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It may be that this secret conversation with Li Jue made Li Jue feel scared, or made him clear his doubts, and in the next period of time, Yang Xi did not receive any news from the East Palace about Li Jue and Li Ju's secret discussion to deal with him.

However, Yang Xi knew that this was only temporary, and as time went by, the fight between the two sides would definitely increase, especially when Li Longji was getting older and older, had the intention of passing on the throne, or had physical problems, and there was a possibility of death, the fight would be the most intense.

In the future, there will definitely be a tear between him and Li Jue, and even a soldier, which is something that Yang Xi has already determined.

Li Jue will pass on the throne to him when he becomes emperor, which is almost a dream, and Yang Xi knows that such a thing will definitely not happen. If you want to become an emperor, you will definitely not be able to go up without stepping on the blood of many people, he only needs the title of the heir of the Li family, so that he is qualified to ascend the throne. And this title can only be given by Li Jue, and now Yang Xi feels that he needs what Li Jue can give, and this is the only one.

Yang Xi hoped that Li Longji would not decide to pass on the throne within these two years, nor would he die within these two years, otherwise he would not have time to prepare.

Time passed quickly, and it was hot in a blink of an eye, and Yang Xi's son Yang Chen was almost a year old.

The little guy is born with a tiger head and a tiger brain, and can already say some simple words and walk.

Watching his son grow up strongly, Yang Xi felt an indescribable pride in his heart. He deeply felt the kind of family affection between father and son that could not be severed, and he didn't know if this kind of family affection between father and son would fade away after he had more children, but he felt that this feeling was very strong now. He also believes that as his son grows up under his own attention, this feeling will become stronger and stronger.

Maybe the number of children increases, and the feelings will be diluted a little. Li Jue has too many heirs. Yang Guozhong has few heirs, which may be the reason why Yang Guozhong treats him better, and the feeling between Li Jue, as his biological father, is very weak.

There will definitely be a fight between him and Li Jue in the future, but Yang Xi doesn't want a similar fight between himself and his son in the future.

The fighting between Qinghai and Anxi had largely subsided, and most of the troops had returned to Korea at the end of August. These two battles achieved brilliant victories, completely defeating the Tibetan armies in these two places, capturing hundreds of thousands of Tibetans, and capturing countless strategic materials.

War is a great drain on a nation's wealth, and this is the main reason why many courtiers oppose the start of war. The use of troops in Qinghai and Anxi also added great difficulties to Datang's finances. When An Lushan's rebellion arose. The wealth accumulated by Datang for many years was quickly consumed, although it did not reach the point of breaking the bones, but the treasury was no longer so solid. After these two battles were underway, the treasury became even more strained.

Fortunately, a lot of the wealth of the Tibetan people was seized, which to a certain extent alleviated the situation of the national treasury being tight.

However, Wang Chen was not satisfied with these, he was returning to the court, and immediately suggested to the imperial court that he should properly dispose of the Tibetan prisoners and let these Tibetan prisoners create wealth. to make up for the losses and attrition of the war.

Wang Chen's proposal was to let the prisoners of war undergo labor reform, so that they could contribute to the construction of the Tang Dynasty.

This proposal was opposed by many ministers, who thought it was a disrespectful move to the world and would chill the hearts of the people. Even if the Tibetans were enemies of the Tang Dynasty, they should be treated with courtesy and given better resettlement to the captured Tibetans. But Wang Chen strongly opposed it and argued with reason. In the end, through many channels, Li Longji was persuaded to agree to carry out centralized reform of the Tibetan prisoners of war. to atone for the sins they have committed.

About 180,000 Tibetans were captured in Anxi and Qinghai, and all of these captives were escorted to the interior of the country, where they were kept under centralized custody and allowed to participate in labor reform, road construction, water conservancy construction, river dredging, and land cultivation. These prisoners of war were not required to be paid and were allowed to work for many years without fear of affecting their farming. After the construction of the official road from Luoyang to Chang'an and the dredging of the canal, many officials saw the great benefits of rehabilitating prisoners of war, and many ministers who had originally stood up for it also supported the proposal.

There is no need to increase the burden on the court, don't be afraid of affecting agricultural affairs, don't pay wages, just send a certain number of soldiers to watch over them. No one can have too much such free labor.

The only thing to worry about was the fear that the Tubo people would make trouble, and in the end Gao Shi came up with a "poisonous plan", that is, to take the measure of "sitting together", forming a certain number of Tubo people into a team, and selecting a captain to manage, if there is a team escape or chaos, then kill the whole team. Encourage mutual supervision and reporting among team members, as long as someone reports, there will be rewards, and even early termination of labor reform.

Such "vicious" methods have achieved very good results, and the possibility of the Tibetan people causing rebellion has been greatly reduced.

Shang Jiexi and other high-ranking Tubo officials surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and were rewarded by the Tang court, and were awarded the county king, the prince of the country, the duke of the county and other idle positions, which also gave the Tubo captives a great influence, they were eager to enjoy the same treatment as the Tang people after the transformation, or even better, so they showed a certain enthusiasm in the transformation.

Although Wang Chen did not participate in political affairs because of filial piety, he proposed and implemented it because it was the matter of reforming prisoners of war, and it was implemented in half a year, and very good results were achieved, at least the official road from Luoyang to Chang'an was renovated, and he was also rewarded by Li Longji.

