Tang's dining table

Pei Xingjian is here.

But he looked panicked, and when he saw Yunchu, he said anxiously: "Wang Mingyuan of Honglu Temple and his seventeen people entered Kangqiongtan and never came out again."

When Yunchu heard what Pei Xingjian said, he couldn't help but frown and said, "What did he do in Kangqiongtan?"

Pei Xingjian hesitated and said: "He wrote to me saying that you wanted to kill him, so instead of taking the ancient road, he wanted to cross Kangqiong Beach and return to Qiuci City as soon as possible."

Yun Chu said: "So, the purpose of your coming here this time is..."

Pei Xingjian said: "Don't take it seriously. Wang Mingyuan is highly regarded by Empress Wu. Even though he is just a sixth-rank official, he has six or seven blank orders for the appointment of the Protector of the Protectorate. He cannot be treated lightly."

Yun Chu said: "Kangqiongtan, Kangqiongtan, it is difficult for people to cross, and it is difficult for birds to fly. Horses whine when they see it, and camels turn around when they see it. If he is looking for death, who can he blame?"

Pei Xingjian took a breath and said, "You didn't kill him?"

Yun Chu spread his hands and said, "Why should I kill him?"

Pei Xingjian looked at Yun Chu and said, "I believe you won't kill him. It's best to let Empress Wu think so."

Yun Chu said disdainfully: "You are the dignified Protector of the Anxi Protectorate, and you are the Great Protector of Anxi who will soon be promoted to the third rank. The death of an official from the sixth rank should not be a big deal to you.

If you still act so panicked, don't blame me for looking down on you. "

Pei Xingjian relaxed his body, leaned on a wicker chair and said, "I can say this, it depends on whether people believe it or not."

Yun Chu smiled and said, "That's right, just say it. The facts are the facts, and you didn't lie."

Pei Xingjian was a little disappointed. He actually wanted to hear the truth from Yun Chu. For example, Yun Chu sent people to kill Wang Mingyuan and his group. Unfortunately, Yun Chu didn't tell him. Instead, he found an excuse to refuse. This was already a sign that he no longer trusted him. .

Therefore, he did not stay in the Buddhist Kingdom. After dawn, he took his people to Kangqiongtan, hoping to find the remains of Wang Mingyuan and his party.

Yun Chu's future was bleak, he still had pursuits, and he couldn't let such an incident damage his career plans.

During lunch, the old monkey came over and brought a roasted lamb leg to Yunchu. Yunchu didn't eat it and gave it to Selema and Naha.

The old monkey looked at Selema and Naha who were sharing the lamb leg, and said to Yun Chu: "You are not doing this right."

Yunchu asked Naha directly: "Does this leg of lamb have a strange smell?"

Naha wiped her greasy mouth and said, "It doesn't smell like poison."

Yunchu took a sip of porridge and said to the old monkey: "Then you are doing nothing wrong."

"I killed Wang Mingyuan and his party."

"Has the body been buried? I heard that there are no vultures or wild wolves in Kangqiongtan area that like to eat carrion."

"Burying corpses in Kangqiongtan is disrespectful to the dead. The roads there rely on these corpses to guide the way."

Yunchu looked at the bright white sun outside the window and estimated that in such weather, it would only take two or three days for a fresh corpse to turn into a mummified corpse that no one could recognize. It is equivalent to the old monkey completing the task of killing people and hiding corpses.

Now that he has reached this position, killing a lot of people can no longer shake his position. This sentence sounds very bastard, but it is true.

Don't say it's unfounded, so what if there is evidence? Li Yifu killed a doctor from Dali Temple for a female death row inmate. Wasn't it a big deal in the end?

The Yun family is now very close to the royal family, and Empress Wu will never turn against Yun Chu just because of a mere Wang Mingyuan.

Not to mention, the reason for this incident was that the king's name was too arrogant, and even the Buddhist sect, which had greatly helped Empress Wu, did not take it seriously.

This is how dealing with big shots is. You killed one of my people and I didn’t have an attack. You have to be grateful. When I kill someone you care about in the future, or do something that embarrasses you, you also have to be grateful. , we can’t keep thinking about revenge.

There are goings and goings, and everyone has an excuse to have a fit, so that they can live in peace and harmony.

There is no loyalty without reason or tolerance without reason in this world, especially for politicians.

This is especially true for Wu Mei, a woman's family.

Lao Guanzhong people have a bad temperament. Behind their seemingly bold and rough appearance is a cautious and suspicious heart. Their honest behavior is often mixed with cunning and calculation.

If an outsider behaves more rough, heroic, and honest than the people in Guanzhong, the people in Guanzhong will generally think that this person is a traitor and will use ten times more strength to defend against you.

In short, Yunchu couldn't show that he had nothing to do with Wang Mingyuan's murder. Being suspicious was the way to get rid of suspicion.

Because both Li Zhi and Wu Mei would feel that Wang Mingyuan's death was so suspicious that it was not Yun Chu's handiwork.

If it was Yun Chu who committed the crime, there would be no doubts about it, and Wang Mingyuan would definitely die, clearly and without any doubts.

