Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 818 The Curtain
On August [-]th, Guyuan was victorious. Liang Luoren only saved himself. The Tang army beheaded thousands of people. Before the evening of the same day, they conquered Xiaoguan County and recovered the whole territory of Yuanzhou.

On August [-]th, Huai'an King Li Shentong took advantage of the momentum and marched, defeating three Liang armies in a row, approaching the junction of Yuanzhou, Huizhou, and Lingzhou.

On the same day, Li Yuan issued an edict to re-establish the general manager's office on Lingzhou Road, with Guan Guogong Ren Gui as the chief general and Changxing County Gong Qian Jiulong as deputy to command Longzhou, Huizhou, Lingzhou, Ningzhou, Yuanzhou, and Jingzhou. State Liuzhou Fubing.

On August [-]th, Guan Guogong sent Hu Yan, the governor of Ningzhou, to lead [-] elite cavalry northward to attack Lingzhou. Liang Shidu personally led the army to meet the enemy. Liang Jun took the initiative to retreat to the front line of the Great Wall.

On August [-]th, the Mid-Autumn Festival, Li Yuan held a banquet in Renshou Palace, summoned a group of ministers, and said during the banquet that he would leave for Chang'an the next day.

At that time, Li Shan did not recommend returning to Beijing immediately for the sake of recuperating from his injuries. This was also in line with Li Yuan's mentality at the time. It was really embarrassing to go back to Chang'an in such a mess this time.

Now that the Tang army has won several victories and has regained Yuanzhou, Huizhou and a small half of Lingzhou, Li Yuan has saved some face.

However, the atmosphere of this banquet was a bit weird, many courtiers were full of thoughts and looked strangely, because the seats were quite different from usual.

In the past, when banquets were held in the palace, Li Yuan naturally sat in the center of the seat. On the left were the sons of the clan, headed by Prince Li Jian, followed by Qin Wang Li Shimin, Qi Wang Li Yuanji, etc. On the right were the prime ministers, and the positions of other courtiers were further down. shift.

But this time, Prince Li Jiancheng still sat at the first place on the left, while King Qin Li Shimin was not at the bottom, but sat at the first place on the right.

This change caused countless guesses for everyone... Everyone knew that the crown prince had lost points this time, especially against the backdrop of King Qin's desperate escort.

Of course, the crown prince Li Jiancheng sat on the left, slightly taller by half a point... After all, he was the crown prince of the Eastern Palace.

But the two princes sitting opposite each other, does it mean that both sides are on equal footing?
Could this be a signal... a signal that His Majesty intends to be easy to store?

Although Li Yuan also explained a few words... In the past, the prime minister Pei Ji who was most trusted by Li Yuan was the first on the right, but now Pei Ji is in Chang'an, and Qin Wang Li Shimin is actually Shang Shuling.

But obviously this reason was not enough to convince everyone, Li Shan looked sideways, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui were fine, Changsun Wuji was already smiling, and Wang Gui, Wei Zheng, Wei Ting and other East Palace staff all frowned.

In addition to the different seats of the crown prince and king of Qin, Li Shan's seat is also different this time. In the past, he used to sit among the courtiers as Secretary of Agriculture, but this time Li Yuan insisted on letting him sit among the clan's children.

The third person from the left is Prince Li Jiancheng with a gloomy expression and Prince Li Yuanji of Qi who is expressionless, followed by his good friend Huaiyang King Li Daoxuan who also made great achievements in escorting this time.

"Is Huairen really interested in the bureaucracy?" Li Daoxuan said with a smile: "It is said that Liu Ren is a vanguard in the number of battles, and he is also familiar with the art of war besides being sharp in battle."

Li Shan was speechless, "Duke Guan brought the head of the guard with him that day, Mr. Zhang and the third brother-in-law were not happy, and my younger brother was just trying to smooth things over."

