Great Tang Southern Emperor

Compared to what happened to them, Liuzhao's treatment is much better. Not only can they become citizens of the Tang Dynasty and enjoy all the treatment enjoyed by the people of the Tang Dynasty, but they can also send warriors from the clan to join the Tang army, conquer the Quartet, and make contributions You can also be promoted and become a general... These days are simply not too good.

Therefore, Nanyang has basically been annexed by Datang, and the threat from the south has also been lifted.

With the threats to the north, west and south eliminated, only Goguryeo and the Mohe tribes remained in the Tang Dynasty.

Now that Li Shimin is preparing to conquer in person again, the soldiers are pointing at Goguryeo. The Tang Dynasty is well prepared for this battle, and the outcome of the war will basically not change much. Goguryeo is doomed.

Goguryeo is the only country in the northeast that can be regarded as a little threat to the Tang Dynasty. The rest, like Silla and Baekje, are all small countries. The Tang Dynasty only needs a wave to conquer them.Although the Mohe tribes are powerful, they are also split into several forces, and there are many internal conflicts. The Tang Dynasty does not need to send troops at all. It only needs to recruit a group to fight a group, and let the Mohe tribes fight among themselves without any effort.

In other words, as long as Goguryeo is destroyed, there will basically be no enemies outside the Tang Dynasty, so where will Li Shimin aim the butcher knife next?

Undoubtedly, it was naturally the aristocratic family and Confucianism that had opposed him and forced him into a mess. The aristocratic family and Confucianism had brought so much trouble to Li Shimin before. Now that the external enemies have been eliminated, it is time to deal with the internal enemies.

Chapter 610 The plan leaked

Chapter 75 plans leaked

Worried that Li Shimin would target himself, this is one of the reasons why the aristocratic family and Confucianism frantically opposed Li Shimin's conquest of Goguryeo. Once Goguryeo was defeated, Datang would no longer have external threats in a short time.

And without external threats, the major forces opposing Datang in the country have launched a real fire because of the silver mine incident. Forget about getting back to top form.

There is no external threat, and the internal threat is reduced to the lowest state. It is the best time for the Great Tang's internal cleansing - such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, if Li Shimin can't grasp it, then he will be called the eternal sage in vain. His Majesty Khan.

Therefore, for their own future, Confucianism and aristocratic families will definitely do everything possible to create obstacles for the Tang Dynasty to conquer Goguryeo.

This is also the reason why Li Shimin didn't come forward to oppose it, but still supported it, knowing that Li Zhen secretly opened Wentian Shuyuan to cultivate talents privately.

It is true that today's civil official group has completely changed its taste. It needs a thorough cleaning to infuse Datang with fresh blood. Otherwise, when this wave of weakness passes and the civil official group revives, Datang will never again There is such a good time.

Li Shimin naturally saw this, so the more Confucianism and aristocratic families opposed it, the more he insisted.

What's more, in the imperial court, although Confucianism and aristocratic families control the various confidential departments of the Tang Dynasty, the top positions are firmly held by Li Shimin. Those who can hold such positions are all his confidantes - Fang Xuan Ling, Du Ruhui, Wei Zheng, Li Jing, Li Ji, Hou Junji, Cheng Yaojin, Changsun Wuji, Qin Qiong, Yuchi Jingde and so on.

These important ministers helped Li Shimin hold the prime ministers of the top three provinces and six departments of the Tang Dynasty, as well as the most important position of the sixteen generals. Under their management, the aristocratic family did not penetrate much here, and there was once a king , but since Wang Gui died of illness three years ago, the top positions no longer have the positions of aristocratic families and Confucianism.

However, the formulation of national policies requires the nods of these big bosses. As long as these big bosses nod, no matter how fierce the opposition from below is, it will be useless.

Therefore, the plan to attack Goguryeo, under the insistence of Li Shimin, with the support of the Chinese and military leaders in North Korea, despite the crazy opposition from the aristocratic family and Confucianism, the plan was finally implemented.

However, the aristocratic family and the Confucianists are obviously unwilling to admit defeat. They may have realized their dangerous situation. The army that originally gathered in Lingnan has actually retreated, and the troops that were originally stationed in the barracks in various parts of the Tang Dynasty , A considerable part of the army began to gather without a transfer order, and a part of the army mutinied. The soldiers killed the general, looted all the supplies in the general, and then hid in the mountains and hid.

