Chapter 257 Unification of Thought
Su Dingfang and others were stunned when they heard this, not knowing what to say.
Seeing that they didn't speak, Cheng Wuting repeatedly asked: "Your Highness the Crown Prince is devoted to the Tang Dynasty and goes deep into the barren land. He regards you as ministers of the humerus. Why can't you just weigh the painstaking efforts of Your Highness the Crown Prince?"
Su Dingfang and Xu Jingzong both hung their heads down when they heard this. Yuchi Gong wanted to say something, but looking at Li Chengqian, who struggled to step out of the hanging basket with the help of several people on the arrow tower, finally just sighed.
They also knew that Li Chengqian worked hard for the Tang Dynasty. Over the past year, Li Chengqian loved the people in Chang'an and could almost be called a saint. When he came to the north to kill and make a decision, he also had the ability to be a magical martial artist.
However, some of the killings were too much, and they had to use killing to intimidate small tribes that had surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, which was not something they could accept.
You should know that with their experience, people's unstable hearts are a big problem, and they scare others to fear. How can others be united with you?
To be honest, they opposed Li Chengqian doing this. In their hearts, they really did it for Li Chengqian loyally, but now they are somewhat suspicious. Are they sure they are right?
Li Chengqian stood firmly on the arrow tower, and breathed a sigh of relief before looking at the ice city below. He saw a circle of bodies of Xue Yantuo surrendered soldiers lying down along the surrounding ice walls. Several arrows were inserted into each body, and there were mottled blood on the snow under the body.
The undead Xueyantuo surrendered soldiers in the middle of the Ice City were all half-dead, numb to the things outside and were completely waiting for death.
Li Chengqian observed the situation in Bingcheng. Wang Fangyi, who was beside him, stumbled for a long time before he made up his mind and said, "If you want to do, please give an order. I will personally go and pass the order on behalf of Your Highness."
Li Chengqian felt a move in his heart when he heard this, but his face remained silent. He didn't even look at Wang Fangyi and said proudly: "If the Lone King directly gave the order, wouldn't anyone go to pass the order?"
Wang Fangyi was stunned when he heard this and thought to himself, why didn’t you give the order directly?
Li Chengqian looked down and saw that Su Dingfang and others had not yet come up. He reached out and slapped the wooden railing twice and said loudly: "Come up quickly, what are you doing below?"
When Su Dingfang heard this, he should climb up the arrow tower first. Xu Jingzong and others hurriedly followed, only Cheng Wuting and his personal guards were guarding under the arrow tower as guards.
Li Chengqian never wanted to convince people with virtue, but he could only convince people with virtue against the people around him. Although these people clearly opposed his actions, he knew that he had no malice to him.
Moreover, in addition to dealing with enemies other than the Tang Dynasty, he also had to deal with enemies within the Tang Dynasty.
Recently, he has received a lot of news from Li Shimin. In order to stabilize his and Li Chengqian's status, Li Shimin brought all the ministers who opposed Li Chengqian to the north.
Those who stayed in Chang'an were all ministers who supported Li Chengqian. Anyway, Li Chengqian could not go back outside, so there was no need to worry that these ministers supported Li Chengqian behind him.
Because these people are loyal to Li Chengqian, they will definitely attack all forces in the court that oppose him and Li Chengqian, so that he can personally fight with confidence.
This has led to the fact that Li Shimin has become a gathering place for ministers who oppose Li Chengqian. It is certain that these people gathered around Li Shimin and would be unfavorable to Li Chengqian. What's more, there are people like Fang Xuanling who have a great influence on Li Shimin?
If Li Chengqian cannot unite the people around him now, even if he forcibly does what he wants, Li Chengqian will not be able to fully realize his plan when the coalition forces of all ethnic groups in Mobei later fight against the coalition forces of various tribes.
When Li Chengqian thought about these things, Su Dingfang and others also climbed up the arrow tower. Looking at the situation in the Ice City, they knew that Li Chengqian had something to say, so they all stood on the arrow tower silently.
After a while, Li Chengqian asked in a faint voice: "What do you think of the common characteristics of these Xue Yantuo surrendered soldiers?"
"Well?"
The few people didn't know what Li Chengqian meant, so they naturally couldn't answer.
Li Chengqian waited for a while and continued, "They are all very young, and they are from Xueyantuo's tribe who lead the past and the future."
After hearing this, the few people fell silent again.
Li Chengqian continued: "The Lonely King once said that the grasslands in the desert, the thousands of miles north and south of the desert have suddenly become prosperous and destroyed, but they always cause harm to China, so we must control the grasslands."
"Your Highness Gao Zhan Yuanjian and others admire him." Xu Jingzong hurriedly said.
Li Chengqian smiled slightly, and then said, "You should have heard that the Lone King told the King of Wu that he would continue to be kings overseas?"
This is also what was written in the "Ten Year Plan of the Tang Dynasty", and they naturally knew it, but at this time Li Chengqian mentioned it was obviously not that simple, so he couldn't help but think deeply.
I thought that with the overseas title of kings, there was another thing that was widely circulated, which was the theory that the destruction of the country must be destroyed by Li Chengqian, so that the people of his country would forget who their ancestors were, forget their culture, and then educate the people of his country to be loyal to the Tang Dynasty.
At that time, they all felt that the places where Li Chengqian wanted to enfeoff were barren overseas, and even if there were people on the island, they were just savages who ate raw meat and drank blood, so everyone didn't care.
But at this moment, I suddenly realized that what Li Cheng did in the north was not done according to his theory that the country would destroy its upper class.
