The eldest grandson Wuji is worthy of being the roundworm in Li Shimin's stomach, he has been a partner for decades, and he knows Li Shimin's psychology very well, so he spoke to Li Shimin's heart in a few words, which made him completely change his mind.

In fact, Li Shimin's proposal to let Chen Fei go to Longyou Road was also a whim, probably because he was carried away by the attitude of the family, and wanted to praise Chen Fei and promote this kid by the way. Now calm down, think about it carefully, it seems that the expatriate is not suitable, this kid is good at everything, but his temperament is too lazy, and the expatriate is really not very suitable.

And he has mastered the formula of the thunderbolt fire, such an important formula, I don't know how many people are staring at it in secret, especially Longyou Dao, which is famous for its chaos, and many people from the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions are also lurking in it, Li Shimin is even more worried about letting Chen Fei go to Longyou...... No, he was reluctant to leave Chang'an. Well, it's better to let him stay in Chang'an honestly, and at the same time make a thunderbolt, he will go to Shangshu Province in charge of the eldest grandson Wuji to take up a post, experience the work of the six departments, and be familiar with the set of officialdom, which is also a kind of experience.

"The auxiliary machine has a point... I, if you want to arrange Chen Fei in Shangshu Province and be an idle left deputy Cheng, is it feasible? ”

"Huh~" The eldest grandson Wuji let out a sigh of relief, but he was just an idle official, and there was no reason to refuse.

"Your Majesty, thank you."

Although the rest of the ministers envied Chen Fei, no one who was not open-eyed dared to touch Li Shimin's moldy head at this time, so they all agreed.

So, in addition to the work of the Qi Workshop, Chen Fei had another job - to go to Shangshu Province to do chores.

Well, it's not a joke, it's really going to do chores.

The Tang Dynasty followed the system of the Sui Dynasty and established three provinces and six ministries. Among them, Shangshu Province is the executive department, which is responsible for issuing the will of the imperial court to the six ministries and supervising the implementation of the six ministries.

Chen Fei's left deputy does not have any real power to supervise or issue orders, but is responsible for ...... Running errands, passing the word.

Well, to put it bluntly, it's miscellaneous. He has no rights, he can be called an idle official, but he can't be idle. It is estimated that Chen Fei knows Li Shimin's arrangement for him, and it is estimated that it will be very painful. And thinking that the work of the Strange Workshop could not be left behind, he estimated that not only the egg hurts, but also the toothache......

In the early dynasty, with Chen Fei's promotion, there was a small trouble, the thunder was heavy and the rain was small, and under the mediation of the eldest grandson Wuji, this farce ended quickly. When Li Shimin was about to ask the eunuch to announce the dissolution of the dynasty, someone suddenly stood up and narrated.

The narration is the squire of the military department, who reported to Li Shimin about the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate.

Last year, the Xue Yantuo tribe took advantage of the danger to lead an army of 150,000 into Chang'an and went all the way south from the north. At that time, the Tang Dynasty was deploying troops to support the war in the Western Regions, and the defense of Guanzhong was empty, so Xue Yantuo took advantage of it and killed all the way to Chang'an.

As a result, under the city of Chang'an, he was defeated by the cannons and thunderbolts of the Tang army, leaving tens of thousands of corpses behind, and fled to the north in a hurry.

Unexpectedly, after falling into the strategy of the Tang army, when they evacuated to the bank of the Weishui River, they found that the boats and bridges were destroyed, and there was no way to cross the river, and the Tang army was already waiting on the bank of the Weishui River, so they launched a fierce fight on the bank of the Weishui River.

Xue Yantuo's army was already disheartened, and he was attacked by the Tang army before and after, and completely collapsed. The head of the Xue Yantuo tribe and his descendants were all prisoners of war and are now under house arrest in a garden in Chang'an City.

At this point, the Tang Dynasty completely controlled the northern grasslands, and a large territory was directly incorporated into the national territory.

But the country is bigger, and troublesome things are coming. Such a large area of grassland in the north is even larger than the existing land of Datang. How to garrison, how to fortify, how to manage, many, many questions.

