Li Zhi can no longer shield Cao Huaishun.

After a brief discussion, Cao Huaishun was demoted from all official positions and exiled to Lingnan.

But it caused controversy among the people. It can't be said that once defeated, you will be defeated forever, Meng Mingshi in the upper Qin Dynasty, Liang Jishou and Xue Rengui now, have all failed, and the situation is different from Cao Huaishun. People's defeat is a mistake, not cowardice. This battlefield is a game of life and death, cowardly, what else to fight? The Emperor Taishang is not a mistake in employing people, but he is becoming more and more mediocre in employing people.

There was the defeat of Dafeichuan first, and then the defeat of Hengshui, what happened to the Tang Dynasty?

More than that!

Li Zhi's overall strength is not bad, although the foundation is declining at this time, there are still some foundations, handed over to Wu Zetian, the only foundation is ruined, not one defeat and two defeats, it is defeat after defeat.

Because of the psychological advantage over the Turkic Tang Dynasty, the defeat of Hengshui was very loud. Fortunately, at this time, the Zhengdang Canal was completed, and the news spread in time, which took the attention of the people.

Seeing Di Bao, Li Wei called Wei Hongji.

Appreciating his talent for civil engineering, Li Wei gave him a chance to make meritorious contributions, and re-appointed him as the envoy of the capital water superintendent, specializing in the management of the Dan water canal and the future implementation of water conservancy in the country. But when it comes to the most critical time, it doesn't take a hundred miles from Zhengdang Canal to Danshui Canal to open up.

It will be the most technical section. There are many mountains in the middle, the terrain is high, and there is no suitable water supply. Two medium-sized reservoirs will be built on the canal of less than 100 miles to store water, and then there will be a channel to lower the slope, and a number of primitive locks, steep gates, and even two stone hills that are not too high will have to be forcibly excavated, and the stone mountains will be blown out of a river channel. In addition, various embankments were built to prevent landslides from collapsing, and huge trees and rocks were used to forcibly build a dam on each limestone mountain to prevent landslides from collapsing.

It's not very long, even if all the canals are straightened, at most a little more than a hundred miles, but the difficulty will be more than that of the Sanmen Canal.

Not only has the Danshui Canal reached the most troublesome section, but the water conservancy exploration reports from all over the country have also been submitted in a steady stream. The Tang Dynasty has always attached great importance to water conservancy, and there are more than 300 historical records. The most was Li Longji, with a total of 58 cases, and then Li Zhi, with 45 cases. However, considering that Li Longji has been in power for nine years longer than Li Zhi, and the country is the best financial period, it also shows that the emperor who is most concerned about the "people's livelihood" is Li Zhi. It is the last Tang Xizong, the country is completely disorderly, and there is a water conservancy recorded in the annals of history in the past fifteen years.

However, there are disadvantages of the Grand Canal of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, and the water conservancy projects in the Tang Dynasty are not very large, and they are carried out on the financial resources of the state. Most of them were personally presided over by the assassins of various places, and they had little to do with the imperial court. However, the nature of this overhaul of water conservancy is different, and if the history of the local thorns is presided, it will inevitably be in a state of disorder, which will cause the river to be blocked and the ecology to lose balance. Especially in the south of the Yangtze River, the first river channel must be relinquished, otherwise the flood will become a serious disaster. In later generations, they will continue to fight floods and save dangers. Now there are in Jiangnan, but because of the lack of development, the situation is not serious, and there are almost no history books to spend energy on recording it. Once the whole thing is developed, it's a different story.

Second, some lakes must be left to store floodwater, and even all officials must have a clear understanding, for example, the river embankment must leave a gentle slope to reduce the impact of water pressure on the river embankment when the water level is high, even if the silt between the river channel and the lake can only be properly excavated. Keep trees in the upper reaches of the river from being cut down indiscriminately to reduce flash floods. Retain the presence of some reeds and wild mushrooms to keep the silt at the lake from draining. Regularly inspect termites on river embankments to prevent ant colonies from expanding and causing them to burst.

How to implement it, Li Wei knows some things, and some don't know. In short, some of the flood relief and various hidden dangers of the embankment that later generations saw were poured into Wei Hongji, and then Wei Hongji and some experts in the industry worked together to implement the details.

But there is one point, this cannot be implemented by one state and county, but all states and counties must cooperate with each other. The central court also had to come out to preside over the overall situation.

After finishing speaking, Li Wei rarely asked.

When it is critical, asking too many questions may make people think about it, and maybe they will have bad thoughts and hinder this matter.

