Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 951
Chapter 73 Minister of the Ministry of War participates in government affairs

Wei Zheng walked out of the door and went to the province. Suddenly, Dai Zhou rushed out from the side, grabbed Wei Zheng's sleeve, and led Wei Zheng behind the pillar.

Dai Zhou said anxiously: "Xuan Cheng, you have been fooled by Fang Xuanling!"

Wei Zheng said with an inexplicable expression: "Tricked? What are you fooled by?"

Dai Zhou said solemnly: "Do you think those death row prisoners will escape and hide? Fang Xuanling sent someone to tell the death row prisoners a long time ago. As long as he returns to the prison on time, he will definitely persuade His Majesty to pardon these people's crimes."

Wei Zheng nodded calmly, "I know."

Dai Zhou was startled, and asked suspiciously: "You know?"

Wei Zheng said, "I know."

Dai Zhou blushed immediately and said, "Then can you return this edict?"

Wei Zheng still nodded.

Dai Zhou sighed and said, "Do you know that this is against the way of a gentleman?"

Wei Zheng nodded and said, "I know."

Dai Zhou roared even more angrily: "Then why didn't you stop this matter?"

Wei Zheng patted Dai Zhou on the shoulder and said: "People are not grass, how can they be ruthless? Not at all times, we must abide by national laws and family rules, moral etiquette. There are always exceptions in everything."

After Wei Zheng finished speaking, he walked away leisurely.

Dai Zhou froze on the spot, motionless.

In the Imperial Study Room of Taiji Palace, Li Jiancheng, who was acting as an agent for the memorial, suddenly raised his head.

Li Anyan, who was helping to sort out the documents, looked around inexplicably.

Li Anyan said: "Your Majesty, what happened?"

Li Jiancheng murmured: "No, could it be that Wei Zheng... really can't see Fang Xuanling's little trick?"

Li Anyan asked inexplicably: "What little trick?

Li Jiancheng said: "Fang Xuanling must have made an agreement with those death row prisoners. If he comes back on time, he will definitely convince me to pardon them."

Li Anyan said: "That's right!"

Li Jiancheng frowned, looked at Li Anyan and said, "Then why does Wei Zheng still paint Ke?"

Li Anyan spread his hands and continued to organize the documents.

Li Jiancheng waved his hand and said, "Forget it, if you don't understand it, don't think about it... By the way, the morning after tomorrow, we will pick up Wei Zheng's car, are you ready?"

Li Anyan said: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I have already prepared it. I will be the coachman, and I will take care of things and handle them safely."

Li Jiancheng nodded.

At this moment, anxious footsteps came from outside the door.

Li Jiancheng raised his head and followed the prestige.

I saw a frosty Yang Gongren striding forward.

Li Jiancheng asked, "Yang Xiangguo, what's going on?"

"Your Majesty, something is wrong!" Yang Gongren signaled Li Anyan to go out.

Li Anyan left with interest.

Yang Gongren handed the urgent report to Li Jiancheng: "This is the urgent report just received by Shangshu Province. General Li Jing and General Li sent it here day and night with [-] miles of cavalry. Five days and four nights, only the horses were exhausted. How many horses!"

When Li Jiancheng heard this, a solemn look appeared on his face.

Li Jiancheng launched the emergency report, which was very short, with only a few crosses. However, seeing the number of crosses, Li Jiancheng's face immediately became gloomy.

In the decisive battle of the Northern Expedition of the Great Tang Dynasty, Li Jing led 25 soldiers of the Tang Army and fought three battles, annihilating and capturing more than [-] Eastern Turks, and the rest surrendered.

However, more than [-] people fled westward, including the Special Service's failure to think hard and Daqijin Ottoman Punk.Daqijin means leader in Turkic language, compared with Shangshu in Tang Dynasty.The East Turks have a total of nine jins, and the Western Turks have ten jins.

Chen Ying asked Li Jing for instructions to pursue the rest of the Turks, but Li Jing did not agree. In the early morning of the next day, Chen Ying led more than [-] soldiers of the Dingyuan Army to carry food, grass and baggage to the west in the snow.

When Li Jiancheng saw the news, it was as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

Chen Ying actually left.

……

Lingzhou, as one of Chen Ying's earliest foundations.Here, Chen Ying replenished the army's supplies and supplies, and prepared for the expedition.

This time, the materials prepared were very sufficient. There were as many as [-] four-wheeled carriages. These [-] carriages had already been prepared. After Chen Ying unloaded the wounded in Lingzhou, they could set off.

"From your tone, it seems that you don't intend to destroy Ottoman Punk."

Li Xiuning found out that Chen Ying had already prepared for the Western Expedition. In fact, if Chen Ying didn't want Zhisi and Ottoman Punk to escape when he was in Shengle, they wouldn't be able to escape at all.

Chen Ying smiled and said, "Do you still remember Hou Jing from the Southern Dynasty?"

