Chapter 133: Letter from Xiling
"In the world full of Haotian Shenhui, the dance of the Heavenly Demon should not appear, facing the pressure of the Xiling Dao Gate, especially the Guan, who can protect you?
"The first emperor is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he only needs Chrysostom to say a word, and the empire's tens of thousands of iron riders will sweep the world, screaming and smashing all Taoist temples into scrap metal, and there is an academy behind him, so he can ignore the Haotian Shenhui that fell from the sky, but why did he turn his face with the Xiling Divine Kingdom for a Demon Sect Holy Maiden?"
"That person has been cultivating cicada (Zen?) for twenty-three years, but I am afraid that I have already forgotten about you as a female apprentice between the transformation and transformation, so who else can protect you? But I am just a military general with brute strength, I am not a master or a master, I don't have that kind of strength...... Then I can only protect myself with your death, because I need to live, because there are more important people in my life waiting to be protected by me. ”
Many years later, in the military camp on the border between the Tang Empire and the Yan Kingdom, the general who had already given birth to Huafa on his sideburns silently recalled the Heavenly Demon Dance that confused the Three Realms back then, and there was no emotion on his face.
The events of that year began with a letter sent by the head of the Haotian Dao Sect of the Xiling Divine Kingdom to the capital of Chang'an. In that letter, the head of the Haotian Dao Sect changed his attitude of getting along with the royal family of the Tang Empire on an equal footing for many years, and the words and sentences intensified the contradictions, and expressed extreme anger to the Tang royal family on behalf of the hundreds of millions of believers of the Haotian Dao Sect, accusing a certain general of the Tang Dynasty of colluding with the remnants of the Demon Sect in a stern tone, and demanding an explanation from the Tang royal family.
At the same time that letter was issued, the three great priests with high status who had rarely left the Xiling Divine Kingdom led countless strong masters in the gate to cross Yanxi, and came to the Tang Dynasty without giving an explanation to the believers of the Haotian Dao Sect, so the Haotian Dao Sect did not mind risking the risk of turning against the Tang Empire and sniping the remnants of the Demon Sect on their own.
The turmoil that not many people knew about ended because General Xia Hou brutally killed the beautiful woman, and the Haotian Daomen was very satisfied with the explanation given by the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Empire also avoided another war with the world because of the woman's death.
A war with the world will never make the Tang people feel afraid, and no one will be willing to spill blood for an inexplicable head of a Demon Sect saintess, so the very few people who know the inside story have been speculating afterwards that His Majesty the Tang Emperor has been lenient to General Xia Hou over the years, is it to comfort him with the pain of breaking his arm back then?
This kind of speculation does not necessarily conform to the facts, but the truth of history is always hidden in the ** ditch at the door, and no one will be willing to take the initiative to dig if you want to see that you need to endure too much sludge and smell.
In the blink of an eye, many years have passed, and in the autumn of the thirteenth year of the Tang Dynasty Apocalypse, the former Demon Sect Holy Maiden Murong Linshuang has become the poor nameless pet concubine who was cooked in the memories of the market, and in this autumn, another letter written by Haotian Sect was sent from the Xiling Divine Kingdom to Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty.
"I haven't seen that letter back then, but I heard that my father was very angry at that time, and tore the letter into snowflakes and sprinkled it all over the palace, while asking Father-in-law Que to go to Yanjing to ask Xia Hou if there was indeed such a thing, but on the other hand, he secretly ordered Xu Shi, the general of Zhenguo, to secretly mobilize troops and horses, preparing to storm Xiling Divine Kingdom as soon as he turned his face. ”
His Royal Highness the Prince of the Tang Dynasty Li Peiyan looked at the letter paper in his hand, shook his head with a wry smile, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes disappeared, and he said with some annoyance: "What do those old Taoist priests want to do? Now you actually ask me to forward this letter to the imperial brother, although the tone is quite peaceful, but Yan Suqing's death is an internal affair of the empire after all, even if he used to be your Xiling disciple, there is no reason to send a letter to ask, how can the imperial brother not be angry?"
The steward of the famous king's mansion stood behind him in a proper manner, and said with a smile: "Everyone knows that His Majesty does not want to see those Taoist priests in Xiling, and Haotian Zhangjiao is also the most noble person in the world, he probably didn't want to directly submit the letter to His Majesty but was directly slapped by His Majesty, so he asked His Highness to hand it over." ”
The voice fell, and the steward immediately followed the younger brother and said complimentingly: "In this world, the only person who is qualified to balance the balance between His Majesty and Haotian Sect is Your Highness." ”
"Hmph, does this king want to be this messenger?" Li Peiyan sneered and said: "I think that in the first year of the Apocalypse, the imperial brother had just ascended the throne to inspect the southern Daze, and let me stay in the capital Chang'an to supervise the country. “
Everyone knows that the Tang royal family and the Xiling Temple are not at eye for each other in the secular world and the other in religion, but His Royal Highness the Prince can be regarded as one of the outliers, not only in the Haotian South Gate in the Tang Empire, but also with the Xiling Temple There is also occasional correspondence, and this exchange between the two sides is from a certain cooperation in the first year of the Apocalypse.
The steward looked at His Royal Highness the Prince's slightly frowned eyebrows, thinking that he had served His Royal Highness for so many years, and he still couldn't understand what His Royal Highness was trying to befriend Xiling at the risk of His Majesty's displeasure, he never dared to ask questions about this matter, but at this time, looking at His Royal Highness holding the letter written by Haotian Zhangjiao, he finally made up his mind, looked at the movement outside the window, and plucked up the courage to whisper: "Your Highness, there is strong reinforcement outside and peace inside......
Li Peiyan was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then looked at this steward who had followed him since he was a child, suddenly reached out and patted him on the shoulder, and said in a harmonious voice: "Sure enough, he is worthy of being an old man in the house, and he can understand the king's intentions." ”
After the steward left, the smile on Li Peiyan's face suddenly faded, and he tapped the copper bell next to the table to summon a guard, and after thinking for a while, he said in a cold voice: "The chief steward has a problem, notify the palace to send out secret guards to keep an eye on him......"
"No, just kill it!"
Li Peiyan said in a deep voice: "You dare to provoke the relationship between the king and the imperial brother, this kind of person can't stay, and then you notify the military department and ask them to check what way the chief steward entered the palace when I left the palace and opened the palace, focusing on checking whether there is a relationship between him and Xiling." ”
After arranging these things, His Royal Highness stayed in the secretary for a long time, and he sat at the desk to recall what had happened, and his thick eyebrows, which were as straight as a sword, slowly frowned. Regarding the two cases of General Xuanwei's Mansion and Yanjing Tucun, he didn't think that he had done anything wrong, because he insisted that he had done those things for the sake of Datang.
The Tang Dynasty now has countless famous iron riders, and has academies and masters, even the Xiling Divine Kingdom does not dare to show the slightest hostility, but the Tang Dynasty will be passed on from generation to generation, what if the national strength weakens after a few generations? The master will leave this world one day, what about then? What if the seven volumes of the Heavenly Book in Naguan are fulfilled? In order to maintain a good relationship with the Haotian Dao Sect, which has believers all over the world, what about the death of some unimportant people?
As long as it doesn't involve Datang at all, he doesn't care about those who died innocently.
He believed that the imperial brother would not care.
(To be continued)