Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 3327
Li Xiaogong thinks he is very clever in "striking the grass to scare the snake", but in fact he almost put Fang Jun into a disaster, so even though he is facing Fang Jun's ridicule at this moment, although he is full of anger, he is not easy to burst out, after all, he is guilty...

"Cough cough,"

After coughing twice, Li Xiaogong changed the subject: "The First Battle of Alagou was wonderful, and wiped out the troubles of the Anxi Army in one fell swoop, but Erlang liquidated all the Guanlong forces in Xizhou without even asking about injustice, but if there is any suspicion, he will be arrested first Imprisonment, this move is really reckless. The Western Regions are fine. After this time, Guanlong’s power has been seriously damaged, and it is no longer as strong as before, but how can those people let it go? You can’t do anything in the Western Regions. You must be in Chang’an City Stirring the wind and the rain."

After a pause, he said worriedly: "The prince usually looks weak, but he will definitely show his toughness at this time, whether he really regards Erlang as your humeral confidant, or he is just acting, he will definitely not give up. Otherwise, what would the outside world think of him? However, once the crown prince is tough, he will face off against the Guanlongmen faction shirtless. In the end, no matter who wins or loses, it is inevitable that the court situation will be messed up. The situation was in turmoil, and it even caused turmoil in the world. No one can erase this guilt. When His Majesty returns to Beijing to ask for accountability, the Crown Prince's position will not be guaranteed... Erlang, just to cut off Guan Long's foundation in the Western Regions, made the Crown Prince's position precarious. Are you saying that you are a little reckless?"

The interest entanglement between him and Fang Jun has long been inseparable. No matter who he prefers to be the crown prince, he can only stand on the side of the East Palace.

And if this incident leads to the decline of the Eastern Palace, and even causes the disaster of Yi Chu, it is really not worth the candle.

Fang Jun looked indifferent, escaped a letter from his arms, and handed it to Li Xiaogong.When Li Xiaogong took it with a puzzled expression, he smiled and held the pot to pour tea for him.

Li Xiaogong opened the letter, read it at a glance, put the letter away and returned it to Fang Jun, took a sip of tea from his teacup, clicked his mouth, and praised: "In the past, I always thought that the prince just took advantage of his name and righteousness, but the mind, means and ability It’s a lot worse, but now I know that although the prince is weaker, he still has responsibility, especially when he knows how to advance and retreat, and when he should make a decision, he also has the aura of a king.”

Facing the Guanlongmen faction shirtless and never dying would certainly lead to extremely serious consequences and even cause the reserve position to be deposed, but if you blindly ignore Fang Jun's grievances and abandon them for the sake of the stability of the reserve position, How would others view this prince?
First, he made a strong statement that he would rather "burn jade and stone together" and completely crush Guan Long to death, and then when the situation turned around, he was able to pull back in time, showing his toughness without damaging his foundation. This move was really good, and the effect was unexpected good.

In the past, I had seen the prince clearly, and I always felt that Fang Jun's unreserved support for the East Palace was a rare and good end. Now, it seems that Fang Jun has a far-sighted vision, and he has already seen that the prince can support him.

As long as he has a certain political quality, the prince is naturally an excellent object of allegiance. After all, the prince's benevolence is not fake.Compared with the shrewd King Wei, the decisive King Wu, and the shadowy and deceitful King Jin, the prince's benevolence is indeed more exciting.

No one wants to "accompany a tiger like a tiger", and be ruthlessly abandoned by the king if he is a little careless...

Fang Jun asked the soldiers to re-boil a pot of water, made another pot of tea himself, poured tea for Li Xiaogong, and said: "After this incident, the crown prince has made some concessions, and Guan Long can't help but wait. Your Majesty will make further calculations after returning to Beijing, so it is gradually stable now, as long as there are no major changes, there is no need to worry. Therefore, the most important thing at the moment is to defeat the Arabs, recover the occupied Western Regions, and revive the prestige of the Tang Dynasty , completely control the Western Regions."

Li Xiaogong nodded and said: "This time, I'm afraid I have to thank the Arabs."

In the past, the Western Regions were controlled by the Tang Dynasty. The Anxi Protectorate Mansion nominally governed the entire Western Regions. Wherever the Anxi Army went, everyone was under the might of the invincible army. Act on their own, and don't pay attention to the orders and laws of the Tang Dynasty.

