The charcoal fire in the big tent was red, and the temperature in the big tent was as hot as the spring was in March, but everyone felt the cold air emitted from Li Cheng.

Li Chengqian never planned to let Li Simo go, and even more than 10,000 Turkic nobles from Chang'an were planning to wait until the northern borders, and then send all those people to the south to work as hard laborers.

But he can't kill Li Simo now.

There are 30,000 Turkic tribes over there, and these 30,000 Turkic tribes are guarding tens of thousands of Xueyantuo surrendered soldiers. What should I do if Li Simo Turkic tribes and Xueyantuo surrendered soldiers jointly took him?

Li Chengqian originally wanted to blur Li Simo's sins first, and wait until he met with Li Shimin before causing trouble for the Turks. So although Cheng Wuting killed Kang Quda, he only asked Li Simo for a reason and then "believe him."

But now Li Simo pleaded guilty, and Li Chengqian could only exempt him from his guilt when he could not kill him. As the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, he would be exempted from his guilt. He would never be punished for Li Simo as a Turkic in the future.

In fact, based on Li Simo's performance in this battle and the fact that the current coalition of both sides is in fact, Li Chengqian should have taken the initiative to waive him of his guilt. Otherwise, Li Simo would be very dangerous if he was concerned about Li Chengqian.

However, Li Chengqian has always been strong and believes that he has a strong army to protect him, so he doesn't care about Li Simo at all.

But now that Li Simo mentioned this, he would have to make a clear statement of exemption from punishment, otherwise Li Simo would be uneasy and would inevitably cause trouble.

Although Li Chengqian was unwilling to accept it, he decided to let Li Simo go for the sake of current safety.

But if you let go, you still have to put on the airs, and asked ruthlessly: "Have you found it?"

In fact, Li Chengqian didn't care about Lu Zhi's life or death, but at this time he only asked Lu Zhi, which was to show Li Simo that he only hated Lu Zhi.

Li Simo said in fear and trepidation: "Return to the Crown Prince, I ordered my prisoners to search carefully several times yesterday. But I never found Lu Zhi, thinking that he was dead. Lu Zhi is a criminal under my tent. Lu Zhi's crimes are all because of his poor discipline. Now that I can't find Lu Zhi, I ask His Royal Highness to govern his crime."

Sure enough, Li Simo really thought that Li Chengqian only hated Lu Zhi, so he chose him as soon as he opened his mouth, and only admitted that he was not strict in discipline.

Li Chengqian was not angry to death when he heard this, but he pretended to be generous: "The Gu Wang is a person who understands the truth and will not vent his anger on you because of Lu Zhi's crimes.

You have made great contributions to the destruction of Xue Yantuo this time. Just go and check Lu Zhi’s whereabouts and arrest him. Then you will be rewarded with a Turkic family in accordance with merits and deeds.”

The Tang generals in the tent were relieved to hear Li Chengqian appease Li Simo. They were really afraid that Li Chengqian would insist on doing his own thing and punish Li Simo for now.

Li Simo was very happy when he heard this, and quickly knelt down on his knees and said in an excited voice, "Thank you for not killing your prince."

Li Chengqian looked at Li Simo and knelt down to thank him, and sighed inwardly: Let you feel at ease today, and you will naturally destroy your entire clan in the future.

He raised his hands and helped Li Simo with a smile and said, "General Li, please calm down quickly. If you win today, don't say that." Then he signaled Liu Kui to help Li Simo up.

Li Simo felt relieved after getting up. Li Chengqian agreed to forgive the crime, whether it was sincere or not, it means that he would not touch him during this period, so he could feel at ease to kill Xue Yantuo's captive.

In the early spring, he led his troops to flee to Mobei. The male members of Xueyantuo's main unit were here. Most of the men brought by Bazhuo were strong men from other tribes in Mobei. When the tribes saw that the Yi Nan was captured by the Tang Dynasty, they naturally would not support Xueyantuo anymore.

As long as the Turks killed all Xue Yantuo's prisoners, they could directly accept Xue Yantuo's women, children, cattle and sheep, and build Turkic khan tents north of the desert.

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Although letting Li Simo outrage Li Chengqian was angry, other things still have to be done.

Now that the mountains are covered with heavy snow, the end of the year is approaching, and there is a great victory here, so the army naturally needs to rest on the spot.

Therefore, Li Chengqian immediately ordered that in addition to preparing to celebrate the great victory, he also made arrangements for the subsequent training of each army.

The matters here were arranged, and Li Chengqian ordered Wang Qun to send someone to deliver a letter to Li Shimin. He had already captured Xueyantuo Khan, but there were still 200,000 Xueyantuo troops in the south that were fighting against the Tang Dynasty. The news of the arrest of Yi Nan must be transmitted back as soon as possible, so that the troops who followed Bazhuo surrendered without fighting, which would reduce the burden on the Tang army.

Li Chengqian handled the post-war affairs in an orderly manner, but there was an undercurrent in the Turkic camp outside the Tang army camp, and the target of this undercurrent was Li Chengqian.

Li Simo thought it would be safe if he stabilized Li Chengqian and fled to Mobei, but some people's ideas were different from him. Even in Mobei, Xue Yantuo had always been lying in the power of the Tang army. What is the result now?

Moreover, Li Chengqian was extremely determined to kill. Wang Qun had already hinted that he would starve tens of thousands of Xue Yantuo Ding Zhuang to death. It can be seen that Li Chengqian's existence is a threat to the tribes in the northern desert.

