Chapter 181: The Storm Rises Again (4)
Chang'an is in the palace, Li Jiancheng is playing with his two sons in the palace! Although Li Yuan set up Li Jiancheng as the crown prince, but in the name of his two wives who had just given birth, he was not allowed to participate in the business, that is, the original subordinate officials of the prince's mansion could not visit Li Jiancheng casually without Li Yuan's permission, everyone did not understand Li Yuan's thoughts, and Li Jiancheng was also dissatisfied in his heart, but he was also idle, at this time, someone came to report:
"His Royal Highness the Prince, the Holy Lord has sent someone to deliver the decree, please enter the palace as soon as possible." After Li Jiancheng heard the holy decree, he hurriedly put Chengdao and Chengxun back into the arms of Yang Yan and Zheng Wanzhen. Yang Yan's mouth muttered:
"Really, it's hard to stop for a few days, and my husband is going to be busy again."
"Sister! It can't be said that the husband is busy for the court, and the busier he is, the more his father values our husband. Yang Yan looked at Zheng Wanzhen:
"Sister, I'm afraid, as the folk say, I am afraid that I will be busy and finally make wedding clothes for others." Zheng Wanzhen didn't say anything more, but she seemed to be a little worried in her heart. Li Jiancheng asked the eunuch who delivered the decree as he walked, and secretly sent a small piece of jade:
"Father-in-law, I don't know what my father is looking for me?" The little eunuch looked around, saw that there was no one around, and whispered to Li Jiancheng:
"His Royal Highness the Prince, it was the Turkic envoy who came, and the emperor asked His Royal Highness to discuss."
"Thank you." After Li Jiancheng finished thanking him, he quickened his pace and came to Li Yuan's face.
"Son-in-law, see father!"
"Excuse me! It's done! Those two grandchildren of mine are so good! ”
"Back to my father's words! Erchen's two sons are in good health, able to eat and sleep! ”
"That's good!" Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng exchanged a few words of greeting, and then got to the point:
"It's done! Last time, you recommended the people of the world to go on the expedition, and I was very relieved, and this time I called you to talk about the westward expedition. Li Jiancheng deliberately didn't speak, and Li Yuan secretly stared at Li Jiancheng's face:
"This time we went west, Liu Wuzhou and Wang Shichong also began to move, so this time the Turkic envoy came, I guess it is for my westward expedition, you go to meet him! Remember, one tip – drag. As long as the Turks don't move, nothing else! ”
"Yes! The son's command. "I received the will and came to the post house in Chang'an, and Ashina Simo was drinking tea in the post house:
"Ahh His Royal Highness the Prince! Li Jiancheng felt strange, in his impression, this person had never been to Chang'an, nor had he met him, but he didn't know why he could recognize him at a glance when he saw this person, and this person also specially wore a Hanfu and made some modifications to his appearance, not wanting other Turks to be as unkempt and unkempt as others, so he had a good impression of him:
"The envoy is good, the palace is here to receive the envoy by the will of the saint, I don't know if the envoy can still be used to coming to Chang'an. If you need anything, please tell me, and the palace will tell them to do it. ”
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is polite, the envoy came this time to meet the Holy One on important matters." This person is not as domineering as the Turkic envoys in the past, and he has the temperament of a Central Plains scholar when he speaks. Li Jiancheng felt very close to him when he talked to him.
"I don't know who the envoy's surname is, if there is anything important, please tell the name of this palace when you come to Chang'an!"
"In Lower Ashina Simo, the current official position of the Turkic Jia Bitler, I heard that your country and Lanzhou Xue Rengao have some misunderstandings, so I specially came to untie the knot between the two parties. Let's see if we can turn the conflict into a jade silk. "Ashina Simo knew that sooner or later there would be another war between the Central Plains and the steppe peoples, and the best way to disperse their forces was to let his enemies never fall.
"Listen to the tone of the envoy, have you read my books in the Central Plains?"
"What His Highness said is that there was once a teacher from the Central Plains who had read the books of the Central Plains, so he admired the Central Plains culture very much. I like the Confucian culture of the Central Plains the most, and after coming to Handi, I specially found someone to make a set of Hanfu, so please don't laugh at my Royal Highness! "Ashina Simo admired most in the picture was not the general, but Zhang Yi in the Spring and Autumn Period, he often said to himself - a lobbyist can make a country lose land and lose with a three-inch tongue, since the predecessors can, then why can't I, Ashina Simo.
"Where, where!" Li Jiancheng found out from the conversation with Ashina Simo that Ashina Simo was fluent in Chinese, and suddenly thought in his heart, "Since he is so fluent in Chinese and admires my Central Plains culture very much, then if I step on the grassland in the future, I can support a Turkic traitor!" Thinking of this, Li Jiancheng looked at Ashina Simo like a mouse being targeted by a cat. On the front line of the western expedition to Lanzhou, because the Turkic army led by the Turkic Turki Khan appeared forty miles away from the Tang army, when they appeared, Li Shimin did not know what the Turks were fighting after receiving the military report, and immediately ordered the whole army to be on alert and stop the attack, and Xue Rengao's army breathed proudly:
"Ladies and gentlemen, this king has just received a military report, and the Turkic Turki Khan has led a large number of iron horsemen to come, but this king doesn't know whether he is here to help us or to fight us, so I specially invite you to come and discuss."
"Hey! In my opinion, whether they are friends or foes, if they dare to come and cut off their beards, they will be beaten. "It's Li Yuanba who speaks, he always looks like the eldest of the heavens, his second child, and no one pays attention to him. Everyone knows his temper, but because he is a prince, no one cares about him.
"Lord, according to Weichen, whether they are enemies or friends, we can't act rashly, if they help Xue Rengao, we will be attacked from both sides, even if we are friends, they will be exhausted and annihilate us after our army and Xue Rengao are finished."
"Hmmm! I agree with the pharmacist that the Turks are just a wolf that can't be fed, so we have to guard against it. Li Shimin asked Li Jing:
"Pharmacist, what do you think?"
"Lord Wang! Now we can only send a man who can speak cleverly to the Turkic military camp, first, we must find out the Turks' intentions, and second, we must stabilize the Turks, and we must not let them make a move when our army is in a stalemate with Xue Rengao, even after our army's victory, we must prevent them from picking peaches. Li Jing's words were agreed by the eldest grandson Wuji, Chai Shao and others, and Li Shimin also nodded yes, and the eldest grandson Wuji spoke first:
"Lord Wang, Senior Brother Yao's views are unique and thoughtful, and the minister is willing to follow the advice of the Medicine Master and send an envoy to the Turks to buy time for the great cause of the prince's expedition to the west."
"Hmmm! Good! Auxiliary, I'll leave this matter to you. In addition, the whole army obeyed the dispatch of General Li Jing, and General Li Jing's general orders were like my orders. After speaking, Li Shimin took out his order flag and token and handed them to Li Jing:
"General Pharmacist, now that I have handed over the lives of more than 100,000 people in the whole army to you, you must not let me down!" Li Jing held the order flag and token, with tears in his eyes:
"The minister will definitely live up to His Highness's expectations!" Li Jing didn't notice that a pair of vicious eyes kept staring at him.