People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 387 The Holy Empress of Tianyin Floods the Seventh Army

On the top of the mountains, surrounded by green bamboos, the thousand mu Tianchi is vast and vast.

Old He stood with his hands bound by the bank of Tianchi Lake.

In front of her, a plump woman with a hazy figure in a pure white gauze was reflected in the tranquil blue pool.

As the breeze blows, it seems that the veil is slowly fluttering, as if it wants to fly.

He Lao's voice sounded at this moment: "Holy Empress."

The Holy Queen, the Queen.

Standing in front of Elder He, with his back to her, was the Empress Dowager, the leader of Tianyin Sect.

The empress ignored He Lao, staring at the Tianchi as if in a daze.

I don't know if I came back to my senses, but I slowly raised my eyes.

Withdraw from the water lake reflecting the blue sky and white clouds, and then turn to look to the far right, where a trench with a width of four meters has been dug out, and then spread down along the terrain.

On the far left, there is also such a ditch.

The picturesque Tianchi on the top of the mountain was suddenly torn apart, as if two bloody wounds had been cut out by someone.

Also extraordinarily disturbing.

Under the Tianchi Lake, at the foot of the mountains, in the center of countless dense forests.

There are two roads, one east and one west, leading to Muzhou and Shezhou respectively.

The trench spread, but it didn't directly dig through the Tianchi Lake, and a few steps in the middle were deliberately left behind.

As long as these steps are directly dug through, the next moment, the water in the Tianchi will surge out, and finally go straight down the mountain along the trench.

If on a certain day, someone raises troops to attack the mountain, as long as the trench is dug and the water flows down, no matter how many enemies there are, they will be completely wiped out.

This Tianchi was originally an astonishingly powerful weapon of mass destruction.

……

"Elder He, this is the last resort. If it fails, this and this foundation will die together." The queen's back was tall and straight, and her words were filled with incomparable indifference.

"Holy Empress, don't worry, I will succeed this time, and the kingdom of heaven and cloud will prevail on the earth." He Lao leaned forward slightly with a crane's head stick in his hand, his face full of inevitable belief.

The loyalty and fanaticism in the eyes are clearly visible.

"If it's not that the queen's deadline is coming soon, there is no need to be so urgent, but this time I have already moved, and I must guarantee success." After a slight pause, the queen said softly: "If you can't succeed this time, then the queen will There will be no more."

The wind, at this moment, seemed to stop completely.

"Don't worry, the Holy Empress, this subordinate will definitely do his best, and this time, no matter what, he will surely succeed." He Lao bowed his hands respectfully, extremely firm, even a little gnashing of teeth.

"I'm at ease when you do things." After finishing speaking, she looked to the southeast and said softly: "There are pirates in Hangzhou, and Fuzhi is watching in person in Yuezhou. Although Wuzhou has been infiltrated for a long time, it is not so It's safe, you take time to take a look at it when the time comes, it's okay if nothing happens, if something really happens, you have to bring the situation back to normal as soon as possible."

"Don't worry, the Holy Queen, don't worry, this subordinate will never let anyone interfere with the Holy Queen." He Lao didn't hesitate at all.

"They won't want to see us succeed, Mr. He, you have to support the situation as much as possible... Believers, believers are our foundation." Afterwards, she stretched out her left hand fiercely, and grabbed it towards the southeast. , as if wanting to grasp the entire southeast in one palm.

At this time, Empress Dowager's face suddenly changed, and her eyes became extremely cold: "Those who block the way, you must clear what should be cleared, and don't make things unmanageable in the end. If... If there is anything wrong, you take a copy Zhi and Wanyu, go to Yangzhou. By the way, don’t forget the saint.”

"This old slave understands that no saint can die whoever dies." Elder He nodded seriously.

The Empress took a deep breath and said, "Yes, no one can die if the Holy Maiden dies. Otherwise, if the King of the East China Sea gets angry, we will have no way out."

Elder He was startled suddenly, couldn't help but took a step forward, and asked nervously: "Holy Queen, is it true that the King of the East China Sea won't come this time?"

"He wants to come, but Meiniang won't give him this chance. Of all the people in the southeast, which one was not carefully selected by Meiniang? Your Majesty, why can't you see it?" The Empress couldn't help but sneer One sound.

As if he didn't hear this sentence, Elder He immediately changed the subject and said, "If the King of the Eastern Sea doesn't come, what about the King of the Western Regions, won't he come too?"

"Theoretically speaking, he should have no time. The Tubo country is chaotic and complicated. Who knows when Tubo Zanpu will die. He dare not leave easily; if Lun Qinling seizes the opportunity, he will be finished. "The last simple sentence directly revealed the background of the king of the Western Regions.

There was a slight pause, and then he said, "Actually, it's not necessarily true. This guy doesn't follow the rules. Maybe he doesn't mind coming here for the sake of Tubo. Why does His Majesty plan to attack Tubo every day?"

Just after the voice fell, a burst of footsteps suddenly sounded behind He Lao.

Elder He subconsciously turned around, and suddenly saw Yibian, an old servant in purple, with a white face and a four-flat cap, walking quickly, and seemed to be holding something in his hand...

In an instant, all the scenes quickly became illusory.

……

Consciousness was quickly withdrawn from the illusory memory, and steam rose from the bathtub in the bedroom in front of Li Xuan's eyes.

"His Majesty!"

