Chapter Seventy-Three: The Book of the Ministry of War Participates in the Politics of the Dynasty

Wei Zheng walked out of the door and went to the province, coldly, Dai Xuan rushed out from the side, pulled Wei Zheng's sleeve, and led Wei Zheng behind the pillar.

Dai Xuan said with an anxious look: "Xuancheng, you are in charge of Fang Xuanling!" ”

Wei Zheng said with an inexplicable expression: "Fooled? What to do? ”

Dai Xuan said seriously: "Do you think those death row prisoners will escape and hide?" Fang Xuanling had already sent someone to tell those death row inmates that as long as he returned to the prison on time, he would definitely persuade His Majesty to pardon these people's crimes. ”

Wei Zheng nodded calmly and said, "I know." ”

Dai Xuan was stunned and asked suspiciously, "You know?" ”

Wei Zheng said: "I know. ”

Dai Xuan suddenly blushed and said, "Then you still paint this edict?" ”

Wei Zheng still nodded.

Dai Xuan sighed and said, "Do you know that this matter violates the way of a gentleman?" ”

Wei Zheng nodded and said, "I know." ”

Dai Xuan roared even more angrily: "Then why don't you stop this matter? ”

Wei Zheng patted Dai Guan's shoulder and said, "People are not plants and trees, how can they be ruthless?" Not all the time, we must abide by national laws and family rules, moral etiquette. Everything...... There are always exceptions. ”

After Wei Zheng finished speaking, he left leisurely with goose steps.

Dai Xuan froze in place, motionless.

In the imperial study of Taiji Palace, Li Jiancheng, who was acting for the recital, suddenly raised his head.

Li Anyan, who was helping to sort out the documents on the side, looked left and right intriguingly.

Li Anyan said: "Your Majesty, what's wrong?" ”

Li Jiancheng muttered: "No, is Wei Zheng ...... I really can't see Fang Xuanling's little trick? ”

Li Anyan asked inexplicably: "What little trick?"

Li Jiancheng said: "Fang Xuanling must have agreed with those death row prisoners, if he comes back on time, he will definitely persuade me and pardon them." ”

Li Anyan said: "That's right! ”

Li Jiancheng frowned, looked at Li Anyan and said, "Then why does Wei Zheng still want to paint?" ”

Li Anyan spread his hands and continued to sort out the papers.

Li Jiancheng waved his hand and said, "Forget it, if you don't understand, you don't want to ...... By the way, the morning after tomorrow, the car that picked up Wei Zheng, have you ever been ready? ”

Li Anyan said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, I have been ready for a long time, I will be a coachman, take care of things, and handle things safely." ”

Li Jiancheng nodded.

At that moment, there was the sound of hurried footsteps outside the door.

Li Jiancheng raised his head and followed the prestige.

I saw a frost-covered Yang Gongren striding over.

Li Jiancheng asked, "Yang Xiangguo, what's the matter?" ”

"Your Majesty, something is wrong!" Yang Gongren motioned for Li Anyan to go out.

Ang Lee left with interest.

Yang Gongren handed the urgent report to Li Jiancheng: "This is the urgent report that Shangshu Province has just received, General Li Jing and Li have been teleported day and night with eight hundred miles of horses, five days and four nights, and more than a dozen war horses alone have died of exhaustion!" ”

When Li Jiancheng heard this, a solemn look appeared on his face.

Li Jiancheng launched an urgent report, and the urgent report was very short, with only a few crosses, but when he saw these crosses, Li Jiancheng's face was immediately gloomy like water.

In the decisive battle of the Northern Expedition of the Tang Dynasty, Li Jing led 250,000 Tang Army soldiers to fight three battles, successively annihilating and capturing more than 200,000 Eastern Turks, and the rest surrendered.

However, among them, more than 10,000 people, including the special service who lost their strength and the Ottomanpunk, fled westward. Da Qi Jin is the meaning of the Turkic chieftain, compared with the Shangshu of the Tang Dynasty. The Eastern Turks have a total of nine jin, and the Western Turks have ten jin.

Chen Ying asked Li Jing for instructions and asked to pursue the remnants of the Turks, but Li Jing did not agree, and in the early morning of the next day, Chen Ying led more than 6,000 soldiers of the Dingyuan Army to carry grain and grass and baggage to the west.

When Li Jiancheng saw the news, it was like falling into an ice cellar.

Chen Ying actually left.

……

Lingzhou, as one of Chen Ying's earliest foundations. Here, Chen Ying replenished the army's supplies and supplies and prepared for the expedition.

This time, the materials prepared were very sufficient, there were as many as 3,000 four-wheeled carriages alone, and these 3,000 carriages had already been prepared, and they could set off after Chen Ying unloaded the wounded in Lingzhou.

"Listen to your tone, it doesn't seem like you're going to destroy the Ottoman-punk."

Li Xiuning found out that Chen Ying had already prepared for the western expedition, in fact, if Chen Ying didn't want to let Zhisi lose strength and the Ottomanpunk escape when he was in Shengle, they wouldn't be able to escape at all.

