Chapter 45: Impeachment

Ma Zhou wants to say the same thing as Zheng Liwan, and he also wants to know about Shuo Fang's affairs and take precautions as soon as possible.

Luo Shixin just smiled, just like answering Zheng Liwan's answer, and said: "This big man has done something and not done something, and he has indeed violated the basic law by using strategic materials without authorization. I have my reasons, and in the current situation, I have to do the same. I did it, and I was afraid that others would say that it would not work? There is no need to make a fuss, if there is a punishment, there is no need to think about how to avoid it. Wouldn't it be nice to accept it generously? What is a penalty? A clear conscience is key. ”

Ma Zhou bowed movingly when he heard this, and said: "The general is noble, and Ma Zhou admires it." ”

"Ha, don't boast that I'm so great. I've just suffered and know what it's like. The people of Shuofang are also our compatriots, and they suffered this crime because our Datang Dynasty intended to take Shuofang bloodlessly. Having achieved our goal, how can we sit idly by and watch them suffer and ignore it? Luo Shixin patted Ma Zhou's shoulder as if comforting, and returned to the crowd.

Ma Zhou looked at Luo Shixin with an indifferent attitude and smiled faintly.

As usual, Luo Shixin distributed a small part of the strategic materials obtained to the soldiers on this expedition, including all the food such as meat, skin and barley, and the cattle, sheep and horses were left behind. It's still the old rule, the cattle and sheep are reported to the court, and he doesn't have the manpower to take care of the cattle and sheep. As for the war horses, after some pondering and discussion, Luo Shixin not only handed over all the mares for production this time, but also returned the 9,000 war horses borrowed from Tuli. He also invited an additional 30,000 military horses to Li Tang.

It's not that Luo Shixin is generous, it's really a little unavoidable.

It turns out that there are more people and less meat, and staring at a piece of meat is the same as staring at a peerless beauty. For one hundred and eighty horses. The two generals with extremely high status will even quarrel and move.

When Luo Shixin was the general of the Right Xiaowei, he tried to ask for horses in a different way, but no one wanted to bird him. In the end, it came to Li Jiancheng's head, and Li Jiancheng gave him two hundred horses in the face of the prince. At that time, it was not ordinary pity.

But now Luo Shixin finds that there are many people and it is not comfortable.

There were only 30,000 border soldiers under the jurisdiction of Luo Shixin. However, the 15,000 war horses that Li Shimin allocated to him plus the more than 13,000 military horses that he plundered for the first time, if you count the current more than 65,000, excluding some who were killed in battle. He had nearly ninety thousand military horses in his hands.

30,000 soldiers have 90,000 horses, which is too luxurious in this Central Plains, which lacks war horses. Moreover, the feed that 90,000 horses have to eat a day is difficult for Luo Shixin to afford. Mo said that it is a conditioned concentrate feed, even the most basic and ordinary horse grass adds up to an astronomical amount.

Now the situation in front of Luo Shixin is that there is too much meat to hold on. Just be generous. Allocate 30,000 to the imperial court. 30,000 soldiers, 60,000 horses, enough.

Datang is still short of horses, and it has not yet developed to the point where 740,000 military horses are so terrifying in the future, and these 30,000 horses are still in great demand.

Especially in terms of Li Jing and Li Shiji, they also need enough support from soldiers and horses.

The latest soap armor, Luo Shixin also gave it to the soldiers who went to the Turks for the first time. This warrior who has retired from the battlefield deserves the respect and love of the people.

Another double gain of fame and fortune. Another brilliant victory, the morale and fighting spirit of the vast majority of border soldiers have been raised.

Especially listening to the soldiers who have experienced the great war in one move talk about their experiences along the way. Luo Shi's letter and his style of taking the lead also made the border soldiers realize that the newly appointed general was a trustworthy figure.

The pawns who missed the first opportunity and did not have the second chance set their sights on the next competitions. Never miss this opportunity, the soldiers practiced even harder.

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Chang'an East Palace.

Li Shimin looked at the two impeachment letters in front of him, and thoughtfully considered something.

Although he is not the emperor now, he is no different from the emperor. Except for the first and fifteenth days of the Lunar New Year every month, Li Yuan was living the days of the Emperor Taishang at other times.

Li Jiancheng was relegated to Xishu, Li Yuanji had been missing for two years, and Li Yuan had long lost any hope for his survival.

For Li Shimin, Li Yuan certainly recognizes his ability and believes that he can become a better emperor of the Tang Dynasty than him, but there is still a certain knot in his design to deal with Li Jiancheng, and he is not as close as before after all.

He, who has always valued his affection, has experienced the distress brought by power. Li Yuan, who was already enjoying redundant handling of government affairs, was even more in no mood to deal with government affairs, so he handed it over to Li Shimin and Pei Lian.

According to the blueprint planned in Li Shimin's heart, the future military of Datang will be handed over to Li Jing, Li Shiji, Luo Shixin, and Hou Junji. In his opinion, these four people are all figures with extraordinary military ability, which are comparable to Wang Jian and Meng Tian under Qin Shi Huang and Wei Qing and Huo Qubing under Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Hou Junji's military exploits are slightly insufficient, and at present, Li Jing, Li Shiji, and Luo Shixin are the first.

