"Compared to the siege of Xingqing Palace by the 60,000 elite Shence rebels four years ago, the danger now is a fart!"

Hearing the emperor's self-deprecating self-talk, Lu Chang was stunned at first, then shocked, and finally figured out the cause and effect of Li Chun's self-talk, and couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Hearing Lu Chang's laughter, Li Chun came back to his senses and found that he was talking to himself too loudly, and couldn't help but laugh, when did he become as fond of fooling as Guo Rong.

This kind of blind dripping is a disease that needs to be cured!

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Shaking his head with a smile, Li Chun sighed in his heart, his previous self was not like this, let alone foolishness, he even had to think twice before speaking and acting, there was no way, the pressure on his father, who had abdicated but actually controlled the real power of the Tang Dynasty, was too great.

Since ancient times, it has been the highest ideal shared by all men to be in charge of the affairs of the world, and the emperor is obviously the culmination of these two supreme ideals.

Compared with the emperor who controls the world with both hands, the prince, although he also has the name of a king, it is really not a good errand, especially when the prince encounters a monarch who has experienced ups and downs, or has a particularly strong desire to control, or has a peak of control over people's hearts.

If there is anything more uncomfortable than such a prince, it is that he has nominally become the emperor who rules the world, but in reality he is a prince with the emperor's name on it.

Unfortunately, Li Chun, Quanzhong.

Twenty-five years of the prince, half a year of the emperor, five years of the emperor, Li Chun can hardly believe that there is nothing more bizarre and bumpy in this world than his father's experience.

Nominally, he is only the emperor, but the military power, financial power, appointment and dismissal of senior officials, and senior generals in the center of the Tang Dynasty are firmly controlled in his hands.

If the first two points are only formal, then Li Yu's grasp of people's hearts has obviously reached its peak after his abdication, and this is what makes Li Chun despair of his father the most.

Every trust that Li Yu has paid has been rewarded more than tenfold, if it were not for such a large number of talented and determined talents to stand out, Datang would never have completed such a transformation in such a short period of time.

Sometimes, he felt that he didn't have any secrets to speak of in front of Li Yu, and he could see himself from beginning to end with a simple look.

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Therefore, Li Chun sometimes feels that he is the biggest tragedy in the world, but whenever he feels uneasy and tragic, his father will give him an important thing just right, or let him take over some of the rights.

Not to let himself be too low and disappointed, but not to give himself too many unrealistic expectations, this kind of just right grasp made Li Chun feel a sense of fear of being completely dominated.

Whenever he felt pressure and despair, Li Chun would always unconsciously envy Guo Rong, because his father, the emperor, was so good to Guo Rong that he was so good that his own son was envious and jealous.

So much so that Li Chun doubted more than once whether Guo Rong was surnamed Guo!

Fortunately, after careful investigation from all directions, Li Chun determined one point, that is, Guo Rong could not be the heir left behind by his father, in other words, Guo Rong could not have any threat to his position in essence.

After repeatedly confirming this, Li Chun calmly accepted the reality that he really couldn't compare with Guo Rong.

After all, Guo Rong, a kid, can be unscrupulous in front of his father, Emperor Taishang Li Yu, and can be unscrupulous, and can show what he wants, thinks, and wants to the fullest, and he ......

Well, Li Chun admits that he didn't dare to ......

Because he still wants to be the emperor, because he still wants to lead the Tang Dynasty to the top again, because he still has grand ambitions!

And Guo Rong's house, all he thinks about is to go back to Anxi......

Oh, recently, after going to Jiaodong, Guo Rong obviously had one more idea, that is, in addition to Anxi, he also wanted to take the fleet and the forbidden army to the so-called island country.

Sometimes Li Chun is really envious of Guo Rong, simple training, simple fighting, simple realization of his ideals, everything else, his father has covered it for him, and he ......

Almost instantly, Li Chun felt that the shackles in his mind had naturally disappeared.

It is true that Li Yu is fighting for Guo Rong, that is because Guo Rong did his best to help the imperial court rebuild a powerful forbidden army, the question is that the emperor is only fighting for Guo Rong alone?

Wei Guanzhi ruled Jingzhao Yin for three years, and beheaded no less than 10,000 heads, but countless clansmen, nobles, and wealthy businessmen died under Wei Guanzhi's hands, without the protection of the emperor, Wei Guanzhi would have died thousands of times, not to mention being promoted to Zaifu, a very popular minister.

