Great Tang Southern Emperor

For example, Li Shimin, more than ten years ago, when Li Zhen presented the "Five Strategies for Dingbian", he had already realized that the ultimate foreign enemy of the Tang Dynasty would be Tubo. This shows that he has already seen the threat of Tubo. It shows that deep down in his heart, he wants to defeat Tubo in one fell swoop.

However, even though it has been seen, he still spared Tubo in history. Why?

After all, it was for his own reputation.

He is the emperor, and he is destined to leave his name in history. Since he is destined to leave his name in history, he naturally hopes to leave a good reputation instead of eternal infamy.

But history is in the hands of Confucianism. If you don't follow their wishes, they will write you as a tyrant through the ages every minute. Do you believe it?

Don't doubt, this kind of situation is possible, such as the unlucky Emperor Sui Yang...

Although he did not do well in some places, I have to say that he is really a wise king, but he was a little anxious, and then offended the interests of Confucianism and the family, and then the Sui Dynasty was destroyed.

After the death of Emperor Sui Yang, Confucianists began to try their best to discredit him. Just in time, Datang needed to make his seizure of power more legal, so he acquiesced in Confucian tricks.The Confucianists who got support finally found out that they still had such a skill, and suddenly felt that they were awesome. After discrediting Emperor Sui Yang, they turned their guns and aimed at Li Shimin, and then Li Shimin was confused. He didn't Thinking that the Confucianism would bite him back, but seeing the Confucianism threatening him, Li Shimin fell silent...

Because he saw with his own eyes how bad the end of the wise Sui Yang Emperor was, so for the sake of his own reputation, Li Shimin had to start to compromise with Confucianism and govern according to Confucianism.

Even though he knew that doing so would bring a lot of potential troubles to Datang, he cared more about his reputation and believed in his descendants, believing that they could easily solve the little troubles he left behind, but he forgot Well, without a thousand-year dynasty, who can guarantee that their descendants will be as wise as themselves?

On this point, Qin Chao is the best proof...

After all, what Li Shimin cares more about is his reputation. After all, this is an emperor who can modify his daily life for the sake of reputation.For the name of Tian Khan, you can spend a lot of money and give a lot of technology, regardless of whether these countries that have obtained technology in Datang will bite Datang in turn.

However, Li Zhen was different. He came from a later age. In that era when materialism was rampant and money was paramount, for some people, as long as they could get money, let alone reputation, they could even lose their integrity.

Although Li Zhen was not so cruel, he lived in that era for more than 20 years anyway, and his family ran a factory, so he was infected by the atmosphere of later generations. Just be pragmatic.

But no matter it is realistic or pragmatic, one thing remains the same, that is, when he thinks about problems, he often starts from reality and looks at problems from the perspective of interests.

Choose whichever option is more beneficial to you. As for whether this method will affect your reputation...

This is nothing. It is best to have a good reputation, but if you have to leave an eternal infamy, it doesn't matter, as long as the actual benefits are reaped. This kind of attitude is also one of the reasons why Confucianists are unhappy with him. .

Li Zhen's performance is like a copper pea, it can't be steamed, boiled, hammered, or fried, it's perfect, and there are no dead ends.

Why is Confucianism so awesome?Because they have one of the most important things in governing the world, that is talents.Today, Confucianism dominates the world, and almost all talents are of Confucian origin. They control all talent channels. If you don’t get the support of Confucianism, even if you can sit on the throne, they can rely on the non-violent non-cooperation movement to bring Do you believe that you were forced to come down from the throne?

But Li Zhen is different. He has Wentian Shuyuan, and the students he cultivated are all elites. According to the special quota of 5 Wentian Shuyuan students every year, he can have [-] talents in five years.

With so many talents, there are 360 ​​states in the world. On average, there are more than 140 talents in a state. This number of people is enough to support the operation of the entire state capital.

In other words, Li Zhen can maintain the operation of Tang Dynasty only by asking Tian Shuyuan. For him, it is the same whether there is Confucianism or not.

And without the support of the greatest talents, what else can Confucianism threaten Li Zhen?

Money, Li Zhen's current money is more than all their Confucians combined.

Power, Li Zhen is the prince of the Tang Dynasty, and will be the prince in the future, the future legal heir of the Tang Dynasty, can Confucianism give Li Zhen an empire?

Prestige, behind Li Zhen stood more than half of the court's supporters, so many people were willing to support him, how could the prestige be low?

In the end, it was fame, but what Li Zhen didn't care about the most was fame...

All the usual methods of Confucianism have no effect on Li Zhen. They treat Li Zhen like a dog biting a hedgehog.

In other words, Li Zhen is a person who is out of their control, but he is also a strong successor to the next throne. How could they allow such a person to ascend the throne?

But Li Zhen doesn't care, so what can Confucianism do to him?Now that the whole world has been lured to Yindao by him, for this matter, he almost beat out the brains of dogs, so how can he have the energy to deal with him?At most, it's just finding fault with myself in the court.But his influence in the court is enough to settle this trouble for him, so he doesn't have to worry at all.

These are things to talk about later, let’s talk about them later, let’s talk about Li Shimin’s affairs now.

What is gratifying is that under the influence of Li Zhen, Li Shimin seemed to have changed his mind a little bit. At that time, Songtsan Gampo invaded Songzhou, but was beaten up by Datang head-on. Wipe out the Tubo army.

