Pharmacist Li gently stretched out his hand, hugged his beloved wife into his arms, and sighed softly.

Both his husband and wife knew very well that the emperor had begun to rectify the power structure of the central government.

The Zhou Dynasty had the highest authority of the "Three Publics".

After the surrender of the two Han Dynasty, the three dukes gradually became the vacant position of the important ministers, with fame but no power, and the real power was gradually transferred to Shangshu.

By the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Shang Shuling became the most powerful courtier.

After Li Shimin ascended the throne, there was no longer a Shangshu order, and the left and right servants of Shangshu had the highest power.

In December of the first year of Zhenguan, Xiao Yu was deposed; In the first month of the second year of Zhenguan, the right servant shot the eldest grandson Wuji and asked himself to leave.

After more than a year, the left and right servants of Shangshu Province were vacant, and the left and right ministers were used as the general affairs of Shangshu Province.

Shangshu's left and right positions are not high, and they do not have the right to make decisions on the state of the country, so they can only act as executive officers.

At the beginning of the year, Li Shimin shot Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui as the left and right servants, but at this time, he issued an edict: "Shangshu is a small matter of the left and right, but the one who should perform the major events is the servant to shoot." ”

It is also very obvious that it is intended to compress the decision-making power of Shangshu Province.

In the Tang Dynasty, the power of Shangshu Province gradually shifted to Menxia Province and Zhongshu Province, and even the power was increasingly concentrated in the hands of the emperor alone, which was the beginning.

Looking back at the eldest grandson Wuji's "self-invitation", and the eldest grandson's queen's "please for the sake of power", in fact, they are all worried about the king.

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Li Shimin was very pleased that Li Dejian and Li Decheng sent Xuanzang out of Yumen Pass and successfully completed the task.

He had seen Pharmacist Li's brand-new mansion with his own eyes, and knew that Li Dejian had been deeply involved in the construction process, so he ordered him to worship the master craftsman Dou Jin as his teacher.

He will be in charge of the master craftsman and will be the supervisor, responsible for the construction and construction of the palace, the temple, the mausoleum and other royal families and the center, and will also lead hundreds of work, which is equivalent to the chief architect of the country.

And Dou Jin, he is the younger brother of Empress Taimu Dou, and his mother is the eldest sister of Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian, Princess Cheng'an of the previous dynasty.

In the Sui and Tang dynasties, he had many queens and concubines, and he was extremely prominent.

Dou Jin's eldest brother Dou Kang, who also served as a master craftsman during the Wude period, later entered the phase; The descendants of the Dou family also have sons and nephews who have become master craftsmen.

Li Shimin knew that Pharmacist Li was obedient to the thinking of "Taoist jealous of the third generation", and he did not want his children and grandchildren to be generals again.

At this time, this arrangement is equivalent to a clear message, and in the future, Li Dejian will follow the path of the Dou family, become a master craftsman, and then enter the phase.

As for the Li De Award, he has been taught by a generation of doctors Zhen Quan and a generation of medicine king Sun Simiao, and he can smoothly enter the palace province in the future.

The emperor also arranged several students for Pharmacist Li.

The relationship between Li Shiji, Li Daozong and Li Yaoshi, Li Shimin is quite clear.

At this time, he ordered several old departments of Tiance Mansion, including Hou Junji, Zhang Gongjin, Liu Shili, etc., to worship Pharmacist Li as a teacher.

At that time, Zhang Gongjin was the acting governor of the state, and Liu Shili was the governor of Minzhou, and they were very happy to receive the holy edict.

They had long been obedient to Pharmacist Li's way of governing the army, and they sincerely admired him.

Hou Junji is the general of the right guard, and he selfishly boasts that he is not inferior to Pharmacist Li, and he is quite unconvinced.

Although Pharmacist Li believes that Hou Junji is quite talented, if he wants to become an outstanding military commander, it is important to be talented, but to be virtuous is even more important!

At that time, Pharmacist Li's main job was to pass through the Turks.

As the secretary of the military department and the general manager of the march of the Kannai Road, he was in charge of all aspects of bribery, consolation, armament, etc.

