Tang's dining table

Li Zhi always laughed it off. He liked military generals to flatter him, and he also liked civil servants to flatter him.

If the civil and military ministers do not flatter him, it means that he has reached the end of his career as emperor.

The flattery of warriors is better than straightforwardness, and the flattery of civil servants is better than tact. Of course, this matter cannot be forced. After all, you can expect a martial artist who fights with others to shoot a majestic and gentle and plaintive horse like a gentle one. Shit, I really need knowledge as support.

Therefore, he raised his wine glass and said with a smile: "You are all my loyal ministers. Come, dear friends, come and drink for the great victory of our soldiers of the Tang Dynasty!"

Everyone hurriedly picked up their glasses and drank. As for the debate just now, the emperor had already reached a conclusion, so it was hard to say anything more.

At this moment, a tall man in wolf skin stood up in the team of foreign envoys. He came to the middle of the vacant dance floor, knelt down on one knee to the emperor and said: "Khan of Heaven, I am a Turk The son of the Gu Gu clan, Gu Gu Qian, came to Chang'an this time just to compete with the bravest people in the Tang Dynasty. Please ask the Khan to let the bravest people in the Tang Dynasty stand up and let us fight.

Let’s see who is more powerful, the Turkic warriors or the warriors of the Tang Dynasty. "

Li Zhi frowned and said, "Do you really want to give it a try?"

Hu Gu Qiyan said: "It's better than never giving up."

Just when Li Zhi was about to scold the barbarian, Changsun Wuji, who was sitting at the first table on the right, said: "The warrior of the Tang Dynasty you mentioned is not qualified to sit here. You can go find him outside the palace and defeat him." He will come back to the palace to find a more powerful warrior."

Hu Gu Qi Yan was overjoyed when he heard this. After kowtowing to Li Zhi, he turned around and left the hall regardless.

Soon, there was a noise outside the hall.

Li Zhi glanced at Changsun Wuji, who was chewing the leg of mutton, with a very ugly expression on his face. Xue Rengui, Pei Xingjian and others who were sitting in the positions of generals also acted calmly, as if the barbarian's trouble with Yun Chu was expected. middle.

Soon, there was a sound of swords clashing outside the hall, and a roar like a fierce tiger protecting the bones and abandoning the face.

After a while, the sound of fighting disappeared, and everyone stared at the door of the hall. Everyone wanted to know who the winner was.

Yunchu looked at Gu Guqiyan who fell to the ground and saw that this guy's hands were still trembling slightly, which meant that this guy had high poison resistance. The old god said that a guy who was hit by this kind of anesthetic would be able to kill even a knife. Even with the ax attached to him, he couldn't move.

It was obvious that this matter varied from person to person, at least there was an abnormal reaction in this barbarian who came to him for a fight for no reason.

Yun Chu looked at the group of colleagues who had run away long ago, and saw the fear in their eyes. Yun Chu felt that he should save his face.

Amid everyone's screams, he cut the barbarian's neck with a knife, fearing that the instigators in the hall would have to wait too long.

He straightened his official robes, ran over in a gentle and very clumsy manner, and wiped the blood on Yunchu's boots with the Huren's clothes.

He watched proudly as Yun Chu grabbed Hu Ren's hair and carried his head into the hall.

A young and handsome fifth-rank official of the Tang Dynasty walked into the hall carrying a human head that was bleeding continuously. The head was very vivid, and the frightened expression before death had been solidified on the head. The military generals found it interesting, and the civil servants expressed their interest. He turned his head, not wanting to see this bloody scene.

Hu Ren's head was very big and contained a lot of blood. As Yun Chu walked, a continuous blood trail appeared on the ground.

The eunuchs did not stop Yun Chu from stepping forward, but were busy lying behind Yun Chu's buttocks to wipe the blood on the floor.

Yun Chu carried the head to a place two feet away from Li Zhi, then put the head down and saluted the emperor: "Your Majesty's guest was drunk, very drunk, and the minister sent him back."

Li Zhi glanced at Changsun Wuji and said, "Here, please send my guests back to their seats to sit down."

Immediately, two eunuchs came over, held the human head, and carefully placed it on the low table of the bone guard. They arranged it very neatly and said diligently: "Next time, don't dare to run around."

Yun Chu smiled and saluted the emperor: "If your Majesty has no other instructions, Rong Chen will retire."

Li Zhi smiled and said: "Ai Qing is very skilled, so I will give you one as you wish."

Immediately, a eunuch brought a golden Ruyi over. Yun Chu took the golden Ruyi, thanked him again, and left.

Seeing Yunchu leave, Li Zhi raised his glass and laughed and said: "The moon is at the top of the sky, it is the time to drink. Dear friends, drink victoriously."

Changsun Wuji raised his glass and said: "Mere barbarians who dare to fight against our warriors of the Tang Dynasty are like fireflies fighting against the bright moon. They are seeking their own death.

The veteran congratulates Your Majesty. "

Li Zhi drank another glass of wine and laughed: "Does anyone still think that my reputation as a fierce general of the Tang Dynasty is false?"

Jia Chunyan stood up and said to the envoys from various countries who came to perform Hajj: "The man just now is just a fifth-rank official in our Tang Dynasty. If you are still dissatisfied, you can challenge the generals here."

Jia Chunyan shouted twice in a row. Seeing that the envoys were pretending to be dead with their eyes and noses in mind, he said coldly: "The order of the Khan of Heaven can be passed throughout the world. If there is another person who disobeys Yin and Yang, he will be punished." Kill without mercy!"

