Chapter 127: Dusk in the Eastern Capital (6)

Di Renjie received the order halfway through...... I want to cry

He is not Liu Renliang, he is indeed old, and he also has the qualifications to put on the score, and after receiving the letter of conferral of the prime minister, he left Weizhou without any surprise. But he walked so slowly, almost one step at a time, so steady that he only walked a dozen miles in a few days. But Weizhou is so far from Luoyang, even to learn turtles, it won't take long to arrive. However, he received this letter again, and the eunuch who wrote the letter and the officials who spoke to him at the same time congratulated him one by one.

Di Renjie was just in a daze.

Why can I move to the three products of the Ministry of Servants and Tongfeng Shumen?

It's not a minister, it's a knife to my neck.

But he had one thing in mind. Li Zhi's series of actions in his later years seem to be reflecting. Otherwise, he would not have been in a hurry to let Pei Xingjian be the prime minister first, and then asked Liu Ren to return to Luoyang, and then let himself be the prime minister. But here comes another thing.

Before Li Zhi died, he wrote three letters. The first book is to make himself a servant of the Ministry and the three products of the middle book, which makes Di Renjie speechless. If you die, you will die, why bother thinking about me. He is not in a hurry, Li Wei comes back, he will be reused sooner or later, how can it be that the three products under the Zhongshu Sect, that is, the Zhongshu Order and the servants, the left and right servants, it is also possible to get it.

The second edict is to let the emperor come back, and he is also willing. The third book is that the people have complained, and the previous ones let Pei Yan, Liu Renliang and Xue Yuanchao handle government affairs, which is understandable, the emperor has not returned, and the state power has to be transitioned. But why did the Queen Mother execute military affairs later?

The emperor is not a child, and he is not the kind of mediocre master, who needs to be supervised and taught. The Emperor Taishang was so sick that his mind was dizzy, which clearly wanted the country to be in turmoil.

The thoughts of the common people.

However, there are a few people who are wise...... Not like that. The previous series of actions proved that Li Zhi wanted to pave the way for his son to return to Beijing, otherwise it would be impossible to let Di Renjie enter Beijing in the first book, and they were all placed in front of Emperor Xu's return to Beijing.

There's got to be weird in between.

Thinking about the person who wrote the book is Pei Yan, how can it not be reminiscent of Pianpin?

Your Majesty's vision is very good, this Pei Yan's ambition is not small. Di Renjie thought in his heart.

He thought of it, and Xue Yuanchao also thought of it. This is a very weak lord who has speculated many times in order to get to the top. The vision is not very good, and most of them fail, making most of their lives bumpy. But there are more failures...... The courage is getting smaller and smaller, but the vision pool is becoming more long-term. He is very worthless for Li Zhi, Pei Yan has done so many things, why can't you see it?

Then another question came to mind. As an auxiliary minister, he is not the spiller of Liu Renliang, so he will stay in Chang'an and not come back. I am in Luoyang and do not help the Queen Mother...... Think about the Queen Mother's means, there will be no end. If you help the Queen Mother, the emperor will come back, and settle the old account and the new account. Worried, he became ill. So he took advantage of his illness and asked Wu Zetian to be a scholar.

Wu Zetian is gracious.

At this time, Xue Yuanchao was not needed, and he just moved out of the phase...... It's good to win people's hearts.

Let Pei Yan take Xue Yuanchao's seat...... Served as the Zhongshu Order, and in order to reward, moved the government hall from the Menxia Province to the Zhongshu Province.

From this point of view, Wu Zetian is still a long way away from Li Shimin. In the system of the three provinces of the Sui and Tang dynasties, Zhongshu has the heaviest rights, and it is the brain of a country and has the right to make decisions.

When it comes to the lower provinces, it has the right of veto, just like a supervisory organ...... looked at the book and looked at the emperor. Shangshu Province only has execution, reduced to the point of thugs.

