A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 537

Changan.

Emperor Li Shimin looked at the memorial of Wang Gui, the governor of Tongzhou, and couldn't help shaking his head, "Wang Gui wrote a letter requesting to repair the Great Wall of Northern Xinjiang, and conscript the people to build castles to strengthen the border defense. He hasn't been away from the center for a long time, but is he already so dull? ?”

"Turkic natural disasters and man-made disasters continue. Instead of accumulating virtue and doing good deeds because of this, Jieli became more tyrannical and fratricide. His death is not far away. We want to clear the desert, and use the labor of the people to repair the barriers?"

As he said that, the emperor turned and pointed to the screen behind him. Those who block the frontier for me are not castles and fortresses, but these generals and governors. Those who support the people for me are only the governors and governors. I will write their names on the screen. When they go up, sit and lie down, they watch carefully, and when they learn that they have good and evil deeds during their tenure, they are all written in their names in case they are deposed. "

Sitting in the hall are all the important ministers of today's prime ministers.

Closer to the throne, you can clearly see the names and notes on the screen.

The screen is very large, and on it is actually a map of the territory of the Tang Dynasty. On the location of Youzhou in the northeast, the name of Wu Huaiyu, the governor of Youzhou, is written.

The emperor pointed to the words Youzhou and Wu Huaiyu, "Youzhou is located on the northeast border. Since the Sui Dynasty, it has been especially turbulent. Luo Yi has been independent for many years. Before that, Li Yuan's rebellion and Wang Junkuo's rebellion happened. The power is also deeply rooted,

But since Wu Huaiyu became the governor of Youzhou, it wasn't long, but she sorted out the inside and outside,

A Wu Huaiyu is better than the [-]-mile Great Wall in Yanshan! "

The emperor seemed to be very satisfied with Wu Huaiyu. Under his name, there were a lot of small characters in small letters, all of which were his achievements after he took office in Youzhou, such as measuring the fields, including checking the population, clearing the tax arrears, and opening the farmland. In the border market, another example is to appease the border people behind the mountains, annihilate the Sogdian Hu who stole the land and separatist regime, and even directly claim the land from King Xi, return troops to patrol outside the fortress, and persuade Tuli and Jieli to attack...

Moreover, when Wu Huaiyu took office, he not only increased his tax revenue, but also made a lot of money by selling Sogdian captives, livestock and property. Only the three thousand Sogdian families and their property brought hundreds of thousands of income to the court.

Such a frontier fortress governor is really the perfect frontier official in Li Shimin's heart.

The new year is about to come, this year Wu Huaiyu is still staying in Youzhou to guard, and only sent Chief Shi Wei Xiaojie to Beijing Chaoji, this is how dedicated his duty is.

Under Wu Huaiyu's governance, not only Fan Yang and Lu's and other prominent families were respectful and obedient to the imperial court, but even the people behind the mountains in the past, and even the Tibetans in the territory, are now obedient.

But there are always people in the court who want to impeach Wu Huaiyu. Today they impeach Wu Huaiyu for oppressing the gentry, tomorrow they impeach Wu Huaiyu for provoking quarrels, and the day after tomorrow they say that Wu Huaiyu killed innocent people indiscriminately. Some people say that Wu Huaiyu slept with Princess Huainan and kidnapped Tuli Kehe Dun , This is very rude, and it is said that he abused his privileges, conscripted Hebei scholars and gave too many officials, suspected of accepting bribes, etc.

These people were buzzing like flies, and even if he ignored it, it was still annoying.

In fact, although Wu Huaiyu had many privileges, everything he did was under the supervision of the emperor.

"If the 24 frontier governors are as loyal and dedicated as Wu Huaiyu, then why do I have to worry?" The emperor said with such emotion, the prime ministers knew that Wu Huaiyu probably had another reward.

really,

The emperor went on to say, "Youzhou was the chief governor's mansion at the beginning of the founding of the country, and later changed the chief governor's mansion to the governor's mansion. still needs to be strengthened.”

