In the study, candlelight flickered.
Li Xuan took a piece of rice paper from one side, briefly sketched the location of the Dingxiang states in Yunzhong in the upper left corner, and then said: "Uncle Yu, you once taught Da Lang that if you want to do something, you should do both internal and external things. If the Turkic tribes also have such a plan, what will they do?"
As soon as Li Xuan finished speaking, he saw Yu Ze raising his head in shock, as if he had thought of something, with an unbelievable look on his face.
Li Xuan looked at Yu Ze and said calmly: "It was because the saint decisively dispatched Prince Pingyang to Dingxiang that the Turkic tribes quickly settled down. If His Majesty had not dispatched Prince Pingyang, even because of the sudden sudden change in the southeast, What will happen if we ignore the chaos that has arisen and ignore the affairs of the Turkic tribes?"
At first, the Tianyin Sect's uprising seemed to be just a slightly troublesome mess in the southeast, but if it was not handled properly, a chain reaction would immediately cause huge turmoil.
Yu Ze took a deep breath, lowered his head, and after thinking carefully for a moment, he finally raised his head and said, "I understand, what the king means is that the Tianyin Sect is connected with the Tubo and Turks, and the entire incident in Luoyang was , it is a series of offensives against our country, the Tianyin Sect is revolting in the southeast, and the Turks are in turmoil in the north..."
"There is also Silla. If Silla takes the opportunity to cause trouble in the east island and our military strength is contained in the east, at this time, if Tubo suddenly strikes from the west, will it directly kill Chang'an City?" Li Xuan said If you say that, you will raise the crisis to the extreme.
Although Yu Ze looked embarrassed, he still nodded and said, "If I handle it improperly, or if the people within me are unstable, it is indeed possible for someone to cause trouble."
"Just like Prince Zhuang, Prince Huainan, or even Prince Qi." Li Xuan sighed softly.
"Your Majesty, if that's the case, what about the death of the prince?" Yu Ze's brows suddenly furrowed, wondering why everything had come around again.
Li Xuan waved her hand directly and said: "Under the chaos, the rumors are likely to turn into truth. It is the consensus of the government and the public to honor the emperor and die of illness. The Tianyin Sect was destroyed, Silla was also seeking peace, and the Turkic tribes were also defeated. The prince suppressed it with all his strength, and now only Tubo is left...
Tubo must be unwilling to accept the situation at hand, but they can provoke it..."
"There are only Turks." Yu Ze stood up immediately and paced back and forth in the study. After a moment, he seemed to have thought of something unbelievable. Yu Ze stopped and looked at Li Xuan with a horrified face: "Your Majesty, Tubo wants to help the Turks regain their country."
This is the scariest thing.
Once a powerful Turkic Khanate reappears in the north of the Tang Dynasty, then there are Turks in the north and Tubo in the west. They are both so close to Chang'an. Something will happen immediately. The incident where the Turkic cavalry attacked the city of Chang'an is very likely to happen again.
On rice paper, Li Xuan draws two lines from the upper right and lower left, and finally converges in the center.
A thick black spot appeared in the center of the rice paper, where was Chang'an.
"Your Majesty, this matter needs to be reported to the Saint and the Queen immediately. They need to be more prepared!" Yu Ze quickly walked up to Li Xuan.
"But 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 were suppressed by Pingyang County Duke, and they couldn't get into chaos at all for a while.
If the DPRK takes action against the Turkic nobles at this time, will it cause uneasiness among the many Turkic survivors in the DPRK?
Uncle Yu, just the five of them have already involved Youtunwei, Zuowei, Youwei, Zuoxiaowei and Taipusi, and there are more Turkic nobles holding important positions in the court. "
"This!" Yu Ze suddenly took a breath. If he attacks these people without real evidence, then chaos will immediately break out in the court, and it will also bring opportunities to Tubo.
"Besides, the court might not be aware of the current situation. Otherwise, why would Wu Chengsi, Di Renjie, and Qin Jun all come one after another?" Li Xuan sighed softly.
If Wu Chengsi's arrival was just the queen's desire to reconnect the Wu family with her noble relatives, then Di Renjie's appearance made Li Xuan feel a little wrong.
But at that time, he was more focused on Wu Chengsi and didn't think much about Di Renjie's appearance.
The strangeness.
Because he almost forgot that although the current Di Renjie is not the Prime Minister that he later became, he has already ruled thousands of old cases in Dali Temple within a few months without making any mistakes, which is highly appreciated by Zhang Wenguan, the Minister of Dali Temple.
Besides, Di Renjie is not the kind of person who is willing to cling to powerful people, so how could he come to his wedding so easily.
It's not surprising that Li Xuan thinks this way. In fact, he has forgotten that his own investigation ability is not weak.
The people in Dali Temple have always had a good impression of him, not to mention the matter of the Yonghui Monument.
There was also Qin Jun. Qin Jun helped Li Xuan go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to welcome the dowry. This was something that had been agreed upon a long time ago. There was nothing surprising at first, but Li Xuan suddenly remembered that Qin Jun came to the palace that day to lead a patrol. came.
The patrol happened to be near the palace.
Li Xuan still remembered that Qin Jun once said that some things that should have been Qiu Shenji's responsibility were handed over to them.
This may not sound like much on its own, but once connected, it becomes a bit scary.
There are people who control everything behind the Turks, and there are people who control everything from within.
Li Xuan didn't know why, but his own marriage was interfered with and became a tool for others to fight.
"There must be some among these Turks who are restless, otherwise they would not have been provoked by the Tubo people.
