Chapter 302 Behind Diplomacy

The palace of Mohedu is Turkic in appearance, thick and square, with a little round dome spire, which has been faintly marked by Islam. However, when you enter it, you can see carved beams, painted pillars, flowers, screens, and porcelain everywhere, making people feel as if they are in the Central Plains of the Tang Dynasty. Only the servants and maids walking back and forth make people suddenly realize that this place is thousands of miles away from Chang'an.

Li Qing followed Mo He into the inner palace. Some of his concubines suddenly saw a strange man coming in and were so scared that they avoided him. But Mo He seemed to have walked into a magnificent palace and walked to the end to push open a small back door. There was a yard outside, and the yard was empty. Standing in the yard, you could hear the noisy noise, as if there was a market outside.

"Follow me!" Mo Hedu turned around and smiled mysteriously at Li Qing, making Li Qing feel as if he was in a narrative story. He walked into a stone house full of grass, which emitted a strong smell of horse urine, and he wanted to vomit when he smelled it. But Mo Hedu was fumbled in the corner for a while, and with a "click" sound, the stone trough for feeding the horse suddenly moved. Li Qing suddenly realized that there was a secret passage here.

Li Qing followed Mo He into the secret passage, and the stone trough above his head slowly buckled again, and his eyes immediately became dark. Soon, an oil lamp with bean-shaped large lantern seedlings appeared in Mo Hedu's hand. In the dark, Li Qing groped forward while listening to his low voice echoing in the secret passage: "This secret room was left by my grandfather, and it has always been the secret of the royal family. Ordinary people don't know. I brought you here to see someone."

When I opened a stone door, the light was bright, and the stone room was decorated with magnificent magnificently. The thick Persian carpet, stone walls with gems, large tassels, and exquisite large porcelain bottles. What is particularly surprising is that it is well ventilated and has no moisture and dark feeling outside, but there is no window.

Li Qing was not attracted by the arrangement inside, but turned his eyes to the corner of the wall, where there was a chair made of pure gold and covered with gems. There was a person sitting on the chair, about the same age as Mo He, with a long face, pale skin, but noble temperament. He lay on the chair, holding a crystal cup filled with blood-red wine in his hand, and was squinting his eyes and looking at himself.

Slowly, his eyes showed a look of surprise, and he sat up straight, drank the wine in his cup, stood up and looked at Li Qing hesitantly and said, "Aren't you the Minister of Revenue in Chang'an? How could you come here?"

"Pei Luo, he is the special envoy of the Tang Dynasty and just arrived today."

Mo Hedu turned around and said to Li Qing slowly: "What is in front of you now is Pei Luo, the king of the Pakhan Kingdom."

Li Qing was extremely shocked. Wasn't Shi Kingdom fighting with Bahan? How could the king of Bahan appear in Mohedu's secret room? However, although he was shocked, his face was not revealed at all. He stepped forward and bowed to King Pei Luo and smiled: "Your Highness the King has seen me in Chang'an."

"Yes, I went to Chang'an the next year before yesterday to meet His Majesty Tian Khan and met the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue."

King Pei Luo also put away his surprise and smiled at Mo He and said, "You are not intimidated these two days, are you just waiting for the Minister to come?"

Mo He smiled and asked Li Qing to sit down. He took out two more crystal cups and filled himself and Li Qing with a glass of wine. Then he sighed softly and said to Li Qing: "The war with Bahanna is just Chebi's order to deliver the order of Dashi. The purpose is to find an excuse for Dashi to interfere in the internal affairs of Shi. I have always had a good relationship with Pei Luo. This time he came in person to discuss with me a way to deal with the invasion of Dashi. But for two days, we were at a loss. Today, the Minister of the Secretariat arrives, can there be a way to resolve the dangers of both of us?"

After saying that, he looked at Pei Luo, and four eyes stared at Li Qing in unison, but Li Qing seemed to have not heard it. He had a smile on his face, his eyes were lowered, and his hands gently shaking the wine in the crystal cup. After a while, he said, "I have a question, please answer them both?"

Mo He immediately straightened his waist and said to Li Qing anxiously: "It's okay to just talk to him."

