Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 317 Changes in the Central Plains
Great victory in Hexi!

When this news reached Li Yan's ears, he had already checked the battle situation in Hexi through the system.

Regarding the collapse of the [-] Tubo army, Li Yan had already expected it.

It's just that when the news of Shang Qi Xin'er's death came from Hexi, Li Yan was really surprised.

Shang Qixin'er is the host of Tubo, the top aristocrat in Tubo, and her status is comparable to the prime minister of Tang Dynasty.

Such a person died in such a muddle-headed manner that he didn't even know who killed Shang Qixin'er.

In addition to lamenting the impermanence of the world, Li Yan also lamented that swords have no eyes.

The torrent of history is vast, and although it is said that the general trend of history cannot be stopped, there are still many accidental factors in the numerous historical trends.

And the death of Shang Qi Xin'er is naturally a great thing for Li Yan.

According to Qin Chuan, who was attacking the Tubo East Road, Shang Qixin was dead, and the entire Tubo East Road would be in chaos for a long time.

Maybe it will really allow him to capture Tianzhu City.

However, Qin Chuan can only be regarded as an idler, and Li Yan didn't have much expectation on whether he could conquer Tubo East Road.

In other words, Li Yan didn't have much expectation for this result.

The Tubo East Road has been disabled, and this is the biggest result of this Hexi battle.

First pacify the Uyghur, then destroy Tubo, after two big battles, finally gave Longyou a relatively stable external environment.

But Li Yan's pressure had only just begun. With the end of the Battle of Hexi, the forces of Longyou finally came out of the Great Wall.

From the moment he occupied Wuwei City, Li Yan was finally involved in the torrent of war in the Central Plains.

Since the mid-Tang Dynasty, the most serious problem in Datang has never been border troubles.

Tubo and Uyghur could be regarded as terrifying enemies in any period of the Central Plains Dynasty.

But for the Tang Dynasty, these border troubles have always been maintained only in the border areas.

Datang's confidant problem has never been a side problem.

Occupying Hexi, Li Yan finally had the tentacles to cross his arms.

According to the judgment of Cui Tao and other players in Shangbo before, the Tang court will no longer be as unresponsive as last time.

Tubo East was defeated in Hexi, and the news would eventually reach Fengxiang Mansion.

Li Yan also began to wonder how his father would face this shocking news.

But Li Yan didn't know how devastated the current Tang court was.

After the Qingqu defeat, Datang lost the elite of Shuofang and Longyou.

These elites are Datang's most loyal frontier troops, and they are also the strongest trump cards in the hands of the emperor.

The impact of this loss on Datang is not a simple defeat.

Guo Ziyi stayed in Wugong to reorganize the army, and recruited soldiers on the spot while recruiting troops. However, the land of Gyeonggi has been ravaged countless times by the flames of war, so there is no suitable source of soldiers.

In addition to the shortage of soldiers, the loss of Nanyang also caused the imperial court to lose its iron workshop. This important industrial town where the official iron officials have been located since the Han Dynasty made it impossible for the Tang army to replenish its weapons and equipment.

The previous corruption of the horse administration also caused the insufficient number of cavalry.

Guo Ziyi wanted to re-establish the Shuofang cavalry, but he couldn't get together a thousand horses.

The imperial court's punishment of Guo Ziyi was personally brought to martial arts by Li Mi, the secretary supervisor.

After reading the imperial decree, Li Mi pulled Guo Ziyi up and said, "Guo Shuai, the court is in crisis, and His Majesty will still rely on you to put down the rebellion. Don't be discouraged."

Li Mi looked at the gray-haired Guo Ziyi, a famous general who had been working for the Tang Dynasty all his life, but he was actually 60 years old.

In this era, 60 years old is quite a long life, and Guo Ziyi is still worrying about Datang.

Li Mi couldn't help feeling sad, if Guo Ziyi really went, who would be able to shoulder Datang's great cause of countering the rebellion?

Li Siye?Or Pugu Wynn?
Li Siye was still younger, and had never been as prestigious as Guo Ziyi. Moreover, Li Siye liked to lead the way, so he was fine as a general, but he was not capable enough to lead an army.

Pugu Huai'en was also an outstanding general in countering the rebellion, and now he is also a vanguard general under Guo Ziyi's command.

But Pugu Huai'en is a foreigner. Since the Anlushan Rebellion, although the Tang Dynasty has not deprived the military power of foreign generals, it has obviously strengthened its control over these generals.

Li Mi helped Guo Ziyi get up, the two were old acquaintances, how high-spirited were the two when they helped the emperor ascend the throne in Lingwu.

At this time, the two of them are so powerless.

Guo Ziyi sighed, but did not ask about the internal dynamics of the court, but asked Li Mi:
"Bi Gong, how is Sui Yang?"

Suiyang is now Shangqiu, Henan.

Before the Battle of Qingqu, An Qingxu ordered his general Yin Ziqi to attack Suiyang in order to open up the passage for the rebels to return to their old nest, Hedong.

And Suiyang is not only stuck in the connection between the rebels in the two capitals and the old Chaodong, but also an important channel for the Tang Dynasty to connect with the Jianghuai River.

The Grand Canal in Suiyang City was dug during the period of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. Together with the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, it is called the Jianghuai Gateway.

In this era when large-scale transportation needs to be shipped by ship, Suiyang is the channel for Jianghuai to transfuse blood to Fengxiang Mansion.

The fifth Qi established a salt courtyard in Jianghuai, and collected rents from Qingzhang land in Jiangnan.

Relying on Jianghuai's blood transfusion, Datang was able to support the huge expenses of countering the rebellion.

The reason why Tang Jun's previous defeats were able to recover quickly was due to the continuous blood supply from Jianghuai.

