In the capital Chang'an, in the spacious and elegant study room of the Prince's East Palace, the crown prince Yong, King Yong of the Tang Dynasty, stood quietly from the window, carrying two memorials from the Hexidao Jiedushi and Cui Po, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty and the Fan Alliance.

"Cui Po! Cui Po, it is you who made such great achievements, and it is you who did such a violent and perverse thing. You have really set problems for the Lone King." King Yong Li Shi, who had been thinking for a long time and still had no clue, seemed to be looking at the dull sky under the dark clouds outside the window, muttering to himself.

After a moment, the prince, who was increasingly upset, seemed to be trying to drive away some suffocating thoughts in his heart. He waved his hand in a mess and turned around and ordered: "Go, please ask Zhenren Li... Oh! No, I'm always here."

Seeing that the prince was in a bad mood, Xiao Huangmen responded respectfully, and after bowing, he turned around and left quietly. In just a moment, Chang Gun, who was handling official duties in the Imperial City Secretariat's Office, had arrived in response.

When he got up after the ceremony, Chang Gun glanced at the two memorials on the tables in front of the prince, and immediately felt as clear as a mirror of the reason why the prince urgently summoned him to come.

Unconsciously knocked on the two memorials with his right hand for a long time, and then the Crown Prince spoke quietly: "Chang Xiang, have you read all the two memorials of the Hexi Road Jiedushi Hehefan Alliance Envoy?"

According to the rules, the memorials presented by the Daozhou Prefectures in the world were first reviewed by the Secretary of the Central Committee and the heads of the two provinces under the jurisdiction of the two provinces. If it is a small matter, it will be directly approved and submitted to the brief. When encountering things that the two provinces are difficult to decide, the memorial was submitted and listened to the sage. As the Chief Secretary of the Central Committee, Chang Gun was the Secretary of the Central Committee, and the memorial was presented by him. He had never seen it there. The prince’s question was really strange, but Chang Gun just replied respectfully: "Yes, I have seen it."

Upon hearing this, the prince, who seemed a little absent-minded, was silent for a moment before asking: "In your opinion, as Cui Po's memorial said, these thousand people who returned home in advance want to come to Chang'an to thank the holy grace, is it accurate or not?"

"Since the Anshi Rebellion, our dynasty has never had such a great victory in foreign affairs. This time, the return of 170,000 captured people is a sign of revival in our dynasty. The reason why these thousand representatives of the 1000 people who wanted to come to Chang'an to bow to the palace, and they were absolutely accurate. In the foolish opinion of the old minister, not only should they be accurate, but they should also be responsible for the road along the road, carefully receiving and making great contributions. As Cui Zhen said, this move will greatly encourage the people's morale and show the people's will to the vassal states in the world. It is really great!" Chang Gun, who is familiar with the habits of the prince, agreed without hesitation.

"What Chang Xiang said is so much, this matter will be handled like this." The prince, who had a certain opinion, said casually, and then he was silent again. The hand that hit the memorial became more and more urgent. Only after half a cup of tea did he ask again: "The matter of Guo Xi, the governor of Anxi, who was reported to Hexi Road, was accused of the border defense and the matter of black-clothed food and using the road to attack Tubo, Chang Xiang thought what should be done?"

When talking about this, Chang Gun was really angry. Seeing that Cui Po, the Cui family's backwards, had only been in office for half a year, he showed his strength. His decisive and cruel behavior was only terrifying and moving. In time, it would be far more difficult to deal with than his square and gentleman uncle. Therefore, this time he insisted on letting Cui Po go to Tubo, which would be better if he could use a knife to kill people. Even if this could not be done, it would not be bad to use the Western barbarians to defeat his sharpness. But he never expected that this son could turn his hands back, not only to show his power in foreign lands, but also to make such a wonderful achievement. The key to all this lies in the Dashi of Guo Xi, the governor of the four towns of Anxi. How could he not hate him? However, as the parent-child of Guo Lao Linggong, Guo Xi, is different from the young son-in-law Cui Po, who was already tense with the Guo family, and he had to have some concerns. This is really difficult to say.

