Chapter 31 Chapter Thirty-One

The Tubo army retreated, and both sides withdrew their troops.At the Tubo court, the officials began to congratulate this great victory, which meant that Tubo could be on an equal footing with the Tang Dynasty.At the court of the Tang Dynasty, Li Zhi named Hei Chi Chang Zhi the general of Zuo Wuwei, and demoted Li Jingxuan to the governor of Hengzhou.The matter should be over, but at this moment, a few scholars suddenly came out from the court.These people were tied up and came to the main hall, scrambling to speak. Li Zhi looked at them puzzled, and asked them why they did such a puzzling thing.The scholar began to kowtow to Li Zhi, and in their heart-piercing cries, everyone understood that they were all Liu Shenli's sons, and they rushed to ask to be bound to Tubo in exchange for their father.One life for one life, or even two lives for one life!Li Zhi admired filial children the most, so he decided to send Liu Shenli's second son, Liu Yi, to go there.

Liu Yi traveled a long way and finally came to Tubo. The difficulty was beyond imagination, because the Tubo people ignored him at all.Yes, who would be so leisurely as to care about the affairs of an outsider? Liu Yicong explained the situation to everyone, and he was willing to die for another life, as long as he could let his father go home, he would kill or cut up whatever he wanted. Liu Yi began to cry, and the loud cry disturbed others and made people feel unbearable. Some officials stood by and watched, but they couldn't help the soreness of their noses and shed a few drops of hot tears.Finally, one person couldn't bear this kind of torture, so he stood up and told Liu Yicong the news about Liu Shenli.

"Son, you don't have to wait," he said, "You don't have to die, because your father is already dead!" "died……" "yes." Liu Yicong's father was sick and had been seriously ill before he left, but Liu Shenli insisted on leading the army. Liu Yi was stunned there, and started crying again. The man also asked impatiently: "What are you still doing here, go back." Liu Yi never listened to the man's words, and still wept endlessly, crying from morning to night, and at dawn the next day, everyone found His voice was hoarse and limp, and he kept crying.The Tubo ministers turned their heads away, feeling uncomfortable.Liu Shenli is Tubo's most proud trophy, but look at his children, can you bear it?

In the end, Zanpu said, "People are dead after all, don't worry about it so much, give it back to him..." We saw that Liu Yicong lay quietly beside Liu Shenli's body for a while.Then, he carried his father's body on his back, weeping silently, and walked back barefoot. Said: "Hundreds of goodness and filial piety are the first, and all evil and adultery are the source. Always keep benevolence and filial piety, and everything in the world will not bear to do it. It’s not hard to do.” This sentence is no longer taken seriously by people, but is it right?In the near future, Liu Yicong will use his life to tell us the truth of this.

The moving scene ended here. In the Tang Dynasty, Li Zhi had already summoned the ministers to discuss how to deal with Tubo.Opinions are divided into three factions, the first faction advocates peace, the second faction advocates war, and the third faction advocates depending on the situation.The so-called "too many people don't lay eggs, so many chickens will be blind" (or "Too many chickens can't lay eggs, so many people will go blind", haha), this is very reasonable. The three factions talked about it all day, until the evening, but failed to draw any conclusions.

In the end, Li Zhi sadly said what he meant: "It's so late, don't go home, eat at my place before leaving." How to deal with Tubo has been promoted to a national strategy.From the Empress Dowager to the teahouses, there are many people who can't sleep, look at the melancholy little steam from the teapot on the small red stove, and think hard about the future of Tubo.Tai student Wei Yuanzhong was also one of those who couldn't sleep. He took out the Four Treasures of the Study and wrote an article discussing the strategy of defending against Tubo, and submitted it to Li Zhi.The main content of the article is as follows:

First, use both civil and military to strengthen our country; Second, the selection of talents should not always select the second generation of officials, and poor families can also produce talents; Third, rewards and punishments must be clearly defined, and the common people's eyes are sharp; Fourth, Xue Rengui, Guo Daifeng and others should be killed! Fifth, take good care of horses, because horses are friends of mankind and the main means of transportation for marching and fighting. Does this have anything to do with the defense of Tubo? Yes, too much! You always can't forget to kill Xue Rengui, does Xue Rengui have any grudge against you?

Li Zhi excitedly put down the letter and summoned Wei Yuanzhong. After a conversation, he was shocked by Wei Yuanzhong's parallelism.Li Zhi asked him to go directly to Zhongshu Province to work and enshrine in the battle (he was responsible for certain items such as piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine and flowers by the emperor's side).I can only express my sympathy for Li Zhi's behavior. Wei Yuanzhong has a deep-rooted hatred for the general, and there is nothing wrong with it.But in the future, he will also make Li Zhi suffer. Li Zhi, a good emperor who wants to emulate Yao and Shun, just wait!

