Wentang

Chapter 703 Li Li is Happy

Li Lizhi is pregnant.

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She retched when she smelled alcohol. At first, everyone didn't pay attention to it and thought it was a slight physical discomfort, and advised her not to drink if she couldn't drink it.

Only the eldest grandson Wugou, the mother of five children, immediately thought of something, calmly pulled her aside, and then asked Lishi to call for the imperial doctor quickly.

The truth is exactly as she guessed, it's a happy pulse.

When this news was spread to the banquet, the crowd immediately boiled over, congratulating Li Shimin and Yue Shan one after another.

Li Shimin drank three cups excitedly, and Yue Shan's heart was beating with excitement.

Li Chengqian was also very happy, as soon as he came back, his sister was found to have a happy pulse, this is his little nephew welcoming him.

The problem of Yueshan's heirs can be said to be the biggest heart disease of the royal family.

It would be fine if he had no heir due to other reasons, but he was condemned by God to have no heir because he protected the empress from disaster—the whole world thinks so, how can you make the royal family feel at ease.

It can be said that they are willing to try any solution to this problem other than wanting the Li family's country.

That's why Yue Shan proposed to donate to build a library in the name of Li Lizhi, so the imperial court agreed without hesitation, and asked local government offices to cooperate.During this year, Datang has added more than 2000 Changle buildings.

Now that Li Lizhi is finally happy, the royal family can finally relieve a little burden.

But this is not the end, just being pregnant is not enough, you have to wait until you are born and grow up healthy to let everyone really feel at ease.

The new mother-in-law Li Lizhi immediately became a rare protected animal, and the eldest grandson Wugou sent four of the most experienced nuns to take care of her all the time.

Of course, don't even think about banquets, all kinds of parties are not allowed to attend.Anyone who dares not open their eyes to invite her to a banquet or something can pack their bags the next day and go to work in a remote and desolate place with their husband.

After the old couple found out, they went to the ancestral hall excitedly to pay several big tributes to their ancestors. The whole Yue family was even more lively than the Chinese New Year with the lanterns and festoons.People with four surnames Ping are also happy for them.

Princess Changle is happy that the son of the fairy, Qingshuihou Yueshan, is going to be a father. The news spread throughout Chang'an City overnight as if he had grown wings, and became the hottest topic.

After all, Yueshan itself represents a topic, and the story of a hen turning into a male is so legendary that the common people will never forget it, not to mention that another conspiracy was exposed this year to clear up the grievances of the princess.

The news that he was condemned by the gods and may be extinct is well known to everyone, and it is also very clear that he built a library to accumulate virtue to solve this matter.

No one knows whether this method will work or not. It can only be said that a dead horse is treated as a living horse doctor.

Who would have thought that the dead horse could really be revived.

Could it be true that being a good person and doing good deeds can offset sins and accumulate blessings for future generations in the next life?

This issue soon surpassed Li Lizhi's pregnancy and became the hottest topic nowadays.

At this moment, a group of people keenly seized the opportunity to publicize this matter, that is Buddhism.

Buddhism pays the most attention to karma, accumulating virtue and doing good deeds, and pursuing blessings in the next life. Is there any better example than Yueshan?

They immediately made countless stories about Yueshan and spread them everywhere in order to promote Buddhism.

These stories are exaggerated one by one. Some say that he is the descendant of the gods, some simply say that he is the descendant of the gods, some say that he knows 500 years before and [-] months later, and some say that he has boundless magic power to turn stones into gold...

Their descriptions of the female chicken turning into a male are also earth-shattering, what fighting against evil monks, what shaking mountains and seas, what lightning and thunder... The style is comparable to the previous life web articles.

After hearing their stories, even Yue Shan doubted whether he could use spells or not.

Fortunately, these stories all have one thing in common, that is, Yue Shan came to assist Ming Jun in creating a prosperous world, otherwise he would really have to beat these bald heads.

In fact, he was a little angry at first when he heard that Buddhism used him to preach.It's too disrespectful to me, at least say hello to me first.

But then I thought that the imperial court had severely suppressed Buddhism in the past two years, and it was time for them to relax.If the spring is pressed too hard, it will either be abolished directly, or it will rebound even more.

Buddhism has penetrated into the people, and it is unrealistic to abolish them.If they are really forced to go underground and turn into a cult, then they are truly hopeless.

How terrifying is the contagiousness and harmfulness of cults? Yue Shan is too clear. There is no way to solve it when it was so developed in the previous life, let alone ancient times.

Buddhism can be suppressed or reformed, there is no need to forcibly eliminate it.

