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

Chapter 1265 The real use of the imperial examination

Rapid and heavy footsteps sounded outside the central hall, interrupting Li Xuan and Wang Dezhen's words.

Li Xuan turned around and saw Zhou Qian entering the lobby with a solemn expression. Then he cupped his hands towards Li Xuan and said, "Commander, Chang'an official document."

"Yes!" Li Xuan nodded, took the briefcase handed over by Zhou Qian, glanced at the ink pad inside and outside, and then opened it, and a brand new chapter appeared in front of Li Xuan.

Standing in the lobby, Li Xuan read carefully and read a lot. Finally, his eyes focused on one point: "Your Majesty wants to make Ashina Nishugui the Khan of the Eastern Turks."

"Khan of the Eastern Turks?" Wang Dezhen took the memorial from Li Xuan and read it from top to bottom.

The first thing in the official document was that the emperor granted Princess Wencheng the title of Princess Wencheng, with the right to enter the palace at any time and even be a counselor in Tibetan military affairs.

This is as it should be. After all, Princess Wencheng has been in Tubo for many years and knows Tubo much better than they do.

The two questions raised here are indeed worthy of their attention, because in recent times, soldiers have really fallen ill one after another.

But fortunately, the problem is not very serious. After the war, I didn't have any ideas. Now I can think of finding the source.

As for the matter of Tianzhu and Nibala, although it is worthy of vigilance, it is still far away from them now.

Then Pei Yan, the Minister of Punishment, personally went to Henan Province to investigate the matter of Hidden Field. Seeing this, Wang Dezhen couldn't help but sigh.

Pei Yan finally seized the opportunity to be promoted to prime minister.

Wang Dezhen knew Pei Yan's situation very well. As long as Pei Yan could find out what happened in Yintian, Henan Province, it would be a matter of course for him to be further promoted to prime minister.

There is also the matter of Yangzhou looms. Su Liangsi killed many people in Yangzhou, but the situation is stable. The silk produced in Yangzhou this year will be 30% more than in previous years. This number is incredible.

The military expenses of the grasslands and Tubo can make up a lot from here.

grassland.

Seeing what happened next in the grassland, Wang Dezhen became serious.

In July, during the Great Grassland War, General Cheng Wuting of the Forbidden Army and Dou Huaizhe, the Governor of Youzhou, defeated 60,000 Turkic cavalry deep in the grassland and beheaded 30,000.

After that, the emperor decided to make Ashina Nishugui the Khan of the Eastern Turks.

"Khan of the Eastern Turks, why not Khan of the Eastern Turks? These two words don't sound much different, but anyone with a discerning eye knows that there is a huge difference." Wang Dezhen couldn't help but frown, and then raised his eyes to look at Li Xuan .

"Your Majesty just wants to divide the eastern Turks into two parts, the east and west, and then let the essence of the grassland be concentrated in the east of the grassland as much as possible. As for the west of the grassland..." Li Xuan pondered slightly.

Wang Dezhen shook his head directly and said: "If the eastern grassland tribes no longer regard the western grassland as their core, then the Western Turks will move eastward."

There is a vacuum in the power of the Eastern Turks, and the Western Turks will naturally fill it.

"Why must the grassland tribes occupy the key points, why not the Tang Dynasty directly stationed in the key points?" Li Xuan shook her head seriously, looked subconsciously towards the direction of the grassland in the distance, and said solemnly: "If you want to end the matter on the grassland completely, After all, we still have to use the Han people to hold back the grassland people, and then we can control them."

With the Han people as the fulcrum, all the tribes in the entire grassland will be riveted to the grassland. As long as the treatment is fair and the northerners are transferred to the south, the entire grassland will gradually calm down.

"The commander-in-chief's thoughts are always different from those of ordinary people." Wang Dezhen sighed, shook his head, and said, "In this way, the Tang Dynasty will spend a lot more time on the grassland."

"No matter what, it should be much better than fighting each other for decades, right?" Li Xuan couldn't help but voice a little louder.

The war between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks would last at least several years, both internally and externally, and all parties would suffer considerable losses.

Wang Dezhen nodded subconsciously, then shook his head and said: "The people of Turks are in confusion. Even if this war is completely won, it is difficult to completely appease people's hearts."

"That's why we have to separate the truly powerful people among them from the ordinary tribes. We don't know who is up or down, so there is room for us to operate in the middle." Li Xuan revealed the core of this calculation.

"I don't know what's going on." Wang Dezhen finally understood Li Xuan's thoughts.

This is actually the same as letting the grassland chiefs settle in Chang'an, but this time the concept of the eastern part of the grassland was established on the grassland.

When the time comes, build a city, immigrate the Turkic nobles, and then let the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty garrison, and everything will be under the control of the Tang Dynasty.

Before the Zhenguan Dynasty and this dynasty, the Turkic nobles were scattered among various tribes. The Khan was far away from the people, but the nobles still firmly controlled the people. Now they are lengthening the distance between the nobles and the tribes, and at the same time using The distance between the khan and his followers served as a cover.

Apart from anything else, at least in the short term, the grassland people will not be so resentful towards Datang. This is Li Xuan's strategy for managing the grassland.

Wang Dezhen nodded slowly. If nothing else, at least this method had considerable merit.

"Prairie people." Wang Dezhen looked up at Li Xuan and asked in a low voice: "What plans does the commander have for the grassland people?"

