On the couch, Li Zhi raised his hand with a relaxed expression: "Di Qing, excuse me, Cui Qing, answer everything truthfully." ”

"Whoa!" Cui Ding bowed to the emperor, then turned to look at Di Renjie.

Di Renjie's eyes fell on Cui Ding, and he asked seriously: "Dare to ask General Cui Zhonglang, since the king of Nanchang had already seriously injured the Qinling when he was in Gradan Dongguan, why could he still escape when he was in Amdo...... Later, during the battle of Cuona Lake, Non Qinling was seriously injured and dying, and finally fled into Naqu, and then the city of Naqu was broken, and Non Qinling fled again. ”

Di Renjie turned to look at the emperor and bowed heavily: "Your Majesty, the minister just wants to ask, is the king of Nanchang deliberately conniving at the enemy to raise his own respect, or is he using the Qinling Tomb to calculate something?" ”

The ministers in the palace immediately couldn't help but complain in their hearts, you Di Renjie is still a friend of King Nanchang after all, and you are still helping him exonerate in the end.

The emperor smiled, waved his hand and said, "Cui Qing, you come and tell the truth." ”

"Whoa!" Cui Ding breathed a sigh of relief, turned to look at Di Renjie, and arched his hand: "When Gradan was in Dongguan, he did seriously injure the Qinling, and it is precisely because of this that when he was in Amdo, when he was in the wrong lake, at the most critical moment, the injury suddenly became painful...... Under the crisis of life and death, people can't help but choose to retreat at this time. ”

Cui Ding couldn't help but shake his head, Amdo is okay, they didn't see the Qin Tomb at all.

But when it came to Cuona Lake, three thousand heavy cavalry raided, and Li Xuan attacked directly from the side, and the Qinling Tomb should have risen to the challenge, facing Li Xuan's offensive, and at the same time boosting morale, and finally crushing Li Xuan's offensive.

Cui Dingdu was ready to fight to the death, but on Qinling suddenly retreated wrong.

As soon as he retreated, the morale of all the Tubo soldiers on the entire battlefield collapsed instantly, and then it was a thousand miles away.

Afterwards, they analyzed that in addition to the injury of the Qinling Tomb itself, there was another important reason.

He's old.

was old, and when he needed to fight hard for the end, he chose to turn around and flee without hesitation.

When you are old, you don't have the courage to decide.

Li Xuan's sentence "The brave wins when they meet on a narrow road" made all the soldiers recognize.

"Then what about after that, in the besieged Naqu City, there was a broken city in the city, and how did the seriously injured and dying Lun Qinling escape?" Di Renjie's eyes were staring at Di Renjie tightly, this was the biggest question that was now hanging over Li Xuan.

If the previous battle was because there were too many enemies and not enough military strength, and finally let Non Qinling escape, then in the siege of Naqu City, it should have been the primary goal, and it was also said before, the seriously injured and dying Non Qinling, he should not have escaped again.

If Li Xuan is calculating something else, this is understandable, but if he really deliberately indulges in the enemy, or even raises his own respect, then he is his heart can be punished.

Of course, lying about the military is also a felony.

……

After Di Renjie finished speaking, Cui Ding immediately felt endless malice falling on him, and he subconsciously turned to look at the emperor.

Li Zhi nodded lightly, and Cui Ding was completely relieved.

Turning around, Cui Ding looked at Di Renjie and said: "At the time of Naqu, Dashuai's arrow did hit the Qinling, shot out from the left side of the ribs, and shot straight into the internal organs, and he vomited blood on the spot, and then he was chased and killed. ”

"Since he only had his last breath left, how did he escape from Naqu?" Di Renjie followed closely and asked.

At this time, everyone's eyes in the hall fell on Cui Ding, waiting for his answer.

I saw Cui Ding shook his head lightly, and said with a serious face: "On the Qinling did not escape from Naqu......

Having said this, many people couldn't help but be stunned, almost in a flash, someone already understood something in their hearts.

“…… On Qinling did not escape from Naqu, and even on the night he fled into Naqu, the person was already dead. Cui Ding's words suddenly sounded like thunder in the hall.

