Kuai Chuan's brother is the real boss

It took less than a year for Jiang Yan to lead the troops to leave Chang'an City and return from the victory. He extinguished the arrogance of Tubo and let him see the true strength of Tang Dynasty. The tribute sent to Chang'an.

Li Shimin was very satisfied with this result. This battle not only made Tubo surrender, but more importantly, Jiang Yan led the troops without dying in the battle. It can be said that everyone saw his ability again.

Many years ago, Jiang Yan led troops to conquer the Xiongnu. He also attacked the city and conquered the territory. There were few soldiers killed or injured. But at that time, the number of soldiers he led was several times that of the Huns. It seemed to be a matter of course that he won. The first battle was fought more beautifully.

After returning, all the soldiers who participated in this battle against Tubo were promoted to three ranks in a row, among which Liu Ying was the most eye-catching.

Although she became a general in the past, no one really took her seriously. After Liu Ying went to Yongcheng, most people chose to forget her, thinking that she was still different from the courtiers. .

But this time Liu Ying did not allow them to ignore her, she used her own ability to win her current status, she is as qualified to stand above the court as the officials, and even her military achievements are more remarkable than those of the officials.

After Jiang Yan returned to Chang'an, Yonghe had already left Chang'an and returned to Yongcheng, but before she left, she left a letter to Jiang Yan, briefly talking about Yuwenjie, and then said that someone bought it with the second son-in-law Herbs thing.

Jiang Yan didn't expect Yu Wenjie to appear so soon, and he was dealt with before he knew it. A few days ago, the envoy Li Shimin sent to Turkic to settle the claim also came back.

Naturally, the Turks would not settle the compensation. Originally, their fifth prince died in Datang, so there was no reason to lose his wife and lose his army.

In addition, during that period of time, news of Tubo's repeated defeats spread, which made them even more afraid to act rashly.

Originally, a Turkic minister suggested that while the Tang army was dealing with Tubo, they might have an opportunity to take advantage of it, but once a war starts, it’s good to win, but it’s not as simple as ceding land and paying compensation if you lose .

So the matter dragged on like this, and the envoy sent someone back to ask Li Shimin what he meant.

"Once the Turks admit the compensation now, he puts his identity at a disadvantage. Even if the Tang Dynasty does not send troops, the Xiongnu might attack them first, but they dare not challenge them forcefully. The emperor feels that sending troops at this time How about attacking the Turks?"

"You are so powerful, are you confident that you can win?" Just after defeating Tubo, it is indeed a good time to attack Turkic again. The morale of the soldiers is high.

However, it is not enough for the two armies to have a military spirit, and the requirements for the generals are also very strict. Li Shimin is worried that Jiang Yan has just attacked Tubo, and now he will attack Turks. You must know that Tubo and Turks need to attack because of the different terrain. Different, if Jiang Yan can't change his strategy quickly, he will easily fail.

However, Jiang Yan didn't plan to go in person this time. He recommended Li Shimin's deputy general when he went to attack the Huns. Worry about the problem.

"You said you wouldn't go out in person, so I thought you were going to recommend Liu Ying." Liu Ying's growth rate exceeded Li Shimin's imagination. When he first knew that Jiang Yan sent Liu Ying to the military camp, he never thought that Liu Ying would Grow into what it is now.

"Liu Ying is a suitable candidate, but Father, can we only have one general in the Tang Dynasty?" Liu Ying has mastered the art of war in so many years of war. She could win, but it would be too miserable for Datang to rely on only one Liu Ying.

Jiang Yan wants to train more capable soldiers, and these abilities are trained from war after war. Of course, there is no need to train those without qualifications. Going to the battlefield is not a child's play. Handing it over to the coach is not for the coach to use at will.

In Yongcheng, Liu Ying came back after accepting the award. This time she followed Jiang Yan to attack Tubo as an external transfer. After the end, she would naturally return to Yongcheng to train the guards here to maintain the peace of Yongcheng.

When Yonghe can go to a bigger and wider stage, she will be able to leave Yongcheng together.

Liu Ying doesn't know if this day will come true, after all, there are multiple factors to accomplish something, it doesn't just have to be Yonghe's ability.

At the same time, when Liu Ying returned to Yongcheng this time, she also brought Yonghe the true identities of those who bought the medicinal materials from the second son-in-law's family.

They were known as Jiangnan drug dealers, but after they left Chang'an City, those people were divided into two groups. One group took most of the medicinal materials to Jiangnan, and the other group went east and left the Central Plains by water.

"In addition, most of the medicinal materials were sold at extremely low prices after they arrived in Jiangnan. It can also be seen from this that they are not real medicine merchants at all, but just want to deal with those medicinal materials."

"Master Jiqing asserted that the purpose of those people was not the medicinal materials, but the prescriptions. They took them back and spread them, concealing the source from the Tang Dynasty, and the continuation from generation to generation became their own."

"Who are those people? They either want medicinal materials or prescriptions. What's the use of prescriptions for them?" Those people also asked for a lot of prescriptions 'by the way' when buying medicinal materials.

Hearing Liu Ying's words, Yong He felt a wave of fear.

