Datang: Destroy Tang Taizong Li Xiao at the beginning

At this time, a guard came in and said something in Xue Rengui's ear.

Xue Rengui immediately clasped his fists at Li Xiao and said: "Your Highness, our people have checked, this person is called Shang Mao Yexing, Dongying general, and a reckless man, this kind of person generally has no right to know military secrets."

"Then kill it!" Li Xiao waved his hand.

"You! Do you dare to kill me?"

Shang Mao Nogata said in surprise: "Many generals in your Tang Kingdom were also captured by us, and the exchange of prisoners has been a law since ancient times."

"Exchanging prisoners? Interesting." Li Xiao said with a smile. "Unfortunately, you know too much."

"You! You can't kill me, and you still have to exchange me for Tang's general..."

Kamige Nogata looked remorseful.

He co-authored his death because he asked too many questions that shouldn't be asked.

If he knew this, he would never talk too much.

"Procrastinate." Li Xiao was too lazy to say much.

"No!"

Shang Mao Yexing roared to the sky, but was dragged away mercilessly by the guards.

At this moment, another guard came to report.

"Your Highness, the scout battalion has caught a spy outside the city!"

Chapter 451: Yizhou Martial Arts Arena

"Spy? Whose spy?"

Li Xiao looked puzzled.

There is nothing to report when you catch a spy.

Basically as long as he went out, he was surrounded by groups of spies.

"He is from Dongying, but he didn't say anything during the interrogation. He only said that he would confess only when he saw His Highness." The guard said.

"see me?"

Li Xiao became suspicious.

Someone wants to send him a message?

What will happen if it is so secretive?

"Bring it up!" Li Xiao thought for a while and said.

After a while, the guards escorted a Dongying warrior to the lobby.

"Who is in the hall?" Li Xiao asked expressionlessly.

The guard took off the hood of the Japanese warrior, the warrior looked around, and then locked his eyes on Li Xiao.

"You are Yue Wang Li Xiao?"

The Japanese samurai asked in unfamiliar Chinese.

"It's this king, what's the matter with you?" Li Xiao said lightly.

The warrior rolled his eyes and glanced at the person next to him, as if confirming Li Xiao's identity.

After a while, a smile appeared on his face: "His Royal Highness, my lord asked me to bring you a word."

"What?"

"This sentence is..."

As the Dongying warrior said, he suddenly showed a sinister grin, his teeth seemed to crush something, and then spit out a mouthful of thick liquid at Li Xiao.

Strangely, the liquid turned out to be green.

Li Xiao's figure flashed immediately, and he retreated a few feet.

"court death!"

Xue Rengui's face was cold, and he was going to teach the Dongying warrior a lesson.

But Li Xiao's eyes sank, and he immediately shouted: "The air is poisonous, everyone, exit the lobby!"

After speaking, he left by himself through the window.

The faces of the guards suddenly changed, and they quickly retreated.

Xue Rengui came in front of Li Xiao and knelt down on one knee: "This subordinate has neglected his duties, please punish him, Your Highness."

Li Xiao looked at the sky, but fell into deep thought: "There is something wrong with this..."

It's normal for the Dongying people to send someone to poison him.

But this time he went north, he was extremely secretive and extremely fast.

It is impossible for the news to reach Japan in advance.

Otherwise, Shangmao Yexing wouldn't have waited until he was not far from the city of Huaizhou before leading troops out to intercept him.

"What is your Highness suspicious about?" Xue Rengui didn't know why.

"How did he know I was here?"

Li Xiao frowned and said: "It took us less than half a day to capture Huaizhou, and the nearest city is a day's journey away. The news is not so fast..."

"Your Highness suspects that someone has leaked our whereabouts?" Xue Rengui's face immediately became serious.

"do not know."

"Perhaps..." Xue Rengui pondered, "They were just ordered to attack His Highness, and they happened to meet His Highness here."

"It's not important, so what if they know?" Li Xiao quickly felt relieved.

After a pause, he asked again: "How far is Yizhou from here?"

"It's about two days' journey back to Your Highness." Xue Rengui replied.

"Take a break and leave in an hour."

"Yes!"

……

Two days later, Yizhou City.