Most of the people in the temple were shocked by the news.

On Qinling actually died?

For so many years, the Qinling Tomb, which brought so much trouble to the Tang Dynasty, actually died.

He just died?

By now, many people were already in disbelief, but then they suddenly raised their heads and stared at Cui Ding's body.

"Since Qin Ling is dead, why do you want to hide the news of his death?" Di Renjie calmly asked the other people's questions.

"We didn't pretend to be mysterious, and the concealment of the death of the Qinling was only aimed at Tubo, the purpose was to create the illusion that the Qinling was still alive, and to avoid the Tubo internal team to work together to resist our Tang Dynasty, after all, our military strength is limited, and we can't suffer too much damage, as for the internal ......."

"As for the inward." The emperor took the words, then looked at the ministers and said: "At the beginning of the month, the king of Nanchang had already secretly informed me of everything, and I agreed, and today, Cui Ding returned to Chang'an and brought back the body of the Qin Tomb. ”

"Ahh The ministers in the palace didn't expect that there would be such a turn.

On Qinling's death in Naqu, the key is that his body has been brought back to Chang'an at this time.

On the Qinling Tomb is now Chang'an.

In the minds of many people, there is chaos at the moment.

There were so many things happening today, so much that they couldn't even react.

Sitting on the imperial couch, Li Zhi took everyone's expressions into his eyes with great interest, and his expression gradually calmed down.

"Zhongqing, it is true that Qin Ling is dead, and the only question I am thinking about now is what to do with his body." Li Zhi turned his head to look at Liu Boying, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and asked, "Let's talk about the Ministry of Rites, how should this matter be handled according to the imperial system?" ”

Liu Boying walked out steadily and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, on Qinling as the minister of the Tubo State for many years, many times in front of the battle with our dynasty, not to mention the others, just the battle of Dafeichuan that year, there were 100,000 soldiers killed and wounded, so the minister suggested to follow the story of Jieli, according to the customs of Tubo, to be buried." ”

"What are the Tibetan customs?" Li Zhi continued to ask.

"After the death of the Tibetan people, there are three ways to deal with it, one is the sky burial, where the body of the deceased is placed in a high place for birds and beasts to eat; The second is cremation, in which the body is cremated and the ashes are scattered into the river; The third is burial. Liu Boying said that the burial was very simple, and he was reluctant to say more.

But all the ministers in the palace knew that in Tibet, only the poorest would choose sky burial; a little money, cremation; A real noble house, burial.

"Back then, I remember, it was after the cremation that the ashes were scattered into the Bahe River." Li Zhi nodded lightly.

"Yes." Liu Boying bowed his hand, and then said: "Sky burial, cremation and burial, Turkic are also similar customs. ”

Li Zhi pressed his eyebrows slightly, and then said: "The matter of heavenly burial is not advisable, even if I don't say that I don't have that thought, even the current situation of Qinling is not advisable." ”

"Your Majesty, dare to ask what is the current situation in Qinling?" The book made Xue Yuanchao stand up and ask the questions of the ministers.

When a person dies, he is already dead, and where is there anything undesirable.

"He was indeed seriously injured and died under the arrows of the king of Nanchang at that time, but on the night when he was rescued into Naqu, he was injected with a special toxin in his body, and finally his body was not rotten, which was used to deceive others, and at the same time concealed the death of Qin Ling." Li Zhi shook his head and said, "Heavenly burial, I'm afraid it will hurt birds and beasts......"

"Hehe......" Several people in the hall couldn't help laughing.

Li Zhi raised his eyes and glanced lightly, and the next moment, the hall instantly fell silent.

Xue Yuanchao continued to give up his hand at this time and asked, "Your Majesty has other ideas?" ”

"It's not that I have other ideas, it's that the king of Nanchang has other ideas." Li Zhi shook his head a little helplessly, and said: "The king of Nanchang wants me to consider burying the remains of the Qin Tomb with Zhaoling......

