In the study, Liu Rengui looked at Li Xuan. Even he was full of surprise at this moment: "Li Jingye."
Li Xuan gave a bitter smile, cupped her hands and said: "From my son-in-law's point of view, Li Jingye is a headstrong man who loves success, is selfish and cruel, and is quite capable. If he is allowed to do what he does, he will be turned upside down in Tubo territory." It’s also very possible.”
Liu Rengui sat on the soft couch and looked at Li Xuan with a trace of surprise in his eyes.
Li Jingye is indeed such a person. His ancestor Li Ji once commented on it. Therefore, the emperor and the queen have always kept him in the position of governor. But now that Li Xuan said this, although it seems that he is making the best use of his talents, there is always something disturbing about it. Something that people feel is inappropriate.
Raising his eyebrows slightly, Liu Rengui thought for a moment, then his eyes lit up, but he frowned and said, "Could it be that the good son-in-law wants to use the British Duke as a bait to lure the Tubo war into a trap?"
Li Xuan lowered his eyes and said softly: "This is the only way. The Tubo cavalry are familiar with the terrain. They come and go like the wind, gathering and dispersing invisible. If you can't catch the fish with a bait, you will never be able to catch it." That fish.”
"But if the fishing line is broken, won't that bait be swallowed up by the fish?" Liu Rengui couldn't help but feel a trace of anger in his heart. Li Jingye, heir to the British throne, Li Ji's grandson, so He was easily sacrificed as fishing bait.
"Who said there's only one bait left?" Li Xuan raised her head, a hint of coldness flashed in her eyes.
"Tai Jian went too far." After all, Liu Rengui was a veteran on the battlefield. His discomfort was quickly suppressed, but he still didn't approve of Li Xuan's methods.
Because of this kind of thing, they have already learned a lesson. 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 road is destroyed, and both roads are destroyed together.
"Then we can only go back to the original method, build the city and encroach." Li Xuan looked at Liu Rengui calmly and said sincerely: "Yue Weng, Xuan knows that the battle of Tubo has been prepared for a long time, but in Tubo, it is not inferior to For the Eastern and Western Turks, it is not feasible to hope for a decisive battle. We should act according to the law, tire and weaken them, and finally kill them."
"How did Gao Yingping destroy Nanchen?" Liu Rengui understood the origin of Li Xuan's words with just one word.
Li Xuan shook his head lightly and said: "It's not just Gao Ying who destroyed Nancheng. From the Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, it was not the same for our government to destroy the Turks... Now the leader of the Tubo Kingdom is seriously ill. This is a fact. Even if it is forced to force the situation, it will be difficult. To change the foundation, the leader of a country is destroyed, and the succession of the country is a major matter. Who will come up, who will retreat, who will live, who will die. If it is done properly, the foundation of Tubo will be shaken."
"And then split Tubo into two?" Liu Rengui understood what Li Xuan meant.
Li Xuan didn't care that his thoughts were seen through. He smiled and sincerely said: "Yue Weng, if the East Island is not the Three Kingdoms, if Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla are integrated into one country, can our country really be able to do so?" Destroy it?"
Li Xuan asked back, stopping Liu Rengui on the spot.
The Battle of Baijiangkou was Liu Ingui's famous battle. In the first battle, countless Japanese and Baekje remnant armies were defeated, and then Baekje and Goguryeo were annihilated. Now, if it weren't for Tubo's troubles, Silla would have been destroyed long ago. The Tang Dynasty was destroyed.
But if the Eastern Islands of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla were one country from the beginning, their strategic depth, climate, and terrain would all make them enemies of the Tang Dynasty.
Without Baekje as a breakthrough point and Silla as a helping hand, if the Tang Dynasty wanted to destroy Goguryeo, it would have to pay an unknown price. It is even possible that Goguryeo is still alive today.
"But the logical distance is too far." Liu Rengui said the most rare thing about Li Xuan's method.
The leader of the Tubo Kingdom was indeed seriously ill and may have even died. However, the capital of Tubo was too far away from the Tang Dynasty. Even if he had some ideas, it would be difficult to get an accurate understanding of the situation in Tubo without being able to tell him.
