Late Tang

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After Laba, the daytime becomes shorter and shorter, and it is the end of the new year in a blink of an eye.

Another new year is coming, and Li Jing in Yanjing City received the emperor's edict to change the Yuan Dynasty.The emperor who stayed in Chengdu was not reconciled to suicide. Now all the towns and cities in the world are gathering soldiers and horses, preparing to kill Huangchao and spending the first New Year in Chengdu. , and then impatiently discarded Qianfu, the year name that had been used for six years. After the new year, starting from New Year's Day, it will be the first year of Guangming.

The current emperor can also issue an edict to change the year name, and give some titles to the festival commanders.

Li Xuan is the emperor, but when he retreated to Xichuan, Jiannan, even the good-looking shence army collapsed, and there was only a new army controlled by eunuch Tian and Chen Cuicing. The powerful Longwei and the imperial government's decree can hardly reach the basin in the middle of Sichuan.

The towns such as Li Jing, Wang Chongrong, Gao Pian, and Zhou Bao still held the banner of the Tang Dynasty, but when they fought with each other, the prestige of the emperor was just a banner they held on the surface.

Li Jing was honored as the emperor's uncle by today's son, but in fact everyone knew that Li Jing was not from the Li Tang royal family.This uncle of the emperor, the king of Qin, and the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses is only 28 years old now, but because he controls several provinces and more than a hundred states, holds half of the east, and when he has a vast territory and a fine army, few people come to him again. Pay attention to Li Jing's young age, and the fact that this king of Qin is not a royal family anymore.

In the afternoon at the end of the twelfth lunar month in the sixth year of Qianfu, this young emperor uncle was sitting on the terrace of the hot spring villa on the outskirts of Yanjing. He was calm and calm.

Beside him, the twins of the Pei sisters leaned on the velvet upholstered chair relaxedly on one left and one on the right, with a relaxed look on their faces.The two of them look exactly the same, like two indistinguishable parallel lotus flowers.

The two sisters each gave Li Jing four children, all of whom were twins just like them.This is the second pair of twins born by the two sisters. In the past few years, the two have given birth to eight children for Li Jing, of which two pairs are twins and two pairs are girls.The two sisters brought eight children, and although there were nannies, wet nurses, and maidservants, it still made them exhausted.Seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming, the Chinese New Year time will be even busier.Li Jing simply sneaked in and took advantage of the last few days before the Chinese New Year to let them leave their children in the palace, and then take them to a hot spring villa in the suburbs to relax.

As a result, Dayue'er also came here together. In the past few years, she has almost given birth to three in a row. She is usually busy raising children all day long, so she rarely has the opportunity to get along with Li Jing.This time, it is also rare to let go of the child and come to vacation with Li Jing.For the other women in the family, Wang Guiniang is almost a cultivator with her hair, a monk at home, and doesn't care about common things.Wan'er helped take care of her and Gui Niang's children at home.Wang Wanjun is busy with the four sisters of the Yu family before they marry into the palace, continuing to manage and stabilize her position in the family.Xiao Yulou and Zhang Huier are now sharing the affairs in the backyard of the palace, making preparations for Yu Shi to accept the backyard of the palace in the future.The other two women, Yang Lihua and Qian Shi, were both pregnant and were raising their babies in the mansion.

"I know that you usually worry about your children, but you should always relax yourself like this." Li Jing said with a smile. "The children are getting older, so we can't pamper them too much. I plan that when the children in my family reach the age of three, they will have to participate in the preschool literacy etiquette, and then officially enter the school at the age of seven. Every year during the winter and summer, they have to participate in the literacy etiquette for two months each." Special training in time, learning riding and archery skills, and even labor production. Our children must not be arrogant and spoiled, ignorant of the five grains, and ignorant of the sufferings of the world."

Sister Hua heard this, and said worriedly: "Will it be too strict? Girls also want to learn martial arts and work?"

"Of course!"

"Why?"

"Because the world is cruel, we can't let our children live in glasshouses from an early age. We have to let them know the cruelty of the outside world and the wind, frost, rain and snow, so as to cultivate their stronger characters and abilities. "Li Jing said seriously.

Although the children are still young, Li Jing believes that the cultivation of children has to start from when they were babies.

Li Jing has many children, many wives and concubines, and many children.But Li Jing didn't want to leave it alone after giving birth. Although there was no accident, these children would be well-dressed and rich in the future, but Li Jing hoped that her children would become elites, not a group of parasites.

He has always believed that having more children is also an advantage, and making them all elites will allow them to have more choices when choosing heirs in the future, instead of only being short and tall.As for the claim that the eldest son would inherit, Li Jing did not plan to follow suit.His heir should be a capable person, instead of being determined solely by bloodline and order of seniority.

The two sisters are traditional women who listen to men in all important matters, and they have no objection to Li Jing's decision.Compared with thinking about their children's future, they are more concerned about Da Yue'er right now. "How is sister Yue'er?"

Da Yue'er came to have warm soup together today, and was very happy at first, but after Li Jing told her the news, she was so sad that she locked herself in the room and could not come out.

"The country of Bohai is about to perish. As the princess of Bohai, Yue'er is naturally in a bad mood at the moment." Li Jing replied a little casually.In fact, Li Jing also frowned a little when he received the news at noon.

