Chapter 309: Snow in the Sky

February is coming, and spring is warm.

There are several peach trees in the East Palace, and the branches have already bloomed with delicate flowers. Standing under a peach tree, Li Lu shouted in a muffled voice: "yes, yes." ”

Li Lingyue pinched his little face and said, "Big brother, he will call you." ”

Li Lu looked at this little aunt with her little black eyes, she was not afraid, she smiled, Li Lingyue said, "Big brother, let me hug me." ”

took Li Lu from Li Wei's hand, and said, "Big brother, second brother is making a lot of trouble. ”

After the beginning of spring, Li Wei did not go to Danshui, he was not afraid of 10,000, he was afraid of what happened, his father was sick and sometimes bad, and his head was becoming less and less in charge. Really ...... Thinking that he might be in an unfavorable environment, he may be in a polemic with the god of war who is now active on the stage and absolutely squeezes into the top three......

So I studied very seriously.

But after the dispute between the two kings was handed down with the father's verdict, it was quiet for a while, and it began to be noisy again. Leading the troops to fight, it is estimated that none of the Wenchen and the children of the clan are opponents of Qinling, and it is not easy to play political conspiracy. immediately find the flaw and make a fuss about the huge identity gap between Liang Jinzhu and Li Ming.

"He's young, and he's been bewitched."

"He's been an adult for a long time."

"In my heart, you will always be children, and it makes sense to make a little mistake, and after a few years, he will understand."

"Big brother, you are so good," Li Lingyue is a year older and knows a lot of things, so she can feel Li Wei's love for her. Moved to hold Li Wei's hand.

Suddenly, Wan'er's voice came from afar: "The swallow is back." ”

Following Shangguan Wan'er's shout, more than a dozen swallows circled and flew among the yellow and half-uniform green willows in the distance, like a dozen black elves dancing beautifully, and immediately rushed out of the green trees, flew over everyone's heads, and flew under the eaves of various palaces.

Li Shoucheng said excitedly: "Let's see if it's last year's swallow." ”

The little eunuch replied, "It's far away, you can't see it really, and the slave and maid can't recognize it."

The return of the swallow means that it has brought life to the East Palace, and it also means that Li Wei has come to the Tang Dynasty for another year. I didn't let down my guard, and I didn't know the specific history, but I was safe for another year, and the trend of history was changing, and tragedy might not happen......

……

Li Zhi was impatient, and in a fit of anger, he issued another edict, with Ziheng as the ambassador of Henan Province, Xue Yuanchao as the ambassador of Hebei Province, and Cui Zhiyi of Shangshu Zuocheng and Zheng Zuxuan of Guozi Siye as ambassadors of Jiangnan Province, and they parted ways. This ambassador is the ambassador of the various provinces, and he has more real power than Di Renjie's envoy.

He also issued an edict to let Hao Chujun be the third product under the Tongzhong Shumen, and there was a Si Gong Cizhou assassin Li Shangjin guilty, Li Shangjin was dismissed, and Li Zhou was resettled. Li Zhou is the Li County of Hunan, which is no less than exile. At this moment, the court immediately fell silent.

Li Wei was also surprised when he heard it, and quietly asked Pei Xingjian: "Pei Shilang, why is the third brother?" ”

"Your Highness, think again."

After thinking about it for a while, Li Wei finally understood.

"So it doesn't have to be all for nothing to happen."

Li Wei didn't take it seriously, maybe there were benefits, but no matter how many benefits there were, he didn't want to argue with Lun Qinling.

Xue Mansion, Xue Yuanchao was packing his luggage and preparing to leave.

Being an ambassador of all walks of life is not necessarily a demotion. If you do it well, you can add a political merit to your resume. But how to look at it, if it is a normal governor, it will have no impact on his career, but this time the officials are patrolling each province, which is quite evocative. When the governor of Hebei comes back, can he continue to serve as the third product of Zhongshumen? I'm afraid it's hard.

"Ah Lang, let's go, the carriage outside is ready."

