These soldiers are all fierce soldiers in the army, and they are all born with tigers and bears, and although they are only beaten with scabbards, the young Taoist priest did not take a few hits and fell to the ground and died.

The young Taoist priest fell to the ground and died, and the soldiers did not stop, and stepped forward to beat the black-clothed thugs of the young Taoist priest they were holding.

Xue Yuanchao watched from the side, although he also felt that these people deserved to die, he still opened his mouth to persuade: "His Royal Highness King Yan, although these people deserve to die, but since the main culprit has been killed, it is better to hand them over to Dali Temple for interrogation, what the demon said is a big crime that shakes the country's foundation, and it should be known to the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty." ”

Li Xiang heard the first and said loudly to the knight who beat people: "Stop, send them all to Dali Temple to punish crimes." Then he turned to Xue Yuanchao and said, "Thank you Xue Sheren for reminding me." ”

Xue Yuanchao hurriedly replied: "I don't deserve His Royal Highness King Yan to thank you." ”

Several soldiers listened to the order and turned over on their horses, grabbed a few black-clothed thugs by the cat's waist, and beat the horses to Dali Temple.

Li Xiang looked at the eyeballs and rolled his eyes, and then said to Xue Yuanchao: "The old ghost sent a letter saying that the second brother has been in poor health recently, and his father has something important to do and can't leave, so he ordered the king to go back to Chang'an to pick up the second brother to Yandu." ”

"His Royal Highness is not in good health, do you know what the illness is?" Xue Yuanchao was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked.

Li Ju is the legal heir of the Tang Dynasty and the second banner of the princelings.

Li Ju's safety is very important to people like Xue Yuanchao.

Li Xiang shook his head and sighed at Xue Yuan: "I just said that I was a little frightened and had no spirit, so I don't know what's going on." ”

Speaking of which, Li Xiang turned his head to look at the dead body of the young Taoist priest.

Xue Yuanchao looked at the corpse of the young Taoist priest and immediately understood, his eyes were cold, and he gritted his teeth and said, "The Demon Dao dares to bring disaster to the country so far!" ”

The only person who can scare the emperor's grandson Li Ju in Chang'an City is Li Shimin, Li Ju is only eleven years old, and there is no big mistake, and now Li Ju is at fault and Li Shimin's education is wrong.

Li Shimin scared Li Ju out of his troubles, but he was unkind and very wrong.

Li Xiang arched his hand at Xue Yuanchao and said: "If the Xue She people are not in a hurry, they will bother the Xue She people to go to Dali Temple to see how they judge." ”

"Minister, let's go!"

Xue Yuanchao hugged his fist at Li Xiang, and without going forward, he borrowed a war horse from the knight on the side, and went to Dali Temple with high spirits.

Xue Yuanchao came to Chang'an this time to check the accounts of Chang'an Huichang Jinhao, but now that he heard that the country is in trouble, how can he still be in the mood to check the accounts?

Li Xiang saw that Xue Yuanchao was gone, and he didn't get into the car, so he directly got on the horse and raised the horse whip and shouted: "Go with this king to copy the lair of this group of demons." ”

Li Xiang has followed Li Chengqian in Yandu in the past few years, and has been personally disciplined by Li Chengqian and has great respect for Li Chengqian.

The young Taoist priest was arrogant and disrespectful to Li Chengqian, and he absolutely couldn't bear it.

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Since the sixteenth year of Zhenguan, Li Chengqian has traveled to the Tang Dynasty for more than seven years.

Except for the first two years, Li Chengqian basically spent time in Yandu City, where he presided over the construction of Yandu City and slowly digested the benefits of the Eastern Expedition with the grain that Li Ke brought back from overseas.

In ancient China, even if the war against the north was won, there were often two troubles, one was that no one was willing to move over the defeated Guidi, and the grassland could not be cultivated.

The other is that it is difficult to arrange prisoners, and to keep them in the grassland, the Chinese imperial court institutions cannot manage, which is equivalent to not fighting this battle, and moving to the interior will occupy the living space of the original Chinese.

