0618 Rise and fall are not enough to succeed
Being judged behind his back, and speaking out in person, Li Tong was more or less uncomfortable. But considering that this evaluation is also pertinent, not slanderous, forget it, or don't care about these subsections. Whoever does not have a three-point right and wrong behind his back, or speaks of people, or is said by others.
Then, Zhang Renyuan presented the letters of the generals of Anxi that he carried with him. Li Tong lowered his eyes and saw that the first thing was the letter from Tang Xiujing, whom he had been friends with for a long time, which was as many as a large volume.
So he also picked up Tang Xiujing's letter and read it carefully, the letter was very rich, and it was not a serious official tone, but like gossip. The first half of the book mainly talked about family matters, and I especially thanked His Royal Highness King Yongwang for taking care of his family in Shendu City.
Li Tong and Tang Xiujing, a veteran of the border area, had an intersection very early, naturally because of his wife Tang Lingshu, although they have not met so far, they have exchanged letters with each other several times.
On previous occasions, the wording of Tang Xiujing's letters had been somewhat conservative, but this time it was much milder. After talking about family affairs, he added a lot of his personnel experience in the frontier, which is like a benevolent old man with rich experience who passes on his experience and wisdom to the future.
The last part of the letter talks about the situation at Anthy. Now the situation in Anxi is even more tense than that of Longyou, and it has been actively contacting some Fanbang Hu troops in the Western Regions to prepare for a counterattack on the four towns. It can be determined that in the two strategic choices of Longyou and the Western Regions, Tubo finally chose the Western Regions.
Tang Xiujing's letter, Li Tong read it for more than half a quarter of an hour, mainly feeling the change in the veteran's attitude towards him.
This kind of change is not about power, although he and the Tang family got married early, but before, the intersection with Tang Xiujing was not too big after all, and there was almost no need to communicate on special official matters.
Besides, there is always a need to avoid suspicion between the border generals and the king of Zong, after all, the water on the political situation of the Wu Zhou Dynasty is too deep. After the successful coup d'état in Shendu, Li Tong looked through some files recorded in the political affairs hall, and even saw that Wu Sansi proposed to move Tang Xiujing, in order to strictly guard and strike at Li Tong's forces.
Now the situation is different, first of all, the Tang family is more closely connected with King Yong, and Tang Xianxue, the son of Tang Xiujing, and others even directly participated in the coup d'état planned by Li Tong. The political shadow that shrouded King Yong dissipated most of it, and there was no need to avoid it anymore.
And now Li Tong is divided into Shaanxi and ruled in Guanxi, and Longyou is also under its control, although it has not yet obtained the control of the Anxi Protectorate, but the back roads of Anxi are under the control of the Chang'an Shogunate, and the exchanges and interactions between each other naturally have to be deepened.
Even if Li Tong can't manage the four towns of Anxi at the moment, Tang Xiujing is a flag he planted in Anxi, and he can't attract attention.
Under Tang Xiujing, it was the letter of Wang Xiaojie, the protector of the capital of Anxi.
When he opened the letter, the thick black straight strokes poked his eyeballs, and the calligraphy of this general who recovered the four towns of Anxi was really a bit spicy. When Li Tong saw Wang Xiaojie's handwriting, he couldn't help but think of the early years when Xizhen had just been recovered, and Wang Xiaojie worshiped the prime minister because of his merits. ”
This is really mean, but because of Wang Xiaojie's worship of the prime minister, there were still a lot of criticisms in the court at that time, and many people felt that Wang Xiaojie's ability was unbearable. But the recovery of the four towns by his people is an indisputable achievement, even if there is some criticism, it has not shaken Wang Xiaojie's position.
Wang Xiaojie's letter is not long, there are only more than 1,000 words in total, and the first half is to praise the merits of King Yong Kuangzheng, saying that if he was in Shendu at that time, he would definitely follow King Yong to kill the enemy in armor. In particular, he greatly praised King Yong's plan to stop at the Wu clan and harmless the Holy Emperor.
The second half of the letter is to let King Yong stay in Chang'an with peace of mind, and with him in the west, everything will be worry-free, and he will never let Fan mess up and affect the situation in the country.
After reading Wang Xiaojie's letter, Li Tong couldn't help but realize that Tang Xiujing's letter he had just read commented on him as "Xiaojie's character is pure and loyal, and he can be paid off."
Although Tang Xiujing's evaluation of Wang Xiaojie is quite positive, but just based on Wang Xiaojie's words, Li Tong feels that this guy is still a little difficult to explain.
Wang Xiaojie is indeed different from the old yin who he is used to dealing with in the god capital, and he has to cover his heart so hot that he is willing to say anything, this guy dares to say anything.
Aside from the literal meaning of the letter, it is like a big brother patting the little brother to express his appreciation, and I cover your tone. To slightly omit Tang Xiujing's evaluation, that is Wang Xiaojie Zhener.
Li Tong smiled and put down Wang Xiaojie's letter, and then read the letters of the rest of the Anxi generals and some of the princes of Fanbang. Basically, there is no nutrition, but congratulations to King Yong for being awarded the aspect, and he patrols the border strongly.
After all, at the moment, the Anxi Protectorate is not under the jurisdiction of the Chang'an Shogunate, so there is not much dry goods except for these courtesy greetings. Even except for Tang Xiujing's letter, the rest of the people's letters did not mention the specific situation in the four towns of Anxi.
