The Tang cavalry, which was less than 10,000 people, escorted nearly 20,000 Western Turkic captives, walking on the open grassland, as if it were a huge wolf pack, surrounded by a flock of sheep in the middle.

The setting sun is sharpening its head and drilling below the horizon, and the remaining golden stains stain the withered yellow grassland, which makes this nature have a more sacred breath. The cold wind blew by, and the lonely emptiness was inexplicably sad.

After returning from Wenlu, Li Hong's face has not been very good-looking, war is cruel, he knew it for a long, long time. But whenever he was faced with the killing of unarmed people, he always had inexplicable sadness and anger in his heart.

"Dadu Hu, what to do with these 20,000 people?" Quan Yi's face was blue, and he let Ashina Duzhi flee into the depths of the grassland, making him feel shameless.

"You can escort it to the door source, tell Ming Chongyan, use it casually, and there will be labor in the future." Li Hong looked at the Western Turkic captives who were slowly entering Qiuzi, and said lightly.

Quan Yi answered, and after saluting behind Li Hong, he left to arrange the prisoners' accommodation for tonight and tomorrow's itinerary.

"Hua Meng, send a letter to Bai Chun, all the cement that was deliberately stored will be transported to Qiuzi after the beginning of spring." After Li Hong finished speaking, he watched the last group of captives enter the city, and slowly walked down from the city tower.

"Lawless, lawless, find a few people who seem to be generals overnight interrogation, and ask where the Ashina branch is camped. Fang Zhan, the people who contact you on the grassland, all move, even if it snows tomorrow, they must all move for me immediately, and I want the exact location of the Ashina Duzhi. After walking down the stairs, looking at the lawlessness of the escort, he said anxiously.

The winter in the Western Regions is very long, and when the Yuan Day is about to come, the land of the Central Plains is already there, and the signs of recovery from the bitter cold, and even the smell of spring can be clearly smelled.

But the Western Regions are still in the cold winter of ice and snow, and the knife-like north wind is raging the entire vast land, and the entire Western Regions seems to be like a huge and incomparably uninhabited area.

Li Hong plunged into the camp tent for half a month, he and Quan Yi each led 7,000 people, almost lost their way on the grassland, stumbling around on the grassland.

And Ashina Duzhi seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, no matter what, he couldn't find the slightest trace, but he startled the steppe wolves on the grassland, and when he heard the sound of horses' hooves, he hurriedly drilled into the nest.

Xia Zhi and Xiaoxue looked at Li Hong, who rushed in, and hurriedly helped Li Hong take off the armor that was already full of ice cubes outside, the armor was as hard as an iron plate, and it was only after pulling hard that he took it off Li Hong's body, and the cotton clothes inside were already very wet at this time.

"Don't move." Li Hong wrapped his hands around and carefully placed them on his chest.

"What's wrong, master?" Xia Zhi and Xiaoxue hurriedly took off their armor carefully, and then saw Li Hong holding a puppy in his arms?

"Huh? Is this a puppy? Xiaoxue looked at the little wolf between Li Hong's hands who had not yet opened his eyes, and was sleeping comfortably between Li Hong's hands.

"Look at you, can there be a dog in this place? Such a small dog has long since froze to death, this is a little wolf. I guess it's not even a month old. "Li Hong doesn't know how old the wolf is, anyway, it won't be more than two months for sure.

Banmei and Xunlan screamed and ran in from outside, this kind of weather called white-haired wind by the locals, they had never encountered it in their lives.

At this hour, if it was sunny outside, the sun should still be hanging high in the sky, but now it is pitch black outside, and the thick snow scattered on the grassland is dark and can't see the five fingers, and the cold wind blows, and suddenly permeates the entire heaven and earth, making people unable to open their eyes, and the snow foam also seems to have eyes, and it drills into the body towards the neckline.

The two women shrunk their hands and feet and necks, their pink cheeks were red from the cold, and they shook off the wind and snow on their bodies at the door, and then slowly walked in.

As soon as I came in, I saw three people fiddling with the puppy who woke up: "Wow...... What a cute cat ....... ”

Banmei's two eyes looked greedily at the thick carpet, struggling to stagger, the little wolf who wanted to get up and walk around, and shouted coquettishly.

Li Hong's head is full of black lines, these people are stupid in the palace, right, can they be treated as cats?

"Banmei, are you stupid? Have you never seen a cat and a dog in your life, no, the difference between a cat and a wolf? ”

"Huh? Master, did you say this is a wolf? ”

"Nonsense, of course it's a wolf. I don't know if we alarmed the wolves, or if the wolves were targeted by some natural enemy, but there were no wolves in the wolf den, only this little guy like a cat, barking at the cold wind at the entrance of the cave, and I brought it back. Li Hong took the warm goat's milk from Xia Zhi, put the bowl in front of the little wolf, and pressed his head for the family to drink.

The little wolf was also very obedient, and he also gave Li Hong face in front of the fourth girl, smelled the goat's milk a little, and immediately began to drink it with his little tongue.

