Under everyone's shocked eyes, Li Chengqian rode his horse out of the imperial city and headed out of Chang'an City.

Only the officials of the Ministry of Rites were left in a mess in the wind, with blood flowing all over the ground and Turkic corpses.

Cui Ye, a doctor in the Ministry of Rites, had a buzzing head.

His face was still covered in blood from the halberd.

At this moment, he couldn't describe whether he was shocked or terrified.

The look in Li Chengqian's eyes when he killed someone was so terrifying that it almost shattered his own soul.

Chapter 112 The prince's expedition shocked the government and the public

In Chang'an City.

Liu Ren wished for Li Chengqian who passed by him, and thought, it's over, this time it's completely over.

Most of the Turkic envoys have become his ghosts, and Li Shimin will definitely be furious again.

However, it was the first time he saw Li Chengqian look so angry.

But even though Li Chengqian was wrong in every possible way, his spirit of caring for the world and the people is something that people have to admire.

Li Chengqian's love for the people of Tang Dynasty has never been spoken out, it is related to the people, he has personally practiced everything, and proved his love for the people with his actions.

East Palace...

above the hall.

It has not been a year since Li Shimin ascended the throne, Daxing Palace is still the place where Li Yuan lives, and Li Shimin's court is still in the East Palace.

He was sitting on the dragon chair looking forward to it, and the Turks offered to make peace, which is a treatment that the Han people have never had in recent years.

For many years, the Turks have regarded the Tang Dynasty as a pasture and the Han people as two-legged sheep, aggressing wantonly, burning, killing and looting on the border of the Tang Dynasty, doing all kinds of evil.

He was even almost killed by them to the city of Chang'an.

If it wasn't for Li Chengqian's battle in Liangzhou, he wouldn't know where he was sitting.

Now, the Eastern Turks were finally killed by the Tang Dynasty and surrendered their heads. They asked for peace several times, and even sent back all the citizens of the Tang Dynasty who had been robbed in recent years.

Li Shimin, who was so excited about such a happy event, stayed up all night. How could he not be happy that he had achieved such a feat within a year of his enthronement.

a little while...

Li Shimin was a little annoyed by the wait, and said displeasedly: "Chen Lin, go and see, why did this Turkic envoy keep me waiting for so long, and how Cui Ye was so poor."

He thought it was the Turkic envoys who put on airs and deliberately delayed the time.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Just as Chen Lin was about to leave, Cui Ye ran in from the outside.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty... something is wrong..." Cui Ye stumbled and ran in from the outside, his voice trembling.

"What are you panicking?" Li Shimin said in a deep voice, "What's the big deal? Why hasn't the Turkic envoy come yet?"

He looked at the frizzy Cui Ye, feeling displeased.

Cui Ye hurriedly said: "Your Majesty... all the Turkic envoys were killed by His Royal Highness in the palace..."

"what!"

"what?"

"how can that be!"

Hearing this, the court was in an uproar, and voices of shock and doubt rang out in the court.

"The crown prince killed the Turkic envoy!" Li Shimin got up in shock and shouted angrily, "Bring me the crown prince! Bring me here!"

Li Shimin felt a splitting headache, he was killed by Li Chengqian before he even saw the Turkic envoy, he simply didn't take him seriously as an emperor.

He felt that Li Chengqian was challenging his bottom line again and again.

Changsun Wuji hastily stepped forward to persuade him, "Your Majesty, don't be angry. Maybe the Turkic envoys did something outrageous and unreasonable, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince made such a bad plan."

At this time, he could no longer care about his political achievements, so he would first say a few good words for his nephew.

"Heh." Cui Yongqi, the Minister of Rites, said: "Mr. Zhao, if the two countries are at war, you don't understand the rules of not beheading envoys! Isn't the prince's behavior afraid of chilling the hearts of the people in the world! Will there be any country that dares to send envoys in the future?" Come to Datang!"

Cui Yongqi belongs to the Cui family of Boling, and Li Chengqian's land reform has caused their Cui family to suffer a lot of losses. With such a good opportunity, how could he not take the opportunity to step on Li Chengqian's feet.

What's more, in their opinion, Li Chengqian has indeed done too much this time, and they have never considered issues from the interests of the common people.

