Yan Shigu and Xu Xiaode stayed in Jingyang for a day, and Xia Hongsheng accompanied them, and they didn't have time to talk to Xu Hui, so when they saw them off, they were very sorry.

Xu Hui thought about it like this, so the two of them were slow, and they fell behind.

Although the people in front of them knew it, they didn't break it, but just took a little pace and opened up some distance.

"I haven't been able to talk to you well today...... Xia Hongsheng looked at the people in front of him and distanced himself, so he said in a low voice.

Xu Hui's voice was warm: "Didn't Brother Xia take Hui'er to visit Jingyang Academy?" I'm already very happy! ”

Xia Hongsheng's heart was warm, like the sun shining on his heart, he paused, and said: "In the past year, I turned sixteen......

Xu Hui's face suddenly turned dark, and his voice was soft and glutinous when he lowered his head, but said, "Hui'er is waiting......"

Xia Hongsheng only felt a tremor in his heart, and for the first time, he felt that this time passed too slowly.

The two did not dare to go too far, and hurried a few more paces, caught up with the others, and put them into the carriage.

"Jingshi, don't send it again, go back!" Yan Shigu got into the carriage and said to Xia Hongsheng.

"It's okay, Master Yan......"

Halfway through the words, he was suddenly startled by the sound of hurried horse hooves and horse whips, turned his head to look, but saw a person riding straight over, and in the blink of an eye, he came to Xia Hongsheng, one turned over and dismounted, and immediately bowed to Xia Hongsheng and said: "Your Majesty has a will, and orders Xiahou to enter the palace immediately to meet him!" ”

Xia Hongsheng was stunned for a moment, and the guard saluted Yan Shigu on the carriage again.

"This Praetorian Guard, dare to ask what is going on?" Xia Hongsheng asked.

"Go back to Xiahou. But I don't know what. The guard shook his head. He also said: "Your Majesty ordered Xiahou to set off immediately after receiving the order. ”

Such an urgent summons at this time. And now he has no real position, just a county marquis with an empty title and no real power, I don't know why.

After thinking about it for a while, Xia Hongsheng asked Qi Yong to prepare the horse, and then said to Yan Shigu and Xu Xiaode: "Yan Shi, Uncle Xu, forgive Jingshi for being rude, I'm afraid you have to take the first step." ”

"Since Your Majesty has something to summon, you should take it seriously. Let's go! Yan Shigu nodded and said to Xia Hongsheng.

Qi Yong quickly led the horse, Xia Hongsheng turned over and got on the horse, and the palace guard, as well as Qi Yong, the three of them fought and went away together.

The horses galloped all the way, and it took everyone an hour to return to Chang'an, and at this moment there was only half of the sunset left in the sky.

Hurried to the palace, the discussion in the Taiji Hall still did not stop, and Xia Hongsheng entered after the report. But I saw that most of the people in it were people from Honglu Temple.

"Wechen greets Your Majesty." After Xia Hongsheng entered, he met Li Shimin.

Li Shimin nodded and said to Xia Hongsheng: "Xue Yantuo's envoy will arrive in Chang'an in less than three days. I and the Lords of Honglu Temple are discussing how to receive them. I had heard Ju Guogong say that Xia Qing was quite talented before, so I summoned Xia Qing to come and wanted to hear Xia Qing's opinion. ”

I see! Xia Hongsheng was relieved, so he bowed down again, and asked, "Wei Chen dared to ask, I don't know what Your Majesty discussed with you before?" ”

Li Shimin looked at the ministers in the Honglu Temple, Tang Jian went to Xiazhou, and now there are only Shaoqing and others in the Honglu Temple.

Those people in Honglu Temple saw Li Shimin's signal, so they walked out alone, first saluted Li Shimin, and then turned to Xia Hongsheng and said: "Xue Yantuo has run thousands of miles, it can be seen that my Tang Dynasty is famous and famous. Mencius said: 'Those who pretend to be benevolent by strength are tyrants, and hegemons must have great powers; The king who is benevolent with virtue does not wait for the big - the soup is seventy miles, and the king of Wen is a hundred miles. Those who convince others with their strength are not convinced, and they are not supported by their strength; Those who convince people with virtue will be happy and sincere in the center, such as Confucius in the service of the seventy sons. "Poetry" cloud: 'From the west to the east, from the south to the north, no thought or unconvinced. That's what it means. Therefore, since it serves the Tang Dynasty as the suzerain with the courtier's courtesy, my Datang should treat each other with courtesy, receive its documents, entitle its master, and give it cattle and sheep wealth, so that it will be grateful for the kindness of the Tang Dynasty and remember it in his heart, and he will always be obedient. ”

"Definitely! Definitely! As soon as his words fell, he heard another person come out, and after saluting, he retorted: "Xue Yantuo has always been cunning, his heart is not sincere, and he belongs to the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, using my Datang as a shield is that it has the intention to use Datang, and it is not sincere to attach, and the minister thinks it is not advisable. ”

What the two of them said is reasonable, but the policy of the country should change with the trend and follow the trend. Although Xue Yantuo's original intention is not sincere, he wants to use the prestige of my Tang Dynasty to deter the Turks, so that the Turks will be intimidated by the power of the Tang Dynasty and cannot be destroyed. However, the war between my Tang Dynasty and the Turks is about to break out, why not pretend not to know for the time being, and make friends with Xue Yantuo, and then send troops to the Turks, wouldn't it be possible to use Xue Yantuo to stab the Turks in the back a few times? Another argued.

Xia Hongsheng understood why Li Shimin called him, it turned out that Honglu Temple's opinions were inconsistent, so he wanted to listen to his own opinions for reference.

Regarding the Turks and Xue Yantuo, as well as Tuyuhun and Tubo, Xia Hongsheng did a lot of work, searched for a lot of intelligence information, and carefully recalled their history in later generations. So he straightened out his thoughts at the moment, and then said: "Xue Yantuo was originally one of the Tiele tribes, which was formed by the merger of Xue and Yantuo. Living in Mobei, the official system and customs are about the same as those of the Turks, so their sexual behavior is also the same as that of the Turks. As for the personality of the Turks, I think you all know very well. ”

Hearing Xia Hongsheng say this, the person who did not agree to meet Xue Yantuo before immediately showed joy, but he heard Xia Hongsheng say again: "In the second year of Zhenguan, the Turkic civil strife, Sun Yinan, who lost the bowl, led more than 70,000 households of his tribe to belong to Jieli, but it was the brutal rule of Shangjieli Khan. Yi Nan led his subordinates, resisted by force, and the Jieli sent an army to suppress it, but was defeated by Yi Nan, and there were many followers of the Jieli tribe. In November, the surnames of Tiele jointly promoted Yi Nan as Khan, but Yi Nan did not dare at that time. ”

"Yes, later, in order to contain Jieli, I sent Qiao Shiwang to secretly contact Yi Nan, and worship Yi Nan as the Pearl Viga Khan, and give him a drum. Only then did Yi Nan dare to call the Khan a country. Li Shimin nodded and continued.

"After Xue Yantuo established the country, the Hui, Bayegu, Aqiu, Tongluo, Fugu, and Xia tribes were attached one after another, and its territory reached the east to the Jin, the west to the West Turks, the south to the sand moraine, and the north to the Kulun River, with tens of thousands of elite soldiers." Xia Hongsheng said again: "You haven't thought that if there are no Turks in the future, then Xue Yantuo will become the only country over there. At that time, the Xue Yantuo of tomorrow will be like the Turks of today. (To be continued.) )