Man Tanghong

Li Yuanji came back to his senses, nodded, and said yes.

Zhao Chengyong hesitated and said: "Then you are here..."

Li Yuanji shook his head and said: "I will not go to the front to take risks anymore. I will stay here all the time, so you don't have to worry about my safety."

Zhao Chengyong nodded and said, "Then I will go and explain to Chu Suiliang and Gao Kan."

After saying this, Zhao Chengyong bowed and exited.

Not long after, Gao Kan took a painted halberd with a single branch and jolted to the entrance of the camp. He stood there and raised his head happily, as if he had picked up a few coins.

Li Yuanji could roughly guess what Zhao Chengyong said to Gao Kan, which was nothing more than to perform your duties well, protect His Highness, and then recommend you to join the Yongwang Guard as a general, or go to other places to serve as a military commander, etc.

With Zhao Chengyong's "heavy reward", Gao Kan naturally became a brave man.

At this time, even if he faced the gods and Buddhas, he would probably go up and stab him with a halberd.

No one can stop him from getting promoted and making a fortune, and he will kill anyone who stands in his way!

Li Yuanji looked at him and smiled, ignored him, picked up his pen and started writing letters to Chai Shao, Yu Wenbao and Li Xiaogong.

The content of the letter was very simple, that is, Chai Shao was asked to cooperate with Li Xiaogong and bring all the adult members of the royal family, as well as all the adult children of the still existing wealthy families.

The letter to Yu Wenbao asked Yu Wenbao to escort the people from the first palace of the East Palace and the first palace of Chengqing Palace here.

After writing these three letters, Li Yuanji thought about it again and wrote another letter to Li Xiuning and Li Yuan respectively.

The content of the letter to Li Xiuning was also very simple, that is, he invited Li Xiuning to bring his family and a group of tribes here to see the scenery outside the Tang Dynasty with him. It was up to Li Xiuning to decide the details. If he was willing to come, he raised his hands. If you don't want to come, he won't force you.

The letter to Li Yuan was complicated. It basically told Chai Shao, Li Xiaogong, Yu Wenbao and others to bring all the adult royal family members, adult children of wealthy families, and people from the East Palace and Chengqing Palace here. purpose.

At the same time, he also stated to Li Yuan that he had no intention of becoming emperor and would not become emperor. He hoped that Li Yuan would appoint Li Chengde as the grandson of the emperor and wait until Li Chengde came of age to succeed Li Jiancheng as crown prince.

He didn't say anything further, but he believed Li Yuan understood.

"Gao Kan!"

"I'm here!"

"Send someone to deliver these letters as soon as possible!"

After Li Yuanji waited for the letter to dry, he collected it, covered it with wax paint, and ordered Gao Kan to send it out as soon as possible.

He knew very well that after he delivered these letters back to Chang'an City, they would definitely cause an uproar in Chang'an City.

But he also knew that if Li Yuan was a qualified patriarch of a feudal family, he would definitely understand him and support him.

The emperor sitting in the middle of the court would never threaten everyone in the Tang Dynasty.

But the emperor who was free and could kill him anytime and anywhere could intimidate everyone in the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, having an emperor in the middle of the court and an emperor outside is the only way to truly bring peace to both the government and the public.

As long as everyone realizes that there is always a sword hanging on their necks, everyone can put down intrigues, fights for power, and trouble, and run an empire properly.

And this sword is both a sword and the enemy of everyone.

So the sword must be sharp and indestructible.

Only in this way can a huge empire proceed according to its own ideas.

Li Yuanji now wants to make this sword and become the enemy of everyone in the Tang Dynasty.

With the education Li Yuan received since childhood and the political wisdom he has honed since he grew up, he will definitely understand and support this kind of thing.

It’s okay not to support it.

Because Li Yuanji still has a way to deal with Li Yuan.

……

Time flies and it’s May.

After Hou Junji defeated Hepantuo, he completely let himself go. He divided his troops into 1000 men per share, a total of ten shares, and began to madly burn, kill and loot west of the Western Turks. Wherever he went, except for He spared no one except children and women, and even some religious temples in the western Turks were robbed by him.

Gold, silver, jewelry, jade, agate, Buddha beads, and even human skin drums were all packed up by Hou Junji and sent back to Lingzhou.

Yin Kaishan adopted Xie Shufang's strategy and chose to make peace with Qibi Heli. They decided to take down Sanmi Mountain together to end the Western Turks. After a showdown, the situation finally opened up.

He teamed up with Qibi Heli to put on a show for He Modu first. When He Modu came out in full force to take advantage, he suddenly turned his gun and rushed towards He Modu madly. Sanmi Mountain was destroyed in one day.

At the same time that Sanmi Mountain was defeated, Qibi Heli was also captured by Li Junxian and Xie Shufang, and the soldiers and horses led by Qibi Heli were also captured.The reason for this is that Yin Kaishan, Li Junxian, and Xie Shufang did not respect martial ethics. When they joined forces with Qibi Heli to attack Sanmi Mountain, they first asked Qibi Heli to lead his men into Sanmi Mountain, and then They followed Qibi Heli, blocked him into Sanmi Mountain, and stabbed Qibi Heli in the buttocks.