"But the ones Huairen likes...except Brother Dingfang and Wang Junhao." Li Daoxuan shook his head and said, "Your Majesty and the King of Qin inquired about the war carefully, and they all said that Zhang Zhongjian is a general, and Hou Hongtao and Qu Xian are also brave generals. "

Li Shan was completely speechless, and he didn't expect that besides famous figures like Su Dingfang and Zhang Zhongjian, Hou Hongtao, Wang Junhao, and Qu Silang would appear beside him.

It can only be said that there are many outstanding people in the wilderness, and they rise up in the face of the situation.

Li Yuan asked with a smile: "What did Daoxuan and Huairen talk about?"

Li Daoxuan got up and said: "Your Majesty, Huairen just said that Su Dingfang, Zhang Zhongjian and other generals are all outstanding people. There are often thousands of li horses, but Bole does not often have them."

"There are often thousands of li horses, but Bole doesn't often have them." Chen Shuda stroked his beard and said, "Huiren hasn't written a poem for half a year..."

Li Yuan nodded again and again, "Does Huairen have the whole story?"

Li Shan groaned, thinking and thinking... I recited it when I was in middle school, but I remember the full text, but who is the author?

After thinking for a while, Li Shan was sure that it should be Han Yu, one of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties... Although it is the Tang Dynasty, it is definitely not the beginning of the Tang Dynasty.

After a while, Li Shancai recited slowly: "There is Bole in the world, and then there is a thousand-mile horse. There are always thousand-mile horses, but Bole doesn't always have them. Therefore, even though there are famous horses, they will die in parallel in the stables. They are not called thousands-mile horses."

A lot of attention was cast on Su Dingfang, Wang Junhao, and Zhang Zhongjian. If it weren't for Li Shan, how could these three be able to occupy high positions and be awarded titles... At least Zhang Zhongjian couldn't do it, just because of their looks.

The fact is also true. In history, even Su Dingfang, although he broke through the king's tent in the first battle to destroy the Eastern Turks, he would have to endure for more than 30 years before he could destroy the Western Turks on his own.

Li Shan's eyes also swept over the previous and subsequent personal guard commanders. He deliberately cut down the sentence "only humiliated at the hands of slaves" just now, which doesn't quite fit.

"A horse that can run a thousand miles eats as much as a grain of grain. A horse eats a horse without knowing that it can run a thousand miles. Even though it can run a thousand miles, it is not full of food and lacks strength. You can't get a regular horse, how can you expect it to run a thousand miles?"

"Whipping it without duty, feeding it not enough to show its full ability, and not understanding the meaning of its cry, the man complains, grabbing a whip, 'There is no horse in the world!'"

"Woohoo! Is there really no horse evil? I really don't know horses!"

Li Yuan tasted it for a long time, nodded and praised: "Huairen's article can be left to future generations. Huairen's simple removal of Su Dingfang's generals from the reckless, should be regarded as a good talk by future generations."

Yang Shidao, who just wrote several poems in a row and was highly praised, was a little frustrated. He is famous for his quick writing, but he also has self-knowledge... The best poems and essays he wrote can't be compared with the worst of the King of Handan. .

This is of course, Li Shan thought, he has one more person to apologize... But if there are too many lice, it doesn't itch, and if you have too many debts, you don't worry, the list is already very, very long.

Uh, from the current point of view, there are relatively few Song people in Li Shan's apology list.

But Li Shan also thought about it, and deliberately asked Xiaoman, a former singer, to try it. In this era, there is no official title of word, but there are already long and short sentences.

In fact, there were long and short sentences in the Nanliang period. The so-called tune has a fixed frame, and the sentence has a sentence. There are not many fixed-frame words that can be filled in this era, and it will not appear in large numbers until the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

Li Shan pondered, his inventory would be exhausted after all, and in a few decades, he would not be able to start writing lyrics... At that time, he would feel sorry for Su Dongpo, Liu Qi, and Xin Qiji.

On this day, the Renshou Palace was full of joy, the battle in Lingzhou was progressing smoothly, and the dense dark clouds surrounding the head seemed to have completely dissipated.

It was also on this day that a drastic change kicked off in Wuyuan County, thousands of miles away.

(End of this chapter)