"Minister Li Xiao came to see the saint!"

Li Xiao entered the temple and bowed down.

The emperor with a black silk and a yellow robe slowly turned around, looked at Li Xiao's body, and stepped forward with a smile to hold him with both arms, "This is not a foreign court, why bother with etiquette." ”

"You seem to be a little darker, and you're a lot stronger." The emperor patted Li Xiao on the back.

"Your Majesty is also stronger." Li Xiao said with a smile.

"Sit." The emperor turned his head and waved his hand to the people in the hall, "You all go down." ”

The palace people retreated, and there were only two living rooms left in the palace who were still holding a pen in one hand and a scroll in the other hand to make a record, the left history recorded the right history of the line, these living rooms recorded the emperor's words and deeds, included in the living notes, specially for the history of the country and for the later kings to see, the emperor of this dynasty can not watch the living notes of this dynasty This is a convention, although Taizong has broken this convention, but the current emperor has not dared to say that he wants to watch his living notes, and he does not dare to let these living men retreat.

Li Zhi has long been accustomed to these young talented historians, anyway, these people are everywhere all the time, recording everything, whether he says it good or not, even which concubine he pampered at night has to be recorded, and even a private complaint from his idol They have recorded it truthfully.

The temple became quiet.

The emperor pulled Li Xiao to the side and sat down, and even poured Li Xiao a cup of fine green tea himself.

"Since you got the fried tea, now my Datang's tea drinking habits have also changed greatly, now this tea according to your classification in the Chang'an News, after making various classifications such as green tea, black tea, white tea, black tea, etc., now everyone is really used to this new way of drinking tea, drinking green tea in summer, drinking black tea in spring, drinking milk tea in winter, at first I was a little unaccustomed, but gradually I can no longer drink the sencha mixed with various condiments." Li Zhi skillfully poured a cup of tea for Li Xiao.

Li Xiao took it with both hands, brought it to his mouth and took a sip gently.

"Longjing tea from Hangzhou, high-quality tribute tea, a treasure that is generally rare to drink outside." He sighed.

"It is worthy of the name of Longjing tea, and it will be tasted as soon as it is tasted."

The monarchs and ministers each held a cup of Longjing and savored it.

The emperor looked at Li Xiao while drinking tea, as if thinking about how to speak.

"Does Your Majesty want to ask the minister about the Qinghai war situation?"

"You're such a smart guy that you can guess anything, yes. Cheng Yanjin and Su Lie's conquest of Tuyuhun originally thought it was a success, but now there are some accidents. The Tubo people have made a move, and they are going with all their might, and they are determined to prevent my Tang Dynasty from destroying Tuguhun. Li Zhi said with some loss.

Li Xiao put down the teacup and said slowly, "Tubo made a move, this is actually expected. ”

The location of Tuyuhun was almost in the southern part of Gansu and the northern part of Qinghai in later generations, mainly in some areas south of the Qilian Mountains.

This area is a gentle slope in the northern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and relatively speaking, the transportation to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is more convenient than that of Sichuan and Yunnan.

As for the Tuyuhun Kingdom, it was actually established by a branch of the Xianbei Murong clan, but the number of Xianbei people is small, and its main body is the Qiang tribe.

There are excellent pastures and pastures, which are suitable for nomadic herding and produce excellent war horses. But at the same time, it is also suitable for farming, because this unique condition has always been a place of contention between the Central Plains farming dynasty and the northwest nomads.

From the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Sui Dynasty, Tuyuhun's national strength continued to grow stronger, and at the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, it was a vast territory of two thousand miles from north to south and thousands of miles from east to west.

However, they met the Sui Empire that unified the Central Plains Dynasty, and the two sides fought several times, Tuyuhun experienced the tragic experience of being friendly and being a vassal and being destroyed, and was directly set up by the Sui to set up four counties, and in the chaotic times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, he took the opportunity to restore the country.

After arriving in the Tang Dynasty, it was not often rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, and when Zhenguan, Taizong had sent Li Jing, Hou Junji, Xue Wanche and other generals to conquer Tuyuhun, and the Tuyuhun surrendered to vassal.

Since Zhenguan broke Tuyuhun in the eighth year and the king committed suicide, the Tang Dynasty set up a new king of Tuyuhun, and also adopted the strategy of harmony, harmony, sealing, and appeasement, and Tuyuhun also began to attach to the Tang Dynasty.

But in the end, Tuyuhun still did not change his life, and after recovering some strength, he was ready to move again, so there was now another crusade, but this time the Tang Dynasty was not ready to fight first and then appease, but to directly destroy it as the Sui Dynasty did back then, and then set up a direct state and county system.

But the Tibetans came to stop it again.

Tubo is almost a powerful force established at the same time as the Tang Dynasty, before the Tang Dynasty, Tubo was only a tribe in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and then rose strongly, unified the tribes, dominated the plateau, and constantly attacked and expanded to the periphery, and even fought several battles with the Tang Dynasty.

Now, the Tubo people are even more intent on getting involved in Tuyuhun to further threaten the Tang Dynasty's Longyou, Hexi, and even Anxi.

There are also some nobles in the Tuyuhun Kingdom who were bought by the Tubo people and told the Tubo people all the truth and truth. After gaining the support of the Tubo people, these Tuyuhun people were so arrogant and arrogant that they forgot the past when they were beaten by the Central Plains.

To put it bluntly, the rebellion of the Tuyuhun people today is actually an act under the support and command of the Tubo people.

The Tang Dynasty wants to move the Tuyuhun people, how can the Tubo people not make a move.

"Your Majesty, as far as the minister knows, this year Tuyuhun Gandou Khan Murong Shun was seriously ill, Tuyuhun was in civil strife, and finally Prince Nuo Haobo fought with the king to win the throne, and finally Prince Nuo Haobo killed his uncle King Zun to win the throne, and the minister Su Hegui and others who supported the king fled into Tibet."

Murong Shun died, Nuo Haobo succeeded to the throne of Khan, and married his stepmother, Princess Honghua of the Tang Dynasty, according to custom, which was originally just a family affair of the Tuyuhun people. But Su Hegui and others, who fled into Tibet, asked the Tibetans to help them seize the throne and support the son of the king.

Of course, the Tibetans are happy to have the opportunity to enter Tuyuhun directly.

It was in this situation that the Tubo people entered Tuyuhun, and at the same time, two forces were split into Tuyuhun in the country, one was the power of the new Khan of Nuo Haobo, who married a princess of the Tang Dynasty and was still willing to attach himself to the Tang Dynasty. But the Su and noble faction that has been attached to the Tubo people has become the lackeys of the Tubo people and is the enemy of the Tang people.

It was these Tuyuhun people who attacked the Hexi Corridor who surrendered to Tubo, and the Tang Dynasty ignored these at all, and directly took the opportunity to send troops to Tuyuhun, but unexpectedly, the Tubo people reacted quickly this time, and did not give the Tang Dynasty the opportunity to destroy Tuyuhun and seize Qinghai.

As a result, on the surface, it was Tuyuhun of the Tang Dynasty to fight against the rebellion, but in fact, it was a formal contest between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo in Qinghai.