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A stolen unformed head was placed on Yu Sheshi's desk.

In the big tent, Yu Sheshi recognized it at a glance. This was the assassin he chose to assassin to assassin Li Chao.

"It is like killing Li Chao to take something out of his bag, but he was taken to the head. It's idiot, useless!" Yu Shexi cursed.

"Yu Shexi invited me to come here just to see this head? What's so good about this? My eyes were dug up, and my dough was almost gnawed by wolves. It was no different from a skull. What did Yu Shexi ask me to see?" While holding a knife in his hand, Yu Guxi said casually while sliced ​​mutton from the baking tray.

"This man was once a clever assassin, disguised himself assassination and was very capable."

"But he only has one head here now." Yu Gu Shi smiled.

"I sent him to kill Li Chao, but now Li Chao has sent someone else's head. It seems that the assassin not only failed to complete the task, but also told Li Chao about his identity and mission." Yu She said.

Yu Gu Shi put away his smile on his face.

"You are so brave. Before Dahan left, he told us not to provoke Tangren on his own initiative. But you, Dahan had just left, and you sent someone to assassinate Li Chao. What are you trying to do? Provoke Tangren to attack us?"

"I have a grudge with Li Chao."

"You can endure it for a few years before avenging you."

"Li Chao will sooner or later be a big trouble for us. Now if he has the chance to not kill him, he will not have the chance when he returns."

"But you just gave an assassin for nothing." Yugu Shi was dissatisfied.

Yu Sheshi waved his hand, and he asked Gu Shelai to come, not to argue with him about these things, but to come to him, but to join forces with him to get rid of Li Chao.

He had long believed that Li Chao was the one who framed him behind the scenes and stabbed him with his back. In addition, Li Chao's fiefdom north of Langshan, he recruited those grassland tribes, which infringed on Yu Sheshe's interests.

He was originally located in Henan, which was the most abundant Hetao grassland. Now that Hetao fell into the hands of the Tang people, he was named western part of the south of the desert by Tongyehu, but the best grassland in the south of the desert is still in the south of Yinshan. In the north of the desert, there are not many good grasslands. Now Li Chao still recruits people everywhere, so that his few tribal troops are still losing. How can he bear it?

If this continues, all the people on his territory ran to Shannan, and Li Chao ran to Tangren's territory, and became Tangren's subordinates. Then what else can he think of this?

"I got the news that Li Chao will soon enter Hetao from the fiefdom north of Langshan through the entrance of Langshan Mountain, and then return to Xiangyang through Lingzhou. The 5,000 cavalry beside Li Chao will leave 3,000 in the north of the mountain, and only two thousand cavalry will go south. This is our opportunity, just two thousand cavalry, and we have to pass through Hetao, and the uninhabited land in Shuofang for hundreds of miles. This is our opportunity. We will pick an elite force and intercept Li Chao from the south."

The abrupt war just ended, although the Hetao area belongs to the Tang Dynasty.

But not long ago, during the war, Changsun Wuji retreated all people from Hetao, and even the Hequ land in Shuofang became almost uninhabited. In the cold winter, the Tang Dynasty did not immediately enter these areas.

Li Chao had to return from the north and pass through this hundreds of miles of unmanned land.

He only has two thousand riders around him, and no matter how elite he is, there are only two thousand riders.

Yu Sheshe didn't want to let the tiger go back to the mountain, and didn't want Li Chao to go back alive. He wanted to intercept Li Chao and kill him.

"Are you crazy? Kill Li Chao?" Yu Gu Shi was surprised by the madness of Yu Sheshi.

"I'm not crazy, I just want to kill Li Chao."

"What's the use of killing one Li Chao? Killing one Li Chao, there will be countless Tang generals such as Li Jing, Li Ji, Changsun Wuji, Yuchi Gong, Qin Qiong. If you send assassins to assassinate Li Chao, you can still find excuses to refuse to admit it after failure, but if we send troops across the border to intercept Li Chao, this is something that cannot be concealed. At that time, the Tang people will be furious? We will be the first to send troops to the north to attack."

Yu Sheshi couldn't listen at all.

"Just killing one Li Chao, Tangren can't go to war with them again for him. They have been seeking peace this time."

Yugu Shira still shook his head, "It's too risky."

"There is no place in Yugu, but this is not the northern part of the Mo. To the south of our country is the Tang people. Now the Khan and the Tang people are peaceful, and the Yinshan Mountains are all over the Tang people. There is no barrier between us and the Tang people. Once the Tang people recover, they will definitely send troops to fight for revenge in the Northern Expedition. At that time, you and I will be the first to be affected."

"What does that have to do with killing Li Chao?"

"This time, the Khan conscripted hundreds of thousands of string control men from various troops, with strong soldiers and strong horses, but as a result, one Li Chao, tens of thousands of soldiers, killed Tuli and annihilated 100,000 warriors. The Khan had only hundreds of thousands of troops, so he could only negotiate peace with Tang. Isn't this enough to show Li Chao's power?"

"Yugushi, if you are afraid of Li Chao, then I will lead the troops alone to kill Li Chao."

Town Hubao.

Li Chao decided to let Su Lie lead 3,000 troops to stay at Langshan Pass and station in Zhenhu Fort.

