Tang Dynasty Never Night

After the news of Ashina Vonian's public rebellion came, Pei Xingjian came directly to plead guilty. This was his negligence. Khan, but strictly speaking, this Khan is actually a puppet. The real commander behind him is Ashina De Wenfu, Ashina Fengdu and Ashina Fu Nian. These three people have soldiers and horses. Although Ashina Dewen Fu is the main general on the surface, the three of them are not so united.

When Pei Xingjian broke into the camp of Ashina De Wenfu, he directly chopped off Ashina Dewenfu and Ashina Dewen Fu, and captured Ashina Nishubu alive, but Ashina Funian disappeared. Pei Xingjian Many people were sent to look for it, but they couldn't find it. In the end, because the war lasted too long, Pei Xingjian could only put the matter aside and return to court.

Of course, after he came back, Pei Xingjian also explained the situation to Li Zhi. At that time, Li Zhi didn't say anything about it. If there is still no trace left, either he has died quietly or escaped from birth, but now Datang needs such a victory to heal the impact of the previous abolition of the prince, so Li Zhi acquiesced in this matter. That's how it went.

Both Li Zhi and Pei Xingjian felt that even if Ashina Funian ran away, he would be dying. No one thought that he would be able to gather the remnants of Ashina De Wenfu to fight back.

Although Xiazhou is still outside the Great Wall, it is already very close to Chang'an. Pei Xingjian came here this time not only to plead guilty, but also to go to war.

To be honest, Li Xian didn't really want Pei Xingjian to go. Pei Xingjian was 72 years old this year, and he would be old in future generations. Li Xian still couldn't bear to let an old man in his 70s go to the battlefield again.

Moreover, he felt that Li Zhi was a bit unkind. Li Zhi agreed to suppress this matter before, but now that Ashina's thoughts were reversed, the blame was placed on Pei Xingjian's head, which made Pei Xingjian have to Holding on to an old bone, you have to commit crimes and make meritorious deeds.

Li Xian looked at Pei Xingjian's faded eyes and sighed and said: "This time, Dad means to let Cao Huaishun be the commander of the Dingxiang Road. The decree has been made. The general doesn't have to worry about it. I know it well, and I will definitely not Let the general be wronged."

After hearing this, Pei Xingjian seemed to be a few years older, so he could only sigh and said: "Thank you for your understanding, Your Highness, after all...it is my incompetence."

Li Xian doesn't know how to comfort Pei Xingjian anymore. He has too many things to do here. In the past, every time there was a big battle, even a meeting, he would go to join in the fun. Occasionally speaking a sentence or two was nothing more than thinking of what to say. He didn't worry about it. As for going out to fight...then he didn't have to worry about logistics.

But now that he is sitting in the back of the town, Li Zhi is very generous and let his son do it. When Li Xian returned to Chang'an, he brought back the six books. The only regret is that Jiuqing didn't bring it back. A few, after all, Li Zhi also has to deal with state affairs there.

It was the first time that Li Xian and the ministers cooperated together, and then there were problems as soon as they cooperated - Datang's treasury can indeed support this war, and even this war will not consume too much at all. Ash Dewen Fu won the victory He was not Datang's opponent during the period, not to mention that now Ashina Funian just accepted the remnant of Ashdwin Fu.

But what made Li Xian feel angry was that even though the national treasury was not empty, it was never full!Li Xian's first reaction at the time was that someone was corrupt, but after the investigation, he was speechless... Datang has been engaged in infrastructure construction for these years, yes, it is road construction.

The manpower and material resources spent on road construction in this era are absolutely unimaginable for later generations, and the money will naturally be spent more. This is part of it, and the other part is that since spring this year, the whole country has suffered natural disasters to varying degrees, especially in Henan and Hebei. , It can be said that there is no harvest for a whole year. There is no way. Even if the pre-evolutionary corn has been promoted, even corn is only drought-resistant, it is not flood-resistant.

And if it weren't for the corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes, this year's harvest would probably be even smaller. Li Xian was overwhelmed with the tax memorials for the first half of the year. Otherwise, why would he start worrying about money again after becoming the prince?

Now that the working capital of Datang is no longer enough to cope with this war, Li Xian can only use the grain reserves, and he has to write a letter to Li Zhi. It happened that when Li Xian and Li Zhi complained about the empty treasury, Li Yixuan, the governor of Yongzhou, happened to The ginseng lived a luxurious life, but after inspection, it was found that he was not corrupt - of course, Li Xian felt that it was probably not that there was no corruption, but that the corruption was so clever that the inspection team did not see it.

