A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 923: Great achievements are hard to reward

Chang'an,

In the political hall under the door,

Shangshu Youpushe frowned and looked at the folded book in his hand, wondering why Wu Huaiyu was always so capable of causing trouble.

Zhang Shigui swept across the east and west tribes in Gongzhou. It was Wen Yanbo who asked him to inspect the governor of Guizhou and recall Li Xinzhi, who had been in Guizhou for 28 years, to the court. This move was actually aimed at Wu Huaiyu secretly. Zhang Shigui, the general of the Forbidden Army, was not Wu Huaiyu's person.

"Does Fuzhou Governor Qian Jiulong report the great victory in Liuzhou?" Wen Yanbo spoke with a hint of doubt in his tone.

It's really hard to believe that he didn't target Wu Huaiyu intentionally.

Wu Huaiyu passed by Ludao, and it happened that Longxi Mountain rebelled. Then Wu Huaiyu defeated the five thousand barbarians with 300 tooth soldiers, and quickly recovered Longxi. With thunderous means, the emperor directly issued an edict on Jiugong Mountain to destroy the five people in Fujian. The state was assigned to Lingnan, and a new Liuzhou was established on Liuqiu Island, and the Fuzhou Governor's Office was established.

After Wu Huaiyu took over the six prefectures of Fufu, he quickly raided them. Shanyue surrendered one after another to pay taxes. Shanyue was so ferocious and barbaric that you couldn't see it at all. They were all more submissive.

How long ago did this happen?

Wu Huaiyu ran to Liuqiu again, and immediately defeated the 6,000 island barbarians of the 21 tribes with 2,000 troops. Then he raided and captured 21 villages, and captured more than 9,000 island barbarians.

The remaining eight thousand island barbarians of more than a dozen tribes surrendered one after another, expressed their vassal status, and contributed books and books.

After several battles, only dozens of Wu Huaiyu's two thousand soldiers were killed, but he beheaded more than 300 people, captured more than 15,000 people, and surrendered more than 8,000 people.

The supervisory censor was from the censorship station. The newly appointed censor Li Daliang took over and agreed to let the supervisory censor of Lingnan Road go to Liuzhou.

"I'm afraid one Lingnan Supervisory Censor is not enough. Yaxiang, I suggest that the Censorship Station send two more censors to assist."

There are also 250 merchant escorts recruited from Penghu and Anping.

Youpushe is suspected of interfering with the Yushitai, and he even has obvious distrust of the Yushitian of Lingnan Road.

"Qian Jiulong's report hasn't arrived yet," the inspector ordered Ma Zhou to answer, "but although Qian Jiulong is the governor of Fuzhou, he has been in Fuzhou, and he has not personally experienced the things here in Liuqiu. "

In that battle, almost all of the 70,000 elite troops of the Tang Army were killed, with rivers of blood and corpses everywhere.

Just such a put together team,

Even if there are more than 10,000 pigs on the island, it is not easy for two thousand people to catch them.

He has seen the cruelty and cruelty of war.

In the eyes of prostitutes, women are all for sale. Wen Yanbo, the prime minister of the defeated army who had been a prisoner, thought that Wu Huaiyu must be worthy of his amazing achievements.

Ma Zhou just nodded, "It should be so, we can start making arrangements immediately. Although Wu Kuan also serves as the manager of the Seventh Mansion, His Majesty also granted him the privilege of taking over the throne and gave him many blanks in advance to declare his identity.

But there should still be verification afterwards,”

Just these numbers are truly astonishing.

At the construction site of Liuzhou City, more than 10,000 island barbarian captives are helping to build the city."

Wen Yanbo said coldly, "This matter needs to be more rigorous. As a rule, after the war, the supervisory censor must be sent to verify military merit, and the relevant departments of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Civil Affairs will also send people there,"

At the cost of dozens of deaths, tens of thousands of enemies were defeated, several hundred were killed in formation, more than 10,000 were captured, and 8,000 were recruited.

Wen Yanbo didn't believe it, it was really hard to believe. Wen Yanbo had also fought in the army back then. In the eighth year of Wude, he served as the deputy minister of Zhongshu and led the military commander Shi. He went on an expedition with him and assembled various Tang troops to fight the Turks in Hedong.

As a result, there was a decisive battle, and in the end almost all the 70,000 elite Tang troops were wiped out. He, a long history man, also became a Turkic prisoner and was taken outside the Great Wall to herd sheep for nearly a year.

Such an amazing victory was achieved.