Li Xiuning said: "He is fierce and good at martial arts, but not good at walking. He is good at riding and shooting. He was selected as a soldier in Huaishuo. At the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the uprising of the six towns broke out, and the Hu tribes in the border towns rebelled against the rule of the Northern Wei Dynasty. , followed the Pingge Rong Uprising, and worshiped the governor of Dingzhou. Later, he returned to Gao Huan, the power minister of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, worshiped the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and moved to Henan Yin. Yang. In the second year of Taiqing (547), the army rebelled, attacked Jiankang City, launched the "Taiqing Rebellion", and slaughtered powerful families. In the second year of Dabao (548), after killing Emperor Wu of Liang, Emperor Jianwen and Queen Yuzhang , usurped the throne as emperor, and established the Han Dynasty. Later, Emperor Liang Yuan organized Jiangzhou Governor Wang Sengbian and East Yangzhou Governor Chen Baxian to lead the army to break through Jiankang City and put down the chaos of Hou Jing. Hou Jing was killed by his subordinates..."

Chen Ying looked at Li Xiuning and said, "Hou Jing is from Jie people... During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, General Ran Min of Later Zhao revolted, punished the Shi family, and wiped out the Jie family. Only more than [-] Jie people took refuge in Murong Xianbei and survived. Heaven reincarnates, Jieren Houjing led him more than [-] Jieren trilogy, from Huaihuang to Jiankang, fought thousands of miles, slaughtered more than a million people..."

Thinking of this, Li Xiuning broke out in a cold sweat.

The Tang Dynasty and the Turks had a feud of subjugation and genocide. If Zhisi was forced to flee with Ottoman punk and others, wouldn't it be another Taiqing chaos after 200 years?
A murderous look appeared on Li Xiuning's face: "We must not let Zhisi lose his strength and escape!"

"There is no need for this now," Chen Ying said with a faint smile: "This failure of persistent thinking is our pioneer!"

"The pioneer who opened the way?" Li Xiuning finally came to her senses after a long time. She suddenly smiled and felt that Chen Ying had become a little treacherous.
Treacherous, this is a derogatory term, but at this time, why do you think this adjective is particularly appropriate.Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying, but the latter didn't smile, his eyes were always like that, the eyelids were half drooping, only half of the eyeball was exposed.

Suddenly, something happened to Li Xiuning.

She felt that although Chen Ying's face was much plumper, his expression and eyes seemed to be no different from those in Jingyang City.

Li Xiuning thought to herself, maybe Chen Ying has not become treacherous, maybe he was like this before, but now he has become more powerful.

"The Western Regions were originally our sphere of influence in China!" Chen Ying said with a wry smile: "It's just that since the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms were in turmoil, and our power in China has declined. Now, the people of the Central Plains have forgotten this large piece of homeland, thinking that It's a foreign country! But I clearly know that from Chang'an to Beiting, and from Beiting to the west and south for thousands of miles, it was once our China's sphere of influence!"

Li Xiuning said: "But, now it's the Western Turks."

"Yes, it's the Western Turkic Khanate." Chen Ying pointed to the huge map in the carriage and said, "Eastern Turkic has perished, and Western Turkic can't let it go. The Tang Dynasty just came out of natural disasters, and the imperial court was completely out of control." Without power, another national war like Li Jing's Northern Expedition will be held."

Even if Chen Ying didn't say it, Li Xiuning would understand.The Western Turks are now splitting up, and the East Turkic elites such as Zhisifali and Ottoman punks who have escaped can easily defeat the Western Turks one by one. They may use iron and blood to soften the Western Turks in a very short period of time. .

The Cypriots in the Western Regions and the nine surnames of Zhaowu in the river, they are a group of weeds, and they will fall wherever the wind blows.If Datang is in the near stage, it will focus on the development of people's livelihood in the pass.

Then the Turkic remnants are likely to further erode the Western Regions.

Once the Western Turks take control of the most prosperous Tianshan Mountains or the Yilie River Valley in the Western Regions, and further encroach on the east, Datang will lose the greatest opportunity to regain the Western Regions.

In fact, Su Dingfang's expedition to the west also took advantage of the civil strife in Western Turks. Otherwise, with 40 armored soldiers in the Western Turks, Su Dingfang alone had less than 3 horses, and it would be very difficult to conquer the entire Anxi.

Li Xiuning slowly understood Chen Ying.

Chen Ying pointed to the map and said: "The Guishui (the Amu Darya River) and the Yaoshashui (now the Syr Darya River) are very rich here, with tens of millions of fertile fields. The Guanzhong Plain is more than a hundred times larger. If we occupy Hezhong, our Tang Dynasty will have more than 100 more Guanzhong..."

Originally, Li Xiuning didn't pay much attention to He Zhong.

But when Chen Ying said that Hezhong was equivalent to more than 100 Guanzhongs, she was immediately moved.

Li Xiuning said: "Hezhong must take it back..."

