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Chapter 732

After Li Chongjiu killed Fu Gongyou, he led the Yiwei Army, Wuwei Army, and Tingwei Army with 5000 main forces to go north to reinforce Luoyang.

Before Li Chongjiu left, in addition to leaving Song Jingang as a general to lead the troops to guard Jianghuai, he ordered Yu Shinan to go to Jiangdu, concurrently Jiangnan, Shandong Daoxingtai Zuopushe, as a civil servant to prime minister Jiangnan and Shandong.

As for Wang Xiongdan, the surrendered general of the Jianghuai Army, Kan Leng took Fu Gongyou's head and recruited the Jianghuai cities to surrender.Most of the places in the Jianghuai area surrendered without a fight. Li Chongjiu occupied the entire Jianghuai area within a month with almost no resistance.

After defeating Jianghuai, Li Chongjiu not only rewarded Jianghuai Army's generals, but also Silla and Baekje's contribution to sending troops this time.

Li Chongjiu was now conferred the title of King Wuguang of Baekje, as the King of Baekje, and opened the third division of Yitong.Fuyu Yici, the son of King Wuguang, became the prince of Baekje.Canonized King Jinping of Silla as King of Silla, Kaifu Yitong Sansi.Princess Deman, the daughter of King Shinpei, is the crown prince of Silla.

This time Li Chongjiu regarded Baekje as a strategic ally like Silla.

As for the general who attacked Danyang Jiangdu this time, Jin Chunqiu of Silla, Li Chongjiu thought of his military achievements all the time, and named him the Duke of Changli County, and the official worshiped General Huben Lang.

The generals of Baekje Yunzhong and Li Chongjiu also made him a county marquis, and the official worshiped General Huyalang.

Li Chongjiu also left the two of them to continue to sit in Danyang, Jianghuai, with the Baekje Navy of Silla and the Dongyang Navy who surrendered, a total of nearly 2 troops. Chen Heng was on the Yangtze River. First, take Jing Xiang's posture directly, and second, it can also deter Lin Shihong, making him dare not act rashly.

May in Chang'an.The weather has gradually started to heat up.Li Shimin got off the chariot and walked on the road of the Wuji Palace.This chariot was given by Li Yuan after he defeated Wang Shichong. In addition, he accompanied him with swords and advocacy. The guard of honor in the palace was second only to Li Jiancheng.

After shouting before and after, he hugged Li Shimin and walked into the palace gate. In front of him was the Wuji Hall.Li Shimin didn't go directly to the Hall of Promise or the Imperial Study Room, but walked through the corridor to the side hall where officials from the Ministry of Education were waiting to discuss matters.

At this time, Li Shimin was the only one in the side hall, and he said to the surrounding guards: "You go out first." '

The guards retreated cleanly.
Li Shimin picked up the stacked memorials and picked up a few books to read. Soon the room was opened, and a young eunuch came in with a pot of tea.

The little eunuch looked around, then took out a letter from his sleeve, put it on the side of the plate and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, Lady Xue gave it to you." '

Li Shimin nodded when he saw it, took out a few silver beans from his sleeve and said, "Take it!" '

The little eunuch hurriedly said: "How dare you want to do things for the King of Qin and the empress." '

Li Shimin raised his head and glanced indifferently. Seeing Li Shimin's eyes, the little eunuch trembled immediately, and immediately took the silver beans and said, "Thank you, Your Highness Qin Wang." '

"That's it, back off!"

After speaking, the little eunuch was covered in sweat, and immediately stepped back, thinking, this king of Qin is so powerful.

After the little eunuch left, Li Shimin opened the letter Xue Jieyu had written to him, but saw that it was written in beautiful small characters.The general idea is that Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji led the North Road Tang Army to defeat in the Heyang area this time, resulting in a delay of the fighter plane, which made Li Yuan very angry.

When Li Yuan watched the memorials in the palace several times, he angrily scolded the two sons for being useless, and he had the idea of ​​changing commanders just before the battle.

Xue Jieyu said in the letter that this is the best time for Li Shimin to regain military power.

But Xue Jieyu advised Li Shimin not to be too eager to get ahead at this time. If Li Yuan wanted to, he would take the initiative to find Li Shimin. If he didn't speak up, he still had doubts about his son.At this time, Li Shimin took the initiative to ask for a commander, which made Li Yuan even more suspicious, so he might as well retreat to advance.

After reading Xue Jieyu's letter, Li Shimin nodded, thinking that this woman is really beautiful.If it wasn't for his own great cause, he would definitely accept him as his concubine, what a pity.

Li Shimin had just finished reading the letter when there was a knock on the door outside.Li Shimin asked: "What's the matter?" '

The outside said: "His Royal Highness Qin Wang, Your Majesty has an invitation, please move to the Imperial Study Room." '

Li Shimin put away the letter paper and said, "Got it." '

So Li Shimin picked up some memorials, and immediately opened the door, outside was Li Yuan's most trusted Eunuch Zheng waiting there.Li Shimin smiled and said, "Thank you, Eunuch Zheng, I've come to invite you in person." '

Eunuch Zheng said quickly: "King Qin is serious, please!" '

Li Shimin followed Eunuch Zheng into Li Yuan's imperial study room, but seeing Li Yuan's hands behind his back, his face was expressionless, and the ground of the imperial study room was covered with broken porcelain, and several officials from the household department and military department knelt in the room and did not dare to look up. There has just been a violent storm in the study.

"His Royal Highness King Qin is here!"

Following the report from outside the hall, Li Shimin stepped into the palace and said on the ground: "My son pays homage to the father, long live the father. Long live the father." '

After Li Shimin knelt down and kowtowed, he straightened up, but when he saw these officials from the Ministry of War and Housekeeping, he raised his head and looked at Li Shimin for help.

"Get up!"

Li Yuan turned around and said to those officials: "Hurry up and get out, Hou is here, don't you want your head?"

These few officials retreated in embarrassment, Li Shimin said: "Father, the people below are careless in their work, there is no need to get angry for them and hurt my body."

Li Yuan sighed and said: "Zhen, do you count on others? In the Great Tang Dynasty, how many people really made plans for the court and for Sheji. You see, there is only a slight drought in Guanzhong this year, and more than [-] counties in Longyou Guanzhong are on par with each other. I said that the spring wheat harvest may be poor, so it may not be possible to complete the tax collection this autumn, and the court must postpone it for a while."

"Haven't these people thought about me? The imperial court has used troops this year, and the money and food have been spent. They don't share my worries for me, but they come to hold me back at this time."

Li Shimin, as the minister, knew that Guanzhong Longyou's harvest might not be good this year.Logically speaking, this year's situation is not bad. Although it is not as good as last year's good year, it is much better than last year's disaster year.

It’s just that this year Li Tang’s campaign against Zhao, with an army of 10,000+, the war was only delayed for three months, and Li Tang’s treasury was almost empty.I thought that Li Yuan wanted to discuss with the local officials in advance to pay the October tax in June, but he didn't expect that the words had not been let go, and the officials below came to Li Yuan to complain in advance.

Li Shimin immediately said: "Father, now that things have happened, I think it is possible to follow the example of the time of the Han Dynasty and call on rich private businessmen to donate money. At the same time, isn't Zhao Guo doing a public debt and borrowing interest from the people? I think that This is a very good idea, you might as well use Guanzhong Yutian as a guarantee to borrow money from the people."

Li Yuan heard Li Shimin say this: "I will not do this to corrupt the official system, but you said that this public debt is a good way, and it can be solved!"

(End of this chapter)