Li Shimin felt a little relieved after receiving Li Chao's guarantee.

"Let's go, look at the palace you built for me in seven days!"

When he really came to the "Palace City", Li Shimin couldn't help but be a little stunned. In front of him was the palace city built in the center of Yuliangzhou. The palace city has a circle of palace walls. The palace walls are not blue bricks and red walls, but just a piece of earth walls.

The earthen walls are very short, and Li Shimin doesn’t know how to describe it. It feels like the village walls of Li Town, Bashang.

The palace wall is only one meter high, and the rammed earth wall is still used.

Li Chao pointed to the place surrounded by the 10-meter-high rammed earth wall and said, "Your Majesty, that's the palace city!"

"The palace city has been built?" Li Shimin asked.

Li Chao nodded.

"But why didn't I see the house?"

Standing outside the wall, Li Shimin didn't see the tall appearance of the palace, only saw some low roofs.

"Li Xiangguo, is it your hope to hide it from Your Majesty?" Hou Junji snorted coldly and questioned.

Li Chao was too lazy to pay attention to this guy. He said to Li Shimin, "Your Majesty will know when you go in."

There is a palace wall enclosure in the palace city, and there is a trench outside the palace wall, which is not deep and no living water is introduced. Li Chao planned to dig a wider point deeper when he has time in the future, and it is not too late to introduce river and river water. Now let's live first.

The palace city is actually formed by three relatively independent cities, in the shape of a Pin character. It is divided into Li Shimin's front palace, the queen and the harem, and the emperor's North Palace. The three palace cities are actually equivalent to three small manors.

Enter the front palace first.

There is a large courtyard group inside, imitating the design of three major halls, each hall has a courtyard with several depths, and finally forms the front palace.

After a while, Li Shimin finished visiting the front palace, including three main courtyards, along with villas and other houses next to it.

"This is too simple!" Hou Junji gave Li Chao eye medicine everywhere.

Cheng Qian said dissatisfiedly, "There are 99 houses in the front palace, which is not small. This is just the temporary palace of the father. Moreover, it is a disaster year, not to mention the time to support the crowd. The ninety-nine houses in the front palace are small, but they have all the internal organs. The father's promotion to the court here will not affect the majesty of the court, but will be praised by the people for being wise and frugal!"

Li Shimin originally thought that the front palace was indeed a bit simple, so it could not be called an open palace or a resort. It was almost the same as a resort. It was not even a palace for summer vacation. All the ordinary houses were not carved beams, nor painted buildings, and even the wood was not painted. The walls were simply painted with white ash, and there were no bricks on the ground, but the main hall was paved with wooden boards.

Wood is not expensive, and bricks and tiles are all ordinary, and they reveal simplicity everywhere.

But when the prince said that, this is indeed the case.

"Well, Wen Yuan has been troubled. It's amazing that such a large palace was built in seven days. Let's go and see the residence of the queen and the others."

The harem is even simpler than the front court. The houses and courtyards have become smaller, but the number has increased, and rows of small courtyards are all imitated by Li Chao. The residences of the palace people are simply imitated townhouse designs. The concubines, princes and princesses of grades all have a small courtyard.

"good!"

Li Shimin took a walk around and finally gave a thumbs up.

"Is this really built in seven days?" Li Shimin was a little surprised after seeing the entire palace. Although they were quite simple, there were a lot of houses. There were ninety-nine houses in the front court, and there were hundreds of houses in the three palaces. Not to mention, there were also townhouses built for palace maids and eunuchs, as well as laundry and other workshops.

"Father, seven days ago, this place was still a wasteland." Cheng Qian said.

"Oh, how come it up in those seven days and build so many houses?"

"In fact, this is not magical. Many materials have been prepared long ago. The bricks are ready-made, the wooden pillars, beams and rafters are ready-made, and there are specialized craftsmen and management teams. There are so many workers, so it is built very quickly."

"It seems that this cement is really useful. Well, I am very satisfied with this place. I moved in today. Wenyuan, you should also step up and build Yacheng, Juncheng and Mincheng, and docks, and markets!"

The front court of the palace city, the golden palace.

Li Shimin sat on the dragon chaise that had been quickly created. It was called a dragon chaise, but in fact it was a wooden chair carved with dragons, and then painted with some gold paint, which looked golden. But before Li Shimin sat on it, he looked carefully for a few seconds and found that the material of the chair was very ordinary pine wood.

It hurts your butt when you sit on it.

There were only two kings and ministers left in the palace, and even Li Chengqian was driven out by Li Shimin.

With his hands on the Yukong, which was still emitting the fragrance of clear wood, Li Shimin adjusted his posture slightly, leaning his back on the chair, and relaxing a little.

"Wen Yuan, you should know the things in the north, right?"

There were only two people in the hall, and Li Shimin rewarded Li Chao with a podium.

If you have no backrest on the pole, you have to sit upright and it is not comfortable.

"I heard about some situations and it seems quite lively!"

To describe it as lively, it means that Li Chao is quite relaxed about this matter.

"Wen Yuan, how do you think we should deal with this?"

"I don't have enough information yet, so it's hard to make a judgment."

"Just based on what you know now, let me tell you what you think."

