Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 940 His Majesty Li Er's Retreat as Advance
The confrontation between civil and military has been the rule since history. It is not at all who looks down on others, but is determined by basic interests.

Civil servants hope that the world will be peaceful, even if people are dying of misery and starvation everywhere, they will whitewash the peace and sing praises, so as to show a picture of prosperity and enable the civil official group to dominate the government.

Military generals are just the opposite. What does the world of Taipinghe Qinghaiyan use to win fame and rank?Only with continuous wars can generals control more voice and gain more benefits.

The militarism is of course the root cause of the world's chaos, and the literati's power will inevitably lead to the dismantling of armaments. Once a strong enemy invades the country, the country will be in turmoil and the city will be lost. It will even suffer unprecedented humiliation like the Song Dynasty, and then Shenzhou will sink, and China will die...

Strictly speaking, the danger of literati taking power and crowding out generals is even greater.After all, the worst result of military generals in power is the disintegration of internal affairs, the collapse of the empire and the collapse of the building, and the consequence of civil servants in power is often that the barbarians grow stronger and their armaments are abolished.

The two dynasties of the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty are typical of ancient times. Civil servants and military generals are completely opposed. Civil servants continue to suppress military generals in order to control the government and their own group interests. Song Dynasty generals lead troops to fight with a civil servant "supervising the army" and Ming Dynasty generals go into battle. To accept the wonderful system of "building an army" by eunuchs, the result was that the farming people in the Central Plains were enslaved by nomadic people twice.

Even in the period of the Anti-Japanese War, there were still a large number of literati who opposed the military generals when the nation was about to perish. There was a man surnamed Hu who set up a low-key club to promote the theory that the War of Resistance would be defeated. "It's wonderful", and Zhang Zizhong, a famous anti-Japanese general, was also forced to death by those students who talked about it indiscriminately...

To be honest, the literati in the Tang Dynasty were actually very strong.At this time, it was far from the ethos of civil nobles and military inferiors that began in the Song Dynasty. Many civil servants went to the battlefield to draw their swords and kill the enemy as if they were playing games.

Chu Suiliang's face was flushed red by Li Daozong's words, and he said angrily: "Death is lighter than a feather, and heavier than Mount Tai. If the family and the country are in danger, why should Chu be afraid of death? Let alone such a trivial matter as an embassy!"

His Majesty Li Er was unhappy.

He has a great ideal in his heart, and he wants to make immortal contributions and create a great cause for all generations!No matter how well the internal affairs are managed, it is just another peaceful and prosperous age in the history books. As long as the officials are clean and the imperial power is concentrated, the backhands will not be able to blow the dust.Only by opening up the frontier and expanding the land to achieve unworldly hegemony can we surpass the ancient emperors and achieve the reputation of the eternal emperor!

So he stationed troops outside, attacked the Turks in Mobei far away, expanded thousands of miles westward and placed the entire Western Regions in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, so he wanted to conquer Goguryeo, which was never conquered by ancient emperors, so that his martial arts surpassed all emperors !

To achieve this goal, not only the civil servants need to work hard in the internal affairs to make the empire prosperous and the soldiers have enough food, but also the generals must maintain an indomitable and enterprising spirit at all times!
How can an army without ambition sweep away the crowd and achieve supremacy?

In his opinion, civil and military confrontation is not a big deal, civil and military checks and balances are needed, but civil servants want to suppress military generals, this is absolutely impossible!
His Majesty Li Er glanced at another clan, Li Xiaogong.

Li Xiaogong received the color of His Majesty the Emperor, thought about it for a while, and then said: "Your Majesty, the seaport of Linyi Kingdom occupied by Fang Jun is not just a barren land. Da Nang is located on the third floor of the capital of Linyi Kingdom. Ten miles away, stationing a strong army here can control the royal family of Linyi and make them be wary of rats. They will never dare to be enemies with Datang again. Moreover, this place is an excellent seaport, and the local Brahmans are afraid of Datang. Tang Tianwei is willing to donate a sum of money to build the port. Not surprisingly, this place will become a transfer point for Tang merchants in the future. The strategic significance is very important. Therefore, Fang Jun's move can be said to be a great achievement. , conferred on Fang Juncong the title of Duke of the Founding County of the second rank, and the title of Honor of the Zhu Kingdom, in recognition of his achievements!"

Hey!
As soon as this statement came out, everyone in the hall was shocked.

Founding county magistrate!

I know that you Li Xiaogong and Fang Jun have a good relationship, but you can't make such an unreasonable suggestion, right?Even if that kid has a little credit, but compared to the title of a founding county duke, it's too far behind, isn't it?
Not long after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, all the princes of the state were civil servants and military generals who made great contributions at the beginning of the founding of the country. Why should he be Fang Jun?
After several decades of serving His Majesty Li Er, his father had only mixed up with Liang Guogong, so Fang Jun also mixed in all of a sudden?One door and two countries!Is the Fang family going to heaven or something?

