At the end of May of the twelfth year of Tianbao, Li Siye gave a note to the emperor, in which he said that Tubo and Da Bolu were ready to move, trying to reopen the passage into the Green Ridge, and he decided to Feng Changqing as the deputy envoy of the camp in Anxi, and personally led the army to take the initiative to conquer the Great Bolu Kingdom and completely cut off the road to the north of Tubo.

After the song was sent to the Beijing Division, it was first sent to the desk of Yang Guozhong in the political affairs hall. Yang Guozhong was also unsure after watching the song, and muttered in his heart what Li Siye's move meant. He is already the envoy of the Three Towns Festival, why is he still so keen on expanding the territory? Is it possible that you still want to seek the four towns of Jiedu?

He wanted to go to the palace tomorrow to dismiss Li Siye's recital, but he didn't seem to find any reason. The problem is that he can't guess the real motive of Li Siye's move, even if Li Linfu is afraid of being reborn, he can't think of it.

When Yang Xiang encounters a problem that he can't think through, he also dares to ask shamelessly. It's just that he couldn't pull his face to find Chen Xilie, the left prime minister who was hollowed out, and he didn't want to go to Wei Jiansu and Cui Yuan, who were big guys who entered the government with the shadow of the door, so he had to shamelessly ask to find his follower Ben Jiwen, who could only torture to extract confessions.

Ji Wen has been following Li Linfu all the year round, and the black who is close to ink has also trained his eye to discern the situation, not to mention that a guest came to his house last night, it was Cao Anding, the recorder of the Hexi Jinju Academy. As soon as the guest entered the door, he was generous and gave him a stone of pepper. He had never seen such a large amount of bribes, and he wanted to stick to the bottom line of the official's career, but after all, he couldn't resist the temptation to accept it.

Yang Guozhong came to inquire about Li Siye's intention to crusade against Da Bolu, and Ji Wen pondered for a moment before he had a plan, and replied with his crossed hands: "You should know that Your Majesty gave Li Siye the power of the Three Towns Jie Du Envoy not to reward him for his merits, but only to balance the forces between the feudal towns. Now that he has held twelve positions, even if he makes great contributions, he will only be added to the knighthood, and he will never be granted real power. Besides, people who do things will make mistakes, and people who don't do things will not make mistakes, if Li Siye is content with the status quo, you are not good at finding fault with him, he will always be defeated when he is so noisy, don't you have something to say when the right minister is there? ”

Yang Guozhong listened to Ji Wen's words, and felt that it did make sense, but he just felt that it was too cheap Li Siye.

In fact, Li Siye bribed him every time he came to Chang'an Xugong, but this Yang Xiang has a relatively white-eyed wolf, even if he accepts something, he will not delay him and treat the other party as a threat. An incompetent person always has some delusions of being killed, and always thinks that people all over the world are against him, but in fact, neither An Lushan nor Li Siye takes him seriously.

When they think of him, they are all ready to use his cuteness to fight their opponents.

On the second day, the left and right ministers and several ministers of the court entered the Zichen Hall of the Daming Palace, Li Longji asked about Li Siye's alienation of the expedition to Da Bolu, Yang Guozhong and Chen Xilie, Cui Yuan, Cui Jian and others spoke in the same voice, and seconded Li Siye to lead the Anxi army to expedition Da Bolu. The emperor decided to issue an edict approving Li Siye's expeditionary transfer.

In July, the emperor's decree reached Hexi, so a lot of time was wasted on the way to deliver the message.

But Li Siye had a way, and when he was writing the recital, he had already predicted the result in advance and sent out the order for the transfer of the army.

In this expedition, he did not use the armies of the other three towns of Anxi, Qiuzi, Khotan, and Yanqi, and directly ordered Zhao Chongyu to lead the Shule army to enter Xiaobolu from the Chifotang Road in the Green Ridge, and ordered the Longshuo army envoy to lead 5,000 people to set out from the city of Tocharo, cross the Daxue Mountain, and then enter the territory of Xiaobolu along the upper reaches of the Indus River. In this way, the Tang army assembled in Xiaobolu totaled 14,000 people, and the total strength of the army could reach 20,000 with the Zhizhi and Honey Protector forces on the Green Ridge.

At the same time, Absi and his wife were also escorted to Liangzhou by Duan Xiushi, and they were imprisoned in the Liangzhou Mansion prison after they entered Liangzhou, but Li Siye concealed his face and took the doomsday hero out of the prison behind his back, let them live in the back garden of the Liangzhou Governor's Mansion, and served them with delicious food and wine.