"You..." Changsun Wuji was rendered speechless by Cui Yongqi's words.

Li Shimin flicked his sleeves and said, "Okay! Don't quarrel! You don't think I'm annoying enough, do you?"

moment……

Liu Renyuan ran in, "Your Majesty... the prince led the white-robed army to the north..."

"Going north!" Li Shimin was about to explode in anger, "Liu Renyuan! Why did you do such a poor job? I asked you to pick up the crown prince and return to the palace. Why did you let him kill the Turkic envoy and lead the army to go north?"

At this moment, Li Shimin could figure out with his toes that Li Chengqian led the white-robed army to kill the Eastern Turks.

"Your Majesty, it's like this..."

Liu Ren is willing to tell what happened today in detail.

When Li Shimin heard this, he was extremely shocked. He slapped the copy angrily, "It's unreasonable! It's really unreasonable! The Turks deceived me too much!"

"Is this the Turkic attitude towards me?"

Although he said it, he was still very dissatisfied with Li Chengqian in his heart.

Even if Turkic was wrong in every possible way, he, the emperor, had to come forward to take care of the matter in person, so as to show his majesty as an emperor.

But Li Chengqian made his own claim and killed the Turkic envoy directly in the palace, how could he not be angry.

However, even if he was angry, he had to chase Li Chengqian back first, after all, he was the heir apparent of the Tang Dynasty.

When the civil and military officials in the court heard this, they were even more resentful, claiming that His Royal Highness killed the prince well.

They have also endured the Turks for many years, and now they feel extremely happy.

Cui Yongqi heard this, and hurriedly stood back, for fear that Li Shimin would take his anger out on him.

Changsun Wuji stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, the most urgent thing is to chase His Royal Highness back. Even though Turkic vitality is seriously injured now, there is still vitality. His Royal Highness will go deep alone. If he encounters an ambush, he will suffer."

At the critical moment, it has to be said that he is his own uncle. Every word of Changsun Wuji reveals his concern for Li Chengqian.

"En." Li Shimin nodded and said, "Liu Renyuan, where did His Highness the Crown Prince go?"

Liu Renyuan said quietly: "His Royal Highness sent someone to say that he will send someone to reply in three days' time. At that time, His Majesty will send someone to collect the spoils along the way, but according to the general opinion, His Royal Highness should go to Liangzhou."

"Liangzhou?" Li Shimin paced back and forth.

"Hou Junji!" Li Shimin said resolutely: "I ordered you to be the general manager of the Jingzhou Road, with [-] soldiers, and quickly follow the direction of Liangzhou to help the prince and bring the prince back to me. There must be no mistakes."

Hou Junji saluted and said: "The last general takes orders!"

At this time, the family officials in the court were happy, and they laughed at Li Chengqian's conceit.

Leading 500 troops and daring to go deep into the Turkic hinterland, it is simply reckless.

You must know that the nature of defensive warfare and field warfare is completely different. The Turks are good at field warfare but not good at siege, and the Tang army is good at siege but not field warfare.

Fighting in the grassland, Tang Jun is no match for the Turks.

They believe that Li Chengqian's move is to use his own shortcomings to attack the other's strengths, which is completely self-defeating.

"Your Majesty, I will invite you to fight."

At this moment, Cheng Yaojin, Yu Chigong, and Qin Qiong stepped forward.

Cheng Yaojin, Yuchi Gong's son, Cheng Huailiang, Yuchi Baolin;

Qin Qiong's nephew, Luo Tong, was working in the Baipao Army at this time, and they were also very worried.

"Okay." Li Shimin lowered his eyes and said, "I order the three of you to be lieutenants, and go with Hou Junji to recover the crown prince. You must bring him back safely to me."

The three said in unison: "The last general takes orders."

Chapter 113 In Chang'an City, Storms Are Rising

Today was supposed to be a good day to celebrate.

But in Chang'an City today, there is a strong atmosphere of tension.

In the calm city, there seems to be a storm secretly churning.

In the palace and the city, messengers came in and out from time to time, in a hurry.

The four generals Hou Junji, Cheng Yaojin, Yuchi Gong, and Qin Qiong rode out of Chang'an City on BMWs, and galloped towards the Tang army's garrison, with serious faces.

