211. Luo Yi rebelled
Less than a month after he ascended the throne, he was attacked by the enemy and forced to almost empty the treasury before he could be safe.
This kind of grievance and shame made him unable to sleep for a long time, although the ministers and his wife continued to explain, the effect was not obvious.
After the end of the Weishui Alliance and the retreat of the Turkic army, he ran to the horse-slaughtering and bloody tethered stake and stood for a long time, and even carved a few words on it with a knife to remind himself that as an emperor, he could not slack off for a moment.
The Weishui Alliance is definitely the biggest shame in his life, if he can't be ashamed of this, he will probably be nailed to the pillar of shame in history.
He took so many pains to ascend to the throne, obviously not for the sake of leaving a stench for 10,000 years, and after the Turks retreated, he accelerated the pace of governing the country.
On the one hand, Li Jing was appointed to train soldiers and raise horses, accumulate strength, and prepare to take revenge and blood hatred.
On the one hand, he advised farmers to teach mulberry and promulgated a series of decrees that benefited the country and the people.
On the eighth day of October, he named his eldest son, Li Chengqian, the king of Zhongshan County, as the crown prince, and on October 25, Xiao Ji and Chen Shuda were not strict in governing the family, and were dismissed from office by the imperial history.
On the fifth day of the first month of November, in order to reduce expenses and prepare for the reduction of the knighthood in the future, Li Shimin first started from his own family and demoted all the royal county kings who did not have meritorious service in the Li family to county dukes.
This move caused the Li clan to be extremely dissatisfied, and many people came to the emperor Li Yuan to cry, Li Yuan was also quite dissatisfied with this, these people were all the kings he was crowned at, and Li Shimin's move was tantamount to slapping him in the face.
He summoned Li Shimin to the front and asked with a dark face: "Emperor, not long after you ascended the throne, did you take the sect relatives under the knife, is this move a little inappropriate?" You know, we can have today, at the beginning of the incident, my Li family relatives helped a lot. ”
Li Shimin understood his father's mood and patiently explained: "Father, it is an eventful time, and the Turkic incident has almost emptied my Tang Dynasty treasury, and now I have too many titles in the court, and I have given countless fields and property, which is very unfavorable to the country and the people." ”
"But not long after the founding of the People's Republic of China, those titles that were awarded by merit are really not moving, but our own clansmen, who have no merit, are enjoying the king's title, which is very inappropriate."
"At the beginning of our uprising, they did their best, but now they enjoy the status and fortune of the county lord, which is worthy of them, and the most important thing is that the son treats his clan relatives like this, and among the courtiers who will be knighted in the future, if someone commits a crime, the son will cut their knight again, and they have nothing to say."
Li Shimin has said this, Li Yuan can't spit out any more words in his stomach, and this matter can only be stopped here.
On December 19, Taizong inquired about the prisoners' charges and found that there were cases where there was a possibility of wrongdoing, and all of them were retried and sentenced.
At the end of the year, Li Kejin, the third son of the third son of Changsha County, was named the King of Han, and Li Tai, the King of Yiyang County, was named the King of Chu.
After the New Year, the hands of time slipped to 627 A.D., on the first day of the first month of the year, Li Shimin changed the year name for Zhenguan.
In the first year of Zhenguan, Luo Yi, the king of Yanjun in Yandi, under the clever mouth of the eldest grandson Wuji, did not cooperate with the Turks and did anything to rebel.
But after the Turks retreated, this guy began to become restless for some reason.
Especially when he learned that Li Shimin almost exhausted the treasury to let the Turks retreat, and then took the clan relatives to open the knife, he was afraid that he would move himself, and his opposition would be even stronger.
On the seventeenth day of the first month of the first year of Zhenguan, he approached Li Shimin to order him to garrison Youzhou, and occupied Youzhou in one fell swoop, occupied the land as the king, and set up an anti-flag.
When Li Shimin heard the news, he was furious, and he lost his temper in the court, scolding Luo Yi for being ungrateful.
Immediately afterwards, he ordered Wei Chi Jingde to be the head of the Youzhou Road march, and the eldest grandson Wuji to be the deputy head of the army, leading an army of 30,000 to conquer Luo Yi.
Wei Chi Jingde and Luo Yi had several dealings, and when they were fighting against Liu Wuzhou, the two sides also fought side by side.
He had a deep impression of this person, and on the way to the march, Wei Chi Jingde was a little worried and said to the eldest grandson Wuji: "Lord eldest grandson, this Luo Yi is not easy to deal with, our battle is not easy to fight." ”
"And Your Majesty has not been in a good mood since the Weishui alliance, if we don't fight this battle well, we won't be able to pay the difference when we go back."
"Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, we are the ones who lead the troops, but we must do our duty, Your Majesty is not an unreasonable person, as long as we do our best, he will not blame us." The eldest grandson Wuji looked very calm, with a breezy face.
Wei Chi Jingde looked at him suspiciously, the eldest grandson Wuji, this fox, when did you look at things and talk about it like this? The eldest grandson Wuji obviously didn't mean to explain anymore and kept silent.
Wei Chi Jingde couldn't ask what was going on, so he could only keep his mouth shut, but he only drove half the way and got a military report: Zhao Cihao and Yang Qi, the generals under Luo Yi, heard that Luo Yi had rebelled, not only did not follow, but tried to capture him in one fell swoop.
As a result, Luo Yi noticed it, the two sides fought, Luo Qi hurriedly rebelled, and there were not many people under his command who were willing to conspire with him, and Zhao Cihao and Yang Qi were the most powerful generals under Luo Qi, and not long after the two sides fought, Luo Yi was defeated.
After Luo Yi's army was defeated, he fled to the Turks with hundreds of personal guards, and as a result, he arrived at the realm of Ningzhou, and when he passed through the Wushi Post Station, he was beheaded by his left and right followers, and his head was sent to Jingshi.
"Lord Eldest Sun, it turns out that all this is your plan, and you have made it so hard for me to hide it." Wei Chi Jingde was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized, he had already remembered at this time that when the Turks besieged the city in Yunnian, Li Shimin sent the eldest grandson Wuji to Yandi.
With the eloquence of the eldest grandson Wuji, who can speak alive in a dead person, he must have sold the generals under Luo Yi at that time, and arrested him as soon as he showed his rebellion.
Although he was run away by Luo Yi, he did not escape from the palm of the eldest grandson Wuji in the end, and the fire sent by His Majesty was obviously a joke.
"Wei Chigong, it's not that I want to hide it from you, but the people over there in Yanbei are so difficult to train, and I can't be sure that the strategy set at that time will be effective, let alone guarantee that Zhao Cihao and Yang Qi will betray Luo Yi."
"Before all this happens, you can't reveal the news, and once it does, it won't work." The eldest grandson stroked his beard and smiled.
Don't talk about the hearts of the eldest grandson Wuji and Wei Chigong, but after Luo Yi's head was sent back to Kyoto, Li Shimin hung it in the market to show the public, in order to pay respect.
Tong Shi ordered someone to arrest Luo Yi's brother, Luo Shou, the governor of Lizhou, and sentenced him to death soon after.
On the fourth day of the second month of the first year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin issued another edict: If a man is 20 years old and a woman is over 15 years old and has no husband, the state and county government will arrange for engagement and marriage according to etiquette and ceremonies.
If the family is poor and cannot marry on their own, the rich family and relatives of the same village shall sponsor the marriage, and the widower over 60 years old, the widow over 50 years old, and the widow who already has children and wish to keep the festival shall not be forced to marry.