Sheron controlled himself not to care about Lin Shiling's substantial, disgusted and hairy eyes, a pair of cloudy old eyes stared straight at a palace maid not far ahead, until the afterglow swept over Lin Shiling and Quan Yi left, Sherlong's stiff and tense body was obviously relaxed.

"Your Highness, since there are still distinguished guests from my Tang Dynasty here, why don't you let the dog Xinuluo go to greet you? lest it appear that the six edicts do not understand etiquette and are insincere because of this matter. When Sheron spoke, his beard moved more often than his mouth seemed to Li Hong.

"There's no need, and it's not an important minister of the court, so there's no need to greet them with great fanfare, lest the thoughtful and grand etiquette spoil them, and it will be difficult to control them in the future." Li Hong motioned to Shelong to continue drinking tea, and then he picked up the teacup and tasted it easily.

Shelong looked at the meaningless smile on Li Hong's face, and his heart trembled for no reason, he came here today just to understand straightforwardly, what is the purpose of the prince of the Tang Dynasty to stay here in Nanzhao and not leave.

But so far he has found nothing, and still has not received a clear answer.

But fortunately, from the words of the conversation with the prince, he still learned some information, that is, the Tang Dynasty is very dissatisfied with the current Six Edicts, colluded with Princess Fangling of Jiannan Road, and ate private trade with Zhenla, and even the matter of Tibet has been mentioned by the prince.

He didn't want to believe that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince told him this, he planned to have a showdown with them with the 5,000 troops stationed in Taihe City, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince didn't mention anything else, and didn't say how to deal with it, only mentioning the evidence of these Nanzhao's crimes.

This made him feel more and more panicked in his heart, and he couldn't help but start thinking about the worst, that is, to follow the example of Tibet and use the Tang people to take charge and govern the Six Edicts.

Shelong stopped at his mouth with a teacup, looked at the leisurely prince Li Hong, shook his head and sighed after taking a sip of tea, and couldn't help but start to say: "Your Highness, since you sent troops a few years ago, the land of the Six Edicts has always been the head ......of my Tang Dynasty. ”

"If you want to say before, I believe that when you were appointed to Mengshe, I was very relieved about this area of Lingnan Dao, but after you passed the throne to Xinuluo, I didn't dare to believe that this piece of land was loyal to the Tang Dynasty."

"Your Royal Highness, don't worry, whether it is the old minister or the fine slave, the loyalty to the Tang Dynasty is heaven and earth, there is no second heart, or the minister just said, the six edicts from a few years ago after you sent troops here for a trip, the six edicts began to be proud of the Tang people, whether it is in the face of the temptation of Zhenla, or the bewitchment of Tibet, the six edicts have always been unmoved, only know that they are Tang people, not the meaning of the Southern Zhao country." Shelong put down the cup, looked at Li Hong and said solemnly.

"That being said, but the imperial court has never been able to ...... without any rights to this."

When Shelong heard Li Hong say this, his heart trembled again, and he interrupted Li Hong's words regardless of the rudeness: "Your Highness, whether you are here or other officials of the imperial court are here, the six edicts have always been treated as superiors, and you have always been treated as a king, and they have never dared to disobey or despise any official of our Tang court. ”

"But the court officials come here, there has never been a good end, either less than three years because of mistakes were transferred, or inexplicably infected with the disease and died, in the past two years, whether it is the land of the six edicts, or the land of Jiannan Road, rangers are everywhere, diseases are raging, the court in Chengdu Mansion, the land of the six edicts has inexplicably lost as many as thirty-seven officials, these will not be all coincidences, right?" Li Hong put down the cup, his eyes became solemn, and he looked at Shelong's old face and said.

Sheron moved his lips, but finally did not choose to argue.

Of course, he knew what was going on with the court officials who violated the rules or died of illness.

Since he passed the throne to Xinuluo, all this will happen several times a year, and this kind of silent disappearance of officials, or gathering a few people to write a book of 10,000 words to "shout grievances", so that the court officials are dismissed here because of violations, or are killed by rangers, all of this has become the only way for them to deal with the officials sent by the imperial court in Chengdu and the Six Edicts.

"The tax system, military service, household registration, mulberry fields, etc., have never touched the land of the Six Edicts, and the appointment and dismissal of officials are impassable due to natural and man-made disasters, or official illnesses and official violations, do you think the imperial court will rest assured that such a place is independent of the legal system of my Datang?" Hai Dongqing's damaged feathers in Chengdu Mansion had not yet grown and had not yet recovered their original glamorous appearance, so they were sent out by Li Hong to start "going to work".

took the envelope on Hai Dongqing's legs as tough as steel bars, patted Hai Dongqing's head, and watched Hai Dongqing chirp twice as if demonstrating against Shelong before he reluctantly flew away.