"Prime Minister, be careful of the Turks. Since they dare to send assassins, they can also send troops to intercept them halfway. This place is hundreds of miles away from Lingzhou. It is better to wait in Zhenhu Fort, go to Lingzhou and ask the other side to send troops to pick them up. Or, I will take my brothers to send the Prime Minister back to Lingzhou first and then come back."

Li Chao smiled.

"If you pass Langshan here, it is Hetao. In the Hetao grassland, the Turks have no advantage. They want to come over, and the journey is even longer. If the weather is severe today, it is inconvenient to march. If they want to come, they can only come in small groups, and it cannot exceed ten thousand people. If they come a few thousand people, they think they can intercept and kill me, Li Chao, in Hetao, then they would be too arrogant."

"If they dare to come, I will tell them to come and go."

Xiangyang.

Changle Palace.

Li Shimin brought the queen, the prince and other princesses to the Taishang Palace for a family banquet. Every month, the emperor would bring his family to the Taishang Palace for dinner at night.

This family dinner will inevitably be called the King of Nanhai and Hailing, and sometimes the other princesses in Xiangyang and other sons of the Supreme Emperor.

Every family dinner is in a neat manner, but the atmosphere will never be happy.

"Congratulations to Your Majesty, you have repelled the Turks and forced the Turks to successfully negotiate peace."

Li Yuan picked up the wine glass and toasted the emperor.

The members of the royal family in the hall stopped the knife, fork and chopsticks in their hands and looked over together.

Li Shimin smiled and picked up the wine glass. "Thank you to your Majesty to be blessed, and God's blessing."

Li Yuan snorted, "This time I am really lucky. Li San's trick has succeeded again. He has made a strategy of stabbing the walls and clearing the scorched earth. Coupled with his sudden and sharp carelessness in underestimating the enemy, Li San made another great contribution. However, Emperor, what are you going to use to repay Li San? He has made a lot of contributions this time."

Li Shimin put down his wine glass, "Wenyuan is indeed of great achievements. I have decided to enfeoff two hundred miles on his fiefdom of 300 miles and divide it to his father and sons. In this way, the Li family will have 500 miles of ranks and the first vassal of this dynasty."

"The fiefdom of five hundred miles is the first vassal of the country. The emperor is very generous and generous. But I would like to ask, what will the emperor plan to make arrangements after Li Chao returns to the court? He is already a prosecutor of the Zhongshu Ling, and he is also a clerk of the Zhongshu Ling, and also holds important positions. This time he returns to the court, he can't just add some fiefdoms, don't add some official positions? How can Li Chao add the position? Should he add the third division and three dukes, or should he directly replace Fang Du and become the Zhongshu Ling or the Shizhong?"

Li Yuan looked at the emperor's son with a smile. In the boring life, it has become one of his few fun to find some unhappiness for the emperor. Another fun is to have a child.

"Is it hard to reward merit?"

Li Shimin didn't speak.

"Emperor, if I were you, I wouldn't have let Li Chao come back."

Li Shimin raised his eyelids and looked at the emperor with indifference.

"Don't look at me like this. I'm not trying to alienate the relationship between your monarch and minister. I'm just thinking about the Tang Dynasty. Although I'm not the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, you are also my son. The emperor will be my grandson in the future. Li San is the more I look at him, I'm more shocked. I advise the emperor. You should pay more attention to Li San and pay attention to the Li family. I heard that the Li family recruits soldiers and horses everywhere recently, and they want to build their territory? The Li family has a strong financial resources. I heard that even you, the emperor, borrowed money from the Li family. Li San is cunning but has indeed had the ability. In just a few years, he has become the most important minister, and the Li family has strong financial resources. Now Your Majesty has given Li Chao a fief of 500 miles of territory. Your Majesty, don't worry, is this a disaster for raising a tiger?"

Li Shimin shook his head slowly.

"Wenyuan is loyal to me."

"Maybe, maybe he was loyal to the emperor before, but never believe that there will be any eternal loyalty. I would like to advise the emperor to say that the so-called loyalty is nothing more than the lack of chips for betrayal. Never hand over the hilt to others!"

When Li Yuan said this, he was very moved.

This is what he said in his heart.

Loyalty, how much is that thing worth?

Even father and son are unreliable, let alone monarch and minister. He was the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and wasn’t he also taken away the throne by his own uterus?

Li Chao was just an outsider who gave the surname to his family. His achievements were getting bigger and bigger, his official titles were getting higher and higher, and his strength was getting stronger and stronger.

If Li Chao is given such a large territory, sooner or later, Li Chao will be full of wings. If one day Li Chao's wings become hard and the Li family is weak, who can guarantee that Li Chao will be loyal to the Tang Dynasty?

Even if Li Shimin really sees that Li Chao will be loyal, who can guarantee that Li Chao's son will be loyal, and who can guarantee that his grandson will always be loyal?

The Sima family was once a minister of Cao Wei, but eventually usurped the Wei regime. Liu Yu was once the pillar of Gancheng State in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but eventually usurped the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

There are too many such things. I think Li Yuan was once a relative of the Sui Dynasty and a minister in the court. But at the end of the Sui Dynasty, he also had a rebel army and finally usurped the Sui Dynasty.

Li Yuan opposed the division of feudalism, especially the division of territory to outsiders. Even those remote places on the border cannot be granted to outsiders at will.
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