"This is a key to the ebb and flow of the Tang Dynasty and Tianfang!" Chen Ying said: "Whether secular politics dominates the religious system in Huaxia, or is religion oppressing the secular Tianfang dominates, in this prosperous Hezhong area The winner should be decided, in fact, they have always been our potential enemies!"

Chen Ying is a giant standing on the shoulders of history.

He sees further.

The battle of relations in the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline was after the defeat in the first battle of Talas.The key is that this is not only the tomb of the so-called empire, but also the largest resource zone in the world. It is rich in oil, natural gas, gold, copper, steel and coal resources.

If it weren't for this failure, Huaxia had forgotten that the river was once the homeland of China. Once China still owns these territories, it is no exaggeration to say that future generations of China will use oil cheaper than water.

However, since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty only respected Confucianism and abandoned all schools of thought, the tradition of Confucianism has had a profound influence.Confucianism pays attention to the fact that if the name is not right, the words will not be right. If you want to be right, you must learn from the famous.

To be famous is to shift the responsibility to the other party.

Now, Chen Ying launched the Western Expedition under the banner of chasing down the remnants of the Eastern Turks.

Li Xiuning hesitated for a while and said: "You didn't explain clearly to His Majesty, so you acted rashly..."

Chen Ying sighed and said, "The Great Tang is not your Majesty's monopoly, there are various forces in the court, representatives of various forces, and when their quarrel comes to an end, the cucumber dishes will be cold!"

Li Xiuning said: "It's just that if Datang uses weapons again, we will cause uneasiness in the surrounding countries! They will even unite to deal with Datang! Datang will establish an unprecedented and terrifying enemy!"

"An unprecedented and terrifying enemy?" Chen Ying shook his head and sneered: "The unprecedented and terrifying enemy is never outside, but inside! The most terrifying enemy is not one who does what one does, but follows one's own way! It’s better to do it early than to do it late! It’s better to cut the mess quickly than to do it slowly!”

Chen Ying closed his eyes, seeming to be recalling: "I once saw a country that, for fear of a small group of people rebelling, for fear of some so-called foreign public opinion, suppressed what it really should do, day after day. The sun and the earth maintain an illusory stability! Even though those terrible scourges have spread from the borderlands to the heart, they are still deceiving! However, I will never allow such things to happen to me! The surrounding countries oppose If you want to oppose it, let them oppose it! Even if they want to mobilize troops because of this, I will not be afraid if they all stand up to support the Turks! I will not stop doing what I think is right because of the faces of outsiders, and unite to attack the Tang Dynasty. If you do it today, it may cause troubles for one or two years, but if you don’t do it, you will plant disasters for 100, 200, or even thousands of years! I, Chen Ying, would rather do the hardest things with my own hands If you lose him, you will never leave these curses to your descendants!"

The cold wind howled, and Chen Ying couldn't hear any noise.

……

Li Jiancheng sat on the throne in the Provincial Political Affairs Hall under the gate of Chang'an City, and did not speak for a long time.

The ministers of the Zhengshitang were silent, thinking about countermeasures.

After a long time, Fang Xuanling was the first to break the silence and said: "Your Majesty, I think that it might be a good thing for General Chen to go west..."

Yuwen Shiji said with a cold smile: "A good thing? The dignified general, ignoring the emperor's edict, is actually a good thing..."

Li Jiancheng didn't seem to hear what Yuwen Shiji said.

His eyes finally fell on Wei Zheng.

Li Jiancheng murmured: "Xuancheng, what do you think about this matter?"

Wei Zhengdao: "The remnants of the Eastern Turks are on the run. Aren't you worried that you will become a tiger if you don't let the tiger go? Instead, you are worried that General Chen will not succeed in rebelling?"

Yuwen Shiji didn't speak, he set his eyes on Fang Xuanling.

After all, Fang Xuanling is famous for his boldness.

Only Fang Xuanling dared to make a direct remonstrance.

However, Fang Xuanling said: "The land in Hexi is barren, and supplies are very difficult. It is not without reason that we can only push our troops to this area during the two great times of the Han and Tang Dynasties. Due to the limited terrain, the powerlessness of thinking may not be enough. If they can defend Congling, if they can successfully defend east and west, they will take Hezhong into their pocket before we break through their eastern defense line. Make a comeback!"

Li Jiancheng waved his hand and said, "I have decided to worship Li Jing as the right servant of Shangshu, and the inspector to serve as the left servant of Shangshu, Daxingtai, Zhongxizhou Road, holding a white banner and a yellow ax..."

Wei Zheng understood it very well.

Li Jiancheng used Li Jing to check and balance Chen Ying.

Li Jiancheng continued: "Anton General Li Shiji, as Minister of the Ministry of War, participated in the government affairs!"

PS: Get up early tomorrow at 05:30 to catch the high-speed train back to Beijing. I can’t stay up late today. I hope you will forgive me.This chapter was written a bit sloppily...

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