People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 1219 Kill, kill, kill

Li Xuan stepped into the Penglai Hall. The warm wind blew, and a feeling of freshness hit her face directly.

The vast hall was filled with curtains.

In the corridors of the apse on both sides, a slight cold wind blew through, but it was immediately warmed by the warmth in the palace.

Li Xuan stood in the palace, bowed to the emperor above him who was closing his eyes to meditate, and said slowly: "Your Majesty, King of Nanchang, Xuan, see you, Your Majesty. Your Majesty may live forever."

Li Zhi took a breath, slowly opened his eyes, stretched, and said, "Have you met the Queen?"

"Yes!" Li Xuan handed over his hand, and then said: "The Queen asked about the attack and defense of Tanggula Mountain, and then asked about the division of troops after entering Tubo, and that a large number of criminal officials from the court would be mobilized to join the attack. some."

"What did you say?" The emperor reached for the warm water on the side and took a sip.

"Water attack, divide the troops into three groups: left, center and right. As for how to govern Tubo specifically, we still need to see how to calm down the aftermath." Li Xuan briefly recounted his conversation with Empress Wu.

"Haha!" The emperor suddenly couldn't help laughing and said: "These are all things for the future. The biggest difficulty in your conquest of Tubo this time is the fifth pass of Tubo on the Tanggula Mountain Road, where the entire Tanggula Mountains are Is it the highest point? Attack from bottom to top. Apart from fighting head-on, I really can't think of any good way."

"Your Majesty, there is also a fire attack." Li Xuan cupped his hands and said softly: "In summer, the south wind in Tubo is mostly strong. If we can make good use of it, we will definitely achieve success."

Li Zhi's eyes couldn't help but light up, and he said with some clarity: "It seems that you have already placed chess pieces in the Tubo level. Now you only need to find an opportunity to break the level with fire, and then accumulate snow and water, pouring down." , go straight to Tubo, and as long as you don’t be careless and act steadily, you can get things right."

"Your Majesty is wise and wise." Li Xuan bowed her hands solemnly with an expression of admiration.

Li Zhi waved his hand and said, "It doesn't have to be like this. The real difficulty is still in Luoshe City. It can be as soon as one or two years or as late as three or five years. You can always overcome it."

"I must hurry up." Li Xuan bowed solemnly.

"It's up to you. Remember not to be too hasty and be caught by Lun Qinling." Li Zhi raised his eyes slightly, and then said: "If I can get Lun Qinling's head, I don't want these cities, either. OK."

"I understand." Li Xuan suddenly seemed to have figured out something, and he felt relaxed.

Li Zhi nodded and said, "The queen has sent you a person, and I will also send you a person."

"May I ask who it is?" Li Xuan carefully handed over his hand.

"It's Wei Hongji." Li Zhi shook his head and said with a wry smile: "He has been really unlucky in the past few years. In the Shaofu Prison, his family was being plotted against. If you hadn't taken action, he would have been targeted by Di Renjie; when he arrived in Jizhou , and something happened to the family, Di Renjie still didn’t escape..."

Li Xuan nodded slightly. Di Renjie had just returned from Hebei at that time and directly impeached the governors of Jizhou, Xuanzhou, Yizhou, and Xiangzhou. His subordinates Chang Shi, Sima, Junjun, County Magistrate, and Si Cao were all impeached by the Three Laws Division. Upon closer inspection, many people were sent to the Taoist army to listen to orders.

It was also like this that Du Bixing was given the position of Governor of Ji Province. After all, Du Bixing was the emperor's man.

"Wei Shaofu is proficient in the art of craftsmanship. Whether I am attacking from Tanggula Mountain or elsewhere, we will need a large number of craftsmen. If we can get some advice from Wei Shaofu, we will definitely be able to make further progress." Li Xuan paused for a moment, and then said : "There are many rare and rare things in Tubo, and there are few people in the world as sharp-sighted as Wei Shaofu, and now he is in charge of my eyes."

"Yes!" The emperor nodded with satisfaction.

