Emperor Zhenguan

Chapter 517 Seize This Opportunity
As a self-aware courtier, Li Jing has always kept a low profile. Even if the emperor promoted him to be the Minister of the Ministry of War, Li Jing is still very low-key, so low-key that if you don't pay attention in the court, you may not know that there is someone named Li Jing.

What always surprised Li Jing was that the emperor seemed to pay special attention to him.

As the second-in-command of the Ministry of War, Li Jing did not feel very comfortable in the position of Minister of the Ministry of War, because he felt that given the importance that the current emperor placed on military power, it would be right for him to control the Ministry of War in his own hands.

For example, the Shangshu of the Ministry of War is Zhao Cijing, the emperor's brother-in-law, the head of the Ministry of War in name, but in fact he is a clay bodhisattva placed by the emperor in the Ministry of War.

And what about yourself?

He wasn't born in the emperor's Qianfu, so it was impossible for him to take this position of real power, but the emperor just let him be the servant of the Ministry of War.

On the white stone steps, the emperor stood facing the wind, his long sleeves fluttering with the wind, and his figure was tall and straight.

"Minister Li Jing, see Your Majesty."

"Exemption."

Li Zhiyun turned around, helped him up, and asked, "Li Qing, do you know why I am looking for you?"

Li Jing thought for a while and replied, "Turk."

"That's right." Li Zhiyun nodded approvingly, and said, "In my heart, the conquest of the Turks is a foregone conclusion."

Li Jing didn't ask why the emperor didn't announce it in front of all the ministers just now, but just silently waited for the emperor's next words.

Not long after, Li Zhiyun said: "After three years of reunion, all the warehouses in Guanzhong have been saturated. I have calculated that if we attack the Turks this time, we can use [-] shi of grain, [-] soldiers, and [-] horses. There are more than [-] generals and more than [-] pieces of armor."

Listening to the emperor counting down the war supplies one by one, Li Jing's heart beat unconsciously.

What kind of impromptu intention is this by the emperor, it is clearly premeditated.

Among these huge materials, grain and grass are the most abundant. Li Zhiyun has already stored millions of shi of grain through various means, such as promoting farm tools and soil fertilizers, planting early rice and winter wheat, and buying grain with money from private treasuries.

The soldiers and horses are drawn directly from the Zhechong mansions in the pass, not to mention [-], and there are [-] troops gathered by force.However, Li Zhiyun did not do this, because in this way, this year's spring plowing would be completely scrapped.

The war horses are new horses transported from Hetao, Longxi and other places, and they are all young and strong horses that have just grown up.

In terms of armor, [-] sets are light plate armor, and the remaining [-] sets are armor that was originally to be eliminated.If they are collected by force, they should be able to collect [-] sets.

In fact, according to Li Zhiyun's original idea, one hundred thousand sets of light plate armor should be needed, but time waits for no one.

After finishing speaking, Li Zhiyun asked: "Does the pharmacist think that with such preparations, he can defeat the Turks?"

Li Jing thought for a moment, then answered briefly: "Yes!"

"it is good!"

Li Zhiyun was overjoyed, and immediately said: "Pharmacist, I want to use you as the main general to destroy the Turks, what do you think?"

Hearing this, Li Jing was taken aback.

"Your Majesty, how can your Majesty take on this important task, please think twice."

He was very strange in his heart, such an important matter, hundreds of thousands of troops, shouldn't the emperor give it to the absolute confidant commander?
Such as Qin Qiong, Yu Chigong and others.

How could you give it to me?
There is a point of not trusting Li Jing, but it depends on who you compare with.

Comparing Li Jing and Qin Qiong, Li Zhiyun must trust Qin Qiong more.

If Li Jing is compared with those ministers in the court who stick to their own interests, then of course Li Zhiyun trusts Li Jing more.

What's more, this battle is extraordinary, what Li Zhiyun wants is to win the battle!

