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Throughout the history of thousands of years, rebellion and rebellion have always run through the history of China, without which the temptation of power is too great. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Since the handover of Yao Shun, there seem to have been some signs, and under the centralized system of emperors in the feudal era, this is not a fashionable and rare thing.

It's just that although few people pay attention to the two rebellions in the fourth year of Yonghui, they have far-reaching impact.

This is naturally the rebellion of Fang Yiai and Xue Wanche, the commander of the horses, and the two and Chai Lingwu want to serve the Jingwang Yuanjing of Gaozu Li Yuan as the emperor. However, this rebellion must be carried out more strictly, but this time the conspiracy of rebellion was actually leaked. Li Zhi asked the chief lieutenant Sun Wuji to interrogate. And this Fang Yiai is a typical character of the Zhida talent, not only was he put on a green blackened hat, but his character is really different, he

In February of the fourth year of Yonghui (653), Gaozong ordered Fang Yiai, Xue Wanche, and Liang Lingwu to be beheaded, and Jingwang Yuanjing, Wu Wangke, Princess Gaoyang, and Princess Baling were given to commit suicide. Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia, and Zhi Sili were exiled to Lingnan because of their association with Fang Yiai. Even the dead Fang Xuanling was also reduced in treatment and canceled the incense offering.

Historically, the first six years of Li Zhi's short reign are called the reign of Yonghui, because Li Zhi almost followed the various policies and employment of people during the Taizong period. The national strength has increased to a certain extent, and at the same time, the territory of Li Zhi's reign was also the largest in the entire Tang Dynasty.

But now after all, it is no longer Li Shimin who is in power. This rebellion almost exhausted the famous ministers left over from the Taizong period, and only the eldest grandson Wuji could not support it alone.

In fact, Changsun Tang also gently persuaded Changsun Wuji that there is no need to make a big fuss about this matter, after all, there is a need for enemies in places like the court, even if there is no enemy, you can set up an enemy. If you have no enemies, then the Emperor will treat you as an enemy.

Perhaps these were originally instructed by Li Zhi. The end result is exactly the same as in history. When the moment the eldest grandson heard the holy decree, the whole person was not good.

The butterfly uses its wings to try to stir up everything in this world, but the end result is business as usual, and even the details are almost identical. Such a result is undoubtedly devastating.

Fortunately, the eldest grandson was a person who was hit hard, and he almost didn't pay attention to this level of blow.

It's just that another small rebellion quickly made Changsun Tang realize that although there are many similarities in this world, there have been changes after all.

That was the rebellion of Chen Shuozhen, a woman from Muzhou, in October of the fourth year of Yonghui. Chen Shuozhen called on the masses with religious myths and raised troops with his brother-in-law Zhang Shuyin, with tens of thousands of participants. Chen Shuozhen called himself "Emperor Wenjia", the first female leader in the history of the Chinese Peasant War to be crowned emperor, with Zhang Shuyin as his servant. Zhang Shuyin led the crowd to trap Tonglu, Chen Shuozhen led 2,000 troops to trap Muzhou in Qian, and then attacked Shezhou, and sent Tong Wenbao to lead 4,000 people to attack Wuzhou. There is even a saying among the people that there is a god in Shuozhen, and those who commit crimes against their soldiers will be wiped out".

Of course, in peacetime, it doesn't matter if you are the reason, the reason, or the scale. This is simply not going to succeed. Wuzhou Assassin Shi Cui Yixuan and Yangzhou Assassin Shi Fang Renyu led troops to attack their army, and it only took a month, and the seemingly huge uprising failed. As the leaders, Chen Shuozhen and Zhang Shuyin were naturally captured and sacrificed.

An uprising of this magnitude can be regarded as a minor problem like psoriasis in all dynasties, although it is a little itchy, but it is impossible to get to the root, and even the regular army can suppress the uprising without using it.

It's just that this is a not-so-good start.

In the original history, it was in this year that Li Zhi abolished Queen Wang, and Liwu Zetian was the queen. No one Wu Zetian had the idea of becoming an emperor, but this Chen Shuozhen was very likely to give Wu Zetian a wake-up call for emperor.