"I heard from the merchants that Dashi sent troops to attack Kangguo and Shiguo without hesitation, but when he arrived at Shiguo, the army was slow, but he first created a crisis, and then sent envoys to mediate, trying to win without a fight. This is inconsistent with Abbas's usual tough style, so I would like to ask you two, what is the reason?"

"I know a little about this." Pei Luo next to him took over the topic and leaned forward slightly. "Abbas claimed that the 200,000 army invaded eastward. In fact, it was just an imaginary number. The actual force was only 50,000. Most of his troops were still in the western expedition of white clothes and food. That was his strategic focus. This is the reason why the Kang Kingdom and Shi Kingdom dared to resist. If Shi Kingdom and the Bahan Kingdom join forces to resist, once the attack of the Great Cannibal people is frustrated, Kang Kingdom and Shi Kingdom will inevitably rebel again. Such a plan for the Eastern Expedition of the Great Food is very likely to fail. So he took advantage of the surrender of King Zheng of Shi Kingdom to provoke the relationship between our two countries first and destroy possible alliances. When we are almost exhausted, we will suddenly send troops. At that time, we can only let them slaughter. Of course, if we can occupy the Shi Kingdom without bloodshed, why don't he do it?"

Li Qing nodded. It should be this reason. He remembered that the white-clothed food spanned the three major states of Asia, Africa and Europe. Although Abbas's black-clothed food occupied Damascus last year, it was impossible to completely conquer the original territory of the white-clothed food, so he could not place heavy troops in Central Asia. Besides, he did not believe that it would take 200,000 troops to deal with these small Western Hu countries? As for the eastern expedition to the Tang Dynasty, it was just a distant plan. How could he immediately establish a strong enemy? If he didn't even have this little political wisdom, how could Abbas establish a black-clothed food?

He pondered for a moment and suddenly said, "You have surrendered before, but why don't you surrender now? You must resist to the end?"

Li Qing asked this sentence very straightforwardly and even rudely, but if he didn't ask clearly, once the war broke out, the stance of these small countries was unstable, which was likely to become the cause of the final failure. Li Qing had been in the struggle in the officialdom for a long time. How could he not be careful of these uncertain factors? Once he knew the reason, he would seize what they were afraid of and tie them firmly to his own chariot.

Sure enough, Li Qing's innocence made the atmosphere in the room very awkward. Finally, Pei Luo said with a wry smile and said, "The Minister doesn't give us any face. It's right. We have surrendered to you before, but we surrendered to you, not the current Abbasid food and food."

"What is the difference between the two?" Li Qing continued to ask without giving him a breath.

"Difference?" Mo He next to him suddenly became angry. He stood up and whispered: "In the past, although the tax on white clothes and food was heavy, at least he left us a little. But now Abbas is a hungry wolf, Anguo, Kangguo, the United States, and Shiguo. Wherever his army passed, the royal family killed all the royal families, deprived us of our faith, destroyed our temples, dug up our culture, and enslaved our people. Everyone must believe in Islam. If you have any dissatisfaction, kill them immediately. Do you think we can't resist? Now Kangguo, the United States and their lessons are bloody in front of us. Can't we see it?"

"Why did the car's nose shift down?"

With a 'bang!', Mo Hedu punched the table hard, "He is a coward, he was scared, and he only thought of keeping his glory and wealth. He didn't care about anything else, and even dedicated his queen to the messenger of food to play with."

"Okay, don't say anything more." Li Qing stood up and walked slowly in the room with his hands behind his back. The situation in front of him was complicated, but there was only one point in the core, that is, uniting the forces of the countries in the Western Regions and jointly resisting the invasion of the Great Food, whether in military or political terms.

Thinking of this, Li Qing resolutely made up his mind. He suddenly turned around and asked, "You might as well tell me the truth. How many troops do you have in your hands?"

Pei Luo was overjoyed and stood up and shouted: "The country of Bahan has 20,000 troops. If necessary, my 300,000 people and all the people will be soldiers!"

"What about you?" Li Qing's eyes turned to Mo Hedu again.

"I only have five thousand soldiers loyal to me now, but if I can kill Chebishi, then I will have 30,000 warriors in Shiguo."

"Kill Che Binshi!" The wine glass in Li Qing's hand was shattered with a "slap" and was crushed. If he wanted the Shi Kingdom's ship to turn completely to the Tang Dynasty and to prevent the defeat of the Battle of Talas from happening again, all the roadblocking stones would have to be removed, although Che Binshi had never met him.

