"Bold Turks, barbarians, dare to attack at this time!" In the Taiji Palace and Taiji Hall in Chang'an City, Li Shimin was sitting in a precarious position, his face full of anger.

On both sides of the hall, civil and military officials stood solemnly in shifts, trembling.

It turned out that when Li Shimin first ascended the throne, the Turkic Jieli and Turki Khans learned of the change of power in the Tang Empire, so they combined more than 100,000 troops to attack Jingzhou. It is very common for the barbarians outside the Saiwai to attack the Central Plains, and those grandsons, whenever they are poor, hungry, and unable to eat, will run to the Central Plains to wander. At that time, Li Yuan's grandson was making trouble in Youzhou, so Li Shimin sent Wei Chi Jingde to counterattack, and he started internal affairs first.

When Wei Chi Jingde set out on the expedition, the Turks had already attacked Gaoling, and when the two sides finally met, it was in Jingyang. In a great battle, the vanguard of more than 1,000 Turkic armies was annihilated, and the momentum of the Turks' southward movement was damaged.

Unfortunately, in the end, it was not possible to stop the Turkic army from approaching the city. Today, August 28, Guiwei, north of Chang'an City, on the bank of the Weishui River, 200,000 Turkic soldiers, fluttering flags for dozens of miles.

The more Li Shimin thought about it, the more angry he became, not only because he was angry that he let the Turkic soldiers attack his doorstep, but also because he realized that the "catastrophe" that Zhang Xuanqing said before may have been due to this matter, and he was angry why he didn't think of it before.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt aggrieved, and I couldn't help but pat the dragon case, and asked loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, now that the Turkic soldiers are coming to the city, I don't know what to do?"

"Your Majesty, there's nothing to say, the Turkic dog is here, just fight!" Immediately, a big man in the shape of a man came out of the ranks, shouting in a rough voice, this person is not a bystander, it is the demon king of the mixed world, Cheng Biting Jin.

Hearing him say this, Li Shimin's expression immediately darkened, with the current strength of Chang'an City, it is not impossible to fight, and even with such tiger generals as Cheng Yanjin, Qin Qiong, and Wei Chi Jingde, it may not be impossible to win against the other party.

But what about after the fight?

Nowadays, Datang's national strength is not as optimistic as imagined, a war is likely to bring Datang down, even if it wins, it will be a tragic victory, and it will not benefit the country or the people. What Li Shimin wants now is not a method of fighting, but a method of not fighting.

As long as he can postpone the war with the Turks and give the Tang Dynasty a chance to recuperate, rectify military affairs, and accumulate strength, why should he Li Shimin be afraid of a ******?

At this time, the Zhongshu Ling Fang Xuanling was about to leave the class, and suddenly an inner attendant entered the hall outside the main hall and said: "Your Majesty, the captain of the Beicheng City Gate reports that the Turks have sent envoys to meet Your Majesty." ”

Li Shimin raised his eyebrows, waved his hand, and said, "Xuan!" When the chamberlain went out, the corner of his mouth sneered: "Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think is the intention of the Turks to send envoys at this time?"

Fang Xuanling was about to stand up just now, so he simply didn't retreat, he stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, according to what the ministers have seen, the Turkic envoys are nothing more than persuasion and temptation!"

"Hmph! It's a good calculation!" Li Shimin sneered even more: "They don't want to think about it, they are tempting me, why can't I take the opportunity to tempt them?"

After about two quarters of an hour, the Turkic envoy came to the palace, a man of five big and three thick, whose name was insane, and who was a confidant of Jieli Khan.

This stubborn thinking force is also a capable person, knowing that the key to the battle between the two armies is to suppress the other party first, grasp the opponent's life, break through the opponent's psychological defense, and then succeed. Therefore, when he entered the main hall, he did not practice normal diplomatic etiquette, not to mention, but also deliberately put on a high-profile posture of holding a chance to win, facing Li Shimin, with a proud face: "You are the new Tang Emperor, right? Today, I came to inform you that the Turkic Jieli Khan and the Turki Khan led a large army of one million and had arrived at the city of Chang'an. I advise you to surrender quickly, otherwise it will not be good for you, the emperor, if the soldiers meet each other and Chang'an will be stained with blood!"