Bohai State is located in Haidong, a prosperous country in the Northeast with a population of 500 million, especially today's Bohai Sea has long since lost its robustness when it was founded, and has become very stable after it has been converted to farming.As neighbors in Qin Fan's backyard, Bo Haiwai looks huge but is weak in reality. They are completely friendly to Qin Fan.It is a good ally of the Qin Fan to stabilize the rear and block the invasion of the people of the hunting tribes in the northeast and north.

But now, Li Jing just received the news that the Bohai Kingdom had been confronting the Heishui tribe in the farther north before, with only a small loss.But this time, with the support of the Khitan, the Heishui Department smashed the Bohai Navy, and the border defense line of the Bohai Sea collapsed.

The Huaiyuan Mansion, Anyuan Mansion, Anbian Mansion, and Tieli Mansion of the Bohai Kingdom fell successively. The coalition forces had already reached Longquan Mansion in Shangjing.

Now Bohai Kingdom still controls only seven mansions. If they lose again, they will withdraw to Buyeo Mansion. Behind Zhongjing Mansion and Buyeo Mansion, those former Bohai lands have already been ceded to Qin Fan.If the Bohai Sea is destroyed, then the Qin Army will also lose the Haidong barrier.

Li Jing was very surprised by this sudden battle, even the staff office did not expect it.

The Heishui Ministry and the Bohai State are both Mohe tribes, but the Bohai State is the Sogdia tribe, and the Sogdia tribe was deeply influenced by the Central Plains, and gradually changed to farming. However, the Heishui tribe in the north has always maintained the tradition of hunting. , hunting among the worst white mountains and black waters.When the Bohai Sea was strong, it continued to expand to the northeast, squeezing the territory of the Black Water Department, attacking and conquering them.Only for more than 200 years, the Heishui tribe did not surrender to the Bohai Kingdom. When the Bohai Sea is in decline, the Heishui tribe still maintains their powerful hunting skills.

And all this, with the help of the Khitan people and the Mobei Shiwei people, they defeated the Bohai people in one fell swoop.

The Bohai people were defeated, and there was actually a little contribution from Qin Fan.In the war between the Bohai Sea and the Blackwater tribe, Qin Fan vigorously procured all kinds of ordnance to the Bohai State on the surface, but secretly, in order to prevent the Bohai State from becoming bigger, he quietly procured old-fashioned ordnance to the Blackwater Ministry. Originally, this was just for the sea. Eastern balance.

But when Khitan and Shiwei strongly supported the Blackwater Ministry, the balance was immediately broken.

It has to be said that the Khitan people's revenge came very quickly. The last time the Qin army made a feint in the Northern Expedition, they destroyed the Dongxi tribe.As a result, now that the Khitans are about to take revenge, they are so smart that they didn't invade Xijing directly, or harass the border of western Liaoning. Take the weak Bohai Sea as a breakthrough.

The intention of the Khitan people is obvious, aiming at the Bohai Sea to unite the three major tribes of Khitan, Shiwei, and Heishui.After destroying Bohai, the three families will carve up and strengthen their strength together, and then compete with the Qin army in the northeast.

Bohai is weak now, but a lean camel is bigger than a horse.

The farming civilization with a population of 500 million is strong, and the army is weak, but Bohai has the population, craftsmen, food, ordnance and technology needed by countless nomadic tribes.Carve up and annex the Bohai Kingdom, which can immediately increase the strength of the three major tribes by several levels.

This is indeed a very sharp sword, attacking the enemy will save it!

If Li Jing abandons Bohai and ignores it, then he will just sit back and watch the Khitan, the enemy, become stronger.But if it is rescued, the Qin army does not have much advantage in fighting in the strange land of Bohai Sea, and even the logistics supply of food and grass will be a big problem.

If there are fewer soldiers, it will be difficult to solve the problem. If there are too many soldiers, the logistics will drag down the army.

Moreover, at the moment when the Qin army was preparing to deal with Li Quanzhong and send troops to seize the key to the Yiding two states, Li Jing found that he had to go all the way to Haidong to fight the Hu Qi barbarian army. It was really annoying.

As the old saying goes, things never go the way you want them to.

"Tell Yue'er, I will not disregard Bohai, nor will I disregard the safety of the Da clan. Qin Fan and Bohai are allies, and I have a relationship with the king of Bohai. How can I sit idly by and ignore death?" Li Jing got up, "You guys have a good day here, and I will arrange someone to take you back to the city tomorrow morning. Now, I will go back to Yanjing first."

After leaving the villa, Li Jing got on his horse and led the guards to gallop across the midwinter wilderness, leaving helplessness, anger, and dissatisfaction behind.

Entering the city, dismounted in front of the palace, entered the political affairs hall, and just sat down, Gongsun Lan walked in, wearing a solemn and unassuming scarlet collared robe, which complemented her tall body and gentle smile.She sat in front of Li Jing, and looked at him with a pair of elegant, noble, and charming eyes.

Looking at Li Jing who was a little frustrated, Gongsun Lan, the female prince of the Qin family, the head of intelligence breathed out, "Sanlang, why don't you stay in the villa for a while, let the provincial court take care of these small things."

"This is not a trivial matter. It is a major matter full of urgency and mortal threats." Li Jing picked up the pen and spread out the paper to write the warrant of the King of Qin. "The threat of Khitan, Shiwei, and the Blackwater Ministry after joining forces is too great. You have also seen that Bohai, the former prosperous country in the east of the sea, was almost wiped out under their iron heels. If the country of Bohai collapsed, the consequences would be unimaginable. In any case, None of us can allow such savages to roam our backyards. Now, we must fight back!" (To be continued.)