In September of the seventh year of Wude, many major affairs occurred in Datang.

On the seventh day of September, Li Yuan, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, issued an order to revoke the establishment of Jiangnan Dao.

Transferred Fuyi to the three divisions, Shangzhu Guo, the right servant of the original Jiangnan Provincial Shangshu, and the king of Gusu County, Luo Jingcheng, entered Beijing and served as the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

Immediately afterwards, he ordered the transfer of Mrs. Wu Guo, the former head of the Jiangnan Road March, and the Suzhou Thorn Shi to Beijing as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

Du Fuwei was appointed as a squire in the military department.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Li Yuan is going to cut the place and re-emphasize the central government.

But at the beginning, he moved the Jiangnan Luo family, which was unexpected, only Luo Xuanye said to King Qin, "The Son of Heaven knows that my sister and I are like a family, he doesn't distrust my sister, but ......"

Luo Xuanye stopped talking, Li Shimin was silent, he knew that His Majesty was worried that the King of Gusu County and Mrs. Wu Guo would become his foreign vassal help, so he let them enter Beijing as a hostage.

Li Shimin was silent for I don't know how long, he put his hand on Luo Xuanye's shoulder, that hand was still warm, but Luo Xuanye could feel that he was trembling, and his hand, which was once invincible on the battlefield, was trembling.

"Qingyang, I won't let you down, you believe me, I just haven't figured it out yet."

Luo Xuanye put his hand on Li Shimin's hand on his shoulder, staring at Li Shimin's eyes, blooming with endless light, "I know, you never disappoint, so I have followed you without hesitation over the years, no matter what the outcome is, I can accept it, even if we give up everything now, we are monarchs, relatives, and confidants." ”

Li Shimin burst into tears when he heard this, tears filled his cheeks, "Qingyang, Qingyang, if I have a day to ascend to the world, I will give you the highest glory for the courtiers since ancient times." ”

After Yang Wengan's incident, the dispute between Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng has been completely white-hot, and almost everyone understands that the two are fighting, and most of them remain neutral, because most of them are not qualified to enter this battlefield.

Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji began to do everything, Luo Xuanling almost kept by Li Shimin's side every inch to prevent assassins, because Li Yuanji, a madman, can really do that kind of thing, last time it was Li Xuanba, the king of Qi, who blocked Li Shimin's disaster, and now he is bedridden.

Li Yuan only felt upset about this, he was now entangled to the extreme, reason and feelings, the establishment of the King of Qin and the crown prince, made him irritable, when Yang Wen was in charge, he did have the idea of making the King of Qin the crown prince.

But he soon realized that if Yang Wen did what King Qin did, wouldn't that mean that King Qin could already control the people in the East Palace to do things?

So since you control the East Palace, will there be people from King Qin in the palace?

At that moment, Li Yuan put himself on the opposite side of Li Shimin, the king of Qin.

Fear, the all-pervasive fear, made Li Yuan decisively veto the idea of making the King of Qin the crown prince.

This son is terrible.

He has already made up his mind to completely cut off Li Shimin's idea of seizing the heir.

After a few years of speculation, after seven years of martial arts, Li Yuan finally made up his mind.

……

On the way back to King Qin's mansion from the hunting ground, everyone was talking about Li Shimin's heroic posture of landing safely on his horse, and they all laughed and said: "How did King Qin know that the crown prince and the king of Chu were going to hurt you with untamed horses today?" ”

Li Shimin recalled a person, and said with a smile: "Life and death are fateful, how can they interfere with their evil techniques." ”

The generals of the Qin Palace's mansion all laughed, it was just a joke, no one would have thought that it would make trouble in front of the Son of Heaven.

And this sentence has become, "King Qin said that he has a destiny!" ”

In order to bring down Li Shimin, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji have fallen into deep madness.

The word Mandate of Heaven stung Li Yuan.

He is the Son of Heaven, and the Mandate of Heaven should be owned by him, and how can he fight for this kind of thing by himself?

"How dare you peep into Destiny?"

Li Yuan angrily reprimanded Li Shimin in front of everyone.

After experiencing what Yang Wen did, Li Shimin already understood that Li Yuan really didn't want to pass on the crown prince to himself.

