Chapter 73: Minister of War participated in the government affairs

Wei Zheng walked out of the countryside, and suddenly Dai Zhou rushed out of the side, pulled Wei Zheng's sleeve, and took Wei Zheng behind the pillar.

Dai Zhou said with an anxious look on his face: "Xuancheng, you are fooled by Fang Xuanling!"

Wei Zheng said with an inexplicable expression: "Be fooled? What's the fool?"

Dai Zhou said seriously: "Do you think those death row prisoners will escape and hide? Fang Xuanling had sent someone to tell the death row prisoners that as long as he returned to the prison on time, he would definitely convince His Majesty to pardon these people's crimes."

Wei Zheng nodded calmly and said, "I know."

Dai Zhou was stunned and asked in confusion: "Do you know?"

Wei Zheng said: "I know."

Dai Zhou suddenly turned red and said, "Then do you want to give this imperial edict?"

Wei Zheng still nodded.

Dai Zhou sighed and said, "Do you know that this matter goes against the way of a gentleman?"

Wei Zheng nodded and said, "I know."

Dai Zhou shouted even more angrily: "Then why don't you stop this?"

Wei Zheng patted Dai Zhou on the shoulder and said, "Who can be ruthless without plants? Not at any time, we must abide by national laws and regulations and moral etiquette. Everything... there are always exceptions."

After Wei Zheng finished speaking, he walked away leisurely in a goose step.

Dai Zhou stood still motionless.

In the Tai Chi Palace Imperial Study Room, Li Jiancheng, who was handling the memorial, suddenly raised his head.

Li Anyan, who was helping to sort out the documents, looked around in a strange way.

Lee Anyan said: "Your Majesty, what happened?"

Li Jiancheng murmured: "No, can Wei Zheng... really not see Fang Xuanling's trick?"

An Yan asked inexplicably: "What trick?

Li Jiancheng said: "Fang Xuanling must have agreed with the death row prisoners. If he comes back on time, he will convince me and pardon them."

Anyan Li said: "Yes!"

Li Jiancheng frowned and looked at Li Anyan and said, "Why does Wei Zheng still have to paint?"

Li Anyan spread his hands and continued to organize his documents.

Li Jiancheng waved his hand and said, "Forget it, if you can't figure it out, don't want to... By the way, the morning after tomorrow, have you been ready to pick up Wei Zheng's car?"

Li Anyan said: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I've been prepared long ago. I'll be a coachman, keep the matter safe and secure."

Li Jiancheng nodded.

At this moment, panic footsteps came from outside the door.

Li Jiancheng raised his head and looked in the sound.

I saw Yang Gongren, covered in frost, strode towards him.

Li Jiancheng asked: "Secretary Yang, what's going on?"

"Your Majesty's big deal is not good!" Yang Gongren signaled Li Anyan to go out.

Ang Lee left consciously.

Yang Gongren handed the urgent report to Li Jiancheng: "This is the urgent report that the Shangshu Province just received. General Li Jing and General Li came day and night for 800 miles of cavalry, and sent it to him day and night. Five days and four nights, more than a dozen horses were exhausted by the war horses alone!"

When Li Jiancheng heard this, a solemn expression appeared on his face.

Li Jiancheng launched an emergency report, and the emergency report was very short, with only a few dozen words. However, seeing these few dozen words, Li Jiancheng's face immediately became gloomy.

During this decisive battle of the Northern Expedition of the Tang Dynasty, Li Jing led 250,000 Tang army soldiers, fought against Jie Li three times, and annihilated them one after another, capturing more than 200,000 Eastern Turks, and the rest surrendered.

However, among them, there were special forces who failed to do so, and more than 10,000 people including Dashijin Ottoman Punk fled west. Dashijin means the meaning of the leader of the Turkic period, compared with the Shangshu of the Tang Dynasty. The Eastern Turkic period had nine major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major major

Chen Ying asked Li Jing for instructions and asked to pursue the remaining Turkic troops, but Li Jing did not agree. The next morning, Chen Ying led more than 6,000 Dingyuan soldiers to carry food and grass, and his baggage was traveling westward.

When Li Jiancheng saw this news, he felt like he fell into an ice cellar.

Chen Ying actually left.

...

Lingzhou, as one of Chen Ying's earliest foundations, was here, Chen Ying supplemented military supplies and supplies and prepared for an expedition.

