With the death of the overlords of the steppe, such as Ussumisk Khan, Baimei Khan, Jiechuan Ishkhan, Guli Peiluo and Wuli, the largest tribes in the steppe, such as the Later Turks, Bashimi, Hui and Qarluq, the largest tribes in the steppe, suffered a great loss of vitality, population and livestock, and the remnants of these tribes were divided into more than 30 small tribes, large and small, with the number of these large and small tribes not exceeding 1,000 and the minimum being less than 200, scattered in all corners of the Mobei grassland, and could no longer infringe on the northern border of the Tang Dynasty. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

After using a series of means to kill Ba Ximi, Ge Lulu and Hui Hui, Zhao Ziliang began to clean up the scattered small tribes in Mobei in a planned way, and planned to start to guide the people in the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty to move into Mobei herdsmen to graze sheep with favorable conditions.

Now Zhao Ziliang's reputation is in full swing in the whole Mobei, because of the series of killings he carried out on the grassland, all the surviving nomadic tribes in Mobei call him the Heavenly Demon God General, whenever the herdsmen of the nomadic tribe hear this name, they are so frightened that their faces turn pale, tremble, and they are terrified.

Chang'an, Daming Palace.

Xuanzong was lying on the throne and watching the recital, while eating the lychee that Yang Guifei had peeled, so comfortable. Yang Yuhuan likes to eat lychees, Xuanzong sent people from Lingnan to rush to transport lychees, Xuanzong didn't care about the lychees from Lingnan at first, as an emperor, what fruit has not been eaten? But when Yang Guifei peeled the lychee, revealing the crystal clear flesh inside, he couldn't help but move his index finger and eat one, the taste was indeed extraordinary, and gradually, he also liked this Lingnan fruit.

At this time, a little eunuch bowed in and saluted: "Your Majesty, Li Linfu, the right minister, asks to see you!" ”

"Oh, let him in!" Xuanzong put down the piece and pen that he had just reviewed, waved his hand and said.

"Yes!"

With the eunuch's announcement, Li Linfu strode into the Zichen Hall and saw Xuanzong paying a big salute: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live!" ”

"Aiqing, what's the matter with coming to see me today?"

Li Linfu said: "Your Majesty, Zhao Ziliang, the Marquis of Zhenbei, sent 800 miles to send good news urgently, a few days ago, Zhao Ziliang united with Hui and Eastern Qarluq, and jointly sent 30,000 troops to attack and kill Ba Ximi, beheaded the Jiechuan Yishi Khan, and annihilated most of the main force of Ba Ximi more than 23,000 people, and the rest fled, which is no longer a problem!" ”

"Oh, come and show me the good news!"

Xuanzong was overjoyed after reading the good news and said: "Good, good!" Last time, Zhao Ziliang said that since he killed Ussumisk Khan and Baimei Khan, he thought he was sorry, and he didn't put my Tang Dynasty in his eyes, and he was disrespectful to me in his words, and he was going to send people to Chang'an to pay tribute according to the custom, but he didn't send tribute, it was really the most deserving death, this Zhao Ziliang united Hui and Ge Lulu to attack and kill Ba Ximi, annihilated more than 20,000 people, and only killed more than 1,000 people, very good, this method of making the Mobei tribes kill each other is very good! ”

Li Linfu originally wanted to give Zhao Ziliang some eye medicine in front of Xuanzong, saying that this matter might be a trick directed and acted by Zhao Ziliang, the purpose was to earn credit, and he didn't care about the life and death of the soldiers at all, but the words came to his lips, but because Yang Yuhuan was by Xuanzong's side, he was still staring at the music in his hand with great interest.

Now that Xuanzong has finished reading the recital and set the tone first, he is even more afraid to say the words he prepared before. He had to say another thing, "Your Majesty, there is one more thing, this Ishmi Ish-Khan was killed by the Hui chieftain Guli Peiluo, and he has already sent an envoy to send the head of the people, and sent a lot of tribute, and asked the court for canonization, and this matter is also requested to be decided by Your Majesty."

"Well, this Guli Peiluo is not bad!" Xuanzong nodded, thought for a while and said, "I look at it like this, canonize Guli Pei Luo as the general of Zuo Xiao's guard!" ”

"Yes!"

Zuo Xiaowei's foreign general is a fictitious position, it is a name, and this is the case for anyone who adds the word "outside", but the level is the same as that of Zuo Xiaowei.

