The war with the Arabs, the Western Turks ended. In this battle, the Tang army suffered more than 30,000 casualties, almost more than half of which were killed or wounded. Moreover, this war was the only time in these years that the Tang Dynasty did not achieve victory in foreign wars, and the losses were the most painful!

When the war report was transmitted back to Chang'an, there was an uproar, and many people even wanted to punish Li Tao for his crimes, thinking that he had improperly commanded and caused such a tragic defeat.

Fortunately, Li Shimin was not an unreasonable gentleman, and he knew that a large part of the reason for the failure of the western expedition was due to bad weather and the fact that firearms did not work. If you can fight more with 60,000 men and horses, you can fight the enemy with 140,000 people, and you can also fight more than 40,000 enemies with fewer strikes, which is a very remarkable record! Heroes deserve to be respected! It should not be denigrated.

If those ministers who can only fight in the court are allowed to experience such a war, I am afraid that they will be directly scared!

Although the western expedition suffered heavy losses, the results achieved were also very obvious. The Arab and Western Turks were greatly damaged, and realizing the terrifying combat effectiveness of the Tang army, they no longer dared to attack the Tang border unscrupulously, and the looting incidents on the Silk Road were greatly reduced.

The deaths and injuries of more than 40,000 horses were enough for the Arabs and the Western Turks to break their bones. What's more, to the west, some small countries in Europe that were oppressed by them, as well as the Roman Empire, took advantage of the situation and started a counterattack war, regaining the land they had occupied.

For this reason, the coalition forces of the two countries are very busy, and they have to worry about guarding against the Tang Dynasty in the east and pacifying the small countries in the west, which is a bit of a feeling that they are not human inside and out.

Of course, this is a very good news for Datang, they usually only need to exclude the soldiers of the Anxi Protectorate from patrolling and practicing on the border and the Silk Road, which can make the two neighboring countries nervous, for fear that when Datang will come up with a large army of tens of thousands of people to attack them.

After the war, the Three Kingdoms entered a rare period of calm, not because Li Shimin did not want to attack the two troublesome neighbors, but because the distance was too far, and the cost of the expedition was too high, and the effect of firearms such as thunderbolts on horseback was indeed limited, and the enemy had discovered his own weaknesses and made a targeted battle plan.

Li Shimin is not an impulsive faint monarch, he will not be like Emperor Yang of Sui in the previous dynasty, who will launch a second battle without reason if he can't fight once, which will only make the country that is now finally strong collapse quickly. Therefore, he needs to endure!

War is by no means just about the level of a moment, but about the victory or defeat of life and death! Patience now is just for a better attack in the future!

Li Shimin was a good emperor and an ambitious emperor at the same time. He saw that Datang was moving towards a peak that he couldn't imagine, and he couldn't ruin the prosperity of Datang because of his momentary anger.

What's more, isn't it just to take revenge in the future?

When he saw that Li Shimin temporarily put aside the war on the border and concentrated on domestic affairs, Chen Fei breathed a long sigh of relief. He was also really worried that Li Shimin would be angry and desperate to mobilize troops to attack Arabia.

It is not yet possible to speculate whether the war will be won or lost, but if the winner of such a large-scale war cannot be determined in a short period of time, the country will definitely be dragged down.

You must know that the Arab Empire and the Western Turks are very far away from the border, and the Anxi Protectorate is already a barren place of grain and grass, and it is impossible to supply the army with grain and grass for marching along the way or provide emergency grain and grass transportation.

So if nothing else, the grain and grass alone is not a small amount, and a long time is enough to empty the entire treasury. If there are any more natural and man-made disasters...... I can't imagine it.

Fortunately, although Li Shimin was angry, he was not carried away by anger and made the most correct choice.

Chen Fei believed that as long as the country could continue to develop according to the current trend, within five years, the empire in the west would inevitably be unable to resist the pace of the Tang Dynasty's westward expedition.

However, these are all later stories, and what we need to do now is to develop the internal affairs of Datang.

Happily, in the autumn, the hybrid rice that has been cultivated for four generations has achieved breakthrough results. The yield has increased by 30% compared to the previous one, and it is more drought tolerant!

Don't underestimate the number of 30 percent, if the original 100 acres of rice were enough to feed 30 people for a year, then now it can feed 39 people, which is a miracle for now!

Li Shimin attached great importance to Chen Fei's achievements in agriculture, personally inspected their experimental fields, and hoped to promote this kind of rice throughout the country.

However, at present, this batch of rice has only been cultivated for one generation, and it is not possible to conclude how its seedlings are raised, and at least three generations of stable cultivation can be promoted nationwide, otherwise any mistakes may cause huge losses to Datang's agriculture.

Although it was not possible to promote planting throughout the country, Li Shimin was more optimistic about Chen Fei's agricultural project, and took the opportunity to promote him to an official and be appointed to be a squire in Shangshu Province.

Tsk, there are still waiters in Shangshu Province, which is simply a precedent after the founding of the country. The ministers in the court were jealous and envious, but they could only be envious and jealous, because everything Chen Fei did was of great significance to Datang, and he was more powerful than them, who could only talk about it. Moreover, he is very popular in the court, has close personal relations with many countries, and is the son-in-law of His Majesty, even if these ministers want to wear small shoes for him, they have to weigh their own weight.

In this way, Zhenguan twenty years passed in joy and sorrow, and at the end of the year, Yan Yinger gave birth to a son for Yin Ping, named "Zhiwu", because both of them are people who practice martial arts, and in the words of Master Yin Ping, this son has excellent roots and bones, and is a wizard who practices martial arts, so he is named after martial arts.

At the beginning of the following year, Yan Yun'er also gave birth to a big fat boy for Chen Fei, Chen Fei had a tacit understanding to name his son "Wen", echoing the cultural relics of the Yin Ping family.

The reason why he didn't name it "Zhiwen" was purely because Chen Fei felt that the child's name Chen Zhiwen was not good, and it was better to have a single name and a text......

Li Shimin learned of the birth of Chen Fei's second son, and specially ordered him to be named Wensan Xuanyilang, and he was ranked under the seventh rank in terms of official position.

Many people can't get an official and a half-job all their lives, but Chen Fei's child is already a seven-rank official as soon as he is born, which is really enviable.

And Chen Fei's eldest son was named the general of the wandering cavalry, he is a military officer, and his brother is one scholar and one martial artist, maybe it will become a good story in the court in the future!

(End of chapter)