A scholar of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

After pacing back and forth for a long time, Gu Qing finally spoke, "How is Tianzhu now?"

"This is a report from the governor of Tubo." Li Er asked Wang Qin to give the report to Gu Qing.

Open it and take a look, Gu Qing looked at the contents above, Tianzhu is already preparing to go to war with Tubo.

"This is an urgent report from yesterday." Li Er continued.

Fang Xuanling also looked serious, "Things are more complicated than I thought. Once Tubo fights with Tianzhu, Persia and Dashi will not be at peace. Since the second expedition, the entire trade road has been peaceful for a short time, but many hidden dangers are still there. .”

It was still the Silk Road. The war between Tubo and Tianzhu affected the whole body. The Tubo regime seemed to be in the hands of the Tang Dynasty, but when Songtsan Gampo returned to Tubo, many people followed Songtsan Gampo. Tribes are not like the counties in the Central Plains. Counties are easy to manage, but the tribes are different. The management of the tribes is completely different from the management of the Central Plains. The leaders of each tribe have always managed the tribes.

However, Songtsan Gampo is directly in charge of all the Tibetan tribes. The Guanzhong officials sent to Tubo need to adapt to this custom of Tubo. It will not be a matter of time to change, otherwise it will arouse great resentment in Tubo, and it will easily backfire. This is The crux of Tubo is that this crux can easily cause a series of chain reactions. Even if the Central Plains takes over Tubo, it will take a long time to completely control Tubo.

During this period of time, who knows how many years it will take Tubo to assimilate into Central Plains people, and Li Er and Fang Xuanling's worries are right.

"What are you thinking?" Li Er nodded and looked at Gu Qing.

"I thought it would be better to restrain Tubo than to be afraid that Tubo would come and bite back all day long."

"Tell me." Li Er sat very calmly.

Gu Qing went on to say, "Nowadays, there are many voices in the court. In order to ensure the peace of the Silk Road, some people will definitely say that mediating the conflict between Tubo and Tianzhu is nothing more than sending troops into Tubo or sending envoys. If it arouses Tubo's resentment, Tubo will think that the Central Plains has come to Tubo so blatantly to point fingers, and has treated the Tubo people as servants, this is what we have to be careful about."

"So you think whether sending troops or envoys will cause conflicts in Tubo?" Li Er said.

"That's right." Gu Qing nodded, "In fact, it's not as good as this. Let's help and mediate Tianzhu, send people into Tianzhu to give Tianzhu support, make Tianzhu give up the plan to fight Tubo, and then support Tianzhu to restrict Tubo, if Tubo wants to have something With such a strange behavior, they still need to see if Tianzhu next to him will take a back route."

Fang Xuanling nodded to Li Er, expressing his approval of Gu Qing's approach.

"It's a bit like besieging Wei and saving Zhao?"

"Yes." Gu Qinger said, "There is also the problem of Persia. The grievances between Persia and Dashi are actually very clear. It is the territory and resources. Today Dashi is the end of the Silk Road, and Persia occupies the main road of the Silk Road. Persia has enjoyed a lot of benefits, and Dashi will naturally have ideas. The war at the time had almost exhausted Persia's national power. Dashi still has thoughts about Persia, but Persia also hates Dashi. This contradiction is difficult to resolve. It's the blood feud

"Go on." Li Er said.

"In fact, the geographical location of Tianzhu is very good." Gu Qing continued, "Send envoys to Tianzhu, let Tianzhu form an army to maintain the stability of the Silk Road, and at the same time let Tubo form an army to maintain the stability of the Silk Road. There are many soldiers and horses, aren't there?"

"Li Daliang's son is now in Persia, almost equal to the king of Persia." Fang Xuanling added.

"That's it. Let's support Tianzhu first, and let Tubo look forward to the future. At the same time, Tubo, like Persia, will form an army to maintain the stability of the Silk Road. A wolf may act violently, but a group of wolves with comparable strength will not move around easily. After they were on their guard, they didn't dare to bite people indiscriminately."

Li Er replied: "If you let them gradually maintain the stability of the Silk Road with their own troops, won't it be easier to spark conflicts and start wars?"

"Don't worry, old man, just listen to me." Gu Qing continued: "Actually, my idea came from the time of King Zhou Xian, when the Zhou Dynasty was about to be destroyed. There are two characters, Sun Bin and Pang Juan, the disciples of Guiguzi. These two people are off topic. At that time, Qi, Wei and Chu were fighting in the Central Plains. It is already weak, and the vassal states are only coping with it superficially, which is useless."

"The old man understands." Fang Xuanling said to Li Er, "Gu Qing's idea is to stage an alliance between Tubo, Tianzhu and Persia, and organize an alliance led by our Tang Dynasty, the Zhanghe Alliance The failure was due to the weakness of the Zhou Dynasty, but who dares not to follow the direction of the Tang Dynasty now."

