Chapter 106 Li Zhi's ambition
After the absolute victory of the Eastern Crusade, Li Zhi's prestige in the hearts of the people of the Tang Dynasty had risen to the point of almost being on par with the gods.
Emperor Wen of Sui conquered Goguryeo and failed.
Emperor Yang of Sui conquered Goguryeo and failed.
Emperor Taejong conquered Goguryeo and gave up halfway.
When Yi Zhi became emperor, he not only completely pacified Goguryeo, but also Baekje and Silla by the way.
This was another pinnacle victory in the Tang Dynasty's foreign wars.
Under the deterrence of this great victory, Lu Dongzan, who had killed all the envoys in the Tang Dynasty and had died in the eldest son, once again sent an envoy to the Tang Dynasty, and by the way, he also brought Princess Wencheng's greetings to the Tang Emperor and the request to return to the Tang Dynasty.
This time, among the married daughters who returned to Datang Province, there were not only Princess Wencheng, but also eleven princesses who married to Princess Honghua, who married to Tuyuhun.
In order to visit this huge ceremony of sacrificing prisoners, Li Zhi ordered half a year ago that all the kings and leaders of the feudal kingdoms and the feudal tribes must be stationed in Chang'an before the date of October 1.
Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty said: "I am deep in the nine folds, and I am thousands of miles away.
The Xiongnu tribe in the north is like a devastation.
The west exterminates Tuguhun and Gaochang, and it is easy to pick up mustard.
Bao is a garden in the desert, and a pool across the quicksand.
The Yellow Emperor is not satisfied, Tang Yao is not a minister, and they are all entrusted with the quality of the offering, return to the wind, and worship the way of enlightenment, which is also heard by the world."
In December of the seventh year of Zhenguan, the birthday of Emperor Li Yuan, Taizong held a banquet in Weiyang Palace to celebrate, during which "the Turkic Jieli Khan danced, and the Nanban chieftain Feng Zhi Dai Yongshi" can be described as a grand occasion.
There is a huge monument outside the gate of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, which is written by Yu Shinan, a famous calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, - 9,900 miles west to Anxi.
Since the Anbian period of Emperor Taizong, the Tang Dynasty has not only established a unified dynasty.
He also successively conquered the Turkic, Huifu, Gaochang, Yanqi, Qiuzi, Tuyuhun and other surrounding countries and regions, destroyed Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, severely damaged the Wa Kingdom, and settled the four towns of Anxi and the six towns of Andong, so that the territory of the Tang Dynasty was 20,000 li in the north and south, and 30,000 li in the east and west.
When the Andu Protectorate is already shining with the sun, the Anxi Protectorate is still a starry night.
Nowadays, they all belong to the romance of Li Zhi alone......
Under the order of the Tang Emperor, Anton's captured king braved the cold wind and cold rain all the way to Chang'an under the escort of the Tang army.
As soon as the Tang Emperor gave an order, the kings, chiefs, and patriarchs of Anxi were also sincerely afraid that they would go all the way to Chang'an, hoping not to delay the date, which caused the emperor to be dissatisfied.
The Tang Emperor gave an order, and the barbarian elders in the southern jungle, the sea, and the islands called for poisonous wars, and fought against the fierce poisonous insects and beasts against the waves like mountains.
So much so that Honglu Temple specially ordered the state capitals to make every effort to help these people arrive in Chang'an as soon as possible.
It was only September, and the Honglu Temple in Chang'an was full of guests from Tiannan and Haibei, with more than 6,000 people.
These people are full of curiosity about every grass and tree in Chang'an, and many guests are not afraid of the cold, so they squatted on the edge of Suzaku Street to watch the flow of people coming and going, as well as the endless flow of carriages.
They like to see the life of the people in the city, and they like to go to the east and west markets to see the mountains and dazzling goods.
As the first check-in place in Chang'an City, Jinchangfang has a lot of inexplicable nobles every day.
They are all nobles who are accompanied by officials of Honglu Temple.
After they got the bamboo chips, they didn't pick and choose, they even ate all the way from the first course until they couldn't walk the way they ate, and the most excessive thing was that they ate too much, and after they went back, they drank a lot of water, and finally broke their stomach sac and died.
