The royal palace of Mohedu is Turkic style from the appearance, thick and square, it has a little dome spire, has been faintly branded with Islam, but into the inside, only to see carved beams and painted columns, flowers, screens, porcelain can be seen everywhere, people seem to be in the Tang Dynasty, only the servants and maids who walk back and forth, only people suddenly remember that this is thousands of miles away from Chang'an.

Li Qing walked into the inner palace with Mo Hedu, and some of his concubines suddenly saw a strange man come in, and they were so frightened that they avoided it, but Mo Hedu was unconscious, walked into a palatial palace, and pushed open a small back door at the end, there was a courtyard outside, the courtyard was already empty, standing in the courtyard you could hear the noisy noise, it seemed that the outside was the bazaar.

"Follow me!" Mo He turned his head and smiled mysteriously at Li Qing, making Li Qing feel as if he was in the story of the Arabian Nights, and he walked into a stone house full of hay, which exuded a strong smell of horse urine, and he felt nauseous, but Mo He groped in the corner of the wall for a while, only to hear the sound of 'click, the stone trough for feeding the horses suddenly moved, and Li Qing suddenly realized that there was a secret passage here.

Li Qing followed Mo Hedu into the secret passage, and the stone trough above his head was slowly buckled again, and his eyes immediately became dark, and soon, an oil lamp burning with bean grains appeared in Mo Hedu's hand, dim Li Qing groped forward, while listening to his deep voice echoing in the secret passage: "This secret room was left by my grandfather, it has always been a secret of the royal family, ordinary people don't know about it, I brought you here to let you see someone."

Pushing open a stone door, the light is bright, and the stone room is splendidly decorated with gold. Heavy Persian carpets, gem-encrusted stone walls, large tassels, and beautifully large porcelain vases, it is especially amazing that it is well ventilated, completely devoid of the damp and gloomy feeling outside, but there is not a single window in sight.

Li Qing was not attracted by the arrangement inside, but set his eyes on the corner of the wall, where there was a chair made of pure gold and encrusted with precious stones, and a person sat on the chair. He is the same age as Mo He, with a long face. The complexion is pale, but the temperament is noble. He reclined in his chair, holding a crystal glass filled with blood-red wine in his hand, squinting at himself.

Slowly, his eyes showed a look of surprise, he sat up straight, drank all the wine in the cup, stood up and looked at Li Qing and said hesitantly: "Aren't you the household servant of Chang'an?" How did you get here? ”

"Pero. He is the envoy of the Tang Dynasty, and he has just arrived today."

Mo Hedu turned back to Li Qing and said slowly: "Now in front of you, it is Pei Luo, the king of the country of Bakhana."

Li Qing's heart was extremely shocked, wasn't Shi Guo at war with Bahanna? How did the king of Bahana end up in the secret chamber of Mohedu? However, although he was shocked in his heart, his face did not show any of it, and he stepped forward to bow to King Peiluo and said with a smile: "His Royal Highness the King has seen me in Chang'an."

"Yes. I went to Chang'an the year before last to meet His Majesty the Heavenly Khan, and I met the Hubu squire."

King Pei Luo also put away his surprise and smiled at Mo Hedu: "You have not been afraid of your soul for the past two days. But you're just waiting for the waiter to come? ”

Mo Hedu smiled and invited Li Qing to sit down, he took out two crystal cups and filled himself and Li Qing with a glass of wine, then sighed softly, and said to Li Qing: "The war with Bahana is just Che Nose's order to serve the Great Food, the purpose is to find an excuse for the Great Food to interfere in the internal affairs of Shi, I have always had a good relationship with Pei Luo, he came in person this time, just to discuss with me a way to deal with the invasion of the Great Cannibal, but it has been two days, we are at a loss, today the waiter is coming, can there be a way to solve the crisis between our two countries?" ”

After speaking, he and Pei Luo glanced at each other, and the four eyes brushed towards Li Qing, but Li Qing didn't seem to hear it, he had a smile on his face, his eyes were lowered, and his hand gently shook the wine in the crystal glass, and he said after a while: "I have a question, please answer it?" ”

Mo Hedu immediately straightened his waist and said to Li Qing eagerly: "It's okay to talk about it."

"I heard from the businessmen that Da Shi did not hesitate to send troops to attack Kang Guo and Shi Guo, but when he arrived in Shi Guo, the troops were slow, but first created a crisis, and then sent envoys to mediate, trying to win without a fight, which is inconsistent with the Abbasids' usual tough style, so I want to ask the two, what is the reason for this?"