People can spend their money however they want, no one can control this, but under his leadership, the atmosphere in Yongzhou is getting worse and worse, comparisons are common, and wedding and funeral expenses are extravagant.Before that, Li Yixuan had just applied for tax reduction and exemption, and Li Zhi also agreed, directly paying the taxes of the four prefectures of Yong, Qi, Hua, and Tong for one year.

But strictly speaking, Li Yixuan was not wrong and could not be punished for offending him. Li Zhi could only send him an edict saying: "My thoughts should be pure and simple, and show the world to be of quality. If you hear that idlers have fallen into karma, such extremely There are many, but when there is not enough abundance, there will be famine. Its silk brocades of different colors, and flowery skirts, etc., are wasteful and harmful to female workers. The queen, my rival, often wears seven torn skirts, don't you know that she is even more beautiful? Clothes should be frugal. The purple clothes and the red clothes are worn openly by Lu and Yan; and merchants and rich people are buried with lavish ceremonies. You should strictly arrest them and don’t make it worse."

Although this edict was for Li Yixuan, the governors of all states basically knew about this matter, and Li Xian knew what Li Zhi said in the edict.

It is reasonable to say that the son does not care about the father's faults, but Li Xian really couldn't help but want to complain about Li Zhi's edict, he...he never knew that their family still had the habit of frugality, what a ghost, If you are really frugal, can you tell me, Your Majesty, where the profits from the shops I handed in have gone?

Frankly speaking, based on the profits of those shops, even if Li Xian is not a prince or a prince, he can still sit firmly on the seat of the world's richest man, and these shops he shares with his brothers and sisters, and directly honors his parents, the money he gets is not worth it. Not to mention Empress Wu's dress, it's really low-key luxury, okay?

When Li Xian was happily complaining about his own father, a tragic event happened: Cao Huaishun, the head of the Dingxiang Road, and the Turkic Shi Funian fought in Hengshui, and the army was defeated!

Li Xian: wtf?

Li Xian couldn't believe his eyes!After he arranged everything, he waited for the news of victory, but what did he see now?Official army defeated? !what the hell!

Because it was just a briefing, Li Xian could only anxiously wait for the detailed battle report, and when he got the detailed battle report, he threw the battle report on the desk in front of him halfway through seeing it, regardless of Pei Xingjian and Liu Rengui still present. Said: "Is Cao Huaishun an idiot?!"

Pei Xingjian turned his head to look at Liu Rengui in an instant, and Liu Rengui, who was the crown prince's young master, looked at him awkwardly, then said with a serious face, "Your Highness, control your anger!"

"I can't control it anymore! Look at what Cao Huaishun has done!" Li Xian was almost pissed off by Cao Huaishun, yes, he is probably not as good as Cao Huaishun when it comes to leading troops in battle, but... after traveling for so long, Li Xian This is the first time that I have a sense of superiority in IQ when facing the ancients.

Simply put, Cao Huaishun's failure was fooled, and he was fooled by the Turks.The reason for being fooled was that there were spies in the army. Cao Huaishun took his general Dou Yizhao to attack the Turkic rebels. The spies reported: "Ashi Nafu Nian is in Heisha, and there are less than [-] cavalry around him."

If this is true, then it is indeed a very good opportunity, and it is right to be direct, but the problem is that even if Li Xian and Ye Hui doubt the reliability of this news--Ashina Funian dares to rise up, then it means that he is in charge of it. He has a lot of cards in his hole. In this case, will he really appear in Heisha alone?

Oh, he was not alone. It was said that there were less than twenty cavalry around him. However, no matter how brave these cavalry were, they were useless in the face of an absolute superiority in numbers.

There must be a reason why Ashina Funian dared to do this. If Li Xian came to guess, one possibility is that Ashina Funian had already laid an ambush along the way, and according to Cao Huaishun's marching skills, Although he pissed off Li Xian to death, Li Xian didn't completely deny his professional ability. Cao Huaishun shouldn't be fooled by such a simple trap.

In fact, Ashina's Fu Nian did indeed use it to attack the west, and it was effective. After Cao Huaishun got the news, he sent scouts along the way to investigate, and after finding no ambush, he made a decisive decision and left the old and weak in Hulupo, and then He took Dou Yizhao to lead the Qingrui team, and advanced several times faster than before, but when he arrived at Heisha, he didn't see any figure. After searching for many times, he couldn't find it.

It would be fine if he just returned without success. After all, there was no other impact, but the problem is that when he went to hunt down Ashina Funian, the troops he stayed in Hulubo were directly attacked!Before, Cao Huaishun just told them to be careful, and then left. There was no reliable general in the army, so he was caught off guard.

