"The general is angry, there are many officials who ask for money along the way, and the foreign envoys are also overwhelmed, so they think that they are all greedy for money along the way, and now I know that the general is high-minded, and he has abruptly attacked the general, please forgive me, don't blame!"

Obviously, middle-aged people not only speak fluent Chinese, but also know a lot about the customs of the Tang Dynasty, and even the sycophants are very clever!

Chen Changjie had a cold face and watched the guy in front of him who claimed to be the Tocharian messenger perform to his heart's content. He has read countless people, and from the first time he saw this person, he had a premonition that this person was by no means a good type.

However, there is no reason to arrest all these people until they are caught.

After all, they held the credentials of the Tocharian kings, and they also had palindromes issued by the imperial court, all of which were correctly numbered. Even if it is fake, it may not be able to be so true and so impeccable.

"Thieves have been rampant outside the city recently, so you might as well come with me to rest in the city. This is not a place to stay for a long time, after a few days of rest, I will send my own soldiers to escort you back to Chang'an!"

Chen Changjie's attitude was so resolute, where did the middle-aged man dare to oppose it in person, so he had to deal with it:

"Then there will be General Law!"

In the middle-aged man's plan, there was no such thing as entering Shancheng, but the Tang Dynasty generals stationed in Shancheng were obviously cunning people, and they were politely invited into the city, nominally for their safety, but in fact they were monitored nearby.

The entourage who followed the middle-aged man was so frightened that their faces changed greatly, after all, they were weak-hearted, and after entering the city, they became fish on the chopping board, and they were slaughtered.

However, the current situation is like an arrow on the string has to be fired, and they can't be allowed to say no, the generals of the Tang Dynasty are hundreds of horsemen behind them, everyone has bows and crossbows in their hands, as long as they have a slight abnormal performance, a rain of arrows will fall, I am afraid they will have to die cleanly.

Chen Changjie still maintained the most basic courtesy to middle-aged people on the surface, although the residence was much smaller than the mansion in Chang'an, but the wine and meat were enough. This gave the group of people who ate and slept along the way a chance to have a good meal.

Eating wine and drinking meat, Chen Changjie only showed one side and left with busy military affairs.

When they were the only ones left in the room, the slender man whispered in the middle-aged man's ear:

"It's better to kill the Tang Dynasty guards at night, rob the war horses and food, and just ......"

"No way!"

Before he could finish speaking, Jiao Xu's words were interrupted, and the middle-aged man rejected his suggestion.

"Since the Tang people dare to let us enter Shancheng, they must be prepared, if they act recklessly, they will only be given the truth to kill!"

When meeting outside the city, he saw the killing machine in Chen Changjie's eyes more than once.

If it weren't for the Tocharian State Book and the reply letter of the Tang Dynasty as talismans, if they were just ordinary merchants, I am afraid they would have been killed by this one long ago.

After all, it is not a big deal to kill a few businessmen in the depths of the Gobi, but if you kill envoys without permission, the problem will be serious.

Therefore, middle-aged people still have a certain degree of confidence in their own safety, as long as they behave normally and are not caught, they will not give Chen Changjie the excuse to kill.

At night, the middle-aged man was lying on the Hu bed, tossing and turning, and suddenly heard the noisy sound of marching outside, and he became nervous.

was about to go out to check the situation, but he heard the voice of Tang Dynasty soldiers outside.

"Please don't panic, the messenger is just a routine martial artist!"

Routine martial arts?

The middle-aged man is very strange, the Tang army in Shancheng is full of weirdness, and he can't even spend the night in peace.

The commander made the tooth tent, the lights inside and outside were bright, and looking at the soldiers who came to report, Chen Changjie asked:

"How are they doing? Have they ever panicked?"

"It doesn't look like a panic, it's all calm and quiet, just ask the last general for a word or two, and then go back to sleep!"

It doesn't seem to be abnormal, but in Chen Changjie's opinion, it is abnormal.

Generally speaking, when encountering such a situation, ordinary people will be nervous to death, and as an envoy is also a human being, he will definitely seek refuge in accordance with the usual practice and ask for troops to be sent for protection. And these people were too calm, and they didn't ask for protection, and all kinds of abnormal behaviors confirmed Chen Changjie's previous speculation.

"General, it's better to slaughter things one by one, anyway, in this vast Gobi, even if the messenger dies, it's not very strange!"

Chen Changjie waved his hand and rejected the suggestion of his subordinates.

"No! As far as this general knows, Tocharian and the Great Cannibal have a grudge to destroy the country, once they send an envoy to our Heavenly Empire, they will definitely not only make a pilgrimage to my Tang Emperor, but also seek help and take revenge on the Great Cannibal! Now the Great Cannibal is also encroaching on the land of my Tang Dynasty, and it is naturally beneficial for me to form an alliance with Tocharian. If these people are really the messengers of Tochar, wouldn't it be bad for the state to kill them?"

He thought long-term, beyond the scope of the commander's consideration, and all the generals agreed with his idea, but there were also complaints.

