Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 369 The Post-war Reward

Compared with Li Chengqian's wailing, Li Shimin's side was somewhat enlightened by Wang Xuance's use of Xuefu soldiers and the Qiang people around Qinghai to kill Tubo.

But what can be done, Du Chuke not only sent all kinds of Tubo flags, but even the envoys of Tubo asking for surrender, all he wanted was to ask Tang for peace.

The Tubo envoy said to Li Shimin: "The small country of Tubo has offended Tang Tianwei, and is willing to pay compensation to become a vassal. It will be in the southwest of Yongzheng, and Wangtian Khan will see that the two countries are from the same Chinese lineage. Please also ask Tang to stop fighting and restore peace to the people of the two countries."

Whether Tubo came from the Chinese lineage is not important, what is important is to admit this, then Li Tang has a reason to stop.

As for the rule of law, anyway, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is not a rare place in the Tang Dynasty, at least it was definitely not rare during Li Shimin's rule.

Therefore, how to calm down this war is the most important thing.

"The end of the war between the two countries is what my Tang Dynasty wanted. Now that Tubo has realized the mistake, I asked Tubo Zanpu to send his son to the Tang Dynasty to receive enlightenment. From then on, Tubo and Datang have been in harmony and friendship for generations. Coexist!"

"Thank God Khan for your kindness, and thank you Tang Emperor for your kindness!" The Tubo envoy expressed his gratitude to Li Shimin, and then left the hall.

Li Shimin didn't care when the Tubo envoy left, because the conditions filled by the two parties had already been negotiated, and now they just came to meet and leave the process.

For Datang, the most important thing is to let Tubo admit that he is a branch of China and surrender to Datang.

As for Tubo, what they want is to survive, not continue to fight Datang.

As the Tubo envoy left, Li Shimin called Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Wei Zheng, and Li Jing.

Yes, even Li Jing was dragged out of his home this time, and had to attend this meeting.

"Tubo lost 30 soldiers in this battle, plus the compensation of 20 taels of gold, and the Tubo prince entered Chang'an as a hostage. I think the Southwest should be safe for [-] years!" Fang Xuanling said calmly.

But to be honest, even Fang Xuanling didn't expect that Tubo would suddenly appear in the southwest and recruit 50 people to attack the Tang Dynasty.

"Didn't we talk about the strategically important land in Dongnvguo?" Li Jing asked.

As a general, he doesn't know much about internal affairs, but he has a very clear view of the important land in Dongnu Kingdom.

"This piece of land is the only way for Tubo to resist our Tang Dynasty. Basically, it is impossible to negotiate!"

Fang Xuanling shook his head. Basically, this kind of confidential place can only be sealed, but it cannot be discussed.

It’s like Yanmenguan in the north, Shanhaiguan Pass, or key cities such as Xiangyang and Hefei in some southern regimes. I have never heard of any regime that cut these places out when it had to. Calculate.

When Li Jing heard this, he couldn't help but feel sorry.

But Li Jing also knew that it was impossible for Datang to send his teachers and expeditions to conquer Tubo.

Still the same sentence, Tubo is a small country on the border, and it is not beneficial for the Tang Dynasty to conquer it. It is okay to fight back like the current self-defense counterattack, but if you want to go all the way to destroy Tubo, you can only say that the current Tang Dynasty and Tubo really have no such enmity. .

Of course, if Li Shimin knew the love and hatred between Tubo and Datang in the future, he would definitely... fight Goguryeo first.

"At least this time, Tubo is definitely hurting. Before the next generation comes out, the Southwest will be safe for 20 years!" Du Ruhui made a decision.

To tell the truth, it has basically been 20 years, at least Zhenguan once did not care about Tubo.

"Compared to Tubo, it's a trivial matter. The question now is how to reward the meritorious officials this time!"

Li Shimin pressed his head, he knew that Qingque had always had a good eye, just like himself.

But I never thought that Qingque's vision would be so good!
Wang Xuance killed 30 Tubo soldiers with only [-] to [-] Xuefu soldiers plus those supported by Du Chuke, as well as the Qiang people around Qinghai.

If it wasn't for Wang Xuance being trained by Qing Que, I'm afraid I would have to train Wang Xuance as the second Li Jing.

But is it possible? !If you do this by yourself, what is the difference from announcing the abolition of the crown prince? What a headache!

"Du Chuke has made great contributions in accumulating supplies and transporting grain and grass, but he can be promoted to a higher level. I suggest dispatching to Luoyang to be the Luoyang order!" Du Ruhui was the first to stand up and speak. As for the attention of everyone, Du Ruhui said that he had thick skin and didn't care.

