The Tang Dynasty started from saving Empress Changsun

Now that Xiao Sizi has officially started to study, Chen Jingke can no longer go to her casually like before, and has to calculate the time every time.

The main reason is to choose the time when she finishes class at noon or is on vacation.

This time it was a coincidence that it was almost noon after talking to Li Shimin, so I turned a corner and stopped by to see her.

When he arrived at the Lizheng Hall, he happened to see the waiter delivering the food, so he smiled and said, "Hey, that's why it's better to be late than to be late, and there's food to eat."

Changsun Wugou guessed that he should have met Li Shimin just now, but she didn't ask any more questions at the moment when people were talking too much, she just smiled and said:
"I'm worried that eating alone will not taste good. It's just in time for you to come, come and sit down and have dinner with me."

Chen Jingke sat down on the opposite side honestly and bluntly, and then said to Sun Fucai: "Please run over and get the little one here."

Sun Fucai looked at his eldest grandson Wugou, saw her nodding before smiling and said: "Look at what the real person said, it is my blessing to work for you. Just wait, I will go to the third lady right away."

As he said that, he went to the direction of the school to find someone.

The eldest grandson Wugou pretended to be displeased and said: "I knew you boy didn't come to see me, hey, I love you so much for nothing."

Chen Jingke apologized and said with a smile: "Looking at what you said, you are my mother in my heart. You see any son who talks about his father and mother every day, he is in his heart."

The eldest grandson Wugou was overjoyed when he was told, and said with a smile: "You, you have such a talent in your mouth, you just can speak."

Chen Jingke spread his hands and said, "Then it can't be that there are no advantages at all."

At this time, the waiter had already arranged the meals, including four dishes, one soup and a pot of rice.It was enough for three people, so I didn't ask for more food.

For ordinary people, this meal is very rich, but for dignitaries and even the royal family, it is very frugal.

The lids used to keep the food warm were not opened, because they had to wait for the little sizi to come and eat together.

The eldest grandson Wugou said to the waiter: "You all go back first, and come to clean up after eating."

"Here." The waiters filed out.

Not everyone has gone out, but the ones who can stay are all the confidantes of the eldest grandson Wugou, so there is no need to carry many things behind their backs.

"You just came over from the saint?"

"Ah."

"But what did you find?"

Chen Jingke recounted Huiqing's story, including his plan to take revenge by Li Shimin.

Changsun Wugou didn't have any other thoughts, instead he took it for granted and said, "Is that right? If you need anything, come to me and the saint. Don't worry, this hater will definitely avenge you."

Chen Jingke said gratefully: "Aunt Xie, I knew you loved me the most, so I entered the palace as soon as I found out Huiqing's identity."

The eldest grandson Wugou said angrily: "These monks are becoming more and more lawless, not only harboring rebels, but also dare to assassinate the emperor's relatives, it will be impossible to punish them."

Instead, Chen Jingke persuaded: "It's enough to beat them painfully, and the price of banning Buddha is too high. As long as the 'Buddha is the Tao' can be successfully completed this time, they will not be able to make any waves in the future."

The eldest grandson Wugou said kindly: "You are still sensible and considerate of others in everything. Don't worry, this time you will definitely take the opportunity to complete the plan of Buddha is the way, eliminate all hidden dangers, and prepare for the subsequent enfeoffment."

Then she asked with concern: "You just met the saint, how is his health? Did you eat meals on time?"

Chen Jingke's expression became a little serious, and he said: "The saint's condition is quite bad, his eye circles are dark and his spirit is a little lackluster. If things go on like this, I'm afraid he won't be able to bear it physically, so you can try to persuade him if you have time."

The eldest grandson Wugou said worriedly: "How can I not persuade, but the court is in troubled times, even if he wants to rest, he can't do it."

What is going on in the court now?
Let's talk about the outside first.

The first thing is to expand the frontiers of the Western Regions. After the destruction of the Eastern Turks, the Western Turks are still there. The capture of Gaochang by the Tang Dynasty means that they will face the Western Turks head-on.

The Western Turks have operated in the Western Regions for hundreds of years, and absorbed the remnants of the Eastern Turks, so they are very powerful.Although they have internal conflicts, Datang is also on an expedition with teachers, so they must be extremely careful.

Datang's strategy is to plan slowly, first set up farmland in Gaochang, and then make the next step after gaining a firm foothold.

Therefore, Datang established the Anxi Protectorate at the beginning of this year, with the headquarters in Gaochang, and Guo Xiaoke, Duke of Yangdi County, as the first Anxi Protector.

