Man Tanghong

Chapter 968 The most difficult era to become a famous general
Zhao Chengyong didn't reply, just stood there holding the flagpole and laughing a few times.

He knew very well that if he refuted Li Shimin's words, he would get no favors, so he simply didn't reply.

Li Shimin punched the cotton, and the gas in his stomach was not smooth, causing trouble for Li Yuanji, "You don't care?"

Li Yuanji smiled indifferently: "Why should I care? Isn't it necessary to support early and late? Anyway, they are idle now, so it's okay to set up the flag in advance."

Li Shimin said indignantly: "They are holding up the flag in advance, they are showing off!"

Li Yuanji glanced at Li Shimin meaningfully and said: "You don't think they are showing off, but you think you can't show off?"

Li Shimin was completely angry, and his eyes widened as if he wanted to eat people.

Li Yuanji pursed his lips and laughed amusedly.

After being in contact with Li Shimin for a long time, I found that Li Shimin also has a cute side.

This hero who has become an emperor through the ages cares about his face very much.

When he can't be admired by others, and can't be distinguished in front of others, he doesn't like to see others being admired by others, and he can't see others being distinguished in front of others.

This has something to do with his origin, and it has something to do with his long-standing admiration and being prominent in front of people from time to time.

It's like a person who has been respected and admired for many years is suddenly not respected and admired by others.

That kind of gap is not something everyone can accept calmly.

At least, 99 out of [-] people cannot accept it.

So it is reasonable for him to dislike these things now.

"Your Highness, the scouts have already checked. Li Shuai and the others have already arrived at Baiyangping, and they will be there in fifteen miles."

After Zhao Chengyong led Yong Wang Wei to prop up the Yong Wang banner for an hour, Hou Junji personally rushed to the central army's tent to report.

Li Yuanji nodded his head and said: "You can send someone to talk about this kind of thing, there is no need to come in person."

This is not a big deal, and there is no need for a prince to spread the word.

The only things that can regard a prince as a messenger are those that are directly related to the throne and national policy.

Hearing this, Hou Junji bowed his head humbly and said, "Vice Marshal Li meant to take the generals in the army five miles away to meet him, so I took the initiative to invite Ying to pass on the message."

Li Yuanji suddenly realized that it was Li Shiji who had other intentions. No wonder Hou Junji came to deliver the message in person.

This is where the middleman comes.

On one side is the deputy commander of the army, and on the other is the Prince Jian Guo of the Tang Dynasty. In a conversation of this level, not everyone can act as an intermediary, nor can anyone help to spread the word.

After all, most of the conversations at this level are about major events that can affect the country and the livelihood of tens of millions of people.

If the qualifications of the intermediary and the messenger are not enough, it is estimated that they will not even be able to meet the person.

More importantly, if the intermediary and the messenger don't know how to keep it secret, it will easily affect the content of the conversation, as well as the community and people's livelihood.

For example, if this conversation was not about welcoming Li Jing, but about the subsequent conquest of Suni's lost tribe, if it was leaked, it would most likely change the Tang Dynasty's campaign against Suni's lost tribe direction, and results.

Therefore, in important conversations, the identity of the intermediary and the messenger must be adequate, and it must be a person with a tight mouth.

However, what we are talking about this time is the matter of welcoming Li Jing, which is not an important matter. If Hou Junji hadn't taken the initiative to invite Ying Ying, there is no need to use a prince like him.

"Li Shiji sent you here to ask me?"

Li Yuanji stared at Hou Junji with questions.

Hou Junji nodded his head and said, "Deputy Marshal Li means to see whether you go out with everyone or stay in the Chinese army camp."

If they go out together, then people must stay in the camp of the Chinese Army to guard them.

This is one thing that cannot be ignored.

The importance of the Chinese army camp is much higher than that of Li Jing.

Unless Li Jing simplifies the Chinese army camp into a large camp that can be moved with him at will, otherwise there must be someone guarding the Chinese army camp. People guard.

If you don't go with them, you don't need to keep someone to guard them.

After all, a Prince Jianguo and a former prince guarding the camp of the Chinese army are of a higher standard than when Li Jing was there, so there is no need to make other arrangements at all.

Li Yuanji thought for a while and said, "I'd better go with you."

Anyway, Li Jing also made a great contribution this time, not only defeated the Turkic backbone in one fell swoop, but also completely opened up the situation of the Tang Dynasty's conquest of the Turkic, and achieved the greatest results at the smallest cost.

No matter what you say, you have to go to meet him in person.

After all, if Li Jing hadn't made such a great contribution this time, but made it clear that the chariots and horses were confronting Jieli head-on, then Datang would not have started the conquest of the Turks so quickly, nor would he have injured less than [-] soldiers. The price is to occupy Turkic, to be precise, most of the territory of Turkic ruled by Xieli.

