In the first month of the nineteenth year of Zhenguan, Li Chengqian was taking a walk in the back garden, and he was tired enough these days. Flash Dance

Although Li Er is not in Chang'an, there is no need to hold a court meeting on the first day of the first month and New Year's Day.

But the envoys who came to Chang'an to gather all ran to the East Palace! Congratulations to him, the prince!

In the past few days, I have been tired of dealing with the envoys of the DPRK, and I just sent them back yesterday, and today I finally have a little time to rest.

Li Chengqian strolled around the back garden of the East Palace.

"Lang Jun!" Wang Quan trotted all the way over and saluted.

Li Chengqian looked at Wang Quan who ran over from afar, and knew that it must be no good, he was in a little mood just now, and he was mixed up like this!

"What is so flustered, what kind of system!" Li Chengqian felt a little unhappy in his heart, and his tone of voice was naturally heavier.

Wang Quan heard a trace of anger from Li Chengqian's tone, and wondered in his heart where he had offended his master.

After thinking about it, I came here to have something important to do, and I wanted to report to the prince.

"Your Highness! I just received a document from the Xi'an Metropolitan Protectorate, saying that there was something to do. Wang Quan said.

Li Chengqian was stunned!

The Anxi Protectorate was founded in September of the 14th year of Zhenguan, managing the military and political affairs of the Western Regions, and governing Jiaohe City in Xizhou, with the main purpose of targeting the Western Turks.

The Anxi Protectorate is under the jurisdiction of the four important military towns of Khotan, Shaye, Shule and Qiuzi, and is known as the four towns of Anxi in history.

The first protector of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate was Qiao Shiwang, and the current protector is Guo Xiaoke. Flash Dance

Of course, there are no four towns of Anxi yet, because the three towns of Khotan, Qiuci, and Shule in the four towns are still the three subject states of the Western Turks.

In the twentieth year of Zhenguan, the Western Turkic Khan courted the Tang Dynasty, and Li Er asked the Western Turk Khan to cede five countries, including the three towns, to the Tang Dynasty as a dowry.

In the twenty-second year of Zhenguan, the Tang army entered Qiuci and moved the Anxi Protectorate to the capital of Qiuci, and built four towns in Anxi in the four cities.

Could it be that the Western Turks invaded the territory of our Anxi Protectorate, and Guo Xiaoke and the Western Turks had a huge disparity in strength, and they were not the opponents of the Western Turks at all, so they sent people to Chang'an to ask for support.

"But the Western Turks are coming to invade my Tang border? Guo Xiaoke's troops are insufficient, so he sent people to ask for help, isn't that so? Li Chengqian looked back at Wang Quandao.

This Western Turk is too good at picking time, this Li Er is still attacking Goguryeo, and he has already hit the door of the Tang Dynasty.

"Ahh Wang Quan was stunned! What nonsense is this talking about, prince?

Where is the question of what the Western Turks are, is whether things are actually good or not.

"Lang Jun, it's not Guo Xiaoke's letter asking for help, and the Western Turks have not invaded my Tang border." Wang Quan said.

"Ahh Isn't it a matter of the Western Turks? Li Chengqian was surprised.

"Not really!" Wang Quan said.

After getting Wang Quan's affirmation, Li Chengqian's old face turned red, it turned out that I was thinking too much. 35xs

"What did Guo Xiaoke say?" Li Chengqian asked, he was very curious about what Guo Xiaoke reported at this time.

"Guo Xiaoke said that the Tang Dynasty Master Xuanzang returned from his journey to the west and was on his way back to Chang'an." Wang Quan said.

"Master Xuanzang? However, Master Xuanzang left the Eastern Tang Dynasty in the second year of Zhenguan and went to the West Heaven to learn scriptures. Li Chengqian asked.

"Exactly! In the first year of Zhenguan, Xuanzang asked to go west to seek the law, but His Majesty did not approve Master Xuanzang's request at that time. ”

"Although His Majesty did not approve it, Master Xuanzang was still determined to go west to seek the Dharma, and embarked on the road to the west in the second year of Zhenguan."