Chen Ying smiled: "Do you remember Hou Jing of the Southern Dynasty?" ”

Li Xiuning said: "He is fierce and martial, not good at walking, good at riding and shooting, and was selected as a soldier of Huaishuo Town." In the last years of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Six Towns Uprising broke out, and the Hu tribes of the border towns rebelled against the rule of the Northern Wei Dynasty. At first, he took refuge in Er Zhurong, followed the uprising of Ping Gerong, and worshiped the history of Dingzhou. Later, he returned to Gao Huan, the powerful minister of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, worshiped the secretary of the ministry, and moved to Henan Yin. In the first year of the Taiqing Dynasty (547), he led his troops to surrender to the Liang Dynasty, worshiped the history of Yuzhou Thorn, and garrisoned Shouyang. In the second year of the Taiqing Dynasty (548), he rebelled, attacked Jiankang City, launched the "Taiqing Rebellion", and slaughtered the family of the gate lords. In the second year of Dabao (551), after killing Emperor Wu of Liang, Emperor Jianwen and Queen Yuzhang, he usurped the throne as emperor and established the Han state. Subsequently, Emperor Liang Yuan organized Jiangzhou Assassin Wang Shengbi and DongYangzhou Assassin Chen Baxian to lead the army to break through Jiankang City and quell Hou Jing's rebellion. Hou Jing was killed by his subordinates......"

Chen Ying looked at Li Xiuning and said, "Hou Jing is a Qianren...... During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Later Zhao general Ran Min rebelled, exterminated the Shi clan, and wiped out the Qiang people, but only more than 10,000 Qiang people took refuge in Murong Xianbei and survived. As the so-called Heavenly Dao Cycle, Hou Jing led more than 10,000 of his people to fight from Huaihuang to Jiankang, thousands of miles to fight, slaughtering more than a million people......"

Li Xiuning thought of this, and broke out in a cold sweat.

The Tang Dynasty and the Turks have a grudge against the destruction of the country and the clan, if the obsession is lost and the Ottomanpunk and others are allowed to flee, two hundred years later, wouldn't it be another Taiqing rebellion?

A murderous aura appeared on Li Xiuning's face: "You must not let your persistence escape!" ”

"There is no need for this now," Chen Ying smiled faintly: "This obsession is the pioneer of our way!" ”

"The pioneer of the path?" Li Xiuning took a long time, and finally reacted, she suddenly smiled, feeling that Chen Ying had become a little treacherous,

Treacherous, this is a derogatory term, but at this time, why do you think this adjective is particularly appropriate? Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying, who did not smile, his eyes had always been like that, his eyelids were half-drooping, and only half of his eyeballs were exposed.

Suddenly, Li Xiuning had an incident.

She felt that although Chen Ying's face was much plumper, this expression and eyes seemed to be no different from the Jingyang City period.

Li Xiuning thought to herself, maybe Chen Ying didn't become treacherous, maybe he used to be like this, but now he has become more powerful.

"The Western Regions region is originally my Huaxia sphere of influence!" Chen Ying said with a wry smile: "It's just that since the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms were in turmoil, and my Chinese power declined, and now, the people of the Central Plains have forgotten this large piece of homeland, thinking that it is a foreign country!" But I clearly know that from Chang'an to Beiting, and then thousands of miles to the west and south from Beiting, it was once our sphere of influence in China! ”

Li Xiuning said: "However, now it's the Western Turks. ”

"Yes, the Western Turkic Khanate." Chen Ying pointed to the carriage, which was in the huge map and said: "The Eastern Turks have perished, and the Western Turks cannot be left alone. The Tang Dynasty had just come out of a natural disaster, and the imperial court had no strength at all, so it would hold a national war like Li Jing's Northern Expedition. ”

Even if Chen Ying didn't say it, Li Xiuning understood. The Western Turks are now splitting, and the Eastern Turkic elites who have escaped, such as the Obsessive and Ottomanpunks, can easily defeat the Western Turks, or they can use iron and blood to soften the Western Turks in a very short time.

The Cypriots in the Western Regions and the nine surnames of Zhaowu in the river, they are all a group of wall grass, and wherever the wind blows, they will fall. If Datang is in the near future, it will focus on the development of people's livelihood in the Guannai.

Then the remnants of the Turks are likely to further encroach on the Western Regions.

Once the Western Turks take control of the most prosperous Tianshan Mountains or the Yile River Valley in the Western Regions, and further encroach eastward, the Tang Dynasty will lose its best chance to recover the Western Regions.

In fact, Su Dingfang's expedition to the west also took advantage of the civil strife in the Western Turks, otherwise it would be very difficult for the 400,000 armored soldiers of the Western Turks to rely on Su Dingfang to defeat the entire Anxi.

Li Xiuning slowly and somewhat understood Chen Ying.

Chen Ying pointed to the map and said: "Fushui (i.e., Amu Darya) and Yaozhishui (now Syr Darya) are very rich here, with tens of millions of fertile land, and the land here is more than 100 times larger than Hedong, Henan, and even the Guanzhong Plain, if we occupy Hezhong, our Datang will be equivalent to more than 100 more Guanzhong ......."

