Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 497 Chapter 508: Reopening the Tiance Mansion

"Oh, who is it?" Li Shimin suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Li Hao.

Li Hao didn't answer directly, but asked: "Your Majesty, what is the result of General Xue's conquest of Tuyuhun?"

Hearing this, Li Shimin immediately knew who Li Hao was going to recommend. Naturally, it was Xue Rengui. Li Shimin nodded thoughtfully: "Xue Rengui is indeed a rare and handsome talent. This time he led the army to conquer Tuyuhun and scored a success. The result is gratifying."

He said he found two military reports from the Long case, handed them to Li Hao, and said, "This is Xue Rengui's battle report, take a look."

Li Hao opened the first military report, which was the victory report of Xue Rengui's victory over the Garqin Mausoleum and the Western Turkic Army. After reading it, Li Hao showed joy and nodded repeatedly. Xue Rengui did not disappoint him.

The second military report was just sent back a few days ago. It described the situation of Xue Rengui and Li Daozong's joint attack on Fucheng City. Although it was not as exciting as the previous report, it was still a great achievement. A name, suddenly shocked.

In the last sentence of the report, Xue Rengui wrote: "The Western Turkic general Fan Lihua led [-] reinforcements to rescue Yang Long and his remnants. He will fight with him for a hundred rounds without success. I respectfully ask you to surrender."

"Fanli flower..." Li Hao was dumbfounded, his mind was in a mess, "Fanli flower? When I checked the history, I only found Xue Rengui, but not Fanli flower. It is said on the Internet that Fanli flower did not exist in history, but only in the novel. How could there be Fanlihua, even if it is a novel, the age of Fanlihua is wrong, Fanlihua is the wife of Xue Dingshan, Xue Dingshan is only ten years old this year, Fanlihua has led soldiers to fight, wait, Fanlihua In Western Turkic? How many female generals are there in Western Turkic? What is her relationship with Xiao Di? They can’t be the same person, right?”

Li Hao was thinking wildly, when Li Shimin suddenly said: "Poetry Maniac, do you want to recommend Xue Rengui to conquer Goguryeo?"

"Ah?" Li Hao woke up and nodded quickly, "Return to Your Majesty, yes, I want to recommend Xue Rengui to lead the army to conquer the East."

Li Shimin frowned and said: "But Xue Rengui is still building a military base in the West Sea in Tuyuhun. You also said that military training on the plateau is extremely important, and it is the key to conquering Tubo."

"Don't worry, Your Majesty!" Li Hao rolled his eyes and said slowly, "I can go to Xihai (Qinghai Lake) to replace General Xue, and let General Xue go to conquer the east."

"En." Li Shimin thought about it with his beard, and nodded when he thought it was feasible, "Okay, in February next year, you will go to Xihai to exchange for Xue Rengui and come back."

"Yes!" Li Hao was secretly excited. He had already decided that after going to Qinghai next year, he must send someone to Xitujue to check carefully whether Xiaodi is Fan Lihua or not. At the same time, he will do everything possible The way to get Fan Lihua to Datang is not weaker than Xue Rengui's existence, and Fan Lihua is of Han blood, how can she be allowed to work for the Western Turks.

Then, Li Shimin asked again: "Shi Kuang, besides training troops on the highlands, what other good strategies do you have for military affairs? Take this opportunity and feel free to speak."

Li Hao cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, I think you can vigorously build a navy."

"Oh? Build a navy?" Li Shimin frowned. It wasn't that he didn't like the proposal, but that he frowned first when he heard novel proposals. This was his natural reaction. After frowning, Li Shimin said softly. , "Is our current navy in Datang not strong enough?"

Li Hao said solemnly: "Return to Your Majesty, the current navy of the Tang Dynasty is weaker than I expected."

Li Shimin was slightly surprised when he heard the words. In his impression, the navies of other countries were simply vulnerable and could not be compared with the Datang Navy. In addition to the quality of soldiers, the quality of ships is very important in the navy, and the size and quality of ships are very important. Inferiority is directly related to a country's economy, which is made entirely of money. Datang is rich and has a strong military force, so Datang's navy is naturally the strongest.

After being surprised, Li Shimin asked: "Then tell me, what is the navy you envisioned?"

Li Haodao: "Returning to Your Majesty, the navy I envisioned will have at least fifteen feet of warships, equipped with a large number of bed crossbows, so that when the two armies fight at sea, before the enemy approaches, destroy their ships first, or our Great Tang will Ships moored on the shore can also use bed crossbows to attack the enemy's harbor, and there will be no disadvantages."

Li Shimin's eyes lit up when he heard the words, then they dimmed again, and sighed: "A boat of fifteen feet...is too difficult to build."

Li Hao said: "Your Majesty, a ship of fifteen feet is not big at all. When I was in Qiongnan, I studied shipbuilding technology with craftsmen and made a lot of money. Now I have built a sea-going ship of more than thirty feet long for maritime trade. "

"Three... more than 30 feet!" Li Shimin was so shocked when he heard this, his eyes widened.

"Yes, more than 30 feet." Li Hao said indifferently, "I am willing to donate the precise shipbuilding blueprints to help His Majesty build an invincible sea master, but these ships are expensive, and His Majesty needs to do what he can. There is no rush to build an invincible navy."

Li Shimin was so shocked and excited that he didn't know what to say. After a long time, he gradually calmed down, shook his head happily and said: "I never thought that, I asked you to go to Qiongnan, and you actually created Huge sea-going ship, poetry madman, I am ashamed that you repay grievances with kindness."

