Chapter 363: Drumming and Singing
Although Yongliang is wide, it can't stand the relative sparseness of people.
Therefore, every anecdote or two that can be used as a talking point has spread quickly, so several people are no strangers to the grievances between Ma Chao and Yan Xing.
This general under Han Sui is now the most well-known record in Yongliang with only four words: "several kills of Ma Chao".
It is also for this reason that whenever Ma Chao talks about his own sweep of Yongliangqiang and Hu Juncong, Zhang Fei asks loudly:
"Then why can't even Yan Xing be defeated?"
So Ma Chao's endless talk became speechless.
If Liu Bei was not around, Zhang Fei would often add another sentence:
"Meng Qi's face at this time is quite similar to my second brother."
So a good conversation will eventually end with an appointment in the martial arts field.
Therefore, when he heard that Yan Xing was going to make trouble, Ma Chaodang couldn't hold it back.
He wants to improve so much!
Liu Bei and his two military advisors looked at each other, were silent for a while, and then considered:
"Now that Guanzhong has been decided, it is inevitable that there will be old gaps between Qiang'er and Han'er, and Meng Qi still needs to take charge."
"And the situation in Jingzhou is still unclear, if the battle situation is unfavorable, it is necessary to send troops out of Tongguan and coerce Xu Du to relieve the siege for Yunchang."
"The vanguard of the three armies, who is you?"
So what Yan Xing and Zhang Fei were immediately thrown out of the clouds by Ma Chao, rubbing their hands full of joy and wanting to be humble, but they couldn't think of suitable words for a while.
So he could only choose the general practice of military generals, bowing down and holding his fists, expressing his willingness to serve his life.
In his heart, he sighed even more, from Mr. Jian to Xuan Degong, they all treat people with sincerity and make people feel good, on the other hand, Han Sui, who is now centrifugal under his command, and then look at Ma Teng...... Well, forget it.
Pang Tong looked at Ma Chao's face that gradually turned red because of excitement, and laughed and teased softly:
"Yide is right, if there is really a cloud and a long three-point similarity."
Kong Ming was speechless for a moment, seeing that Ma Chao seemed to be going to say sincere words to the lord, he simply pulled Pang Tong up and went to the side to take a walk and chat.
"Previously, Cheng Gongying also wrote a letter, saying that he found Qinghai according to the map, but the weather was bitter and cold, and he could only go to Jincheng in the end."
Pang Tong knew a lot about these things, and said eloquently:
"Han Sui is already old and frail, I am afraid that this trip will cause the recurrence of the old disease, and this disaster will occur."
Kong Ming shook his head and sighed slightly:
"Everyone knows that Shiyuan's gift is a Yangmou, but the Korean covenant must not be refused."
Pang Tong just smiled lightly, for him, making decisions based on people was just a very ordinary thing.
After all, Han Sui had already moved to Xizhou before the Yellow Turban, and the thirty years of supporting the army also determined that he would never be willing to live under others.
It's just that the rising Ma Chao, the unstoppable Xuande Gong, and Cao Cao, who has always coveted Yongliang, all kinds of factors determine that Yongliang has no room for Han Wenyue to interfere.
In this case, the accurate map given by Pang Tong became Han Sui's last straw.
It's just that now it seems that this hero, who has been in Yongliang for 30 years, finally lost to the old age and decay brought by the years.
Slightly embarrassed, Pang Tong said:
"If you want to quell the chaos, you must invite a general, enter to deter Liangzhou, and retreat to weigh the pros and cons."
"With a keen mind, he can talk to Han Sui without falling behind, and he can act decisively without losing the opportunity."
Kong Ming laughed and said:
"If Shi Yuan says so, then there must be only one general who can do this now."
Then the two said in unison:
"Liangzhou and his party, who is Sheyide?"
The two looked at each other and laughed together.
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Tang Chang'an.
Li Shimin, who was awakened from his sleep, stared at the sky without the slightest light, and couldn't stop regretting it in his heart:
Why did I approve Zheng Aiqing's farewell and promote this Chu Suiliang as a living room?