"Your Majesty, this must not be done." Liu Renliang stood up directly and arched his hand: "On the ministers of the enemy country in Qinling, how can they accompany the burial of Zhaoling." ”

Li Zhi waved his hand and said, "The king of Nanchang has written a letter to the fifth brother of Qinling, Bren Zanji, and informed him of the truth about the death of Qinling. ”

The ministers in the palace suddenly fell silent, and the king of Nanchang chose to hide the news of the death of the Qinling from all the Tubo people, but decided to tell the fifth brother of the Qinling that Li Xuan's provocative calculations against the Tubo royal family and the Gar family had been faintly touched.

"Your Majesty." Di Renjie took a step forward, seemed to think of something, and asked: "Is it the Tubo general who was captured by the King of Nanchang in Taozhou back then, and was later returned by the Qinling with a large number of cattle and sheep?" ”

The ministers in the hall were slightly stunned, some of them didn't understand what was going on.

Li Zhi looked at Li Xian on the side.

Li Xian immediately arched his hand and said: "Back to my father, the son was the head of the Taohe Road march at that time, and the Boren Zanjian led three thousand Tubo elites to attack, and was finally designed by the Nanchang Wang Shu, using Taozhou City as a bait, mobilizing the right to lead the army to defend the north and south, killing them all in one fell swoop, and finally captured the Bolunzan Blade, and then the court used the Borenzan Blade and the remains of the three thousand Tubo elites to exchange for 100,000 cattle and sheep. ”

Li Zhi immediately remembered, he looked at Li Xuan's secret fold, and the content in the secret fold was just that Bolun Zanjian was the fifth brother of Qinling, and he didn't say much else.

"Since this person has a relationship with the king of Nanchang, in this way, the king of Nanchang has a full grasp of convincing this person." Li Zhi nodded slowly.

Li Xuan has always liked to play with people's hearts, and the Brenzan blade once fell into Li Xuan's hands, so this time his calculation can also be done. ”

"Your Majesty." Di Renjie arched his hand again and asked: "What is the situation in Tubo now, since you have already won Naqu, why don't you consider driving straight into the city and inserting it into the city?" ”

"It's not that simple." Li Zhi waved his hand, and while asking Wang Fulai to pass on Li Xuan's recital, he said: "Now in Luo, the Queen Mother of Tubo has already won over quite a lot of nobles who oppose the Gar family, and she still has 10,000 Tubo troops in her hands. ”

The two words Guangjun immediately made the courtiers who knew this name in the court vigilant.

"Brother Qinling praises that if there are still 100,000 soldiers in his hands, including 30,000 elites, if he drives straight in, once he is deadlocked on the front line, it will be easy to be copied by others, and the back road is dangerous, and the front line will be uneasy, so he will fight steadily, hold Naqu, and transfer grain and grass......"

Li Zhi shook his head slightly, and said: "Now in Tubo, the autumn is deep, and the weather is cold, which is not good for the Luo Dao army, so it is better to wait until next year, so, by the way, at this time, provoke the hearts of the Tubo monarchs and ministers, if the royal family and the Gar family can completely turn against each other, then next year will be much easier." ”

Steady and steady, Liu Renliang, Liu Xianli, Li Jingxuan, Dou Xuande, Duan Baoxuan, Liu Boying and others nodded involuntarily.

This is what the prime ministers of the DPRK and China appreciate the most, and if they fight steadily, there may not be a big victory, but there will definitely be no big defeat.

And if he can solve part of the military consumption by himself, he will already be an irreplaceable military commander in the eyes of the prime ministers.

"These are the conditions in Tibet." Li Zhi knocked lightly on the table, and then said: "In this way, it depends on which step Boren Zanjian can do, if he can wipe out the Tubo royal family, and then surrender to the Tang Dynasty, I will let the Qin Tomb enter the Zhao Tomb, so what's the matter." ”

The ministers were suddenly awe-inspired, and at this moment, a burst of shouts suddenly came from outside the hall: "Good news, good news, great victory in Dingxiang." ”

Li Zhi was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help laughing.

(End of chapter)