Traveling across the heavens starting from the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 91 Saint, I do everything for the Tang Dynasty

Rarely relaxing.

Li Shimin took the time to go fishing at the lake in the palace.

Since the sixth year of Zhenguan, I don’t know when, Li Shimin has become more and more fond of fishing. He likes the quietness and relaxation when fishing, and is not troubled by the trivial matters of the court.

But the more peaceful it is.

There's always something going on.

Zhang Ananda walked quickly towards the lake with nervous steps and a somewhat flustered face. When he came to Li Shimin, he immediately bowed and stood beside the chair and reported in a low voice.

"Sage, something happened."

"what's up?"

"I just came down to report that Duke Shouchang killed Lu Dongzan, the envoy of the Tibetan mission, in the private room of Dingxiang Tower."

"The Tubo envoy, Li Huaian killed Lu Dongzan, how did he kill him?"

When Li Shimin heard this, his face was a little surprised. He looked at the lake and wondered in his heart what kind of estrangement there was between the Shouchang County government and Lu Dongzan of the Tibetan mission, which actually led to murder.

Nor should it.

It was Lu Dongzan's first visit to Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty, and it was also the first time that Tibet sent a delegation to Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty to pay tribute. It was impossible for him to interact with the Shouchang County government.

Moreover, Tubo was a foreign state in the highlands.

The origin of Li Huaian is overseas.

How could there be any entanglement between the two sides when they are far apart from each other?

This is not the Japanese country on the Japanese island.

"Back to the saint."

Zhang Ananda told what he knew.

"The Duke of Shouchang cut off the head of the Tibetan envoy Lu Dongzan with a single blow."

Subsequently.

He hesitated.

Then he said again.

"My servant just went to the scene to take a look. The incision on the neck of the Tibetan envoy Lu Dongzan is very similar to the incision made by the Daxia Longque knife that the saint threw away."

"Oh."

When Li Shimin heard that the knife Li Huaian used to chop the Tibetan envoy Lu Dongzan was the Daxia Longque Sword, he immediately became interested, and he was not at all troubled about killing a Tibetan envoy.

"This Li Huaian used my Daxia Dragon Bird to kill Fan Chen."

"Sage, what should we do about the Tubo envoy Lu Dongzan?"

Li Shimin came to his senses and frowned.

Although it is not a big deal for the nobles of the Tang Dynasty to kill a minister, after all, this minister is an envoy, an envoy who is seeking marriage with the Tang Dynasty.

Just like that, he was killed.

As the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, if you don’t ask.

For Tubo, a foreign country, it is always hard to get by in terms of face.

I thought about it.

"Where is this guy Li Huaian now?"

Li Shimin still believed that Li Huaian would not kill a Tubo minister for no reason. There may be some reasons for this, and he needs to ask clearly.

Only after asking clearly.

Only then can you make a decision.

At this point, Li Shimin's behavior is still very protective.

In his creed as the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

I, the Tang Dynasty people, can kill your Fan Bang people, but your Fan Bang people must not touch my Tang Dynasty people. If you touch one of them, then I will wait for the army to invade the territory and ask your Fan Bang to reason with you.

Just like Wang Xuance could rely on his status as an envoy of the Tang Dynasty to borrow troops from other countries to destroy the country.

Li Zhi in history also played the role of inner saint and outer king.

The foreign countries are just barbarians, how can they be compared with their own people.

And the murderer was Li Huaian.

This made Li Shimin even more reluctant to make a decision easily.

Not to mention Li Huaian's contribution to the Tang Dynasty, which made him, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, patient and tolerant enough. Changle alone would make him treat Li Huaian differently.

Otherwise, there is no way to explain to Changle.

"Saint, after Duke Shouchang killed the Tibetan envoy Lu Dongzan, the Jinwu Guards and the yamen in Chang'an County did not dare to imprison Duke Shouchang, so they simply brought Duke Shouchang back to the palace. Now Shouchang County I'm waiting outside, I don't know what the saint wants."

"Ah"

Li Shimin laughed lightly.

"Why is this guy so obedient today? He didn't just come in when he came, but he waited outside, waiting for me to call him. This is a mistake. It's different. He knows how to be cautious, and it's the courtesy of a monarch and his ministers."

"What the sage said is that Duke Shouchang also knew that he had made a mistake, and he was afraid that the sage would blame him."

Zhang Ananda saw Li Shimin's joking tone and knew that this was not a big deal. The saint should not be angry, and he might not even be punished.

So he followed suit and said something to Li Huaian.

Anyway.

As the eunuch who was Li Shimin's personal eunuch, his impression of Li Huaian went from being optimistic to being close to him. In the past two years, in addition to receiving a lot of gold and silver from Li Huaian, he was also treated equally.

For these disabled people.

Although coveting gold and silver is as morbid as coveting the missing lifeblood.