Wei Hongji was sent to Tubo just to keep an eye on Tubo's wealth.

Although Wang Dezhen is the Minister of Household Affairs, basically all his gains must be attributed to the national treasury.

Wei Hongji is the former Shaofu Superintendent, and his harvest will basically be put into the inner treasury.

As for Yang Zhirou, she mostly stared at these two people.

After all, Tubo was a huge country with endless wealth. It was impossible for the emperor and Empress Wu to leave such huge wealth to Li Xuan.

It is perfectly normal to have someone keep an eye on him.

It doesn't matter that Li Xuan is greedy, but if he is so greedy that he takes things he shouldn't take, he will die.

Wang Dezhen, Wei Hongji, and even Yang Zhirou, all they need is a memorial, and Li Xuan will immediately desert their relatives.

Fortunately, Li Xuan was aware of this risk from the beginning. From the beginning, he was extremely frank, open, selfless, and even willing to give up everything and return to the DPRK.

In addition, Tubo was still undecided, and the emperor trusted him enough, so no other messy things happened.

But even so, once Li Xuan really wins Luosu, then there will be as many people as crucian carp crossing the river who want to get a share of Luosu, and then it will be troublesome.

"By the way, there is one more thing you need to pay attention to." The emperor's eyes suddenly raised, his eyes solemn: "Sister Wencheng is still thinking, find her, don't let her get hurt, and then send her back to Chang'an. Come and treat me like an eldest princess."

"I accept the decree." Li Xuan bowed solemnly.

Princess Wencheng worked hard throughout her life for the peace between Tang Dynasty and Tubo.

If Songtsen Gampo hadn't died too early, the Tang Dynasty and Tubo wouldn't have met so quickly, but this can't obliterate Princess Wencheng's contribution at all.

In the end, no matter what, the emperor will take Princess Wencheng back to Chang'an to support her until her death.

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"You can handle the rest of the Tubo affairs, and then we'll get to the grassland." Li Zhi took out a memorial and put it on the desk. Then he looked at Li Xuan and said, "This is what you wrote a while ago." Wenxi County Duke also wrote a memorial about the Battle of the Grassland, which is pretty much the same, but you all raised a sharp question: How will the Turks be governed after the war?" "Your Majesty," Li Xuan said, handing over his hand. : "The ambitions of the Turks have arisen, and there are only two strategies to govern the Turks stably after the war."

"Tell me about it." Li Zhi leaned back slightly and listened to Li Xuan continue to play.

After a slight pause, Li Xuan continued: "The first strategy is to kill, not only to kill the leaders of the Turkic tribes, but also to kill all the people in the entire Turkic territory. If they destroy their country and destroy their writing, the grassland can be guaranteed." Hundreds of years of stability, until new tribes rise..."

"But how many people will be killed in this way?" The emperor frowned tightly.

In his eyes, Li Xuan was not a murderous person, but when it came to solving the grassland problem, the first strategy he proposed was to kill. This shows the seriousness of the Turkic problem.

"Your Majesty, you don't need to kill too many people in this matter. You just need to grasp the key. Thirty to fifty thousand people are enough." Li Xuan spoke very lightly.

Today, the Turks have mobilized at least hundreds of thousands of cavalry on the grasslands, and the Tang Dynasty has mobilized almost the same number of troops.

After a great war, the number of casualties would definitely exceed this number.

But the thirty to fifty thousand people Li Xuan mentioned were not ordinary prairie soldiers.

They are the big and small heads who hold the power of the Turks, the priests of various ethnic groups, the elders, and the elites of the younger generation.

Once they are all killed, the Turks will not be able to recover for the next hundred years and will only become lambs for human flesh.

What's more, their writing was destroyed, their civilization was gone, and they would be trapped in endless struggles for the next two to three hundred years.

When Li Xuan said about killing 30,000 to 50,000 people, he did not mean just to kill 30,000 to 50,000 people now, but in the future, every ten years, another 30,000 to 50,000 people would be killed.

