Zhang Qiu and Qiong were really curious, and he wanted to know what clever way Li An had to make the eloquent Pi Luo Pavilion dare not touch the interests of the Tang Dynasty in the plan.

Li An showed confidence on his face, and said with a straight face: "First, my Datang must firmly grasp the leading power of counterinsurgency, and must not hand over the dominance of pacifying the land to the king of Yunnan, and second, no matter how great the pressure is and how fierce the resistance of the planing people is, my Datang must eventually garrison the land to firmly control the place, so that the king of Yunnan can only give up the land." ”

Zhang Qiu and Qiong heard this, and cast a surprised look at Li An, this insight and courage are not ordinary people can have, Li An's countermeasures are directly aimed at Pi Luo Ge's death hole, as long as the Tang Dynasty has the leading power to counterbalance the rebellion, and finally garrisons in the plan, it will be difficult for Pi Luo Ge to make a difference, unless he directly leads the army to attack the Tang army, but in this way, Nanzhao and the Tang Dynasty will be completely opposed, and Pi Luo Ge can't afford this consequence.

That is to say, for the sake of his own interests, Pi Luo Ge has been carefully fighting wits and courage with Datang, and wants to seek more benefits for himself as much as possible without infringing on the core interests of Datang and within the acceptable range of the Tang Dynasty.

"Captain Li's insight and courage are far stronger than ordinary people, my Tang Dynasty can have a talent like Captain Li, it is really a blessing for the community, no matter what, even if the official is fighting to protect his official position, he must write to His Majesty, bitterly Chen Yunnan King's ambition, so that His Majesty must not hand over the dominance of pacifying the land to the King of Yunnan."

Zhang Qiu and Qiong's tone was quite heavy, his brows furrowed deeply, and he put on a posture of worrying about the country and the people.

Li An wanted this result, paused, hugged his fists and said: "Zhang Qiujie, if you can get the opportunity to level the ground, you will definitely do your best to serve Datang." ”

Zhang Qiu and Qiong naturally understood what Li An meant, nodded and smiled: "Okay, this official has written to Your Majesty to ask for Captain Li's life." ”

"Thank you for your humble duties."

"Captain Li will leave Yizhou tomorrow, and he will live in the official mansion tonight, and the official still has a lot of questions to discuss with Captain Li."

Zhang Qiu and Qiong hit it off at first sight, and sincerely invited Ang Lee to stay.

"Then it is better to be respectful than to obey the order."

After returning to the post house and arranging his subordinates, Ang Lee went to Zhang Qiu and Qiong's mansion again to discuss the current situation with Zhang Qiu and Qiong, and expressed his opinions without scruples.

It is a very comfortable thing to talk with thoughtful people, and this night, Ang Lee and Zhang Qiu and Qiong talked about everything, expressing their ambitions to the fullest, and did not return to their rooms to sleep until midnight.

Early the next morning, Li An still stayed in Zhang Qiu and Qiong's mansion, and continued to discuss the situation in Nanzhao and the land with Zhang Qiu and Qiong, and Li An did not leave until noon.

After lunch, Xi Yu and most of the other men arrived at Yizhou City, joined Li An's vanguard troops, and rested for a while, waiting for Li An's departure order.

"Big brother, Xi Shilang and they have arrived, when will the team leave?"

Li An thought for a moment and looked at Li Kunxiong: "Kunxiong, you immediately notify the Nanzhao delegation and let them prepare to go, and after half an hour, all the horses and horses will set off." ”

"Yes, big brother."

"Big brother, the five assassins who escaped yesterday haven't been caught until now, and I'm afraid that this journey won't stop."

Li Feiyu was slightly worried.

Li An nodded: "Have you found the identities of the three assassins we killed yesterday?" ”

"The specific identities can't be found, but it is certain that these three people are Langqiong Zhaoren."

Li An sighed: "The last time it was Deng Zheng's edict, this time it was the Langqiong's edict, and the rest of the three edicts' lords' remnants will not stop even if they are afraid, along the way, we will indeed not be lonely, let the soldiers cheer up and be vigilant." ”

"Yes, big brother."

Half an hour later, the Nanzhao Mission and the Tang Mission, a team of more than 1,000 people, under the leadership of Li An, left Yizhou City and marched towards Chang'an City, which was thousands of miles away.

