Li Chengqian could not answer Wang Fangyi's question directly, but he could not fail to answer a person's question.

In the Liangyi Palace, Li Shimin sat on the Luohan bed, his face was ugly, and he looked like he was not approached, which made the ministers who came to discuss the matter below very embarrassed.

When he went to the monk in Xiao's Mansion last night, Li Shimin felt that his face was gloomy, and in his opinion, Li Chengqian should execute the monk who deceived him on the spot.

However, what was returned to him was only to kill a few monks with a cane and be accompanied by a monk, which made Li Shimin feel that Li Chengqian did not take his majesty as offended.

After a while, Li Chengqian walked into the Liangyi Hall with a cane, and saluted respectfully: "The son of the emperor will see his father." ”

"Humph!"

"Huh?" Li Chengqian raised his head in astonishment, only to see Li Shimin's side face, because Li Shimin twisted his face to the side again.

Li Chengqian didn't know why Li Shimin was angry, but seeing that the situation had not reached the point of what to do, he endured the discomfort and asked in a low voice: "I don't know what happened to make my father unhappy?"

"You did a good thing as a rebel, and you came to ask me! You've lost all my face. Li Shimin took the opportunity to say.

Li Chengqian really thought that he had done something wrong and couldn't help but look at Yang Shidao, but when he saw Yang Shidao, he shook his head slightly, indicating that he didn't know either.

Seeing that Li Chengqian didn't understand, Li Shimin was even more angry and said: "I ask you, my Tang Dynasty exiled prisoners have always been exiled to the southern miasma, why did you exile the monks of Famen Temple to Dingxiang in the north?"

In fact, this is Li Shimin's intention to find fault, and the Han Dynasty generally sent prisoners to the south, in order to prevent them from having the opportunity to defect to the strong enemy in the north.

However, as early as when Hou Jun destroyed Gaochang, Li Shimin issued an order to establish Xizhou in Gaochang's hometown, and then ordered all the prisoners sentenced to exile and those who were sentenced to death but not executed to be transferred to Xizhou Shibian.

It's just that Li Chengqian couldn't think of this for a while, so he explained: "Qi Xiang's father and the emperor's sons want to let the monks of Famen Temple go to Dingxiang to spread Buddhism to the barbarians, and in the future, the barbarians will learn to eat fasting and recite the Buddha......"

When Li Shimin heard this, he interrupted Li Chengqian and said, "Dream! The northern Zhuhu make a living from herding and have nothing but cattle, sheep and horses, so how can it be possible for them to eat and chant Buddha?"

"Your Majesty, what the prince said may really come true." Xu Jingzong walked out of the train and bowed.

"Uh-huh——?" Li Shimin's voice was particularly long, and he looked at Xu Jingzong solemnly.

The ministers in the palace all sweated for Xu Jingzong.

Li Shimin faced Li Chengqian, no matter how big the fire was, it would automatically become smaller when it came out, but the others ......

Xu Jingzong didn't care about this, and said step by step: "Your Majesty can you still remember that there is a monk in Eastern Qi whose name is Hui Lin who persuaded the Turkic Tuobo Khan to believe in Buddhism?"

Li Shimin immediately became interested when he heard this, looked at Xu Jingzong and said, "Tell me about it!" ”

"Your Majesty, when the Turkic Tuobo Khan was the Turkic Tuobo Khan, there was the Chen Dynasty in the south, the Eastern Qi and the Northern Zhou in the north, so the Turks were strong and often bullied China, and the Eastern Qi and Northern Zhou competed to bribe him.

Therefore, the Tuobo Khan often said: He has two filial sons in the south, why should he be poor?

Later, the Turks plundered Huilin, Shamen of Eastern Qi, and Huilin persuaded him to say, "Those who are rich and strong in Qi are Buddha-law." ’

Then he persuaded Tu Po with 'karma'. Convinced of this, he built a Garan temple in the Turks and sent envoys to Northern Qi to obtain Buddhist scriptures such as "Pure Name", "Nirvana" and "Huayan". He also fasted, went around the tower, and often hated that he was not born in the mainland. ”

Li Shimin heard that the Turkic Khan had also been superstitious about Buddhism a few decades ago, and laughed: "I see that the bowl is also a stupid person!" ”

Hearing this, Xu Jingzong hurriedly followed him and said: "Exactly, the weakness of the Turks began after the death of Tuo Bo. ”

Li Shimin nodded when he heard this, and immediately saw that Li Chengqian had already found a place to sit down, and said with a cold face: "It's just that now that the Turks have been wiped out, what's the use of you sending the monks of Famen Temple to Dingxiang?"

Li Chengqian felt uncomfortable when he heard this, are you embarrassed to say that the Turks have been wiped out?

Therefore, he said lightly: "The Father Emperor Turks have not been destroyed, and there are dozens or hundreds of nomadic tribes in the south and north of the desert, these people are no different from the Turks at that time, but now that China is strong, they are vulnerable."

