Chapter 578: Official Title
Hearing Li Xiang's title, Li Shimin's face became even worse, in the past, when he was angry, Li Xiang would call him grandfather, in order to coax him to be happy, and shorten the distance between the two sides, but what is going on today?
The eldest grandson Wuji's face is not very good-looking, which can be regarded as Li Xiang's provocation to the emperor.
Fang Xuanling still has the same face, he has already achieved that Mount Tai collapsed in front of him and his face did not change, but what he thought in his heart, I am afraid that only he knows, His Royal Highness Taisun, what's wrong?
As for Wang De, the big eunuch beside the emperor, he was already sweating nervously, and among all the people, his city was the shallowest in the city, so when he heard Li Xiang's title, he naturally felt Li Xiang's deterrence, could it be that he wanted a showdown with the emperor?
In the hearts of contemporary people, Li Shimin made a bad start, that is, he disrespected his father Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, when the Xuanwumen Incident occurred, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan still had the ability to continue to govern, although he did not do very well, but it was not bad.
Li Shimin has always wanted to reverse this trend, and has been instilling the views of father-son filial piety to the people below, but unfortunately it has not been very successful.
The so-called upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, how did you get your own throne, I am afraid you know better than others, you yourself are not very filial to your father, how can you ask others? So when Li Xiang said this, Wang De naturally thought that Li Xiang was going to have a showdown.
"Get up, I haven't been back to Chang'an for more than two years, but I feel that Chang'an has changed?"
Li Shimin reacted quickly, although he was unhappy, but he couldn't let Li Xiang continue to kneel, this trip Li Xiang solved two big troubles, one was to knock Goguryeo down, which was the demon that plagued Li Shimin.
The second is to solve the rebellion of the northern Turks, if Li Xiang can't go over, it is very likely that the rebels will drive south, the army of the Tang Dynasty is indeed very strong, but no matter how strong you are, if you can't stop it, the people in the north will fall into disaster.
This point is not only confused by the common people, even the ministers of the court are also complaining, when Li Shimin insisted on letting King Wu go on the expedition, many people were dissatisfied in their hearts, obviously there is His Royal Highness Taisun who is more capable of fighting, you have to let a King Wu who has never fought a war lead the troops.
If you win the war, then you can't say anything from top to bottom, and you have to say that you know people well and dig out a famous general for the court.
But now that you have lost, not only have you suffered heavy casualties, but also almost wiped out the whole army, if it weren't for Li Xiang to turn the tide, the loss of the imperial court in the north would be even greater, even if Li Xiang saved this team, the scene of Chang'an City being listed everywhere that day, do you think everyone will forget it after sleeping?
The more successful Li Xiang is in the north, the more Li Shimin fails, and King Wu naturally has to bear the responsibility this time, so he has become a marginalized prince of the imperial court, except for an empty name, he has no strength in his hands, and even with Concubine Yang Niangniang has been marginalized.
But except for King Wu, shouldn't other people be responsible for this?
There has never been a shortage of careful people in Chang'an City, and these careful people reviewed King Wu's troops, and they found that in addition to King Wu's strings, Li Shimin was another person who was very wrong.
In addition to the mistake of selecting people, Li Shimin kept urging King Wu to send troops in order to make a time difference, hoping that before the news reached Liaodong, King Wu would already send troops with people.
You must know that this is a war between the two countries, it is by no means a child's house, any preparations must be in place, when a large number of preparations have not been completed, Li Shimin has already asked King Wu to send troops, at the beginning I can still rely on enthusiasm to win, but then as long as there is a slight deviation, you know what it is like to be defeated.
King Wu's failure has his own reasons, but Li Shimin also has to bear a certain responsibility, although this matter is not explicitly said, but everyone is not stupid, everyone can see the problem here, King Wu is also responsible for Li Shimin.
On the other hand, on Li Xiang's side, even if they went to the north to help, they had done everything around Goguryeo, in addition to taking several countries on the peninsula, Li Xiang also trained the Dengzhou sailors.
This didn't cost a penny, it was all captured on the battlefield, and it didn't bring a little burden to the people, but instead transported the goods from the south to the north, and it was still by sea.
Datang values the most is Caoyun, every year will spend a lot of money to maintain the Grand Canal, to keep the north-south channel open, but with shipping, the cost has dropped a lot, but there is no need to spend this money, in the sea and inland shipping echo each other, the north-south economic exchanges are more than the original, which can be seen with the eyes of the benefits.
The most important thing is that a large amount of grain and other goods were transported to Datang by sea, which caused the price of Datang to be further reduced, which made many people who could not eat a lot of gratitude. The main thing is that the grain is still so cheap.
"If you go back to the emperor, the style of Chang'an City is still the same, and this is all the credit of the emperor."
Li Xiang replied honestly, if you ask, I will say a word, anyway, those who belong to us can't run, and those who don't belong to us don't have to fight.
Listening to Li Xiang's hard words, anyone can hear the dissatisfaction in the words, of course, this is also a normal thing, Li Xiang led people to fight on the front line, you stumbled us in the back, fortunately our ability is relatively strong, otherwise with your ability to find trouble, it is possible to lose on the front line.
"Your credit is not small, but I have nothing to reward now, what do you say?"
Li Shimin sneered and said, how can you say that Li Xiang is also a hero who came back from the front line, and he is the biggest hero, such an attitude is really chilling.
But Li Shimin also told the truth, Li Xiang is now the emperor's grandson, if you want to reward, it can only be some yellow and white things, but Li Xiang's family is richer than the treasury, can people look at these things you give?
"Weichen is fighting outside, and what he wants is the prosperity of Datang, so he doesn't ask for anything."
Li Xiang gave the hard Bangbang back again, if you don't give a reward, pull it down, see what the people in the world will say, do people say me or you?