Zhenguan Wenzong System

Chapter 181

Li Shimin had already received a secret report of the fierce internal struggle in Turkic in the early July.However, after all, the struggle at that time was only a quarrel confined to the tent, and it had not reached the level of a big fight, so Li Shimin didn't take it to heart.Unexpectedly, a few days later, there was news of Turkic civil strife.

When Li Shimin announced the news in the court hall, like the Governor's Mansion in Youzhou, all the officials were shocked at first, and then surprised.The Turks are Datang's greatest enemy, and they have brought too much humiliation to Datang.I don't know how many times I have chanted Huo Qubing's slogan of sealing wolves and living in Xu over the years.Especially after Weishui, I watched Li Shimin bring Luo Yan and Yuchi Jingde to bargain with Jieli there.Many loyal courtiers' faces are flushed in retrospect.

Unexpectedly, before he could avenge his shame, these people would have civil strife first.This is good news.Immediately, someone thought, since these guys are fighting so fiercely, why not let themselves get the fisherman's advantage.

While everyone was still enjoying themselves, Yu Chigong stood up and bowed, and said: "Your Majesty, in my opinion, I will wait for all the soldiers in the north, and take advantage of the endless fighting among these barbarians to break them down in one fell swoop." When the time comes, tie Na Jieli to Chang'an and make him a prisoner."

Hearing Yuchi Jingde's words, not only the generals, but also many civil officials nodded in agreement.

There are even a few young generals, thinking about the meritorious service, their hearts are burning hot: "I think that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty will be famous through the ages when he was sealed up as a wolf. The prairie was taken over to be my Datang’s horse ranch.”

Wenzhiwugong is what every responsible emperor pursues in his life.How Li Shimin came to the throne, everyone actually knows very well.At this moment, Li Shimin is eagerly hoping that he can do something so that more people will recognize him and stop thinking about those unbearable pasts.

If it is true that the Turks were defeated, then martial arts would first be able to inspire the common people.

Not to mention that when dealing with Jieli Tuli several times in the past, let alone the smell of cattle and sheep, his speech was rude and impolite, and he was so greedy that he wanted to slap him a few times.I was born in a disadvantaged position, so I had to humble myself.From the founding of the Tang Dynasty to the present ten years, Li Shimin has experienced such a shameful incident four or five times.This breath has been held for too long.

Hearing that these generals spoke so caringly, Li Shimin was so moved that he wanted to cry.

However, it was only the generals who spoke, and many civil servants in high positions bowed their heads and remained silent at this time.

Only Yuwen Shiji, who was old at that time, stood up and poured cold water on Li Shimin at this time: "Your Majesty, don't forget that when we were in Weishui, we made an alliance with Turkic. At this time, we brazenly sent troops. , will also fall into the infamy of treachery."

Yuwen Shiji's words made many civil servants who had read poetry and books nod for a while. It has not been a year since the covenant was signed.The Tang Dynasty has always claimed to be a state of etiquette, but it can't be like the Turks who don't take the oath seriously.Therefore, in just a short while, a large number of seconding proposals came out, which made Li Shimin's heart that had just warmed up suddenly cool down.

The words of these civil officials aroused the dissatisfaction of many generals.Before Yuchi Jingde, who was slapped in the face, got angry, Cheng Zhijie stood up and scolded: "Mother, when those barbarians came in, why didn't you wait for half a fart. If Tang Shangshu said this If you want to talk, it’s all right to bear it. You wait for a few baby dolls, and you have never even seen what Turkic looks like, so you dare to talk nonsense here."

The Tang Shangshu in Cheng Zhijie's mouth refers to Tang Jian, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites.Since the Wude Dynasty, he has been sent to Turks several times.He even had a glorious history of talking about retreating the Turkic army with his own mouth, so even though Tang Jian was a civil servant, generals like Cheng Zhijie admired him a lot.As for those who have been officials in Beijing from the beginning and have never even seen a war, these people will naturally scold them however they want.

Those generals seemed to regard the court dispute as a scolding, and after hearing Cheng Zhijie's words, they all shouted a good word.It made quite a few civil servants look a little ugly.

At this time, those censors began to play a role, constantly reporting the rude behavior of the generals, but turned a good discussion into impeachment.When Li Shimin heard a few words and his head hurt, he roared angrily: "Okay, you wait and think about it, and discuss this matter tomorrow." After speaking, he flicked his sleeves and walked outside the hall .

So the first court meeting became a joke.

It was the same in the next few days, the civil servants and the generals argued with each other, and after talking for several days, they couldn't come to a conclusion.Until the generals of Zhechong prefectures in the north presented their memorials for the battle one after another, it was unprecedented for the generals in the court to use reason to gain a little upper hand.

As several major governor's mansions, the memorials of Youzhou and Bingzhou's governor's mansions are quite heavy.Junkuo, king of Youzhou, asked for a battle on behalf of Youyan.Li Shiji of Bingzhou challenged on behalf of Zhechong Mansion under the jurisdiction of Bingzhou.There are only six metropolitan governor's houses in the world, and the fact that two of them are facing the Turks at the same time invites war at the same time, which makes many courtiers somewhat unable to refute.

