Chapter 213: Reorganize the troops and horses to expand territory

On the terrace outside the Wude Hall in Chang'an Tai Chi Palace, Li Yuan looked at the west sky from afar. At this moment, the left guard general Yu Yanzhang appeared without knowing it. Li Yuan was no longer surprised by this. Yu Yanzhang handed a secret letter to Li Yuan.

Li Yuan took the secret letter and said in surprise: "What? Shimin secretly returned to Beijing and had a secret contact with Du Fuwei. The two reached a secret agreement to make Jinlan?"

Pei Ji followed Li Yuan to take the secret letter, glanced at him quickly, and his face suddenly changed: "Your Majesty, this..."

Li Yuan seemed to murmur to himself: "It's not too stupid, I know how to find a friend!"

Pei Ji's eyebrows stretched out, and Li Yuan used Li Shimin to balance Li Jiancheng's intentions. Now Li Jiancheng's army is not bloody, and he has pacified the Hebei rebellion and his reputation has increased greatly. Li Shimin's momentum is getting weaker and weaker, making it more difficult to gain a foothold in the court.

Now Li Shimin and Du Fuwei have formed a political alliance, and the two sides have different resources. Du Fuwei, who has more than 20 states and hundreds of counties and territories, and Li Shimin, can barely compete with Li Jiancheng.

Li Yuan said: "Now the crown prince has come to an end and his wings are getting richer. The King of Qin has no longer found a foothold, but now it is evenly matched!"

Pei Ji bowed and said, "Your Majesty is aware of thousands of miles away, but I am far away!"

Li Yuan smiled faintly, and his eyes looked northwest again without realizing it. He seemed to be asking Pei Ji, and he seemed to be muttering to himself: "Calculate the days, the imperial edict should also be in the Western Regions. I don't know. Chen Ying will respond after reading the edict?"

Speaking of this, Li Yuan turned around and looked at Pei Ji and said, "Chen Ying is so arrogant and does his own way. This time, he asked to issue an imperial edict. I hope Chen Ying can understand my hard work, and then hand over the military power and return to Chang'an. Pei San..."

Pei Ji stepped forward and bowed and said, "Your Majesty's meaning..."

Li Yuan pondered and said, "You have worked harder, and I plan to propose a new list of officials in the Western Regions. This time, the appointment and removal of officials from the Western Regions will be neither given to the crown prince nor the king of Qin. I want to appoint them myself."

Pei Ji smiled bitterly and said, "What should I do if Prince Chen refuses to accept it?"

In the Tang Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, the court was the emperor's one-man charity, and ministers were the emperor's slaves. However, in the Tang Dynasty, the emperor and ministers were like the relationship between the president and professional manager in a large company. Both parties cooperated on the basis of your love, rather than the emperor being able to decide. Just like when Concubine Yin De was very fond of, especially when she gave birth to her son, Li Yuanheng, who was even more favored by Li Yuan. Li Yuan loved the house and the Wu, and ordered Yin Ash to be named Duke Shu Guo.

However, after Li Yuan's imperial edict was issued, even Pei Ji, the Secretary of Shangshu Zuo Pushe, did not dare to attach an agreement to it. Chen Shuda, the Minister of the Secretariat, directly returned Li Yuan's imperial edict. If an edict was not issued by the Prime Minister and did not have any seals for the paintings of the Secretariat, it would not have legal benefits.

Under such a background, Li Yuan could have refused to take over as the Grand Situ of the Tang Dynasty on the grounds that he was young and light and had shallow qualifications, and instead was a respected old minister. Since then, Li Yuan had no choice but to make other mistakes.

Li Yuansi said for a moment: "Let Yuanji go, he should be able to do this."

Pei Ji shook his head and said, "I think it is inappropriate. The Hebei Rebellion has just been quelled, and there are more than 200,000 Eastern Turkic cavalry eyeing them. If the operation of the Western Regions is adjusted, who can take over as the magistrate of the Western Regions? I am afraid that His Highness of the King of Qi will also surrender the generals of the Anxi Army for prestige. If the Western Regions are in turmoil, I am afraid that the Eastern Turkic Jie Li Khan will have no worries and will lead the troops south. What should we do?"

Li Yuan thought for a moment and thought that Pei Ji was definitely not an exaggeration. Chen Ying has now occupied the Geluo Ridge Pass, Shuleto Yunguan, and the western part of Khotan, and basically controlled the three passes in the north, middle and south of the Pamir Mountains, completely isolated the connection between the East and West Turks. Moreover, the Anxi Army under Chen Ying could completely capture the northern desert grasslands of the Eastern Turks from Mount Altai, Langshan, and Hunhe River. If the Western Regions were turbulent, it would definitely make Jie Li Khan wake up in his dreams.

Li Yuan's face gradually became severe and he said coldly: "The power of various places to operate Taiwan is too high. If this continues, it will not be a blessing for the country. It is imperative to abolish the operation of Taiwan and reclaim the power of local governance in Taiwan for future generations!"