The second thing is Tubo.After Chen Jingke's reminder, Li Shimin finally realized the danger of Tubo and the importance of Tuyuhun.

A cavalry force of 5000 was sent to Tuyuhun, on the one hand to deter Tubo, and on the other hand, to hope that these people could adapt to the plateau climate so that they could directly enter Gaoyuan to fight against Tubo in the future.

At the same time, [-] Han households were relocated to settle in Tuyuhun, hoping that their next generation would grow up and be able to continuously provide combat power for the Tang Dynasty.

The third thing is to deal with the increasingly powerful Xue Yantuo and prevent him from becoming the second East Turkic.

The fourth thing is to expand the frontier in the southwest. The strength of the Southwestern Yi is not as strong as that of the barbarians in the north, but they have a geographical advantage. It is easy for the court to defeat them, but it is difficult to wipe them out.

So the method used is deterrence by force, and then domestication with culture, which is what Taoism does in the southwest.

But if you want to assimilate the opponent through soft power, you need to invest more energy. Almost every day, there is intelligence from the southwest that needs to be processed.

Then it's the turn of the interior.

The first is to treat yellow.Before, Chen Jingke put forward a proposal to repair the Yellow River. After field investigation, numerous hidden dangers were discovered. Maybe one day this irritable mother river will get out of control.

In the end, the ruling and opposition parties unanimously decided to prevent the unburned and carry out a large-scale river repair operation.Restoring the Yellow River to its appearance after the governance of Wang Jing in the Eastern Han Dynasty will ensure that the world will not suffer from the Yellow River in the next few hundred years.

Such a large-scale operation requires a huge amount of manpower and material resources, and requires higher organizational capabilities, and a little carelessness will lead to disaster.

Although the imperial court has money and food, it is still trembling and has invested a lot of management costs.

However, the pros and cons of many things are relative. For example, the drought in the first half of the year did not know how many people were affected.

However, this is a good thing for the management of the Yellow River, and it is more convenient to repair it in drought and drought.In addition, the imperial court took this opportunity to transfer hundreds of thousands of people to work for relief, speeding up the construction of the river.

But still the same sentence, with so many civilian husbands, a little careless management will lead to disasters, and the ruling and opposition parties are all concerned.

Every day, dozens of memorials and information about the governance of the Yellow River are placed on Li Shimin's desk, even so, he still has to ask about this matter several times a day.

The second thing is the immigration development of the two lakes and two guangzhou areas, which is for the future of Datang.Fortunately, there is no rush for this matter, the cycle is at least three to fifty years, and it can be carried out slowly.

The third thing is the turn of reform and innovation, so I won’t say much about it.The academic and political system, the imperial examination system, enfeoffment, etc., all things are intricate.

The fourth thing is to deal with the gentry. In fact, the current conflict between the court and the gentry stems more from Li Shimin's desire for revenge.

After a series of blows, the tiger skin of the gentry has been pierced, and it is entirely possible to use a more gentle method to slowly dismantle them.

However, the gentry were too arrogant before, and Li Shimin was not less angry.Now that he has finally stepped on the other party, he must take revenge severely.

Of course, it's not all about revenge.The main consideration is that the gentry have a long heritage, and they are afraid that their centipedes will die but not stiff.

When the successors of the younger generations fail to live up to expectations in the future, they will be revived again.

So his plan is to destroy the main line of the gentry, split up the branches and dismember them, completely cutting off the possibility of the resurgence of the gentry.

But this makes things more complicated, and there are more things to do.

The fifth thing is also very important, that is to unify thinking.

Enfeoffment belongs to geographical separation, but to maintain ideological convergence, unified thinking becomes very important at this time.

The concept of "Chinese civilization" that Chen Jingke had been advocating before was naturally accepted by everyone.

The only resistance to 'referring everything to China' is Buddhism, and this foreign pagan religion is a thing of Tianzhu from the root.If there are a few Buddhist fanatics in the future, it will be troublesome.

For the imperial court, it is natural that they do not want to see this situation, and the princes and kings also do not want to see this situation.
The reason is very simple, the surrounding princes all believe in Chinese civilization, if one's descendants suddenly set up a Buddhist country and claim to be from Tianzhu, then there is no need to think about the consequences.

And it's not appropriate to be a descendant of China, why should you be a damn Tianzhu?Shame on you?

Therefore, the unification of thinking is actually a direction that everyone agrees with. Chen Jingke really did not deceive Falin on this point.

The only difference is that the princes and kings have different opinions on how to achieve ideological unification.

For example, some people think that it is enough to use Confucianism and Taoism to interpret the meaning of Buddhist scriptures, and there is no need to make Laozi Huahu.