But Zheng Dangqu is over and is about to enter the next link. The national overhaul of water conservancy was left in the future, but the Zhengdang Canal and the Danshui Canal were opened up and the construction was immediately continued. This is not in the downstream of Danshui, considering the huge water potential, even in summer, construction can be done. Only considering the cultivation time, the scale can not be too large, people who have spare time, come to be a people's husband, no, go home to farm, can not delay production. Grain, even if all kinds of changes continue, in reality, the entire Tang Dynasty is still vast and sparsely populated, but it is still the most important issue in the Tang Dynasty. But it is difficult, Li Wei wants to understand it.

Wei Hongji came in, and the two talked for a long time.

"Wei Qing, thank you for your hard work, Danshui Canal has to be done by me this time, don't make mistakes, the ...... It's the real ......."

"How much does it cost?" Wei Hongji was also full of excitement.

The Danshui Canal is about to be completed, and it has already attracted the attention of the whole country. However, the ultimate goal of the Danshui Canal is to transport materials to Chang'an and defend the capital. It's just that this time it was done beautifully, it didn't bring economic pressure to the imperial court, and it didn't work for the people, and it also brought many new things to benefit the people of the country. Therefore the people said that it was good government, and they rejoiced. But compared to the next project, the two canals are only a drizzle. Not only the cost, but also the extensiveness, which may involve one-third of the country, and can turn out millions or even nearly 10 million hectares of fertile land.

Even the most pessimistic idea can conjure up three to four million hectares of arable land. How many households were there in the entire Tang Dynasty, a family of 100 acres, that is, a hectare of land, just this move, can settle three or four hundred households without worrying about food and clothing. But the account can't be calculated like this, if it is calculated in this way, how much arable land does the entire Tang Dynasty have, it is tens of millions of hectares, and there is also one hectare of land for one person, but why is the land insufficient? There are thousands of hectares of cultivated land in their hands, and there are countless landlords of the Shu nationality. It can't be averaged.

But its significance is certainly far greater than the significance of the two canals. As long as these lands are distributed fairly, they will feed many people and increase many taxes for the imperial court.

"How much do I get, can I still have you know?"

"The minister hasn't calculated, he doesn't dare to calculate, and it will cost a lot of money."

"Don't worry, you sort out the plan first, write a detailed note, and submit it to the court. Well, to implement, it will take at least five to eight years. ”

"It's so late, and the minister is old at that time."

Li Wei was silent, no matter what, Wei Hongji was still a talent, but he didn't use him in the right place. But this year is also seven years, whether you can hold on to that time, it's really hard to say, even if you can hold on to that time, most of your body will not be able to.

Not only Wei Hongji, but also Pei Xingjian, Liu Renliang, Xue Rengui, and Li Jinxing, these civil and military generals, all of whom are high this year. Do you want to see if there are any talented middle-aged ministers? After thinking about it for a while, except for Di Renjie and a few others, he really didn't find out that anyone had special talents, including Wei Xuantong. I had to say, "Yes, therefore, you should also take care of your body and wait until that day." ”

……

Cao Huaishun went into exile, but there was another problem, not only Cao Huaishun, but also Li Wenjun. This time he didn't make a big mistake, but he also showed incompetence. In other words, the two generals personally ordered by Li Zhi have no talent. However, the armies of Youzhou and Hengzhou, as the side forces of this battle, must always be commanded by one person.

I don't know when the decisive battle will start at the front, but the candidate in the rear has not been decided for a long time.

Li Zhi still didn't ask Li Wei, in fact, he asked Li Wei, and Li Wei couldn't come up with any good candidates, hum, Cheng Wuting, Zhang Qianqiao barely made up. Zhang Qianmiao's qualifications were insufficient, and Cheng Wuting was reluctant to recommend him, so he pretended to be deaf and dumb again.

But on the other hand, Li Zhi couldn't help but let his son not come forward.

In February this year, when the southeast wind was rising, and the wind and waves on the sea were not very large, a large number of ships came from the east, with many Japanese soldiers, and landed on the Silla Peninsula.

A disgusting nation, a nation that is not at all human, and the two nations collide directly.

Kim Famin is a very accomplished king. In any case, it was not easy to snatch a large piece of land from the Tang Dynasty and force the Tang Dynasty to acquiesce in this matter, even because of the Tibetan Turks. However, after several battles, the life of the Silla people was very embarrassing.

His luck was also good, the Tibetans and the Turks used troops successively, and won a rare respite. In the past few years, he immediately took the opportunity to reconcile with the Tang Dynasty, sent a large number of envoys to plead guilty, and then governed the country. After a few years, Silla actually regained its vitality. Later, the history of the stick referred to him as the king of Wenwu, which means the meaning of being able to be able to be literate and martial. Kind of a character.