And the only one who can give Li Zhiyun confidence is Li Jing!
"Pharmacist, I said before that I only look at what people do, not what they say." Li Zhiyun looked at him with trusting eyes, and put a hand on his shoulder, "Pharmacist, don't let me down. "

Li Jing was taken aback, but immediately came to his senses, took a light breath, and bowed his hands.

"My minister obeys."

The emperor who returned from the south in the past, when he was still the prince, once said this sentence to him, and now he mentions it again.

Li Jing knew that the emperor was giving him a chance.

In order to live better, he decided to seize this opportunity!
As for Li Zhiyun, he wasn't worried about Li Jing playing tricks, because although Li Jing was the coach, all the generals under his command were his confidantes.If Li Jing dared to rebel, Qin Qiong and the others would directly tie Li Jing without Li Zhiyun's orders.

"Okay, let's go."

At sunset.

"His Royal Highness Jinyang!"

"your Highness!"

"Princess!"

A few court ladies chased the little girl who was running around in front of her, and the anxious look on the faces of the court ladies was visible to the naked eye.

"Your Highness, the Hall of Liangyi is in front of you, so you can't go any further!" A court lady panted heavily, her face full of horror.

Bao Niang turned her head and glanced at the court lady who was chasing her, made a face, and ran wildly again.Although she is young, her two calves are very long and she can run very fast.

More importantly, none of the servants dared to stop her when passing through the gates, and sometimes they had to listen to her orders and stop the maids behind.

No way, who told this palace that the emperor loves Princess Jinyang the most.

"You stop them!" Bao Niang gave an order to the servant when she passed through the Yiqiu Gate.

Several servants looked at each other.

'How to do? '

'What else can I do, just follow orders. '

'You are crazy, the Hall of Yinyi is in front of you, we will all be punished wherever the princess goes. '

'Then you stopped the princess? '

'Uh, I'd better stop the people behind. '

Several obedient servants formed a human wall to block the palace ladies behind.

Bao Niang laughed, turned around and ran away.

The maids are in a hurry.

"You are crazy, let the princess run around, the empress will blame you, can you bear it?"

"I can't afford it." A servant immediately moved out of the way, and said with an apologetic smile, "Sister, we dare not disobey His Highness Jinyang's words, let's get out of the way, let's get out of the way."

Obviously, they were just showing off to Princess Jinyang.

The maids were too lazy to argue with these servants and chased them out.

At this time, Baoniang had already seen Liangyi Hall.

However, she didn't go in.

Because she saw the forbidden army guarding the Hall of Liangyi, and she also saw many uncles and uncles she knew walked into the Hall of Liangyi one after another.

From time to time, she also saw the guards walking in carrying something.

"What happened?" She tilted her head with a puzzled look on her face.

Inside the Hall of Two Rites.

A huge grassland map was spread on the ground, and the map was so large that it was divided into thirteen pieces.This picture has a long history. It was drawn during the period of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, nearly [-] years ago.

Li Zhiyun is wearing plain socks and standing on the picture.

Dozens of confidant generals sat kneeling on both sides.

"This time you are called here for one thing only. To destroy the Turks!"

The words are short and informative.

All the generals, hearing the words, became more energetic, raised their chests and raised their heads, clasped their fists and said loudly: "For Your Majesty, I will wipe out the disobedient ministers!"

Afterwards, Li Zhiyun began to make calculations with the generals.

When a battle starts, you don't think about victory, you think about defeat first.In the national war, the temple is indispensable.

After Li Zhiyun finished talking about the prepared materials, he signaled that the generals could display their talents.

Yu Chigong was the first to speak. His strategy, uh, was that he had no strategy, and went directly to A.

Therefore, Li Zhiyun smiled and asked Yu Chigong to sit down and drink tea.

Afterwards, Cheng Yaojin also said a few sentences, the core meaning was the same as that of Yu Chigong, and he went directly to A.

Then, Li Zhiyun asked Cheng Yaojin to sit down and drink tea.

(End of this chapter)