Man Tanghong

Chapter 507 Chase!

Li Yuanji rode on his horse and rushed to the source of Xianyang at dusk when the sun was setting.

Xianyangyuan is also called Wulingyuan. The Wuling mentioned in "Wuling is young and tangled head" refers to Wulingyuan. It is located in the ancient crossing of Xianyang, which is more than 20 miles northwest of Xianyang Bridge.

When Li Yuanji arrived at the appointed place, he saw Ma Sanbao leading a group of guys like horse bandits looking around outside a huge mound. There were many stone statues around the mound, each of them was a person with eternal fame. .

Because the tomb surrounded by Ma Sanbao and others is not someone else's tomb, but the mausoleum of Liu Che, the emperor of the ages.

When Maoling was in the Eastern and Western Han Dynasties, it was naturally the key protection object, but in the Tang Dynasty, it was the same.

The people around did not invade Maoling's land to cultivate it, nor did they deliberately protect Maoling.

Therefore, the open space around Maoling has long been a place for many Gaoliang children to play polo and children to play.

Occasionally, someone who respected Liu Che, the emperor of the ages, would bring some wine and meat to bow down, but nothing else.

Li Yuanji looked at Liu Che's grave with wild grass and shade from the corner of his eyes at dusk, and was filled with emotion in his heart.

In the past, Liu Che was also a man who shocked the world, became famous all over the world, and ruled all over the world. Now he is dead and lying in the mound, that's all.I didn't see any difference between the grass on his grave and the grass on other people's graves.

If I had to say something different, it would be that the grass on his grave was not as tall as the grass on other people's graves.

This is something that can't be helped, after all, the soil on his grave is all processed soil, so it's not easy to grow grass.

Unlike others, it has not undergone any treatment, not only is there no problem with growing grass, but also growing trees.

"Your Highness?!"

Ma Sanbao is not young, but his eyes are sharp.

Li Yuanji had already dressed himself as a completely invisible person, but Ma Sanbao still saw who he was at a glance, and immediately led a group of subordinates to meet him.

Seeing Ma Sanbao, Li Yuanji frowned and said, "Why are you here? I don't seem to have asked you to come?"

Ma Sanbao was wearing rags and carrying a big knife, like a horse bandit, he said cheerfully: "Isn't this minister afraid that you won't be able to order these people under my command?"

Before Li Yuanji could open his mouth, Ma Sanbao said cheerfully, "Although I don't know what His Highness is going to do, I know that what His Highness is going to do, I definitely don't want others to find out, so I asked my subordinates to change their clothes. dress up."

Speaking of this, Ma Sanbao turned around and yelled at the people under his command, "What are you standing there for? Call someone!"

All the guys who looked like horse bandits all wanted to bow and salute.

Li Yuanji raised his hand resolutely and said, "No need, so as not to cause complications."

After saying this, he looked at Ma Sanbao and said, "I think it's not that you can't guess what I'm going to do, but you guessed it, so you did it. Looking at your attire, it doesn't look like it's the first time you've done this. Something happened?"

Ma Sanbao smiled and said nothing.

He is not a decent person, since he was born, he has only been a decent person for a few years when Chai raised horses, and he is not serious for the rest of his life.

Either being a rebel, or being a lobbyist for the rebel.

After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, although he was cleansed, he was still not a decent person.

Although he was appointed as the head of the prince's gate, he didn't listen to the prince at all, not even his old master, he only listened to Li Xiuning, and only helped Li Xiuning to do some things that Li Xiuning was inconvenient to do.

So he has done things like pretending to be a horse thief, although not many times, but there are more than a dozen times, and he is quite proficient.

"Since you have guessed what I'm going to do, and you've made preparations in advance to save me trouble, then I won't drive you back. Call your people and hurry up."

Li Yuanji didn't talk too much nonsense with Ma Sanbao. Since Ma Sanbao came and guessed what he was going to do, let Ma Sanbao follow.

As Ma Sanbao himself said, with him around, the gang under him can be more obedient.

"Pack up your things, let's go!"

After Ma Sanbao heard the order, he waved the big knife in his hand, beckoning his subordinates like a king of the mountain beckoning his little minions to rob houses.

A group of guys dressed up like horse bandits yelled and yelled, which seemed to be the case.

"What we are going to do this time should not be publicized, so after we leave here, we have to take a small path, and we must not make any noise."

Li Yuanji gave another order after Ma Sanbao greeted him, and then left Wulingyuan first.

Ma Sanbao took people with him and followed closely behind.

After rushing all the way out of the boundary of Xianyang, they started to walk on the small road, which was not easy to walk, but Li Yuanji and his party did not delay the trip.

Shiping and Xinping went all the way out of the border of Gyeonggi, and when they arrived in Gyeongju, Ganzhou, Ma Sanbao had time to ask, "His Royal Highness, there is a saying that the son of a thousand gold can't sit down, so you leave this kind of thing to the people under your command." Just do it, why do you have to go there yourself?"

Ma Sanbao didn't understand why Li Yuanji didn't leave it to his subordinates to do such dirty work, but went there himself.

In his opinion, Li Yuanji was killing chickens with a sledgehammer, even more than that.

Li Yuanji glanced at Ma Sanbao, took a sip of the water in his water bag, and did not speak.

If someone under him could use it, he wouldn't have made the trip himself.

Although the number of people under his command has dropped a lot before him, Yu Wenbao is the only one he can really trust and who can help him with the dirty work.

Yu Wenbao is currently guarding the critical pass of Hangu Pass and cannot leave at all.

Once he left, Yu Wenbao's position would be replaced immediately, and it would be impossible to go back.

So when Yu Wenbao couldn't use it, he could only go into battle himself.