Cheng Yi, who is also one of the "Two Kings and Eight Simas", inventoried the fields and population, and almost uprooted the foundation of the Guanzhong Hao clan, so that there was more than one assassin assassination every day, in the face of this situation, the Emperor Taishang directly transferred a thousand people from Han Yu's hands as Cheng Yi's guards, guarding his safety for twelve hours a day.

Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan joined forces to promote the stylistic reform movement characterized by advocating ancient texts and opposing pun writing, and under the banner of reforming the style of writing and reviving Confucianism, they pointed directly at the existing Confucian system mastered by the wealthy families in Shandong, and almost directly touched the foundation of the wealthy families in Shandong represented by the five surnames and seven families.

Li Xun first in Luoyang almost blackmailed the wealthy in Shandong as underpants, after returning to Chang'an, he directly reformed the tax system, strengthened the supervision and system of taxation, and almost stripped away the vested interests of the powerful and powerful, wealthy families, clans, and nobles in various places.

In the face of the opposition of the old aristocracy and conservative Confucianism, in order to promote reform and technological innovation, the Emperor Taishang resisted the pressure of all parties, not only established a new imperial department according to Guo Rong's suggestion, but also raised Lan Zhen, Wu Pengjun, Mao Yunpeng, Xu Haolin and other technical officials or craftsmen to high positions.

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There are too many such examples, if not, how can Datang make earth-shaking changes in this mere four or five years!

And himself, his father, didn't he shelter himself from the wind and rain?

Put yourself in your shoes, if it was yourself who faced Ju Wenzhen and the 60,000 elites back then......

Don't say back then, even now, if there is no experience of more than four years, without my father handing over power to me little by little, how can I control the government smoothly, and in the face of the current enemy army, there is a high probability that I will abandon the city and flee like my grandfather and great-grandfather.

Thinking of Guo Rong's serious nonsense, thinking of the elite forbidden army struggling around Chang'an, thinking about his father who led the army to enter Chencang in advance, and thinking about the team that his father left to him before leaving Chang'an, Li Chun's original uneasiness was completely dispelled, and a smile appeared on his face.

The Tubo people are not terrible, the terrible thing is that the Tubo people have not yet come, their own people are in chaos first, as long as the people's hearts are not scattered, what can the Tubo people do even if they come to Chang'an City?

Immediately, Li Chun's last trace of hesitation also completely disappeared, and he began to think about how to deal with the situation in front of him.

Since he chose to stay in Chang'an instead of abandoning the city and fleeing, then he may only have the experience of the previous battle of Xingqing Palace, and then Li Chun fell into deep thought, while Lu Chang waited quietly.

carefully recalled the battle of Xingqing Palace, recalled the nobles who Li Yu took the opportunity to clean up the restlessness, and recalled the scene when Chang'an was facing a crisis......

In about a quarter of an hour, Li Chun gradually formed his own train of thought, and at this time he once again set his eyes on Lu Chang beside him.

"Lu Aiqing, did Guo Rong often mutter like this when he was in the Changying Army?"

Hearing Li Chun's question coldly, Lu Chang, who was seriously preparing to answer, was directly stunned, probably never dreaming that the emperor would ask such a question.

But that's easy to answer.

After all, it is no secret that General Guo Rong likes to talk to himself, although Guo Rong does not make a sound many times, but there are many people in the Changying army, and more importantly, the king of Chu has a thin waist, and it is not a special case to starve to death in the palace, and there are not too many people who can read lip language.

So much so that in order not to let his ideas affect the process of the military conference, many times when the military conference was held, Guo Rong would hand over the chairmanship to Luo Chinese, or several regiment commanders, and he would go out with Zhimu Yu to Jinda.

Seeing Lu Chang nodding awkwardly, Li Chun smiled with satisfaction, it seemed that the root of all evil had been found, and immediately called the eunuchs around him.

"Passing the right servant to shoot Li Jifu, Wu Yuanheng, the servant under the long gate, Li Jiang, the secretary of the military department, Cheng Pei Du in the imperial history, Liu Zongyuan, the left servant of the ministry, Wei Wei, Cheng Yi, the secretary of Dali Temple, and Shi Hanyu, the commander of the Ying army, ......"

Li Chun's voice fell, and the eunuch was about to leave, but was suddenly stopped by Lu Chang beside him.

"Please wait a moment, dare to ask whether Your Majesty summoned the princes to discuss against the Tubo soldiers and horses, or to deal with the situation in Chang'an City?"

As soon as this sentence came out, Li Chun was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Lu Chang, who looked inconspicuous, not leaky, not ostentatious, with a medium stature, no characteristics in appearance, and a very weak sense of existence.