Li Shimin has always wanted to take the crown prince through normal advancement, and then rightfully hold the world.

Li Shimin knelt on the ground, he held his head high and said: "Your Majesty, the minister didn't say that, this is a frame!"

Please also ask Your Majesty to tell the minister who is framing the minister. ”

Li Yuan shouted angrily: "Enough! ”

Li Shimin did not give in, and at the same time said loudly: "Please Your Majesty will go to the law department to check, and please Your Majesty will return the innocence of the ministers!" ”

Li Yuan was angry and wanted to speak, but Li Shimin said directly: "Your Majesty, let the traitors frame the ministers, what are you going to do?" ”

It's so crazy!

The courtier asked the Son of Heaven what he wanted to do.

After hundreds of years without the inertia of Luo's life, the current king has been quite arbitrary, otherwise people like Yang Guang would have been overthrown long ago.

Li Yuan is not the kind of monarch who speaks his mind, but he can't tolerate a courtier who openly provokes himself like this, especially since this courtier really has the prestige to provoke himself.

Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji looked at this scene and couldn't help laughing, now King Qin really couldn't escape punishment.

Just to suppress his arrogance, this net jointly compiled by the Son of Heaven, the Prime Minister, the Crown Prince, the King of Chu, and the Concubine, after all, still trapped the tiger King Qin firmly in the net.

He was about to scold Li Shimin loudly, when he saw Feng Deyi hurriedly running into the hall, his face full of panic, which successfully interrupted what Li Yuan was about to say.

"Your Majesty, the Turkic Jieli Khan and the Turkic Khan led hundreds of thousands of troops to invade, and the border pass is eight hundred miles away!"

Turks!

Hundreds of thousands of troops!

Li Yuan sat up straight all of a sudden, a trace of fear flashing across his face.

The Turks, the biggest border threat in the Tang Dynasty, although because of the division of the Eastern and Western Turks, the prosperity of Rong Di was not as strong as it was at the end of the Han Dynasty, but it was still quite terrifying.

The key is that the Central Plains has just been fighting for many years and needs to recuperate.

What to do?

Li Yuan couldn't help but set his eyes on King Qin who was kneeling in front of him.

There are two reasons why he hasn't really done anything to Li Shimin, the king of Qin, for so many years.

One of them is that he cares about the relationship between father and son after all, and he doesn't want to move either the prince and the king of Qin.

Another reason is that the current military pressure of Datang is still very great, and at this time, it is impossible for him to abolish his martial arts and abolish the Datang God of War.

Li Yuan was very reluctant to admit it, but Li Shimin was the cornerstone of his throne, and he was the trump card in his hands that he was unwilling to play, but had to play every time.

Li Yuan has been crowning kings all these years, the purpose is to let the royal family defend the royal family, he is a typical person who only believes in himself.

He knew that Li Jing was talented, but he didn't believe that in the Tang Dynasty, any war was fought by the clan as the head of the march, and then paired with a veteran.

No matter how Li Shimin says it, he is also his sister-in-law, his own person, and it is impossible for him to hand over military power to outsiders.

Li Yuan slowly put away the angry expression just now, stepped forward, helped Li Shimin up, and said softly: "Turkic invasion, quickly summon the ministers to the palace and discuss countermeasures, Erlang, come, you have been in battle for a long time, tell me your opinion." ”

Li Yuan's classic law of "Erlang has something to do, King Qin has nothing to do" is still in force, and Li Shimin is actually a little grateful to the Turks who suddenly attacked the Tang Dynasty at this moment, this is the second time that the Turks have saved him.

Every time he fell into a political struggle and had to confront Li Yuan, the Turks would appear at the right time to give him a glorious record, and then his prestige would increase.

The crown prince and Li Yuanji simply gritted their teeth, how could this damn Turk appear at a critical moment.

Between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks, especially the upper echelons, there is actually not much hatred, and even with some high-level officials, the relationship is not bad.

But of course, personal relations cannot represent inter-state relations, the Turks should fight the grass valley, and the Tang Dynasty should fight back and fight back.

