"Your Majesty, the Western Turks are divided into the Southern and Northern Courts, which is very advantageous to my Tang Dynasty, and now the Desire Valley is powerful, and has always been not harmonious with my Tang Dynasty, although he was scared back thousands of miles when he attacked the Western Regions last time, but this person will not be willing to give up the Western Regions, and he will definitely be the trouble of my Tang Dynasty Western Frontier in the future. And Ashina Helu is weak, and only the name of Ye Hu, although he is the head of the Southern Court, but there is no name of Khan, I should support the canonization of the Khan and him, one can be appeased, and it can also let Ashina Helu contain the desire valley. Therefore, the ministers are in favor of canonizing Ashina Helu as Khan." The first prime minister Shangshu Zuo servant shot Fang Xuanling was the first to open his mouth to express his opinion, and the reasons were clear, and at first glance, he had already considered weighing too much.

"The words of the prime minister are always serious, and the minister also agrees." The eldest grandson Wuji spoke for the second time and expressed his approval, but it was just a sentence that Lao Cheng said solemnly that made Wei Zheng, Du Ruhui and others look sideways.

That's right, Fang Xuanling is indeed older, more than sixty years old, more than ten years older than your eldest grandson Wuji, who is in his forties, but you don't need to say so straight, if you agree with it, you can approve it.

There are so many ministers here, no one is much younger than the other, the youngest is also forty or fifty, no one is also an old and serious person, no one will be frivolous and unstable, right, you deliberately made this point, do you want to tell the emperor that Fang Xuanling is old, should he give way?

It's just a word of description, Fang Xuanling didn't say anything with an expressionless face, and the other ministers naturally didn't say anything, but they all secretly thought in their hearts that the eldest grandson Wuji was becoming more and more unwilling to be lonely now, and the queen mother was also older in the past two years, and she no longer suppressed this brother like before.

It seems that there will be some competition in the court in the future.

Several important ministers agreed, Li Shimin also thought so in his heart, everyone agreed, Li Shimin immediately ordered the left leading army general Master Zhang to hold the festival and establish Sha Bo Luo Ye Hu as the khan on the name of the festival, and give the drum and banner.

It's just that when Li Shimin asked Master Zhang to bring more gold and silver to the Western Turks to buy more good horses, Wei Zheng and Wei Mingjing stopped doing it again.

Because there is no shortage of horses in Datang now, the grasslands are all Datang's, what horses do you want, and the Western Regions also belong to Datang, Dawan good horses, sweat and blood BMW have sent back a lot of horses, okay, do you need to let the canonized envoys go to the Western Turks to buy horses?

said that he would buy a good horse, come back to mate, and improve the quality of Datang's horses, in fact, Wei Zheng knew very well that the emperor felt that Dawan horses, sweat and blood BMW sent too little.

It's a man who doesn't like good horses, generals like it more, and an emperor who immediately conquers the world likes it even more, not only likes it, but also has the ability to get his favorite horse.

The emperor in the Chang'an palace in the stable called out the name of the best horses there are more than ten, all of them are thousands of miles a day and a night travel of 800 horses, last year Xizhou sent 20 sweat and blood horses, and a little less than the big Wanliang horse.

In fact, the sweat and blood BMW is the Dawan horse, but it is one of them, and the best Dawan horse is the sweat and blood horse, but in addition to the sweat and blood horse, there are other varieties of Dawan horse.

In the past, the emperor might have been happy to get one or two good horses, but now that the Western Regions are all from the Tang Dynasty, the emperor is not satisfied with only getting Dawan horses, as if he can get horses from the Western Turks further west.

It is said that the horses there are taller and faster than Dawanliang horses, but their endurance is not as good.

But the emperor was not ready to march on horseback, he wanted the feeling of a short sprint at a gallop.

Therefore, Li Shimin remembered that he bought that kind of good horse from the Western Turks and came back, of course, the reason was to improve the Tang horse breed.

If you ask people to buy horses on weekdays, the ministers won't say anything, but if you ask the envoys to buy horses, the ministers don't think it's appropriate.

Wei Zheng advised: "The position of Ashina Helu Khan has not yet been canonized, and it has not been determined, but he went to buy horses first, Ashina Helu and his subordinates must think that His Majesty's interest is only to buy horses, and the Khan is just a false name." When the Khan is established, the kindness they feel must be shallow; If there were no Li Khan, their resentment would have been deep. When countries hear about this, they will also despise me Datang. Buying a horse may not be successful, and even if it does, it is not a good thing. If the Western Turks can be stabilized, then the Western Turks, and even better horses, will naturally be sent to the door without having to buy them. Therefore, I ask Your Majesty to think twice."

After Wei Zheng finished speaking, the other ministers all spoke in favor of the advice, and the emperor heard this reason, and after thinking about it, he canceled the order to buy a horse, but the emperor did not intend to give up buying a horse, but did not let the envoys help buy a horse, but privately sent someone to do it.

Just when Master Zhang, the general of the left leading army, rushed to the Western Turks with an envoy group on the Jingjie Festival, Wu Yuanqing, who the emperor and courtiers thought was still in peace between the Xiongjin River and the Han River, had already attacked the city all the way from Kaesong to Pyongyang.

After Yu Chi Baolin took Pyongyang, he did not burn the city, and many Goguryeo people who had fled had already returned to Pyongyang, and even more than 3,000 fleeing soldiers had returned to Pyongyang.

As a result, after Wu Yuanqing arrived in Pyongyang City, he effortlessly blew open the city gate with explosives, and directly rushed to kill, more than 3,000 escaped with their lives, and the rout that had just been rearranged was destroyed by the 15,000 Tang army blocking the city gate.

Then, after driving the people of Goguryeo out of the city, a fire burned the capital of Goguryeo to ashes.

Then, Wu Yuanqing led more than 10,000 officers and soldiers to join the fleet, and changed from the army back to the navy.

After more than 10,000 marines returned to the ship, the fleet sailed out of the muddy water, turned right and headed north along the coastline to the mouth of the Yalu River, where the first city was Bozhuo City.

Two days later, the Tang fleet sailed into the Yalu River, and at noon the troops approached Bozhuocheng, except for sending some ships to pick up Wei Chi Baolin's troops to cross the river, the remaining ships all opened full fire to bombard Bozhuocheng.

When Wei Chi Baolin's troops crossed the river, there was no longer a Goguryeo defender on the wall of the river facing the Bozhuo City.

The three-zhang high city wall has also been damaged a lot, and the key is that there is no one left, either killed by cannonballs, or frightened by the cannonballs that don't want money.

The skilled sailors sent a dozen soldiers to disembark and run under the empty city walls, burrow into the door holes and bury the explosives.

Rumble.

A city was broken.

Yu Chi Baolin, who had been holding back the fire for a long time, didn't bother to greet Wu Yuanqing, and with a roar, he took the lead in killing Bozhuo City.

On that day, the city of Bozhuo City was broken, and only less than 5,000 of the nearly 30,000 defenders escaped, and the rest were either killed or captured, and the people in the city had no chance to run elsewhere this time.

Because there are only a few cities left in the hands of Goguryeo.