Regardless of whether Du Chuke wanted to follow Li Tai wholeheartedly, it was undeniable that Du Ruhui could not let his brother continue to lead him in the Hehuang Valley.

Since there is a chance to call him out, let's call him out.

From Xiazhou Biejia dispatch to Luoyang order, no matter what, they are all promoted to a higher level. Some people may ridicule other guys with no background, but who can say no to Jingzhao Du's background!
Li Shimin glanced at Du Ruhui, but didn't say much.

After all, Du Chuke's dispatch had been decided a long time ago, otherwise Li Tai wouldn't have licked his face as the king of Wei and also held the order of Luoyang.

But thinking about the road being built in Henan Province, it needs a decisive guy to assist Li Tai, so that Li Tai can be freed smoothly, so it is almost inevitable for Du Chuke to be the Luoyang order.

"Yes!" Li Shimin said in a deep voice, "Where are the remaining Xue Rengui and Wang Xuance!"

These two people need headaches, compared to Du Chuke, it's really nothing.

To be honest, at the beginning, everyone only thought that Wang Xuance was raising horses for Li Tai, but who knew that he suddenly had such ability.

"Xihai County is Xihai Prefecture, and Wang Xuance is named the governor of Xihai Prefecture." Fang Xuanling pressed his brows and said,
"Wang Xuance is good at dealing with foreign races, has the ability to govern states and counties, and now has the meritorious service in expelling Tubo. Putting him in Xihai Prefecture is enough to shock Qinghai, so he is placed like a British prince."

To be honest, Fang Xuanling could tell that Li Shimin didn't really want Wang Xuance back.

Because once he came back, Li Shimin would never be able to refrigerate such a meritorious official. Was that to suppress King Wei?
Presumably, Li Shimin didn't have the same idea, so he should use Wang Xuance again, even if it wasn't to encourage Li Tai to plan for the reserve position.

So, let's continue to leave Wang Xuance in the border area and continue to raise horses!
"British Duke... Li Ji, Li Maogong." Hearing this, Li Shimin realized that he was speaking of Li Ji.

Since Li Ji became the governor of Bingzhou, he has actually handled civil affairs while governing the military.

Basically, the generals in these frontiers are both economic and political, and they all have both internal affairs and military responsibilities.

At least there were no Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. Before Wufu became the country, although the military and government were separated in name, in fact it was only around the center.

Generally speaking, the generals in the border areas have both military and political functions, and they generally do not rely on the court for supplies.

It's just that this kind of military and political situation basically appeared in the Tang Dynasty.

After the later dynasties experienced the division of civil and military rule, there was basically no military consolidation except for special periods.

"Hmm! That's not bad!" Li Shimin nodded. This kind of incident of directly raising the level of a region in order to reward a person is not unheard of.

It's just that Qinghai didn't have the basis of Chinese rule at the beginning, but after Wang Xuance's operation over the years, the area east of Qinghai is basically under the control of Datang, and it is not too much to promote it to a state.

The big deal is to draw the area of ​​Xihai County a little bigger, and places like Wuhai and Jishi Mountain are all assigned to Xihai.

It's just that generally speaking, Datang is divided according to the population. Is it such a large area? In fact, Xihai Prefecture is still a Xiazhou, because there are less than [-] households who come to pay taxes.

"Then how should Xue Rengui and his academy army be arranged?" Li Shimin said in a deep voice.

Fang Xuanling looked at Du Ruhui, Du Ruhui looked at Li Jing, Li Jing originally wanted to look at Wei Zheng, but found that everyone was looking at him.

Li Jing said helplessly, "Xuefu soldiers are different from other government soldiers. Although they are named Fubing, they are strictly recruited by King Wei privately. Saints must not forget that when Xuefu soldiers were dragged over to serve as government soldiers, The king of Wei made an agreement with the saint, and after three years, those recruits will be discharged from the army and become free again, and the king of Wei is afraid that he is still waiting to use them!"

"I made this promise with Qingque!" Li Shimin unconsciously looked at the ceiling when he heard Li Jing's words.

"Because after the crusade against Tuyuhun, the king of Wei advocated the development of the Hehuang Valley and needed soldiers to be stationed in Qinghai, but it was too far away for other government soldiers to be recruited to serve, and the miasma environment in Qinghai was not suitable for the government soldiers to station for a short time.

So the saint agreed to let the soldiers from the agricultural college be stationed in Qinghai, and they can retire after three years of service.

And almost three years have passed since this year, and the first batch of soldiers should be discharged after this year! "

Li Jing looked at Li Shimin as if he didn't really want to recognize him, so he couldn't help but said, "Of course, maybe I'm confused!"

Li Shimin watched Li Jing explain the matter clearly, but wanted to get rid of the relationship, and suddenly felt that Li Jing was still annoying!