But the good thing about personal relationships is that there is actually a rather fragile mutual trust between the Turks and the Tang Dynasty.

Two countries that do not trust each other will always aim at each other with knives and guns, and there is no possibility of peace talks, and the only result is that one side will fall.

And between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks, as long as the balance of power can be maintained, peace talks can be made.

As the ministers entered the hall and sat down, Luo Jingcheng and Luo Xuanjing, as the six Shangshu, naturally participated in this meeting.

Luo Xuanye and Li Xiuning sat together at the head of Li Shimin.

Just when everyone thought that this was a military meeting to discuss how to send troops, Li Yuan directly threw out a rather explosive issue, that is, moving the capital.

"Since the first year of Wude, Chang'an is too close to the Turks, and the Turkic cavalry can reach the city of Chang'an by driving straight in, resulting in our dynasty being threatened by the Turks every time, and I think that Chang'an is not suitable as the imperial capital, and should move the capital to the south and build a defensive line on the front line of Guanzhong to block the invasion of the Turks."

As soon as Li Yuan put forward this proposal, Li Yuanji directly applauded: "The father is wise, but the imperial capital of the country has always been in turmoil, the world is in a panic, how can all the people do their own things with peace of mind, it is imperative to move the capital." ”

Although the prince did not speak, it could be seen from his expression that he was also in favor of moving the capital, and when the capital was moved, he wanted to see how the king of Qin used the Turks to kidnap and kidnap the imperial court.

There was silence in the hall, the ministers looked at me, I looked at you, Feng Deyi, Xiao Yu, Pei Lian, these old ministers of Li Yuan did not speak.

Politics has come to this point, and no one wants to touch Li Yuan's mold.

Li Xiuning wanted to speak, but was held down by Luo Xuanye and said in a low voice: "With King Qin here, don't worry, let him speak." ”

Luo Jingcheng and Luo Xuanjing looked at this scene in the hall, glanced at each other, nodded and shook their heads slightly, and looked at Luo Xuanye again, and when they saw Luo Xuanye shaking their heads slightly, the two of them looked at their noses and ears as if they hadn't heard it.

Li Shimin stepped forward and said loudly: "Your Majesty, since ancient times, all the summers have been heavy, in order to be in the Quartet, under the Su King, I don't mean to have two sons of heaven, Jieli Khan, and call it by the order of the sky, and now Your Majesty has ascended to the top of the Son of Heaven, how can you tolerate it?"

Moved the capital to work the people, Rong Di forced him to abandon the city, abandon the people, and never had such a disgrace to the Son of Heaven and the royal family in ancient times.

The Tyrannical Sui still surrendered to the Winter Turks, why can't I be the Tang Dynasty and Chengtian when I am ordained?

The minister thought that His Majesty's panic was inappropriate, and asked His Majesty to give the minister elite soldiers, and the minister was willing to lead the Tang Dynasty to retreat from the Turks! ”

Li Shimin's words echoed in the hall, and as soon as Li Shimin finished speaking, Luo Xuanye immediately got up and clenched his fists and said: "Your Majesty, what King Qin said is extremely true, where in this world is there a Central Plains Dynasty that was forced to move the capital by Rong Di?"

Only when the line is about to rot and the destiny of heaven will be lost, now my Tang Dynasty is like the glorious day, at this time to lose Chang'an, the land of King Su to return to the ruins of Yu Rongdi, it can really be described as a shame that cannot be washed away in the history books. ”

Luo Xuanjing stood up, she was wearing the clothes of a noble woman, extremely luxurious, and the lady's dress of the Tang Dynasty woman was also open, revealing a slender collarbone, dazzling white, there were not many women in the palace, she was undoubtedly the most beautiful one.

"Your Majesty, there has never been a Son of Heaven in this world who has not retreated without being in battle, and the ministers led the ministers of Jiangnan to submit to the Tang Dynasty, because Erjing has a royal spirit, and the Tang Dynasty has the world according to Erjing, but now Xijing will be reduced to dust?

The minister thinks it's inappropriate, please think twice! ”

Does Li Yuan really want to move the capital?

Not necessarily.

