In August of the sixteenth year of Zhenguan, Guo Xiaoke, the protector of Anxi, led the elite cavalry to attack, and defeated the two armies of the Western Turks Yibilu Khan one by one, and the Zhuyue Department died, and the Chumi Department surrendered, and the Yibilu Khan was frightened, retreated to the west, and broke several small countries in the Western Regions along the oblique, but there was a civil strife in order to compete for property, and the Western Turkic tribes asked Uncle Li to abolish the Yibilu Khan.

However, the ministers in the court were divided into two factions, and some people thought that this was the time to promote the military might of the Tang Dynasty, and they should take advantage of its internal strife to attack it with a rush of anger, so as not to let the Western Turks have any more worries about disturbing the western frontier of the Tang Dynasty.

The other faction disagreed, believing that although our dynasty was sharp, the Turks were nomadic people, coming and going like the wind, and it was unimaginable that they wanted to do their best with one blow, so they wanted Uncle Li to agree to the request of the Western Turkic tribes and make Yibi the Western Turkic Khan in order to reassure the people.

In the end, I don't know what kind of consideration Uncle Li had, he adopted the suggestion of canonizing the new Turkic Khan, and the original Khan could only flee west to Tochar.

"It seems that Your Majesty really wants to do something to Goguryeo." The old man's guess is really no different from my expectations, now, Tubo is fighting with the Xiangxiong Kingdom, the fight is in full swing, due north, Xue Yantuo has been crippled by the two battles of Uncle Li Ji and Su Mingjiang, in addition to resentment, only fear remains, in the northeast, Goguryeo also has signs of civil strife, the contradiction between the eastern Goguryeo lord Quan Gai Suwen and the ministers of Goguryeo has become more and more irreconcilable, I believe it will not take too long, Goguryeo will appear chaos.

"It's a pity that the old man is not ready yet, otherwise, this is the best time." Uncle Li was a little angry and threw the information I presented to him on the case.

----------------------------------------------------------- "Your Majesty, our dynasty has not yet completed the soldiers and horses, but if the eastern Goguryeo lord really has the ambition to poke his king, Weichen thinks that it is the time for me to make a big fuss in the Tang Dynasty." I smiled at Uncle Li and carefully folded the information on the table.

Uncle Li glanced at me: "Where do you start with the words of the virtuous son-in-law?" The old man would like to hear about it. ”

I glanced left and right, and saw that Uncle Li didn't speak, Uncle Li understood what I meant, waved away the eunuchs and maids beside me, and leaned closer to me: "Virtuous son-in-law, let's talk about it." ”

"Father-in-law, among the servants of Gao Jianwu, the king of Goguryeo, there are already two horsemen." I said this very lightly and very lowly, but Uncle Li, who had heard some words, was shocked when he heard the words, and a pair of eagle eyes suddenly flashed a fine light, which spun and dimmed, but I could still see his irrepressible joy from the corners of Uncle Li's curved mouth.

"Is that true?" Uncle Li asked me, and I nodded affirmatively, but Uncle Li didn't say anything more, just patted me on the shoulder in approval.

After a pause, Uncle Li's excitement subsided slightly, and I asked again, "Your Majesty, why don't you include Silla and Baekje in my territory of the Tang Dynasty?" ”

"The words of the virtuous son-in-law, hehe, Silla and Baekje are all vassals of our dynasty, what is the use of taking them? I have countless neighboring subject countries, and I have no way to fight, how do other subject countries think of me in the Tang Dynasty? Uncle Li was a little unimpressed.

When I saw Uncle Li's expression, I knew that now was not the time to talk about this, because Uncle Li now only had one opponent in his eyes who could make him tempted, that is, Goguryeo, a place of resentment that made the Sui Dynasty conquer several times with the strength of the country, but ended up in vain. The Sui army fought in Goguryeo and piled up mountains of bones, but what did Goguryeo do? How can people endure the use of skeletons to establish the "Jingguan", that is, the skeleton pyramid, in order to show off their exploits?

Uncle Li wanted to destroy Goguryeo, in order to prove that the Tang Dynasty was far stronger than the previous dynasty's martial arts, and since last year, he went to Mount Tai to seal Zen and was invaded by Xue Yantuo's army to invade the border, and had to stop the idea of sealing Zen, Uncle Li also wanted to make a meritorious feat again, and then perform the great ceremony of sealing Zen, using this to show the world that he is the hero of the world, suppressing those family gates who have great energy in the Central Plains always feel that the founding of the Tang Dynasty is not the orthodoxy of the Han line. These family lords always feel that the Li family dynasty is a foreign bloodline, not Chinese orthodoxy, and they are even unwilling to marry their own daughters into the royal family, for this reason, the Li royal family headed by Uncle Li has always been obsessed.

