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

Chapter 899 The king in black is as awe-inspiring as a god
White city walls, white houses.

The Tuyuhun people in white felt clothes had all knelt down on both sides of the long street.

He knelt down and bowed his head, pressing his forehead firmly against the ground.

All the Tuyuhun people in the city respectfully welcome Li Xuan's arrival.

Li Xuan rode through the crowd.

Li Zhu was on the guard side, looking at everyone with vigilant eyes, fearing that someone would suddenly jump up and assassinate Li Xuan.

But these Tuyuhun people only knew how to lower their heads and did not dare to look up at all.

Subtle chanting sounds kept coming from the mouths of these Tuyuhun people.

At first, when we were at the city gate, we couldn't hear anything, but the further we walked into the city, the more obvious the sound became.

The buzzing sound at the end makes people feel like they are in a Buddhist temple.

Li Xuan looked indifferent and didn't even look at it. Only Ming Chongyan looked at Yan Tao aside with some surprise and asked in a low voice: "What are they reciting?"

"I don't know, general." Yan Tao glanced at Li Xuan in front of him, and when he saw that Li Xuan didn't look back, he whispered, "General, I'll find someone to ask."

Ming Chongyan nodded cautiously.

After a while, a Tuguhun nobleman wearing a white robe and a white felt hat with a pearl inlaid on his head was brought up.

"Reporting to your noble lord." The nobleman Tuyuhun raised his head and glanced at Li Xuan in front of him fearfully, and then said in a low voice: "We are reciting the Sutra of the Incarnation of the Heavenly King in Black."

"What?" Ming Chongyan was stunned for a moment, but he couldn't help but look up at Li Xuan, who was riding a horse slowly in front of him.

Black clothes, black armor, black horses.

Ming Chongyan had a feeling that the black-robed king mentioned by the Tubo people must be referring to Li Xuan.

"The Sutra of the Black-clothed Heavenly King Coming to the World. By practicing this mantra, you can get rid of evil thoughts, eliminate great sufferings, return to the right path, and protect those who practice it. You can pray for subjugation and eradicate evil people, evil beasts, evil insects, evil enemies, etc. It can make evil people suffer from various causes. Sickness, bloody disasters, and death will be the retribution. Unless evil people abandon evil and do good, and recite the Sutra of the Black-Clothed Heavenly King's Coming to the World with compassion and forgiveness, they can escape the disaster."

After the noble Tuyuhun finished speaking, he knelt down again and knelt down towards Li Xuan.

Li Xuan turned back indifferently, glanced at Ming Chongyan with a heavy look in her eyes, and said calmly: "Master, let's go."

"Okay!" Ming Chongyan forced a smile on his face, and then followed Li Xuan and Yan Tao towards the city lord's palace.

But along the way, Ming Chongyan always kept looking at the Tyuhun people kneeling by the road.

Almost all the Tuyuhun people in the city ran out, knelt on the ground and chanted in a low voice the Sutra of the Coming of the King in Black.

Chilling.

However, what Ming Chongyan really cares about is the huge prestige that "The Book of the Coming of the Black-Clad Heavenly King" will bring to Li Xuan.

People in the Taoist sect know the power of this kind of thing best.

Subconsciously, Ming Chongyan's eyes fell on Li Xuan.

Li Xuan's expression remained indifferent, as if he didn't pay any attention to these Tuyuhun people on the ground.

He just walked forward calmly and casually, the long sword at his waist swinging casually.

But Ming Chongyan saw clearly that although Li Xuan's hand was holding the reins and swinging back and forth, it was never more than one foot away from the hilt of the sword, and he could unsheath the sword almost instantly.

The decisiveness of killing has been completely integrated into his blood.

There are rumors that the King of Nanchang vowed to become the champion of the Tang Dynasty.

Now it seems that it is really possible.

Thinking of this, Ming Chongyan's eyes fell on the Tyuhun people on the ground, and the inexplicable sense of threat in his mind suddenly disappeared without a trace.

No matter how high the prestige of this barbaric land is, what threat can it pose?
Only the Central Plains is the place that truly ambitious people yearn for.

If Li Xuan can be allowed to devote more energy to Tuyuhun instead of returning to Chang'an, it will be of great benefit to Ming Chongyan and Li Dan.

At least it won't do any good to the prince or the King of England.