"It's not to kill, it's not to kill, it's better to send it back to Chang'an, and let the ministers of Chang'an be upset!"

One of the generals had the support of the majority, demanding that the strange-looking Tocharian envoys be sent back to Chang'an.

Chen Changjie thought about it for a while and felt that it was the only way to go. These people are really Tocharian envoys, if not, then they must be spies, let them cross the Qilian Mountain, they will inform Hu Kou of the truth and reality of Longyou and even Guanzhong, so wouldn't they indirectly help the enemy?

This must not happen!

Therefore, Chen Changjie immediately decided to send 300 foot cavalry to escort the envoy team of more than 30 people back to Chang'an. As for the authenticity of these people's identities, it is up to the ministers of Chang'an to distinguish.

The middle-aged people were soon informed that they were about to be escorted back to Chang'an. For this, the middle-aged people made a strong protest, but the protest was ineffective. Not only was the protest ineffective, but even the more than 30 of them were forcibly divided into two groups and will return to Chang'an in batches.

The scorched bearded thin man secretly discussed with the middle-aged man:

"If you don't do it again, once you let the Tang people succeed, it will be extremely difficult to get out again?"

The middle-aged man glared at the scorched thin man, stretched out his finger and put it between his lips, made a silent motion, and leaned outside the room, signaling that the partition wall had ears.

After a day and a night of observation, the middle-aged man was convinced, and figured out the situation inside and outside, the Tang Dynasty really sent a lot of people to monitor them, from the guards in charge of the guards, the servants who burned the fire, all the time pricked up their ears, presumably their words and deeds would soon be transmitted to Chen Changjie's ears.

The scorched thin man still spoke unscrupulously in this situation, he simply thought that his life was long!

The middle-aged man thought of the reckless behavior made by Jiao Xu Slender Man when he was in Chang'an, and his efforts were all wasted because of this, and he had to leave Chang'an, which he had worked hard for several years.

Every time he thought of this, his heart was filled with resentment, and he had to suppress the thought of killing this scorched thin man from time to time.

The reason why Chen Changjie divided them into two batches and "escorted" them back to Chang'an was to prevent them from making trouble in groups, and their ability to make trouble would also be reduced if they were divided into groups of more than 30 people.

The middle-aged man, as the first batch of envoys to be "escorted" back, had to embark on the return road back to Chang'an three days later.

What made the middle-aged man grit his teeth was that before leaving, the cunning Tang Dynasty general actually requisitioned more than 50 good horses they brought in the name of lack of horses, and left him with only a note stamped with the commander's seal, so that he could ask the envoy of Longyou Jiedu for money after returning to Chang'an.

More than 50 war horses were replaced with five horses, which were used to carry food, water and other supplies.

Without the war horses, it was almost impossible to escape from the pursuit of the escort Tang soldiers, which fundamentally cut off the possibility of them escaping halfway. Of course, he also had the idea of killing more than 100 Tang soldiers with a dozen people, but what are the odds of winning?

You must know that the other party is a border army stationed in Longyou and Tubo that has been fighting all year round, and which soldier has never had blood on his hands? He is still self-aware, and his own people can bully and bully past merchants, and they have almost no chance of winning against the Tang Dynasty soldiers who have been in a hundred battles, not to mention the huge difference in numbers between the two sides. Without any of these advantages, there is no difference between a rash attack and suicide!

After sending away the Tocharian envoys who had been divided into two batches, Chen Changjie finally breathed a sigh of relief. But he didn't forget to send the matter to the political hall and hand it over to the Fifth Qi of the envoy of the Longyou Jiedu Commander.

Ten days later, the Fifth Qi received this military report with strange contents, and the so-called Tocharian envoy Yunyun was completely empty. In order to verify whether there was any negligence or omission in this matter, he specially handed over the general report to Qin Jin.

Of course, Qin Jin had no impression of this Tocharian envoy, because the Tang Dynasty had never received the so-called Tocharian envoy at all. So, where did these so-called Tocharian messengers come from?

The delivery of the military newspaper was at least two to three times faster than the usual rush, that is, the so-called Tocharian envoys could not return to Chang'an under "escort" for half a month at the earliest.

"Aren't these so-called envoys related to the action of cleaning up the registered population in the city a few days ago?"

Previously, in order to sweep away the spies, the Fifth Qi had carried out a large-scale cleanup and arrest in the city, and many people who were not registered in the Jingzhao Prefecture register were all taken into custody and sent to the coolie camp.

Many officials and officials were also implicated in this and went to prison one after another, even harming the children of the clansmen!

The underground intelligence network of unknown forces has been dealt a heavy blow, and these so-called Tocharian envoys have inexplicably appeared in Shancheng and intend to cross the Qilian Mountains, so they have to be linked to the previous clean-up spies.

"This Chen Changjie is a person with a strong brain, he didn't slaughter them with a knife, it seems that he is still a little wronged to be a little commander!"

Fifth Qi was very satisfied with Chen Changjie's performance and intended to promote this person!