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Chapter 1235: Conversation between the Emperor and His Ministers (Part )

"Auxiliary machine, I didn't expect to sleep for a whole year, and I didn't expect to wake up."

Li Shimin returned to his seat and looked at Zhangsun Wuji: "Sit down and tell me how Emperor Chengqian has done over the past year? Has anything happened in the court since I left? Is the Tang Dynasty peaceful and stable?"

"Also, are the Turks in the north still obedient?"

Upon hearing this, Changsun Wuji looked at Li Shimin's old but majestic expression again, and instantly awakened Changsun Wuji's recently dormant memory. It was as if he had returned to the time when Tian Khan was in power during the Zhenguan period. The momentum that shocked the world still made Changsun Wuji tremble.

There was a 'pop' sound.

Zhang Sun Wuji knelt on the ground with a guilty look on his face. Without saying a word, he kowtowed three times. When he raised his head again, his forehead was red and he cried with tears streaming down his face: "Your Majesty, I am guilty. I have failed your expectations and trust."

"The Tang Dynasty is in danger"

"what!"

"How is it possible? Could it be that in just one year, Li Chengqian has already lost the kingdom I built?"

Li Shimin's pupils suddenly shrank, his heart tightened, and he stood up suddenly, his face grim. Then he looked up and looked around the hall, and asked in a panic: "Is this not Chang'an City, nor the Daming Palace?"

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. This is Chang'an City, and this is my sister's bedroom, Lingqi Palace."

Changsun Wuji said quickly: "The Tang Dynasty has not been lost. It's just that ten days ago, the Right Sage King of the Turks personally led an army of 80, claiming to have a million soldiers, and crossed the Yellow River and invaded the interior of our Tang Dynasty. Now they have occupied the Yunzhong Dingxiang line and are marching day and night towards Chang'an."

"Right Wise King?"

Li Shimin clenched his fists, raised his head and looked north, his eyes were sharp, and he gritted his teeth and said, "This man really took action. I knew that after something happened to me and the new emperor ascended the throne, he would not be able to hold back and would definitely take action."

"But I thought he would act quickly, but I didn't expect it to take a year for him to arrive."

"Uh"

Li Shimin came to his senses halfway through his speech and said quickly, "Yes, since ancient times, there have been people who have taken advantage of mourning to attack a country. I think I am still alive, but I am in a coma. So he can't figure out the situation and is suspicious, so he has not taken any action yet."

"After a year of preparation, I made up my mind to make sure that I would not show up."

"Assistant, how did you deal with it? The court has Li Jing, Hou Junji, Cheng Yaojin, Yuchi Gong, Li Ji, these brave and experienced veterans, and Xuanling and you civil officials, I think it won't be a big problem, talk to me."

Zhang Sun Wuji looked embarrassed, and after a long groan, he said, "Your Majesty, you don't know that too many things have happened in this year. Let me tell you in detail."

"Well, that's fine too."

When Li Shimin saw that Zhangsun Wuji's face looked strange, he felt a pang in his heart. It seemed that the situation was more complicated than he thought. He should understand it clearly first!
So Changsun Wuji started from the time when Li Chengqian began to govern after Li Shimin fainted, and talked about how the nobles rebelled and forced the emperor in the court by accusing Princess Gaoyang of having an affair, which forced Fang Xuanling to withdraw from the court.

Of course, Changsun Wuji distanced himself from this, downplayed his role in it, and put all the blame on that group of aristocratic families.

When Li Shimin heard this, his face was cold and he was furious. He knew that if the nobles attacked him, Li Chengqian would definitely find all kinds of excuses to suppress the imperial power. But when he heard that this kind of thing really happened, he was still furious.

But at this moment, he suppressed the rage in his heart and controlled his temper to listen to what Changsun Wuji continued to say.

Upon hearing that Gao Yang later committed suicide, Li Shimin frowned.

He knew Gao Yang's character, there must be something fishy going on, but compared to military and national affairs, this was still a small matter. He heard Zhangsun Wuji say that the emperor used this incident to calmly resolve the power of the nobles, and later used it to allow the princes to go to the vassal states one by one.

The expression on his face relaxed. Although these tricks were still immature in Li Shimin's opinion, they were quite good.

With such a mindset, there will be no problem in being a king who maintains the status quo.

Of course, Zhangsun Wuji favored his nephew, so he used the Spring and Autumn Annals method in his narration to beautify his nephew Li Chengqian, trying his best to describe Li Chengqian as a vigorous, wise and brave ruler who was willing to accept advice.

He also established a Finance Temple to issue Tang Dynasty currency and set up an Asset Management Office, which expanded the court's financial and tax sources and accumulated a huge amount of silver and money. He also gradually gained control of industries related to national economy and people's livelihood, centered on grain, and consolidated the imperial power.

This greatly surprised Li Shimin, who felt that he had chosen a good emperor and that his eldest son did not disappoint him.

"Hahaha, Cheng Qian is still good."

Li Shimin seemed to have forgotten for a moment that the Turkic army was approaching and the smoke of war was raging in the north. He stroked his beard and praised: "Cheng Qian has been smart, kind, and righteous since he was a child. He was able to establish the Finance Temple without exacerbating conflicts or angering the nobles, so that the court had abundant resources."

