Early Tang Dynasty: forge ahead

Chapter 345 Triumph Banquet
Chen Qingsi spoke unconsciously, feeling a little moved, but at the same time there was also a certain reluctance.

If we really go to Baekje, my wife and children will definitely not be able to go together.

Now I am going to serve as a feudal official in Xuanhu Overseas. How can I take my wife and children with me?
Not to mention Li Zhi, Li Shimin would not be so arrogant.

Little Jingjing has just learned to call daddy, but she hasn’t really learned to walk yet...

Chen Qingsi is still looking forward to seeing her baby son grow up little by little.

If you go to Baekje to take charge of the overall situation, it will be a huge benefit in your career, and it will be easy to be a general or prime minister in the future.

Chen Qingsi didn't think about this matter for too long, but in just a short moment, he already had a plan.

No one knows better than him how turbulent the coming era will be.

In this seemingly peaceful but turbulent era, he must seize every opportunity to improve himself and become a force that cannot be ignored in the temple, at least no worse than Liu Rengui in history.

Historically, Liu Rengui was in charge of the affairs left behind in Chang'an alone. When Empress Wu was listening to the affairs behind the curtain, he directly wrote to Empress Wu to state the chaos and failure of Empress Lu in the Western Han Dynasty, and threatened to resign.

Empress Wu did not dare to lose her temper at all. Instead, she patiently explained to Liu Rengui and said sincerely: "It is difficult for the emperor to issue decrees during his mourning. I will temporarily handle political affairs for him. Please advise me from a distance, blame and complain more, so that I can make this palace happy." Hesitation and loss of power. I hope you will be interested in correcting the national affairs and do not ask to retreat on the grounds of old age."

When Liu Rengui was alive, Empress Wu did not dare to act too rashly. It was not until Liu Rengui died of illness that she dared to plan to abolish the throne.

I am younger than Empress Wu. As long as my power is as powerful as Liu Rengui, or even higher than him, I will not only be able to shock Empress Wu, but at least I will be able to protect my wife, children and family.

If you miss this opportunity today, there may be no next time.

It is very likely that this will lead to the entire Chen family's residence being set up in the future.

Chen Qingsi did not dare to underestimate the queen's ruthless methods.

You must have the strength to arm-wrestle with Empress Wu before the situation in the court changes and becomes turbulent.

That night, after Chen Qingsi paid the public food, he gently stroked his beloved wife's back and expressed his thoughts.

Xiao Miaochen had already expected it. She leaned her pretty, slightly flushed face against her husband's chest, listened to his heartbeat, and said after a while: "The husband will leave alone, and there will be a concubine in the house. As for the mirror Mirror Enlightenment depends on his talents and hobbies as advocated by Lang Jun. If he likes literature, ask his teacher to read and digitize; if he wants to practice martial arts, ask him to be good with guns and sticks to hone his muscles and bones since childhood. "

When Jingjing was still in her belly, Chen Qingsi and Xiao Miaochen, like most parents in the world, began to long for their children's future achievements and development path.

Chen Qingsi is very open-minded in this regard. He does not have the mentality of the ancients who was concerned about his family status. But as a father, he still hopes that his children can become famous among men. When thinking about the future with his wife, he also expressed his expectations for his children's future.

This is especially true for Xiao Miaochen.

For her first son, she had much higher expectations for him than Chen Qingsi.

Therefore, Chen Qingsi has never worried about this. His wife is a qualified matron and can handle all internal affairs of the family, so that he can safely leave everything he has made to her.

He just blames himself for not being able to fulfill his responsibilities as a husband and a father.

Chen Qingsi lowered her head and kissed Xiao Miaochen's forehead, thinking about what to do.

Chen Qingsi had no intention of recommending himself. Emperor Li Zhi was extremely smart and did not trust people easily. Although he respects me, he may not gain his trust.

He was responsible for Baekje's strategy. If he volunteered to take over the power, Li Zhi might not be worried.

You have to make him think of himself, or bring it up from other people's mouths.

Just when he was planning for this matter, he received the news that Li Zhi had already decided on the candidate.

Fang Renyu, the governor of Zhengzhou!
Li Zhi's appointment does not need to go through Chen Qingsi, but as a governor of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, he will not go to Baekje empty-handed. The imperial court will arrange personal guards to accompany him, and will also arrange weapons, armor, and crossbows for the personal guards.

Calling these things requires approval from the Ministry of War.

Fang Renyu?
This name is so familiar!
Chen Qingsi couldn't remember where she had heard this name.

He glanced at Zhang Ming, the director of the Department of War, and said casually: "This name sounds familiar."

He saw that Zhang Ming knew Fang Renyu.

Zhang Ming immediately answered after hearing this: "This person is the clan uncle of the former prime minister."

House phase?

"But Mr. Fang Liang?"

Zhang Ming said: "It's Mr. Fang Liang."

After listening to Zhang Ming's introduction, Chen Qingsi realized where she had heard the name Fang Renyu.

