Chapter Ninety-Six: Back to Dengzhou

As soon as General Li Su's idea was proposed, it immediately attracted all Li Shimin's attention, and all the things in the Hutou Army and Li Su's mansion were left behind, and he chased after Li Su and asked Dongwen in high spirits, wanting to dig out all the things in his mind.

In fact, Li Su only knows a little about the military school, after all, he has never gone to a military school, but he has also been to school for more than ten years in later life, and he is clear about the school, so he combined the characteristics of the military school and changed the set of operating rules in the school and threw it out, and there must be a lot of unreasonable places.

In addition, Li Su also proposed that a political branch should be set up in the military academy to recruit young children from innocent families and young children, and not only to carry out military education for them, but most importantly, to carry out political education, to deeply imprint the four words of loyalty and patriotism in their minds, and when they reach adulthood, they will be assigned to the army to serve as the deputy of the chief officer, and be specifically responsible for the ideological education of soldiers.

For this political commissar system, Li Shimin smiled sneerly after hearing it, and said sharply: "What bullshit political commissar, to put it bluntly, is not a disguised prison army, usually take care of the relationship with the soldiers, and return the hearts of the soldiers to the Tang Dynasty, if the chief officer has any misdeeds, no one else needs to do it, only with this political commissar with strong appeal, the chief officer can be taken down, although this method is shameless, but it is a good policy, there is political commissar moderation, the commander of the army naturally does not dare to act rashly, and the political commissar has no military power in his hands, It will not dictate to the affairs of the war, which will lead to a decline in the combat effectiveness of the troops. Wonderful! It's wonderful! The more Li Shimin thought about it, the more he felt that this political commissar was really good. As he spoke, he clapped his hands and praised it.

The more Li Shimin chatted, the more excited he became, and as a result, the two chatted from early morning to noon, and only then did the general idea of the military academy be completely clarified. And recorded it himself, Li Su wanted to help, but unfortunately Li Shimin couldn't look down on his dog-crawling words. After all, this thing is going to be shown to the minister in the future, and Li Su's words are written, and it is still his person who loses it.

When Li Shimin returned to the royal city in the afternoon and convened the city's Chinese martial arts council, everyone was finally relieved, and the rumors about Li Yu naturally broke themselves. Now that the city of Pyongyang has settled down and the war in Goguryeo has ended, it can be said that it is time for the class to return to Korea.

But before going back, Li Shimin followed the original plan. Arrangements were made for Goguryeo. Among them, it originally belonged to the Liaodong region of the four counties of the Han Dynasty, and naturally all of them belonged to the Tang Dynasty, as for Goguryeo's homeland on the Korean Peninsula. All of them were placed under the newly established Andong Prefecture. Li Su's cousin Zhang Jian relied on his exploits in the early battle against Goguryeo. With the support of Li Su and his interest groups, he finally sat in the position of Andong Protector, of which the Metropolitan Protectorate was located in Pyongyang City, and there were 30,000 troops standing in the city to monitor the movements of Silla and Baekje in the east at any time.

Silla instigated the Tang Dynasty to make a move to Baekje, and only got the help of the Tang Dynasty's verbal promise, and finally decided to do it himself, but the armies of the two countries on the expedition to Goguryeo suffered heavy losses, and they could not spare their hands for a while, and it is estimated that there will be no way to break out a large-scale war at least within half a year.

In the middle of May of the twelfth year of Zhenguan, the weather in Liaodong has become a little hot, and at this time the Tang Dynasty finally began a large-scale withdrawal, except for the army that stayed in Andong with Zhang Jian, the other troops have successively taken a boat or land, returned to their original garrisons, and the meritorious soldiers were selected, they will return to Chang'an with Li Shimin, accept the grand triumphal ceremony prepared for them by Chang'an City, and at the same time accept the reward in the palace.

Originally, Li Shimin also wanted Li Su to go back to Chang'an with him, after all, he had been away from Chang'an for so long, it should be time to go back and take a look, plus Concubine Yang was pregnant, Li Su, the most favored son, naturally had to be present. However, since Li Su wanted to go back, Wen Xin and his family naturally had to go back with him, and he was not worried about letting them go on the road alone, so he explained the situation to Li Shimin, and took the remaining 700 guards back to Dengzhou first, and arranged for the whole family to go back to Chang'an together.

Just like when he came, he still took Lu Qing's boat on the return trip, but unlike the spacious space when he came, most of the Li Su and the seven hundred guards on the return voyage were crowded on Lu Qing's Galen ship, and the rest was really unable to squeeze in, so it was assigned to another small boat.

The reason why it is so crowded is mainly that Lu Qing's fleet is loaded with slaves or property purchased from Pyongyang, not to mention the slaves, most of them are prisoners of war in the city of Pyongyang, and by virtue of Li Su's identity, nearly 10,000 people were collected at once, and there are also many civilians who voluntarily sold themselves into slavery due to the war, and most of the ships of the fleet are occupied just to transport these slaves.

