Fu Tang

Li Congjia had already urged Li Jingda and Zhao Kuangyin to quickly take over the Kingdom of Shu, because he felt that Northern Zhou would not give up the opportunity to include the Kingdom of Shu in his territory, and he was also preparing to write a letter to Southern Zhou.

In this troubled world, the boundaries between friends and enemies are very unclear. Maybe the two sides were still attacking each other before, and then they formed an alliance again.

Ever since leading a group of people to open up wasteland in the Western Regions, Li Congjia felt that his integrity had almost dropped. He could turn a blind eye to what was right and wrong as long as it did not involve principles.

He was able to sell weapons to Nan Zhou before, and it is not impossible to write to Nan Zhou to join forces.

It's just... Now that Bei Zhou has rejected Shu's surrender, does he not need to write this letter?

Li Congjia put down the brush with a strange expression on his face, looked up at Shi Xueting and asked, "Is there no further news?"

Shi Xueting shook his head: "No, but... I can guess a little bit."

Li Congjia raised his eyebrows: "Can you guess? Could it be that the ministers of the Northern Zhou Dynasty had a collective convulsion?"

Shi Xueting chuckled and said: "No, it may be that they are in dire straits now, and they don't want to add an enemy like Datang."

Li Congjia asked: "The water is in dire straits? There doesn't seem to be any major problems in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, right?"

Shi Xueting clicked on the northeast of the map and said, "It's not internal, but external enemies."

When Li Congjia saw Shi Xueting's finger on the map, his first reaction was that Shi Xueting's hand was really pretty, and then he saw where he was pointing, and suddenly asked, "Khitan?"

Shi Xueting replied: "That's right, Khitan. When Guo Rong was alive, he fought evenly with Khitan. Later, when he passed away, Zhou Guo also inherited his legacy and continued to confront Khitan. Only after two weeks The split, the northern and southern Zhous attacked each other, and they no longer had the strength to confront the Khitan, and the border defense line began to shrink slowly. All the risks were passed on to the Northern Zhou. It's bitter cold outside the customs, and their life is not easy, so they naturally want to come to the Central Plains to snatch it, and since they want to snatch it, they simply plan to go with Bei Zhou."

After hearing this, Li Congjia sighed: "It's all Shi Jingtang, who sells soil for glory. If the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures hadn't fallen into Khitan's hands, there might be a barrier in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, so they wouldn't be so passive."

But Shi Xueting said: "If Zhou State had Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures in his hands, Guo Rong would not have left the Northern Han, Southern Han, Jingnan and Shu kingdoms alone, and insisted on fighting Khitan first."

Li Congjia was a little tangled: "If Khitan invades the Northern Zhou Dynasty, what should we do?"

Shi Xueting understood that Li Congjia was asking if they wanted to send troops, but he didn't answer, he just asked, "Does Datang still have extra troops to send out?"

In fact, there are, and soldiers from the Western Regions may not be able to adapt to the south, but there should be no problem in the north.

Seeing Li Congjia's hesitation, Shi Xueting said, "From the perspective of the overall situation, it's best not to intervene. If Bei Zhou really loses to Khitan, this is a good opportunity to subdue Bei Zhou."

Li Congjia was still struggling: "But if that's the case, the people in the Central Plains will suffer."

Shi Xueting asked again: "If you want to help, will Bei Zhou want you to help? They won't worry that you are taking the opportunity to plot something?"

Because if you analyze it according to the normal way of thinking, Li Congjia should sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight at this time, and wait until the two tigers are both injured, and then take action to maximize the benefits. If Li Congjia wants to intervene from the beginning, I am afraid that Bei Zhou will be wary of him. .

Li Congjia instantly understood what Shi Xueting meant, and said helplessly, "It's really not easy to be a good person these days."

