Crown Tang emperor

If he can really replace his fourth uncle in the future, it would be a good choice for Li Longye to inherit the lineage of his fourth uncle. After all, although the other few are young, their respective temperaments have already been revealed, and they cannot be raised like him. A familiar white-eyed wolf.

As for cutting the weeds and eradicating the roots, this is purely a joke.As a king, you still have to have certain integrity in terms of human relations, otherwise how can you face the people of the world.It's the same as him living under his grandma's hand with the phrase "Only Love Lives Me".

Of course, this is still a longer-term plan. As for the present, it is because of Wang Meichang's shit stick.

To be honest, Li Tong really didn't want to respond to his fourth uncle's request, but he had already achieved this step, and he couldn't justify not giving him face.At least if this matter is agreed, some potential power conflicts between him and his fourth uncle can be eased a lot, because his fourth uncle depends on him to check and balance court officials, and this matter will be vividly reflected.

Even if someone speaks in the future, saying that King Yong's power has already threatened the status of the emperor's heir, then his fourth uncle has to think carefully about whether you really want to help me, or do you want to get rid of my good nephew and then completely empty it out I?Do you fucking want to be Pei Yan too?

In short, as long as Li Tong can demonstrate his own value in consolidating the imperial power, even if there is any conflict in the future, it will be difficult for Li Dan to make up his mind to completely oppose Li Tong and completely eradicate the King Yong family.

After all, Li Dan himself is not a person with a firm mind, especially in terms of power games, he does not have the kind of leadership temperament that although thousands of people are willing to go.

Chapter 0499 I'm not good enough to be a reserve

The Ministry of Rites itself does not have prisons, so Wang Meichang was temporarily imprisoned in Xiantai Prison after being dismissed from his position by the Dangdian.

Xiantai is the most chaotic department in the court today, and the management of the prisons under its jurisdiction is also quite chaotic.It's not that Wang Meichang has never been in prison. Before the coup, he was imprisoned in the prison of Sixing Temple for more than a month.

At that time, although the situation was also quite bad, but as the emperor's heir's cousin, there were still some criminal officials who cared for him.In addition, he was not an important target of pushing the case at that time, so although he was miserable, but after he had the consciousness of being willing to die, he could have some peace of mind.

But this time in prison, the feeling is very different. This is from the highlight moment of life being thrown into prison suddenly.Not long ago, he was still dreaming of going further, taking charge of the government and even operating the order, but he didn't want to become a prisoner again in the blink of an eye.

Moreover, this time in prison, King Yong and the ruling prime minister of the court expressed their dissatisfaction with Wang Meichang one after another, and the officials of the criminal department did not dare to take care of her, and even fought to add insult to injury.

Therefore, after Wang Meichang was imprisoned in the Xiantai prison during the court meeting, he received the key care of the Xiantai censors.One wave did not go, and another wave came again.

These censors may not necessarily belong to which side, and because of this, they need to make meritorious deeds more urgently.A ruthless person like Wang Meichang who offended the big bosses of the three parties naturally became their best hunting target.

Because there were too many people who came to participate in the questioning, and they even competed with each other, which caused the questioning to not proceed normally.

Even so, Wang Meichang's situation is not good, especially after seeing a group of censors so enthusiastically vying for the opportunity to question him, his estimation of his future fate is getting lower and lower.

At first, he felt that the courtiers always wanted to treat him lightly for the sake of the emperor's heir, and it was a great thing to abolish the official title and send it to the people.But gradually, he felt that this idea was too optimistic, and he might face relegation and exile, and the distance of exile was gradually getting farther.

In the middle of the night, Xu Junchen, the censor, went to prison to push the case. It was not Wang Meichang who questioned, but the scene of the questioning was opposite Wang Meichang's prison cell.Needless to say, Xu Junchen had a bad name, and the screams coming from the opposite side really deserved the bad name.

What's more, when Xu Junchen used torture to interrogate the case, he also arranged for an official to stand outside Wang Meichang's prison and loudly explain the names and effects of those torture tools.

