Fu Tang

Seeing Li Congjia like this, Shi Xueting couldn't help but smiled and said: "The news this time... can't be called good or bad, it depends on what we do."

Li Congjia frowned slightly: "What is neither good nor bad? Doesn't it affect us much?"

Shi Xueting shook his head: "If the impact is not big, this kind of news will not be sent to me, let alone you."

Li Congjia said helplessly: "Don't be a fool, will it work? Hurry up and talk nonsense, go back to sleep by yourself tonight!"

Shi Xueting immediately said: "It's the news from Tubo. It is said that the king of Lhasa is gathering other Tubo kings to discuss the restoration of Tubo's unified regime."

Li Congjia was stunned, and asked after a while, "What's the matter? Discussing the restoration of the Great Unification? Is Lhasa King out of his mind?"

Since ancient times, how many dynasties that were able to rule the world were negotiated with others?

Didn't that go through a arduous war to succeed?Even if it is a negotiation, it should be a negotiation with a weak and small country on the issue of surrender, or persuasion.

This kind of peaceful evolution can only succeed when the strengths of the two sides are not equal, such as the Tang Dynasty and the former Khotan.

Now in the Tubo Plateau, the King of Lhasa is indeed quite powerful, but the problem is that King Yalongjue'a is no worse than him, not to mention the tribes like Qiangtang.

Shi Xueting said: "This is not good."

Li Congjia asked: "Did anyone respond to his proposal?"

The expression on Shi Xueting's face also became unbelievable: "Don't mention it, the kings of those big tribes he invited actually agreed."

Li Congjia: ...

He thought about it for a long time before asking: "Do you think the king of Lhasa is looking for an excuse to hold a grand banquet?"

Shi Xueting asked back: "Does Yalong feel that King is a fool?"

Li Congjia touched his chin and said, "So they really want to unify? Why?"

Shi Xueting said: "No, they want to join the federation after unification."

Li Congjia patted the case: "That's the problem. If you were the king of Lhasa or Yalong Jue'a, would you think it would be good to join the federation?"

Shi Xueting frowned slightly, shook his head slowly and said: "These people are all one-sided people in the tribe. Even if they are unified in the future, the two of them are very likely to aspire to the throne, so I also think this matter is a bit strange, how about Let’s just wait and see what happens, and see what result they can negotiate.”

Li Congjia felt that this matter was a bit cheating. Whenever he wanted to do something, something would come up somewhere.

Shi Xueting patted his head and said: "Don't worry, Tubo will definitely not dare to fight Datang."

Li Congjia said with a sneer, "The only thing I worry about is the relationship between Tubo and the Kara Khanate."

Now the Saman Empire is being torn apart, well, maybe it is not torn apart, but the strength of splitting into two countries is further weakened, not to mention the fact that the Saman Empire has been fighting for so many years, and its national strength is already weak.

Now that the Kara Khanate has removed a confidant, the remaining confidant is Datang, unless of course he intends to continue to expand westward, but if he continues to expand westward, although there are many fragmented small tribes in the west, these small tribes Most of them are attached to Kievan Rus.

And Kievan Rus is a country that can force Byzantium to sign four commercial treaties, thereby protecting the commercial interests of the Rus in Byzantium. Such a country cannot be provoked by the Kara Khanate.

Comparing the founding time of the country of Kievan Rus and Datang, it must be that Datang is easier to bully. The youth of this country means that there are still imperfections and the foundation is not stable.

Shi Xueting looked at the map and said: "The Kara Khanate must fight the Ghazni first. Will it do anything to Tang in the near future?"

Li Congjia said: "We still have to be careful, fighting with Ghazni will not prevent them from stumbling Tang."

Shi Xueting couldn't help asking: "Has the king of Kara Khanate ever offended you?"

Li Congjia turned to look at him: "What?"

Shi Xueting said bluntly: "You attach too much importance to this country, and if you continue like this, you will easily lose your balance."

Li Congjia thought: Can such a terrible country not be valued?I dare to ignore them now, but in the future they will dare to spread all over the Tang Dynasty, believe it or not?

But before Li Congjia could say anything, Shi Xueting continued: "I also know that Islam is very offensive, and we should really pay attention to it and prevent it from spreading in the Tang Dynasty. You will not use force easily in the future, and if the Kara Khanate really did something later, will you fight or not?"

Li Congjia said as a matter of course: "Of course it is a fight."

Shi Xueting was helpless: "They can stumble in the back, can't we? Such a country is in a period of expansion, the Principality of Kievan Rus must have noticed a long time ago, and they will do it."