"Bastards, traitors, they are traitors, they are all a group of traitors and traitors. Traitors." In the imperial study, Li Shimin was furious, grabbing a blood-stained note, and overturned everything on the imperial case. After falling down, his favorite, the top glass cup that Li Zhen gave him, was also smashed by him.

Several confidants stood at the bottom, their faces were also gloomy and watery, one by one was ugly, and all of them held the same note in their hands. Although the shape and material were different, the content on it was exactly the same.

The thing is like this, the aristocratic family lost a battle at the court meeting, and was suppressed by Li Shimin and his cronies, of course they were not reconciled.

Therefore, on the night after the Chaohui dispersed, a large number of homing pigeons flew out from the houses of the various powers and headed northeast.

Although the defenders shot a group of them to death, but the number of carrier pigeons increased, some of the carrier pigeons escaped the range of the bow and arrow and flew to the intended destination.

Seeing the news on the carrier pigeon, the generals defending the city were shocked, and immediately reported all the notes to Li Shimin. Li Shimin was furious when he saw the contents of the notes, and quickly called all his confidants to discuss what to do next. what to do.

When Fang Du and the others saw the note, they were also shocked and inexplicable. The intention of the aristocratic family is self-evident, which is to inform Goguryeo and make them prepare-this is what they did not expect. The aristocratic family and Confucianism would be so crazy. But it's really no different from betraying the country.

After venting for a long time, Li Shimin finally settled down: "My dear friends, our strategic intention has been leaked, what do you think we should do next?"

"The preparations have been completed. If you give up, it will definitely not work." Cheng Yaojin was the first to jump out and said: "Old Cheng, I only have one idea. Since our strategic intention has been leaked, then we will blatantly fight over it." up.

In order to hide our whereabouts, our speed was not fast, which wasted a lot of time. Now that our intentions have been exposed, we might as well speed up the march and speed up the horse. When the army arrives at Yingzhou, Goguryeo may not be able to react. "

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, what Zhijie said is also what I want to say." Xu Maogong stood up and agreed: "Actually speaking, we didn't lose anything, we just lost a little time, and if we speed up at this time With the speed of the march, it may be possible to capture Anshicheng (an important border town between Goguryeo and Datang) before Goguryeo reacts, and it can completely make up for the lost time."

"That's what I said, but I hate it in my heart." Li Shimin also knew that what Cheng Yaojin and Xu Maogong said was right, but he was still not reconciled: "Most of these bastards are former officials of the Sui Dynasty. Reuse them, but how do they repay me?

what?

The strategic plan announced at noon today, they will send it to Goguryeo at night, what they enjoy is the salary issued by the Tang court, and what they eat is the food of the people of the Tang Dynasty... They went to play for their own selfishness. Knowing foreign countries, betraying the secrets of the Tang Dynasty... Do they have Zhen in their eyes, do they have Tang, do they regard themselves as descendants of Yan and Huang? "

"If they thought of themselves as the descendants of Yan and Huang in their hearts, the former Sui Dynasty would not have perished." Qin Qiong snorted coldly. Although he was also born in a family of officials, his father and ancestors were only small officials. , I don't like it at all: "I'm afraid in the eyes of these aristocratic families, the so-called national righteousness and national security are nothing at all. Only the interests of their own family are the most real. For the benefit of the family, they dare to do anything, let alone Believe it or not, Your Majesty, if you dare to let one of them serve as the governor of Yingzhou, they dare to let the Goguryeo army in, do you believe it?"

Chapter 611 Wei Zheng's Thoughts

Chapter 76 Wei Zheng's thoughts

Everyone in the room couldn't help but nodded when they heard the words. It's not that this kind of thing has never happened. Since Wuhuluanhua, many things were actually provoked by the aristocratic family to maintain their own interests. As for how many people died, the aristocratic family I won't care.

"That's why I invited all my lovers here, just to discuss a countermeasure." Li Shimin clenched his fists tightly, his nails pierced deeply into his palm without knowing it, and said through gnashing of teeth, "I'm not worried about Goguryeo's military affairs. What I hate is that the aristocratic family and Confucianism have become the cancer of our Tang Dynasty. If they are allowed to continue to hold us back like this, although we will not be unable to move forward, we will still have a lot of trouble—— Ladies and gentlemen, we We must think of a countermeasure to kill their prestige."

