"It seems that the siege of Daxing City went smoothly. Your fifth brother..."
Chu Zhen held a ballpoint pen in his hand and looked at Li Shimin.
"Fifth brother has been rescued!" Li Shimin said with a hearty smile.
"Rescued?"
Zhu Yuanzhang was the first to be surprised and glanced at Chu Zhen, "If I remember correctly, there are not many records about your fifth brother in the history books. He should have been killed."
"In both the old and new Tang books, Chu King Li Zhiyun was killed by the city guard general Yin Shishi."
Li Qingzhao interjected.
"The fifth brother has indeed been named King of Chu now."
Li Shimin nodded and said with a smile: "Now Daxing has been renamed Chang'an by Emperor Father." After a pause, he continued: "I have walked through the Xuanwu Gate many times and entered the Taiji Palace from the West Neiyuan."
After another pause, Li Shimin said slowly: "After seeing the East Palace, the West Inner Garden, and the Taiji Palace with my own eyes, I understood why there was a change in the Xuanwu Gate."
He personally mentioned the Xuanwu Gate.
On the contrary, several people present did not take up the topic for a while.
After learning about the Xuanwu Gate from Chu Zhen, Li Shimin must have thought about it many times in the past year, why Xuanwu Gate?
Until they invaded Daxing City and proclaimed Yang You as emperor, Yang Guang was killed in Jiangdu, the Tang Dynasty was established, and Li Yuan took charge of the Daxing City Palace.
Li Shimin didn't know why until he saw the Xuanwu Gate with his own eyes.
Xuanwumen is the fastest place to enter Taiji Palace, and can approach his father, Emperor Li Yuan, in the shortest distance!
"There will be no more Xuanwu Sect!!"
Li Shimin's voice was low. He sat there with his fists clenched as if he had made an oath.
Zhu Yuanzhang sat opposite him, peeling a mango with his hands, and said leisurely: "Let's wait until your advisers are like rain and your generals are like clouds."
He took a bite of the mango pulp and praised: "The taste is as delicious as the aroma, sweet and soft, such a good fruit!"
In front of him, who has been in the industry for thirteen years, Li Shimin is still too young.
"The Prince of Qin's Mansion now has Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Liu Hongji, etc., plus the assistants - that is, my uncle's brother Changsun Wuji. Although he can't be called a counselor like rain, or a fierce general like clouds, he can still compete in the Central Plains!"
Li Shimin did not agree with Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang chuckled and said, "If you want to conquer the world, these people are not enough."
Li Shimin said no more.
Chu Zhen asked him: "What month is it now in the first year of Wude? How did you save your fifth brother? Master Yin Shi actually let him go?"
"In May of the first year of Wude, Master Yinshi is now under my brother's command." Li Shimin replied.
"He's not dead either?!"
Chu Zhen was surprised, "Didn't he dig up your Li family's ancestral grave?"
"Puff."
Behind the bookshelf, Li Qingzhao tried his best to cover his mouth to suppress his laughter. Lin Daiyu, who was sitting next to him and eating lychees, spat and said with a smile: "Uncle Chu speaks too straight."
Li Shimin's expression was subtle, "My ancestral tombs were destroyed under the order of Emperor Ming of the Sui Dynasty. The Yinshi Master is not to blame."
"Emperor Sui Ming?"
Chu Zhen knew that it was Yang Guang who ordered the excavation of Li Yuan's ancestral grave, which was what he called Emperor Ming of the Sui Dynasty, but he was still stunned by this title.
A certain talented woman who ate lychees gave a timely reminder:
"'Ming' is the posthumous name given to Emperor Yang by Yang Tong, the grandson of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, who proclaimed himself emperor in Luoyang with the support of Wang Shichong. Later, Tang Gao... Li Erlang's father changed the posthumous name to Yang. In addition, Dou Xia gave Emperor Yang the posthumous title of 'Min'."
Chu Zhen understood.
The Dou Xia mentioned by Li Qingzhao was the Xia Dynasty established by Dou Jiande.
Emperor Ming of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, and Emperor Min of the Sui Dynasty all refer to Yang Guang.
History is indeed written by the victors. The Tang Dynasty unified the world, so Yang Guang's final posthumous title was Yang.
In addition, because Yin Shishi surrendered early, Li Yuan did not vent his anger about the digging of his ancestral graves on him, and shifted the blame to Yang Guang.
"Dou Jiande has not yet proclaimed himself emperor."
Li Shimin said: "Wang Shichong is now one of the seven nobles of Luoyang, and he is leading troops to fight with Uncle Li. Yu Wenhuaji also leads troops to attack Luoyang, and the three parties are fighting... In addition, Xue Ju of Longxi has an army of 130,000, and calls himself the overlord of the Western Qin Dynasty. , is about to imitate the Qin Dynasty in sweeping Liuhe and attack the Tang Dynasty from west to east. My father ordered me to lead 70,000 troops alone, with Liu Wenjing and Yin Kaishan as the marching commanders, to attack Xue Ju!"
Li Shimin explained to Chu Zhen what happened during this period.
Just one month after he and his son captured Daxing, Li Mi and Li Yuan of Wagang Village had many correspondences with him and they were from the same clan, so Li Shimin called him Uncle Li.
