Man Tanghong

Chapter 909
The sound of horseshoes in the distance is relatively monotonous. People who often hang out in the army, or who have studied how loud a few horses can make at night, can easily judge the number of horses.

Should be three rides.

And the three rides are the standard equipment for the six-hundred-mile express and eight-hundred-mile express.

That's why Li Shimin concluded that he was in a hurry.

After all, under normal circumstances, the six-hundred-mile express and the eight-hundred-mile express cannot be used, and not everyone can use the six-hundred-mile express and the eight-hundred-mile express.

Generally, only the town border generals, frontier officials, and the three provinces and the Ministry of War can use them.

In wartime, the commander in chief of the army and the marching chiefs of all walks of life can also be used.

However, Li Jing was the leader of the expedition this time, and the commanders of the various marches were famous generals, and they were still in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, so it was impossible to use the six-hundred-mile rush and the eight-hundred-mile rush.

Urgent items from the frontier and local areas could not be delivered here, so they must have come from Chang'an.

"Da da da……"

When the sound of horseshoes approached completely and the knight on horseback revealed his true colors under the light of the fire, the outpost had already seen the identity of the person coming.

"It's eight hundred miles urgent!"

With the report from the outpost, the soldiers guarding both sides of the avenue gave way.

But after the knight on horseback entered the inner circle, he was blocked by Zhao Chengyong.

The knight on the horse didn't feel that there was anything wrong with Zhao Chengyong's actions. He immediately reined in his horse and got off his horse. He quickly knelt down on the ground and raised the letterbox on his back high.

"Urgent documents from the three provinces, His Royal Highness King Yong please review them!"

Li Yuanji beckoned, motioning for Zhao Chengyong to bring the things over.

After Zhao Chengyong took over the letterbox, the knight did not leave.

He is not qualified to read the content of the letter, and it is impossible to know it.

The reason why he asked Li Yuanji to review it was to check whether the letter had been tampered with or read by others.

Li Yuanji took the letter box from Zhao Chengyong's hand, reviewed it briefly, and waved to the knight kneeling on the ground.

The knight heaved a sigh of relief and fell to the ground.

Zhao Chengyong hurriedly sent someone up to check, and not long after, he returned to the fire to report, "I was injured when I broke into the night, lost a lot of blood, and passed out. I have sent the accompanying doctor to help diagnose and treat."

This kind of situation will happen when sending letters at night, whether it is urgent for six hundred miles or eight hundred miles.

After all, the roads in this era are uneven, and there are many vegetation, wolves, tigers and leopards around the roads. At this time, people's night vision is not good, and if they drive at night or in a hurry, there will always be some damage.

Some people will even rush into cliffs or tiankengs when they can’t see the road clearly, some people will be thrown down by the beasts rushing out halfway, and some people will be frightened by the beasts because of the horses under their crotches , fell off the horse.

Therefore, although the knight's journey was not long, it was normal for him to rush at night and get injured, resulting in excessive blood loss.

Li Yuanji nodded, opened the letter box, and read the letter inside.

The letter was written by Ren Gui, and the content of the letter was quite speechless for those who read it.

"What happened?"

After Li Shimin was awakened, he couldn't fall asleep at all.

He is a person who doesn't think it's a big deal, and doesn't mind putting on armor anytime and anywhere, and fighting with the sudden enemy.

So any sudden bad news would not only not frighten him, but would make him very excited.

Li Yuanji did not answer his question, but passed the letter over.

Li Shimin was taken aback for a moment, took the letter suspiciously, and after reading it at a glance, raised his head in a little bewilderment and said, "This..."

What is this?

Li Shimin didn't understand the inside story, so he suddenly saw that Li Yuan wanted to push Li Jiancheng out and let Li Jiancheng supervise the country, which was a bit incomprehensible.

Even with his outstanding political intelligence, he couldn't figure out what Li Yuan was trying to do.

"That's what you see."

Li Yuanji said something with a headache.

Li Shimin couldn't help frowning and said, "What does father want to do?"

Do you think Li Jiancheng is uncomfortable and want Li Jiancheng to lie down completely?
Not to mention Li Jiancheng, who is powerless and powerless now, even Li Jiancheng, who was powerful and powerful in the past, will have to level off against Li Yuanji at this moment.

Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng may not know how far Li Yuanji has controlled Datang, but he who helped Li Yuanji do dirty things knows it very well.

Li Yuanji's current control over Datang has surpassed that of Li Yuan at his peak.

During Li Yuan's peak period, there were Luo Yi, An Xinggui, and Feng An, who were in charge of their own affairs, and now Li Yuanji has settled all of these people.

Not only that, Li Yuanji also tied all officials with background in the ruling and opposition parties to his chariot through his interests.

It can be said that Li Yuanji is more like the emperor of the Tang Dynasty than Li Yuan, and he is more powerful than Li Yuan at his peak.

Not to mention Li Jiancheng, even if Li Yuan came out to seize power in person, he would fail.

So he felt that Li Yuan was courting death by pushing Li Jiancheng out.

"What do you think father wants?"

Li Yuanji asked knowingly.

Although he knew the inside story, he couldn't tell Li Shimin clearly, so he could only pretend to be stupid and ask the other party back.

