Chapter 4 The Establishment of the Central Command, Four Major Troubles
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In the next few days, Xu Qing successively accompanied Helan Minyue and He Qiurong to his brother's grave to pay respects, moved the Youwu Guard back to the original military camp, and planned to establish the Central Command of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate in the Andong Mansion, with himself as the commander, Xue Rengui as the executive deputy commander, presiding over the daily work, Yang Sizhen and Pei Judao as deputy commanders, Yang Sizhen was responsible for the military and political affairs of the former Goguryeo region, Pei Judao was responsible for the military and political affairs of the former Baekje region, Li Zhizhuo and Cheng Wuting were appointed as the chief and deputy chiefs of staff, Zhao Tuozhi, Liu Sisi, Zhao Mengchen, Xue Jinlian, Yang Zhuangruo, He Qiurong, Xue Jinlian's brother Xue Ne, Li Zhizhuo's son Li Changqing, Li Zhizhuo's daughter Li Yingqi, Cheng Wuting's introduction of the Tang Dynasty's founding hero, the grandson of the famous general Wei Chi Gong, Wei Chi Ding, served as a staff officer. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Because the evil young man He Lan Minzhi was dead, Princess Taiping would not be in danger for twenty years, so Xu Qing asked Li Zhizhuo to let his daughter Li Yingqi resign from the post of Princess Taiping's chief of guard and serve under Xu Qing. Xue Jinlian, Yang Zhuangruo, Pei Zhonghui, Li Yingqi, the four beauties in the Tang Army, Xu Qing wanted to accept them all, Li Yingqi served as the chief of the guard next to Princess Taiping, and prevented Princess Taiping from being raped by Helan Minzhi.
Whether it is the Andong Mansion, or the Xuancheng Princess's Mansion and the Yiyang Princess's Mansion, it has become a place for the royalists and the Tang Army generals to gather and liaise, all of which are not correct and unsatisfactory, and they are afraid that they will be criticized by the party officials after the mouth, and they are afraid that there will be many people who say it, "three people become tigers", Emperor Li Zhi was suspicious of Xu Qing, so Xu Qing followed the example of the Central Command of the United States and remotely commanded the military base thousands of kilometers away, and established the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate Central Command in the Andong Mansion in Chang'an. Managing the military and political affairs of the Goguryeo and Baekje regions conquered by the Tang Dynasty, the Daetang Andong Metropolitan Protectorate in Pyongyang became a subordinate unit of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate Central Command, and carried out and issued the instructions and orders of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate Central Command.
In this way, Xu Qing firmly grasped the military power in his hands, and it was beyond reproach, Xu Qing was both the protector of Andong Metropolitan Protectorate and the Duke of Andong Kuogong, and it was reasonable to set up a management team to manage the former Goguryeo and former Baekje regions under the jurisdiction of Andong Metropolitan Protectorate.
Xuanyi Military Academy successfully graduated from the first phase, the second phase began to enroll 200 people, Xu Qing's officers and the founding heroes of the Tang Dynasty, the children of the royal family can apply, male and female, the lower age limit is 12 years old, the upper limit is 30 years old, you can go to school full-time, you can also work during the day, go to school at night and holidays, after graduation, the school recommends to serve in Xu Qingjun, of course, students can also choose their own careers.
Xu Qing expanded the size of the male and girl scrows from 1,000 to 2,000 each, and recruited them from 8 to 14 years old, from the children of his own subordinates, after the heroes of the Tang Dynasty, and the children of the royal family. Nominally, the Boy Scouts are still the "doormen" of Princess Xuancheng Mansion and Princess Yiyang Mansion, but in fact, Xu Qing has high hopes for the Boy Scouts, and they will be trained and trained as his descendants and special forces in five or ten years.