Therefore, at that time, Li Shimin set up the political hall in Menxia Province. The province has no decision-making power...... It doesn't hurt it. Once it is placed in Zhongshu Province, it has a political hall and decision-making power, which has laid a thick foundation for the cultivation of powerful ministers. Moreover, no one in history has seen it, and even Li Longji further concentrated power in order to simplify political affairs. So Li Linfu's opportunity came! However, Wu Zetian just thought of it, and he was forced to do so. It's like Li Wei thought about it for a long time, but in the end he also chose a dark and brutal method to solve the future contradictions.

Then Liu Ren returned to Luoyang.

Liu Renliang refused again.

Wu Zetian is very jealous of Liu Renliang, it can be said that Liu Renliang is the only remaining veteran, and his qualifications, prestige and merits are unmatched by any minister in the DPRK. So he sent someone to comfort him, since the prince did not come to the eastern capital, he used to entrust Xiao He with Hanzhong, and now the mourning family entrusted him to the public.

What does Liu Renliang mean when he reads the letter? Could it be that I am left behind in Xijing, you are still not at ease. I was very dissatisfied with the book, I was old, and I was sick from time to time. Xijing is unbearable to stay behind, let me be a servant. Then he wrote about Lu Pheasant's deeds, the emperor is strong, and you should not be too attached to the throne, so as not to harm the Tang Dynasty. That is, Lu Pheasant's nephews Lu Lu and Lu Chan. Wu Zetian couldn't do it, and he also sent Wu Chenghei to personally announce the decree, the emperor is far away in the Western Regions, and he is insignificant and pro-government, and he is far away from exhortation, and the Yunlu clan is scornful of the descendants, and the disaster is in the Han Dynasty. The integrity of public loyalty, unswerving, strong and straight, ancient and modern. I also said, I should take your words as a turtle mirror, you are the first to dynasty the old virtues, important ministers of the court, do not invite in the twilight of your life.

Liu Renliang repeatedly swept Wu Zetian's face, but Wu Zetian was not angry, but comforted him with kind words. There is a small word used in it, that is, the one-eyed blind man must not see things as comprehensively as he sees things with both eyes, and humility is so!

Of course, this is the most critical time for the transition of power, once a few years later, Wu Zetian holds power as he wishes, and Liu Renliang is still alive in the world, it will not be like this.

As for the words in the letter, don't take it seriously, Liu Renliang has made outstanding contributions to the Tang Dynasty, and he can be regarded as an upright minister, but he will never be Geng to the point of being rare in ancient and modern times, otherwise he would not have done Li Jingxuan's dirty thing. But all this was done to stabilize Liu Renliang, and Liu Renliang was not promoted. Instead, he promoted another person, Liu Jingxian. I don't know what Wenfu said when he called Liu Jingxian in, after he came out, her husband asked Pei Yan to go in to write a testament, and he got the righteousness of executing the military power, and also took the first step. So let Liu Jing serve as the waiter first. Then he asked the general of the left prison gate to order Hu Zhitong, the general of the left Jin Wuwei Yang Xuanjian, the general of the right Qianniuwei Guo Qizong and Wei Zhiwei to go to the four major governors of Yijing Yang to inspect, which was the recommendation of the four major governors of the stable Quartet, and then the children of the royal family such as King Ji Shijia of Han...... The earth is respected...... For fear of change, he will also add three public officials to comfort his heart. not only increased the official, but also rewarded a large amount of money. Unlike the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty was very rich, but it was redundant officials and soldiers. Bao Cheng's annual salary bonus may be six to eight times that of the later US president. It also raised an army of more than a million people. No amount of money is enough. The situation in the Tang Dynasty was relatively good, and despite the small number of recruitments, most of the soldiers were left without any soldiers, and the salaries of officials were far less than those of the Song Dynasty. Just like Zhang Jun, in order to make money, he actually took out 500,000 yuan to let his veterans do business. This guy bought a lot of big ships, went overseas, pretended to be an envoy of the Song Dynasty, defrauded money, and returned a year later with more than a million pieces of property.

Think about how much property Zhang Jun's family has, but in the entire Tang Dynasty, in addition to those top big families, how many people can reach tens of thousands of assets? Not to mention the ministers.

