Chapter 110: Meritorious Service and Officialdom
The progress of history is random, and a small change can shift history.
A young farmer from a mountain village said a few words of advice and sent a sand table.
Xian Yu Zhongtong listened and believed, so history changed.
Originally, the ending of the annihilation of the 60,000 soldiers of the Tang Dynasty in history did not happen in this world, not only that, but even the outcome of the battle has changed.
Chang'an City, Xingqing Palace.
After Li Longji ascended the throne, most of them lived in Xingqing Palace, the three major palaces of Chang'an City, each of which had its own different owner.
At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Taiji Palace was the habitual residence of Emperor Gaozu and Emperor Taizong, and the Daming Palace was the habitual residence of Emperor Gaozong, and later Wu Zetian called the emperor, in order to eliminate the brand of the Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian was accustomed to living in Luoyang, the eastern capital, and worshiped Buddha and suppressed Taoism during his reign, and it was also for this political reason that she wanted to slowly erase the traces of the Li family from the world, but was eventually forced to abdicate.
Li Longji was made the crown prince after the elimination of the Weihou group, and soon ascended the throne as the emperor, after becoming the emperor, Li Longji has been living in the Xingqing Palace, and he is also to eliminate the traces of the Wu clan of the previous dynasty. No one wants to live in the shadow of someone else, in a house where the enemy once lived, especially a country's heavenly son.
Why is Li Longji used to live in Xingqing Palace? Because Xingqing Palace lived in the Longqian Mansion when he was the king of Linzi, he did not want to live in Taiji Palace and Daming Palace after ascending the throne, so he ordered the expansion of Xingqing Palace, when Li Longji reigned, the expansion project of Xingqing Palace never stopped, has been intermittent, until today, it has become one of the three major in Chang'an City.
The name of the front hall of Xingqing Palace facing the meridian is called "Diligent Government Affairs Building", and it can be seen from this hypocritical name that Li Longji in the early days of the Kaiyuan Dynasty was a bit of a Ming monarch, and what he said, what he did, and what he named were all things done by people.
The rear of the diligent government affairs building, is the main hall of Xingqing Palace, the name is "Xingqing Palace", the place where the civil and military officials will meet, and then back, is the Jiaotai Palace, which belongs to the junction line of the front palace and the harem.
There are many palaces in the harem, most of them are some pavilions and pavilions, among which there is a famous building, called "Calyx Xianghui Building", the famous place of this pavilion is that it is the harem residence of Li Longji and Yang Guifei.
Li Longji since Yang Guifei snatched from his son Shouwang side, the two have been living here, to the late Kaiyuan Dynasty, Li Longji indulged in gentle township, gradually rarely looked at the court, most of the official government is also completed in this building, is the kind of hurriedly throw the song Shu batch to the three provinces and six departments, and then hurriedly flash into the screen, find Yang Guifei to sing, dance and drink together, a generation of Ming Jun into a generation of faint Jun, often only a screen distance.
Today's Li Longji is drinking with Yang Guifei.
In the first month of the tenth year of Tianbao, due to the rebellion of Nanzhao, Xian Yu Zhongtong persuaded Yang Guifei to return to Chang'an, and Yang Guifei, who returned to Chang'an, seemed to have opened a certain knot in her heart, and unexpectedly took the initiative to reconcile with Li Longji.
Li Longji was pleasantly surprised, he didn't expect his beloved little wife to change her temper when she went out for a vacation, not only reconciled with him, but also saw that she was in a happier mood.
Li Longji was naturally pleased with the change of his little wife, so he doted on her even more, not only giving her the rare treasures of Fanbang's tribute as gifts, but also sealing several children of the Yang family as officials.
Yang Guifei felt happier and happier, and she was more gentle and lingering towards Li Longji, the beloved old man, like a flower. Even the two of them snuggled together to drink and enjoy the dance, it is also extraordinarily affectionate, you feed me, I feed you, eye contact is full of anger, and outsiders will immediately have the idea that what the two of them need at the moment is not wine, but bed.