Now it can be ensured that the Tang Dynasty's control over the Turks is as stable as Mount Tai until other tribes replace the Turks, such as the Khitans.

Li Zhi waved his hand directly and said: "You are talking about the 30 to 50 thousand people who do not resist. Once they start to resist, then even 3 to 5 million people will not be able to stop them. Then there will be another Changping Trap." Kill, bloody."

"If not, then the only way to change the customs is to change the customs." Li Xuan sighed softly, but the emperor still couldn't be cruel.

"Tell me something." Li Zhi raised his head and his eyes fell on Li Xuan again.

"First of all, we must establish a new flag and a new symbol in Turks." Li Xuan handed over.

"Ashina Nishugui, you mentioned it." Li Zhi nodded. The original purpose of releasing Ashina Nishugui back to the grassland was not to deal with this grassland riot. He is still under house arrest. , can play little role in this matter.

"Ask him to move the royal court to the northeast of the Shanyu Duhufu, build a city parallel to the Shanyu Duhufu, then wear Chinese clothes, speak Chinese, write memorials, and govern the Turks according to the Tang system, and then civil strife will occur frequently in the Turks. Since then, there have been frequent conflicts." Li Xuan handed over his hand, and a strategy had been proposed.

"This was Zhao Deyan's old plan to rebel against the Turks, which eventually led to the Turkic chaos. After that, Duke Wei sent out troops and Jieli was defeated and captured Chang'an." After a slight pause, Li Zhi said: "Since then, the grassland has been included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty. , although the Tang system is being implemented, it is only superficial. The Turks have already been using Turkic methods to govern the grasslands, but now they want to completely implement the Tang system."

"Not only that, our Tang Dynasty has always had rules. Officials in the south are appointed in the north, and officials in the north are appointed in the south. However, there have always been few Turkic people who have served in the south. I think it can be changed... I don't say that the south of the Yangtze River must be a prosperous place, but Lingnan, Jiaozhi, even logic, are all okay." Li Xuan's strategy is to appease smart people, and treat them equally.

Li Zhi nodded slowly, Li Xuan's strategy indeed made sense.

"I will discuss this matter with the Imperial Secretariat." Li Zhi breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "It's rare that you think so much. By the way, do you have anything to add about the imperial affairs?"

"His Majesty and all the prime ministers have handled matters in the court very properly. The only thing I can briefly mention is the textile machinery issue in Jiangnan." Li Xuan bowed again.

Li Zhi became serious, nodded and said, "You say it."

"It's silk." Li Xuan held up his hand and said: "This year, the spinning machine can indeed bring about mass production of cloth, but the increase is actually limited, because it is just digesting the silk accumulated in previous years. Once the silk is used up, Countless textile machines have no choice but to stop production.”

"What you mean is that we need to increase silk production." Li Zhi nodded slowly.

He had to admit that he had indeed neglected this point.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Li Xuan nodded sincerely and said: "This year is okay, there will be no impact, but next year, once the spinning machinery expands uncontrollably, the silk will definitely not be able to follow, so everything needs to be controlled."

The emperor nodded slightly, closed his eyes slightly, and was already deep in thought.

After a while, Li Zhi raised his head, looked to the side, and said, "The record of this matter is called Zhongshu Sheng."

"Here!" A scholar stood up, cupped his hands and then sat down again, continuing to record.

Li Zhi relaxed a little and asked, "Is there anything else?"

"No more, Your Majesty." Li Xuan bowed solemnly. He had already finished everything he took the initiative to say today.

"Okay." The emperor raised his head and said with a smile: "Let's talk about the East Palace. Sanlang was indeed taught very well by you. So what do you think, under the current circumstances, does Sanlang have any shortcomings?"

Li Xuan was slightly surprised, and then thought about it, but immediately, his breathing became heavy, as if he thought of something extremely important and particularly sensitive.

The emperor leaned back without paying attention, waved his hands and said with a smile: "Tell me, what else does Saburo lack?"

"kill."

(End of this chapter)