Fang Renyu, the son of Changzhou Biejia Fangkuang, was attached to Wang Shichong of Luoyang in his early years and was awarded the title of General Longxiang. In the early years of Wude, he followed Pei Renji and went to Li Shimin, who was still the king of Qin at that time. From Ping Dou Jiande and Wang Shichong, he moved to Lintai to be the governor of two states. After Jinshang ascended the throne, he moved to the left to lead the army, General Wei. He resigned after his mother died. In the fourth year of Yonghui, he was awarded the governor of Yangzhou. , put down the rebellion of Chen Shuozhen in Muzhou...

The first contributor to quelling Chen Shuozhen's rebellion in Muzhou was Cui Yixuan, and the second contributor was Fang Renyu.

When Chen Qingsi was in Jiangnan, I heard someone mention it.

But after many years, Fang Renyu was not in Beijing, so he forgot about it.

Zhang Ming's grandfather was Zhang Liang, Duke of Yun, one of the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion. He had a close relationship with the Fang family and had a certain understanding of Fang Renyu, and his introduction was very detailed.

Not to mention, Fang Renyu has achieved many military exploits, has experience in local management, is very diplomatic in his dealings with people, and is very diplomatic in his political stance.

After quelling Chen Shuozhen's rebellion, Fang Renyu went to Beijing to accept the reward, and immediately took sides, choosing to support the deposed Wang Liwu...

Chen Qingsi twitched the corner of his mouth. Apart from being a little older, he really qualified for the standard of having both civil and martial arts.

Chen Qingsi didn't know what to say for a moment, but he did not stop moving his hands and approved the distribution of the personal guards' armor.

Seeing Zhang Ming leaving with the official document, Chen Qingsi thought about it for a while. She was not frustrated, but rather waiting to see what happened.

After returning home, Xiao Miaochen apparently got the news from his own channels that Li Zhi appointed Fang Renyu as the Protector of the Xiongjin Governor's Mansion. He felt a little complicated and said with some comfort: "That's good, I'm really good." I feel a little reluctant to leave my husband." Chen Qingsi said, "I'm just afraid that I will disappoint my wife."

Xiao Miaochen was so smart that he immediately reacted and said, "Mr. Lang, are you saying that Fang Renyu is not qualified for this important task?"

Chen Qingsi said: "There are several types of civil and military skills..." He thought for a while and didn't know how to describe it. He thought of the games played by later generations and said: "With attributes of seventy or eighty in both civil and military skills, it can be said to be both civil and military. This kind of both civil and military skills , wanting to break Baekje’s situation is still a bit wishful thinking.”

He smiled and said: "It's okay if he goes to Lei, otherwise with my current personality, he may not be willing to use me in Baekje."

A month later, Su Dingfang returned to Chang'an again.

This world-famous general was just like traveling. In just a few months, he brought back more than 10,000 troops from the Baekje King Buyeo Eji, Buyeo Long, Buyeo Tae and other members of the Baekje royal family and some nobles to Chang'an.

Su Dingfang's record of destroying the Three Kingdoms and capturing the Three Kings has reached the pinnacle of his life.

Zhuque Street in Chang'an was deserted by thousands of people.

In order to celebrate the victory over Baekje, Li Zhi waved his hand and gave the world a three-day feast, and the whole country celebrated.

Li Zhi specially held a banquet in Taiji Palace to entertain fifty-eight people from the Baekje royal family including King Buyeo Yiji, Buyeo Long, Buyeo Tae and other nobles of the Baekje family. He also specially asked the ministers of the DPRK to accompany him.

At the banquet, Li Zhi was in high spirits, talked loudly, and treated Fuyu Yici and others with great kindness, looking like a wise king and a benevolent master.

Fuyu Yici and others felt the joy coming from everywhere, and felt sad in their hearts, but they had to squeeze out a smile to express their gratitude to Li Zhi for his generosity.

Others didn't understand Li Zhi, how could Chen Qingsi not know about it, so she secretly laughed to herself.

Li Zhi is broad on the outside and taboo on the inside, but he hides deeply, and he knows how to restrain himself and will not make mistakes. But if you offend him, sooner or later you will wear small shoes for him. Today's situation is probably because Fuyu Yiji has violated his laws many times and ignored him. Khan's will was to make Fuyu Yici uncomfortable.

Chen Qingsi's eyes swept over the royal family and nobles of Baekje.

This group of people all forced smiles on their faces. It was obviously a banquet to celebrate their destruction of the country, but they had to squeeze in smiles to greet them.

But soon, his eyes were attracted to one person: a man who lowered his head and wiped away tears among a group of forced smiles.

This man was tall and strong, but he was taller than an average person even when he was sitting. He had his head lowered and his appearance could not be seen clearly.

Chen Qingsi was invited to the banquet to accompany General Zuo Xiaowei Liu Boying.

Liu Boying was the commander-in-chief of the navy in this expedition, and his military achievements were outstanding. Li Zhi specially ordered Chen Qingsi to accompany him.

As the commander-in-chief of the three armies, Su Dingfang was accompanied by Xu Jingzong.

Chen Qingsi asked: "General Liu, who is this man? He is very tall."

