In the ninth year of Zhenguan, it was very unusual from the powerful officials of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, and Luo Xuanye, the king of Zhou County, made a great show of power twice and walked out from behind the crown prince Li Chengqian, so that everyone could see him.

According to the rumors of the ladies of the court who participated in the celebration banquet, the queen was smiling and smiling at the banquet that day, and she was slightly sickly, but later she was in good spirits.

In the ninth year of Zhenguan, the Tang Dynasty put down the threat from Xiyan, and the Hexi Corridor and Guanzhong completely got rid of the danger of the sword against the jaw.

In the ninth year of Zhenguan, the crown prince Li Chengqian married a wife from a Jiangnan family.

This is Li Shimin's political habit, his sister and daughter are married to families, meritorious heroes, and noble-born foreign vassals like Qibi He Li.

The sons are also married to big families, such as Shandong Shi clan, Guan Long Shi clan, and Jiangnan Shi clan.

Li Shimin is unwilling to use violence to get rid of these people, so he can only marry and tie them to the chariot of the Tang Dynasty.

A month after Li Chengqian's marriage, the marriage that had been delayed due to the death of Princess Pingyang Zhao was restarted, and Luo Juncheng and Princess Li Lizhi of Changle got married.

Luo Juncheng was promoted to the rank of Crown Prince's Left Guard, responsible for taking charge of half of the military forces of the Prince's Mansion, and his future was the brightest among the Luo sons of his generation.

The ninth year of Zhenguan is very gorgeous, full of joy.

After the joy, there was silence, Li Yuan lived too long, and gave Li Shimin a lot of younger brothers and sisters in the Wude Palace, after four years of reconciliation between father and son from Zhenguan, Li Yuan finally came to the point of life.

Died in the Wude Temple.

When the news of Li Yuan's death reached Taiji Palace, Li Shimin was stunned for a long time, and only after coming back to his senses did he only feel tears.

A vast amount of desolation and loneliness enveloped him, and now he was a real loner.

The news of Li Yuan's death spread to Sifang Prefecture and County, but it did not cause a big wave, and it was almost ten years since the Wude period.

Only Li Yuan, who has been serving in the outside world and has never returned to the old department in the center of Chang'an, is a little sad and excessive.

For example, after the change of Xuanwu Gate, he went out of the town, and there was no shortage of high-ranking officials and lords all the way, but Chang'an never went back.

He heard that Li Yuan had died, and he also died in the ninth year of Zhenguan.

Li Yuan's funeral was magnificent and grand, and he was buried with Emperor Gaozuwu.

With his passing, an era was completely turned over, and the remnants of the last old era also dissipated in the billowing smoke and dust of paper money.

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The land of Longxing in the Tang Dynasty, formerly known as Jinyang, is now called Bingzhou, where Wu Shitong's hometown is, and he is naturally buried here.

Wu Cao, who was only eleven years old, came to Bingzhou from Luoyang Fuling with her mother, sister and half-brother who did not treat her very well.

When the chariot walked into the place where the Wu clan of Bingzhou was, she saw Xiao Xiao's autumn leaves flying, and saw Susu hanging on both sides of the road.

Paper money floating in the sky was like snowflakes and yellow leaves, falling to the ground one after another, and crows crowed.

Sometimes she couldn't tell if it was paper money, or if a crow had broken its wings and fell.

Unlike her crying mother and sister, Wu Cao also has deep sadness in her heart, but she knows better that her carefree life in the past is coming to an end.

Wu Cao's mother was born in a famous family, she inherited her mother's beauty, and has an outstanding natural posture, taught by her mother since childhood, not only beautiful appearance, good manners, in terms of talent, but also "outstanding in everyone", praised "Er is a man, will be able to prosper the family".

She knows people very accurately, sees problems for a while, and has a tough and brave heart, when she was a child, she once encountered danger, hid for several hours without making a sound, and finally escaped.

After the funeral, the Yang mother and daughter could only face the Wu family alone and the jackals, and endure bullying and exclusion.

The Yang family looked at the young Wu Shun and Wu Cao, and finally decided to leave the Wu family and go to Chang'an to join the old people.

After all, Wu Shi Tong still has some old friendships, even if Xiao Yu and others may not look down on Wu Shi Tong from a humble background, they will still give some help.

After all, Wu Shi Tong is the Yuan Servant of the Emperor Taishang, and the Tang Dynasty will not let his wife and daughter live on the streets.

Even though the sons of Wushi Tong were dissatisfied with him, he was not a concubine after all, but a serious housewife, and the Yingguo Mansion in Chang'an City always had to welcome him in.

Wu Cao once again traveled with her mother and sister to Chang'an, a city she only remembered in her father's memory.

When she left Bingzhou, she turned around and glanced here, and in a short period of time here, she understood what the world was called hot and cold, and she didn't speak because she believed in power, and those who didn't have power should be forbearing.

The scenery along the way has not changed much, from Bingzhou to Chang'an, the scene of the war in the past has gradually passed away with the wind and rain, and the soil on both sides of the straight road is piled up, and the mounds are weeds and residual leaves that have been beaten away by the autumn rain.

What will Chang'an look like?

She had countless fantasies in her head.

All the fantasies came to an abrupt end when Chang'an suddenly appeared in front of her, because her imagination could not describe her shock at the moment.

Chang'an, within 10,000 miles of east, west, north and south, is the most prosperous city, a well-deserved city of the world, and a city of one million people.

It turns out that this is Chang'an!

