Chapter 270: The Great Army Goes West
Princess Huanji really did what she said, and went directly to the imperial court, and she wanted to personally lead troops to attack the Tibetan tribes. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
This matter was not kept secret, and it was rumored that the people of Qingzhou had money to contribute money and donate grain, which was bound to make the Tang Dynasty's army break through Tubo, so that they would no longer dare to send someone to assassinate the princess.
After Li Ping heard this, he didn't say a word and directly prepared his troops, he had long wanted to fight Tibet.
Sima Yunfei also got the news and immediately submitted a letter of recital, saying that he was willing to lead the Qing army to conquer the Tibetan tribes.
After the Turks returned to Shun, the generals who were originally stationed in the frontier were to be transferred back to Beijing, and most of the troops stationed at the border pass also had to retire and return to the peasants.
But at that time, due to the opposition of Emperor Taizu, the emperor put it on hold for the time being.
After the death of Emperor Taizu, another minister mentioned the matter, saying that the annual expenditure on the army was too huge, and he hoped that His Majesty could reduce the army, after all, there was no war in the Tang Dynasty.
The emperor once again proposed to discuss the matter of retiring the army and returning it to the peasants, but the biggest opposition was not the major generals, but Princess Huanji.
If other people oppose the emperor, they won't think much about it, but Princess Huanji is against it, and the emperor will have to think about it again.
The emperor once wrote to ask Princess Huanji the reason, and Huanji's words were very simple, now the Tang army is one million people, respectively Zhu Jiajun 200,000, Yang Jiajun 200,000, Qing army 100,000 and Li Jiajun garrisoned Tubo 500,000, and the government soldiers and city guards in other regions are not counted.
If they handed over the military power, those soldiers would have retired and returned to the peasants, and the Tang army would be at least half less.
If someone in Beijing colludes with Tubo to rebel, and Tubo is contained, the army stationed in Tubo cannot move, and the other armies of the Tang Dynasty have all retreated and returned to the peasants, what will Your Majesty do at that time? Even if there are my Qingzhou soldiers guarding you, what will your majesty do if there are other government soldiers who stop you a little? Trapped in the womb? If Datang has an idle army, as long as they don't rebel, those who have the heart of rebellion will not dare to act rashly, and they can't afford to charge a random Qing monarch, at most they will make some small moves behind their backs.
A few questions in Huan Ji's letter made the emperor feel that it was better to wait a little longer, and when he sat on the throne in the future, he would deal with it separately.
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Huan Ji's petition to attack Tubo arrived in Beijing, and the emperor and the Manchu civil and military were no longer shocked.
Princess Huanji is such a protective person, not to mention the people who chased and killed her all the way south, more than half of the first batch of people in Qingzhou who went south were killed and injured, and Qingzhou was under martial law, so Princess Huanji would not let them go.
If Princess Huanji didn't say anything about such a big thing, they would be shocked and feel that something bigger was about to happen.
Who is Princess Huanji? That's a bad star, what happened to her, there were fewer deaths, and now they just hope that they don't have much to do with their own family.
Qin Renmei was a little bottomless in his heart, but he was still calm, since it was related to Tubo, that is, someone in the court colluded with Fanbang, Princess Huanji can still distinguish between right and wrong, and he is very confident in his people, they are all dead soldiers, and they are not afraid of death.
There was already a mess in a mansion outside the palace, and the eighteenth prince paced back and forth: "Tell me, will those Tubo people confess me?" “
Everyone in the hall was a little worried, and one of them said, "No matter what, we have to be prepared." “
The eighteenth prince said: "Yes, yes, I am still stunned about what to do, and I haven't prepared yet." “
The others left one after another to prepare, and they needed to prepare for their back in case of the East Window incident, and colluding with foreign countries was treason.
In the eleventh princess's mansion, the eleventh princess was playing the piano in the courtyard, and it seemed that this matter had nothing to do with her. She wasn't afraid, because the book she wrote to Li Zhou wasn't her real name, and even if they knew that it was related to her, they didn't have enough evidence.
For Princess Huanji's invitation to war, the court and China were naturally divided into two factions: one faction was the main battle, thinking that they had enough excuses to attack the Tibetan tribes; One faction is peaceful, believing that Datang needs to recuperate and recuperate, and it is not appropriate to start a war casually.
According to Huan Ji's wishes, the emperor transferred Zhu Yi's army back to Jingshi, and let Yang Jiajun and Qingjun go to the west respectively.
This time, even the main battle faction began to hesitate, the transfer of the Qing army, the return of the Zhu family's army, the imperial court must be turbulent, and the main battle faction also began to oppose such a big move.
The opposition of the household department is the loudest, and how much food will they have to spend on such a big transfer.
Under all the pressure, the emperor insisted on making a holy decree, and then avoided the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, leaving only one sentence, and waiting for Princess Huanji to return triumphantly.
The imperial history of the book fell a few piles, the emperor has not been to the early court for half a month, he was afraid that the imperial history would die in the main hall, so he had to pretend to be sick, he asked the imperial doctor to magnify all the minor illnesses on his body.
Seeing that the Tang Emperor had transferred 800,000 troops to the border of Tibet, all of them were frightened half to death, and even the people who fought in the main battle persuaded the king of Tubo to submit to him.
As soon as the surrender of Tibet reached Beijing, all the chatter in the court stopped. The imperial history is not looking for death, if Tubo returns to obedience, then the territory of the Tang Dynasty will be expanded again.
When the emperor heard that the Tibetan envoys had arrived in the Tang Dynasty with a surrender table, he said happily: "It's still a princess, and she said early in the morning that this battle can't be fought, and this army hasn't reached the border pass yet, so it will be surrendered over there, and tomorrow I can start going to the early court." ”
The father-in-law asked, "Then it's time for our army to come back, right?" ”
The emperor was stunned, yes, in the report a few days ago, Zhu Yi had already led a large army to be stationed outside the Beijing Division, so if the Qing Army and the Yang Family Army came back, there would be hundreds of thousands of troops at once, what should I do, where can so many people be stationed outside the Beijing Division.
The emperor rummaged through Huan Ji's letter and read it twice, but it did not mention the return of the army, but only said that the battle could not be fought, so he did not have to worry.
The emperor wrote a letter and asked the carrier pigeon to be sent to Qingzhou, and he thought it was better to ask clearly.
In the early morning of the next day, Zhongshu Province directly drafted the charter of the Tubo Protectorate, and someone asked the question of going west to the army.
The emperor said inscrutablely: "They go west, and they have their own reasons for going west, so you don't have to pay attention to them." “
Huan Ji directly used the talisman left by Emperor Taizu to her, except for the 200,000 Zhu family army in Jingshi, the other 800,000 troops were all transferred to Yumen Pass.
Huan Ji asked Li Geng to lead the troops to send witnesses and physical evidence back to Qingzhou, and asked everyone to keep the whole investigation secret, and only said that it was the prefect of Lizhou.
She took Wang Yuyang, Wei Yan, and Cheng Ying to Yumen Pass.
When King Tufan heard that Princess Huanji and the Qingzhou soldiers left Lizhou and went north, he breathed a sigh of relief, but Princess Huanji's reputation was too terrifying. (To be continued.) )