Li Shimin thought about it for a while, and without making any fuss, he quickly gave a pertinent answer, "I don't know what father wants to do, but I know you have to go back."

Li Yuanji nodded, and suddenly said: "What if I don't go back?"

Li Shimin was taken aback for a moment, then quickly widened his eyes, and a look of surprise flashed across his face.

"you……"

Li Shimin only said one word in a difficult tone, and did not continue.

Li Yuanji took his words and said, "I didn't intentionally lure the snake out of the hole, nor did I intend to kill Big Brother..."

The reason why Li Shimin's face flashed a look of surprise was that through his words, he thought that he might want to lure the snake out of the hole, and then take the opportunity to get rid of Li Jiancheng.

If he wanted to kill Li Jiancheng, he would naturally have the intention to kill Li Shimin as well.

After all, this kind of thing can't start. Once it starts, killing one is killing, killing two is killing, and killing all is still killing.

Li Shimin breathed a sigh of relief for no reason, and after waking up suddenly, he realized that he seemed to have had a thought of fear of death just now.

This is not good.

However, he has no time to worry about this now, he immediately asked: "Then why don't you go back?"

Li Yuanji took the letter in Li Shimin's hand and praised it, and said with a smile: "Brother, hasn't he supervised the country yet?"

Li Shimin was taken aback, blinked his eyes, seemed to be thinking, and after a while, he stared at Li Yuanji and said, "Did you predict that elder brother would not succeed?"

Li Yuanji didn't hide it either, and said frankly with a smile: "There is a reason for this, but I want to see who the civil and martial arts I have selected are for..."

This is easy to understand.

Li Shimin instantly understood the meaning, and sighed meaningfully: "You are using your own life to test, and the human heart cannot stand the test."

Li Yuanji smiled knowingly: "But I have the strength to push back, don't I?"

Li Shimin rolled his eyes and didn't want to talk anymore.

Because he didn't have the strength to push back, he was completely defeated after one defeat.

Hearing such ordinary words, his heart was filled with panic.

"Go and see how the messenger's injury is. If the injury is serious, build a tent for him and let him rest here tonight, and find a nearby post tomorrow."

Li Yuanji casually threw the letter sent by Ren Gui into the fire in front of him, and turned his head to Zhao Chengyong to give instructions.

After Zhao Chengyong agreed, he went to see the messenger's injury.

After a stick of incense, Zhao Chengyong came back and reported: "His Royal Highness, the person who delivered the letter was not seriously injured, but the doctor said that he should not travel anymore, so I ordered someone to build a tent for him.

The other two, I also arranged them to rest in the camp of the soldiers. "

Li Yuanji nodded and said nothing.

Silent all night.

The next day, after sending someone to send the messenger to the nearest post station, the group embarked on the journey again.

This time, Li Yuanji did not choose to go with the army led by Li Jing, nor did he rush to Lingzhou where the army gathered later, but to Daizhou.

Su Dingfang, Cheng Yaojin and others have been talking with Liang Luoren for more than half a year. They have already instigated Liang Luoren, and Liang Luoren has also obtained the benefits of Datang. Du, Suni Shi and others had conflicts respectively.

The relationship between the two sides has changed from a cooperative relationship to a hostile relationship.

Six days ago, Liang Shidu sent troops to surprise Datang's border market in Daizhou, kidnapped the merchants in the border market, slaughtered the officials and soldiers in the border market, and looted and cleaned up the goods in the border market.

After Su Dingfang learned of this, he first killed the border guard who was in charge of guarding the border market, but neglected his duties, causing Liang Shidu to sneak in, and then sent Cheng Yaojin to lead the army to chase after him.

Cheng Yaojin caught up with Liang Shidu's troops at Luomaqiu, fifty miles outside Bianshi, and killed them all.

Among them was an important minister under Liang Shidu who was recruited by Datang before.

After Liang Luoren and others learned about this incident, they thought that the Tang Dynasty would repeat itself, so they panicked and put forward a new request, that is, to see him, to see His Royal Highness King Yong of the Tang Dynasty with their own eyes, and to hear that King Yong of the Great Tang Dynasty His Highness made the promise himself, so he believed that Datang really wanted to recruit them, and he would not repeat it.

Su Dingfang, Cheng Yaojin and others meant to ignore it.

Because no one is sure whether Liang Luoren's move is a trick to lure the snake out of the hole. If he rushes to see Liang Luoren, Liang Luoren takes the opportunity to assassinate him, and the killing is successful, then the Great Tang's conquest of the Turks may end before it even begins. up.

However, he did not follow the advice of Su Dingfang and others, he was going to meet Liang Luoren.

It wasn't the enlightenment given to him by history that made him drift away, thinking that Liang Luoren would not hurt him, but Liang Luoren added a new bargaining chip in order to meet him, and he couldn't bear to refuse this bargaining chip.

Perhaps it was because he changed the history, split the Turks into two, and caused Liang Shidu and Suni to lose cooperation. Somehow, Liang Luoren got acquainted with the Turkic Jia Bitqin Le Ashina Simo.

And this Ashina Simo was Liang Luoren's new bargaining chip.

(End of this chapter)