Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 900 Li Shimin's crazy move
Chapter 22 Li Shimin's Crazy Moves

Some things can't stand the most scrutiny.Although this banquet was arranged by Zheng Guanyin, the Prince Qi's Mansion still had some staff left.The key is that Li Shimin was poisoned and vomited blood at the night banquet in the East Palace, which almost caused Li Jiancheng to be thrown into a place of eternal doom...

Li Jiancheng thought to himself, if Li Yuanji did this, what was his purpose?

Even if Yuchigong brushed Li Jiancheng's face, Li Jiancheng was very angry at that time, but just because Yuchigong was rude in front of the imperial court, he would be imprisoned for a few days at most, and the heaviest punishment would be to dismiss him from office and deprive him of his title, but Yuchigong is Li Jiancheng's direct confidant One, it is just a formality, at most two or three months to find a chance to get the official back to his post.

Li Jiancheng sighed, looked at Wei Zheng and said, "I am walking on thin ice now, if I am not careful, I will fall into a place of eternal doom!"

Wei Zheng murmured, "I have been thinking about a question?"

Li Jiancheng said: "And then?"

Wei Zheng said indifferently: "It's better to fight against the outside world or to secure the inside!"

Li Jiancheng also began to think that the revenue and expenditure of the Tang court was limited, but nearly doubling the number of officials was also a huge burden for the court. The key is to lower the rank and reduce the number of officials, which is imperative.If Li Jiancheng didn't have the courage to touch this matter, then, in the future, Li Chengdao would have even less courage to do it.

Li Jiancheng said noncommittally: "Chen Ying, what do you think?"

"Selfishness is the instinct of human beings!" Chen Ying shrugged, and Gu Zuo said with a relaxed smile, "Your Majesty, I am thinking about an ancient matter. Why did Di Xin die?"

When it comes to Di Xin, few people may know it, but when it comes to Daji, people are not familiar with it.All kinds of legends, novels, and TV have told her story incisively and vividly, which is extremely legendary.Because Shang Zhou disrespected Nuwa Empress, the vixen, one of the "Three Monsters of Xuanyuan Tomb", was ordered by Nuwa to destroy Shang, so he attached himself to Daji, the daughter of Hou Suhu in Jizhou, and entered the palace. Loyal and loyal, he also instigated King Zhou to be tyrannical and immoral, to lose the hearts of the people, and lead to the subjugation of the country.

"Zhou, cruel righteousness harms goodness." The derogatory title given by this Zhou people is well-known and notorious.However, his other title "Di Xin" is little known.Just like "Chengtang" and "Wuding", "Emperor Xin" is his real title as the king of the great merchant country.According to the people of Zhou, he was the king of Zhou who was extravagant and full of evil.

History at any time is contemporary history.At this time, Li Jiancheng was preparing to carry out internal reforms, reduce the government with elite soldiers, and defend against foreign aggression. Yi, defended the Central Plains, and developed the power of the Shang Dynasty to the present Jianghuai area, and the territory has been expanded to Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and even the coastal areas of Fujian.

However, in the Shang Dynasty, the Zhou army led by King Wen of Zhou attacked. In the Battle of Muye, they defected, and the Shang Dynasty perished.

Regarding Di Xin's crimes, what is said in "Shangshu Mushi". "Oath of Mu" is the general mobilization of the whole army by Zhou Wu Wang Jifa before the decisive battle in Muye.In such a pre-war proclamation, it should naturally be a big book about the evil of Emperor Xin, and create a righteous image of himself acting on behalf of the heavens, so as to arouse the soldiers and civilians to feel the same hatred and hatred.There are four points of Emperor Xin's crimes in the article: one is that women's words are useful.Second, fainting, abandoning and worshiping, Vedda.The third is the fainting and abandonment of the king's parents and brothers.The fourth is that there are many crimes in the four directions, and they fled. They respected the elders, believed in the envoys, and thought that they were officials and scholars, so as to tyrannize the people and rape the merchants.

However, successive dynasties have slandered it, adding 27 things to the Warring States, 22 things to the Western Han Dynasty, and [-] things to the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Of course, wise men such as Li Jiancheng and Wei Zheng do not believe these things at all, because the example of Yang Guang is right in front of them.

In fact, Li Jiancheng also knew that the reason why Di Xin failed was because Di Xin's internal reforms at that time touched the interests of some people, that is, the Unitarianism. (That is, the prototype of Tongtianjiao in Fengshenyanyi).

Looking at the history of the world, we can easily find that in all countries in the world, there is a dispute between theocracy and kingship, and some theocracy overrides the kingship. Before Emperor Xin, Wu Ding began to fight fiercely with Unitarianism. In the Emperor Xin period, After serving as four kings, he finally suppressed the Unitarianism.

