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

Chapter 546 Discussing Turks and Establishing a Khanate

In the study, candles flickered.

Li Xuan took a piece of rice paper from one side, and in the upper left corner simply outlined the location of Dingxiang Zhuzhou in the cloud, and then said: "Uncle Yu, you once taught Dalang that if you want to do something, you should do it both internally and externally. If the Turkic tribes also have such a plan, what will they do?"

As soon as Li Xuan finished speaking, she saw Yu Ze raised his head in astonishment, as if he had thought of something, with an expression of disbelief.

Li Xuan looked at Yu Ze, and said calmly: "At the beginning, it was because the sage decisively dispatched the Pingyang County King to Dingxiang, which allowed the Turkic tribes to settle down quickly. What will happen if we neglect the affairs of the Turkic tribes?"

Back then, the Tianyin sect's rebellion seemed like a slightly troublesome chaos in the southeast, but if one was not handled properly, it would immediately cause huge turmoil under the chain reaction.

Yu Ze took a deep breath, lowered his head, thought carefully for a moment, finally raised his head, and said, "I understand, the meaning of the king is that the Tianyin Sect was connected with the Turks through Tubo, and the whole incident in Luoyang back then , is a series of offensives against our dynasty, the Tianyin Sect is in trouble in the southeast, and the Turks are in turmoil in the north..."

"There is also Silla. If Silla takes the opportunity to make trouble on the East Island, and our army is pinned to the east. At this time, if Tubo suddenly strikes from the west, will it directly kill Chang'an city?" Li Xuan said. Words raised the crisis to the extreme.

Although Yu Ze's expression was embarrassing, he still nodded and said, "If I didn't handle it properly, or if my internal affairs were unstable, it is indeed possible for someone to make trouble."

"For example, King Zhuang, King Huainan, and even King Qi." Li Xuan sighed softly.

"Your Majesty, if that's the case, what about the death of the crown prince?" Yu Ze frowned fiercely, why did everything go back.

Li Xuan waved his hand directly, and said: "Under the chaos, rumors are likely to become the truth. Honoring the emperor's death is a consensus between the ruling and opposition parties. The Tianyin Sect was destroyed, Silla is also seeking peace, and the Turkic tribes were also defeated by Pingyang." The king of the county suppressed it desperately, and now only Tubo is left...

Tubo must not be reconciled to the current situation, but they can provoke..."

"Only the Turks." Yu Ze stood up immediately, and kept pacing back and forth in the study room. After a while, he seemed to think of something unbelievable. Yu Ze stopped and looked at Li Xuan with horror: "Your Majesty, Tubo wants to help Turks restore their country."

That's the scariest thing.

Once a powerful Turkic Khanate reappears in the northern part of the Tang Dynasty, then there will be Turks in the north and Tubo in the west, both of which are so close to Chang'an, and something will happen immediately.

……

On the rice paper, Li Xuan draws two lines from the upper right and lower left respectively, and finally converges in the center.

A thick black spot appeared in the center of the rice paper, and there was Chang'an.

"Your Majesty, this matter needs to be reported to the Saint and the Queen of Heaven immediately, and we need to be more prepared!" Yu Ze hurriedly walked in front of Li Xuan.

"However, who knows, this is not a plan!" Li Xuan raised his head, looked at Yu Ze with unusually clear eyes, and said: "The Turkic tribes are suppressed by the Duke of Pingyang, and there is no chaos for a while.

If at this time in the court, the Turkic relatives are attacked, will it cause uneasiness among the many Turkic survivors in the court.

Uncle Yu, the five just now involved You Tunwei, Zuo Wei, You Wei, Zuo Xiaowei and Taipusi, and there are more Turkic relatives who hold important positions in the court. "

"This!" Yu Ze suddenly gasped, if he did something to these people without any real evidence, then there would be chaos in the court and it would also bring opportunities for Tubo.

"Besides, the current situation may not have been noticed by the court. Otherwise, why would Wu Chengsi, Di Renjie, and Qin Jun come here one after another." Li Xuan sighed softly.

If Wu Chengsi's arrival was just Tianhou's desire to reconnect the Wu family with his noble relatives, then Di Renjie's appearance made Li Xuan feel a little strange at the time.

But at that time, he paid more attention to Wu Chengsi, and didn't think much about the strange appearance of Di Renjie.

Because he almost forgot that although the current Di Renjie is not as prime minister as he was later, he has already judged thousands of old cases in the Dali Temple within a few months, without any mistakes, and he is very appreciated by Zhang Wenguan, the Minister of Dali Temple.

Besides, Di Renjie is not the kind of person who is willing to cling to the powerful, how could he easily come to his marriage.

It's not surprising that Li Xuan thought so. In fact, he had somewhat forgotten that his own investigative ability is not weak.

People in Dali Temple have always had a good impression of him, not to mention the Yonghui Monument.

There is also Qin Jun, Qin Jun helped Li Xuan go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to welcome the dowry, it was a pre-arranged matter, and there was nothing strange about it, but Li Xuan suddenly remembered that Qin Jun came to the palace for the first time that day to bring people on patrol came.

The patrol with people happened to be around the palace.

Li Xuan still remembered that Qin Jun once said that some things that should have been in charge of Qiu Shenji were handed over to them.

It might be nothing to listen to this alone, but once connected, it is a bit scary.

Someone is manipulating everything behind the Turkic people, and someone is manipulating everything from the inside.

Li Xuan didn't know why, but his own marriage was interfered with and became a tool for others to fight.

……

"Some of these Turkic people must be restless, otherwise they would not be provoked by the Tibetans.