The Boy Scouts changed to the regimental, battalion, company, platoon, and squad of later generations, and the physical training methods were combined with the physical characteristics of children and children, and with reference to the training methods of the special forces of later generations, the martial arts, archery, horsemanship, and formation training of the ancient army were retained, and the firearms training of hot weapons was temporarily suspended. Although these two Scouts are Xu Qing's descendants, they are only old-style armies, not new-style armies.
The original 1,000 boy scouts were incorporated into the first regiment of the Boy Scouts, and the commander was the original general, eighteen-year-old Xue Ne, who was renamed the regiment commander, and the newly recruited 1,000 boy scouts were incorporated into the second regiment, with Yang Zhuangruo's thirteen-year-old brother Yang Yaozu as the commander.
Xue Jinlian continued to serve as the general of the Yiyang Princess's Mansion and was in charge of the Girl Scouts, the original 1,000 Girl Scouts were incorporated into the Fourth Regiment, Yang Zhuangruo was appointed as the head of the Fourth Regiment, the newly recruited 1,000 Girl Scouts were incorporated into the Fifth Regiment, and Li Yingqi was appointed as the head of the Fifth Regiment.
The number of the three Boy Scout regiments was reserved for the Boy Scouts for future expansion.
Zhao Mengchen, Liu Sisi, He Qiurong, Junzi, Shino Huixiang, Mei Kaifang, and Leng Yueru served as staff officers and instructors of the Girl Scouts. Xue Jinlian, Yang Zhuangruo, and Li Yingqi also serve as Girl Scout instructors.
Zhao Mengchen, Xue Jinlian, Yang Zhuangruo, Pei Zhonghui, He Qiurong, Junzi, Shiye Huixiang, Mei Kaifang, Leng Yueru, Helan Minyue, Li Yingqi, Ye Xiaodie, Xia Xiaoyu, Mei'er, Princess Xuancheng, Princess Yiyang, the four county lords of the Yanwang family, Li Xiang, Li Lin, Li Rui, Li Mingyue, Yan Susu, Gao Min'er, Tang Xuanxuan, Ma Xiaoyun, and Xue Jiao participated in the second phase of the Xuanyi Military Academy. and active generals Cheng Wuting, Yang Sijian, Pei Judao taught, martial arts classes by Zhao Mengchen, Zhao Tuozhi, Liu Sisi, Chunzi, Xue Jinlian, Xue Rengui, Cheng Wuting, Xu Qing, Leng Ruohai taught.
Leng Yueru went to school at the Xuanyi Military Academy and worked as an instructor in the Girl Scouts, and the sadness of her dead husband gradually faded and she started a new life. It was Xu Qing who proposed to Leng Ruohai that Leng Yueru go to school at the Xuanyi Military Academy and become an instructor in the Girl Scouts.
Leng Ruohai was pleasantly surprised to see her daughter getting better day by day, and admired and thanked Xu Qing very much.
Xu Qing's control of the army, martial arts gang organizations and business organizations are getting bigger and bigger, with a total number of more than 200,000 people, Xu Qing as the protector of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, with jurisdiction over nearly 10 million people on the Korean Peninsula, has a heavy burden on his shoulders, and there are many things to worry about, which is nothing, the most worrying thing for Xu Qing is that the actual ruler of the Tang Dynasty is not satisfied with listening to the government, calling the Queen of Heaven, on an equal footing with Tang Gaozong Li Zhi, and calling Wu Zetian, the second sage, not Tang Gaozong Li Zhi. Since Xu Qing entered the center of power in the Tang Dynasty for a year and a half, the imperial power has not only not been strengthened, but weakened.
Wu Zetian formed a party for personal gain, reused the nephews of the Wu family, the bachelors of the North Gate and the Hou Party who took refuge in her, suppressed and squeezed out the Li Tang royal family, the Tang Dynasty meritorious family and the aristocracy and landlord class who supported the rule of the Li Tang royal family, causing the Tang Dynasty government and army to split into three factions: royalists, the Hou Party and the centrists, the internal power struggles continued, the Tang border was not peaceful, the aliens were ready to move, and the Great Food (also known as the Arab Empire) rose strongly, taking advantage of the Tang Dynasty's internal strife and the Tang Dynasty and Tubo's successive years of war in the four towns of Anxi, constantly encroaching on the Tang Dynasty's Western Regions of influence.
