Pharmacist Li took a deep: "Your Majesty Shengming, insight into the will of the minister. ”

It's nice to be right with such an emperor! He couldn't help but praise in his heart.

At this time, he put the remaining small flag in his hand back into the cylinder, pointed to the north of the rice plate and said: "Among the fifteen divisions of Tiele, Xue Yantuo is the most prosperous, and all the departments take it as the head of the horse. Now that Jieli is strongly conscripted, the ministers are not satisfied, and the ministers think that they can make friends with Xue Yantuo. ”

He pointed to the east of the rice plate and said: "The eastern tribes are dominated by the Murwei and the Turbidity, but they are all very far away, and the minister thinks that he might as well make friends with Tuli first. ”

He pointed to the west of Mipan and said: "Tuyu Hun has always been friendly with Jieli, but fortunately, to travel between the two countries, you may have to pass through my Longxi Prefectures, or you have to go through the Western Turks. Therefore, the minister thought that it was important to cut off his fellowship here. ”

Li Shimin heard the high-fives and praised: "My brother has a great insight!" ”

After Pharmacist Li thanked him, he pointed to the rice plate again, and said loudly: "The Turks started on the right side of the West Sea, and then moved to the Yang of Jinshan, which was originally a part of the Northern Liang Xiongnu Fuqu clan. After returning to Rouran, he specialized in wrought iron. At that time, Rouran included the shore of the Hanhai Sea and the source of the Sword River, east to Khitan and Murowei, west to Tuyuhun and Gaochang, and there was no stronger realm in Mobei than the other. However, the Turks were able to destroy this incomparably powerful country. ”

His voice was sonorous, and when he spoke of the territory of Rouran, the palm of his hand was drawn straight from the west end of the rice plate to the east end; When it comes to the Turkic invasion, the palm of the hand is drawn from the east end to the west end, drawing the large area of land that originally belonged to Rouran on the rice plate.

He walked up to Li Shimin and said in a loud voice: "Xiazhi's 'world' is only in the Central Plains.

The "world" of business is extended to Shandong.

Zhou's "world" not only includes the Central Plains and Shandong, but also Wu and Chu.

The "world" of Qin and Han is even more extended to Longxi and Jiaozhi.

Now, although our dynasty has leveled the great rivers and cleared the four seas, it has not yet escaped from the "world" of the Han Dynasty! ”

Li Shimin was full of pride when he heard this, and said angrily: "After Qimin attached Yang Sui back then, he once wrote Sui Wen with the name of 'Sage Khan'. He stretched out his hand to hold Pharmacist Li's hands, and said in a high-spirited voice: "How can I be stunned!" ”

At this time, the two of them not only clasped their palms tightly, but their eyes looked at each other with enthusiasm again.

On this day, when Pharmacist Li returned home, he would ask Li Shimin about the general situation and say that he knew with his beloved wife.

After hearing this, Chuchen said with a pretty face: "You also have a clear understanding of the Turks and Zhuhu, right?" ”

Pharmacist Li smiled and said, "You, is this worrying?" ”

Chuchen still sighed: "You, but not worried? ”

Pharmacist Li sighed lightly: "What's the use of worrying?" ”

He stared deeply at his beloved wife: "We were born in troubled times, but for the purpose of leveling the world and accumulating merits, how can we hesitate because of worry? ”

Looking up at her husband, her eyes were full of admiration and pity.

At the same time that Zhenguan monarchs and ministers dealt with Jieli Khan with the strategy of division and separation, distant friendship and close attack, Jieli also used the same strategy to deal with the Western Turks.

At that time, the Western Turkic ruler Yehu Khan was in power, and he also dealt with his neighbors with a strategy of distant friendship and close attack.

He befriended Datang in the East and joined hands to resist Jieli; In the west, it allied with the Whira and jointly conquered Persia.

For a while, Tiele in the north and Zongbin in the south were all submissive, and Tongye Hu brought the Western Turks to the extreme prosperity and became a powerful country in the Western Regions.

However......

Jieli succeeded in dividing the Western Turkic tribes, and Tong Yehu was assassinated.

The states that were originally attached to the Western Turks were in turmoil for a while, and they rebelled one after another.