Originally, Li Xiuning didn't pay much attention to Hezhong.

But when she heard Chen Ying say that the river was equivalent to more than 100 guanzhong, she was immediately moved.

Li Xiuning said: "The river must be retrieved......"

"This is a key to the trade-off between Datang and Tianfang!" Chen Ying said: "Whether China dominates the religious system with secular politics or the heavens that oppresses the secular world with religion should decide the winner in this prosperous riverine region, in fact, they have always been our potential enemies!" ”

Chen Ying is a giant standing on the shoulders of history.

He sees further.

The battle of the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the decline was after the defeat of the First Battle of Talas. The point is that this is not only the tomb of the Empire, but also the world's largest resource zone, rich in oil and gas, as well as gold, copper, steel and coal.

If it weren't for this defeat, China would have forgotten that Hezhong was once China's homeland, and once China still had these territories, it is no exaggeration to say that oil would be cheaper than water for China in later generations.

However, since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty respected Confucianism and abolished a hundred schools, the Confucian tradition has had a far-reaching influence. Confucianism pays attention to whether the name is not justified, and if you want to be justified, you must be famous.

To be famous is to put the responsibility on the other party.

Now, Chen Ying launched a westward expedition under the banner of chasing down the remnants of the Eastern Turks.

Li Xiuning hesitated for a moment and said, "You didn't explain it clearly to Your Majesty, so you acted rashly......"

Chen Ying sighed and said: "Datang, it's not Your Majesty's Yiyantang, there are all forces in the court, representatives of various forces, and when they quarrel with the results, the cucumber dishes will be cold!" ”

Li Xiuning said: "It's just that if Datang uses swords again, we will cause unease in the surrounding countries!" They will even unite and unanimously deal with Datang! Datang will set up an unprecedented and terrible enemy! ”

"An unprecedentedly terrible enemy?" Chen Ying shook his head and sneered: "An unprecedented and terrifying enemy is never on the outside, but on the inside!" The most terrible enemy is not to do something, but to follow the path! The matter of the Western Expedition, it is better to do it late than early! It's better to do it slowly than to cut through the mess quickly! ”

Chen Ying closed his eyes and seemed to be recalling: "I once saw such a country, for fear of a small handful of rebellions, for fear of a little so-called foreign public opinion, and suppressed what should really be done, and maintained an illusory stability day after day!" Even if those terrible causes have spread from the frontier to the heart, they still hide their ears and steal the bell! But I would never allow such a thing to happen to me! Opposition from the surrounding countries? If you want to object, let them object! Even if they want to mobilize troops because of this, all of them will rise up to support the Turks, I am not afraid! I won't do what I think is right because of the face of outsiders, unite and attack the Tang Dynasty with the whole world, and do it today, maybe it will bring a year or two of trouble, but if I don't do it, it will bury the root of a hundred, two hundred or even thousands of years! I, Chen Ying, would rather do these most difficult things on my hands than leave these banes to my children and grandchildren! ”

The cold wind was howling, and Chen Ying couldn't hear any noise.

……

In the Provincial Government Hall under the gate of Chang'an City, Li Jiancheng sat on the throne and did not speak for a long time.

The ministers of the political hall were silent, thinking about countermeasures.

After a long time, Fang Xuanling took the lead in breaking the silence and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that General Chen's westward expedition is not a good thing......"

Yu Wenshi smiled coldly: "Good thing? The dignified general, ignoring the Son of Heaven's oracle, is still a good thing......"

Li Jiancheng didn't seem to hear Yu Wenshiji's words.

His gaze finally fell on Wei Zheng.

Li Jiancheng muttered: "Xuancheng, what do you think about this matter?" ”

Wei Zheng said: "The remnants of the Eastern Turks are on the run, aren't you worried that the tiger will not become a tiger?" On the contrary, I am worried that General Chen's rebellion will not succeed? ”

Yu Wenshi didn't speak, he set his eyes on Fang Xuanling.

After all, Fang Xuanling is known for his boldness.

Only Fang Xuanling dared to speak out.

It's just that Fang Xuanling said: "The land in Hexi is barren, but it is very difficult to replenish. In our two prosperous eras of the Han and Tang Dynasties, the troops could only be pushed to this area, not without reason. If they can successfully defend the east and west, before we break through their eastern defense, they will take the river into their pockets, and with the strength of the Turkic tribes and the wealth of the river, they may be able to make the Dongshan rise again! ”

Li Jiancheng waved his hand and said: "I decided to worship Li Jing as the right servant of Shangshu, and the left servant of Shangshu in Daxingtai, Xizhou Road, and hold the white and yellow Yue......"

Wei Zheng knew it in his heart.

Li Jiancheng is using Li Jing to balance Chen Ying.

Li Jiancheng continued: "Li Shiji, the general of Anton, is a secretary of the military department and participates in the government!" ”

PS: Tomorrow morning to catch the high-speed train back to Beijing at half past five, I can't stay up late today, I hope you forgive me. This chapter is a bit sloppy......

。 Nine Heavenly God Emperors