He and Li Jiancheng are still different, moving the capital is not good for Li Yuan, and the Turks are about to come to the city when they see it, and now it is too late to move the capital, so they can really only work the people and lose money.

But in addition to the war with the Turks, it is inevitable that another way will be found, and that must be possible.

The current Tang Dynasty really doesn't want to fight.

In the past few years of war, the world's water conservancy measures have been significantly damaged, and the population has also decreased a lot.

At this time, a war with the Turks will do more harm than good, and if you win, you will get nothing, and if you lose, you will have the danger of extinction.

……

Edict: With Li Shimin, the general of Tiance and the king of Qin, as the generalissimo of the march, and Li Yuanji, the king of Chu, as the deputy marshal of the march, the general manager of the 12-way march, and the Turks.

……

Li Shimin, who was the general of the Twelve Guards, finally saw the Tang Dynasty soldiers again.

These soldiers, who followed him all the way to capture the world, are in poor condition.

made him very worried, this was a Tang soldier he had never seen before.

Years of war have brought the soldiers' war-weariness to the peak, which is a problem that no one can solve.

After all, no one can stand this kind of pressure when they can't go home all year round, and they have been mentally tense all the time.

Man is not iron, not a machine, not an input command will work forever.

Even the spoils of war and the reward of meritorious deeds could not stop this war-weariness.

To add insult to injury, with the unification of the world, the role of the army has gradually decreased, and the treatment of the army will inevitably decline, which will further reduce the combat strength and will of the soldiers.

This is an unsolvable problem, because not all the money can be supplied to the army, and domestic disaster relief, water conservancy construction, and other issues of stability in the world are also extremely important.

But can such an army really defend itself against the Turks?

Li Shimin was a little worried.

And that's not all.

Luo Xuanye said directly: "King Qin, King Chu can't be trusted, especially if he can't hand over important things to him, he will definitely mess up on purpose." ”

Li Shimin sighed and nodded, how could he not know?

Li Yuanji didn't have the slightest intention of cooperating with him at all, Li Yuanji just wanted to see his jokes, see the failure of him, the number one god of war in the Tang Dynasty, and then dampen his prestige.

The army has not yet set out, and the contradiction between the generalissimo of the march and the deputy marshal of the march is already so great that who can not worry about the prospects?

Li Yuan personally practiced for Li Shimin, in every war that unified the world in the past, Li Shimin always drank the practice wine with high spirits, and then took the army of the Tang Dynasty to set off majestically, and finally won a hearty victory.

But now he can't see it.

He only saw the fluttering fallen leaves dancing in the autumn wind, he only saw pieces of golden piled up into soft leaves, the breeze blowing, making a rustling sound, this late autumn picture, just in line with his mood at the moment, bleak autumn wind, extremely desolate.

He turned around and looked at Chang'an, his thoughts were misty, but he saw the eaves of the Zhu Lou behind his father, carved beams and paintings, golden and brilliant, the Zhuque Street was full of traffic, pedestrians were weaving, and the merchants in the market gathered, and it seemed to be another world.

He was now in the dark, with a single-plank bridge under his feet, darkness on all sides, and only a little light in the foreground, faintly opening his way.

Since Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande were defeated by him, Li Shimin has not laughed happily for too long.

Li Shimin could only keep reciting a sentence, "The road is tortuous, but the future is bright." ”

Leave Chang'an, meet the Turkic Khan, and let him withdraw his troops!

……

After Li Shimin left, Luo Xuanye returned to Chang'an, yes, this time he went to conquer the Turks, and there was no Luo Xuanye, which was beyond the expectations of many people, and it was rumored that Li Yuan had another important use for Luo Xuanye.

Luo Xuanjing came to Princess Pingyang's mansion, and when the brother and sister were reminiscing, Luo Xuanjing asked about the prince and the king of Qin, and said: "Fifth brother, my husband and I want to marry the king of Qin, I don't know if the fifth brother can make peace for it." ”

Normally, if Luo Xuanjing wants to marry Li Shimin, it must be no problem, especially when Li Shimin is more difficult now, Luo Xuanjing and Luo Jingcheng are powerful foreign aid, which is exactly what he needs.