In such an environment, it was strange for Wang Meichang to be able to sleep. Even the almost uninterrupted screams of being tortured made him unable to think normally.

After this night of tossing, Wang Meichang was already haggard, her eyes were bloodshot, and her eyes were even more slack to the extreme.It was only at this time that he realized that the torture he had endured in the early years was really nothing, and it was very likely that he would be reduced to the point where life would be worse than death.

In the early morning, some subordinates went to the prison and went straight to Wang Meichang's cell. Wang Meichang didn't realize it, but just sat in the cell in a daze.Hearing the sound of the cell door being opened, Wang Meichang suddenly jumped up from the ground as if being electrocuted, her whole body pressed against the inner wall, and howled mournfully, "Don't come here! Don't... I want to see the emperor's heir, I am the father of the emperor's concubine, His Highness the emperor's heir will definitely save me...thieves can't harm me!"

"Shut up!"

A prisoner stepped forward and swung a wooden stick directly into Wang Meichang's ribs. Taking advantage of the pain, his body bowed into a shrimp, and another person quickly stepped forward to tie him up tightly, and his mouth was also blocked by the way. Got up, and then dragged him out of the cell, and walked out of the prison.

At this moment, Li Tong was chatting with Zhang Jianzhi, the new Xiantai Zhong Cheng, in the hall, but the atmosphere was a bit tense.The reason is that Li Tong has already obtained Ouyang Tong's verdict and has been approved by Luantai, and is going to take Wang Meichang away directly, but Zhang Jianzhi refuses.

Seeing the old man blowing his beard and staring, he argued that all the memorials accumulated by Xiantai were related to Wang Meichang, so after the Ministry of Rites finished the trial, Wang Meichang would continue to stay on stage for trial.

Zhang Jianzhi's reasons are quite good. After all, Li Tong also contributed some of those memorials. Originally, he also planned to keep Wang Meichang in Xiantai to continue to torture, but now the plan has changed again.

"Xiao Wang shouldn't have interfered in the affairs of Xiantai. But Wang Meichang's punishment facility should be in my mansion, and the military affairs are urgent at present. Although it is only a mere force, it needs to be treasured and used. , it will affect people with lofty ideals to donate their lives to serve the country, which is really not worth the candle."

In the officialdom, people like Zhang Jianzhi who have no ambitions for an official career and are full of moral integrity are the most difficult to deal with, stubborn and stubborn.Li Tong didn't bother to continue to entangle with him, so he simply took his hat off.

At the same time, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, probably his fate was at odds with these famous officials, and one or two of them couldn't get along well.

Hearing what King Yong said, Zhang Jianzhi opened his mouth and didn't say anything more, he just got up and walked away. When he was walking outside the hall, the executioners dragged the heavily bound Wang Meichang in.

"However, if you can be a human being, don't be a thief! The royal family loves you deeply, if you dare to avenge your kindness again, even though you are old, you still have the power to kill a thief!"

Zhang Jianzhi walked over, bowed his head and spat on Wang Meichang, and then left Xiantai without looking back.

Seeing this scene, Li Tong was even more delighted. Although they had different ways of thinking and it was not enough to conspire, it did not prevent him from taking a high look at Zhang Jianzhi, an old fighter who was so jealous.

Wang Meichang was not in the mood to care about being humiliated by Zhang Jianzhi's spitting. When she was dragged to the hall and looked up to see King Yong sitting in the hall, she was so frightened that she almost lost her mind.When he was unbound, he even knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly: "I beg Your Highness to spare my life, Your Highness... The lowly position definitely does not intend to disobey Your Highness..."

Seeing Wang Meichang like this, Li Tong couldn't help sighing again.He himself is very restrained in terms of emotions, so he doesn't understand why his fourth uncle wants to keep Wang Meichang.Saving Wang Meichang definitely did more harm than good to Li Dan, and it gave Li Tong a lot of room to maneuver.

"No one is going to kill you, get up."

Li Tong waved his hand to make someone throw down an ordinary round-neck shirt, and asked Wang Meichang to change out of the filthy robe that had been spent in prison all night, then motioned him to follow him, and left the imperial city together.

