Chapter 81 Northeast Border Marshal Zhang Shouqi
As soon as Pei Min said he would do it, he called his secretary Wang Wei and asked him to write letters to several bigwigs in the Ministry of War to sell his face.
This section has always been a big and coarse man, and there are very few people who are as civil and military as Pei Min.
For some reason, there is also a fashion in the interior, which is to recruit the world's heroes to be ghostwriters, which document is good, who has face.
In this regard, Pei Min is also unmatched among the envoys of all festivals in the world, whether it is Zhang Jiuling or Wang Changling, or Wang Zhilian and Wang Wei are all literary and talented. Among them, Zhang Jiuling, Wang Changling, and Wang Wei are all champions of the gold list. The three champions of the shogunate under his command can be described as a moment.
However, the letter to Li Longji cannot be ghostwritten by Wang Wei.
For Li Longji, the emperor, Pei Min still respects him very much, if he does not support him, Pei Min knows that his career will not be so smooth.
Reasonably, he had to write this letter himself.
He did not show off his writing and write the letter in a crepe manner, but wrote an extra-long letter with a somewhat intimate chatting style, which was several pages long.
Wang Wei has a military department book, and the letters of the two military department squires have been written, and Pei Min's letter is only half.
Under Wang Wei's surprised gaze, Pei Min wrote down his purpose and asked him to send four letters to Chang'an.
At this moment, Li Longji, who was in Chang'an, met with Zhang Shouqi, a rising star from the Northeast.
Zhang Shouqi said that he was a rising star, but not necessarily, his military qualifications were much older than Pei Min's.
However, what he lacks is Pei Min's platform, Pei Min's legend cannot be replicated, a person like him who has no family background and no background, it takes a great opportunity to climb to his current status in a short period of time.
He is the so-called historical trendsetter, relying on the champion of civil and military affairs, catching up with the congenital coup, and meeting a king like Li Longji who dares to delegate power and use people, so that he has today's achievements.
Without this opportunity, it can only come step by step.
Just like Zhang Shouqi.
Zhang Shouqi is a grassroots figure without any identity background, he followed his father to live in the border in his early years, developed a bold personality, full of righteousness and righteousness, and in the border land, learned the art of galloping and hunting.
At the beginning of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, he served as a general in Pingle Mansion in Guazhou, and then guarded the Beiting under Guo Qianjin, the general of the Right Rao Guard of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate.
Once, he was ordered to lead troops to the rescue and met the enemy on the way. At that time, the enemy was outnumbered, and he took the lead, fought hard, killed more than 1,000 enemies, and captured one of the enemy commanders. Because of his courage and good fighting, he was valued by the local state officials.
At that time, the Tibetan, Turkic, Khitan and other tribes repeatedly violated the Beiting, Guazhou area, Qian Jin sent Zhang Shouqi into Beijing to do things, he wrote to the imperial court, face the interests and disadvantages, asked to lead the troops, from Puchang, Luntai two wings attack, once again defeated the invasion of the Turkic army, in each battle because of the independent combat organization and command ability, because of the merit of the special addition of the general Jinan.
Soon after, he was transferred to Youzhou Liangshe Mansion to serve as Guoyi, and was respected by Lu Qiqing, the assassin of Youzhou. Later, because of his military exploits, he was promoted to the general of Zuo Jinwu and the military envoy of Lu Longjun.
In the west, because of Pei Min's participation, Xue Ne recovered Liaodong, subdued the Xi and Khitan, and ensured the stability of the Northeast.
However, the butterfly effect also arose, because of the submission of the Xi and Khitan and the stability of the Northeast, the interests of the Bohai State were seriously threatened.
The founder of the Balhae Kingdom was Da Zuorong, the patriarch of the Sumo Jin tribe attached to Goguryeo.
It was a powerful tribal group living in the Sumo River Valley, and had a deep relationship with Goguryeo, a powerful country in Northeast Asia at the time.
In the first year of the general chapter, Tang Gaozong sent troops to destroy Goguryeo in alliance with Silla, and then in order to prevent the restoration of the Goguryeo regime and effectively control the remnants of Goguryeo and the neighboring ethnic minorities such as the Jin, Khitan, and Xi, many tribes attached to the Sumo Jinya were forcibly relocated to Yingzhou in Liaoxi, and Da Zuorong's father, the beggar Zhongxiang, was among these Sumo Jinju people.
