After convincing Li Shimin, Li Chenggan's visit to Lingzhou was settled, and although the Chinese officials of the DPRK jointly gave advice, this was not a matter at all for Li Shimin and Li Chenggan, father and son.

Li Chengqian went out of the Taiji Palace, claiming that he was injured by Li Shimin and did not see anyone, and then handed over all the matters of travel to Su Dingfang and Xu Jingzong to handle.

A month later, Li Chengqian's departure from Beijing was ready for all the things to be done, just waiting for his departure.

Li Chengqian specially met Li Simo, Qibi He Li, and Xuanzang in the Chongjiao Hall of the East Palace.

Li Chengqian had to take these three people to Lingzhou, so he summoned them to see them once in advance.

Li Shimin and Li Chengqian were so frightened that Yi Nan did not dare to come because they were worried about bringing too many people, so Li Chengqian only took Donggong Liu and a few thousand men and horses to Lingzhou.

Because Li Daliang has been repeatedly ill recently and can't go, Li Chengqian wanted to take only Su Dingfang with him, but Li Shimin was not at ease and reactivated Wei Chigong as the right guard of the East Palace to lead the general to accompany him to protect Li Chengqian.

Everything was properly arranged, and on the 16th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, Li Chengqian took the ministers of the East Palace to receive Li Shimin's banquet in the Taiji Palace, and left the city from the Tonghua Gate in the east of Chang'an City in the afternoon of the same day.

The crown princess Su led the wife of the East Palace and the eldest princess and princess in Chang'an City to Baqiao to say goodbye in tears, and sent the Chinese military officials ten miles outside Chang'an City before returning to the city.

When the hundred officials returned to the city, it was already nearly dusk, Su Dingyi ordered to camp on the spot, and at this time to see them off, there were Wu King Li Ke, Shu King Li Su, Jin King Li Zhi, Li Xiang, Li Ju brothers and the East Palace ministers who stayed in Chang'an City to accompany Li Chengqian all night until tomorrow morning again for Li Chengqian to return to Chang'an City.

Because of the hot weather, Li Chengqian didn't feel sleepy after dinner, so he called Li Ke to the big tent of the Chinese army to chat.

Li Chengqian and Li Ke sat in the open space in front of the tent, Liu Kui brought tea, and Li Chengqian ordered Liu Kui to take Li Xiang's brothers out to play with Li Su.

Li Ke knew that Li Chengqian liked Li Su, but he still reminded: "The sixth brother has always been messing around, and the eldest brother let Brother Li Xiang play with him, if he learns his temper in the future, I am afraid that the eldest brother will regret it." ”

Li Chengqian looked at him and smiled and didn't answer the words, but said directly: "After I go to Lingzhou, the princes of Chang'an City will be the eldest of you, and my father and emperor are busy with state affairs, so you have to take good care of your younger brothers and teach your younger brothers." ”

Li Ke listened to this most common sentence when the brothers were separated, but he smiled bitterly.

Indeed, after Li Chengqian left, there were only three princes left in Chang'an City, Li Su was his mother and brother, and he would control him if Li Chengqian didn't need to speak.

The meaning of Li Chengqian's words is no longer clear, it is not for him to discipline Li Zhi, but Li Zhi, as a concubine, how to discipline him as a concubine, isn't this embarrassing for him

Li Chengqian sighed helplessly when he saw this, raised his head and looked at the bright moon in the sky and said quietly: "I will go to Lingzhou to catch some coolies and send them to Jiannan to log and build ships, but Jiannan Mountain has many fields and many people, you have to send someone to investigate the situation in Jiannan first, and then pass the book to me, ask Liu Renliang more about Chang'an, and he will help you." ”

Li Ke was overjoyed when he heard that the shipbuilding was at first, but then hesitated: "Why didn't the eldest brother explain this matter to his father?"

Li Chengqian knew what he was worried about, looked at him and said solemnly: "Don't worry, I will tell my father when the matter is clear, but the situation in northern Xinjiang is complicated at this time, if my father knows that my purpose is too much, he may not be willing to let me out." ”

"Big brother......" Li Ke wanted to say that you are not afraid of your father's blame, but thinking that Li Chengqian has been more and more moisturized in the past six months, he can't go on.

The next day, Li Chengqian and his entourage began to slowly head towards Lingzhou.

Because of the hot weather and the lack of emergency military information, Li Chengqian and his party walked very slowly.

However, the news of Li Chengqian's trip north to Lingzhou had already spread to the northern frontier departments.