Li Xuan spat out these two words with an extremely embarrassing expression.

Your Majesty, why does the empress call the emperor like that.

You must know that the Empress Dowager is the leader of the Tianyin Sect, the head of the two sects and the Six Paths of the Demon Sect, and the biggest internal trouble within the entire Tang court.

But she called Li Zhi like that.

Ganye Temple, Huijue.

Could it be that what happened between Hui Jue and Li Zhi in Ganye Temple back then?
Keen intuition told Li Xuan that this guess is definitely possible.

Back then, Empress Wu became a monk at Ganye Temple and got along with Huijue as sisters. But later, one of them entered the palace and became a concubine or even a queen.

One returned to the west of Zhejiang, set off a great cause of rebellion, and finally failed.

The situation of the two people is very different. If everything goes back to the beginning, Empress Wu, Huijue, and the emperor, the three of them, are they one against two, or are they using the method of replacing themselves...

Li Xuan quickly shook her head, cutting this absurd thought out of her mind.

Aside from the relationship between Empress Qian and Empress Wu, the characters of Tianyin Sect are also very interesting.

The king of the Western Regions turned out to be a high-ranking official in the Tubo Kingdom. I am afraid that no one in the court has grasped the news.

But there's nothing wrong with thinking about it.

In the Western Regions, isn’t Tubo west of the Tang Dynasty?
Although he does not fit the Western Regions setting in Tang people's minds, he is already west of the Tang Dynasty, and spying on the Western Regions and the Silk Road has been the dream of the Tubo people for many years.

Claiming to be the king of the Western Regions can not only express his ambitions, but also confuse others. Why not use this method.

Li Xuan calmed down a little, the relationship between the king of the Western Regions and the Tianyin Sect might not be used in the future.

Datang is actively planning to fight Tubo fighters, Li Xuan has shown his own value in Wuzhou now, and the emperor will definitely use him when the time comes.

Moreover, Li Xuan didn't want to miss such a big event as the attack on Tubo.

At that time, it was the best time for him to really intervene in Datang's military affairs.

……

In addition to the king of the Western Regions, there is also the king of the East China Sea.

The King of the East China Sea is a high-ranking official in the court. Judging from the words of the empress, Li Xuan is almost sure of this, and the rank is not low. Empress Wu should know him, so once he appears in the southeast, it will immediately arouse the vigilance of Empress Wu.

"Isn't it King Cao?" Li Xuan frowned slightly.

In the words of the empress, addressing the King of the East China Sea is not like addressing a prince, but an official with a lower position.

Li Xuan trusted her intuition.

He didn't think it was his own illusion.

Of course, this does not necessarily completely deny that King Cao is the King of the East China Sea.

After all, a truly mature politician knows how to find a substitute for himself.

To determine the true identity of the "King of the East China Sea", I am afraid that more evidence needs to be found.

Here, the existence of the saint Ye Wanwan is very interesting.

Even the empress looked up at her a few times.

During the period from Luoyang, Yangzhou, and Wuzhou, everyone in Tianyin Sect has treated Ye Wanwan as if she, a saint, is a hostage held by others in Tianyin Sect.

Or to put it directly, she is the hostage placed by the King of the East China Sea on Tianyin Sect.

What is the relationship between Ye Wanwan and the King of the East China Sea, the daughter of the King of the East China Sea?
It's strange why Li Xuan didn't see this from Ye Wanwan's entry before.

Could it be that even Ye Wanwan herself didn't know the deep inside story?
Also, it seems that the real reason for the incident this time is not because the death of Prince Li Hong made her see an opportunity, but because she has some compelling reasons.

The death of Crown Prince Li Hong just happened to happen.

Big limit, what big limit.

Is it the limit of life and death?

There are also believers, why will the future have something to do with believers.

Li Xuan couldn't help shaking her head. Such a memory picture explained to him many things that he didn't know before. Similarly, it also brought him more confusion.

Li Xuan stood up directly from the tub.

The real qi in the body, which was almost thick and turned into liquid, moved slightly.

Countless drops of water have turned into water mist and dispersed in the entire bedroom.

In the haze, Li Xuan was naked and walked directly towards the couch.

Indistinctly, the surrounding water mist condenses the image of the Tianchi Lake on the top of the mountain in the memory.

Suddenly, as if something was disconnected, in the Tianchi Lake, nearly a thousand acres of water rushed out of the Tianchi Lake, and finally crashed into the canyon mountain road below.

At some point, countless soldiers appeared on the mountain road, and a huge stream of water rushed down from the top of the mountain, and they were washed away in a blink of an eye.

The Seventh Army was flooded.

……

On the bed, after an unknown amount of time, Li Xuanping lay on the bed and asked in a low voice: "You should have stayed in the main altar of Tianyin Sect back then, so do you know the exact location of the main altar?"

Xu Lu lay on the left side of Li Xuan's body, shook her head, and said softly: "The position of the main altar is strictly guarded in the church. Everyone needs to wear a hood when going in and out. And when they are in the main altar, they usually stay in the main altar. Inside the cave, it’s also in the dark that we can occasionally leave the cave, so we don’t even know the location of the main altar of the Jiaozhong Temple.”

Below there is a cave with a huge mountainside, and above it is a thousand-acre Tianchi that can be flooded for three thousand miles at any time.

Such a place is definitely not hard to find among the mountains in western Zhejiang.

(End of this chapter)