Chapter 108 Please ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to complete

A four-wheeled carriage slowly stopped on the bank of the Yuhe River, Li Xiuning looked at the brightly lit Yuhe Iron and Steel Plant, and listened attentively to the sound of tinkling bells in his ears.

Several Donggong Qingdao soldiers noticed the movement here, held torches, and ran quickly towards the carriage, shouting as they ran: "Who is there!" ”

Dancing torches, from far to near. When these Qingdao soldiers saw the princess of Pingyang clearly. There are also the squad sword armor soldiers standing around the four-wheeled carriage, these soldiers who lead the way, consciously retreat into the darkness.

Cui'er looked at Princess Li Xiuning of Pingyang and asked, "Princess, do you want the slave to go and report it?" ”

"No!" Li Xiuning shook his head. Continue to sit on the soft couch in the carriage, in fact, to say that the soft couch is already a little inappropriate, Chen Ying in Li Xiuning's four-wheeled carriage, used a lot of later styles, for example, Li Xiuning is actually sitting on a sofa now, the case in front of him, there are also a variety of combinations of kung fu, under the table, set up six small storage compartments, you can place chessboards, chess pieces, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and some scrolls, combined with Li Xiuning's liking for military, the front wall of the carriage is not an ordinary landscape painting, or a six-foot-wide, A one-foot map.

Moreover, it is also a military map, which is marked with Dou Jiande, the king of Xia in Hebei, Wang Shichong, the king of Zheng in the Central Plains, Lin Shihong, the king of Chu in the south of the Yangtze River, Xiao Milling the king of Liang, Shen Faxing, the governor of Jiangnan, Du Fuwei, the governor of Jianghuai, Li Zitong, the king of Wu in Jiangdu, Luo Yi in Youzhou, Wang Bo of Jiaodong in Qijun, Gao Kaidao, the king of Yan in Liaodong, and Zhu Cang, the king of Jialuo in Hanshui.

As usual, Cui'er skillfully unwound the wind, and when the clockwork was ready, the little puppets in the music box began to circle around the box, and the box made a pleasant sound of tinkling dong.

Li Xiuning looked at the map on the wall, frowning. Since this map is a topographic map of various forces in the world, Hangu Pass is only a small dot the size of a finger on the map, but Li Xiuning has been searching for information about Hangu Pass in his head.

Li Xiuning was fourteen and seventeen years old respectively, passing by Hangu Pass, for the steepness of Hangu Pass has a very deep impression, for Chen Ying this time to lead the troops to attack Hangu Pass, Li Xiuning believes that this is not a good errand, the best way to attack Luoyang is to go down the Yellow River, at this time the Yellow River is frozen, you can follow the Yellow River ice, all the way down, through Hongnong, to Luoyang.

But why did Chen Ying choose to take a hard-hitting style from Tongguan all the way to the east? This is obviously not Chen Ying's style, Chen Ying's most fearful thing to pay in a war is casualties, which is completely different from the general generals who only seek victory and do not care about the cost.

Why did Chen Ying do this?

What is his real purpose?

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In fact, Li Xiuning's doubts are also Li Jiancheng's doubts. Li Jiancheng is not ignorant of military affairs, and he is even a little unable to figure it out. In the office of Yuhe Iron and Steel Plant, Li Jiancheng finally couldn't help but ask Chen Ying: "Isn't it good to take advantage of the freezing of the Yellow River now to go down the Yellow River and arrive directly in Luoyang?" ”

Chen Ying turned around, looked at the northeast with his hands, and sighed slowly: "His Royal Highness the Prince, the so-called one who does not seek eternity is not enough to seek for a while; Those who do not seek the overall situation are not enough to seek a domain. Chen Ying's plot is not a pass of Hangu Pass, not a city of Luoyang, and not a corner of the Central Plains. ”

Hearing this, Li Jiancheng was even more surprised. As the saying goes, a person's vision determines a person's achievements, at the beginning, Li Jiancheng only thought that Chen Ying was just a general, and later he found that Chen Ying was not only a general, but also a handsome talent who could stand alone. Li Jiancheng wanted to make Chen Ying the first person in the military of the East Palace, and after he ascended the throne in the future, he appointed Chen Ying as the secretary of the military department of the Tang Dynasty, but Chen Ying pointed at it in Lingzhou casually, almost effortlessly, and established fourteen coal mines, four salt works, and three blast furnaces.

The simple thing is to develop a gold mountain, and the annual profit can exceed one million. Chen Ying's surprise to him was too great, this was simply the Sang Hong sheep of the Tang Dynasty. When Li Jiancheng made Chen Ying the Sang Hongyang of the Tang Dynasty, and after he ascended the throne in the future, he appointed Chen Ying as the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Tang Dynasty, and concurrently served as the secretary of Zhongping Zhangshi, and became the future financial minister of the Tang Dynasty, Chen Ying made out an extremely sharp weapon in Yuhe, as well as armor that can ignore bow and arrow shooting, and has a Mo knife or armor, which is equivalent to increasing the combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty army by more than three percent.

Li Jiancheng really doesn't understand Chen Ying now, he really can't guess Chen Ying's true thoughts and intentions. Li Jiancheng asked seriously: "I don't know who Chen Qing is plotting ......?"

