Chapter 415: Gathering Intelligence

Zhang Yunwen waited in the investigation institute for a long time, and finally, a scribe delivered what he wanted.

At the beginning, Li Shimin asked who was closest to the Tang Dynasty in the Western Turkic Ashina family. Zhang Yunwen did not dare to slack off, so he instructed the official who managed the intelligence database to inquire about this information.

When I opened the information, there were seven people listed on it, ranked from high to low according to their closeness to Datang. The first person to bear the brunt of the attack was the son of the former Mohe Marquis Quli and the Khan of Bibi.

Zhang Yunwen glanced at this information hastily, and then handed it over to Li Shimin.

All that can be done now is waiting. Jang Yunwen even began to speculate whether the Western Turkic envoys arrived first or the Goguryeo envoys arrived first.

The first to come were the Western Turkic envoys. In October of the sixteenth year of Zhenguan, the Western Turkic envoys arrived in Chang'an. As soon as they arrived in Chang'an, they asked the officials in charge of receiving them to meet Li Shimin.

However, the official in charge of the reception smiled slightly, and used the usual practice as an excuse to postpone the date of these envoys' meeting with Li Shimin by two days.

Of course, he was instructed to do so.

Two days later, these envoys entered the palace to see Li Shimin, and after handing over the documents, they said: "Respected Your Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, my country's Yipi Lu Khan killed his subordinates indiscriminately, was brutal and unkind, and was no longer suitable to serve as the Khan of our country. ”

Li Shimin said with a rather majestic "um": "Since this matter is the will of the people, then I will conform to the will of the people and depose the Yibi Lu Khan!" But do you have a candidate for this new Khan? ”

The Western Turkic envoy shook his head: "The various tribes in my country have not determined who will be the next khan!" I also hope that His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty can hand-pick one person to come! ”

As soon as these words came out, not only Li Shimin, but also the ministers below were all stunned, this Western Turk is really my Tang Dynasty to set up a monarch for it, and the Tang Dynasty will choose people. This has never been done before!

You must know that although the Western Turks are nominally a subject state of the Tang Dynasty, they are completely a big country because of their own strength. The relationship with the Tang Dynasty is not harmonious, and it is common to compete for control of the Western Regions, and now the Western Turks have asked Li Shimin to canonize the Khan of their country, does it mean that they obey my Tang Dynasty?

Li Shimin deserved to be the king of a country, and after being slightly stunned, he calmly replied: "Since your country requires me to establish a khan, then I will canonize the son of the former Mohe Marquis Quli and the Khan of Yibi as the Khan of Yibi!" ”

The Turkic envoy hurriedly thanked him and happily retreated.

"It seems that the situation in the Western Turks is not optimistic!" When the envoy came out of the main hall, Fang Xuanling sighed softly.

Zhang Yunwen, who was standing not far away, realized in his heart, no wonder the Western Turks would hand over the candidate for the canonization of the khan to the Tang Dynasty to choose, I am afraid that it is precisely because of the erosion of the domestic situation and the dissatisfaction of the leaders of various tribes that the Tang Dynasty chose the khan.

The Western Turkic envoys did not stay in Chang'an for a few days, so they returned to the Western Regions with the golden drum and other items given by Li Shimin.

At this time, Zhang Yunwen received a message about Yibi Lu. After retreating to Baishui Hucheng, this Yibi Lulu heard that the leader had deposed him, and he was quite unconvinced, and immediately led his own soldiers and prepared to lure his original tribe. And all the tribe said, "Even if a thousand of us die in battle, and only one is left, they will not follow you." Seeing that he had rebelled and that the tide was gone, he fled to Tochar.

Not long after the Western Turkic envoy left, the Goguryeo envoy arrived. Their purpose was to ask Li Shimin to give him a ritual to determine the legitimacy of the newly enthroned Treasure King.

Li Shimin was originally dissatisfied with Na Yuan Gai Suwen, so he motioned to Honglu Temple to "coldly treat" this messenger now. As a result, these Goguryeo envoys lived in the post house for ten days and a half months, and they were not able to meet Li Shimin. And when they went out a few times, these people were beaten by the gangsters in Chang'an City.

These gangsters are extremely vicious, sprinkling lime, beating stuffy sticks and other methods in an endless stream, almost making these messengers think that these gangsters are specifically coming at them. In fact, the real identity of these thugs is that of the investigators.

After a long wait and then beatings, these Goguryeo envoys became extremely docile one by one, and never mentioned the matter of meeting Li Shimin. The sharpness of the body was sharpened clean.

At this time, Li Shimin agreed to meet with these Goguryeo envoys.

When the Goryeo envoys came to the Taiji Hall to meet Li Shimin, they saw that the guards on both sides were mighty and upright, and the generals all exuded a kind of arrogance, and looked at them with disdain.

After Li Shimin saw these envoys, he did not directly say the right thing, but asked about the situation in Goguryeo.

"Well, I heard that Goguryeo is ruled by Yuangai Suwen and controls the whole government. I wonder if there is such a thing? Li Shimin asked casually.

The Goguryeo envoy kneeling below trembled, was silent for a moment, gritted his teeth and replied: "My country's Lord Yuan is loyal to the country, loyal to the liver and courage, supporting the young master, and Anguobang!" The monarch is still young, and of course the country's military and political affairs are handed over to heroes like Lord Yuan! ”

Li Shimin's heart was on fire when he heard this, and he reprimanded: "Hmph, he killed the king for no reason, and now he has manipulated the young master to order the whole country, so a traitor dares to call himself a hero, it is really shameless!" Come, drive this man out of the hall! ”

So the Goguryeo envoy was expelled from the Taiji Palace.

Li Shimin calmed down for a while, but said to the remaining deputy envoy: "You go back and tell Yuangai Suwen, just say that the envoy he sent is contrary to me." Let him come back with another envoy! ”

Where did this envoy dare to say anything disagree, he immediately kowtowed again and again and withdrew from the Taiji Palace.

After the Goguryeo envoys left, Li Shimin said in a deep voice: "What else is there to do with you Aiqing today? Hurry up! ”

After the court meeting ended, Li Shimin left Zhang Yunwen behind, and said to him with a serious face: "Yunwen, you can also see today's events, how much influence this Yuangai Suwen has in Goguryeo!" I have given you a task to gather information about Goguryeo as soon as possible. At the same time, it will strengthen its infiltration. Oh, by the way, and Yuangai Suwen, this person is also a character, you can also collect some news about him! ”

Zhang Yunwen immediately took the order and left.

First, he investigated and sorted out the information in Goguryeo. This year, when Zhonglang sent Chen Dadeok to Goryeo, he brought back a lot of information about Goryeo, but most of this information was from a few big cities, and there was very little information about the fortress towns in Goguryeo. In the past, more than 300 spies were sent to Goguryeo one after another, but the number of these spies was a little less than the size of Goguryeo.

Therefore, this time, Zhang Yunwen unceremoniously took out seven or eight hundred people from Henan Province and Hebei Province to Goguryeo. At the same time, there were also many spies on the fleet that sailed far away and engaged in maritime trade, and these people were responsible for finding information on the sea.

As for Na Yuan Gai Suwen's information, Zhang Yunwen dispatched two people who were extremely good at words and good at observing faces and expressions in the investigation institute to send the Goguryeo mission away. This one will be sent out of Guanzhong all the way.

The two spies did not fail in their mission, and in the process of talking with those envoys, they poured ** medicine into each other, said good things, and took out a lot of useful things in a few moments.

Zhang Yunwen quietly looked at the thick information in front of him, but his heart was fluctuating.

Li Shimin is afraid that he is going to do something to Goguryeo!