The Tiele tribes were headed by Xue Yantuo, and at this time, Xue Yantuo's Yi Nan was promoted as the co-master.

When the news reached Chang'an, Li Shimin was overjoyed and sent an envoy to canonize Yi Nan as the Khan of Zhenzhu Viga.

Yi Nan was pushed by Tiele as the co-master, and he was originally quite apprehensive.

At this time, he was recognized by Datang and was overjoyed.

He sent envoys to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty and set up a tooth tent at the foot of the Yu Governor's Mountain.

However, it took a lot of time for the two sides to send envoys back.

Yi Nan's envoys did not arrive in Chang'an until early autumn.

Let's talk about the time......

Jieli got the news that Yi Nan had become the co-master, and he was furious and sent Desire Valley to set up a crusade, but was defeated by Yi Nan.

Yi Nan took advantage of the situation to attack, and none of the three northern settings of Jieli were invincible.

Jieli sent Tuli out again, but lost again.

At this time, the ministers were attached to the tribes of Xue Yantuo, and the territory was extended to the east to the Yao, the west to Yehu, the south to the sand moraine, and the north to the Kulun Shui, and the territory was about equivalent to the scope of today's Mongolia.

The situation between the countries outside the northern border was so turbulent that the emperor urgently issued an edict appointing Li Yaoshi as the "chief of the march of the Guannai Dao in preparation for Xue Yantuo".

was appointed to the military again, which was expected by Pharmacist Li.

However, this "Grand Governor of the Kannai Road March" ......

In the early Tang Dynasty, in the later period of Wude, the emperor led the 16 guards and 12 armies.

Among the sixteen guards, twelve guards command the soldiers of the world, and the remaining four guards command the palace forbidden soldiers.

The Twelfth Army, or the Twelfth Army of Guanzhong, commanded the soldiers of Guanzhong.

Among them, there is no doubt that the functions and powers of the military region have overlapped.

Li Yuan likes to use the art of checks and balances to let his subordinates compete and resist.

During the Wude period, Li Shimin suffered greatly from the checks and balances of his father.

After ascending the throne, there was an immediate move.

With the assistance of Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, he quietly transferred the generals of the 12th Army in Guanzhong to the outside world, or overhead, or removed their names.

Luo Yi rebelled a few years ago, because he had realized that his military power had been gradually diluted, and only his title was empty.

At this time when the 12th Army of Guanzhong had withdrawn from the central political stage, Li Shimin actually handed over the authority of "the general manager of the Guannai Dao March" to Li Yaoshi! Here, both the "Kannai Road" and the "General Manager of the March" have the significance of creating history.

A year ago, Li Shimin divided the whole territory into ten provinces.

"Kannai Road" is the first of them, and the territory under its jurisdiction is basically the former "Guanzhong".

He had already released all the military power of the Twelve Armies in Guanzhong, but at this time, he handed them all over to Pharmacist Li!

And the title of "marching chief" is even more unprecedented.

During the Li Yuan period, he set up a large governor's office in Shangzhou, and he was only in charge of military affairs and had no military power.

In wartime, a marshal or generalissimo was appointed, and this title was only granted to the clans.

Some of the actual military affairs are represented by Li Shimin; More are just nominal, and there are marching chiefs under them who actually set up the actual festival of military affairs, such as Li Xiaogong to Li Yaoshi.

In other words, during the Li Yuan period, the highest rank of courtiers outside the clan in wartime was only the head of the march.

Therefore, the appointment of the general manager of the march this time is the first time since the founding of the Tang Dynasty that he has been appointed as a veritable war commander as a non-member of the clan!

When Pharmacist Li received such an appointment, he naturally immediately entered the palace to thank him.

Li Shimin asked: "For Xue Yantuo's military equipment, does my brother have a plan?" ”

In fact, there is a contradiction between the duties and powers of the "Grand Governor of the Guannai Road March" and the duties of "preparing for Xue Yantuo".

There is a Turkic gap between the Tang Dynasty and Xue Yantuo, how can he deal with Xue Yantuo with the military equipment of the "Grand Commander of the Guannei Road March"?