Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 222 The Vibration of Chang'an City
After Li Fei settled the affairs of the Bohai Kingdom, it was completely dark, and there was no need to return to Anton overnight, so Li Fei took Anton's cavalry and stationed outside Shangjing City for one night, and returned to Anton from Bohai Kingdom early the next morning. East.

When Li Fei returned to Gewuzhou City, it was only four days since Li Fei dispatched troops from Liaoyang City. At this time, the first wave of messengers sent by Li Fei to report the invasion of Bohai Kingdom had not yet arrived. To Chang'an City.

He rested for a few more days in Gewuzhou City, waiting for the people of Bohai State to bring all the good horses.

Although the Bohai Kingdom is not an orthodox grassland nomadic tribe and has limited production of horses, the seven or eight thousand who fled back to the Bohai Kingdom were all cavalry, so there were seven or eight thousand good horses. The Bohai Kingdom also had more than 3000 horses, a total of [-] All horses are good horses that can go to the battlefield.

The officials sent by the King of Bohai secretly asked Li Fei if he could release the captured soldiers of Bohai State back to Bohai State.

Li Fei was stunned for a moment, then flatly refused with a cold face.

How could he release more than 3 captives back to Bohai State so easily? Wouldn't that cause Bohai State to lose 6 people in World War I and lose less than [-]?In that case, Bohai State will be able to fully recover its vitality in at most three or four years.

Seeing Li Fei's refusal, the official didn't plead any further. After all, he also knew that there was nothing so cheap in the world.
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When Li Fei escorted the captives back to Liaoyang City, the first wave of messengers that Li Fei sent to Chang'an City to report the invasion of the Bohai Army finally arrived in Chang'an City.Li Fei's side had already ended the battle, but the shaking in Chang'an City had only just begun.

Tang Xuanzong liked military exploits, so he was more concerned about border wars. In addition, border wars in all dynasties were major issues related to the country, so the urgent border battle reports always went directly to the court.Even Li Linfu didn't dare to prevent the frontier battle report from being passed directly into the palace. Only Yang Guozhong, as the prime minister, was also in charge of the Jiannan Jiedu envoy, so he concealed the real battle report between Jiannan Road and Nanzhao Kingdom, and only sent the fake one. Things spread to Tang Xuanzong's ears.

And today, it happened to be the second round of the Tang Xuanzong's big banquet for the envoys of various countries. Not only the envoys of various countries were present, but also all the civil and military officials, the emperor's relatives and nobles were all present.

This month of every year is the most proud time for Tang Xuanzong, because envoys from all over the world come to worship him and pay him tribute of rare treasures, which shows his "sage" and the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty under his rule. .

Tang Xuanzong took the high position, but Concubine Yang Guifei needed to rest because she was due to give birth in the next few days, so she did not accompany Tang Xuanzong this time.

The Anton messenger sent by Li Fei is called Ji Chong.

Ji Chong came to the gate of the palace quickly and got off his horse. Although he was stopped by the guards of the palace gate, he saw the command flag on Ji Chong's back and knew that it was an urgent battle report from the border, so he let him go immediately.

Ji Chong trotted into the palace.

The whole thing was planned by Yang Guozhong in order to frame Li Fei. For this day, Yang Guozhong had already made preparations.

As early as when Ji Chong first arrived in Tongguan and had a short rest in Tongguan, someone rushed to pass the news to Yang Guozhong first.

Ji Chong was continuously released into the palace all the way.

Originally, at such a time, even if there was a big thing, it would be impossible to say it in such a public.But Ji Chong was just a messenger, so he didn't know that much. Seeing that no one was blocking him, he was led all the way to the Daming Palace after entering the palace, and the eunuch specially arranged by Yang Guozhong told him that His Majesty was in the Daming Palace and asked him to go in and report directly. Therefore, Ji Chong didn't think too much, and walked in while shouting.

"Report, an urgent battle report from the Anton Protectorate's Mansion!" After entering, Ji Chong saw the scene inside, he was stunned for a moment, then knelt down on one knee, and handed a battle report to the wounded.

Ji Chong's voice successfully attracted the attention of everyone in the palace, including Tang Xuanzong, to him.

The battle report of the Anton Protectorate's Mansion?Did that kid Li Fei make any noise?
Tang Xuanzong frowned, it was obviously impossible to avoid it at this time.

"What's the matter?" Tang Xuanzong asked.

"The [-] troops of the Bohai Kingdom invaded the Anton Governor's Mansion, and Jiedu envoy Li Fei is leading the army to meet the enemy!" Ji Chong said loudly.

Balhae country?
Didn't they surrender to the Tang Dynasty the year before last? They also sent envoys this month last year, but why didn't they come this year?
Although some foreign envoys who came earlier knew that Bohai Kingdom also sent envoys to Chang'an City this year, they left again for unknown reasons, and even raised troops to attack Datang.But they don't care about that, they only care about the fact that Bohai State is raising troops to attack Datang, and how Datang will react.

As a result, everyone's eyes were on Tang Xuanzong above.

Under the eyes of so many envoys, the gentle smile on Tang Xuanzong's face was gone, and he became very gloomy, and his eyes were even more furious.He felt that he was too ashamed now. It was the first time he faced such an embarrassing scene after entertaining foreign envoys for so many years. It was a shame for Tang Guowei to exist!

"The mere barbarian country in the Bohai Sea surrendered to Datang less than two years ago and raised troops against Datang, and Datang defeated it in an instant!" Tang Xuanzong at this time, no matter how angry he was, he still insisted in front of the envoys of the vassal states. Maintain the majesty of Datang as much as possible.

Even Tang Xuanzong held back his anger, pretended to be indifferent and continued to entertain the envoys of various countries normally, as if the Bohai Kingdom really had no threat.

No matter how much Tang Xuanzong pretended to be indifferent, he knew in his heart that because of this incident, all countries had been laughing at Tang Dynasty behind his back for several years, which made the anger in his heart even more accumulated.

In the afternoon, the banquet ended in a hurry. Except for the people from the Ministry of Rites who sent away the envoys from various countries, the other civil and military officials stayed in the palace wisely.

At the same time as the envoys from various countries left the palace, Yang Guozhong met Tang Xuanzong in the back hall of the Daming Palace one step ahead of all the officials.

Looking at Tang Xuanzong, who was full of anger in his eyes, Yang Guozhong felt very happy, because the more angry Tang Xuanzong was, the greater the effect of his sowing dissension would be, and the more severe the punishment Li Fei might receive.

"Damn the barbarians of Bohai, who betrayed their promises, just surrendered to my Tang Dynasty for two years, and then dared to raise troops against my Tang Dynasty, I will destroy the Bohai Kingdom!" Tang Xuanzong said angrily.

"Your Majesty, the Bohai Kingdom knows that it is small and weak, otherwise it would not have been frightened into submission by Li Bai's letter two years ago, and it would not have raised troops for no reason. There must be something that forced them to raise troops. "Yang Guozhong slowly began to lure Tang Xuanzong to think about some aspects through words.

Tang Xuanzong frowned, he was indeed seduced by Yang Guozhong's words, suppressed the anger in his heart, he also wondered why the Bohai Kingdom suddenly raised troops against the Tang Dynasty? ——
(End of this chapter)