It's probably because I've seen too much light curtain, and my brain is not clear.
What is gained from the light curtain is not only the knowledge of later generations, but also the name of capable officials.
There are not only Wang Xuance, Ma Zhou and other people who started from the end of the world, but also courtiers like Chu Suiliang who were in the middle of the court from the beginning.
In the fourth year of Wude, he opened the Tiance Mansion, set up a literature museum and personally selected eighteen bachelors to discuss the statecraft, Yu Shinan, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, etc. are among them, and Chu Liang, who is in charge of literature, is Chu Suiliang's father.
After he ascended the throne, the literature museum supported by the eighteen bachelors became the Hongwen Museum, which established the literature and expanded the culture, and dedicated the rules and regulations to the system, which was quite reused, and in this process, Chu Suiliang also showed his talent step by step.
Originally, according to his thoughts at the beginning, Li Shimin still wanted to put Chu Suiliang in Hongwen Hall to hone for a few more years.
But now that the light curtain is changing, Li Shimin feels that what Datang will do in the next 20 years has been listed one by one and is waiting to be realized.
It also happened that last month, when Mr. Zheng returned to his hometown, the position of Julang, who needed to record the words and deeds of the sky, was vacant.
Li Shimin pondered for a while, and then issued an edict ordering Chu Suiliang to be the living man, planning to stay by his side to take the school examination to see how his talents were.
As for other things, Li Shimin admits that he didn't think about it that much.
After all, the official position of Julang was placed by Zhenguan in the second year of imitation of the previous dynasty, and in the past three years, he has been quite familiar with the old Master Zheng, and he has a good time getting along.
It's just that I didn't expect that the living note officer appointed by Chu Suiliang was completely different from that Bachelor Zheng.
For example, at this moment, when it was clear that there was still an hour before dawn, the chamberlain came to wake him up and informed:
"Chu Zuoyan is on duty."
Zuo Yan is the official title of the living lang.
Li Shimin, who was awakened from the dream of beating a Byzantine white ghost, was a little annoyed, and wanted to ignore it or reprimand him, but thinking of the duties of the residence official, he still restrained his anger and got up, nodded listlessly, and motioned for him to be let in.
Chu Suiliang, who had a hard pen in his left hand and a white book in his right hand, walked in slowly, stood aside after bowing his hand, and then wrote two strokes on the brush.
This action suddenly made Li Shimin's eyebrows jump:
What is there to record before dawn!
Immediately, I can only comfort myself, most of them are recording time and so on.
Qingmeng was disturbed, so he could only shake his head helplessly and get up to change clothes.
The chamberlain wanted to come forward to help as usual, and then was reprimanded by Li Shimin as usual.
But seeing the record of Chu Sui's good luck flying in the back, Li Shimin hurriedly opened his mouth to explain:
"I'm thirty years old, why do I need someone to serve and change clothes?"
It's a pity that Chu Suiliang didn't even nod his head, which made Li Shimin feel as if he was talking to the air.
How stupid!
Seeing that the Son of Heaven had finished washing and changing clothes, there was no need to instruct, and the attendants began to eat.
Since Sun Simiao arrived in Chang'an, Li Shimin's diet has been much lighter, for example, there is no fried cake food that he likes to eat in the past, nor can he see the mutton soup that is most commonly used during the march, and there is no roasted mutton that he occasionally eats if he is greedy.
A bowl of apricot cheese porridge, a bowl of tea porridge, a plate of jade dew dumplings and mixed vegetable pancakes, plus a plate of roasted fish, this is the morning food formulated by Imperial Doctor Sun.
Li Shimin ate two bites, and his mood was much better when he saw Chu Suiliang standing there staring at him tightly, and he suddenly felt uncomfortable, and pointed to the table:
"Chu Aiqing to eat together?"
In response to Li Shimin's invitation, Chu Suiliang's writing was like a tide.