Those two horsemen, don't look like they are only in charge of horses, but they are proficient in veterinary skills, and they deal with the beloved horses of those powerful families all the year round, and the channels for obtaining information have greatly increased, which will definitely be of great help to facilitate Uncle Li's later attack on Goguryeo.

More than half a year has passed, relying on the hundreds of thousands of captives to build the cement avenue from Chang'an to Luoyang has been nearly half, it can really be said that it is a mountain to open a mountain, a bridge to meet the water, in a word, try to advance according to the shortest straight line distance, just according to the shortest straight line distance to advance, the current Ministry of Industry Shangshu has changed people, become my brother Yan Lide, this brother I have seen many times, but also belongs to a more obsessed with painting officials, in the construction of the cement straight road from Chang'an to Luoyang, At this time, the construction of the cement straight road has passed through Zheng County, Yuetong Pass, Dagu Pass to Hucheng, more than half of the road, compared with the previous road distance shortened more than doubled, and the wide and smooth road surface is more than double the previous road, the width is more than two zhang, such a huge project, it is precisely because of the use of a variety of new construction equipment, and a large number of prisoners of war, neither caused public resentment, nor did it consume a large amount of treasury funds, On the contrary, my proposal that after the road is built, everyone who goes on the road must pay a fee, and then use these tolls to repair the road at any time, which has been taken seriously by the secretary of the Ministry of Works.

"In the past, the construction of roads was all paid by the court, and the people went out to build them, which not only took a long time, but even delayed the agricultural time, but now the roads are built with prisoners of war, or they have saved a lot of money and food for my Datang, and they have not let the people serve more labor, and they can count the things in one fell swoop, I'm afraid that Lord Fang has already been worried, right?" Yan Lide and Yan Liben sat on the same couch with me and invited each other to drink, and there was also a director of the Martial Arts Research Institute sitting next to me, Lord Zhong Hua Zhong.

"Where, Fang is just a layman, everything is calculated first, which policy is beneficial to the country and the people, I will dedicate it to Your Majesty, speaking of which, Your Majesty is wise and good at admonishing." By the way, he also slapped Uncle Li's ass. The big guy hurriedly raised his hand respectfully to the sky, expressing his loyalty to His Majesty Uncle Li in unison.

"Today, Yan invited the two adults, and there is really something important to discuss." Yan Lide finally got to the point. Originally, Uncle Li had decided that Yu Zhenguan would personally conquer Goryeo in the eighteenth year, but now that most of the sixteen years have passed, it is time to prepare materials, and the preparation is naturally military materials, and this matter naturally falls on the head of Yan Lide, the new secretary of the Ministry of Industry, after all, he is the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, who else can he find if he does not look for military equipment? However, after several wars, the Dongdong in the hands of the Martial Arts Research Institute has been spread at the top level of the Tang Dynasty, which naturally makes Yan Lide very red-eyed, but although the problem Zhong Hua is in the name of the principal, there is also me on the side of the problem, the actual leader of the Martial Arts Research Institute, that is, the kind of high-level leader who doesn't care about small things and looks for me for big things.

-----------------------------------------------------------Of course, the Martial Arts Research Institute was separated from the Ministry of Industry by Uncle Li's personal order, and Jing Lide did not want to take back the control of the Martial Arts Research Institute, but hoped that we could cooperate with the Ministry of Industry to improve a series of heavy siege weapons in the Tang Dynasty, after all, Goguryeo is essentially different from the nomads in the north, in the territory of Goguryeo, There are a large number of cities, and these are not fences that can be trampled on by cavalry, but fortresses that require a lot of heavy siege equipment to conquer.

As the saying goes, if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, and Uncle Li must have also thought of the Martial Arts Research Institute, which specializes in improving military equipment, so he asked Yan Lide to deal with us.

Since it is Uncle Li's order, then we can only accept this order that is not easy, after all, it is only less than two years before Uncle Li's limited date, the eighteenth year of Zhenguan, and the improvement of large-scale siege equipment is something that can only be done with great effort.

"Lord Yan, please rest assured, the Martial Arts Research Institute is a place for our dynasty to specialize in improving and newly-making military equipment, since Your Majesty has an order, we should do our best to live up to the high expectations of Your Majesty and Lord Yan." I patted my chest first and admitted it, but we also know a little bit about physics, and most of the current siege equipment is related to junior high school physics, which is exactly what I can teach.

In this way, Yan thanked the two adults for their great help. Come! Lord Yan Lide raised his glass and invited him to drink.

Before putting down the wine cup, Bo Narjin sweated and broke in from outside the private room, and everyone looked at this giant man with round waist and big shoulders in a daze, I stood up a little stunned, and before I had time to say anything, Bo Narjin had already opened his mouth first: "Dear master, the third lady is afraid that she is going to give birth, and the old master asked me to call the master to go back quickly." ”

"What?!" I couldn't help but exclaim. The first person you are a plank, and I will have a later?!

(To be continued)