The poisoning of the prince's mansion at the night banquet of the king of Qin was finally ended because of the safety of the king of Qin, under the protection of the prince and the concession of the king of Qin, at least this matter came to an end on the surface, and after the Tang Emperor Li Yuan learned about this incident, he only thought that Li Shimin had a bad stomach, so he not only specially allowed him to recuperate for a period of time, but also specially sent a lot of expensive tonic medicine to replenish Li Shimin's vitality. And then. It was Li Shimin and Shi Qingyi who looked at the things that His Majesty had specially sent, and smiled bitterly together.

Is it true that Tang Emperor Li Yuan indulged in pleasure after sitting in the position of emperor, and did not listen to the correct voice outside the palace walls at all? On the contrary, Li Yuan's wisdom should not be underestimated, but even so, in the matter of King Qin's poisoning, what can Li Yuan do, the palms and backs of his hands are full of meat, not to mention that the two sons have already started a family, and it is naturally not convenient for him to interfere too much as a father, therefore, since King Qin did not suffer any harm because of this, and did not take the opportunity to stir up trouble afterwards, Li Yuan naturally pretended to be deaf and dumb. Then in order to compensate his second son, Li Yuan also deliberately found an excuse to send some royal things that could only be used in the palace.

Shi Qingyi and Li Shimin understand that this one thing can only be like this, but this is good, Li Shimin can also recuperate at home with peace of mind, and it is also a coincidence, because since the beginning of the year, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has returned to the division after the crusade against Liu Heimin, and it is extremely rare that there has been no major war in the frontier of the Tang Dynasty and the newly conquered territory, and the foundation of Wang Shichong in Henan has already been uprooted by Li Shimin's army during the Battle of Luoyang, and Hebei After Liu Heimin was killed, It also lost the will to continue to resist the Tang army, as for the Turks. In the spring steppe, when the grass grows and the warbler flies, the herdsmen are busy occupying more fertile pastures with their cattle and sheep, so naturally there is no time to respond to the call of the Turkic khans to invade, although there are still some small predatory tribes who will go south from time to time to plunder. However, their scale is very small, and the strength of the border defenders is enough to deal with it easily, and in this way, in such a rare period of time without war, Li Shimin enjoyed a peaceful and reassuring time! Until, a team of envoys from the Western Turks was about to arrive in Chang'an.

You must know that the Turks were originally just a small slave tribe under the rule of the powerful Rouran Empire in the steppe, but when Rouran began to weaken, the Turks quickly became stronger. It replaced the original rule of Rouran, and was more powerful than Rouran, and because the land of China was divided at that time, neither the Northern Zhou, the Northern Qi nor the Chen Dynasty in the south could compete with the Turks, so the rulers in the north had to submit to the Turks in order to avoid the Turkic attack. And then co-opt the Turks against their opponents.

This situation did not change until the establishment of the previous dynasty, and Yang Jian, the emperor of the previous dynasty, was a very accomplished emperor. Therefore, since the Sui Dynasty unified the whole country and gradually became stronger, Yang Jian began to gradually unfold a plan to weaken the Turkic Empire, which included various strategies such as wooing, dividing, sowing discord and even directly sending troops to eliminate various hostile forces hostile to the Sui Dynasty, and in the end, after disdainful efforts. A few decades later, the Turkic Empire finally succeeded in splitting into two parts, the Eastern Turks and the Western Turks, and they were hostile to each other, attacking each other, and the strength of the Turks plummeted. It is no longer as strong as it once was.

Compared with the Eastern Turks occupying the steppe and remotely controlling the eastern tribes of the steppe, the Western Turks, who only occupy the Western Regions, are far inferior in both military and economic terms, and therefore, under the attack of the Eastern Turks, the Western Turks have long been at a disadvantage, if it were not for the unity of the subjects, and most of the previous lords were not mediocre, I am afraid that they had already been destroyed by the Eastern Turks, but even so, the situation of the Western Turks was still not good, and therefore, when the royal court of the Western Turks noticed the Central Plains in the south, When a unified dynasty was re-established, they sent their own envoys to make an alliance with the Tang Dynasty to jointly deal with their enemies, the Eastern Turks.

In the face of the visit of the envoys of the Western Turks, the court showed great enthusiasm, and it was also, after all, the Eastern Turks had been blackmailing the Tang Dynasty over the years, and the act of entering and looting had already made the Tang Dynasty extremely resentful, and the visit of the Western Turks undoubtedly enabled the Tang Dynasty to get a strong foreign aid, Li Yuan and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were naturally extremely happy, but at the same time, there was another layer of concern in Li Yuan's heart, That is how the Eastern Turks reacted when they learned of the Western Turks' intention to send envoys to sign an agreement with the Tang Dynasty.

After all, although in the long run, the alliance with the Western Turks would be of great benefit to the Tang Dynasty, but if this aroused the anger of all the upper echelons of the Eastern Turks, the Eastern Turks might completely eliminate the various internal contradictions within them within a certain period of time, so as to unite and launch a full-scale attack on the Tang Dynasty, and if this is the case, the losses of the Tang Dynasty during that period of time must be extremely heavy, and that result is of course the last thing Li Yuan wants to see, and therefore, How to maximize the friendship between the Western Turks and the Tang Dynasty without angering the Eastern Turks became a matter that Tang Emperor Li Yuan needed to consider carefully.

