Li Shimin received Li Chao's assurance, and his heart was a little more relaxed. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Let's go, look at the palace you built for me in seven days!"

When he really came to the 'palace city', Li Shimin couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded. In front of him is Miyagi, which was built in the center of Yuliang Island. There is a circle of palace walls in the palace city, and the palace wall is not a blue brick or red wall, but an earthen wall.

The earthen wall is very short, and the short Li Shimin doesn't know how to describe it, and he feels that the village wall of Li Town is not as tall as it.

The palace wall is only one zhang high, and it is still a rammed earth wall.

And Li Chao pointed to the place surrounded by the one-zhang high rammed earth wall and said, "Your Majesty, that is Miyagi!" ”

"Miyagi has already been built?" Li Shimin asked.

Li Chao nodded.

"But why don't I seem to see any houses?"

Standing outside the wall, Li Shimin didn't look at the tall appearance that the palace should have, only saw some low roofs.

"Li Xiangguo, are you looking forward to hiding it from Your Majesty?" Hou Junji snorted coldly and asked.

Li Chao didn't bother to deal with this guy. He said to Li Shimin, "Your Majesty will know when you go in." ”

The palace city is surrounded by a palace wall, and there is a ditch outside the palace wall, which is not deep and does not introduce living water. Li Chao's plan is to wait until he is free in the future, dig wider and deeper, and it is not too late to introduce river water.

Miyagi is actually formed by three relatively independent castles, in the shape of a zigzag. It is divided into Li Shimin's front palace, the queen's harem, and the north palace of the emperor. Three Miyagi are actually equivalent to three small estates.

Enter the front palace first.

There is a large courtyard group inside, imitating the design of the three major halls, each hall has a courtyard with several depths, and finally forms the front palace.

Li Shimin didn't go shopping for a while, and he finished visiting the front palace, the three main courtyards, with the side courtyards and other houses.

"It's too rudimentary!" Hou Junji gave Li Chao eye medicine everywhere.

Cheng Qian said unconvinced, "There are a total of ninety-nine rooms in the front palace, which is not small. This is just the temporary palace of my father, not to mention that now is a disaster year, not a time to pay attention to luxury. The ninety-nine rooms in the front palace, although the sparrows are small, but they are complete, and the father and emperor will be promoted to discuss politics here, which will not affect the prestige of the court, but will be praised by the people for being wise and thrifty! ”

Li Shimin originally felt that this front palace was indeed a bit shabby, how could it be called a palace, it was almost the same as a resort, and it was not even a summer palace. There are no carved beams, no paintings, even the wood is not painted, the walls are simply painted with a layer of white plaster, and there are no grinding bricks on the ground, but the main hall is paved with wooden boards.

Wood is not precious, bricks and tiles are ordinary, and simplicity is revealed everywhere.

But when the prince said it, it was indeed the case.

"Well, it's rare that Wen Yuan bothered to build such a big palace in seven days, which is amazing. Let's go and see the Queen's abode. ”

The harem is more simple than the front court. The courtyards of the houses have become smaller, but the number has increased, and there are rows of small courtyards. This is all Li Chao's imitation of the single-family villa design, the palace people's residence is simply an imitation of the townhouse design, and the concubines, princesses and princesses of the grade have a small courtyard.

"Not bad!"

Li Shimin walked around, and finally liked it.

"Was this really built in seven days?" After Li Shimin saw the entire palace, he was a little surprised. Although they are all quite simple, there are a lot of houses, there are 99 rooms in the front court, and there are hundreds of houses in the three palaces. Not to mention, there are also rows of dormitories specially built for palace maids and chamberlains, as well as those laundry and other workshops.

"Father, seven days ago, this was still a wasteland." Undertaking the main road.

"Oh, how did you build so many houses in those seven days?"

"Actually, this is not magical, many materials have been prepared for a long time, bricks are ready-made, wooden pillars, wooden beams, rafters, etc. are ready-made, and there are special craftsmen and management teams, plus there are so many workers, so it is very fast to build."

"It seems that this cement is really very useful. Well, I'm happy with it, and I'm moving in today. Wenyuan, you should also step up a little more, build the yacheng, the military city and the civilian city, and the wharf and market should also be fastened! ”

Miyagi front court, golden hall.

Li Shimin sat on the hastily built dragon chair, saying that it was a dragon chair, but it was actually a wooden chair carved with a dragon, and then brushed with some gold paint, which looked golden. But before Li Shimin sat up, he took a closer look and found that the material of the chair was very ordinary pine.

Sit on it and slap your ass.

There were only two monarchs and ministers left in the palace, and even Li Chengqian was driven out by Li Shimin.

Caressing the imperial case that still exuded the fragrance of clear wood, Li Shimin adjusted his posture slightly, leaning his back on the chair and relaxing a little.

"Wen Yuan, you should also know about the affairs in the north, right?"

There were only two people in the hall, and Li Shimin rewarded Li Chao with a sitting mound.

There is no backrest on the pouf, so you have to sit upright, which is not comfortable.

"The minister has heard some information, and it seems to be quite lively!"

Described as lively, it shows that Li Chao is quite relaxed about this matter.

"Wenyuan, how do you think we should deal with this?"

"The minister doesn't have enough information yet, so it's hard to judge."

"Based on what you know now, tell me what you think first."

