Chapter 49 Showdown (1)
.Welcome out of the palace, more than a dozen old men stood outside the palace gate, waiting for the visit, and all got to know each other, they were the eight surnames of Dangxiang, as well as one of the most important elders of the Xueshan Qiang and Heishan Qiang.
When he saw Li Wei, he immediately bowed down to salute.
Li Weixu helped and said, "Is it a pleasure to have a guest coming from afar? Everyone, don't be too polite."
Take them to the East Palace.
He congratulated Ye Mingyue and took out many valuable gifts. Li Wei said, "Everyone, you have a hard life, why bother spending money?"
"This is what my ministers and others should do, and this year, our tribes have lived far better than before." An elder of Xueshanqiang said humbly.
The other old people are all ranks and.
But from the heart, I didn't know that after the oppression of Tubo, Dangxiang people knew the preciousness of the Tang Dynasty's policies of integrity. At the same time, they taught their children to learn the Tang Dynasty's writings and books, and their lives improved. Last year, the Tang Dynasty's army and planted arable land alone reached more than 40,000 hectares, and more than 7 million stones of grain were harvested (Zizhi said that the Black Chi Chang's military farming was 5,000 hectares, and five million stones were harvested every year. It was impossible. The Tang Dynasty's output was also a wide and thin harvest. Even if the land was fertile, the 5,000 hectares could be harvested at most one million stones, indicating that the actual area of the military farming may reach 30,000 hectares). Qinghai, including their Dangxiang people, did not worry about food and clothing last year. On the contrary, Qinghai stored a large amount of grain. This year, arable land was increasing again, and it was possible that the grain output could still increase. Now the Dangxiang people saw the bright future that the emperor described to them.
"I was also happy and didn't break my promise."
"Your Majesty, when the people of all ethnic groups in Qinghai had a great harvest last year, almost every household missed Your Majesty day and night, and wanted to stop Qinghui again..." said an old man from the Xifeng Department. Before he finished speaking, he asked the elder Tuoba to interrupt: "Xifeng Mou, don't talk nonsense. Your Majesty is busy with all his affairs, so how can he go to Qinghai at will?"
"Yes, yes. But Your Majesty, when we heard that the Tang Dynasty sent troops to the Turks, our troops were deeply grateful to His Majesty. In addition to coming to congratulate the talented people for their good news, we would like to ask His Majesty to allow our troops to participate in the war. How about it?"
"You guys are kind, I'm grateful, but I must prevent Tubo..." He stopped and saw the eunuch leading Zheng Gongchu in.
Not from all ethnic groups in Dangxiang, not only from the Zheng family, but also the future owner of the Eastern Palace... He was also afraid that there would be a lot of gossip when standing outside the palace, so Pei Yuhe's personal palace maid brought her in directly, so the guards on duty naturally did not dare to stop him.
Li Wei was a little surprised. Has he really entered the palace?
It's not that easy. Many people in the Zheng family in Luoyang disagree, but Zheng Gongchu himself thought about it. It's hard to tell whether it's curious or admiring. But after hearing Pei Yuhe's personal maid say it, he kept giving up half-heartedly. Seeing this situation, the Zheng family's people were not able to stop it anymore. I don't know whether it was the queen's idea or the emperor's idea. Soon after, several major families would join forces to "force" the emperor to re-songhai City, so they had to agree.
But some people are still not ashamed of the royal family tradition. Isn’t this a family? Although it is good intentions, it is contrary to ethics.
Zheng Gongchu was still young, only one year older than Wei Yue, and did not understand the festival. When he came to the palace, he was filled with joy. He looked at Fanzi curiously with his big eyes.
Li Wei said: "Sit."
Zheng Gongchu owed to sit down.
He didn't know her identity and didn't dare to ask. The elder of Heishan Qiang had already laid down and knocked on the ground with his head. The sound of knocking was so loud that Li Wei had to help him up. His head was knocked out, and some blood was bursting out, and he said, "If you have something to say, you don't have to do this."