Of course, we can kill them all, but we are not Americans after all.

However, this time, whether it was the Jin, Khitan, and Xi tribes captured from the steppe, or the captives of Baekje and Goguryeo, Li Chengqian gave them a chance to reform and become a new person.

That is, through the transformation of their labor, the construction of Yandu and various galloping roads for the Tang Dynasty, so that they can also join in the vigorous construction of the Datang foundation.

Of course, a necessary condition for this move is to have food, let people work for you, and have a stutter no matter what.

Now that Li Ke's fleet has completed its round-the-world voyage, the Datang navy is the most powerful navy of this era, and Li Chengqian has built dozens of new large ships to collect grain from various countries in the South Seas, and the food problem has been solved.

The grain brought in from Nanyang was used in the construction of the Eastern Crusade and various projects in various places, and because of the limited grain imports, Li Chengqian had to repeatedly control the speed of destroying Goguryeo. If Goguryeo is destroyed at once, the Tang Dynasty will not have so much food input, and it will be too wasteful to either kill or release the prisoners if they are caught.

According to the previous plan, after the first batch of grain was brought back from Nanyang this summer, Goguryeo would be completely destroyed. And now it is early spring, so Li Chengqian recalled Li Shiji and Su Ding from the front line to Yandu to rest for a while.

The inner and outer walls of Yandu City have been completed, and some of the city's constructions such as academies, library buildings, military camps, yamen, and the north and south cities have also been almost completed, and only the Forbidden City, which was designed and built in the center of the city by Li Chengqian, has only begun to lay the foundation until now.

Li Shiji and Su Dingfang, who were recuperating from the front line, met outside the city, and the two rode their horses into the city and slowed down their horses, while walking to watch the scenery along the way.

Led by soldiers who were familiar with the roads of Yandu City, they walked through the Forbidden City under construction, and walked one mile west before turning into the Sanhaiyuan on the west side of the Forbidden City.

Li Shiji couldn't help but sigh with emotion as he walked: "This Yandu City is an important town in the northeast controlled by my Tang Dynasty, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has built this place in a square and majestic manner, which can suppress all directions." ”

Su Dingfang nodded after hearing this and said, "It is indeed a magnificent atmosphere. ”

Su Dingfang said this in his mouth, but he was a little worried in his heart, such a male capital is two thousand miles away from Chang'an City (out of Tongguan and through the Sui and Tang Canals), which is really not a good thing. You can't have every crown prince come here to guard it!

If the crown prince is too young or there is no crown prince yet, who can rest assured that the court will be guarding this place?

Such a large city was definitely an imperial city in ancient times, and it was surrounded by mountains and rivers, gathering the luck of the emperor, and there would be chaos if there was no suitable person to guard it.

Imagine that if there was such a Yandu City during An Lushan's rebellion in history, he would not have to go to Chang'an.

Li Shiji and Su Dingfang entered Sanhai Garden, and the attendants led the two to the Zichen Hall on the small island in the water to see Li Chengqian.

As soon as the two of them walked onto the Jiuqu White Jade Bridge, they saw Li Chengqian, dressed in a purple robe, standing on the bridge and looking southeast.

The two walked up to the front and bowed together, "Minister Li Shiji (Su Dingfang) See His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Unlike any previous summoning of them, Li Chengqian did not cordially help them to calm them down, nor did he give them seats, let alone warm praise and warm words of comfort.

Li Chengqian looked at the southeast direction without even turning his head, and after a while, he said in a quiet tone: "The Lonely King hasn't returned to Chang'an City for a long time!" ”

The two of them were shocked when they heard this, and hurriedly knelt down on one knee to plead guilty: "The ministers are incompetent, they didn't destroy Goguryeo as soon as possible, and let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince return to Chang'an City." ”

Li Chengqian turned his head to look at Li Shiji and Su Dingfang, who were in the dust, kneeling on one knee, knowing that both of them should understand, so he motioned to the chamberlain to help them up.

