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Li Shimin didn't want to kill his son at first, but now the news of Li You's rebellion has spread to the court, and the ministers headed by Wei Zheng demanded that Li You be severely punished, so Li Shimin was under great pressure, but when he was in a dilemma, the first However, Fang Xuanling, the important minister, said that there was a way to get the best of both worlds, which shocked Li Shimin. Fang Xuanling was resourceful, and since he said there was a way, there must be a way.

Seeing Li Shimin looking at him with hope on his face, Fang Xuanling coughed lightly and said, "My Majesty, the king of Shu disregarded his father and rebelled against the world. It's hard to convince the public!"

Fang Xuanling's words above are very serious, and the meaning in the words is also very clear, that is, let Li Shimin punish Li You severely, and this hit Li Shimin who was full of hope, but he is the king of a country after all, He soon came to his senses, and at the same time his complexion was even more gloomy, and his eyes were full of anger when he looked at Fang Xuanling, wondering if even Fang Xuanling would force him to kill his son Li You?

However, Fang Xuanling suddenly showed a somewhat strange smile and said: "Although the king of Shu is an emperor, his crime is unforgivable after all, so the old minister thinks that the king of Shu should be severely punished. , domestic criminals are generally exiled to the king of Qi to work and forgive their crimes, so the old minister suggested that the king of Shu can be demoted to a common man, and then sent to the king of Qi for disposal!"

high!It's really high!Just as Fang Xuanling finished speaking, Li Jing and Changsun Wuji next to him all looked at each other with admiration in their eyes. Although Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling were at odds, when dealing with Li You, They were all on Li Shimin's side, so Changsun Wuji naturally admired Fang Xuanling's ingenious handling.Capital Datang 360

And Li Shimin just slapped the table, walked excitedly to Fang Xuanling and praised loudly: "Okay, Xuanling is worthy of being my humerus. My Tang Dynasty governs the country with benevolence and righteousness. Even if they are criminals, I will give them a chance." , although Li You made a big mistake, he is still too young after all. He was instigated by villains, so it is inevitable to make mistakes. So this time, I will give him a chance to be sent to Liu Lang to work as a coolie, but the miasma is rampant overseas. Li You Once this rebellious son is gone, I'm afraid we will never see each other again!"

Li Shimin's previous words are his sincere words, revealing that he does not want to execute his son, but in the end he may find that he is too explicit, so he added a sentence about the rampant overseas miasma. It's very dangerous for you to go to Li Yin's place, so he uses this to cover up his embarrassment.Fang Xuanling and the other three could hear it naturally, but they all looked at each other and smiled without saying anything.

The reason why Fang Xuanling proposed to exile Li You to Li Yin was actually based on facts. At the beginning, Li Yin lacked manpower, so he proposed to Li Shimin that he hoped that all criminals in the country would be exiled to him. What kind of heavy work do these people do? I just want these criminals to be overseers and manage the slaves who work. After all, compared to other people, these vicious criminals are the most suitable for this kind of work.

And Li Shimin heard this suggestion is not bad, anyway, if the criminals are placed in the country, not only will prisons be built for them, but also food will be wasted, it is better to give them all to Li Min, anyway, it is overseas, and they are not afraid of these criminals coming back, so Also agreed.Up to now, [-]% of the prisons in the Tang Dynasty have been cut down, and most of the criminals have been sent to Taiwan. Most of the remaining [-]% of the prisons are just for show, detaining a few criminals who are not convenient for exile.

It is also worth mentioning that, in order to support Li Yin, Li Shimin has ordered that, except for some heinous criminals, some other death row inmates will also be exempted from the death penalty and exiled overseas for life.

Ordinarily, Li You should be charged with the heinous crime of treason, but he is Li Shimin's son after all, so Fang Xuanling proposed to treat him as a general death row prisoner and exile him to Li Yin. The head is lighter, but after all, he saved his life. As for Li Yin, although he and Li You have a bad relationship, they are brothers after all. No matter how much Li Yin doesn't like Li You, he probably won't really embarrass him too much .

Three days later, the news of Li You's rebellion finally got out, and all major newspapers began to report it. But before that, Li You's punishment had already been decided. Then he was exiled overseas and could never return to China, but because of Li You's special status, this time he had to go to Sibi to meet Li Yin first, and then Li Yin arranged for him to go fishing for sea turtles on an unremarkable island?

When Li You's punishment was issued, an order from the Ministry of War was also issued to the Tang Army in the Grassland, asking them to cooperate with Prince Qi Fu's actions, and to let go of a way out for those barbarians in the grassland who belonged to King Qi.

