Zhao Zhiman led troops to surround Li Zhuang, and Li Xiao had no good impression of him. Such a person would have liked to have killed him, what does it have to do with him. Fortunately, everyone came to help that day, so that Li Zhuang did not suffer a catastrophe. Otherwise, if Li Zhuang is broken, his wife, children, sisters, relatives and friends will be slightly injured, and Li Xiao will be eager to eat Zhao Zhiman's meat.

But when Li Xiao heard the news at this time, he felt sad in his heart for some reason.

Zhao Zhiman's reputation is still very good, this person has the most prosperous martial arts, the standard Guanlong noble son, both civil and military, Yunwen Yunwu, entered the palace at a young age, and then led the troops.

In fact, when Li Xiao was reading history books in the past, he had great admiration for those aristocratic children in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the aristocratic children in the Sui and Tang dynasties were no better than the bureaucratic children in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

The Tang Empire was built on the basis of the Sui Dynasty, which in turn was inherited from the Northern Zhou Dynasty, which inherited the Western Wei Dynasty, and the Western Wei Dynasty was separated from the Northern Wei Dynasty.

The Guanlong aristocracy is also from Wuchuan Town, one of the six towns in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

In the early period of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the capital was in Pingcheng in the east of the Hedong, and in the later generations of Datong, Shanxi, which was close to the North Pole, and was always threatened by the southward movement of the Rouran people on the northern grassland.

In order to defend the capital, the Northern Wei Dynasty set up six towns in the north of Pingcheng.

The Northern Wei Dynasty attaches great importance to the six towns, the border towns have set up the town capital generals and subordinates, the generals of the six towns are all served by the Xianbei nobles, the garrison soldiers are also mainly Xianbei children, there are also the children of Qiangzong from the Central Plains, only Wuchuan Town, there are more than 800 town generals and officials.

The children of the nobles of the Six Towns have extremely high glory and generous treatment, and the children of the nobles compete to serve in the Six Towns and make meritorious contributions to the Rouran people.

Later, the Northern Wei Dynasty moved its capital to Luoyang, and the six towns were far away from the imperial court, and their status plummeted, so there was an uprising in the six towns. In the process of quelling the uprising of the Six Towns, Gao Huan and Yuwentai appeared, each leading a military group to rise, and finally split the Northern Wei Dynasty into the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasty, and ruled the bull's ears of the imperial courts.

The Eastern and Western Wei Dynasty was also established by two major military groups, and the military group of the Western Wei Dynasty was led by the generals of the Wuchuan Army.

It can be said that from the time of the six towns of the Northern Wei Dynasty to the current Tang Dynasty, no matter which dynasty, princes, princes, and children of nobles all joined the army.

Soldiers serve in the army, and the township is proud.

Those who wear medals and serve military uniforms are honored and favored in the court, and they are unremittingly respectful in the opposition.

As a government soldier, granting military land cultivation without taxes, and giving you a pension after death, the military is undoubtedly the most glorious profession in this era.

And as the soul of the government soldiers, it is the officers of the empire.

From the Western Wei Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the officers of the empire have always been mainly the children of the Guanlong nobles. The Western Wei Dynasty, the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Sui and Tang Dynasties were all established by the Guanlong military aristocracy, and their children were born officers.

These children of the Guanlong aristocracy, just like the Spartans in Western history, were born soldiers, no matter how noble their backgrounds were, they would never be pampered, they began to learn literature and martial arts at the age of eight or nine, and practiced flying and riding and archery.

These children of the nobility studied in the Guozijian when they were young, and at the age of sixteen or seventeen, they entered the inner palace as a guard, and in the process of serving the emperor as a guard, they actually systematically learned military knowledge. When they reached adulthood, they were transferred to various military offices for training.

In the wars with the external enemies of the empire, he was tempered and finally grew into an excellent imperial officer.

When they fight, they become the sword of the rivalry, and when they take off their military uniforms, they can become officials in charge of the local government and important ministers in the court.

The Sui Dynasty unified the world, and the powerful Turks fell under the sword of the Sui Dynasty, because the Sui Dynasty had the most powerful government soldiers, and this government army had the best Guanlong noble children as officers as the backbone.

The aristocracy of the Tang Dynasty has a fine tradition, and the aristocrats of the Tang Dynasty are basically military aristocrats.

At the moment of life and death, the noble officers charged forward, without hesitation, even if they ran out of ammunition and food, since the enemy's army besieged the city, they would never retreat and hold their positions.

That kind of passionate masculinity, that kind of fearless spirit that sees death as home, really created the Tang Empire to become the pinnacle of ancient Chinese history.

The martial style of the Tang Dynasty, the enterprising heart of the Tang Dynasty, and the expansion of the territory of the Tang Dynasty are no longer comparable to any dynasty.

And some of these are precisely because of the heart of the Tang Empire, the Guanlong aristocratic group. This is a martial group, a group full of honor, and a brave group.

It can even be said that when the Guanlong nobles of the Tang Empire were continuously weakened by the emperor's successive blows, the giant of the Tang Empire also continued to weaken. The Tang Empire, which had lost the Guanlong aristocracy, had actually broken its backbone, and although it was still brilliant, it was already going downhill.

Since the Empress Wu came to power, the Guanlong aristocracy has also completely declined, and the empire no longer has a strong force, from the Empress Wu, the Khitan has been defeated repeatedly, and the Tubo has been repeatedly defeated, the Silla people have taken away Goguryeo and Baekje annexed by the empire, and the Nanzhao people have also dominated the southwest, and the Tubo has repeatedly entered the Guanzhong.

By the time of Emperor Xuanzong, even the military system of the government had completely collapsed. Without the soldiers of the Guanlong nobles, they were the ones who broke their backbones, so there was the Anshi Rebellion and the beginning of the collapse of the empire.

Thinking about it carefully, if the Tang Dynasty did not continue to weaken and attack the Guanlong aristocratic group, would this empire still be able to move towards higher glory?

The eldest grandson Wuji and Chu Suiliang are the last spokespersons of the Guanlong group, they are both the founding heroes and the elders of the three dynasties, and Li Xiao does not believe that they conspired against each other, but in fact, this is just a power struggle in the upper echelons of the empire, or a line struggle.

The eldest grandson Wuji controlled the government and made the young emperor who was eager to take power as a thorn in his side, and finally the emperor used several other forces to encircle and suppress the Guanlong group, so the eldest grandson Wuji's Guanlong standard failed, and the Guanlong group also declined.

After the fall of the Guanlong Group, it was the elite scholars who supported the Tang Dynasty, but like the later Song and Ming dynasties, the scholars could not support a majestic empire.

At this moment, Li Xiao suddenly felt that although the eldest grandson Wuji was not a saint, some of his thoughts were right.

The Guanlong Group may be a group of people who are difficult to control for the Li Tang Dynasty, and it is a group of people full of threats, but the Guanlong Group is also the claws and fangs of the Tang Empire, if the Tang Empire itself abolishes its own minions, then how will it resist the vicious enemy in the future?

"Saburo, what are you thinking?" Wang Fangyi saw that Li Xiao had been stunned, and couldn't help but ask him.

"I want to play to save Zhao Zhiman, he doesn't deserve to die, although he is guilty, but he is an excellent general of the Tang Dynasty, a brave warrior, he can't and shouldn't be beheaded in Chang'an like this, even if he wants to die, he should die in the battle with the Turks, with the Tubo, with the Goguryeo, and with the Tuyuhun people, we can't kill a soldier of our own." Li Xiao said.

Wang Fangyi was surprised, and then nodded heavily, "San Lang is right, I also want to intercede for Zhao Zhiman." ”