Speaking of this, Li Yuan turned around and looked at Pei Ji aggressively and said, "Pei San, what should I do now?"

Pei Ji thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, since this is the case, it is better to abolish the Shaanxi East Road Xingtai, the Shandong Road Xingtai, and the Hebei Road Xingtai, and then abolish the Hedong Road Xingtai and the Jiannan Road Xingtai!"

Li Yuan's eyes froze and he nodded slowly.

Pei Ji's plan was made by Fan Sui to the King of Qin during the Warring States Period: "It is better to have friends from afar and attack near you than to gain a short distance. If you get a short distance, then the king's inch; if you get a short ruler, it is also the king's inch."

Today, the Tang Dynasty established the Jiannan Road Xingtai Chengdu General Administration (under the 44 prefectures), the Longyou Road Xingtai Liangzhou General Administration (under the 14 prefectures), the Taiyuan General Administration (under the 24 prefectures), the Shaanxi-East Road Xingtai Luoyang General Administration, which is under the 31 prefectures of Shaanxi, Henan-East Road Xingtai Xiangzhou General Administration (under the 39 prefectures), the Shandong Road Xingtai Qizhou General Administration (under the 27 prefectures), and the Southeast Road Xingtai (under the 73 prefectures).

The one with the widest territories is Xizhou Road (Nineteen Prefectures). However, if you want to say that it is rich, Xizhou Road is far inferior to the Southeast Road, and it occupies the hometown of fish and rice in Jianghuai Lake.

Pei Ji's suggestion was to abolish Shaanxi East and Henan Road and establish Henan Prefecture.

At this time, the world was settled, and Shaanxi and Henan did not have to bear the threat from Jingxiang Xiao Xian. They could completely abolish the Taiwan agency and take power back to the central government. The key was that at this time, the Rencheng King Li Daozong was Li Yuan's nephew. He had neither ambition nor core corps. Most of the generals and officers under his command were Qu Tutong's old subordinates.

Li Yuan nodded without comment and said, "Now that the war has been won, the court will have to give an explanation to the Guanzhong clan no matter what. In a few days, the prince will be back to the capital. Pei San, please discuss with the prince and come up with a charter as soon as possible!"

Pei Ji nodded and said, "Old minister understand!"

Li Yuan said solemnly: "This matter is related to the foundation of our Tang Dynasty, the country and the country, and it is not neglected. You should first discuss with Xiao Shiwen, Chen Shuda, Yang Gongren, and they all have to come up with solutions as soon as possible."

Pei Ji bowed and said, "I will do it now!"

...

Chen Ying held hot water and served Li Xiuning to scrub her body. Li Xiuning's fingers touched Chen Ying's big and small body, deep and shallow scars, and the trembling in her heart was like the thunder of spring, and her eyes slowly turned red.

Chen Ying was worried that Li Xiuning, who was pregnant, was too excited, so he quickly advised Wei: "Scars are the sign of a man's maturity. Luo Shixin's body does not even have a good place the size of a copper coin. They are all covered in scars. You haven't seen it..."

Li Xiuning pushed Chen Ying and asked Chen Ying to carry her back. She first got into the quilt and took off her clothes. Her snow-like arms were exposed to the cold air, and she was placed in the red forged quilt, making the light on the candlestick look like mutton fat jade. The collarbone exposed on both shoulders was slender and white and sexy.

Li Xiuning looked down at her slightly raised abdomen, looked at the fat around her waist, couldn't help but look at Chen Ying and asked, "Do you feel like I'm old?"

Chen Ying laughed and said, "Sanniang, you have thought too much. Now you don't know how charming you are!"

Listening to Chen Ying's stingy love words, Li Xiuning was extremely shy and slowly felt something. However, her body was inconvenient and her thoughts became stronger. Li Xiuning had to use other things to divert her attention.

Li Xiuning pondered some words and said, "Chen Lang, what are you going to do?"

"It seems that I am too sharp and it makes people afraid!" Chen Ying smiled helplessly and said, "There is the King of Qin, the Crown Prince, and dozens or millions of troops. Just one Chen Ying. What a question, now I can't wait to deprive me of my military power..."

Li Xiuning said angrily: "There is a treacherous minister by my father, and my father is also confused!"

Chen Yingyou sighed and said nothing.

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying and said, "What do Chen Lang think?"

Chen Ying smiled coldly and said, "The Guanlong clans, the clans of the world, support the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty was established, and they were not as good as they could. But they were unwilling to accept that provoking the Hebei rebellion was only one of them. I am afraid that Jiangnan would cause trouble again. However, fearing me is real. Not only the ministers in the court, but the clans of the aristocratic clans, they are also afraid of me!"

Li Xiuning's expression immediately became ugly when she heard this.