Shi Xueting... Shi Xueting is powerless to complain, how fresh, if you are really a good person, don't steal Jingchu, don't attack Shu, you just occupied Jingnan in the name of borrowing the way, and you will send troops to help Bei Zhou To fight Khitan, from the geographical point of view, if the Tang army wants to fight the Liao army, it will naturally have to cross the Northern Zhou Dynasty. The Northern Zhou Dynasty is still worried that you will take Kaifeng in a convulsion!

Li Congjia put this matter aside, he was indeed somewhat compassionate, but when conditions did not permit, he still put his own country first.

He chuckled and said, "The Kingdom of Shu is really stealing chickens this time, so I don't know what's going on there?"

What else?The monarchs and ministers of the Kingdom of Shu were already panicking. Meng Xuanzhe, who had been suppressed too much by the courtiers, finally broke out. He changed his habit of not talking too much in the court, and directly yelled at the ministers: "I have long said that I would like to talk to the Tang Dynasty. Surrender! How big is the difference between Northern Zhou and Tang? If you count the land, Tang is stronger than Northern Zhou. You all think that Northern Zhou is a powerful country. How is it now? Other powerful countries don’t like our Shu country at all!"

Li Hao, the Sikong of the Kingdom of Shu, was also miserable in his heart. How did he know such a result would happen?Originally, their plan was to surrender first, and after Northern Zhou beat Tang Jun back, they would rebel against Northern Zhou. After all, the current strength of Northern Zhou had been greatly reduced, and there was no psychological burden if they rebelled.

It's a pity that Bei Zhou didn't accept them at all!

Li Hao glanced at Wu Zhaoyi, and Wu Zhaoyi said, "If that's the case, then we can only fight Tang Jun."

Meng Xuanzhe was about to go mad with anger: "If you could fight, you would have fought earlier. Why would you need to surrender to the Northern Zhou Dynasty? The Tang army is advancing very fast, and they are already very close to Chengdu. They are about to attack the city. Now you say you want to fight with them." beat?"

How to fight with few soldiers?Hit it on the head?

All the courtiers were as quiet as chickens, not daring to speak.

Li Hao said bitterly: "The only solution now is to surrender to Tang."

Well, it went around a big circle and came back.

Meng Xuanzhe said coldly: "Is it easy for you to talk when you are the king of the Tang Kingdom?"

Nima, from a prince of a country to a horse thief, and then took down the three regimes in the Western Regions, turned around and returned to the Central Plains, such a person is what you say?

The courtiers were a little uncomfortable with Meng Xuanzhe's sharpness, wondering in their hearts, wasn't he just a display before?

Meng Xuanzhe was setting it up because he couldn't resist these courtiers before, because among the ministers who wanted to surrender to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, many of them had connections in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and they had backgrounds, otherwise why did they choose the Northern Zhou Dynasty?

It's a pity that the relationship between these people probably can't continue to support them now, Meng Xuanzhe naturally has the confidence, but this confidence...isn't there yet!

A group of ministers discussed at the court meeting for a long time without discussing why, so Meng Xuanzhe turned his head and went to find his mother after the court meeting.

After Zhang Taihua listened to Meng Xuanzhe's complaints, her face was still calm, as if there was nothing in this world that could make her fluctuate.

Meng Xuanzhe lost his interest: "I'm afraid we really have to wait until the city is destroyed."

Then Zhang Taihua said: "No need, I have some friendship with Tang Guoshi, wait until I write a letter to him, let him persuade Tang Wang, you don't have to worry, the situation of our mother and son may not be known to Tang Wang, let alone, Why would the King of Tang not be happy if he could take Chengdu without bloodshed?"

Meng Xuanzhe asked, "Then what will I do?"

Zhang Taihua patted Meng Xuanzhe's head and said: "As long as you are smarter, you can still live comfortably. If Tang Wang is tolerant, you will naturally have a role to play."

Meng Xuanzhe replied sullenly, if he could, he would naturally not be willing to surrender, he finally ascended to the throne, but lost it in a blink of an eye, this kind of gap cannot be understood by ordinary people, if he is a little weaker, he may collapse.