Datang had to injure at least several times the number of soldiers in order to achieve the current situation and obtain the current results.

Therefore, it is right to greet Li Jing with extremely high courtesy.

"You didn't go with Chen, you went with Deputy Marshal Li and the others."

After Hou Junji got a definite answer, he said with a smile.

Li Yuanji was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "So, you are the left-behind personnel specially selected by Li Shiji?"

Hou Junji laughed at himself with a bright smile: "Deputy Marshal Li pulls out generals among the dwarfs, and he pulls out the ministers."

Li Yuanji laughed and said: "You are not a general who was pulled out of some dwarfs, but you are the best of my Tang generals."

Leaving aside Hou Junji's achievements in history, let's take Hou Junji's current achievements as an example. He can be regarded as the best among the generals of the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, only after the Xuanwu Gate coup.

If everything before the Xuanwu Gate coup is counted, then Hou Junji's achievements are still not ranked high.

After all, Datang now has a large group of Yuanmou heroes, Conglong heroes, and country destroyers.

There is also no lack of very dazzling figures in the clan who followed the melee.

But Hou Junji's achievements are not enough for these people.

He has to establish at least another merit of destroying the country, or the merit of Conglong, in order to compete with these people.

However, in the Tang Dynasty, if he did not establish some achievements in destroying the country, he seemed ashamed to be called a general.

After all, those who can be called great generals and famous generals in the Tang Dynasty have all contributed to destroying the country. Among the younger generations, there are still many famous figures in history waiting to line up.

There are also those like Wang Xuance and Liu Rengui who jumped in line halfway.

Therefore, in the Tang Dynasty, it is still somewhat difficult to establish some achievements in destroying the country, become a general, and become a famous general.

After all, you may struggle for most of your life, but it is not worth an accident.

For example, Wang Xuance's achievement of destroying the country was an accident.

They were just doing their duty to escort the tribute to the Tang Dynasty. They didn't think about making contributions or destroying the country. After the success of the rebellion, Alonashun of Zhongtianzhu was a little bit drifting. He saw the value of being escorted. The expensive tribute passed by Zhongtianzhu, so it was robbed.

Who knows that people did not take the usual path. After the tribute was robbed, they neither ran back to Datang to cry, nor complained to Zhongtianzhu, but went to Tubo and Niboluo to borrow more than 8000 soldiers and horses, and just came back. After snatching back the tribute, he also wiped out Alona Shun, and packed it back to Chang'an.

Li Shimin, who was already in his later years at that time, was stunned.

So Wang Xuance didn't really want to establish the merits of destroying the country, he just simply wanted to complete his own job, and it was Alona who went smoothly, and insisted on looking for stimulation from others, and then he was really stimulated.

If Alona was given another chance, he would not only not plunder the tribute escorted by Wang Xuance, he might add more tributes to him, and then send a large army to send Wang Xuance and his party out of the country with delicious gifts.

So in Datang, it is quite difficult to become a general and a famous general.

You never know what that civil servant, or that diplomat, will do after taking off the official robes of the civil servant, the official uniform of the diplomat, and putting on the armor.

Maybe with a little action from someone, you can achieve the achievement you have been pursuing all your life.

Just like Li Guang in the Western Han Dynasty, he pursued to be a marquis immediately for the rest of his life, but he didn't get a marquis at the end of his life. The contemporary Huo Qubing only made a small move, and the marquis was easily captured.

Opportunities in life are like this, full of accidents, variables and excitement.

Although Hou Junji's achievements cannot be compared with Yuanmou, Conglong, Mieguo and other heroes, and the road to becoming a general and famous general is also full of ups and downs, he is still very happy to hear that he is called the best among generals. He was happy, and said with a bright smile: "Your Highness has praised you..."

Li Shimin couldn't understand Hou Junji's success as a villain, and sneered aloud with disdain: "You are the best general among the generals?!"

Also match? !
Although Li Shimin didn't say these two words, the meaning was already obvious.

The smile on Hou Junji's face froze all of a sudden, but he didn't refute, but stepped aside with a sneer.

It's not that he didn't want to refute, nor that he didn't have the guts to refute.

But he is not qualified to refute, nor is it easy to refute.

Because in front of Li Shimin, few generals can claim to be outstanding, and he was originally Li Shimin's subordinate, but now he betrayed Li Shimin, so he couldn't breathe in front of Li Shimin, so he could only pretend that he didn't hear Li Shimin's words.

Naturally, Li Yuanji couldn't just watch Li Shimin bullying him, so he immediately asked, "Is it him or you?"

Li Shimin's chest hurts a bit from being bullied, it's not that he doesn't have the ability to become a leader among generals, but that he has never been a general.

(End of this chapter)