Chen Ying said lightly: "I am in the Western Regions, holding a hundred thousand troops. They feel like a ray of light on their backs. They want me to leave the Western Regions and return to Chang'an. In fact, they are really afraid of me. In their opinion, if I stay in the Western Regions, if I go on forever, the Western Regions will not be the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, the aristocratic families can't wait to send me back to Chang'an... The most important thing is that they are interested in the huge interests of the Western Regions. There are tens of millions of fertile land and tens of millions of pastures here, and there are also a large amount of steel, coal, tincture oil, agate, jade, gems, gold, silver and copper ore. As long as Chen Ying loses power, or if I die, they can swallow this fat piece of Western Regions with confidence!"

Li Xiuning shouted indignantly: "They dare, the things here belong to our son, and no one can take them away. If anyone dares to rob them, I will fight with you!"

Chen Ying stiffly looked away from the gaze that fell on Li Xiuning and took a deep breath.

Chen Ying glanced at Li Xiuning and warned casually: "Sanniang, now the entire Guanlong family and the families in the world are afraid of me, the general of the country. In their opinion, even if you add Your Majesty, you are not my opponent. They dare not let me manage my business well in the Western Regions, but instead, taking advantage of the fact that we have not yet established a stable foothold, we can't wait to make a move!"

Li Xiuning frowned, breathing a little unsteadily, "What's the use of being afraid?"

Chen Ying spread his hands, his eyes wide open, deliberately showing a innocent and innocent look, and said innocently: "This is the problem. Before completely defeating the Western Turks, the Guanzhong clans, the world's clans, and even the imperial court would not give me any substantial support. We can only rely on ourselves in the Western Regions."

Li Xiuning looked at her relaxed and unworried look and asked, "Chen Lang seems to have a way to deal with it?"

Chen Yingyouran smiled and said, "Yes, there are three strategies: upper, middle and lower."

Li Xiuning immediately straightened her back, looking at a scrupulous look: "But I heard Chen Lang's trick, how can I be at peace with the world!"

Chen Ying said solemnly: "The best strategy is that I will immediately raise an army to clear the monarchy and contact the aristocratic families and families who were dissatisfied with the court. In order to conquer the Tian Jing, to fight against the rebellion, kill Guanzhong in one fell swoop, and then disintegrate the Tang Dynasty and solve the problem once and for all."

Li Xiuning touched Chen Ying's soft flesh on his ribs and suddenly used force. Her hand twisted a piece of soft flesh and turned it 360 degrees. Chen Ying blew a breath from his heart, grinning in pain: "Sanniang, stop, it hurts, it hurts!"

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying fiercely and said, "You dare!"

Chen Ying smiled bitterly and said, "Of course I don't dare, I'm just saying it. In this way, the world will probably be divided into pieces and blood will flow into a river!"

Li Xiuning stared at Chen Yingliang for a long time and said, "It's good that you know!"

Chen Ying continued: "Zhongce asked Your Majesty for his order, and returned to Chang'an as the Grand Situ, and proved to the emperor, the aristocratic clans, and the world that Chen Ying had no intention of rebellion. If he believed that Chen Ying had influenced the stability of the world and the country of the Tang Dynasty, Chen Ying led himself to commit suicide. Without Chen Ying and without the general of the country, the Tang Dynasty would still be as stable as Mount Tai."

Li Xiuning's eyes gradually lit up, and then they became darker: "It's not appropriate. If someone wants to take action, you can't stretch your head over. What's the worst way?"

Chen Ying said: "What is the worst thing? The worst thing is that Chen Ying leads his troops to continue to attack westward, and vows the whole world to the end of his life, and is not allowed to enter Guanzhong."

Li Xiuning sat in Chen Ying's arms and remained motionless.

Chen Ying was free to hold Li Xiuning in the ground, and the two of them were speechless for a long time.

Finally, Li Xiuning finally raised her head and looked at Chen Ying and said, "Is there any other way? All three strategies are not acceptable!"

Chen Ying pulled up the corner of his mouth without surprise, smiled helplessly and coldly: "Yes!"

Li Xiuning said anxiously: "What method?"

"The prince is generous and generous..." A brilliant light burst out from Chen Ying's eyes: "The Western Regions are so big that it is unprecedented. The Tang Dynasty is far west, and it is Rome, which is the Great Qin recorded in history books. We are still more than 20,000 miles away from the Great Qin. We can rectify our troops and expand our territory for the Tang Dynasty. Leave right and wrong to the prince to deal with it in the future!"

Li Xiuning was stunned when she heard this. Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng were two types of people. Li Yuan was mean, Li Jiancheng was generous, and Li Shimin was fierce. If Chen Ying handed over the military power of the Western Regions to Li Yuan and returned to Chang'an, he would definitely not escape the fate of Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande.

However, Li Jiancheng must also take back the local authority, but under Li Jiancheng's rule, it is definitely not difficult for Chen Ying to be a rich man.

Because Li Jiancheng has enough self-confidence and enough personal charm to make people submit.

But Li Yuan likes to kill danger in the bud.

Chen Ying's heart became more and more calm. He was betting that Li Yuan would not turn against him!
Chapter completed!