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

Chapter 645 Using Li Jingye as bait to lure Tubo into the urn
In the study, Liu Rengui looked at Li Xuan, even he was full of surprise at the moment: "Li Jingye."

Li Xuan gave a wry smile, cupped her hands and said: "From my son-in-law's point of view, Li Jingye is self-willed, ambitious, selfish and cruel, and quite capable. If he is allowed to do what he does, then in Tubo territory, he will be turned upside down. It's also very possible."

Liu Rengui sat on the soft couch and looked at Li Xuan with a hint of suspicion in his eyes.

This is indeed the case for Li Jingye. His ancestor Li Ji once commented on him, so the emperor and the empress have always pressed him to be the governor. People feel that it is not appropriate.

Raising his eyebrows slightly, Liu Rengui thought for a while, then his eyes lit up, but he frowned and said: "Could it be that the son-in-law wants to use the heir to the British as a bait to lure Tubo into a war."

Li Xuan lowered her eyes and said softly: "This is the only way. The Tubo cavalry are familiar with the terrain, they come and go like the wind, and they gather and disperse invisible. If you can't catch the fish with a bait, then you will never be able to catch it." That fish."

"But if the fishing line is broken, wouldn't the bait be swallowed by the fish?" Liu Rengui couldn't help but feel angry. Li Jingye, hei Yinggong, Li Ji's grandson, It was easily sacrificed as bait.

"Who said there is only one bait?" Li Xuan raised his head, a icy coldness flashed in his eyes.

"The Taijian is taking a slant." After all, Liu Rengui was a veteran in the battlefield, and the discomfort in his heart was quickly suppressed, but he still did not approve of Li Xuan's methods.

Because of this kind of thing, they have already learned a lot. In the battle of Dafeichuan, Xue Rengui rushed to the front, and Guo Daifeng escorted the grain and grass behind. Xue Rengui captured Wuhai City, but Tubo turned around and defeated Guo Daifeng. One way is destroyed, two ways are destroyed at the same time.

"Then the only way is to go back to the original method, building the city and eating away at it." Li Xuan looked at Liu Rengui calmly, and said sincerely: "Yue Weng, Xuan knows that the Tubo war has been prepared for a long time, but in Tubo, it is not inferior to Liu Rengui." East and West Turks, it is not feasible to hope that a battle will be settled, we should practice the law, weary and weak, and finally kill them."

"Gao Yingping's way of destroying Nanchen back then?" Liu Rengui understood the source of Li Xuan's words in just one word.

Li Xuan shook her head lightly, and said: "It's not just Gao Ying who destroyed Nancheng. From the Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, it's not like this when we destroyed the Turks... Now the king of Tubo is seriously ill. This is a fact. Changing the foundation, the ruler of a country will be destroyed, and the succession of the country is a major event, who will go up, who will retire, who will live, and who will die, if the operation is done properly, the foundation of Tubo will definitely be shaken."

"Then divide Tubo into two?" Liu Rengui somewhat understood the meaning of Li Xuan's words.

Li Xuan didn't care if his thoughts were seen through, he smiled, and sincerely cupped his hands and said: "Yue Weng, if the East Islands were not the Three Kingdoms, if Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla were integrated into one country, I would really be able to Destroy it?"

Li Xuan's rhetorical question stopped Liu Rengui in place.

The naval battle at Baijiangkou was Liu Rengui's famous battle. The Japanese and Baekje remnants who fought in World War I were defeated and killed countless times, and then Baekje and Goguryeo were wiped out. Datang was destroyed.

But if, Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla in the East Island were all one country from the beginning, with a deep strategy, climate and terrain, all of them were enemies of the Tang Dynasty.

Without Baekje as a breakthrough point, and without Silla as a helping hand, Datang wants to destroy Goguryeo, and I don’t know how many times the price will be paid. It is even very likely that Goguryeo is still alive.

"But it's too far away." Liu Rengui's words expressed the most rare point in Li Xuan's method.

It is true that the ruler of Tubo is seriously ill, and may even have passed away, but the capital of Tubo is too far away from the Tang Dynasty.

If there is a mistake in this, it will be the price of tens of thousands of soldiers' lives.

The Tubo country is small, and after several marriages with the Turks, the Tang Dynasty has a lot of knowledge about the internal situation of the Turks, but for Tubo...