The Tang army's garrison was even more lively, with [-] soldiers and horses ready to go.

After waiting for an order, he rushed towards Liangzhou.

Today, there are less than [-] troops in Chang'an City, and it is very difficult for Li Shimin to allocate [-] to Hou Junji.

If there are more of these princes and ministers, they will give advice again.

palace...

Legislative Hall...

Empress Changsun was crying. She hadn't seen Li Chengqian for a long time.

Ever since Li Chengqian moved into the Baipao Army's garrison, he has been concentrating on military training, and has never entered the palace to greet Empress Changsun.

Originally, Empress Changsun was very happy to hear that Li Chengqian had returned to the palace today, so she prepared a lot of cakes and fruits, waiting for Li Chengqian.

But who knows that people didn't wait, what they waited for was the news that Li Chengqian led the army alone to kill the Eastern Turks.

——This incident frightened Empress Zhangsun——

Empress Changsun looked at Li Shimin who walked in and said in pain: "Your Majesty, why is he so impulsive...why did he lead the white-robed army to kill the Turks?"

"The outside environment is so complicated, if Gan'er has three long and two short concubines, how can he live!"

"Hey!" Li Shimin stepped forward to comfort him, "Don't worry, Empress, Cheng Qianji has his own aura, his martial arts are so strong, and he has an unstoppable white-robed army, he will be fine."

"Your Majesty." Empress Changsun sobbed, "What's going on here? Didn't you say that the Eastern Turks came to invite peace today? Why did Gan'er lead the army to kill the Turks?"

"Ah! To be honest, I really don't blame Cheng Qian for this matter, it's because Turkic did too much..." Li Shimin told Empress Changsun everything in detail.

Empress Changsun was very intelligent, she could hear Li Shimin's displeasure and Li Chengqian's recklessness from just a few words, probably if she was not too sad, Li Shimin's attitude would not be so good.

She said quietly: "Your Majesty, my concubine shouldn't have interrupted this matter, but even though there were all kinds of mistakes in Turkic, Qian'er's handling was too reckless. This matter must have added a lot of trouble to Your Majesty." .”

"I hope Your Majesty will not argue with him for the sake of Gan'er's young age."

Empress Changsun persuaded, although she was sad, she still didn't forget to intercede with her son, as long as Li Shimin didn't blame him, Li Chengqian couldn't bear the crime.

Li Shimin nodded and said: "Chengqian's handling of this matter was indeed too impulsive. Above the court, people from the Cui family were already looking for reasons to impeach him, but I have already suppressed him."

"Hmph! My son, it's not their turn to point fingers."

After hearing this, Empress Changsun worried: "Your Majesty, will they make things difficult for him when he comes back?"

"Embarrassment!" Li Shimin murmured: "This kid who doesn't know the heights of heaven and earth should be made to suffer! Otherwise, he won't have a long memory at all."

……

Cui's mansion is extremely lively at the moment.

Cui Zhao, the patriarch of the Cui clan, listened to Cui Yongqi and Cui Ye's words, and his face was beaming with smiles.

"Hahaha, God helped me. I didn't expect that Li Chengqian would act so recklessly. The Turkic envoys would be killed as soon as they said it. Doesn't he know that this is the biggest taboo in the diplomacy between the two countries?"

Cui Yongqi echoed: "Yes, Lord Patriarch, when Changsun Wuji excused Li Chengqian, I directly used this reason to criticize him, and he was immediately speechless."

"If Li Shimin hadn't deliberately protected Li Chengqian and suppressed the matter abruptly, I would definitely read Li Chengqian's book."

Cui Zhao nodded and said: "You are very right. A man needs to be able to bend and stretch. It's okay to take advantage of the momentum and step on Li Chengqian's feet. If the momentum is not right, we will keep silent and wait and see."

"By the way, are Wang's people here?"

Cui Yongqi quickly responded: "We're here, we're here. Originally, Wang Yiren had planned to evacuate, but today such a big event happened in the city, so he didn't leave."

Inside the reception room of the Cui Mansion.

Wang Yiren and Wang Mingyuan were waiting in the hall.

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