When Li Shimin was just in early July, he had already received a secret report of the fierce struggle within the Turks. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info However, after all, the struggle at that time was only a quarrel limited to the tooth tent, and it had not yet reached the level of a big fight, so Li Shimin did not take it to heart. Who knew that a few days later, news of Turkic civil strife came.

When Li Shimin announced the news in the court, like the Youzhou Governor's Mansion, the hundred officials were first stunned, and then they were surprised. The Turks are the biggest enemy of the Tang Dynasty, and the humiliation brought to the Tang Dynasty is too much. Following the slogan of Huo Quai's seal wolf Juxu, I don't know how many times I have shouted it over the years. Especially after Weishui, I watched Li Shimin take Luo Yan and Wei Chi Jingde to bargain with Jieli there. Many of the faithful courtiers were flushed in retrospect.

Unexpectedly, before they could be ashamed, these people would have civil strife first. That's good news. Immediately, some people thought, since these guys are fighting so fiercely, why not let themselves benefit from the fisherman.

Wei Chigong took advantage of the fact that everyone was still happy, stood up and bowed, and said: "Your Majesty, in my opinion, I will wait for the army in the north to take advantage of the endless internal fighting of these barbarians to break them in one fell swoop. When the time comes, tie Najieli to Chang'an and let him be a prisoner under the ranks. ”

Hearing Wei Chi Jingde's words, not only those military generals, but also many civilian officials, nodded in agreement.

There are even a few young generals, thinking of that feat, their hearts are hot: "If you want to seal the wolf Juxu back then, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty will be famous through the ages." Now that there is such an opportunity, the final general will open up the territory for His Majesty and take that grassland to be the horse farm of my Tang Dynasty. ”

Martial arts are the lifelong pursuit of every responsible emperor. How Li Shimin's throne came about, everyone actually knows it very well in their hearts. At this moment, Li Shimin is eager to hope that he can do something to make more people identify with him and no longer think about those unbearable pasts.

If it is really a Turkic defeat, then the martial arts can inspire the people first.

Not to mention the fact that he had dealt with Jieli Tuli several times at the beginning, not to mention the fishy smell of cattle and sheep for the time being, his words were rude and rude, and he was insatiable and wanted him to go up and slap him a few times. I am in a weak position, and I have to be lower. From the founding of the Tang Dynasty to the present ten years, Li Shimin has experienced such a shameful thing four or five times. I've been holding this breath for too long.

Hearing that these generals spoke so intimately, Li Shimin was so moved that he wanted to cry.

However, it was only the generals who spoke, and many high-ranking ministers bowed their heads and remained silent at this time.

Only Yu Wenshi, who was already old, stood up to Li Shimin at this time and poured cold water on him: "Your Majesty, don't forget, when we were in Weishui, we made an alliance with the Turks. At this time, the brazen dispatch of troops will not only make the division unknown, but also fall into the reputation of treachery. ”

Yu Wenshi's words made many civil officials who had read poetry and books nod for a while, and it had not been a year since the covenant was made. The Tang Dynasty has always claimed to be a state of etiquette, but it can't be like the Turks, who don't take the oath seriously. Therefore, in just a moment, a large number of seconded proposals came out, which made Li Shimin's heart, which had just become hot, instantly cold.

The words of these civil officials aroused the dissatisfaction of many military generals. Before Wei Chi Jingde, who was slapped in the face, got angry, Cheng Zhijie stood up and scolded: "Damn, when those barbarians came in, why didn't you wait for half a fart sound." If Tang Shangshu said this, it would be enough to endure it. You wait for a few milk dolls, you haven't even seen what the Turks look like, you dare to talk nonsense here. ”

The Tang Shangshu in Cheng Zhijie's mouth refers to Tang Jian, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites. Since the Wude Dynasty, this envoy has been to the Turks several times. even has a glorious history of retreating from the Turkic army with his own mouth, so even if Tang Jian is a civil official, Cheng Zhijie and these generals also admire him a lot. As for those who were officials in Beijing from the beginning and had never even seen a war, these people naturally scolded as much as they wanted.

Those generals seemed to regard the court controversy as a scolding, and when they heard Cheng Zhijie say this, they actually shouted a good word one after another. It made the faces of many civil officials a little ugly.

At this time, those imperial histories began to play a role, constantly reporting the rude behavior of the generals, and instead turned good discussions into impeachment. When Li Shimin listened to a few words and his brain hurt, he roared angrily: "Okay, you wait and think about it, and discuss this matter tomorrow." After speaking, he flicked his sleeves and walked outside the hall.

So the first court meeting became a joke.

The same was true in the following days, when Wenchen and the generals argued with each other, and they talked for several days and came to a conclusion. It wasn't until the generals of the various Zhichong Mansions in the north went to the battle that the generals in the court actually gained a little upper hand with reason.

As a few large prefectures, the weight of the Youzhou and the Prefecture Governor's Mansion is quite heavy. Wang Junkuo of Youzhou, on behalf of Youyan, asked for battle. And the state of Li Shiyun, on behalf of the prefecture under the jurisdiction of the Zhichong Prefecture to ask for war. There are only six metropolitan governors in the world, and two of them facing the Turks actually asked for war at the same time, which made many courtiers a little irrefutable.

