—— Yang Xi almost "coaxed" Li Jue away by playing Tai Chi.

Let Li Jue be confused about his mind in a fog, this is what Yang Xi expects to see now.

Yang Xi hopes that in the next time, Li Jue, who is afraid that the crown prince will be replaced by his brother, will become dependent on him. Of course, Yang Xi also hopes that Li Ling will not back down, and will keep fighting with Li Jue, the more fierce the pinch, the better, so that Li Jue can live in fear all day long.

In this way, Li Ying will no longer have the energy to contradict him, and he can rest assured that the last year of his filial piety will be mixed.

What Li Jue promised again, he still had the same mentality as before: he remembered Li Jue's promise, but he didn't believe in this promise.

When it comes to the struggle for power and the throne, any promise is no different from a fart, Yang Xi will not be stupid enough to wait until Li Jue becomes the emperor and appoints him as the crown prince, and then takes over the throne, everything requires his own efforts and efforts. If Li Jue becomes the emperor, he will be in power, and he can find countless reasons to break his promise, and he will not be morally blamed. Li Jue is still young, Li Longji is already old, if Li Longji passes the throne to Li Jue, or Li Longji dies of illness, then Li Jue can be the emperor for a very long time, and no one can predict what will happen to Li Jue after he becomes the emperor. Li Heng has been the prince for decades, but in the end, it all came to naught!

Because of such psychological preparation, and knowing that Li Longji became emperor by a coup d'état, Li Heng eventually wanted to seize power by launching a coup d'état, but he did not succeed, and Yang Xi thought that the road he would eventually take was to follow them. And in order to succeed, the forbidden soldiers must be basically mastered, and they must be supported by more powerful ministers in the court. Therefore, Yang Xi also firmly established his original plan, worked hard to install people he trusted in the forbidden army, and tried to find a way to win higher official positions for those he used.

Yan Zhenqing, Gao Shi, and Li Mi, who are now ministers with a good position in the DPRK, Yang Xi believes that they will support him at a critical time. Not to mention his father-in-law, Guo Ziyi, but this is not enough, he needs to cultivate more strength.

When he went to Qinghai, Yang Xi not only created a miracle of war, but also won the hearts of many leading generals, making them happy and convinced of him. Hun Shizhi, Hun Mu father and son, Fugu Huaien, Chen Huiguang, Hao Tingyu and these people all showed a certain degree of loyalty to Yang Xi under the co-optation of Yang Xi's grace and power, and Yang Xi also worked hard to fight for higher positions for them. After returning to the dynasty, through his own efforts, Guo Ziyi's help, Yang Yuhuan and Mrs. Qiuguo's words. Successfully placed them in more critical positions.

Hun Shizhi was appointed as the general of the right Wuwei, Hun Lu continued to serve in the left dragon Wuwei, was promoted to the general of the left dragon Wuwei because of his military merits, Fugu Huaien was appointed as the Shuofang Jiedu envoy, Chen Huiguang was appointed as the Henan Jiedu envoy, and Hao Tingyu was appointed as the general of the right Yulin Army of the inspection school.

These people who were co-opted by Yang Xi had a good influence in the army, plus Pang Zhong, Wang Sili, Liu Guangting, Li Fu, Lu Chongben and other people who followed Yang Xi to fight earlier, and the people that Yang Xi could trust were widely distributed in the army. Some of these people may not be completely obedient to him at critical times, but Yang Xi hopes that these people will not stand on his opposite side at critical times.

Yang Xi has been working hard to discover talents. Through their own recommendation, they will serve in the DPRK and the Central Committee, and finally use them for their own use. Because I am not very familiar with this history, I don't fully know which capable people live in this era. In the future, the person who recommends can only make a judgment based on his own determination. However, he was disappointed by the performance of two people he recommended to serve in the DPRK, that is, Li Bai and Du Fu, who were very famous in history. These two people are arrogant and upright, but they lack ability, and Yang Xi has almost no political talent. There is no way to entrust them with a higher position, a greater reuse.

In the past, Yang Xi decided that allowing these two very famous people to contribute to the cultural prosperity of the Tang Dynasty might be the use of their talents. Now he is even more convinced of this determination. Let them write more poems, and let them push the prosperity of Tang poetry to the peak.

Yang Xi recommended a lot of talents to the imperial court, and he was once worried that this move would be criticized and suspected by Emperor Li Longji, but after the time passed, he didn't feel this, and he was relieved. However, he also warned himself that he must be careful when doing these things, so as not to be truthful and attacked.

The war in the south is going well.

The Erhaidao army commanded by Gao Shi was very well prepared and created a great momentum. The great victory of the Tang army in Qinghai and Anxi against the Tubo people gave the Nanzhao army and people a very great psychological coercion, and the Nanzhao army, which had inflicted heavy losses on the Tang army a few years ago, did not play the bravery of the previous years at all, and suffered defeats in a row, and was successively hit hard by the Erhaidao army commanded by Gao Shi.

