Section 594 Discussion of the Western Expedition
Just do it, Wei Xi gave the court an excerpt, a map, and a steam locomotive diagram. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The map is a topographic map of the Western Regions up to the Black Sea, and it is the result of a lot of manpower and material resources he has expended!
He had sponsored a number of businessmen and informants, but now he has come up with the results of a list of countries' geographical locations, populations, properties, etc.
Wei Xi played: "The location of my Tang Dynasty is bitter cold to the north, the sea to the east, and the heat to the south. ”
"It should be the day of Buwu, may I be the Tang Dynasty flag, go straight to the Black Sea, and add supreme brilliance to the Queen Mother's governance!" When Wei Xi said this, these words scratched Wu Zetian's itch, and he immediately summoned him into the palace to play the right thing.
Since ancient times, those who are not in the right position are the most taboo, and the martial arts are a good strategy for the right position.
If the country is governed well and the people live well, it is natural to sing praises to the rulers.
The victory over the enemy army, the conquest of the enemy country, and the continuous victories have also strengthened the cohesion of governance and convinced the government and the people.
The reason why Wei Xi has always been supported by Wu Zetian is because he keeps winning and gives her a long face.
In the Hall of Eternal Life, Wu Zetian, the Emperor, Wei Xi, Wu Sansi, Cen Changqian, Guo Zhengyi, Wei Xuantong, Qian Wei, Cui Jing, Shangguan Wan'er and others listened attentively to Wei Xi's report.
"The Western Expedition will open up territory for me, grow my majesty, and proclaim my benevolence!" Wei Xi said calmly.
This is nonsense, conquest of foreign countries, but sword and fire, how can there be benevolence?
But doing things must be high-sounding, with an excuse.
"In addition, it can solve the problem of insufficient land for the increase of the private population. Now the imperial court has money, and there are people in the people, the more the population, the doubling in 20 years, the land is not enough, and external expansion is not a solution. "This is nonsense, after all, no matter how much it develops, at least the country will not be enough for a hundred years to lack land.
But Wu Zetian likes to listen, and the Tang Dynasty has expanded its territory and is better than the emperors.
The key is that Wei Xi's undefeated reputation gives her confidence, he and Princess Taiping are in love, and the possibility of rebellion is very low.
In addition, the imperial court has more and more gold and silver income, and with reference to the administrative experience of Dengzhou, it has developed the economy and increased the population, and the national economy is running well.
For the state, investment is needed.
There are many aspects to investing, and fighting a war is also a good aspect.
Just like the later generations of Emperor Mi, fighting a war every few years not only did not drag down the economy, but also benefited a lot.
"If you want to go west, it's not difficult!" Wei Xi explained, naturally he wouldn't say anything about the difficulty, so as not to scare Wu Zetian.
"Only 300,000 people, 150,000 cavalry, 150,000 infantry, and the ministers will fight on the shore of the Black Sea, there will be no problem!"
300,000 horses, I have this! Wu Zetian nodded.
In the past, when they fought the Tibetans and Turks, they all raised 300,000 troops, which was not a problem.
"The country is not short of money and food, enough to support the war!"
"Although the journey to the west is long, but the ministers have railways and highways, and then send 50,000 engineers and 150,000 people to support the front!"
The schematic diagram of his steam locomotive was shown to everyone, and they were all amazed, this iron thing can travel thousands of miles in a day?
"The time can be set as five years, this year the focus is on pacifying the Western Regions, the next year to the Aral Sea, and the fifth year to the Caspian Sea."
"The ruling policy is to conquer every place, that is, to carry out sinicization, never say more!"
"As for those who disobey, kill! Kill a piece of land and leave it to us Tang people! ”
Wei Xi kowtowed and said: "Queen Mother, if you can give your sons a chance, you will definitely be able to achieve a prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, and the territory is unlimited!" ”
"This makes the mourning family feel up and down, and they can't wait to join the army on the front line and be a small soldier!" Wu Zetian exaggerated.
When she said this, everyone still didn't understand what she meant, and when she asked what everyone had to say, they all said that they should go west.