Besides, this matter was a temporary idea for him, and he didn't have time to plan and arrange it. He didn't feel at ease when he left it to other people, so he could only make a trip by himself.

"Your Highness, the people you want to chase have caught up, and they are now staying at Fangquyi."

While Li Yuanji was talking to Ma Sanbao, a scout who had gone to investigate the news rushed back to report.

"Have you caught up? That's good."

Li Yuanji said with a smile.

Ma Sanbao still wanted to ask, but Li Yuanji didn't give him a chance to speak, and waved his hands: "Map!"

Ma Sanbao took out a roll of crude maps from his horseback with regret on his face, unfolded them, and presented them to Li Yuanji.

Li Yuanji quickly searched for Fangquyi on the map, then looked in the direction of Xiaoguan along Fangquyi, pointed to a place on the map and said: "Twenty miles away from Fangquyi, there is a gentle slope, just suitable for cavalry to dive .We will rush here tonight, take a rest, and wait for them to take the initiative to deliver to the door."

When the matter came to an end, Ma Sanbao didn't know whether Li Yuanji's actions were right or wrong, so he couldn't help but said, "Your Highness, are we really going to do this?"

Li Yuanji glanced at Ma Sanbao without saying a word, but put away the map on his own.

Seeing this, Ma Sanbao hurriedly said: "If we attack the Turkic envoy and cause heavy casualties, the Turkic people will definitely not let it go, and Jieli will definitely bring heavy troops to fight against Tang Dynasty."

There is one thing that Ma Sanbao didn't say, that is, Li Yuanji's move is tantamount to provoking a war and bringing trouble for Datang.

This is not in the interests of Datang.

It's not that Datang has no power to fight Turks now, but it's not suitable for fighting Turks.

Because Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin are in the same situation now, and the internal stability of the Tang Dynasty is not stable. If there is a war with the Turks, if anyone between Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin ignores the overall situation, then the Tang Dynasty is likely to fall into chaos again.

So Ma Sanbao didn't understand why Li Yuanji did this.

For Li Yuanji, this is not beneficial, but for Datang, it is all bad.

"Fight, let's fight. I, Tang, can still be afraid of him being a Turk?"

Li Yuanji said something indifferently.

Seeing that Li Yuanji had spoken, Ma Sanbao hurriedly said, "But His Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness the King of Qin are in the same situation. If the Turkic people go south at this time, and either His Highness the Crown Prince or His Highness the King of Qin does something stupid, the Tang Dynasty will be destroyed forever." what."

Li Yuanji glanced at Ma Sanbao and said, "Did you forget that there are many good commanders in the Tang Dynasty, my third sister, and me?"

Ma Sanbao hesitated to speak, but Li Yuanji followed closely and said, "Don't say that my eldest brother and my second brother did something stupid. Even if they smashed Chang'an City to pieces, we can still stop the Turkic people from coming."

Historically, when Li Shimin ascended the throne, the Turks invaded the south on a large scale. Li Shimin did not stop him, but was forced by the Turks to sign the Weishui Alliance, which gave the Turks a large amount of gold and silver, and almost emptied Li Yuan's accumulated wealth.

Li Shimin had just ascended the throne at that time, his foundation was not stable, and the old ministers left by Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng had not yet returned.

Li Shimin has the strength to fight the Turks, but Li Shimin can't fight.

Because once he mobilized a large number of soldiers and generals to fight against the Turks, he would be easily ransacked by the old officials left behind by Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng, so he could only make the Turks retreat by signing a covenant and giving the Turks a lot of money.

But that was historically, very different from what is happening now.

Now that the throne of the Tang Dynasty has not been replaced, it is not the best time for the Turks to send troops.

As long as the Turkic Xieli Khan is not too stupid, it is impossible for a few envoys to miss the good opportunity that will come later and go south in advance.

After all, the current Datang is not the same as the previous Datang.

The current Tang Dynasty has completely completed the unification and wiped out all the dissidents in the region. It can mobilize more money and food, and more soldiers and horses can be mobilized.

Now that the Turks invade Datang again, if they are not fully sure, they will pay a huge price.

It is impossible for Xieli to spend a huge price and waste soldiers and horses on such a meaningless war.

He will definitely choose to forbear, and wait until Datang's throne changes before giving Datang a fatal blow.

So to kill a few Turkic envoys, Jieli would at best send some small tribes, or troops from Liang Shidu, to disturb the border of Datang, and give Datang an attitude of "I need an explanation".

This level of invasion, Li Xiuning, Li Shiji and others are enough to deal with it.

"Your Highness..."

Ma Sanbao felt that Li Yuanji was a little procrastinated. If Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin met with swordsmen, launched a coup and destroyed Chang'an City, then the whole Tang Dynasty would be in chaos, and it would be impossible to stop the Turks. violation.

So I deliberately persuaded Li Yuanji with a few words.

But Li Yuanji said without waiting for him to finish speaking: "We are already here, do you think it is still useful to talk about it?"

Ma Sanbao stared blankly at Li Yuanji, not knowing what to say.

After a long time, he gave a wry smile and didn't say any more.

Anyway, the country belongs to the Li family, so what the Li family members do is the Li family's own business, and it has nothing to do with him.

He is the loyal minister of Li Xiuning alone, not the loyal minister of everyone in the Li family.

So he only needs to protect Li Xiuning alone, and he doesn't need to care about the life and death of the rest of the Li family.

"Rush to Baiyangping before sunset, let's go."

Li Yuanji didn't talk to Ma Sanbao any more, after putting away the map, he gave an order, and the group of people crossed Fangqu Post Station silently and rushed to Baiyangping.

(End of this chapter)