Man Tanghong

Xue Shou is worthy of being a famous official who can leave his name in history and was praised by Li Shimin.

Whether it is a herdsman or a strategist, there are two brushes.

A place that can be said to have no cock crowing for ten miles and no human habitation for twenty miles, in just two and a half years, he managed it into a place with 100 households and provided Datang with [-] million shi of grain. Grain State.

At present, all the grain and grass used in the Su Dingfang army are provided by him. In addition, he also led the people in the state to rush to produce 3 leather armors, [-] cloth armors, and [-] cloth armors for the Su Dingfang army. Multiple clothes.

Although a lot of slaves were consumed in the process of growing grain and making leather armor, cloth armor, and yuan clothes, the slaves were not the people of the Tang Dynasty, so it didn't matter how much they were wasted.

At this time, no one talks about humanitarianism. Anyone who talks about it will be regarded as a fool by everyone.

Xue Ting heard this, so he stopped hiding it, and said with a strange expression: "I am afraid that Liang Palace is not as good as His Royal Highness imagined..."

It is said that Wen Xian knows the meaning of elegance, and Li Yuanji understood the deep meaning of Xue Shou's words in an instant, "You mean that the Liang Palace has been ruined by disasters?"

Xue Shou nodded honestly and said: "Except for the main hall, the other side halls and pavilions are almost being bulldozed."

Li Yuanji questioned, "Who did it?"

Master Liang was hacked by Liang Luoren in his sleep, so he had no chance to destroy the palace of Prince Liang.

Liang Luoren wanted to submit a certificate to Datang Na and hand over a complete Shuofang City to Datang, so it was even more impossible for him to destroy the palace in Prince Liang's palace.

Su Dingfang entered Shuofang City in a peaceful way. After entering the city, he did not send troops to loot. He just led people to take over all the troops and goods in Shuofang City from Liang Luoren, so it is impossible for him to destroy the palace of King Liang. the palace, then who destroyed the palace?

Xue Shou smiled wryly and said: "It was destroyed by a group of rebels and a group of rebels. After Liang Shidu was killed, the rebels were organized by a merchant from Shuofang City and broke into the Liang Palace to loot.

When our army entered the city, the rebels broke into Liang Wang's palace without the knowledge of Governor Liang.

Although these two forces did not escape Shuofang City in the end, they were both suppressed by Governor Liang and Su Shuai, and the property they looted was also snatched back by us, but many palaces in King Liang Palace were destroyed by them. Looks good. "

Li Yuanji opened his mouth after hearing Xue Shou's speech, not knowing what to say.

Let the rioters and rebels be damned, it has been like this in all dynasties.

From the Qin Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, when dynasties were changing, and when the capital was captured, some people took advantage of the opportunity to fish in troubled waters and wantonly amass money for themselves.

So what the rioters and rebels in Shuofang City did was the norm, not a special case.

There was nothing to be angry about, no great crime to write about, and even a little bit of sadness.

After all, when the family and the country were in decline, the emperors and dignitaries supported by them not only could not protect them well, but might also abandon them or betray them for their own survival.

With no hope in sight, it is understandable for them to violently loot property and gain some capital to survive after the fall of their home country.

But say that the rioters and rebels shouldn’t die. They did do something wrong again. I’m afraid many innocent people were endangered during the riot. Forgiving them is the greatest injustice to those innocent people.

So it's not quite accurate to say they're completely wrong, and it's not quite accurate to say they're extenuating.

Given the occupations of Liang Luoren and Su Dingfang, when this incident happened during the process of handing over Shuofang City, it is believed that those rioters and rebels may have already been buried.

Now it is meaningless to care about who is right and who is wrong, whether it is justifiable or not.

Li Yuanji said with some disinterestedness: "As long as the main hall is not destroyed, we will have a banquet in the main hall tonight."

Xue Shou nodded and said nothing more.

Li Yuanji got up, and under the leadership of Niu Xiu and Xue Shou, he patrolled around the Yamen of the General Manager's Mansion, and after visiting the wounded soldiers, the banquet at Wang Xuance's side was ready.

Li Yuanji led everyone into Liangwang Palace, the palace of the late Liang State, stepping on the afterglow of dusk.

As Xue Shou said, everything in King Liang’s Palace has been destroyed to the point of disrepair, but the main hall was built with huge stones and huge wood, so it has not been destroyed much, and the preservation is still relatively complete.

Wang Xuance probably sent someone to tidy it up temporarily, so it doesn't look so dilapidated, but it's not luxurious, and it can't be compared with the Sui Palace in Luoyang City.

Li Yuanji led people into the palace, ate all night, and the demons danced wildly all night. After dealing with the dust-cleaning banquet, he stayed in the Liang Palace.

There are two ear halls in the main hall, just enough for him and Li Shimin to rest.

Two days later, Su Dingfang came back from Baiyang City, and rushed to the Liang Palace to meet him without cleaning up.

