Your Majesty, what is the situation of the Yuwen tribes in the north now? ”

After leaving Kunde Palace, Li Xin first put the child there, and then set off to Weiyang Palace.

In the side hall of Weiyang Palace, the two of them were eating and discussing things in the north.

The Son of Heaven lowered his head and took a sip of wine, and said slowly: "Forty years ago, Ye Laoguo Gong broke up the Northern Zhou Dynasty in one fell swoop, and at that time, Yuwen Chong, the general of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, escaped from Jimen Pass with hundreds of thousands of remnants of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and hundreds of thousands of Xianbei Yuwen ethnic groups. ”

Speaking of this, the Son of Heaven paused, and then continued: "At that time, my Great Jin was already almost at the extreme, and I really couldn't fight anymore, so Emperor Wu ordered Ye Laoguo to return to the court, giving Yuwen Chong and those people a chance to buffer. ”

This matter, Old Man Ye has always regretted it, when he drove the remnants of the Northern Zhou Dynasty out of Jimen Pass, he actually still had the strength to pursue, but at that time he really couldn't fight, and even the Martial Emperor who blew up his hair at the touch had to choose to give up, so Ye Sheng could only watch Yuwen rush to the north.

"This Yuwen Chong is the Yuwen royal family, or the imperial uncle of the emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, he could have reproduced another Northern Zhou in the north, but fortunately, this Yuwen Chong died of injuries more than a year after Ye Laoguo Gong retired from the army."

Li Xin actually knew a lot about these Northern Zhou stories, but at this time, he still pretended not to know and listened to the story of this son of heaven, who was no longer young.

"After Yuwen Chong died, his four sons competed for the position of leader, and then each led a part of his clan to scatter in the north, which evolved into the later Yuwen tribes."

The Son of Heaven said in a deep voice: "In the past few decades, there have been occasional infighting between the Yuwen tribes, but because they are afraid of my Great Jin Northern Expedition, they have always maintained restraint and maintained their combat effectiveness to the greatest extent, and the four Yuwen divisions have also been very stable until now. ”

"Now forty years have passed, the leaders of the Yuwen tribes are no longer the four sons of Yuwen Chong, most of them have become his sons or even grandchildren, they have joined forces to drive away the Qiang tribe in the original north, the Di tribe, etc., although they have withdrawn from the Central Plains, but they are still the biggest overlords in the northern grassland."

Speaking of this, Taikang Tianzi said slowly: "The Yuwen royal family, who once enjoyed happiness in the north, most of them have not been able to hold knives or ride horses after the destruction of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, but the descendants of Yuwen Chong are all brave people, and even some of the Xianbei people were brave when they entered the pass, although these people have not dared to enter the Jimen Pass on a large scale in the past few decades, but they have become a hidden danger in the north. ”

Taikang Tianzi turned his head to look at Li Xin and laughed at himself: "Five years ago, I never had the idea of going north, it was after you mentioned it in Chang'an, I gradually started thinking about the north, at first I didn't take them to heart, thinking that they were just some of the defeated generals, not enough to say bravely, but the more I know about them in the past few years, the more I feel a little terrible." ”

The Son of Heaven said in a deep voice: "The ability of the Yuwen tribes will never be weaker than the Pingnan Army in the southwest, or even surpass. ”

Li Xin lowered his head and thought for a while, then said with a smile: "Your Majesty, forty years have passed, what kind of color they are now, they always have to try to know, and what they hear is not the truth." ”

The Marquis of Jing'an said slowly: "Your Majesty can let the Zhenbei Army or the Yunzhou Army send people to the north to give it a try, anyway, in the past ten years, there have been occasional remnants of people in the north who have come to provoke, and it is natural for us to fight back appropriately." ”

Forty years ago, the people of the Northern Zhou Dynasty were broken by Old Man Ye, so that in recent decades, they have not dared to counterattack the Great Jin, but there is no big war, and small-scale battles have never stopped, the most typical is that Li Xin went to the north on a business trip and was forced to participate in the Battle of Xiaochenji.

In the battle of Xiao Chen Ji, Li Xin and 400 Yu Lin Wei cooperated with Xiao Chen Ji Fengsui's people, killing more than 400 enemies and capturing more than 100 people.

A battle of a few hundred people is actually not very small.

The Son of Heaven nodded, and said in a deep voice: "I will issue an order to the leaders of the Yuwen tribes tomorrow, asking them to violate our borders, and warning them that if they do not repent again, I will send troops to teach them a lesson." ”

After the division of Yuwen Zhu, he no longer had the ability to compare with the Great Jin, so after the grudge of the year dissipated, the people of the four departments of Yuwen gritted their teeth and declared themselves vassals to the Great Jin.

This is a matter of the Chengde Dynasty.

It is precisely because of this incident that the credit of the Son of Heaven of Chengde has been greatly added, which is also part of the reason why the Son of Heaven of Chengde is called the Son of Heaven.

So according to this aspect, the people of the Yuwen tribes are ministers, and the Emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty is the king, and the Emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty can of course issue an edict to punish them, but this kind of holy decree is basically meaningless, and almost no one will take it seriously.

Those leaders of the four Yuwen tribes, it would be good if they didn't wipe their butts with the holy decree.

Li Xin thought for a while and slowly spoke.

"Your Majesty, this matter is a matter related to the fortunes of the country, Your Majesty can decide the direction, but you can't rely on one or two people to figure out the details, the minister suggested that Your Majesty convene the prime ministers and ministers of the three provinces to discuss the details together, so that there will be no mistakes in what is worked out."

Don't look at Li Xin, a military general, who is in the Taikang Dynasty, but in fact, since the Chengde Dynasty, the status of the military generals of the Great Jin Dynasty has been declining, and a large part of the reason for this is because of the fear of the military generals of the previous dynasties.

Military generals generally do not participate in politics.

The big and small matters of the imperial court were handled by the emperor and the officials of the three provinces and six ministries, or discussed and dealt with, in this process, the generals could not interject, and there was a special existence like Li Shen and Old Man Ye, and the status of other generals has been embarrassing.

After arriving in the Taikang Dynasty, the first thing he did today was to reduce all the generals of the Jiangmen, so that the generals would be even more inconspicuous.

Take Li Xin as an example, the most powerful position in his body now is the military department Shangshu, not the illusory prince Taibao.

Therefore, this kind of thing like the Northern Expedition must be discussed with the civil officials, otherwise even if this matter can be forcibly implemented, if those civil officials get in the way, then nothing can be done.

Li Xin himself respects these Zaifu very much.

The Son of Heaven frowned, and then spoke: "I want to tell them, otherwise nothing will be done, but before that, you and I will first set a similar direction, so that when I talk to them, I will have something to say." ”

The Marquis of Jing'an was silent for a while, and finally looked up at the Son of Heaven.

"Your Majesty, if you want to attack the remnants tentatively this time, do you want to use the Yunzhou Army or the Zhenbei Army?"

(End of chapter)