When the Qianlong Empire issued a nationwide tax-free notice, a falcon flew into the palace of the Tang Empire, and soon after, a eunuch walked into the imperial garden of the Tang Empire with a bamboo tube, and saw Li Shimin, the emperor of the Tang Empire, who was watching the song and dance, immediately knelt in front of Li Shimin, and respectfully reported: "Your Majesty! I just received an urgent letter from the Qianlong Empire. ”

Li Shimin took the bamboo tube from the eunuch's hand, and after opening the seal, he poured out a letter from it, and then opened it and read it, but when Li Shimin saw the content of the letter, the smile on his face disappeared without a trace in an instant, and was replaced by a haze on his face.

Seeing Li Shimin's gloomy expression, the crown prince Li Rongji, who was sitting on the side, instinctively concluded that something must have happened to the Qianlong Empire, and hurriedly asked Li Shimin respectfully: "Father, is something happening?"

When Li Shimin heard Li Rongji's inquiry, he handed the letter in his hand to Li Rongji, and said with a gloomy face: "Ji'er! This is the information that our spy in the Hidden Dragon Empire just delivered, take a look!"

Li Rongji took the letter from Li Shimin's hand, opened it, and blurted out: "Father, how is this possible, according to our intelligence, the powerful spirit kings of the Shenwu Empire are all following that fat man, and the strength in the Shenwu Empire is empty, so there may be high-level powerhouses?"

"That Wu Hanqi was able to take advantage of the contradictions between the royal family and the family of the Shenwu Empire in just half a year to smoothly control the power of the Shenwu Empire, making his family from an ordinary family to the top family of the Shenwu Empire, and even the top family in the Divine Empire. ”

"Such a wise young man. Knowing that the relationship between the Shenwu Empire and the Hidden Dragon Empire is very tense, and war may break out at any time. Will you take all his strength away from the Shenwu Empire?" Li Shimin saw Li Rongji's shocked expression, and asked Li Rongji with a very serious expression.

Although it turned out that there was a mistake in their intelligence. But Li Rongji still didn't want to believe this, and retorted with an incredulous face: "Father, our intelligence agents have been hiding in the Shenwu Empire for more than ten years, and they have already infiltrated the upper echelons of the Shenwu Empire, how can the information collected be biased?"

Li Shimin saw that Li Rongji didn't want to believe this fact, not because there were many top spirit kings in the Shenwu Empire, but because he didn't want to believe that a small Shenwu Empire already had the strength to be on an equal footing with their Tang Empire.

At this time, Li Shimin waved his hand with a serious face and asked those concubines and maids to evacuate. Then he asked Li Rongji with a stern face: "Ji'er! The strength of the countries of the northern generation is actually not very strong, but the intelligence personnel I have deployed there are far superior to those of our southern generation, do you know why?"

Li Rongji actually wanted to ask Li Shimin about this question a long time ago, but he was worried that Li Shimin would be unhappy, so Li Rongji endured it and didn't ask, and now seeing that Li Shimin took the initiative to mention this issue, Li Rongji naturally wanted to know. Then he took the opportunity to say: "Father, the emperor's heart has always been puzzled by your deployment, but I have been thinking about it for a long time, but I still can't understand your intentions. ”

"In our God-forsaken continent. The north is poor, the south is rich, and the people in the north are fierce. The southern folk customs are gentle and elegant, and we abandon the three most famous places in the mainland. The Dark Abyss and the Dark Forest are both in the north, even within the Shenwu Empire. There are many prehistoric ruins there, and every day there are many monks who want to get rich overnight, and they don't want to die to search for treasures in the dark forest. ”

"As the crown prince of the empire, you should know how our Tang Empire developed, there are so many secret realms in the dark forest, it is not excluded that a certain family finds a super relic like our Li family and suddenly becomes powerful, so if I guess correctly, this Wu family must have also obtained a certain secret realm and created so many strong people in a short period of time. ”

"And with that Wu Hanqi's wisdom, he will definitely not casually expose his hole cards, and there is one more thing you may not know, not long ago, many top spirit kings came to the Xuantian Continent, these spirit kings stayed in the Shenwu Empire for several months, and many of them seemed to be interested in befriending Wu Hanqi. Li Shimin saw Li Rongji's eager look, and unhurriedly told the reason why he had arranged it this way.

Li Rongji heard Li Shimin's introduction, and finally understood Li Shimin's intentions, as the crown prince of the Tang Empire, he knew that at the other end of the sea of mist, there was also a Xuantian Continent, that continent was full of powerhouses, and it was far hundreds of times stronger than the Divine Forsaken Continent, but Li Rongji could not have imagined that the monks of the Xuantian Continent would intentionally befriend Wu Hanqi when they came to the Divine Forsaken Continent.

This incident made Li Rongji feel very shocked, and at the same time, he really understood why his father used the word wisdom to describe Wu Hanqi, which made him can't help but think of the words that Wu Hanqi said when he left, which made him faintly feel that Wu Hanqi's words seemed to contain other meanings.

