Chapter 4 Social Rat (Four Above)

"Bold—" Bian Lingcheng's face turned pale with anger, and he roared sharply in front of him. "A mere barbarian, he actually dares to judge my Datang etiquette. It's the Elga head of Xiao Bolu who tied you, what's the matter with me Datang? Besides, you said that you are a messenger, what credentials do you have?! ”

This sentence seems very decent on the surface, but in fact, it is equivalent to admitting the possibility of the other party being an envoy in disguise. When Feng Changqing heard this, he hurriedly spoke, "Lord Bian, the battle has not yet been decided, so there is no need to talk to him." According to Feng's opinion, it is better to lock him up first, and it is not too late to take care of other things in the future! ”

"The two of us have clear responsibilities. Fighting a war is a matter for you to seal the moderation, and our family will not interfere. But in this speech, I look down on Datang, and our family should fight for the merits! Bian Lingcheng didn't give others a chance to interject at all, and with a clear sense of responsibility, he blocked Feng Changqing back.

When little Ali saw this, his heart became more and more happy. Dark Dao thought that he needed to go to Chang'an in order to buy off a few powerful ministers of the Tang Dynasty and bring back the decline. As it is today, I am afraid that I don't have to go that far to make a difference. Therefore, he smiled again and said loudly: "The evidence is naturally there, but it needs to be seen by the person who has done the Lord." Otherwise, how do I know that you are not coveting my gift to the Tang Emperor and deliberately tricking my words! ”

As soon as he heard the word "offering", Bian Lingcheng's eyes immediately burst into two fine lights. Before Feng Changqing could speak, he ordered loudly, "Fool with no eyes!" Our family is the prison army Bian Lingcheng, and the one sitting opposite you is Feng Changqing, the envoy of the Anxi Festival. This time, it was mainly the two of us who led the troops. Come on, untie him first. Don't let this brute have a chance to talk. In the army of 10,000 horses, we expect that he can't afford to make any big waves! ”

"No!" All the guards agreed in unison, but they all turned their eyes to Feng Changqing. Feng Changqing didn't want to get too stiff with the people around the emperor, so he waved his hand lazily and said in a low voice: "Untie him." Don't delay, the prison army must comfort the barbarians for the Son of Heaven! ”

The guards stepped forward as ordered to cut the ropes on the imposter Ali. Xiao Ali first moved his limbs that were tied to the wood, then knelt on the ground again, kowtowed to Feng Changqing and Bian Lingcheng, and raised a white ring that he didn't know from which corner of his body, and said loudly: "Ali Adi, the envoy of the Great Food Country, knock on the two generals of the kingdom. ”

"Show me the ring!" Bian Lingcheng recognized at a glance that the ring was carved from fine ivory, and ordered loudly.

Left and right were helpless, so they had to step forward and take the ring. Bian Lingcheng held it in his hand and played with it carefully, and commented with a smile, "Look at this workmanship, it is indeed the style of Mecca." Since you claim to be an envoy, you should at least have your credentials with you, right? ”

"The letters of state and the offerings were all intercepted by the Elgar head of Little Bolu. The national letter was thrown on the ox cart as waste paper, and most of them embezzled more than half of it as a gift, and the other half was sent to your army camp with me! ”

"Bold!" Bian Lingcheng gritted his teeth in distress, "Capture Elgar for me." He actually dared to withhold the gift left for His Majesty, it is really a pity to cut it with a thousand knives! ”

Feng Changqing couldn't bear to see him continue to be embarrassed, so he smiled and said in a low voice: "There is no need for Lord Prison to be serious with a tribal leader. Let him spit out all the offerings. It's not easy for these tribal leaders to swallow them all, and then kill people and kill people! Immediately, he glared at Xiao Ali fiercely with his eyes, "I'll send someone to find the matter of the national book in a while." Tell us what your specific mission is! ”

Xiao Ali was frightened by Feng Changqing's knife-like gaze, and immediately grabbed the ground with his head and cried: "Ali Adi, the envoy of the lower kingdom, has come to mourn to the Datang Heavenly Khan on the order of the new lord. The old lord of the lower country, Abu, the faithful servant of the Heavenly Khan, has died! Please ask the Heavenly Khan to recite the name of the crime committed by our country for the sake of King Abu's former loyalty, so that the new lord Mansur can change his past mistakes and never commit them again! ”

Hearing this, not only was Bian Lingcheng fooled, but Feng Changqing was also stunned, "Mourn, your country's lord Abu is dead?!" When it happened, I haven't heard any news here. ”

"Although the country is small, its territory is thousands of miles wide. It will take at least three or five months for what happened in the national capital to reach the Celestial Empire. Moreover, because the traitorous ministers are in power, the new owner of the bad country has to temporarily block the news from the outside world. Therefore, it is natural that the marshal does not know about it! Little Ali kowtowed again and burst into tears.