The stubborn forces were not reconciled to failure. Taking advantage of the period when Emperor Xin’s elite troops were conquering Dongyi and the Shang capital was empty, he used Bigan, Huiziqi and other stubborn forces to collude with the Zhou Dynasty, lead the Zhou army into the pass, and then instigate rebellion against the Shang Dynasty. The last slave army, so the Shang Dynasty perished.

Chen Ying's words were actually a veiled warning to Li Jiancheng to be careful of those stubborn forces in the court to prevent their counterattack.Because once Li Jiancheng followed Fang Xuanling's reform opinions, streamlined officials, and then demoted the clan, he must have committed the three major crimes of Emperor Xin's four crimes.

Li Jiancheng murmured: "According to Turkic customs, after autumn is the time for them to use their troops. There are still two months left, so let's reduce the number of mediocre officials first. I would rather give the saved money and food to the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. I don’t want to throw it to these white-eyed wolves either!”

……

His Royal Highness Liangyi of the Taiji Palace, Li Jiancheng sat on the imperial couch, and the ministers of civil and military affairs were arranged in the hatchback.

A waiter held the imperial decree and read it in cadence on the main hall: "Order Chen Yingzheng to transfer [-] young and strong people from Guanzhong, and use work as relief to build the Chang'an-Yuanzhou Chi Road...

The officials exchanged glances with each other.Those present are all human beings. What is the function of Chidao? If it is said that the officials did not know five years ago, but they all know it now. It is more than five hundred miles from Taolin to Chang'an City.

The 200 million shi grains stored in Taolin by Chen Ying consumed less than tens of thousands of shi during the five hundred li journey, and most of them were successfully transported into the Changping warehouse.

Right now, the purpose of recruiting people to build a road to Wonju is to save too much food and time for transporting troops and food.If it is an ordinary official road, it will take ten days at the fastest for a five-hundred-mile grain truck, but starting from Taolin, it can take five days to make a round trip, which is more than twice as fast.

Xiao Yu frowned.

Feng Deyi closed his eyes and remained silent.

The envoy read out the imperial edict.

Li Jiancheng slowly glanced at the expressions of all the officials.

Wei Zheng stood in the queue expressionlessly.

Li Jiancheng said: "My dear family, do you have any objections?"

Xiao Yu suppressed his anger and came out and said: "I object! The severe drought in Guanzhong is a natural disaster. It is very inappropriate to recruit the people to build roads. If 10 people gather together, it will easily lead to civil uprisings. Once it happens Civil upheavals are man-made disasters. Natural disasters cannot be cured by manpower, but man-made disasters can be avoided. If His Majesty insists on doing so, the world will surely make people laugh at His immorality and the incompetence of the court. Without virtue and incompetence, His Majesty and the court will , what are you using to order the world?"

Chen Shuda was in a hurry, and hurriedly came out and said: "Your Majesty, I think that Xiang Xiang's remarks are extremely absurd. A few days ago, the soaring food price has exhausted the remaining wealth of the people's families. If we don't build roads, don't we let the victims starve to death?" Can His Majesty and the imperial court be virtuous and capable? The people in Guanzhong, right under His Majesty’s eyes, starve for thousands of miles, and change their children to eat, so that Your Majesty and the imperial court will be virtuous and capable?”

Xiao Yu turned around and pointed at Chen Shuda and roared: "You rebellious man, you are so instigating His Majesty to build a large-scale construction project? You clearly have ulterior motives!"

Chen Shuda also pointed out his finger to Xiao Yu with a red face and retorted: "The people in Guanzhong are in dire straits now, but you, the prime minister, turn a blind eye to it and watch from the sidelines. In my opinion, you are clearly a vegetarian with no virtue and incompetence!"

Xiao Yu was furious, rushed to Chen Shuda and shouted: "Flaty... villain!"

Chen Shuda retorted, "Pedantry!"

Xiao Yu was so angry that he reached out and pulled at Chen Shuda's clothes.

Not to be outdone, Chen Shuda stroked Xiao Yu's beard with his backhand.

The two big guys are fighting together like street hooligans.

Baiguan was dumbfounded.

Chen Ying couldn't bear to watch.

At this moment, Wei Zheng came out, bowed and said: "Your Majesty, the minister impeached, the left servant of the Shangshu shot Xiao Yu, and the servant Chen Shuda. They lost their manners in front of the palace. They have no demeanor of assistant ministers, which is an insult to the court's dignity."

Li Jiancheng said in a cold tone: "Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda, as the three provinces, they can't help me solve my problems, but they can only roar and criticize each other in front of the palace. It's really hard to take the position of province. Fang Xuanling!"