Some of those prescriptions were recorded in ancient medical books, and some were good cures handed down from the ancestors of the second son-in-law's family. It is naturally good for these things to be spread to cure diseases and save lives, but who knows what will happen after those people bring the prescriptions overseas? How to spread it?

It is extremely harmful to Datang culture to lie about what you have researched and then spread it.

"At present, it is not clear which country it is from. His Royal Highness guesses that it is Goryeo, but there is no clue. After all, those people speak the Central Plains dialect very authentically, and they are also very cautious. They have always spoken Central Plains dialect before boarding the ship. After entering the sea, I couldn't track it, so the clue was broken."

As Liu Ying said, endless resentment aroused in Yonghe's heart. When she has the ability one day, she must catch the thief who stole the Tang culture and tell the truth to the world.

Jiang Yan is as resentful as Yonghe, but when the foreign countries near the Central Plains have not yet been unified, overseas can only wait for a while. It takes time to spread culture, and they can't spread very far after waiting for a few years.

"In fact, if you take them down before they go to sea, maybe you don't have to think so much now."

Inside the Buddhist temple, Master Ji Qing saw Jiang Yan so angrily and said.

Jiang Yan couldn't help but look sideways, "Master, is this smart and confused for a while? They have people from a country. As long as they want to get those prescriptions, after getting rid of this wave, there will be another wave, endless. For this kind of thing, Of course it’s up to you to cut the weeds and get rid of the roots.”

"The poor monk believes that you have the heart and the strength, but as a prince, don't you know that it is difficult to conquer the country and defend the country? Especially when you are overseas, you need to spend so much thought."

Master Jiqing has a love for this land. He is a monk now, and he can save all living beings, but only the living beings in the land where he is.

He didn't object to Jiang Yan's siege of the city, but he was afraid that Jiang Yan's progress would be difficult, which would cause many soldiers to die in foreign lands.

However, Master Jiqing has lived for hundreds of years, but after all, he is not as long as Jiang Yan. He is no longer a "newborn calf", so why did he say "a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers", besides, overseas neighbors are in his eyes Not a tiger either.

Before this incident happened, Jiang Yan had no plans to attack overseas for the time being. He only wanted to recover those foreign countries first, and then find a way to make Li Shimin make Yonghe the queen princess. After that, he will be free. One more thing to do.

Jiang Yan is nearly [-] years old, and he has not yet registered as a crown prince. Li Shimin is not in a hurry, and the officials in the court are also in a hurry. A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. Li Shimin has only one son. He often leads troops to fight. If something goes wrong There are no children left, and there is no heir to the throne.

However, when a courtier proposed to choose the crown princess, Jiang Yan turned back on the grounds that Li Shimin was still in his prime. After all, no courtier would dare to say that His Majesty is old.

In fact, Li Shimin is not old. He is just in his early 50s, so he can live for decades without any problem.

However, Li Shimin was exhausted and exhausted. Not only did he have a lot of affairs in the court, he recently went to the city for a private visit in a micro-service, and he never wanted to hear the neighbors' son-in-law complaining about his princess when he was eating in a restaurant.

At that time, Jiang Yan was with Li Shimin, and while listening to complaints, he looked at Li Shimin's increasingly ugly face. Of course, he knew that his daughters were not as gentle and virtuous as ordinary girls, but they were princesses born in the royal family. Have the capital to look down on everyone.

It passed with one eye closed before, but now the next room is talking about going to the palace to sue, and the loudest one is the third son-in-law Jin Duolu.

Hearing these son-in-laws talking too much, Li Shimin gave the guards around him a look, and the guards went directly to invite the son-in-laws over.

When the sons-in-law saw Li Shimin and Jiang Yan, they were all stunned. In this daze, they were taken into the palace, and the princesses in the Qinzheng Palace were long overdue.

Jiang Yan had a story about this paragraph in his memory. At first, it was Yonghe who beat and scolded the son-in-law Zhao Hong at every turn. It caused several consorts to unanimously crusade against several princesses.

Unexpectedly, now that Yonghe and Zhao Hong are in a harmonious relationship, these things still happen.

Faced with Li Shimin's questioning and the persecution of the princesses, the sons-in-law dared not speak up and kept saying good things about the princess. In the end, it was Kim Daro who stood up and exposed all the evil deeds of the princesses. .

Jiang Yan couldn't help laughing at Jin Duolu's righteous indignation, Zhaoyang listened to Jin Duolu scolding the viciousness of other princesses, from shock at the beginning to appreciation, but he never expected that Jin Duoru would start to scold after several princesses wake up her.

What disrespect to the elders, despicable words and deeds, etc., Li Shimin had a headache when he heard it, and finally punished several princesses to copy books in the gazebo of the imperial garden, as a warning to everyone else.

After all the princess consorts left, Li Shimin glanced at Jiang Yan, "See the excitement?"

"Father Huang Shengming, my son-in-law didn't read the joke. I don't know how to get along with husband and wife if I don't have a wife. The royal sisters and son-in-law are not on good terms. My son-in-law, as the emperor's brother, can't help it even if he wants to persuade him."