After all, Li Shimin's base camp is in Luoyang, and Li Shimin is prepared to flee to Luoyang if something happens, and fight against Chang'an.

Luo Xuanye pondered for a while and said: "The only eldest daughter of King Qin now, Li Li, is married to the eldest son of his brother, and King Qin once promised Xiaoliu to marry a daughter to his son.

But now, King Qin's second concubine has not been born yet, Xiaoliu's son has not been born, and King Qin doesn't know if he will have another daughter in the future. ”

This is a rather embarrassing and realistic question, and it is normal to want to get married.

But Li Shimin said that the eldest grandson can't live indefinitely, where are there so many daughters for the Luo family to marry.

In fact, the problem of marrying a concubine is not big, Luo's does not value this, and many of the daughters of ordinary families have been married before.

But since it is a marriage, Li Shimin's attention to the princess is very important.

The daughter of the eldest grandson, of course, is in the first column.

And marrying the daughter of the eldest grandson is also because the eldest grandson is excellent, and her daughters are generally not bad.

Luo Xuanjing thought for a while and said to Li Xiuning: "I have to ask the princess to help my sister consult, to see which princess I should marry, or which noble girl to marry, this Chang'an City, my sister is a little unfamiliar with these people after all." ”

Li Xiuning smiled: "Some little things are wrapped up in me, but Ah Jing, why don't you ask for your son to marry my daughter?" ”

Luo Xuanjing and Luo Xuanye said in unison: "The ancestor has a saying, if the stigma is not married, the stigma is one, just like a family, how can you marry?" ”

Li Xiuning suddenly knew that he didn't understand some of the rules within Luo's.

After a few more small talks, Luo Xuanye frowned slightly and asked, "Fifth brother, this time the King of Qin went on an expedition, and His Majesty did not let you accompany the army, saying that it would be of other important use to you, I think something is wrong." ”

Luo Xuanye lowered his face and said, "Your Majesty knows that I am King Qin's best friend, so he is unwilling to let me join the army."

There must be something wrong with this, but he is a monarch's father, as long as he doesn't touch the bottom line, then there is no way, he can only come to cover up the water, and His Majesty will not be too much to me. ”

Li Xiuning said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, with me, nothing will happen to my husband, and we are not Erlang after all, and my father will not deal with our husband and wife." ”

That being said, what does the Son of Heaven want Luo Xuanye to do?

The answer was soon revealed.

A new appointment to Luo Xuanye came out of Shangshu Province.

There were indigenous rebellions in Lingnan and frequent attacks on surrounding states and counties, Li Yuan sent Luo Xuanye to serve as the general manager of the Lingnan Road march, leading the military of dozens of Lingnan states such as Guangzhou, Gangzhou, Shaozhou, Xunzhou, Chaozhou, Kangzhou, Duanzhou, Xinzhou, and Fengzhou.

Another edict was issued to pacify the turmoil in Lingnan Province, Luo Xuanye served as the Supervisor of Lingnan Province, the Governor of Guangzhou, the Assassin of Guangzhou, and the pacification of Lingnan.

This appointment is difficult to evaluate.

The chief of the Lingnan Road march has nothing to say, the commander of one side, and the rest of the governors must be controlled by him, and the supreme power of the entire Lingnan counterinsurgency is here.

Li Yuan didn't add a Li clan king to Luo Xuanye, which proved that he really believed in Luo Xuanye.

But who believes that Li Yuan really wants Luo Xuanye to quell the chaos, who is stupid!

The latter appointment, a total of three official positions, Lingnan Provincial Supervision Envoy, this position in the Han Wu Emperor period, has a resounding name, called Thorn History, this is the official position of a supervisory official, the state and county two-level system must be difficult to manage, so there is a supervision envoy.

Although Datang is now a three-level system of Dao-state-county, it is administratively a second-level state and county, and the Dao level is very empty, only the right to supervise, and the Tang Dynasty, which has not yet experienced the abolition of Shi Limu, at the state level, what really plays a role is that Luo Xuanye's second official position, the governor of Guangzhou.

After the establishment of Datang, there are so many special positions.

Taiyuan, the land of Longxing, is now called Bingzhou, and it is also the first line of defense against the Turks.