That's enough.

……

Although the garrison in the city is a stone building, it looks like a large tent.

Li Xuan stood at the door, looked at the open door, and said calmly: "Let the people here go back to their homes. Everything will be like the past. Drive away all the Tuyuhun soldiers here and let them go to Delingha and Golmud. If We are also willing to come back and let them stay in Delingha and Golmud for three days before coming back."

"Here!" Yan Tao immediately handed over his hand, then turned around to make arrangements.

Ming Chongyan stood beside Li Xuan and asked in a low voice: "Is the prince going to Golmud?"

Li Xuan nodded, then stepped aside and calmly said to Ming Chongyan, "Master, please come in."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Ming Chongyan smiled and walked past Li Xuan.

The huge and spacious hall is covered with thick Persian carpets.

At the top of the front, a golden chair is placed above, with two rows of chairs below.

Li Xuan glanced at it, then looked at Ming Chongyan and said: "Master, it will be November in more than half a month. If we can't win Golmud by then, we will have to invest part of our energy here next year... …As the real person knows, we will attack Wuhai next year.”

Ming Chongyan nodded with a serious expression and said: "It is true. As long as Golmud can be captured and the northern line advances to Mangya, Xituyuhun and Yanmangjiebo can reconsider their stance." "Others don't matter, the key is It's Golmud. If we capture Golmud, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development can move to the foot of the Kunlun Mountains to mine Kunlun jade, and the pressure on the government will be reduced a lot." Li Xuan looked solemn. Capturing Golmud was very important to the court and must not be delayed.

"Leave it to the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household Affairs?" Ming Chongyan was stunned subconsciously, and then asked: "Won't the prince stay in Golmud?"

"No!" Li Xuan smiled and said, "I am going to Xinghai. I want to watch the battle at Xinghai. I must not destroy Xinghai."

After all, that was Li Xuan's future territory, and he didn't want it to become a mess that he couldn't clean up.

The corner of Ming Chongyan's mouth twitched slightly. Although the emperor wanted Li Xuan to serve as the governor of Xinzhou, although it was still secret in the court, many people already knew about it.

Bachelor Beimen is one of these people.

"With the Prime Minister Zuo here, it won't happen." Ming Chongyan rolled his eyes and said casually: "Does Your Majesty know what the King in Black is?"

"Some kind of legend." Li Xuan shook his head nonchalantly. There was no such thing as the Black Knights in this world.

And even if there is, it's Di Renjie's problem.

If something happens, the worst possible thing is to transfer Di Renjie over.

"It's not some legend. The King in Black refers to Yuwentai of the Western Wei Dynasty. When the Western Wei Dynasty and the Eastern Wei Dynasty were at odds, there was a rumor that 'the one who destroys the Eastern Wei Dynasty is dressed in black.' Therefore, Yuwentai ordered all his sergeants to wear black clothes.

Later, Shi Ning, the hussar general of the Western Wei Dynasty and the governor of Liangzhou, attacked Tuyuhun in the west, directly destroying the capital of Tuyuhun and almost destroying the country in Tuyuhun. "

After a slight pause, Ming Chongyan continued: "Because the clothes Shi Ning is wearing are the black clothes and black armor that Yuwentai once wore personally and was later given to him, so Yuwentai has the title of the King in Black."

"Why isn't the King in Black Shi Ning?" Li Xuan frowned slightly and asked subconsciously.

"Shi Ning is just a minister after all." Ming Chongyan took a deep look at Li Xuan. Li Xuan nodded and immediately stopped entangled in this matter.

"What do you mean by Zhenren? Do you want me to make good use of the name of this king in black?" Li Xuan looked straight at Ming Chongyan and said softly: "Zhenzhen, the things belonging to Xituyuhun are from the Ministry of Industry after all. With the Ministry of Finance, it is not convenient for me to interfere."

"Dayan Mangjiebo and Murong Nuohebo, even if they surrender, will eventually pose a threat to the Tang Dynasty. Your Majesty, you still have to pay attention." Ming Chongyan said seemingly sincerely.

Li Xuan looked at Ming Chongyan with a half-smile, and said calmly: "Master, if you can convince His Majesty and the Queen, I will not mind wiping them all out."

Ming Chongyan suddenly paused and remembered.