Li Hong turned his head and looked at the secret letter in his hand, and continued to say lightly: "Since the six edicts were submitted to my Tang Dynasty, the imperial court has funded a large amount of money and grain and grass here every year, but has the imperial court ever received a penny of money from Nanzhao in terms of taxes and so on?" If you add the grain and grass smuggled here by Jiannan Road, I have a rough estimate, plus the grain produced by the Six Edicts, and the grain and grass that are now recorded, even if all the people of the entire Six Edicts do not eat or drink, they can eat for five or six years! But...... But Xinuluo told me that Nanzhao was short of food, and the people were hungry and had no choice of food and clothing, why is this? ”

"And what does Your Highness mean?" Sheron surprisingly didn't argue again, but asked with a lot of helplessness in his tone.

"It's very simple, you have always been close to Tibet, and you are close neighbors, now Tibet has been under the rule of my Tang Dynasty for more than ten years, and its people can't live and work in peace and contentment, but hunger and food and clothing are already history, all of which rely on the efforts of Pei Xingjian, Ma Zai, and the two people you just met. Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, and the coast of the land is not the king's minister, if a small six edicts have been outside the rule of law in the Tang Dynasty, this is ...... Is it the territory of my Datang? This people...... Is it my people in the Tang Dynasty? ”

Li Hong looked at the stunned Shelong with satisfaction, and once again took the initiative to pour tea on Shelong's already empty cup, and this time, Li Hong even poured the tea flush with the rim of the cup.

If Sheron wanted to take the tea up without spilling a drop of the tea that the prince had poured himself, he would have to lean down and drink the tea from the rim of the cup until he could do so.

Sherlong's eyes slowly moved from Li Hong's face to the teacup that was about to overflow, moved his lips, and did not thank Li Hong again, but muttered: "In this case, how will His Highness deal with Lao Chen and the others?" Lao Chen believes that His Royal Highness is not a ruthless monarch, and the six edicts are governed by Tang officials, presumably we and others should not be reused by His Highness, right? ”

"Then it depends on how the matter of the Six Edicts is solved, if it can be solved without moving a single soldier, as the nobles of the Six Edicts, the court will naturally not forget your merits, the Tang Dynasty nobles have not thousands of households, do you care about how many more households?" Li Hong still looked at Shelong's cup and made a gesture of please.

"Your Highness, are you planning to rely on these 5,000 soldiers and horses to bring earth-shaking changes to the Six Edicts? Although the troops are elite but small, I am afraid that Xinuluo will not easily agree. Sheron looked at the palace with some reluctance, this was originally the place where he lived with Xinuluo and Sheng Luoyan, but since the prince arrived, this place has become his mansion, and his ancestors and grandchildren have been driven out of the palace by him.

"At that time, I only had 10,000 people in Tibet, but I killed one in and one out in Tibet, until I lived in the white palace, and now I have lived in the palace, and Xinuluo robbed the three princes of Zhenla last night, which is ironclad evidence of foreign enemies, right? There is also ironclad evidence of collusion with Tibet, no matter which side I have a reason to govern the six edicts, right? Unless your old Shelong doesn't recognize the Six Edicts as the territory of my Tang Dynasty now, in this way, maybe I have to work hard with this little force. Li Hong sneered, and then watched Shelong lower his head and drink the tea, until the tea would not spill out when it was served, and then slowly served it.

"The old minister can't guarantee anything, although it was said that the minister voluntarily passed the throne to Xinuluo, but if it wasn't for him to force him, the old minister would not have passed the throne to him so quickly, although the old minister is old, but his body has always been tough and strong, even now, there will not be much problem in fighting in all directions." Lao Shelong drank all the tea in his hand, then put down the cup and got up, saluted solemnly to Li Hong, and looked at the main hall of the palace before leaving.

Li Hong didn't get up, watching Lao Shelong's pace suddenly become much more vigorous, and walked out of the palace quickly, until his back had disappeared for a long time, then he slowly got up and walked to the door.

Lin Shiling and Quan Yi had already taken Yang Sijian and others to the palace in a hurry from the outside.

Although Quan Yi only brought 2,000 people with him this time, what made Li Hong feel satisfied and gratifying was that among the 2,000 soldiers, there were not only Tang people, but also about 30% of the Tibetan people and other herdsmen soldiers, which made Li Hong much happier than the army composed of all Tang people.

"Chen Quan Yi and Lin Shiling have seen His Royal Highness." The two saluted Li Hong, who was still standing at the door, again.

Li Hong waved his hand casually, and then slowly walked to Yang Sijian: "Whether you participated in Yang Zhirou and Li Jingye's rebellion back then, I will no longer pursue it, the purpose of coming here must have been guessed along the way, Pei Xingjian and Ma Zai were able to do some immortal achievements in Tibet to promote my Tang Dynasty, presumably you will also be able to do something no less than his political achievements, I will help you go to the worries of the land of the six edicts, and I will give you a place to display your talents, but ...... If you Yang Sijian can't give me the results I want, you can dispose of it yourself. ”

"Minister...... The minister will live up to His Highness's trust! Yang Sijian pounced, knelt on the ground and said eloquently.