The dusty memories in my mind were instantly awakened.

"A minister can't be a meticulous worker or a spy."

"Why, Guo Rong?"

"The minister's figure is too conspicuous, no matter where the minister's figure goes, it is too easy to attract attention, and being a spy is so eye-catching, which is tantamount to death."

"Then what kind of person do you think is suitable to be a spy?"

"Be careful in your mind, meticulous in your observations, cautious in your actions, and have no characteristics in your body appearance, and it's best to look at the past and not remember what it looks like at all......"

When Guo Xin quietly transmitted the news of the Tubo people's transfer of troops to the west through the trade route established by Anda Xian, Guo Rong told Li Yu about the intelligence system he had established with Yan Qing, that is, Xiao Fourteen as the core, with Hexi, the Western Regions, Hezhong, and Qingtang as the targets.

In this regard, Comrade Taishang Huang was not too surprised, only said three words, understood, and then directly shifted his attention to the defense strategy against Tibet, Hebei, and Liaodong.

Li Yu is not curious, it does not mean that others are not curious, for example, Li Chun, who has begun to slowly accept military power, Li Chun actually didn't understand the explanation given by Guo Rong at that time, but he was worried about touching his father's bottom line, so he didn't ask too much.

At this time, seriously thinking about all the actions of Lu Chang after he came, and then carefully studying Lu Chang's appearance and body shape, Li Chun finally understood what Guo Rong meant by saying that there were no characteristics at that time.

When Li Chun recalled for a moment, Lu Chang had already taken the initiative to explain.

"Your Majesty, know yourself and know your enemy, you will not be defeated in a hundred battles, the duty of the minister is to provide your Majesty with sufficient information, and provide necessary advice based on the information you have, what is Your Majesty's purpose There is a big gap in the specific action, and please tell Your Majesty the truth."

"Was it the same when my father was the emperor?"

"No!"

"Huh?"

"The Emperor Taishang said that he was not good at military affairs, not good at political affairs, and not good at planning, so no matter the military, political affairs, or affairs, he has always only considered the background, weighed the pros and cons, and then gave the goal, and as for the specific implementation, he has his own division to implement."

"Since my father ...... So why are you ...... now?"

"Your Majesty, **** said, Your Majesty is different from the Emperor Taishang, since the beginning of the prince, the Emperor Taishang has never had the opportunity to take charge of specific affairs, so he can't personally experience the hardships of implementation, which is why he hastened reforms after ascending the throne, and was forced to abdicate after the failure of reform."

"Your Majesty is different, Your Majesty has personally supervised the country for four years, not only dealt with specific affairs, but also stood in a high position to think, far from being comparable to the Emperor, so it is not the Emperor's old history."

There are a lot of things that Li Chun doesn't understand, but when these words come out of the mouth of another irrelevant person, they will always bring too many different feelings.

Closing his eyes, he swallowed the trace of bitterness in his throat, and after a dozen breaths, Li Chun nodded.

"I haven't gotten the specific details of Tubo's entry into the Kou yet, so it's not appropriate to move lightly for the time being, so what I need first is to stabilize the situation in Chang'an."

Lu Chang nodded.

"The minister thinks that after several previous purges, the forces in Chang'an City are no longer worth mentioning, otherwise they will not choose to huddle together for warmth, with the existing six guards and one army inside and outside Chang'an City, as well as the six new battalions of the forbidden army, all variables can definitely be suppressed, and Your Majesty may surprise the snake if he rashly summons important ministers."

"Lu Qing's ......"

"The minister thinks that he can follow the old calendar, lure the snake out of the hole, and catch it all!"

"Good!"

On that day, because of the news of the Tubo people's entry into the Kou, although Chang'an City was a little nervous, it seemed to be quite stable on the whole, and there were still only more than 10,000 people left and right in Jinwuwei.

It's just that after dark......

Outside Chang'an City, all the recruits stationed in the forbidden army recruit camp in the Forbidden Garden were fully armed and quietly stationed in the palace city, and the left and right guards who stayed in Chang'an City quietly entered the city.

On August 29, when people from all walks of life were frantically connecting in the city, a messenger from Chencang arrived in Chang'an, providing more accurate information for Chang'an.

Dasan Pass was lost, 6,000 forbidden troops, the whole army was annihilated, Li Yun, the king of Li, died in battle, and at the same time passed to Chang'an, as well as the edict issued by the Emperor Taishang in Chencang and the oath made by the Emperor Taishang.

It's just that this piece of information from Chen Cang was hidden by Li Chun and kept it secret.