A hard pen wrote on the paper, rubbing a "rustling" sound, causing his brow to twitch again.
At this time, even the chamberlains serving next to him could see that His Majesty was not in a good mood.
After all, the pancakes that the imperial dining room had spent all its efforts to fry were already scattered by His Majesty with chopsticks at the moment.
Chu Suiliang wrote faster.
In the early dynasty, Li Shimin drove the two ceremonial halls.
It was June, and there was still a slight cold at the end of the day, and the undissipated moisture on Li Shimin's face at night also made his head more and more sober.
After being the emperor for a few years, he became more and more aware of why there was an early dynasty, facing the cold and the rising sun, the overall strategy of the empire was extremely clear in his mind at the moment, and some of the issues that might need to be discussed later were also made clear by turning in his heart.
There was even spare strength to think about Chu Suiliang who was following behind him.
Although he was annoyed that Chu Suiliang disturbed Qingmeng, he thought that this living official still needed to rush over from home, and I was afraid that it would be even harder, so I was a little more considerate in my heart:
"Dengshan has a lot of trouble."
In response to his overtures, there was a familiar rustle of the pen, and Li Shimin gave up:
That's it, love it.
After calculating the time, today should be a regular court meeting, which made Li Shimin breathe a sigh of relief, and he didn't want to go to the court.
According to his ambition when he ascended the throne, he personally made many improvements to the court.
For example, the first and fifteenth days of each month are the Shuowang pilgrimage, which needs to display the guard of honor, all the officials are there, and the ceremony is sung, and its solemnity is second only to the Yuan Zheng and the winter solstice.
At other times, on the fifth, eleventh, twenty-first, and twenty-fifth, officials above the fifth rank need to participate in the early dynasty, which is called a regular reference.
Nine, nineteen, twenty-nine, and only officials above the third rank can participate in the early dynasty, which is called re-participation.
If I remember correctly, today should be the 11th, and the etiquette does not need to be so complete.
The pace of the group is not too fast, when they arrive at the Bell and Drum Tower, the hundred officials have just been listed in the palace according to the rank, the front Fang Xuanling Du Ruhui and others are very conspicuous, Li Shimin swept over at a glance and followed the guidance of the ceremonial officer, and entered the Liangyi Hall from the west preface gate.
The first of the palace is the throne, at this moment there is already an inner servant holding the royal fan together, seeing the emperor striding over to sit on the throne, the official ceremony is propagated to the palace, and the hundred officials enter the palace in an orderly manner with the officials of the two provinces.
It was just this moment that Li Shimin was a little envious of the officials.
As the Son of Heaven is worshiped by hundreds of officials, even if his back hurts, he must sit straight, and all officials have soft cushions to kneel and sit, and no one can say anything if he slacks off and changes to a comfortable position.
At this point, the ascension to the hall is completed, and the Yulin army enters and then surveys the hundred officials Fu Xin in turn, and after singing the inspection again, the court meeting officially begins.
It's just that the first thing presented today made Li Shimin frown slightly, and some people said that the imperial court gave a lot of preferential treatment to the imperial examination jinshi in conferring officials.
And the rhetoric is nothing more than the same old-fashioned, the children of Menyin are all Tang Xungui's family, and they have meritorious service in the state, and the preferential treatment of the imperial examination is to treat the honorable Yunyun harshly.
Li Shimin's face was pale, such rhetoric has often been repeated since the implementation of the imperial examination, and he has long passed the time when he will be angry.
Without even needing to give a look, Wei Zheng took the initiative to stand up and refuted the former to silence.
The matter was quickly pressed, and even Li Shimin looked at Wei Zheng scolding and felt a little dark in his heart.
The next piece of music is not controversial.
The young master of the crown prince, Li Gang, was seriously ill and wanted to return to his hometown, and Li Shimin issued an edict ordering the imperial physician to diagnose and treat him, accompanied by the prince.