Songtsen Gampo was terrified, and after finally escaping his life, he immediately went to the court to plead guilty, hoping that Datang would forgive his crimes, and at the same time hoped to marry the princess of Datang. From then on, he was willing to treat Datang as a son-in-law.

, It is said that after receiving the news, Li Zhen almost burst out laughing, you lost the war, and you still want to marry the princess of the Tang Dynasty, isn't it too beautiful for you?

Or, do you think everyone is a fool, unable to see your intentions?

Chapter 609

Chapter 74 Datang Bingfeng

About Songtsan Gampo's peace proposal this time, almost everyone understands that this is just his strategy of slowing down the army. What Tang should do most is to take advantage of the victory to defeat the main force of Tubo in one fell swoop, hit the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and take down the entire territory of Tubo.

However, although everyone understands that Tubo is rich, all kinds of money and goods are desperately stuffed into the homes of Tang nobles. Although some important officials returned double the gifts, some people accepted Tubo's generous gifts. , and then pretended to be confused, pretending to be ignorant, saying that the killing was too heavy, it would hurt the sky and so on...

Li Shimin clearly knew that these people had accepted the gift, but the civil servant group was too large and pressed every step of the way, so that Li Shimin almost agreed.

Fortunately, Li Zhen had noticed it in advance, and had already mentioned this to Li Shimin the day before. Thinking of what Li Zhen had said to him, Li Shimin finally gritted his teeth and did not let go.Not only did he not let go, but he also used this to lose his temper, investigated and dealt with a large number of officials who accepted bribes, and severely suppressed the civil official group.

However, the civil official group did not let it go. Faced with Li Shimin's suppression, they not only did not shrink back to lick their wounds, but went too far. Every time Datang defeated a country, they would stand up and continue to fight.

Especially this time when he personally conquered Goguryeo, when everything was ready, Li Shimin finally announced his battle plan in the court.The aristocratic family and the Confucianist group immediately panicked, and even desperately opposed it.

Of course, they didn't do this to fight against Li Shimin. The Confucian group was not so childish. The reason why they did this was purely to protect themselves.

The reason is very simple, why did Li Shimin clearly know that most of the underground civil service groups have decayed, but he still didn't make more efforts to clean up the civil service groups?Could it be that he really has no backup talents and can only rely heavily on Confucianism and family influence?

of course not.

There are many people who want to be officials in this world, and talented people who have nowhere to serve the country can be seen everywhere. As long as Li Shimin dares to remove people from the civil society, some people are willing to offer their loyalty and step on the corpses of their predecessors to rise to power.

But there is a problem. Such a large-scale cleansing of the officialdom will inevitably cause national turmoil. Will those foreign races who have been coveting the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty take advantage of the emptiness and make trouble, and take advantage of the chaos of the Tang Dynasty to come to the Tang Dynasty? A cruel one?Don't even think about it, this is something that will definitely happen, and it is likely that not one foreign race will attack, but many countries will attack at the same time, and the impact will be disastrous.

What's more, some people may lure wolves into the house, take the initiative to let foreigners into the Central Plains, bring boundless disasters to Datang, and may even shake the foundation of Datang.

This is also the main reason why Li Shimin didn't dare to touch Confucianism before. It wasn't that he couldn't move, but that he didn't dare to move. If he moved, the country might be destroyed.

But it's different now, Li Shimin has begun to cut off external threats.

Datang's external threats are basically concentrated in three directions, namely the north, west, south and northeast.

It’s easy to talk about the northern part, which is the Turks. This has been done more than ten years ago, so I won’t say more.

Then there is the west. Tubo, Gaochang, and Tuyuhun in the west have been destroyed, and the Anxi Protectorate has also been established. A big nail has been planted in the Western Regions. There is basically no need to worry about threats here.In other words, except for the Western Turks, the threat of Datang in the west has been eliminated.

Although there is still a Western Turkic country, the Western Turkic State is a big country, and Datang does not know how many spies have been planted in it. Any military transfer there will cause Datang to be alarmed, and he will respond adequately at the first time. There is no need to worry about the sudden attack of Western Turks.

Then there is the south, not to mention the south, mainly Nanyang and Tianzhu. Tianzhu and Datang are separated by the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Himalayas, so there is basically no need to worry.In other words, the threat to the south of the Tang Dynasty is basically only the Indochina Peninsula.

But now on the Indochina Peninsula, except for one Six Edicts, the rest of the countries have been destroyed, and the entire Indochina Peninsula has been included in the Tang Dynasty.

Even the remaining six imperial edicts were surrounded by the Tang Dynasty, trembling under the front of the Tang Dynasty.

The reason why Liuzhao was left behind was that Li Zhen also considered that Liuzhao belonged to the later generations of Dian Province, and also belonged to the Chinese bloodline, not to mention that the fighters had super combat effectiveness (the Liuzhao are many mountains, and the people who come out of the mountains are generally born infantry. Just like people who come out of the grassland are born cavalry), military conquest will only bring losses to Datang, and it is far worse than a peaceful settlement. It will not only reduce losses, but also add many excellent fighters to Datang, Kill two birds with one stone.

And facing Datang's solicitation, the chiefs of Liuzhao naturally welcomed them with both hands, especially after hearing that Liuzhao would be merged into Datang and the people of Liuzhao would become citizens of Datang, they were even more joyful.It's not that they are so easy to be satisfied, it's what Datang did in Nanyang that made Liuzhao go crazy with fright.Turning the whole family into slaves at every turn, working to death in the dark slave camp... It's really terrible.