The big one discussed the strategy with the emperor, the middle one discussed the strategy with the zaifu, and the small one and the generals discussed the tactics in detail.

Zhang Gongjin and Liu Shili are in the side of the fortress, and they often write to ask for advice; Hou Junji is in Chang'an, but he always seems careless.

In the past few months, Datang has made major gains in bribery and consolation.

In terms of bribery, many of the intelligence officers who defected to the north in the first year of Zhenguan as "eliminating Beijing officials" were reused.

The information they sent allowed the Tang Dynasty to fully grasp the detailed situation of the internal affairs, economy, and military strength of each tribe, as well as the diplomatic relations between them.

What's more important is that Jieli's confidant Kang Sumi has accepted bribes from Datang.

In terms of consolation, in the second year of Zhenguan, Yehu Khan, the Western Turkic ruler, was assassinated.

Originally, the states that were attached to the Western Turks pushed the Yi Nan of Xue Yantuo as the co-master.

Li Shimin sent the guerrilla general Qiao Shiwang to bring an edict and a drum to canonize Yi Nan as the Khan of Zhenzhu Viga.

The Eastern and Western Turks are located between the Tang Dynasty and Xue Yantuo, and Qiao Shiwang tosses and turns in a low-key manner, leaving the country from Yumen Pass, passing through the bilateral ambiguous zone at the junction of the two Turks, and working hard to complete the mission.

Yinan sent his younger brother to bring tribute to Qiao Shiwang into the court, and when he arrived in Chang'an, it was the early autumn of the third year of Zhenguan.

Li Shimin was overjoyed, gave Xue Yantuo a treasure knife and a treasure whip, and said: "Those who have major crimes in the Qing Department will be beheaded, and those who have minor crimes will be whipped." This means that Xue Yantuo has become a vassal of the Tang Dynasty, and he is terrified, and he sends envoys to be ministers and ask for peace.

Once the situation of Xue Yantuo stabilized, Zhang Gong immediately put on the table, and the state of the Turkic is desirable, which is what later generations called the "Turkic Desirable State":

Jieli indulges in wanton desires, is extremely violent, harms the good, and is close to the villain.

Its other departments are the same as Luo, servant bones, Hui Hui, Yantuo and the like, and set up their own monarchs, and will try to eat back, which is a rebellion of the people, and it can take two also.

Tuli was suspected, and the light rider was exempt; Expand and discuss, and the horses will not return; If you want to lose your division and have no land, this will be defeated, and you can take three also.

The frost in the north is early, and the grain is scarce, and it can be taken four also.

Jieli sparse its Turks, pro-commission Zhuhu, Hu people overturned, is its normality, the army is coming, there will be changes within it, and it can take five also.

The Chinese enter the north, and there are many of them, and they gather more than they hear from each other, protect the mountain risk, and the division goes out of the wall, which naturally responds, and it can take six also.

Li Shimin saw this folded performance, and the dragon's heart was happy.

Nearly three years ago, he had discussed with Pharmacist Li the strategy of the Turkic strategy.

At that time, Pharmacist Li said that it was necessary to wait for "the opportunity to be mature", that is, to bribe the room, to be successful, to prepare bows and knives, to be brave and brave, and that the terrain and weather were favorable to our army.

Now all aspects of the situation are ripe! So the Tang Emperor said to his ministers: "Jieli wants to make peace with our court, but he supports Liang Shidu, and even Koubian several times. Such treachery is not advisable! ”

Li Yaoshi was immediately appointed as the head of the march of the Daizhou Road, with Zhang Gongjin as his deputy, and the Northern Expedition to the Turks.

Compared with the previous "Grand Governor of the Guannai Road March", the responsibility of the "Acting State Road Marching Chief" is not only one level lower, but also the scope of authority and responsibility has been greatly reduced.

Pharmacist Li knew very well that Li Shimin was not very sure about a full-scale war with Jieli.

After all, the Turks are as strong as the Xiongnu more than 700 years ago, and they are a warlike people who gallop all year round.

Thinking about the Northern Expedition of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in the 50 years before and after, he spent a lot of money, wasted the world, and brought the treasury from extreme prosperity to decline, and still could not flatten the Xiongnu, resulting in an edict in his later years.