"I know a thing or two about this." Next to him, Pei Luo took over the topic, leaned forward slightly, and said: "The Abbasid claims that the 200,000 army invaded the east in two ways, in fact, it was just an imaginary number, the actual strength was only 50,000 at most, and most of his troops were still in the west to conquer the white-clothed food, that was his strategic focus, this is the reason why Kang and Shi dared to resist, if Shi Guo and Bahanna joined forces to resist again, once the Great Cannibal attack was frustrated, then Kang and Shi Guo would inevitably rebel again, so that the Great Food's eastward crusade plan was very likely to fail, Therefore, he took advantage of the surrender of King Shi Guozheng, first provoked the relationship between our two countries, destroyed the possible alliance, and waited for us to have almost exhausted our internal friction, and then suddenly sent troops, at that time we can only let it be slaughtered, of course, if the army can occupy Shi Guo without blood, why not do it? ”

Li Qing nodded, it should be this reason, he remembered that the white-clothed food spanned the three major states of Asia, Africa and Europe, although the Abbasids' black-clothed food occupied Damascus last year, but to completely conquer the original territory of the white-clothed food, it would not be possible to complete it for a while, so it was impossible for him to put heavy troops in Asia, and he didn't believe that it would take 200,000 troops to clean up these small Western Regions Hu Kingdom? As for the Eastern Crusade of the Tang Dynasty, it was just a distant plan, the Abbasid was not at ease, how could he immediately set up a strong enemy, if he didn't even have this bit of political wisdom, how could the Abbasid establish a black-clothed food.

He pondered for a moment, and then suddenly said, "You have descended before, but why don't you descend now?" Must you resist to the end? ”

Li Qing asked this sentence very bluntly, even rudely, but if he didn't ask clearly, once the war broke out, the position of these small countries wavered, and it was very likely that it would become the reason for the final defeat. Once he knew why, he would seize on what they feared and tie them to his chariot.

Sure enough, Li Qing's straightforwardness made the atmosphere in the room very embarrassing, and finally Pei Luo 'Hey! , sighed, and said with a wry smile: "The squire doesn't give us any face, yes, we have descended, but we have lowered the white-clothed food, not the current Abbasid black-clothed food."

"What's the difference?" Li Qing didn't give him a respite. Keep asking.

"The difference?" Mo Hedu next to him suddenly became angry, he stood up and said loudly: "In the past, although the food tax on white clothes was heavy. But it's better to leave us a little, but now the Abbasid is a hungry wolf. Anguo, Kangguo, Miguo, Shiguo, wherever his army passed, the royal family was all killed, deprived of our faith, destroyed our temples, dug up our localization, and enslaved our people. All the people of the land must profess Islam, and if there is the slightest dissatisfaction, they will be killed immediately, do you think we can not resist? Now that the lessons of Kangguo and Mi are bloody in front of us, can't we see it? ”

"Then why did the car nose Shi come down?"

'Bang! , , with a bang, Mo He slammed his fist on the table, "He's a coward." He was frightened, and only thought about keeping his land rich and prosperous, and didn't care about anything else. He even offered his queen to the Great Emissary to play with."

"Alright, don't say any more." Li Qing stood up and paced slowly in the room with his hands in his hands, the situation in front of him was complicated, but when he pushed aside the chaotic branches, there was only one thing at the core, that is, to unite the forces of the countries in the Western Regions to jointly resist the invasion of the Great Food, whether it was military or political.

Thinking of this, Li Qing resolutely made up his mind, and he turned around and asked, "You might as well tell me the truth, how many troops do you have in your hands?" ”

Pei Luo was overjoyed, stood up and said loudly: "Bahana has 20,000 troops, if necessary, my 300,000 people are soldiers!" ”

"What about you?" Li Qing's eyes turned to Mo Hedu again.

"I only have 5,000 soldiers loyal to my land now, but if I can kill Che Bishi, then I will have 30,000 warriors in my stone country."

"Kill Che Nose Shi!" The wine glass in Li Qing's hand snapped, and was crushed to pieces, if you want to make the ship of the Stone Kingdom completely turn to the Tang Dynasty, if you want to make the defeat of the Battle of Talas not repeat, then all the roadblocks must be removed, although he has never met this Che Na Shi............