Wang Meichang was trembling along the way, but she didn't dare to ask more questions.But when he came to the gate of King Yong's residence in Jishanfang, his face changed drastically, and he begged directly to the ground: "Before this humble job, I was ignorant of court sentiments, and I already felt deep remorse when I touched His Highness's situation lightly. I will return to the Criminal Division, and I am willing to accept the verdict..."

Li Tong had already entered the door, but when he heard Wang Meichang yelling and refusing to enter the house, he couldn't help but feel irritable, there is something wrong with you old boy, you have already got you out, and you still want to go back?

When he looked back and saw Wang Meichang's miserable appearance with snot and tears, he realized that the old boy thought that he was going to drag him back to the Wang mansion for lynching.

"Drag people in!"

He didn't bother to explain any more, and went straight to the hall. When Wang Meichang was dragged in, his whole body was already in mud, with a look of despair.

Li Tong raised his hand and threw down a letter of appointment, and said: "Now the imperial court has no place for you. I don't need to say more about this. I know what mistakes I made. You just enter the capital temporarily." Ji Dao acts as a member of the army, if he can make meritorious service with the army, he will not lose the opportunity to make progress."

Wang Meichang didn't react for a while, and after a while, she raised her head in surprise and said, "Your Highness, what Your Highness said..."

"See for yourself!"

Li Tong pointed to the sentence thrown in the hall, Wang Meichang was not guilty of death, even if Li Zhaode and others hated him for provoking the prince, at most he would be exiled far away, preventing him from having the opportunity to set foot in the court.

Although Li Tong promised his fourth uncle to protect Wang Meichang, he also understood that keeping Wang Meichang in Shendu would be an inconvenience to everyone, so he simply arranged for him to be in the Governor's Mansion of Duji Province.After all, the jurisdiction of Duji Province is the surrounding areas of Shendu, which is better than being exiled to Hainan to pick coconuts.

Wang Meichang held up the verdict and looked at it carefully, then hurriedly kowtowed and said: "Thank you Your Highness, thank you Your Highness Hongliang... I will do my best to live up to Your Highness's kindness in taking me in!"

"You don't have to thank me too much, just based on your previous actions, I didn't intend to spare you easily! But His Royal Highness felt the friendship and sent all the princes into the mansion..."

Li Tong casually explained the reason, and didn't intend to hide it, and at the same time continued: "Of course, apart from interceding with His Royal Highness, I might as well tell you directly, I am willing to take you in this time, because I don't like to be successful .”

Between great sorrow and great joy, Wang Meichang's thoughts were not smooth enough, but after hearing this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and at the same time he couldn't help trembling: "What does Your Highness mean?"

"Chengqi's relatives were massacred. This is a story of the old dynasty, but this kid is prejudiced and withdrawn, and he blamed me secretly. It makes no sense! If he is a big man, I will feel uneasy. Do you understand?"

Li Tong didn't mind being more straightforward, he saved Wang Meichang, one was to save face for his fourth uncle, and the other was because this shit stick could be directly inserted into his fourth uncle's house.

Although it is a little unethical to do so, to be honest, in this world, no one gets the script of Jack Su. Since you are a woman, you must save a pig teammate, and you have to choose to bear the price for you.

"Understood, understood, I understand!"

This was originally something that Wang Meichang thought was quite deep in his heart. At this time, when King Yong pointed it out, he was suddenly enlightened. Why bother to do it again... Alas, in short, the humble official made mistakes first, and now that I have the same feelings as His Highness, the humble official must..."

"Needless to say, I still have expectations for you, my lord. Wulang is in the mansion. Taking advantage of this convenience, the lord might as well come in and meet your grandson!"

Seeing Wang Meichang on the road, Li Tong's expression turned warm, he got up and waved Wang Meichang into the back hall to meet his grandson.

Wang Meichang originally had reservations about what King Yong said, but seeing that his grandsons were all staying at King Yong's mansion, and they seemed to be getting along quite happily with King Yong's family, he couldn't help but secretly sighed that King Yong was indeed well-known , Be prepared for danger in times of peace, and make such a layout without any trace, which is much smarter than yourself.