Since Yizhou City was captured by Dongying, although the Dongying people were not slaughtered as soon as they entered the city like the Turks, the lives of the people were still miserable.

Everyone wants to leave this place of right and wrong.

Today, however, the guards at the city gate saw a scene that surprised them.

main entrance.

A caravan of more than a dozen carriages is being inspected.

The headed guard walked over, and couldn't help but laugh and said: "Although the notice to welcome the Tang Dynasty caravan has been sent out for a long time, this is the first time I have seen a Tang Dynasty caravan coming. It is interesting."

At the front of the caravan, Li Xiao smiled slightly: "There is an old saying in the Tang Dynasty, people make money and birds die for food. As long as there are interests, there are merchants who will not die."

"Do you understand the rules?" the guard asked again.

"Understood, the carriage is full of food and medicinal materials, without any weapons." Li Xiao cupped his hands and said, "After entering the city, go to the post station to pay taxes, and then you can buy and sell by yourself."

The reason why he appeared in this way was to avoid alarming the snake.

This operation is to save lives.

He can naturally storm the city, but Li Changge's safety cannot be guaranteed, after all, he doesn't even know where Li Changge is at the moment.

In short, find someone first.

Before entering the city, he inquired about Yizhou City.

After the Dongying people occupied the city, they did not engage in massacres frantically, but operated the city as a base.

Rather than grabbing hard, they prefer to squeeze the value of the Tang people.

First of all, taxes have doubled.

Second, they firmly control the grain in their own hands.

Want to eat?

Then take silver or valuables in exchange.

No?

Either obediently help them work as cheap labor.

Or, just go out of the city and find relatives and friends to borrow.

In order to prevent the people from fleeing, they also stipulated that anyone who is alone should not leave the city.

If you want to leave the city, you must have your relatives as hostages.

They also welcome Tang's caravans into the city.

Of course, the fee to enter the city is not small.

In order to find someone, Li Xiao only brought a dozen bodyguards, dressed up in disguise, and came here.

At this time, the guard at the door was still relentless, impatiently turning over the things on the carriage repeatedly.

It wasn't until Xue Rengui handed over a bag of silver that the guards smiled and let him go.

Li Xiao and his party entered the city smoothly.

Walking on the cold street, Li Xiao was lost in thought.

The first step is to find Li Jing's general named Su Changhe.

This person must have some information.

But looking at the situation in the city, this person is probably like a mouse, he doesn't know where to hide.

"Your Highness, why don't you go find him quietly?"

Xue Rengui also understands the predicament at the moment.

However, Li Xiao shook his head lightly: "When they entered the city, they should have counted our number, and there must be someone watching in secret. Leaving rashly will cause unnecessary trouble."

"What is your Highness going to do?"

"Go to the post station to pay for the ID card first, and then..." Li Xiao said thoughtfully, "Go sell food, don't show your feet."

"Where is Your Highness going?"

"Martial arts arena!"

In the city, the Dongying people set up a special venue.

With Dongying people as the masters, the people of Tang Kingdom challenged the competition.

If you win, you will not only get a lot of food, but also many unimaginable benefits, and if you lose, you will get nothing.

To be clear, this is to use Tang's martial arts practitioners to train them, and at the same time to understand Tang's martial arts methods, so as to prepare for the future full-scale conquest of the Central Plains.

"Martial arts arena?" Xue Rengui didn't know why, "Your Highness is going to a martial arts competition?"

"If you were Su Changhe, you were in urgent need of manpower at this moment, and at this time you found a Han Chinese with high martial arts skills, would you contact him?" Lianlian said with a smile.

"I see."

Xue Rengui nodded, no more words...

An hour later, Li Xiao came to a gate.

It can be seen that this was originally the mansion of a rich family, but at this time it was changed into a martial arts arena.

That is to say, it is not that the Dongying people do not rob, but only rob the powerful, and those poor people do not have much money to rob.

As soon as they arrived at the door, the Dongying warrior who was trying to dress up came forward and said coldly: "Identity card!"

If you don't register your ID card in Yizhou, you can only wait to die at home, you can't walk around at will, and you will face punishment if you are found out.

He went to the post station just now to get his ID card.