This time, the materials were prepared very sufficient, with as many as 3,000 four-wheeled carriages alone. These 3,000 carriages had been prepared long ago. After Chen Ying unloaded the wounded in Lingzhou, he could set off.

"I don't think I'm going to destroy the Ottoman punk."

Li Xiuning discovered that Chen Ying had already prepared for the Western Expedition. In fact, if Chen Ying did not want Zhisi to lose his power and escape with the Ottoman punk during the Shengle period, they would not be able to escape at all.

Chen Ying smiled and said, "Do you still remember Hou Jing of the Southern Dynasty?"

Li Xiuning said: "He is fierce and good at martial arts, is not good at running, is good at riding and shooting, and is selected as the Huaishuo Town Army. In the late Northern Wei Dynasty, a six-town uprising broke out. The Hu tribes in the border town resisted the rule of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Hou Jing took advantage of the situation to make achievements. At first, he surrendered to Erzhu Rong, followed the Ge Rong uprising and was appointed as the governor of Dingzhou. Later, he surrendered to Gao Huan, a powerful minister of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and was appointed as the Minister of Personnel, and was moved to Henan Yin. In the first year of Taiqing (547), he led his troops to surrender to the Liang Dynasty and appointed as the governor of Yuzhou.

In the second year of Taiqing (548), he launched a rebellion, attacked Jiankang City, launched the "Taiqing Rebellion", and slaughtered aristocratic families. In the second year of Dabao (551), he killed Emperor Wu of Liang, Emperor Jianwen and Queen Yuzhang, and usurped the throne and established the Han Dynasty. Later, Emperor Yuan of Liang organized the governor of Jiangzhou, Wang Sengbian and Chen Baxian, the governor of Dongyangzhou, to lead his army to break Jiankang City and pacify Hou Jing's rebellion. Hou Jing was killed by his subordinates..."

Chen Ying looked at Li Xiuning and said, "Hou Jing was a Jie person... During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the general of the Later Zhao Dynasty, Ran Min, rebelled and killed the Shi family and destroyed the Jie clan. Only more than 10,000 Jie people defected to Murong Xianbei and survived. As the saying goes, the cycle of heaven, the Jie people, Hou Jing, led him to more than 10,000 Jie people, and killed more than 10,000 Jie people, from Huaihuang to Jiankang, fought thousands of miles, and slaughtered more than one million people..."

When Li Xiuning thought of this, she burst into a cold sweat.

The Tang Dynasty and the Turks had a feud to destroy the country and destroy the clan. If Zhisi was unable to escape with Ottoman Punk and others, wouldn’t it be another Taiqing Rebellion two hundred years later?

A murderous aura appeared on Li Xiuning's face: "You must never let Zhisi lose his power and escape!"

"There is no need for this now," Chen Ying smiled faintly: "This lack of power in thinking is our pioneer in opening the way!"

"The pioneer of the way?" Li Xiuning finally reacted for a long time. She suddenly smiled and felt that Chen Ying had become a little cunning.

Treacherous, this is a derogatory term, but at this time, why do you think this adjective is particularly suitable? Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying, but the latter did not smile. His eyes were always like that, with half-drooping of his eyelids, only half of his eyeballs exposed.

Suddenly, Li Xiuning had something happened.

She felt that although Chen Ying's face had become much more plump, his expression and look seemed to be no different from the Jingyang City period.

Li Xiuning thought to himself, maybe Chen Ying has not become treacherous, maybe he was like this before, but now he has become more powerful.

"The Western Regions are originally the sphere of influence of China!" Chen Ying said with a wry smile: "It's just that since the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms turmoil, the Chinese power declined. Now, the people of the Central Plains have forgotten this large area of ​​homeland and thought it was a foreign country! But I clearly know that from here Chang'an to Beiting, then from Beiting to west and thousands of miles south, they were once the sphere of influence of China!"

Li Xiuning said: "But now it's the Western Turks."

"Yes, it's the Western Turkic Khanate." Chen Ying pointed to the carriage, and the huge map said: "The Eastern Turks have perished, and the Western Turks cannot be left alone. The Tang Dynasty had just emerged from the natural disaster, and the imperial court had no strength at all. He held a national war like Li Jing's Northern Expedition."

Even if Chen Ying didn't say it, Li Xiuning understood that the Western Turks are now splitting, and the Eastern Turks who escaped, such as the Ottoman punk, are easily defeated by the Western Turks. They may use iron and blood to soften the Western Turks in a very short time.