At noon, in front of the gate of the Western Turkic envoy station, I saw two young servants walking out and walking towards the bustling downtown area, although this is a Western Regions envoy team, but these two servants are pure Central Plains people, and they do not have half of the physiognomy characteristics of the Western Regions, and in fact, they are not the original members of the envoy group from the Western Regions, but when the envoy enters Middle-earth, a family from China has business dealings with the Western Turks all the year round, and is extremely honest and reliable merchants borrowed helpers, In order to facilitate the people of the mission to be familiar with the customs of the Central Plains, and these two young servants were indeed worthy of the talents deliberately recommended by the merchant, along the way, these two young men were not only well-informed, and could fully meet the requirements of the entire mission for a guide, but also had a sense of humor, and in a very short time they became one with all the members of the mission. Therefore, even if these two young people occasionally desert because of the young people's temperament, as long as there is nothing in the envoy group, most of the members will turn a blind eye and pretend to turn a blind eye.

At this time, it seems that these two people are probably deserting again. I was going to leave the embassy and go to the bustling downtown of Chang'an City to spend a lot of wine, but this time, when they had just left the gate of the mission and had not gone far, a woman's voice came from behind them, calling the two, and they saw their bodies tremble suddenly, and then they immediately regained their calm, and then turned around calmly. Facing the woman who made the voice.

This is a mature woman with the appearance of the Western Regions, I saw the woman stop the two, and then said to them: "Xiao Ning, Xiao Jing, I know that you young people love to play and make trouble, and now that you are in Chang'an, you will not settle down, no matter what, there is nothing in the envoy group that needs you, so let you go out and have a good time." Keep in mind, though, to make sure you get back before dark. Otherwise, if you get involved in any trouble, the envoys will also be involved in trouble! With a strange accent from the Western Regions, the woman said to them, and the two of them naturally agreed in a row, and then under the woman's gaze. As if she couldn't bear the feeling of wanting to indulge next, she quickly walked away, and the woman from the Western Regions looked at their departing backs, and couldn't help but smile and say to herself: "In the end, it's still a young man's heart!" Then the woman turned her mind. Returned to the door of the legations.

However, what the woman from the Western Regions did not expect was that when the two arrived in the downtown area, they did not immediately start to spend their days drinking, but walked into an inconspicuous shop, and when the two walked out of the shop again, although their temperament had not changed much, they were still the kind of people who would not be noticed if they were thrown into the sea of people, however, no one would ever associate them with two servants of status.

At this time, I saw that the slightly younger young man among the two whispered to the older one: "Xiao Zhong, this time we arrived in Chang'an, have you really made up your mind to meet Li Xiuning?" You won't blame me for hiding Li Xiuning's affairs from you in the first place."

I saw that the slightly older man's face showed a painful look that could not be concealed, but even so, in the face of his brother's self-blame at this time, he still pretended to have a smile on his face: "How could it be? In any case, Xiao Ling and I are brothers in life and death in this life, and the reason why Xiao Ling hid it at that time was not precisely because of the predicament we encountered at that time? At that time, the Turkic wolf army was watching from the sidelines, and the little aunt was not known to us as enemies, so Xiao Ling had to make this decision to prevent my mind from being disturbed and unable to make the most correct judgment! Naturally, I don't blame Xiao Ling! ”

These two young people with pseudonyms "Xiao Ning" and "Xiao Jing" are, of course, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, after many unbelievable events, these two people have become the top masters of the young generation in the rivers and lakes at this time, and Kou Zhong's military strategy is extremely strong, and he is recognized as a famous general commander who can compete with Li Shimin in this world, but because of his poor background, when he finally gathered enough strength to gather people to raise trouble, Li Shimin has led the Tang Dynasty army to kill one powerful enemy after another, and the momentum of the Tang Dynasty sweeping the world has long been unstoppable, and therefore, even if Kou Zhong at this time has successfully contacted the Song clan lord who has been separating in the south for decades and his strength cannot be underestimated, the best result he can achieve at this time is only to divide the south of the Yangtze River and confront the north and south of the Tang Dynasty, and it is absolutely impossible to unify the north and the north with the south and seize the world.

Row the river and rule, the south is the king, this sounds beautiful, however, Kou Zhong is a true hero who has the world in his heart, how can he tolerate such a self, not ashamed of not being able to seize the whole world, but because of the division of half of the country and self-establishment as the emperor and complacent, so, if Li Tang's momentum of unifying the world is really unstoppable, he Kou Zhong would rather give up that half of the country than fall into a state of long-term division and confrontation again because of this.

So, when the Tang army once again defeated Liu Heimin with an unstoppable posture, and continued to attack Xu Yuanlang in Shandong, Kou Zhong, who had already realized in his heart that the momentum of the Tang Dynasty's unification of the world was unstoppable, suddenly germinated the idea of reconciling with the Li Tang Dynasty, and when he heard the news of the death of Princess Xiuning from the Tang Dynasty, and Xu Ziling was very guilty of telling him the news about Li Xiuning's death, the idea in Kou Zhong's heart became even stronger. He even came up with the idea that once he reached an agreement with the Li Tang Dynasty, then he would disband the army, and then, he would go to the southern Song valve alone to marry the daughter of the southern Song lord, and from then on be a happy rich man, instead of continuing to play this game of domination with very few chances of victory.

So, after some extremely shocking news provided by the two of them, the fairy concubine Xuan and the master of the Jingnian Zen Temple, the two went to Chang'an in disguise, and by chance, the two of them blended into the envoy team of the Western Turks who went to Chang'an to meet without a trace. (To be continued......)