The Turks are about to move, so... the Turks, the Turkic Khanate... No, they want to flee Chang'an, or what should they do before leaving Chang'an... The wedding, the king tomorrow, us? "
Yu Ze immediately thought clearly about the connection between this and the Nanchang Palace, and looked at Li Xuan with an extremely embarrassed expression.
Li Xuan's face was very calm. There was no doubt that he had thought about all this clearly before Yu Ze arrived.
The other party wants to use the palace as a raft, but first, they have to take control of the palace, or infiltrate the palace.
"Ashina Nishuge, a general in the left guard and a grandson of Tuli Khan; Ashina Gana, a general in the right guard and a grandson of Jieli Khan." Li Xuan looked up at Yu. Ze, said: "These two families don't have many people in Chang'an. If they want to take action, they can only find ways to recruit dead soldiers in the city. The news will inevitably spread. Since the court is already on guard, we don't need to Take care."
Having said this, Li Xuan looked at Yu Ze solemnly and said, "What we need to do is to eliminate all hidden dangers in the palace. The so-called internal and external measures should be taken simultaneously. If the Turks want to attack the palace, then in addition to the manpower from outside, the palace They must have done some tricks here, and what needs to be done now is to find out these tricks..."
"Bang bang bang" there was a knock on the study door.
In the backyard warehouse, a young man wearing black clothes, thin and pale, stood in front of two wooden boxes tied with red silk, held his hands in front of Li Xuan and Yu Ze and said, "Your Majesty, The stuff is in here.”
Li Xuan waved her hand back, and Li Zhu immediately stepped forward and opened the wooden box. Inside were more than a dozen long and steep rocks.
Strange rocks, strange rocks.
The custom of appreciating stones has existed since ancient times.
"Shang Shu Yu Gong" once recorded: Among the tributes from various places at that time, Qingzhou's "Strange Lead Pine Stone" and Xuzhou's "Sibin Floating Chime" were occasionally included.
The "Liang Garden" of the wealthy and general Liang Ji in the Eastern Han Dynasty and the private residence of Gu Pijiang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty both collected a large number of strange peaks and strange rocks.
From the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the present, the popularity of stone appreciation has become increasingly popular.
Li Hong, the filial emperor, and Yan Liben, the former prime minister, are among them.
Therefore, when the dowry sent by the Liu family today included two boxes of interesting-looking strange stones, Li Xuan didn't pay attention.
But who would have thought that these stones had been tampered with.
"Ahem!" The young man with a somewhat pale face coughed twice and said, "Reporting to the King, according to ancient records, this stone is called the Wish Stone. It is produced in the Jinshan area of Turkish. It is easy to catch fire when exposed to water. It is called a sacred stone and can only be seen by the sacrifices of the Turkic tribes. Outsiders, especially the people in my court, have rarely seen it...ahem..."
"Okay, now that you have found the thing, you can go and rest." Li
Xuan turned to look at Li Bi and said in a deep voice: "Tell our people, don't do any unnecessary things these days, just stare with your eyes, don't talk, don't use your hands, this matter has nothing to do with us. .”
"Here!" After Li Bi coughed twice, he slightly cupped his hands and retreated.
"His body is still the same." Yu Ze stood beside Li Xuan, looking at Li Bi with eyes full of worry.
"Fortunately, as long as you don't work too hard, it won't be a problem to live to your forties or fifties." Li Xuan sighed softly, with helplessness in her tone.
Li Bi's heart was born with problems. If Li Xuan's knowledge of the heart was not far ahead of people at the time, and he boldly injected an acupuncture needle into his heart, his life would have been long gone.
But if you lose something, you gain something.
Although Li Bi had a bad heart, he was born with a photographic memory. Although he was not in good health and could not go out, the caravan of the Nanchang Palace, from the Western Regions to Yizhou, and then to the southeast, had countless accounts, information, and contacts along the way. All handled properly.
Nowadays, only he can tell the origin of these so-called wish stones.
Looking at the slightly bluish black stone inside the box, Li Xuan was also surprised.
This thing is not oil, but it can still catch fire when it comes into contact with water. It's really amazing.
The only thing Li Xuan could think of was lime, and lime only produced heat.
Could it be a special ore formed from the confluence of lime and phosphorite that has been pressed underground for tens of millions of years?
It is easy to catch fire when exposed to water. No wonder it is not common in daily life. Could it be that all these things on the surface will be burned when exposed to 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 lid."
"Here!" Li Zhu cupped his hands, then stepped forward and carefully removed the dark panel on the inside of the box lid.
Under the dark board is a piece of sheepskin the size of a box lid, with all the hair on it.
After peeling off the sheepskin, there is a whole piece underneath, with less than half of the ice cubes already fused.
Seeing the ice cube and the ice water inside the lid of the box, Yu Ze couldn't help but take a breath.
He could imagine that once tomorrow night, the ice completely melted, and then dripped through the sheepskin, through the dark plate, onto the wish stone, then a fire would destroy the entire box, the entire wooden frame, and the entire warehouse. Burn...
"It turned out to be to create chaos." Li Xuan understood somewhat, 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 immediately handed over his hand.
Yu Ze on one side said quickly: "Your Majesty, the things were sent from Zuo Xiang's Mansion, so Zuo Xiang's house must also have them..."
"Don't worry, 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, including Turks, Qin Jun, Di Renjie, Wu Chengsi, Zuo Xiangfu, Laisui, Huang family, Lingzhou Governor, Tubo, and Turks.
Ming Chongyan.