Although King Yong came forward to protect Wang Meichang, Wang Meichang was indeed punished. The admonishing doctor who had been a member of the army was kicked out of the court, and he could only serve as a new soldier who had just entered the army. There was no disturbance in the imperial court because of this.

It's just that Secretary Tang Shanzhi and Shaoqing Zhang Xungu were not so lucky, one was sent to Zhenzhou, and the other was sent directly to the Annan Governor's Mansion.

Seeing the tragic end of these accomplices, Wang Meichang was also full of gratitude to King Yong who rescued him for a while, not to mention that King Yong reached a deeper tacit understanding with him, and he was determined to work with King Yong Walk.

Moreover, King Yong is a powerful faction with a heavy army in his hands, which is by no means comparable to those previous accomplices who only boasted.Previously, Wang Meichang suspected that King Yong might be in great trouble, but after a real communication, he found that King Yong's intention was just not to let Li Chengqi, who had a rift with him, enjoy the benefits.

Wang Meichang didn't doubt this. After all, he realized what kind of person he was in the current situation after experiencing the incident. If King Yong really had different plans, given his current strength, there was really no need to make false claims with him.This self-knowledge is Wang Meichang's biggest gain after experiencing this beating.

Of course, it wasn't all fruitless for Li Tong to help his fourth uncle, which was mainly reflected in their brother's livelihood.Li Guangshun and Li Shouli each received a thousand households, while Li Tong added another thousand households, for a total of [-] households.

But his aunt, Princess Taiping, only had [-] households. As for the five little radish heads, although they also had to be crowned kings, they all had [-] households. Only Li Chengqi, who was crowned King Yu, had [-] households. .

However, Li Tong no longer had time to participate in the disputes in the city of God. Instead, he led an army to garrison on the bank of the Yellow River, preparing to completely solve Xue Huaiyi's foreign trouble.

Chapter 0500 Chen Bing Riverside, waiting for the thief division

Mengjin on the south bank of the Yellow River is a famous ferry through the ages, and it is also the base camp of the Duji Province army to meet the powerful enemy and defend the capital of God, although this so-called powerful enemy still exists in the imagination.

In mid-November, after Li Tong returned to Shendu to deal with some trivial matters, he immediately returned to the marching camp on the south bank of the Yellow River, and began to formally set up the defensive front line.

The name of Luoyang, the capital of the gods, is the residence of the emperor in the sky and the danger of the eight passes. This is a saying from the end of the Han Dynasty.After the turmoil of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the struggle for hegemony at the end of the Sui Dynasty, it has been more than 70 years since the unification of the country and the dynasty. The so-called dangers of the eight passes are no longer so accurate.

However, some geographical offensive and defensive points have not weakened much with the passage of time.For example, Mengjin, where the army is currently stationed, is one of the important crossings from the south of Hebei. If there are foreign invaders coming from the south, they can directly attack Luoyang from here.

Whether it is for military needs or to appease people's hearts, it is very necessary to arrange the marching camp here.

But in fact, if it is purely from a military point of view, Heyang on the other side of the Yellow River is the most important stronghold to resist the enemies of Hebei.This is not the opinion of military experts like Li Tong, but the general proposal of the generals in Duji Province, and the Anshi Rebellion in history also proved the importance of Heyang's gains and losses to Luoyang's defense.

King Zhou defeated Zhou and gathered eight hundred princes on the north bank of the Yellow River, which is Heyang, and the ferry crossing the river is Mengjin.However, the emperor's hunting in Heyang recorded in "Spring and Autumn" is not a hunting activity by Zhou's emperor showing off his might, but Jin Wengong's sneaking Zhou's emperor to the north bank of the Yellow River, and holding the emperor to make the princes dominate the alliance.

Since ancient times, Heyang has been closely related to the safety of the Central Plains.However, Heyang in the Tang Dynasty was more than a hundred miles east of the north of Luoyang, located in Huaizhou, Hanoi, at the mouth of the valley between Taihang Mountain and the Yellow River. Its geographical location can be compared to Hulao Pass on the other side of the Yellow River. a demarcation point.

