It was not until the afternoon that Zhang Huan slowly entered the city, and the Tang army's burning and looting in the city had gradually stopped, and martial law was imposed, the streets were empty, and every house was closed.

Zhang Huan did not stay, and went directly into the palace, which was built with white boulders, which was very strong, but at this time the palace was a mess, and after the Tang army entered the city, it bore the brunt of the situation, but it was once magnificent from its gorgeous wall decorations and precious Persian carpets.

"See the general!" He Lou Wuji strode forward and bowed to Zhang Huan, "My subordinates will arrest everyone in advance according to the general's instructions." ”

With a wave of his hand, the soldiers escorted dozens of people forward, led by an old noblewoman, followed by a middle-aged lady with a beautiful face, and behind them were all young men and women, the oldest in his twenties, and the youngest only seven or eight years old.

"The old woman is Chief Hu's old mother, and the woman behind her is his Kedun (queen), and the others are his princes and princesses."

"Well done!"

Zhang Huan patted him on the shoulder and smiled approvingly: "This time to break through the capital city, I will remember your first merit!" ”

"Thank you, General!" He Lou Wuji knelt down on one knee and gave a military salute, he suddenly remembered something again, and hurriedly took out a letter from his arms, glanced at Hui Kedun and said: "When my subordinates arrested her, I saw that she was going to burn this letter, and my subordinates quickly snatched it. ”

"Oh!" What would be the letter that the Queen of Hui was anxious to burn? Zhang Huan couldn't help but be interested, he took the letter, the cover has been burned a corner, but there is no damage to the letterhead inside, only to see the dragon flying and phoenix dance on the letter cover written six Chinese characters 'Dengli Khan personally opened', Zhang Huan suddenly felt that this handwriting seemed a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it?

He immediately took out the letter and read it, Zhang Huan's eyes gradually narrowed into a slit, this letter was actually written by Cui Yuan to Dengli Khan, asking for a joint bureau to lure the Li family into the city of Xishou, seeing the end, he exhaled lightly, the significance of this letter is no less than his capture of Han Erbali.

"Have you read the letter?" Zhang Huan glanced at He Lou Wuji vigilantly.

"No, no!" He Lou Wuji's eyes looked a little flustered.

"It's best if you haven't seen it, and if you do, you have to forget about it immediately, otherwise it will kill you."

With that, Zhang Huan carefully put the letter in his arms, put it away closely, he turned around and walked out of the palace, and ordered loudly: "Go and bring me all the captured Hui nobles." ”

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The rain stopped and stopped, and it was not until two days later that a bright sun spread over the city of Han'er, and the sky was as pure as a sapphire, and the air was filled with the fragrance of grass and earth.

At noon, horse-drawn carriages full of women, children, and old men of the Hui began to be driven out of the city, holding their meager possessions, and the little ones perhaps holding a lamb in their hands, and there were no young men, most of whom were fighting on the front lines, and the young men who remained were almost killed.

More than 100,000 people reluctantly bid farewell to their homeland and were escorted to the south by the Tang army, and they didn't know where they were going? But Tang told them that if their husbands or sons left Tang territory, they would also be free.

Outside the city, nearly a thousand ox carts were loaded with countless jewels, gold, and silk, and the wealth accumulated by the Hui Empire for decades.

On both sides of the ox cart were tens of thousands of Han slaves, including men, women, and even children, all of whom were Tang people who had been taken captive by the Hui Dynasty, women and children sat in the carriages, while the men formed a militia group and were responsible for taking care of the money and goods and the Hui people.

They are about to return to their homeland with the Tang Army, and everyone's eyes are full of yearning for freedom and expectation for their relatives in their hometown.

At the front of the ranks, the Tang army focused on guarding nearly a thousand Uighur nobles, among whom were the relatives of Dengli Khan, important ministers, and senior Manichaean priests, which would be his bargaining chips in exchange for Dengli's withdrawal.

"Ignition!"

