Cheng Zhijie thought of that terrifying sandstorm. In the face of such a mighty force of heaven and earth, no matter how brave and fearless a person is, he can only rely on luck to survive.
Further west from Dunhuang is the Western Region. It took more than a year to go back and forth. After coming back, I felt like my belly was full of sand. Cheng Zhijie never wanted to go back to that ghost place again in his life.
Seeing that there were still other options, Cheng Dabeard began to struggle desperately.
"Your Majesty, can you... change the place? I heard that the envoy from the Turkic Royal Court is also here. Do you think it's okay for me to go to the grassland?"
He didn't even expect to stay in Chang'an. Anyway, he hadn't had a good rest in the past two years. The emperor was even more determined to send him to a remote place. Although the Turkic Royal Court was a little further away, it was better than the Western Regions after all.
Much stronger.
Li Po nodded noncommittally and teased Cheng Zhijie a little to make him mentally prepared. After all, he was the same person from back then...
Now that the heat was almost over, Li Po's expression changed and his smile brightened, "Do you think I'm kidding you? Where can I let you make your own choice?"
Looking at his smile, Cheng Zhijie's back felt cold, and his beard seemed to hurt. He blinked his eyes aggrievedly and said: "The supreme leader has a destiny, how dare you disobey it? Even if you have only rested for half a month, you have to give in."
Shall I take it easy?"
Li Po's smile faded, "Actually, I am doing this for your own good. Think about what you have done in Henan and Shandong. There are many people from Henan in Chang'an City now, right? There are also many people from Shandong.
It might be better for you to hide in the Qianniu Beishen Mansion. Now that you have established the Yakai Mansion and become the Duke of Dongping County, you are much more visible than before.
Back then, you helped Wang Shichong bring chaos to Luoyang. How many people's homes were confiscated? How many heads were cut off? How many wives were separated from each other?
Do you think everyone has forgotten about it? I have sent you out to travel around in the past two years. Is it because you left me when you returned from Liaodong?
This happened more than ten years ago, how could I be so petty?"
Cheng Dabeard was stunned. He was not easy to fool. He put on a grateful look on his face. If there were not too few tears, he would have squeezed out some.
He was pondering over the meaning of these words carefully in his heart, and he really remembered what he did in Luoyang. He, Qin Qiong, Shan Xiongxin and other old people from Wagang had done many evil things in Luoyang, and they were killed actively or passively.
Even he himself didn't know how many people there were.
At the top, we have to be on guard against Wang Shichong's betrayal; in the middle, we have to be on guard against Qin Qiong, Shan Xiongxin and other brothers turning against each other, as well as scheming with members of Luoyang's powerful families; at the bottom, we have to guard against his subordinates from causing rebellion, killing themselves and defecting to others.
The people at that time could no longer be called human beings. He had several secret discussions with Qin Qiong and others, and they all wanted to rush into the palace, kill Wang Shichong and wait for others to take the decision. Think about how chaotic Luoyang was at that time.
Everyone has wives and concubines in groups, and the scenery is incomparable. In fact, no one can believe it. The wives and concubines are all snatched, and they have to keep one eye open when sleeping. He, Cheng Dabeard, has never let any woman sleep next to him.
However, what I was afraid of was being killed while sleeping.
He has been traveling around for the past two years and is extremely ambitious, so he really hasn't thought about this problem.
Are there any people in Shandong who hate him? There must be. They defected to Li Mi and surrounded and killed Zhang Xutuo. Most of Zhang Xutuo's subordinates were from Shandong.
If he hadn't let Luo Shixin beat him up several times, and many years had passed, and he and Luo Shixin were old friends, the first person who wanted to kill him would have been Luo Shixin.
Except for Luo Shixin, Zhang Jin and others had always been lukewarm towards him. There was no incident of a fellow countryman meeting a fellow countryman and the two of them bursting into tears, probably because they were remembering Zhang Xutuo's grudge.
Not to mention the Henan people. Later, people whitewashed the Wagang bandits, but in essence they were not rebels, but just transformed from local bandits into rebels.
The Wagang bandits raided homes and robbed houses, and they had originally caused a lot of harm to Dongjun and other places. When they became large, they were able to do anything, and they owed a lot of blood debt.
Many of these people died in assassinations because they were burdened with blood debts. There were too many enemies...
Thinking of the bad things he had done, Cheng Zhijie's face gradually turned pale. He had done a lot of bad things, and it was not surprising that they all looked like this.
It's just that Cheng Zhijie is a standard person in troubled times and doesn't care much about these things. If he wants to make him regret it, even God will come. He is born as a devil in troubled times and his heart is as hard as iron. Normal people's values cannot be applied to Lao Cheng.
What he is afraid of now is that someone will settle accounts with his queen. They have killed many people in the Henan clan. Even if they don't come to embarrass him on the surface, wouldn't it be easy to send an assassin or something?
You were careless, Cheng Dabeard muttered in his heart, listen, how can you feel any regrets?
It's quite a bit of a man to be alive. If his body wasn't littered with corpses, how could he be called a hero? And this is the man who emerged from the chaos in Henan.
Each one is covered in blood, with a wolf-like heart and dog-like lungs.
But at this moment, he felt that what Li Po said made some sense, and regardless of whether it was true or false, he was trying to defend himself. Anyway... it was much more pleasant than what Li Mi and Wang Shichong said.
Li Po was still adding more pressure, because the things he wanted Cheng Zhijie to do this time were very different from before, and he had to be comforted, otherwise this guy would run away halfway out of fear, and wouldn't it ruin a big thing?
"You haven't been to Luoyang, have you? I have heard reports that Luoyang is like an empty city. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a miserable place for the people. Too many people have died. People cannot leave the city. Some have eaten two-legged sheep.
Some buried people at home.
I advise you to stay away from there for the rest of your life. There are many people who want to eat your own flesh and blood. Wang Shichong is dead, how many are left?
I don't want you to be killed, but I also want you to live a better life. Of course, you have to make special achievements to achieve it. It's fine that you can't understand my desire to protect you. How dare you be picky? You say
If I cut off your head and send it around Henan, wouldn’t everyone applaud?”
Cheng Zhijie swayed for a moment and touched his neck. Fortunately, his head was relatively stable. He was thinking, is he going to settle the score with Henan's descendant? I, old Cheng, must be smarter...
When thinking about his life, Cheng Dabeard never cared about his shame. He immediately stood up and prostrated on the ground as if he had been stabbed in the butt.
"I understand the Supreme Being's hard work. I... let's go to Silla. The more difficult the task, the greater the credit, right?"
He also knows that merit is a talisman.
The corners of Li Po's mouth curved slightly, and the heat was up, and the teasing was almost done, "There are many difficult things. Since you don't want to go to Silla and the Western Regions as an envoy, I won't make it difficult for you.
There has been civil strife in Tubo recently, how about I send you to Tubo? Don't shirk this time, otherwise I will send you to Luoyang to guard the city gate, hum..."