In the past few days, the generals have been talking about civilian officials to the battlefield, and the civil servants can only talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality. was sprayed with a dirty face by those generals according to Cheng Zhijie's words. Now that there are local government soldiers seeking war, many civilian officials who oppose sending troops for a while do not know how to refute it.

On this day in Zhongshu Province, Ma Zhou took a letter and walked up to Fang Xuanling and said, "Fang Zhongshu, look at this note." ”

It turned out that Ma Zhou got Luo Yan's recommendation from Xinfeng Town, so he came to Chang'an and directly found the door of the eldest grandson Wuji. Knowing that it was Luo Yan who wrote the letter of recommendation, the eldest grandson Wuji was very generous and sent someone to take Ma Zhou into the ministry. After reading Luo Yan's letter of recommendation, it was confirmed that it was Luo Yan's handwriting, and the eldest grandson Wuji was surprised.

Who Luo Yan is, he knows very well in his heart. This goods are so lazy, it is estimated that there is no other one in Chang'an. If it's not something particularly important, it won't be done at all. I don't know what kind of ability this Ma Zhou has, it is worthy of Luo Yan to recommend him to Li Shimin.

Therefore, the eldest grandson Wuji chatted with Ma Zhou for a long time with great interest. Under this talk, I really admired Luo Yan a little, but I didn't expect this Ma Zhou to be really talented. In addition to admiration, the eldest grandson Wuji asked about the process of Luo Yan and Ma Zhou's acquaintance. When he learned that the two of them had just drunk a bad meal in Xinfeng Town, the eldest grandson Wuji instantly wanted to cry.

This is too bullying, this kind of person can only have a drink and find one, what kind of **** luck did Luo Yan take.

The depressed eldest grandson Wuji sent Luo Yan's letter of recommendation to Li Shimin. When Li Shimin and Ma Zhou chatted for an afternoon, the next day Ma Zhou was arranged by Li Shimin to be a petty official in Zhongshu Province. However, the living room on the first day recorded this sentence: "The reason why Emperor Wenma and Luo met was lost for a while, and all the tea in his mouth was squirted." ”

Zhongshu Ling was sitting at this time Fang Xuanling, who kept flipping through the music. With his talent, Ma Zhou gained a firm foothold in Zhongshu Province in just one month, and even won Fang Xuanling's appreciation, so he had the qualifications to hand some of the notes to Fang Xuanling in person. At this time, seeing that Fang Xuanling didn't raise his head, he asked Ma Zhoudao: "Whose performance is sparse, what is it written about?" ”

Only officials above the fourth grade are qualified to send their own recitals directly to Li Shimin, while others can only be sent to Zhongshu Province, and more importantly, Zhongshu Province will give opinions and send them to Li Shimin for review; If it is not important, write an opinion directly and then send it to Shangshu Province for implementation.

Therefore, Fang Xuanling was able to spare his energy to ask Ma Zhou, which was already very face-saving.

"Luo Sima, the governor of Youzhou, wrote against sending troops to the Turks." Ma Zhou replied very respectfully.

Hearing Ma Zhou say this, Fang Xuanling became interested: "Oh, your Bole? Come on, I'll see. ”

Ever since Luo Yan's letter of recommendation to Ma Zhou spread, people who knew Ma Zhou well joked that he was a thousand miles away. Of course, Luo Yan, who discovered Ma Zhou, was naturally crowned with the title of Bole. It's not the first time that Fang Xuanling has joked with Ma Zhou and Luo Yan like this, so Ma Zhou just looked ashamed and quickly returned to normal.

What really interested Fang Xuanling was the reason why Luo Yan opposed sending troops to the Turks. During this period, foreign officials rarely expressed opposition to the discussion of sending troops, and many people in the civilian system also agreed to send troops, so the call for war became louder and louder. Fang Xuanling served as the secretary of the Zhongshu order, and at the same time he was the secretary of the household department, he didn't know how to fight the war, but he knew what he needed to fight.

Therefore, he is also a member of the staunch opposition to sending troops.

Flipping through Luo Yan's recital, looking at the two simple reasons above, Fang Xuanling smiled.

He had seen Luo Yan messing around, and originally thought that Luo Yan would instigate Li Shimin to send troops. Because Luo Yan's style of acting this year is basically the same as those generals. Some time ago, someone also said that if Luo Yan was here, I am afraid that he would have a headache even more, but he didn't expect that Luo Yan would not be impulsive this time.

After reading Luo Yan's recital, Fang Xuanling called a small official and asked him to go to the household department to retrieve the storage of money and grain in the treasury.

Because of the famine in Guanzhong, the household department has long counted the grain stocks in the major granaries every month, and at the same time inspected the government treasury. It was only an hour for the little official to go, so he brought a stack of books, the data in which could be detailed to the warehouses of various states. After Fang Xuanling put down the recital in his hand, after roughly flipping through the books, he copied some of the numbers, and then went to Li Shimin with Luo Yan's recital.

Although Luo Yan said it briefly, the reason has already been explained. The rest is the business of these opposition parties. In the past, I always talked about etiquette, but since I couldn't convince these people, I would like to talk about the foundation of Datang. (To be continued.) )