"Let's go," Xue Yuanchao said with a sigh.

Just as he was about to leave, the porter ran in from the outside and reported: "Li Shoucheng, the chamberlain in the inner palace, asked to see the prime minister." ”

Xue Yuanchao hesitated for a moment and said, "Let him come in, no, I'll greet him personally." ”

welcomed Li Shoucheng in, hurriedly made tea, and said, "What is the matter with Li Neicheng?" ”

"The queen of heaven asked our family to bring a message to Xue Xianggong, you forgot your roots."

Forget your roots? Xue Yuanchao was stunned for a moment, reacted immediately, and then broke out in a cold sweat, not because of his own negligence, but because he thought of the praying mantis catching cicadas, and the yellow finch was in the back.

"In addition, the queen of heaven asked our family to bring you a gift." Li Zhicheng said, untying the yellow satin on the outside of the burden on the table, and inside was a gold lady picture plate and dragon vermilion lacquer box. The box is a bit big, this is not a jewelry box, but a box for documents or other uses, the workmanship is very exquisite, the body of the box is carved with a variety of ladies' pictures, depicted with gold color, the top of the box is oval, and the top of the middle is a frisbee with a dragon made of gold.

Li Shoucheng said again: "The Queen of Heaven said that there are three pieces in this box, but Xue Xianggong can only choose one. ”

Xue Yuanchao glanced at the box again, and then noticed that there were two thin seams in the middle of the box. The workmanship is exquisite, and if you don't look closely, you can't see this gap. The queen's meaning is very simple, but she is a prime minister after all, at least for now......

There was silence for a long time, and he did not move.

Li Shoucheng snorted coldly and said, "Seeing that Xue Xianggong needs this." ”

After speaking, he divided the box into three sections, pushed the end of the box to Xue Yuanchao, and was about to stand up and leave.

"Don't," Xue Yuanchao pulled his sleeve on, and then said weakly, "I chose the box head." ”

Li Shoucheng showed a smile on his face and said: "Congratulations to Xue Xianggong for making a wise choice, go to the post with peace of mind, Xue Xianggong is still indispensable for the position of prime minister of the DPRK and China after he returns." ”

"Thank you," sent Lee Shoucheng out, and then leaned softly against the wall. There is a pear tree behind the wall, this year the weather is warm, the flowers bloom early, and when the wind blows, the pear blossoms fall one by one, like crystal clear snow...... When it fell to the ground, the wind whipped up the dust on the dry ground, and in just a moment, the noble pear petals were dirty and unsightly.

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A huge convoy appeared from the distant horizon, and Liu Renliang and Li Jinxing greeted them with their guards.

Since the spring, the Qinling army has been sent to Koubian several times, and the consumption of materials and weapons is very large. The Qinling did not ask for any benefit, and attacked the city twice, so that the gunpowder blew up. But as Li Wei said in the East Palace, the Tibetans were cavalry, and the lethality of gunpowder was limited.

The only advantage is that Qinling does not dare to attack the city.

Before coming to the convoy, the general who escorted the materials handed over the list of materials and a letter from Li Jingxuan to Liu Renliang, who took it and scolded him.

After coming to Qinghai for a long time, large-scale battles were not fought, and many small-scale vicious battles were fought. After coming to Shanzhou, he found that the officers and men lacked confidence in fighting, their military discipline was lax, and their combat experience was scarce, so they had to immediately reorganize and train the army. This kind of small-scale battle, regardless of victory or defeat, does not hurt, but it gives the soldiers experience in actual combat.

The advent of gunpowder and trebuchets has made him even more powerful. But it could only be used to defend the city, and gunpowder was expensive, so it was impossible to use it with it. Therefore, it is still dominated by cold weapons. Also, there are few horses. There were 600 horses in the Heyuan army, 100 horses in the Jishi army, and 200 horses in the Momen army. Either it is the Chishui Army under the command of Qi Biming, most of them are cavalry, but the Chishui Army is located in Liangzhou, and it has no direct jurisdiction over it, unless it is a big war, it is not easy to mobilize in peacetime. Either Li Jinxing arrived in Kuozhou and brought some of the Yan army with hundreds of war horses.

