Chapter Twenty-Eight: Finding Fault?
"Master, why did you say King Qin summoned us? Is it related to those Turks? While rushing to the main hall, Li Chunfeng asked Yuan Tiangang at the same time.
Yuan Tiangang said: "Maybe." ”
The two of them walked forward, and it didn't take long for them to come to the main hall of Hongyi Palace, in addition to Li Chunfeng, the officials of Tiance Mansion also arrived.
With Li Chunfeng's official position, in this Tiance Mansion, he belongs to the most humble existence, so his position in the main hall is the lowest.
Because Li Shimin was in a hurry, some of the officials of Tiance Mansion rushed to Hongyi Palace before they even had time to change back into their official uniforms, but this was not a big deal for the unruly Li Shimin.
So, on the top of the main hall, there were figures of various colors and styles of clothes, and Li Chunfeng looked through the gap and looked towards the center of the main hall.
There, the four Turks from before were really standing there, and Li Shimin on the high platform had a somewhat gloomy face.
Li Chunfeng looked carefully for a while, and found that in front of the four Turks, there seemed to be a high table, and there seemed to be something on the table.
"What are these Turks doing?"
While thinking about it, there was a heavy footstep behind Li Chunfeng.
"Huh?" Li Chunfeng turned his head slightly and looked out of the door, because he was standing in the last row, closer to the door of the main hall, so he could observe the scene outside the main hall, "Wei Chi Jingde? ”
But see, under the sun, Wei Chi Jingde came quickly from a distance in black armor.
"Wei Chi Jingde went to the palace."
Not only Wei Chi Jingde, but also the Wenchen military generals who could be dispatched by Tiance Mansion rushed to Hongyi Palace one after another in the next time.
"Leyou Mansion Hussar General Duan Zhixuan goes to the palace."
"Tiance Mansion is engaged in Zhonglang Du Ruhui to go to the palace."
"The general of the chariot and cavalry, Hou Junji, went to the palace."
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With the appearance of heavyweight figures, Li Shimin on the high platform gradually relaxed.
In the end, more than 30 military generals from Tiance Mansion and Qin Wangfu gathered on the main hall, and Li Shimin's right-hand men Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui were all present.
Fang Xuanling glanced at the four Turkic people on the side, and said, "Your Highness, suddenly summoned us, I don't know what happened?" ”
Li Shimin said: "Fang Gong, today you will ask them on behalf of the king." ”
"Yes." Fang Xuanling received the order, turned around and came to the four Turks, and asked, "You Turks, what is the purpose of coming to my Hongyi Palace?" ”
One of the four Turks was an interpreter, and after listening to Fang Xuanling's words, he turned his head to translate to the Turk who was the leader, and the Turk who was the leader said a series of words that he didn't understand, and the translator said: "We are the envoys of Jieli Khan." ”
"Envoy?" Fang Xuanling said, "Hmph, my Qin Wangfu has never had anything to do with you Turks, if you have anything to say, you might as well say it directly." ”
The translator said: "Fang Gong's words are wrong, in the seventh year of martial arts, my Jieli Khan once had a relationship with His Royal Highness the King of Qin, has His Royal Highness the King of Qin forgotten the appointment of the Five Dragons?" ”
"Phew! Barbarians, you dare to mention the matter of Wulongban, you Turks violated the covenant and burned, killed and looted the border of the Tang Dynasty, today I Lao Cheng will give you this account clearly! After that, Cheng Biting Jin waved his big fist and wanted to make a move on the four Turks.
Li Shimin opened his mouth to stop: "Bite the gold, don't be impulsive." ”
"Humph!" With Li Shimin to stop him, Cheng Biting Jin had to hate and hate.
"This time, Jieli Khan sent me and others to ask King Qin, whether the Tang Dynasty still abides by the covenant of the year?"
Li Shimin frowned: "How do you say this?" ”
"If you abide by the covenant between the Tang and the Turks, why would you give me a fake tribute from Jieli Khan!" The Turkic man continued to translate, "My Turkic soldiers and millions of cavalry, are they just decorations in the eyes of Tang? ”
These words, when everyone on the field heard them, already had a very heavy threat flavor.
At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, it had not fully recovered from the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, so it did not want to fight the Turks who were eyeing them, and Li Yuan meant to recuperate first, and then give the Turks a fatal blow when the time was ripe.
However, the Turks are not stupid, they know that once the Tang Dynasty recovers, the Turks will have no chance of winning, so the Turks have repeatedly violated the border in recent years, just not wanting to give the Tang Dynasty a chance to recuperate.
"Are you threatening King Qin?" A murderous aura flashed in Wei Chi Jingde's eyes, and he looked at the four Turkic people, "If you Turks are impatient, you can give it a try!" ”
"Hmph, Tang is known as the state of etiquette, I can't imagine that he would do such a fake thing, our Jieli Khan is very angry, if Tang doesn't make compensation, my Turkic man's 300,000 cavalry will never give up!"
"My Jieli Khan's request is also very simple, after the Tang Dynasty, you need to fight the Turks to me every year for more than 10,000 taels of gold and 30,000 horses!"
"Little barbarian, dare to be presumptuous in my Datang! Let me take your dog's head first! Yu Chi Jingde roared, and pulled out a long knife in his right hand, wanting to chop these four disrespectful Turks into pulp!
On the side, Du Ruhui resolutely opened his mouth to stop: "General Wei Chi, don't be impulsive!" ”
Du Ruhui stepped forward, pushed Yu Chi Jingde's knife back into the sheath, signaled Yu Chi Jingde not to be impulsive, and then turned to look at the four Turks and asked, "You say that the tribute is fake?" ”
"Not bad!" One of them pointed to the high table in front of him and said, "All these gold ornaments have been poured with copper!" The portions are the same, but they're all fake! I, Jieli Khan, am very angry about this! ”
Du Ruhui said: "If you suspect that these jewelry is fake, it is easy to do, we only need to disassemble all these gold jewelry, and we can know the authenticity at a check!" ”
"No! These ornaments are your tribute to our Great Turks, and no one shall be damaged without the order of my Jieli Khan! ”
When Cheng Yanjin on the side heard this, he immediately came to the fire: "Ahh You barbarians, you're kicking your nose in the face! Watch me teach you a lesson! I want to see if my fists are hard or your bones are hard! ”
Li Shimin shouted loudly: "General Cheng, stop!" ”
The stakes are high, these Turks are obviously here to find fault, what tribute is fake, what is a violation of the covenant, these are all excuses! Li Shimin can see that these people just want to find a reason to send troops.
If something really happened to these four Turks in Chang'an, it would just give the Turks a reason to send troops!
These Turks came to the door under the pretext that the tribute was fake, but did not allow the gold ornaments to be split, which was obviously a deliberate attempt to make things difficult.
All the civil ministers and generals of Tiance Mansion on the field were very angry, but they had to be restrained, because if the mistakes of Tiance Mansion led to the war between the Turks and the Tang Dynasty, then Li Yuan would completely blame Li Shimin, then Li Shimin would be at an absolute disadvantage in the contest with the crown prince Li Jiancheng.