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

Chapter 1809: Destroy their books and destroy their writings

In the early morning, the morning light falls into Shangqing Temple.

Under the red silk quilt, Gao pushed Li Xuan with a blushing face and said, "Your Majesty, it's time to attend the morning court."

Li Xuan gently opened her eyes, stretched, and almost lifted the silk quilt. Gao was so scared that she immediately covered herself with the quilt.

Li Xuan smiled silently, then reached out his hand and hugged Gao into his arms, and then said: "Most of the prime ministers and the six ministers have already gone to various places across the country, and even the remaining ones are inspecting the various states in Henan, so the court meeting will not be held for a short time, until I return to Chang'an."

Gao felt that Li Xuan's hands were moving randomly again, and she was frightened and quickly pressed down Li Xuan, but she did not dare to use too much force, and her face became even redder.

……

Half a day later, when the sun was high in the sky, Gao woke up again. However, at this time, Li Xuan was no longer in Shangqing Temple.

Inexplicably, Gao felt a little lost.

Soon, she made up the bed.

In the middle hall, Pei was teasing Prince Zhong Li Guangzhen. When she saw Gao coming out with a blush on her face, she said with a smile on her face, "How dare you barge in like that last night."

Gao, whose face was originally flushed, calmed down. She walked to Pei's side, looked at Li Guangzhen in the cradle, and said with a sad look, "No one wants to live alone in the next life."

"You can't have a son in name only." Pei pointed out the key point directly.

Pei was Li Hong's crown princess. She and Li Xuan had a child, and they could pretend that the child was an adopted member of the royal family. But what about Gao?
Gao was Li Xian's concubine. Although he allowed them to live in the palace after Li Xian ascended the throne, he never gave them formal rewards. None of them got the position of the four wives they were supposed to have.

What's worse is that in the case of Zheng, just one day after she married into the Eastern Palace, Emperor Gaozong fell seriously ill. After that, Emperor Gaozong passed away. Until Li Xian's death, she was never touched by Li Xian.

Gao was slightly better, as she entered the Eastern Palace earlier, but she had a cold personality and was never close to Li Xian.

But after all, she was Li Xian's concubine, and Li Xian's incense had already been inherited by someone else, so she was not needed at all.

"Sister, have you heard something?" Gao looked up at Pei and said softly, "His Majesty is discussing with Fang about adopting a royal family member to inherit the incense of filial piety to the Emperor and Concubine Fang."

"Are you planning on doing this?" Pei looked at Gao in surprise.

Gao nodded and said, "Prince Zhanghuai has no surviving concubines, and the emperor cannot give the child to the Fang family to raise, so either the queen raises the child herself, or gives it to Empress Dowager Zheng. After all, Empress Dowager Zheng is the queen of Emperor Zhongzong."

Yes, Zheng was Li Xian's queen. According to etiquette, the word "Tai" in her name was actually a respectful title.

"So, since it can be Queen Zheng, then naturally it can be me too." Gao looked up at Pei and said, "My sister and I will live in Shangqing Temple in Luoyang. We will not go to Chang'an to get in the way of anyone. Naturally, we are much better than Queen Zheng. Besides, we can train one less helper for the future king, which will also convince the ministers."

Pei looked at Gao calmly and nodded: "It seems that you have been thinking about this matter for a long time."

Gao smiled bitterly, then looked at Pei and said, "Now it depends on whether Sister agrees or not?"

"Is it any use if I don't agree? You've already done what you should do." Pei sighed and said, "But there is one thing I want to remind you of. He can be your adopted son, but he can never be your biological son. Even in the future, when he offers incense to you, you will be behind Prince Zhanghuai and Fang."

"That's enough." Gao smiled, then leaned on Pei, looked at Li Guangzhen and said, "Sister will not only be an adopted son in the future. At that time, enjoying two and a half portions of offerings will be equivalent to one offering."

"It's up to you." Pei sighed softly.

"Besides, you and I should always consider the people outside." Gao looked towards Luoyang City outside Ziwei Palace and said softly, "My uncle is now the Minister of Revenue. He has a grandson who is a prince of the current dynasty, and he is nominally adopted. This is a good thing for my uncle and my sister's brothers, and my Gao family..."

"My uncle is the governor of Qinzhou. The other two uncles are the General of the Left Guard and the Prince's attendant. The Gao family has a bright future!" Pei couldn't help but sigh.

"It's just a raging fire." Gao shook her head and said, "Although my father is a governor, he followed my father-in-law to fight against Silla in his early years, and his health has been damaged. Now he is just holding on; my uncle is about to go to Liaodong, and it is hard to say what the result will be; only my third uncle is a confidant of the prince, but even if the prince can succeed to the throne in the future, it will take time for my third uncle to make further progress."

"It would definitely be beneficial for them if they had a nephew who was granted the title of a prince." Pei nodded in agreement.