If there is any mistake in this, it will cost the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers.
Tubo was a small country, and after several marriages with the Turks, the Tang Dynasty had a good grasp of the internal situation of the Turks, but it didn't know about the Tubo...
The Qinling Mausoleum suppressed all the conflicts in Tubo, and the Tang Dynasty could only look at the foreign world and sigh.
"Yue Weng, fight slowly and be safe, fight quickly and take risks. How to choose is a matter between you and the central ministers." Li Xuan raised his eyes, with a hint of caution on his face.
"Slow down the fight, how can we slow down the fight? It's not like my virtuous son-in-law doesn't know the reason for this, so slow down the fight, how can we slow down the fight!" Liu Rengui suddenly smiled bitterly, and Li Xuan's expression dimmed at this moment.
In the battle between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, if the Tang Dynasty defended it, Tubo would not have the slightest chance. But now, what is really urgent is not Tubo, but the Tang Dynasty, and the emperor, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, Li Zhi.
The defeat of Dafeichuan was the only major defeat in Li Zhi's career as emperor, and it was a major defeat that has not yet been undone.
Today, although the emperor is only forty-eight years old, he has a serious rheumatic disease. Even though countless famous doctors have actively diagnosed and treated him over the years, and even the king of medicine Sun Simiao has been treating him for more than ten years, his physical condition is still deteriorating.
In particular, Emperor Taizong only lived to be fifty years old, and Li Zhi had the same serious wind disease.
Under such circumstances, Li Zhi had already made a judgment about his future. Now the war against Tubo was just to make up for the biggest regret in his life.
Under such circumstances, how could we slow down the war against Tibet?
As for quick battles, if you want to win, you have to take risks, but if you take risks, you may fail.
The Tang Dynasty had been preparing for the war against Tibet for several years, so how could it accept defeat?
Fight quickly, fight steadily, win the battle, or against Tibet, which has a vast territory and a sparse population...
Li Xuan couldn't help but shook his 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. Although there are internal contradictions, if there is no question of Qinling's forcible suppression, if there is no challenge. How can we win the civil strife in Tubo, and we must win quickly.
This is too difficult. Li Xuan can think of the price that needs to be paid. Liu Rengui cannot be unaware of it.
unless……
An idea suddenly popped up in Li Xuan's mind. He glanced at Liu Rengui in surprise, and then immediately put an end to the idea in his mind.
"What's wrong?" Liu Rengui looked at Li Xuan in surprise.
"It's nothing." Li Xuan shook his head and sighed softly and said: "If we want to be stable and win this battle, we must choose the right coach."
"This matter has not yet been decided." Liu Rengui shook his head, not wanting to talk more about this matter, and said instead: "By the way, there are a few more things."
"Yue Weng, please speak." Li Xuan was a little surprised. He didn't know what was more important than the battle against Tubo.
"Do you still remember the incident of Leng's mother and son hanging themselves years ago?" Liu Rengui stared at Li Xuan.
Li Xuan nodded calmly and said: "It turned out that this matter was caused by Leng Lin's greed for money and the use of usury. The last accident led to the death of his family. My son-in-law has informed the Jinwu Guards to strictly investigate the usury in Chang'an City, but there are those who exceed the limit. , arrest them all and have them tried by the Right Street Envoy."
According to Tang law, official loans cannot exceed five interest rates, and private loans cannot exceed four interest rates. Violators will be fined ten times the principal and forty rods.
"It's not that." Liu Rengui waved his hand and said, "There is someone behind the matter of forcing the Leng family mother and son to hang themselves."
Li Xuan was stunned for a moment, and then said solemnly: "My son-in-law has also made some guesses about this matter, but he has just returned to Chang'an and is not familiar with it, so he cannot guess who it is."
"Now it's not a matter of guessing or not. It's the usurer who was found dead at home today and hanged himself." Liu Rengui's words not only shocked Li Xuan, but also Liu Yuanlang, who had been standing in the corner and had not spoken. Shocked.
Li Xuan stood up directly and looked at Liu Rengui with a horrified face: "Yue Weng, how did Chang'an County investigate? Did Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment get involved?"