The wine banquet was in full swing, and the loving picture of the husband and wife was interrupted by a hurried recital, and the lively singing and dancing had to stop.
Li Longji frowned dissatisfiedly, and his eyes suddenly turned cold.
A eunuch stood outside the gate of the palace, suddenly felt a chill all over his body, hurriedly knelt down, and said loudly: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, Jiannan's great victory!" ”
Li Longji was stunned for a moment, and then stood up: "What? ”
The eunuch's voice became louder: "Your Majesty, Jiannan is a great victory!" On the twenty-eighth day of March in the tenth year of Tianbao, Gao Xianzhi and Jiannan Dao Jiedu made Xian Yu Zhongtong to quell the rebellion of Nanzhao State outside the city of Lizhou, and Luo Feng, the lord of Nanzhao State, was defeated and killed himself, and my Tang Dynasty Wang Division beheaded more than 10,000 enemies and captured more than 30,000 people. ”
After Li Longji was stunned for a moment, he suddenly looked up to the sky and smiled: "Okay!" Indeed, it is good news, and I am very relieved. The good news can be copied and awarded to the courtiers of Chang'an, Gao Xianzhi, Xianyu Zhongtong, haha, good! The king has to pay it back, and I should give it a generous gift. ”
Yang Guifei greeted her at the right time: "Concubine Hexi, Your Majesty has quelled the rebellion, the Holy Son of Heaven has conquered the world, and the society will be for all generations." ”
The eunuchs and maids in the palace and the musicians and dancers knelt down one after another, congratulating and praising in unison.
Li Longji was so excited that his body trembled slightly, but he tried to maintain his calmness.
In recent years, the army of the Tang Dynasty has gradually become twilight, and the once invincible and invincible Tang Dynasty royal division, now there are occasional defeats in foreign wars, especially in the Western Regions and the southwest of Tubo, the Tang Dynasty has been at war with it for many years, and the victory and defeat are often five or five, and in recent years, the victory and defeat of Tubo are even less victories and more losses, such a result makes Li Longji, who has empty eyes and self-confidence, feel particularly humiliated.
Datang and Li Longji really need an exciting victory.
Today, victory has come.
Sixty-five-year-old Li Longji was in a mood of excitement and laughter, and at this moment today, he has finally regained some of the demeanor of the wise emperor who was full of spirit and hard work.
Seeing that Li Longji was in a good mood, the eunuch who reported the news outside the palace hurriedly raised his hands and presented a thick list, saying: "Your Majesty, this is the list of meritorious services for quelling the chaos jointly signed by Gao Xianzhi's deputy capital protector and Xian Yu Zhongtong Jiedu, please Your Majesty." ”
Li Longji was in a good mood, and waved his hand and said chicly: "Present!" ”
Gao Lishi beside him hurriedly took the list in the hands of the eunuch and respectfully held it to Li Longji with both hands.
Li Longji opened the list, and there were many names densely listed on it, among which the first one was Gu Qing.
Li Longji was stunned for a moment, and then racked his brains to recall the name Gu Qing, several times the famous generals of various armies, it seems that he had never heard of this name, and then look at the reasons for the meritorious service remarked on the back of Gu Qing's name, one is to ask Xian Yuzhong to ask the imperial court to send another good general to command the counterinsurgency, the second is to tell the war to cut off the passage between Nanzhao and Tubo, do not let the two countries collude, and join forces, and third, the original thing called "sand table" played an extremely important role in the pacification of the Nanzhao Rebellion, including the final decisive battle, It was precisely because of the nameless trail marked on the sand table that after Gao Xianzhi sent his division around the enemy, he cut off his grain and grass, cut off his retreat, and messed up his army's morale, and the rebellion of Nanzhao was quickly pacified.
"Gu Qing, Gu Qing...... Who is this? Li Longji muttered to himself.
