"Phew! Phew!"
"State Preceptor... State Preceptor! Are you certain that in that future civil war of the Tang Dynasty, our Tang Dynasty suffered thirty-six million casualties?"
Li Shimin clutched his chest, panting heavily like a bloodthirsty tiger, the killing intent in his eyes utterly undisguised!
"Yes!"
"Argh...!"
As Qing Mo answered flatly, Li Shimin flew into a towering rage. He overturned the table before him and smashed it brutally across the great hall!
Hearing Li Shimin's furious roars and the sounds of things being smashed within the hall, the eunuchs and palace maids outside were so frightened that they all dropped to their knees, trembling without stop!
"Why? Why did so many people die?"
"State Preceptor! What exactly happened in the An Lushan Rebellion? And how did it come about?"
His eyes bloodshot, Li Shimin wished he could personally travel to the future Tang Dynasty Qing Mo had spoken of and strangle that Tang emperor, along with the rebel traitor who had launched the uprising!
"In the eleventh month of the fourteenth year of the Tianbao era, An Lushan, who concurrently held the posts of military governor of the three regions of Fanyang, Pinglu, and Hedong, used the pretext of 'worrying over the peril facing the state' and obeying a secret imperial edict to punish Yang Guozhong. He raised troops in Fanyang and rebelled, leading an army of one hundred and fifty thousand south!"
"The rebel army swept forward with irresistible force, soon crossing the Yellow River and seizing vast stretches of land!"
"In the twelfth month of the fourteenth year of Tianbao, An Lushan's rebels captured Luoyang. An Lushan proclaimed himself Emperor of Great Yan in Luoyang and established a separatist regime. Then the rebels continued westward, pointing straight at Chang'an!"
"Li Longji, the Tang emperor who had ushered