A Lunqinling suppressed all the contradictions in Tubo, and the Tang Dynasty could only look at the ocean and sigh.

"Yue Weng, fight slowly and be safe, fight fast and take risks, how to choose, this is a matter for you and the prime ministers of the center." Li Xuan raised his eyes, with a trace of caution on his face.

"Slow fight, how to fight slowly, my son-in-law doesn't know the reason, how can I fight slowly!" Liu Rengui suddenly gave a wry smile, and Li Xuan's expression on the opposite side also dimmed at this moment.

In the battle between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, if the Tang Dynasty was in charge, Tubo would have no chance at all, but now, what is really urgent is not Tubo, but Tang Dynasty, the emperor, Emperor Gaozong of Tang Dynasty Li Zhi.

The defeat of Dafeichuan was the only major defeat in Emperor Li Zhi's career, and it was a major defeat that has not yet been recovered.

Now, although the emperor is only 48 years old, he has a serious wind disease. Even though countless famous doctors have actively diagnosed and treated him over the years, and even Sun Simiao, the king of medicine, has treated him for more than ten years, his physical condition is still deteriorating.

In particular, Emperor Taizong only lived to be 50 years old, and Li Zhi had the same severe wind disease.

Under such circumstances, Li Zhi had already made a judgment on his future in his heart, and the war against Tubo was just making up for the biggest regret in his life.

Under such circumstances, how can the war against Tubo be slow and slow.

As for quick battles, to win, you have to take risks, but taking risks can lead to failure.

Datang had been preparing for the battle against Tubo for several years, how could he accept defeat.

Fight fast, fight steadily, win the battle, or face the sparsely populated Tubo...

Li Xuan couldn't help shaking her head. Tubo, the land of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in later generations, is five thousand miles from east to west, and two thousand miles from northeast to south. How can we win the civil strife in Tubo, and we still have to win quickly.

This is too difficult, Li Xuan can think of the price that needs to be paid, it is impossible for Liu Rengui to be unclear.

unless……

A thought suddenly popped up in Li Xuan's mind, and she glanced at Liu Rengui with some surprise, and then immediately killed the thought in her mind.

"What's wrong?" Liu Rengui looked at Li Xuan in surprise.

"It's nothing." Li Xuan shook her head, sighed softly and said, "If this battle is to be stable and to win, the coach must be chosen well."

"This matter has not yet been settled." Liu Rengui shook his head, not wanting to talk about this matter, and said, "By the way, there are still a few things."

"Yue Weng, please tell me." Li Xuan was a little surprised, he didn't know what was more important than fighting against Tubo.

"Do you still remember the incident that Leng's mother and son hanged themselves years ago?" Liu Rengui fixed his eyes on Li Xuan.

Li Xuan nodded calmly, and said: "This matter turned out to be Leng Lin's greed for money, and borrowing high profits. The last accident caused the family to be ruined. My son-in-law has notified the Jinwu Guard to strictly investigate the high profits in Chang'an City, but there are those who exceed the limit." , arrest them all, and have them interrogated by the Right Street envoys."

According to the law of the Tang Dynasty, official loans shall not exceed five interest rates, and private loans shall not exceed four interest rates. Violators shall be fined and confiscated ten times the principal and forty times the principal.

"It's not that." Liu Rengui waved his hand and said, "Behind the forced suicide of the Leng family's mother and son, there is someone manipulating it."

Li Xuan was stunned for a moment, and then said solemnly: "My son-in-law has also guessed about this matter, but my son-in-law has just returned to Chang'an, and he is not familiar with him inside and out, so he can't guess who it is?"

"Now it's not a matter of guessing or not guessing. It's the high profiteer who was found dead at home today and hanged himself." With Liu Rengui's words, not only Li Xuan was shocked, but even Liu Yuanlang, who had been standing in the corner without opening his mouth, was shocked. shocked.

Li Xuan stood up immediately, and looked at Liu Rengui with a face full of horror: "Yue Weng, how did Chang'an County investigate? Did Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment intervene?"

"Hanging himself to death is the conclusion of Dali Temple." Liu Rengui picked up the hot tea on the table calmly.

