Datang Happy Landlord

Chapter 901;
Chapter 850 three;

September 28th of the fifth year of Zhenguan.

Chang'an City Imperial City, Li Shimin's study.

A Xuanjia army hurried to the door of the study.

"Quickly report to His Majesty the Emperor, it is extremely urgent."

"Okay, okay, Captain, wait for a while, and our family will go in immediately."

"Okay, hurry up."

The servant guarding the door of the study hurriedly ran in. The emperor was discussing matters with the left and right servants. Seeing the flustered expression of the servant who came in, he stopped talking and waited for the report.

"Reporting to the sage, Lieutenant Gu of the Xuanjia Army is here, and he says it's urgent..."

"Quick announcement."

"only!"

Not long after, the captain of the Xuanjia Army quickly walked in.

"Report to His Majesty the Emperor..."

"What did you say directly?"

"Wei! On the way back, Prince Tuyuhun encountered an enemy attack at Jinji Ridge in front of Baoji..."

"Ok?"

"what?"

"God!"

Before the Xuanjia Army could speak clearly, Du Ruhui and Fang Xuanling were stunned.

Li Shimin stood up abruptly and came directly to the Xuanjia Army.

"What nonsense are you talking about? How could thieves break into the territory of my Tang Dynasty? And behead envoys from other countries who came to worship? What's going on?"

"Your Majesty, I would like to report to Your Majesty, it is absolutely true that Prince Tuyuhun's entourage lost nearly a hundred people, and the remaining 100 people fled for their lives to the next stage for help..."

"where is the guy?"

"His Majesty……"

"I ask you, where is the eldest prince of Tuyuhun? Where is he? Did he escape with his life?"

The flesh on Li Shimin's face was trembling. He hoped that the Xuanjia Army would say that Prince Tuyuhun was safe and sound, but he also knew in his heart that he was assassinated in all likelihood...

Sure enough, what Xuanjiajun said next made Li Shimin's heart go cold to the bottom of the valley.

"Returning to His Majesty, Prince Tuyuhun was hit with two swords, one cut off half of his face, but this is not a fatal injury, the fatal injury is the second sword, Prince Tuyuhun's neck was cut in half."

Li Shimin didn't say a word, walked back step by step and sat down again, tapping his fingers on the table in front of him, his face sinking like water, and his head was still sweating.

Du Ru asked with a dark face;
"What day did it happen? Do you know how everyone reacted?"

"Hui Pu She, the evening of six days ago!"

Du Ruhui's eyes widened instantly;
"Six days ago? How did you do things next? It took six days to report to Chang'an?"

"Reporting to Pushe, the soldiers who escaped from Tuyuhun did not dare to go back, and lost their way in the mountains. They turned back to collect the corpse after two days. After that, they also knew that hiding could not be solved, so they took the body of the eldest prince on the road. After arriving at Guancheng Found the general guarding the pass..."

Du Ruhui let out a long sigh;
"Oh! Have they been back for a few days?"

"That's right, the general guarding the city quickly sent people back to investigate, but people in the valley have already gone to Gukong, and they couldn't even find half of the corpses. There was nothing left. The general was shocked and hurriedly called someone to report."

"At the end of the day, I will be inspecting other things a hundred miles away, and come back as soon as I hear the news..."

Du Ruhui kept walking back and forth, muttering in his mouth;

"In four days, when you come back to report the news, both ends will not be idle. If we infer from this, the courier from the border gate should also arrive. I'm afraid... even the courier from Tuyuhun to question will also arrive."

As if to fulfill Du Ruhui's words, a sharp whistle sounded outside.

Du Ruhui turned his head and glanced at Li Shimin who was silent;

"Your Majesty, eight hundred miles are here in a hurry."

"Yeah. I heard that too."

Du Ruhui turned around and met Fang Xuanling's eyes, the two did nothing but shake their heads.

"Report..."

The urgent Hongling courier at eight hundred miles didn't have to wait for the notification, and the shouts went all the way into the study.

"Report!"

"Report to His Majesty the Emperor, and the frontier is [-] miles away."

Li Shimin scolded with a dark face;
"Bring it."

"only!"

Li Shimin opened the letter and checked it carefully, then took a deep breath.

"The two lovers should also take a look. There are no clues left. The valley is cleaned up, and even the corpses of the prairie people are gone."

