Compared to the Tubo people, Li Shidao's strength was much weaker.

If the Tang Dynasty is a strong man with old diseases, then the Tubo people can be regarded as a cripple who is also terminally ill, and the Wa Kingdom can only be regarded as a natural dwarf.

Tubo and Datang can still be regarded as opponents of one level, while the Wa Kingdom and these two are not the same level of existence at all.

However, it is more difficult to clean up Li Shidao, a dwarf with wolf ambitions, than to have a war with the Tibetans.

The reason is very simple, the Wa Kingdom is indeed weak, but it is not all waste, and more importantly, the first thing to face before conquering the Wa State is the vast sea.

And to cross the sea, you need a lot of boats!

At present, the two sailors belonging to the imperial court have a combined total of nearly 200 sea ships, which seems to be a lot in number, but most of them have clear goals.

More than half of them were used by Guo Rong to transport materials, personnel, and supplies to Li Yu in Liaodong, so as to help Li Yu stand firmly in the bridgehead of Liaodong.

The remaining sea ships could only carry out a certain degree of raiding, and it was impossible to carry out a war of annihilation against the island nation.

At Jimo's R&D center, new seagoing vessels are still being studied.

In order not to waste shipbuilding materials as much as possible, and at the same time not to let the sea ships fall behind when they are launched, Jimo has decided to build test ships on a small scale before the new generation of sea ships are finalized, and not to carry out large-scale construction.

Therefore, if you want to clean up Li Shidao, you will have to wait for a few years.

There is no need to cross the sea in the direction of Liaodong, but the winter in Liaodong is too cold, not much different from Mobei, and sending troops to fight in this season is equivalent to sending the soldiers under his command to death.

According to the cotton that Guo Rong found in Xishi, now the cotton has begun to be tested in the Central Plains, Guanzhong, and Longxi for a certain range.

Nowadays, everything related to agriculture and mulberry has been completely included in the jurisdiction of Sinong Temple, and while the power is expanding, Sinong Temple has been very different from what it used to be from the position setting to the personnel structure.

According to the content and background components, the entire Sinong Temple has been divided into management officials and technical officials, of which pure management personnel account for 20 percent, and the personnel who are mainly engaged in agricultural and mulberry technology account for more than 80 percent of the personnel belonging to Si Nong Temple.

The fundamental reason for this degree of change in the entire Sinong Temple is the introduction and promotion of a series of crops such as rice and cotton in Champong.

A series of crops such as rice, wheat, corn, and cotton do not look any different, but these things are the foundation of whether the entire Tang Dynasty can be strong.

With the vast land of Datang, even if one acre of land produces one pound of more grain, it is an immeasurable wealth for the entire Datang.

According to Guo Rong's original proposal, the science and technology supervisor has been studying cotton for more than four years, and the role of cotton has been studied almost to the extreme.

Although cotton cannot be eaten as food, the strategic role of cotton is no less than that of any important material.

Originally, those guys in Sinong Temple may be good at writing, maybe proficient in management, or good at slapping horses and singing praises of virtue, but at least these guys from poor families have never been to the fields at all, so it is purely a fool's dream to let them promote good varieties and guide the people.

The waste snacks of Sinong Temple are not good, but the request of the emperor and the emperor is dead.

As a result, a large number of old farmers who had planted a lot of land all their lives and could not read a single word entered the Sinong Temple and became a technical official in the Sinong Temple.

According to the speculation of Sinong Temple, these cotton can now be planted in the Central Plains.

When the number of cotton clothes is enough, Li Chun believes that the Tang Iron Army under his command will be able to easily cross Liaodong and sweep Mobei!

Of course, similar situations have also appeared in the navigation supervision, science and technology supervision, industrial supervision, traffic supervision......

Although Li Chun was eager to take Liaodong tomorrow and plant all the territories on the world map with the banner of the Tang Dynasty the day after tomorrow, he also knew that these things could not be achieved overnight.

I can't get this thing by myself now, so I'll wait until next year

Spring, anyway, there is no need to cross the sea, Liaodong can't run, that rich land will definitely return to the control of the Tang Dynasty again, and what Taizong and Gaozong can do, they can also do.

With the loss of Liaodong, Li Shidao was left with only a lonely Wa Kingdom, and when the time was right, Li Shidao was destined to die without a place to be buried.

Tubo in the west is not good, and Li Shidao in the east is inconvenient, so the most suitable and convenient for Li Chun to do his power is only the three towns of Hebei that are added in the middle.

In fact, Hebei is really different.

The main force of the three towns in Hebei has been completely annihilated by Guo Rong in Henan.

In a series of chain reactions caused by the defeat of Hebei's main force in Henan, the hearts of the people in the entire Hebei have become unstable.