Afghanistan in the Tang Dynasty called Tochar (that is, the Western Han Dynasty of the Western Regions of the Great Yue Clan), the Tang army wiped out the Eastern * Turk * Turk, far away from the West * Turk * Turk, Tang placed the Yue Clan Governor's Mansion here. The Tang also set up prefectures, prefectures, and counties in Tocharian and its nearby 16 small states to exercise administrative and military jurisdiction.
In addition, in the first year of Longshuo (661) of Tang Gaozong, the Great Food Kingdom destroyed the Persian State, and Belus, the son of the Persian king who came to the Tang Dynasty in exile, was canonized as the new Persian king by the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty placed the Persian Governor in the small eastern Persian cities of Jiling City and Tocharo.
(According to the "Old Tang Book" volume 198 Western Regions biography:
In the first year of the Persian king Belus Longshuo (661), the song was frequently disturbed by the great food, and asked the Tang Dynasty to send troops to rescue, and Tang Gaozong sent Longzhou Nanyou County to order Wang Mingyuan to send an envoy to the Western Regions to set up a state and county. He designed the Persian Governor's Mansion in the city of Jiling and appointed Belus as the governor.
In addition, according to the ninth volume of the "Yuan Turtle of the Book of Books", in the first month of the second year of Longshuo (662), Belus was established as the king of Persia.
The Tang Dynasty's division of the state of the Imperial Prefecture in the vast area south of the Iron Gate to the Indus River was not only related to the request of the Persian royal family, but also related to the request of Tocharo, and it was also in line with the historical trend of the Tang Dynasty's national strength and military strength before the Tang Gaozong and Wu Zetian's rebellion.
According to the "Old Tang Book" volume 40 geographical chronicles Anxi Dadu Hufu records:
In the first year of Longshuo, the Western Regions Tocharian was plugged. It was to the sixteen kingdoms west of Khotan and to the east of Persia were all governors. Eighty states, one hundred and ten counties, and one hundred and twenty-six military governments. Still erect a monument in Tocharian to Zhizhi. Almost the entire Central Asia, North Asia, part of West Asia, and part of South Asia were the territory or sphere of influence of the Tang Dynasty, and the territory of the Tang Dynasty in the middle of Tang Gaozong was unprecedentedly large, extending to Korea in the east, Central Asia in the west, the whole territory of Afghanistan, the whole territory of Nepal, some areas of Pakistan, some parts of Iran, the Aral Sea, the Caspian Sea in the north, the Arctic Ocean in the north, Vietnam and the islands of the South China Sea in the south, surpassing any dynasty in Chinese history.
Wu Zetian's intervention in the military and political affairs of the Tang Dynasty began in 65 BC, and in 669 AD, Xue Rengui was transferred from the position of the first protector of the Andong Prefecture back to Chang'an, and Wu Zetian's intervention became a chaotic government, gradually emptying the imperial power of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi. That is a sign of the first piece, that is, since then, the Tang Dynasty's national strength and military strength have declined, 670 A.D. Tubo rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty competed for the four towns of Anxi in the Western Regions.
In 673 AD, the Goguryeo and Baekje regions conquered by the Tang Dynasty rebelled against the Tang Dynasty with the support of Singu, and the Tang Dynasty sent troops to suppress it and went to war with Silla in order to teach it a lesson. If Xu Qing had not come through time and space, according to the historical records, the Tang Dynasty would have been defeated, in addition to getting Silla's superficial subservience, in fact, losing the former Goguryeo and Baekje regions that had been incorporated into the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and Silla would occupy the original Goguryeo and Baekje regions, the conquered areas of the Tang Dynasty, and the national and military strength would become stronger and stronger, resulting in the permanent separation of the Korean Peninsula from China in the future.
