Struggle in the early Tang Dynasty

Miji stopped and turned to look at Guo Ye.

Guo Yeqi said: "Don't you want to ask me, I asked you to prepare so much, what tasks do you need to perform?"

Miji shook his head, and replied with a matter of course: "Your Excellency naturally has your own intentions, so why should I bother to ask? Anyway, I know that we have been sharpening our swords for three years, and it is time for us to draw our swords out of their sheaths and see the light of day again." !"

Guo Ye smiled and said: "Haha, I just like your cleverness and hard work, go ahead and go, if you guess well, you will know your mission after ten days."

"Yes, my subordinates will leave!"

Miji was still as calm as ever, turned around and left on his own.

After Guo Ye watched Miji leave, he returned to the desk and copied a letter, which he had written before meeting Miji, and was specially intended to be presented to Changsun Wuji.

He folded it carefully, and shouted out the door: "Come on!"

A soldier ran in when he heard the sound, Guo Ye handed the letter into his hands, and said: "You personally ask this letter to be handed over to Tong Hu, and let him lead people and horses to go out quickly overnight. We must strive for the shortest possible time. Send it into the hands of the eldest grandson."

The soldier took the letter, gave a nod, and hurried back out of the study.

Guo Ye clapped his hands and said in his heart, he finally settled down a few things to do at hand.

He walked to the door by himself, looked in the direction of Chang'an, and murmured to himself: "Your Majesty, I hope you can make a decision as soon as possible. If not, I will come with you once." Got'!"

"Brother, brother, you are amazing!"

Pang Feihu suddenly ran into the small courtyard with a look of dust on his face, just in time to see Guo Ye who was standing in a daze at the door of the study.

Interrupted by Pang Feihu, Guo Ye asked in surprise, "Aren't you sitting in Ali Tucheng? Why did you come to Tuva City so late?"

Pang Feihu patted and shook off the dust on his body, and said with a smile: "I came from there overnight, but you really hit the mark, An Ye is a wicked grandson, people from Dongchang are everywhere, and there are even people in my house." lurking."

Guo Ye was secretly happy, did you know that?It seems that the instigator is still me.

But he pretended to be confused, pushed all the dirty water to An Ye, and said angrily: "This An Ye is really, even his colleagues are also monitoring, and I have to talk to him later. By the way, how did you find out?"

Pang Feihu said: "I listened to your order, and spread the news that you are in a hurry to find the dark night in the mansion. Who knows that it has been spread for less than half an hour, and three flying birds flew out of the kitchen yard in my mansion. Nu, one flies out almost every half an hour, and I have observed carefully, the direction of the flight is Tuyuhun."

Flying slave is an elegant name for carrier pigeons by the ancients.

To convey information, in this era without telegraphs and telephones, what could be more suitable than carrier pigeons?

Guo Ye secretly thought, so that's the case, then this lurking effort is not enough, won't he run out of Pang Feihu's mansion and release the pigeons again?

But he said in his mouth: "Forget it, after I see An Ye himself, I will scold him for you again. Now, apart from waiting for Chang'an's reply, we are waiting for An Ye's appearance. There is no sensitivity With timely information, we are like walking on a night road without moonlight and stars, at a loss and unable to move an inch!"

wait,

The only thing to do now is to wait.

Chapter 564

Tong Hu did not disappoint Guo Ye. He took two people and ten horses out of Xichuan, changing trains day and night, running so exhausted that he dared not stop.

After running for five days and nights, until the last horse died of exhaustion, he entered Chang'an City, and brought Guo Ye's letter to Changsun Wuji's mansion.

Changsun Wuji happened to be in the mansion, and when he heard the servants report Xichuan's arrival, he thought it was the third boy who he was most worried about, something happened there.

Hastily asked someone to invite Tong Hu in, Tong Hu made a long story short, and presented Guo Ye's letter directly, Changsun Wuji was a little relieved, it turned out that the accident was not caused by the third boy.

Seeing that Tong Hu was full of travel and dust, his face was dignified and heavy with fatigue, and when he heard Tong Hu mention that this was an urgent letter from Mr. Guo Ye, he didn't dare to neglect it, so he hurriedly opened the letter and read it.

Sun Wuji, Guo Ye's handwritten elder, understood somewhat. The handwriting of this letter was crooked like a dog crawling and rolling, and the wording in the letter was in the same Guo style as before.

After he finished reading the contents of the letter, his face was full of shock, and he murmured to himself: "How dare the Tubo people be so bold? Is this okay?"

While speaking, Changsun Wuji had already folded the letter and put it back into the envelope, put it in his sleeve pocket, and then said to Tong Hu: "Lieutenant Tong Xiao, you must be exhausted after traveling all the way. Your servant will take you to rest. Then you will go to the palace to face the saint, and present the matter of Tubo to His Majesty. As soon as there is news, I will let you know."