Li Chao thought for a while and said, "This matter now seems to be a good thing, although it has broken the strategic arrangement of the imperial court. The Eastern-Turkic Khan has regained its prosperity since the beginning, and for more than 20 years, it has dominated the Eastern steppes, and no one can do it. Especially at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Turks were defeated and died, and after the defeat and death of the Datou soldiers, the Western Turks experienced a short period of civil strife and were unified in the hands of the archers. ”

"In recent years, the Eastern Turks took advantage of the civil strife in the Central Plains since the Sui Dynasty and continued to expand southward, and Shuofang, Hetao, Daibei, and Liaoxi were once indirectly controlled by them. Sooner or later, we will have a war with the Eastern Turks, and the enemy is strong and we are weak, so we have to rest and recuperate for some time, but now that the Eastern Turks are fighting on their own, this is indeed a good opportunity. ”

Li Shimin said with some excitement, "I think the same way, the Eastern Turks have been pressing on our heads for too long, and this is the belly of the heart. The Turks will not die for a day, and my Datang will not be at peace for a day. At present, Tiele is raising troops, the Western Turks are spying on, and Turki and Yu are raising troops against Jieli, this is really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! I don't want to miss this opportunity! ”

Li Chao twisted his body and adjusted his posture.

He knew Li Shimin's thoughts, and finally mutiny and seized the throne, of course, he was more eager to prove his ability. Emperor Li Yuan paid tribute to the Turks in those years, and now the Tang Dynasty still pays tribute to the Turks every year, although the Tang Dynasty said to the people that this is a reward for the steppe Turks.

But the real purpose of this money is clear to everyone, and this is the money that Nagong sued for peace.

Even to the Turks and to marry princesses.

Li Shimin didn't want to pay this protection fee for a long time, and now that he has an opportunity, he is willing to miss it.

Li Chao also wanted to fight the Turks, not because of anything else, but because a powerful Turk was not in the interests of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Chao is a Tang Dynasty, a Han person, a Tang Dynasty, a Han nation, this is an ethnic group, people are social animals, and there are racial divisions. Common culture and customs, these create the same values, the same interests of the group.

Within the Tang Dynasty, there are the Li family in Bashang and the Cui family in Qinghe, and there are Han and barbarians, but when facing the Turks on the steppe, everyone is Tang and their interests are the same.

"Wenyuan, someone proposed to me to rebuild the Great Wall, saying that as long as the Great Wall is guarded, leave him alone north of the Great Wall."

Li Chao sneered.

"Your Majesty, the Great Wall does have its role, but the role of the Great Wall is also limited. The greatest function of the Great Wall was to resist the southward robbery of a small group of northern Hulu and to prevent the harassment of nomads. Especially in the past, the dynasty that built the Great Wall, the northern border was actually very different from now, and they built the Great Wall on the northern border, not entirely for defense, but more for active exploration. Build the Great Wall to the Hu people's activity area, squeeze their activity area, and drive them further north. With the Great Wall, the imperial court could cultivate and cultivate within the Great Wall on the northern border, opening up and stabilizing new territory. ”

'But, Your Majesty, look now at our situation in the North. The section of Hexi, a large area outside the Great Wall, has long been the control area of Hexi Road, the Guanzhong section. To the north of the Great Wall in Guanzhong, such a vast place, is now the Shuofang Road of the Tang Dynasty. Speaking of Hedong Province, the northern part of the Great Wall of Hedong Province had just been recovered by Li Jing and Li Ji and General Li Ji, and it had also become the actual control area of the imperial court. ”

"Your Majesty, do those ministers who say that they only guard the Great Wall mean that the imperial court wants to give up Shuofang, Daibei and the western end of the Hexi Corridor that they have worked so hard to fight now?"

Li Chao was very disdainful of those who shouted to build the Great Wall.

"The original line of the Great Wall has long been no longer a border. Is there any point in us bothering to build the Great Wall? If it doesn't make sense, then what will he do with the money and money? ”

"Your Majesty, the Qin and Han dynasties have built the Great Wall, and the Sui Dynasty has also built the Great Wall, but I don't need to build the Great Wall in the Tang Dynasty!"

Li Shimin also thinks the same way.

"I want to recover the Hetao, the front and back sets are recovered, and the south of Yinshan Mountain will be recovered. Just like what you wrote in that poem, don't teach Humadu Yinshan! ”

Li Shimin originally thought of building a new Great Wall on the first line of Yinshan, and connecting Yanshan, Yinshan, and Helan Mountains to form a new northern screen of the Tang Dynasty. But Li Chao said that Datang did not need to build the Great Wall, and Li Chao was obviously bigger than his idea.

"If Your Majesty really doesn't want to wait a few more years and wants to join the competition in the north now, the minister has no objection. However, we are not in a hurry to get out of the game, we can first contact Xue Yantuo's Yi Nan, the Western Turk's Tong Ye Hu, and the Eastern Turk's Yu Sheshe and Tuli. Your Majesty can come to kill three soldiers, canonize Tong Ye Hu as the Great Khan of the Turks, canonize Yi Nan as the Khan of the Mobei Xue Yantuo Khanate, canonize the Turki as the Great Khan of the East-Turks, and canonize Yu Shot as the Little Khan of the East-Turks, and let them crusade against the Jieli Khan together. ”

"Let them go first, it's almost over, let's go again!" Li Chao said with a smile. (To be continued.) )