Li Xuan looked at Wang Dezhen in surprise, then cupped his hands and said: "Xuan just has a vague idea. For example, the nobles and chiefs of the grassland can always have a way up, but the ordinary people in the grassland have complete control over their way up. In the hands of nobles and chiefs, if this kind of passage is available, the Tang Dynasty will also provide one..." "The prince plans to conduct the imperial examination on the grassland." Wang Dezhen couldn't help but interrupt Li Xuan, and he couldn't hide the excitement in his tone.

If this strategy really works, it will completely break the control of the grassland chiefs over the grassland, and the grassland will no longer be a threat to the Tang Dynasty.

"It's not that simple." Li Xuan waved her hand, stretched out her hand to ask Wang Dezhen to sit down, and then said with the attention of the officials around him: "First of all, the probability of grassland people being literate is really not high, and the imperial examination is just a joke now. Others, The nobles and chiefs of the grassland are not willing to let the Tang Dynasty conduct imperial examinations in the grassland. Unless they are completely defeated, all this will be just a castle in the air."

"But it is a feasible method after all." Wang Dezhen handed over his hand and said seriously: "I also ask the commander to write to His Majesty as soon as possible to make this matter happen."

"Okay." Li Xuan nodded, and then said: "Actually, I and His Majesty have already discussed this matter, but it's just that they thought about it in such detail recently."

Wang Dezhen was a little surprised. Recently?
Li Xuan turned to look in the direction of Luoche and said softly: "If we wait for Luoche to win, we can find some middle- and lower-class children from Luoche and send them to Chang'an to study or even become officials, even if they end up with only a top scholar or a county official. The order is enough to allow more ordinary people to see a way out, so that their dependence on the Tubo royal power will be greatly reduced."

Wang Dezhen nodded in serious agreement, and then he immediately realized and said: "The commander-in-chief has done this in Changzhou and Dangxiang. No wonder the people in these two places have been stable for many years. It seems that the commander-in-chief has really found the right way to govern the place. "

Li Xuan quickly waved her hands and said with a smile: "This must be given face by Your Majesty and the imperial court. The people of Changzhou, Dangxiang, and Tubo finally have limited knowledge and can barely pass the examination. However, there are many talents in the imperial examination. They are good at fighting for their strength." Can’t fight.”

"It doesn't matter. The imperial court can set up a few more county magistrates in Tubo and then change the regions." Wang Dezhen nodded, and a series of plans were already taking shape in his mind.

Li Xuan slightly cupped her hands and said, "In this case, I will ask Uncle Shi to help with everything in the future."

Wang Dezhen suddenly realized that he was not the prime minister yet. He waved his hand and Wang Dezhen said quickly: "Commander, you are very polite... By the way, Marshal, now that Ashina Nishugui's matter has been resolved, the battle on the grassland should be over soon. The curtain is closed."

"If we don't mention how to manage everything in the future, the war should end this winter." Li Xuan gave an affirmative answer.

In winter, there are not many fertile places for water and grass on the grassland. At that time, it is easier to capture the main force of the Turks.

"I hope the matter on the grassland can end soon." Wang Dezhen pressed his eyebrows and said: "In the past two years, Tubo and the grassland have gone to war at the same time, which has put a lot of pressure on the Ministry of Household Affairs."

Li Xuan couldn't help but smile. During the war, apart from them and other former military generals, the rest were only those in the household department who were under the greatest pressure.

When the army goes to war, every day, ordnance, food and grass are consumed at the same speed as the water of a long river. The people in the household department are already dizzy just looking at the consumption data.

Not to mention calculating whether this year's harvest can offset the consumption of the army in the war.

If this number doesn't match up, that's what really gives them a headache.

……

"The last thing is the princess's wedding at the end of the year." Li Xuan looked at the official document that recorded the last thing, the marriage between Princess Taiping and Xue Shao...

"On the eighth day of the first lunar month." Wang Dezhen frowned, looked at Li Xuan and asked, "Commander, do you want to rush back?"

"It's hard to say." Li Xuan shook his head helplessly and said, "It all depends on the situation on the front line. If Zhan Zan Xiruo's army can be completely defeated before the end of the year, then it won't be a big deal for me to go back. It is even more likely that if I go back, they will start to quarrel with each other."

Wang Dezhen's eyes suddenly lit up.

The reason why Zan Xiruo and the Tubo royal family are now closely related is because there is such a huge threat like Li Xuan.

Once Li Xuan leaves temporarily, they might start fighting each other immediately.

Then try to completely calm down and control the situation before Li Xuan comes back next year, and then compete with Li Xuan next year.

Calculating this, Li Xuan's return to Chang'an is not something that cannot be accepted.

"Okay, now I'll leave the internal affairs of Nagqu counties to my uncle. It's time for Xuan to take a break. The soldiers in the army also need to gradually transition to a state of rest before the war starts again." Li Xuan waved his hand, and then Left the lobby directly.

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Walking in the corridor, the moist air soothed Li Xuan.

Li Xuan couldn't be more satisfied with a future prime minister like Wang Dezhen handling Naqu government affairs for him.

As for the rest, Wang Dezhen will not stay in Tubo for long after all, and it is even very likely that Wang Dezhen will return to Chang'an as soon as the war ends next year.

Li Xuan's frankness will be a huge plus for the emperor.

But unfortunately, Wang Dezhen was not able to come into contact with Li Xuan's real details in Tubo, and what he thought he had come into contact with was everything about Tubo on the surface.

Chang'an, Chang'an, it is now the end of September of the second year of Tiaolu.

Your Majesty, Prince, the time is not far away.

(End of this chapter)