Three days later, it happened to be a great court meeting, the emperor was in the court to deal with state affairs, and the civil and military officials entered the palace to meet the emperor.

After Xuanzong sat on the throne and was worshipped by hundreds of officials, he asked, "What do you want to do?" ”

Li Linfu came out of the class and said: "Your Majesty, the minister has something to do!" ”

Xuanzong spit out a word: "Quasi!" ”

"Your Majesty, in half a month is Your Majesty's birthday, the envoys of various countries in Chang'an have personally reported to Honglu Temple to come to the court to see the emperor, wishing Your Majesty a long life and good health, including the envoys of the Silla State, the envoys of the Japanese State of Tang, the envoys of the Linyi State, the envoys of the Zhenla Kingdom, the envoys of the Bi Kingdom, the envoys of the Tianzhu Kingdom, the envoys of the Zhaowu States, the envoys of the Ten Clans of the Western Turks, the envoys of the Great Food Country, the Chebi Envoys, the Envoys of the Fushu Kingdom, and even the Tubo State that is at war with our country also sent envoys, After deliberation, the ministers and others believed that the scale of receiving foreign envoys and the scale of the birthday banquet held for His Majesty should not be too small or shabby, otherwise it would not be enough to reflect the prestige and wealth of our Tang Dynasty! ”

Of course, the emperor's opinion cannot be asked for this kind of thing, and the ministers can only discuss it, and the emperor is embarrassed to say it even if he wants to do it in his heart, so as not to write to the officials of the court and the central government that he is extravagant.

In fact, it doesn't matter if this year's birthday is over, last year was Xuanzong's 60th birthday, and it has been done, and today is not a whole birthday, so it should be a formality, but Li Linfu in order to please Xuanzong can be said to be scheming, the treasury money is not money, and it is spent casually, other ministers heard him say that he wants to hold a birthday banquet for Xuanzong, and it is not good to say no, so he can only let Li Linfu toss, anyway, this year Zhao Ziliang made a lot of money by selling pastures in Mobei to the emperor and the imperial court, and it doesn't matter if he spends some money, Even the right minister Li Shizhi and the household department Shangshu Wang Ju did not object.

Xuanzong saw that no one below stood up to make irresponsible remarks, he himself was a little embarrassed, waved his hand and said casually: "I'll leave this matter to you, don't be too extravagant and wasteful, and don't let people think that our Tang Dynasty court is too small, in short, you can't talk too much money, but you have to be magnificent and stylish!" ”

Li Linfu hurriedly agreed: "The minister obeys the order!" ”

Xuanzong looked at the ministers under the main hall and asked, "What else do you want to play?" ”

As soon as he finished asking, he heard a shout from outside the hall: "Shuofang 800 miles urgent——"

The bigwigs in the court couldn't help but turn their heads to look out when they heard this, and a Hongling messenger wearing armor and a red tassel ran up the steps quickly with a round letter bucket, and soon ran into the main hall.

"Your Majesty, Li Lin, the deputy envoy of Shuofang Jiedu and the envoy of the soldiers and horses of the capital, sent an urgent battle report of eight hundred miles!"

Xuanzong waved his hand to Gao Lishi: "You read to me and the courtiers, what happened to Shuo Fang, this Li Lin actually used eight hundred miles to expedit?" ”

Shuo Fang Jiedu envoy is still Wang Zhonghei, but Wang Zhongsi because Hexi is now presiding over the defense of Tibet, so Shuo Fang's military and political affairs are temporarily replaced by Li Lin, and since Huangfu Weiming was given death, Wang Zhongsi also served as the envoy of Longyou Jiedu, and now Wang Zhongsi is not only Shuofang Jiedu envoy, but also concurrently serves as Hedong Jiedu envoy, Hexi Jiedu envoy, Longyou Jiedu envoy, wearing four kinds of general seals, controlling the territory of thousands of miles, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there has never been such a thing, it can be seen to what extent Wang Zhongsi is favored.

