Mysterious Master

Chapter 853; Mysterious Master

September 28, the fifth year of Zhenguan.

Chang'an City Imperial City, Li Shimin's Study Room.

A Xuanjia Army hurried to the entrance of the study.

"Report to His Majesty quickly, and you're in a hurry."

"Okay, okay, the lieutenant will wait for a moment and our family will go in immediately."

"Okay, hurry up."

The eunuch who was guarding the gate of the study ran in hurriedly. The emperor was discussing things with his left and right servants. When he saw the eunuch coming in, he stopped talking and waited for a report.

"Report to the saint, the captain of the Xuanjia Army Valley has arrived, saying that it is urgent..."

"Quickly announce."

"only!"

Not long after, the captain of the Xuanjia Army quickly walked in.

"Report to His Majesty the Emperor..."

"What are you talking about directly?"

"Which! On the way back from Tuyuhun Prince, he encountered an enemy attack in Jinjiling in front of Baoji..."

"Um?"

"What?"

"God!"

Before the Xuanjia Army could make it clear, Du Ruhui and Fang Xuanling were both shocked.

Li Shimin stood up and came directly to Xuanjia Army.

"What are you talking about? How could a thief break in within my Tang Dynasty? And kill the envoys who came to worship in other countries? What's the situation?"

"Your Majesty, I'll tell you that it's true that the entourage of the Tuyuhun Prince lost nearly a hundred, and the remaining more than one hundred people fled to the next level for help..."

"Where are people? Where are people?"

"His Majesty……"

"I ask you, Tuyuhun's eldest prince? Where is the others? Did you escape your life?"

The flesh on Li Shimin's face was trembling. He hoped that Xuanjia Army would say what Prince Tuyuhun was safe and sound, but he also understood in his heart that he was most likely assassinated...

Sure enough, the Xuanjia Army's next words made Li Shimin's heart cool to the bottom.

"When you say that, Prince Tuyuhun was hit by two swords, and one sword slashed half of his face, but this was not a fatal injury. The fatal injury was the second sword. Prince Tuyuhun's neck was cut off half."

Li Shimin walked back step by step and sat down again. His fingers kept beating the table in front of him, his face as deep as water, and his head was still sweating.

Du Ruhui asked with a dark face;

"Which day happened? Do you know how the reactions everywhere?"

"Return to Pushe, the dusk six days ago!"

Du Ruhui's eyes widened in an instant;

"Six days ago? How did you do it? You only took the report to Chang'an after six days?"

"Qi Pushe, the soldiers who escaped from Tuyuhun dared not go back. They got lost in the mountains and returned to collect the corpses two days later. Then they knew that evasion could not be solved, so they took the eldest prince's body on the way. After arriving at Guancheng, they found the general guarding the gate..."

Du Ruhui sighed;

"Oh! They've been back for several days, right?"

"Yes, the general guarding the city quickly sent someone back to investigate, but the valley was already in the sky, and there was no one in it, and there was no one in it. The general was shocked and asked someone to report it."

"I will patrol other things a hundred miles away, and come back quickly after learning the news..."

Du Ruhui kept walking back and forth, muttering in his mouth;

"For four days, when you come back to report the message, neither end will be idle. If you infer this way, the messenger at the border should also arrive. I'm afraid... even the messenger who came to question Tuyuhun will arrive."

It seemed as if Du Ruhui's words were fulfilled, and a sharp whistle sounded outside.

Du Ruhui turned his head and looked at Li Shimin without saying anything;

"Your Majesty, eight hundred miles have arrived."

"Well. I heard it too."

Du Ruhui twisted his body and looked at Fang Xuanling, and the two of them did nothing but shake their heads.

"Report..."

The Hongling messenger, who was rushing to the eight hundred miles, did not have to wait for the notification, and shouted and went straight into the study.

"Report!"

"Report to His Majesty the Emperor, and the border will be expedited for 800 miles."

Li Shimin scolded with a dark face;

"Give it."

"only!"

Li Shimin opened the letter and checked it carefully, taking a deep breath.

