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Barkley was about to confess.

Suddenly he remembered the deliberate reminder Wu Chengsi gave him when he met him just now.

He now realized that once he admitted that he was a spy, he would definitely die. This was an indisputable fact.

If he wanted to use his own death to cause unrest in the Tang Dynasty court and bring down the most important official of the Tang Dynasty, it might not have any impact on the most important official Wu Chengsi.

the reason is simple.

The current Queen of the Tang Dynasty has only one other imperial concubine as a relative, and among the remaining concubines, the one with the most powerful family is undoubtedly Wu Chengsi.

Moreover, King Xia is still alive, so whether Li Cunxi has the intention to reduce the power of the Wu family or not, he must not show it in the next few years.

Putting this idea aside, all that remains is to keep yourself useful.

So, how should it be preserved?

"I'm sorry, Karai."

Barkley muttered to himself.

As for Kale, whom he sent out personally, he could only treat him as a discarded pawn.

"Your Majesty, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, please allow me to argue. If what I say is wrong, Your Majesty will deal with it later."

He spoke to Li Cunxi with a sincere look on his face.

Li Cunxi didn't know when a document appeared in his hands. He held it in both hands and said:

"Then try to speak for yourself. I want to know what you can say."

Barclay clasped his fists and said, "Your Majesty, a foreign minister has come here with such a grand delegation. What is the purpose? It is nothing more than an alliance between our two countries."

"The great Tang Dynasty's military deployment to Goguryeo and Japan was already a massive undertaking. Even if foreign officials learned of this, they shouldn't have sent intelligence back now."

"Furthermore, with such a large-scale military mobilization by the Tang Dynasty, even if the foreign ministers did not send intelligence back, I am sure that our Tibetan Empire would know about it."

"Foreign ministers do not need to wait so long before sending news back to the capital."

"Your Majesty is far-sighted, wise, and resourceful. He understands people's hearts, so how could he not understand? This foreign minister is truly wronged!"

"We came here to promote an alliance between our two countries. Why would a foreign minister do something that could easily provoke conflict between them? If a foreign minister does this well, he will surely have a bright future. Why would he act like a spy?"

The civil and military officials who were insightful had already guessed the occurrence of this scene, and it must have been within Li Cunxi's expectations.

They just watched Barkley's performance quietly.

This method of pushing the issue one way or another is something that all officials have used before, so they can see through it at a glance.

Even those who didn't understand could now figure it out. In addition, Li Cunxi had asked Wu Chengsi to reflect on his mistakes behind closed doors, so he obviously noticed the problem.

"What is your Majesty going to do?" Lu Dayou tilted his head and asked his nominal superior Wu Yanhao.

"Your Majesty always has to trick someone. This time, the one you're trying to trick is this Tibetan envoy. However, I just came back, so I haven't figured out what your Majesty is going to do."

Wu Yanhao claimed that he knew Li Cunxi very well, but he didn't see it at this moment.

He returned home overnight, and as soon as he got home he heard that his father had committed a crime. He didn't even have time to hold his child before he hurried to the court.

Only now did he barely understand the details of what happened, but he still hadn't figured out the positions of Li Cunxi, Wu Chengsi, Di Renjie, and Wu Yancheng in it.

On the dragon bed, Li Cunxi looked at the contents of the document with a smile. Even when Barkley stopped, he didn't say anything.

Looking at the smile on Li Cunxi's face, Barkley felt uneasy, fearing that Li Cunxi would have someone drag him out and behead him the next second.

In ancient times, people had to be polite to envoys, but if they were dealing with a spy, it would be okay to kill the person.

He is now afraid that Li Cunxi will not let this matter go.

Li Cunxi naturally guessed what Barkley was thinking.

"You said it well. I think it makes a lot of sense. After all, when you first received the news that the Tang Dynasty had declared war on the two countries, you did not send anyone to deliver the message back to Tubo."

"Besides, no one would not take their own life seriously. We only have one life, which is precious. Besides, you have a bright future."

Li Cunxi closed the document, stood up and walked down the hall.

"but……"

"The guy in the Inner Guards' prison, the one called Kale, has betrayed you."

He came up to Barkley, who was kneeling on the ground, and although his smile was gentle, it was creepy.

"In his confession, he said that you found Wu Chengsi, the most important official of the Tang Dynasty, and bribed him. You also confirmed the news of the attack on Goguryeo and Japan from him."

"This coincides with what you just said."

"But... you concealed another piece of information you confirmed, which is that our country is hollow and our defenses against the western front are extremely weak."

"The message you sent back to that Kalai was not only about the Tang Dynasty's campaign against Goguryeo and Japan, but also about the Tang Dynasty's empty treasury after the military expedition. You, the Tibetan Zanpu, could take advantage of this opportunity to invade."

Li Cunxi threw the document in front of Barkley.

"See for yourself!"

"Stupid as a pig!"

"You're playing this trick. Are you really unaware or are you pretending not to know? Decades ago, in the Tang Dynasty before us, there was a laborer named Li Jing who said something very famous."

"Of course, please don't take what I said today, minister in the court, seriously. I'm just quoting you. Don't think I'm poking you in the heart."

Li Cunxi deliberately coughed twice, and a minister named Tang below immediately covered his face with his palms.

He was really upset. If the emperor didn't mention him, he would have just endured it and let the matter go without saying.

Li Cunxi said: "Tang Jian and his kind are not worth pitying!"

Even though many ministers below guessed what this sentence was, they couldn't help laughing.

Barkley quickly lowered his head.

They knew how disgusting Li Jing's words were. When the envoy was talking with the king of the enemy country, the military god Li Jing led his troops over and swept through. Tang Jian almost died there.

From then on, whenever Tang Jian scolded Li Jing in front of Li Shimin, Li Shimin could only smile and say nothing.

"The lesson from the past is here. I can still talk to you nicely, not because I'm not angry, but because I have a good character and don't want to kill you."

"You want to be like Tang Jian, who voluntarily went to his death, but there is no Tang Jian who voluntarily went to his death in history. The only one in history who voluntarily went to his death was Li Shiqi, and he had no choice but to die because Han Xin's army was at the gates of the city."

"I am not Jie Li of the Turks, nor am I the King of Qi who cooked and killed Li Shiqi. I am the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. You want to learn that, but you can't."

"I know whether my teacher is confused or not. He certainly didn't tell you anything. He is very cautious."

"If he had not been careful back then and fought to the death for the throne, who knows who would be sitting here today."

"Of course, you might have thought of using this incident to sow discord between us, but you miscalculated. Even after the truth came to light, he is still my Minister of the Chancellery."