Chapter 1455 The Weird Early Dynasty
The exile that the censor was worried about in Lingnan did not happen, but his official position changed from the censor to the sixth-rank county magistrate, and the place where he took office was in Chang'an County.
After thanking him, the censor was in tears. He really didn't know how he should be a county magistrate as a censor.
However, at this time, the initiator Li Chengqian patted his shoulder: "Congratulations, Jiaru, the working people's family, go back to make up for the Tang Dynasty's laws, and learn how to farm!"
The county magistrate has a low status in the county. When it comes to farming, he must go to various villages and towns to be responsible for spring plowing and autumn harvesting. Therefore, Li Chengqian congratulated him on joining the working people's family.
However, the agricultural tax matter has been discussed for a long time but it still has no result. The matter has to continue. In the end, the tax exemption cannot help but the court officials express their opinions and fight red.
At this moment, a person suddenly came up outside the hall and stood at the entrance of the Tai Chi Hall and made a loud noise: "I will report to Your Majesty, I have important matters!"
The debate in Tai Chi Hall suddenly became quiet, and everyone focused their eyes at the entrance of the hall, and found that it was the garrison commander of the Tai Chi Hall.
"Go to the palace to speak." His Majesty Li Er narrowed his eyes, looking so serious that he couldn't express himself.
The Tai Chi Hall garrison commander is not very high, and it is logical that he is not qualified to go to the palace, or even more serious, and he is not even qualified to show his face. But now this guy ran up to interrupt the court meeting, which is enough to show that something serious must have happened outside.
Just as everyone was speculating, the garrison commander had already arrived at the hall, bowed one knee and gave a heavy military salute to the old man, and then said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the border is urgently reported that Prince Xue Yantuo Yimang has seized the throne and is leading 200,000 armored camp at the foot of Yinshan Mountain, threatening the frontier!"
"The unfamiliar wolf cub! He is so bold!" Old Li didn't say anything, but the group of veterans below were furious, and their hair was full of anger.
Cheng Yaojin, Yuchi Gong and others have even stood up and prepared to ask Lao Li for his order.
Then His Majesty Li Er did not let them speak, but waved his hand to let them all retreat aside, and said to Li Chengqian: "King Qin, what do you think about this!"
Li Chengqian smiled leisurely and said without any haste: "Father, you are not worth mentioning. My son is afraid to cross the border even if he does not dare to cross the border. Otherwise, my son is willing to raise ten thousand troops to destroy this court food!"
"Well, my son has the spirit of the King of Qin!" His Majesty Li Er nodded quietly, and then asked, "But you heard him just now that Prince Xue Yantuo led 200,000 troops. How can you deal with this ten thousand troops?"
"Xue Yantuo Sui is known as the army of 200,000, but he has just experienced war and the people are unstable. I believe that even if there are really 200,000 people, it is still a mob mixed with dragons and snakes, and his combat power must be not strong."
"In addition, it was late summer, and Xueyantuo's food and grass must be unprepared after the war. The reason why he stationed at the foot of Yinshan Mountain was nothing more than a delaying strategy, which made us mistakenly think that they had the will of contributing to the Tang Dynasty, thus strengthening their defense, and losing the initiative to take the initiative to attack. The Xueyantuo people took the opportunity to collect the food and grass for the winter."
"Based on these two points, my son-in-law concluded that the Xueyantuo people should not be ready for invasion at the moment, so as long as ten thousand people are bound to be defeated."
Li Chengqian never believed that after the Xueyantuo people fought for half a year, they still had the strength to continue to advance south. If it was a small group of troops, there might be a possibility of within 5,000 people, but if it was a 200,000 army, Xiao Li thought it was nonsense.
Because the living habits of grassland peoples determine that they are always going to make grass valleys in autumn, which means they need to prepare a lot of forage for their livestock to spend the winter from late summer to the first snowfall in winter.
If they go out to fight during this period of time, even if they can win every battle, but without food at home, a large number of livestock will starve to death in winter. Even if they win the war, they will probably be hungry after returning home.
Herders are also human beings, and they also have families and children. It is impossible to be free of worries. They will not do anything about starving their wives and children to death after winning battles. That is why Li Chengqian is so sure that all this is the Xueyantuo people implementing a delayed military strategy.
"How should this matter be solved according to your opinion?" After listening to Li Chengqian's analysis carefully, the old man still had no special statement, and just continued to ask questions.
"If you are good at quarrels, you will be killed without mercy!" The simple eight words represent Li Chengqian's diplomatic philosophy. What is the external king and the internal king and the external saint are all nonsense. If you dare to show off your power on the border of our Tang Dynasty, you must be prepared to accept death. This is Li Chengqian's true thought.
"Your Highness the King of Qin doesn't mind killing anything? If you just said, Xue Yantuo is just protecting himself, why do you have to make such a big fuss?" The Buddhist official couldn't wait for Li Er to speak, and finally found an opportunity, and stepped forward openly to confront Li Chengqian.