Fang Xuanling took the letter, before he could check it, he was busy first to comfort the emperor;

"Your Majesty, wait a moment and panic. The sky will not fall. Let alone our troops did not do it. Even if our army killed the eldest prince of Tuyuhun, it would not be a disaster."

Fang Xuanling's voice fell to the ground, and Du Ruhui next to him also nodded;

"Of course, your majesty don't need to panic, you can eat whatever you want, sleep or sleep, it's not a big deal, just keep the other tribes on the grassland, the little Tuyuhun, he can't hold his hand alone.

The sixteen guards of my Celestial Dynasty are even more powerful, with abundant harvests year after year, no shortage of food and grass, and the power of a big victory. He Tuyuhun dared to make a move, and we just took the opportunity to wipe out this weed. "

"There is some truth to what the two love ministers said, but I still have some scruples in my heart! The war between the two countries was done without beheading them. Such a big event happened in our territory of Tang. It's really hard not to give others an explanation. It’s not easy to prevaricate.”

Fang Xuanling rolled his eyes several times, thought about many things carefully, and then carefully offered a suggestion;
"Your Majesty, you can ask the frontier defenders to pretend to investigate in all directions, release the wind in many places, and then find a bandit den, kill them all, and avenge the eldest prince of Tuyuhun! I don't know what your Majesty thinks?"

Du Ruhui moved his mouth but did not make a sound, Li Shimin let out a long sigh;
"That's the only way to go."

The three monarchs and ministers didn't think about quickly finding the mastermind behind the scenes. They all thought of how to solve the trouble.

Anxiety pervaded the entire imperial court for four days, and Tuyuhun's envoys had not yet arrived, and there was not even a single letter of clamor and accusation...

Li Shimin had been calm on the surface for the past four days, but in fact he was sitting on pins and needles, asking Sergeant Xuanjia every day.

At dusk, a Xuanjia army in black appeared in Li Shimin's bedroom.

"Report to Your Majesty, the surrounding area is quiet, and all the scout horses released have returned."

Li Shimin looked at the map on the wall with his hands behind his back. On the table next to him were four dishes, two meatloaf, and a pot of millet porridge, which had not been touched.

"Is it really quiet?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, none of the forces on the grassland reacted superfluously, and Tuyuhun is even more unmoved, just like in the past."

"Same as before?"

"That Fu Yun spent half his life fighting, full of arrogance. Now someone has killed his most intelligent eldest son, and he is still focusing on nurturing the son who will succeed him, but he hasn't even sent a letter of questioning. As in the past?"

Li Shimin, with his hands behind his back, shook his head lightly.

"It's normal if he gets angry and asks the envoys to jump up and down, but he hasn't made any movement, it's been ten days.

He just buried his son quietly without any other actions. This is the biggest trouble. Many ministers are getting more and more relaxed. They think it's best if Tuyuhun doesn't come to find fault, but I know that Fu Yun won't Be willing, he can't swallow this breath.

He must think that the soldiers and horses I sent to behead his son. I have known Fu Yun for many years and know his temper, so I concluded that he will not give up unless he vents his anger. "

"But Your Majesty, the ones sent out are all good players. The old soldiers in Xuanjia, and the various tribes on the grassland are indeed the same. I think..."

"You don't have to think about it. You can't figure out Fu Yun. If I expected it to be correct, he should be contacting Tiele and Xue Yantuo, and of course Tubo. Step back and pay attention to the movements in these places, but there is something wrong. , report back immediately."

"Wei! Your Excellency, please retreat."

"Go."

"It's Your Majesty."

As soon as Colonel Gu walked out of the side hall, he ran into two colleagues. The three of them looked at each other and shook their heads wryly.

After the two Xuanjia troops reported, they entered the side hall.

"Meet His Majesty the Emperor."

Li Shimin was still staring at the map on the wall without looking back.

"Excuse me."

"Thank you, Your Majesty the Emperor."

"How's it going?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, all the troops within five hundred miles have not mobilized a single soldier during the five days before and after the accident."

"Well, exactly as I guessed."

The other Xuanjia rolled his eyes a few times, wanted to speak but held back, and could see the emperor's distress.

Can't you feel bad, the situation that just calmed down was broken again. Although Tuyuhun has a small territory, it has a strong army and has close contacts with several other large tribes.
Now someone's son came to congratulate you, but he died on the way, what is this called?
"Zhaoliang, have all your men and horses finished their work?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, I'm done. Within a hundred miles, the biggest bandit is Wuyaling in the south of Baoji, but... there are only 49 people. It's impossible to kill Prince Tuyuhun."