"Your Majesty, please take a break from the wrath of the thunder." Du Ruhui hastily persuaded, "The reason why the aristocratic family and the Confucianism are holding us back is that we are afraid that we will come back to make trouble for them after finishing up Goguryeo. What does this mean? This means We really hit their pain points this time, otherwise they would not do such a thing. After all, no matter when, collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country is not a good reputation. Once this kind of thing spreads, they will face It will be the curse of the whole world."

"Hey!" When Du Ruhui talked about the world's abuse, Wei Zheng thought of an idea: "Your Majesty, I have an idea."

"I love you, but it's okay to talk about it." Li Shimin said quickly.

"Your Majesty, do you still remember your original intention of handing over the newspaper to the minister?"

"Of course it controls public opinion...you mean..." Li Shimin seemed to have thought of something, and said pleasantly: "you mean, the newspaper has developed to the point where it can compete with the aristocratic Confucianism for the control of public opinion?"

"Of course, Your Majesty, you don't know how good the current development momentum is." Fang Xuanling said with a smile: "I don't know about other places, but I have done a survey in Chang'an alone. Now the newspaper has It is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the entire Chang'an, from civil and military officials to ordinary people, read newspapers almost every day.

Even what they chat about every day is mostly what is published in the newspaper, that is to say, if you don't read the newspaper, you won't even be able to enter your circle. "

"That's right." Wei Zheng also smiled: "In Chang'an alone, the total daily sales of various newspapers have reached 100 million copies (Chang'an's total population exceeded 100 million during the Kaiyuan period, and during the Zhenguan period. The population of the newspaper is estimated to be only a few hundred thousand), just from this alone, our newspaper office has made a lot of money. If you add up Luoyang, Yangzhou, Jinling Prefecture and other places, the total sales volume is as high as 200 million copies. "

"200 million copies?" Li Shimin suddenly stood up and said in shock, "Is there really so many?"

"It's just too many, it's because the newspapers have been around for too short a time, and when the newspapers are laid in the prefectures and counties, the sales volume will increase." Wei Zheng said with a smile: "We have all underestimated the popularity of newspapers among the people, and we print and distribute them every day. The newspapers are often sold out before noon...Your Majesty, the time has come, and it is time for the newspapers to show their prestige."

"What are you going to do?"

"Keming is right in saying that the reason why the family can survive in the world is not only the rights in their hands, but also their reputation. And compared to their rights, reputation is undoubtedly more important to them. It is because they have a good reputation, so although we want to deal with them, we have no name.

A few days ago, I was still thinking about how to expose the bad deeds of the commander-in-chief. Now it seems that there is no need to bother. As long as we publish the news of the aristocratic family and the Confucianism collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, within three days, their reputation will be worse than shit. If it stinks, everyone will despise it. Even if we want to do something to them in the future and destroy their orthodoxy, no one will say anything. "

"But we don't have evidence." Li Shimin said: "It is impossible for them to admit things without evidence."

"No evidence is needed." Wei Zheng's smile became more sinister: "Fabricating out of thin air, making trouble out of nothing, using public opinion to smear a person, this is the usual method of the aristocratic family and Confucianism, because of this trick, Emperor Sui Yang was sprayed as a foolish emperor, and he was shot on his back. Infamy through the ages.

Since this trick can be used by them, and we also control public opinion, why can't we use it?What's more, what we know is not fabricated out of thin air. Although there is no strong evidence, this matter is 100% done by the family, and it is not a lot of trouble at all. "

Fang Xuanling laughed loudly: "Returning the other's way to the other's body, this is a good move, it should be enough for the aristocratic family and the Confucianism to drink a pot."

Du Ruhui also stroked his beard and said, "That's right, if this trick is used, I'm afraid the reputation of Confucianism and aristocratic families will really be stink."

"Fuck, Wei Zheng, Wei Zheng, I really didn't expect you to be so cunning?" Cheng Yaojin said funny, "I used to think that Changsun Wuji was sinister enough, but I didn't expect you to be more ruthless than him. I think the nickname Changsun Wuji is not blessed to bear the nickname Laoyin, and this title should be given to you, Wei Laoyin."

"Go to hell……"