Tian Ji'an, Wang Chengzong, and Liu Zong have already rebuilt the army in their hands by bloody means, and temporarily stabilized the situation in the entire Hebei.

Both Guo Rong and Li Chun believe it, but all this is an illusion.

It is impossible for the people's hearts to truly recover, and it is impossible for the temporarily rebuilt army to regain sufficient combat effectiveness.

When the counterinsurgency army of the imperial court arrived, even if they didn't eat pot pulp all the way, they would definitely not be subjected to too strong resistance, and wherever Bingfeng went, it was the day of their destruction.

When the three towns of Hebei were destroyed, he Li Chun returned triumphantly and enjoyed the glory of the emperor.

Guo Rong will wait until the temperature is right, and lead the remaining soldiers and horses to join forces with Li Yu, who is stationed in the south of the Liaodong Peninsula at this moment, and march into Liaodong.

As for the extent to which Liaodong will fight, he Li Chun doesn't care, as long as it does not affect the internal development of the Tang Dynasty and does not affect the western expedition three years later, the rest is decided by Guo Rong and Li Yu.

As for now, what Guo Rong needs is to prepare well, and it is best to adjust his morale, physical strength, and mental state to the peak before he Li Chun arrives.

In addition, at the end, Li Chun reminded Guo Rong alone:

Suggestions can be made, details can be changed, and if you don't approve of any ideas, you can also say, but the idea of driving the expedition has already been decided, even if the king of heaven Lao Tzu comes, he can't convince him, so Guo Rong shouldn't learn from those people in the court to advise him.

If he wanted, Guo Rong could go to the Taoist Song Shu to invite the emperor out of Beijing, but if Guo Rong didn't want to go up, he couldn't go up, he also understood, and more importantly, Li Chun said that he had found a way to persuade those important ministers to make the servants at the council.

But as the commander of the Northern Expedition, Guo Rong himself must not object.

In addition, when Li Chun set out from Chang'an, he would at least bring one army, three guards, and nearly 40,000 people as his personal guards and garrison forces.

It's just that these nearly 40,000 people are responsible for this section of the journey from Chang'an to Bianzhou, and after Li Chun arrives in Bianzhou, this army and three guards will be included in the sequence of Guo Rong's Northern Expedition.

Li Chun's own safety is directly responsible for Guo Rong himself.

After reading Li Chun's letter word by word, Guo Rong was already dizzy from exhaustion, this word is too TM, and the key is not to break the sentence.

Looking down at the self-contained sentence text written by Liu Yuxi just now, and then looking at the thick stack of letters, Guo Rong also looked helpless, writing so many words, this TM is really Li Chun's style.

The ancient Chinese language of China is quite refined, and everything is mainly concise and concise, why has my style changed?

Whoever writes a letter is the same as writing a paper! (Li Chun: This is still not a good idea you gave, with the council to discuss major matters, and the ministers/cabinet to help you deal with ordinary affairs, isn't it a pain in the idle egg.) ）

Of course, if it weren't so thick, it would not have been possible to tell Li Yu's thoughts so clearly.

From the origin of his own ideas, to his own ideas, to the effects and purposes he hopes to achieve, Li Chun fully demonstrates his ideas.

At this level of clarity, it is difficult to have any misunderstandings, unless you want to rebel.

Guo Rong naturally would not consider rebellion, so all Guo Rong could do was to prepare as much as possible as Li Chun said.

It's just that the emperor left the capital to drive the expedition in person

It's just too much for a small thing, for a change.

As for why Li Chun came up with such an idea of driving in person, Li Chun said that he couldn't surpass Li Yu in guarding the Tang Dynasty.

However, thinking about Li Chun's detailed and somewhat redundant description of the battlefield, Guo Rong could see that this guy had a strong impulse and desire for the battlefield.

Thinking about it, Guo Rong dared to conclude that this guy was thinking "The Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies!"

Only the words that can be preached through the ages such as "the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies can be worthy of the heroism of the current king.

Thinking about it again, mentioning that it was impossible to surpass Li Yu's sour expectations in terms of defense, Guo Rong had a cold idea, this emperor would not want to be an unprecedented martial emperor, right......

Emperor Wu!

The Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty almost cast the ridge beam of the entire Chinese people, and this one is also the path of the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty......

Guo Rong can only say one sentence in his heart, it is really intimidating!

After that, Guo Rong immediately summoned the generals who were in Bianzhou City at this moment, and then a large number of messengers left Bianzhou and went to the commanders of various troops and horses scattered throughout Henan Province as quickly as possible, and notified the generals of each department to rush to Bianzhou as quickly as possible.

Of course, when waiting for the arrival of the generals of all walks of life, Guo Rong was not idle.

This time, Li Chun brought a whole army, three guards, and the main force of the forbidden army of 40,000 people, which is quite a huge force.