Therefore, under Li Wei's various changes, including the wealth collected from the Japanese and Silla people, although the war has hardly stopped in recent years, and disasters have occurred constantly, there is still plenty of surplus in the imperial treasury. Wu Zetian was not stingy, and moved a lot of real money out to further win people's hearts.

only dealt with two people, one Guo Zhengyi, who made her dissatisfied all the time.

It was degraded to the national sacrifice wine and dismissed political affairs. is also the prime minister, and his prime minister is different from the prime minister Liu Renliang. Then there was Fan Lubing, Zhang Da suddenly changed his mind Wu Zetian knew that there must be a reason, and secretly did an investigation, and finally found out that Fan Lubing "betrayed" him.

Li Zhi didn't do anything when he was alive, he died in the front, and then found a reason to demote him to Lingnan, and a few months later sent someone to hunt down and strangle Fan Lubing to death. It's people, they don't like traitors, Li Wei doesn't like it, and Wu Zetian doesn't like it even more. But on the whole, Wu Zetian's various measures seem to be implemented for the smooth transition of power. But no one will think like this, the simplest truth, the emperor is dizzy, let you make decisions on military affairs, and you accept it. So what to do when the emperor returns? He is not a child, he has the merit of civil governance, and the martial arts is a great achievement, will he be willing to continue to be a puppet emperor?

Wu Zetian also knew that the people's hearts were boiling, and once again ordered Cheng Wuting and Zhang Qianxun to be the generals of Yulin and defend the safety of the eastern capital.

At this time, the newspapers of the Western Regions arrived one after another.

The situation is not as serious as previously reported, and it is not too optimistic.

Broken Leaf City is not without soldiers, there are, there are more than 40,000 soldiers, and last year, most of them picked up the earth mountain under Gaburo City, which can be regarded as a real battle. Later, I went through some training intermittently, but the time was very short, after all, it was mainly about production. Without a grain base, it is very difficult to run the Western Regions.

Before the Turkic invasion and the Qarluq rebellion, most of this grain had been transported to the city of Broken Leaves, and a number of riches were obtained from the city of Moufu, and all of them were officially purchased except for the sufficient rations of grass. is also afraid that there will be too much food, and there will be some poor tribes who will be red and bad things will happen.

I didn't expect it to play a role. But the combat effectiveness of this army was not very optimistic, and some of the soldiers were clumsy, and until now the horses were not well ridden, although the horses were distributed to them. When the strong enemy arrived, Tang Xiujing did one thing and ordered the people to carry valuable belongings and move to Broken Leaf City. Although there is a wall, it is only a small part of the mountain bandits, and it cannot resist so many troops at all.

However, this time, the Turks were an outstanding figure who appeared on the stage of history in advance, and Gu Lulu also knew the importance of the war in the West, but the important threat of the Turks themselves was the Guannai army from the Tang Dynasty, as well as the Khitans in the east and the Uighurs in the north. didn't dare to draw out the main generals and the army, so he let his younger brother Mo Si serve as the commander of this army. This is a hero who is more bullish than Gu Dulu and Yuan Zhen. It's just that the talent has not been played, and it is still unknown to this day.

After arriving in Chebi Shizhou, Mo Si immediately ordered his subordinate general Ashdewei Ni to lead 5,000 troops and rush to the Broken Leaf River in advance. Whether or not they can win is the hundreds of thousands of Han people in Shayechuan. The Han people are not important, as long as the broken leaves and the broken leaves city are threatened, the Tang army of Yinzhijia River will inevitably retreat. The ancient proverb says that the defeat of the army is like a mountain, but once it retreats, the army's spirit is unstable.

The main force of the Black Tooth Changzhi was defeated, and the Western Regions were completely eroded, and the Tang Dynasty's operation in the Western Regions became a bubble. These 5,000 troops rushed south, because they were afraid that the people of Broken Leaf River would withdraw into Broken Leaf City in advance.

When Wei Ni arrived, Tang Xiujing organized 15,000 troops, and when the soldiers of the Turkic coalition army were embarrassed, they intercepted it at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains. In this battle, more than 2,000 Turkic soldiers were killed, and Wei Ni was defeated. However, the combat effectiveness of the Tang army was relatively weak, and there were thousands of casualties.