Because Pi Luo Pavilion burned Song Ming Tower, killed the five edict lords, for this reason, the remnants of the five edict lords hated Pi Luo Pavilion very much, as the son of Pi Luo Ge, Yu Chengjie naturally became their assassination target, so this road is destined not to be peaceful.

And Li An and his soldiers and horses have already mastered rich experience in counter-assassination on the way to escort King Guichang back to Dongnu Kingdom, so this time the escort task must be a little easier.

Yu Chengjie is not a fuel-efficient lamp, but the real purpose of his trip is to seek the support of the Tang Empire for his succession, and Li An has expressed his full support for his succession, for this reason, Yu Chengjie has always been quite polite to Li An, and can also obey Li An's arrangements, which saves Li An a lot of trouble.

As Ang Lee expected in advance, along the way, he encountered many assassins who intended to assassinate, but under Ang Lee's strict defense, these assassins either gave up on their own initiative or risked their assassination and were thwarted by Ang Lee.

Of course, Ang Lee knew very well that these so-called assassins were all because their edict was burned to death by Pi Luoge, and they were resentful in their hearts, so they ventured to assassinate Yu Chengjie, and their doing so also reflected their sincere loyalty to the tragic death of the edict, which made Ang Lee admire.

Therefore, Ang Lee did not kill all of these assassins, and even quietly let them go after capturing them, and warned these assassins not to be overwhelmed anymore, with him Ang Lee, the assassins' assassination plan would never succeed.

Maybe it was moved by Ang Lee's words, or maybe Ang Lee's guards were too tight, so that the assassins couldn't start, and there were fewer and fewer assassins along the way, and after arriving at Chencang Road, they never encountered the assassins again, everyone was relieved, and Ang Lee also relaxed a lot.

"It's okay, if you let go of the assassin along the way, you won't be afraid that someone will ginseng you."

Li Fei Shouyu looked at Li An and teased.

Li An's expression was relaxed: "The assassins captured by us are all insignificant little people, and it doesn't matter much if you let them go, even if Your Majesty knows, I'm not afraid." ”

Li Fei Shouyu smiled lightly: "Do you think that we have made a great contribution in annihilating the 20,000 border troops of Tubo, so Your Majesty will not punish you for such a trivial matter." ”

"That's right, Your Majesty is the king of a country, the master of the world, he is more concerned about the overall situation, as long as we complete the overall tasks assigned by Your Majesty, Your Majesty will not care too much about these small things, as an official, if you don't even have this right to be autonomous, how much can you do."

Ang Lee jumped onto a high boulder and looked down at the great rivers and mountains in the distance.

Li Fei Shouyu jumped up and stood beside Li An: "To be honest, I think you deliberately let the assassin go for another purpose. ”

"Oh, for what purpose?"

"Although I can't be very sure, I always feel that you have a deep prejudice against Nanzhao, and you support and sympathize with Nanzhao's rebels."

"Shouyu, do you think this is bad?"

"It's okay, Nanzhao is my ally of the Tang Dynasty, and has always supported my Datang, if Nanzhao splits again, there will be no strong force to contain Tubo in the south, wouldn't this be a big loss for my Datang."

Li Fei Shouyu did not consider the threat to the Tang Empire after Nanzhao became strong, but that once Nanzhao was divided again, it would be a situation of scattered sand, so that it would not be able to effectively contain the Tubo Empire in the south, and even, these divided small countries were forced to throw themselves into the arms of Tubo in order to protect themselves.

Li An naturally took this into account, and for this reason, he did not plan to let Nanzhao split into six small countries again and let go of these assassins, just to add some trouble to Piluo Pavilion, so that Pi Luo Pavilion must spend more energy to deal with domestic affairs, so as to weaken its ambition for expansion, besides, with these assassins, there is no ability to threaten the foundation of Pi Luo Pavilion, except for the powerful Tang Empire, no force can disintegrate the Nanzhao Kingdom that Pi Luo Pavilion has worked so hard to unify.

The Tang Empire needs the little brother of Nanzhao, but at the same time, it should also guard against the disobedience of this little brother, such as the rice country of later generations, not only to share the strategic pressure of the Japanese state, but also to strictly limit the strength of the Japanese state to prevent it from biting itself, which can be described as an extremely shrewd strategy, and the later Chinese empire always tried its best to help its little brother, and as a result, after the little brother unified the north and south, he counterattacked the Chinese empire that helped them, so that China suffered huge losses.