Li Mi also led an army of 300,000 troops to march into Luoyang, the eastern capital. At this time, Yang Guang was still alive and furious, so he sent troops back to rescue him.
The war lasted for many months.
Soon after, Yu Wenhuaji strangled Yang Guang to death in Jiangdu, and Wang Shichong and others in Luoyang supported Yang Tong as emperor.
The war in the Central Plains was fierce, the two capitals of the Sui Dynasty, Daxing, fell, and Luoyang was in the flames of war. Xue Ju of Longxi was not willing to be left alone, and led one hundred thousand troops to rush towards Chang'an City.
"The world is in chaos and wars break out frequently."
Zhu Yuanzhang commented: "Your father and son occupied one of the two capitals of the Sui Dynasty, and they were located in the Central Plains, surrounded by enemies on all sides. Xue Ju in Longxi was only the first battle in the founding of the Tang Dynasty! There will be countless wars, large and small, in the future."
"It would be better to say that Xue Ju came to attack at a very good time!"
Zhu Yuanzhang laughed again and said: "When the Tang Dynasty was first established, there were enemies on all sides. No matter whether you wanted to go south, north or east, you had to worry about Xue Ju in the west taking the opportunity to attack. Now he can't help but send troops from Longxi. You just need to If you wait for work at leisure and hold on to the pass for two or three months, Xue Ju will be defeated."
Li Shimin took another look at the fifty-year-old man before nodding: "It's my strategy to hold on to the pass!"
Chu Zhen couldn't understand the conversation between the two military geniuses. He somewhat suspected that Zhu Yuanzhang said this after reading history books.
But Zhu Yuanzhang had led troops to fight, and he knew the terrain of many places, and understood Chang'an and Longxi. Perhaps he only needed to listen to who was attacking and who was defending to know the difficulty of supplying both sides, and the general march route.
Li Qingzhao didn't interrupt. He was eating lychees and looking at this place.
"I remember the first time you fought against Xue Ju and suffered a defeat."
Zhu Yuanzhang told the contents of the history books, but Li Shimin remained unmoved.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Chu Zhen again: "Let Chu Zhen give you a history of the Tang Dynasty. You will understand at a glance what to do!"
Chu Zhen suddenly realized that Zhu Chongba had this idea.
"No need."
Li Shimin flatly refused, "The history books cannot be trusted at all. Wasn't my fifth brother saved? Furthermore, if I read the history books and knew that Xue Ju died of illness, wouldn't I have sent troops and waited for Xue Ju to die of illness? If I really fought The defeat was due to my lack of resourcefulness.”
"Are you afraid of the Xuanwu Sect?"
Zhu Yuanzhang pointed directly at Li Shimin's pain point.
Because he understood Li Shimin, just like when he heard the name Zhu Qizhen, he didn't sleep well for three days!
"I say it again, there will be no more Xuanwu Sect!"
Li Shimin's face was solemn.
He claimed to be the king for the first time, which made several people present realize that the boy in front of them was not only a young man of eighteen or nineteen years old, but also Tang Taizong, who would go down in history in the future.
Zhu Yuanzhang defeated Meng Yuan and considered himself a mark of merit, but when faced with Tang Taizong, he did not dare to say that he could defeat him in both civil and martial arts.
Now Li Shimin is a young man and strong. If there is a conflict, he will definitely not be able to defeat him.
The scene was quiet for a while.
Chu Zhen smiled and said, "Don't worry. The reason why you were defeated, Li Shimin, is because it is written in the history books that you suffered from malaria."
"malaria?!"
Li Shimin was suddenly shocked.
He is not afraid on the battlefield, but disease is beyond his control. Once he is sick, it is difficult to ride a horse, let alone go to the battlefield.
"You can make preparations in advance, just in case. In addition, I will give you some medicine. It is not a medicine for the case, but a dead horse. After all, I am not a doctor."
"Please remember this, people, thank you very much, Mr. Chu!"
Li Shimin stood up and saluted.
Chu Zhen asked him to sit down and said, "I'll give you another map, that one."
Zhu Yuanzhang subconsciously looked at the map hanging on the wall. Before Chu Zhen mentioned it, he said to himself: "I have asked the queen to prepare a return gift for you. I will give it to you within three days!"
"Just remember."
Chu Zhen clicked a few times on the computer.
The projector lights up.
This time, before he could call for help, Li Qingzhao and Lin Daiyu stood up and pulled up the curtains. Li Shimin also closed several nearby curtains.
Soon, a huge, aqua-blue sphere was projected onto the wall.
The aqua blue sphere rotates slowly.
Zhu Yuanzhang's pupils shrank, he stood up suddenly, and stared at the blue ball: "Are these clouds?! This ball is... all over the world?! All over the world?!"
Li Shimin looked away in despair.
He also saw that the white mist floating on the blue ball was clouds, the blue ones were the ocean, and on the continent, there were strange place names.
"Pacific, Solomon, Xinga, Tailao, Tianzhu..."
Finally, after a slow rotation of the aqua blue ball, it settled on a place where Li Shimin, Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Qingzhao, and Lin Daiyu were familiar yet strange to the four of them.
China.
They saw the Yangtze River and the Yellow River.