His Tang dialect is very good, every sentence is crepe, showing an extremely good upbringing. Seeing this, Bian Lingcheng believed in the identity of his envoy for more than seven points, but for the sake of prudence, he asked with a smile: "The envoy mourns." Birth, old age, sickness and death are inevitable things in life. But since the Great Food Country is already facing a national mourning, why don't you see any condolences in the army. Why do you dare to take the initiative to offend my Datang Tianwei. Why didn't you show up before the battle, and after you lost the battle, you came out immediately? ”

He thought that he was clever enough to ask a question, and no one expected that every word was within the scope of the other party's prior preparation. Immediately, Xiao Ali cleared his throat and "recited" the rhetoric that he had rehearsed several times with Ai Kailamu and others unhurriedly, and at the same time did not forget to pretend to be very aggrieved and sad, and vividly interpreted the appearance of an envoy from a weak country who had to endure humiliation and burden in front of Qiang Liang for the fate of the country.

was shouted by people who kept saying that the heavenly kingdom was the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of heaven, and Bian Lingcheng's heart, which had never known what guilt was, actually slowly tightened. Before Xiao Ali finished the whole set of tricks, he responded with an impatient sigh, "Although our family has never heard of Abu's name, he was able to reshape the big food by himself, and he must be a generation of heroes." didn't expect it to pass away so early. It's really jealous. It's a pity, it's a pity! Your envoy will go down and rest first, and the truce will be discussed with Feng Jiedu by our family, and then we will give you an answer! ”

After all, it's not like Feng Changqing asking for instructions, waving his hand, ordering the left and right envoys to go down to rest, and serve carefully, so as not to lose the face of the Tang Heavenly Dynasty.

In front of outsiders, Feng Changqing was reluctant to expose the contradictions within the Anxi Army, so he endured Bian Lingcheng's domineering again and again. Finally, he expected the other party to send the "Great Food Messenger" away, and immediately coughed lightly a few times, and said: "This person's eyes were shining when he spoke, and he was obviously full of lies. If we were deceived by his lies, wouldn't we have made the jokes of the small countries in the Western Regions! ”

"I'm afraid, he may not be lying!" Bian Ling glanced at Feng Changqing with sincerity, as if he had guessed the other party's thoughts. "Feng Shuai is anxious to expand the territory for the Tang Dynasty, and his intentions are very good. However, as the old saying goes, mourning is an ominous soldier. If it is ominous, the sky will abandon it. My Tang Dynasty is a state of etiquette and an example for all nations. How can you give people the truth in such a major matter of right and wrong?! (Note 1)

"Big right and wrong?!" Feng Changqing's voice rose sharply, "When he was a big cannibal and took advantage of the civil strife in my Tang Dynasty and got involved in the Western Regions, did he ask for any etiquette?" What's ominous? In these four wars, strength is morality! How can you take advantage of it when you see it, and pay attention to the bullshit of ancient etiquette immediately after suffering a loss? Besides, he eats a big country, what qualifications does he have to tell me what Chinese etiquette is in the Tang Dynasty? ”

"But after all, he came to make a pilgrimage to His Majesty, and we can't make our own decisions!" Seeing that Feng Changqing was angry, Bian Lingcheng was not in a hurry, smiled, and continued to entangle.

Hearing the other party take out the emperor as a shield, Feng Changqing had no choice but to soften his tone again, "What bullshit messenger, it's better not to fall for him." According to Feng's opinion, he is at most a Xuangao who is a priest! Otherwise, how could it not come early or late, our army had just passed through Xiao Bolu, and immediately caught up! ”

"Even Xuan Gao, who is a priest, also shows that at this moment, the whole country of the Great Food Country has a common hatred for the enemy. No matter how greedy Feng Shuai is, I'm afraid he won't get any benefits! ”

All traitors are far more eloquent than ordinary people. Because his ordinary mind is all focused on this, not on how to do things well. Feng Changqing is a military general, and he is not good at arguing with others. Soon, it was refuted by Bian Lingcheng's previous sentence "Zuo Chuan" and the latter sentence "Chinese", quoting scriptures to the point of incompleteness. was angry, so he had to commit the crime with one shot, and shouted: "Feng doesn't care if he is in unison or not." Our Anxi army is now ready to shoot and has to be sent. There is no reason to stop because others hardly look for margins! ”

"In this way, Bian has no choice but to be sorry for the sealing degree!" Bian Lingcheng arched his hand and sneered and threatened.

"Whatever. Feng is waiting for your impeachment! Feng Changqing did not show weakness, pursed his lips, and responded disdainfully.