But Li Wei neglected one thing, Jin Famin is very powerful, but he is also old, he has worked too hard over the years, and even sometimes he personally goes into battle to kill the enemy, and his health is getting worse. His son, Kim Jung-myung, was only six years old. Hearing about the sudden invasion of the Japanese kingdom, there is no doubt that it will be a bolt from the blue.

It's too coincidental, isn't it?

Unlike later generations, the media spread quickly, and the Tang Dynasty did not hear the news until several months later when the Wa Kingdom invaded Silla. Like the difficulties in Silla's country, the Tang Dynasty had never heard of it at all. The crown prince was young, he himself was often sick, and Silla was in the most difficult moment, and the invasion of the Japanese kingdom was undoubtedly the greatest evil. Immediately picked up the illness and personally organized a rebellion.

This nation is also tenacious. Otherwise, it would be impossible to bargain from the Tang Dynasty, and the Japanese would have made a serious mistake. In this invasion, a lot of money was spent, and almost all the golden clothes on the Buddha were ripped off, melted down, and purchased weapons from the Tang Dynasty. Their invasion is not only an island mentality, wanting to build a springboard on the mainland, but also for money.

According to the agreement with the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, how you fight, we don't care about the Tang Dynasty, how much territory we occupy, how much territory we get. Not only this, but it doesn't matter if you loot wealth, and because of the decrease in the internal turmoil of the country, let you kidnap the people and come to Dengzhou to sell to the Tang people. The Tang Dynasty banned human trafficking, but it was repeatedly banned, and it was almost not controlled much later. But in addition to Tuyuhun, which is the tribe that has killed 100,000 people of Xue Rengui, it also has strategic significance and cannot be regarded as a normal policy. Whoever came to Silla did not treat these people as a tribution.

The Tang Dynasty migrated the Goryeo people, but the resettlement, not the tribe, was different in nature.

As soon as they went ashore, everything was done, and almost everything that could be looted was looted, including people, all of them were arrested, detained, and prepared to be taken to Dengzhou together and sold to the Tang Dynasty.

This policy of near-exterminating households angered the Silla people. The resistance was even more intense, and these people were all people who had been bathed in the flames of war between the Tang Dynasty army and the Yan Yan army, and they still maintained a fierce character. Several landing ports made the battle extremely tragic.

However, the Japanese received a large number of advanced weapons from the Tang Dynasty, fought for a long time, and gradually gained the upper hand. Kim Famin couldn't see it, his body was good and bad, once he fell, his son was young, the country itself could be in turmoil, and coupled with the invasion of the Japanese people, Silla was in danger. Sent an envoy, boarded a small boat, and went ashore in Dengzhou. Then rushed to Luoyang non-stop.

Li Zhi said that I don't care about this matter, and it's not easy to manage, this kind of practice is simply not in line with the original meaning of Confucianism, and there will be a lot of controversy when it is transmitted, and then he said, you go and talk to my son, he is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

This messenger named Jin Faben found Li Wei again.

When Li Wei heard what he said, he said, "Your Silla is a friend of our Tang Dynasty, and the Wa Kingdom is also a friend of our Tang Dynasty. The palm of the hand is meat, the back of the hand is meat, what do you let us do in the Tang Dynasty? It is better to send an envoy to the Japanese country on a later day to mediate and mediate for the two of you. ”

Conciliation? This is clearly a prevarication, Jin Faben said: "But Your Majesty, this time the Japanese invaded our Silla, not only the ships were Datang ships, but even the weapons were Datang weapons. Including that kind of fire medicine. ”

"I also heard that it has nothing to do with our imperial court, and the envoys of the Japanese Kingdom have long wanted to join forces with our Tang Dynasty to attack your Silla, in order to avenge your Silla for killing their envoys. We didn't say yes. But he found the merchant Liang Jinzhu again, I don't know what means he used, and made some agreements, just because our Tang Dynasty was short of coins, so he got some gold and silver from overseas countries and minted silver treasures. Therefore, the Japanese people used their country's silver and gold production to buy a large number of ships and weapons through Liang Jinzhu. As for weapons, our court does not disclose them to the public, but these merchants pursue profits, and their means are superb, not only weapons, such as annexing fields, buying slaves, and lending usury, but there is no way, the law does not offend the public, so he has to do it. ”

"We in Silla do not produce gold or silver......

What the hell do you care? There is no gold or silver, but in the past few years, you Silla have been recuperating and recovering. It seems that there are still iron resources, and besides, it is okay to mortgage your Silla ginseng.

It's hard to say, doing business in person is the truth of diplomacy.

So he said, "I don't know much about the affairs of Silla, so you can ask Yoo In-gang Gonggong, who has been in your Silla for a long time and is fighting against the Baekje and Goryeo people, maybe he has good advice." ”

Jin Faben had no choice but to visit Liu Renliang again.