Even if some ministers urgently warned against it, they all opposed it.

After Li Xiaogong finished speaking, he didn't care what other people said, he looked at his nose, his nose and his heart, and what Fangfo said just now was not from him, and he remained silent without saying a word.

Hehe, Your Majesty wants to praise Fang Jun, can you object?
Civil servants objected, even Cen Wenwen, Wei Zheng, Tang Jian and others who had a close relationship with Fang Xuanling all advised that this matter must not be done.The generals were all silent, and they all looked at His Majesty Li Er quietly, waiting for His Majesty Li Er to express his position.

The attitude of His Majesty Li Er will be a weather vane.

Whether to use civil servants to stabilize internal affairs, or to favor the military to forge ahead will become the strategy of the empire for a long time, and all policies will be planned and implemented on the basis of this strategy.

This will determine the status of the civil and military parties in the future...

His Majesty Li Er raised his hand, stopped the discussion in the hall, and said in a deep voice: "Since everyone is against it, let's let this matter go. Although Fang Jun has made great achievements, he is still young, so he will inevitably lose his prudence. Only by honing them with heavy responsibilities can they become great weapons. Let’s talk about entrusting him with anything that can better demonstrate his ability after I have thought about recalling him to the capital.”

Only then did the civil servants calm down, but they all had mixed feelings in their hearts.

Who can't understand the emperor's words?
The so-called promotion to the county magistrate of the founding country is just a cover, and Li Xiaogong deliberately asked Li Xiaogong to raise everyone's opposition. In fact, he was retreating to advance. When Fang Jun was entrusted with the important task in the future, who would say any more objections?
The title of the Founding County Duke has been lost by your remonstrance, and if you stop Fang Jun from becoming a high-ranking official, then you will turn against each other, and not only offend Fang Jun, the number one hammer, but also offend His Majesty Li Er...

Sovereign power is paramount, as an emperor, would it be impossible to use his ministers again?The merits of Fang Jun's achievements are really put there, even if the emperor reuses it, it should be taken for granted, but it is definitely not lucky!

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This political discussion ended hastily, and it was not a formal court meeting. His Majesty Li Er ordered the servants in the palace to give some royal objects prepared in advance to the civil and military officials, and then drove everyone away.

The civil and military ministers looked at His Majesty Li Er's hesitant expression, and they were all worried.

After all, it was the civil servants who hurt His Majesty's face this time.Anyone can see His Majesty's desire to reuse Fang Jun, but he has to worry about the opposition of the ministers and "treat" Fang Jun again and again, so it's strange that he can feel at ease.

Not long after, the East Palace received the details of this political discussion.

Prince Li Chengqian sat on the heated kang in the side hall, and said to the old minister Su Shichang in front of him: "Father must be extremely angry at this moment. Those ministers really don't save father any face. It's a bit too much."

The kang was burning hot, the tea cups on the table were fragrant, and the beautiful mats were spread on the kang, soft and warm.

What he said was naturally that His Majesty Li Er had to recall Fang Jun to Chang'an, and even the promotion of an official to the rank was opposed.

Su Shichang was born in a family of officials in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. When he was 11 years old, he wrote a letter of remonstrance to Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Emperor Wu was very surprised and summoned him.After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, the hereditary patriarch was the order of Chang'an.The founding of the Tang Dynasty, successively served as the governor of Shanzhou, the military counselor Jisa of Tiance Mansion, is the confidant of His Majesty Li Er's adviser, and one of the "Eighteen Scholars" of His Majesty Li Er's think tank...

Su Shi was a learned debater and dared to speak out. He persuaded Taizu Li Yuan many times, took the Sui Dynasty as a lesson, punished his extravagance and prostitution, never forgot to be frugal, and worshiped and advised the doctor.This person is as famous as Du Ruhui, Fang Xuanling, etc. in Tiance Mansion, but he is low-key, his reputation is not obvious, and he is not known to outsiders.

The current official position is an admonishment doctor, and he is Li Chengqian's enlightenment mentor, and his relationship is extremely close.

Su Shichang is old and qualified, so there is no need to be respectful and respectful in front of His Royal Highness. He knelt in front of Li Chengqian, looked down at the chessboard on the table, and thought about the trend of the chess game. The situation is not planned by His Majesty? According to the old minister, the civil and military affairs of the whole court are just pawns in His Majesty's hands, to be played in the palm of your hand!"

Li Chengqian was taken aback: "Why did Doctor Su say that?"

(End of this chapter)