Zhang Huan waved his hand lightly, and the Tang army began to light fires everywhere in the city, which had been coated with fire oil in advance, and black smoke quickly rose from all over the city, the largest of which was the palace burning, and the Hui nobles stared blankly at the capital that was gradually engulfed in flames.

The ox cart started slowly and struggled to the far south.......

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On the tenth day of the first month of June, Chang'an, the Xuanzheng Hall of Daming Palace, the debate on the canonization of the crown prince also reached a fever pitch, the emperor's throne was empty, and Empress Dowager Zhang and Empress Cui were dressed in court clothes and sat on both sides of the emperor's dragon throne.

This is a court meeting that will decide the fate and direction of the Tang Dynasty, and the officials and virtual officials above the fifth rank are all present, and even many veterans of the Tang Dynasty who have retreated behind the scenes are also present, such as the first one sitting on the left, which is the nearly eighty-year-old Taishi Guo Ziyi.

Lichujun has become a consensus, the price offered by the Hui people is not something Datang can afford, if you don't want to cut the land, you can do it, then you need to take out eight million pieces of silk, or one million horses a year, and pay it off in ten years.

Establish a prince first, and then set up a new emperor, only in this way can the importance of the Li family be reduced, so as to lower the price of the Hui people, and more importantly, to avoid the shame of a country.

Prior to this, the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty had secretly clashed several times over this matter, and there were many people who supported Cui Yuan to support Li Miao, and there were also many people who supported Pei Junli and Li Yao as the crown prince.

The contradiction became more and more acute, the day before yesterday, the queen mother wanted to enter the temple to ask the first emperor, but was blocked by more than 300 officials led by the military department Shangshu Wei Ge, the two sides have been deadlocked from noon to dusk, and the queen mother had no choice but to return to the Taiji Palace.

The court meeting began, and the Empress Dowager Zhang first started, "Ladies and gentlemen, everyone is for state affairs, I hope that today's court meeting will be politely discussed, and don't hurt the harmony of colleagues for some senseless disputes!"

She glanced at everyone and raised her voice: "Which Aiqing will say first?" ”

"The old minister has something to say!" Guo Ziyi, the Taishi who has been sitting silently, couldn't help but be the first to stand up, this great hero of the pacification of the Anshi Rebellion was about to end the rebellion, was relieved of the military power by the then Emperor Suzong, and went home, this leisure is fifteen years, except for being named the Taishi by the Li Department, there is no achievement, the years urge people to grow old, and in a blink of an eye he has passed the age of ancient times, but his heart to serve the country has never been extinguished. He strongly advocated the rescue of the emperor, and returned to the color of the Hui, but several excerpts into the cabinet were like a stone in the sea, and today he was determined to seize this opportunity.

"Why can't you send troops north to rescue Your Majesty? If we drag them with the Longyou army, and then use the Hebei army to attack their capital, and implement the plan of encircling Wei to save Zhao, it may not be impossible to save the emperor. ”

Guo Ziyi's voice was loud, and his questioning echoed in the hall.

"Well said!"

Yan Zhenqing, who had the same idea as Guo Ziyi, also stood up, and he saluted to Empress Dowager Zhang: "Queen Mother, the old minister thinks that what General Guo said is extremely true, the emperor is the king of a country, how can he let Chief Hu be humiliated, since Chief Hu can raise an army of the country, then why can't my Datang raise the army of the country, he has 300,000 Hu soldiers, but my Datang has 600,000 fierce troops, twice as much as the enemy, but why don't you even have the courage to mention it, where is the blood of my Datang people?" ”

At this time, Queen Cui Xiaofu couldn't help but speak, she whispered to Empress Dowager Zhang: "Queen Mother, I also think what the two old ministers said is reasonable, why don't you let everyone discuss it?" ”

Empress Dowager Zhang quickly glanced at Cui Yuan's face, and when she saw that he was gloomy and silent, she immediately reprimanded Cui Xiaofu and said: "The harem can't interfere in politics, this is the ancestral training, we must not forget." ”

Cui Xiaofu snorted lightly, and then stopped talking, what harem can't interfere in politics, is she Zhang Liangdi still less involved in politics?

