Chapter 82: Change
Li Shimin got the reward of the divine moon, and looked at Li Yirou, the princess of Pingyang Zhao, with a frown. It's okay to practice the maid every day to take a break, stand upright, turn left, turn right, what the hell is this, is the princess bored to this extent?
Li Yirou is a female general and a heroine who has fought in battle. Her mind is much more delicate than Li Shimin's, and she can see that this training method is closer to the training of the army. But this kind of training doesn't seem to be anything special, if Li Yirou chooses by herself, she would rather take the army to practice the formation directly, so that it is more direct and can form combat effectiveness as soon as possible.
If Zhang Wenyi's four maids saw Shenyue standing in front of Li Shimin here, it is estimated that they would kneel down one by one to worship.
Shenyue is a legend in the world of assassins, when he was rampant in the rivers and lakes, there was no one he couldn't kill, and even the presiding monk Huifa of Shaolin Temple, who was known as the first master of martial arts, couldn't escape his assassination.
It's a pity that he killed too many people and offended too many people, and was finally wanted by the three major families who bought the government. It is said that he was besieged by dozens of people in Zhongzhou, although he finally escaped and disappeared from sight. However, his deeds are still circulating in the rivers and lakes and have become a topic of conversation.
When Zhang Wenyi was talking to Ja Jie a few days ago, Zhang Wenyi found that he was the person who was being followed. Shenyue was ordered by Li Shimin to monitor Zhang Wenyida in Dingzhou for a month, but he did not find anything outstanding about this former princess of Jin.
In addition to serving the prince every day if an ordinary woman is like an ordinary woman, the only thing that Zhang Wenyi can impress Shenyue is the training of several maids in the past few days.
Regarding the prince's action of co-opting the government army of Jajie, Li Shimin is undeniable. Li Zhi is the crown prince and does need a guard army that can be used, so far Li Zhi has only taken a fancy to such a force, and even Li Shimin feels that it is a little less.
Although Ja Jie has the ability to command and has the material of a general, he is not so high as to break away from Li Shimin's cognition. Yi Jajie's current age and talent can only be similar to Cheng Zhijie and Hou Junji at most, and they are far worse than Li Jing, Qin Qiong, and Li Jiyi.
Some time ago, what bothered Li Shimin was the Cui family and the Li family of the Qingji Wang clan; Central Plains Chen Family, Gyeonggi Wei Family; The patriarch of the Taiyuan Wang family suddenly died in Dingzhou at the same time, which caused the dilemma that it was difficult to collect the military resources of the local dragons without a leader.
The grain and grass of the Chinese army can still be maintained, but most of the troops in the front are close to the edge of famine, and Li Shimin is anxious to urge Li Zhi to quickly raise grain, grass, clothing, weapons and other military materials to be transported to the front line, otherwise the army of the Northern Expedition will fall into a desperate situation.
However, to everyone's surprise, Li Zhi's materials transported by land could only maintain the Chinese army, while countless military supplies were directly supplied to the front line from the sea, which was an unprecedented feat, and the combat troops were replenished on the spot, not only with less attrition, but also more timely distribution.
The morale of the soldiers on the front line soared, and the troops of Qin Huaiyu, who were in the vanguard, conquered the three cities, and broke the Goguryeo army near Anshi City, pursued and killed for nearly 30 miles, beheaded nearly 2,000 and captured nearly 10,000 prisoners. This result directly led to the collapse of the morale of the Goguryeo frontline army, and Li Ji took the opportunity to lead the army to fight and defeat the main force of the enemy's reinforcements.
There were no rescuers outside the city of Anshi, and there was no food and grass inside, and it was already in a precarious situation, and Li Shimin was in a good mood.
Zhang Wenyi's four maids in Dingzhou gradually adapted to this kind of training after surviving the initial strangeness. They were originally people with martial arts, and their foundation was much better than that of modern female soldiers.
After the initial training, they quickly entered the professional training, during which two things happened, the first thing was that Chen Juan was pregnant. Ja Jie is also capable, and he successfully made Chen Juan pregnant with a child not long after he got married.
It was a big deal for a woman to conceive a child in ancient times, and it was Jay's first child. Chen Juan naturally became the object of everyone's protection, and her training was naturally in vain.
The second thing is that Yu Feng was taken in by Li Zhi, which was a very accidental thing. Zhang Wenyi was training them in the garden that day, and a needle that she didn't want to bring with her was broken, so Zhang Wenyi asked Yu Feng to go back and get a needle.
Coincidentally, on this day, Li Zhi won Li Shimin's verbal commendation, and he came back happily and wanted to share it with his wife. Yu Feng's back is very similar to Zhang Wenyi, and Li Zhi hugged Yu Feng for joy in the process of being happy.
In this era, the maid needs to meet all the needs of the master, not to mention that the master is the prince. Although Yu Feng knew that Li Zhi had recognized the wrong person, she didn't dare to resist and was unwilling to resist.
Li Zhi also quickly realized that he had recognized the wrong person, but he was the crown prince, and it was normal for this kind of thing in ancient times. So Li Zhi didn't have patience, but took Yu Feng's body by mistake.
The spring breeze with Yu Feng was once the most enjoyable for Li Zhi in recent times, but fortunately, he immediately relented and never touched Guo Feng again, and Yu Feng did not get pregnant because of this.
Zhang Wenyi drank dry vinegar for several days, but in the end she could only be helpless. However, she also took precautions and secretly put an end to all the possibilities of Li Zhi stealing food, which saved the other three girls from becoming a member of Li Zhi's harem.