Li An feels that Datang can't repeat the mistakes of Huaxia, be kind, but can't be too kind, fight rice to raise kindness, bear rice to support hatred, and help others excessively, which will make others think that this is a matter of course, so that not only is he not grateful, but because his further requirements are not met, he will treat the person who helps him as an enemy.

Datang to help Nanzhao unify the six edicts, is already a great favor to Pi Luo Ge, Pi Luo Ge should be fully loyal to the Tang Dynasty for this reason, should not put forward higher requirements, if the Tang Dynasty meets its higher requirements, it will inevitably form the effect of bearing rice and raising hatred, how to deal with the relationship between Nanzhao, the strength of Nanzhao is limited to the most beneficial to the Tang Dynasty, is a very test of the wisdom of Tang officials.

"Shouyu, you are too worried, Pi Luo Ge is eloquent, how can I cause the division of the country because I let go of a few assassins, besides, I don't plan to split Nanzhao, I just don't want Nanzhao to continue to be strong, and I sympathize with these loyal people, they came to assassinate Yu Chengjie in order to avenge their edict, and they can be regarded as loyal and brave righteous men."

"So you think so, I misunderstood you, but Chang'an City is not far away, let's think about how Your Majesty will reward us!"

"Adding officials to knighthood, a lot of rewards, these can't run."

"I hope so."

"It's getting late, gather the people and get ready to go."

Without the interference of the Assassins along the way, the speed of the team's march was significantly faster, and the daily travel distance was at least thirty percent faster than before, and Chang'an City was getting closer and closer.

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In the Zichen Hall of Daming Palace, the Tang Emperor Li Longji was looking at the latest situation of the rebellion, and his brows frowned deeply from time to time.

At present, the situation in the northeast is unstable, the post-Turkic is also extremely chaotic, Tibet has always been a huge threat, there are often wars in Anxi, and the Tang Dynasty needs to spend a lot of money.

"I have never treated King Guigui, Chongdao and others badly, and added officials to them, but they joined forces and openly rebelled against me, first killing the city builder Zhu Lingqian sent by me, and now they have broken through the county seat and killed my Datang County official, which is really unreasonable."

Li Longji slammed the fold in his hand down, and exhaled a rough breath through his nose.

Gao Lishi, who was waiting on the side, saw that Li Longji was angry, and stood honestly in place, without giving any advice or comfort, after all, the rebellion in the land is a political event, and the eunuch is not allowed to be regent, Gao Lishi understands that he cannot cross this red line.

"General, where have Captain Li and the Nanzhao mission arrived?"

"Everyone, they have arrived in Yixian County, Qizhou, and they will arrive in the capital in a few days."

"Well, that's good."

Li Longji nodded lightly and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Everyone, please see you outside the right minister's hall."

Li Longji raised his head slightly: "Let him in." ”

"Minister Li Linfu see Your Majesty."

"The right phase came just in time, I've seen this recital!"

Li Longji's eyes skimmed to the table in front of him, Gao Lishi understood, and quickly picked up the fold on the table and handed it to Li Linfu a few steps away.

Li Linfu glanced at it slightly, and said respectfully: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister has already seen it." ”

"Oh, what do you think about it?"

"Your Majesty, King Guigui and others openly rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, first killed Zhu Lingqian, and then attacked my Tang City, the crime is unforgivable, and it must be severely punished to correct the prestige of my Tang Dynasty."

Li Linfu expressed his views in righteous words.

When Li Longji heard this, he was quite satisfied, and nodded: "In the opinion of the right minister, how should I, Datang, quell the rebellion in the land?" ”

"Attacking from both sides, my Tang Dynasty King Division will attack from the north, and let Nanzhao send troops to attack from the south, so that the land will be defeated."

Li Linfu did not know much about military affairs, so he casually expressed his opinions.

Li Longji agreed with what he said, he also thought so, as long as the rebel forces of Datang and Nanzhao entered the north and south, it would be difficult to resist the strong and powerful land, and in this way, with the assistance of Nanzhao, Datang could greatly reduce the pressure, and the army expenditure could also be reduced a lot, which can be described as killing multiple birds with one stone.

"Your Majesty, the Nanzhao delegation will arrive in the capital in a few days, and the minister feels that the king of Yunnan has sent the second prince Yu Chengjie at this juncture, and it is very likely that he came for the purpose of planing the land."

"Well, I feel the same way, but I still can't figure out what the king of Yunnan wants?" (To be continued.) )