But I also care about the inner feelings of outsiders towards these eunuchs, the feeling of being respected and treated as normal people. This kind of feeling cannot be obtained in the palace, nor can it be obtained by the nobles of Chang'an City.

It can only be felt by Li Huaian, the Duke of Shouchang.

Not only did he, the eunuch in the palace, like Li Huaian very much, but also the other eunuchs in the palace. Every time there was an errand out of the palace, as long as it was an errand to the Shouchang County Duke's Mansion, it was always to the palace. The eunuchs here had to fight over each other to get it.

It's a bonus.

This is why he just mentioned that the knife that killed the Tubo envoy Lu Dongzan was the Daxia Longque. The purpose was to remind the saint that the tool for committing crimes was the saint's knife.

Although this Daxia Dragon Bird is obviously lost.

However, the palace basically knew it already.

The Daxia Dragon Bird that was lost in the palace was in the hands of Duke Shouchang, and was secretly taken away by Li Huaian, who was still the Marquis of Shouchang.

Later, the saint also acquiesced in the ownership of the knife.

As a sword once loved by a saint, after giving it to a minister, it is not just a simple gift.

In layman's terms.

This sword has the same function as the Yuci sword.

"Go and call our Duke Shouchang over."

"The slave is going here."

Soon.

Li Huaian walked over slowly, asked the eunuch waiting beside him to bring a chair and a fishing rod, and sat down next to Li Shimin generously.

He even moved his chair towards Li Shimin.

"The saint is so cheerful today."

Li Huaian swung the fishing rod in his hand and prepared to fish.

"There was originally a sense of elegance, but it was destroyed by you." "How did I destroy it?"

Li Huaian refused to admit it.

"Not bad. He can still kill people so calmly. He is worthy of being a prince of the Tang Dynasty."

Li Shimin glanced at Li Huaian's calm expression, with a slightly rogue expression, and praised him.

"Hey, just killing a foreign envoy and the Prime Minister of Tubo is not a big deal. It's not a saint, so it doesn't scare me."

Li Huaian stared at the lake intently, not caring about what had just killed Lu Dongzan.

Now, his mind is focused on the fish in the lake, and he doesn't know what kind of fish there are in the lake in the palace. It's his first time fishing in the palace, so they won't all be carps.

That thing was stabbed wrong and it was inconvenient to eat.

"You also know that Nalu Dongzan is the Prime Minister of Tubo. Do you know that in Tubo, the Prime Minister is second only to Tubo Zampu, and is more noble than Zhongshu Ling of the Zhongshu Province of the Tang Dynasty."

"He was an envoy from the Tibetan mission to the Tang Dynasty, and he was just chopped down by you."

"Aren't you afraid of causing hatred between Tang Dynasty and Tibet, leading to war between the two countries and destabilizing the border?"

After Li Shimin said a lot, he continued to ask without waiting for Li Huaian to defend himself.

"Tell me, why did you kill the Tubo envoy Lu Dongzan this time? You can't be like the Japanese. You have set your sights on the population of Tubo and want to turn the Tubo people into slaves of the Tang Dynasty. The Tubo highlands are also Like the Japanese country, it has a lot of gold and silver deposits?"

The current Japanese island, as Li Huaian said at the time, has a lot of silver mountains, and the Jinshan Mountains are also continuously producing gold and silver.

Especially the silver mine he named Datang Yinshan (Shijian Yinshan). According to the news, this silver mine alone has produced 300 million taels of silver.

If we add the output of other gold and silver mountains on the island.

The Japanese island alone could bring no less than 2000 million gold and silver worth of gold and silver to the Tang Dynasty in one year.

and so.

Judging from the Japanese island.

Li Shimin easily felt that Li Huaian killed Lu Dongzan because he was interested in the population of Tubo and the large amount of gold and silver in Tubo.

For Tubo.

What Li Huaian covets is definitely not the Tubo raisins or the Tubo girls. At most, it is just the Hetian jade from Tubo that makes him covetous.

The remaining gold and silver mines in Tubo.
He wasn't too impressed.

I only know that there are many coal mines in Tubo.

But with Datang's ability, the coal mines from Tubo were transported back to Datang over such a long distance, and the money sold was not enough to cover the losses incurred by the Datang Coal Chamber of Commerce in transporting coal on the road.

Tubo only has yaks, and the sheep are of some use.

Li Huaian said with some nonsense.

"I killed him purely for the sake of the Tang Dynasty, and for the sake of you, the saint. I heard that Tubo wanted to marry the Tang Dynasty, asked the saint to marry a Tang princess, and also wanted the Tang Dynasty to marry a group of skilled craftsmen and technicians from Tubo Books, medical skills, etc.”

"When I heard this, I couldn't bear it. I just found Lu Dongzan with a knife and killed him with one knife."