"From now on, the central governor's mansion of Youzhou will be promoted to the upper governor's mansion, and the governor Youyi, Moying, Cangtan, Jiping, and Yan Shizhou will be camped out,"

The two prefectures of Yan and Shen, which were originally attached to Mohe, were abolished into Youzhou, and Yanzhou in the north was changed to Yanzhou.

"Wu Huaiyu made great contributions in guarding and governing Youzhou. He added two hundred households with real seals, and a total of nine hundred households before Tongqian."

Shangdudu is the former Great Dudu, but Zhenguan is now called Shangdudu, and usually only called Dudu, as the second rank. Originally, there were only Jing Yangyi and four Shangdudu mansions, and now Youzhou has been restored as Shangdudu, becoming the first Five upper capitals.

The governor is generally led by the prince.

But now among the five major governors, three are quite special. One is Li Ji, the governor of Bingzhou.

There is also the warrior Xun, the governor of Jingzhou, who was transferred from the governor of Liangzhou, who was the number one governor in the central governor's office, to the governor of Jingzhou. Now Wu Huaiyu has been promoted to the governor of Youzhou.

Of the five governors, three are surnamed Li and two are surnamed Wu.

Wu Huaiyu sealed and sealed up to [-] households, which is in the same rank as Li Ji, the surname of the country.

This was originally ranked No. 18 among the meritorious officials, but Luo Yi from [-] households was punished for rebellion, Wang Junkuo from [-] households was punished for rebellion, and Pei Ji from [-] households was convicted and cut off his food. Yap,
This makes Wu Huaiyu now ranked No.15 on the list of meritorious officials, with Li Ji and Liu Hongji in the same rank.

In front are 12 households, [-] households, and [-] households with [-] people.

However, Yu Chigong of one thousand three and Liu Shili of one thousand actually took away Shiyi temporarily. Although these two are Li Shimin's confidantes, this kind of seizure of food is also temporary, but to be serious, Wu Huaiyu should temporarily take away food now. It's ranked thirteenth.

If Du Ruhui, who died of illness, is included, then his ranking can go up even further.

This momentum is indeed strong.

Not being a prime minister, but going out to be a governor, is still unmatched.

At the beginning of 48, he was a meritorious official, but now five of them have been expelled, two more have been convicted of seizing food, and several have died of illness. It is Wu Huaiyu, who was not on the list of official seals, but now he is coming from behind, and has been awarded several times. , has reached thirteen.

It's really amazing to be a general and a prime minister, and to be the son of the emperor's family.

At this time, the prime ministers Hou Junji and Zhang Liang who were sitting in the hall were very envious. Hou Junji sealed a thousand households, but it has not changed. Wu Huaiyu will catch up with him soon, and Zhang Liang is just like Li Jing from the beginning. Only [-] households were confiscated. Although they were only the Duke of the county at the beginning, they are now also conferred as the Duke of the State to worship the prime minister, but the real seal of Shiyi has been left far behind by Wu Huaiyu.

The third year of Zhenguan is about to usher, Li Shimin is very happy now, because after more than two years of depression, it is finally time to meet the real chapter with Turkic.

"At this time, Tuli should have been defeated by Jieli."

The emperor looked in the direction of Monan, and Li Shimin was looking forward to his Kundi's defeat of Jieli, so that Tuli would have to attach himself to the Tang Dynasty, and Jieli would lose an arm before the war.

Zhang Anan, the internal servant, came in.

"Saints, Zhang Shigui, the guard of Suzhou, and Zhang Baoxiang, the guard of Ganzhou, sent people to report to Chang'an that there was a civil strife in the West Turks, and Tong Yehu Khan was killed by his uncle, the little Khan Mohedu.
Mohe Duo established himself as the Khan of Mohe Duo Hou Quli Tupi, but he originally only ruled the five Lu tribes in the left wing. Khan, Nishu refused to take his place, and has welcomed the son of Tongyehu Khan, Li Teqin, and embraced him as Yibipaluo Siyehu Khan,
Si Yehu and Mo Heduo were in charge of the western Turkic hatchback, attacking each other and fighting endlessly. Now they sent envoys to come to the Tang Dynasty to propose marriage to the imperial court. "

Li Shimin was a little surprised when he heard the news.