The Tibetans were so badly devastated that they were almost in the state of extinction, and their internal parts were disintegrated and separated, and civil strife broke out everywhere, and they could no longer pose a threat to the neighboring countries. In the war with the Tubo, the Tang army showed outstanding combat effectiveness, deterring the surrounding tribes and small countries, for a time, there was a rare tranquility in the northwest and northern border passes, whether it was Turkic, Khitan, Xi and other tribes, all sent envoys to Chang'an to pay tribute, once again to the Tang Emperor to express their submission.

However, there are always some people who can't see the situation clearly, when Tubo was hit hard, and various tribes successively sent envoys to Chang'an to express their submission to the Tang Emperor, there was a small country close to Tubo but there was no reaction. This small country is the Nanzhao of the South.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, there were many tribes in the Erhai area, which did not belong to each other, among which there were six larger tribes, called the Six Edicts, namely the Mengwei Edict, the Yue Analysis Edict, the Langqiong Edict, the Edict of the Emperor, the Edict of Shi Lang, and the Edict of Mengshe. Mengshe edict is in the south of the edicts, called "Nanzhao".

With the support of the Tang Dynasty, Nanzhao successively conquered the Xi'er River region, destroyed the other five edicts, and unified the Erhai region.

But then the relationship between Nanzhao and Datang slowly deteriorated.

In the tenth year of Tianbao, the king of Nanzhao, Luo Feng, raised troops to break through Yunnan, killed Zhang Qiantuo, the Taishou of Yunnan, and took the 32 states of the state.

Jiannan Jiedu made Xian Yu Zhongtong lead 80,000 troops to attack Nanzhao, but suffered a major defeat and almost wiped out the entire army.

Fearing retaliation from the Tang army, Nanzhao King Ge Luofeng sought the support of Tubo, and Tubo Zampu agreed to form an alliance with Nanzhao. In the eleventh year of Tianbao, Tubo Zampu canonized Ge Luofeng as "Zampu Zhong (meaning Little Zampu) Southern Edict" and "Given as a Brother's Country". Ge Luofeng established himself and the country name was Dameng. In the thirteenth year of Tianbao, after Jiannan stayed, Li Mi led 70,000 troops to attack Nanzhao, entered Taihe City, and suffered a crushing defeat again, and the whole army was annihilated.

When the Tang Dynasty army fought with the Tubo people in Qinghai and Anxi, the Nanzhao King Ge Luofeng was not idle, and moved his hands and feet from time to time in the south, until the Tubo people were severely damaged and almost the entire army was wiped out, then he was frightened to stop.

However, Luo Feng, the king of Nanzhao, did not send envoys to Chang'an to express his surrender, and still sent hundreds of thousands of soldiers, ready to fight against the Tang Dynasty by force.

This move of Nanzhao Wang Ge Luo Feng annoyed one person, that is, Wei Jiansu, the prime minister who was a close confidant of Yang Guozhong.

The wars with Nanzhao were all launched under the leadership of Yang Guozhong, and Wei Jiansu was also a major participant. The defeat of Nanzhao is also a difficult for him to unravel, and now Nanzhao's allied army Tubo is dying of beating, Wei Jiansu naturally does not want to see Nanzhao still there proudly happy, so when he got a report that Nanzhao Chen soldiers were in the north, ready to fight with our Tang army, and did not send envoys to Chang'an to meet him, he immediately played to Emperor Li Longji and asked for troops to use troops against Nanzhao.

When Wei Jiansu proposed this performance to the emperor, he also specially came to Yang Xi, who was guarding filial piety at home, hoping that Yang Xi could support his proposal.

As a fanatical Hanist, Yang Xi immediately expressed his approval after listening to Wei Jiansu's analysis.

Today's Tang Dynasty army's combat power has been greatly improved, firearms are being continuously studied, and a large number of troops are equipped, and the Tubo people have also been beaten down, and there are almost no powerful foreign enemies. A small Nanzhao, once made the Tang Dynasty lose troops and generals, and now when the military power is in its prime, he dared not to show surrender, but also to resist by force, after listening to what Wei Jiansu said, he immediately agreed to use troops against Nanzhao, and to completely divide the land of Nanban into the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

should also save some face for Yang Guozhong!

However, because he was filial piety, it was inconvenient for him to enter the court to present his feelings, so he immediately went to Guo Ziyi.

Guo Ziyi is a military general, who has been fighting for pleasure all his life, and after being encouraged by Yang Xi, he immediately approved the proposal to take Nanzhao well.

Yang Xi went to Yan Zhenqing again, but Yan Zhenqing did not fully support the use of troops against Nanzhao, he thought that the war had just subsided, and the people should be allowed to rest and recuperate. However, after Yang Xi persuaded Yang Xi to "feed the war with war" and did not increase the responsibility of the people after weighing the two aspects of the Tubo Campaign, he also reluctantly agreed to Yang Xi's proposal.

Yang Xi instructed Gao Shi to follow Wei Jiansu and take the initiative to propose a war against Nanzhao.

After a series of activities by Yang Xi, when Li Longji convened the ministers to discuss whether to wage war against the Nanzhao, who was unwilling to submit, most of the ministers agreed, and the court was approved.

However, the war does not start immediately, the weather in the south is hot and humid, especially in the summer, and the most suitable time for war is in winter and spring.

A large number of southern sergeants were recruited and dispatched, and systematic training was carried out to prepare for war against Nanzhao.

Yang Xi instructed Gao Shi to take the initiative to ask for war and command the war against Nanzhao. (To be continued......)

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