Knowing that the other party was difficult to entangle, Tang Xiujing ordered that all the people should evacuate immediately, except for the valuables that were easy to carry, the others would be gathered together, and they would be compensated after they were burned. Anyway, there is a large amount of gold and silver in Broken Leaf City, and I don't have to worry about financial pressure

He wrote another letter and used a fast horse to inform the Black Tooth Changzhi.

Hei Tooth Changzhi was worried, and after seeing Tang Xiujing's letter, he was relieved, but he was still not very relieved to draw out 10,000 troops to support Shattered Leaf City.

Seeing that the Tang army drew out 10,000 troops, the Qinling wanted to find fighters and conduct battles many times. The black tooth is often steady and steady, that is, the camp is closed without fighting. On Qinling, he had no choice but to wait for news from Broken Leaf City. Wei Ni was defeated, but it had little impact on the Turkic coalition army, and the main army almost arrived at Broken Leaf City with the 10,000 Tang troops who came to the rescue. Mo Si ordered the siege of the city, but it was defended by the city walls, and the Tang army had the advantage. The two sides fought fiercely up and down the city walls.

Tang Xiujing despised what the Turks considered to be a rabble, but the organizational ability of the silent sip allowed this rabble to exert its combat effectiveness. Individually, they are far above the soldiers in the city. If it weren't for the 10,000 troops of Blacktooth Changzhi to go west lightly to support, Shattered Leaf City would be very dangerous.

Mo Si also despised the Tang Dynasty among the rising stars, perhaps Tang Xiujing was not as far-reaching as Guo Yuanzhen's strategy, but he was the best, and there was enough food in the city...... A large number of city defense weapons were used by Wang Fangyi to protect and build Broken Leaf City, which made the area of Broken Leaf City very large, at least the scale of the city in the Seven Rivers Valley and the Western Regions, which is second to none. Such a large area is enough to accommodate many people, not only is the area large, but there are also sufficient soldiers to defend it. and favorable conditions, this bitter battle was very fierce, and many times the city of Broken Leaves was crumbling under the attacks of the Turks, but it was not broken by Mo Si.

After more than 20 days of hard work, Mo Si heard a simple rest

The news of Yezid's death did not reach the river, and even the Khorasan Tang army at the front did not hear it. But after hearing the information that the Great Eclipse army in Nishapur City was retreating, Mo Si immediately judged that this Great Eclipse army had retreated, so only the Great Eclipse army of Herat remained. Both armies attacked together, but neither of them achieved victory, and only one army remained, and the result can be imagined. And from the mouth of the scout, there is a vague knowledge of some things that happened to the Great Eclipse, as well as the crazy attack of the Byzantines. It was cold again, and the weather in Khorasan and Hezhong would be very cold in winter, and the Tang Dynasty did not expand southward, which was even more unfavorable to the Great Eclipse soldiers. Once the Great Cannibal is repulsed, the army on the front line will come back to help, and Shattered Leaf City will have no chance of being captured.

So a decision was made.

Suddenly, the army turned around and attacked the unsuspecting Western Turkic Wulu Army. They plundered the people and their property and sent them to the Eastern Turks.

In fact, at this time, Mo Si continued to attack forcefully, and it may or may not succeed. But the casualties in the city were like a taut bowstring, and it reached a critical point. Once successful, it is the Tang Dynasty that repels the great cannibals, and the situation will still erode.

As soon as the Turks withdrew, the remaining soldiers in Shattered Leaf City were tested by the fire, and after some training, they would never have a chance next time. As long as a famous general commands, maybe you can fight with them in the field. The retreat of the silent sip became a battle and a turning point.

Mo Si also has his thoughts, he is a younger brother, not the Khan of Binji. It is a victory, and it is also a benefit for the elder brother and the Tubo people. What do you do if you fail? The future is bleak! Moreover, my brother's subordinates also besieged Dingzhou City many times without success and retreated. Let's save our strength and reap the fruits of victory by the way.