After all, Buddhism has been passed down in China for so many years, and I haven't seen any Buddhists claiming to be Tianzhu people.

It's just that Li Shimin has the overall initiative. If he wants to turn Lao Tzu into a Hu, other nobles dare not object even if they have opinions.

But correspondingly, many nobles will remain silent on this matter, and he has much less power to draw on, and he has to spend more energy on his own.

The sixth thing is that the construction of the army, especially the navy, is urgent.

Datang must establish a sufficiently strong navy in a short period of time to deal with overseas enemies and upcoming vassal states.

Coupled with other large and small domestic government affairs, it can be said that Datang is a horse-drawn carriage running at full speed.

Li Shimin was the one driving the car, he didn't dare to slack off, otherwise all his plans would be ruined, and the car would be destroyed.

It's not impossible, for example, you can slow down the speed and drive slowly.

But Li Shimin, who already knew how vast the outside world was, didn't want to wait for a moment. He couldn't wait to build this carriage and become the real master of the world.

Another way is to find an assistant for him to help him watch the ditches and bumps on the road, and help him deal with some things, so that he can concentrate on driving the car without worrying about other things.

But imperial power is unique and the most selfish, and no one else can get involved.

No one dared to suggest to Li Shimin that Prince Li Chengqian should come out to do things.The eldest grandson Wugou dared to mention it, but in her capacity, she absolutely couldn't mention it.

But there are always exceptions.

Chen Jingke said to his elder grandson Wugou: "I suggested to His Majesty today that Dalang should come out to help him with some government affairs. He seems to be moved. I think there will be a result in a few days."

The eldest grandson Wugou said in surprise: "Really? Jing Ke, you are really the messenger sent by God to help me, and you have done me a big favor again."

Chen Jingke grinned and said, "Then you are also the patron saint sent by God to protect me."

Then he said seriously: "There are some things that I can't say clearly. Although the saint is very big and broad-minded, he is more sensitive to certain things because of his own experience."

"So I hope you can supervise and persuade Dalang not to touch those sensitive things, and not to turn good things into bad things."

Changsun Wugou naturally understood what he meant, and said solemnly: "Don't worry, I will keep an eye on Chengqian and never let him get involved in the military power, and the crown prince's guard rate will be cut to the minimum for him."

Chen Jingke didn't say anything more, he believed that Changsun Wugou would be able to handle this well.

Back then when Li Shimin led troops to fight outside, she relied on her to maintain the relationship with Li Yuan and many brothers and sisters at home, and even maintain the relationship network of the Qin Palace.

After Li Shimin became the emperor, she also acted as a lubricant between the monarch and his ministers.When Li Shimin was angry, she was in charge of comforting him, and when the minister committed a taboo, she had to defend it according to the situation.

That scheming is definitely at the level of an old fox. Although Li Chengqian is very smart, he probably can't even make a splash in her hands.

While talking, Xiao Sizi came into the room lightly, and narrowed his eyes when he saw Chen Jingke's big eyes, and said in a soft voice: "Brother."

Chen Jingke was also happy to see his teeth but not his eyes, and said: "Hey, come and sit down, little si, let's eat."

"Yeah." Xiao Si came to him and sat down obediently.

The eldest grandson Wugou who was completely ignored was not angry either, she was used to it a long time ago, and she really couldn't afford to be that angry.

The waiter next to him took the initiative to take the lid off the dishes, and the food was still steaming.

Chen Jingke first picked up a chopstick dish for his eldest grandson Wugou, and said, "You eat, Auntie."

The eldest grandson Wugou said gratifiedly: "You still have a bit of conscience, it's okay, you two eat your own, and leave me alone."

Only then did Chen Jingke sit down again, and then deliberately moved his stool to Xiaosi's side, so that the two of them were almost shoulder to shoulder.

Xiao Si's face blushed immediately, but she didn't move away, instead she took the initiative to lean against Chen Jingke.

In the past, she would be shy and deliberately keep her distance in front of others. Since the last incident of begging for rain, she has broken through her psychological defense, and she no longer shy away from being intimate with Chen Jingke in front of others.

On the contrary, it was Chen Jingke, although he seemed not serious on the surface, in fact he kept the distance between the two within a safe range.

This is also the main reason why Changsun Wugou and Li Shimin did not object to their intimacy.

This meal ends when the two of you feed me one bite, and I feed you one bite, and the little scorpion is eaten to make the belly round.

Chen Jingke chatted with her for a while about Tianxiaoshi, and seeing that it was almost time, he sent her to the school, then left the palace and returned to Zixiao Temple.