Tang Dynasty Never Night

Li Xian looked at Chengbao with a pale face, and he felt as if his soul had disappeared in an instant. It took him a long time to realize, and he asked dryly, "You said... what?"

Zhengbao swallowed, looked at Li Xian's face and said cautiously: "The left guard chief Shi...is missing."

Li Xian stretched out his hand to support the desk, stood up after being dazed for a while, and said, "When's the news?"

"Just came."

"He...and two thousand cavalrymen? Shouldn't he be behind? How could he be missing? Where's Lou Shide? Is there anything wrong with him?"

After the initial blow, Li Xian's IQ gradually recovered, and he suddenly thought of a terrible Ken Enxing—if something happened to Zheng Qi in the rear, did it mean that the entire Datang army was attacked from behind, or even outflanked? up?If that's the case... Li Xian didn't dare to think about it.

But, it shouldn't be, how many people are there in the Mouluo tribe?Not to mention the Mouluo tribe, but how many people are there in the whole Ge Luolu?After a winter, their cattle and sheep should be almost exhausted, and now it is just the time when they are in short supply. The army sent by the Tang Dynasty is absolutely strong... Uh, it is much better than theirs if they are not strong, and Lou Shide is not either. How could a good stubble be copied by the Turks?

No matter what Li Xian thinks or thinks there is a problem, he really wants to ask someone to find out. It's a pity that there is only such news now, and the real and specific situation has not been reported - Li Xian once again hates the backward communication of this era!

Cheng Bao looked at Li Xian carefully and asked, "Your Majesty, do you... have any other orders?"

Li Xian came back to his senses and shook his head. He suddenly realized that he was...too out of control just now, and it was easy for others to see something, so he waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's just too sudden. You first Go on, I will continue to read the book."

The underwriter didn't say much. Li Xian originally thought that his behavior might be normal, but he forgot that after the shock just now, he didn't ask people to inquire about the news, but said he wanted to read a book. Normal performance, according to Li Xian's usual concern for Zheng Qi... Cough cough, it can't be said, it can't be said.

Cheng An retreated quietly, and before leaving, he glanced at Li Nu, Li Nu nodded knowingly, served a cup of tea for their king, and then retreated.

There is no one in the study room, and Li Xian doesn't have to pretend to read a book, but he doesn't know what to do if he doesn't read a book, so he just sits in front of the desk all afternoon, his head seems to be empty after thinking a lot and he doesn't seem to know anything. did not expect.

Cheng Bao and Li Nu didn't want to disturb him at first, but seeing that it was time to eat, the two of them still reminded him. Li Xian felt that he took a deep breath, rubbed his face and walked out of the study—he was in Chang'an, with No money, no power, no soldiers, no way to help Zheng Qi.

The only thing he can do now is probably best to suppress the news and not worry Zheng Qi's parents too much. Anyway...he just disappeared temporarily, and there are two thousand cavalrymen missing with him, at least... there should be safety Guaranteed?

Li Xian ate some food absent-mindedly, but he couldn't eat too much. Now he only looks forward to going to court tomorrow. His restraint has been lifted long ago. It's just that he has been lazy for the past two days, so he took the opportunity to rest for two days. Now he wants to Wake up... Regret, if he had canceled his vacation earlier, he would probably have gotten more news.

Li Xian went to court very actively the next day, and after he went down to the court, he went straight to the Ministry of War, and then... there was no more, let alone the Ministry of War, even if it was Li Zhi who held the secrets directly presented by the front line. Zhe also has no news of Zheng Qi!

Of course, the reason for the disappearance of Zheng Qi and those cavalry is quite simple, that is... the guide took the wrong way, in fact, not only Zheng Qi and those cavalry disappeared, but also another person disappeared - Beiting Li Kai, Lieutenant Guoyi of the Protectorate.

After Lou Shide discovered that a large number of troops were missing, he immediately sent someone to look for them. It turned out that the Ge Luolu tribe organized a surprise attack the night before, which caused the cavalry led by Li Kai to lose touch with the large army. The grain and grass were delivered, so they disappeared together after the chaos.

After Lou Shide wiped out Ge Luolu's sneak attack troops, he was dumbfounded for a little battle damage. He was basically no different from the gold-plated ones in this battle. Where is the armed force? You can win, but winning is not the same as winning. For example, Lou Shide, who has a team configuration of crushing forces to brush the Turkic dungeon, not only wants to win, but also wins beautifully.

And the most intuitive thing about winning beautifully is the battle damage. The more the opponent loses, the less we lose, and a quick battle is the best.