Originally, he was wholeheartedly waiting for the result of the battle between the Eastern Turkic Khan Jieli and the little Khan Tuli's nephew, but unexpectedly, he was waiting for the news of the internal strife between the Western Turkic uncle and nephew thousands of miles away.

In fact, the Tang court had already anticipated that something would happen to the Western Turks.

Before Tong Yehu succeeded his elder brother Shekui Khan as Great Khan, he was still very wise and brave, and conquered a large territory, but this man was very arrogant, arrogant, domineering, and treated Tie Le All kinds of suppression, even the Turks with different surnames, caused Ge Luolu and other tribes to betray one after another, and Xue Yantuo moved tens of thousands of tents eastward.

It was only natural for Mo He to rebel against his nephew.

In fact, Shekui Khan, the elder brother of Yehu Khan, took the position of great Khan from his nephew, Luo Khan.

During the reign of Emperor Kaihuang, Apo Great Khan Daluo was captured alive by East Turkic Yehu Khan, and Western Turkic Lida Khan's grandson Nili succeeded him. Nili's wife was from the Central Plains and gave birth to a son Daman. After Nili died, Daman succeeded to the throne as Luo Khan.

But this place Luo Khan ruled the country without justice, and his subjects were often rebellious. When he was in power, he often attacked the Tiele tribes. He once trapped and killed hundreds of Tiele chiefs, forcing the Tiele tribes to rebel and even establish a khanate.

Later, Yang Guang wanted to weaken the Western Turks, so he followed Pei Ju's strategy. During his western tour, he lured Chuluo's uncle to shoot Kui and sent troops to attack Chuluo Khan. Chuluo was defeated and fled to Gaochang. Go to persuade his son Chu Luo to join the court.

In the end, Chu Luo had no choice but to lead his troops inside. Yang Guang divided Chu Luo's troops into three parts, and asked his younger brother Que Du to lead more than ten thousand old and weak people to live in Huining, and let Teqin Ashina Danai lead more than ten thousand people to move to Hedong. Lou Fan, then made Chuluo the Khan of Hosana, led five hundred horses to follow the emperor on a tour, and later bestowed a marriage on Princess Xinyi to Chuluo as his wife.

In the land of Western Turks, his uncle She Kui was canonized as Great Khan.

Although this She Kui was supported by the Sui Dynasty, he became a profuse khan, but he was indeed very capable. He expanded the territory, stretching from Jinshan in the east, to the Aral Sea in the west, and all the countries west of Yumenguan belonged to him. After Wude died in the second year , Tong Yehu succeeded to the throne.

The basic national policy of unifying Yehu is to be friendly with the Tang Dynasty in the east, unite with the Tang Dynasty to resist the sudden outbreak, and then go all out to manage westward. Bin, to dominate the Western Regions, the kings of the Western Regions have to accept the title of Jielifa granted by him, and even have to accept the Tutun supervision he sent to various countries to collect taxes.

It can be said that under the leadership of the brothers She Kui and Tong Yehu, the Western Turks really got rid of the control of the Turkic Khan and became an independent Western Turkic Khanate.

He proposed marriage to Datang several times, but it was a pity that he was blocked by the Turks in the early years. After Li Shimin succeeded to the throne, he no longer looked down on the Western Turks and was unwilling to marry them. He deliberately set up marriage conditions that they could not meet.

Li Shimin stroked his beard.

As far as Datang is concerned, he is temporarily unable to look around, as long as he guards the Yumen Pass.

The civil strife in the Western Turks was actually not a bad thing for Datang, so they had no spare energy to look eastward, and Datang did not have to worry about the western border, and could only concentrate on dealing with the Eastern Turks.

"Decree to Zhang Shigui, let him convey to the envoys of the two Khans of the Western Turks, saying that your country is in chaos, the monarch and ministers are not settled, and the war will not stop. How can we talk about marriage? Order them to guard the territory under their jurisdiction and stop conquest of each other."

Khan Moheduo and Khan Siyehu, one old and one young, were in the same division, let them fight, and Datang dismissed them with a nonchalant word, and didn't want to get involved at all.

"saint."

Zhang Ananda left and returned.

"What else?"