"This Lu Dongzan is definitely a spy from Tubo who wants to spy on the foundation of our great Tang Dynasty."

in discourse.

Not a word was mentioned about Li Lizhi or Li Xueyan.

He also advertised himself as very noble, and everything he did was for the Tang Dynasty.

"A Tibetan prime minister came to the Tang Dynasty to work as a spy. Do you believe it?"

Li Shimin warned Li Huaian with his eyes not to fool people with lies, and at the same time asked strangely.

"Listen to what you mean, the Tang Dynasty should not agree to marry Tubo, let alone give Tubo a group of technicians, books on medical skills, etc., and should not send a group of skilled craftsmen to Tubo?"

"What you mean is very different from what the courtiers meant. Let's take a look."

Li Huaian did not answer directly, but asked Li Shimin instead.

"Sage, for example, if the weapon in your neighbor's hand is a wooden spear, and the weapon in your hand is a steel spear, you two cannot be said to have hatred, but there are many Conflicts often lead to friction."

"Suddenly one day, this neighbor with a wooden spear comes to you and tells you that he wants to marry one of your daughters, but you also have to tell him the method of making the steel spear in your hand. Not only do you have to tell him, but you also give it to him. He can make the tools and men of steel spears.”

"In other words, is the saint willing to give the entire gunpowder workshop to outsiders?"

"Of course not. I'm not stupid. Gunpowder is too dangerous. It can only be done if it's in my hands."

Li Shimin affirmed, and somewhat understood what Li Huaian meant.

"That's not it."

Li Huaian continued.

"Not talking about the princess's marriage, if what Lu Dongzan wants is not skilled craftsmen, technicians from the Tang Dynasty, medical books, but some Four Books and Five Classics, a collection of classics and history, Buddhist scriptures, etc., I may not kill him with one knife."

"But Lu Dongzan used the princess's marriage to ask Tang Dynasty to provide Tibet with skilled craftsmen, technicians, medical books, and equipment."

"This is obviously not for the Princess of the Tang Dynasty, but for the technology of the Tang Dynasty. It wants to use the technology of the Tang Dynasty to strengthen the strength of Tubo."

"At that time, whenever Tubo, armed with Datang technology, conflicts with Datang, these technologies from Datang will also become the capital for Tubo to fight against Datang."

"I heard a story. The reason why Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was able to counterattack the Xiongnu and take the initiative to attack the Xiongnu was because he got stallions from the Western Regions that could improve war horses and better methods of forging weapons. That's why Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty shouted that In one sentence, if the enemy can go, I can go too."

"Does a saint not even know this truth?"

Li Huaian looked at Li Shimin with a look that you couldn't help but notice.

Li Shimin put away the fishing rod angrily, threw it to the eunuch beside him, stood up, and said angrily to Li Huaian.

"Can I not see that the marriage with Tubo was just a rumor in the court? I did not agree, but you recklessly killed the Tubo envoy Lu Dongzan, leaving the Tang Dynasty passive."

"How can I explain to the courtiers if I don't punish you?"

"Starting from today, you will be fined for ten years and banned from home for one year."

"I still have a salary, why didn't I know."

Li Huaian didn't care about the grounding, but was very concerned about the salary issue. This was the first time he knew that he actually had a salary and no one told him.

"No more from now on."

Li Shimin shook off his sleeves and turned around to leave, leaving Li Huaian alone to fish by the lake.

Wait until Li Shimin has just left.

Li Lizhi ran over in a hurry.

"Brother Huai'an, are you okay? Has Father punished you? Changle will go up to Father to reason with you. He said that Brother Huai'an did this all for Changle. Father loves Changle the most and will definitely not punish him. your."

speak.

Without waiting for Li Huaian to speak, he chased in the direction where Li Shimin disappeared.

"Turn around."

Li Huaian grabbed Li Lizhi back, held her in his arms, sat on a chair, and gave instructions to the waiting maids and eunuchs around him.

"It's okay. Your father just fined me a salary that I never knew existed for ten years, and also banned me from home for one year. It's not a big deal. I just want to rest in the mansion."

"You can tell Xue Yan later that the marriage issue should be completely settled."

It’s not solved.

Kill Lu Dongzan.

Datang and Tubo will definitely have to fight a war.

Where is the possibility of getting married?

Li Shimin left just now, not only because he saw Li Lizhi's shadow, but also because he wanted to summon the generals of the Tang Dynasty to prepare for the next Tibetan attack on the Tang Dynasty.

By the way, let’s experiment with the effect of the new weapons on Tubo.

And Li Huaian also plans to temporarily hand over the [-] land warfare soldiers returned from the Four Seas Fleet to Li Shimin for use, so that the [-] land warfare soldiers who have experienced new tactics, new command systems, and new weapons can master the three new land warfare forces in Datang and Played a role in the Tubo War.

(End of this chapter)