Moreover, the steppes are all nomads, and there are no fixed cities, which is very difficult to manage. In addition, the inhabitants of the grassland are fierce. Although Xue Yantuo has perished, the garrison sent to the Beiting Protectorate has clashed with the aborigines many times, and the contradictions between the two sides have not eased, but are intensifying.

If it is not handled well, it may lead to a new regime on the grassland. When the time comes...... It will give Datang a headache for many years.

They can be defeated and the regime destroyed, but they can't be made to their knees and sing about conquest. This is Datang's helplessness towards the grassland peoples.

No, or it can be said that the helplessness of the rulers of the Central Plains towards the northern steppe peoples. This has been the case throughout the dynasties.

The two peoples have been at war for thousands of years, but neither side has completely convinced the other. Rise and fall, and it is the people who suffer in the end.

At the beginning of the year, the squire of the military department briefly reported several conflicts between the garrison of the new faction of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate and the local ethnic groups, and then stood back to the court with a blank face - he is from the military department, only in charge of the garrison, he is not responsible for other things, just throw out the problem, you can find a way to solve it.

The ministers looked at each other after hearing this. To be honest, they have discussed this thing countless times about how to manage the northern steppes. "Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate" is also an experimental approach, everyone has no experience, only step by step.

But everyone knows in their hearts that with the contradictions between the two nationalities, it is a matter of time before they fall out, and the construction of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate is just a buffer measure, how to stabilize the regime in the future...... To be honest, no one has come up with a perfect solution.

"This matter... Alas! Rong Zhen thinks of a perfect plan, and we will discuss it later, if there are no other matters today, let's disperse. ”

The ministers immediately shouted and sent Li Shimin away.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, Li Shimin felt uncomfortable, and he always felt worried about something, and he felt very uncomfortable in his heart.

"Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate....... Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate...... Alas, why is it so difficult to get hold of a good territory? Can't I surpass the Qin Emperor and Han Zu and create the first prosperous era? Li Shimin frowned deeply at the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and his eyes stayed on the large grasslands in the north.

"If you get the north, it is equivalent to getting a large piece of fertile grassland, the war horses are not worried, I can mobilize my troops, and fight in the south and the north, where in the world can I not go? But if you lose the ....... of the north Hey, the war is endless, the border is turbulent, and you can't give it up! Can't be abandoned! ”

Li Shimin was worried, Li Mingda was holding a paper windmill in his hand, and ran in from outside the hall with a smile.

"Father! Father! You see! Mingda's new toy! ”

Li Shimin glanced up, barely squeezed out a smile, took the windmill in Li Mingda's hand and looked at it, blew a breath, and the windmill hula-la, which made Li Mingda laugh constantly.

"Hee-hee, father, aren't the toys Mingda made by himself amazing?"

Li Shimin put down the windmill, hugged Li Mingda in his arms, and "pricked" Li Mingda's little face with his beard, which made her laugh constantly, and begged for mercy again and again.

"Are you done with today's homework? If you don't finish your studies and sneak out to play, beware of your father punishing you! ”

"I'm done! Today, Mingda memorized more than 100 new words and learned a poem, and Uncle Chu also praised Mingda. ”

"Hundred... More than 100 words... Add a poem? You...... Learned in a day? Li Shimin was a little confused, the speed of learning was ....... Is it what a normal child should have? It's an exaggeration, right?

"Yes!" Li Mingda hated and nodded seriously: "Father, Mingda didn't lie to you, because Mingda has learned a new way to read and write, hehe, it's amazing, you will learn it as soon as you learn it!" ”

"Oh? How do you learn words? But Mingda came up with it himself? My good daughter is smart! Li Shimin touched Li Mingda's little head dotingly.

Li Mingda shook his head, "It's not Mingda who came up with it, Mingda learned it with Brother Chen Fei, it took seven days just to learn this method, but after learning it, I found that it is so easy to recognize words, just look at it!" You don't need a teacher to teach you, Mingda can learn words by yourself! ”

(End of chapter)