And Pingkangfang's business has been surprisingly good recently, everyone is crazy about the beauties there, and even more even exchange the tribute to be presented to the emperor for money, and also go to Pingkangfang to have a good time.
Liu Yi, the housekeeper of Yunfu, had already known all the officials of Honglu Temple, not that he deliberately climbed it, but that these people came almost every day, and every day they wanted to give some special entertainment to the guests they accompanied through Liu Yi, which made Liu Yi very annoyed.
Princess Wencheng is such a distinguished guest, invite her wife to accompany her, invite the princess to eat all the food of Jinchangfang, tell all the allusions of Jinchangfang, after seeing the advanced livelihood facilities of Jinchangfang, and then accompany the Dacien Temple to worship Queen Wende, and then invite the senior monk of Dacien Temple to peep into the base, and Princess Wencheng to talk about the authentic Dharma of the Tang Dynasty, and it will be over.
Although Princess Wencheng, who married to the wasteland from Chang'an, saw the tears rippling, and wanted to live in the guest house outside the Great Ci'en Temple to continue to exchange Buddhism with Master Voyeur, helplessly, she was still taken back to live at home by her brother Li Jingheng, since the fourth year of Yonghui, his father died on the way to depreciate because he was involved in the rebellion of Fang Yiai, and their family has weakened their existence as much as possible.
Liu Yi doesn't look down on those Honglu Temple officials now, mainly because as long as these people look for him, they hope that he can entertain these VIPs for free.
Once, twice, even if it is ten times, the Yun family doesn't care about the big business, but what about it, a hundred times and a hundred times still want to eat for nothing, which is very excessive.
So Liu Yi has been hiding at home recently, drinking and chatting with Fei Jiu and them, and he refuses to go outside to entertain those so-called VIPs when he basks in the sun.
"Monkey-like thin and black guys, after wearing silk clothes, they don't look like good people, seeing them grab our family's food with their hands to eat, the old man is really heartbroken, they don't need to eat fast on weekdays?"
Fei Jiu pouted and said: "Tuyuhun people don't need to be fast, they just hold a wooden bowl on weekdays, tsamba, mutton fat, get together, grab it with your hands, and finally make it into a long pimple, grab it with your hands and eat it."
Lao Liu, you still have too little knowledge, let me tell you, there are only a few people who eat with fast children, except for us, people are all eating with their hands. β
Liu Yi looked at Fei Jiu incomprehensibly and said, "Even if you grab it with your hands, you can wash it with water before eating." β
Fei Jiu sneered and said: "You Liu Yi knew that after he came out of Gong, he knew that he used straw paper to wipe it, and the poor people in Datang used bamboo boards to scrape it, and I also heard that they were rubbed with hemp rope, and these guys generally picked it by hand......"* (Note)
Liu Yi listened to Fei Jiu's words, and ran out while vomiting, and Fei Jiu said loudly behind him: "There are also ...... that don't pick"
After this conversation, the place where Jinchangfang entered the door, which was originally used to wash the hands and faces of those beggars, was expanded more than tenfold.
There are streams of water flowing down the bamboo pipes into the pool.
There are also soap horns and other hand-washing things by the pool, since Liu Yi knew the hygiene habits of those people, he gave an order to the guards of the gate, anyone who enters Jinchangfang must wash their hands here before going in.
However, there was no mention of hygiene in the whole process, let alone that Jinchangfang disliked people's dirty.
It is only said that Jinchangfang is the place where Queen Wende stays, and it is a etiquette requirement to wash hands and clean your face when you enter the door.
As for the bowls and plates that had been used in the big canteen before, they were sealed by Liu Yi's order, and some were set aside to entertain these people, and after these people left Chang'an, these bowls and plates would be destroyed.
Since Fei Jiu knows the living habits of these people, and there are people in Datang who know these things, if this news spreads, the matter will be serious, and the two canteens in Chang'an City will not be able to open?
The first to arrive in Chang'an was a baggage team from the Eastern Expedition.
