Chapter 1571 The Wu clan listens to politics
Hanjing.
Ten years of revival, autumn.
In the Eastern Palace, the Crown Prince Zhang Jing held an imperial meeting. The palace of the Prince's Mansion was filled with a church. The Prime Minister of the Cabinet, the Bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and the two houses of the Parliament, the Censorate and other important officials gathered.
Chu Suiliang, the Prime Minister of the Imperial Cabinet, informed the emperor and his important officials of a good news, "The rebellious leader Li Shimin of North America is dead, the news is accurate."
Chu Suiliang took over as prime minister in the ninth year of Revival. After eight years of office, former Prime Minister Ma Zhou was dismissed according to the constitution and was changed to Grand Secretary of the Hanlin Academy by the emperor. Former Deputy Prime Minister Chu Suiliang was elected as prime minister. The new prime minister who served as deputy prime minister for eight years took office for two years, Xiao Gui Cao followed and presided over the smooth operation of the cabinet.
Fang Xuanling, a former Hanlin Academy Grand Secretary, is now the president of the Senate. Fang Xuanling, who is gray-haired, is a little stunned when he heard this news. Since the fourth year of the revival, Li Shimin launched a raid on other colonies in Dahua in North America, the court has declared Li Shimin a rebel.
Six years have passed in a blink of an eye.
"Has the Jinyiwei confirmed it?" Fang Xuanling asked.
The commander of the Jinyiwei was a middle-aged man. He stood up and nodded. "Li Shimin died on the tenth day of July, and the wind was cured. After we got the news, we sent the news back to Hanjing from San Francisco at the fastest speed in just two and a half months."
The second prime minister Wei Zheng stroked his sparse beard, "Then, the Later Tang Dynasty is over."
In the fourth year of Revival, Li Shimin rebelled in North America, ascended the throne again and became emperor, and reinstated the Tang Dynasty. However, the Central Plains court called Li Shimin a rebellion, and called the Tang Dynasty he rebuilt, and some called it the Later Tang Dynasty.
However, in just six years, Li Shimin did make a huge comeback in North America. By the time he died, he had basically integrated the entire North America into one, from the west coast to the east coast, from the Great Lakes basin, to the ice and snow in the north, whether it was the Yin people or those colonies, they were all conquered by him one by one.
However, many important officials in the court did not buy it very much. They all believed that Li Shimin's ability to make such a situation in North America was completely related to the emperor's inaction. Since Li Shimin's rebellion, the emperor did not send an expeditionary fleet to fight against the rebellion as everyone expected. On the contrary, the emperor instructed the North American colonies to evacuate.
Withdraw from North America to South America, re-establish colonies, and hand over North America.
This decision made it difficult for the ministers to understand, and even now, everyone has never understood why the emperor wanted to do so. Some people think that the emperor felt guilty about usurping Li Tang's country, so he deliberately gave North America to Li Shimin as a kind of compensation.
No matter how you guess, the emperor did not send an expeditionary fleet towards North America. With this attitude of the court, Li Shimin seized a lot of colonial resources and population and had the foundation to sweep North America. In a few years, two generals Li Ji and Li Gong fought east and west, and the Yin tribes of North American people surrendered. Until now, Li Shimin's North American Tang Dynasty has nearly three million people and more than 100,000 emerging forces.
However, the important officials of the court, especially those generals, still believed that Li Shimin's Later Tang was vulnerable. Although he had many soldiers, he was basically infantry.
The cavalry was less than ten thousand, and even fewer navy troops were pitiful.
The equipment is even more simple. Not to mention that there are no artillery guns, even fine steel cannot be made. It is generally leather armor and vine armor. The wooden shield with leather bags is mainly spears and short swords. If you want to mention the more powerful troops, that is, their longbowmen.
But the generals believed that as long as the court sent an expeditionary fleet, a hundred ships, and a marine, there would be a total of 20,000 to 30,000 people, Li Shimin's Later Tang Dynasty could be wiped out.
After all, North America does not even have a decent city. Li Shimin's capital of the Later Tang Dynasty, San Francisco, had only a little more than a foot of the city. Such a capital was not as good as a small town in the Central Plains.
Unfortunately, in recent years, the generals have repeatedly submitted letters to request troops to fight, but the emperor has suppressed them again and again.
Later, the court ignored North America completely. With the development of South American colonies, especially many large gold and silver mines discovered in South America, the court's focus also moved from North America to South America, and no one mentioned that the emperor would not agree to confront North America.
Li Shimin was peacefully appointed as his Later Tang Emperor. Because of the existence of the Mayan city-state of China and the United States, Li Shimin was not able to cross China and the United States and attack the Dahua colony in South America.
This American side is in a rather strange and delicate situation.
Some people even think that maybe this situation will continue.
Now that I suddenly heard that Li Shimin was dead, everyone was really surprised.
No one would doubt the news about the Jinyiwei.
If the Jinyiwei can't even tell the truth about a person's life or death, that would be a big joke.
Ma Zhou, the Grand Secretary, also felt that this was a change, a wedge machine.
Li Shimin is dead, so what reason does the court have to make trouble for the Later Tang Dynasty?
"What's the situation in the Later Tang Dynasty now? Did Li Hong succeed to the throne?"