Among them, he is the most important is Luo Shixin, not that Luo Shixin's ability is stronger than the first two, but that he is better than intimate, he is a member of the Qin Wang Party, and he has made great achievements in supporting him as the prince, and it is natural that he is more important.

Recently, he was impeached by two letters of impeachment against Luo Shixin for acting arbitrarily and arbitrarily. During his tenure as governor of Gyeongju, he did wanton things, such as holding this event and holding that project without authorization. The most important thing is to overstep the authority to deal with Shuofang's affairs, distribute Shuofang's grain to the people without authorization, and deliberately buy people's hearts.

This kind of thing is not Luo Shixin's turn to give an order, but he gave this order, and he gave this order knowingly: there is something wrong with this.

"Or, hand over these two pieces to His Majesty to deal with?" Seeing that in the past two days, Li Shimin has been thinking about the impeachment of Luo Shixin, thinking that he is in a dilemma and does not know how to deal with it. Fang Xuanling also put forward an opinion.

Li Shimin said: "You still don't know the character of your father? This letter reached his father, and the real victims were Liu Min and Liu Lan. My father has never cared about such trivial matters to his own people, just like me and my eldest brother at the beginning, the guards in the palace were twice as exceeded, and he turned a blind eye, not to mention just ordering relief for some people? ”

"What does Your Highness mean?" Fang Xuanling asked himself if he was the strategist who had followed the man in front of him the longest time, and he knew him very well, but sometimes, there was still no way to know what he was thinking.

"It's fine!" Li Shimin said with a smile: "I just want to verify one thing, I am thinking if I am looking at the right person, or I am looking away......" He did not explain, but said: "The official document from Gyeongju should be about to arrive, if it arrives, send it to me as soon as possible." ”

At noon that day, Fang Xuanling took a thin letter and handed it to Li Shimin.

Li Shimin opened the briefcase with some suspicion, this official document was too small, and when he opened it, he realized that there were only a few thin pieces of paper in the official document. The handwriting is beautiful and powerful, and most of the official documents sent by Luo Shixin recently are in the same handwriting, and he also knows that the person who writes is a rare talent...... Ma Zhou. Knowing that Luo Shixin lacked talents, it was not easy, but he just wrote down this character, and did not bother to pry Luo Shixin's corner.

Seeing his letter, Li Shimin was even more curious in surprise, looked at the letter carefully, and couldn't help laughing: "This Ma Zhou also underestimates me Li Shimin." Do you really think that I am stupid and stupid, and I am bewitched by just a few letters of impeachment, and I am at the mercy of it? However, this person is really not simple, and he actually broke through Liu Min and Liu Lan's thoughts with one sentence, and guessed their intentions. What's even more rare is that his words are exquisite, and his words are full of a sense of uprightness, which is amazing, really amazing. This person reminds me of Wei Zheng, resourceful and upright, and really has a bit of Wang Zuozhi's talent. ”

Seeing that Fang Xuanling was at a loss, Li Shimin said with a smile: "This letter was written by Ma Zhou with his own will, and in the letter, he apologized for Luo Shixin's guilt, hoping that I would be light." ”

Fang Xuanling has always been self-pritive, but at this moment, he feels that his brain is a little insufficient. This Luo Shixin is jealous, Luo Shixin does not come to ask for sin, one of his subordinates, what crime is asked for by Yue Wei. Which one is this playing?

"Because Luo Shixin didn't think about pleading guilty at all, but was waiting to be punished!" Li Shimin said in a somewhat happy tone: "He knew that he shouldn't have given the order to open the warehouse and release grain, but because of his temperament, he still knew the law and broke the law, and the moment he gave the order, he was ready to be punished." ”

Fang Xuanling was dumbfounded and said, "This ...... The general is really a strange person, doesn't he understand that his overstepping authority can be big or small? ”

Li Shimin said without hesitation: "If he knows, then he is not Luo Shixin." Thinking about the meaning of impeachment in Liu Min and Liu Lan's hearts, a trace of fierceness flashed in his eyes.

Because he is not accustomed to seeing the suffering of the people, he ordered to open a warehouse for relief, which is a deliberate act of buying people's hearts and minds, and the same thing has a very different meaning.

One has good intentions, but the other has ill intentions, accusing Luo Shixin of holding the power of the border army, buying people's hearts, and plotting against him.

This punishment, the treatment of the two, is very different.

At the beginning, he took a fancy to Liu Min and Liu Lan, who were scheming, utilitarian, and suitable for breaking the Shuo Fang's game, but he didn't expect that this game was broken, because a little accident led to Luo Shixin's hands, and they actually used their utilitarian heart on Luo Shixin's body.

Once Luo Shixin is convicted, it will not be his turn to be rewarded. Leaving aside Luo Shixin, the first work of taking Shuo Fang naturally fell on them. (To be continued......)

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