At night, at the gate of the palace, Qi Erfan whispered a small word in Li Shimin's ear, which made the emperor feel a lot more comfortable. The eldest grandson's family withdrew all the people and horses arranged in Zhaoling, cut off contact with the crown prince Li Chengqian, and at the same time, all the officials of the eldest grandson's family received a handwritten letter from the eldest grandson Wuji, the content is very simple, His Majesty is now prosperous in the Spring and Autumn Period, we should do our best to assist, do not be distracted, even in business, the eldest grandson Wuji has also made great concessions, and some of the financial rights and material allocation rights of the top ten factories in the east and west have all been handed over, and there is nothing to do with the court in the future.

"Wuji is decisive, it seems that he didn't convince Tianzhi, but asked Tianzhu to convince him! But God, God, what the hell are you secretly studying! Can't you openly and honestly hand over all these things to the imperial court? You have persuaded others to wake up, but you are still living in a daze, what should I do with you? ”

Li Shimin promised Wang Xiyue to go to Chang'an to visit the night market tonight, waited at the gate of the palace early, shook his head and asked himself, before waving off the guards, and saw that Wang Xiyue, who was dressed as a civilian woman, had walked to the entrance of the palace gate on foot, the two looked at each other and smiled, got into the five-wheeled convertible car pretended to be a coachman by the palace guards, and went to the streets of Chang'an.

"Your Majesty, what's the matter with a wry smile?"

"Hehe, it's nothing, Wuji hit a wall where Tianzhu was, but he was persuaded by Tianzhu and decided not to participate in the prince's affairs. It's just God's bestow, eh, don't mention it, let's go shopping happily. ”

"These two are extremely intelligent people, and Your Majesty doesn't need to worry about them at all."

"Really? Am I not smarter than they are? ”

"Your Majesty is also smart, comparable to the eldest grandson, compared to God! Not almost. ”

"Why? What's the difference? ”

"Now, seeing that fruit stall you passed by just now, if you can make a song and ask your concubine to help him sell all the fruits on the stall, you will be as smart as him."

"What's the matter, selling fruit also has a story? In terms of songwriting, I am indeed inferior to him."

"When we were in Qiuzi, one day we went to the street, passing by a fruit stall, which was opened by the wife of a soldier of the Hu Army, specializing in grapes abundant in the Western Regions, but the business of the stall was not very good, and it didn't sell much after selling for a few days, and the grapes were about to spoil.

"How is that song sung?"

"Then the concubine will sing you a paragraph."

"Crimea went to join the army, and planted it before leaving, a grape, and the orchard girl, Anaerhan, carefully cultivated this, green seedling.

Ah······h Bring in the snow, water it, erect the pergola, let the sun shine, and the roots of the grapes take root in the fertile soil, and the long vines are wound in the heart, and the long vines are wound in the heart. A long vine is wrapped around my heart.

The vineyard has been rained several times in spring and autumn, and the young seedlings grow tall and strong, and when the branches are full of fruit, the good news of the meritorious service of the Kerim is heard.

Ah·····h Girl, looking up at the snow-capped mountain outpost, a little bit went to the bunches of sweet grapes, the grapes of Turpan are ripe, Anarhan's heart is drunk, the grapes of Turpan are ripe, Anarhan's heart is drunk, eh. ”

"Okay, hahaha, the singing is so good, does Concubine Ai want to eat grapes, I just went to buy them, in my Chang'an City, there are grapes for sale in the hot summer."

"Your Majesty, what a beautiful love story! How can you hear that the concubine is going to eat grapes, a person with love in his heart like Tianzhu can make such a beautiful song anytime and anywhere, Your Majesty, who are you worried about, and you don't have to worry that Tianzhu will be unfavorable to you, and it will be unfavorable to Datang. ”

Wang Xiyue turned the topic to business, but it made Li Shimin stunned, and after a while, he laughed again.

"If you have love in your heart, I'll let him do it and see what he can make my Tang Dynasty look like." Li Shimin seemed to have figured out something, and he was very happy in his heart, and went straight to the night market stalls in Chang'an City, and then he was satisfied and bought a large cart of grapes back to the palace.

On the second day, all the eunuchs and palace maids sent by Li Shimin from the palace to the Heavenly Grant Horse Mansion were withdrawn to the palace, and there was no reason, however, in inverse proportion, the dragon guards who were responsible for guarding the Zhaoling Tomb were all replaced with new faces, except for restricting the entry and exit of personnel, no one took care of the crown prince Li Chengqian, and the fake guard named Chengxin was also killed on the spot by the new leader of the dragon guard outside the Zhaoling, it is said that all the unknown people who broke into the Zhaoling Tomb in the future will be this fate.