Seeing the envoys from all over the world bowing to Li Zhi one after another, Jia Chunyan, who claimed that he did not dare, waved his sleeves and sat in his seat grandly. No one dared to look at him.

Wu Mei abided by her duty as a queen from the beginning to the end. Whether it was Yun Chu coming in with a person's head or Jia Chunyan speaking nonsense, she kept smiling and watching and listening without saying a word. Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu also didn't speak. Without speaking, it seemed that the whole matter had nothing to do with them.

Yun Chu's killing of the man who protected the bones and abandoned his face was so magical that Xue Rengui and Pei Xingjian, the two people who originally planned to cause trouble for Yun Chu, stopped moving.

Pei Xingjian took a closer look at Yunchu just now and found that his official uniform was neat and tidy, and he did not look like someone who had been through a fierce battle at all, and that the man who protected his bones and abandoned his face was really a rare warrior among the Turks.

Even if he went up, there was no doubt whether he could kill this person, but Yun Chu only used a moment of effort to come in with his head.

Thinking of this, Pei Xingjian looked at Xue Rengui and said, "I can't do it. Can you do it?"

Xue Rengui shook his head and said: "That person who protects the bones and abandons the face is tall and heavy. Such a person must not be good at horse fighting, but very good at foot fighting.

When fighting on horseback, it was easy for me to kill him, but when fighting on foot, it would take a fierce fight to kill him.

I can't do it like Yun Chu, who kills people easily and freely, protects his bones and abandons his face. "

Pei Xingjian said: "You and I know very well how capable Yun Chu is, but why was he able to kill that Gu Gu Qi Yan in a few seconds in full view of everyone?"

Xue Rengui shook his head and said, "I don't know."

Pei Xingjian said: "The fact that he was able to kill Hu Gu Qi Yan also means that he can also kill the two of us?"

Xue Rengui took a sip of wine and said, "That's the truth."

Li Ji, who was sitting above the two of them, couldn't stand listening anymore, so he whispered to the two of them: "Do you still remember how Mr. Yuan died?"

These words made Xue Rengui and Pei Xingjian stunned for a moment, and then they heard Li Ji grit his teeth and said: "Yun Chu can't kill this bone-protecting abandoned face with three or two strokes, why can't he hurt this bone-protecting abandoned face with three or two strokes?" ?

He is a disciple of Sun Shenxian. Sun Shenxian can live the dead and heal people's bones. Can the reverse be true as well?

Of course Sun Shenxian disdains the use of these poisons. Do you think Yun Chu will be polite? You are his colleagues, he will not use these things on you. If you really become his enemy, I guarantee that he can kill you easily.

Now, no one should mess with him at this time. Having the Changsun family deal with him is enough to give him a headache.

If you force him at this time, you can drive him crazy. Once Yun Chu becomes crazy, I will be afraid of him. "

Pei Xingjian looked at Li Ji and said, "Young Master, you want Yun Chu to fight with the eldest grandson family, and we sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight?"

However, is Yunchu qualified to be the opponent of the Changsun family? "

Li Ji looked at Pei Xingjian with pity and said, "Yunchu is not qualified. Doesn't Master Xuanzang also have the qualifications?"

Xue Rengui said in surprise: "Master Xuanzang is from outside the country."

Li Ji sneered and said: "If you have time these days, go to Fengyu Valley in Zhongnan Mountain to have a look. The monks and Taoist priests have already beaten their brains out."

Pei Xingjian said: "What does the fight between the monk and the Taoist priest have to do with Yunchu and the Changsun family?"

Li Ji sighed and said, "When a tiger fights a lion, one or two elk will die. Do you think this is right?"

"Does the government not care?"

"Never mind, the people sent by Dali Temple will stay at the edge. They will do nothing else but bury people. They will also try their best to control the fight within Fengyu Valley and prevent the outside world from knowing about it."

Pei Xingjian took a breath and said, "In other words, His Majesty is letting things happen."

Even if Xue Rengui was not familiar with government affairs, he understood it after listening to what Pei Xingjian and Li Ji said.

After Changsun Wuji suffered a loss, he could not openly attack the Yun family and the prince, so he encouraged Taoists to attack Buddhism.

As long as the Taoist line achieved a long-term victory, Buddhism would weaken. The weakening of Buddhism also meant that Xuanzang's status was weakened in his eyes.

If Xuanzang could not help the Yun family, then the Changsun family could easily nip the newly formed Yun family in the bud.

Your Majesty is the group of people from Dali Temple who are guarding the Fengyu Valley. They are only responsible for burying the dead and sealing off the valley to prevent the news from leaking out.

When Li Ji saw that Xue Rengui and Pei Xingjian had stopped talking, he whispered: "Enjoy the glory you got from the battlefield and don't cause any trouble again.

In the battle between Buddhism and Taoism, the winner cannot be determined within three to five years, or without the addition of powerful Austrian aid. "

Pei Xingjian raised his glass and offered a toast to Mr. Ying, and said in a low voice: "This further strengthens the student's determination to enter the Civil Service Examination Division."

Li Ji said: "Very good!"

Perhaps because his mood had changed, Pei Xingjian looked at the people in the Tai Chi Hall and felt that they were much more vivid. Everyone's expressions and words began to become lively and interesting, full of all kinds of inexplicable mysteries.

The battlefield here is the most terrifying, more than ten times more dangerous than the Eastern Expedition.

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