A cart of ceremonial vessels, a cart of gold and silver, a cart of copper coins, a stomach, silk silk, linen cloth...... Groups of war horses, herds of cattle, teams of various ethnic groups, and captives of various countries entered the Chunming Gate, the east gate of Chang'an, from Tanglin Road, and finally entered the imperial city along Chunming Avenue.
The baggage procession walked for three days and three nights before it was over.
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First of all, the prime minister, Sun Wuji, led hundreds of officials to bring wine and food to welcome a hundred miles.
Next, it was the crown prince Li Hong who greeted him with the royal family and drum music in Baqiao.
After resting outside Chang'an City for a night, at sunrise the next day, the emperor personally greeted him at the head of Chunming Gate, and next, he also presided over the ceremony of Li Ji returning the handover seal, and reviewed the generals of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, as well as Wannian, Chang'an County, and the twelve rates of soldiers and horses.
After the review, it was a grand ceremony to dedicate the prisoners.
After the captive ceremony, Li Zhihui ordered that the women of Chang'an stepped forward to unload the armor for the generals, under normal circumstances, the generals who unloaded the armor were the wives of the generals, and after the unloading was completed, the generals in court clothes needed to take the so-called "five flowers and money" BMW to enter Chang'an City to boast of their achievements.
"Dongdong, Dongdong" three loud noises came from outside the Chunming Gate.
Li Zhi, who had been fasting and bathing for three days, slowly opened his eyes and said to the queen who had also fasted and bathed: "My Hundred Battles Hero has returned. β
Wu Mei said: "From now on, the rise and fall of the people in the world is only in the thought of His Majesty." β
Li Zhi nodded and said: "Since it is a big victory, there should be some atmosphere of great victory, I am ready to pardon the mistakes made by the soldiers of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, what do you think?" β
Wu Mei said: "If it is just a mistake, Your Majesty can naturally pardon it, but the concubine thinks that the mistake can be pardoned, and the crime must not go unpunished." β
Li Zhi said with a smile: "It seems from the credit book submitted by Ying Gong that everyone from Qi Bi He Li, Gao Kan, Pang Tongshan to Xue Rengui, Yun Chu, Pei Xingjian and even Zhichong Duwei has a lot of big sins.
According to the law, it is estimated that these generals would need to be all beheaded in order to meet the four words of impartiality.
I know that this is the handle that Ying Gong has prepared for me, and he just wants the generals to understand that grace comes from above.
I have read it, and most of the crimes recorded above are indiscriminate killing, greed for money, lust and blasphemy, and perverting the law...... They were all sent out to fight by me, and these problems naturally arose when they were fighting.
If there is something wrong with them, it is not so much the fault of the emperor.
And the crimes that can really make me murderous, such as rebellion, rebellion, running away from the battle, and holding grudges, are basically gone.
That's why I'm ready to burn away these guilt in the merit book at tomorrow's printing ceremony, regardless of the fault, just the merit. β
Wu Mei chuckled and said, "Three dukes, two county dukes, six marquises, eleven earls, and thirty-one viscounts.
Your Majesty is also a generous reward this time. β
Li Zhi laughed and said: "This crusade is a major event that my Tang Dynasty has planned for fifty years, and now that all the troubles are gone, I will naturally not be stingy with the title, but there are too many titles, and it is not good to be too much."
There are more on this side, and ...... on the other side."
Wu Mei said: "Once the son of heaven and a courtier, now it is officially a good time for Your Majesty to spit out the old and accept the new, a large number of your henchmen and important ministers are divided here, and the concubines on the other side think that they should go will be removed, and you must not be soft-hearted." β
Li Zhi nodded and said, "You have to hurry, there are still many courtiers in the bag here, and they all need to be enveloped and sealed." β
Note 1: It's not that I deliberately disgust people, it comes from the fact that I went to the Gannan pastoral area in 93 and saw two women in leather robes squatting on the side of the road, so I stepped forward to talk, and the conversation was very pleasant, but after the two women got up and left, there were two more piles of things on the ground, it was the end of August, and the morning in Gannan was already very cold, and the thing was still emitting white smoke...... It left a lifelong psychological shadow on me, who was about to turn 20 years old.
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