Man Tanghong

Chapter 636 Hou Junji

"We already have enough food, why bother to provoke the Hongnong Yang family? That's Princess Qi's natal family, if Princess Qi asks, what should we say?"

While Yin Kaishan was terrified, he said anxiously.

Su Dingfang and Luo Shixin looked at each other, Su Dingfang said: "It seems that you don't know the details of this battle..."

Yin Kaishan was stunned for a while, and said a little confused: "What do you mean by that?"

Su Dingfang said bluntly: "Your Highness speculates that the Turkic people may have shot a feint in the Shizhou line this time, and then went down Xiaoguan and directly penetrated into my confidant of Tang Dynasty.

King Huai'an, King Hejian, Duke Yi and others all felt that His Highness's speculation was likely to happen.

So this time, my Datang will not only resist the Turks on the front line of Shizhou, but also set up defenses in Xiaoguan and other places.

Right now, the grain and grass we need for the front line of Shizhou has been raised, but there is still a huge gap in the grain and grass needed for Xiaoguan and other places, so His Highness hopes that we can extract some grain and grass from a few wealthy families in Hebei Road, or the Yang family Come, make up for the needs of Xiaoguan and other places.

Now that the wealthy families in Hebei Province say nothing, we can only exchange the family property of the Li family in Zhaozhou with the Yang family for some food.

We can't take those lands, shops, houses, and mine veins with us, and leaving them will only make it cheaper for a few wealthy families in Hebei Province, so it's better to exchange them with the Yang family for some food. "

Luo Shixin nodded at the side and said: "Yes, we are not taking it for nothing, we are exchanging with Yang, so you don't have to worry that Yang will turn against us, and you don't have to worry about the empress being held accountable."

Hearing this, Yin Kaishan finally let go of his hanging heart, and his expression eased a lot. He said cursingly: "Exchange is exchange, please make it clear, I thought you were going to force Yang to take Food is coming out."

Since it is an exchange, what is being fought is a matter of taking advantage of the disadvantages.

The imperial court is about to fight the Turkic people, and has no time to spend with the Yang family, so the imperial court will definitely suffer a bit, and use Zhaozhou Li's family property to exchange food with the Yang family as soon as possible.

The reason why Su Dingfang said that he wanted to force the Yang family to take out the food was nothing more than that he didn't want the Yang family to take advantage of the fire, and he didn't want to sell the Li family's property in Zhaozhou at a low price.

"If Mrs. Yang takes advantage of the fire to rob, we may not be able to do it."

After Su Dingfang and Luo Shixin looked at each other again, Su Dingfang expressed their attitude.

Yin Kaishan's eyelids twitched, and he said with a stiff expression: "If you can't do anything, it's best not to do it, or if there is a real fight, Yang's life will not be easy, and we will also get into trouble."

Su Dingfang looked at Yin Kaishan strangely and said, "This matter doesn't seem to have much to do with you, does it?"

Yin Kaishan was so stunned that he had nothing to say, and after a long time, he gritted his teeth and said: "This matter has nothing to do with me, I am talking too much, but the battle in Xiaoguan must have something to do with me.

Tell me, how did His Highness speculate that the Turkic people would feign a shot at the Shizhou line, and then go down Xiaoguan?
Also, we have so many soldiers and horses gathered on the front line of Shizhou, if the Turks really come down along Xiaoguan, can the remaining soldiers and horses in Beijing be able to stop the Turks from invading? "

Su Dingfang was stunned for a moment, but he didn't hide it. He told Li Yuanji's conjecture about his deployment in Xiaoguan and other places.

He doesn't need to talk to Yin Kaishan about Yang's affairs, because Yang's affairs have nothing to do with Yin Kaishan.

However, he had to make it clear to Yin Kaishan about the Turkic invasion, because it was a state matter, and he didn't need to hide it from Yin Kaishan if it didn't involve secrets, nor could he hide it from Yin Kaishan.

However, he didn't say anything about Li Jing leading people to attack the Turkic royal court.

It wasn't that he didn't want to tell Yin Kaishan, nor was he afraid that Yin Kaishan's speaking out would disrupt the court's plans, but that he didn't know.

After Su Dingfang roughly finished Li Yuanji's deployment in Xiaoguan and other places, Yin Kaishan frowned, "I'm afraid these deployments alone can't stop the Turkic invasion, right?"

In Yin Kaishan's view, Li Yuanji's deployment was not comprehensive. There were only some defensive and sneak attack deployments, and there was no deployment for a direct battle with the Turks.

Doing so has no other effect except to consume the Turkic troops.

Once the Turks broke through the obstacles, they came to Chang'an.

The people in Chang'an are in danger.

"That's all I know so far. I think His Highness should have other plans..."

Su Dingfang was not worried about Chang'an's safety, he had great confidence in Li Yuanji.

Yin Kaishan frowned and said: "I'm afraid His Royal Highness Qi Wang has no other plans..."

After saying this, Yin Kaishan looked at Su Dingfang and Luo Shixin and suggested: "Shall we discuss countermeasures together and give some advice to His Royal Highness King Qi?"

Yin Kaishan still understands the reason why there are no eggs in a full nest.

So Yin Kaishan resolutely abandoned all selfishness, and invited Su Dingfang and Luo Shixin to discuss countermeasures with him.