Yang Guifei is a more responsible woman, and she rarely takes the initiative to get involved in court politics and state affairs, but Li Longji said Gu Qing's name in his mouth, Yang Guifei was too impressed by this name, so she couldn't help but be stunned: "Is the name that San Lang is chanting 'Gu Qing'?" ”
Li Longji said with a smile: "Yes, Gao Xianzhi and Xian Yu Zhongtong jointly asked for credit, and the name Gu Qing ranked first in the merit book, I am a little curious, what kind of talent can make the two heroes jointly recommend it?" ”
Yang Guifei became more and more shocked: "This name is Gu Qing, but he is a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy who lives in Qingcheng County, Shuzhou?" ”
Li Longji glanced at her in surprise, then carefully looked at the remarks on the list of merits, and nodded slowly: "Yes, Gu Qing, eighteen years old, a native of Shiqiao Village, Qingcheng County, Shuzhou." …… It's only eighteen years old, and the lady knows this person? ”
Yang Guifei finally determined that this Gu Qing was the other Gu Qing, her mood became more and more comfortable, her smile was brighter, she proudly raised her magnificent chest, and said: "Yes, this young man is the concubine's fellow villager, this time he returned to his hometown and province, Xian Yu Zhongtong introduced this person, the concubine has seen him, he is really a talent, warm as jade." ”
Li Longji was curious: "Is this son really only eighteen years old?" ”
"Yes, I don't know if San Lang knows that there was a porcelain kiln in Shuzhou, the concubine's hometown last year, and the porcelain produced was designated as tribute porcelain? The owner of the porcelain kiln is Gu Qing, San Lang still remembers that the concubine brought back a set of small plum bottles from Shuzhou, each plum bottle was printed with a poem, San Lang also praised the person who wrote this poem at that time is not inferior to Li Hanlin, the concubine also felt that he was a rare talent when he saw him, so he wanted to recommend talents for His Majesty, and wanted to recruit him to come to Chang'an with the position of Hanlin to be edicted, but the young man refused......"
Li Longji also heard his interest at this time, and said with a smile: "Refused? A seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy was personally solicited by the most favored concubine of the Son of Heaven today, and he could still refuse. ”
Yang Guifei covered her mouth and smiled: "The concubine was also quite uncomfortable at the time, I just thought that this person was young and crazy after all, and he was arrogant and arrogant, but he didn't expect to see his name on the list of counterinsurgency merit today. ”
Li Longji nodded and said: "The poet is just a little Daoer, this son disdains to invite official positions with talent, and wants to win fame from the battlefield, it can be seen that he is an aspiring talent, not bad!" ”
After saying two words of "not bad", Yang Guifei's heart moved, and she took the opportunity to say: "Your Majesty, talents are rare, how can they fall outside the Holy Son of Heaven and not be used by the society?" If His Majesty can cultivate it carefully, after a few years, it may not be a towering tree that shelters the Tang Society. ”
Li Longji pretended to be jealous and said: "The lady is talking for a strange boy like this, I am not happy to hear it." ”
Yang Guifei glanced at him, and said with a coquettish smile: "The concubine is more than ten years older than him, but the concubine's hometown is difficult to find a pillar of the country, the concubine is really happy for her hometown, and she just wants to help this little fellow countryman. ”
Old Langjun snorted dissatisfied, his eyes fell on Gu Qing's name again, he pondered for a long time, and said slowly: "This son has made meritorious contributions in military affairs and should enter the military service, although he has merit, but he cannot be crowned too high, I am afraid that there will be criticism in the court." ”
Saying that, Li Longji ordered Gao Lishi to take the pen and paper, picked up the pen and wrote a line on the paper, put the pen down and smiled at Yang Guifei, and said: "The lady has the heart to bring her fellow villagers, how can I lose the face of the lady?" According to what the lady said, how about transferring him to Chang'an as an official? ”
Yang Guifei glanced at the paper quickly, and it was written on it, "Chang'an Zuowei Prince's Mansion, Record Joining the Army".