At the beginning, I wanted to throw the people from the agricultural college directly to join the army, but then Li Tai came up with medical practitioners, and an organization like the Agricultural Society that can communicate directly with the grassroots.

So I felt that there were not enough people, so I waited for the academy soldiers to fill in the grassroots after the three-year term expired.

As a result, now looking at the battle report, 4000 of them killed 30 Tubo troops, and Li Shimin was a little bit reluctant to abandon them with such a fighting force.

This is a veteran of hundreds of battles who has participated in the great battle, it is different from those veterans who have just come through with qualifications!

"Don't pretend to be stupid!" Li Shimin gave Li Jing a relatively detailed battle report and said,
"With 30 versus 20, I only lost less than [-] people. With such an army, do you think I'm willing to let them retire?!"

Li Shimin felt that he was crazy, so he let the soldiers of this army retire. He was afraid that his Xuanjiawei would not be able to suffer such battle damage!

"No!" Li Jing looked at Li Shimin's battle report, looked up at Li Shimin and said,

"Wei Wang's school soldiers were brought out by Wei Wang. The talent of the war department is weapon mastery. Later, it was handed over to Xue Rengui to be stationed in Qinghai, and it was changed to be able to adapt to various negative environments.

If they kill the double talents, they will be able to kill the army officials of Tubo.

But it is only a talent war department, relying on weapon mastery to exert the full power of its own weapons, but the battle damage is too low. "

Hearing this, Li Shimin couldn't help looking at Fang Xuanling. Fang Xuanling coughed a few times and said:
"Actually, they are still wearing 160-jin armor!"

"How much?!" Hearing Fang Xuanling's words, Li Jing was a bit unresponsive.

I thought in my heart that what Fang Xuanling said just now was sixty catties, it must be sixty catties!

Is there so much steel in the entire 160-jin Tang Dynasty? ?

"Yes!" Li Shimin nodded and said, "160 catties of armor per person!"

"Crack!" Li Jing dropped the note in his hand, even a little sluggish.

What is the concept of 160 jin of iron Li Jing is not very clear, but 160 jin of armor, this is a weight that Li Jing dare not even think about!

"This armor, this armor..." Li Jing seemed to want to say who made this armor.

But there is no need to ask, it must be King Wei, and it is impossible for others to create such extravagant equipment.

Li Jing couldn't help lowering his voice, and said, "This armor, has it been reported?!"

"Reported!" Fang Xuanling couldn't help but cry,
"But what King Wei said at the time was that this thing used heavy armor for training adaptive talents, and it weighed 160 catties.

When I saw the reported memorial, I thought it was Shi Jia, so I approved the order for him.

But who knows that he can actually make a 160-jin iron armor, no, even a steel armor! "

"Hmm..." Even Li Shimin was very melancholy.

Because of this incident, I also saw it through Li Tai's diary.

In order to exercise the comprehensive combat power of the adaptive army, try to increase the weight to exercise the adaptive soldiers.

Then Li Tai clearly wrote 160 catties of armor in the diary.

Li Shimin has fought in wars, and he knows the steel output of the entire Tang Dynasty clearly.

Under such circumstances, Li Shimin certainly thought that the training armor Li Tai mentioned was wooden armor, and a little more was stone armor.

How could normal people think about such things as iron armor or even steel armor!
"..." Li Jing somewhat understood why he, a retired old man, was dragged over to this meeting.

Li Jing raised his head and looked into Li Shimin's eyes, it was obvious that his eyes were full of words that I want it too!

If you think about it, there is no soldier who can refuse an elite with a body of steel.

It's fine if you change the emperor, but for Li Shimin, such a talented soldier who is full of steel and strength, has gone through battlefield experiments, and can push 5000 people horizontally with 30 people, how is it possible? Do not want.

Although the Tang Dynasty was under the Fubing system, and the generals only kept their own soldiers and did not have their own parts, but generally the top troops would not be disbanded directly. For example, Li Shimin's Xuanjia Army was not disbanded.

"A self-adaptive talented minister can change it, but a steel minister can't help it!"

Li Jing looked helplessly at this adaptive talent, and felt that in his own impression, this talent was only used to fight miasma.

Even if in theory, self-adaptation can adapt to the extent of being hurt, it is impossible for someone to adapt to that extent.

After going to the battlefield, if you get stabbed in the heart or cut off your head, you will definitely die. No matter how strong you are, you can adapt yourself to death!
It's just, why did this talent become so perverted after being handled by the king of Wei? With the help of Shang Mo Dao, it's just killing people indiscriminately!
"Hey, it seems that Qingque is still going to be called back!" Li Shimin couldn't help pressing his temple.

(End of this chapter)