The hot summer has not yet passed, the grassland is lush, the long grass is taller than cattle and sheep, occasionally a breeze blows, the green grass leaves undulate like sea waves, this makes Wang An who is sitting in the carriage I was in a trance, feeling as if I had returned to the endless sea.

Wang An, Duer and his party arrived in Taiyuan half a month ago and took a rest there. At the same time, they also received an imperial decree from Chang'an, authorizing him to recruit grassland tribes.Then Wang An and the others immediately headed north along the newly repaired prairie cement road.

This journey gave Wang An a more realistic understanding of the situation on the grassland. Since they entered the grassland, what they saw was no longer the endless grassland of the past, but a winding road extending to the sky. There is a cement road, and along this cement road, there are fortresses standing on the grassland from time to time. In front of the gate of the fortress, pedestrians come and go, many of them are barbarians on the grassland. Wool, cattle and sheep, etc., in exchange for salt, tea bricks and other daily necessities in the fortress.

In addition, quite a few of the people who came in and out were Han Chinese, and even among the shepherds I met occasionally, many of them were dressed as Tang people. From this, it can be seen that the tentacles of the Tang Dynasty have really extended into the grassland. I believe that decades later, This place will become an integral part of Datang.

Although the cement road on the grassland was not very wide, it was built very solidly. Wang An rode the carriage all the way at first, and soon came to the northernmost point where Datang actually controlled the grassland, that is, the end of the cement road.But here, the army of the Tang Dynasty is stationed, and there are laborers recruited from various ethnic groups in the grassland to work here. The work is very simple, that is, to build roads and forts.I don't know who came up with this trick. Datang only paid for money and supplies, but he asked for manpower from the attached prairie barbarians. In this way, it became the prairie barbarians themselves strangling the rope around their own necks.

When Wang An arrived here, the garrison here had already received orders, so after seeing Wang An, the garrison not only entertained him very warmly, but also sent 1000 cavalry as Wang An's guards to prevent them from Something unexpected happened on the grassland.

After bidding farewell to the Tang army, Wang An formally entered the grassland that had not yet been completely controlled by the Tang Dynasty.As soon as he entered here, Wang An immediately felt a barbaric atmosphere rushing towards his face. Compared with the grassland actually controlled by Datang, the grassland they were in was almost dangerous, even if they fought against the regular army of Datang However, on the road, I also encountered a few groups of daring horse thieves.

The origin of these horse thieves is very complicated. Some horse thieves are composed of shepherds who lost their tribes and escaped slaves. However, the proportion of such horse thieves is not large. Most of the horse thieves are cameos from nearby tribes. These prairie barbarians have always been vicious Serving the people and thieves is just a matter of thought, as long as they see a profit, they dare to stroke even the beards of the regular army of the Tang Dynasty.

Wang An and the others have a very large team this time. There are 1000 palace guards alone and [-] Tang regular troops. In addition, when they were in Taiyuan, Toure also hired a large caravan and bought a large number of them. Daily necessities, after all, after their tribe escaped, all kinds of daily necessities were in short supply, so they just took this opportunity to replenish some.However, these things also attracted the attention of many gangs of horse thieves, so they ignored the deterrence of the regular army of the Tang Dynasty and wanted to take millet out of the fire several times. Unfortunately, Wang An kicked the iron board this time. Not to mention, the five hundred palace guards alone are not enough for these horse thieves. After all, these people are all tiger-headed troops, and there are no more than ten times the number of people trying to stop this elite team. It is simply a dream.

Along the way, several daring horse thieves were defeated, and the tiger-headed army's attack was naturally very bloody, but it was also like this, which finally frightened those prairie barbarians who were fearful of power but not virtuous, and never dared to come again Mess with this team.After nearly ten days of traveling, Wang An finally arrived at the Luoyun Department where Duer was located in a carriage.

In fact, the Luoyun Department is not far from the actual control line of Datang. The reason why ten days of effort was wasted on the road was mainly because of Wang An's personal reasons. He had a handicap and could not ride a horse. , riding in a carriage is also very fast, but after entering this free grassland, it looks like the ground is very flat, but in fact there are many big and small pits, so the speed is naturally not fast.Capital Datang 360

Here is a very barren grassland, and the pasture is also sparse. The shepherds of Luoyun tribe drive their cattle and sheep to graze on such pastures. However, compared with other places with abundant pasture, the cattle and sheep of Luoyun tribe are obviously much thinner, but they After all, he escaped from other places, so it would be nice to have such a barren pasture.Even Wang An heard from Duer that they fought several times with other tribes just for this grassland, and they gained a firm foothold here because of the large population of the tribe.