In the court, the quarrel over Li Shimin's decision to let Li Ke leave the capital of Zhen'an was very fierce, even if this was a suggestion made by the national teacher, there were still many people who disagreed.

Someone even asked Li Shimin directly: "Isn't Your Majesty worried that in the future, the king of Mobei will rebel?" ”

Li Shimin had long known that Wei Zheng and the others would ask this, because he had also asked Luo Su like this.

So he replied directly to him with Luo Su's words: "If the King of Mobei can rebel one day, it proves that the imperial court can no longer control Mobei, even if there is no King Zong, there will be others going south."

Is my son reliable, or is someone who doesn't know where he came from?

The princes of the Zhou Dynasty were national vassals, and it took at least four generations to drift away, what do you think? ”

Luo Su's response is very clever, and since you are talking about your current policy with what will inevitably happen in the future, I will also respond to your question with the possibility that it will be worse in the future.

Will there be a problem one day for the king of Mobei, if the power is not taken back in time, it will definitely be, so it must be matched with the flow of feudalism, in fact, even the flow of feudal cannot guarantee safety.

Because decades have been enough to guard the king of Mobei, it is like an iron bucket, so that the central government can't intervene.

So Wei Zhengfang, Fang Xuanling and others are very correct, and there is nothing wrong.

But, even if there is no Zong King, will the Tang Dynasty not have the border trouble in the north?

No, the northern border troubles of the Tang Dynasty are doomed, it is just a question of who the enemy is, even if the nomads on the grassland enter the Central Plains, they still have to face the northern border troubles.

After Li Shimin figured out this problem, he naturally had the idea that the meat was rotten in the Li family's pot, even if one day the Tang Dynasty had to face the northern border troubles again, he hoped that it would be two of his own children and grandchildren, not a person with a foreign surname.

When all the prime ministers figured out what Li Shimin was thinking, everyone kept their mouths shut.

……

Yang Shufei Palace, Li Ke knelt quietly, his eyes swept over the rather elegant decoration one by one, the simplicity here did not look like the dormitory of a respected fourth concubine.

As Concubine Yang Shufei has always adhered to, do not fight or grab, live in peace, Li Ke's eyes fell on his mother, a beautiful woman, demure and virtuous, like a delicate flower shining on the water when she sits.

Looking at her son kneeling at her feet, Concubine Yang's eyes were full of tears, a crystal clear tear fell, and she sobbed: "You kid, why do you suddenly have to go so far, Hala and Lin, what kind of place is that, I heard that Chang'an can only reach it six thousand miles north, will our mother and son meet in the future?" ”

Li Ke took two steps forward on his knees, knelt on the ground again, and sobbed: "Mother, please forgive my son for being unfilial." ”

If he didn't say anything else, Concubine Yang knew that this was not something she could interfere with, so she could only cry again, and then do her best to help him, as a parent, what else?

……

After the edict was issued, the Tang Dynasty began to prepare intensively for the departure of Li Ke, the king of Yan.

This is the biggest event in the entire imperial court, and there is no one.

A vassal king who went so far out of the town, the last time was in the Han Dynasty, the unequaled Wuxiang Marquis Luo Shi took the son of Emperor Han to establish a country in the Western Regions, and finally Emperor Xuan of Han gave him the throne.

Even now, the descendants of the surname Liu are still breeding in the Western Regions, and they are the Liu States in the Zhaowu Nine Surname Kingdom, and the Zhao State are also the descendants of the Zhuxia royal family who once ruled the Western Regions.

These two kingdoms are also very few, and they accept the system of the Heavenly Khan, but everyone knows that they are the kingdoms of Zhuxia.

Therefore, Li Ke's departure from the town is very important, this is the first time that the Central Plains Dynasty has sent a king to the grassland under such a strong position.

The best part?

is to ensure Li Ke's safety, if Li Ke's front foot reaches Hala and Lin, and the back foot dies of a violent illness, then everything will be like a joke.

And Datang can only suffer a dumb loss.

Because in the grassland, it is very normal to die a khan, especially from the Central Plains, it is normal for the water and soil to die if they do not accept it.

Therefore, Li Ke went to Hala and Lin, and the people accompanying him were very important, there were 3,000 people in Anbei Province, but this was far from enough, Li Ke's biggest problem was that he did not have his own team.

At the beginning, most of the people in the Shu Wangfu were not suitable for the environment of the grassland, so at least half of them had to be replaced.

And.

Although I don't want to admit it, since Li Shimin ordered Li Ke to go to Hala and Lin Zhufan, and looking at the attitude, basically after returning to the Central Plains in this life, many people in the original Shu Mansion began to look for relationships and wanted to transfer out of the Shu Palace.

In fact, he was unwilling to go to Hara and Lin to suffer.

It's okay to go there to fight, but if you stay there for the rest of your life or even for the rest of your children, just one word, don't talk about it.

The barbarians still know that the flower world in the south is good, and they are determined to go south, and I am a dignified summer nobleman, going to herd sheep and raise cattle, like words?

