Reborn Tang Emperor Li Chengqian

Chapter 423
In Zichen Hall, Li Chengqian invited Liu Ren to sit with Shangguanyi and ordered them to serve tea.

"This is the tea that was newly brought in as a tribute this year. How would you like to taste the brewed tea soup?" Li Chengqian said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for the tea." Liu Renyuan thanked him, took a sip of the tea soup and said, "Good tea is really good tea, even I, who doesn't drink much tea, think it tastes good."

"If you like it, you can take some back to brew. You can drink it by yourself when you have nothing to do on weekdays. Even if you have guests, it is not disrespectful to serve this tea." Li Chengqian said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty! Such a good tea, a gift from the emperor, I can't just greet guests casually. If I greet guests casually, I'm afraid the tea will be gone in less than a day!"

"I have to keep this baby and drink it by myself. It would be nice to give them a bowl of boiled water when the guests come! Can they still dislike it? Haha!" Liu Renyuan laughed.

"You! Don't be petty, it's just some tea leaves, not worth a lot of money. If you really like it, I will ask the Shaofu to buy some for you later." Li Chengqian laughed.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Liu Renyuan saluted with his arms crossed.

"Now let's talk about the issue you just mentioned. Liuzhou Man has indeed rebelled, and I have sent people to suppress it!" Li Chengqian said.

"I don't know who His Majesty sent to suppress the rebellion, but did you ever put down the rebellion?" Liu Renyuan asked.

"The Commander of Jin Yiwei, Long Zhi, has completely quelled the rebellion." Li Chengqian said.

"Liuzhou Man has always surrendered to our Great Tang, why did he raise his entire clan's soldiers to rebel against our Great Tang this time, Wu Junjie is not a foolish person, why did he do such an unwise thing this time?" Liu Ren wished.

"This is the good news from Long Zhi, the Commander of Jin Yiwei, you will understand after reading it!" Li Chengqian handed a good news to Liu Renyuan, who hurriedly got up to take it.

Liu Ren would like to open the good report, which described in detail the process of suppressing the rebellion and the Liuzhou Man rebellion, and Long Zhi's analysis of the reasons for Liuzhou Man's rebellion.

"The report said that the rebellion in Liuzhou is very likely to be related to Tubo. Tubo Prime Minister Lu Dongzan is leading the army to fight against Tuyuhun at this time. How could he be distracted and provoke disputes?" Liu Renyuan was not convinced.

What good does it do for Tubo to fan the flames everywhere?
"What? You don't believe there is such a possibility?" Li Chengqian said.

"I just don't quite understand. What good does Tubo do like this? Now, Lu Dongzan has fought fiercely in Tuyuhun for several years, but he still has nothing to do with Tuyuhun. Shouldn't all his energy be put on dealing with Tuyuhun at this time?" Is it?" Liu Ren asked.

If you add trouble to the Tang Dynasty, what can Tubo gain? After all, everyone is still a "relative". If you don't expect me to order, you won't get any benefits.

"Tuyuhun is a buffer zone between Tubo and Tang Dynasty, but it is an indispensable part of Tubo's development."

"As long as Tuyuhun is captured, Tubo can get a lot of resources. In the long run, Tuyuhun has a good geographical environment, and there is no place in the northwest that can be better than Tuyuhun."

"This is also the reason why Tubo must fight against Tuyuhun. Although Tubo has been fighting fiercely for several years, it is still inevitable to win Tuyuhun."

"Once Tuyuhun falls into the hands of Tubo, Tubo will be able to pose a direct threat to our Tang Dynasty, especially the Western Regions."

"Taking Tuyuhun means that Tubo has completely opened up the Western Regions. The four Anxi towns of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions will be completely exposed to Tubo."

"In order to prevent Tubo's power from becoming bigger, I left three large armies for Tuyuhun to contain Tubo, so that Tuyuhun can last for such a long time."

"In order to allow me to transfer these three armies away from Tuyuhun, Tubo not only reached out to Liuzhou, but even Mobei is now in constant war."

"The imperial court is tired of dealing with it now, which is one of the reasons why I am eager to destroy Goguryeo." Li Chengqian said.

What he can do now is to solve the problem of tranquility on the Liaodong border as soon as possible, and then send troops to the north to put down the rebellion in Mobei first, and then send troops to drive Lu Dongzan back to Tubo.

Lu Dongzan was also clearly aware of this, so he sent people to infiltrate various places to sow discord between various tribes and the Tang Dynasty, making some tribes agree to rebel together.

The purpose was to make Datang tired of coping, and in the end, the Tang army in Tuyuhun had to be withdrawn to fight the fire.

Lu Dongzan had already obtained reliable information from Tuyuhun's sinner Su Hegui, and now Tuyuhun is just a strong outsider but a capable person in the middle.

If there was no obstruction from the Tang army, Tuyuhun would already be in Tubo's pocket, so Lu Dongzan sent people around to sow dissension and sow discord between Tang and other surrounding tribes at the suggestion of Lun Qinling.

"Then why didn't His Majesty issue an edict to withdraw the army in Tuyuhun to quell the rebellion, so that there is no need to worry about it, and there will be no soldiers to quell the rebellion." Liu Ren wished.

"No, the current Tuyuhun is actually already empty inside, and its strength is not much. Once our army withdraws from Tuyuhun, Tubo will be able to take Tuyuhun with ease."

"At that time, we will have to face the threat of Tubo on the frontier of the Tang Dynasty, and the threat of Tubo to the Tang Dynasty will be even greater without Tuyuhun's stop."

"The entire Western Regions will never have peace. Tubo's wolf ambition can be said to be Sima Zhao's heart, and everyone knows it."

"Therefore, no matter how difficult it is for the imperial court, it is absolutely impossible to withdraw the army in Tuyuhun. In order to make it easier for them to resist Tubo, I plan to grant them autocratic power."

"They can recruit soldiers by themselves, raise food and salaries by themselves," Li Chengqian said.

"Your Majesty! Absolutely not! Once they have these rights, it will eventually lead to a situation where the tail is too big to lose, and the soldiers are self-respecting."

"There will be a situation of separatism in the northwest. If they don't obey the order and the government's control, they will eventually become a new hidden danger for the Tang Dynasty. Please think twice, Your Majesty." .

Since ancient times, it has been something that the emperor and the court have been afraid of when the generals support their troops outside, which will threaten the consolidation of the imperial power and the prestige of the court.

In order to solve this problem, all dynasties and dynasties have struggled with their brains and came up with various systems to restrict the emergence of this phenomenon.

Datang's land equalization system plus the government military system solved this problem exactly.

The characteristic of the Fubing system is the integration of soldiers and farmers. Fubing is usually a farmer who cultivates the land, trains between farms, and joins the army to fight in wartime.

Mansion soldiers prepare their own weapons and horses to participate in the battle, and the entire Tang Dynasty has Zhechong Mansion responsible for the selection and training of mansion soldiers.

The government soldiers are led by the generals of the Twelve Guards and do not have real command authority.During the war, the emperor temporarily appointed the chief commander of the army as the supreme commander of the army to exercise command power.

(End of this chapter)