Because the Tang army advanced very fast, it was unexpectedly fast to the Nanzhao people, and the army outflanked in several directions surrounded the men and horses led by the Nanzhao King Ge Luofeng. Under the fierce attack of the Tang army, the Nanzhao army, which was guarding the lonely city and suffering a large number of firearms, was defeated, and the Nanzhao king, Ge Luofeng, finally chose to surrender, and Nanzhao was immediately declared destroyed.

However, the situation in Nanzhao was complicated, there were many tribes, and after the surrender of Nanzhao King Ge Luofeng, Gao Shi continued to march and prepared to lead the army to the Erhai line to completely control Nanzhao. After the surrender of the Nanzhao king, Luo Feng and a group of important people under his command were escorted to Chang'an.

When the news of the great victory came, the ministers of the DPRK and China were not very convinced, especially Prime Minister Wei Jiansu. He was fully aware of the crushing defeat he had suffered when he used troops against Nanzhao a few years ago, and hundreds of thousands of Tang troops were wiped out by Nanzhao. But I didn't expect that after a few years, everything changed, and the Nanzhao army was vulnerable, and the country was wiped out in a few months. Wei Jiansu didn't know if it was because the combat power of the Nanzhao army had weakened, or if the combat effectiveness of the Tang army had been greatly improved. But this ending made him quite satisfied, and he took revenge.

When he received the good news from the front and learned that Nanzhao Wang Ge Luofeng led his troops to surrender and chose to attach himself to the country, Yang Xi was also very happy, and he immediately went to Yang Guozhong's grave and told Yang Guozhong who was buried underground. said that he had regained face for Yang Guozhong and avenged his revenge. This battle was almost promoted by Yang Xi, and now that the battle against Nanzhao has been won, it can be said that he is doing his filial piety for Yang Guozhong, and he can be proud of his brothers for a while.

I don't know what the reason is, Yang Xi's elder brothers are not very friendly to him, he had this feeling when Yang Xi just crossed over, and as time goes by, Yang Xuan, Yang Hao, and Yang Xi seem to treat him more and more prejudicedly, especially after Yang Guozhong's death, and even often accuse Yang Xi of his behavior. The last time the officials of the Imperial Historical Observatory impeached Yang Xi for not keeping filial piety, the three brothers added fuel to the fire.

However, Yang Xi didn't care too much about this, he already understood that his three elder brothers knew that he was not Yang Guozhong's biological son, and finally decided not to bother with them, let them say, as long as they didn't take out-of-the-ordinary actions.

Yang Guozhong's three biological sons are not very capable, and the ministries they hold depend on Yang Guozhong, and they have not made any achievements in their positions. Yang Xi also believes that with the passing of Yang Guozhong, his third brother will also be slowly snubbed by Li Longji.

After all, their abilities are very average.

Yang Xi only hoped that the three elder brothers would not stab him in the back at a critical time.

Most of the ministers of the DPRK and the central government paid far less attention to the war in Nanzhao than in the war with Tubo, and the enemy so powerful in Tubo was quickly crippled under the rapid blows of our Tang army, and the Nanzhao who was subordinate to Tubo lost the support of Tubo, and it would not be very difficult to solve it, even if they had severely damaged the Tang army a few years ago.

Because of this mentality, many people don't even feel surprised when there is good news ahead.

The battle between the crown prince Li Ying and the Yongwang Li Xuan did not temporarily subside because of the war in Nanzhao, but surfaced again. To everyone's surprise, one of the methods that Li Xuan used to attack Li Jue was to use the matter of Li Ju bribing two servants to impeach Yang Xi a few months ago. In front of all the ministers, Li Ling explained the matter to Emperor Li Longji, saying that the two imperial servants were used by Li Ying and Li Ju to attack Yang Xi, the youngest high-ranking official in the court, and everything was made out of nothing.

Li Ling's dangzhan criticism made Li Ying very embarrassed, but he still refuted it reasonably, saying that what Li Lan said was made out of nothing, and he just wanted to slander his image as a prince. But Li Lan took out the evidence, and he didn't know how he collected the evidence that Li Zhuo had bought the officials of the Imperial Historical Observatory, and even the gift that Li Zhuo gave to one of the officials of the Imperial Historical Observatory was obtained by him, which shocked the court for a while.

In the end, it was Li Zhuo who took the initiative to stand up and carry the black pot, saying that all this was done by him personally and had nothing to do with his father Li Jue.

As a result, several officials of the Imperial Observatory were severely punished, either dismissed or exiled. Li Zhuo also fell into bad luck, the title of the king of Pengcheng County was dismissed, he became the prince of Pengcheng County, and was ordered by Emperor Li Longji to be grounded in the palace for half a year to reflect on it.

Li Ling was also solemnly warned by Li Longji for a long time, and Li Ling, who stood up to accuse Li Ling, was also severely reprimanded by Li Longji, saying that Li Ling was too arrogant and domineering in the court, and Li Longji also solemnly told Li Ling that he didn't want to see his brothers fight, and Li Ling also ended up in a gray end.

And Yang Xi, who was wronged, gained the most, with Li Longji's comfort and the sympathy of hundreds of officials.

However, Yang Xi also knew that after this open conflict, the dispute between Li Ying and Li Ling would only get worse. (To be continued......)