Li Shimin almost lost his temper when he heard this, a million? What the are you deceiving a ghost? No matter how much nonsense you talk about, you won't fool people like this. He snorted angrily and scolded: "Good thief! I and your khan also met face to face, talked about peace, and gave you gold, silver, cloth and silk before and after, countless times. Now you have broken your covenant and led your troops deep into our land, and you have not been ashamed at all. Although you are Rong Di, you should also know how to be polite, righteous and honest, why should you forget all your great kindness and boast of being strong, I really don't dare to kill you? Hmph! Come on, pull him out and cut him down!"

"Whaha! This thing is easy to do, just leave it to me Cheng Biting Gold!" Cheng Biting Jin got up with a smile, clenched his fists, and walked towards the stubborn thinking force.

"Your Majesty, don't do it!" Shang Shu's right servant shot Feng Deyi and hurriedly stopped him, this person was originally a subordinate official of Li Shimin's Tiance Mansion, and he secretly defended the crown prince Li Jiancheng before, and he wavered between the two. But Li Shimin didn't know about this, and now he is in power, and he still holds a high position.

However, at this time, Li Shimin didn't want to listen to the other party's nonsense, so he waved his hand: "Feng Aiqing doesn't need to say much, I have made up my mind, Zhijie, since you should go, don't you drag people out quickly!"

"It's easy to say! It's easy to say, Your Majesty, look at it!" Cheng Yanjin grinned and laughed.

He was really dumbfounded this time, before he came here, he didn't expect Li Shimin to kill people. In his heart, he came to fool people this time, and it was best to fool him, eat and drink well, and then go back to his life; even if he couldn't fool around, he never thought that he would take a small life here! Seeing that Li Shimin didn't look like a show, he was immediately frightened and scattered, and he couldn't care about it, so he hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy: "Your Majesty is angry, Your Majesty is angry, it is the foreign minister who has lost his word, please forgive Your Majesty!"

Shangshu's left servant shot Xiao Yu also came out of the class at this time and said: "Your Majesty, please think twice, there is an old saying: two countries are at war, do not kill them." This obsession with thinking and arrogant words is indeed hateful, but he is now aware of his mistake, and according to the etiquette of the two countries, he should still be sent back. ”

"Yes, yes, the two countries are at war without slashing the envoys, and please ask Your Majesty to be merciful!"

Li Shimin was silent for a long time before he said coldly: "Okay, if you turn into a barbarian, I will spare your life! But the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime cannot be escaped.

"It's boring to make trouble for a long time and not kill. Cheng Biting Jin pouted dissatisfiedly, and Yoyo Dada went back to his place.

In fact, the forbidden army has already come to the palace to listen to the order, even if Cheng Yanjin will not go, it is impossible for him to let a general of the right military guard do it himself.

Waiting for the soldiers to take the stubborn thinking down, Xiao Yu still dissuaded: "Your Majesty, this move is unreasonable. Moreover, the Buddha said that people should be compassionate, and Your Majesty, as a royal family, should be even more ......."

"Okay, I also know what Master Xiao said. Li Shimin waved his hand and interrupted: "But there are some truths that Lord Xiao may not know, if I let that stubbornness go back now, the Turks will definitely think that I am afraid of them, and they will be more wanton and aggressive, I am merciful to them, they may not be merciful to my people!" Although he was explaining, his tone was slightly unpleasant.

Xiao Yu's behavior at this time made Li Shimin can't help but think of Zhang Xuanqing, as a "fairy of the gods", he is naturally the top figure in Taoism. Compared with Xiao Yu, a Buddhist, it is much better.

It is also a religion, but after Zhang Xuanqing of Taoism persuaded him to govern the people of the world, he knew that the Taoist concept was no longer in line with the present, and took the initiative to ask him not to use the Taoist concept to govern the world, but to be an inner saint and an outer king, etc. But Xiao Yu was above the court, but he talked about Buddhism, which made Li Shimin have a little dislike for Buddhism.

