Sure enough, at the end of October, Li Shimin began to ask for food from the head of the household. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Then the head of the household department Shangshu turned his head and asked Wu Yuanqing for food.

The grain transferred from Jiangnan and Shandong has arrived, and after filling the two large granaries around that have been exhausted, another batch will be sent to local governments.

The remaining grain is no longer enough to reach the amount that the emperor wants, and it is tens of thousands of stones.

Originally, Si Nongqing told Wu Yuanqing that he didn't need to take care of filling the granary first, but to meet the emperor's needs first, but Wu Yuanqing didn't listen, but stubbornly filled the granary first.

In his words, there is food at home, and there is no panic in his heart.

With so many people in Chang'an City and its surroundings, if those two granaries were always empty, everyone would not be able to sleep well.

As for the tens of thousands of stones that the emperor wanted for food that was still in short supply, Wu Yuanqing was not worried at all, not to mention that the imperial court used grain to purchase the countless dried locusts and locust powder, and his martial arts family still had tens of thousands of stones of dried locusts piled up in the warehouse.

How can I make up the amount that the emperor wants?

And the reason why Wu Yuanqing dared to use locusts as food for the emperor was that locusts could be eaten, or high-protein good things, and the emperor had eaten them. The second is because he knows what the emperor wants this batch of grain for.

In April of this year, the Turkic Turki Khan clashed with the Jieli Khan, and the Jieli Khan attacked the Turki Khan, and the Turki Khan sent an envoy to Tang to ask for assistance.

Although Li Shimin did not make a move against Jieli, he allowed the Tuli Khan to join the Tang Dynasty.

The key is that because of this matter, Li Shimin moved his mind to do something to Jieli Khan. In his opinion, the Shuofang mastered by Liang Shidu has been taken, and now Tuli has rebelled and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and the strength of Jieli Khan has suffered huge losses.

That's why Li Shimin asked Wu Yuanqing to raise grain and grass, which was to prepare for the attack on the Turks in advance.

However, Wu Yuanqing also knew that although the emperor had to prepare food now, this year's battle would definitely not be fought, and the war with Jieli Khan would not start until the end of next year.

And this is also a very important reason why Wu Yuanqing felt that the emperor was scaring him by asking him to raise food and saying that he was not raising enough money to make him look good.

The reason why we want food now is that we are preparing in advance, and second, we must also mention that we should go to the border passes to deploy additional troops for defense and training, and we can't just say that we will fight at the end of the day; at this time, it is not like later generations, when we say where to send troops, planes, cars, trains, and warships will arrive.

Time, it takes a lot of time.

At the end of the year, another good news came, many of the tribes attached to the Eastern Turks defected from Jieli Khan and changed to Xue Yantuo, which once again caused a great loss of strength to Jieli Khan.

Li Shimin's mouth was happy, and he heard that these rebellious tribes jointly elected Xue Yantuo and Jin Yinan as the khan, and Yi Nan did not dare to be the khan, Li Shimin directly sent the guerrilla general Qiao Shiwang from the small road to bring a book to worship Yi Nan as the true pearl Viga Khan, and gave him a drum.

Yi Nan was very happy, sent envoys to pay tribute, set up a tooth tent at the foot of the Yu Du Army, and occupied the vast area of the east to the Jin, the west to the West Turks, the south to the desert, and the north to the Kulun River.

Zhenguan two years of the Yuan New Year, the life is ordinary, who made this year is full of disasters, few have a good mood for the New Year, and the subsequent Shangyuan Festival is also the Lantern Festival, the emperor did not do anything to feast the ministers on the Suzaku Gate, and enjoy the people together.

And just before the end of the first month, a major event occurred that shook the government and the opposition.

Shangshu's left servant shot, and Sikong Pei Lin was dismissed.

And he was dismissed because he was implicated by a monk named Falla who bewitched the public.

Originally, the prime minister's dismissal was not a big deal, not to mention that Xiao Yu had been dismissed several times, right. It didn't make the courtiers feel so strange, didn't it.

But because of a monk who was implicated, this Nima is a little too informative.

It is said that Pei Lin once heard this monk say some evil words to confuse the public, but he didn't take it to heart and didn't report it to the emperor, so the emperor wanted to dismiss him.

But what can a monk say, it is so serious that he wants to dismiss an old minister of the two dynasties and the head of the hundred officials of the two dynasties, and the prime minister is the first person without saying a word.

In fact, many ministers have a clear mirror in their hearts, and it is precisely because they understand that they will be shaken.

The emperor is taking the opportunity to clean up the court, why is it Pei Lian, this is precisely because he is an old minister of the two dynasties, and he is the most important hardcore confidant of the emperor Li Yuan, and the status of the warrior in Li Yuan's heart is even surpassed.

Such a minister who the former emperor relied on the most has always occupied the position of the head of the hundred officials, and his henchmen have to stand behind, which makes Li Shimin, the emperor who is not right, feel at ease.

Not to mention that Pei Lin also coveted and killed Liu Wenjing, a henchman whom Li Shimin valued very much.

If it weren't for Wu Yuanqing's sudden rise, Wu Shiyi would have almost been taken away from messing around, let alone the more important Pei Lian.

Li Shimin didn't know how long he had been thinking about this matter in his heart, and now that such a thing finally came out, it was strange that he didn't catch it.

The emperor dismissed Pei Lin from his official position, cut off half of his food, and let him return to his hometown.

Pei Lin was reluctant in his heart, not to mention that his hometown was not as good as Chang'an, which he was used to, the key Pei Lin also thought that if he stayed in Chang'an, maybe the emperor would be able to recover after his anger was gone, but once he left Chang'an and returned to his hometown, the emperor could still remember who Pei Lin was.

So Pei Lin begged the emperor to stay in Chang'an for retirement, but Li Shimin had long seen him unpleasantly, how could he be allowed to stay under his nose and be an eyesore.

Li Shimin even reprimanded Pei Lin sharply and said: "Your merits and talents are not enough to have your current status, only because of the emperor's favor to you, you are ranked first." During the Wude period, there were many mistakes and fallacies in politics and law, and the local officials were disorderly in their governance, and you should also be responsible for this! I think of the old feelings, I don't punish you with death, let you return to your hometown, what are you not satisfied with? ”

Much of what is said in this statement is true, and there is nothing wrong with it.

But in the second year of Zhenguan, that is, last year, Li Shimin went to the southern suburbs to worship and ordered Pei Lin and his eldest grandson Wuji to ride the royal chariot together. Pei Lin excused himself, and Li Shimin also said: "You have the honor of life, and Wuji also works for me, who else can ride in the same car with me, except for the two of you?" "I insisted on letting Pei Lin go back with him in the same car.

Comparing these two compartments, Li Shimin has a bit of a slap in the face, and the fight is still crackling.

The emperor is embarrassed to such an extent, what else can Pei Lin do, he has to withdraw from the power center and return to his hometown in Puzhou.

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