Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 816

Changan.

In the Taiji Palace, the secretary in front of the palace played the report, and Jieli died of illness.

Hearing this news, Li Shimin raised his head and remained silent for a long time.Jieli Khan was once a mountain pressing down on Datang and him, and it took him more than ten years to defeat it.Defeating the Turks and capturing Jieli was the happiest battle Li Shimin fought, and it was also his most commendable achievement after he seized the throne and proclaimed himself emperor.

Ever since Xieli was captured in Chang'an, and he often danced at his palace banquets to cheer him up, all the people in the Tang court and even the neighbors respected him.

After Jieli was captured in Chang'an, Li Shimin treated him fairly well, but for Jieli Khan who once ruled the Great Wall and controlled 40 strings, life in Chang'an was a kind of torture and shame.

Li Shimin was deliberately torturing and humiliating him, but Xieli didn't have the courage to stop.

He was depressed all day long, often weeping with his family, and he didn't want to live in the mansion given to him by the emperor, so he set up a tent in the courtyard to live in. After a long time, his body became emaciated.

The emperor granted him the title of General of the Right Guard, and still titled him Turkic Khan, but in fact he couldn't even get out of Chang'an City.

After several years of such humiliation, Jieli finally died.

"Give it to King Guiyi, posthumously titled Huang, and order the people of his country to come and bury him. According to their etiquette, burn the body and bury it in the east of the Bashui River!"

For the death of this old opponent, Li Shimin expressed emotion.

An era has passed.

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The next day, there was a court meeting in the Palace of Manna.

"Our old buddy Jieli is gone." Li Shimin sighed.

The prime ministers also sighed deeply.

"Your Majesty, will Jieli's youngest son, Dieluozhi, inherit the Khan throne?" Zhongshuling Xiao Yu asked. After Wei Pushe added the title of Pingzhang under Tong Zhongshumen.

Among the prime ministers, Zhongshuling and Shizhong surpassed the status of Zuopushe in one fell swoop, and Li Shimin specially promoted Zhongshuling and Shizhong, who were originally the third rank, to the second rank, equal in rank to Zuopushe.

The emperor turned his head and changed the name of the Zhengshitang to Zhongshumenxia. The left and right servants and other prime ministers entered the Zhengshitang, and they were all given the same title as Zhongshumenxia Pingzhangshi, or participated in political affairs. status.

The only natural prime ministers left are Zhongshuling, Shizhong and Shangshuling, but the Shangshuling has long been vacant, so now there are only two natural prime ministers left.

Xiao Yu never imagined that he, who paid homage to the prime minister five times, could not sit still if he wanted to be the prime minister, but now he became the prime minister with Zhongshu Ling.

Li Shimin glanced over the prime ministers in the hall.

The two prime ministers, Cen Wenwen, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, and Zhang Liang, a doctor of imperial history, had just been removed from the title of participating in political affairs by the emperor, and no longer entered Zhongshu as prime ministers.

However, the power of the imperial edict of the Imperial Academy is even heavier, and Yushitai is now impeaching the prime minister one by one. The impeached prime ministers have to resign and avoid, which makes Yushitai more power and responsibility.

At this time, the emperor let the two important ministers, the academician of the Hanlin Academy and the doctor of the royal family, withdraw from the political affairs hall, but it weakened a lot of power again.

However, after Cen Wenwen and Zhang Liang withdrew from the political affairs hall, their power did not weaken, and their positions became more prominent.

The emperor's eyes stayed on Fang Xuanling, Fang Xuanling sat there very seriously, and he didn't seem to complain at all, he was very satisfied, the old Fang was still aware of the overall situation.

He was not dissatisfied because of the lowered status of Shangshu Province and his lowered phase.

Changsun Wuji took the title of Prime Minister of Tongping Zhangshi as the envoy of Helong Economic Strategy and Governor of Anxi Governor of Yinzhou, and Qin Lang took the title of Prime Minister of Tongping Zhangshi as the envoy of Economic Strategy of the Five Lingnan Prefectures, Governor of Guangzhou and Governor of Guangzhou, and the governor of Guangzhou. The prime minister, the confidant and important minister, is on an envoy abroad as an envoy.

There are four missing prime ministers in the political affairs hall.

But the emperor's control over the court has been further strengthened, especially without Qin Lang, the shit-stirring stick, Li Shimin feels much more at ease in his daily life.

"Xuanling, what do you think?" Li Shimin called his name.

Lao Fang replied, "I think that Dieluozhi has a reputation for filial piety, but Dieluozhi is young. If he is regarded as a Turkic Khan, no one will accept him."

Xiao Yu thought that it was because Dieluozhi was young and had no prestige that he was allowed to inherit the position of Jieli Great Khan. After all, since Jieli was captured, this Great Khan was actually just an empty name, a puppet of the court.

Fang Xuanling had the opposite opinion. He believed that after the defeat of Jieli and the annexation of the Eastern Turks and their migration to the south, Xue Yantuo of Mobei took advantage of the situation to expand and occupied the old land of the Turks. After sending troops to the Western Regions to attack Siyehu Khan, he made no secret of his ambition to enter the Western Regions.

"The imperial court must contain Xue Yantuo. Although the imperial court has also vigorously supported the alliance of Huihe tribes in Tiele in recent years, the power of Huihe is still far inferior to that of Xue Yantuo. Therefore, I support the previous plan of Qin Lang, and some Turkic tribes should be reunited. Return to Mobei to balance Xue Yantuo."