If it weren't for Wei Xi's continuous winning, if it weren't for Wei Xi's routine arrangement of everything, with all kinds of people, money, materials, and strategies, others would not be so easy to pass.
After all, the Wenchen at that time was still very bullish, and it was really nothing to fight to the death.
So the personnel arrangements were made, with Wei Xi, the commander of the horse and the general of the Left Guard, as the main commander of the Western Expedition, and Jin Jue as the Marquis of Pingxi!
The position of protector of the Anxi capital must be Wei Xi's, and his deputy positions are two, which are given to Liu Xianli and Lou Shide.
As for the other generals, there were generals Wang Xiaojie, Qi Biming, Yang Chengxian, and Cheng Boxi who accompanied the expedition.
In China, there are Wei Zhi, Heiya Changzhi, Li Xiaoyi, Yang Xuanjian, Guo Qizong and other guards.
When the spring flowers bloomed, the troops were dispatched and went to the Western Regions.
This expedition to the west, according to Wei Xi's requirements, is not a big publicity, and after success, we will talk about heroes.
However, it is impossible to keep a low profile, because the team is super different, Princess Taiping went to the book, imitated my Princess Pingyang of the Tang Dynasty, and participated in the army's westward expedition!
Wu Zetian waved his pen: quasi-play!
This incident caused a sensation, who is Princess Pingyang, the daughter of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, the sister of Taizong, a heroine, married to Chai Shao, one of the twenty-four ministers of Lingyan Pavilion, Princess Pingyang led the troops to fight, and the number of troops under her command was as many as 70,000, known as the "Women's Army!" "Sui general Qu Tutong (this guy is not bad, later voted for the Tang Dynasty, is one of the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion) has suffered several defeats in her hands, Princess Pingyang for Li Yuan in Guanzhong laid a lot of territory, she and her husband fought against each other, each built a shogunate, each unified the army, led more than 10,000 elite soldiers and brother Li Shimin to fight Chang'an, conquer Chang'an, very powerful!
My Tang princess is mighty!
"There was a Pingyang army in the past, and now there is Taiping to participate in the war!" Princess Taiping said triumphantly.
And the tribes of the Western countries said that "selling medicine and selling poison, peace is not peaceful!" "Accusing Wei Xi and Princess Taiping, the husband and wife, of losing their conscience, all the way to the west, bringing blood and fire!
Faced with the doubts of the ministers, Wu Zetian took out the case of Princess Pingyang to prevaricate, and then said bluntly: "Didn't you say that Wei Xitong's elite soldiers are not at ease outside, no, the mourning family will send Princess Taiping as a supervisor!" Is there anything else you don't feel comfortable with? ”
The ministers were speechless!
Princess Taiping went to the Western Regions, she was personally not confident, but Wei Xi encouraged her to go: "You and I go together, the Queen Mother can rest assured, with you, I can rest assured!" ”
"Your task is to help me manage logistics, the army is outside, I am most afraid that logistics will not be able to keep up, if you manage logistics, we will rest assured!" Wei Xi said bluntly: "Those cousins of yours, I don't believe any of them!" ”
"Besides, you also participate in the internal affairs after the conquest, your mother is in charge of the government at home, you are in charge of the government abroad, you are the queen!"
"I feel your ambition, your strength, your courage! But you're not making good use of them! Wei Xi said in the same tone that Count Dooku had lured Anakin into DarkSide in Star Wars, and then said, "Together, we will be the most powerful couple in the world!" ”
When he said this, Princess Taiping looked at him fixedly and said, "You think too much, I am willing to go to the Western Regions with you because I want to watch you and save you from messing around outside!" ”
"Ugh!" Wei Xi is absolutely down, can he have some lofty ideals and ambitions.
After making a decision, Princess Taiping soon formed her shogunate and tribes, with three Changshi as Cui Qianxun, Wei Sili, and Zhang Renyuan, all of whom were famous for a while.
There were 2,000 agricultural and industrial construction talents, 4,000 slaves, and three military offices plus the royal forest military palace, with a total of 5,000 troops and millions of monks.