"Wu Huaiyu in Youzhou sent an urgent report. Tuli's soldiers and Jieli fought at the 99 Springs in Beiyuan, a military center in Saibei. Tuli's troops were defeated and captured. Jieli took advantage of the victory to advance eastward and violated the border of Northern Yanzhou. Wu Huaiyu has led his troops out of the Great Wall. Let's fight at Fox Ridge in the Wilderness of Huaihe!"

Yehuling, outside the Great Wall of North Yanzhou, used to be the Gate of Infinity during the Warring States Period. Zhao Xiangzi, the founding monarch of Zhao State, also built a military fortress called the Gate of Infinity in Daibei.

Yehuling is a natural barrier connecting Mobei to the north, the Western Regions to the west, and the Central Plains to the south.

Huaihuang Town, one of the six towns in the Northern Wei Dynasty, is located in Zhangbei near Yehuling.

Wu Huaiyu planned to keep the enemy out of the country and fight outside the Great Wall. He used the dangerous mountainous terrain of Yehuling to limit the combat effectiveness of Xieli's Turkic cavalry.
Even leaning against the Great Wall and fortresses, you can advance, attack, retreat, or defend.

Li Shimin looked at the plan and nodded slightly. Wu Huaiyu is very courageous, but the plan is indeed feasible, but it is hard to say whether the soldiers from Youzhou can defeat the Jieli army. After all, Tuli is also quite strong. But he was defeated in one blow and became a prisoner.

Now Jieli is taking advantage of the new victory,
"Your Majesty, Wu Huaiyu is too conceited to underestimate the enemy. He should shrink his troops, retreat to the dangerous points, and wait for the imperial court to send troops for reinforcements. Now he rushes into battle. If he loses, the whole Youyun will open up, and even the whole of Hebei will be corrupted," Hou Jun said. Seeing that the emperor frowned, he immediately attacked Wu Huaiyu.

Li Shimin was silent,
Li Jing, Minister of the Ministry of War, immediately said, "Your Majesty, I think there is nothing wrong with Wu Huaiyu's plan. Although Jieli won a new victory, it was cold and freezing. He fought against Tuli first, and then pursued eastward. Wu Huaiyu's troops left the Great Wall and leaned against the Great Wall. , according to the danger of Yehuling, take the initiative, can attack and defend,

If, as Hou Junji said, as soon as they heard that the Turks were coming, they withdrew their troops and retreated to You and Ji, would it mean that they would simply hand over the back of the mountain to the Turks to plunder at will, and even let them enter Hebei?
If you don't even have the courage to fight, then why talk about the Northern Expedition this year? "

When the imperial court Wu Dechao faced the Turks, they had always been on the defensive. The Turks also went south again and again, as if entering a land of no one, raging and plundering arbitrarily.

Li Jing praised one of the two students under his name and criticized the other without being polite, "Your Majesty, I think the military situation in the frontier fortress is urgent and changing rapidly. It should be decided by the frontier generals. Now that Jieli has been killed under the Great Wall, the imperial court should let Wu Huaiyu take command. , what we need to do is to mobilize soldiers and horses from the towns in Hebei and Hebei to reinforce and cooperate,"

"Let's win this battle first."

Hou Junji blushed and said unconvinced, "Even if we want to fight, Wu Huaiyu doesn't have enough prestige and ability to take on this important task. I think Li Ji, the governor of Bingzhou, should command it. Yu Qiang, what big battle did Wu Huaiyu fight?"

"Li Jiyuan is in Taiyuan, and Zhang Gongjin is also in Yanmen. They are thousands of miles away from Huaihuang. How can far water be close to thirst? Although Wu Huaiyu is young, he has fought many battles. He wiped out Liang Shidu."

"Master Liang is nothing, Wu Huaiyu just took advantage of it."

Li Shimin was very dissatisfied listening to their quarrel.

"The military situation is urgent, so Wu Huaiyu will be in charge of this battle. I also believe in Wu Huaiyu's ability,"

However, the emperor still added a decree, telling Wu Huaiyu not to underestimate the enemy. If he can not fight, he will not fight.

After autumn, it will not be too late to make another Northern Expedition.

(End of this chapter)