Fang Xuanling came out and said: "The minister is here!"

Li Jiancheng: "Go down and draw up the imperial edict, and leave Xiao Yu Shangshu Zuo Pushe and Chen Shuda as servants."

There was a dead silence in the hall.

Among the hundreds of officials, several people were so frightened that they dropped the wat board in their hands to the ground.

Li Jiancheng looked indifferently, looked around the crowd and said slowly: "Retire!"

……

In front of Fengjiamen, there is a tall mansion gate and a wide courtyard wall.On the lintel of the gate of the mansion, there is a plaque hanging high, with three big characters "Shang Shu Di" written on it.

There are door halberds and horse-mounting stones on both sides of the gate.

Four-wheeled carriages were parked in the open space in front of the gate.

The Feng family was beaming with joy.

Feng Daoyan hurriedly greeted the visitors who came one after another.

A family member stepped forward and said with a smile: "Brother Feng, when will you be free? Recently, some beautiful orchids have come to Yanfeng Tower, and my younger brother will be the host!"

Another child of the aristocratic family said: "Hey... Let's forget about Hu Ji, I accidentally gave birth to a child with gray eyes and green hair, messing up my blood, and shameless to my ancestors. Brother Feng, this is my father. Invitation card, when will your father be free, take the time and come to my house?"

A few members of the Feng family were in the side room, looking at the bustle of the living room triumphantly.

"Xiao Yu is dismissed. According to the usual practice, the master will be promoted to the right servant, and he will be promoted to the left servant. It is a matter of course."

"Yes, Master H has been cautious since the first year of Wude. After eight years, he is finally going to be the prime minister."

In stark contrast to Feng's mansion, Pei Sikong's mansion was empty. Lawyer Pei looked in the direction of Feng Deyi's mansion in dismay.

Lawyer Pei said rather dissatisfied: "It's really annoying that the Feng family is still having a banquet at such a late hour!"

Pei Ji walked out of the room slowly and stood in the courtyard.

Lawyer Pei was filled with righteous indignation: "Father, why do you sit and watch His Majesty dismiss Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda today? Then Wei Zheng is too crazy. He is old, he was just a fourth-rank son of Zuo Shu."

Pei Ji shook his head, patted Lawyer Pei's shoulder lightly and said, "Don't ask so many questions, and don't take part in the court affairs at will. Then Wei Zheng is Li Jiancheng, a dog used to rectify the court, so Li Jiancheng will serve him as a servant. The purpose of being a part-time doctor of imperial censors is to let him out to bite people at critical times."

Lawyer Pei frowned puzzled and said, "Father means, is this just a joke?"

Pei Ji nodded and said: "After the change of Xuanwumen, Li Jiancheng didn't replace the prime ministers with his own people. That's because at that time, he was not able to gain a stable foothold. Now that the food famine in Guanzhong has been relieved, Li Jing, the general of the imperial court, , Li Xiaogong, Li Daozong, Qin Qiong, Niu Junda, Xie Yingdeng, Zhang Gongjin, and even Li Shentong surrendered to Li Jiancheng, and now his position has been secured, so the time to sort out the prime ministers of the three provinces is ripe."

Chen Shuda's mansion, when he heard that Li Jing was coming to visit, he hurried out to greet him.

Chen Shuda looked at Li Jing and said: "Pharmacist, you will go to the Three Treasure Hall for nothing!"

Li Jing smiled lightly and said, "Old Xiangguo was reprimanded by His Majesty, so he came here to visit."

Chen Shuda smiled wryly and said: "I'm old and useless, even His Majesty despises me."

Li Jing said: "I will have an audience with His Majesty tomorrow, and I will speak some words of justice to old Xiangguo."

Chen Shuda waved his hand and said, "Your Majesty's removal of this old man's official position is definitely not a rash move. Feng Deyi's age and qualifications have reached the point where he will be promoted to Prime Minister. But most importantly, the position of Shangshu Youpushe has been released , His Majesty wants to use this position to arrange for his most trusted confidant - Wei Zheng.

Li Jing said suspiciously: "No way, Wei Zheng's qualifications are too low, even if it's Wang Gui's turn, he won't be able to!"

Chen Shuda vowed: "Just keep your eyes open, the old man will definitely not make a mistake."

……

When the Tang court was in turmoil, Li Shimin also boarded the Aztec Kingdom on the Fusang Continent.Its national capital, Teotihuacan (located between the slopes of the Popocateper and Istasihuatl volcanoes in Mexico, 40 kilometers away from Mexico City), is a veritable city of the gods. There are countless palaces and temples dedicated to the sun god, moon god, the temple of the feathered serpent, and Tlaloc, the rain god.In the Aztec country Tlaloc rain god also has the power to manage the country.