From an orthodox military point of view, if Xue Huaiyi's army really went south to attack in the name of King Qin, although there is a risk of the Yellow River defending Mengjin, Luoyang is too close to the Yellow River, and it is already close to the city. Once Mengjin does not defend properly, it will be completely lost. strategic depth.

Moreover, the Yellow River is in front of them, which not only blocks foreign enemies, but also serves as a kind of protection for foreign enemies, so it cannot give full play to the advantage of the army of Duji Province waiting for work at leisure.

Therefore, deploy enough troops in Heyang, with Luoyang across the river as a backing, and once the foreign enemy arrives, they will take the initiative to attack with ease, or defend with Mengjin and Hulao at an angle. Between offense and defense, take the initiative It's all in your hands.

Even Li Tong, a military novice, felt that such an offensive and defensive strategy was very reliable, but he still did not cross the river to station in Heyang, but sent two thousand Suyue troops and one thousand elite riders to cross the river and settle in Heyang. , waiting for the enemy.

The god capital Luoyang has been in peace for a long time. Although there were two internal rebellions during the Chuigong period, they were both in the south of the Yellow River. Therefore, the military function of Heyang on the north bank of the Yellow River has not yet been highlighted, and the city defense is not repaired. It is not suitable at all. The army is stationed.

The second is how he went to the north bank of the Yellow River, so his influence and control over Shendu would inevitably be weakened. Once something happened in Shendu, he would not be able to respond in a timely and effective manner.

When it comes to this reason, there is a sense of looking forward and backward and delaying the fighter.Obviously the enemy is in front of you, but in the end you are still busy with internal fighting. Who will lose if you are undefeated?

But in the final analysis, war is just a continuation of politics. A war without profit-driven is meaningless and an unjust war.

As a matter of fact, there were two opinions in the court about whether to make such a big effort to guard against Xue Huaiyi's possible act of serving the king.

One of the factions believed that Xue Huaiyi was nothing more than a jester. Although he had the reputation of being victorious, his military exploits were really stifling.

Now that the chaos in Shendu City has been rectified, although Xue Huaiyi has a large army wandering outside, it is just rootless water. He only needs to issue an order, and his head may be picked off and sent to Shendu in the next moment. It is necessary to make a lot of fanfare because of such an opponent, not to mention the waste of people and money, and it will also make the situation in Shendu's hearts turbulent.

The other faction is the military generals headed by Li Tong. They believe that no matter whether Xue Huaiyi has the motivation and ability to call on King Qin, the army is always ready to deploy in Luobei.

Moreover, Chen Bing's preparations for the battle this time were not only aimed at Xue Huaiyi's army, but also to deter potential threats from other states and counties that might arise in the name of King Qin and take advantage of the chaos.Faced with such hidden feelings, only swordsmen show it, and we will never tolerate it!

The reason for Li Tong's insistence on this argument is much more complicated.With the deployment of the Luobei defense line this time, he can not only evacuate the treasury of Shendu in the name of military supplies, but also slightly integrate the military forces around the capital.

From the perspective of righteousness, the solution to Xue Huaiyi's hidden danger is due to the coercion of his army's deployment, not the prestige of the emperor's heir.

From the perspective of people's hearts, Heluo Shengmin should feel that His Highness King Yong is the protector of this place. It is precisely because His Highness King Yong is actively defending and fighting with the frontline army that he can defeat the enemy and protect Heluo. safety of the land.

Especially for the latter point, if the people have such a concept in their hearts, then in the future when Li Tong leads the army back to Luo, many resistances and conflicts will be virtually eliminated.

Basically, both the north and the south of the god capital echoed Li Tong's proposition, not that he had already convinced all the soldiers of the Nan Ya with his charisma, but that these military officers and soldiers needed merit.

The soldiers and horses have not moved, and the general situation has been set. This is really a bit embarrassing for them, and it is not conducive to quickly integrating into the new order of changing dynasties and bringing order out of chaos.