Just looked at Wu Rou who was at home with the child, dressed in a lake-green shirt, and was rubbed with a large patch of ash because of holding the child, and didn't care about it. The eldest grandson is sure that history has finally taken a fork in the road at this moment.

The success of any thing is caused by this certain inevitability and the combined effect of many accidental factors, which is the view of historical materialism, and this is also the same point that Changsun Tang agrees with. The ascension to the throne of the only empress in Chinese history was caused by Li Zhi's long-term illness, but this is inseparable from Wu Zetian's personal charm. If you change someone, you will be the queen mother who has been listening to the government for a few years, and there is no need to be the emperor.

And, at least so far, the eldest grandson has not heard of the scandal that Li Zhi had an affair with the concubine of the former emperor.

There is no need to set up such a university at present, and the research laboratories with various factories can basically meet the demand. So after being busy for a short time, the eldest grandson is now idle again.

But this time it didn't last long.

His Majesty the great Li Zhi once again gave him a task: to go to the Western Regions to preach and appease.

To put it bluntly, this is a thankless task, a back and forth is tens of thousands of miles of travel, and you can only eat sand when you go. Coupled with the large-scale rise of maritime shipping routes in recent years, this ancient Silk Road has lost its prosperity and hustle and bustle.

In Changsun Tang's view, there is no absolute need for large-scale expansion of the Western Regions at this time. This is not to say that Changsun Tang thinks that the Western Regions are not important, if he can, Changsun Tang hopes to include the Western Regions up to the Caspian Sea into the territory of the Tang Dynasty. But this one is really wrong.

The Ministry of Industry led by Wu Yuanqing had put the large-scale construction of railways on the agenda, the first of which was from Hebei to Liaodong, which was to prepare for the future conquest of Goguryeo. There is also a railway from Chang'an to Hebei via Luoyang. In another thirty years, as long as the railway is built to the Western Regions, it must be in the pocket of the Tang Dynasty.

It's just that although the history of Li Zhi, the emperor, focuses more on him as the only emperor in Chinese history who has been an emperor, he is also deeply touched by Li Zhi's great achievements over the years.

It's just that Li Zhi has a certain amount of patience after all, and the expedition started during the period when the national strength was booming, otherwise it would not be much different from Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of Sui.

These things were figured out by Changsun Tang when he was walking on the road to the Western Regions.

It's already time to pass the Jade Gate.

Along the Hexi Corridor, the four counties of Hexi established since the Han Dynasty have always been important cities on the Silk Road, and the Hexi Corridor, irrigated by the melting snow of glaciers on the Qilian Mountains, is naturally an important grain producing area in this desolate and barren Liangzhou. This is also the reason why the Silk Road passed through it.

It was not yet autumn when I set out from Chang'an, but although it only took me about a month to get here, it was already cold and winter.

Here, where it rarely snows, there is actually a fluttering snowfall.

Looking at the flying snowflakes, this road naturally can't be rushed. So the group had no choice but to stay in this post station.

As a book, it is naturally impossible for the eldest grandson to expose his identity on such an occasion. And all the way they were pretending to be merchants.

There are many people in the post station who can't travel because of universities, and most of them come from the west, and few go to the east.

"Shopkeeper, do you have any good wine here?" The eldest grandson found a table and sat down.

"A local specialty without a name, can the guest ask for something?" This little two is slippery and big.

"Okay, blanch two pots. Are there any side dishes here? Give me some too? "The eldest grandson returned.

"Objectively, you can't eat beef in this Central Plains, why don't you come and have some more?" Xiao Er said.

"Beef?" The eldest grandson felt a little incredible, this beef was not easy even if the emperor wanted to eat it.

"This is the first time this has gone to the Western Regions?" A merchant-looking man next to him asked.

"Yes, I don't know if Brother Tai can see it?"

"You've missed the bottom of this." This is how a copy of the trader should be.

"Oh? Is it so obvious? ”。 The eldest grandson felt that the dress of this group was already very similar, and for this time, he specially called the old shopkeeper who was in charge of trading with Nanyang at home.

