The sound of horse hooves in the distance is relatively monotonous. People who often hang out in the military, or who have specially studied how loud a few horses can make at night, can easily judge the number of horses.
It should be three riders.
And Sanqi is the standard configuration for 600-mile express and 800-mile express.
That's why Li Shimin concluded that he was in a hurry.
After all, under normal circumstances, the 600-mile express and the 800-mile express are not available, and not everyone can use the 600-mile express and the 800-mile express.
Generally, only the border generals, frontier officials, and the three provinces and the Ministry of War can use them.
In times of war, the commander-in-chief of the army and the commander-in-chief of each march can also use it.
However, the leader of the expedition this time was Li Jing, the general manager of each march was a famous general, and he was still in the Tang Dynasty, so it was impossible to use the 600-mile express and the 800-mile express.
Urgent messages from the border and local areas cannot be sent here, so they must be from Chang'an.
"Da da da……"
When the sound of horse hooves came closer and the knight on horseback revealed his true face under the light of the fire, the outpost had already seen clearly the identity of the person coming.
"It's eight hundred miles urgent!"
With the notification from the outpost, the soldiers guarding both sides of the road moved out of the way.
But after the knight on horseback entered the inner circle, he was blocked by Zhao Chengyong.
The knight on the horse didn't think there was anything wrong with what Zhao Chengyong did. He immediately reined in his horse, dismounted, quickly knelt on the ground, and raised the mailbox high behind him.
"Urgent documents from the three provinces, please review by His Highness King Yong!"
Li Yuanji waved to Zhao Chengyong to bring the things over.
After Zhao Chengyong took the mailbox, the knight did not leave.
He was not qualified to read the content of the letter and could not possibly know it.
The reason why he asked Li Yuanji to review it was to see whether the letter had been touched or read by anyone on the way.
Li Yuanji took the mailbox from Zhao Chengyong, briefly reviewed it, and waved to the knight kneeling on the ground.
The knight let out a long breath and fell to the ground.
Zhao Chengyong hurriedly sent someone up to check. Not long after, he returned to the fire and reported, "I was injured when I broke into the night. I lost too much blood and fainted. I have sent the accompanying doctor to help with diagnosis and treatment."
This situation will occur when delivering letters at night for 600-mile express or 800-mile express.
After all, the roads in this era are uneven, and there are many vegetation, wolves, insects, tigers, and leopards around the roads. People's night vision ability at this time is not good enough. If you drive at night or in a hurry, you will always suffer some damage.
Some people will even rush into cliffs or sinkholes without being able to see the road clearly. Others will be knocked down by ferocious beasts that rush out of the road. Some people will be knocked down by ferocious beasts because of the horses under their crotches.
Frightened, he fell off his horse.
Therefore, although the knight's journey was not long, it was normal for him to travel quickly at night and be injured, resulting in excessive blood loss.
Li Yuanji nodded, opened the mailbox, and read the letter inside.
The letter was written by Ren Gui. The content of the letter left people speechless.
"What happened?"
After Li Shimin was awakened, he couldn't sleep at all.
He is a person who doesn't take things too seriously and doesn't mind putting on his armor and going into battle anytime and anywhere to fight against unexpected enemies.
So if any bad news suddenly comes, not only will it not scare him, but it will make him very excited.
Li Yuanji did not answer his question, but handed over the letter.
Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, took the letter suspiciously, and after reading it at a glance, he raised his head in confusion and said: "This..."
What is this?
Li Shimin didn't understand the inside story, so he couldn't understand when he suddenly saw that Li Yuan wanted to push Li Jiancheng out and let Li Jiancheng supervise the country.
Even though he has excellent political wisdom, he still can't guess what Li Yuan wants to do.
"That's what you see."
Li Yuanji said with a headache.
Li Shimin couldn't help but frown and said, "What does father want to do?"
You think Li Jiancheng's life is uncomfortable, and you want Li Jiancheng to lie down completely?
Not to mention the powerless Li Jiancheng now, even the powerful Li Jiancheng in the past would have to level up against the current Li Yuanji.
Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng may not know how far Li Yuanji has controlled Datang, but he who helped Li Yuanji do dirty things knows it very well.
Li Yuanji's current control over Datang has exceeded that of Li Yuan at his peak.
When Li Yuan was at his peak, there were still feudal officials like Luo Yi, An Xinggui, and Feng Ang who were doing their own thing, but Li Yuanji has now settled all of them.
Not only that, Li Yuanji also tied all officials with backgrounds in the government and the public to his chariot through profit.
It can be said that Li Yuanji is now more like the emperor of the Tang Dynasty than Li Yuan, and he is more powerful than Li Yuan at his peak.
Let alone Li Jiancheng, even if Li Yuan came to seize power in person, he would succeed but fail.
So he felt that Li Yuan was seeking death by pushing Li Jiancheng out.
"What do you think father wants to do?"
Li Yuanji asked knowingly.
Although he knew the inside story, he couldn't tell Li Shimin clearly, so he could only pretend to be dumbfounded and ask questions instead.
Li Shimin thought for a while, but without causing any trouble, he quickly gave a pertinent answer, "I don't know what father wants to do, but I know you have to go back."