Zheng Gongchu was even more curious. He heard at home that after Emperor Taizong died, he talked about Hu's face, some cut their ears, and some tear their eyes, just like a mourning test. But he had never seen her. Li Wei glanced past her face and thought to himself that this girl seemed very quiet, but she was quite brave. She followed her and looked at the dead man who was hanging. Today, she saw blood bursting out from the forehead of the elder Heishan Qiang, and was not afraid. She didn't know what kind of personality she had.
Without thinking too much, he helped him back to Hu's bed.
The old man said again: "My clan has never helped her, but she has also received the great kindness of His Majesty. Let us repay it once, otherwise I will not be able to explain it to the clan members when I go back."
Li Wei was pondering.
He had read some comments from some people in later generations, saying that the rebellion of the Turks was caused by the Tang Dynasty, and most of them led their tribes to fight in the east and west. The tribes could not stand harassment, so they rebelled. Believe it. After coming to the Tang Dynasty, he realized how ridiculous this and the statement were. In order to appease the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty almost used the wealth and ointment of the people of the Central Plains to support these Hu people, so that they could become stronger again. As for the conquest, if they raised such Hu people, they were the people of the Tang Dynasty, wouldn’t they recruit soldiers? Are they really superior? They also said that Tubo helped the Tang Dynasty resist the Dashi, but Li Wei did not see it, but saw that Tubo was tacitly weakening the rule of the Tang Dynasty with Dashi.
I wonder if these experts were dizzy with bricks. Could it be that a great Tubo, a great Turk, a great Jurchen, and a great Khitan appeared? Although it was united, it could not be praised so much.
Especially for recruitment, the overall combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty army is declining. It is a good thing to dispatch troops to cooperate. I don’t know if these Dangxiang people have any ideas when seeing the combat effectiveness of the general army of the Tang Dynasty. It is very important. At present, these Dangxiang people are convinced, but Li Wei is still very afraid of the Xixia in history. This nation not only caused the Song Dynasty to suffer a lot, defeating the Liao Kingdom, but even when the Jin Kingdom was strong, they did not dare to go west. Genghis Khan died in the resistance of this nation.
After thinking for a while, he asked, "How many soldiers can your entire tribe do to the maximum extent?"
After a dozen old men thought for a while, the elder Tuoba replied: "There can be about 70,000 to 80,000 soldiers."
This is the maximum. The battle in Qinghai lasted for a long time in the past two years. The Tang Dynasty and Tubo both suffered a lot, and the Dangxiang people did not get any benefits in this whirlpool. The 80,000 soldiers also included Heishan Qiang.
There will be no problem at the moment, but we have to speed up the efforts to make them Chinese because they have not grown stronger. So we said, "Let's do this, you can draw out five thousand soldiers and go to Fengzhou to join the army of Governor Cheng." Even if you use the fast horse notification, you will have to delay time, recruit the people, and have to rush to go, so you can only meet with the army of Fengzhou.
He also said: "It just so happened that the Shanghuang Festival is coming, and there are some activities in the palace. You can watch it with me."
"Here."
After answering, the elder of the Minister of Seifeng said again: "In fact, if His Majesty goes to the battle, he will definitely win the full summit."
This sentence aroused Li Wei somewhat. Staying in this deep palace was just dealing with the government affairs, which was what he should do, but he still had to intrigue every day. Li Wei was used to it and still didn't like it. However, his military career was full of passion and he was very fond of Li Wei. It was not that he could not go to war as an emperor. In history, Emperor Zhu Chu went to Mongolia five times to kill a skeleton who wanted to restore Mongolia's remaining power so much that he cried and called his mother. Historical books did not comment that he should not do this.
Besides, Pei Xingjian will not lose any problems when he is in charge of the helm. But when he thinks of his father's order, Pei Xingjian is the head commander, Taipu Qing Shaoqing Li Siwen, Yingzhou Governor Zhou Daowu, Youzhou Governor Li Wenlai, Fengzhou Governor Cheng Wuting and Cao Huaishun are the deputy commanders, which clearly means restraining.