The Turks are about to move, so... the Turks, the Turkic Khanate... not good, they are going to flee Chang'an, or, before leaving Chang'an, what to do... Big marriage, the king will go to tomorrow, us? "

Yu Ze immediately figured out the connection with the Nanchang Palace, and looked at Li Xuan with an extremely embarrassed expression.

Li Xuan's expression was very calm. There is no doubt that he had already thought through all this before Yu Ze arrived.

The other party wants to use the palace as a raft, but first, they have to control the palace, or infiltrate the palace.

"Ashina Nishugen, the general of the left guard, the grandson of Tuli Khan; Ashina Gana, the general of the right guard, the grandson of Jieli Khan." Li Xuan looked up at Yu Ze, said: "Just these two, they don't have many people in Chang'an. If they want to do something, they can only find a way to recruit the dead in the city. The news will inevitably spread. Since the court and the central government are already on guard, we don't need to Take care."

Speaking of this, Li Xuan looked at Yu Ze with a solemn face, and said: "What we need to do is to eliminate all hidden dangers in the mansion. The so-called simultaneous internal and external, if the Turkic people want to do something in the palace, then apart from outside personnel, the mansion They must have tampered with here, what needs to be done now is to find out the tamper..."

"Bang bang bang" there was a knock on the door of the study.

……

In the warehouse in the backyard, a young man wearing a black uniform, with a thin figure and a somewhat pale face, stood in front of two wooden boxes tied with red silk, and said to Li Xuan and Yu Ze, "Your Majesty, It's in there."

Li Xuan waved his hand back, Li Zhu stepped forward immediately, and immediately opened the wooden box, inside were more than a dozen long and somewhat strange stones.

strange stone, strange stone.

The wind of appreciating stones has existed since ancient times.

"Shangshu·Yugong" once recorded: At that time, among the tributes from various places, there were occasional "lead pine strange stones" in Qingzhou and "Sibin floating chime" in Xuzhou.

A large number of strange peaks and rocks were collected in the "Liang Garden" of Liang Ji, a wealthy man and general in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and in the private residence of Gu Pijiang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

From the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the present, the wind of appreciating stones has become more and more popular.

The filial emperor Li Hong and former chancellor Yan Liben are among them.

Therefore, Li Xuan didn't care that there were two boxes of interesting-looking strange stones in the dowry sent by the Liu family today.

But who would have thought that these stones were manipulated by others.

"Cough cough!" The young man with a pale face coughed twice and said, "Reporting to the king, according to the ancient records, this stone is called the wish stone, and it was produced in the Jinshan area of ​​Turkic. It is called the sacred stone, and only the priests of the Turkic tribe can see it, and outsiders, especially me, have rarely seen it...cough cough..."

"Okay, since you've found the thing, go and rest." Li Xuan turned to look at Li Bi, and said in a deep voice, "Tell our people, these days, don't do any unnecessary things, just keep your eyes on him. Come on, don't talk, don't hold hands, this time has nothing to do with us."

"Here!" After coughing twice, Li Bi bowed his hands slightly and backed away.

"His body is still the same." Yu Ze stood beside Li Xuan, looking at Li Bi with worry.

"Fortunately, as long as you don't work too hard, it's not a problem to live to forty or fifty." Li Xuan sighed softly, with helplessness in her tone.

Li Bi's heart was born with a problem. If Li Xuan's knowledge of the heart was far ahead of the times, and he boldly injected needles in his heart, otherwise, his life would have died long ago.

But what is lost is what is gained.

Although Li Bi has a bad heart, he is born with a photographic memory. Although he is in poor health and cannot go out, the caravan of Nanchang Palace, from the Western Regions to Yizhou, and then to the southeast, has countless accounts, information, and contacts along the way. Everything was handled properly.

Now the so-called wish stones, only he can tell their origins in one word.

Looking at the slightly bluish-black stones inside the box, Li Xuan was also surprised.

This thing is not oil, but it can still catch fire when it meets water, which is really amazing.

All Li Xuan could think of was Lime, and Lime was just giving off heat.

Could it be a special ore formed by the confluence of lime and phosphate stone after tens of millions of years of underground pressure?
It is easy to catch fire when it comes into contact with water, no wonder it is not common on weekdays. Could it be that all these things on the surface will be burned when they come into contact with water?

……

Looking at these stones, Li Xuan looked up at Li Zhu, and said, "Go and remove the dark plate on the inside of the box lid."

"Here!" Li Zhu clasped his hands, then stepped forward and carefully removed the dark panel inside the box lid.

Under the dark board is a piece of sheepskin the size of a box lid with hair all over it.

After peeling off the sheepskin, there is a whole block underneath, which has been fused with a small half of the ice.

Seeing this piece of ice and the ice water inside the lid of the box, Yu Ze couldn't help but gasp.

He could imagine that once tomorrow night, this piece of ice completely melted, and then dripped onto the wish stone through the sheepskin, through the dark board, then with a fire, the entire box, the entire wooden frame, and the entire warehouse would be destroyed. burn up...

"It turned out to be to create chaos." Li Xuan understood a little, looked at Li Zhu and said, "Tomorrow night, send someone to guard here to see if anyone comes quietly, as for these stones, bury them underground in the backyard. "

"Here!" Li Zhu cupped his hands immediately.

Yu Ze on the side hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the things were sent by Zuo Xiangfu, so there must be some at Zuo Xiang's house..."

"No hurry, let's find out how these things got to Zuo Xiang's mansion first." Li Xuan's expression was calm.

Many things flashed into his mind in an instant, Turkic people, Qin Jun, Di Renjie, Wu Chengsi, Zuo Xiangfu, Lai Sui, Huang's family, Governor of Lingzhou, Tubo, Turkic.

Ming Chongyan.

(End of this chapter)