Li Xuan had always had a bad impression of the Tuyuhun people, but in order to contain Li Xuan, the emperor and Empress Wu decided to keep the Tuyuhun people.

Ming Chongyan then smiled bitterly and said: "I originally hoped to help the prince, but it involves the overall situation of the Western Region, so..."

Seeing Ming Chongyan spread his hands, Li Xuan nodded, and then asked: "Does the real person know what the situation in the Western Region is like now? Now I only hear about the unrest in the Western Turks."

"Half of the eighteen tribes of the Western Turks have rebelled." Ming Chongyan shook his head solemnly and said, "Fortunately, the Duke of Wenxi County is in the Western Region, and he just happened to put an end to the chaos."

"Is the Tubo people going to be in trouble?" Li Xuan said suddenly, Ming Chongyan was stunned.

Then he shook his head slightly, and Ming Chongyan said: "It's not that bad. The Tubo people originally wanted to encourage the eighteen Turkic tribes to rebel, but in the end they only succeeded half because of the sudden appearance of Wenxi County Duke."

"Your Majesty and the Queen have great foresight, otherwise the four towns of Anxi would be in danger." Li Xuan took a deep breath with a look of luck on her face.

The Tubo people stirred up unrest in the Western Turks in the Western Regions, and their target was naturally the four towns of Anxi.

Once the four towns of Anxi are taken away, the Silk Road will be cut off, Datang's finances will be greatly affected, and the subsequent offensive against Tibet will also be affected.

Lun Qinling had asked his brother Zan Xiruo to go to the Western Turks a long time ago. He originally planned to take action suddenly when the war between Tang Dynasty and Tubo was in full swing. Unexpectedly, they did not achieve much results on the Qingnan battlefield. Moreover, the Tang Dynasty was also very restrained in its strategy of fighting Tibet.

Pei Xingjian went to the Western Regions quietly. At this time, even if the Western Turks suddenly broke out, they were completely blocked by Pei Xingjian.

Pei Xingjian is not easy to mess with. If Zan Xiruo is not careful, he may die directly in the west.

"I heard that Duke Xi is in the west. There shouldn't be any problems in Dunhuang, right?" Li Xuan looked up at Ming Chongyan and said directly: "I haven't heard anything about the Dugu family?"

Ming Chongyan shook his head calmly and said: "The people of the Dugu family are nothing more than a group of people who want to covet power but are unwilling to pay too much.

Their original plan was to use His Highness the Prime Minister to lure the Tubo people into taking the bait, but unfortunately the Tubo people were not that stupid, and the Dugu family did not dare to really touch His Highness the Prime Minister. If something happened to His Highness the Prime Minister, the entire Dugu family would be destroyed. "

"The same goes for the Zhang family." Li Xuan nodded slightly and said: "Use this king and the entire Taozhou City to hold back the Tubo people, and then they secretly arrange for people to take His Royal Highness away. They will not earn the merit of killing on the battlefield, but only Earn the credit for the rescue by speculation.”

"There is no greater merit in the world than rescuing someone."

Ming Chongyan showed a slight sneer at the corner of his mouth and said: "If they really dare to do this, Pindao will let them see what it means to be angry."

You still know that you are a Taoist priest!
Li Xuan complained about the case in her heart. Although the Ming family is known as Taoist priests, it is just a family inheritance of Taoist priests at home.

If such a family is prominent, then it is the Zhang family of Longhu Mountain. If it is not strong enough, it is nothing.

"By the way, how is Duke Liang's health? Is he okay?" Li Xuan's expression suddenly became solemn.

The status of Zuowei General Qibi Heli is not comparable to that of Quan Shan.

Ming Chongyan shook his head and said calmly: "The old injury from the early years is gone, nothing serious."

nonsense.

Li Xuan knew in her heart that this was still related to the position of General Zuowei.

Once something happens to Qibi Heli, I don't know how many people will ask for the position of General Zuowei. After all, Zuowei is the strongest among the sixteen guards.

"I hope Duke Liang will recover soon." After a slight pause, Li Xuan asked, "By the way, when will His Highness the Prime Minister return to Chang'an? There will be a wedding on the eighth day of December."

"I don't know. At least we have to wait until Xituyuhun is stable." Ming Chongyan suddenly frowned, not knowing what he thought of.

(End of this chapter)