Besides, the biggest advantage of Chinese civilization is inclusiveness, which can absorb various foreign civilizations for my use.Buddhism has its own excellence, and it is enough to select its essence and discard its dross and absorb it selectively.

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Through the propaganda and dissemination of Buddhism, Yue Shan has completely become a household name.Even a three-year-old child knows that there is a living fairy named Yue Shan in Datang, who has boundless mana to assist Mingjun.

The virtue of accumulating good deeds is believed by later generations and more and more people.

Especially those rich and big households, who originally scoffed at the accumulation of Yin virtues, but now they are also beginning to be skeptical.

Anyway, if the family has money, how about trying to pluck a hair?

So Datang suddenly had many good people who built bridges and paved roads.I don't know if doing this can accumulate virtue, but because of their sudden kindness, they have received praise from many people.

Those big families felt very comfortable after hearing this, and felt that it was such a happy thing to be praised sincerely, and it was worth pulling out this 'hair'.

Let's say that Yueshan became even busier after news of Li Lizhi's happiness came out.

People who mattered or not came to say congratulations, which made him really have a lively and busy year.

In addition to his own becoming a father, there is another happy event, Feng Yi has found a partner.

This was beyond Yue Shan's expectation. He thought that Chen Zhong should get married first, but he didn't expect it to be Feng Yi, who claims to not want to be restrained.

Moreover, the identity of his object is not ordinary, the daughter of the Zui family, the largest aristocratic family in Hubei Province.

What is the charm of this daughter of the Xu family?Specialized in taming libertines?
Li Bai almost got married because of Xu's daughter, and his apprentice was hooked away less than a year after he went to Hubei Road.

After knowing the details, I have to say, fate.

Feng Yi was ordered to build an academy in Hubei, so it was inevitable that he would deal with the local aristocratic family, thus strengthening the Xu family's Master Xu Yu.

As soon as everyone reminisced about the past, they found out that it was the same year, and the relationship immediately became different.

Master Xu Yu was so enthusiastic, he invited Feng Yi as a guest to the banquet when he saw the sky, and even used his family power to help build the academy, spread influence and so on.

Feng Yi could guess his purpose and wanted to curry favor with Master Yue Shan through himself.But he didn't refuse, as long as he didn't have bad intentions to fawn on him, he would fawn on him.

And after a period of contact, he found that Master Xu Yu was also a real person, and gradually developed a feeling of sympathy for each other, and slowly became friends.

Then I met Master Xu Yu's direct sister... Xu's family has a long history of education, this girl has been taught by a famous teacher since she was a child, and she is also a famous talented woman.Come and go... So bastard saw Mung Dou meet his eyes.

What else could Yue Shan say, he personally wrote a letter to thank the Xu family for their help, and bought generous gifts for them.At the same time, he also wrote a letter to Meng Yao, the Patriarch of the Meng family, asking him to be a matchmaker to hire him.

There are many rules in the aristocratic family, and it is not easy to marry their daughter even if they are in love with each other. Didn't the great poet Li Bai marry Xu Yushi's granddaughter only after he became half a door-to-door son-in-law?

Based on Feng Yi's background, it is impossible to marry Master Xu Yu's own sister.But standing behind him is Yueshan, and now it is the principal of Yellow Crane Academy, so the situation is reversed.

But after all, she is a woman, and as a man, there must be no less rules, otherwise it will become an insult.

For example, if you hire a matchmaker, it doesn't matter if the matchmaker's status is low, at least he must be a celebrity, and it is best to be from a family.

Moreover, the matchmaker had to come to the door in the name of Yue Shan. The status of Feng Yi's parents seemed low, let alone Feng Yi himself.

These two points are the most important, and the amount of dowry has become secondary.If Yue Shan personally came to the door to make a matchmaker for his apprentice, even the Xu family would be willing to pay the dowry.

Naturally, it was impossible for Yue Shan to come to the door in person, not because he couldn't save face, but because he was too far away to go.

It just so happened that Meng Yao, the Patriarch of the Meng family, who is a famous new student, works in Hubei Province. His identity is very suitable to be the matchmaker, so Yue Shan wrote him a letter asking him to come forward.

Naturally, Meng Yao would not refuse this kind of happy event, so he communicated with Xu's family and picked an auspicious day to come and hire him, and the marriage was settled.The wedding date was set by Yue Shan in the early summer of next year.

Originally, the Xu family was afraid of Ye Changmeng and wanted to get married as soon as possible, but Miss Xu is only under 15 years old, and she will only turn sixteen next summer.Yue Shan has always advocated that women get married and have children at the age of 16, so naturally he would not let his disciples take the lead in violating it.