“Even if they know that he is not my biological child, I raised him. Besides me, he may recognize Prince Zhang Huai and Concubine Fang as his parents, but they died long ago. He will not be too close to Fang. On the contrary, because of me, he will be closer to Gao. He can call me brother and uncle.”

Gao pursed her lips slightly and said, "As for Fang, he can only call her uncle at most."

"I'm glad you can see it clearly." Pei heaved a sigh of relief, turned sideways to look at Gao, and said, "It's hard for you after all."

"But there is a way after all." Gao shook her head and said sadly: "If there is no such way, my sister might not live for a few days..."

……

In Qianyang Palace, the air was cool after autumn. Li Xuan sat on the imperial couch, his eyes passing over the golden steps outside the palace and falling on the entire Luoyang City, with a hint of reluctance in his eyes.

Compared to Chang'an, Luoyang is more relaxing.

There is not much pressure in this city.

However, in Chang'an, even though Li Xuan has now firmly established himself on the throne, he still feels a wave of heavy pressure when he thinks about having to deal with so many complicated matters when he returns to Chang'an.

But he had to go back eventually.

The Tang Dynasty controlled the world with Guanzhong, and half of the world's military forces were concentrated in Chang'an, so he had to go back.

Li Xuan stood up, walked down the steps, and sat in the side hall. He lifted the lid with his hand and a huge sand table appeared in front of him.

Silla, Silla.

The entire terrain of East Island has completely appeared in front of Li Xuan.

It is densely packed with countless lines, completely running through all the cities in the western plains of Silla.

In front of Li Xuan's eyes, it seemed as if countless cavalrymen appeared in an instant, completely destroying every city of Silla, and then quickly gathered in the western port city of Silla.

Triton reached these cities in the shortest possible time and evacuated all troops through rapid and multiple transportations.

Before the whole winter arrives, withdraw all troops back to the Tang Dynasty.

This was originally impossible, but the warship modified by Li Xuan made it possible.

Of course, the most important thing here is that there cannot be too many cavalry throughout the western plains of Silla.

At the same time, at the border between northern Silla and the Tang Dynasty, more soldiers began to advance steadily, occupying Silla's cities and then dividing the land.

It was originally the territory of Goguryeo and Baekje, so it was not difficult for the Tang Dynasty to reoccupy it.

Li Xuan's expression became solemn. The really difficult thing was to make the people of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla completely forget Silla and recognize their identity as citizens of the Tang Dynasty from the bottom of their hearts. This was very difficult.

Wanting the Silla people to forget Silla and admit that they are the subjects of the Tang Dynasty was a headache for even Li Xuan.

Not to mention now, even thousands of years later, it would be extremely difficult to make the people of a country completely abandon their country.

Li Xuan did not deny that there were some people in Silla who were willing to become citizens of the Tang Dynasty, and some were even willing to bring the wealth they had accumulated in Silla to the Tang Dynasty and become citizens of the Tang Dynasty. However, such people were ultimately only a minority in the entire Silla.

More Silla people were unable to move, and there was only Silla in his mind...

Wait, Li Xuan's eyes gradually became interesting.

It only took Silla ten years to become the ruler of East Island.

In other places of Dongdao, there are still traces of Goguryeo and Baekje. If the Tang Dynasty goes there under the pretext of helping Goguryeo and Baekje to restore their country, then at least the people in these two places will no longer recognize Silla.

Even when the Tang Dynasty withdraws and the Silla people come back again, they will fight to the death, and then they will be destroyed. Then there will be endless hatred between Silla and the new Goguryeo and Baekje. When the Tang Dynasty attacks for the second time, even if the Tang Dynasty does not restore Goguryeo and Baekje, they will never join Silla again.

Then all we need to do is burn all the texts and even books of Silla, Goguryeo and Baekje in the coming period of time, and then the people in the old lands of Goguryeo and Baekje will seriously become the subjects of the Tang Dynasty.

So what is left at the end is the old land of Silla.

Using the people of the former territories of Goguryeo and Baekje as the vanguard, they rushed into Silla's homeland, conquered the Silla capital, relocated the Silla nobles, and then divided the land originally owned by these Silla people among the people of Goguryeo and Baekje. At the same time, they relocated the Silla people to the territories of Goguryeo and Baekje and destroyed all of Silla's writings and books.

At the same time, the writing and books of the Tang Dynasty were promoted, and the matter of Goguryeo, Silla and Baekje being the old counties of the Han Dynasty during the Han Dynasty was brought up.

Finally, those people who could not survive and had no land were relocated from the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and the wealthy families in Dongdao were moved to the Tang Dynasty.

Then as long as there are no problems with governance, Silla will belong to the territory of the Tang Dynasty in twenty years.

Li Xuan breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, the plan to attack and destroy Silla was completely formed at this moment.

(End of this chapter)