What the Tang Dynasty needed was a stable Western Region and a stable Silk Road, so it could only adopt a soft policy and turn a blind eye to those Hu people who were obedient to others and opposed to it. To interfere too much.

However, these Hu tribes have always refused to submit loyally, colluding secretly with the Turkic people from time to time, destroying the interests of the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty could not openly send troops to wipe them out, leaving the entire Western Regions in chaos...

Therefore, in fact, Datang never really controlled the Western Regions.

However, things are different now. Although Xue Rengui lost in a row and retreated step by step, his strategy of fortifying the walls and clearing the country made the Arabs never get supplies even though they captured many cities, so they had to bite the bullet and rob everywhere. The Hu people from all over the Western Regions burned, killed and looted to enrich the army's supplies.

How many Hu people who have been passed down for hundreds of years, the wealth accumulated for more than a hundred years was emptied by the Arabs, and even killed to the point where their corpses were scattered all over the field and their seedlings were cut off.

After this battle, at least one-third of the Hu people in the Western Regions were completely annihilated, the other one-third were forced to migrate, and the remaining one-third had to surrender to the Arabs. slavery...

Fang Jun also smiled and said: "Who says it's not? The Arabs did what we wanted to do but couldn't do. From then on, these Hu tribes in the Western Regions will no longer exist, and the control of the Tang Dynasty will reach any corner of the Western Regions. You only need to resist foreign aggression, and there is no need to worry about internal troubles."

Those who are plundered and slaughtered by the Arabs will lose their natural vitality and will no longer be successful; those who migrate with their families will pay a great price for the severe cold weather in the twelfth lunar month. Even if they migrate to another place, there will be no more than ten As for the Hu people who were attached to the Arabs, when the Tang army attacked, it was justified, and there was no need to worry about opposition from other tribes...

In the past, the tribes that Datang could not exterminate were either exterminated by the Arabs, or attached to the Arabs gave Datang a justifiable excuse to go to war.

It is conceivable that after this battle, there are no forces in the entire Western Regions that resist the control of the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, the premise of everything is to be able to win this battle, expel the Arabs from the Western Regions, and recover the fallen land.

However, neither Li Xiaogong nor Fang Jun paid much attention to the Arabs who destroyed the city and conquered the land before. It seems that the victory is already within reach...

Fang Jun said: "So, does the county king still have to return to Jiaohe City?"

Since Li Xiaogong received the news of the great victory at Alagou, he predicted that Fang Jun would wipe out the power of the Guanlongmen Clan in the Western Regions with a thunderbolt, so he rushed back to try to stop it, so as not to make the Guanlongmen Clan unbearable and react violently. Chang'an is in turmoil, so it seems that this worry has disappeared at this moment. If he continues to Jiaohe City, he will be in trouble and be regarded as Fang Junzhi's accomplice.

Although both of them lean towards the East Palace, their positions are absolutely different. Li Xiaogong is a member of the royal family and a member of Guan Long anyway. It is fine to fight with each other, but to cooperate with Fang Jun to unscrupulously eliminate Guan Long's influence in the Western Regions, then There is something wrong.

And this is also the reason why His Majesty Li Er, even though he deeply hated Guan Long's threat to the imperial power, could only suppress and weaken it slowly, but could not eradicate it by thunderous sweeping. Once you do that, you will be given the reputation of being "mean and ungrateful" and "killing a donkey without grinding", which will make everyone in the world respect you at a distance...

The Guanlongmen Clan fully assisted you in conquering the whole world, but you uprooted him as soon as you turned around. How does this make other people think of you, and how dare they give you all their allegiance?

So Fang Jun started killing people in Jiaohe City. If Li Xiaogong also participated in it, it would be very wrong.

However, Li Xiaogong nodded directly, and said: "This king will definitely return to Hecheng. As the governor of Anxi, how can I see all the officials up and down being wiped out by you when the Western Regions are in turmoil, but still stay in the same place?" Gongyuecheng ignores this? That's dereliction of duty."

Fang Jun stared and said: "But now Pei Xingjian is arresting suspected officials in Jiaohe City, but anyone who may be involved with Turkic people and big cannibals will be arrested. When the county king returns to Jiaohe City, how should he deal with himself?" ?”

It is definitely not okay to assist Youtunwei in arresting people. This is against Li Xiaogong's camp, but it is not appropriate to sit on the sidelines and watch the fun. Who would believe you if you didn't help Youtunwei?

Could it be that he wants to help those Guanlong children who are about to go to prison...

(End of this chapter)