Chapter 268: It is advisable to chase after the poor
Of course, tens of thousands of people can't eat and drink together, and no matter how confident Li Chengqian is, he doesn't dare to let tens of thousands of soldiers drink together, and he can only hold a banquet of a few thousand at a time, leaving more people to guard the camp.
For 10 days after the celebration party, Li Chengqian's barracks held a banquet, and every time Li Chengqian went to the generals to greet him, and then ate and drank with the ordinary soldiers.
Many young soldiers were very brave to walk in front of Li Chengqian's seat, looking at the smiling Li Chengqian, but his face was red and his neck was thick, and he didn't know what to say.
Li Chengqian held a celebration banquet here, contacted the soldiers, and prepared for the southward encirclement of the desert and the northern alliance, but Li Shimin, who was far away in the plastic city, was very angry.
Li Shimin was originally in a bad mood because Li Chengqian did not support his Eastern Crusade, but today he received a letter from Li Simo, in which he explained in detail how Li Chengqian set up a bureau to split the Turks.
Li Shimin looked at this letter and hated Li Chengqian's approach, and he knew that it was because of Li Simo's lack of ability that Li Chengqian had an opportunity to take advantage of it, and he wanted to send his stubborn thinking back to lead the overall Turkic situation.
However, he was unable to transfer his strength back to the Western Regions at this time, and Li Shimin couldn't think of a way to restrain Li Chengqian for a while, so he brought Fang Xuanling and Gao Shilian to discuss.
After the last incident in which Xiao Yu was angry with the ministers as soon as he mentioned the abolished prince, Li Shimin felt that Li Chengqian's influence in the court was too great, so he crowned Gao Shilian and Fang Xuanling as the scholars of the Liangyi Palace.
This is a plagiarism of Li Chengqian's practice of setting up Xiao Yu and the eldest grandson Wuji, only giving them the rank of university scholar and not allowing them to enter the Pingzhang Academy to deal with actual affairs, the difference is that Li Shimin really regards Fang Xuanling and Gao Shilian as consultants, and Li Chengqian puts the eldest grandson Wuji and Xiao Yu aside.
When the two came, Li Shimin had a gloomy face and directly showed Li Simo's letter to the two.
After reading Li Simo's letter, the two did not speak, and they wanted to know what Li Shimin thought of this matter.
But Li Shimin always kept a gloomy face and did not speak, and the atmosphere in the hall was a little depressed for a while.
After a while, Fang Xuanling said with a solemn expression: "Originally, the Turks were handed over to Li Simo to let him contain Xue Yantuo, but now that Xue Yanliao is gone, I am afraid that letting him dominate the Turks will bring disaster to Datang in the future, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is also to eliminate hidden dangers for Datang." ”
Li Shimin's eyes flickered when he heard this, and he also felt that what Fang Xuanling said made sense, but he felt inexplicably irritated when he thought that tens of thousands of Turks who could fight well fell into Li Chengqian's hands.
Gao Shilian saw that Li Shimin didn't speak, nodded slightly, and said: "Judging from the timing of Xue Yantuo's attack this time, it seems that most of the Turks leaked the purpose of His Royal Highness the Prince, and now that Xue Yantuo has been destroyed, it is not impossible to disperse the Turks." ”
Li Shimin snorted coldly when he heard this: "Li Simo is just a firefly light, tens of thousands of people are in his hands, and there is only a limit of disaster. Besides, I am not a small person, and the prince wants these people to tell me in advance, and now he is arbitrarily where to put me?"
Although Li Shimin was very dissatisfied with Li Chengqian's dismantling of the Turks without making a report, after listening to Fang Xuanling's words, he did not mention the matter of losing his thinking and supporting the Turks.
Li Shimin sat there sulking, raised his head for a while and said: "Someone came to spread my will, the prince Chengqian led the troops to pacify Xue Yantuo, and now Xue Yantuo has been destroyed, and the prince is still in the bitter cold land in the extreme north, I can't bear it, and on the day the prince saw the edict, he immediately handed over all the military affairs in the camp to Chi Gong, the commander of the Hubei State, and Qi Bi He Li was supplemented. After the delivery was clear, the prince led the guards of the East Palace to come and see the driver. ”
Later, Li Shimin issued an edict to add Wei Chi Gong as the head of the march of Lingzhou Road, and escorted Xue Yantuo's prisoners to come and march. (Li Shimin didn't know that Li Chengqian had killed all the nobles of Xue Yantuo.) )
Li Shimin didn't want to see Li Chengqian and the army together for a while.
Gao Shilian and Fang Xuanling looked at Li Shimin and did not say a word about these two edicts.
After the edict was drafted, Li Shimin immediately ordered someone to pass on the book to copy the seal.
The person who went to pass on the scholar had not yet returned, and there was an attendant who told Yang Hongli that he had an urgent matter to see.
Yang Hongli is now the head of the military department, and he has the right to negotiate with the Mobei coalition army.
As soon as Li Shimin heard that Yang Hongli asked to see him, he thought that the negotiations had come to an end, and hurriedly said: "Announce him quickly." ”
"Your Majesty!" Yang Hongli looked anxious and walked into the hall to salute Li Shimin.
Li Shimin didn't look like the negotiation was successful at first sight, and thought that he had made some excessive demands for the Mobei coalition army.