I have to say that sometimes a person's senses on another person are very influential, and in the original history without Zhang Xuanqing, Li Shimin still had a good impression of Buddhism. But with Zhang Xuanqing, although Zhang Xuanqing didn't muttered in his ear how Buddhism was bad, but by mistake, there was Xiao Yu, a "brain-dead fan" of Buddhism, as the saying goes, one powder is top ten black, which actually made Li Shimin have a bad feeling towards Buddhism.

Xiao Yu's expression was naturally very embarrassed at this time, but Li Shimin didn't have time to talk to him anymore, beckoned the hundred officials in the palace, and discussed how to deal with the Turkic affairs again.

Fang Xuanling came out of the class again and said: "Your Majesty, the minister's obsession with losing his thinking power, the persuasion to surrender is false, and the attitude of testing my Tang Dynasty is true." His rhetoric is really a sign of being strong on the outside and doing things in the middle. It can be seen that although Jieli raised a large army, his ambition to attack the city was not very strong. ”

Du Ruhui, who is already the secretary of the Ministry of War, also came out of the class to attach: "Lord Fang's analysis is very good, although Jieli and Tuli have raised 200,000 soldiers, but these two people have deep contradictions, and the soldiers and horses under their respective commands are not monolithic internally, and there are many disagreements between various tribes. In this way, the Turks wavered in their war spirit. If you plan carefully, my Datang is not the only way to fight. ”

Cheng Yanjin suddenly interjected at this time: "After talking for a long time, doesn't it mean the same thing, the Turks don't necessarily have to attack the city, but they just want to take advantage of it." ”

The corners of Li Shimin's mouth twitched, this ramming goods is in one sentence. Suddenly, his heart moved slightly, and he got up suddenly: "Go, go out of the city with me." I want to see what is so powerful about the 200,000 Turkic soldiers!"

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When Li Shimin led the hundred officials to prepare to go out of the city, the Weishui River, by the bridge, Jieli Khan and Tuli Khan had already fought hard, and the 200,000 army said that it was not too much, but it was not too much, and they were confident that they would fight with the Tang Dynasty.

At the same time, Xianyunguan, Banshan Pavilion, and Zhang Xuanqing are also saying goodbye to Yuan Tiangang's master and apprentice.

"Lao Yuan, Chunfeng, Lao Wu, and the Wu family's sister-in-law, okay, you can send it here. Walking to the Mid-Mountain Pavilion, Zhang Xuanqing immediately greeted the people who saw him off.

Today, the people in Xianyunguan are basically all together, except for Wu Gong, who is studying in the city, even Uncle Gong went to Zhang Xuanqing's house in the morning to go around, and said a few words of send-off, but he didn't come down to send them. In addition to the two of them, Yuan Tiangang, Li Chunfeng, and the Wu couple are all together.

Seeing what Zhang Xuanqing said freely, Yuan Tiangang still did not forget to advise: "Brother Dao is going to the mountains and the road is far away, don't forget to be careful in everything." ”

"Don't worry, poor province. Zhang Xuanqing waved his hand and took the burden from Li Chunfeng. On the other side, the Wu couple held the erhu and handed it to him, "Zhang Zhenren, what kind of object is this?" This thing was only taken out by Zhang Xuanqing this morning, and the Wu couple helped him carry his luggage, but they didn't know what it was.

Zhang Xuanqing took the erhu and said with an inexplicable smile: "This is the erhu, also known as 'Xi Qin', which is a Hu people's musical instrument." ”

"The real person is so powerful, and he also understands the Hu people's musical instruments. Wu Laohan praised.

Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng's mouths twitched a little, did he really understand? I hope I don't "understand" like Yaoqin.

Wu asked, "For real reasons, what are you doing with such a musical instrument?"

Zhang Xuanqing smiled: "This thing has some uses, Poor Dao is going to take it to watch a lively scene today!"

After carrying all the salutes on his body, he hugged his fists at everyone and said, "The green mountains do not change, the green water will flow for a long time, and the poor road will come back!" After saying the burden that no one could understand in this time and space, he laughed a long time, and his luck turned into a wisp of green smoke and flew down the mountain.

After descending the mountain, he turned back and stopped for a long time, and then turned to the west, the purpose - the bridge!