Li Hong fed the wolves on the grassland, and in the Daming Palace in Chang'an City, Li Zhi couldn't wait to feed Li Hong to the wolves.

"Yan Liben, are you stupid? How many years has he been telling you, have you seen it? I haven't seen it, why do you still believe his nonsense? Li Zhi looked at Yan Liben with hatred and scolded.

"Your Majesty, please forgive the minister for being rude, but the minister believes that His Highness will not lie to the minister." Yan Liben had more gray beard, but he was still firmly on the side of the prince.

"The officials of the Ministry of Works, the craftsmen who will be the supervisors, you say that you will let them go, so many people, you don't ask what other people mean?" Li Zhi asked, stiffening his neck.

This old fool Yan Liben has been led by Li Hong by the nose for the past few years, as long as Li Hong's little idiot takes out the stalk of Lanting Jixuan, Yan Liben seems to have become an old fool all of a sudden, Li Hong wants to give what he wants, what he wants his Ministry of Industry to do, Yan Liben will do anything.

But after so many years, Yan Liben has never even seen a shadow of the Lanting Collection Order, but the old fool still believes that Li Hong has the Orchid Pavilion Collection Order in his hand.

And this time, Li Hong's letter to him was again based on the Lanting Collection Order, asking him to send the craftsmen and officials of the Ministry of Industry, as well as the craftsmen who would be the supervisors, to go to the Western Regions after the beginning of spring.

This old fool once again chose to believe Li Hong, so without saying a word, he had already issued a document, and after the first day, he asked the Ministry of Industry and the craftsman who would be the supervisor to set off for the Western Regions.

Li Zhi looked obsessed, as if he was confused by Li Hong's magic, and said in a sincere tone: "Yan Liben, think about it, what is the order of the Lanting Collection?" That's the love of the first emperor and my father, do you think it will be given to the little idiot? Also, was the little idiot born at that time? And it was left to me, and I gave it to him on his eighth birthday! How could you Yan Liben believe such nonsense? ”

Yan Liben thought about Li Zhi seriously, the expression on his face was cloudy for a while and sunny for a while, and after a while, Yan Liben's cloudy eyes glanced at Li Zhi, and the words he said almost didn't make Li Zhiqi dizzy.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that you don't want the world to know that the Lanting Collection Order is in the hands of His Royal Highness the Prince, so he has been hiding it for His Royal Highness the Prince, and warned His Royal Highness the Crown Prince not to show it to the ministers easily." Yan Liben looked at Li Zhi's expression that was about to be angry, and he firmly believed in his words even more.

"You old immortal, old fool, do you have the truth in that little idiot's mouth? When did I deceive my courtiers? And what about him, when didn't the little idiot lie to you? ”

"The minister also chose to believe in His Royal Highness the Prince, because the minister felt that the Lanting Collection Order must be in the hands of His Royal Highness the Prince." Yan Liben had a demeanor that Wei Zheng was not afraid of death at this time.

"Okay, okay, you old fool, sooner or later he will trick you into the grave, raise your arms, drive this old fool out, I don't want to talk to him." Li Zhi waved his hand, it was not worth getting sick in the winter, not to mention that he was approaching the Yuan Day, and he couldn't get sick at this time.

Yan Liben didn't wait for Yangwu to invite him, as a courtier, he looked at the back of Li Zhi who was angry and left, and after saluting respectfully, he walked out of the Xuanzheng Hall with his head proud.

Li Zhi hummed and chirped along the way, he was really angry with Yan Liben, an old fool, and walked halfway to Penglai Palace, when he suddenly remembered that he was angry when he patronized, but he forgot about Yan Liben's business of sending craftsmen to the Western Regions.

Xincheng, Chengyang, and Lanling actually came to Penglai Palace together, which was also very strange to Li Zhi, the last time he came, it was when Li Hong went on an expedition, it had been several months, why did they suddenly come together again?

Li Zhi slowly walked into Penglai Palace, only to see that the faces of the four women were not good, and each of them seemed to have a trace of anger on their faces like flowers and jade.

"What's wrong? That little idiot's conscience found out and replied? Li Zhi looked at a few people and asked lightly.

"Yes, the Hua Ji you sent didn't rush back, I heard that you had something important to do in the Xuanzheng Palace, so Yang Wu asked him to come here first." Wu Mei rubbed her temples and said a little helplessly.

Li Zhi looked at Hua Ji who was standing aside, and didn't take the letter first, but asked, "What did the little idiot say?" Have I ever seen my will for him in your presence? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince...... His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is ....... Hua Ji was resigned, looking at Wu Mei, and then at Li Zhi, I didn't know what to say in embarrassment.

"What did you say, that little idiot, learn from me word for word, dare to change it indiscriminately, I will never spare you." Li Zhi's originally softened face became gloomy again.

"Yes, Your Majesty. After the slave maid arrived there, she was just about to announce the decree, and then she was taken away by His Royal Highness the Prince, and then ...... Then....... ”

"What's next, what kind of system is it!" Li Zhi was very angry, and the little idiot must have made Hanaji ugly again. If you leave halfway through, press CTRL+D to save the current page to your favorites so you can watch it later!