After a while, he said carefully: "The fact that the matter of using the Dashida for black clothes and big food has a profound impact. The old ministers are worried that it is easy to attract tigers and difficult to drive them away. It is precisely because of this that the Secretariat rejected the proposal of the Dashima mission that day." First, he cleared his relationship and looked at the expressionless face of His Royal Highness Chang Gunxu said: "This matter has evolved to this point. Although our dynasty temporarily takes profit, what is the final consequence?

Unpredictable? It is a good idea to open the border defense... This matter is very important. As the old minister saw, although this matter was done by Lord Guo, the root cause is that General Cui Zhen. After he returned to Beijing to summon him, he would be the district office!" At this point, he avoided Guo Xi and vaguely put the serious crime on Lord Hefan, who was thousands of miles away. Just because he did not know the prince's tendency to this matter, Chang Gun reserved some regression in his words.

After listening quietly, the prince did not comment. He seemed to be casually speaking: "Chang Xiang has been an official for many years, and has been in charge of the Ministry of Personnel twice. I think there must be something unique about this technique of observing people. According to what Chang Xiang saw, what exactly is Cui Po?"

A seemingly plain sentence sounded like a thunderbolt. With his understanding of the prince, he naturally knew that there was a doubt hidden under his calm appearance. He couldn't help but feel happy and suppressed himself. He picked up the teacup on the side of his body and sipped it. He also said casually in a quiet tone: "Look at the fact that Cui Zhen will join the government in the past year, destroy the powerful and borrowed money from the Buddhist temple. In this alliance with Tubo, he even turned his hand to cloud, attract the big food to attack Tubo, mobilize the eight towns of Shence and Jiannan Prefecture, and made great achievements in creating momentum. He is already so extraordinary at a young age, and it is even more difficult to limit the amount. This kind of behavior without any rituals, laws, regulations, and ruthless and decisive style reminds the old minister of a person."

The hand that was hitting the memorial was slowed down, and the prince asked calmly: "Oh! Who did Chang Xiang remember?"

Taking advantage of putting down the teacup in his hand, he lowered his head to avoid the prince's burning eyes. Chang Gun said in a faint tone without any change: "It was Cao Cao and Cao Mengde, one of the four horses in Luoyang at the end of the Han Dynasty, who was named "a capable minister in governing the world and a hero in troubled times" by Xu You."

The hand that was hitting the memorial suddenly stopped, and then pressed heavily on the table again. The prince stood up suddenly and stared at Chang Gun with horror. After a long time, he was about to speak, but he saw a flash of lightning outside the window and bursts of thunder sounded. He had accumulated for a long time. The rare rainstorm in Chang'an was pouring down.

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Three days after the renovation of Shanzhou, the capital of Hexi Road, the delegation of the Alliance finally waited for the imperial court to order him to return to Chang'an with thousands of people who returned to China in advance. Not surprisingly, the delegation praised the members of the delegation, especially the imperial guards and soldiers. However, unexpectedly, the imperial decree only mentioned the words "Take the King's Affairs" in the imperial decree, and there was nothing else.

Cui Po, whose heart suddenly sank, his face remained unchanged and he knelt down and thanked him. After getting up to receive the imperial edict, he ordered his entourage to pack his bags and set off to return to Beijing.

The people on the Tang and Turkish border, who were about to go to Chang'an to pay homage to thank the heavens, reluctantly took off their bright clothes that had just been on their upper body, and after putting these Chinese clothes provided by Hexi Road into their own cloth bags, they still changed their ragged robes when they returned home. Under the bright armor and fierce dragon spirits and tigers, they drove eastward towards Chang'an.

The journey was extremely slow. Whenever I arrived at a state, the local officials would lead Hezhou officials out of the city to welcome him. When they entered the city, there were even more curious people in the city cheering and greeting him. These old-fashioned and ragged people implemented the spirit of the teachings of Lord Cui of Hefan. After being solemnly welcomed by the people of various places, they scattered and scattered food and began to complain about the miserable family history of being captured by Tubo. It was a history of blood and tears. With the fermentation of imagination, one person often cried into thousands of people and finally sang to cry together. After satisfying the endless curiosity of the people of the states along the road, they also saw that there were so many people more miserable than their own lives, thus gaining a lot of spiritual comfort.

But suffering alone is depressing. On this happy day of being free from suffering and returning to the country, it is necessary and natural to appear a hero who leads everyone out of the sea of ​​suffering.