After reading these letters, Li Tong raised his eyes to look at Zhang Renyuan below, and noticed that Zhang Renyuan frowned slightly and looked a little restless, but he didn't care, but asked: "Tubo is using heavy troops in Anxi, how much strength does Anxi have to resist?" ”
Zhang Renyuan's sitting posture became upright again, and he said: "When he left the town, the Tubo forward game had already disturbed Khotan, and he explored his military number, and the brother of Qinling, Bo Lun, supervised the army of 50,000 as his headquarters, and the other state departments such as the Yue Dynasty were his forerunners. The Western Turkic Ashina also followed his subordinates, and wanted to summon the Western Turkic tribes to help his army with the restoration of the country......"
When Li Tong heard this, his eyes flashed. He also planned to use the Tuyuhun royal clan to confuse the situation in Qinghai, but he didn't expect Tubo to use it first.
The Turks have long been the overlords of Mobei, and they were divided into Eastern and Western Turks during the reign of Emperor Kaihuang of the former Sui Dynasty. Needless to say, the Eastern Turks will not die if they don't do it, and the soldiers in Weishui shook their majesty and then happily entered the court to dance and pay tribute, and now there are bone Dulu brothers resurrected, and chaos is in the north and south of the desert.
As for the Western Turks, it continued the tradition of Turkic internal strife and splitting, and was divided into left and right again during the Zhenguan period. The left chamber is located in the east, closer to the Tang Dynasty, and the right chamber is located in the west, closer to the Western Regions.
During the reign of Emperor Gaozong, Su Dingfang attacked the Western Turkic Shabaluo Khan Ashina Helu and offered Zhaoling prisoners, and the Western Turks officially perished.
After that, the Tang Dynasty set up the Kunling Protectorate in the Wulu Division, with the Western Turkic royal family Ashina Mi Shot as the Khan of the Rising Past, and the Wuxuan Lost Bi Department set up the Mengchi Protectorate, and Ashina Buzhen was the Khan of the Past and Absolute Khan, so as to maintain the feudal rule of the Ten Western Turks.
These two khans are also full of evil fun, they have destroyed other people's countries, and then set up a puppet regime and named it the Rise and Fall, which is also a unique brain.
Although it has become a lost country, the fine tradition of infighting in the Ashina family has not been lost. Soon after, Ashina really wanted to be in charge of the ten divisions alone, so he slandered Ashina for rebellion and killed this cousin with the hands of the Tang Dynasty.
But the Tang Dynasty was not interested in the bad things of the Ashina family, and at that time, Emperor Gaozong was bent on destroying Goguryeo. After the death of Ashina Buzhen, he simply abolished the two khans and used the Anxi Protectorate to control the Western Turkic homeland.
In this way, until the year of the vertical arch, as the power of Tubo into the Western Regions became greater and greater, Wu Zecai remembered that a few little treasures of the Ashina family who stayed in the city of Shendu, and once again resumed the title of the two khans, and sent Ashina Yuanqing and Ashina Hu Sero back to the ten hometowns respectively, and led the remnants of the Western Turks to resist the attack of Tubo in the Western Regions.
But these two guys, who have lived in Datang since childhood, returned to their hometown at first glance, and they were really unadaptable.
Among them, Ashina Yuanqing was soon expelled by the Wulu Army led by the Turk Cavalry, and Ashina Hu Sero was also shortly after the defeat of Wei Zhixi's conscription, he couldn't stand the commotion of his subordinates and the coercion of Tubo, and patted his ass and returned to Luoyang.
At this point, Wu Zetian's plan to rebuild the order of the Western Turks to fight against Tubo in the Western Regions was completely bankrupt, and he no longer cared about these two useless little babies. It was not until the longevity years that Wang Xiaojie personally sent troops to the west to officially recover the four towns.
Although Wu Zetian no longer pays attention to the rise and fall of this pair of Khans, some people are worried about them, that is, the proud Lai Junchen, no, and now he has changed his name to Xu Junchen.
Although the Khan of the Rise and Fall is not of great use in business, he inherited the rich inheritance of the Western Turks, and he himself lives in the Shendu, and he has wealth but no power, so he is naturally a big fat sheep in the eyes of Xu Junchen.
So more than a year ago, Xu Junchen framed the former Khan Ashina Yuanqingluo and directly killed him. After Li Tong returned to Shendu, he occupied Xu Junchen's big mansion in Daodaofang, which is said to be one of the gains of this case.
Having said that, Xu Junchen is also a fucking talent, and he is very energetic in framing the Tang Dynasty bureaucrats, and he is also not soft to get those Hu chiefs, such as Quan Xiancheng, Ashina Yuanqing, etc., and there are more than a dozen Hu chiefs of all sizes who died in his hands. If he was born in the Kaitian year, he might have killed An Lushan, who had not yet grown strong, directly.
After the death of Ashina Yuanqing, his son Ashina fled to Tibet.
As an emerging regime, Tubo has just stepped down from the plateau for a few years, and although it has captured the four towns of Anxi several times, its influence in the Western Regions is far less than that of the Tang Dynasty.
Suddenly, there was such an Ashina royal family directly in their hands, of course, the snot bubbles of joy came out, so this time when the troops were dispatched, under the banner of recovering the country for the Western Turks, Ashina was established as the ten surnamed Khan.
Li Tong also had a detailed understanding of the chaotic spectrum of the Western Turks before and after entering Long, otherwise these Ashina XX alone would give him a headache, and he didn't know what he was talking about.
However, hearing that Tubo was so enthusiastic about the restoration of the Western Turks this time, Li Tong was also happy, the little brother was still too young, and the Western Turks were now only "extinct", as for "Xingji", it was really not to mention.
If Tubo only goes to the country with its own military strength this time, the victory or defeat of this battle in the Western Regions may not be decided, and now with the unlucky guy Ashina, it is forcing the ten Turks to fight to the death!