At the same time that the political atmosphere in Chang'an gradually cleared up, the war situation in Tibet and the grasslands of eastern Liaodong also changed, with one victory and one defeat, one joy and one worry. Xue Rengui lived up to Yanglin's expectations, successfully crossed the Tanggula Mountain, and captured the Luo Dynasty, which can be regarded as the official overthrow of the Tubo regime, and the future strategy, as long as he takes the Luo as the foundation and steadily fights to the surrounding areas, it is only a matter of time before he captures the entire territory of Tubo.

However, the war that took place on the Liaodong grassland broke the balance between the Goryeo army and the Tang army because of the sudden addition of the Murowei, Muro, Silla, and Baekje four-nation coalition armies, and the nomadic Murowei and the Tatar people born on the banks of the Heishui River fought particularly bravely, and the 8,000 Murowei and 3,000 Ya cavalry were on a par with the 10,000 well-equipped 10,000 cavalry armies, and the 100,000 Goryeo cavalry plus the 150,000 Goryeo Silla Baekje infantry combined forces broke through the 100,000 Zhenbei and 50,000 Taiyuan military camps that were not very mobile in one fell swoop, and the defeated army retreated 500 li. It was only when the 10,000 cavalry army paid heavy casualties that the defense line was re-laid near Yanshan in Hebei Province, which was later the Shanhaiguan position.

After the war, the casualties were counted, and the Tang Army's 10,000 cavalry troops suffered more than 8,000 casualties, almost all of which were wiped out, and more than half of the Zhenbei Army and Taiyuan Army were killed and wounded, reaching more than 70,000, and countless firearms, armor and equipment were lost, which can be called the biggest defeat since the founding of the Tang Dynasty. Li Daozong, the chief of the Hebei Provincial Marching Army, asked for death, but was rejected by Li Shimin, and ordered him to remove the Taiyuan Army, reorganize the army on the spot, and form a new Zhenbei military system, and urgently transferred a total of 50,000 cavalry infantry of Liu Hongji of the Zhendong Army to Yanshan to support and go to the court. Many old and new courtiers were indignant, and there was a burst of shouting and beating, but Li Shimin, whose face was gloomy, was calm and terrifying.

"My army has excellent armor and weapons, and even more so indestructible firearms, why should it be defeated? Tell me. "Li Shimin's question made the entire court quiet, and some ministers wanted to say something like Li Daozong, the general manager of the Hebei Provincial March, who was not in good command, but looking at Li Daozong's past achievements and Li Shimin's treatment of him, they all kept their mouths shut." Weichen thought that the generals who were good at fighting, or the generals who were good at using firearms, were not on the front line, which led to the defeat of our army. “

When everyone didn't dare to speak, there was a strange thing that appeared in the center of the station, it was Li Jing, the god of the Tang Dynasty, who didn't say three words in the court for a year, but every time he spoke out, it was at the most critical time, and he broke through the mystery with one word. "Oh? What does Li Aiqing mean by this, please explain it in detail. Li Shimin raised his eyebrows when he heard this, as if he understood something, and continued to ask. In the past, firearms on the battlefield to show their might was in the battle of the Southern Expedition, with the then Lingnan Navy commander of the Heavenly Grant Ma Yanglin and Wei King Li Tai are the best at using firearms, each battle will be a large number of firearms slaughtered by the enemy, the enemy's morale is defeated on the whole line, the results are so strong, no one in the world dares to touch its edge, but after His Majesty formed the garrison of the four towns, although the four armies were equipped with a large number of firearms, but the war reports of the various armies over the years did not appear as overwhelming victory as the battle of the Southern Expedition, which proves that the generals of the four armies are not good at using firearms.

Thinking back to the first year of Zhenguan, when the Turkic army and our army fought fiercely in Weishui, at that time our army only had two temporarily assembled water steamers, one commanded by the Heavenly Horse, one commanded by the Prince, and the artillery on the battleship commanded by the Heavenly Horse, each time bombarded the vital point of the enemy's formation, and the battleships commanded by the Prince could only kill the enemy piecemeal, and the gap was huge, just like the performance of the elite soldiers and ordinary people on the battlefield. “

Li Jing immediately returned to his position after the performance, many old ministers of the Weishui Battle in the past were still in the court, especially the military generals, they thought about it a little, and they knew the key to it, it turned out that the gap between those who were good at using firearms and those who were not good at using firearms was so huge. (To be continued.) )