Xu Qing's expedition to the east rewrote history, the original Goguryeo and the original Baekje region of the Tang Dynasty returned to the embrace of the Tang Dynasty, and the land and population of Silla accounted for less than one-third of the total number of the three countries on the original Korean Peninsula.
Xu Qing has not yet conquered the west, the history of the western border area of the Tang Dynasty has not been rewritten, and it is developing along the trajectory of history, the Tang Dynasty continues to lose the land and population of the western border area, the western territory continues to shrink, and it has withdrawn from the Western Regions (West Asia and Central Asia) to the west, and is holding on to the Western Regions that are not so west (Tang called the west of Yumen Pass as the Western Regions) in present-day Xinjiang and Qinghai, and started a tug-of-war with Tibet.
Xu Qing was a soldier in later generations, and he was also a soldier in the Tang Dynasty, and the soldiers had the responsibility to defend the land, and they were also patriotic and enthusiastic young people, and they could not sit idly by and watch the territory of the Tang Dynasty continue to shrink, and the territory that the Tang Dynasty exchanged for the blood of many soldiers was invaded by foreign races such as the Arab Empire and Tubo, and could not watch the prosperous China created by the Tang Dynasty, only I bullied others, and no one else bullied me The situation of the world's first power was buried by Wu Zetian, which only lasted for more than ten years, and was short-lived.
The climate of the Western Regions is dry, there are many deserts and deserts, little rain, lack of water, and it is difficult to march, so it is necessary to cross the green mountains (now the Pamir Plateau, the Pamir Plateau where the Tianshan, Karakoram, and Hindu Kush mountain ranges meet, and the Pamir Plateau is called "Green Ridge" in ancient times, and it is the only road leading to West Asia after the two roads of the Silk Road and the south meet in Kashgar. It is known as the "Green Ridge Ancient Road" by today's people), and to overcome altitude sickness, the Western Regions west of the Green Ridge have plains and mountains.
Xu Qing's army was not good at fighting mountain warfare, and it took a lot of time to train an army that was good at fighting in mountains and plateaus. The real master of the Tang Dynasty is Wu Zetian, Wu Zetian regards Xu Qing as the biggest political enemy, she does not want to see Xu Qing's prestige in the army getting higher and higher, she does not want to see Xu Qing's military achievements getting bigger and bigger, and it is unlikely that she will send Xu Qing to lead the army to the west, even if she sends Xu Qing to lead the army to the west, if she plays yin, causing Xu Qing's army to be unable to supply logistics, Xu Qing's army may also lose the battle, and then the judicial system controlled by the Hou Party will take the opportunity to convict Xu Qing.
According to the Tang law, the generals who lost the battle were executed.
Besides, Wu Zetian took advantage of Xu Qing's battle in the Western Regions, and it was very possible to kill Xu Qing's base camp in Chang'an, Youzhou, and Pyongyang.
Wu Zetian is an unscrupulous person for power, according to historical records, she killed a biological daughter, two biological sons, a grandson, and a granddaughter, killed almost all the children of the Li Tang royal family, and killed tens of thousands of Tang meritorious families, noble children, civil and military officials and their families who were loyal to the Li Tang royal family.
The westward expedition is imperative, but the conditions are not ripe at the moment; Govern the former Goryeo and Baekje regions under the jurisdiction of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, and then destroy Silla in a few years, Xu Tu Dongying is inseparable from civilian governance, but Xu Qing's subordinates are all military generals, not a single civilian official, and the struggle with Wu Zetian is not only fighting strength, but also fighting wit, and a civilian think tank is needed; The royalists are still at a disadvantage in the struggle against the later party, and the latest proof is that the founding hero of the Tang Dynasty, the grandson of the famous general Wei Chi Gong, Wei Chi Ding, has worked hard in the army for ten years, but he is still a small school officer, and he has not been promoted.