"Now he should be seeking the Dharma to come back and purify all sentient beings." Wang Quan said.

Whether it can really be universal to all sentient beings, Li Chengqian doesn't know, Li Chengqian only knows that Xuanzang traveled west this time to obtain the Sanzang Mahayana scriptures.

Bringing back hundreds of Sanskrit scriptures from India, Xuanzang later devoted his life to translating Buddhist scriptures.

For Xuanzang's cognition, Li Chengqian is more from Journey to the West, one of the four classical masterpieces of later generations.

Of course, Xuanzang's westward journey in reality is naturally not what is written in it.

"Lang Jun! How should this Xuanzang be placed? Wang Quan asked.

"According to the original ban, anyone who leaves the territory of the Tang Dynasty without permission will be severely punished."

"However, this is already a matter of Zhenguanchu! Now that this ban has been lifted, there is naturally no need to punish Xuanzang. ”

"When he returns to Chang'an, let him settle in Daxingshan Temple." Li Chengqian said.

"No!" Wang Quan said.

"That's right! When will Xuanzang be able to arrive in Chang'an? Li Chengqian asked.

"According to the distance from the Anxi Protectorate to Chang'an, it will take five days for Master Xuanzang to reach Chang'an." Wang Quan said.

"Since this is the case, let Fang Xuanling and the others, five days later, go outside Chang'an City to welcome Xuanzang back to Chang'an."

"As soon as Xuanzang returned to Chang'an, he immediately brought him to see me." Li Chengqian said.

"No!" Wang Quan was ordered to retreat.

Li Chengqian was so anxious to see Xuanzang, not for anything else, but to see with his own eyes what this Xuanzang monk looked like.

What's more, he wanted to see what kind of charm Xuanzang's apprentice had in order to let Princess Gaoyang have an affair with him and transplant a prairie on Fang Yiai's head.

Princess Gaoyang even dared to turn her face with Li Er for the sake of this monk, and she also made the Fang family uneasy.

Although the private relationship between Princess Gaoyang and the debate machine is very secret, there is no impermeable wall in this world.

In the end, the adultery between the debate machine and Princess Gaoyang was well known, and it was boiling, making Chang'an City full of storms.

Li Er was furious, and cut off the debate machine, who let this debate monk not eat fast and chant Buddha in the temple, be his monk, and help Xuanzang translate Buddhist scriptures.

but hooked up with Princess Gaoyang.

Princess Gaoyang is too, it's not good to find a face, but she wants to find a monk, isn't this sincerity to make Li Er unhappy!

Can you not kill your good debate machine?

If you find an ordinary person to be the first person, Li Er may not be so angry.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Li Tang never supported the development of Buddhism, and even rejected it, and the ban during the Zhenguan period was a manifestation of the rejection of Buddhism.

The reason why Li Tang did this was that the Tang Dynasty had just experienced the destruction of the war in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, and the country's economy was almost on the verge of collapse, in order to develop the economy and ease social contradictions.

This is the second! That is, Emperor Li Tang has always advertised himself as a descendant of Taishang Laojun Li Er, and Li Tang has no reason not to support the sect founded by his "ancestors".

If Li Tang went to support the religion that spread from outside, wouldn't it be tantamount to slapping himself in the face?

In the first year of Tang Gaozong's Qianfeng, Gaozong Li Zhi posthumously crowned Laozi Li Er as Emperor Taishang Xuanyuan.

As for his title of Taishang Laojun, it was the sixth year of Xiangfu in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Song Zhenzong gave him the title of Taishang Laojun and Emperor Shangde.

Later, Taoism called Lao Tzu so as Taishang Laojun.

Your Princess Gaoyang is a descendant of Taishang Laojun, and it doesn't matter if the red apricot goes out of the wall, but she just found a monk to be the head.

This is not the same as slapping Li Tang's royal face! You said that it is better for you to find a Taoist priest than a monk.

After all, fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of "outsiders", and it is better to be cheaper than to be cheaper than to be cheaper than outsiders.

(End of chapter)