Li Xuan frowned, sat down slowly, lowered her head and said: "So, Dali Temple is warning the people behind the scenes. Didn't Dali Temple find any evidence in that person's house, and didn't ask that person about it?" The news... hanged himself, did that person commit suicide?"

"The virtuous son-in-law is indeed a smart man." Liu Rengui put down his teacup, smiled, and said, "The arrester of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, after the first day of junior high school, let the door go and asked someone else to question the person behind him, but that person just saw When the Ministry of Punishment came, he raised his knife and killed himself."

"It's amazing!" Li Xuan gasped.

"However, the high profiteer, as soon as he saw the arrest of the Ministry of Justice, he raised his knife and killed himself. He must have been prepared for this." Liu Rengui looked at Li Xuan with a half-smile, and asked: "There is also a virtuous son-in-law in the city. A lot of eyeliners, why, don't you know anything about this?"

Li Xuan shook her head calmly, and said: "Although Prince Peng's mansion still has some old connections, people still have to celebrate the New Year, and besides, even the Jinwu Guard has not received any news about this matter, let alone someone else."

"So that's how it is." Liu Rengui understood, turned his head and asked, "Someone can make the lender commit suicide, who does my son-in-law think it is?"

Li Xuan nodded slightly, and after thinking for a while, he said: "First of all, this person must be expected to make a fortune, maybe not necessarily now, or maybe in the future. Regarding the matter of the loan deed, there is a connection between the two matters, so if someone is in a hurry, this is what my son-in-law can guess?"

When Li Xuan said this, there was a trace of helplessness on his face. Regarding this matter, that was all he could guess.

He only knows the superficial aspects of the political situation in the DPRK and China, but he doesn't know the deeper connection between them. After all, he has just been involved in the central government.

"That's enough, the rest will be investigated by the Ministry of Criminal Justice." Liu Rengui sighed lightly, and said: "The Ministry of Criminal Justice is not only investigating this matter, Xue Zhang was killed, Wen Xu fled, and the Ministry of Criminal Justice has a lot of responsibilities. "

"Wen Xu hasn't found it yet?" Li Xuan looked at Liu Rengui with a hint of doubt in his eyes.

"No." Liu Rengui looked at Li Xuan and asked, "What did the son-in-law think of?"

Li Xuan hesitated a little, but still solemnly cupped his hands and said: "Yue Weng, based on my son-in-law's understanding of the king of the East China Sea, if he does something, I'm afraid he won't even keep Wen Xu alive. If Wen Xu is dead, then naturally there is nothing to investigate Check, if Wen Xu is not dead, then what is the purpose of the King of the East China Sea, he will not, he is waiting for others to follow Wen Xu's traces to find his lair all the way?"

"Wen Xu's body is not found at the bottom of the Weihe River or on the nearby banks. Unless he can ascend in the daytime, he will always be found." Liu Rengui shook his head, and then said: "My son-in-law, you need to worry more about the king of the East China Sea. After all, this matter is related to the stability of the clan and the court.”

"Here!" Li Xuan clapped his hands in response.

……

Seeing the back of Li Xuan walking towards the front yard, Liu Rengui's expression calmed down, and he waved to his son Liu Yuanlang.

"Father!" Liu Yuanlang immediately walked over and stood with his hands folded.

"Do you know what Weifu and 27 Lang talked about today?" Liu Rengui's eyes were unusually bright, as if he wanted to see through Liu Yuanlang's thoughts at a glance.

Liu Yuanlang immediately cupped his hands and said, "It was Silla negotiating with Japan, fighting against Tubo, and the Leng family's mother-son case, and the Weihe bloody case."

"Is that all?" Liu Rengui looked at Liu Yuanlang with some disappointment.

Liu Yuanlang was a little dazed, he didn't understand what Liu Rengui meant.

"Silla, the matter of the Japanese kingdom and Tubo, do you think that 27 Lang can figure out something, but you can't think of it for my father and all the ministers?" Liu Rengui looked at the direction of the front yard again, and said softly: "There are also those two cases, Weifu is actually asking 27 Lang, did he do those two things?"

"Ah!" Liu Yuanlang was completely dumbfounded.

Liu Rengui shook his head again, and said: "He said that his people did not move in the case of the Leng family's mother and son, and he suspected that the people in the palace were responsible for the Weihe murder case."

(End of this chapter)