But once Suiyang's blood transfusion channel is cut off, the court of Fengxiang Mansion will immediately fall into financial crisis.

When the time comes, the recruited soldiers will have no money or food, so they will go to Fengxiang Mansion to "violently ask for salary".

Guo Ziyi is a famous general in the world, so he naturally knows the importance of Suiyang. It can be said that Suiyang's gains and losses are the key to whether the imperial court can recover the two capitals.

Li Mi said: "Zhang Xun and Zhang Jiedu are defending Suiyang to the death. The rebels have failed to capture the city after several attacks. They can hold on for a while."

Guo Ziyi sighed, if the Battle of Qingqu could capture the two capitals, they would not be in such a passive situation.

It's a pity that the matter has passed, and both of them wisely did not talk about the process of the battle of Qingqu.

Li Mi and Guo Ziyi's positions are similar, they both put counter-insurgency as the top priority and maintain the stability of the court.

This stability does not mean that they support the prince, but for the purpose of stabilizing the court and not letting the turmoil in the court affect the suppression of the rebellion.

It's just that this judgment has gradually changed in the hearts of the two of them.

Li Mi wants to insist on the stability of the court, but as the number of people in the Tang court increases, although the two capitals have not been recovered, the dramas in the past have returned to the court.

Li Mi, who was devoted to cultivating Taoism, felt extremely tired after seeing all kinds of chaos in the court hall of Fengxiang Mansion.

Although he still wants to maintain the stability of the court, he is now only a secretary supervisor who is far away from the center of the court, and it is not his turn for the emperor and the cabinet to participate in the Yanying Hall.

The emperor didn't trust and rely on him as much as he did in the Lingwu period, so Li Mi was really powerless.

And Guo Ziyi's mentality also changed after the Battle of Qingqu.

Although the imperial court has determined that the battle of Qingqu was caused by Guo Ziyi's ambush by An Qingxu and his eagerness to regain Xijing.

But anyone with a discerning eye in the imperial court knew that Guo Ziyi was the one who took the blame for Qingqu's defeat.

Otherwise, the emperor's punishment would not be so high and lightly directed. He just removed Guo Ziyi's false title of "Pingzhang Military and State Important Affairs", demoted him to Shangshu Zuopushe, and still let him lead the army to suppress the rebellion .

And another subtle order was to order the crown prince, Li Chu, the commander-in-chief of the world's soldiers and horses, to return to Fengxiang mansion, and let him urge the Uighur prince Yehu to send troops as soon as possible to assist the Tang Dynasty in attacking the two capitals.

After this battle, Guo Ziyi's doubts about the crown prince's ability also shook his previous determination to "stabilize the court".

Things are different, and neither of them mentioned the matter of stabilizing the court.

Old friends meet, but they are speechless.

Li Bi had no choice but to break the silence with another topic.

"After Yan Xiantai took office, he was really upright. He bluntly impeached several ministers. Now the atmosphere in Fengxiang Mansion is much better."

Yan Xiantai is Yan Zhenqing, and now he is appointed by the emperor as the doctor of censors, in charge of censors.

Yushitai is responsible for the pickets and officials, and the Yushi doctor is also called Xiantai, which is one of the most important positions in the imperial court.

Yan Zhenqing was upright by nature, and he was not afraid of offending the powerful. After he took office as Yushi doctor, he impeached many important court officials and cleared away the bad atmosphere in Fengxiang Mansion.

Guo Ziyi just nodded, obviously this is not a topic he is interested in.

Li Mi went on to say: "Guo Pushe should have heard about another major event in Fengxiang Mansion. The old Uighur Khan died, and the new Khan sent envoys to Fengxiang Mansion to ask for the princess of the Tang Dynasty, and was assassinated in Yuanzhou. .”

Guo Ziyi also has cronies in Fengxiang Mansion, so such a sensational event can't be hidden from him.

Guo Ziyi nodded and said: "I heard that King Jianning's reward envoy happened to be at the post house, and he rescued the Uighur envoys."

Li Mi said: "That's exactly the case. Counting the days, the envoys of King Jianning and the Uighur mission should have arrived at Fengxiang Mansion."

Guo Ziyi frowned and said, "How did the court discuss it? When I was in Lingzhou, Gele Khan had great ambitions and crossed the Tianshan Mountains many times to invade Lingzhou."

"The new Mou Yu Khan has always been hostile to Datang, and even hooked up with the false Yan in Hedong. Is the court really planning to marry the princess?"

When Guo Ziyi served as the Jiedu envoy of Lingzhou, his main job was to guard against the Uighurs, so he was very familiar with the Uighurs, and he was the expert who knew the Uighurs best in the court.

Li Mi said with a wry smile: "This matter is embarrassing here. Now the situation in Longyou is unclear, and there are different opinions in the court, and there are all kinds of opinions."

"The Great Victory at Jinshan should be real, right? Otherwise, where did King Jianning get so many livestock?"

Guo Ziyi also said hesitantly.

Since King Jianning went out of the fortress, the imperial court has basically lost control of Longyou, and even has no reliable information.

King Jianning reported that he defeated Gele Khan at the foot of Jinshan Mountain, and he was so angry that the old Uighur Khan died.

But the Uyghur side said that Gele Khan died by himself, without mentioning that he suffered a big defeat.

This matter is like a cloud of fog, and it is impossible to distinguish between true and false.

Guo Ziyi naturally hoped that the student King Jianning could defeat the Uighurs and repel their ambitions for Longyou.

But he didn't believe that King Jianning could really defeat the Uighur army with the army of Longyou.

The situation in the court was treacherous, and Li Daoyuan and his party arrived at Fengxiang Mansion just like this.

(End of this chapter)