After hearing this, Li Congjia touched his chin and said, "The Principality of Kievan Rus." He looked down at the map, sighed and said, "It's too far away."

If it is not too far away, it is very suitable to be an alliance country, at least they are a community in dealing with the Kara Khanate.

Li Congjia thought about whether he could send envoys with the caravan to reach an agreement with the Principality of Kievan Rus, but this proposal was blocked by the cabinet.

As the chief assistant, Wei Renpu stood up and said: "How could Your Majesty know that the Principality of Kievan Rus would be willing to form an alliance with us to deal with the Kara Khanate? You also said that they and the one in the west...the east..."

Wei Renpu got stuck in the middle of his speech, Li Congjia didn't speak, and Zhao Pu next to him added: "Eastern Roman Empire."

"Oh, it's the Eastern Roman Empire. They are even more at odds with the Eastern Roman Empire. How could they provoke the Kara Khanate at this time?"

Wei Renpu's face was calm, as if forgetting the name of the Eastern Roman Empire was no big problem.

In fact, most people in the court do not remember the names of the countries west of the Kara Khanate. At most, it is a Saman Empire, and now the Saman Empire is still split.

If you go further to the west, those countries are too far away from Datang, and they have nothing to do with them.

Wei Renpu felt that he almost understood why Fan Zhi was so worried every day. Their majesty is so troublesome, and they can make a relationship with a new country at every turn. It is really tiring. Let's rest first Can you quietly develop yourself and wait for the surrounding small countries to come to Korea?

After hearing Wei Renpu's question, Li Congjia smiled slightly and said, "They can't be an alliance. This is about religious wars. The Principality of Kievan Rus believes in the Orthodox Church."

Everyone present was at a loss, and they didn't even know what religion Orthodox Church was. However, since Li Congjia said it so swearingly, it meant that the information would not be wrong.

Wei Renpu has already started to think about whether to go to the national teacher for consultation, Nima, it is really difficult to be the chief assistant of His Majesty, and he is challenged to the blind spot of knowledge every now and then!

Seeing that no one spoke, Ji Chun had no choice but to follow up and asked, "Does the entire country in the Principality of Kievan Rus believe in the Orthodox Church? It's the same as the Kara Khanate?"

Li Congjia nodded: "Yes, that's why I said that these two countries cannot coexist peacefully."

Wang Pu, who has always been a statue, said: "In this way, it is indeed necessary for this country to win over, but if they really put all their energy on competing with the Eastern Roman Empire, then how can they deal with the Kara Khanate? We may still have to do it ourselves, and finding such an ally is not of much use."

Li Congjia thought about it and thought it was true. The current Kara Khanate may not be in the eyes of the Principality of Kievan Rus, and it is useless to find them. What's more, just as few people in Datang knew about the Principality of Kievan Rus, the Principality of Kievan Rus may be very important to Datang. I don't know much about it either.

If you rush to find an ally, you may be suspected of having ulterior motives.

Li Congjia regretfully dismissed this idea, but he finally opened a new door to the cabinet: the Principality of Kievan Rus.

After discussing with the others, Wei Renpu and others turned to Shi Xueting for information about the Principality of Kievan Rus. There was nothing to hide from them, and Shi Xueting directly asked for all the information to be handed over to them.

"Just... that much?" Wei Renpu was a little dazed. The information Shi Xueting gave him was actually just a piece of paper. Although it was all written in small script, how much news could there be on this page?

Shi Xueting said helplessly: "These information was collected recently. This country is too far away from the Tang Dynasty. When many things are sent by someone, the information may have expired. The only things that can be determined are these most basic things. "

After all, Kievan Rus Principality is too far away from Datang, more than 6000 miles, and it may not be possible to come back every year. After all, there are many countries on the road, and various situations are likely to occur. Xinying He and the carrier pigeon did not dare to let go, for fear of various accidents. Under such circumstances, how could it be possible to collect such detailed information?

Wei Renpu glanced at it and was a little surprised: "Why didn't the state religion of Kievan Rus Principality be written?"

Shi Xueting was a little surprised: "The state religion? There is no specific news about this. The information was collected in Datang, and it was confirmed after verifying the real situation. No one mentioned the state religion before."

Zhao Pu was a little surprised: "Then how does His Majesty know..."

Zhao Pu refused to say anything more in the middle of his speech. He and Wei Renpu looked at each other, thinking that Li Congjia might have other channels to know the news. Ministry of Intelligence.

Wei Renpu changed the topic in time and said: "Well, thank you, the national teacher, let's study it when we go back. Hey, His Majesty thinks too far, we have to follow in his footsteps."