In December of the third year of Yifeng (AD 678), due to various things not going well, the emperor and queen of heaven made up their minds to change the year name. To put it bluntly, if something goes wrong, you can blame it if you want. The creativity of the people is infinite.At the beginning of the year, in order to comply with the call of the Emperor of Heaven, Tianhou decided to change her year name to "Tonggan", which means Tongtian, which means that she wants to compete with Tiangong, and I and Tiangong are equally enchanting. After the year number was issued, unexpected results were received.

First of all, the masses think that the pronunciation of these two characters is simply too unlucky.The second is the group of officials, and the group of officials are also chirping, the more they don't think about the meaning, the more the meaning will jump out automatically.Some people really don't understand, what's wrong with the pronunciation of these two words?Things we can't understand no matter how hard we think, the reason is actually very simple, because our pronunciation has changed. Here, I want to popularize the little knowledge of Tang Yin. The ancient Mandarin is changing, but as long as it is a language with Chinese characters and Chinese pronunciation, it is a Chinese language, but the accent is greatly affected (such as Yayan, Yangzhou dialect, Bianliang dialect, Nanjing dialect, Chang'an dialect, Beijing dialect, etc.).For example, the u in front of zh, ch, and sh was pronounced i in some places in ancient times. Then, if you try to read the word "Shuxiu", you will pronounce "shit smelly". "Pig" can also be called "pig".Therefore, "Little Pig Pig" is most likely read as "Xiao Zhizhi". (However, I want to clarify that a pig is a big pig, and a dolphin is a little pig)

