you still know how to massage?"

"Something a little bit."

After pressing well, his courage became stronger and he said, "The Queen of Heaven's condition is not due to cold wind and cold, but also fatigue."

"What should I do? You can't be tired," Wu Zetian said with his eyes closed.

"Let me decoct a medicine for the queen of heaven," he said, and finally took out the balls. He didn't have a bad impression of himself and didn't believe what else could the emperor's body do. After the queen took the medicine, she would do some magic and drive the servant away, and good things would happen.

How long have you waited for this moment?

Wu Zetian still didn't expect that he was so bold. Seeing him decocting medicine, well, this minister is pretty good. The medicine was ready and was about to drink it, Li Zhi walked in with a smile. Ming Chongyan had been cured for several days and had recovered a lot. Believe in this evil, as long as the medicine Ming Chongyan gave him, even if it was arsenic, he would recover.

He asked, "What are Mingqing doing here?"

"The Queen of Heaven suffered from wind and cold. I will boil some medicine for the Queen of Heaven." I thought to myself that it was a bit bad. The Queen could not drink this medicine at the moment, and her mind quickly turned. But I heard Li Zhi say, "Oh, I have also suffered from wind and cold these days."

"Then your majesty, let's drink it. The medicine soup is just cold," Wu Zetian brought the medicine bowl to Li Zhi's hand with concern.

Can't drink it?

Ming Chongyan couldn't think of emergency tricks, so Li Zhi drank it in one breath. Ming Chongyan cried in his heart!
Chapter completed!