For this reason, Yue Shan personally wrote a letter to explain that it involved political ideas, and the Xu family also knew the importance and agreed to the wedding date.

In any case, through this matter, their family has finally connected with Yue Shan, and this is the biggest gain.

Feng Yi's parents were delighted to learn that their son was engaged, and that he was a daughter of a wealthy family.Everyone has to show off, and it didn't take long for every family with the four surnames Ping to know about it.

Then it aroused the dissatisfaction of another family, that is Chen Zhong's parents.

The two children studied art at the same time, passed the Jinshi examination at the same time, and went to work in Lianghu Road at the same time. Why did Feng Yi suddenly get engaged to the daughter of a wealthy family?

Chen Zhong, what are you bastard doing?
Chen's father and Chen's mother wrote several letters to Chen Zhong, asking him when he would get married.

The couple even ran to Yue Shan's house and talked side-by-side about it, which meant asking Yue Shan to remind them, or it would be better to introduce someone to Chen Zhong directly.

Yue Shan couldn't laugh or cry when he was disturbed, he calmed the two of them patiently, and then put the matter behind him.

Chen Zhong is no longer a child, and he is also very stubborn. It is not good for anyone to force him to choose something he doesn't like.

It's better to let him find out by himself, it's best if he finds the right one, and it's not too late to introduce him after a few years.

Time has entered February without knowing it, and Datang no longer conceals his intentions, and begins to mobilize troops to the north.

The Privy Council issued orders one after another. Twenty Zhechong mansions were transferred to the front line of Youzhou successively. All members of the Dizhou Navy were on standby.

At this time, no matter how stupid people are, they know what Datang is going to do, and the envoys of Goguryeo panicked immediately, and asked to meet Li Shimin while sending news to the country.

Li Shimin had already decided to conquest in person, so naturally he had no intention of making false claims with them, so he directly rejected their request.

In addition to Goguryeo, Baekje's envoys were also in a panic. They had been unclear about Goguryeo, for fear that Datang would wipe them out together.

It was also sending news to the country while begging to see Li Shimin.

Originally, Li Shimin wanted to appease them out of stability considerations, but was stopped by Li Ji.

"The unfaithful and unrighteous people in Baekje lack awe of our Tang Dynasty, so I just took this opportunity to teach them a lesson."

"What if they colluded with Goguryeo to fight Datang?" Fang Xuanling said.

"Then hug the grass and beat the rabbits and kill them as well." Li Jing said domineeringly.

Li Jing has been a privy envoy for many years, and because of his special status, he has always kept a low profile and forbearance.Originally, the credit for capturing Jieli alive and destroying the Eastern Turks that belonged to him in history was given to other people.

Now his term of office has expired, and he does not plan to seek re-election. The conquest of Goguryeo is regarded as the last tough battle of his term.He is not hiding himself anymore, showing his sharpness.

From the formulation of strategies and tactics, to the deployment of troops, to the appointment of generals, he actively participated.Everyone else knew what he was thinking, and no one held back, they all cooperated with each other.

"Okay, then take this opportunity to hit Baekje." Li Shimin said.

"However, the Khitan and Mohe tribes need to appease them well to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings."

"Saint, don't worry, I will leave this matter to the minister." Tang Jian, Minister of Honglu Temple, said.

Li Shimin nodded, still trusting the ability of Tang Jian, the number one diplomat.

Then he asked Zhang Hong and Li Daozong: "The people must pay close attention to the requisition, and the follow-up food and supplies must be delivered on time."

"Saint, don't worry, I will definitely complete the task." Zhang Hong and Li Daozong replied together.

"Why do you want to recruit civilian husbands?" Yue Shan asked, who didn't even look at him from the beginning to the end.

"Uh..." Everyone was stunned for a moment, not knowing what he meant.

Would Yue Shan not know the usefulness of expropriating civilian husbands?impossible.So why is he asking this question?Unable to understand what he meant, naturally no one dared to answer his question.

Li Shimin paused and asked directly: "What do you want to say?"

Yue Shan also knew that his words were ambiguous, so he quickly said: "Aren't we going to immigrate to Youzhou and other places? Isn't it enough to treat the young and strong among the immigrants as civilian husbands?"

"In the past, the large-scale immigration of the old, the young, the sick, and the disabled was the most troublesome. This time, they can just be transported by the car that transports grain and grass..."

"When the grain and grass are transported to the people and resettled on the spot, this time not only saves food and grass, but also saves hundreds of thousands of people's labor. Isn't it better than directly expropriating the people?"