Li Chengqian looked at the two of them and barely showed a smile on his face and said, "It's not the fault of the two Qing families. ”

Speaking of this, he sighed and said: "The lonely king heard that the lonely king was not in good health, and he was worried about it, and then he thought that the lonely king had not returned to Chang'an City for several years, and His Majesty must have been very worried, and His Majesty was not ...... by his old age. ”

Li Cheng's nagging and talking were all short words from parents, but Li Shi and Su Dingke didn't dare to listen to them as parents, and the two of them guessed in their hearts that something must have happened in Chang'an City.

Li Shiji hurriedly bowed down and said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is filial piety and kindness, but the ministers are incompetent, and they cannot destroy Goryeo as soon as possible, so that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can return to Chang'an as soon as possible to fulfill his filial piety in front of His Majesty." ”

Li Chengqian listened to Li Shiji's useless words, so he raised his hand to stop his words and said: "Five years of Pingliao is the strategy set by the Lone King, and it is also the Lone King who personally sits in Yandu City to supervise the war, how can he complain about the two Qing families."

The year before last, he destroyed the grassland tribes, last year he destroyed Baekje, and last month Xue Rengui destroyed Buyeo City, this year the lonely king should be able to return to Chang'an, right?"

Historically, the Tang Dynasty fought to destroy Goguryeo for decades, and now because Li Chengqian used gunpowder and hot air balloons, the time to destroy Goguryeo was greatly shortened.

It only took three or four years to sweep away all the tribal states around Goguryeo.

This time, Li Shiji didn't pretend to be a grandson, and said directly: "The minister guarantees that he will destroy Goguryeo this autumn." ”

Li Chengqian looked at Su Dingfang again.

"The minister also guarantees the head of the item!"

Li Chengqian listened to what the two of them said categorically, and couldn't help but look uplifted, and said loudly: "Okay! King Gu has already issued an order to mobilize grain, grass, and military supplies from Luoyang, and it will be sent to Yandu within five days. The two rested in Yandu for a few days, and as soon as the grain and grass arrived, they immediately escorted the grain and grass to the front line, preparing to destroy Goguryeo in a war. ”

"Obey the order!"

Because Li Chengqian first hinted that something might have happened to Chang'an City, Li Shiji and Su Dingfang did not dare to put forward any opinions on Li Chengqian's plan to change the destruction of Goguryeo.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is now about to join the Yalu River in the Tang Dynasty, and the destruction of Goguryeo is already like a bag to get something, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should focus on the overall situation of Chang'an, and set off to return to Chang'an as soon as possible to fulfill his filial piety."

Su Dingfang looked at Li Shiji with a calm expression, and solemnly made a suggestion to Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian did hear that Li Shimin was becoming more and more unkind under the bewitchment of a group of demons, but he didn't take it seriously in his heart.

Li Shimin Xiudao pushed all the government affairs of the imperial court to him, and let him control most of the imperial court in Yiyan Capital, and Li Chengqian never thought that anything would happen to Chang'an.

It was only recently that he heard that Li Ju's health was always bad, and there was a problem with the deposit of the Huichang Gold in Chang'an, so Li Chengqian thought about returning to Chang'an as soon as possible.

Just now, Li Chengqian made it look like he was going back to Chang'an immediately, just because he suddenly changed his original plan to start attacking in the summer, and he was afraid that these two would have opinions about him.

When Li Chengqian was about to perfunctory Su Dingfang, he saw Liu Kui's face pale, hurriedly walked to Li Chengqian's side, and shouted in a low voice: "His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

Li Shiji saw that Liu Kui had something to do, so he bowed down and said, "Since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has decided on the plan-"

Li Chengqian has always wanted to subdue Li Shiji, and when he saw this, he waved his hand and said: "The two Qing family are not outsiders, just say anything directly." ”

"Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, news came from Chang'an City that His Majesty beat His Royal Highness King Yan for thirty boards, stripped the prince and locked him in the Zongren Mansion. In order to intercede for His Royal Highness King Yan, His Royal Highness Taisun knelt outside the Xianchi Hall for a day and a night, His Majesty was gone, and His Royal Highness the Taisun finally fainted in the ...... of the Xianchi Palace. ”