The little Wu Cao only felt that her heart was beating rapidly, and her beautiful face, which was once praised by the Xiangshi as "Longqing Phoenix Neck", raised a bright light.

At this moment, her heart is full of yearning for this city of the Pearl of the Tang Dynasty, and she wants to stay here and make a difference.

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The entire Tang Dynasty was in a thriving state, from the late Wude period to the Zhenguan period, because the war was basically over, the people began to resume production and have children, and the imperial court re-measured the land, checked the hidden households, and after defeating the Winter Turks and the Western Yan Kingdom, the attached population, the population registered in the imperial court has approached the 6.8 million household mark.

This number is naturally not as good as when the Han Dynasty was at its peak, but after Yang Guang's anti-heaven operation, it was able to quickly recover to this extent, which was already caused by the unremitting efforts of the Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers.

The basic plate of more than 30 million, under the political governance of the Zhenguan Dynasty and the Qingming Dynasty, gave the Tang Dynasty an extremely strong foundation, as Li Shimin said, "The Winter Turks and Western Yan, although they are strong, they are defeated."

Among all the enemies around the Tang Dynasty, the Winter Turks could drive straight to the city of Chang'an, and the enemies on the plateau could also directly enter Chang'an.

And Chang'an City has no defense.

This unprecedentedly large city requires more than 200,000 troops to be able to hold it.

So the Chang'an city wall is useless. The surrounding pass is the city wall of Chang'an.

The Winter Turks and the countries on the plateau were able to directly avoid the four stops, so as soon as Datang freed his hands, he attacked these two countries as soon as possible.

Among the remaining three regional regimes, Tubo was specially mentioned by the national teacher Luosu, but the Tang Dynasty's attack on Xiyan was already more troublesome.

If you go further in, the price you pay is too great, and Li Shimin thinks it is not necessary.

As an immediate emperor, he is not very interested in martial arts, and his favorite is Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, who engages in cultural governance and makes the lives of ordinary people better.

Therefore, supporting the Murong clan in the old land of the Western Yan Kingdom, and then establishing the Snowy Protectorate is the only thing that can be done for Tubo at present.

As for the Western Turks, they have not yet broken away from the suppression of the Tang Dynasty for the time being, and the Western Turks are too far away, and they must pass at least two passes to attack Guanzhong, which belongs to the later stage of the Tang Dynasty strategy.

Counting over and over, there is only one country that is a great threat to the Central Plains, close to the Central Plains, and has always been ready to move, and that is Liaodong.

For the Liaodong Kingdom, dragging the Sui Dynasty into the abyss and the Liaodong Kingdom of the fallen country, the Tang monarchs and ministers were deeply afraid.

The Liaodong Kingdom must be destroyed, among the five major countries around it, only the Liaodong Kingdom can never exist, this is the consensus of the Tang Dynasty monarchs.

Farming and nomadism, with a population of more than 3 million, and a steady stream of Hu people from Liaodong to enhance combat effectiveness.

It's -

The only country that has the strength to compete with the Tang Emperor for Zhu Xiazi.

Li Shimin will never allow it to exist.

The monarchs and ministers of the Tang Dynasty did not want to destroy the Liaodong Kingdom all the time, but they have been shelved until now.

Because it's so hard.

The infighting in Liaodong has been going on since the assassination of the previous king of Liaodong to the present, with the traditional Han faction fighting with the Zhuxia faction, and the Hu faction fighting with the Zhuxia faction, but this infighting has not been serious enough to ignore the loss of the country.

If the Tang Dynasty goes to attack Liaodong, it will have to face the heavily armed mountain city of Liaodong.

Luo Xuanye once personally told the generals and Li Shimin about this kind of mountain city transformed by the Luo family, and Li Shimin's vest was cold when he listened, "No wonder Emperor Yang of Sui has three expeditions, even if I or Wei Guogong go, there is no other way." ”

Li Shimin and Li Jing are good at field warfare, or famous generals since nature, they are actually good at field warfare, so Li Jing is handy at fighting the Winter Turks and Western Yanlai, after all, these two countries have no cities to defend.

But to attack the city, just come to a city with a high pool and thick pool, as long as the level of the defenders is not too bad, there is no shortage of food and grass, and it will not be a problem to defend it for a year and a half, even if Han Wumu is alive, there is no way.

Even Luo Su's opinion on Liaodong is to wait, wait for the infighting in Liaodong to become white-hot, or if a natural disaster occurs, in short, the military means will be pressed up in the end, or wait for Liaodong to have problems by itself.

Compared with the Liaodong Kingdom, Luo Su instead mentioned to Li Shimin a small tribe that had once surrendered to the Winter Turks, that is, Xue Yantuo, whose strength grew too fast, and if it continued like this, Mobei would soon get out of control again, and then destroy the Tian Khan system.

But Li Shimin had no choice, Mobei was too far away, and there were not enough personnel from the Metropolitan Protectorate of Anbei.

At this time, Luo Su made a suggestion to Li Shimin, "Has the Son of Heaven ever thought that sending a king of the sect to sit in Hala and Lin is like Li Xiaogong, the king of Hejian County, is sitting in the Protectorate of the Great Capital." ”

Li Shimin was silent, because the political status of Mobei and the Western Regions was completely different.

To put it simply, Li Xiaogong was in the Western Regions, and Li Shimin was not afraid of Li Xiaogong's rebellion.

But if Li Xiaogong is placed in Mobei, he can't sleep well, this is the biggest difference.

(End of chapter)