"As the saying goes, it's a lot of things in ten miles. The beef in this Yumen Pass is not the kind of cattle that can plough the fields, these are long-haired cattle sold on the plateau, don't you use them to eat jerky? ”

So says the merchant. The eldest grandson also remembered that this had been more than ten years since the head of the Saikaido Governor's Peace, and he actually forgot about it. Hurriedly said that I was taught, I don't know the name of this brother Taigao? Why not move the table? ”

"It's just a name, but are you out of the customs now?". The trader did not want to be named.

"Yes, this family has always been in the spice business, but in the past few years, this business has become more and more difficult. I just thought that it was winter, and it had always been the peak season for the spice business, so I planned to try my luck in the West. Changsun Tang said, this is a reason that has been thought of a long time along the way, and even the spices are really prepared for several cars. This is not long, does Sun Tang plan to make a lot of extra money in the name of this Xuanfu.

"Your idea is good, but there are some problems at this time." There is no reservation in this business.

"Why is that?" The eldest grandson was a little puzzled.

"This winter is a good season for spices, but the weather outside this pass can really be described as dripping into ice." The merchant said, without waiting for the eldest grandson to ask, and continued to say that it is only August, and it is less than September, and you see that the snow that has fallen to the ground has not melted, and it will be fatal to rush in this weather. You only need to carry enough dry food and water to cross the desert in summer, but you still need to carry firewood for heating in winter? "The trader is clearly a connoisseur.

"Thanks to this brother's reminder, otherwise it would really be a big mistake." The eldest grandson stood up and bowed to the merchant.

"It doesn't have to be so polite, it doesn't have to be so polite. I think it's a plan for now, Brother Tai is still in this Yumen Pass, and it is better to deal with this spice. When the merchant had said this, he craned his neck and drank the warm wine from his bowl, then turned and left.

The eldest grandson held back a few times, but turned a deaf ear.

Now it's the turn of the eldest grandson to have a headache. The soldiers of General Su Dingfang, the head of this Green Ridge Road, have already arrived in Khotan, and there are still three or four thousand miles away from here, and they may not be able to catch up in two months, which is basically even if they are trapped in this Yumen Pass.

Now Changsun Tang's head is really a little big.

In fact, this Xuanfu Western Regions originally had someone else, but in order to better understand this era, the eldest grandson took the initiative to take this matter, and there is no specific date for this, but it is best if it can be as soon as possible.

"Grandpa, there is no need to hide your deeds here. I see that the difference between the merchants who come and go here and ours is too great, and it is estimated that it is impossible to cover up, and there is no need to cover it up, this Xuanfu might as well start from this Yumen Pass. And in my opinion, the guards of this Jade Gate Pass should have some way. "This is a petty official of the Ministry of Rites, and this time he insists on following Changsun Tang to the Western Regions, and he is quite insightful along the way.

"Dehong means that we went directly to the guards of Yumen Pass?" The eldest grandson asked. This petty official's surname is Chen Dehong.

"Yes, if there is a way, the guards here will be certain, if there is no way, it is estimated that they will have to stay in this Yumen Pass in the next few months, and this will be even more necessary to contact the guards here." Chen Dehong replied unhurriedly.

"This ......," the eldest grandson hesitated.

In fact, the purpose of coming to cover up his deeds this time is to drink as little as possible about these local officials, after all, in a few years, maybe Li Zhi will kill the eldest grandson Wuji, just like the eldest grandson Wuji killed this Wu king Li Ke. That's what the so-called cunning rabbit dies and lackeys cook.

Since this is a person who doesn't even let go of his own uncle, this cousin really can't be counted.

Cover-up is not for the people below, and the people at the bottom know better than anyone else.

ps: This is the last big plot of this article, and when this plot ends, it's time for the book to really end. Originally, I didn't plan to write the plot of the Western Regions, but the four directions of the southeast, south, and northwest have been arranged, and it is just the west, and if there is no arrangement in the west, it will be more or less deficient. Moreover, the Western Regions will involve some war scenes, and this time it will be a simple duel of cold weapons. (To be continued.) )