Lou Shide's trip to the dungeon has always been quite satisfactory. Seeing that Ge Luolu has been beaten honestly, he just waited for them to surrender and then his class teacher returned to the court and waited for various rewards. this kind of thing.

If you just look at the numbers, many people may not think that 2000 people are anything, but when these 2000 people stand in front of you, you will know how huge a group is.

Lou Shide dispatched a total of 5000 troops this time, and there were [-] less in a daze. This is a terrible rhythm.Not to mention that these two thousand cavalry are considered elite, each of them is not ordinary, and they are all good families from well-to-do families.

Not to mention that there are still some teenagers sent over for gold plating, and the most important one is probably Zheng Qi.The son of the Zheng family, the Shaoqing of the Honglu Temple, the Chang Bo of the Si Lie, the chief history of the Zuo Wei, oh, plus the former Zhou King Fu, it is said that the friendship with the Zhou King is not ordinary, this one is still here Dixin, such a person is lost... Lou Shide is so in a hurry to find someone.

But to be honest, it rained last night. If it wasn't for this, Ge Luolu might not have dared to attack. On the grassland, many traces have disappeared after a rain. It is really exhausting to find someone You may not be able to find them.

After searching for two days, there was no trace of this group of people at all. Lou Shide also gave up, and silently wrote a note to plead guilty. Originally, he thought that if he found someone, although he would also plead guilty, he should not be punished. If you are too ruthless, at most you will be reprimanded.

But he couldn't bear it anymore. Everyone knew that there must be eyes and ears sent by saints in the army. Two days was the maximum limit he could bear.

If no one can be found within seven days, then Lou Shide feels that he can give up.After all, it is not easy to find food on the prairie, and now is the time when there is no supply, otherwise, if you plan to fall, you will not take the risk to privately plunder the border.

Although part of the food and grass disappeared with those people, Lou Shide didn't know whether it was lost by those who escaped by Ge Luolu or lost with Zheng Qi and the others, so he could only make two-handed preparations.

When Li Zhi got the booklet, he was quite heartbroken. This matter, in fact, strictly speaking, it is not Lou Shide's problem. He directly took over the Beiting Duhu Mansion and the surrounding Zhechong Mansion from Chang'an. The guide was originally from Beiting Dufu Mansion.

Of course, Lou Shide can't run away if he doesn't know people clearly. Now Li Zhi only hopes that Lou Shide can find these people as soon as possible-even if the saint lost two thousand soldiers at once, he would feel distressed.

What's more, he also caught up with a Jinshi who was in the court, and he was distressed by the second party.It's just that there is a deadline for looking for it, ten days, if you can't find it in ten days, just come back.After all, we can't let more than 2000 people stay on the grassland for 1 people, how much money would be burned.

It was only ten days later that there was still no news. Neither Li Zhi nor Lou Shide had given up hope. Lou Shide's dejected class teacher returned to the court. It should be a very happy thing to win the battle, but now he is defeated. cast a shadow.

In the next few days, Li Xian also learned some bits and pieces of news, but the news he knew was lagging behind. Now Zheng Qi and a group of people are still missing, and Lou Shide is trying to find them.

Of course, there are not many people who know that those troops are missing, and now the whole court is immersed in the wonderful atmosphere of winning battles——Jiang Ke also successfully repelled the Yantuo tribe and those rebellious Turkic people before, and the successive victories made the The whole of Chang'an was immersed in a kind of excitement, and there was nothing better than victory in foreign wars to show that the country is rich and the people are strong.

In this situation, Li Zhi decided to change the yuan and amnesty the world!

In fact, the decision to change the Yuan Dynasty had already been made when Li Xian went to pray for the mountains and rivers. At that time, the Ministry of Rites had been asked to draw up the title of honor, and finally the word "Xianheng" was determined. By the way, Li Zhi also changed Penglai Palace to Hanyuan Palace.

This series of measures is actually a kind of good hope. I hope that after changing the name, the country will be able to enjoy good weather in the next few days. After all, no one had hoped for Li Xian to pray to the mountains and rivers at the beginning. It's raining, but a series of preparations for changing the yuan and changing the name of the palace have been made, and we have to continue. Just taking advantage of the celebration of the two victories, let's announce it.

This time, the whole Tang Dynasty was following the carnival. Because Li Xian was worried about Zheng Qi, he was not very sensitive to the change of Yuan Dynasty. Anyway, he was in this class, and every big news released by the state was obviously related to politics. The political sensitivity of ... is now barely a positive number.