There was silence in the hall, and the two old ministers who retreated behind the scenes disturbed the respective layouts of the two factions, at this moment, no one refused to come forward first, Cui Yuan gave Wang Ang a look, Wang Ang understood, he smiled and walked out of the court, "King of Fenyang County, Duke Lu County, how do you know that the ministers of the court and the central government do not want to save His Majesty from fire and water?" ”

He sighed, shook his head and said, "If you don't want to, you can't!" The Hui people raised 300,000 troops to besiege the small city of Xishou, and one person and one stone could also beat it into powder, but they besieged it for more than a month, and they did not do it for a long time, why is this? They are going to bargain with us, if he breaks through the city too early, I am afraid it will gain nothing, so we set up a prince, not directly set up a new monarch, only in this way can we suppress the sky-high price of Chief Hu, and save the emperor as soon as possible. ”

"Wang Shangshu is very right!" Zhang Xiancheng, the squire of the military department, also stood up and added: "As the old commander of the Shicai Guo said, send the Hebei army to attack back to the capital city, but how many are sent? It is useless to send less, but if you send too much, Chief Hu can not know that if the 300,000 army is divided into 100,000 to intercept, it will trigger a full-scale war, and it will endanger Your Majesty's life, so I agree with Wang Shangshu's suggestion, first set up the crown prince, then set up a new monarch, and then negotiate the conditions with Chief Hu, this is the safest way, if something happens to Your Majesty because of the recklessness of the two, who can afford it? ”

"Humph!" Guo Ziyi snorted heavily, although he was nearly eighty, he was not deaf or dazzled, when Cui Yuan gave Wang Ang a look, he could see it clearly, people had already made up their minds for this morning, so what was the use of opposing it? Guo Ziyi stopped talking and sat down angrily.

But Yan Zhenqing refused to end, he said coldly to Wang Ang: "Shameless nonsense, when the thieves rebelled, our Yan brothers raised their arms in Changshan County, and hundreds of thousands of old and weak people responded in groups, this is for the country!" Zhang Xun led thousands of starving people to fight against more than 100,000 thieves in a small county, and none of them surrendered, this is for righteousness! And now the dignified king of the dynasty is besieged in a desperate place, and tens of millions of people in the world are eager for the imperial court to send a general to lead 100,000 heroes to expel Hu Lu, and return the Tang Dynasty to the country, but you, the military ministers, sit still and talk for more than a month, allowing Your Majesty to be bullied by Chief Hu, how will you win the trust of the world? ”

Speaking of this, Yan Zhenqing raised his head, straightened his waist, and said sharply: "I, Yan Zhenqing, am not talented, I am willing to scatter all my family wealth to raise 3,000 righteous people, go north to rescue Your Majesty, and repay the country with death!" ”

With that, he flicked his sleeves and strode out of the hall, where there was silence, and there were those who laughed, those who were ashamed, and those who admired, and everyone was silently thinking about their own thoughts.

Just when Yan Zhenqing was about to walk to the door of the main hall, a rush of footsteps suddenly sounded outside the hall, and I saw a guard rush in and report urgently, "Report to Cui Xiangguo, report to the Queen Mother, Daijun sent an urgent report of eight hundred miles, the Hui army has retreated north, Your Majesty is fine!" ”

"What!" Cui Yuanhuo stood up, he couldn't believe his ears, not only him, but everyone in the hall was stunned by the news.

Yan Zhenqing stepped forward and grabbed the guard, and asked loudly, "Say it quickly!" What the hell is going on? ”

The guard stood up, took out a volume of express newspapers, and said in a loud voice: "It is Zhang Huan, the general of the Hedong Army, who led 3,000 cavalry to go deep into Hu for 3,000 miles, attacked the city of Han'er Bali, captured thousands of Hui magnates, and Hu Chief was forced to retreat. ”

"Good! Good! Yan Zhenqing looked up to the sky and laughed, tears flowed out of his eyes unscrupulously, he slowly turned his head and said to the ministers word by word: "Have you seen it?" I have many heroes in the Tang Dynasty! ”

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