People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 536 The destruction of Tubo, ten years

The Penglai Hall is located behind the Zichen Hall, beside the Taiye Pool, the breeze is blowing, bringing light thoughts.

Li Xuan followed Wang Fulai lightly, and finally stopped in the center of the Penglai Hall, and then bent down and bowed without hesitation: "Chen Nanchang Wang Li Xuan, pay homage to the saint, the saint Jin Fu Wanan!"

On the side of the soft couch in front, Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi was wearing a yellow nine-dragon robe, standing in front of the huge map of the Tang Dynasty, as if he was thinking about something.

Hearing the voice behind him, he raised his hand slightly, and Li Xuan immediately stood up: "I thank you."

Li Zhi didn't look back, and asked casually: "Wuzhou's autumn harvest this year will increase by [-]%, are you sure?"

"Yes!" Li Xuan bowed immediately, and said in a deep voice: "Although I have been busy with the affairs of the Tianyin Sect for the past few months, I have also personally gone to the farm to command the servants, dig ditches, dredge waterways, and set up water trucks. Personally arrange the paddy spacing, fertilize and fertilize, as long as there are no natural disasters this autumn, the year-on-year increase of [-]% will not be a problem."

"Natural calamity." Li Zhi couldn't help but smiled, finally turned to look at Li Xuan, and said, "27 Lang, do you know how many memorials have been impeached for your belief in witches and gu, under the guise of wind and rain, to commit misdeeds?"

Li Xuan immediately bowed down in awe and fear and said: "I don't know. I just know the weather a little bit and dodge a little before the storm comes. Why do you want to use the wind and rain to do unruly tricks? Your Majesty, I am really wronged. "

"Okay, I don't know about you yet. Your methods are nothing more than calculating people's hearts." Li Zhi waved his hands a little funny. He himself mentioned Li Xuan's things in the memorial.

How to cleverly use people's hearts, hook the bottom into a trap, and then when the storm comes, use it to destroy it.

Borrowing wind and rain, but it is all the way of Mingxiu, not to mention wanting to do something wrong.

If this is the case, of course Li Jing, who took advantage of the bitter cold in winter and ran thousands of miles to defeat the East Turks, would be the first to be labeled as wanting to commit crimes.

But anyone who impeaches is a layman who knows nothing about the military.

"Thank you Saint for understanding." Li Xuan bowed immediately, but she couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.

Although what he did in Wuzhou has nothing to do with most people in the court, it is inevitable that some people will find it dazzling.

After all, his clan status is there, and if he continues to make contributions, it will inevitably infringe on the interests of some people.

Don't look at just some bullets that are not painful now, but if you are not vigilant, once these bullets accumulate, the lethality is absolutely amazing.

And he can't take revenge casually, because the people who wrote these are pawns placed on the table by all parties.

If he really moved these people, he would be caught by the pigtails and impeached to death.

So, grab the people behind.

……

Li Zhi walked to the table beside him and sat down, then looked up at Li Xuan, and said, "I am quite satisfied with the things you did in Muzhou."

Li Xuan looked serious, and cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, after some chaos in Muzhou, the number of aristocratic families has been greatly reduced. It is easier to check the land and clear the taxes."

"Then why are these things so difficult to do in Wuzhou?" Li Zhi had a cold look in his eyes.

Li Xuan hurriedly bowed and said: "The investigation of the land is likely to arouse the resentment of the aristocratic family. If you can't quickly check the land while they are confused, then once they notice it, they want to force it. , will inevitably lead to a backlash.”

"That's why Wang Fanglin was assassinated." The coldness in Li Zhi's eyes became more and more serious.

In his eyes, Wang Fanglin is indeed a chess piece, a chess piece that can be discarded at will, but someone wants to destroy this chess piece before it can be used, which Li Zhi cannot tolerate.

"Yes." Li Xuan directly agreed, and then cupped his hands and said: "The land of Wuyue is different from the north. From the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Three Kingdoms, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, although there were turmoil in the land of Wuyue, it did not hurt the root cause. Countless families married each other and communicated with each other. Contacts have long formed a dense network, moving one can easily attract all, so it is not easy to act."

"You wrote it in the memorial." Li Zhi nodded with a serious expression on his face.

In Wuyue, a prosperous place in the world, even though there are many things going on now, the taxes in Wuyue's land are still rising, and it has long passed the point where you can move around without hurting the fundamentals.

Even what Li Zhi wanted to do was full of worries.

"It's a pity, this is the only time for Tianyin Sect." Li Zhi sighed.

The reason why Muzhou was able to be politically clear was because Tianyin Sect had plowed all the aristocratic families in Muzhou before.

Afterwards, as long as the successor is not uncommonly stupid, then no matter what he does, it will be much more convenient and easy.

Li Xuan immediately cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, the matter of the Tianyin Sect is ultimately harmful to the root. If it happens again, if it is really going to be gathered by ambitious people, it will inevitably spread too far. If it is true that all the aristocratic families are really wiped out, the day of recovery will be destroyed." Not to mention the long run, even the imperial court will also be hurt, and it cannot recover in the short term, but in the long run, it will inevitably return to the old view, so we need to be cautious."

"I understand, but it's rare that 27 Lang can see through this." Li Zhi raised his head to look at Li Xuan, with a hint of surprise in his eyes.

The family is not clean, the old family is cleaned up, and it won't be long before the new family will rise instead.