Meng Xuanzhe did not collapse purely because he was shocked by the series of changes between his parents and his mother before. When he realized that the dust had settled, his mother "killed" his father, and his outlook on life collapsed Half, the throne and the like are just... just let it go.

So the letter of surrender from the Kingdom of Shu was placed on Li Congjia's desk.

Li Congjia glanced at it and asked, "Is this letter of surrender written by Li Hao?"

Shi Xueting was stunned for a moment: "It seems to be, what's wrong?"

Li Congjia smiled and said, "Nothing."

He asked this sentence mainly because he drafted the surrender documents of the former Shu and the later Shu in history. Because of this incident, someone even wrote a few large characters on the door of his house, "Shixiu surrendered to the Li family".

When he learned this, Li Congjia still lamented that Li Hao's luck was bad, but now that he thinks about it, he buried his country twice in a row, I'm afraid Li Hao also felt a little sad.

The Kingdom of Shu has surrendered, and Li Congjia's territory is not too small now, so he can't help but feel good. Although more territory in the Central Plains is in the hands of Southern and Northern Zhou, it doesn't matter, take it slowly, he has a lot of patience.

As a result, at this moment, the ministers of the cabinet jointly signed a proposal, proposing to move the capital!

Li Congjia couldn't help calling everyone to the Xuanzheng Hall and said, "Moving the capital is not a trivial matter, why did you suddenly ask to move the capital?"

Zhou Zong said: "After all, the Western Regions are remote, and Chengdu is rich in products and suitable for moving the capital."

Sitting on the throne, Li Congjia said slowly, "Changdan is remote, and Chengdu is also remote. Moving the capital will have too much impact, let's discuss it later."

Everyone:? ? ? ? ?

Chengdu remote?The Central Shu Plain, the Land of Abundance, isn't it remote?What's more, everyone will focus on the Central Plains in the future, and it is better to go to Chengdu than to Zendan.

Han Xizai persuaded: "The Western Regions are bitterly cold, and there are various inconveniences. Your Highness should move the capital."

The inconvenience Han Xizai mentioned naturally meant that they had to worry about the people in the Western Regions rioting and overthrowing their rule every day. If they returned to the Central Plains, they would be much less worried. The people in the Central Plains were all Han people, and there were no ethnic conflicts.

Li Congjia said: "But moving here and there is too troublesome."

Move around?Where do you want to move to?

After everyone was puzzled for a while, someone gradually understood. Song Qiqiu coughed lightly and asked, "Your Highness wants to move the capital to Chang'an?"

Li Congjia nodded calmly: "Yes, I am determined to win Chang'an."

Although Chang'an is now in the hands of Bei Zhou, Li Congjia has been secretly thinking about it there.

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then they were a little excited. The significance of Chang'an to the Tang Dynasty was incomparable to Chengdu. Even though there were various flaws there, it still couldn't hide that when it was the capital of the country, the Tang Dynasty was very prosperous.

Zhou Zong couldn't help but said: "Northern Zhou has a lot of trouble with Khitan, now is a good time to send troops."

Li Congjia was startled for a moment: "Isn't it? Northern Zhou is defending against foreign aggression. Are we sending troops now..."

Han Xizai looked at Li Congjia strangely and asked, "So what?"

Li Congjia paused, thinking about it, it seemed that it was nothing. In the troubled times, these things are not so important anymore, the most important thing is being able to rule the world.

Li Congjia stroked his chin and said, "Let Northern Zhou consume the Khitan's troops first, and let's recuperate for a while. If something unexpected happened in the Kingdom of Shu, I don't want to let the soldiers go out to defend against the enemy in winter."

A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Even if Northern Zhou’s military strength is not as good as before, it will not be much worse if it can compete with Khitan. As long as Datang takes this opportunity to send troops, the goal must be to make Northern Zhou disappear from this world. In the future, they will face the Liao soldiers. The Liao soldiers have always been brutal, and there will be no problem if they make more preparations before this.

Xu Xuan frowned and said, "Northern Zhou may not be Khitan's opponent now, if Khitan is allowed to go south, I'm afraid that people will really die."