Sometimes the strong wind in the sky will blow away the clouds lingering on the snow-capped mountains, and then people can have a clear view of the snow-capped mountains.

At this time, if you look from the front of the giant Buddha, you will find that a brilliant halo of light will appear behind the giant Buddha's head.

This is undoubtedly a miracle.

Every time at this time, Naha will stand on the palm of the giant Buddha, leading the residents near the Buddha's land to worship crazily, hoping to obtain the blessings of the Buddha.

What Naha is spreading is obviously not the Dharma Consciousness-only Dharma of Xuanzang’s lineage. She only needs to bring this group of devout worshipers into the gate of the Buddhist kingdom. As for how to get these people to accept the Dharma-Consciousness-Only Dharma, it’s all about Fa Xian. Things about old monks.

There are more and more old monks in the Buddhist Kingdom. This is the result of Naha sending Serb cavalry to plunder everywhere. Any monks who do not conform to Xuanzang's teachings will be captured by the Serb cavalry and brought to the Buddhist Kingdom to be reincarnated.

The method is a little rough, but the effect is surprisingly good. After these old monks come to the Buddhist Kingdom, they will immediately be conquered by the miracles of the Buddhist Kingdom in front of them, and they will immediately change their original beliefs and join the Dharma-Xiangshiyi Sect.

After careful consideration, Yun Chu believed that within three years, the entire Western Region would be ruled by the Dharma-Xiang Consciousness-Wei Sect.

Seeing Naha standing on the palm of the giant Buddha and shouting, dancing, beating drums, and ringing bells as busy as a spinning top, Yunchu felt that his sister, the queen of the Buddhist kingdom, was actually very competent in her role.

Especially after Naha beat Wang Mingyuan and allowed the residents of the Buddhist Kingdom to escape the exploitation of the court, Yunchu believed that within half a year, Naha's reputation for kindness would spread throughout the Western Region.

Because Naha beat Wang Mingyuan and refused to be exploited, more and more shepherds would come to settle in the Buddhist country.

There should be a dominant city here, a city that can truly spread the religion, culture, and ideas of the Tang Dynasty for a long time. Even if the land in the Western Region is very barren, as long as it soaks in for long enough, after people get used to it, In those later religions, knowledge would turn into heresy. This is a very natural thing.

Of course, the backbone of all this is the military force of the Tang Dynasty. As long as the Tang army still shows sufficient dominance in the Western Regions, the Western Regions will be well attached to the Tang Dynasty and will never be separated.

As for the exploitation of the Western Regions by the Tang Dynasty, it was actually nothing to the people of the Western Regions. For countless years, the Tang Dynasty's exploitation of the Western Regions was the lightest and the most rule-based.

The people here live as humble as sand and as tough as Populus euphratica. When there is no water, no grass grows here. Once there is water, it immediately becomes a prosperous scene.

On August 12, Yusuf's envoy came to the Buddhist Kingdom, and at the same time there were 28 large food caravans loaded with goods.

Yusuf said in the letter that twenty-two caravans arriving from Kufa would arrive in the Buddhist Kingdom later, and finally return to Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty with Yunchu.

At the same time, there is also a large cannibal envoy among the accompanying people. They will return to Chang'an with Yun Chu carrying the Khalifa's personal letter to the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, as well as gifts, to formally pay homage to the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Let’s talk about the long-standing friendship between the two countries.

Although Yunchu didn't know what kind of friendship there was between Datang and Dashi, since Dashiren said this, he must have a smooth enough rhetoric.

The most important cargo brought by the Great Eater to Chang'an was glassware, among which dyed Egyptian glass containers were the most precious.

To Yunchu, these glassware, full of flaws and bubbles, seemed worthless. However, in the gentle and shocked eyes of Zhong Kui, Yunchu knew that these rags were probably priceless in the eyes of the native people of the Tang Dynasty. thing.

It's not bad if you think about it. These people had to travel thousands of miles to exchange glass with the Tang Dynasty people for semi-porcelain. One was made of sand and the other was made of soil. The cost of the two is pretty much the same, so it should be reasonable.

Frankincense, myrrh, pearls, gems, exquisite boxes made of camel bones, exquisite cups made of rhinoceros horns, exotic gold and silver utensils, and the most important thing for Wen Wen is a string of dragonfly eye glass beads.

The value of these goods is expensive...

Yunchu didn't look down on other people's glass beads, nor did he look down on other people's exotic utensils.

He does not have the level of appreciation as gentle as Gentle, and is only interested in cornflower-blue sapphires produced in Kashmir.

When Yusuf redeemed himself, he gave Yunchu a pair of Kashmir sapphires the size of pigeon eggs. One of those two gems was named the sea by Yunchu, and the other was named the sky by Yunchu.

Yunchu had no intention of taking out these two gems, but planned to keep them as heirlooms.

As for the dragonfly-eye glass bead string that Wen Wenwen couldn't let go of, Yun Chu couldn't comment on it.

Yunchu did not tell the big eaters what goods were most popular in the Tang Dynasty, and there was no need. As long as this group of merchants arrived in Chang'an, with their shrewdness, they would definitely figure it out.

Now, Yunchu just wants to make this business road busy first...

Chapter One