After Cao Huaishun got the news, he brought people back for help in a panic, but was stopped by Ashina Funian. Yes, the soldiers who attacked the army's base were not from Ashina Funian, but from Ashina Funian. It's Xue Yantuo's department!Ashina Funian joined forces with Xue Yantuo's department when he raised the flag, otherwise he would not have dared to rely on Ashina Dewen Fu's remnant soldiers and fight Datang to the death.

Well, now comes the problem. On the one hand, there is the Datang army, which is known as an elite but already exhausted army, and on the other hand, the Turkic cavalry who are waiting for work. The battle between the two sides is basically no suspense.

Cao Huaishun's army was stopped in Hengshui in this way. Later, Cao Huaishun, Dou Yizhao and Li Wenhe formed a square formation with Liu Jing and the four armies. , Tang Jun instantly became a mess.

Later, Cao Huaishun collected scattered soldiers along the way, but he was really powerless to resist Ashina Funian, so he bribed Ashina Funian with gold and silk, negotiated peace with him, killed cattle and made an alliance, Ashina Funian withdrew north, and Cao Huaishun went smoothly Returning to the camp, at this time the Xueyantuo tribe had already withdrawn, and the camp also suffered heavy losses.

That's why Li Xian was angry, shit, I asked you to beat up the rebels, but you were played by the rebels like walking a dog, and finally bribed them and negotiated peace, fuck you!

No matter how good-tempered Li Xian was, he couldn't help swearing. Pei Xingjian and Liu Rengui were obviously much better at self-cultivation than him, but they were also so angry that Pei Xingjian directly knelt down and applied to lead the team to beat Ashina Funian.

Li Xian agreed at that time, he could see that many people can do well in the position of lieutenant general, but in the position of chief general, they are tantamount to cheating.To be honest, even Zheng Qi leading the team is probably more reliable than Cao Huaishun.

It's just that what Li Xian can do is to submit a letter to Li Xian to apply for Pei Xingjian to go, but before he finished writing the letter, Li Zhi's edict has come: His Majesty the Emperor has entered the Supreme Emperor mode in advance, and everything is left to him. Li Xian decided to decide by himself.

If it was in the past, Li Xian would still worry about whether he would cause Li Zhi's fear if he did too much. Didn't he see that so many princes in the past and present were killed because they were too powerful and caused the emperor's fear?

But now he didn't want to think so much, or he didn't want to think so much about this matter, so he let Cao Huaishun and his deputies come back without saying a word, and threw them to the three provinces to be convicted, and then He also let Pei Xingjian return to Dingxiang Road as the general manager of the march, and led the troops to clean up the Turks and Xue Yantuo's tribe.

After finishing the arrangement, Li Xian's heart bleeds when he saw the military supplies consumed before. He finally understood why the later generations would not easily send troops. One is that the attack range of nuclear bombs and the like is too large. money.

Because of this incident, Cao Huaishun was later exiled to Lingnan and Li Xian didn't speak for him. Now he understands more deeply what it means to be incompetent and exhaust thousands of troops. Cao Huaishun is stupid, but this time he didn't just burn money. , It also caused a large number of soldiers to die by the enemy. Strictly speaking, this is a capital crime, but because he has made great contributions to Datang before, he was directly exiled.

It has to be said that the veteran is worthy of being a veteran. Almost as soon as Pei Xingjian was decided to be the general manager of the Dingxiang Road, the atmosphere in the entire Chang'an city was different from before. After the news of Cao Huaishun's defeat came, the panic and anger in the Chang'an city were all kinds of emotions Eyeful, now that Pei Xingjian is out, everyone has calmed down.

This is a guarantee of decades of military exploits. Pei Xingjian has already defeated Ashina Dewen Fu, so Ashina Funian is definitely not Pei Xingjian's opponent. This is the signature.

And Li Xian was also relieved. As the prince, there are too many things. It is impossible for him to put all his energy on the war. After all, he has to live in other peaceful areas where wars are fought. I know, it is really not easy to be a Mingjun, you have to know people well, or exhaust yourself to death.

Although Li Xian hoped that Datang would get better and better, he didn't want to die for Datang, so what he wants to do now is to promote capable officials. What are you supposed to do? !

This is the simplest way of selecting officials in Li Xian's thinking, and this is actually the same idea when Zheng Qi set up the long list.

It's a pity that his idea is good, but no one supports him, Liu Rengui and Hao Chujun almost broke up and talked to him about Li Xian's confusion.

"Your Highness's idea is good, but it is still too simple, the family will not agree." Liu Rengui said slowly.