At the same time, it is inevitable to secretly speculate in my heart, whether the behavior of Cheng Qian in later records is also related to Li Gang's early death? But now that Sun Yaowang is here, he should be able to prolong his life for a few years.
However, before Li Shimin's reverie was finished, the servant of the Ministry of Civil Affairs came forward to ask for permission to pardon 80,000 Turkic Han slaves for the people.
This is another troublesome matter that can be traced back to the previous dynasty, because during the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Turks had gone south several times to plunder and coerce the people.
Now that the Turks have been defeated, these captive people are also like seeing the dawn and begging for their lives, Wei Zheng also reported this matter when he went to the north to deal with the Turkic surrenders, but it was extremely troublesome to sort out the list, and it was not until today that it was counted, and there were 80,000 people who were taken captive as slaves and survived so far.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs made a generous statement, saying that now that I am Tang Dasheng, I should pardon him as a Tang Min, so as to strengthen his military might.
Naturally, some people in the imperial history stood up to oppose it, saying that now the army is sending out Tuguhun, and the result is not clear, and pardoning slaves for the people is tantamount to taking profits from the Turks, and if they are dissatisfied and make noise, I am afraid it will be difficult to take care of both sides.
Li Shimin scoffed, the Turks have this guts?
But he shouldn't have to worry about it.
Sure enough, Wei Zheng quickly got up again and was impassioned.
Wei Zheng's opinion is generally compromised, but it is real:
The full redemption is afraid that the price will be extorted, and the full forgiveness may cause Mo Nansheng to cause trouble, so it is better for him to personally go and discuss with those Turks.
The deeper truth is simple, and the perfect handling of these 80,000 Han slaves is all his achievements in Wei Zheng's previous negligence in Mo Nan.
Li Shimin had nothing to do, and even had an extra general, accompanied by Qin Shubao, the Duke of Yiguo, who led the Northern Ya Forbidden Army to protect Wei Zhengquan.
This order made hundreds of officials look sideways - last year, they knew that the private people who had visited Yiguo Gong at that time were saying that they could set up a mourning hall earlier, and now they can even lead the army to the north?
Does this Imperial Physician Sun really have such a technique to return to heaven? When you have time, be sure to pay a sincere visit.
After all, a doctor is by no means as simple as curing diseases and saving people, just like the two sons of this Yiguo Duke are mediocre people, when Qin Qiong was seriously ill before, many people were already speculating how long this legacy would last after his death.
As a result, now that Yiguo Gong has been treated by Doctor Sun, it seems that he can earn some more merits? This made many people unable to sit still.
After all, such thoughts can only be kept in the heart, but through the previous argument, some people stood up and said that Li Jing needed to retire from the army as soon as possible to prevent trouble.
Those who have been sparse talk about it, saying that the Tang army does not know the root cause of its geographical indestructibility, and that when the Tang army retreats, it may cause more violent attacks, so it is better to negotiate with it while the prestige is restored, and it is better to give up a little money than to work the people and lose money.
After all, the DPRK and the parliament often pay attention to the back-and-forth, and the true intention of such an argument may have to be refuted several times before revealing the true opinion.
Li Shimin bled up his spirits and waited for the battle, after all, he was bent on going his own way to start a war against Tuyuhun, so since the official dispatch of troops in April, there were many criticisms at the court meeting.
He also understands, after all, if you count the capture profits, Datang has been resting for less than a year, and it can be called a continuous battle.
Li Jing has been able to fight so far without worry, and it is mostly up to him and several prime ministers to hold on, but now it seems that such opposition has intensified.
Du Ruhui got up and wanted to refute, but an unexpected accident planned all the rhythms of the entire early dynasty.
A forbidden soldier hurriedly entered through the Xixuan Gate, held a silk silk over his head, and presented it to Li Shimin.
The officials raised their heads curiously, watching His Majesty's face change several times, and finally the expression of the freezer was great joy:
"Qinghai Dao has won a big victory, and the thief has been captured!"
"Open the door of the temple and welcome the messenger!"
"Drumming, singing!"
(End of chapter)