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June and July are the time when the water and grass in the Hetao area are abundant, and it is also the best time for herdsmen to graze, but in a village inhabited by Dangxiang Qiang, there is an extremely bloody scene.

At the intersection of the road into the village, the black-pressed green-headed flies were "buzzing" and flying the corpses of dozens of young men with wolf teeth and arrows.

Looking at the clothes of these people, we can see that they are all Dangxiang Qiang, although the bodies of these people attracted flies, they did not stink, and we can know that they have not been killed for a long time.

These dead Dang Xiang Qiang people still held homemade bows and arrows and spears sharpened from bamboo to death, but there were not many traces of fighting at the scene, and it can be inferred that these people were surrounded and annihilated by a group of enemies who were several times more numerous than them.

Looking at the village, black smoke was rising everywhere, and from time to time there were screams of women and children in some of the smoke-emitting houses, and it was clear that the people who surrounded them were committing adultery and murder in the village.

Dang Xiangqiang also made a living from herding, but at this time, Dang Xiangqiang had already begun to build houses and settle down. Because their small tribes settled together, and these small tribes did not belong to each other and were not particularly united with each other, they became the targets of robbery by various tribes.

At the intersection of the road into the village, the Turkic Qu Lu Lu Zhi rode on a horse with a gloomy expression, watching the Turkic young men and women in the tribe slaughter the men, women and children of this party Xiangqiang, and then drove their cattle and sheep out of the village, beat the horse and turned around and rushed to the next party Xiangqiang village.

Lu Zhi and they didn't dare to turn their faces with the Dingxiang Pastoral Supervisor, nor did they dare to rashly go to Ashina Hubo, so they could only take people out to rob the nearby small tribes after meeting the requirements of the Dingxiang Pastoral Supervisor.

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When Lu Zhi returned to the Turkic tribe with a full load, there was a thunderous whistling sound from the entire Turkic tribe.

The children and women of the tribe came out in a cheerful dance, casting eager eyes on the warriors on horseback.

Lu Zhi ignored all this, and directly took him to greet several of his subordinates who stayed in the tribe and returned to the central tent.

"What happened in the past few days when I was away," Lu Zhi said expressionlessly, sitting on a tiger skin.

"The Khan of Yi Mi Ni brought a letter from Chang'an." A subordinate said as he took out a roll of yellow paper from his body and handed it to Lu Zhi with both hands.

At present, there is no writing in the Turkic tribes, and the Eastern Turkic nobles all use Chinese characters, and there are very few people among the Turks who know Chinese characters, so Li Simo is not worried about the leakage of news.

Lu Zhi took the paper scroll and opened it to watch, but when he saw half of it, his face was already gloomy to the extreme, and a mouthful of small yellow broken teeth was squeaked by his mouth.

I read the letter with all my anger, then I tore it up and threw it on the ground when I rubbed it in my hand.

When several subordinates saw that Lu Zhi tore up the letter, they hurriedly asked: "Qu Silu, what did the Yimi Ni Liyu Khan say in the letter?"

Lu Zhi looked at the empty tent like frost, and only after a while did he squeeze out a sentence from between his teeth and said, "Let us work for Datang." ”

"Li Simo, he's too much of a thing...... one of his subordinates shouted with anger on his face.

Several other subordinates were also angry when they heard this, they had already suffered a big loss in the war with Xue Yantuo in Hebei this time, and when they returned to Hetao, they were squeezed by the Dingxiang pastoral supervisor, and at this time they could be said to hate Datang to the core.

"Qu Si Lu, should we immediately gather other Qu Si Lu to discuss countermeasures," one of his subordinates said.

Lu Zhi still looked at the exit with a gloomy face, gritted his teeth and said slowly: "Li Simo said that this time the crippled crown prince of the Tang Dynasty is also here, that is, he wants to calculate Xue Yantuo and let us take the lead." ”

The northern tribes have always worshiped heroes, so they have always looked down on Li Chengqian, who is disabled, which is why Li Simo dared to send Turkic slaves to tease Li Chengqian.

"Didn't Datang just tell the world to marry Xue Yantuo, how can they calculate Xue Yantuo in a blink of an eye, do they still talk about faith?" a subordinate was puzzled.

Lu Zhi said disdainfully when he heard this: "When did Datang talk about Xinyi." Several subordinates were even more angry when they heard this.

Lu Zhi paused, squinted his eyes and said with a murderous aura: "But I have heard of this waste crown prince before, and the heavenly khan really underestimated me as a hero on the grassland, and sent someone to see Ashina Hu Bo......"