Chapter 94 Peace Talks

A person with absolute power is dangerous, this is how Li Yu summed up his actions a month after Vedant's assassination. The Ministry of Rites gave Wei Dan the nickname "Wenzhong", which was very high in the name of Wenchen, and Li Yu had no objection to this, but remembering that the reason why Wei Dan was assassinated was that he found clues in some feudal towns during the inventory of salt affairs, Li Yu put all the responsibility on his predecessor Huainan Jiedu envoy Wang Yi, who had been in office for five years. Wang Ye had already been demoted to the history of Guangzhou Thorn, and Li Yu, who was furious, ordered Wang Ye to be demoted to Guangzhou. The next unlucky is the former Jiangxi observer Yang Ping, because he was reported and verified by the imperial historian Li Yijian and was demoted to Lingnan, Li Yu also planned to confiscate his family property and copy him cleanly, Li Jiang tried his best to persuade him on the grounds that he was not allowed to confiscate his family property according to the law of the country, and even grabbed Li Xun's clothes and did not let him go, so that Li Yu changed his mind.

However, Li Yu's anger is still very big, Lao Tzu has been extraordinarily gracious if he didn't kill this bastard who was corrupt, bribery, oppression, and cruelty to the people, can't he confiscate his family property and leave him alive? In this way, you have to intercede with him, Li Yu was angry at that time, and when he was pulled by Li Jiang, he always wanted to kick it down. Fortunately, the body is not energetic, otherwise he can really go down with one foot, fortunately, he is from modern times, and he knows the importance of "rules". The more he thought about it, the more frightened Li Yu became, and later rewarded Li Jiang with two silks and a cotton robe to reward Li Jiang's loyalty and uprightness, and also to make compensation for his temporary evil thoughts.

Now that the drought has ended, the restoration and construction of water conservancy projects in various localities have been largely completed, and engineering teams composed of veterans are being turned into road construction teams to repair and open up roads, especially the roads leading from Lingnan to Jiangxi, Hunan, and Fujian, from Fujian to eastern Zhejiang and Jiangxi, from Jiannan to the south of Xichuan, and coastal routes have been opened up, and large-scale material transportation is being attempted. According to the plan of the Household Department and the Military Department, the money and grain from eastern and western Zhejiang, as well as Fujian and Lingnan, which would become important supply centers for the imperial court, would be transported to Luoyang and Jiangling by land and sea to replenish the treasury and then be transported to Chang'an. At the same time, at the same time, because of the growing rebellion of the barbarians in Annam, at the request of Zhang Zhou, the capital of Annam, more than 7,000 veterans and displaced people were recruited in the south to immigrate to Annam. Many of the newly laid soldiers went straight to Annam. The strength that the imperial court has accumulated for many years, and the people's hearts that Li Yu has gathered are all ready-made excuses when they are used, why not fight?

The armies of various units have been successively transferred to Huaixi, and at least the armed forces in Luoyang have been strengthened. After the Anshi Rebellion and the Four Towns Rebellion, the power of the imperial court was compressed pitifully, and the defense force of the eastern capital of the empire was only a thousand people, whether it was Xuanwu or Huaixi, any town with bad intentions could threaten Luoyang at any time. Wang Shao and Zheng Yuqing operated in Luoyang for several years and reorganized Luoyang's city defenses, the prince brought 3,000 guards, and the soldiers and horses of Gao Xiayu and Wu Chongyin had arrived in Luoyang and settled outside Luoyang. Such a military posture put Wu Shaocheng in a situation that was difficult to decide. Fighting to the east, the imperial army must have come from all directions, and the tentative attack on An Huang was also repelled by Yi You. If you don't fight, Huaixi's predicament will not be able to get rid of, and you will be trapped to death by the imperial court. Originally, Huaixi General and Wu Shaoyang's son-in-law Dong Chongzhi suggested that Wu Shaocheng take the crown prince to Luoyang and do a big job, but it was a bit difficult to capture the prince who lived in the deep palace of Jiancheng from the hands of 3,000 guards and thousands of city defense troops. Even if the vicinity of Luoyang is captured, the troops dispatched cannot be too small, but if there are too many, they will be discovered, so they have to give up.

Therefore, Huaixi's strategy was changed to small-scale cross-border robbery, but with unreasonable neighbors for a long time, each town has a heart, the Huaixi army often crosses 20 miles and can not see the living, found can only grab a little long run, most of the towns have set up watchtowers, there are mobile cavalry ready to set off at any time, to fight Huaixi thieves. The looting did not solve the problem, but the protests from the towns grew. The spring rain is finally normal, but the spring famine is coming soon. Wu Shaocheng is so annoying.

However, Wu Shaocheng annoyed Wu Shaocheng, in order to fight this battle, Li Yu still has a big thing to do. Soon after Li Yu returned to Fengxiang, he successfully captured the regular Tubo army that crossed the border, and completely annihilated a Tubo horse team that crossed the border to rob and fight in the grass valley. Taking advantage of the opportunity of both the stolen goods and the seizure of the stolen goods, in the case of the great protest against the Tubo unified army in front of the face was not answered, the three towns of Baoyi, Fengxiang and Jingyuan took joint action, and the intensity of the attack on the Tubo suddenly rose to a higher level, and the revenge for the transboundary plunder of the Tubo increased more, and Shatuo also attacked frequently from Shuofang, and in as many as dozens of military operations, Tang Jun occupied the initiative. In the last two years, all the new forts in Tibet have been uprooted. In several small-scale movements without leaving a living mouth, the Guards actually tested gunpowder weapons for the offensive.

In fact, for so many years, although the two sides of Tang Tu were hostile, they couldn't eat each other, so they had a tacit understanding when to fight and when to stop. The state of war on both sides has neither ceased nor erupted. However, last year's Shatuo surrender to Tang and this year's cross-border attacks have escalated the conflict. Finally, when a Tibetan army of more than 3,000 people appeared in sight, the battle expanded, and none of the 3,000 Tibetan troops ran away.

However, although the losses were heavy, the Tibetan side did not believe that it was the reason for the decline of their own combat effectiveness or the increase in their combat effectiveness. According to the report of the Tanma, there were only four or five hundred people in the vicinity of the former Tibetan fortress, but after the war* it was reported that when the three thousand Tibetan troops arrived, as many as 10,000 men appeared in front and behind them, wearing military uniforms embroidered with leopard prints, and on the flanks were well-equipped cavalry, among which were thousands of Mosamen who had long disappeared from the battlefield. *The generals were visibly disappointed by the number of Tibetan troops who arrived, but this did not prevent the *soldiers from happily achieving their military exploits.

Having completed the task of seizing a favorable starting point for the attack, the task of * became to consolidate the defense, and after repelling several counterattacks from the Tibetans, the two sides ceased fighting. The reason for the armistice was not of course because the generals of both sides were ashamed of their war behavior, but because the peace envoys sent by the Tibetan Zanpu came to the battlefield. He will pass through the battlefield to Chang'an and convey Zampu's sincerity for peace.