How could Wu Huaiyu achieve such a record with two thousand soldiers, especially with such an astonishing battle loss ratio?

Wen Yanbo's words made Li Daliang frown.

"Wanda, the governor of Liuzhou, was a personal witness. His report has arrived. It is very detailed. The names and populations of each tribe and branch of Daoyi, as well as the causes and consequences of this battle, are all clearly written.

What's even more outrageous is that the victory report said that of the two thousand soldiers, one thousand were soldiers from the Guangzhou Navy camp, and three hundred were Wu Huaiyu's tooth soldiers.

There are also two hundred and five newly established Liuzhou Shou Zhuolang, all of whom have just been recruited from the common people.

"Then send another supervisory censor from the censor station to the south." Li Daliang thought for a while, and finally planned to send another one. He believed that Wu Huaiyu would not falsely claim military merit, so sending another one would be a good thing for Wu Huaiyu.

The Minister of Civil Affairs participated in political affairs and the warrior Xun kept looking at Wen Yanbo.

In terms of qualifications, Wen Yanbo cannot compare to Samurai Yu.

Wen Yanbo was originally Luo Yi's Sima, and later he returned to Tang Dynasty with Luo Yi. Wen Yanbo had planned this incident and was appointed as the chief administrator of Youzhou, and soon became a member of Zhongshushe. The Wen family is a famous family in Hedong. He was able to move from the Sima of Luo Yi to the center of Li Tang mainly because of his brothers Daya and Dayou.

At the beginning of Li Yuan's rebellion, Dayou Daya was taken as a confidant by Li Yuan, and his brothers were both cardinals. Li Yuan used the relationship between Dayou's brothers to contact Wen Yanbo and Wen Dalin to persuade Luo Yi to return to the Tang Dynasty.

Wen Yanbo is good at speaking and has good eloquence. He has always won the trust of Li Yuan and Li Shimin. From the time when he was a scholar in the early days of Wude, to the right servant of Shangshu today, except for being captured by the Turks and herding sheep in Saibei for a year, this guy has always been in Zhongshu. Book.

A large pen that has been used by the royal family for more than ten years,

Warrior Xun started his career as a businessman, unlike Wen Yanbo from a well-known family. He first took the initiative to befriend Li Yuan, and later donated his family wealth to help Li Yuan raise an army. After that, he has been managing logistics for Li Yuan.

Now they are both prime ministers,

Wen Yanbo had always been at odds with Wu Huaiyu, so the warrior Xun naturally had no good feelings toward this fellow Hedong fellow.

No matter what the original disagreement was,

But in the court, at their level, once they become opponents, it is difficult to reconcile.

Wen Yanbo will not let go of any excuse to attack Wu Huaiyu, and since the warrior Yu is in the court, he must protect Wu Huaiyu. He cannot write two characters of "wu" in one stroke, and the relationship of one prosperity and common prosperity.

"There are so many things happening in Fujian and Yue, and a major rebellion just broke out in Gongzhou. The left and right streams in Yongfu and the Annan Protectorate are not peaceful either,"

The warrior Xun spoke calmly, "Youpushe feels that one Lingnan Road censor can't do his job well, so he has to send two censors from Chang'an. This is unprecedented.

Let me tell you, sending two more censors to supervise you may not be able to reassure You Pu She, since they are all from the censor station.

Why don't you go personally and inspect the seven Lingnan mansions?"

"Didn't Wu Huaiyu just make a suggestion that many states in Lingnan should be merged into provinces? The plan is to merge half of the states.

The seven Lingnan prefectures are planned to be withdrawn from more than 100 prefectures to 49 prefectures. The seven Lingnan prefectures, each with seven prefectures, will retain a total of 180 counties, with five to three counties in each prefecture. "

"This matter is very important. If Wen Youpushe can personally patrol Lingnan, he can also help Wu observe and check."

Before Lingnan, there were many prefectures and counties. The main reason for the large number was to accommodate the large and small chiefs who had surrendered. The so-called public establishment divided their power.

For example, for Feng An, the imperial court later deliberately expanded his territory into eight states in order to assign his sons as governors and disperse his power.

Essentially, it was because the imperial court had not yet been able to actually control Lingnan in the early years. In order to appease the people, they tried to win over them. However, this also had its disadvantages. Nine sheep out of ten were herdsmen.

Now that the imperial court has strengthened its control over Lingnan, it would be inappropriate to establish so many prefectures and counties.

The increase in the imperial court in the beginning and the simplification of the imperial court in the present are all required by the situation.