Tong Hu's mouth was already parched at this time, and his whole body felt a bit exhausted, but he still did not forget Guo Ye's entrustment, and shouted feebly: "Master Changsun, my lord has repeatedly told my subordinates that you must let His Majesty make a decision early. The Tubo people are wolves ambitious, and their plans are huge. If the Tubo people invade with an army, Xichuan only has [-] troops to defend, and they can't resist the Tubo people's army at all, and it will be difficult for them to fall alone."

"Don't worry, I have already told your lord that I will be there for everything in the court. Go down and rest."

Changsun Wuji signaled Tong Hu to go down to rest, and he did not forget to order outside: "Come here, prepare the sedan chair, and I will enter the palace to face the saint. I hope that at this time, His Majesty did not fall asleep early today."

Guo Ye, who is far away in Xichuan, is extremely anxious, and Changsun Wuji, who lives in Chang'an, is not anxious.Don't forget that his eldest son, Sun Chong, was trapped in Luoxie City, Tubo, and his third son, Sun Yumo, was also in Xichuan, a dangerous place. tragic misfortune.

He didn't dare to delay, as soon as the servants prepared the sedan chair, he hurried out of the Changsun Mansion and ran towards the imperial palace.

Soon, the sedan chair passed through the Zhuque Gate and entered the imperial city.

It was already dark at this time, and without being summoned by the emperor, no one could jump over the Chengtian Gate guarded by Qian Niuwei and enter the palace to face the saint.

But fortunately, Changsun Wuji's status is supernatural, and Qian Niuwei didn't dare to make things difficult, and let him enter the Taiji Palace directly.

The eldest grandson Wuji found Xiaohuangmen in the palace, and after inquiring, he found out that His Majesty was going to bed at Concubine Yang's Tingquan Palace tonight.

Immediately, there was another rush to rush.

When they arrived outside Tingquan Palace, Changsun Wuji reported his intention, and the palace servants went in to report.In a short time, the lights in the entire Tingquan Palace were lit up one by one, obviously His Majesty Li Er was alarmed.

Under the guidance of a palace official, Changsun Wuji came to a hall of Tingquan Palace, and finally saw His Majesty Li Er who was still tired and yawning.

"Wuji, what happened to make you come into the palace late at night to find me?"

His Majesty Li Er took a few sips of tea soup, lifted his spirits, and asked Changsun Wuji.

Without further ado, Changsun Wuji took out the letter from his sleeve pocket and presented it to His Majesty Li Er, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Xichuan Guoye is in a hurry, maybe something really big is going to happen."

"Oh?"

His Majesty Li Er raised his spirits even more. He opened the letter again and again and reviewed Guo Ye's autograph.

Bang!

His Majesty Li Er slammed the letter on the desk, and asked incredulously in anger: "The Tubo people dare to say nothing and deliberately delay the delivery? Songtsan Gampo is really deceitful and arrogant. Isn't he afraid that my army will crush some cities?"

Changsun Wuji said: "Your Majesty, Guo Ye said in the letter that the reason why the Tubo people delayed the delivery and held the King of Shu and the King of Hejian County and other missions was nothing more than wanting to prevent the Great Tang from intervening in the rescue when they invaded Tuyuhun. Tuyuhun. Through this, the goal of annexing Tuyuhun has been achieved."

"I understand." His Majesty Li Er nodded and sighed, "Guo Ye's letter mentioned that Hejian County King Li Xiaogong sent a letter to Tuva City, presumably Ke'er and the others have been imprisoned in Luoxie City by Songtsan Gambo. Alas, I miscalculated, I didn’t expect Songtsan Gampo to be ambitious, Ke’er and the others shouldn’t have taken the risk of going to Tubo Kingdom!”

Changsun Wuji said: "Your Majesty, Tuyuhun is our Tang Dynasty's vassal state. If we let the Tubo people invade and swallow us, what will the other vassal states think? It will really damage the prestige of our Tang Dynasty and the majesty of the Heavenly Kingdom."

As the king of a country, His Majesty Li Er was honored as "Heavenly Khan" by foreign nations, so he naturally understood Changsun Wuji's worries.

Just as Guo Ye guessed, His Majesty Li Er is definitely a face-saving emperor, how could he ignore Tuyuhun's survival?

However, the envoy is now held hostage in Luoxie City of Tubo, which has completely hindered him.

His Majesty Li Er sighed: "Wuji, there are not only Li Ke, king of Shu, but also your family Chong'er, the eldest son of Fang Xuanling's family, the eldest son of Xiao Yu's family, and Li Xiaogong and his Jin Wuwei in the mission. Thousands of soldiers accompanied them to Tubo. If..."