Seeing that they had almost thought it through, Li Chengqian continued, "Of course, it is not so easy to practice the theory of the destruction of the kingdom here, but the achievements of education still need to be realized.
After ten years of birth and ten years of upbringing, a powerful Yue Kingdom emerged.
But if my Tang Dynasty had been educated here for ten years, could we educate the people here into the people of the Tang Dynasty?"
"Your Highness the Crown Prince, he is talented and has a long-term plan. Ten years later, the desert will not be afraid of becoming a paradise for China." Xu Jingzong said that he had a say in education.
Li Chengqian pointed at the people in Bingcheng and asked, "But what should these people do? Kill these people, this land will naturally give birth to other people. When Tang Jun leaves, he will get up and cause trouble. What should I do?"
Several people were asked by Li Chengqian. If they knew what to do, they would not have gone out alone in Mobei more than a thousand years later.
Seeing that the few people were stunned and did not wait for him to answer, Li Chengqian said directly: "When the Lone King said that he would make great achievements in governing the desert, you all were in a state of great excellence, but you really had to implement it step by step, but you were afraid of your head and head."
When several people heard this, they were on the arrow tower, they still knelt down on their knees and said, "I am aware of the crime."
Li Chengqian still refused to let them go, and asked in a cold voice: "Is this worthy of the Lone King? Or is it true that you do this?
God has born in the world and brought down the Lone King to make you successful and famous, but you dare not move forward bravely!”
After hearing Li Chengqian's words, the few people were frightened and their faces changed drastically.
When Li Chengqian summoned Xue Rengui last year, the situation was once popular in Chang'an City. Everyone said: Li Chengqian and Xue Rengui were monarchs and ministers in their previous lives.
Later, Li Chengqian received another letter from Qin Chen and made a powerful weapon like gunpowder.
It is said that Li Chengqian was the reincarnation of Qin Shihuang. Later, Li Shimin thought that if Li Chengqian was reincarnated by Qin Shihuang, he would be too embarrassed, so he ordered the ban on such rumors.
At this time, when the few people heard Li Chengqian say this, they all remembered those legends.
"It is said that the way of heaven is good. Since the rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Five Barbarians in China have caused the rebellion of China. Many Han people were slaughtered by the Northern Di. Today, the Crown Prince's wise and magical martial arts are the time to take revenge.
I don’t know what I think of is the norm. I really feel sorry for His Highness’s kindness and ask His Highness to punish him.”
The first person to react was Xu Jingzong. When the others heard this, they hurriedly said, "Please ask His Highness the Crown Prince to punish him."
Li Chengqian felt that they had repented but were still worried. Then he said: "For a king and his subject, if you don't want to make such a merit, you won't force yourself. These Xue Yantuo surrendered soldiers have been scared to death at this moment. They may be released as coolies for several years..."
"Your Highness, you can't do this! These people are capricious and devastated to China and must be killed to deter the barbarians around them." Su Dingfang hurriedly stopped Li Chengqian from speaking.
Xu Jingzong next to him also hurriedly suggested: "Please ask the Prince's Palace to descend and order the Lingzhou Prefecture to summon leaders of various tribes nearby to come and congratulate the crown prince's great defeat of Xue Yantuo."
When Yuchi Gong heard this, he didn't know what to say, and he sighed in his heart that these two guys had changed their faces too quickly.
When Li Chengqian got the result, he laughed and said, "Okay! Just do as Xu Xueshi said, as long as we are united in the king and ministers, governing this northern land is nothing."
"Abide by the order!" Su Dingfang and Xu Jingzong said excitedly.
Seeing this, Wang Fangyi couldn't help rolling his eyes. What did he do as Xue Shi said? Didn't you mention this opinion?
"Okay, let's just flat!" Li Chengqian said with great enthusiasm.
"Thank you, Prince!"
After this decision, Su Dingfang and Xu Jingzong were much more relaxed. After all, they were under a lot of pressure to oppose Li Chengqian.
When Li Chengqian waited for them to stand up, he said lightly again: "Shi Shi Xu had studied the Book of Sui and should have read the Book of Wei. By the Northern Wei Dynasty, many foreign tribes changed their surnames to Liu. Can Mr. Xu know the whole story?"
When asked about Xu Jingzong's job, he was clear. He hurriedly said: "When the Prince, the Northern Wei barbarians changed their surnames to the Han surname, because the Liu surname was the imperial surname of the Han Dynasty. The two Han dynasties were powerful and powerful. When the Northern Wei Dynasty, the four barbarians still took the Liu surname as their noble surname."
Li Chengqian sighed after hearing this: "Yes! It has been two or three hundred years since the Northern Wei Dynasty moved to the late Eastern Han Dynasty, but at that time the four barbarians still respected the powerful Han Dynasty. Is the strong Han Dynasty just exerting benevolence and righteousness on the four barbarians?"
Yuchi Gong kept listening to Li Chengqian's attempt to subdue his generals, and he had been unable to interrupt. At this moment, he couldn't help but say, "No wonder Your Majesty often said, 'Barriages are beasts, fear power but not be virtuous.' Of course, he had to show his power to deal with barbarians." As he said that, he couldn't help blushing.
Li Chengqian continued after hearing this, "You were so disagreeable before!" When the few people heard this, they all looked ashamed.
Li Chengqian was happy to see this and said to himself: Although Li Shimin said so, he could only defeat the other party by force. As for killing surrendered soldiers, he would probably not demonstrate to a small tribe.
Li Chengqian and a few people went down the arrow tower, and ordered Xiao Luo to come and celebrate his great defeat to Xueyantuo.
Chapter completed!