Li Congjia said with a smile: "Northern Zhou took our weapons, isn't he still the Khitan's opponent? What's more, the Khitan emperor Yelujing is not a wise king, and his military use is not very good. The Northern Zhou will not have no resistance at all. It is better to appease Shu first." the people of the country."

The same is true when everyone thinks about it, so they should go there for what they should do. The country of Shu is not a small place, and when they think about prosperity, the allocation of resources in Datang still needs to be re-planned.

At this time, the censor, who had been cleaned up before, became obedient, and simply wrote a letter saying that Li Congjia had the merits of "Yao and Shun", and asked Li Congjia to proclaim himself emperor.

Li Congjia's face turned green when he saw the excerpts, the work of Yao and Shun?Is this praising him or scolding him?

After seeing it, Shi Xueting said instead: "Everyone is not at ease if you don't become emperor, and it will be inconvenient in the future."

After all, regardless of the Southern and Northern Zhou dynasties or even the Khitan, when addressing their boss, they were either His Majesty or a Saint, but when it came to Li Congjia, it became... Your Highness?I feel instantly short.

Li Congjia said: "It's not good to proclaim yourself emperor casually. Tell them when to win Chang'an and when to ascend the throne."

Shi Xueting looked at Li Congjia for a long time before shaking his head helplessly. This is probably the only one who was not in a hurry to become emperor throughout the ages.

Li Congjia put down the scriptures he had approved and said, "Should you go back to sleep tonight?"

Shi Xueting has now moved out of the palace and moved into his National Teacher's Mansion. The National Teacher's Mansion is very beautiful and solemn, but Li Congjia always feels that it is really unpopular, and only Shi Xueting lives there. Not to mention him alone, even if he put his entire division in, it wouldn't look crowded, and now it's even more empty.

Shi Xueting pinched Li Congjia's chin and said, "What? You want to drive me away?"

Li Congjia said seriously: "Who said that? It's just that since you already have a mansion, it's not easy to stay in the palace for a long time, otherwise those censors should have something to say."

Although this is the truth, if Li Congjia didn't rub his waist when he spoke, it would probably be more convincing.

Shi Xueting didn't care either. When he wanted Li Congjia, he never looked at the time and place. When he thought about it, he asked for sex. Li Congjia didn't want it, but usually Li Congjia was willing.

"The tunnel should be repaired."

Li Congjia couldn't help being embarrassed when he heard Shi Xueting's words. He didn't expect Shi Xueting to actually do such a thing. After thinking about it, he asked again: "What are you going to do with those craftsmen?"

He was a little worried that this tunnel should not be known to anyone, it would be best if only the two of them knew, those craftsmen as insiders... would be executed in history, but Li Congjia was a little bit reluctant. They are craftsmen with excellent craftsmanship. These people are those who can pass on the current skills without losing the technology.

Shi Xueting asked strangely: "What should I do?"

Li Congjia asked, "How do you deal with them?"

Only then did Shi Xueting understand Li Congjia's thoughts, he smiled and said, "I will send these people away."

Li Congjia began to worry again: "They won't tell the truth, will they?"

Otherwise, let people with ulterior motives know, label Shi Xueting as a rebel, then he will be covered in mouths and can't speak clearly, what?Not treason?Why build a tunnel leading to the king's bedroom if it's not rebellion?

Wang agreed?Why did the king agree?

At that time, in order to prevent Shi Xueting from being killed, Li Congjia will expose their relationship, and it may be another earthquake.

Shi Xueting replied: "No, and don't pay too much attention to it. You also said that you will go to Chang'an sooner or later. This is just a temporary residence. It doesn't matter if they know about it."

Li Congjia couldn't laugh or cry, but Shi Xueting had confidence in him. Although he said he wanted Chang'an, in fact, the difficulty was not ordinary. After more than 200 years of development in the Tang Dynasty, a place like Chang'an has a dense population and convenient transportation. It is not a national capital, but it is also a land of taxation, and whoever takes it will guard it well.