Su Dingfang and Luo Shixin didn't have any objections, so they nodded and agreed.

Although they have great confidence in Li Yuanji, they don't mind adding more effort to Li Yuanji.

Ever since, the "Ten Strategies for Preventing Turks" discussed by the three of them appeared on Li Yuanji's desk.

Li Yuanji smiled cheerfully after reading "Ten Strategies for Preventing Turks" written by three people.

"What made His Highness so happy?"

Before the case in Zhaode Palace, Liu Jun took a young eunuch to serve him. Seeing that Li Yuanji was smiling happily after reading the memorabilia handed over by Su Dingfang and others, he couldn't help but asked with a smile.

Li Yuanji put down the memorabilia of Su Dingfang and the three of them, and said with a smile: "Su Dingfang and Luo Shixin are in Zhaozhou, but they are still thinking about my safety. They have a heart..."

Too bad it didn't work.

Because Su Dingfang and Luo Shixin didn't even know about the surprise attack on the Turkic court.

They also didn't know that the deployment in Xiaoguan was aimed at slowing down the Turkic people's pace. As long as Li Jing took the Turkic royal court before the Turkic troops approached Chang'an, the Turkic people would have to retreat.

The Turks are different from the Tang Dynasty. They cannot achieve absolute centralization, nor can they achieve unity.

Turkic is a country formed by various tribes, and each tribe has its own interests.

When the interests of the tribe conflict with the interests of the country, the leaders of each tribe will put the interests of the tribe first.

Therefore, when the Turkic royal court was ambushed and the clansmen, cattle and sheep of several major tribes in the mainstream of the Turkic tribe were slaughtered and plundered, the tribal leaders would definitely have disagreements with Xieli.

Unless Xieli gave them everything they had gained in the Central Plains this time, they would definitely retreat.

If this kind of thing happened to Xieli's predecessors Chuluo and Shibi, Chuluo and Shibi would definitely divide everything up without hesitation.

But Jieli can't, Jieli is a miser.

Those who belong to Pixiu only eat but not pull.

Therefore, the leaders of the major Turkic tribes are destined to have conflicts with Xieli, and they are also destined to choose to retreat when the Turkic royal court is attacked.

Therefore, there is no need, as Su Dingfang and the other three said in the memorial, to recruit the bravery of the country, to set up defenses on the Weishui River, and to fight Xieli head-on.

However, the memorials of Su Dingfang and the others are not without merit.

For example, Su Dingfang proposed to arm the [-] civilian husbands who were building the mausoleum for Li Yuan, and let them stop the Turks in Yunyang, according to the danger of Yunmeng Mountain.

This is similar to Yu Zhining's idea of ​​conscripting prisoners and defending Yunyang with Shannan as a screen.

Shannan refers to the south of Yunmeng Mountain, and the two people are talking about the same place.

It's just that one recruited was a civilian husband who built Li Yuan's mausoleum, and the other recruited a prisoner.

The matter of recruiting civilian husbands to build Li Yuan's mausoleum is unthinkable, because in the eyes of the ancients, this is a big matter that cannot be bigger. Even if the sky falls, the matter of building Li Yuan's mausoleum cannot stop.

So there is only one option left: recruiting prisoners.

Recruiting prisoners was a common thing in ancient times. From the slavery society to the end of the feudal dynasty, all dynasties and dynasties recruited prisoners when they needed people.

In history, some people even made great military exploits by using prisoners.

It is known as Yan Ran Le Stone in history.

Being as famous as Huo Qubing's Feng Lang Ju Xu is one of the highest honors of a warrior.

Who would have thought that this was a scoundrel who was hanging out in Beijing, leading a group of prisoners to beat him up.

This person is Dou Xian, a general of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

With such an example before, people in later generations will be even more impolite in recruiting prisoners.

However, Li Yuanji was not very in favor of recruiting prisoners, because the troubled times had just ended, and there were everyone in the prisoners, and no one knew what they would do when they went to the battlefield.

After all, most of the good people among the prisoners were dispatched to the border to guard the border, and the rest were some heinous guys, and those who had just been arrested and had not had time to be distributed.

No one knows whether these guys will turn against each other after they go to the battlefield.

What's more, Dou Xian led the prisoners to make great military exploits. It was fighting in the Western Regions, far away from the center of the great Han. If something went wrong, Dou Xian could quickly deal with it, and the news would not spread to Chang'an, let alone Spread to Chang'an.

It's different now. Prisoners are now going to fight in the hinterland of Datang. If something goes wrong with them, if they turn against each other, the damage to Datang will be very great, and it will also affect Chang'an.

Therefore, whether it is Su Dingfang or Yu Zhining, the methods they came up with are all good methods, but the people they choose are not good or suitable.

"Liu Jun, call Hou Junji to see him."

As one of Li Shimin's confidants, he didn't see anyone during the coup in the palace. Later, Li Yuanji sent someone to investigate and found out that Hou Junji was sent to Luoyang by Li Shimin during the coup in the palace, planning to control the capital. Soldiers and horses from all over the country led their troops to attack Chang'an after Li Shimin's defeat, and responded to Li Shimin's retreat.

As a result, as soon as he left Chang'an City, he contracted a serious disease, and then he was raised in the house for two full months.

(End of this chapter)