Li Yuanji nodded and suddenly said: "What if I don't go back?"
Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, then his eyes widened quickly, and a look of surprise flashed across his face.
"you……"
Li Shimin said only one word in a difficult tone and did not continue.
Li Yuanji took over his words and said: "I didn't deliberately lure the snake out of the hole, nor did I mean to kill my eldest brother..."
The reason why a look of surprise flashed across Li Shimin's face was because through his words, he thought that he might want to lure the snake out of its hole and then take the opportunity to get rid of Li Jiancheng.
If he wanted to kill Li Jiancheng, then he would naturally have murderous intentions towards Li Shimin.
After all, this kind of thing cannot be started. Once it is started, killing one is still killing, killing two is still killing, and killing them all is still killing.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Li Shimin breathed a sigh of relief for no reason. After suddenly waking up, he realized that he seemed to have had a fear of death just now.
This is not good.
However, he had no time to care about this now. He immediately asked: "Then why don't you go back?"
Li Yuanji took the letter from Li Shimin's hand, praised it, and said with a smile: "Brother, isn't it true that you haven't supervised the country yet?"
Li Shimin was startled, blinked, and seemed to be thinking. After a moment, he stared at Li Yuanji and said, "Are you sure that the elder brother will not succeed?"
Li Yuanji didn't hide anything, and said frankly with a smile: "There are reasons for this, but I want to see who the civil and military officials I selected are targeting..."
This is easy to understand.
Li Shimin understood the meaning instantly and sighed meaningfully: "You are testing your own life, and the human heart cannot withstand temptation."
Li Yuanji smiled knowingly and said, "But I have the power to push it all over again, don't I?"
Li Shimin rolled his eyes and didn't want to speak anymore.
Because he didn't have the strength to push back, he was completely defeated after losing once.
Hearing such Fanfan's words, his heart was filled with panic.
"Go and see how the person who delivered the message is injured. If the injury is serious, set up a tent for him and let him rest here tonight. Find a nearby inn to send him there tomorrow."
Li Yuanji casually threw the letter sent by Ren Gui into the fire in front of him and turned his head to give instructions to Zhao Chengyong.
After Zhao Chengyong agreed, he went to see the injury of the messenger.
After burning the incense, Zhao Chengyong came back and reported: "Your Majesty, the person who delivered the message was not seriously injured, but the doctor said that he should not travel anymore, so I ordered someone to set up a tent for him.
I also arranged for the other two people to rest in the soldiers' tent."
Li Yuanji nodded and said nothing more.
A night of silence.
The next day, after sending someone to deliver the messenger to the nearest inn, the group embarked on their journey again.
This time, Li Yuanji did not choose to go with the army led by Li Jing, nor did he rush to Lingzhou where the army would later gather. Instead, he rushed to Daizhou.
Su Dingfang, Cheng Yaojin and others have been talking to Liang Luoren for more than half a year and have instigated Liang Luoren. Liang Luoren has also obtained the benefits of the Tang Dynasty. However, after the news of the Tang Dynasty's decision to conquer the Turks spread to the Turks, Su Dingfang and Liang Shi
Du, Sunishi and others all had conflicts.
The relationship between the two parties has changed from a cooperative relationship to a hostile relationship.
Six days ago, Liang Shidu sent troops to raid the border market of the Tang Dynasty in Daizhou, kidnapped the merchants in the border market, massacred the officials, soldiers and horses in the border market, and plundered all the goods in the border market.
After Su Dingfang learned of this, he first killed the general who was responsible for guarding the border city but neglected his duties, allowing Liang Shidu to take advantage of the situation and then sent Cheng Yaojin to lead his army to pursue him.
Cheng Yaojin caught up with Liang Shidu's troops at Luomaqiu, fifty miles outside the border city, and killed them all.
Among them was an important minister under Liang Shidu who had been recruited by the Tang Dynasty.
After Liang Luoren and others learned about this, they thought that the Tang Dynasty would repeat it, so they were frightened and made a new request, that is, to see him, to see His Highness King Yong of the Tang Dynasty with their own eyes, and to hear about King Yong of the Tang Dynasty.
Only after His Highness made a personal promise did I believe that Datang really wanted to recruit them and would not do it again.
Su Dingfang, Cheng Yaojin and others meant to ignore it.
Because no one is sure whether Liang Luoren's move is a plan to lure the snake out of the hole. If he rushes to see Liang Luoren and Liang Luoren takes the opportunity to assassinate him and succeeds in killing him, then the Tang Dynasty's war against the Turks may end before it even begins.
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However, he did not follow the advice of Su Dingfang and others. He was going to see Liang Luoren.
It was not the revelation given to him by history that made him drift, thinking that Liang Luoren would not hurt him, but that Liang Luoren had added a new bargaining chip to meet him, and he could not bear to refuse this bargaining chip.
Perhaps it was because he changed history, split the Turks into two, and caused Liang Shidu and Suni to lose cooperation. Liang Luoren somehow got acquainted with the Turks' Jiabit Qinle Ashina Simo.
And this Ashina Simo is Liang Luoren's new bargaining chip.