"Liu Xianggong, you fought together with our Silla people back then and had a deep friendship, please save us Silla."

Liu Renliang thought to himself, what kind of friendship is there? If I had known that you Silla people were so greedy and shameless, I would have yin against you Silla a long time ago, and why would I have retreated from the Han River to the Taedong River today. didn't say anything, spread his hands and said: "Jin Faben, you have also seen that the Tibetans and the Turks have repeatedly used troops, and our Tang Dynasty has the strength to divide troops to take care of the affairs of your Silla people?" ”

"No, the minister came ashore from Dengzhou and saw that your Tang Dynasty had a maritime army."

"Oh, that, don't take it seriously, because there are many Tang Dynasty seafarers on the sea, and they often encounter some pirates overseas and oppression by some natives of the South China Sea, so the imperial court ordered to form an army at sea in order to protect the lives of seafarers. It has just taken shape, and it has no combat effectiveness at all. You have to train for at least three to five years before you can really fight in the sea. Even if the training is formed, it is a big war between your two countries, and our Tang Dynasty only sends three or four thousand people over, what role can it play? The two gentlemen and ministers passed the blame away.

Jin Faben had no choice but to lie down and cry loudly, the domestic situation is very dangerous, the king is old, the crown prince is young, even if there is no invasion of the Japanese people, it will not be peaceful in the past few years, but these situations dare not say, crying for a long time, Liu Renliang helped him up and said: "Alas, forget it, I will show you a clear way." ”

"What's the way?"

"There are some things that our court is not very easy to manage, but I have heard a lot of news, did the Japanese arrest many of your people this time?"

"Yes, they're cruel."

"The Wa Kingdom is also a small country, not much larger than you Silla people, and it has not been tested by many wars, so to be honest, its combat effectiveness is not as good as that of you Silla people. This time, in order to invade your Silla, they purchased a large number of ships and weapons, and they were beyond the scope of their tolerance. However, people have a way, and it just so happens that our court has mercy on the people and redeems a large number of parts. As you know, some of our big families in Datang have hundreds of hectares of arable land in their hands. Without the tribe, how they farmed, and it was difficult for them to resist openly, so they colluded with the Japanese people and asked them to take the people of your country captive and use them as tribes. ”

"Liu Xianggong, you must stop it." I see, but when I heard it, I was even more anxious.

"How do I stop it? Not only me, but even His Majesty can't stop it, this is the interest of all big families, if they are provoked together, what will be the consequences of the Tang Dynasty. However, if the Wa Kingdom can do this, why can't you Silla people do this, it is just a sea apart, and if it goes well, you can land in the Wa Kingdom in one day. Their country is a country of the sea, there are few wars, once they land, what kind of impact will there be? You Silla people have resisted our Tang Dynasty army, and I heard the scouts say, your historians recorded in the history books that you defeated our Tang Dynasty General Xue Rengui, why are you afraid of a Japanese state? ”

"This ......" Jin Faben was stunned, is this still what a prime minister in that ceremonial state said? But he has forgotten how his country has broken its promises and how it has tampered with history. Liu Renliang's statement may be shameless, but they are even more shameless.

"That's right, it's really not good, I ask His Majesty the Emperor to support some of your Silla ships first, and even I ask someone to contact that merchant, what's it called?"

"Liang Jinzhu."

"Yes, it's Liang Jinzhu, you can talk to him, you can only do this, I can't do anything else."

The Silla envoy flickered away.

The next day, he asked the imperial court to send him to Yangzhou to find Liang Jinzhu.

Some important ministers who knew the inside story heard it, and they didn't feel good in their hearts.

But at this time, the long-lost mandate of the imperial court was finally issued.

The deputy commander of the front line was reappointed, Li Wenjian was removed from the post of deputy commander, and Liu Jingtong was appointed as the deputy commander, leading the Tang army in Hengzhou, and in fact, even the soldiers of Youzhou, because Li Wenhui removed the post of deputy commander, separated from Pei Xingjian's main army in Taihang Mountain, and also belonged to Liu Jingtong Yao.

When Cao Huaishun set out on the expedition, Liu Jingtong was the only general who stopped him, and when he retreated, he performed well. In short, there was a lack of generals, so I had to let Mi Hua be a pioneer.

Then let Cheng Wuting take on another position of deputy general manager.

Compared with Liu Jingtong, Cheng Wuting is more qualified to accept this appointment.

However, after Li Wei heard this edict, he couldn't help frowning, and faintly felt that something bad had happened. However, after thinking about it again, he doesn't know what's wrong, what he wants to do, it also depends on who he is, even if he has the ability, does he dare to make it bad in Pei Xingjian's hands?

Wu Zetian's long-term plan finally reached the point of poverty.

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