It is not easy for Datang to win Chang'an, at least now Li Congjia is worried.

Of course, the most important thing is that the construction of Chang'an's city is not comparable to that of ordinary cities. It is absolutely easy to defend and difficult to attack. Of course, it is not impossible to attack by force. After all, the weapons in their hands are very good, but the city wall will definitely be severely damaged. , Li Congjia was reluctant.

Seeing him in a daze, Shi Xueting patted his head and said, "I'll go first."

Li Congjia came back to his senses, and felt sorry for him living alone in the huge National Teacher's Mansion, so he said, "It's better to let Yang Xin move in and live with you."

Shi Xueting was stunned for a moment, Li Congjia saw him unexpectedly and said: "Yang Xin is your disciple, there is nothing wrong with living with you, anyway, he has no one in his family, he lives outside, and deals with the Tian family every day, it seems It's like getting married, why not let him live with you."

The most important thing is to make some people look good, so don't bother Yang Xin.

Of course, there is another point that Li Congjia has always wanted to make Yang Xin a prince or something. He is an orphan of the previous dynasty. Li Jing is too evil. Young, it's not easy to get promoted.

It is definitely not suitable to be a Duke now. After all, even Li Congjia's uncle and elder brother are just a Duke. As for not being a Marquis before, Li Congjia wanted to do it in one step. This is preferential treatment for orphans. If he is a Marquis now, he will become the emperor in the future Proclaiming himself emperor, Yang Xin may not be able to become the Duke of the State, but it is better to wait a while and directly become the Duke of the State.

At this time, Li Congjia's wishes are important, but it is also very important whether Yang Xin has someone to support him. After all, there are only so many fiefdoms, and if they are given to him, there will always be fewer people.

Letting Yang Xin live with Shi Xueting is also to make those people's eyes brighter. Regardless of Yang Xin's identity and merits, just because he is a disciple of the National Teacher, Li Congjia will not be able to continue to give him the title of the National Teacher disciple, no one can say anything.

After listening to Li Congjia's explanation, Shi Xueting hesitated a little: "After all, Eleventh Lang is married, and it might be inconvenient for them to move in with their families."

No matter how powerful Tian Wuniang is, she is still a woman. Although Shi Xueting is Yang Xin's master, he is actually only two years older than him, and only three or four years older than Tian Wuniang. What.

Li Congjia raised his eyebrows: "So what? Tian Wuniang is not a woman in the back house. She usually goes in and out with Eleven Lang to go to work, not to mention that the National Teacher's Mansion is so big. Well, if it really can't, how much do you want?" Forget about accepting a few disciples, and you can start working on the affairs of the state religion."

Seeing Li Congjia's insistence, Shi Xueting didn't say much. In fact, he was not afraid of rumors and rumors. Those rumors would not affect him, and anyone with a brain knew not to attack him directly. He was worried that Li Congjia would misunderstand.

He remembered that after taking a break, Li Congjia questioned him about his relationship with Zhang Taihua. In the end, Shi Xueting showed his innocence with his own actions—it lasted all night. If there was really something outside, it would not last as long. force.

Li Congjia was honest now, but Shi Xueting didn't want to have any misunderstandings, sometimes it's fun to be jealous, but some things must be explained clearly.

Speaking of the Kingdom of Shu... Shi Xueting suddenly asked: "The treasury of the Kingdom of Shu is abundant, you really don't want to go there?"

Li Congjia raised his chin slightly and said, "Now there is no Shu Kingdom, only Shu Prefecture. I am here, and those things will be sent here. Why should I go there?"

Seeing his arrogant appearance, Shi Xueting liked him so much, he leaned over and kissed him and said, "Fortunately, Bei Zhou didn't accept Shuzhou's surrender. I'm afraid they don't know that Shuzhou is so rich."

Li Congjia stroked his chin and said, "I don't know how Bei Zhou's fight with Khitan is going."

What else could it be?

Bei Zhou was almost beaten to death by Khitan!