"Hang yourself, that's the conclusion of Dali Temple." Liu Rengui picked up the hot tea on the table with an indifferent expression.
Li Xuan raised his eyebrows, sat down slowly, lowered his head and said: "So, Dali Temple is warning the people behind the scenes. Didn't Dali Temple find evidence in that person's house, and didn't ask that person's question? The news...suicide, that person committed suicide, right?"
"A good son-in-law is indeed a smart man." Liu Rengui put down his tea cup, smiled, and then said: "The detective from the Ministry of Punishment, after finishing the first grade of junior high school, stepped aside directly to find someone else to question the person behind him, but that person just saw When someone from the Ministry of Punishment came, he raised his knife and committed suicide."
"It's so awesome!" Li Xuan took a deep breath.
"However, as soon as the usurer saw the officers from the Ministry of Punishments, he raised his knife and committed suicide. He must have been prepared for this." Liu Rengui looked at Li Xuan with a half-smile and asked, "There are also good husbands in the city. There are many informants, why don’t they know anything about this matter?”
Li Xuan shook her head calmly and said: "Although there are still some old relationships with Prince Peng, everyone has to celebrate the New Year. Besides, not even Jin Wuwei has received news about this, let alone others."
"That's it." Liu Rengui understood, turned around and asked, "Someone can make the moneylender commit suicide directly. Who do you think it would be?"
Li Xuan nodded slightly, thought for a while and then said: "First of all, the person must be in good luck, maybe not now, or maybe in the future. After all, many people are used to taking action in advance to kill their opponents... The Chang'an family has many people in the family. Regarding the loan deed, the two events before and after are connected, I am afraid that if someone is in a hurry, this is all my son-in-law can guess?"
When Li Xuan said this, there was a hint of helplessness on his face. This was all he could guess about this matter.
He only knew the superficial aspects of the political situation in the DPRK, and he couldn't figure out the deeper connections between them. After all, he had just gotten involved in the central government.
"That's enough. The rest will be investigated by the Criminal Department." Liu Rengui sighed and said, "The Criminal Department is not only investigating this matter. Xue Zhang was killed and Wen Xu escaped. The Criminal Department has many responsibilities. "
"Have Wen Xu not been found yet?" Li Xuan looked at Liu Rengui with a trace of doubt in his eyes.
"No." Liu Rengui looked at Li Xuan and asked, "What did the wise son-in-law think of?"
Li Xuan hesitated slightly, but still solemnly raised his hands and said: "Yue Weng, based on my son-in-law's understanding of the King of East China Sea, if he takes action, I am afraid that Wenxu will not even be left alive. If Wenxu is dead, there will naturally be nothing to investigate." Check, if Wen Xu is not dead, then what is the purpose of King Donghai? It cannot be that he is waiting for others to follow Wen Xu’s traces and find his lair, right?"
"Wenxu's body has not been found at the bottom of the Weihe River or on both sides of the nearby banks. Unless he can fly up in the daytime, he will always be found." Liu Rengui shook his head, and then said: "My dear son-in-law, you still 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 agreed.
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Seeing 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 came over and stood with his hands folded.
"Do you know what my father and Twenty-seventh Lang talked about today?" Liu Rengui's eyes were extremely bright, as if he wanted to see through Liu Yuanlang's mind at a glance.
Liu Yuanlang immediately handed over his hand and said: "It's the negotiations between Silla and Japan, the war with Tubo, the case of the Leng family and their son, and the Weihe River murder case."
"Is that all?" Liu Rengui looked at Liu Yuanlang with some disappointment.
Liu Yuanlang was slightly dazed. He didn't understand what Liu Rengui meant.
"Silla, the affairs of Japan and Tubo, do you think that twenty-seven men can figure it out, but my father and other ministers can't think of it?" Liu Rengui looked towards the front yard again and said softly: "And those two Regarding the case, my father is actually asking Twenty-seventh Lang, did he do those two things?"
"Ah!" Liu Yuanlang was completely stunned.
Liu Rengui shook his head again and said, "He said that his people did not take action in the Leng family's mother and son case, but he suspected that someone in the palace was responsible for the Weihe murder case."
(End of chapter)