"It's a good game to deduce the current situation of the Zhanghe alliance to today's west." Li Er nodded, "I still don't understand why you want them to form a maintenance trade route since they are going to form an alliance. A stable army, isn't it a little unnecessary?"

"Your Majesty must do this." Fang Xuanling said with a smile.

"What do you mean?" Li Er looked at Gu Qing and Fang Xuanling's master and apprentice in doubt.

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Chapter 7: A Chance for Li Chengqian

Gu Qing went on to speak, "The relationship between Tubo, Persia and Tianzhu can be stable, but it can't be too good! You can't let them call each other brothers, just let them stare at each other, and make them stare red. It’s better if you stare and can’t do anything.”

"I understand." Li Er nodded, "You want them to form an alliance first, and then form their own troops to maintain order after the alliance. At the same time, judging from the current situation, there are already conflicts among the three parties. As long as this Once the army maintaining order appears, it is inevitable that there will be some problems with each other. You Gu Qing just want them to be idle under the stability of the alliance, and then you have to find trouble to start the game.

"Your Majesty is so smart, I understand after I said this."

"Stinky boy, don't think that I can't hear you and then arrange me." Li Er looked at Gu Qing and said, "I will explain clearly to me in the future, don't say half and leave half."

"It's because I want to interrupt to ask." Gu Qing muttered.

Li Er smiled contemptuously, "What did you say?"

"It's nothing." Gu Qing hurriedly waved his hands.

Fang Xuanling also laughed, "In this case, I will send someone to send a letter to the court, and I will give it to the person in the Ganlu Hall."

For Li Chengqian?Listening to Fang Xuanling's words, Gu Qing immediately understood Li Er's expression. It stands to reason that he could go and tell Chu Suiliang, Shangguanyi or Xu Jingzong that he wanted to give credit to Li Chengqian.

Seeing that the outcome of the chess game has been decided, Fang Xuanling didn't need to go on, "Your Majesty, I will take my leave first."

"I'll see off the teacher." Gu Qing followed in a few steps.

Walking all the way outside Li Er's residence, Gu Qing asked Fang Xuanling in a low voice, "Is the teacher's time almost up?"

Fang Xuanling nodded slightly, "It's time to pave the way for Li Chengqian. Your Majesty and I have discussed it before. This time, Tubo's policy has been finalized, but you just said one direction and many details need to be carefully arranged. Your Majesty means to put Give this opportunity to Li Chengqian, to pave a way first, as for what will happen in the future, it depends on his own good luck, His Majesty still needs to look at the man in the Palace of Ganlu for a while."

"I understand." Gu Qing nodded.

Fang Xuanling turned around and looked at Gu Qing, "Gu Qing, you have to hang on for a little longer, this old man knows that you really want to get out of the court, and this old man knows that you are very tired of this kind of life, you were tired of it a few years ago, But it won't be too long, since His Majesty has this intention, it won't be too long."

"I see." Gu Qing nodded.

Fang Xuanling patted Gu Qing's shoulder, "We're all old and useless, Gu Qing, I'm counting on you."

Gu Qing watched Fang Xuanling leave, and looked at his back feeling very conflicted. In just ten years, Fang Xuanling has already grown old. Looking back at that time, Fang Xuanling would still drink and chat and laugh with the old generals. Ten years have passed in a blink of an eye. Now, the teacher is no longer teaching and pointing to me, but counting on you. Thinking about these five words makes my spine shudder, what's wrong!A kind of loneliness from the bottom of my heart came out of nowhere. Looking back over the years, I have talked and laughed with these old princes, but now they are getting old and retiring. These people are tired and getting old too fast.

"What do you think?"

Hearing Gao Yang's voice, Gu Qing came back to his senses and looked at her holding the child in her arms and said, "It's nothing, let's go home?"

"Well, go home." Gao Yang nodded.

Back home, Gu Qing found that Di Renjie was chatting with Li Zhi, and when he walked into the house, he was greeted with the most familiar smell of food.

Wu Mei brought out food from the kitchen, "I'm back, let's eat."

"Eat!" Sun Simiao also said with a smile.

Wu Mei shouted to the outside of the yard, "His Royal Highness, Di Renjie has eaten!"

"Here comes Mrs. Di Renjie." Di Renjie walked into the house.

Li Zhi was also sitting at the dining table, and Xiao Si divided the bowls and chopsticks very sensiblely.

"Father, are they all okay?" Wu Mei asked Gao Yang in a low voice.

"It's all good." Gao Yang replied, "The queen mother and the emperor father both like children, and the queen mother said that Gu Qing's name is not good."

"Hey." Gu Qing interrupted the conversation between the two, "I can't change the name I gave."