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Generally speaking, war is the continuation of diplomacy and the inevitability of compromise at the negotiating table, but diplomacy is not necessarily a singing, dancing and feast, nor is it a champagne gentleman. Many times, behind the glamorous diplomatic rhetoric, there are conspiracies and bloody that are even more cruel than war. The palace of King Zheng of Shiguo. There are only three people in the empty palace, a father and son, a father and son, are naturally the king Che Bishi and his son Che Duodu. Che Bishi is about fifty years old and is fat and fat. His biggest characteristic is round, round face, round eyes, round nose, and even round chin. His round belly is full of people's fat and cream.

Chebishi was a timid king. When Abbas gave him the head of King Kang as a gift, he was immediately frightened and immediately sent the prince to Damascus to surrender, and followed the instructions of the Abbasid envoy to implement it one by one.

Che Bishi was short and needed to look up to the tall and thin messenger Budu. In fact, he was full of admiration for Budu. He was Abbas' uncle and the governor of Persia. He only hated that he did not have two beauties like Princess Luo Lan, one dedicated to Abbas and the other dedicated to Budu. Fortunately, his queen was also a famous beauty in the Shi Kingdom. Budu was also quite interested in her, which made him finally relieved and could establish a good personal friendship with Budu.

Unfortunately, Budu didn't think so. In his opinion, the chess piece was only used as a chess piece, which could be discarded. When Dashi completely annexed the nine kingdoms of Zhaowu, the chess piece would lose its effect. As for his wife, it was just a pillow.

But Mo Hedu's daughter was asked by the Caliph, saying that she would not be the queen of the Great Food in the future. Budu glanced at Che Duodu, who was standing at the door with a confused look on his face, and couldn't help but feel disgusted. A little kid who was still not dry and dared to compete with the great Caliph for a woman. He was so tired of living.

But now is not the time to kill them, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty actually came, and it was Li Qing who killed Tubo Zamp. Budu was the one who knew the Tang Dynasty best among the Great Food nobles. Before Abbas had risen, he was a merchant in Khorasan. He spent half a year in Chang'an and learned fluent Chinese. Later, he became the founder of the Great Food Kingdom's policy toward the Tang Dynasty, and naturally served as the chief maker of the Great Food Kingdom's policy toward the Tang Dynasty. Through the merchants, he had been collecting information about the Tang Dynasty, including Li Qing.

Of course, just as Li Qing had only a little understanding of the big food, the distant space affected the completeness and accuracy of the information. He only knew that Li Qing had killed Tubo Zanpu and later became the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and knew nothing about the others.

But as a successful person who struggles from the bottom, his usual style of caution and attention to the enemy is his usual style. He did not underestimate Li Qing because of his youth. On the contrary, today's brief contact made him realize that this young man has a maturity and sophistication that is not compatible with his age, and is a powerful character.

"Che Bishi, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty is here, what are you going to explain?" Budu sat in the king's seat with a big sting, staring at Che Bishi coldly. He would feel more comfortable calling him a name than calling him a king.

Budu's cold eyes made the car's nose tremble, and he secretly cursed the envoys of the Tang Dynasty in his heart. Tonight, the nobles of the Shi Kingdom will hold a meeting to decide whether the Shi Kingdom surrendered to Budu. However, when the envoys of the Tang Dynasty came, many unstable positions would make the nobles hesitate again. The final outcome was unpredictable. Unlike the army of the Tang Dynasty that was controlled by the court, Shi Kingdom is a country dominated by pastoral agriculture. Most of its troops are private armies of various nobles, with dozens of troops of all sizes. When the country faces war

During the battle, the nobles would hand over the army and be commanded by the marshal. After the war ended, they would return to their headquarters. The war with Bakhanna was originally an opportunity to gain military power, but at this time, the cunning nobles refused to send troops, which made Che Bishi lose a lot of money. Therefore, if the surrender of Dashi did not receive the support of most nobles, the Shi Kingdom would most likely have a civil war, which would greatly weaken his capital for the surrender of Dashi, and he was unwilling to do so.

But as Budu's face became increasingly ugly, Che Bishi had no time to hesitate anymore. He gritted his teeth and bowed to Budu and said, "All let the governor's arrangements!"
Chapter completed!