Let the Turkic part return to Mobei, balance Xue Yantuo together with the Huihe, make the grassland form a situation of separation of one big family, two small families, and prevent Xue Yantuo's family from being the dominant one. This is the most in line with Datang's interests, otherwise a Turkic , I am afraid that another Xue Yantuo will be an enemy soon.

Only by intervening in Mobei can the buffer zone of Monan be maintained.

Therefore, the imperial court could not allow a young man like Dieluozhi who knew nothing to be the Turkic Great Khan, but should choose a prestigious, capable and loyal Ashina royal family to be the Great Khan.

"Your Majesty, this is absolutely impossible. In this way, the North will fight again, and how many years has it been stable?" Xiao Yu objected, thinking that this was an act of provoking war.

"Wei Shizhong?"

Seeing that Wei Zheng was silent, Li Shimin called his name directly.

Wei Zheng also objected to this, thinking it was a foolish toss, the Turkic people moved to the south and attached themselves, and it was just stable, but now they are going to toss again, I'm afraid there will be trouble if they make a toss.

"Prince?"

Li Shimin asked the crown prince who sat aside and listened humbly.

"My son thinks that if we move now, it will indeed cause some chaos, but it is better to move early than late. Now that we move, there will be some chaos, but we can control the situation, and we can control it with bullshit, but if it is decades or hundreds of years If we move again, I am afraid that the Turkic people will become troubled, and it will be difficult to move at that time."

Chengqian has a clear attitude.

Li Shimin likes this upright character, he doesn't like the way he is obsessive and has no opinion at all, he has to think about everything and randomly guess his thoughts.

As a prince, you have to make decisions.

Li Shimin was not in a hurry to express his position, but asked other prime ministers to discuss, but the attitude shown by the emperor still made everyone understand that the emperor had actually regretted the previous Turkic resettlement policy.

Wen Yanbo and Yang Shidao advocated the internal relocation and resettlement policy. Over the past few years, we have not seen too many good results as imagined at the beginning, but many unexpected problems have emerged.

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"Since you dear ministers are more inclined to let some Turkic people return to Mobei, and let the rest of the tribes cross the Great Wall and return to their respective tribes, then who do you think is suitable to be the Turkic Khan and lead the Turkic people back to Mobei?"

Xue Yantuo's threat is getting stronger and stronger, and a Huihe alone can no longer contain the increasingly ambitious barbarians.

"I think Li Simo is very suitable, with sufficient background, qualifications, and prestige, and has always been loyal to the court." Fang Xuanling recommended Youxian King Li Simo, the emperor's brother-in-law.

"Well, Li Simo is not bad." The emperor nodded.

Ma Zhou proposed another candidate.

"There is no need to doubt Li Simo's loyalty to the imperial court and the sage, but Simo has always been rejected by Ashina's family, thinking that he was born of a mixed-hued concubine, looks like a Hu, and is not a Turkic person. Khan, I'm afraid there will be many people who will not accept it."

"I thought that when Jieli died of illness, the position of Khan could be taken over by Zuo Xianwang Yang Guozhong. Yang Guozhong was originally Yu Sheshe, the son of Chuluo Khan, and the direct line of the Ashina royal family, so he had the right to inherit the Khan."

"Momo was also the first to belong to Datang at the beginning, and his loyalty over the years is obvious to all, and he deserves to be rewarded."

There is a left virtuous king and a right virtuous king. Both of them are now Li Shimin's brother-in-law. They both belong to the Ashina royal family.

In terms of prestige, the two were equal. After all, Li Simo was older. When Jieli's father, Qimin Khan, was beaten and fled on the grassland, Li Simo was once supported as a Khan.

But because Li Simo's mother was a Sogdian slave and he had a Sogdian Hu face, he was called a bastard by the Turks.

Yang Guozhong was originally the son of Luo Khan, the elder brother of Jieli, and a descendant of Ashina. According to the succession system of Turkic Khans, he has the right to inherit. Can become profuse.

Both are good candidates.

Li Shimin was meditating there, and Yang Guozhong's fat ball-like body was imprinted in his mind. This man has been in Beijing for several years, but he is like a fish in water, and he is famous for being greedy for money and lustful.

Li Shimin doesn't have to worry about losing control of this person, but he has some doubts about his ability.

Li Simo's ability made him trust him more, but Li Simo was old, and he was worried that his prestige in Ashina's family was not enough.

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In the end, Li Shimin still chose Yang Guozhong as the new Great Khan of the Eastern Turks, gave him drums, and led a group of Turks to cross the desert and return to the old land of Mobei.

And Li Simo was given the little khan of the East Turks, and was also given a drum flag. He led the rest of the Turks to cross the Great Wall and nomad in Monan.

Because Ashinasheer and Ashina Yugu have already been resettled in the Western Regions, the original situation of the Eastern Turkic Great Khan and the two virtuous kings Siyehu has been changed again, and it has become a new north-south situation of the Mobei Great Khan and the Monan Xiaohan. .

Coupled with Xue Yantuo and the Huihe Khans, the situation in northern Saibei became more complicated.

"Saint, Guangzhou is in a hurry, Annan's Liaozi tribe rebelled, and its female chieftain, Nong, falsely established the Juding Kingdom, and since the queen of Haojuding, sent [-] troops to invade the country!"

Li Shimin was not too surprised when he heard the news, as if he had expected it.

"Li Daliang has repeatedly conscripted the Liaozi Ministry. It is not uncommon for these people to rebel against the crowd, but the number of [-] must be untrue." The emperor tapped on the table, "Who is this sacred Nong family? I want to know her details. .”

"The matter was caused by Li Daliang, let Li Daliang wipe his ass clean!"

(End of this chapter)