Late Tang

"To be honest, I really never thought you would choose such a title."

Taishi and Shangshu Zuopu shot Cui Yunqing while looking at the military plan to reinforce the Northeast, he said that this is in Cui Yunqing's public house in the provincial government office of Shangshu in Wangcheng.

"Although Dezhao is smart, he is a concubine after all, and he is only eight years old now. It is too early to make him the son at this time." Li Jing, who was sitting behind Cui Yunqing's book case, replied with a wry smile. He has decided to grant Yu Youniang's son Li Deyu the title of King of Henan County.He has already written the memorial and will send it to Chengdu soon.Regardless of whether Li Xuan would agree or not, it was just a formality.However, he also knew that this son-in-law would be crowned king when he was less than one year old, and he would be crowned the king of Henan County, which would definitely cause controversy.

Li Dezhao, the eldest son of the concubine, was named King of Lanling County, and the eldest son was named King of Henan County.Obviously, the king of Henan County is much more noble than the king of Lanling County, which is obviously inclined to the eldest son.Even if Li Jing only crowned his eldest son as king and did not say who is his eldest son this time, he would still give such a signal to his subordinates.

Cui Yunqing put down the official document in her hand, couldn't help stroking a few strands of her long beard, and then tapped her fingers on the table, looking at this young woman who had been in the early years with quite interested eyes.After all these years of getting along, he knew very well that this woman's way of thinking was always different from ordinary people.He didn't believe that Li Jing's mind was really only thinking about such issues as establishing a heir, establishing a leader, establishing a leader and a virtuous person.Otherwise, he wouldn't be in such a hurry to make Henan County King for his son who is a few months old.

Cui Yunqing felt that she could see his thoughts, and Li Jing had been trying to balance.No matter in the official system or in the army, his strategy of balance is everywhere reflected in the employment of people.Even in Li Jing's harem, it's the same.

Balance seems to be the greatest manifestation of Li Jing's control.

In order to suppress those who held the banner of Li Dezhao to expand their power, Li Jing made his son, who was less than one year old, the king of Henan County.However, in order to prevent Yu's power from expanding too much, Li Jing only made Li Deyu the king of Henan County, but did not clearly establish his status as the prince.It can be seen that Li Jing adopted such means to avoid conflicts and greater internal conflicts**.After all, Qin Fan is still very young now, less than ten years ago, although the expansion is rapid, but the background is insufficient, and it cannot withstand internal strife.Li Jing's seemingly gentle method is actually very effective.He gave hope to the two relatively large factions within the Qin Fan, and asked them to temporarily put aside their internal strife and unite with the outside world.

"In ancient times, the establishment of a prince was to establish a heir but not an elder, and to establish an elder without establishing a virtuous person. This is the fundamental way to stabilize the country. Otherwise, breaking this foundation may be the source of disaster. Qin Dynasty and Sui Dynasty, this is the The two great empires that unified the world and divided the world ended up with the death of the second generation. The reason is largely because they abolished the elders and established the younger, which caused the country to shake. Even at the beginning of this dynasty, Emperor Taizong Xuanwumen He killed his brother and forced his father to take the position. With his heroic appearance and virtuousness, he was greatly criticized and caused several rebellions. You respectfully call this old man a teacher, and the old man will only say a few words. Previously, Princess Qin had no sons, and His Royal Highness sealed Lanling The king of the county is also an unacceptable thing. But now that the eldest son is here, why not simply take the opportunity of being named the king of Henan county this time, and announce that the king of Henan county is the son of Qin Fan? In this way, wouldn't it be early Get rid of other people's ideas, set the foundation early, so as to avoid future troubles?"

"Li is still Lichang, Lichang is Lixian, this is indeed a question." Li Jing nodded, "Now if this king declares Li Deyu as his son, no one will object to it. But think about it the other way around, Is it really appropriate to make Deyu the crown prince now? Deyu is only less than one year old, and just because he is the son of the eldest son, he is appointed the crown prince. Who knows what kind of character and ability he will have in the future? The crown prince is the heir apparent of the entire Qin family. It is very important. It is easy to establish today. If it is not suitable in the future, it is necessary to abolish and re-establish another son. That is what really shakes the fundamentals. To tell the truth, if both the first son and the eldest son are virtuous, they will definitely establish the first son. But if the elder is much wiser than the elder, then I don’t necessarily have to establish an heir. Now that the children are too young, it’s too early to talk about establishing an heir. Maybe there will be more wise men among the sons in the future Maybe."

There is a sentence that Li Jing hasn't said yet. Besides, no matter which one is established as the heir, it may hit the other party. This is not good for Qin Fan who is facing many foreign enemies. .If we don't establish a son for the time being, we can better unite the hearts of the people and work together to the outside world.

Li Jing didn't intend to discuss the issue of the prince anymore, it was still a little early, his goal was the world, and he also believed that sooner or later he would be able to win the world, and he would not just be a king in troubled times forever.

"Our army's action against Chengde seems to have worked. The lurking spies in Zhenzhou sent back news that Chengde's internal attitude has begun to change, although Wang Rong once said at the festival that we are just a bluff this time." However, Wang Jingyin and Wang Jingbin were frightened by us. They have changed their original tough attitude and plan to seek peace from us."

"What is the bottom line for their summation?"

After hearing Li Jing's words, Cui Yunqing's eyes narrowed involuntarily.

"Wang Jingyin's bottom line is that they can surrender to us, but they have to retain military power. The biggest bottom line is that they can send state and county civil servants to Chengde Town, but they will not let go of the army."

"What about the hostages?"