Although doing this will definitely offend many people, we still have to do it when the time comes.

The warrior Xun said that if Wen Yanbo went to Lingnan to inspect the province, Wen Yanbo would have to deal with this troublesome matter. This would be an offending matter.

What's more, if he patrols Lingnan Province with his right servant and goes far away from the political hall and goes to Wu Huaiyu's territory, he might capsize and he might not be able to return to the court. This possibility is not impossible. After all, Wu Huaiyu can Not someone to be trifled with.

Wen Yanbo, who has been in the center all year round, has rich experience in fighting. Although he is not very good at military affairs and cannot fight, he has no idea that the warrior Xun is trying to dig a hole for him.

"Wu Kuan's suggestion of merging provinces, prefectures and counties has not yet been discussed and reported to the saint by the Political Affairs Hall. This is too early to say.

As for the prime minister's inspection of Lingnan, Wu Huaiyu, the observer, commander of the Seven Prefectures, Salt and Iron Envoy, field envoy, and Annan Protector, etc., weren't they the imperial envoys specially ordered to inspect Lingnan on behalf of the emperor? He was also a meritorious official of Zhenguan and Yuancong who worshiped the prime minister three times. There was no need to send another prime minister to inspect the province. "

Wen Yanbo finally drove Prime Minister Wu Huaiyu to Lingnan, so there was no way he could follow suit.

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Jiucheng Palace.

Li Shimin is in a good mood recently,

Zhang Shigui put down the chaos in Gongzhou as soon as he took action. He also took the opportunity to transfer Li Xinzhi, who had been in Guizhou for 28 years, back to the court. In fact, at the end of Wude, the court briefly transferred Li Xinzhi away. He was appointed governor of Jiangzhou, but as soon as Li Xizhi left, the Gui Mansion was in chaos, and the court could not transfer him back.

But this only made the court remember this matter more and more. Now that they finally had the opportunity to transfer him, Li Shimin also had one worry. This kind of feudal official who had been in power for decades still made the emperor very worried.

The envoys sent to the four countries of Haidong have recently sent back a lot of good news.

In particular, the attitude of Goguryeo was very good. Wu Huaiyu crossed the sea and rescued many veterans, and also brought back thousands of Goguryeo people.

But the King of Goguryeo did not dare to make a fuss about this matter.

More importantly, when the eldest grandson, Chen Dade, Zhu Zishe and others formally stated to Goguryeo that they were required to destroy the Jingguan of the Sui soldiers killed in battle and collect the bones of the Sui soldiers killed in the battle, the Goguryeo people did not dare to refuse, and finally cooperated with the action.

The Goguryeo people respectfully accepted the vassal-vassal relationship again.

Although the words of the King of Goguryeo may not be believed, after all, they claimed to be Liaodong's dung ministers and dared to rebel against the Sui Dynasty.

But now Datang has no intention of fighting them immediately, so Li Shimin is satisfied if they are willing to continue to maintain the vassal relationship.

Of course, there is another happy thing, that is, Wu Huai Yu Ping Shan Yue, Bai Dao Yi, Min Yue, that place where no one has shit and seems to have been forgotten.

Now after rowing to Lingnan Road, under Wu Huaiyu's hands, things seem to have begun to change.

Zhang Shigui quelled the rebellion in Gongzhou and not only atones for his crimes, but is also promoted to Duke of Guo. Wu Huaiyu has accomplished so many hard-hitting military exploits.

It will definitely be rewarded.

However, how should Wu Huaiyu be rewarded for his current status?

"Your Majesty, you can give Wu Huaiyu more food, money and silk. Wu Huaiyu is already a national honorary officer. This meritorious service can be transferred to his son. His three legitimate sons can all receive additional honors this time." The better Queen Changsun.

There are twelve ranks of honorary officers, and the highest rank is in the Zhu Kingdom. According to the system, after the rank of honorary officer reaches the top, further honors can be transferred to the nephew.

"Then I will give Wu Huaiyu more food, seal a hundred households, and connect 1,400 households before and after, and give him a thousand bolts of silk."

"Give his three direct sons each a turn of honor,"

After thinking about it, Li Shimin added another sentence,

"Let Wu Huaiyu lead the governor of Yangzhou from a distance!"

Although the reward is generous, just as Li Shimin taught the prince before, those with high merit should restrain their power but not their position. The rewards given by the emperor include food and silk, as well as honors given to his legitimate sons, plus the title of governor-general from afar. In fact, these are all operations that do not increase his power.

(End of this chapter)