Li Chao thought for a while and said, "It seems that although this matter has broken the strategic arrangement of the court, it is also a good thing. The East-Turkish Turks have revived from the beginning. As for more than 20 years, no one can dominate the eastern grasslands. Especially after the Turkic internal strife at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Datou was defeated and died. After a brief civil strife, the Western Turkics were unified in the hands of Shekui. In recent years, the East-Turkic focused on the northern and southern deserts of the desert, while the Western Turkic focused on the Western Regions and expanded to the western Persia and Rome, and both Turkics had greatly increased their strength."

"In recent years, the East-Turkish took advantage of the civil strife in the Central Plains since the Sui Dynasty and continued to expand southward. Shuofang, Hetao, Daibei, and western Liaoning were indirectly controlled by them. We had a fight with the East-Turkish sooner or later. Originally, the enemy was strong and we were weak, so we had to rest and rest for a while, but now the East Turks have fought by themselves, which is indeed a good opportunity."

Li Shimin said excitedly, "I think so too. The East-Turkish pressed on our heads for too long, which is a worry. The Turks will not perish for a day, and our Tang Dynasty will not be at peace. Now Tiele is rising up, the Western Turks are spying on, and Tuli, Yu Sheshi raises up to fight against Jie Li again. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! I don't want to miss this opportunity!"

Li Chao twisted his body and adjusted his lower position.

He knew Li Shimin's idea. He finally made a mutiny and seized the throne, and of course he was more eager to prove his ability. The Supreme Emperor Li Yuan paid tribute to the Turks back then, but the Tang Dynasty still had to pay tribute to the Turks every year, although the Tang Dynasty told the people that this was a reward to the Turks on the grassland.

But everyone knows the real purpose of this money expenditure, which is the money that pays tribute and seeks peace.

He even wanted to marry the princess to the Turks.

Li Shimin didn't want to pay this protection fee for a long time. Now that he has the opportunity, how could he miss it?

Li Chao also wanted to fight the Turks, not because of anything else, but because a powerful Turk was not in line with the interests of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Chao was a native of the Tang Dynasty, a Han Dynasty, a Han ethnic group, and this is a group of ethnic groups. People are group animals, and there are races. Common cultures and customs create the same values ​​and interests.

Within the Tang Dynasty, there were differences between the Li family in the Bashang and the Cui family in the Qinghe, and between the Han and the Barbarians. However, when facing the Turkic people on the grassland, everyone was a Tang people and their interests were the same.

"Wen Yuan, someone suggested to me that the Great Wall would be rebuilt, saying that it would be fine if you just keep the Great Wall and don't worry about it north of the Great Wall."

Li Chao sneered.

"Your Majesty, the Great Wall does have its function, but the Great Wall's role is also limited. The greatest function of the Great Wall is to resist the southward robbery of small northern barbarians and prevent harassment by nomadic peoples. Especially in the past, the dynasties that built the Great Wall, the northern border was actually very different from now. They built the Great Wall on the northern border, which was not entirely for defense, but was an active development. Build the Great Wall into the activity area of ​​the Hu people, squeeze their activity areas, and drive them to a place further north. With the Great Wall, the imperial court can cultivate and plant the Great Wall on the northern border, and open up and consolidate new territory."

'But, Your Majesty, look at our northern situation now. In the first section of Hexi, the large area outside the Great Wall was long ago the control area of ​​Hexi Road and the Guanzhong Road. To the north of Guanzhong Great Wall, such a vast place is now the Shuofang Road of the Tang Dynasty. Besides, the north of Hedong Road, the north of the Great Wall of Hedong Road was just recovered by General Li Jing and Li Ji, and it also became the actual control area of ​​the imperial court."

"Your Majesty, do those ministers who say they only guard the Great Wall mean that the court will now give up Shuofang, Daibei and the western end of the Hexi Corridor that they have been struggling to defeat? "

Li Chao was very disdainful of those who shouted to build the Great Wall.

"The original line of the Great Wall has long been no longer a border. Is it meaningful to work hard to build the Great Wall? If it doesn't make sense, what will he do to repair the people and money?"

"Your Majesty, both the Qin and Han Dynasties have built the Great Wall, and the Sui Dynasty has built the Great Wall, but my Tang Dynasty does not need to build the Great Wall!"

Li Shimin also had this idea.

"I want to recover Hetao, and recover both the front and back condoms, and recover the south of Yinshan. Just as you wrote in your poem, I won't teach Huma to cross Yinshan!"

Li Shimin originally thought about building a new Great Wall, Yanshan, Yinshan and Helan Mountains on the Yinshan line to form a new northern screen guard for the Tang Dynasty. However, Li Chao said that the Tang Dynasty did not need to build the Great Wall, and Li Chao was obviously bigger than his idea.

"If Your Majesty really doesn't want to wait a few more years and want to join the competition in the north now, I will not object. But we are not in a hurry to end up. We can first contact the Yinan of Xueyantuo, the commander of the Western Turks, and Yushe and Tuli of the East-Turks. Your Majesty can have two peaches to kill three soldiers, and canonize Yehu as the Turks Khan, Yinan as the Khan of the Xueyantu Khan in the north of the Mohe, canonize Tuli as the Khan of the East-Turks Khan, and canonize Yushe as the Khan of the East-Turks Khan, and let them attack Jie Li Khan together."
Chapter completed!