Of course, who is more suitable for being this hero than Lord Cui of Fan? He came from a noble family, handsome young man and romantic, and even defeated so many stout Tubo barbarians. He became a hero of the Jockey Club in front of everyone, and even took the first beauty of the Tubo tribe into his arms. Oh my God! He is actually the top scorer in the new dynasty. In countless stories, the returning people suddenly discovered that the person in front of them always gave their mounts to their children. The alliance with a warm smile on his face made the adults simply a natural hero. It is not too much to use his imagination in him.

After dozens of repeated retelling, the members of the Thousand People's Group, who showed great skill, began to add a bright color to the story of their tragic encounter. At the end of the story, the gods and gods always appear as jade. The white shirts fluttering alliance master, he waved his hand like a strolling in the garden, and the muscular clowns of the Tubo tribe were wiped out. The first beauty of the Tubo tribe took the initiative to throw herself into her arms with her eyes shining; and then, the hero was even more lonely

Zampkin's tent, which was guarded by tens of thousands of troops, was shocked by the enemy, and cried and confessed his crimes. He soon sent out the 170,000 Tang people who had captured over the years. However, when the hero who showed his power to the enemy was tender, he would comfort every Tang people who had suffered misfortune. He never wanted to ride a horse, but left the divine horse born to the Dragon King to the weakest child; he would give every bite of delicious food to the most needed one

The elderly who need to be nourished; he will also distribute his generous tent to those weak patients who cannot bear the cold. In short, he is the embodiment of beauty and wisdom, courage, heroism and chivalrous. You can use every word of praise on him, and you can find enough evidence to prove that he does have such qualities and virtues. According to convention, at the end of the story, you must always end with such a rhetoric question, and the tearful narrators have a light smile on their faces with a happier smile on their faces.

Ask a gentle question: "Do you know who this Lord Cui is?" Then there was a silence that was kept in silence. When they stirred up the curiosity of the people to the peak, they would say softly: "He is the first prize in the new Jinshi in this dynasty, Cui Pocui." Then, with a wise smile, quietly listening to the exclamation like a mountain collapse and tsunami, and looking at the extremely shocking faces. At this point, the narrator and the listener were satisfied to the greatest extent.

Those scholars who studied hard behind closed doors murmured and said, "Resolve the affairs of the king and win the reputation of the past and behind the body" and were on the golden list, and the desire to leap the dragon gate was gone; those brave men who were determined to fight for military affairs and kill enemies and make achievements left with the desire to destroy the ugly people in the foreign land; those young girls who were in their hearts and happened to see the handsome faces of the Hefan Gong when they entered the city, with colorful and bright bubbles, they were conceiving countless "ifs", and their hearts were not

After leaving, only a group of idle people who were still unsatisfied were held. A big discussion about whether Lord Cui was Wenqu Star or Wuwei Star. Since there were sufficient arguments available on both sides, the discussion became protracted and indirectly increased the attendance rate of local teahouses by 20%. Some teahouse owners were delighted and asked someone to draw Lord Cui to hold a book in one hand and hold a sword in the other hand hanging in the door, standing with the tea saint Lu Yu, and cigarettes were offered to him every day.

There was also a down-and-out scholar who failed to make a fortune and found business opportunities in it. After carefully conceiving and polishing it, he quit his wife and son and went to the subordinate counties and townships that had never stopped in the mission, and started to tell the sensational story of "the beautiful women were in love with each other, and the top scholar was showing off their power in foreign lands." The characters of this dynasty had endless selling points, so they naturally exchanged for listeners and only made a fortune.

The Tang Dynasty's rare victory after the Anshi Rebellion and the return of 170,000 captured people made the Tang people recall the glory of the Kaiyuan prosperous era with great clarity. After more than ten years of displaced and war, they urgently needed heroes, using their imagination, their own language, and their longing for the prosperous era to shape their heroes.

The team came into the city with the solemn and warm welcome from the officials and people of each state, and left the city with the reluctance of the people of Hecheng. The itinerary of the journey became extremely slow. It was only in the early summer when peach blossomed again, and the team of more than a thousand people who had been exhausted by the noisy and troubles of the road had just arrived at Xinfeng County outside Chang'an City, Xijing, Gyeonggi Province.
Chapter completed!