After hearing this, Li Xian smiled slightly: "I know what the Grand Tutor means. Do you want to say that they are unwilling to shake the foundation of the family? But I am not targeting the family. If there are people in the family who have the ability, let them go. If you don't... don't work, how can there be such a good thing?"

Hao Chujun couldn't help but said: "Your Highness, that's not what you said. If there are no children from poor families in the aristocratic family, Shiqing and Shilu, then these officials will be held by them. This is their purpose."

In short, I want them to spit out the benefits of eating in their mouths. How can it be so simple?

Naturally, Li Xian didn't feel that he was not thinking carefully: "But Emperor Yang of the previous dynasty began to adopt the imperial examination, and now the Tang Dynasty is also adopting the imperial examination. I just want to change the form of the imperial examination, so what can they say? If they have the ability, they will take the test."

The predecessors planted trees and the descendants took advantage of the shade. The predecessors have already laid the foundation. It is not so difficult for Li Xian to change based on this foundation. However, Liu Rengui still reminded: "Your Highness, there are constant internal and external wars. Steady, Your Highness, please think twice before acting."

In fact, as long as a politician with a little vision knows that the family must be suppressed, the times are developing and science and technology are advancing, and the family monopolizes so many resources, then it will inevitably lead to uneven distribution, so don't blame the people below for rebellion.People at the level of national rulers certainly don't want their country to be in turmoil.

Starting from their own interests, a big country with super economic and military strength can bring them more benefits. If the country has been in war and has been very barren, they will not get good.

Li Xian looked at Liu Rengui seriously and said: "I don't want to cut the mess quickly, this kind of thing is too troublesome, I just think that we can build academies in the name of the country, build more, and train qualified officials from an early age, if the aristocratic family is not willing If so, you can also set up a higher-level academy, um, the kind of private academy, but this kind of academy is built by individuals, and the teaching staff is not taken care of by the court, but you can also take the same exam."

Liu Rengui and Hao Chujun looked at each other and felt that there was something wrong. What Li Xian did was not the same as what he said. Isn't this protecting the interests of the aristocratic family?

You must know that for the same building of academies, the combined money of the aristocratic family must be more than that given by the imperial court. They build an academy with the strength of several families, but the imperial court has to pay for many academies. From the teacher's point of view, the aristocratic family has an advantage , Teachers these days like to teach smart children. The average IQ of children from aristocratic families is high, because what they see and learn when they are born are not comparable to children from poor families. IQ is limited.

Liu Rengui and Hao Chujun didn't understand Li Xian's contradictory words. In the end, they began to discuss the significance of this matter. To be honest, the most difficult thing about building a national academy is the selection of teachers. The system Li Xian proposed It is too far from the system they recognize.

These days, the master-apprentice rules are very strict. The master has to educate the apprentice responsibly when he accepts the apprentice. What about being a teacher every day and being a father forever?

Li Xian obviously weakened the master's ability to manage the students. Apart from teaching knowledge, he didn't care about anything else. This made them really uneasy. Can the students taught in this way have good morals?

Regarding this, Li Xian said very calmly: "The two can guarantee that the students taught by famous teachers must be people of high moral character?"

The consequence of not being able to convince anyone is that Li Xian said calmly: "Then let's experiment first, find a place to build two academies first, if the imperial court is unwilling to invest in the early stage, I will come by myself, and I will come to find the teacher too. How about letting them take the scientific examination collectively after they are successful in their studies?"

No one can say anything about this plan, but Liu Rengui and Hao Chujun always feel that there is something wrong, His Royal Highness doesn't seem to be acting on a whim.

In fact, Li Xian did have his plan, and the teacher couldn't find it?Hehehehe, there are so many students in his Plum Blossom Academy, but because most of these students have unknown origins, even if they are really talents, the imperial court will not hire them. Isn't it just right for the academy to let them become teachers?

It would be best if the aristocratic family didn’t participate. At that time, the academy will be the one who has the final say. It’s true that it takes ten years to grow trees and a hundred years to cultivate people, but Li Xian is still young. It's so small, when the time comes... When the crowd tactics are used, I'm afraid of you.

And the current retreat is actually for the future counterattack.Li Xian silently gave himself a thumbs up, very happy in his heart, and even more happy after seeing Pei Xingjian defeated the remnant Turkic soldiers and captured the chief of the Xueyantuo tribe and Ashina Funian.

However, Li Xian saw a familiar yet unfamiliar name in Pei Xingjian's military newspaper: He Lanminzhi.

Li Xian: Huh?Is this thing still alive?