Li Zhi looked at Zhang Shigui in surprise, who was humble, in his impression Zhang Shigui was Li Shimin's confidant general, and no one in the entire Tang Dynasty except Li Shimin could make him so low-voiced.

Even if he becomes the crown prince one day, he will treat such an important minister with favors to make him happy.

But Li Chengqian was not surprised at all, the old god was sitting there looking at Zhang Shigui for a long time and did not let him calm down. The person in front of him is not the governor of the Tang Dynasty, but a small eunuch who came to the East Palace to enlist as an internal servant.

Li Chengqian noticed Li Zhi's gaze and turned his head to look at him, and Li Zhi hurriedly lowered his head.

Li Chengqian turned his head to look at Zhang Shigui and said with a smile: "Governor Zhang, let's calm down!" ”

Hearing this, Zhang Shigui hurriedly straightened up and said, "I don't know, I don't know what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is calling his ministers?"

On the way to come, Zhang Shigui always thought about what excessive demands Li Chengqian would make, so he kept getting up and asked, but after asking it, he felt a little abrupt.

Li Chengqian didn't care about his mishandling when he saw it, but just smiled and said, "Of course, the Lone King summoned you for the matter of the 30,000 soldiers and horses in Lingzhou. ”

Zhang Shigui heard Li Chengqian deliberately say half of what he said, and he was powerless to complain, so he had to bow down again and say, "Please show His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Li Chengqian saw that Zhang Shigui was about to adjust, so he stood up directly without delay, and while walking in the courtyard, he occasionally turned his head to look at Zhang Shigui, and said slowly: "The Lone King is the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, and those soldiers and horses were transferred by the Lone King to protect the Lone King, right?"

"Reasonable!"

Zhang Shigui can say that in addition to Your Majesty, it is reasonable for you to transfer whoever protects you, but you always have to return it when you run out.

"Because Tumidu didn't know how to know the whereabouts of the Lone King, he caused Hui to divide his troops to surround the Lone King, and you couldn't stop it."

"The minister is guilty." Zhang Shigui's head saw Khan bowing down and pleading guilty.

Li Chengqian glanced back at him and continued: "Fortunately, God bless the Lone King and the generals of the East Palace are powerful, and the Hui tribes are defeated, and finally more than 100,000 troops ask the Lone King to surrender, can the Lone King not watch without soldiers and horses?"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is wise." Zhang Shigui didn't know what Li Chengqian wanted to say, so he could only say perfunctory.

"Now that the battle is over, and the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion has been replaced by Zhao Dadu Governor to you Zhang Dadu, it's time to think about your 30,000 horses, right?" Li Chengqian said this, stood still, and looked at Zhang Shigui seriously.

Zhang Shigui had been bowing down and didn't dare to raise his head, but when he heard Li Chengqian's question, it was neither easy to admit it, nor was it easy not to admit it, so he had to say "um".

Li Chengqian didn't care how Zhang Shigui responded, looked up at the sky, turned his head to look around, and continued to stroll in the courtyard.

After a while, he continued lightly: "But the imperial court has not made a clear decree on how to deal with those soldiers from Mobei, and the generals of the sixth rate of the East Palace still have to guard those soldiers for you, what should you do if you want to take those soldiers and horses back to the army?"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince—"

"Alright! No need to explain, you go to Fang Xuanling and send someone to take over those pawns! ”

"Ahh What does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince mean?" Zhang Shiwen's eyes lit up, he didn't expect Li Chengqian to let him go so easily.

"Someone took over the return to the king of the orphan to withdraw Xue Rengui and Liu Renliang, and returned the 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion to the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion. Got it?" Li Chengqian's tone was very impatient.

Zhang Shigui was overjoyed when he heard this: "The minister obeys the order, and the minister will do it now." ”

Li Chengqian saw that he was about to retire as he spoke, and hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, King Gu's words haven't been finished yet." ”

Zhang Shigui had to stand up again, lowered his head and said, "His Royal Highness the Prince, please speak." ”

Li Chengqian just sighed and didn't speak for a long time when he heard this, and finally when Zhang Shigui was impatient, he said with some sadness: "These Lingzhou soldiers and horses followed the Gu Wang to Kongdui Gou to destroy the Xue Yantuo Khan Tent, and fought hard with the Hui tribe soldiers in order to protect the Gu Wang.