"I have never held any grudges against Your Majesty." Li Hao saluted respectfully, "What I want in my heart is to make the Tang Dynasty prosperous internally and the people rich, strong externally and invincible, so that our sons and daughters of China will become the most powerful in the world." nation."

"Okay! Good ambition!" Li Shimin was also affected by his words, and said excitedly, "I knew that I was right, poet mad, what advice do you have, play it all, I want to listen, Listen to all of them."

Li Hao hesitated for a moment, then suddenly cupped his hands and said loudly: "Your Majesty, I would like to ask Your Majesty to reopen Tiance Mansion."

Li Shimin's eyes suddenly opened when he heard the words. He hadn't heard this name mentioned for many years, and even he himself almost forgot about it. Now, Li Hao actually directly proposed to reopen the Tiance Mansion.

In the fourth year of Wude, when Li Shimin was still the king of Qin, he defeated Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande's coalition forces, and Li Shimin was named Tiance Admiral. Later, he built Tiance Mansion in Luoyang, which was also one of the landmark events for Li Shimin to become emperor in the future.The Tiance Mansion ranks first among military officials, above the Fourteen Guards; General Tiance ranks above the Prince and Sangong, and is second only to the three divisions (i.e. Taishi, Taifu, and Taibao) who are nominally the top civil servants. ).Admiral Tiance can recruit talents by himself to serve as officials in Tiance's mansion, which is the so-called "Xu Zizhi official subordinates".

Li Shimin is the only general in the history of the Tiance Mansion. He succeeded in usurping the throne by relying on the Tiance Mansion. Shortly after he ascended the throne, he immediately disbanded the Tiance Mansion. Why, because he knew that the power of the general of the Tiance Mansion It's too big, big enough to pose a threat to the throne, he doesn't trust anyone in the court to be the general of Tiance's family, including his son, since no one can be the general of Tiance's family, then Tiance The Tiance Mansion cannot exist, it can only be revoked, but now, Li Hao actually proposes to reopen the Tiance Mansion, which has to make Li Shimin vigilant.

Li Shimin's face changed slightly, he suppressed his surprise, and asked slowly: "Oh? Why did you reopen the Tiance Mansion?"

Li Hao naturally knew that the Tiance Mansion was Li Shimin's taboo, so he said in a calm and unhurried manner: "Your Majesty, the former Tiance Mansion had too much power, so it is not suitable for existence. I propose to reopen the Tiance Mansion, first of all, we must reduce the Tiance Mansion. The power of the government should be focused on training the strongest soldiers and generals in the Tang Dynasty, followed by the decision-making of attacking and attacking, and all military movements must be ordered by the emperor and the Ministry of War."

Li Shimin was stunned when he heard the words, and thought to himself, in this way, this Tiance Mansion is no longer the Tiance Mansion. The word "Tiance Policy" means making decisions on behalf of the heavens. Although it is ordered by the emperor, it can also make decisions freely. Beyond the imperial power, if, as Li Hao said, everything is entrusted to the imperial power and the imperial court, then this is nothing more than the name of Tiance Mansion.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin felt relieved, and slowly asked: "So, your purpose of reopening Tiance Mansion is only for training soldiers?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, that's exactly the case." Li Hao said, "I have a lot of experience in military affairs, but I can't pass it on to others at will. I want to build the Tiance Mansion first, train the strongest soldiers in the Tang Dynasty, and at the same time select Talents, teach the strategic thinking of ministers, train them into elite generals, so that our talents in Datang will be inexhaustible and inexhaustible."

Li Shimin's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and he felt that this idea was simply wonderful. He once said that he wanted all the heroes in the world to fall into his trap. Naturally, there are few, so why not cultivate Yingjie by yourself, Li Hao is a young genius, and the people he cultivates will naturally not be idle.

Li Shimin pondered for a moment and then said: "Okay, Shi Kuang's proposal is very good, I will call all the ministers to discuss it someday, and I won't say that it was you who suggested it."

Li Hao smiled knowingly when he heard the words. The reason why he didn't say it was his proposal was because he was worried that the ministers in the court would object. Those guys are all targeting Li Hao now. As long as it is Li Hao's proposal, they will all oppose it. If Li Hao proposes it in court Reopening the Tiance Mansion would definitely be useless, but if Li Shimin proposed it, it would be different.

Seeing that it was getting dark, Li Shimin said, "It's already dinner time, Shi Kuang, stay and have dinner with me."

"Yes." Li Hao nodded with a smile.

Then, Li Shimin asked Xu Lian to move a stool, let Li Hao and himself sit face to face at the dragon table, this is the real eating together, Li Hao was quite surprised, Li Shimin actually asked him to eat together at the dragon table, this is amazing , He settled down to think about it carefully, and it became clear that Li Shimin probably knew that he would not live for a few years, and wanted to take advantage of the last time to win him over, and wanted to make him grateful for such a detached treatment.

After the food was served and the wine was served, Li Shimin and Li Hao just ate and drank face to face. However, Li Shimin had a bad heart and drank very little. The two were close at hand and within reach of each other. Li Hao is the first to receive this kind of treatment.Not to mention, Li Shimin felt that eating like this was really good, and it was fun to chat with Li Hao, and the other party could hear him with a single word, unlike before when they were so far away, and they might not be able to hear clearly even if they didn't speak loudly.

(End of this chapter)