The pair of outlaw mandarin ducks are already counting the days and waiting for death, so they look extremely detached, and they don't mind showing affection in public, and the two hold each other's hands and sit opposite Li Siye.

Li Siye picked up the glass cup to pay tribute to Absi and his wife, and said heartily: "The virtuous couple are so loving, but they didn't expect to fall into today's field, which makes people sigh. However, the poet Lu Zhaolin once wrote a poem and said that he only envied the mandarin ducks and not the immortals, and I tried to let you stay in Liangzhou for more time and cherish the last time. ”

Absi and the princess glanced at each other affectionately, and the two raised their wine cups and saluted Li Siye: "Thank you Dr. Li for your hospitality to our husband and wife, although the sweet days are good, there will be an end." We won't embarrass you, and when it comes to the appointed day, just send us to Beijing. ”

Li Siye put down the wine cup and said with a somewhat serious expression: "For the virtuous couple, Siye has a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not. ”

Abs and the princess glanced at each other and said calmly, "Doctor, it's okay to talk about it. ”

"I want to ask, what is Ye Hu's plan next, is he really going to go to Beijing for trial? Even your former boss Li Linfu was framed for this, and after being buried, he was dug out of the coffin, cut open the coffin, stripped of his purple and gold court clothes, and confiscated his family property. There is no reason for you to survive in Chang'an. Not only that, but you also have to kneel and be humiliated in front of the so-called Manchu civil and military, so that these mediocre people will criticize your crimes, behead and abandon the city. Your princess will also be reduced to a dancing queen and become the plaything of countless dignitaries and officials. ”

The princess's face was pale, her red lips were shockingly red under the soaking of wine juice, Abs held her hand tightly, and said with a wry smile on the corner of her mouth: "Is Dr. Li afraid that my life will be too comfortable, and he wants me to face the reality as soon as possible?" ”

"Wrong, Absi Yehu, I just don't want your husband and wife to be humiliated in front of those people in Chang'an, so I have a suggestion." He put a porcelain bottle on the desk, stared at the two of them and said slowly: "This is a poison refined from the sap of the Lingnan Blood-Sealing Throat Tree, and the Taoist priest has refined it into a pill, and if you take it, you can die in a short time." I will give it to you when I leave, so that you can end your life early before returning to Chang'an City to avoid humiliation. ”

"Thank you," Absi stretched out his hand to take it, but was retracted into Li Siye's arms, and said with a smile: "I can't give it to you for the time being, and when the time is right, I will send someone to deliver it to you." ”

At this time, Li Siye had to be careful, in case the couple couldn't think about it in advance and died in his Liangzhou Governor's Mansion, they had to trouble explaining the reason to the emperor. Therefore, the medicine can only be delivered until their husband and wife leave the boundary of Liangzhou Mansion.

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In August of the twelfth year of Tianbao, after Li Siye sent Absi and his wife out of Liangzhou, he temporarily appointed Cheng Qianli to stay in Hexi, and he took his entourage to Yangguan in the west, and went to Xiaobolu along the Khotanese Road to the Green Ridge Trade Road.

Because the post road system on this road is very developed, Li Siye and dozens of retinue Yu Hou each rode three horses, changed horses back and forth, and traveled 300 miles in one day, and it took only one and a half months to reach the capital of Xiaobolu.

The Shule army and the Longshuo army had already arrived at Xiaobolu half a month in advance, and Feng Changqing had arrived ten days earlier.

After Li Siye arrived in the city of Xinduo, he decided to hand over the command to Feng Changqing, and he sat on the side.

In real history, this battle was also commanded by Feng Changqing, he just wanted to confirm that after being changed by himself, Feng Changqing still had the original command talent. Besides, he can't be the only one in his Northwest Domain camp who can fight, and the more generals who can take charge of themselves, the better. Feng Changqing, Li Guangbi, Duan Xiushi, and Bai Xiaode should be able to defeat the generals under An Lushan.

In late September of the twelfth year of Tianbao, Absi and his wife committed suicide by poisoning after crossing the Wei River in an ink car escorted by the imperial court.

At the beginning of October, Li Siye led his army to cross the dividing line between Xiao Bolu and Da Bolu and launched an attack on the Great Bolu Kingdom.