Liu Boying's face turned red after drinking, and he looked in the direction pointed by Chen Qingsi, and replied: "This person is Hei Te Changzhi, a general of Baekje..." He raised his thumb to Chen Qingsi and said: "Shilang Chen has a good eye, and he is the most brave man. On the day of the decisive battle with Baekje, the troops led by this man caused a lot of trouble for our army. At that time, the general manager saw that the thieves were in large numbers, but the organization was chaotic, and the ending was not very good. Taking both considerations into account, I judged that the opponent was not good at such large-scale battles, so I arranged the generals, divided the troops into multiple routes, and interspersed and coordinated. The battle situation was muddied and chaos was used to win."

"The Baekje soldiers are very brave, but as the general manager judged, when faced with our army's multiple attacks, the reaction was always three points slower than before. In the end, we were forced to fight on our own and ended up in chaos."

"All the tribes of Baekje were defeated and routed, but this black-toothed man was the only one who remained undefeated. It was only after the general manager ordered that he be surrounded by three troops and horses, and he was captured."

"Originally, Hei Te Changzhi was not on the prisoner list when he entered the court this time, but he left a deep impression on the chief executive, so he was specially added."

Chen Qingsi looked like that.

Because of his own appearance, history has finally changed slightly.

Black Teeth Sangji was the main force of the Baekje Restoration Army in history. He originally surrendered with the King of Baekje. However, Su Dingfang failed to restrain his troops at that time. After capturing the King of Baekje and Prince Long and others, he still sent troops to plunder Baekje. Many people in Baekje City were killed. Hei Te Chang was frightened and furious, so he fled back to his headquarters with more than a dozen of his men, gathered the soldiers who had fled and been separated, and started an uprising.

Relying on the terrain, Heijia Changzhi even repelled Su Dingfang's personal crusade at Rencun Mountain.

Hei Te Changzhi defended the mountain, and all the Tang troops were unable to do anything to him. It wasn't until the Baekje Restoration Army was destroyed that Li Zhi heard about Hei Te Changzhi's bravery and personally sent an envoy from Chang'an to Baekje to recruit him to surrender, and then he subdued the famous general.

Later, Hei Te Changzhi made great military exploits for the Tang army, turning the tide many times and defeating and repelling the Tibetan army.

Heijichangzhi resisted Tibet for seven years, and the Tang army completely got over the shadow of two large-scale defeats in Dafeichuan and Qinghai, making the arrogant Tibetans dare not invade.

Then Hei Te Changzhi forced Wu Zetian to death.

In that era of drought, the Baekje general Hei Chi Changzhi was undoubtedly the most dazzling general of the Tang army.

Chen Qingsi's eyes were burning and she thought: "I didn't expect that Su Xinggong would bring him to Chang'an. This is good news."

After the welcome banquet was over, Chen Qingsi asked Li Zhi's chamberlain to stop him when he was leaving.

"Shilang Chen, your Majesty invites you."

Chen Qingsi followed the chamberlain all the way to the back hall of Tai Chi Hall, where Li Zhi was standing with his hands behind his back.

This was the first time Chen Qingsi encountered such a situation, so she hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.

Li Zhi waved his hand and said, "It's not a formal occasion, so there's no need to be restrained." He paused and said, "Miracle Doctor Sun asked me to move around a lot after eating. How about you, dear, accompany me for a few steps?"

Chen Qingsi heard some of the inner meaning and hurriedly said: "I am honored."

Li Zhi nodded and took the lead, followed by Chen Qingsi and the guards at a distance.

After walking for a while, Li Zhi's voice came from before, saying: "The King of Silla handed me his credentials. In the credentials, he was very enthusiastic. He congratulated me on winning Baekje, and also invited me to join him in the credentials. And destroyed Goguryeo, he said in the letter of credence that they would help with all their strength. Before the banquet, I summoned Su Xinggong and learned about the situation of Baekje with him. I also asked his opinion. Su Xinggong said, Baekje They have some secret contacts with Goguryeo, and they have not set up effective defensive offensives on each other's borders. If they attack immediately at this time, they can drive straight in and reach Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo."

"About that..."

Li Zhi stopped, turned around, looked at Chen Qingsi and said, "Ai Qing, what do you think of this?"

Chen Qingsi said without hesitation: "My opinion remains unchanged, it is not appropriate to attack immediately. Silla cannot believe it. As for Su Xinggong, from a tactical point of view, his opinions are indeed reasonable, but Su Xinggong ignored the internal situation of Baekje." Situation. Baekje is not from our clan, and our government only occupied it for more than a month, and the people's mentality changed. From Baekje to invade Goguryeo, the logistical pressure fell on the Baekje soldiers and civilians who did not want to return. Once they were deceived, the rear area would definitely be corrupted. . Even if the front line is marching straight in and there is no disadvantage, if there is a fire in the backyard, all the previous efforts will be wasted."

"Your Majesty, what Silla wants is for our army to be defeated. Only if our army collapses in the east of the sea and the invincible golden body is destroyed, they will no longer be afraid of them!"

(End of this chapter)