In addition, many of the belongings collected from the soldiers took up more space than slaves, after all, in order to protect some valuables, some precautions had to be taken, so that they could not be transported at all, so they had no choice but to pile up Li Su's temporary residence in Pyongyang City first, and say hello to Zhang Jian and ask him to help take care of it, and wait for the next time to send a ship to transport it. And Li Su, in order to make room for slaves and those belongings, they had to be a little wronged and squeezed.

Fortunately, the new route from Pyongyang to Dengju has also been explored, that is, the route of the last Goguryeo sneak attack on Dengju City, and now this line has become one of the busiest routes on the Yellow Sea, and there is an endless stream of ships, most of them are businessmen from all walks of life who, like Lu Qing and them, took advantage of this Goguryeo war to make a lot of war money.

Of course, these merchants have all been registered in Dengzhou, otherwise even if they go to the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, it will be difficult to move an inch, because it is still under military control, and when encountering patrolling troops, only the road guide issued at the time of registration in Dengzhou will be issued by the soldiers of the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate. It is precisely because of this that Dengzhou suddenly became the center of the gathering of Tang Dynasty businessmen, Tiannan, Haibei and the north gathered together, as long as you have the means, have the way, and at the same time move fast enough and bold enough, you can find a way to make money in the Andong Protectorate that has just been laid.

However, this grand occasion in Dengzhou will soon pass, because after the first battle of Goguryeo, Li Shimin and the generals in the army have seen the convenience of businessmen to intervene in the war, so in the future wars, the battlefield will be open to the merchants of the Tang Dynasty, of course, the businessmen who can enter the battlefield must be registered in a unified manner, clear origin, and the industry they operate, if there is a problem, they can also quickly find the person responsible. For this reason, Li Su also proposed to Li Shimin to set up another business institute under the Ministry of Industry to manage these things, and Li Shimin also agreed.

When Li Su returned to Dengzhou, Zhao Fu also organized people to hold a grand triumphal ceremony for Li Su and them, and Dengzhou City and many foreign merchants also gathered on both sides of the avenue, vying to see His Royal Highness King Qi's demeanor. The scene of the crowd of people makes many Dengzhou people still remember it more than ten years later.

Li Su rode on a white horse, leading the palace guards with only seven hundred remnants, in the eyes of everyone, slowly entered Dengzhou City, the kind of vanity and satisfaction that became the focus of everyone's attention, and brought the vanity and satisfaction, so that Li Su and the guards behind him were extremely enjoyable, especially a few young guards, were watched by countless girls on both sides of the street, all of them were like chicken blood, the waist straightened and stepped off the horse's footsteps, showing his personal style to the extreme, It's a pity that the flushed face betrays the fact that they are too excited.

Although Li Su was anxious to rush back to the mansion to reunite with Wenxin and them, after all, this was the first time that the two had been separated since they got married, and it would be a few months since they were separated, not to mention the pain of lovesickness. However, as the chief official of Dengzhou and the king of Qi of the Tang Dynasty, in this case, he naturally has to say a few encouraging words, and this kind of thing cannot be pushed off.

Fortunately, on the way here, Yanbei had already prepared a speech for him, and when he arrived at the square in front of the palace of King Qi, Li Su ascended the high platform prepared earlier and delivered an inspiring speech, first made a brief summary of the Tang Dynasty's war in Goguryeo, and praised the bravery and fearlessness of the Tang soldiers, and then changed the conversation, and praised the contributions made by the people of Dengzhou in this war, although the facts are a little exaggerated, but Dengzhou as the most important rear base for this war, there is no one, It has indeed made an immeasurable contribution.

Just when Li Su was speaking on the stage, he could clearly feel that on the wall of the palace with his back to him, Wen Xin and Xijun and other daughters were there, looking at him eagerly, although he was full of thoughts, but he didn't dare to run out to meet Li Su, after all, as a woman, there are some moments when she can't appear in front of everyone.

And just when Li Su hated Yanbei very much, why did he prepare the speech for so long? The two young men in the crowd were also carefully observing Li Su, and one of them, the young man with a short beard, found that he had not seen him for more than a year, and the King of Liang, who was still a little immature at the beginning, had now become a mature and stable His Royal Highness the King of Qi who was admired by hundreds of people.

"There is no more dragon and phoenix among people! With his own strength, he turned the entire world situation around, how could such an extraordinary person be able to defeat him? The short-bearded young man looked at Li Su, muttered to himself, and then his face changed, and he said in a cloudy voice, "Those old stubborns who can't eat the past can't see the changes in the current situation clearly, and they even want to gather the strength of all families to compete with the general trend of the world, I really don't know whether to live or die!" ”