"I'm just taking a peek at everything. The Qian family in Wuzhou is the tricky thing I'm dealing with this time." Li Xuan sighed deeply, with a trace of helplessness on his face.

The Qian family in Wuzhou controls the most mines and fields in Wuzhou, and [-]% of the private weapon shops in Wuzhou have members of his family. Apart from being invisible in official circles, they are actually the first family in Wuzhou.

In addition, the Qian family in Wuzhou is not the other branch of the Wuyue family Qian's family, and is even an in-law of the Yue Palace.

All kinds of relationships in this made people dare not deal with it casually even though they knew that it was Fang Lin, the governor who was assassinated by them.

Especially when the Tianyin Sect was in turmoil, if the Qian family were really wiped out, who knew how big a storm would be.

At that time, it will be hard to say whether the court will continue to bite the bullet and put down the Qian family, or the other way around, and attack Li Xuan. Chao Cuo is a precedent.

As Li Xuan is a clan, there will definitely not be one or two people who want to see him in trouble.

"King Yue." Li Zhi narrowed his eyes slightly, with a trace of ruthlessness in his eyes.

The imperial court entrusted the vassal kings to various places, nothing more than hoping to use the power of the vassal kings to suppress the ambitions of the aristocratic families in various places, but if the vassal kings and the aristocratic families collude with each other, it will in turn pose a threat to the court.

"Your Majesty, the matter of the King of Yue is not a big deal. After three generations, whether the Palace of the King of Yue will continue to exist is still a question. The aristocratic families gathered around the King of Yue will eventually decline gradually with the decline of the King's Palace of Yue." Li Xuan looked sincere, not at all because of himself. It is also the status of a vassal king, and there are any taboos.

"Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's Tweeting Order is indeed the number one conspiracy in the world." Li Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, then he looked up at Li Xuan and asked, "Is this the end of the Qian family matter?"

"If you want to attack the Qian family in Wuzhou, you just need to find another family that has an unsolvable feud with the Qian family, support it, and let it fight against the Qian family." Li Xuan said earnestly. He bowed his head, and he really thought of some ways to deal with Qian Shi.

Don't look at the fact that the Qian family has done a lot in the process of Li Xuan's pacification of the Tianyin sect's turmoil, but their assassination of the governor has already touched the emperor's bottom line.

If it wasn't for the emperor not wanting to go to war in Wuzhou now, then the Qian family would have been directly crushed by Baiqisi.

"Since you know about Qian's matter, you can handle it yourself, and write a memorial if you have anything to do." Li Zhi waved his hand and brought this topic to the fore.

Li Xuan immediately bowed his hands and agreed: "Your brother obeys the order."

"For the matter of the East Palace, you will write a memorial and send it to the East Palace every seven days in the future. Don't slack off." Li Zhi's voice suddenly turned sharp.

Li Xuan hurriedly cupped her hands again and said, "I obey the order."

Li Xuan immediately knew in her heart that there must be something wrong with Li Xian, which made Li Zhi aware of it.

Before that, Li Xuan had to write a memorial every three days, sending everything she saw and heard along the way to the East Palace.

The emperor and Empress Wu would check it occasionally, and even the emperor would use this to issue secret decrees to him.

Originally, after the matter in Wuzhou was over, everything was over, but now since it has to continue.

It's just that instead of three days, it's changed to seven days.

And these things, the emperor will definitely continue to check.

This incident is not only a test for the prince, but also a test for Li Xuan.

The emperor could clearly see Li Xuan's future, and had even greater expectations.

……

"I heard that you don't agree with the current strategy of the war between China and Tibet?" Li Zhi said suddenly, looking at Li Xuan.

The news spread so fast.

Li Xuan can almost be sure that what he said in the conversation with Empress Wu before appeared on Li Zhi's desk verbatim.

It's not even good to say that not only him, but almost everyone.

This in itself is the means by which the couple ruled the entire Tang Dynasty.

This Great Tang was in the hands of this couple.

Li Xuan cupped his hands seriously, and then said: "I dare not lie to Your Majesty, I don't know what kind of strategy the court will use to fight against Tubo, I just learned from the battle of Dafeichuan to test the gains and losses. "

The Great Tang wanted to go to war against Tubo, and since the Tubo envoys came to the court to ask for peace at the beginning of the year, it was already known to the Tang and Tubo, and even the courtiers all over the world.

As for what kind of strategy will be adopted to send troops to Tubo, although there are many rumors, but the specifics, only the emperor and a few ministers of the central government know.

Seeing Li Xuan's serious face, Li Zhi nodded and said, "You continue."

"Here!" Li Xuan took a deep breath, looking at the map of the entire Tang Dynasty on the side, Li Xuan said seriously: "The capital of Tubo is in Luosuo, which is [-] miles away from Ganlan, Longyou prefectures. In the plateau area in the middle, there are few cities, the environment is dangerous, and supplies are difficult. If there is a little carelessness, the entire army will be in danger of being wiped out. This is how it was defeated in the battle of Dafeichuan."

Li Zhi waved his hand directly: "This is not a reason, whether it is the Turks or the Western Regions, the distance from the Tang Dynasty is even further away, so it depends on the first battle."

Li Xuan hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty's words are true, if the generals are dedicated, fight steadily, never greedy for merit, and spend ten years of hard work, they can wipe out Tubo."

"Ten years?" Li Zhi frowned. Does it take that long to exterminate Tubo?
(End of this chapter)