Everyone was lost in thought, Yue Shan's method seemed very feasible, but he had never used it before, and he had to fully consider the gains and losses.

After a while Li Ji said: "This method is feasible, but the military situation cannot be delayed for a moment. The immigration will be slow because of the old and weak. I am afraid that the food and grass will not be sent to the front line in time."

"Last year, we shipped a large amount of supplies to the front line of Youzhou, enough for a 30-strong army to use for half a year. This time difference is enough to ensure that the immigrants can transport the second batch of supplies." Yue Shan said.

"I'm afraid that the third batch and the fourth batch of supplies will be needed if the war is delayed. I'm afraid it will be too late to temporarily recruit civilians. The delay of the war is not the most terrible thing, but the lack of food and grass will cause the army to mutiny." Li Ji said.

The others also nodded in agreement with him.

As the saying goes, a general thinks about defeat before he thinks about victory.No one can guarantee a [-]% winning rate when using troops. First consider how to end after failure, so as to minimize losses.

Goguryeo is not a small country, and it is very difficult to destroy the country at once. It is reasonable to consider the countermeasures to delay the war first.

Yue Shan smiled and said, "Goguryeo can't delay. I think the Tang Dynasty can destroy its country and family in a month at most. If it's not for stability, I don't want you to deliver the second batch of grain and grass."

"However, it is not wrong to transport more supplies in the past. After conquering Goguryeo, a large amount of supplies will be needed, which can just be used."

"..." Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, if it wasn't because the person who said this was Yue Shan, they would have kicked him out.

Goguryeo perish in one month?
What do you let the Han Dynasty think, what do you let Emperor Sui Yang think, and what do you let Goguryeo think about.

Li Jing didn't think he was talking nonsense, but asked seriously: "Is there really a good plan for Marquis Yue to destroy Goguryeo in one month?"

Yue Shan smiled and said: "It's not that I have a solution, but that you underestimate Datang's strength, or you underestimate the power of artillery."

"I once said that the way of war has changed since the day the artillery came into being. The defeat of the British cavalry at Jaley's headquarters was but a trivial feat of artillery."

"This time against Goguryeo, I will also go out with the sage. Then I will let you see the true power of the artillery with your own eyes."

Li Jing said excitedly: "Okay, I have always thought that Yuehou is the number one art of war master in the world, but you have been hiding your clumsiness and refused to show it. This time you are finally lucky enough to see it. I will wait and see."

"..." Now it was Yue Shan's turn to be speechless.

What is probably the first master of the art of war, what do you make Li Shimin think?This is the boss appointed by the Taizu as "the most capable soldier since ancient times".

He glanced anxiously at his father-in-law, and found that Li Shimin was not only not angry, but also looking expectant.Looking at other people, it's almost the same.

Well, I really can't explain it now.

It's normal for others to have misunderstandings in this regard if you think about it carefully. Let's see what he has done these years:
The establishment of a military academy and the establishment of Wanqi have fundamentally changed the way the army is trained.Later, the Dizhou Navy was formed single-handedly, and the Naval Academy was founded.

What's more, he planned the entire process of the Xuanwumen Incident, and predicted the demise of Liang Shidu's regime. He even predicted that Liang Shidu would die under his cronies.

How dare you say that this kind of person doesn't understand the art of war?
In the eyes of others, it's not that he doesn't understand the art of war, but that his understanding of the art of war has reached the strategic level.But Yue Shan kept saying that he could do nothing if he didn't understand others.

It didn't take long for civil and military power to be separated, and it was not easy for Yue Shan to intervene in the military when he became a civil servant.In addition, he did a great job in the position of civil servant, and single-handedly promoted the transformation of Datang.

No one cares about his military talents.

Now he said that he would follow the emperor himself, and he also said that he would destroy Goguryeo in one month.

Although everyone remains skeptical, it does not hinder their expectations, what if it really happens.

Even if Goguryeo can't be wiped out in a month, it can be done in half a year. As long as this wave can flatten Goguryeo, it will be an immortal achievement.

Being expected by so many bosses, Yue Shan expressed that he was under a lot of pressure.

But it's useless to explain the matter so far, I can only pray that this battle will go smoothly.

But it's not that he lacks confidence at all. He doesn't believe that any force in this world can withstand the bombardment of a thousand cannons.

After finishing talking about the war, everyone was about to disperse, when Yue Shan suddenly voiced his opinion, something important hadn't been said yet, so he hurriedly said:
"Everyone, the Academy has recently created a tool that can change the times, and a new round of experiments will be conducted tomorrow. Do you want to go and have a look together?"

(End of this chapter)