Chapter 527: A Year of Change

In the following days, the entire Chang'an can be said to be spent in a happy laughter, because without him, this royal family has a prince to marry a wife or princess every half a month.

And every wedding is very grand, and there are even good deeds who have calculated such an account.

This started with the marriage of the eldest princess, and the royal family has held a total of four weddings in the past two months, namely the weddings of the eldest princess Li Wei, Princess Li Yue of Runan, Li Ke of Zhao, Li Tai of Qin, etc., and some people have counted that the money sent by the prince Li Chengqian alone adds up to more than 1 billion.

But what they don't know is that a lot of this money is their own, as well as those precious treasures in their eyes, many of which are developed by the Academy of Sciences and made by the workshops under the Royal Chamber of Commerce, in fact, there is really not so much money.

But these outsiders don't know, so the name of the merchant prince that Li Chengqian was given back then was called by the people again.

Li Chengqian was also a little helpless about this, but after knowing it, he smiled and didn't care at all.

However, with Li Wei and their marriage, the East Palace has also lost a lot of liveliness, and they now have their own small homes, so they don't come over often, especially with Li Yue's marriage, the playground in the back garden of the East Palace, which was originally built for his younger brothers and sisters, has also slowly been abandoned, after all, without Li Yue's care, Li Chengqian didn't dare to let his younger brothers and sisters play there, and they are all older, many of them go to school in Hongwen Hall, so they come to play when they are on vacation.

At the same time, it is worth mentioning that because of the appearance of Li Chengqian, he should have had any younger brothers and sisters, but none of them are gone, and his son who was born a few years ago and the thirteenth Li Fu have not been adding a younger brother or sister to him in recent years.

Of course, this is also his own mother, her body has always been healthy and healthy, unlike the history of her previous life, as soon as her mother died, Li Shimin let himself go in various ways.

At the same time, it is worth mentioning that Li Yuan also lived a good life and did not die according to the time of history.

Now Li Yuan's life is also very comfortable, this is nothing to tease the grandchildren who are still young, and he often finds time to educate Li Chengqian's uncles, and sometimes he will come to the East Palace to see Li Yao and them.

It seems that time passes slowly, and there is no major event in Datang in a year, everything is being implemented according to plan, and now Datang can be described as one day at a time, with new changes every day.

In the past year, it is worth mentioning that Li Chengqian has several more nephews and nieces, they are Li Wei's son Xue Ming, Li Yue's daughter Li Xiaoting, Li Ke's daughter Li Qing, and Li Tai's son Li Hao.

The birth of these little guys, Li Chengqian's uncle, and the uncle can be said to have had a blood, but this Li Chengqian was willing.

And out of these, to say that the biggest change among Li Chengqian's brothers and sisters is the fifth Li You.

A month ago, Li You, who completed the change of defense and reported to the president, became more calm, and he was also named the king of Qi by Li Shimin by virtue of his outstanding military exploits in the campaign for more than a year, and his official position was also promoted to General Xuanwei from the fourth grade.

And this change of defense is also a normal rotation, the purpose of which is to transfer back the White Tiger Guard and Wolf Guard, who have been stationed on the border for more than a year, and the other is to open up three battlefields in the Tang Dynasty for more than a year, and every six months, a large army is stationed to wage war against the Western Turks and Tibet, and now the four armies of nearly 200,000 people have been able to control the situation very well.

Therefore, Li Shimin transferred the White Tiger Guard and the Wolf Guard back to correct it, and at the same time wanted to use these two young Hundred Battles Army to look down on the possible turmoil in the Tang Dynasty in the future.

As for why Jin Wuwei and the Xuanjia Army are not used, it is because these two armies were led by Chai Shao, Cheng Biting Jin, and Li Xiaogong to the north half a year ago to find trouble with Goguryeo, and at the same time open up the fourth battlefield of the Tang Dynasty.

It is also the last training ground in Li Chengqian's plan, where there is also a new army composed of nearly 100,000 guards in rotation.

Although these four battlefields consume astronomical sums of money every day, and they feel a bit of a reckless force, their role is also huge, that is, they have cultivated hundreds of war veterans for Datang, and many guards in Datang have been abolished.

Of course, most of these abolished guards are now in Daozhou, which is around Chang'an, and the security problems vacated by the abolition of these guards are all taken over by Eagle Guard.

Therefore, the development of Eagle Guard this year is also huge, and it has now included most of Gyeonggi Province, Kannai Province, Xijing, Shannan West Province, and Jiannan Province under the rule of Chang'an.

As for the replenishment of Eagle Guard personnel, because of the existence of military academies and the four major battlefields, personnel are not a problem.

After all, there are people coming down from the four major battlefields every day, some of these people can enter the military academy because of their military merits, and some of them are sent down because of their injuries.

At the same time, the military academy is also responsible for short-term training of the talents needed by the Eagle Guard, and the military academy also has soldiers who have come down from the battlefield to study at a fixed point for several months, and then go to the battlefield again after completing their studies.

Therefore, the current Datang is like a high-speed machine, investing a lot of resources every day, selecting batches of elite soldiers and strong generals for Datang, and at the same time, it is also doing a big blood change, eliminating those who eat and wait for death in the guard.

But the most important thing is that the entire Tang Dynasty is paving the way for the layout of Eagle Guard, which is the result that Li Shimin and Li Chengqian's father and son want the most, although it seems cruel and ruthless, but this is a necessary process.

Otherwise, the Western Turks, as well as Goguryeo, the current Tang Dynasty can destroy them in minutes, and even Tubo, in giving the Tang Dynasty a year, so that more soldiers can adapt to the plateau climate, Tubo is a piece of fat that the Tang Dynasty fancies, and it will be taken for you if you take it.

At the same time, it is worth mentioning that the small state of Nanzhao in the south, under the instruction of Li Chengqian, has occupied most of it under the continuous encroachment of the personal soldiers recruited by Li Ke over the years and the Turkic warriors he subdued in the Eastern Turks, and even after several years of development, it has formed a combat effectiveness.

So after Li Ke got married and had children, Li Shimin and Li Chengqian felt that the time was ripe and wanted Li Ke to go out and break through.

But because there is no such precedent, they are afraid that something will happen to the Tang Dynasty, so they will recall the White Tiger Guard and the Wolf Guard.

And on this day, Li Shimin set the date after the Lantern Festival.

Because without him, Li Shimin wants the family to spend the New Year together, after all, Li Ke is out, and I don't know how many years it will take to come back.