Shi Xueting nodded calmly: "If that's the case, the poor monk will take his leave first."

Wei Renpu and Zhao Pu watched Shi Xueting leave, Zhao Pu asked in a low voice: "Old Wei, I used to worry that His Majesty would be too fond of the National Teacher, but he listens to everything, now it seems...it seems that it is not always true. ah."

Wei Renpu nodded in agreement: "It's just that His Majesty still has an intelligence team in his hands, which seems to be more powerful than the intelligence department, and it's so deeply hidden. It's really not easy."

Zhao Pu thinks so. When he first met Li Congjia, he still felt that Li Congjia sometimes seemed a little innocent. Now...he really wanted to slap himself twice, and at the same time told himself that he would never be fooled by appearance in the future.

Wei Renpu and Zhao Pu felt that they should be more honest when working under such an emperor, and don't be a moth, but fortunately, they didn't have any other ideas, otherwise, if they were really rebellious, they might be shot before anything happened died.

The two of them are still feeling emotional, while Shi Xueting over there has already started to think.

What Zhao Pu didn't finish before, he knew more or less in his heart, but he didn't think Li Congjia saved his hand like those two people, but began to think about whether Li Congjia really had any special abilities. Otherwise why would he always know something he didn't know?

Shi Xueting sat in the office of the intelligence department, thought for half a cup of tea, and decided to ask Li Congjia directly.

If it was someone else, he might ask the intelligence department to investigate in private, but when it comes to Li Congjia...he thinks it's best not to do such small tricks. Once he does it for the first time, he will do it again when he has doubts. In the end, the trust between two people will only be wiped out.

When Shi Xueting came to Li Congjia, Li Congjia was teaching Li Zhongyu to critique papers. His time was usually well arranged, and when he was teaching Li Zhongyu, Shi Xueting would always deal with his own affairs. The teaching is almost the same, Li Zhongyu will only come when he returns to the East Palace to do his own things.

Suddenly came so early today, Li Congjia gave him a strange look and said: "You wait."

Shi Xueting didn't mind either, and just sat there looking at Li Congjia.

Li Congjia didn't think much of being used to him, but Li Zhongyu felt a little awkward, and didn't dare to ask many questions. He was going to think about it on his own, and then he saluted and left as if fleeing a disaster.

Li Congjia looked at the back of Li Zhongyu leaving, turned to Shi Xueting and asked, "Tell me, if Dalang knows about us..."

Shi Xueting was slightly taken aback, looked at Li Congjia seriously and asked, "Are you worried?"

Li Congjia looked at him and thought for a long time and said: "Forget it, he knows it if he knows it. Could it be possible to turn the sky around?"

Shi Xueting smiled slightly. Regarding this matter, he would not ask Li Congjia to do anything. Anyway, no matter what Li Congjia decides, he will support it. Li Congjia thinks it is not suitable for Li Zhongyu to know, so he will hide it together. If he wants to let Li Zhongyu know , He will not let Li Congjia be threatened.

Li Congjia didn't know that Shi Xueting had listed Li Zhongyu as a potential enemy in his mind, so he just asked, "Why did you come here so early today?"

Shi Xueting said directly: "Wei Renpu said that you know the state religion of Kievan Rus Principality."

Li Congjia looked at him inexplicably: "What's wrong with this? You..."

In the middle of his speech, he suddenly remembered that Shi Xueting really hadn't told him about this matter.

Li Congjia suddenly felt very tired. This kind of feeling that there will be bugs every now and then is really bad. The most deceitful thing is that he has no patches to apply.

Of course he could continue to be vague, but Li Congjia just felt like this once, twice, three times or four times... He would be annoyed if Shi Xueting didn't bother him!

Seeing Li Congjia's exhausted expression, Shi Xueting immediately said, "I'm just here to ask, and then see if the people below have made any mistakes."

Li Congjia knew that he was about to regress again, so he thought for a while and said to Shi Xueting seriously: "I don't know what to say about this matter, in fact... I do know a lot of things, and one day I suddenly I know it from time to time, usually I can't remember these things, but once I say it, I will think of some, um, can you understand?"

Shi Xueting thought for a while and asked, "Is it... Su Shihui?"

Li Congjia tilted his head and thought for a while. The concept of Su Shihui is not very broad, but it refers to people who know a lot of things by chance. It feels... like it barely makes sense?

He nodded with a little guilty conscience and said: "It can be said that, in fact, I don't know how those things in my mind came from. It has been like this since that serious illness."

