The first legitimate son of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 159 A brief discussion of Tang Gaozong

Mahjong started to play, Li An, Li Zhi, Li Mingda, and finally a young eunuch Deng Bao was added. Of course, Deng Bao's money was paid by Li Zhi. Who made this the home court of Li Zhi.

After the mahjong game started, Li An also looked at his little brother carefully.

Li Zhi used the three poems he gave him to not only take back the cherry forest he lost from Li Min's hands, but also caused Li Min to fall into a big trap and took three thousand from Li Min's hands. Guan, a small fortune. Of course, these three thousand Guan are nothing to Li Zhi now, but Li Zhi is very happy to get it from Li Min.

Some people will be surprised. Li Zhi should not be cowardly and stupid. He was a loser when he was the prince. Even if he became the emperor, he would still be Wu Zetian's puppet.

Seriously, if you think so, you're dead wrong.

Li Zhi is not a stupid person. In fact, all the light of Li Zhi that everyone has seen in history has been blocked by Wu Zetian. As long as Li Zhi is mentioned, everyone will not think of Tang Gaozong first, but will think of Tang Gaozong first. His daughter-in-law Wu Zetian.

Who makes Wu Zetian the only female emperor in history, and Wu Zetian's identity has also been from childhood mother to daughter-in-law, which is indeed quite interesting.

As long as you talk about male emperors, you can name a long list of Qin Emperor, Han Wu, Tang Zong, Song Zu, Kang, Yong, Qian, etc., but when it comes to female emperors, you will only think of Wu Zetian, which is like the big names with their own traffic nowadays.

Next to such a big shot with his own traffic, no matter how outstanding Li Zhi is, he pales in comparison.

But Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty in history, was not as unbearable as we thought.

Everyone knows that Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty was a ruthless character, and there was no opponent for him on the battlefield.More than half of the territory of the Tang Dynasty was conquered by Li Shimin.

But few people know that during his reign, Li Zhi's battlefield achievements were no worse than Li Shimin's.The only difference is that Li Shimin went to the battlefield in person, while Li Zhi sat at home and made decisions.

The East Turks were beaten to the point of singing and dancing by the famous Tang general Li Jing. In fact, the West Turks were also more rampant.Not only do they occupy territory in the northwest region, but a large number of small countries in Central Asia have surrendered to the Western Turks.

Therefore, with their strong national power, the Western Turks have been quietly planning to invade the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

But is our Datang easy to bully?
Of course not, so during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, he sent General Su Dingfang to the northwest to pacify the Western Turks.

What Su Dingfang likes to do most is to destroy the country.The story of this guy destroying the Three Kingdoms with his bare hands is still being circulated to this day.The Western Turks were one of them. Under the command of Su Dingfang, the Western Turks Shabolo Khan and his nephew were captured, and more than 40 livestock were made prisoners. The Tang Dynasty was a great victory.

Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, divided the original territory of the Western Turks into two governorates: Kunling and Mengchi.From then on, the Western Turks were included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

Followed by Baekje, at that time Baekje was the younger brother of Goguryeo, while Silla was the younger brother of the Tang Dynasty.These two younger brothers always had conflicts. Since Goguryeo was closer to them, Baekje was confident and always bullied Silla.

Silla was helpless and had no choice but to seek help from the Tang Dynasty. As soon as Tang Gaozong Li Zhi heard about it, he immediately became anxious. Bullying my younger brother?It seems like you, Baekje, don’t want to be around anymore, right?

So Su Dingfang had just returned from the Western Regions, and before he had time to go on vacation, he was assigned to the Northeastern battlefield by Tang Gaozong Li Zhi.Su Dingfang directly led his troops across the Yellow Sea and defeated the Baekje defenders on the shore.

After that, they drove straight to the capital of Baekje.Fighting Baekje was like a joke, and there was no pressure at all for Su Dingfang.After Baekje wiped out more than 1 soldiers, the morale of the entire country was shattered.

At this time, even the King of Baekje ran away, and the new king Buyeo Tae, who stayed in the city, had no choice but to declare his surrender.After destroying Baekje, Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, divided the area into five governor's offices: Xiongjin, Mahan, Dongming, Jinlian, and De'an.It was officially included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

There is also Goguryeo. Everyone knows that Goguryeo is the nightmare of the Sui Dynasty. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty conquered Goguryeo three times and mobilized millions of soldiers and civilians.As a result, it created a situation that wasted people and money, but failed to destroy Goguryeo. Instead, it killed itself.

After Li Shimin ascended the throne, he also took many military measures against Goguryeo, but he still failed to destroy this guy.

But when the time came to Tang Gaozong Li Zhi, Li Zhi was very interested in destroying this ancient dynasty that lasted more than 700 years.