The number of officers and men of the three armies in Heyuan reached nearly 20,000, which was quite a lot, but most of them were infantry troops, and there was no way to deal with the tactics of running away as soon as they hit Qinling. Liu Renliang himself also wanted to train a group of powerful cavalry with ambition, but these horses were not even enough to train the army. On the fact that Qinling did not start a war, he reluctantly did it, and after the war, he had to send a cavalry to intercept it. After several battles, some horses were consumed. So Shangjuan asked the imperial court to send another batch of war horses over. was rejected by Li Jingxuan, saying that he was just defending, and if he allocated a large number of war horses, the expenses would increase. Moreover, the loss of the four towns and Tuyuhun caused a serious shortage of war horses in the imperial court. It is also true that a horse may not be expensive, but the cost of raising a war horse is very high. Unless the Tibetan people do not enter the Kou, they are scattered on the grassland of the river. In addition, the equipment of the cavalry far exceeded the cost of the equipment of the infantry army.

But the number of war horses is too small! Liu Renliang knew that this was Li Jingxuan's stumbling block, and he changed another method, the three major cities of the imperial court, Youzhou and Fengzhou, and one was located in Shanzhou. To be precise, it was located on the plain between Shancheng and Kuozhou, and in order to prevent the Tubo people from mixing in, a city was built and heavily guarded. In fact, after the establishment of Fan City, it helped both the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, and the Qin Tomb invaded many times, and Fan City did not move. Liu Renliang came up with another way to let the imperial court transport a batch of porcelain, tea and cloth, and then sent people to the city of Fan to exchange horses with the Tuyuhun people, and the thin horses were transported back to the Central Plains as ploughing horses, and the good horses were left as war horses.

In this way, you can not only get a large number of war horses, but also save a lot of money. Li Jingxuan laughed in the letter and said with a sneer, you are the prime minister of the imperial court, and you also want to learn from businessman?

One sentence blocked Liu Renliang's mouth.

At this time, I didn't understand the difficulty of the prince in order to raise money.

The amount of gunpowder supplied was also insufficient, as were the number of arrows, armor, and weapons.

Li Jinxing took the letter from his hand, and after looking at it, he also frowned. comforted: "Chief Manager Liu, the last general heard that the imperial court has abolished the establishment of the Xiongjin Governor's Mansion, and he will launch a large army against Tubo in about a short time. Let's hold on a little longer. ”

Silla had a difficult birth, became a chicken wedge, tasteless food, it was a pity to abandon it, without the support of the army, the garrison of Silla and Baekje rebels under the joint attack, the scale of the battle was not large, but the battle was lost one after another. A two-front battle was unlikely, so the imperial court simply canceled the Xiongjin Governor's Office, that is, vacated the enclave of Baekje and gave it to Silla, and the army withdrew to the north of Hunsu (Taedong River). It should be said that this was a disgrace for the powerful Tang Dynasty, since the Han Dynasty, China's territory was in the area of Daling and the Han River alone, and Silla was tantamount to relying on shamelessness and tenacity, and deprived a large territory from the Tang Dynasty.

This decree also meant that the Tang Dynasty decided to withdraw from the battlefield of Silla and devote itself to dealing with Tibet.

But Liu Renliang was even more worried.

On Qinling's abnormal behavior, the specific thoughts cannot be seen, but it can be seen that Qinling is forcing the Tang Dynasty to fight a decisive battle with him, and he is prepared for battle. However, the court was full of confidence and did not realize the strength of the Tibetans. Liu Renliang, who held a lot of power, stumbled in the rear, which made him feel that the future was gray.

After all, he is old, and his reputation of winning a hundred battles is ruined, and it is possible that he will be exiled like Xue Rengui, thinking of this, all his ambitions are gone.

As a result, Liu Renliang suddenly fell seriously ill in Shanzhou......

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