In this case, the problem before Li Zhi is very serious. The word "Tonggan" is pronounced as follows: "通", pronounced "ten" (similar to the pronunciation of "ten" in English); "Qian" is pronounced as "Qing" (this is the pronunciation that confuses "poor" with "Qing"). Dear students, read it aloud with me in the accent of the Tang Dynasty—"ten——Qing".Common people, read it a few more times, and after reading it a few times, the question popped up, and the common people laughed out loud, yes, is it "Tonggan" or "Heavenly Poor"?Will this "heavenly poverty" embarrass "heaven" and "heavenly" empress?What's even more outrageous is that at this moment, the history books lost no time in recording the strange scene that happened recently. First, a family in Jingzhou gave birth to a pair of conjoined twins, with the heart, mouth and socket growing together. Everyone thought this had something to do with Tongqian; second, the common people were notified that they would use the Tongqian year name from now on, Everyone laughed, one mouthful of poverty, one mouthful of one finished game, which put a lot of pressure on the emperor and empress; three, Tubo won the Tang Dynasty, and even Xue Rengui also returned in a disastrous defeat, which can explain the problem. Take a look, you are still poor, are you two emperors and empresses going to die?So at the end of the year, the two hurriedly issued an edict, announcing that the name of Tonggan would be abolished in the coming year. In the spring of the first year of Diaolu (AD 679), the right servant shot Dai to Dexie.On that day, Li Zhi went to the court, held Dai Zhide's advice, and cried to the officials, saying that no one would dare to speak out and speak out for personal reasons in the future.Li Zhi cried sadly, and the others could only suffer along with it. Until February, nothing in the court could make Li Zhi happy (it was too painful).Dai Zhide has unusual views on Tubo, and Li Zhi is also indecisive.The ministers argued endlessly again, and no one would let anyone else. One day, a report came from the southwest direction, and a message was sent to stop the debate in the whole court—Zanpu of Tubo died.The one who succeeded Zanpu was a child who had just turned eight years old, named Qi Nu Xi Nong.Li Zhi expressed his deep condolences, and then danced his fingers happily. Should we take advantage of Tubo Zanpu's new death and send troops? No.As early as eight months ago, Pei Xingjian wrote a letter thinking that it was impossible. He clearly told Li Zhi that the current Tubo is fundamentally different from before. In the past, Zanpu was in power, but now it is the god general Qinling who is in power. The ministers are more harmonious than before. Hitting is in vain.Li Zhi was once very disappointed, but now, he remembered what Pei Xingjian said: "Just wait, soon, Tubo will send someone to ask for peace!" Pei Xingjian was right. Eight months later, the Tubo envoy came to announce the funeral and brought a repaired letter along the way.The author of this letter is Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty. Your Majesty, are you still fighting? Li Zhi shook his head. Now, let me briefly introduce Mr. Pei Xingjian. Master Su Dingfang, a general with great military exploits, is full of schemes, but no one understands them. Fortunately, there is Pei Xingjian.So he taught all the art of war and strategy to this scholar, Su Dingfang said, I always thought that there was no one in this world to teach, but since I have you, the world has become so beautiful. (When I use soldiers, there is no one in the world to teach, and my son is also virtuous.) Pei Xingjian is used to be a master, and his art of war is not mentioned for the time being, but his calligraphy has already made Li Zhi crazy. In Li Zhi's mind, Yu Shinan, Chu Suiliang, and Pei Xingjian can be compared, and the only thing that fascinates him is Pei Xingjian's calligraphy.Li Zhi's daily actions are very cute. He has some handkerchiefs, and he reads them over and over again every day. This is not because he is feminine, but because he likes Pei Xingjian's handwriting so much, so he specially asked Pei Xingjian to write poems on the handkerchiefs above. Pei Xingjian is proficient in metaphysics, and he is also the most admired prophet since Yuan Tiangang. He likes to make predictions. He once selected talents together with Li Jingxuan, and commented: "Su Weiwei and Wang Ju must be prime ministers in the future." Once, Li Jingxuan recommended four sages, namely Wang Bo, Yang Jiong, Lu Zhaolin, King Luo Bin, these four people are the "Four Heroes of the Early Tang Dynasty" who have been famous for thousands of years.After Pei Xingjian's interview, regardless of whether he was a four-star or not, he first scolded Wang Bo angrily, saying that Wang Bo was impetuous and showing off, so he definitely didn't have an official salary. As for Yang Jiong, this person is deep and silent. He can be a local governor, but it is impossible to go up.Then, he began to comment on Lu Zhaolin and Luo Binwang, and said with certainty and affirmation: "These two people are quite talented, but they can't control themselves. Their fate is to die." Pei Xingjian was right, so everyone felt that Pei Xingjian was really terrible. However, Pei Xingjian made a mistake after all, and all the court officials began to poke his spine.The cause of the incident was the alliance between Western Turks and Tubo. The ten-surnamed Khan Ashina Duzhi and Bieshuai Li Zhegen contacted various tribes and Tubo, and once led troops to threaten Anxi Dufu.Tubo sued for peace, just because they were afraid that they would be too busy to prevent Datang from attacking.Now, the truth is out.Li Zhi decided to hold a meeting to discuss how to deal with them. Baiguan believed that this group of ignorant guys must be punished to death! Li Zhi said, "Of course." At this time, Pei Xingjian, whom everyone despises the most, stood up and made a disgusting pose to oppose everyone's violent analysis.He said slowly: "Tubo invaded the bandits, and the judges are all dead. The war is still going on, so why are you talking about fighting the West?" Pei Xingjian said a lot of inexplicable things, "Didn't the king of Persia just die? His son is a hostage in the capital, and we should send someone to escort him back to the country. To escort the Persian prince back to the country, we have to pass through Tubo and Western Turks, and we can seize it when the time comes, without bloodshed." Pei Xingjian, you are very capable, so go! In the bewildered eyes of everyone, Pei Xingjian took the order, and Li Zhi sent Pei Xingjian to be the ambassador of Persia, to be the new Persian king, and to go to Dashi Kingdom to appease him.Everyone may have forgotten, or they didn't know at all. Pei Xingjian has been demoted to Xizhou for more than ten years, and he already knows everything here. He can clearly understand what will happen in each area when he closes his eyes.Things are going according to his plan... When he came to Xizhou, Pei Xingjian rested for a long time. He called more than a thousand disciples from Xizhou, described his loneliness, and asked them to chat with him under the tent.Ashina sent many scouts to spy on the military situation, and the scouts discovered a strange phenomenon: the ambassador of the Tang Dynasty brought almost nothing except paperwork and food, and was drinking and having fun with a bunch of prodigal children.From this point of view, he will not pose any threat to Western Turks and Tubo at all. Surrounded by the children of Xizhou, Pei Xingjian continued to describe his loneliness and tell his own story, and everyone laughed.Someone asked, "When will the ambassador leave?" Pei Xingjian said, "I'm here for this. It's so hot that sitting on a rock burns my buttocks. When it's cooler, we'll leave." You can’t go far, you have to go west.)” Pei Xingjian said so, and he did the same. It was cool for many days, and the chiefs and leaders of the four towns heard that the ambassador was coming, so they also came here to chat, eat and watch comedy with Pei Xingjian.Pei Xingjian made a foolish look, "I also lived in Xizhou back then, Xizhou is so fucking boring. But I think hunting is too exciting. Today, if I want to hunt with my former friends, who would like to go hunting with me?" I go?" Lee Kyung Hyun: Life is too short to be sexy! Pei Xingjian: Actually, from the time when you confronted Liu Rengui, I knew that you would definitely be sexy.