"After Li Shimin's death, the Empress Wu clan secretly refused to make a funeral, and transferred back Li Ji and Li Gong, and then asked them to support Li Hong ascend the throne before Li Shimin's spirit. However, Li Hong was still young and could not take charge of the rule. Therefore, the Wu clan was actually governed by the government behind the curtain, with the Grand Tutor Li Ji and the Grand Tutor Li Gong assisting the government."
"Does Wu want to be Queen Lü?" asked the prince Zhang Jing.
Wu was raised in the Zhang family back then, and Zhang Jing used to be a sister of Wu, so he was naturally familiar with him. Later, his father accepted Wu as his adopted daughter, but who would have thought that in America, Wu would help Li Shimin rebellion. It is said that Wu was deeply trusted by Li Shimin and even often asked her to criticize memorials on his behalf.
Now that Li Shimin died, the Wu family was able to control the situation and even ruled behind the curtain, which really had a bit of the Lu family style.
"The new king Li Hong was only ten years old, and the Later Tang Dynasty was established for only six years. The ruler was suspicious. Li Ji and Li Gong were highly respected and had military power. It was probably not easy for the orphans and widows of the Wu family to be the only one who was a widowed mother." Wei Zheng said that although the Later Tang Dynasty had a population of three million, a 100,000 soldiers, and had a territory of thousands of miles.
But what is different from the Central Plains is that although the Han people were the ruling class of the Later Tang Dynasty, their population was very small. The Han people were only about one or two percent of the upper class, and one percent of the Han people ruled 99 percent of the Yin people and many other foreign slaves, which is a very unstable situation in itself.
What's more, the strong man Li Shimin is still dead now.
The new king who succeeded the throne is so young, and the orphan and widowed mothers have to rely on Li Ji and Li Gong's two coaches, but who can guarantee that Li Ji and Li Gong can really protect this orphan and widowed mother?
The Privy Councilor Su Dingfang did not speak, and finally spoke at this time.
"I want me to tell you that it is the time. In the past, Your Majesty refused to send troops to conquer Li Shimin, because he was thinking about the old love. Now that Li Shimin is dead, there is no need to think about the old love. Taking this opportunity, he sent an expedition fleet to fly eastward to attack the old Francisco and bring back Li Hong, Wu family, and even Li Ji and Li Gong."
After ten years of Dahua's founding, the army was full of destiny and was invincible. Only North America allowed Li Shimin to restore the country, which was simply a shame for Su Lie and the generals. But in the past, the emperor did not allow him to fight, and they had no choice. But now, Li Shimin died, so there was no obstacle.
Prince Zhang Jing stroked his beard, and the prince, who was about to be in his thirties, had been operating in Fusang for six years. Although he did not operate in Fusang for ten years as the emperor originally planned. In just six years, he also handed over a perfect report card early.
It took Fusang Road six years to completely transform.
The industry and commerce are booming, the economy is developed, and even more prosperous than Guangnan and other places. A Tao with a population of over 10 million, coupled with Shijian Yinshan, Beizi copper mine, sulfur, rice, shipbuilding and other emerging industries, Fusang's performance is very eye-catching.
The emperor asked the prince to finish his training in advance and return to the court.
Even this year, the emperor went on a tour again, allowing the prince to stay in the capital and supervise the country and regent.
In fact, Zhang Jing never quite understood the emperor's decision not to conquer Li Shimin. In his opinion, it was right for the Zhang family to usurp the throne of the Li family, but he could not ignore Li Shimin's rebellion because of this. In this case, what if Li Chengqian and Changsun Wuji of Africa also rebelled?
In fact, if the imperial court had not been in the Tianzhu Sea and in the Red Sea in recent years, Chengqian and Changsun Wuji would have rebelled and rebelled as Li Shimin.
"Send someone to report to His Majesty in advance."
After thinking about it over and over again, Zhang Jing did not decide what measures to take against North America. He decided to tell his father that he would make the decision.
"Next issue!" Zhang Jing said lightly. Just now, he wanted to make a decision, but in the end he restrained himself.
He presided over the imperial meeting here, but it did not mean that he already had the power to control the world.
"Your Highness, the Arabs have been a little unhonest recently. They seem to be intentional about expanding eastward." Privy Councillor Su Lie reported.
Six years are enough to happen a lot.
In North America, in the past six years, Li Shimin unified North America and established a new Tang Dynasty. In the West, the Arabs were also not idle. With Dahua's neutral attitude, they attacked the west with all their might. After six years, the Arabs still beat Rome all over the ground under Dahua's pulling ground.
Armenia is lost.
The Asia Minor Peninsula was lost.
From the Red Sea, North Sea, to the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, from the southern coast of the Caspian Sea, to the Caucasus, they have become the territory of the Arabs.
Now the Romans were trembling under the Arabs' iron hooves, and the Eastern Roman emperors were only Constantinople and the northwestern Mediterranean. The Western Roman emperors were only Egyptian in the southeast of the Mediterranean.
If it weren't for Dahua that occupied the Cyprus Islands, the Sinai Peninsula, and the northeastern region of the southern coast of the Red Sea, the Arabs would have long gone south across the Red Sea, fought to North Africa, Egypt, and even to Constantinople.
Now Rome has completely adopted passive defense, desperately purchasing weapons from Dahua, and even hiring Dahua's veterans to fight at high prices.
“The Arabs are inflated!”
Chapter completed!