However, there is no monarchy here, only theocracy.Each generation of monarchs is a new leader produced by a democratic election system similar to the ancient Chinese period, and each leader is called Tlaloc.The Aztecs were the first civilization in the Americas to enter the city-state system. As early as the first year of AD to 150 AD, the Aztecs established a city with a population of 5. After entering 600 AD, special Otihuacan entered a period of rapid development, at this time the population has reached 20 people.

Even in Datang, there are less than 20 cities with a population of more than [-].In Fusang, it is undoubtedly the largest city.

In fact, American civilizations all have one thing in common, they all like living sacrifices.Whether it is the ancestors they believe in or various gods, they all use living sacrifices. Under this traditional custom, it is very barbaric and bloody, but it has created a very bad situation. The population here cannot be large. Increase.When the harvest is good, the Aztecs will sacrifice the living to Tlaloc, and they will also sacrifice the living to Tlaloc in disasters. This kind of sacrifice is not only for prisoners of war and slaves, but also considered an automatic sacrifice. It will be loyal, Pious performance.

This trip was relatively smooth, especially with Chen Ying's canned supplies. Less than a hundred sailors died of accidents along the way, and only three large ocean-going ships sank in the storm.

After Li Shimin, Cheng Zhijie, Du Ruhui and others arrived in Fusang Continent, after half a month of restorative repairs, Zhang Zhongjian sent Li Shimin and others to scout the city of Teotihuacan.

There are only a hundred soldiers around Li Shimin, basically all of them are his old troops. He brought these more than a hundred people to investigate the giant city with a population of more than 20. Greeted all over again.

However, the reality is very helpless.Although Li Shimin was in the Tang Dynasty, he was the King of Qin, General Tiance, and Shang Shuling, but in Fusang Continent, he was definitely not Zhang Zhongjian's opponent. Chen Ying gave him equipment capable of arming [-] troops, although he only had [-] In addition, there are nearly [-] Japanese people among them.

Li Shimin has personally seen these dwarfs, whose average stature is less than six feet, they are like beasts when fighting. Even though their bodies are dripping with blood, they still attack continuously until the last bit of strength is exhausted.

People have to bow their heads under the roof.

Li Shimin had no choice but to obey Zhang Zhongjian's orders. After all, Zhang Zhongjian conquered more than a month later, occupied 25 cities, and had more than one million slaves.Their strength is not at the same level at all.

Arriving outside the city of Teotihuacan, Li Shimin unexpectedly found that this place has been reduced to a battlefield, and for some unknown reason, violent conflicts are erupting in the city.

People from the same aboriginal costumes on both sides fought together. Although there were tens of thousands of people participating in the battle, in the eyes of Li Shimin, Cheng Zhijie, Hou Mo, Chen Xu and others, their melee was not as good as the ranger fight in Chang'an City. .

After all, rangers know how to use bows, crossbows and hidden weapons to greet at long distances, and use shields to block at close range.They are fine, you stab me with a gun, and I slash you with a knife, just like that.

If you look down from the sky, the water of the small lake outside Teotihuacan has been dyed blood red, and there are countless corpses of soldiers floating on the water.

The grassland on the east coast has been mostly burned by the fire. There are broken limbs and arms everywhere, and there are piles of corpses of weapons, armor and staff they abandoned everywhere. The blood flowing down drowns the new shoots on the grassland. Diffuse above.

Not far away, there were countless wild dogs howling and looking for food in the Shura Field, and the beast's eyes were glowing blood red.A dozen or so vultures hovered high in the sky, preparing to dive to join the gluttonous feast.

Li Shimin observed for a long time, and finally made up his mind to make a crazy decision.

"Old Cheng, how about we take this city?"

Cheng Zhijie was taken aback by Li Shimin's crazy idea, he murmured: "My lord, we are only 120 three people!"

Du Ruhui smiled and said, "Old Cheng, do you know how to count? With me, it's obviously 120 four people!"

Cheng Zhijie didn't say anything. During the war, Du Ruhui was really not alone.

Li Shimin's eyes shone brightly, and he said excitedly: "This king has been observing for half an hour. They don't even have bows and arrows in their hands. Most of them use wooden spears. As long as we work hard, we will definitely catch the thief and the king!"

Du Ruhui said: "I support this decision. Although they have 20 people, they are too disorganized. They are not even as good as a vagrant army. If you take this city, your majesty can open the treasury, appease the people, and recruit the young and strong to form an army." , take this as a foundation, and operate with peace of mind, there may not be no chance of a comeback!"

(End of this chapter)