The Sai people in the Western Regions and the Jiu surname Zhaowu in the River were all a group of fence-bearing grasses, and they would fall wherever the wind blows. If the Tang Dynasty had focused its main energy in the pass and developed people's livelihood in the near future.

Then the remnants of the Turks are likely to further erode the Western Regions.

Once the Western Turks control the most prosperous Tianshan Mountains or the Yili River Valley area in the Western Regions and further erode the eastward, the Tang Dynasty will lose the most opportunity to regain the Western Regions.

In fact, Su Ding Fang's expedition to the West also took a big advantage in the civil strife of the Western Turks. Otherwise, it would be very difficult for the 400,000 armored Turks in the West to rely on less than 30,000 troops alone to conquer the entire Anxi.

Li Xiuning slowly understood Chen Ying a little.

Chen Ying pointed to the map and said, "The Guishui (he is the Amu River), the Yaoshui (he is the Sir River) is very rich here, with tens of millions of fertile land. The land here is more than a hundred times larger than the Hedong, Henan, and even the Guanzhong Plain. If we occupy the river, our Tang Dynasty will be equivalent to more than one hundred Guanzhong..."

Originally, Li Xiuning did not attach importance to Hezhong.

But when she heard Chen Ying say that Hezhong was equivalent to more than one hundred Guanzhong, she was immediately moved.

Li Xiuning said: "Hezhong must be retrieved..."

"This is a key to the rise and fall of the Tang Dynasty and the Heavenly Square!" Chen Ying said: "If secular politics rule the religious system, or if religion oppresses the secular heavenly square, the victory or defeat should be decided in this wealthy Hezhong area. In fact, they have always been our potential enemies!"

Chen Ying is a giant standing on the shoulders of history.

He sees further.

The battle of relationship between prosperity and decline in the Tang Dynasty was after the defeat of the Battle of Talas. The key is that this place is not only the tomb of the empire, but also the largest resource area in the world. It has rich oil, natural gas, as well as gold, copper, steel and coal resources.

If it weren't for this failure, China forgot that Hezhong was the homeland of China, once China still owned these territories, it would be no exaggeration to say that China's use of oil in later generations was cheaper than water.

However, since Emperor Wu of Han respected Confucianism and dismissed hundreds of schools of thought, the tradition of Confucianism has had a profound influence. Confucianism emphasizes that it is not justified and unsatisfactory. If you want to be justified, you must learn from it.

If a master is famous, he means he puts the blame on the other party.

Now, Chen Ying launched a Western Expedition under the banner of pursuing and suppressing the remnants of the Eastern Turks.

Li Xiuning hesitated and said, "You did not explain it clearly to Your Majesty, just act rashly..."

Chen Ying sighed and said, "The Tang Dynasty is not the one-man rule of Your Majesty. There are various forces in the court, and representatives of various forces. When they make a comeback, the cucumber and vegetable will be cold!"

Li Xiuning said: "But if the Tang Dynasty takes another weapon, we will cause uneasiness among the surrounding countries! They will even unite and deal with the Tang Dynasty in unison! The Tang Dynasty will establish an unprecedentedly terrifying enemy!"

"An unprecedented terrible enemy?" Chen Ying shook his head and sneered: "An unprecedented terrible enemy has never been outside, but inside! The most terrible enemy is not necessarily doing something, but doing it in a matter of perseverance! It is better to do it early than to do it late than to do it slowly! It is better to cut the mess with a quick knife than to do it quickly!"

Chen Ying closed his eyes, as if recalling: "I have seen such a country that is suppressing what it should do in order to fear a small group of people and fear a little foreign public opinion, and maintaining a kind of illusory stability day after day! Even if those terrible causes of disaster have spread from the border to the heart of the heart, they still cover up their ears and steal the bell! But I will never allow such things to be born in me! The surrounding countries oppose it? If you want to oppose it, let them oppose it! Even if they want to mobilize troops and all support the Turks, I am not afraid! I will not do what I think is right because of the expressions of outsiders, unite and attack the Tang Dynasty. Doing today may bring about one year or two years of trouble, but if you don't do it, it will lay a hundred years, two hundred years or even thousands of years of disaster! I, Chen Ying, would rather do all the hardest things at my hands, and would never leave these disasters to my descendants!"

The cold wind was howling, and Chen Ying could not hear any noise.

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To be continued...