From this point of view, the group of early nobles of Bang Zhou was really too great to be overcome, and the good days of Wang Ji were just to go to those wild places to explore, and the development at that time was much more dangerous than now.

In response to this situation, Luo's naturally sacrifices the traditional Dafa, that is, to move from generation to generation!

How were Lingnan, Liaodong, and Western Regions developed?

Isn't it that a large number of people were exiled there, the Han Dynasty began with Liu Bang's cleanup of the rebellious princes and kings, and continued to be exiled until the end of the early Han Dynasty, at least more than 500,000 households were exiled to the frontier.

As for Jingzhou and Jiangdong, more than one million households were exiled and migrated, which greatly oppressed the living space of the people in the mountains, so the Han Dynasty's exploits in the development of Zhuxia were second only to those of the Bangzhou countries.

And what about Datang?

From the Wude period to the Zhenguan period, how many families have been convicted in these eighteen years?

How many families have been confiscated?

Luo Su suggested that Li Shimin carefully select some capable people from among them, let them go to Hala and Lin with their guilt, and if they can make meritorious contributions, restore their titles and honors, and rehabilitate their fathers and ancestors.

This is much better than the conditions of the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty wants to return to Chang'an, it really depends on luck, and the Tang Dynasty has a king there, who can make meritorious achievements faster.

And if Li Ke can't come back, it doesn't mean that these people can't come back.

Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, Lifan Yuan and Privy Council, aren't these all channels for rising?

As soon as Li Shimin's policy came out, I don't know how many people found their former relatives and friends, hoping to get a place to go to Hala and Lin.

In the end, 10 were determined.

Li Shimin recruited thousands of warriors who were eager to make contributions to Li Ke, plus the release of the prisoners and the families of the prisoners, a total of 10,000 Han families followed Li Ke to Hala and Lin, Li Ke was the prince, there were already 10,000 households, and he suddenly became the only prince in the Tang Dynasty who actually sealed 10,000 households.

Not only 10,000 Han households, Li Shimin also gave him 2,000 households of Turkic people and various tribes who were placed in the Hetao, this is because in the grassland, there is no cavalry, so they can only be beaten passively, and there are not many Han people who can ride horses, so Li Shimin naturally can't give them all to Li Ke.

Moreover, these Turkic people can teach the Han people who moved north with Li Ke about nomadic knowledge, and when they arrived in Mobei, they could not farm the land, and when the king of heaven and Laozi went, they could only graze and live in pursuit of water and grass.

These people who moved north with Li Ke were divided into one unit per thousand households, which was called the "Twelve Divisions of King Yan".

What everyone didn't expect was that among them, there was one person who was very unexpected and took the initiative to follow Li Ke to Hala and Lin, that was the great Confucian Kong Yingda.

Kong Yingda said, "Since ancient times, the Han people who fled to the grassland are innumerable, but in the end they are all in the middle of the Hu, although to the grassland, can only graze, but the words of the sage, can not be abandoned, if the Han people on the grassland can still remember the elegant language, can remember the people, even after thousands of years, will not forget their origins." ”

The complexity of human nature can be seen from him, Li Shimin looked at the old man in his Qin Palace, and finally did not persuade him, and let him go to Hala and Lin with Li Ke.

The importance that the imperial court attached to Li Ke's departure from the town made both the court officials and the northern grassland tribes feel the determination of the Tang Dynasty.

……

On the twenty-third day of the first month of the tenth year of Zhenguan, Li Ke announced goodbye to the kings who saw him off in the Shili Pavilion outside Chang'an City, Li Chengqian dragged his legs forward, and his relationship with Li Tai, the king of Wei, was not very good, but the relationship with Li Ke was good.

He patted Li Ke's shoulder and said softly: "Third brother, when you get to Hara and Lin, you have to write more letters to Chang'an, don't let my father and our brothers worry, if there is anything needed, you will say, we will back you up in the back, so as not to let those people on the grassland bully."

You are the prince of the Tang Dynasty and the most honorable person under the Son of Heaven. ”

Li Ke clenched his fists and said solemnly: "Brother Huang, this farewell, I don't know when we will meet again, I wish my father and queen mother long live and peace, may my mother be healthy, and may my brother be happy and safe."

The brother will pray for you in Hara and Lin. ”

The breeze blew on his cheeks, with the chill of winter, Li Ke wrapped the brocade fur on his body, and said goodbye to everyone again, he looked at the direction of Chang'an from afar, and seemed to still be able to see the majestic city, when will he come back next time?

What does the road ahead look like?

Li Ke also has some bottom in his heart, will Hala and Lin be the abyss where he is buried?

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In the tenth year of Zhenguan, Li Ke, the king of Shu, was protected by the king of Yan, the scorching sun khan, and the capital of Anbei, and became the supreme political leader of the Tang Empire in the north.

We look back at the initiator of all this, the Tang Dynasty national teacher who is known as the first wisdom in the past and present, and can't help but ask, when someone uses "bloody Tang Dynasty" to describe this glorious dynasty, does the national teacher Luo Su know that he has opened a bloody era? ——"The History of the Rise and Fall of the Tang Empire"

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