Seeing that Feng Changqing was not threatened, Bian Lingcheng immediately became angry, stood up, and shouted loudly: "Feng Jiedu, doesn't he want to support the army and respect himself?" This place is thousands of miles away from Jingshi, and when Jingshi's holy decree comes down, you must have laid a big world for yourself outside the mountain. Hehe, this calculation is also cleverly used! It's a pity that since our family is a prison army, even if we fight for our lives, we have to take care of this elite for Your Majesty! ”

"This hat, it's difficult to buckle it on Feng's head!" Feng Changqing was also so angry that he stood up, "If you take the city of Gaburo with Feng, you will naturally ask the court for guilt"

"That's not up to you! Supervising the army and supervising the army, if you can't control the direction of the team, you have to supervise the army to do something! Bian Lingcheng walked down from behind the table and blocked in front of Feng Changqing angrily.

Since the time when the beating husband Meng Lincha was the commander of Anxi, he was ordered to supervise the army, so he also accumulated a lot of contacts in the Anxi army. Several civilian officials who were accompanying the Chinese army were worried that the conflict would break out and suffer from the pond fish, so they hurriedly put down their official duties and rushed forward to dissuade them: "Lord Jiedu, let me stop my anger for the time being. Don't be angry. Isn't it just how to deal with an envoy to a lower country? The two of them couldn't be so serious. It's better to find a few captives to identify first, whether this person will be fake. If the captives knew him, they would have said what he had just said. If the captives don't recognize him, it's not too late to reconsider! ”

Bian Lingcheng was originally holding on to the hard top with Feng Changqing, and when he had steps, he immediately took the opportunity to go down. "Our family is not blindly stubborn, but it involves the face of the Celestial Empire, so we have to be careful!"

"Humph!" Feng Changqing didn't want to be seen as a joke, so he threw down his sleeves and agreed to the request of the staff.

As the judge of Jiedu Mansion, Cen Shen naturally had to come forward for this kind of errand. In order to fight for Feng Changqing, he deliberately counted all the prisoners accompanying the army, and told him clearly in advance that if anyone could reveal the identity of the fake messenger, he would be released home immediately, and given travel expenses and heavy rewards. However, to his great disappointment, among the more than 200 captives accompanying the army, not one of them pierced the true body of the Great Food Messenger. However, the emissary's clothes and dress further confirmed that he was indeed noble in blood and that he might be very close to the royal family.

Cen Shen had no choice but to return to the Chinese army to surrender the order. Bian Lingcheng's arrogance was immediately encouraged again, laughed three times, and said to Feng Changqing: "Do we think of it?" This son seems to have seen the world! How could a mere businessman have such grace and luxury. Mu monkey and crown, no matter how you dress it, you can't pretend to be like it! Seal the degree of separation, yes or no? ”

Feng Changqing came from a humble background, and after achieving a festival, his temperament still retains the simplicity of the year. Therefore, it is always ridiculed by some people behind their backs. At this moment, he was ridiculed by Bian Lingcheng in person, and he didn't feel red. He raised his eyebrows and said in a deep voice: "The prison army said that he was a messenger, so naturally the more he looked, the more evidence he had." Feng knew that the fighter plane could not be delayed. Whether you impeach Feng or sue Feng for fabricating charges, the brothers' westward march cannot stop there. Otherwise, once the morale of the army is hit, it will be difficult to gather again."

"Well, why don't you bring all the soldiers and ask them if they are willing to venture west with you. Or prefer to take care of the big picture! Bian Lingcheng consciously had the upper hand and proposed with a sneer.

This is also a solution, especially if the commander and the overseer are not on the same page. Otherwise, even if Feng Changqing forcibly led the troops into battle, Bian Lingcheng would do some tricks and tricks for him in terms of grain and grass baggage by virtue of his status as a prisoner, which would be enough to destroy the entire Anxi army.

Considering this, Feng Changqing finally sighed and said in a low voice: "Just follow the will of the supervising army." If the brothers are no longer willing to continue westward, this year the front will stop there. By the beginning of spring next year, presumably the imperial court will also have specific instructions. At that time, Feng led the troops westward, hoping that the supervisor could take care of the grain road for Feng, and don't let the young people take the opportunity to make trouble! ”

"Yes, we are all dedicated to the country, why should we two bother?!!" finally forced Feng Changqing to give in to himself, and Bian Lingcheng was triumphant. Supervise the army, naturally you have to supervise the entire army for the Son of Heaven! Hmph, I killed our nephew, and I still think that our family will cooperate with you wholeheartedly, hum......

He grinned, a chill emanating from his eyes.

Note 1: Ominous funeral, from "Zuo Biography". Ominous is abandoned, from "Chinese". The eunuchs of the Tang Dynasty were very educated, but it is a pity that, like some experts today, all their knowledge was not used in the right place.