Chen Ying actually didn't know that he was already a century-old rare genius in Li Jiancheng's heart at this time, compared to Sang Hongyang, Wei Huo and Wuhou. Chen Ying did not directly answer Li Jiancheng's words, but said with a faint smile: "His Royal Highness the Prince, Wang Shichong of the Central Plains, Zhu Cang of Jingxiang, Li Zitong of Jiangdu, Shen Faxing of Jiangnan, or Xiao Milling, or Gao Kaidao, they are not to worry, and the unification of the world by the Tang Dynasty is just around the corner." ”

Li Jiancheng also agreed with Chen Ying's point of view: "Yes, five years at most, three years at least, Datang will unify the world!" ”

"But what about after unifying the world?" Chen Ying looked to the northeast and said, "The problem of Goguryeo still needs to be solved!" ”

Li Jiancheng was slightly stunned, and suddenly came to his senses. Although the history books gave Yang Guang a poor army, when Fang Xuanling and others repaired the "Book of Sui", they left Yang Guang with a "rich and strong inside, thinking broadly outside, resenting with pride, and rejuvenating with anger, if this does not die, it has not been heard of since ancient times." However, the Goguryeo issue is the goal of four successive generations of emperors of the Sui and Tang dynasties, Yang Jian, Yang Guang, Li Shimin, and Li Zhi, which lasted for nearly a hundred years.

The real reason for the attack on Goguryeo was not because of Gao Yuan's "rudeness", but because of a traditional Chinese political thinking: "How can others snore on the side of the couch." ”

After more than 300 years of development of Goguryeo, Goguryeo has a strong national strength, with more than 300,000 soldiers, and the southern pressure on Buyeo, Silla, Baekje, and the trend of unifying the Korean Peninsula greatly.

In this case, a rising Goguryeo power in the northeast absolutely did not adhere to the interests of China, so when Yang Jian unified the Sui Dynasty, he launched a war against Goguryeo, after Yang Jian's defeat, Yang Guang followed him, Li Shimin unified the world, and after destroying the Turks, a strong enemy in the north, he also set his sights on Goguryeo.

If Yang Guang has self-reliance on martial arts and has benefited himself, then is Yang Jian, Li Shimin, and Li Zhi the same? The answer is no, because it is in the strategic interest of the country.

Li Jiancheng also changed slightly when he heard Chen Ying mention Goguryeo, of course, Li Jiancheng was not because of fear, but excited: "In the future, this palace will inherit the unification, and will definitely pour out the soldiers of the whole country, and the heroes will be millions, and they will step on Goguryeo, and they will be ashamed." ”

There is a very classic line in the bright sword: "Every army has its own traditions." What is the tradition? Tradition is a character, a temperament! This tradition and character are determined by the character and temperament of the first military chief at the time of the formation of such troops. He injected soul into this force. From now on, no matter how many years have passed or personnel have changed, the soul of this unit will always remain. ”

In fact, this is true not only of the military, but also of the state. The founder of the Han Dynasty, Gaozu Liu Bang, was originally a ruffian, he had a very obvious character trait, able to bend and stretch, but the eyes must be repaid, this spirit has also become the national nature of the Han Empire, you should bow your head if you can't beat it, you should bow your head, never die to save face and suffer from it, but when the strength is strong, absolutely abuse you without discussion, it is under this kind of national tradition, which lasted for a hundred years, under the painstaking management of five generations of emperors, in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there was no internal worries, and took the initiative to launch a counterattack against the Xiongnu.

In fact, the Tang Dynasty is also like this, Li Shimin won the throne by disgraceful means in Xuanwumen, and his descendants also feel that it looks like it, for example, Li Shimin accepted his brother and sister-in-law and brother-in-law as his wife, and Li Longji dared to accept his daughter-in-law (Yang Guifei).

Chen Yingdao: "The minister is actually using the Hanguguan experiment to test a new concept of war and the way of war, the minister will call this method of war, collectively known as mountain warfare, Your Royal Highness the Prince, you also know that Goguryeo has many lands and few plains, except for its Hanyuan Bochuan Plain, most of the entire Goguryeo is mountainous or hilly, so the former dynasty Yang Guang took a million-strong army field corps, and there was no place for entering Goguryeo. In the future, once there is a rebellion in Lingnan or Bashu and the mountainous areas south of the Yangtze River, the army familiar with mountain warfare will be used to quell the rebellion, which will not only be rapid, but also lower casualties and less costly. ”

Li Jiancheng finally understood Chen Ying's true purpose at this time, and suddenly realized: "This palace is wrong to blame Chen Qing, I didn't expect Chen Qing's plan to be so far-reaching. ”

Speaking of this, Li Jiancheng said with a guilty face: "With Chen Qing's merits, it is not an exaggeration to be crowned a national duke, and it is just around the corner to be called a lonely widow!" ”

"The minister doesn't want any dukes and princes!" Chen Ying said solemnly: "If there is a choice, the minister wants to ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to help the minister." ”

Li Jiancheng said: "Chen Qing said that it doesn't matter, if this palace can do it, even if it can't be done temporarily, it will definitely be done for Chen Qing in the future!" ”

Chen Yingdao: "The minister and Princess Pingyang are in love, and I also ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to fulfill us." ”

"This ......" Li Jiancheng hesitated, although he said that the eldest brother is like a father, Li Jiancheng does have the power to influence Li Xiuning's marriage, but not at this time. Because Li Yuan is still alive, where is Li Yuan's turn to be in charge of Li Jiancheng.

Seeing Li Jiancheng's hesitation, Chen Ying said: "Please ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to fulfill it!" ”