Shi Xueting suddenly understood, and felt that there was an explanation for this. Li Congjia's sudden temperament change after a serious illness back then may not be remembered by many people now, but they, the old people who came out of the Southern Tang Dynasty, still remember it.

Seeing that Shi Xueting had no doubts, Li Congjia breathed a sigh of relief, this kind of time travel is too unimaginable, compared to Su Shihui's, it's better.

What's more, Li Congjia's resurrection in another sense, the body does not belong to him, if Shi Xueting struggles with body and soul again, who will he cry to?

Li Congjia's heart fell, although it can be regarded as a lie, but this lie is almost in danger of being exposed, and there is no need to think about another lie for this lie, and any novel ideas in the future can be discussed with Shi Xue Ting said, anyway...he was wise in his previous life.

Shi Xueting asked and asked again: "In this way, don't you need to check what you know?"

Li Congjia immediately said: "Of course not. What I know may not be used as a basis. I have to check it out. What's more... now many things are no longer consistent with what I know."

Shi Xueting was a little surprised: "What do you mean?"

Li Congjia struggled for a while, but said simply: "It means... my fate was not like this, but I have affected a lot."

Shi Xueting was very interested: "What's different?"

Li Congjia looked at him dumbfounded: "Why are you interested in this?"

Shi Xueting said seriously: "I saw it in a book before."

Li Congjia asked, "What book?"

Shi Xueting mentioned the title of a book, and Li Congjia was sure that it was probably...a popular novel, so he couldn't help but be speechless for a while before saying: "This is a long story, let's talk about it tonight."

Shi Xueting raised his eyebrows: "At night? I'm afraid you don't have time to talk."

Just as Li Congjia was about to say something, he suddenly understood what he meant, couldn't help but glared at him and said, "Can you be more restrained?"

Shi Xueting said confidently: "Isn't it three days of temperance?"

Li Congjia: ...

So, shouldn't he be happy, his man is still very interested in him, why the seven-year itch never existed between them?

Li Congjia had no choice but to put down his work to tell Shi Xueting a story, well, it was to tell the original real history.

However, in real history, when he became the emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Shi Xueting could almost foresee the future plot, the only thing he didn't expect was that Zhao Kuangyin came to power.

But he thought for a while that Li Congjia had been cheating on Zhao Kuangyin before, and it was because of this reason.

When Li Congjia talked about the collapse of Nanchang City, Shi Xueting felt a little terrified. He had always been determined, but at this moment he couldn't help but said: "Then...you later, didn't...it was in your memory Li, have you been to the Western Regions?"

Li Congjia said with a wry smile: "The city is ruined, so of course I became a prisoner. Why do I want to go to the Western Regions? Well, according to my memory, in another seven or eight years, I will probably... go to the Western Paradise .”

Shi Xueting's face turned pale: "How come... even if you are a prisoner, you shouldn't..."

Take a look at the two brothers Xianping and Shouping who are still living well. They are still foreigners, and Zhao Kuangyin also surrendered here. Not to mention the current treatment, how did they come to Li Congjia?

Li Congjia felt Shi Xueting's fear, leaned over and hugged him and said, "Hey, isn't it all caused by those words?"

Li Congjia wrote "Poppy" by hand. After reading this poem, Shi Xueting became more convinced of Li Congjia's Su Shihui. If he didn't have the mood of subjugation, he might not be able to write this kind of poem.

Li Congjia turned his head and saw Shi Xueting staring at the poem, afraid that he would think too much, so he tried his best to divert his attention, and by the way, gossip about the mystery of candlelight and ax shadow.

However, when Li Congjia saw Shi Xueting's expression, he knew that he probably made a note of Zhao Kuangyi. After all, it was Zhao Kuangyi who was in power when Li Yu died in history.

Li Congjia... Li Congjia could only light a wax for Zhao Kuangyi silently in his heart. He definitely didn't have any hatred for Zhao Kuangyi. , but it is true that this person has no self-knowledge. The Tu Taizu once said that he did not know how to fight, but he repeatedly attacked Khitan, and finally led to repeated defeats.

Li Congjia doesn't dare to use such a person, the only thing is that he hopes that his butterfly wings will be strong enough, and Zhao Kuangyin's education of Zhao Kuangyi will be in place, otherwise... let him do some civilian work in the army, and the military power will never be touched. of.

However, ever since Shi Xueting firmly believed that Li Congjia had Su Shihui, he began to like to recite Buddhist scriptures to him, claiming that he did not want Li Congjia to get lost in those unknown memories.

Li Congjia: ...