Gao Lishi agreed, walked down and took the letter barrel from the messenger's hand and opened it, took out the chapter from it and looked at it, his face changed greatly while reading, and after reading it, he said to Xuanzong: "Your Majesty, Li Lin said in the chapter that Zhao Ziliang, the Marquis of Zhenbei, in order to unite the Hui and the eastern Qarluq to eliminate Ba Ximi, deliberately threw out the condition that whoever killed the Jiechuan Yishi Khan asked the imperial court to canonize him as the king of Mobei as a bait, and after eliminating Ba Ximi, he sowed discord between Guli Peiluo and Wuli, so that they could kill each other, In the end, they were both defeated, Wuli was killed, his army was scattered, Guli Peiluo won a tragic victory, but suffered heavy casualties, and finally Zhao Ziliang led the army to a trick Huang Que behind, and killed the defeated Hui army and the leader Guli Peiluo, and Guli Peiluo's eldest son Mo Yan was also killed in this battle. A few days ago, Guli Peiluo's widow fled to Xishou City with his youngest son to find Li Lin to seek refuge, and said that Guli Peiluo and Hui have been surrendering and loyal to the Tang Dynasty for generations, and the Tang Emperor and the court have been sent, and the Hui have no fate, but why did the Tang Dynasty kill loyal ministers and innocents indiscriminately this time? Please ask the Tang Emperor and the imperial court to administer justice for their orphans and widows! Your Majesty, this is the case! ”

After Gao Lishi finished saying the content of the recital, the court simply exploded, and the courtiers were in an uproar.

Immediately, a minister stood up and impeached, "Your Majesty, Zhao Ziliang is really too lawless, and it is reasonable to attack Ba Ximi, after all, he reported in advance that he had obtained the permission of His Majesty and the imperial court, but this attack on Hui and Eastern Qarluq, he did not play, without the permission of His Majesty and the imperial court, and second, he did not write to ask for guilt afterwards. Moreover, the Hui and the eastern Qarluq have always submitted to our dynasty and maintained friendly relations with our dynasty, but we attacked them without warning. Please Your Majesty severely punish Zhao Ziliang, and must not be tolerated! ”

Another minister stood up and said loudly: "Your Majesty, it will be Your Majesty's birthday in half a month, if the envoys of various countries know this news, I am afraid that they will ask Your Majesty about this matter on Your Majesty's birthday, how will we explain to these envoys at that time?" ”

Attacking a friendly country for no reason, this matter will inevitably cause a great diplomatic dispute, although the countries concerned - Hui and the eastern Qarluq have been destroyed, but this incident has brought no less shock to other friendly countries than an earthquake, Xuanzong and the ministers can already predict that after the envoys of various countries know about this, they will inevitably come to Xingshi to ask for guilt.

"Report - Mobei Eight Hundred Miles Urgent War Report!" Just when the ministers were crusading against Zhao Ziliang, another Red Feather messenger rushed into the main hall and shouted.

Xuanzong said to Gao Lishi again: "It seems that Zhao Ziliang sent someone to send it, you can read it to me and the secretaries, and listen to what Zhao Ziliang has to say!" ”

Gao Lishi agreed, and immediately walked down to open Zhao Ziliang's recital, and said to Xuanzong after reading it: "Your Majesty, Zhao Ziliang said in the recital that Guli Peiluo and Wuli fought for the title of the overlord of the grassland soon after eliminating Ba Ximi and dividing the captives, cattle and sheep and pastures, and the two sides were inseparable, in order to deter the Mobei tribes, in order to maintain the authority of His Majesty and the Tang Dynasty in Mobei, fulfill the responsibilities of the Tang Dynasty in Mobei, and maintain the peace of Mobei, he did not have time to report to the court and His Majesty, he said that he would be outside, and the king's order was not subject to it, He had to lead the army to quell the battle first, punish the victor Guli Peiluo and his Hui army, and then ask His Majesty and the court for his guilt! That's pretty much it! ”

The former said that Zhao Ziliang engaged in conspiracy, sabotaged friendly relations, and caused diplomatic disputes, while the latter said that the responsibility was entirely on the other side, and he did so to maintain the authority and interests of the imperial court.

The court was suddenly silent, what the matter really was, I was afraid that I would have to send someone to investigate, but this investigation was definitely not a day or two to have results, Mobei was thousands of miles away from here, and it would take half a year to go back and forth, and it was only a year since the end of the investigation, and the envoys of various countries who did not know the truth would definitely not give the court this time.

Xuanzong weighed it for a long time before he spoke: "Gao Lishi, the proposed purpose: to revoke all official positions of Zhao Ziliang, order him to return to Beijing to face the saint, and hand over the military and political affairs of Mobei to Shan Yu Protector and Mobei City to advocate Shouyu!" ”

"Yes!" (To be continued.) )