Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 713 One Person One King Xuance
In the 23rd year of Zhenguan, Li You's Dengzhou has opened up three ports, and now Li You's seagoing ships have reached as many as a thousand. Basically, all the seas outside Dengzhou are controlled by Li You, whether it is an island country, Goguryeo, etc. They all had to submit to the majesty of Li You's crossbow.

Seaborne trade has brought qualitative changes to Dengzhou. From the 19th year of Zhenguan, there were less than 5 people in Dengzhou. Today, in the 23rd year of Zhenguan, the population of Dengzhou has reached 41, and the population of Dengzhou is still rising .

At this time, Li You had an actual army of 9, [-] cavalry, [-] infantry, [-] sailors, and [-] crossbowmen. The strength was strong.

When Li You was inversely proportional, Li Shimin at this time was a bit decadent. He was looking for the medicine of immortality every day, and Li Shimin was very polite to an Indian monk.

And this monk was brought back to Datang by the legendary Wang Xuance.

It is said that in the 21st year of Zhenguan, the Tang Dynasty sent Wang Xuance as the main envoy and Jiang Shiren as the deputy envoy to Tianzhu (India). , the country was in chaos, and the minister Nafudi Alonashun usurped the throne, and then sent a large army to intercept Wang Xuance.

Because Wang Xuance only brought 30 cavalry and lost to Alonashun's army, Wang Xuance and his deputy Jiang Shiren were defeated and captured.

Later, Wang Xuance and Jiang Shiren escaped from prison, went north to Nepal, and borrowed a total of [-] troops from Nepal, Tubo, and other Tang vassal states, and then sent their troops south. In just three days, they wiped out the West Tianzhu Kingdom. Luo Nashun fled to Zhongtianzhu, Wang Xuance chased him to Zhongtianzhu, and captured Alonashun by the Ganges River.

Seeing this, Dong Tianzhu hurriedly sent someone to seek peace with Wang Xuance, expressing his willingness to submit to the Tang Dynasty forever.

After destroying Tianzhu, Wang Xuance sent the captured Alonashun, princesses, sons, etc., 2000 men and women, and more than [-] cattle and horses to Chang'an as captives.

At the same time, Wang Xuance also brought back an Indian monk named Naluoer Sapo, who claimed to have lived for more than 200 years.

Tang Taizong was very surprised when he heard this, so he asked Thaksin to develop the elixir for him near the palace, and ordered Cui Dunli, Minister of the Ministry of War, to be responsible for this matter.

Naluoersapo told Tang Taizong that there was a magical medicine in the Brahman country called Pancha Qushui, which came from a stone mortar in a big mountain. This medicine has seven colors, sometimes hot and sometimes cold, and can melt metals and plants. , People put their hands in and rotted immediately.

There is also a kind of medicine called Julailuo, which is a kind of leaf. It comes from the valley below the mountain cliff. There is a stone cave. There is a tree in front of the stone cave, which looks like a mulberry tree. A big poisonous snake guards the cave. , If you want to get it, you have to shoot the leaves of the tree with an arrow. There will be crows under the leaves, and the crows will fly away with the leaves. At this time, you only need to shoot the crows to get the leaves.

Since then, Tang Taizong Li Shimin has eaten the colorful elixir developed by Luoer Sapo every day.

Wang Xuance is also an unlucky guy. In fact, according to Wang Xuance's achievements, he should have a history book to write his biography. One person destroyed a country, what a boldness.

Compared with Bai Qi, Huo Qubing, Guan Yu, Chen Qingzhi, Yue Fei, and Xiang Yu, they are not too far behind, but the strange thing is that the Tang court handled this grand deed that showed the prestige and face of the Great Tang Empire very low-key and lukewarm. The fire passed away as if nothing had happened, and whether it was the "Book of Tang" written by Liu Yan of the Five Dynasties, or the "New Book of Tang" compiled by Ouyang Xiu and Song Qi in the Song Dynasty, they all cherished words about this matter like gold. So much so that later generations almost forgot about it.

Hehe Since Zhang Qian traveled to the Western Regions during the Han Dynasty, the diplomacy with other countries has become a major event in the Central Plains Dynasty. In the case of being far away from the center and inconvenient in communication, accidents and extreme incidents often occurred. Ban Chao's "not entering the tiger's den" , not to be a tiger's son", Fu Jiezi's feat of beheading the head of King Loulan and hanging it on the top of the city won the praise of many people in later generations.

Only this Wang Xuance, with his invincible achievements in safeguarding the honor of the empire and using troops to destroy the enemy, was ignored by Tang Taizong at that time, neither praised nor degraded, and rewarded an official position of only five ranks, and the historian also kept silent. Li Biography, even unwilling to mention the great event of destroying the enemy's country, isn't it a strange thing.

But there is no way, who made this Wang Xuance shake his wits, at that time Li Shimin was seriously ill, and the domestic doctors were helpless, so someone recommended an Indian monk named Luoer Sapo brought back by Wang Xuance, who boasted that he could practice immortality Therefore, he was asked to make alchemy to save lives, and then to seek longevity.

Unexpectedly, after taking the elixir refined by the monk, Taizong died soon after he was 52 years old. "It was brought back by Wang Xuance, so it is natural to be blamed.

If you say so, he still has a chance to make a biography, and it's Li Zhi's kindness that he didn't kill him directly.

In May of the 23rd year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin felt that his life might be dying, so he had already begun to silently entrust his orphans. He said to his eldest grandson Wuji and Chu Suiliang: "My good son and good daughter-in-law will be entrusted to my two lovers." Yes. (My beautiful son and beautiful wife are now entrusted to Qing.) "

Later, Li Shimin also released Li Shiji as the governor of Diezhou. At that time, Li Shiji was originally Tejin (a second-rank casual official), Prince Zhan Shi (from a third-rank official), and Tongzhongshumen a third-rank (additional title, with this title means Prime Minister).After being released, he served as the governor of Diezhou (from the third rank), without the title of "Tongzhong Shumen Xia Sanpin", no longer a prime minister, and lost his special promotion, which is equivalent to being kicked out from the center of the imperial court.

Of course, this is Li Shimin paving the way for his son again. Li Shimin told Li Zhi that Li Shiji is very talented, but Li Zhi has no grace for Li Shiji. Therefore, Li Shimin was afraid that Li Shiji would not accept Li Zhi.

Therefore, Li Shimin arranged a scene: release Li Shiji first, if Li Shiji obeys the arrangement and goes to the post immediately, it means that this person can be used. After Li Shimin dies, Li Zhi can appoint Li Shiji as a servant If Li Shiji lingers and waits and sees, it means that this person cannot be used, so kill him.

This is Li Shimin's strategy, and before Li Shimin died, he also issued an imperial decree to let the county king Li You enter Cuiwei Palace to meet him. This decree made Li Zhi very happy. He thought it was his father who asked his fifth brother to come back. Help yourself.

But what Li Zhi didn't expect was that Li Shimin summoned Li You this time to hide his murderous intentions. Changsun Wuji's bad guys saw the prosperity of Dengzhou in their eyes and reported it to Li Shimin every day.

Changsun Wuji told Li Shimin on the sidelines that Li You was rebellious and more powerful, and he had to get rid of Li You earlier. Finally, under the slow guidance of Changsun Wuji, Li Shimin, who knew that his time had come, was also ready to deal with Li Shimin. Li You made a move.

An imperial decree ordered Li You to rush to death, but Li Shimin, Changsun Wuji, etc. would never have imagined that Li You, whom they wanted to kill, would not be able to kill him now.

(End of this chapter)