"Based on this alone, he can also continue our prosperous Zhenguan era." After a moment of emotion, he saw that Changsun Wuji's face did not show any happiness. He suddenly thought of the crisis and hurriedly urged: "Well, go on, a wise ruler and virtuous ministers, isn't that good? What happened later?"

Zhangsun Wuji then told the story of the Muda incident last autumn, the grassland was shocked, the Right Wise King was assassinated, Shi Luodie rose again, and the two sides each led their armies to fight at Hengling. Both sides lost 200,000 to 300,000 soldiers and horses, and finally the grassland was divided into two forces, the east and the west.

"Good for you, Changsun Wuji. Isn't this a great thing?"

Li Shimin could not help but be overjoyed and said: "The dominance of the Right Wise King has always been a concern of mine. Now there is the rise of Shiluodi. The fight between the Khans is enough to split the Turks into two countries. The situation that follows is extremely favorable to us."

"As long as the court supports the weak and restrains the strong, it will naturally be able to slowly weaken the Turks. When they are both defeated and the time is right, we can march north and completely pacify the grassland."

"You are all talented and experienced old ministers. Don't tell me that you don't know what to do in the face of such a favorable situation?"

"Emperor, we can imagine what you said, but the situation has developed too strangely. We thought that the two tribes would first decide the winner on the grassland and then plan to move south. Who knew that Shi Luodie would go crazy and play against the rules?"

Changsun Wuji complained bitterly about how Shi Luodie led 300,000 cavalrymen south to spend the winter, changing his previous practice of collecting benefits on the border and going straight along the corridor in the southern part of the Liaoxi Plain into the hinterland of Hebei.

Then he said: "This time when the Turks came south, they not only did not harass the people, but also targeted the noble families. The noble families in Hebei, centered around the Fanyang Lu family, the Boling Cui family, the Zhaojun Li family, and the Qinghe Cui family, were wiped out."

"They seized all their wealth and distributed all their land to the people, so that the people of Hebei gradually began to lean towards the Turks."

"This"

When Li Shimin heard this, he was filled with mixed feelings of joy and anger, and his mood was extremely confused.

Eliminating the aristocratic families and redistributing the land had always been his dream. Now it had come true, which made him extremely surprised. He did not feel sorry for the destruction of those aristocratic families at all, but felt infinitely happy.

On the other hand, such a thing was actually accomplished by the Turks.

This made him worried again. The Turks would not make wedding dresses for the Tang Dynasty. This move must be aimed at the stability of the Tang Dynasty. They were rampant in Hebei Road and trying to win over the hearts of the people, which would inevitably cause great damage to the rule of the Tang Dynasty.

After thinking for a long time, Li Shimin had a complicated expression: "The act of dividing the land is undoubtedly like digging up the ancestral graves of the nobles. The nobles will not remain indifferent, right?"

Changsun Wuji had followed Li Shimin all the way, and he was well aware of the harm caused by the aristocratic families. He also knew that Li Shimin had always been wary of the aristocratic families and had never let down his guard against them until the last moment.

For the sake of his own family's interests, Changsun Wuji chose to betray Li Shimin and stand on the side of the aristocratic families.

However, the subsequent changes in the situation forced him to part ways with the Guanlong clan. By this time, he certainly knew that the interests that the clan had maintained for hundreds of years had been shaken by the Turks. Even they felt that victory was hopeless and fled to the Western Regions.

Then his eldest grandson's family would either follow them to establish a fiefdom.

If he wanted to regain his position in the court, he had to change his previous attitude, stand on the side of imperial power, and help Li Shimin deal with the aristocrats. Anyway, his sister was the empress dowager, and the emperor's nephew had the blood of the Changsun family, so this country had a part of the Changsun family.

Unlike other aristocratic families, the Changsun family has a way out.

At worst, they can just hand over the land. With the power vacuum created by the exodus of the aristocratic families, the royal family will certainly compensate the Changsun family with huge benefits in other areas.

"The Emperor is wise, and the nobles are simply furious."

Zhang Sun Wuji, who had figured out all this, quickly found the location and revealed the actions of the nobles: "The Hebei nobles persuaded the Guanlong nobles to mobilize the Longxi Flying Cavalry, hoping to eliminate the Turks in the shortest possible time and quell the land unrest in Hebei."

"What, Longxi Flying Cavalry?"

Li Shimin stood up suddenly, his eyes flashing with uncontrollable hatred. He knew that it was this cavalry hidden inside the Tang Dynasty that made him breathless and made it difficult for him to be tough in the face of the nobles.

No matter what he did, he was always cautious and could never be ruthless. He dreamed of annihilating this cavalry.

Hearing this, Li Shimin's face was already gloomy. He said, "The Longxi Flying Cavalry is very powerful. Now that they have set out, the Turks will have no chance of survival. What will happen next?"

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. Things are not as you think."

Changsun Wuji acted like one of his own, gloating over the misfortune and saying, "Even though the nobles sent two great generals, Li Ji and Cheng Yaojin, to lead the army in order to be on the safe side, the whole army was still annihilated in the end."

"Of the 200,000 Longxi cavalry, only a few thousand defeated soldiers returned."

(End of this chapter)