"Let's take a look, my dear friends, no clues were left behind. The valley was cleaned up, and even the bodies of the grassland people were gone."

Fang Xuanling took the letter and had no time to check it, so he was busy comforting the emperor first;

"Your Majesty, please panic. The sky cannot fall. Not to mention that it was not our men who did it. Even if our army killed the eldest prince in Tuyuhun, it would not be a disaster for the sky to fall."

Fang Xuanling's voice fell, and Du Ruhui next to him nodded immediately;

"Yes, Your Majesty doesn't need to panic. You can eat whatever you should eat, and you can sleep. It's not a big deal. As long as you stabilize other tribes on the grassland, the little Tuyuhun, he can't sing alone.

The sixteen guards of our Heavenly Dynasty are even more powerful, with a bumper harvest year after year, without shortage of food and grass, and with the power of great victory, he dared to take a step forward, and we took the opportunity to destroy this fence-bearing grass."

"What the two beloved ministers said is also reasonable, but I still have some concerns! The two countries have not yet killed the envoys. Such a big thing happened in my Tang territory. If you don't give me an explanation, it's really hard to get rid of it."

Fang Xuanling's eyes rolled around several times, thought about many things carefully before he carefully spoke out his suggestions;

"Your Majesty, you can call the frontier guards to conduct investigations from all sides, let go of many places, find a nest of bandits and land, kill them all, and avenge the revenge of the Tuyuhun prince! I wonder what Your Majesty thinks?"

Du Ruhui moved his mouth and said nothing, Li Shimin sighed;

"This is the only way to go."

The three kings and ministers did not think about finding the backstage to find the envoy behind the scenes, and they all thought about how to solve the problem. After all, it had happened, so how to deal with the aftermath was the subject.

Anxiety spread throughout the court for four days. Tuyuhun's envoy had not arrived yet, and there was not even a single letter of clamoring and chasing...

Li Shimin appeared to be silent these four days, but in fact he was also sitting in pain and asked Xuanjia Soldiers every day.

At dusk, a black-clothed Xuanjia Army appeared in Li Shimin's bedroom.

"Report to Your Majesty, the four sides are quiet, and all the horses released are back."

Li Shimin looked at the map on the wall behind his hands. On the table next to him were four dishes, two meat pies, and a pot of millet porridge, and he had never moved.

"Is it really quiet?"

"When you go back to your Majesty, no unnecessary reactions were made by all forces on the grassland, and Tuyuhun was even more silent, as before."

"As the same as before?"

"Fu Yun has been fighting for half his life, full of arrogance. Now someone has killed his smartest eldest son, or is he focusing on cultivating his son who inherited his Khan throne. But he has not even sent a letter of questioning, and is still the same as before?"

Li Shimin, holding his hands behind his back, shook his head gently.

"If he was furious and asked the envoy to come and jump around, it would be normal, but he had no movement, and it had been ten days since the incident.

He just buried his son quietly, without any other moves. This was the biggest trouble. Many ministers were getting more and more relaxed, thinking that Tuyuhun would not come to find fault. But I knew that Fu Yun was unwilling to give up, and he couldn't swallow this.

He must have thought that the troops I sent to kill his son. I have known Fu Yun for many years and know his temper. So I concluded that he would not give up if he didn't expose it."

"But Your Majesty, all the people sent out are good players. The old soldiers in Xuanjia and the tribes on the grassland are indeed nothing unusual. I am thinking..."

"You don't have to think about it anymore. If Fu Yun is not bad, he should be contacting Tiele and Xue Yantuo, of course, there is Tubo. Go back and pay attention to the movements in these places, but if there is any disturbance, you will immediately repay it."

"I'm sorry, please leave."

"Go."

"It's Your Majesty."

As soon as Captain Gu walked out of the side hall, he met two colleagues. The three of them looked at each other, and they all smiled bitterly and shook their heads.

After reporting, the two Xuanjia troops entered the side hall.

"Greetings to His Majesty the Emperor."
To be continued...