Li Shimin couldn't help shaking his head, if it wasn't for Master Jiqing's prophecy, and Yonghe's doing well now, how could he follow his wish and not choose him a princess?

"Okay, go get busy. I have to talk to Jin Duolu. Is it alright if you don't care about the face of the royal family?" Li Shimin's tone was full of anger, but it was obvious that he still appreciated Jin Duolu's courage to accept advice. After all, not everyone has the courage to scold the princess angrily, and those submissive sons-in-law are good examples.

But being a son-in-law in the Tang Dynasty is indeed not very beautiful, there are even nursery rhymes in the market, children know that it is not good to be a son-in-law of the Tang Dynasty.

The main reason is that in the current Tang Dynasty, no matter men or women, as long as they have the ability, they can participate in the imperial examination. After these years of development, not only women in Yongcheng are officials, but there are also examples of women in other places. The number of people who embarked on official careers is even more than that of women.

Another thing is that the princess of the Tang Dynasty has a noble status, and being a son-in-law is no different from being a married man. Not only does she have to bear the princess's temper, she also has to go to Juxianju to learn various skills, such as riding and shooting poetry.

Those who are capable have used their abilities to take part in the imperial examinations and pursue official careers, and no one is willing to be a son-in-law at all. This has led to the current situation.

However, none of this has anything to do with Jiang Yan. Those sons-in-law have all received bonuses from the royal family after becoming sons-in-law. How the husband and wife get along depends on them.

At night, Jiang Yan felt that someone had entered the East Palace, but none of the palace servants and guards in the East Palace noticed, so there was only one person who came and went.

"I'm leaving." Master Ji Qing said when he entered the room and saw Jiang Yan sitting up.

Jiang Yan was surprised, "Where are you going?"

"Go out for a wanderlust. You have been living in Chang'an City for so many years, so you should go out for a walk." Master Ji Qing said in a steady voice, expressionless.

Jiang Yan secretly pinched himself, felt the pain, and saw the shadow of Master Ji Qing reflected in the candlelight, he should not be dead, not a ghost to entrust a dream.

"Then are you coming back?"

"I don't know, maybe I will come back or I won't come back. If there is something to do, I will send a message to you. Remember what I asked you to do before. That is my life's effort."

"Why do I feel like you are saying your last words?" What on earth is he going to do?

Master Ji Qing walked up to Jiang Yan and stared into his eyes, "These last words should have been said decades ago, and it is enough to live for so many years, those things will trouble you, let's go first. "

After Master Ji Qing finished speaking, he turned around and left the room, and left the East Palace in an instant. His martial arts are so good, it can be seen that his body is still very strong. He should just go for a walk instead of feeling that his time is coming. Come here to ask him last words.

As for what Master Jiqing asked him to do, it was the medical book many years ago, and the accumulation of research in Master Jiqing's meditation room over the years, and let him help spread it to benefit the world.

These things are not a problem for Jiang Yan, let someone sort them out, edit and draw maturely, and let the bookstore sell them after printing.

The reason why it is not given for free is, of course, that the things given for free do not know how to cherish, and the things bought with money can only discover the value in them.

On the second day, Master Jiqing came to the palace to bid farewell to Li Shimin, and rejected Li Shimin's suggestion that he take the little monk on the road to take care of him.

Li Shimin and Jiang Yan were on the tower, watching Master Ji Qing leave far away, and his figure disappeared into the forest.

"I have a feeling that Master Ji Qing will not come back again." Li Shimin said leisurely.

"Father means that Master Ji Qing is going to find a place to sit down?" No way, he looks pretty good.

Li Shimin chuckled, put his hands on the city wall, feeling the coldness brought by the bricks, "People who are over 100 years old, a master like him, even if he dies, he will die with dignity, and no one will see him." His vulnerability."

Jiang Yan still doesn't believe that Master Jiqing just died like this. It is true that he has lived for hundreds of years, so he should not die easily.

Jiang Yan didn't know the truth. Maybe Li Shimin was right, maybe his feeling was right.

But at the end of the summer of the second year, Jiang Yan received a letter from Master Ji Qing asking him to hurry to Bingzhou.

When Jiang Yan saw this place name, he couldn't help being taken aback, and told Li Shimin a little bit, and then hurried forward. The journey only took less than three days.

Bingzhou Wenshui held a grand wedding today. The woman married was a woman surnamed Wu. According to the local people, this woman is intelligent and quick-witted, and her married husband has been a childhood sweetheart since she was a child. It's done.

From this point of view, this is just an ordinary wedding, but it is just a little grander. However, Jiang Yan found out that the married woman surnamed Wu's father was named Samurai Xun.

Samurai Xun, in the real history, he was an official in the court, and he used to be an official in many places, but there is no such person in the current court. Jiang Yan thought that he would not exist, but he would still exist, but Age and experience are not the only thing.

Master Ji Qing deliberately asked him to come here, thinking that the person who is going to marry today should be the 'Wu' in 'Wu Dai Li Xing'.

I don't know where there was a deviation. The samurai who was supposed to be an official did not become an official. Naturally, his daughter did not enter the palace, and she did not become the queen later. Everything was different, but with her own unique way played out.