As a fierce general who grew up on the grasslands, Qibi Heli could do well in field battles in flat areas, but he couldn't do it after being blocked in the city and fighting defensive battles. His hands were tied everywhere, and he was easily defeated by Yin Kaishan and Li Jun Xian and Uncle Xie figured it out.

It is said that after Qibi Heli was captured, he almost died of anger on the spot. He scolded Yin Kaishan, Li Junxian, and Xie Shufang for three days, bluntly saying that the Tang people had violated their oaths, were villains, and would be punished by the Immortal God.

Yin Kaishan, Li Junxian, and Xie Shufang were naturally too frightened to say anything. Apart from serving Qibi Heli with delicious food and drinks, they didn't even dare to show their faces.

As for Li Shiji, they were really stable. They surrounded Gaochang City for more than two months without fighting, and successfully turned the siege into a blockade.

Neither Ashina Sheer nor Ashina Loyalist had any experience in defending the city. No one told them how to defend the city, let alone what was the most important thing in defending the city.

Therefore, when they decided to stick to Gaochang City, they did not prepare much food and grass, but only some cattle and sheep.

But after Li Shiji threw all the dead cattle and sheep they had thrown into Linchuan into the city, the cattle and sheep they prepared became infected with the plague and were completely inedible. They had to be slaughtered and buried.

Under such circumstances, they persisted until half a month later, when they could no longer hold on and began to break out.

How could Li Shiji be willing? He immediately ordered people to block all the exits of Gaochang City, and he also thoughtfully asked the army's baggage team and civilians to dig a trench three feet wide outside Gaochang City and build several urns.

Not only that, I heard that Li Shiji was also planning to build another city outside Gaochang City. To be precise, it was a city wall, which would be completely based on the state-controlled city wall of Zhongzhou in the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shiji also boasted that he was teaching the Turks how to build a city without charging tuition, so that the Turks would learn with their heart.

It is said that after Ashina Loyalist learned about this incident, he became so angry that he vomited blood.

Li Shiji also told him how to defend, but he didn't tell him what to prepare.

"These people under your command are really freaks!"

In King Yong's palace, Li Shentong, who had been in Lingzhou for more than a month, after roughly reading the battle report ahead, he stroked his beard and felt sincerely.

Li Yuanji put down the pen in his hand and said with a smile, "Why is it weird?"

Li Shentong pointed at Zhan and reported: "A villain, a villain who goes back on his word, a villain with evil heart and sinister intentions. What is he other than a freak?"

The villain in Li Shentong's words was Hou Junji, because Hou Junji became rampant when he succeeded, so rampant that he even dared to plunder such things as human skin drums and even sent them back.

More importantly, Li Shentong saw that the human skin drum was small and exquisite, and the drum surface was still white and soft. He loved it very much and slept in it for several nights.

It wasn't until I knew what the human skin drum was made that I threw away the human skin drum.

Therefore, Li Shentong felt resentful towards Hou Junji.

As for the villain Li Shentong talked about, he was talking about Yin Kaishan. Yin Kaishan first formed an alliance with Qibi Heli, and then stabbed Qibi Heli in the back, violating their common agreement.

Although he did this all for the Tang Dynasty, this did not prevent Li Shentong from evaluating him as a villain who went back on his word.

As for the sinister villain at the center of Li Shentong's mouth, he naturally refers to Li Shiji.

When Li Shiji served as a military adviser in Suni's Ministry of Defense, Ashina Zhongzhe and others offered him a lot of training to ask for advice. As a result, he taught half and hid the other half, as if he had expected that he would be able to fight against him. He is like a student, so he dug a lot of holes for his students.

So much so that after confronting him, these students of his easily stepped into his trap and were easily manipulated by him.

That's why Li Shentong said that Li Shiji had evil intentions and evil intentions.

"Soldiers are deceitful and use some unusual means. It is normal. It is not something that is difficult to describe."

Li Yuanji smiled and excused Hou Junji and the others.

Li Shentong curled his lips and said: "But the three of them are destined to follow you and leave their names in the history books. You hope that when future generations write history, they will say that all your subordinates are villains."

Li Yuanji chuckled and said: "I hope that in future generations there will be no people who write history, only people who live in daily life."

Li Shentong opened his mouth, unable to refute.

As a member of the Li clan, he can't say he hopes that future generations will have history, right?

In that case, Li Yuan would come over and beat him to death even though he was thousands of miles away.

After all, those who write the history of a dynasty are almost all officials of the next dynasty.

If he hopes that there will be people with history in future generations, wouldn't he be cursing the demise of the Tang Dynasty?
As a member of the Li clan, he cursed the Li clan for the country's subjugation. Isn't that a disease? !

"Ahem, I naturally hope that I will only have a living room in the future..."

Li Shentong coughed twice and began to change the topic, "But you should take care of this Hou Junji. If you don't ignore him anymore, he will be lawless."