"They also refused to send members of the Wang family to Yanjing as hostages."

Cui Yunqing tapped her finger on the table, "It seems that our actions are indeed effective. The brothers Wang Jingyin are the actual controllers of Chengde Town. If they are frightened, then there is a good chance that they will bow their heads. But if they don't It’s not enough for hostages not to hand over military rights.” He said suddenly, “I remember that Wang Rong was only ten years old, and Wang Jingchong and Li Keyong made a marriage agreement for a son and daughter, so this is the son.”

"Well, that's right, the daughter of Yunniang and Li Keyong is engaged to Wang Rong."

"This kid is only ten years old, how can he see through our plan? Just guessing, Li Keyong participated in this matter later? If Li Keyong also participated in this matter, I'm afraid things will change."

Li Keyong is looking for the position of Hedong Jiedushi. Although there is no result yet, according to the information collected by the Supervisory Office, it is almost a foregone conclusion that Li Keyong will take over Hedong Town. .Li Keyong will soon be the envoy of Hedong Jiedu. His new home is Taiyuan to the east, Jingjingxing is Chengde's Zhenzhou. He certainly does not want his neighbor to the east to be Li Jing, and he definitely wants his son-in-law to be a neighbor.

"This matter has to be resolved quickly, and it can't be delayed for too long, lest Li Keyong intervene in the night." Li Jing said.

Yingjian, south of the southern city of Hejian Fortress, the most powerful cavalry unit of the Qin Army, the Dragoon Army of the Black Banner Legion with [-] cavalry heavy cavalry, uniformly dressed in "Dragoon-style" full-body armor, holding a long lance and a strong bow, Neatly lined up on both sides of the avenue outside the South City, black flying eagle flags, as well as the armored tyrannosaurus dragon cavalry flag and Li character general flag fluttered in the wind.

The solemn and solemn military formation stretched for several miles.

Li Cunxiao wore a navy blue carved battle armor, stepped off a big black horse, and stood in the army formation.

By his side, the governor, admiral, and governor of Hebei Province, as well as the left and right governors, the left and right criminal envoys, the left and right command envoys, the governors of Yingzhou, Sima, Changshi, Biejia, and defense envoys, etc. As well as the officers of the garrison army in the Hejian Fortress, they stood in order according to their titles and ranks.

All the civil and military officials were all wearing brand-new and well-fitting armored official robes, with an extraordinary imposing manner.

This day was the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month in the first year of Zhonghe. It was only twelve days since Qin Fan issued an ultimatum to Chengde Town, and only nine days had passed since Qin Army attacked Chengde.

In less than half a month, Chengdezhen was completely frightened.They lost eight cities in seven days, and when they left on the eighth day, they lost two more cities. Today, just on the way, Wang Jingbin received an urgent letter from his brother, and they lost two more cities.

Twelve cities were lost in nine days, and this is still under the condition that they have already proposed a peace.

After an urgent discussion between Wang Jingyin's brothers, the peace envoy sent this time was Wang Jingyin's brother Wang Jingyi himself.Wang Jingbin is the marching Sima of Chengde Town, the number three figure in Zhao Jun on the surface, but the number two figure in reality.Such a person came to negotiate a peace, showing great sincerity.

Hejian had already received an urgent letter from Feige from the Zhengshitang, asking them to greet them with grand etiquette.At this time, the garrison in Hejian received a letter from the King of Qin at the same time, asking them to "see the might of the Qin army when the Zhao army envoys go north!" For this reason, Li Jing also specially sent [-] heavy cavalry from the Dragon Cavalry Army of the Black Banner Legion, which had just been formed in the past two years, to Hejian as a team to welcome the mission, so that Zhao Jun could deeply feel the strength of Qin Jun. Powerful, show them off.

In fact, even if the dragon cavalry army did not come at this time, Zhao Jun had already felt the might of Qin Jun.

Twelve cities were captured in nine days. Even if Zhao Jun deliberately retreated and gathered in a few big cities, this speed also made Zhao Jun's scalp tingle.What's more, the Qin army mobilized 30 soldiers and civilians on the border of hundreds of miles this time, bluffing, making suspicious soldiers, and approaching the border across the board, scaring Wang Jingyin and others in the rear so much that they couldn't sleep or eat.

In fact, it's no wonder that Wang Jingyin and others are timid. It's really because the bluff that Li Jing arranged this time is too real.

After more than a year of truce, Li Jing also intends to take this opportunity to regroup the troops that have been disarmed for more than a year, especially those united soldiers, township soldiers, militiamen, student soldiers, and road maintenance soldiers.This is an exercise, an exercise for the mobilization of the whole people.

The troops stationed in the three provinces of Hebei, Shandong, and Beiping went out in parallel, going north and south.At the same time, it was ordered that the united soldiers, township soldiers, militias, student soldiers, and road maintenance soldiers in Hebei and Beiping provinces be called together to send troops separately.Immediately afterwards, Li Jing assembled the four legions of Wansheng, Changsheng, Black Banner, and Iron Cavalry, and moved to Tianjin. At the same time, he dispatched troops to Shandong, Jianghuai, and counties to go north to Dengzhou.

For a while, all kinds of soldiers and horses of the Qin army were mobilizing, and the scale of mobilization even exceeded the previous Battle of Daibei.In the Battle of Daibei, Li Jing did not mobilize the troops south of the Yellow River, but this time, Li Jing was not only mobilizing troops from Shandong, but even mobilizing troops from Jianghuai.This kind of action can be said to be the biggest action of Qin Jun in the past three years. (To be continued.)