Da Zuorong's family has lived in Yingzhou, Liaoning Province for nearly 30 years.
Wu Zetian was not good at military affairs, especially the older she gets, the more faint she becomes, and she handles the situation in the northeast appropriately, causing the rebellion in Yingzhou.
The leader of the Jin Ya people, Qi Si Biyu and the beggar Zhong Xiang, raised the banner against Wu Zhou, and led the Yingzhou Jing Ya tribe to the east of Liaodong. Da Zuorong, who was good at using soldiers, took advantage of the complex terrain of Tianmen Ridge, combined the people of Goguryeo and Jin, attacked the Wuzhou army, and arrived in the Bohai Sea with a small number of Han and Khitan people, and established a regime in Dongmu Mountain, created his own surname, called himself "King Zhen", and established the country of Zhen.
Immediately after the founding of the state, Dae Zuorong sent an envoy to form an alliance with the Turks, and also opened up Silla in the south, skillfully mediating between the powerful neighbors, and in a few years, the power has developed rapidly, and the people to which he belongs include the Jin, Goguryeo, Han, Khitan, Xi, Turkic, and Murwei ethnic groups have become a force to be reckoned with in the northeast.
Tang Zhongzong was reinstated, and Zhang Xingqi, the servant of the imperial history, was sent to appease Da Zuorong. Da Zuorong accepted the appeasement, declared himself a vassal to the Tang Dynasty, and sent his second son Damen Yi to serve with Zhang Xingqi and stay as a guard.
After Li Longji ascended the throne, he sent Cui Xin to take Honglu Temple, went to Zhenguo, worshiped Da Zuorong as the general of Zuo Xiaowei and the king of Bohai County, and took the place under his command as the Kuhan Prefecture, and awarded the governor of the Kuhan Prefecture, after which "Bohai" became the new name of the Zhenguo, that is, the Bohai State.
The Bohai King Da Zuorong was sophisticated and peaceful, while the crown prince was radical in martial arts and paid more attention to autonomy.
The northeast of the Tang Dynasty was peaceful, and the surrounding small tribes began to depend on the Tang Dynasty and were unwilling to follow the Bohai State, which directly affected the interests of the Bohai Sea.
Once there is a conflict of interests between countries, no matter how ironclad the relationship is, it will enter a situation of fighting each other.
The two sides gradually had friction, and even fought each other.
The king of the Bohai Kingdom, Da Zuorong, and the crown prince are all masterpieces, and the governor of Youzhou, Shi Zhao Hanzhang, Xue Chuyu and others are not opponents.
After Zhang Shouqi took office, he rectified the military and government, encouraged the soldiers, waited for the opportunity to take the initiative to attack the Bohai State, and frequently won victories.
The times create heroes, and the world will naturally not revolve around Pei Min alone.
Just when Pei Min was playing games with Tubo and Turks and planning the Western Regions, Zhang Shouqi also walked step by step to the junior officer to the governor of Yingzhou, the envoy of Pinglu Jiedu and the high position of Zhongcheng in the imperial history, and became the optimus jade pillar of the Tang Dynasty in the northeast.
Li Longji also said with a smile: "There is Jingyuan in the west, and there are ingots in the northeast, so I can sit back and relax!" ”
Jingyuan is Pei Min's word, and ingots are naturally Zhang Shoujue's words. Maybe Zhang Shouqi's family is poor, and he also has this festive word.
Even if Li Longji was in a very bad mood, in the face of a border commander like Zhang Shouqi who had made great achievements in entering Beijing, he still received him ceremoniously and personally, personally set up a banquet, and ordered civil and military forces to accompany him.
When singing praises for Zhang Shouji and Li Longji, Zhang Shouqi also made a request to Li Longji at the banquet.
"Your Majesty, the Pinglu garrison is preparing for war again and again, and the soldiers will inevitably be damaged, and the weapons will be depleted too quickly.
Li Longji didn't want to talk about ruining the fun at the banquet, so he directly asked the military department to do it.