Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 541 Turkic Retreat

On the banks of the Weishui River, Qin Tian handed over the revised list to Li Shimin.

This time, the list is written in Chinese characters.

Li Shimin took it over and took a look. It is true that there is no clause to lose power and humiliate the country. The most is just to pay some money. Of course, the Turks are willing to retreat and pay a lot of money, but this is indeed the best result for him. .

They have no power to fight, and now it is the best choice to use money to retreat the Turks.

Still, it's a shame.

But shame can make people forge ahead.

Li Shimin nodded after reading it: "Qin Aiqing has done a good job. I have agreed to these demands of the Turks. I can contact them and let them retreat."

Everyone returned to the camp, and then someone contacted the Turks. Of course, it was indispensable to give them box after box of belongings.

After the Turkic soldiers and horses got the money and signed the Weishui alliance with Li Shimin, they didn't stay much, and hurriedly retreated towards the grassland.

There is no way, there may still be a Tang army on the grassland massacring their people, and they must rush back as soon as possible.

The Turks retreated from the banks of the Weishui River, and the Tang army did not dare to be careless. It was not until they withdrew from the border of Jingzhou that Li Shimin finally breathed a sigh of relief and led his troops back to Chang'an.

At this time, Chang'an City had already heard the news of the Turks' retreat.

Therefore, even though they knew that Datang had lost a lot of money, there was still a slight smile on their nervous faces.

People don't know national humiliation, and they don't need to know.

However, when Li Shimin brought everyone back to the palace and came to the main hall, the atmosphere in the main hall was very dignified, and every official's face was full of unwillingness.

This time, although the Turks were forced to retreat, it was a shame for them because of the compensation.

The hall was silent for a long time, and after a long time, Wei Zheng stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the Turks deceived us in the Tang Dynasty, and this humiliation must never be forgotten. I beg you, Your Majesty, to work hard to strengthen our Tang Dynasty and destroy the Turks as soon as possible. .”

After Wei Zheng's words, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty suddenly followed up and shouted loudly: "To destroy the Turks is a shame."

"To wipe out the Turks is a shame."

"........."

The shouts resounded through the sky, and every courtier in the hall felt as if their blood was burning, and the fighting spirit inspired by the shame made them unable to control it at all.

Li Shimin looked at the excited Manchu civil and military, couldn't help but stood up from the dragon chair, and said: "My loves have this heart, I am willing to work together with you to destroy the Turks."

"Destroy the Turks, destroy the Turks..."

Here in the main hall, there was another scream. In the harem, Empress Changsun looked a little worried. She hadn't seen Li Shimin for a long time, but she also knew that her man was doing big things, so she shouldn't bother her.

Hearing the shouts from the main hall, Empress Changsun couldn't help but sigh again.

"To make the ministers so indignant, I'm afraid that the Turks are willing to withdraw their troops this time, and the conditions are too high. This Tang..." Empress Changsun couldn't help but worry again.

"Empress, you are right. The conditions of the Turks are very excessive. They almost emptied our Tang treasury. Just for this, we have to give them a lot of money every year."

A maid inquired some news from the front, and Empress Changsun frowned slightly when she heard this. She knew that Datang had entered a period of extreme hardship.

"Command, starting today, all the things needed in the harem will be halved, save money, and go to the national calamity together!"

As the lord of the harem, Empress Changsun felt that she had to do something. The Tang Dynasty was not the Tang Dynasty for men, but also the Tang Dynasty for their women.
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Just when Empress Changsun ordered the women in the harem to save money, the hall finally regained its composure.

"What you love to say is reasonable, but if you want to destroy the Turks, you must strengthen my Tang Dynasty. What is your best strategy for this?" Li Shimin was still standing, looking at his highness and his ministers.

It's just that although everyone felt angry because of the shame, when they really asked them to say some good strategies to strengthen Datang, they were a little blocked in their thinking.

Not everyone can come up with many good policies and ideas.

Maybe they all have good abilities, but to have a good policy, there must be someone who is amazing to stand up.

The hall fell silent, Qin Tian stood at the back of the hall, hesitated for a moment, and finally stood up: "My lord, I have something to say."

As a Marquis, the current Qin Tian is not standing near the front, after he finished speaking, Li Shimin stood on tiptoe and took a look, only to find that it was Qin Tian, ​​he nodded and said, "Come forward and speak. "

Qin Tian stepped forward, stood still, and said, "Your Majesty, if you want to strengthen my Tang Dynasty, I have one or two thoughts that I want to say."

Li Shimin nodded: "Qin Aiqing said it!"

Qin Tiandao: "Your Majesty, to strengthen our Tang Dynasty, we need to start from several aspects. The first is talents. Without talents, various things in our Tang Dynasty will not be able to develop. Therefore, we must recruit talents and use them for the Holy One. OK."

Speaking of this, Qin Tian paused, Li Shimin nodded: "Yes, talents are the foundation of a strong country, without talents, everything is empty talk."

Qin Tian nodded, and continued: "Originally this spring, the Chunwei exam was supposed to be held, but it was postponed because of the raging smallpox. Later, because the Turks were going straight to the Weishui River, they failed the exam during this period. Now that it's summer, I think, In special times, we should treat them specially, this summer, we might as well add an exam to select outstanding talents for my Tang Dynasty."

After this, many ministers in the court expressed their agreement and followed suit.

"Your Majesty, Qin Houye is right. It is true that an exam should be added as soon as possible. In this way, not only can we select talents for our Tang Dynasty, but it can also appease the arrogant hearts of those scholars."

"That's right, because of the postponement of the Chunwei exam, those scholars and scholars nowadays have a lot of complaints, and they are all worried that our Tang Dynasty really wants to cancel the imperial examination."

"........."

As everyone was talking, Li Shimin nodded: "You dear ones are right, order to go on, and the exam will start in half a month."

The imperial examination, this is just a rough talk, there are many problems in it, I have to talk about it later, but there is no need to discuss it in detail now, they now need a program, a program for a powerful Tang Dynasty, and now, Qin Tian was talking about this program.

After he finished speaking, everyone will slowly fill in these outlines. For example, the imperial examination, now it is only determined, but how to test and how to test, all need to be discussed in detail slowly.

After all, in the ninth year of Wude, they said that they would carry out the reform of the imperial examination, so that more children from poor families could also have the opportunity to enter the court as officials.

(End of this chapter)