Li Yuanji ordered Chu Suiliang to bring the person into the main hall, and ordered Zhao Chengyong to prepare some food and wine, and invited Su Dingfang to sit down and talk while eating.

room.

Su Dingfang said with a face full of shame: "Your Highness is here, and it is my fault for not being able to greet you in person."

Li Yuanji looked at Su Dingfang carefully, and found that Su Dingfang was dark and thin, with several frostbite around his ears, and said with a joking smile, "I don't know who you Su Dingfang are? Don't pretend to be a gentleman here. "

Su Dingfang laughed when he heard this, "It's better to talk to His Highness happily, talk to Li Jing, Xue Shou and others, if you don't speak to them in an official tone, they will think you are a mud leg."

Well, Li Jing is not someone who likes to play bureaucracy, but he doesn't have a deep friendship with Su Dingfang, and when dealing with him, he will definitely act according to the official style.

Xue Shou is not a person who likes to play bureaucratic accents, but he is a former celebrity in Prince Qin's Mansion, but now he meets a celebrity in Prince Yong's Mansion.

In the past, his energy was greater than Su Dingfang's, so Su Dingfang had to look up at him, but now Su Dingfang's energy was greater than his, so he had to look up at Su Dingfang.

This kind of huge gap was formed in the past two or three years. He didn't want to lose his face to make friends with Su Dingfang, and he didn't want to be said to be a person who likes to make money. He could only get along with Su Dingfang in an official way.

So it's not that Li Jing and Xue Shou like playing bureaucratic, but they have to play bureaucratic with Su Dingfang.

If they get to know each other well, there is no estrangement, they cultivate friendship, and even form a family with their children, then they will definitely not use bureaucratic talk anymore, but will get along like good friends.

"You're tired..."

After seeing that Su Dingfang also had chilblains on his hands, Li Yuanji expressed his heartfelt emotion.

It is indeed a bit frustrating for people to brave the wind and snow to conquer Suni's lost tribe in the cold weather.

It is also appropriate to say a few words of thoughtfulness.

Hearing this, Su Dingfang followed Li Yuanji's eyes to look at his own hand, then grinned and said, "It's just a little frostbite, it's nothing, Your Highness don't need to worry about it.

Thinking about the time when I was fighting with His Highness in Mingzhou, it was also a big winter, with heavy snow, I almost died under His Highness's lance, isn't it good now? "

As he said that, Su Dingfang raised the frostbite on his hand nonchalantly and said with a smile: "Compared to that time, this little injury is nothing!"

Li Yuanji nodded with a smile, and sighed: "In a blink of an eye, we all began to think about the past..."

Looking back on the battle of Mingzhou that year, it seems like it happened yesterday, and the time has really passed too fast.

Li Yuanji looked at Su Dingfang and said with emotion: "Back when I heard your name in Mingzhou and saw you fighting hard to protect Gao Yaxian regardless of your own safety on the battlefield, I knew you were the one I wanted. I just told myself that I must put you in the account and let you be the general in front of my account.

Facts have proved that I succeeded. Not only did I take you into my account, but I also gained a rare talent as a general. "

The atmosphere was so heightened that Li Yuanji had no choice but to say a few words with three parts true and seven parts false, otherwise Su Dingfang's sentence of "remembering the past" would not be for nothing.

Su Dingfang said humbly: "Your Highness is joking, I'm not even a little bit worse than Li Jing and Li Shiji, and even worse than Li Erlang-jun, what kind of general is he?"

After saying this, Su Dingfang said happily again: "But as far as I know, when you know the name of the minister, you have already given birth to the idea of ​​​​taking the minister under your command."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Li Yuanji laughed out loud.

Su Dingfang will know this, he is not surprised at all.

After all, when he learned where Su Dingfang was and the number of soldiers and horses Su Dingfang was leading, he didn't hide his desire to recruit Su Dingfang at all, and went to Su Dingfang without hesitation.

At that time, Xie Shufang was with him. After Xie Shufang told Su Dingfang the whole process, with Su Dingfang's wisdom, it was not difficult to guess this.

"That's because I knew exactly who you are and how capable you are before I set off on the expedition, so before I set off on the expedition, I missed you."

Li Yuanji laughed and said.

These words are not mixed with any water, they are all true.

But Su Dingfang will never understand the full meaning of these words.

However, Su Dingfang didn't need to understand.

Hearing this, Su Dingfang also laughed loudly, "In this way, the minister was not unjustly defeated in the battle of Mingzhou. After all, you knew the minister clearly before you went to the battle, and you still missed the minister, and the minister did not know until the battle After being captured by you, I didn't understand you clearly, let alone why I was defeated so quickly."

The Art of War says: If you know yourself and the enemy, you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles.

A person who knows his enemy clearly before he goes out to fight, then he will definitely gain the upper hand after facing his enemy.

And Li Yuanji had already started to get to know Su Dingfang before he crossed over, and Su Dingfang really deserved his defeat.

After all, no matter how capable Su Dingfang is, he still can't win the fight.