It's just that he didn't expect that this amnesty would really affect him, because during this period of time, many officials who did a good job were rewarded, some were rewarded with money, and some were simply promoted. When Li Xian came here, he got another one Sealed: the chief guardian of Anxi Protectorate Mansion, leading the Anxi Protectorate Mansion from a distance.

When Li Xian knew about it, he didn't pay much attention to it. The chief governor of the Governor's Mansion is different from the chief governor of prefectures and counties. The latter is after all in the country, while the former... was established by the Tang Dynasty to stabilize the territory. , Anxi Dufu was located in the Western Regions, close to Tubo.

Many ethnic minorities who were defeated by Datang would ask Datang to elect a leader for them when Datang established the Dufu Mansion, and Daduhu is the position of this leader. Generally, if there is a prince, this position will be held by the prince.In Datang, he is the supreme leader of the ethnic minorities, but over there, he is probably in the same position as Khan or something.

It's just that, even if the prince is in charge, he is usually a remote leader, and has no real power. The one who really has real power is the Jiedu envoy who governs there.

Li Xian got an extra salary for one more seal on his body, but he was not happy because of this, because Zheng Qi...has no news yet.

At this time, he found that although he had benefited from the amnesty, he was also cheated accordingly, because Wu Minzhi, the scumbag who was imprisoned a while ago, was released again!

Yes, the whole world is amnesty, as long as it is not the death row inmates, the others are basically released, this one is locked up, there is no reason not to let him out.

So... Wu Minzhi became a hero again, um, a hero who likes to trouble the King of Zhou.

Li Xian didn't know what medicine Wu Minzhi had taken wrongly. He lost his official position and couldn't stand in the court, but he started to like to come and intercept the King of Zhou when he had nothing to do. Treat him to a drink today and a meal tomorrow. However, Li Xian rejected it with a very strong backbone—Nimma, this is obviously a weasel giving a New Year greeting to a chicken, and it has no good intentions.

Well, in front of this kind of scum with no lower limit and high force value, Li Xian admitted very frankly that he was that chicken.

As a result, Wu Minzhi couldn't block people, so he started to change his strategy, sending people to deliver posts every day, Li Xian threw those posts aside, and the person who sent the posts also asked people to send them all the way.

He originally thought that Wu Minzhi would get bored and quit after a long time, but he didn't expect that this rejection would reject the big boss of the Yang family again.

Yang said that King Zhou looked down on Da Lang like this, and Da Lang sincerely apologized to him, how could this child be like this?

Li Xian: ...I really beeped!

Nima, Wu Minzhi has nothing to be sorry for him, it’s great that he bullied the little princess, but if he really apologizes, he should go to the little princess and apologize to the girls who were bullied by him, chasing him every day. what's up?

Li Xian was about to go crazy complaining about it in his heart, and he had to endure his nausea to accept Wu Minzhi's invitation.Well, it was a flower viewing banquet. To be honest, Li Xian didn't think it was worth holding a banquet for viewing flowers. To show off how well your flowers bloom?However, this kind of small banquet is very popular in the upper class, and it is said to be elegant or something.

Li Xian, an ordinary person... obviously can't reach that height, but what he didn't expect was that he was not the only one who participated in this small banquet that day, there were also some scholars, um, the tributes and students who were going to participate in the tribute examination .

But today's Little Flower Banquet obviously has a relatively high level of education, a group of people have a meal and have a trick, and they have to write poems to judge each other!

Li Xian had been beeping several times in his heart, but on the surface he was still listening to those people's poems with a smile on his face.Among them, Wu Minzhi is also gone, and because Li Xian is the most noble among them, no one dares to force him to compose poems, but they cheated and let Li Xian come to judge!

I'd rather go home and paint!

Zheng Qi once taught Li Xian a little about writing poems, but seeing that Li Xian was a piece of rotten wood that could not be carved, Zheng Qi gave up. Anyway, his purpose was not to cultivate a poet. Things are the icing on the cake for those students and tributes, which can give them more opportunities in the exam, but Li Xian...he just needs not to let himself have deduction items.

Li Xian couldn't compose poems, the same way, he couldn't taste anything, what allusions this person used, what metaphors that person used, these things went around and Li Xian was confused.

He simply acted like a rascal, turned his head to look at Wu Minzhi and said with a smile: "Today, Duke Zhou is the master, so guests can do whatever they want. Let Zhou Guogong judge."

He is here to eat, so what do you like!However, the food in Duke Zhou's mansion... Tsk, it's far from his Duke Zhou's mansion.