Among the five, Cheng Wuting was probably his mother's person, and Cao Huaishun and himself would not catch a cold. Li Siwen was Li Ji's clan brother, and he could not be said to be his mother's person, or at least his father's person. Later, the two of them rarely interacted with each other. Li Wenlai's son, the famous general of the royal family of Prince Gong, Li Shenfu, and Zhou Daowu had some connections with him. It was also difficult to say that his father was Zhou Shaofan, one of the founding heroes of the Tang Dynasty. He married the daughter of Li Shimin's grandfather Li Mengjiang, the daughter of Princess Linchuan, and the daughter of Concubine Wei. Zhou Daowu was raised in the palace as a hero since childhood. If he was loyal to anyone, he and Li Wenlai would probably only be loyal to his father.
Therefore, even Pei Xingjian was not relieved. He was afraid that the demon moths like Xue Rengui and Guo Zhifeng would be released, so he transferred Zhang Qianxun from the Qinghai army. Anyway, he was in the same state as Xue Na, and it was not suitable to place it in Qinghai. He also transferred the generals of Xifeng Lei, Guo Yuanzhen, Xin Chengsi and other heroes, and Li Duozuo, whom he admired. Although he was not a deputy commander, he guaranteed that his subordinates could have generals.
The Eastern Turkic riots were all thinking about restraining such major events. What would you think if you took charge of the battle?
Thinking of this, I sighed in my heart, and I would rather wait for it first. With my father's body and I was not willing to be lonely, I jumped out to deal with government affairs again. It was not easy to live for about two or three years. I have survived this period before I talked about it, but I couldn't say it out. I shook my head: "Don't use it, Pei Qing'er is far above me."
The Dangxiang people don’t believe it very much, but the Tang Dynasty dispatched an army of 300,000 this time, and it would not be a big problem to deal with the Turks.
Li Wei sent someone to take them down to settle down.
Zheng Gongchu asked curiously: "Your Majesty, they are Dangxiang people."
"Um."
"Your Majesty is very kind to them."
I couldn't hear whether it was a good word or a derogatory word, and replied: "My Lady Zheng, the Dangxiang people were loose because of their loose tribes, but their combat power should not be underestimated. In the early Tang Dynasty, our dynasty was so strong that it was defeated by the Wild Fox Gorge. This family was loyal to our dynasty and should be favored."
"Yes, I've said too much."
At the beginning of the palace celebration of the festival, Li Zhi and Wu Zetian returned to the palace with a rare opportunity and sent someone to call Li Wei over. But at this time, the most important meeting in Tubo began.
The distance was long and he came sneakily again, so Mang Saruo returned to Luosie City.
Seeing Li Wei's kindness, Wulu took a reassurance and finally took the first step. It was not that he could become the new Zanpu in Tubo immediately with his son. Only by getting the consent of important officials in China could he inherit the Zanpu position. With the same nature as Li Wei, he would first set the throne down. Zanpu's position was settled and the righteousness was taken in his hands. Well, if most ministers agreed, he had to make some concessions to the Lun brothers. He did not dare to meet Lun Qinling at the same time. At this time, he regretted that Meng Lang had always been openly hostile to Lun Qinling and sarcastic many times, which undoubtedly increased the difficulty of this meeting. He secretly sent his son to Yangtong's mother's house, and even did not dare to let go of some cities, so he came to Lun Qinling's tent.
There are many powerful and ministers who oppose the autocracy of the Lun brothers, but they are only afraid of the power of the Lun brothers and the army they control. This is the best time to discuss, but even Wulu is not sure that he can negotiate properly.
When Lun Qinling heard the report from his subordinates, he was a little surprised. He hid it tightly this time, and Lun Qinling still didn't know about Zanpu's death.
He was arranging Qinghai affairs and was preparing to send troops without seeking merit. He supported the riots of the Eastern Turks from afar and constrained the Tang Dynasty's army. However, thinking about the consequences, even if it was a small defeat, it would have a great significance to the entire strategic level. However, there may not be many ministers who could see it. Even if it was seen, some ministers would make a fuss about this matter.
When Lun Qinling heard his subordinates' report, he was stunned for a moment and thought to himself, what's wrong with this troublesome princess seeing her?
Still said: "Let her in."
Even Wu Zetian looked down on him, and the Wulu family was the one.
An important talks in Tubo kicked off... (To be continued
Chapter completed!