However, what Li Rongji was most concerned about at this time was whether Wu Hanqi would retaliate against them after knowing the truth, so he hurriedly asked Li Shimin: "Father, I didn't expect this Wu Hanqi to hide so deeply, in this case, why did we send people to help the Hidden Dragon Empire deal with the Shenwu Empire? In case Wu Hanqi knew about it, if he asked those powerhouses in the Xuantian Continent to help him, wouldn't the empire be in danger?"

"When will we send someone to help the Qianlong Empire deal with the Shenwu Empire, it is privately hired by the Qianlong Empire in our Tang Empire, and it has nothing to do with our Tang Empire, and Wu Hanqi's current targets are the Qianlong Empire and the Fusang Empire, even if he knows the truth, he will not dare to go against our Tang Empire for the time being. Li Shimin saw Li Rongji's worried expression, and a look of indifference appeared on his face, and he said unhurriedly.

Li Rongji heard Li Shimin's words, then he put his mind at ease, then he remembered Wu Hanqi's words when he left, and always felt that Wu Hanqi had something in his words, but he pondered for a long time, but he never understood it, and said to Li Shimin on the side: "Father! Hearing you say this, I remembered an incident, that Wu Hanqi suddenly said that he wanted both the country and the beauty on the day he left, I didn't think much about it at the time, and now I feel weird." ”

"It seems that I still underestimated Wu Hanqi, I'm afraid he already knew about the empire's plan against him, and knew that we kept him in order to help the Qianlong Empire drag him down, Ji'er! You are not as good as him in this regard!" Li Shimin heard Li Rongji's introduction, pondered carefully, and immediately guessed the true meaning of Wu Hanqi's words, and knew that Wu Hanqi was laughing at their father and son with these words.

Li Rongji heard Li Shimin's words, and then he understood Wu Hanqi's intention when he said this, thinking that he was still secretly happy in his heart at that time, but he didn't know that he had been played by Wu Hanqi from beginning to end, and even gave his favorite courtesan to Wu Hanqi, which made Li Rongji feel uncomfortable in his heart, and he was as depressed as he was.

Although you have a loss with Wu Hanqi for the first time and suffer a loss in his hands, this is inevitably not a good thing, because this can make you see the strength of the opponent clearly, and when the two sides clash in the future, you will not suffer because you look down on the other party. Seeing Li Rongji's depressed face, Li Shimin took the trouble to mention Li Rongji.

"Father, please rest assured, and you will never be disappointed" Li Rongji heard Li Shimin's words, and immediately understood Li Shimin's good intentions, and hurriedly reassured Li Shimin, and then asked Li Shimin: "Father, it can be seen from this letter that Wu Hanqi has actually secretly arranged for the Hidden Dragon Empire a long time ago. ”

"Now that the army of the Shenwu Empire has captured one-third of the territory of the Hidden Dragon Empire, and has surrounded the imperial capital of the Hidden Dragon Empire, I believe that once Wu Hanqi returns to the Shenwu Empire, he will definitely start a full-scale war with the Hidden Dragon Empire, and when the time comes, the Hidden Dragon Empire will definitely send people to us for help, do you say that we will not send people to support the Hidden Dragon Empire?"

Li Shimin heard Li Rongji's words, pondered for a while, and replied with a serious face: "It can be seen from the content of this letter that the Qianlong Empire is a mud that cannot be supported, in this situation of internal and external troubles, with the strength of the Qianlong Empire, it is no longer able to compete with the Shenwu Empire. ”

"And Wu Hanqi already knows that we have calculated him, everything can not be done again, if we send people again, it will only tear our faces, although the Shenwu Empire is thousands of miles away from our Tang Empire, but once the relationship between the two sides is stiff, Wu Hanqi is likely to send his subordinates to our Tang Empire to make trouble, so that the gains outweigh the losses for us. ”

The strength of Wu Hanqi's subordinates, Li Rongji is clear, if Wu Hanqi's subordinates really come to the Tang Empire to make trouble, with the strength of their royal family, they will not be able to resist Wu Hanqi's subordinates at all, and once the two sides fight, it will definitely be a catastrophe for their royal family.

"Your Majesty! The Hidden Dragon Empire has sent a message from the Flying Eagle. Just when Li Shimin decided not to send people to support the Qianlong Empire, a eunuch walked into the imperial garden from outside with a letter, knelt in front of Li Shimin, and respectfully reported to Li Shimin.

Li Shimin didn't know that the Hidden Dragon Empire had sent a message from the Flying Eagle, so he immediately guessed the contents of the letter, and instructed Li Rongji on the side: "Ji'er! You see if it's a letter of help from the Hidden Dragon Empire, and if so, tell them that now that we have established friendly and cooperative relations with the Shenwu Empire, it is not good to interfere in the conflict between the two countries." (To be continued......)