"You have always done things safely, and I know that you must not only search Baili, right?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, 280 miles to the southeast, there is a mountain called Ehupo. There are more than 470 horse bandits in the mountain, not including cooks, maids, mothers-in-law, and wives and children."

"Oh? Since you said this, they must have a certain strength."

"Yes, Your Majesty, these more than 400 people are all experienced veterans. The soldiers of the former dynasty were led by a captain. They lived in seclusion in the mountains of Ehupo. There were nearly a thousand women and children, and they were divided into three places. In the mountain nest, do not communicate with the surrounding people.

They robbed merchants who passed by many times. Among them, the caravan organized by the fourth branch of Wang's Erfang in Taiyuan was robbed once. Added up six times before and after, 32 lives were lost.

They hid delicately and deeply, but Your Majesty told you that they would spare no expense at all, so I mobilized five hundred mysterious armors to expand the range to the surrounding three hundred miles, and indeed found this place. "

"Pass down an order to ask Li Daliang to find out about the assassination of Prince Tuyuhun, and to give an explanation to Tuyuhun and to the court."

"only!"

"Back off, that's all."

"It's Your Majesty, I'm waiting for you to leave."

"allow."

After the two Xuanjia troops withdrew, Li Shimin was about to eat, when he heard a small movement in the wall, he quickly waved his hand;

"Retire, I am also pure and pure."

"only!"

After the maids in the side hall finished walking, Li Shimin nodded to Qian Dehai who was next to him. The latter went to the back room and brought a man covered in black clothes with him not long after.

This person is of medium height, neither fat nor thin, walks like a cat, makes no sound, and has an unconcealable evil spirit all over his body.

When I came to see the emperor, he was still holding a Tang knife in his left hand, which was weird and ruthless. Unlike the Tang knife in the court, this man's knife was all black, and the scabbard was also black. Black can't find anything else.

"The minister pays homage to the patriarch."

Hearing the voice, the visitor seemed to be very old, at least much older than Li Shimin, Li Shimin hurried forward and grabbed the visitor's hands.

"Master Chen, hurry up and get rid of the ceremony."

"Xie Patriarch."

This person is the head of the Forbidden Army of the Royal Li Family's Nine Households. This is the leader of the Forbidden Army President who is the most mysterious person in the Xuanjia Army. "

"Everyone, sit down."

"Xie Patriarch."

The visitor put Tang Dao aside, and sat calmly opposite Li Shimin, which happened to be in the south of the room.

Seeing the two people's voices fall to the ground, Qian Dehai, the head of the Taiji Hall, took the time to come up to pay a visit.

"Sun pays homage to the Third Grand Duke."

"Get up."

"Thank you, Grandpa."

Li Shimin smiled awkwardly;
"I am also a little embarrassed to work with the elders this time. After all, the elders are already at the age of self-cultivation."

"It doesn't matter, the patriarch has orders, and the minister will not hesitate to die. The children always have some shortcomings in their work, and the minister is not worried about them. After all, the power of the second room should not be underestimated."

"Uh, I heard... Aye has been feeling unwell these days?"

"As the patriarch Hui said, Alang is fine, but he got angry after eating too much hot pot. The subordinates made some bitter medicine to reduce the internal heat, and he will recover within three days."

"Oh, all right."

The man in black was silent for a moment before speaking again;
"There is one thing that needs to be reported to the patriarch."

"Everyone, please say it's okay."

"Yes."

"A-Lang's body is fine, but the qi of the five elements do not produce each other, and the yin and yang qi are in disorder. I'm afraid...the time is running out, patriarch, but please be aware of it."

"The head of the family is a master of medicine, and the conclusion is accurate. I don't know how much time the old man Aye has left?"

"At most three years, at least two years."

"Oh... I know what's in my mind."

The two were silent again, and the majestic chief executive Qian Dehai, who was next to him, was as quiet as a cat, standing neatly, completely motionless, completely different from his usual appearance, as if he was afraid of being found out.

It took a long time before Li Shimin broke the silence;

"I don't know how the parents checked?"

The man in black who was closing his eyes and resting his mind slowly opened his eyes;
"There are no Erfang clansmen living nearby, and the nearest villages where Erfang clansmen live are more than 500 miles away. It is too far to move back and forth. It should not be them, and let the children check it out. The clansmen in Erfang's old den have not moved. Over the nest."

(End of this chapter)