In the past few days, the military generals have been using civil officials to talk to the young master about the battlefield, but the civil servants can only talk about benevolence, justice and morality over and over again.According to Cheng Zhijie's words, those generals sprayed him with disgrace.Now that local government soldiers are asking for war again, many civil officials who opposed sending troops for a while didn't know how to refute it.

That day at Zhongshu Province, Ma Zhou took a memorial, went to Fang Xuanling and said, "Fang Zhongshu, read this memorial."

It turned out that Ma Zhou got Luo Yan's letter of recommendation from Xinfeng Town, so he came to Chang'an, and found Changsun Wuji's door directly.Knowing that Luo Yan wrote the letter of recommendation, Changsun Wuji was very generous and sent someone to take Ma Zhou into the Ministry of Officials.After reading Luo Yan's recommendation letter, it was confirmed that it was Luo Yan's handwriting, and Changsun Wuji was surprised.

He knew who Luo Yan was.This guy is so lazy, I don't think he can find another one in Chang'an.If it is not a particularly important thing, I will not take the initiative to do it at all.I don't know what ability this Ma Zhou has, it is worthy of Luo Yan to recommend him to Li Shimin.

So Changsun Wuji chatted with Ma Zhou for a long time with great interest.After this conversation, I really admire Luo Yan a little bit, I didn't expect that Ma Zhou is really talented.While admiring, Changsun Wuji asked how Luo Yan and Ma Zhou met.When he learned that the two were actually just friends after a bad drink in Xinfeng Town, Changsun Wuji wanted to cry for a moment.

This is too bullying. This kind of people can only find out after a drink, what kind of **** luck Luo Yan has had.

The depressed grandson Wuji sent Luo Yan's letter of recommendation to Li Shimin.When Li Shimin chatted with Ma Zhou all afternoon, Ma Zhou was arranged by Li Shimin to be a small official in the Ministry of Education the next day.However, the living room on the first day recorded such a sentence: "When the emperor heard the reason why Ma and Luo met, he lost his manner for a while and spit out all the tea in his mouth."

Zhongshuling was exactly Fang Xuanling who was sitting and flipping through the memorabilia at this time.Relying on his talent, Ma Zhou gained a firm foothold in Zhongshu Province in just one month, and even won Fang Xuanling's appreciation, so he was qualified to hand over some memorials to Fang Xuanling in person.Seeing that Fang Xuanling did not lift his head at this time, he asked Ma Zhou, "Whose memorial is written, and what is it written about?"

Only officials of the fourth grade or above are eligible to send their memorials directly to Li Shimin, while others can only be sent to the Ministry of Education. If it is important, the Ministry of Education will give opinions and send them to Li Shimin for review; if it is not important, Directly write opinions and then send them to Shangshu Province for execution.

Therefore, Fang Xuanling was able to spare his energy to ask Ma Zhou, which was considered a great deal of face.

"From Luo Sima of the governor's office in Youzhou, he wrote against sending troops to the Turks." Ma Zhou replied respectfully.

Hearing what Ma Zhou said, Fang Xuanling became interested: "Oh, your Bole? Come, let me see."

Since Luo Yan's letter of recommendation to Ma Zhou got out, people who knew Ma Zhou joked that he was a thousand-mile horse.Of course, Luo Yan who discovered Ma Zhou was naturally given the title of Bole.It wasn't the first time that Fang Xuanling made fun of Ma Zhou and Luo Yan, so Ma Zhou just blushed a bit, and soon returned to normal.

What really interested Fang Xuanling was the reason why Luo Yan opposed sending troops to the Turks.During this period of time, foreign officials participated in the discussion of sending troops, and rarely expressed their opposition. In addition, many people in the civil service system also agreed with sending troops, and the calls for war became louder and louder.Fang Xuanling was in charge of the Zhongshuling, and at the same time was the secretary of the household department. He didn't know how to fight the war, but he knew what was needed for the war.

Therefore, he is also a member who firmly opposes sending troops.

Opening Luo Yan's memorial, Fang Xuanling smiled when he saw the two simple reasons above.

He had seen Luo Yan messing around, and originally thought that Luo Yan would encourage Li Shimin to send troops.Because Luo Yan's behavior style over the past year is basically the same as those generals.Some time ago, someone said that if Luo Yan was here, it would probably give him even more headaches, but he didn't expect Luo Yan to be so impulsive this time.

After reading Luo Yan's memorabilia, Fang Xuanling called a small official and asked him to go to the household department to obtain information on the storage of money and food in the treasury.

Because of the famine in Guanzhong, the Ministry of Households has already counted the grain storage in the major granaries every other month, and at the same time checked the treasury.It was only an hour before the little official went, and he brought a stack of books, and the data in it could be detailed to the warehouses of various states.After Fang Xuanling put down the memorabilia in his hand, he went through the books roughly, copied some numbers, and went to find Li Shimin with Luo Yan's memorabilia.

Although Luo Yan spoke briefly, the reason has already been explained clearly.The rest is up to the opposition parties themselves.I used to always talk about etiquette, since I can't convince these people, let's talk about the foundation of Datang.

(End of this chapter)