When order creates chaos and turmoil, naturally whoever has the biggest fist will have the loudest voice.Although the former group's proposition of caressing is more reasonable and the reasons are more sufficient, after all, Xue Huaiyi is really not an opponent that can be respected and taken seriously.

But what they can rely on is only a few mouths, and they really can't handle the two Yamen generals headed by King Yong who are eager for merit, so they can only let the troops of Duji Province be mobilized to both sides of the river.

But a proposition is a proposition. From the bottom of his heart, Li Tong still agrees with the solution of the former school, and thinks it is better to turn hostility into friendship as much as possible.

It is true that Xue Huaiyi is not a concern, but the tens of thousands of troops he leads and the general manager of the Seventeenth Route are a huge variable.

Although Li Tong didn't think that Xue Huaiyi had enough prestige and ability to integrate all these people's hearts, so that he could go south to work as a king.But the current situation is that the army is wandering outside, but the court has changed. Those soldiers who are outside, will they worry about the court's arrangement for them in the future?

If there are a few smart guys among them, who can lobby and integrate the generals of the army, and negotiate with the court in a group, it will be fun.Right now, Li Tong is the only one in terms of military power in the city of God, and the imperial court urgently needs to introduce another force to form checks and balances and even suppression.

If the Daibeidao army really tended to gather together and hit it off with the bigwigs in the DPRK and China, then Li Tong, who was squeezed in the middle, would be in an embarrassing situation.

Today, the number of troops in Jinai is full, which is more than 4. This is in addition to the soldiers from the prefectures recruited by Duji after the coup.However, when Dai Beidao marched northward, there were already more than [-] troops, plus a part of the northern frontier army and servant army, it was more than enough to make up [-] to [-] troops.

Of course, as the center of the empire, Shendu has the whole world to carry out blood transfusions. Even if it is slightly short of troops, it can continue to be replenished.The Anshi Rebellion was so big, it was finally put down.

But the problem is, if the war really wants to rise to that level, then it's not something that Li Tong can decide with one word.

Previously in Shendu City, the reason why Li Tong came forward to save Wang Meichang was, on the one hand, of course because he liked Wang Meichang's shit-stirring ability, and on the other hand, he wanted to avoid getting too bad with his fourth uncle.

If his fourth uncle felt too directly threatened from him, he might take some extraordinary measures to bypass him and directly contact the Daibei Dao army.

After all, the Jiedushi originated during the reign of his fourth uncle. Although it was only a name established, it is still different from the powerful feudal towns in later generations.

But Li Tong didn't want to let this sign appear in advance because of the conflict between his uncle and nephew.His request to his fourth uncle is that you don't need to be so wise and powerful to rejuvenate the Tang family, but you can't delegate power to me for the sake of temporary comfort.

Fighting is not allowed, and once a fight breaks out, neither Li Tong nor his fourth uncle, including the ministers in the court, can guarantee whether they can control the situation.Li Tong was not willing to let the imperial court take full control of him, so he called back the army to stab him.

To be honest, such a situation is actually quite dangerous.The Kinei army was deployed along the banks of the great river, with a posture of resting on one's arms and ready to attack, with arrows on the string.And the tens of thousands of generations of North Dao troops wandering outside don't know what to do, and there is a high chance of shooting their guns and going off.

Of course, although the situation is not good, it will not lead to such a catastrophe as the Anshi Rebellion. After all, the Daibeidao army is just a cross-border army. They have no roots in the north, and they do not have a leader or a righteous name to support them. The army was able to reach the bank of the Yellow River intact.

So Li Tong was in Mengjin, and he was anxiously waiting for the news from the North Shore.At the same time, it is also stepping up the transportation of various materials in the city of God.If the matter can be resolved properly, that would be the best, and you can pat your ass and go to Guanzhong.

If things were going to go wrong, then he really had to put aside the strife in the city of God and cross the river to prepare for a battle.

When Li Tong was still making two-handed preparations in Mengjin, something happened in Daibei Dao's camp.