Many of them were martyred, and many were disabled, and the lonely king felt unbearable every time he thought of these people. Now the lone king wants to return them to the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion, so he wants to hold a requiem ceremony for the martyrs in Lingzhou.

You are the governor of Lingzhou, so you will prepare things for King Gu in the past few days, and when the army returns to Lingzhou, King Gu will personally worship with incense. ”

"Obey the order!" When Zhang Shigui heard Li Chengqian mention the soldiers who had been martyred, his voice was low, obviously really sad, and he was also a little moved in his heart.

"Alright! That's all there is to the lonely king, you can do it! Li Chengqian said with an inexplicable smile on the corner of his mouth.

When Zhang Shigui heard this, he was like being amnestied, and hurriedly saluted and retired.

Li Chengqian glanced back at Li Zhi, and saw that his eyes were flickering, so he walked to the table and said lightly: "Pheasant slave, I see that you have a much better weather these two days, do you want to go out for a walk?"

Li Zhi looked at Li Chengqian's indifferent expression and hurriedly shook his head, he knew in his heart that the reason why Li Chengqian let him watch from the side was just to let him know the gap between the two people.

"Okay, then you can go back and rest." Li Chengqian said lightly.

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In the front yard of the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion, where Fang Xuanling worked, Zhang Shigui and Fang Xuanling knelt on both sides of the small table face to face, and told Fang Xuanling in detail about his meeting with Li Chengqian.

Fang Xuanling frowned and turned his head to look out the window, wondering what Li Chengqian wanted to do.

After a while, Fang Xuanling turned his head to look at Zhang Shigui, who was anxious, and said, "Governor Zhang, why did His Royal Highness the Crown Prince let the old man give the order?"

Zhang Shigui said anxiously when he heard this: "My Liang Guogong, now you are in charge of government affairs, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will not let you give an order, so you can't alarm Your Majesty again for this little thing, right?"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can also give an order from the East Palace!" Although Fang Xuanling couldn't figure out what medicine was sold in Li Chengqian's gourd, his instinctive vigilance made him not want to get involved.

Hearing this, Zhang Shigui jumped up directly from his seat and said loudly: "Liang Guogong, Master Fang, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has agreed to return the 30,000 horses of the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion, why did you shirk it here?"

"I'm not this-" Fang Xuanling also hurriedly raised his arm to explain.

But Zhang Shigui had just been frightened by Li Chengqian for a long time, and now he was also angry when he was shirked by Fang Xuanling, so he immediately interrupted him and said: "Liang Guogong, if you don't give an order, then the governor can only go to Your Majesty, anyway, you can't go to ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to give an order." Speaking of this, he paused, lowered his head and approached Fang Xuanling and said in a low voice: "If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince gives orders to generals outside the East Palace now, His Majesty may not be happy." ”

Fang Xuanling was shocked when he heard this, if he didn't give the order whether Zhang Shigui went to Li Shimin or Li Chengqian later, he would definitely not have any good fruit to eat.

Fang Xuanling wanted to understand this and said secretly in his heart: It's so dangerous!

Fang Xuanling didn't dare to shirk it anymore, so he hurriedly sat down and wrote an order, then picked up the order and blew it gently, and handed it to Zhang Shigui with an expressionless face.

Zhang Shigui took it with some embarrassment and said with a smile: "Thank you Liang Guogong." ”

Fang Xuanling snorted when he heard this, turned his face to the side and ignored Zhang Shigui, Zhang Shigui saw this, and walked out without saying more.

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Zhang Shigui took Fang Xuanling's approval note and sent Li Simo to take over the task of guarding and returning the surrendered soldiers, while secretly saying in his heart that Fang Xuanling was also insidious enough.

Now the soldiers and horses who are guarding those Hui surrendered are Turkic soldiers in addition to the soldiers and horses of the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion. Now Fang Xuanling directly sent Li Simo to escort back the surrender soldiers, which is equivalent to taking away the soldiers and horses of the Turkic tribes from Li Chengqian's hands.

But what he didn't expect was that the day after Li Simo took over to take care of the Hui soldiers, the leaders of the Hui Hui Tu Midu and his nephew Wu Su were both killed in the barracks, and the Hui Hui soldiers were in turmoil for a while......