Guo Rong originally had the Changying Army and Zuo Weiwei in the original Eastern Expeditionary Army, as well as the left and right guards who were left behind in the second wave of reinforcements, because of the large establishment of the Changying Army, the number of forbidden troops in Guo Rong's hands was actually 60,000.

Now, Li Chun has brought another army and three guards to Guo Rong, which is equivalent to increasing the number of forbidden troops in Guo Rong's hands to two armies and six guards, a full 100,000 horses.

These 100,000 horses can bring infinite changes to Guo Rong's tactics.

Considering that Li Chun is here to gild and brush up on prestige this time, it is necessary to re-study the distribution direction of the main force to ensure that it can not only win a big victory, but also make Li Chun have enough scenery and enough prestige along the way.

Of course, Li Chun's safety also needs to be guaranteed, otherwise, once Li Chun has a problem, he will lose everything.

Guo Rong, Han Chong, Li Yan, and the staff officers of the Changying Army who stayed in Bianzhou were busy for three whole days, rushing to make quite complicated revisions to the plan that had been prepared long ago before the military meeting was held.

In the fourth year of Yuanhe, August 16, Chang'an Daming Palace, Zichen Hall held a meeting of the servants in Beijing with the participation of all the important ministers.

At the meeting, at the meeting, Emperor Li Chun took the initiative to write the system of ministers (cabinets) and the system of the council of servants, which had been in trial operation for nearly a month, into the Tang law.

In the case of the Tang Dynasty, it was clearly stipulated that the ministers/cabinets were to act as auxiliaries in place of the emperor and to draft edicts (i.e., edicts).

Of course, whether the ministers are annotating or making edicts to enjoy the emperor's edicts, they need to be backed up, and they need to pass through Zhongshu Province and Menxia Province in order to be effective.

The head of the minister, that is, the head of the cabinet, is appointed by the emperor himself, and is not restricted by the status of the minister, or no matter what status he was before becoming the first assistant, as long as he is appointed by the emperor to become the first assistant, he will automatically obtain the status of a courtier and a minister.

At the same time as the council was written into the Tang law, the power to modify, supplement, and delete the content of the Tang law was given to the council.

However, whether it is to modify, supplement, or delete the Tang Law, it must be approved by the emperor, otherwise the modification will be invalid.

The third point is to separate the military department from the three provinces and six ministries, and set up a privy council to be responsible for all military affairs, Guo Rong will become the privy envoy of the privy council, and Guo Rong will be the privy envoy during the period when Guo Rong is abroad, the veteran general Gao Chongwen and the deputy privy envoy Han Yu will act on his behalf.

Although Li Chun left a back door on both of these points, such a large concession and concession undoubtedly shows Li Chun's determination to rule the world with the scholars.

As for the back door left by the emperor, no one cares at all

, no one really opens their eyes to take away the emperor's power to protect himself.

At the same time as these two points were accomplished, the Council of Chamberlains adopted the first resolution of its formal establishment:

The Northern Expedition document jointly drafted by Bai Juyi, Liu Zongyuan, Han Yu and others was approved, and the resolution of Li Chun's personal expedition was passed.

On October 17, the "Fengtian Expedition against the Northern Expedition" was officially announced, and it was also announced that the emperor would personally drive to Hebei.

These two pieces of news, as well as the news of the Cabinet Council, the Cabinet System, the Privy Council, etc., followed the imperial court's official report and various spies out of Chang'an and went to the entire Tang Dynasty.

On October 18, under the auspices of Guo Rong, the main generals of all walks of life who participated in the Northern Expedition to Hebei gathered in Bianzhou and held the first military meeting on the Northern Expedition.

At the military meeting, it was announced that the emperor Li Chun would drive the expedition in person, and the grand Northern Expedition plan was announced, and of course Guo Rong also strictly emphasized the secrecy regulations that had been in place for four years.

On the same day, the crown prince Li Ning set out from Bianzhou and returned to Chang'an.

On October 22, the crown prince Li Ning, who had been on a journey all the way, returned to Chang'an.

On October 23, the Tang Emperor Li Chun set out from Chang'an under the escort of the Tiance Army, the Left and Right Qianniuwei, and the Left Jin Wuwei.

On October 28, Li Chun arrived in Luoyang.

On the first day of November, Li Chun arrived in Bianzhou, where Li Chun participated in the last military meeting before the Northern Expedition, presided over by Guo Rong.

On the fourth day of November, Li Chun and Guo Rong arrived in Huazhou, and on the same day, all the Tang troops participating in the Northern Expedition were ready and waiting on the south bank of the river.

On the fifth day of November, Li Chun and Guo Rong arrived in Baima, and the next day they agreed on the day of the start of the Northern Expedition.