If the Li Chengqian Turkic clan cannot be dealt with, even if he fled to Mobei, he would not end up well.

There was only one person who could see this in the Turkic camp and analyze it for Li Simo to hear, then Lu Zhi.

After being captured by Xue Yantuo, Lu Zhi was kept in the sheep pen and made his body dirty and smelly. When he was escaping with Xue Yantuo people in the chaos, he was captured by the Tang army and locked up in the Xue Yantuo captive camp.

Later, he secretly contacted Li Simo and carefully analyzed the situation of Li Simo and the Turkic tribe to Li Simo.

However, Li Simo had a psychological shadow on Li Chengqian and was no longer willing to touch Li Chengqian. He just wanted to avoid the Tang Dynasty and Li Chengqian from afar.

Seeing this, Lu Zhi knew that he would not get support from Li Simo, so he returned to Xue Yantuo's captive camp.

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"Your Highness the Crown Prince is going to kill Yi Nan and others now?" Su Dingfang looked at Li Chengqian with a serious expression.

It has been half a month since the Turkic attacks, and one-third of Xue Yantuo's prisoners died of starvation. So Li Chengqian summoned everyone to kill Xue Yantuo's nobles headed by Zhenzhu Khan.

But as soon as Li Chengqian expressed his thoughts, everyone in the tent was shocked by Li Chengqian's boldness.

Not to mention the precedent that the leader of other clans who had never been captured alive before the Tang Dynasty, even if he wanted to kill the Yi Nan, he had to be given the will of Li Shimin to kill him.

Li Chengqian could kill all the general Xue Yantuo soldiers, but the Khan and a group of nobles had to be handed over to Li Shimin.

Li Chengqian took everyone's expressions into his eyes and said calmly: "Li Simo, you have seen it too. If you are not my race, your heart will be different. Keeping it will be a disaster. It is better to kill it as soon as possible."

The atmosphere in the big tent was a bit depressing. Everyone knew that Li Chengqian had always been strong in doing things. At this time, he told them that it was just notifying them that this matter was already a matter of being decided.

Xu Jingzong looked at Li Chengqian and then looked at everyone sighed secretly, stood up and bowed to Li Chengqian and said, "Your Highness the Crown Prince has made up his mind that he should not advise again, but that Yi Nan is the same prince of the Khan Xue Yantuo who was conferred by our Tang Dynasty. If the Crown Prince wants to kill him, he must submit an order to sue him before he can take action. Will Your Majesty blame him..."

Li Chengqian suddenly lowered his face when he heard this and interrupted him, "The emperor will be responsible for all the orders of the outside king. At this time, the news of the heavy snow blocking the mountain is difficult to understand. Kill them first."

The generals in the tent were very embarrassed when they thought about it. They helped the prince to break through Xue Yantuo Khan's tent and captured Xue Yan Khan alive. However, if Li Shimin's will be killed, it would be equivalent to overstepping the power, and it was the emperor's great power to seize life and death by the external chief. Li Shimin's reaction can be imagined.

It’s okay for Li Chengqian to be the crown prince, but what about them?

Thinking of this, Su Dingfang had to get up and give a deep tribute, and said bitterly: "Your Highness the Crown Prince is so heroic that he can defeat Xue Yantuo with a small test. I am really lucky to be able to serve in front of Your Highness the Crown Prince.

Since Xue Yantuo Khan has been captured, he should be taken back to Chang'an to question him. He will make his crimes clear and declare them to the world to show the power of our great Tang Dynasty."

Li Chengqian understood that what Su Dingfang said was right, and that the Ming Zhengpao punishment was punished. He complained about Yi Nan's crimes (mainly against the Tang Dynasty) in front of envoys from various countries, and then killed him would naturally have better results.

However, there was a problem in China throughout the ages, that is, they would not kill the enemy's chief leader. In order to show their leniency, they would also have to give him an official position and raise him well.

Of course, there were also those who were killed afterwards. For example, Li Houzhu Li Yu was not killed when he surrendered to the Song Dynasty, but was only poisoned to death after the political situation in the Song Dynasty was stable.

However, there are also those who died in their sanity, such as Liu Chan, the late lord of Shu, who became Anle Duke after surrendering to Wei, and Chen Shubao, the late lord of Chen, became the Duke of the Great Wall County after surrendering to Sui, and they all enjoyed wealth and honor and died in their sanity.

These people are all about the Han culture, and keeping these people is indeed conducive to the unity of the country.

However, the Tang Dynasty applied this to the Turkic Jili Khan and a large number of Turkic nobles, which caused the Turkic nobles to escape from Chang'an City and establish the Turkic ones.

Li Chengqian knew that with Li Shimin's temper, he would inevitably show off in front of envoys from various countries when he captured Yi Nan, and then he would raise Yi Nan and a group of Xue Yan nobles in Chang'an City with delicious food and drink.

This seems to be very benevolent and righteous on the surface, and the tribes in the north of Mo will inevitably fall in love with their ministers, but in fact, it makes them feel dependent on their presence or not, which is extremely unfavorable to subsequent cultural transformation of these people.

Li Chengqian knew that his talents were limited and it was impossible for the grassland tribes to retain their own cultural traditions, as well as Han culture and Tang Dynasty law. If these people could not accept Han culture and Tang Dynasty law, accepting their ministers would be nothing but gaining a false reputation and leaving hidden dangers.

This is something that Li Chengqian could not tolerate, so he must kill all the nobles of the Xueyantuo clan here, so that their ordinary tribe members would no longer know who their ancestors were, and thus turn them into part of the Han tribe.
Chapter completed!