But what he didn't expect was that Wu Minzhi was not only good at tasting poems, he could even compose poems!The kind that speaks volumes!

Li Xian put down his chopsticks silently, md, a small banquet made Wu Minzhi compare him as a foodie, although he was originally...

Li Xian was silently heartbroken, and when he returned to the palace, it was not just heartache - he just got the news that Lou Shide had returned to the imperial court.

Li Xian immediately stood up and looked at Gan Baicheng and asked, "Then... Where is Zheng Qingcheng? And the two thousand cavalry?"

Gan Bocheng looked at Li Xian's shocked expression and was silent for a moment before replying: "Your Majesty, it's been ten days and no one has been found, I'm afraid... the imperial court will not consume so much food and grass to keep the army looking for people on the grassland. "

Li Xian fell down on the chair with a pale face, unable to recover for a while, how is this possible?Zheng Qi just disappeared?died?how could be?He hasn't had an extremely powerful official yet, and he hasn't changed the fate of the Tang Dynasty by himself. Although Zheng Qi didn't say that, he has been doing it, and Li Xian can see it.

No, no, there must be something wrong, Zheng Qi...Zheng Qi was reborn, he knew so many things, how could he...die so easily?

It's just that even if he doesn't believe it anymore, Li Xian knows that even if he is reborn, he may not really be able to defy the sky. He still crossed over, isn't he still almost unable to get along?

For the next five days, Li Xian looked extremely sluggish. He liked Zheng Qi, even loved Zheng Qi, but he didn't have the mood to go with him when he heard that Zheng Qi died. Like a soul.

Even in a dream one night, he saw Zheng Qi wearing white clothes stepping on the moon, he said...he came to say goodbye.

He also heard Zheng Qi express regretfully: "I'm afraid I can't do what I want to do, Qilang, I will leave it to you next time, and we must let Datang always maintain peace, and don't let me down."

After Zheng Qi finished saying that, Li Xian saw patches of red blood smeared on the white clothes on his body, as if they were bright peony flowers.

Li Xian struggled to wake up from his dream, and saw that although the moonlight was clear outside, there was not a boy in white clothes coming to say goodbye to him.He started to go crazy and wanted to go out to find Zheng Qi, but... he could only think about it, he couldn't even get out of Chang'an without the consent of the empress, and he... had no way to tell Empress Wu and Li Zhi about his He ran thousands of miles just to find Zheng Qi's words.

Li Xian put the picture he drew before he got the news of Zheng Qi's disappearance in a box, then he turned his head and started to draw another one. Each picture is a different Zheng Qi, wearing ordinary clothes, official clothes, and formal clothes Zheng Qi, from the back view at the beginning, to the profile view later, to the front view at the end.

Li Xian drew down all the Zheng Qi in his mind stroke by stroke. Only at this time can his heart be peaceful and he will not be tortured by pain.

The more he painted, the more he missed him. Li Xian felt that he was going crazy, but when he was in front of people, he behaved the same as usual. He put on a mask for himself.

From then on, among all Li Xian's paintings, the highest level is probably all the portraits of Zheng Qi. Once he paints a portrait of Zheng Qi, he seems to be vaguely possessed by Yan Liben. When he painted anything else, he returned to the king of Zhou who was barely able to draw and see the image.And since then, King Zhou's study has become a forbidden place in King Zhou's mansion, and no one can enter at will except himself.

After that, he didn't refuse all the invitations Wu Minzhi sent him. It's better to go and have a look and listen. Qi's portrait is sometimes sober and sometimes in a trance.

The disappearance of Zheng Qi and those 2000 people only affected their relatives and friends. The pace of history is still moving forward, and the imperial court will not stop because of these people.

These people have already been counted as killed in battle, and the next pension and so on have to be discussed. In the past, Li Xian always felt that it was useless to handle affairs so well after all, after all, everyone was gone.

But now, he wants to fight for a better treatment for Zheng Qi, so that at least he will feel better.

As a result, while the imperial court was still discussing how much compensation to give to these soldiers and what kind of treatment the generals would receive, the imperial court suddenly received an expedited memorial for eight hundred miles.

The excerpts were written by Zheng Qi, and no one in his Feibai writing can match the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, so it is so easy to recognize.

In the memorial, Zheng Qi explained the reasons for the disappearance of these people, and then reported the result of the disappearance: he brought the 2000 men and horses with wretched hands to prepare to harass the Tubo people on the border of the Tang Dynasty while the Tang Dynasty was fighting with Ge Luolu I was beaten back.

Manchao Wenwu: ...This is different from what was said!