Yizhou, known as Tianfu, is the granary of Guanzhong.

In the past, Jiangling, now Jingzhou, was an important part of controlling the Yangtze River.

and Yangzhou, north of the Yangtze River, although it is now dilapidated, but there is a Grand Canal, plus the need to suppress the old land south of the Yangtze River, Yangzhou is recovering.

In these four states, the Tang Dynasty set up a metropolitan governor here, which is a fairly high-level official position, and the level is equivalent to the left and right servants of Shangshu and the general manager of the sixteen guards, which is from the second rank.

Above this, only Li Shimin's Shangshu Ling and Shaandong Dao Daxingtai Shangshu Ling, and other official positions are under this!

You can imagine the horror of this position!

The current Tang Dynasty, the crown prince and the king of Qin needless to say, Li Yuanji hangs the governor of Jingzhou, Li Xuanba hangs the governor of Yizhou, and Li Xiuning hangs the governor of Bingzhou, it can be seen from here that this official position is for the princes.

Under the Metropolitan Governor, that is, the Metropolitan Governor, this is a typical military attaché, in charge of the military, but not only the military of that state, such as the Governor of Suzhou, he is in charge of the military of the entire Jiangzuo Wuyue hometown, and the military of the rest of the states is under the jurisdiction of the Suzhou Governor's Office.

Luo Xuanye's Guangzhou Governor is the same way, as soon as this official position is suspended, he can regularly mobilize half of the troops of Lingnan Dao, although the strength of Lingnan Dao is only a few thousand, but this is also quite remarkable.

The last official position in Guangzhou is a political official, in charge of the government affairs of Guangzhou, and this simple official position is nothing, after all, there is no marine economy in Guangzhou now, and it belongs to the poor countryside.

Guangzhou is a typical Xiazhou, and the history of Guangzhou Thorn is equivalent to an official position under the four products.

Luo Xuanye is the head of Zuo Qinglongwei from the second grade, and he can't look down on such an official position, but the governor of Guangzhou and Guangzhou, plus the Jiangnan Provincial Inspector.

Government affairs, military power, and supervision are in the hands of one person, Luo Xuanye is in Lingnan, and whoever dies will die.

From this point of view, Li Yuan seems to really want Luo Xuanye to go to Lingnan to do something big and pacify the frontier to avoid chaos.

But Luo Xuanye doesn't think so, most people don't think so, "Your Majesty is going to transfer me out of Chang'an, he thinks it's not good for me to stay with King Qin, so he transferred me far away, don't appear in Chang'an, don't appear next to King Qin and the crown prince." ”

Soon Li Xiuning got the news, frowned and said coldly: "Husband, someone secretly reported that you instigated the relationship between the prince and the king of Qin, so my father had the intention of mobilizing you to leave." ”

Upon hearing this, Luo Xuanye couldn't help but smile and said, "In this way, I also want to thank Your Majesty, but you transferred me, and it was so glorious to transfer me." ”

Li Xiuning thought for a while and said, "I'll go and persuade my father and let him take back his fate." ”

Luo Xuanye said lightly: "Your Majesty will not take it back, at least not now." ”

If it was someone else, even if it was Luo Xuanling, Li Yuan would have killed him directly.

But Luo Xuanye is special after all, those memories flashed in Li Yuan's mind, Duke Wen didn't appear for many years, but Li Yuan still couldn't forget the person who was like a sacred.

He really wanted to get Gong Wen to give him some advice, and it was best to support his approach.

……

After Li Shimin set out on the expedition, Luo Xuanye also embarked on his own journey, but there was a blazing fire in his eyes, splashing out from the deep cold eyes.

Your Majesty!

Even if I am asked to leave, it will not stop.

The military flag was rolling, and Luo Xuanye went all the way to Lingnan, and no one knew what he was thinking.

A carriage came to Chang'an slowly, and there was a person in the carriage.

It's Losu.

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If you want to do a good job, you must sharpen your tools, this so-called lord of the world, do all the blessings, to the Tang Dynasty is not, Gaozu Taizong holds the sword, Tai'a holds it upside down, and gives Taizong a handle, how fortunate is it? - "Tongjian: Tang Ji"

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