Because after Su Dingfang destroyed Baekje, Goguryeo became isolated and helpless. At this time, Li Zhi believed that it was the best time to destroy Goguryeo.So Li Ji, Xue Rengui and others were sent to lead troops.

Li Ji captured 16 cities in one breath and beheaded more than 5 people. Goguryeo was completely defenseless.Xue Rengui did not hesitate to give in, capturing more than 40 cities and beheading more than 3 opponents.

After that, the Tang army joined forces and headed straight for the capital of Goguryeo.In the end, Pyongyang was besieged for more than a month, and the opponent chose to surrender.Finally, this dynasty that lasted for more than 700 years came to an end.

Later, Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, divided the territory of Goguryeo into nine governorates, 42 states, and 100 counties.From then on, this place became one of the territories of the Tang Dynasty.

It is also because of this that the Bangzi Kingdom always says that they are the ancestors of the Central Plains, which is so shameless.

The above are Li Zhi's martial arts, and Li Zhi's martial arts is also very powerful. Although Li Zhi seems to be a rebellious young man, he forcibly abolished Queen Wang and established Wu Zetian as his queen.

However, he unswervingly continued the political system implemented during his father Li Shimin's lifetime.

Because Li Zhi worked very hard and was relatively industrious on weekdays, the Tang Dynasty under the rule of Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, completely continued the prosperous scene of the Zhenguan rule.

It can even be said that because the two generations of emperors worked harder, the prosperous times during Li Zhi's period were more developed than those during Tang Taizong's period, and ordinary people's pride also arose spontaneously.

During Li Zhi's reign, he still reused Changsun Wuji, Li Ji and other veterans of the Zhenguan period, achieving the purpose of continuing the Zhenguan rule.

Moreover, Li Zhi also paid great attention to the selection of talents. Even if Li Shimin didn't like it very much in the past, as long as the person was talented, Li Zhi would still dare to use him. For example, Wei Siqian and Du Zhenglun were used during Li Zhi's period.

In addition to domestic affairs, Li Zhi also made achievements in diplomacy. For the first time, he established diplomatic relations with the Arabs who conquered the Sassanid Kingdom and accepted tribute from them.

Therefore, the period of Emperor Gaozong and Li Zhi of the Tang Dynasty was an era of inclusiveness.

Not only is the economy developed, but also the military is strong. The people are very proud of living in such an era.Moreover, it was possible for all nations to come to the DPRK and open up new avenues of expression.

It can be said that Wu Zetian was able to create such brilliant achievements later mainly because she stood on the shoulders of giants.With the foundation laid by Li Zhi for her, she can freely display her talents.

Speaking of Wu Zetian, it was the tenth year of Zhenguan, and Wu Zetian had not yet entered the palace. However, Wu Zetian should have been in Chang'an City. After the warrior Xun died in the ninth year of Zhenguan, Wu Zetian was only 12 years old at that time.Her cousins ​​Wu Weiliang, Wu Huaiyun and Wu Yuanshuang added insult to injury and were rude to her mother, Yang.

Soon, Wu Zetian moved back to Chang'an from Jingzhou with her mother.

Wu Zetian should have been having a hard time at this time. Li An has no murderous intention towards Wu Zetian now, because Li An does not want to interfere with history too much, but again, God's will is really unpredictable.

Li An would not have thought that there would be a troublesome entanglement between him and Wu Zetian.

In the Wangjiang Pavilion of Furong Garden, a round of mahjong has not yet been played, and suddenly a little eunuch came to report, saying that the prince Li Chengqian, accompanied by the prince concubine Su Dan, the Shu king Li Ke, the princess, Yang Meng, the Yue king Li Tai, and the princess Yan Wan, Princess Changle Li Lilizhi, Prince Consort Lieutenant Changsun Chong, Prince Liang Li Yin, Princess Gaoyang Li Jiao, Princess Chengyang Li Sheng, Princess Qinghe Li Jing, Chai Jia Chai Zhewei, Chai Lingwu, Fang Jia Fang Yi Zhi, Fang Yi Ai, Zhao Jie, Du He, Cheng Chuliang, etc., a group of princes, daughters and relatives came to Wangjiang Pavilion to enjoy the scenery.

Because Wangjiang Pavilion has the best view in the entire Furong Garden, people who come to Furong Garden will basically come to Wangjiang Pavilion.

However, Li Zhi, who knew the arrival of these people, frowned and said speechlessly: "Why are they here?"

After hearing this, Li An quickly said: "In this case, I'd better go down to the second floor!"

Li Zhi was about to say no, but Li Mingda said slightly: "It's better to let Brother Li go down. After all, we are not traveling together."

Li An nodded and smiled, Li Mingda still knew what it was like.

(End of this chapter)