He also ordered Yang Hongli to get up and said directly: "If Hui and the other troops make excessive requests, Yang Qing can inform the British army to press forward, and let them know that Datang will not only surrender." ”
Yang Hongli was stunned when he heard this, and his heart moved and hurriedly said: "General Xue went out of the city to attack Tongluobu, but it is His Majesty's will?"
Li Shimin was shocked when he heard this, Huo Ran got up, pointed at Yang Hongli, and said loudly: "Which General Xue?" Li Shimin's eyes widened as he spoke, waiting for Yang Hongli to answer.
Although Li Shimin has been in Sufang City, because Yi Nan has been captured by Li Chengqian, the military movements on the front line between the two sides in the negotiation stage must be reported to Li Shimin first.
I hadn't received any news before, and a General Xue suddenly came out and went to war directly, which made Li Shimin not surprised.
"Back to Your Majesty, it is Xue Rengui, the right guard of the East Palace." Yang Hongli hurriedly replied.
Li Shimin said with some confusion: "Is that Xue Rengui who is sticking to Changze City?"
"Exactly."
Li Shimin heard the words and thought about it, Xue Rengui has been guarding Changze County, because he is Li Chengqian's henchman, and there are only a few thousand men under him, so Li Shiji has never mobilized him, at this time Xue Rengui suddenly sent troops to attack Tongluobu, obviously under Li Chengqian's order.
Thinking of this, Li Shimin sat down angrily, and took a few deep breaths before saying angrily: "After passing on my will to Xue Rengui, you will not be able to fight again without my will, and if you disobey, you will not be spared." ”
"Obey." Yang Hongli was busy.
Seeing this, Li Shimin waved his hand to Yang Hongli and said, "Yang Qing sits down flat, and let's give an order later." ”
The six departments of the three provinces of the Tang Dynasty were ordered by the Zhongshu Province to be reviewed by the Ministry of Shangshu and then handed over to the Shangshu Province for execution, because Li Chengqian Gao established the Pingzhang Yuan, which disrupted many administrative gates, and now it was wartime, Li Shimin was ready to let the Zhongshu Sheren copy it and hand it over to Yang Hongli for execution.
"Obey the order!" Yang Hongli saluted and sat down.
said that when he saw Gao Jifu coming to see him under the edict, Li Shimin didn't say much and directly gave him the two decrees he had just written, and ordered him to write an edict, and Gao Jifu took the draft edict and went to find a place to copy it.
Here Li Shimin looked at Yang Hongli and frowned and said, "I remember that Xue Rengui only had 5,000 people under his command, and what was the result when he went to attack the Tongluo Department with 30,000 people?"
"According to the spies' report, General Xue won the battle, and the leader of the Tongluo tribe, Tongluo Zhier, was wounded by an arrow, and the Tongluo tribe retreated for thirty miles, and General Xue's column pursued and killed countless people." Yang Hongli thought about receiving the news and still felt incredible.
Hearing this, Li Shimin nodded inexplicably and said, "Take this opportunity to let the Mobei departments surrender as soon as possible." ”
"Obey the order!" Yang Hongli saluted again.
"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Wu asks to see you." The chamberlain reported outside the hall.
Li Shimin's face sank when he heard this: "He came just in time, I was about to send a message to the prince and send him in." "Since Li Chengqian wrote a letter to Li Shimin to oppose his current crusade, Li Shimin has not given Li Ke a good face these days.
After a while, Li Ke approached the big hall and saluted Li Shimin respectfully: "Sons and daughters meet their father!" ”
"Uh-huh!" Li Shimin snorted.
Li Ke lowered his head with embarrassment on his face and said, "Playing the father, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince presents a poem to the father." ”
As he spoke, he took out a few pieces of paper from his sleeve and held them in his hands and waited for the attendant to hand them over.
A small chamberlain hurriedly stepped forward with small steps, but he heard Li Shimin, who was sitting at the top, say loudly: "Read! ”
Frightened, the little chamberlain hurriedly retreated, not daring to move.
Li Ke smiled bitterly when he saw this, but when he thought of the poem written by Li Chengqian, he stood in the hall with his head raised and stood in the hall with an outstanding temperament, and recited directly without looking at the paper in his hand: "The wind and rain in the north are yellow, and the Tang Dynasty Emperor rebelled. The tiger is better than the past, and the world is turned upside down and ......generous."
"What a poem! The momentum is magnificent, especially like overwhelming the sea and coming. But it was Gao Jifu, who had just copied the song, who came over and praised loudly.
Everyone else in the hall nodded to indicate that it was indeed a good poem, and Li Shimin also nodded and said, "The prince's poem is really good, bring it to me." ”
Fang Xuanling smiled when he heard this: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is unique in poetry and words, and His Majesty has taught him well. ”
Li Ke handed the paper in his hand to the little chamberlain, and said busily: "There are still four sentences in the poem of Enlightening the Emperor. ”
When Li Shimin heard this, he was reaching out to pick up the paper handed by the waiter, so he said to Li Ke: "You can recite it together." ”
"The retainers obeyed. It is advisable to chase the poor bravely, and not to sell the name of the overlord. If there is love in the sky, the sky is also old, and the right way in the world is the vicissitudes of life. ”
As soon as these four lines of poetry were read, the whole hall fell silent.