What is Li Chengqian's origin and what kind of remarks he has never seen in later generations. His kung fu was not inferior to the important officials in the court. After hearing this, he just smiled faintly: "What should I protect myself? If Xue Yantuo did not rebel, what would he be so careful about my Tang Dynasty?"
"As the saying goes, don't do bad things, and don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night. If Xue Yantuo had not been thinking about invading the Tang Dynasty early, why should he be so cautious? Ye Mang took the position of Khan and did not come to the Tang Dynasty first, but he had to hold 200,000 soldiers on the border. Why do you still have to analyze this?"
"Maybe he is just guarding against the Turks." Another official came out. This man was a direct descendant of the aristocratic family and had been against Li Chengqian everywhere, but for some reason, he was going to provoke him again.
"The Turks have already been attached to me, and they can be regarded as my Tang people. If Wu Er is prepared for them, what should they do?" Li Chengqian seemed to have made up his mind to attack Xue Yantuo, and every word he said was tightly trapped Xue Yantuo's intention to rebel.
"Even so, His Highness of Qin wanted to use a army of ten thousand people to fight against Xue Yantuo's 200,000 troops. I wonder if he was a little too despised his opponent?"
"Yes, I think that Yi Mang was a soldier who was killed in the army. Since he could seize the position of Xue Yantuo Khan within half a year, he thought he was also a hero who was comparable to Jie Li. His Highness despises this person so much. If he is defeated, he will be the face of my Tang Dynasty."
"I think your highness should not learn from Zhao Kuo in ancient times."
The atmosphere in Tai Chi Hall was very strange. The old man sat on the imperial stairs and said nothing. A group of veteran soldiers from the military shouted a few times at the beginning and then shut their mouths completely. It seemed that everything had nothing to do with them.
This led to a situation where only Li Chengqian was in conflict with the aristocratic family who advocated Jingguan.
Weird, so weird, what exactly does the old man want to do?
While Li Chengqian was bickering with the officials from the aristocratic family, he observed the old man's movements coldly, but found that the old man seemed not thinking about this, but was staring at the palace in a daze.
This made Li Chengqian even more confused and wanted to find out what Lao Li thought.
"Your Highness of the King of Qin insisted on his own, trying to defeat Xue Yantuo's 200,000 troops with ten thousand people, but I wonder if your Highness dares to issue a military order?" Just as Li Chengqian was a little distracted, the aristocratic family team stood up again. Looking closely, who is Lu Chengqing?
"King Qin, how dare you establish this military order?" The old man on the imperial stairs seemed to have suddenly come to his senses. Before Li Chengqian could figure out what was going on, he asked directly.
I understand, I understand everything. It turns out that this is a trap, a trap that can't bear to let the child go and cannot get into a wolf.
Li Chengqian, who had been tangled with the old man's attitude, finally figured it out. The root of all these things was not the old man's attitude, but the source and time of the news.
The old man must have known about the news of Xue Yantuo's military border, but he has not announced it. This time, he took the opportunity of going to court to suddenly announce it and led him to take the bait.
But why is this? Let yourself die with the aristocratic family? In theory, this possibility should not exist.
But……
Li Chengqian was not allowed to continue thinking too much in time. The old man’s question needed him to answer immediately: “Father, my son dare to issue a military order!”
"Okay, it's my Li family's thousand-mile horse!" Li Chengqian's answer made Old Li 'overjoyed'. Without waiting for him to say anything, he continued: "Since that's the case, you can choose ten thousand people for the Sixteen Guards, and you will also assign the leader. You will set off immediately after you are ready."
"Here! My son obeys the order!" Although I didn't know what the old man wanted to do, but now that things have come to this, Li Chengqian cannot hesitate anymore. After a formal military salute is taken, the job will be considered his.
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There is no major matter to discuss in the morning court. His Majesty Li Er left early and the court would take Li Jing, Du Ruhui and others to the study to discuss matters, while Li Chengqian turned back to Furong Garden with all his questions.
The morning court on this day was full of strangeness. First, the old man took Lu Chengqing's impeachment and then someone sent news to Xue Yantuo's army border. After a group of old guys lured him out, they all retreated. Finally, the old man forced him to lead the army again.
What exactly happened? Li Chengqian couldn't figure out all this. He was distracted on the way back. Even the carriage had stopped at the door of Furong Garden, but he still didn't react.
"Your Highness, you are here!" Yang Yuxin reminded in a low voice.
Li Chengqian seemed to have not heard it, and was still dazed. He had to figure out what tricks there were, otherwise he would not be relieved no matter what.
And at this moment, an old voice suddenly rang out of the carriage: "Is the King of Qin in the carriage? Is my husband Li Jingxian?"
Li Jingxian? Li Chengqian was stunned for a moment, and felt vaguely that he had heard of somewhere, but in a flash of an instant, a person's name flashed through his mind, Luo Cheng.
Chapter completed!