But one day, if something happens to China due to natural or man-made disasters, these people will take advantage of the situation to invade and plunder China.

Therefore, the governance of them cannot be relaxed for a moment. ”

Li Shimin heard Li Chengqian talk about governing the country, and he also knew the purpose of Li Chengqian's sending Famen Temple to northern Xinjiang, so he was no longer so angry.

However, when he heard him say that the Turks had not been destroyed, he was still very disdainful: "At present, the Western Turks are far away from China to the west of Xizhou, and the rest of the Eastern Turks can only guard the border for the Tang Dynasty." ”

Li Chengqian was about to refute him, in addition to the Turkic tribe, there were other tribes in the Eastern Turks, and now the most powerful Xue Yantuo, but when he saw that Ma Zhou was even looking at him, he didn't let him fight any longer.

Li Chengqian turned to other things.

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While the Turks were discussing whether the Turks had perished in Chang'an City, several Qu Lu Si and Tutun of the Turkic Department who were far away in the Dingxiang Prefecture were also discussing the survival of the Turks.

The water and grass in April had gradually grown in abundance, and the Turkic tribes had survived the harsh winter of last year, and they should have set out to find a place with abundant water and grass to graze their cattle and sheep.

It's just that this year, something happened that made him entangled, the heavenly khan of the Tang Dynasty agreed to Xue Yantuo's courtship.

Xue Yantuo and the tribes that are now dependent on Xue Yantuo, Tiele, and Jin, including the Murwei, Khitan, and Xi tribes in the north of Goguryeo, were originally tribes dependent on the Turks.

In the fourth year of Zhenguan, when the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Turks, these tribes rebelled against the Turks and declared themselves vassals to the Tang Dynasty.

Later, hundreds of thousands of Turkic people were scattered and settled in the ten prefectures in the north by the Tang Dynasty, but the other tribes were preserved and lived on the territory of the original Turks.

Among them, Xue Yantuo was the strongest, and established the Xue Yantuo tooth tent in Mobei, and the Tiele, Jian, Hui and other tribes all submitted to Xue Yantuo.

In the northwest of Goguryeo, the Murwei, Khitan, and Xi ethnic groups relied on Goguryeo.

The Turkic tribes that surrendered to the Tang Dynasty were originally regarded by the Tang Dynasty as the vanguard of resistance to Xue Yantuo, but some people in the Turkic tribes were unwilling to be cannon fodder.

They disobeyed Li Simo for moving the Dingxiang Governor's Mansion to the area of present-day Hohhot, and finally drove Li Simo back to Chang'an City.

Li Shimin was bent on destroying Goguryeo at this time, and he didn't want to start a war with Xue Yantuo for the time being, so Li Shimin promised Xue Yantuo Zhenzhu Khan Yinan to ask for marriage.

Now Xue Yantuo's team to deliver the dowry is driving tens of thousands of cattle and sheep to Chang'an.

The people in the Turkic tribes began to worry again that it would be useless for the Tang Dynasty to befriend Xue Yantuo and their relatives, and whether the Tang Dynasty would let Xue Yantuo destroy them.

It was at this time that the remnants of the Eastern Turkic clan, Ashina Hubo, sent a letter to them, asking them to defect from the Tang Dynasty and go to him.

Ashina Hubo was the only remnant of the Eastern Turks who did not surrender to either side after the capture of the Ashina clan in Jili.

But they were not having a good time, and were forced to hide in the Altai Mountains in northwestern Xinjiang.

Although the temperature was warmer, the people in the big tent were still wrapped in old sheepskins, their hair was scattered, and their dark faces were full of resentment.

Lu Zhi, who was in his thirties, was the most authoritative person here, and at this time he was sitting at the head and pondering, his gray hair had not been washed for an unknown amount of time, and it was like two pieces of oil tarpaulin hanging on both sides of his cheeks.

From the front, you can see that his fat face has scars crisscrossed and crisscrossed, so that people will be intimidated by his fierce aura when they see him.

The atmosphere in the big tent was very depressing, and several Qu Lu Si who came to discuss it stared at Lu Zhi with both eyes and waited for him to make an idea.

"When we were defeated and surrendered, we were already slaves of the Heavenly Khan, even if the Heavenly Khan let us die now, we should be." Lu Zhi was silent for a long time and said a word of nonsense.

A young Qu Lu said impatiently, "Didn't you ask us to drive away the Khan of Yimini in the first place?"

The Khan of Yi Mi Ni is Li Simo, this young man means that since we should not die in the Tang Dynasty, why don't we obey Li Simo's orders to fight with Xue Yantuo?

Lu Zhi rolled his eyes and said coldly: "Hmph! What do you know?

That's what the Khan of Rimi told me to do. ”

"Ahh

Everyone looked at Lu Zhi in surprise when they heard this.

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