Generally speaking, war is a continuation of diplomacy, the inevitability of a compromise that cannot be reached at the negotiating table, but diplomacy is not necessarily a banquet of singing and dancing, not exactly a champagne gentleman, and many times, behind the glossy diplomatic rhetoric, there is a more brutal conspiracy and bloodshed than war.

Shiguo Zhengwang Palace, there are only three people in the empty palace, a pair of fathers and a messenger who comes to the land, the father is naturally the Zhengwang Che Bi Shi and his son Che Duo Du, Che Bi Shi is about fifty years old, fat and fat, his biggest feature is round, his face is round, his eyes are round, his nose is round, and even his chin is round, and his round belly is full of people's fat and people's ointment.

Chenosesh was a timid king, and when the Abbasids gave him the head of the king of Kangguo as a gift, he was immediately frightened and immediately sent the king to Damascus to ask for surrender, and carried out everything according to the instructions of the Abbasid envoy.

Che Bishi is short in stature, and needs to look up to the tall and thin food messenger Budu, in fact, his heart is also full of admiration for Budu, he is the uncle of Abbas, the governor of Persia, he only hates that he does not have two stunners like Princess Raja, one is dedicated to Abbasid, and the other is dedicated to Budu, fortunately, his queen is also a famous beauty in Shiguo, and it happens that Budu is also quite interested in her, so that he can finally breathe a sigh of relief, and can establish a good personal friendship with Budu.

It's a pity that Budu doesn't think so, in his opinion, Che Bi Shi can't be a chess, it can be used or discarded, and when Da Shi completely annexes Zhaowu Kingdom, this chess will lose its effect, as for his wife, it's just a pillow.

It was Mohedu's daughter, who was asked by the caliph by name, saying that she would not be the queen of the great food in the future, Budu glanced at Che Duodu, who was standing at the door with a blank face, and couldn't help but feel disgusted, a milky little kid dared to compete with the great caliph for a woman, he was simply tired of life.

But now is not the time to kill them, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty actually came, and it was also the Li Qing who killed the Tubo Zampu, Budu was the person who knew the Tang Dynasty best among the nobles of the Great Food, when the Abbasids had not yet raised troops, he was a merchant in Khorasan, and spent half a year in Chang'an, learned fluent Chinese, and later he became the founder of the Black Clothes Great Food, and naturally served as the chief formulator of the Great Food Country's policy towards the Tang Dynasty, through the merchants, he has been collecting intelligence about the Tang Dynasty, including Li Qing.

Of course, just as Li Qing didn't know much about the Great Eclipse, the distant space affected the completeness and accuracy of the information, and he only knew that Li Qing had killed Tubo Zampu and later became a household servant, and he didn't know anything else.

But as a successful person who struggled from the bottom, caution and attention to the enemy was his consistent style, and he did not despise Li Qing because of his youth, on the contrary, today's short contact made him realize that this young man has a maturity and sophistication that is not suitable for his age, and he is a powerful character.

"Che Nose Shi, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty is here, how are you going to explain." Budu sat on the king's throne with a big sting, staring coldly at Che Nas, and it would be more comfortable for him to call him by his first name than to call him king for such a spineless flatterer.

Budu's cold gaze made Che Nashi tremble, and secretly cursed the Tang Dynasty envoy to come by coincidence, tonight the nobles of Shiguo will hold a meeting to decide whether Shiguo surrenders Budu, but as soon as the Tang envoy comes, it will make many unstable nobles begin to hesitate again, and the final outcome is unpredictable, and the Tang Dynasty's army is controlled by the imperial court, Shiguo is a country dominated by animal husbandry, and most of its troops are the private armies of various nobles, large and small, there are dozens, when the country faces war, the nobles will hand over the army, under the unified command of the marshal, After the end of the war, he returned to his headquarters, and the war with Bakhana was originally an opportunity to gain military power, but the cunning nobles at this time, no one would take out troops, but Che Nose lost a lot of money.

Therefore, if the surrender of the Great Food is not supported by the majority of the nobles, Shi Guo is very likely to break out into a civil war, which will greatly weaken his ability to surrender the Great Food, which he is unwilling.

But as Budu's face became more and more ugly, Che Bishi no longer had time to hesitate, he gritted his teeth, bowed to Budu and said, "Everything is at the discretion of the governor!" ”

"Well, I'll decide." Budu's face softened slightly, but his gaze became more aggressive, "I'll give you three days to kill the Tang Envoy for me, otherwise I will have your father's life!" ”...........