This is the disadvantage of the multinational coalition forces, each with its own calculations, and cannot work together. At that time, the alliance of the Six Nations was unsuccessful in blocking Qin, the Southern Song Dynasty, the Xiongnu, and Rouran joined forces against the Northern Wei Dynasty without success, and Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande joined forces against Shi Li Shimin without success. It is the result of the inability to unify their ideas. It was still about the life and death of Byzantium, and the eloquent Constantinople IV hesitated to wait and see, wanting the Tang army to fight with Da Shixian first, and the two tigers competed, one wounded and one killed, and reaped the fruits of victory.

Jingqin Ling did a good job, this time the exchange was very successful, but he didn't read a word from Cui Hao, Liu Yilong and Helian Ding were in collusion, it was just a false momentum, don't dare to be the first, if the two chickens are connected together, they will not be able to take off at the same time.

If the Western Regions were just a group of mediocre generals, the Qinling would succeed, Guan Jian now almost concentrated most of the rising stars of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions, whether it is the famous Hei Tooth Changzhi, Wang Fangyi, Li Jinxing, Qi Xinming, or Guo Yuanzhen, Tang Xiujing and Xue Ne, Luo Wuquan, or the generals Zhang Zhiyuan, Wang Gao, and Xi Fenglei who are being cultivated, are all the top figures in the Tang Dynasty's military talent.

For example, the black tooth Changzhi can be much weaker than the Qinling?

Therefore, on the battle of Qinling, the effect was greatly reduced.

At this time, Tan Qinling also heard some news of the big food, and his heart was very frightened, but his thoughts were slightly different from those of Mo Si.

The Great Qin State counterattacked, and it is very likely that it also joined forces with the Tang Dynasty like itself, so the troops sent by the Great Food to recover Khorasan were very small, and it was impossible for the Tang Dynasty to resist with the main army. This was a trap set by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

Even if the Great Cannibal Soldiers retreated, it would have little impact on the war situation in the Western Regions, the main forces of the Tang Dynasty were all in the Western Regions, the Great Cannibal Soldiers retreated, and the army withdrew from Khorasan and Sestan, the road was difficult, the time was too late, even if it arrived in time, the combat effectiveness was also very suspicious, as long as the Turks and the Qarluqs joined forces to attack the city of Broken Leaves, the battle would be won.

But the Turkic coach silently held on to the idea of taking advantage, and the trend was gone. I sent someone to persuade him, but it was too late, and the effect was not great. Therefore, he suddenly waved his troops east and assaulted Guo Yuanzhen's army.

This army is very numerous, but its combat effectiveness is very low. Qinghai has just a small army, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty has drawn more than 20,000 elite troops, and Heiya Changzhi has also transferred 50,000 troops. What other strength can be drawn out? Coupled with the ability of the commander, some of the Western Turkic coalition armies, in fact, the army of the Eastern Road was the weakest army of the Tang Dynasty.

Defeated this army, the eastern road was eroded, and even entered Qinghai all the way from Fuluochuan, and he could steal resources from various tribes along the way, but the Tang people did not dare. The speed must be faster than the army of Heizhi Changzhi, and Qinghai is very empty at this time, and can only protect itself, and his tens of thousands of troops will go east, and the Tang Dynasty emperor's operation in Qinghai will be over, and his goal will also be achieved.

Mo said that Qinghai could draw troops from Jiannan Pass, and the current situation of the Tang Dynasty at this time was not falling into the ground, and the emperor of the Tang Dynasty was already very grateful.

He ruined the Tang Dynasty's operation in Qinghai, and his own army also achieved his strategic goals.

If the Black Tooth often comes to the rescue, he is fast, he can ambush, he can hit their food route, and the balance can also be shifted to him.

At the sound of an order, 50,000 Tibetan troops stepped on the snow and hurried towards Qiuci.

ps: Originally, tonight's update was a two-in-one chapter, so I will spend this paragraph as soon as possible to the spring thunder section. However, there was something wrong with the old afternoon, so I had to cut off half of it and save it for tomorrow night. Regarding whether Pei Yan has tampered with the book, I will send it out tomorrow night, take a look at the original text of Li Zhi's testament, and everyone will understand. was very disgusted with Pei Yan, Sima Guang beautified Pei Yan in order to scandalize Wu Zetian.

In fact, Wu Zetian's ambition is inflated, and it has a great relationship with Pei Yan.