Ja Jie knew that his wife was studying recruit training with the crown princess, and he didn't care about it at first. It's just that Chen Juan at this time was full of trust in Zhang Wenyi, and Jacques Jie couldn't withstand the pillow wind, so he pulled out a hundred recruits to train according to Zhang Wenyi's method.
The initial training was boring, and the recruits seemed to have wasted three months of training, during which time the gap between their training and that of other recruits was very significant.
But after three months, the situation was different, and the 100 recruits were known for their good obedience and discipline, and their overall level of training could be described as changing with each passing day. In the training of that year, the team of 100 people turned out to be the pacesetter battalion of the whole army, and its overall combat capability was much higher than that of other battalions.
Only then did Ja Jie pay attention to Zhang Wenyi's training methods, and he came up with an idea, that is, to split the two battalions and divide them into other battalions, so that these soldiers could guide other battalions to retrain.
In this way, the overall combat capability of Jajie's army has risen rapidly, and it has become an army that all generals dream of.
The Tang army's northern expedition to Goguryeo ultimately failed to achieve complete success, and due to the civil strife in Xue Yantuo, Li Shimin had to withdraw his troops and return them.
Zhang Wenyi was very strange about this, because it was previously said that Tang Taizong's failure to conquer Goguryeo for the first time was due to the drop in temperature. Zhang Wenyi also knew that most of the reasons for the defeat of the German army in Moscow during World War II were also due to the weather. So this time, she especially reminded Li Zhi to add winter clothes to the supplies transported to the front line.
But even this still failed to stop Li Shimin from retreating, and Zhang Wenyi felt that he was really a failure. People cross: When it comes to house fighting, it is a fighter in a house fight; In terms of influence, a fart can trigger a butterfly effect.
Look at herself, she can be regarded as a hardcore among the traversers, and her capital is not ordinarily abundant. But being a princess of Jin was not only insulted, but also sunk by others in the end. If you want to say miserable, I'm afraid that no traverser is more miserable than her.
This time, I wanted to use my foresight to help Li Zhi make a great contribution, but the result was that he still failed to change the trend of history, and those who should have withdrawn from the army still withdrew. If you want to say that she is incompetent, she may be the most.
It's just that what Zhang Wenyi didn't know was that in the original history, the princess of Jin was the daughter of the Taiyuan Wang, and Zhang Wenyi's strategy was deliberately promoted by the daughter of the Wang family, and in the end, it also affected the princess of Jinyang, Li Mingda, who was full of shame and anger, finally committed suicide.
Li Shimin was forced to abandon a large area of the Central Plains and even Qingji due to the scandal, making it a paradise for the family of gate valves. Out of revenge, Li Zhi hooked up with Wu Zetian and finally abolished Queen Wang; The eldest grandson Wuji also used the case of Fang Yiai to kill Li Ke, the king of Wu.
And all this has quietly changed, but Zhang Wenyi doesn't know it.
On the way back to Chang'an, Li Zhi explained to Zhang Wenyi why he had to withdraw his troops, because most of the rich areas of the Central Plains, Qingji and Hedong were controlled by the family, and the imperial court could not get much tax. The rice grain from the south was transported to the northwest, and the loss on the way accounted for three to forty percent, which was difficult to meet the needs of the imperial court.
Therefore, the trade route with the Western Regions became an indispensable tax resource for the imperial court. The internal instability of Xue Yantuo will affect the tranquility of the Western Regions. If this trade route is unstable, the imperial court will not have this side of the tax revenue, it will become difficult to support.
According to past practice, there would definitely be civil strife in Xue Yantuo. One of the purposes of the imperial court's withdrawal in Goguryeo was to prepare for the turmoil of Xue Yantuo and protect the smooth trade routes of the Western Regions.
Although the imperial court still has to focus on the Western Regions for the time being, but this time the fire of the Wanhao Inn in Dingzhou burned the patriarch of the five surnamed families, and the imperial court will definitely not let go of such an opportunity to hit the wealthy family.
Once these five families decline, then the imperial court can get at least seventy percent of the total output of this region from the tax revenue from the Central Plains to Qingji. And this seventy percent of the taxes are more than the combined taxes of the Western Regions and the Jiangnan Merchants.
Therefore, the biggest purpose of this retreat is not Xue Yantuo, but the imperial court should concentrate on taking the opportunity to attack the forces of the major giants.
Zhang Wenyi is not a political master, and she seems to understand this. But one thing is certain, that is, his own earth bomb killed several big fish at once.
This made Zhang Wenyi very happy, "Hmph! "Do you want my mother's life? Blow up you bastards. I really think that the old lady is the little daughter-in-law of your time, you can toss it!
Zhang Wenyi's happiness doesn't matter, the fence is not tightened and Li Zhi takes advantage of the loophole. When he arrived in Chang'an, Yu Feng was already walking with a big belly.
Zhang Wenyi is helpless about this, some things really can't be watched tightly if you want to. For example, men's stealing behavior.
Li Shimin was also unusually dissatisfied with this matter, because he was ready to change his plan. Another Wang daughter of Taiyuan was appointed as the crown princess, and Zhang Wenyi took a step back as the first concubine.
And the woman who was pregnant with the prince's first child completely subverted Li Shimin's plan. Because according to the examination of the imperial doctor, Yu Fenghuai's eighty percent is a baby boy. In other words, this child is likely to be the eldest son of the crown prince and the eldest grandson of the royal family. His biological mother's status is too low, which is obviously not suitable, especially when he already has Concubine Xiao.