The Tang army galloped across the Japanese country, conquering the Japanese country that did not respect them and would provoke them from time to time.
In the court hall, Li Shimin also battled wits and courage with those who kept writing letters to impeach Li Chengqian after the Japanese war.
a new day.
A court meeting.
Several more officials came out.
"Your Majesty, I am impeaching His Highness the Crown Prince for tyrannizing and oppressing the Japanese people in the Japanese country, which has caused the dignity of our great country to disappear and become like a foreign barbarian. I also ask Your Majesty to recall His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."
These officials who came out said that what Li Chengqian did was wrong, and what they said made Li Chengqian's officials itchy with hatred.
However, they could not come forward to defend Li Chengqian.
Now there are indeed some places in the Tang Dynasty where prisoners of the Japanese state are doing manual labor. If they argue with these courtiers for the Japanese state, they are more likely to bring unnecessary trouble to Li Chengqian.
However, Li Chengqian's subordinates didn't say anything, but Changsun Wuji looked at the officials who came out to impeach the prince and couldn't help being surprised.
"Isn't this Qingque's official? How could he let these people come to negotiate with Li Chengqian? Could it be that these princes are here for the position of prince?
??????????????????You are confused, you are so confused. In the face of this great right and wrong, you actually dare to stand on the opposite side of the prince? The fight has already reached our doorstep, why don’t we go and fight him? "
Just when Changsun Wuji was scolding Qingque in his heart for being confused, the officials saw that Li Shimin didn't say anything and started talking loudly in the hall.
"Your Majesty! Your Highness the Crown Prince is sending prisoners now. Next time, His Highness the Crown Prince sends some more Japanese girls. What will happen to us?"
Are they distributed to the homes of those who are not married to suffer bullying? Or should we send them all to the palace and wait until His Highness the Crown Prince returns to enjoy them?
This is really a complete abandonment of the majesty of our great country. Which of the surrounding vassal countries will come to congratulate me in the Tang Dynasty in the future? "
After these officials spoke very beautifully, quite harshly, and quite provoked Li Chengqian, Changsun Wuji finally couldn't help it, and went out to say something to Li Shimin.
"Your Majesty, what the adults said is inappropriate. What's more, we didn't kill these Japanese prisoners of war, but we fed them well and fed them. Isn't it right?
They all attacked us at the door of our house. Look at the innocent people on the beach who were massacred. What should they do? Shouldn't we seek justice for them and avenge them?
If we let them go again, what's the point of our conquest in our country?
What's more, haven't you seen what those Japanese prisoners looked like? No matter how hard and tiring it is to come to my country, I am still grateful and feel that my life in Datang is much better than that in our country.
From time to time, they also expressed their wish to become my Tang people and move their whole family to Datang. Doesn’t this mean we are doing the right thing? "
It was here that Changsun Wuji spoke up to protect Li Chengqian's dignity. Seeing these evil deeds in front of them, the officials who were out to impeach Li Chengqian should be those who supported him Li Tang looked filled with indignation and continued to speak.
"And what you said, sending women as gifts? Ridiculous!
Didn't you listen to what these prisoners said? They gathered with their city lord to fight against our Tang army.
I just didn't expect that I, the Tang Army, would be defeated easily. Our Tang Army did not kill anyone indiscriminately in the city, let alone bully anyone at will. Doesn't this demonstrate the power of the Tang Dynasty?
How could we become evildoers? What’s more, we didn’t plunder any Japanese money.
By the way, Japan still uses shells for trade. Do we want to use these shells to pay taxes to the Tang Dynasty?
I want to ask these adults, do you agree with me buying you shells? "
Changsun Wuji and these officials got into trouble here, and after Changsun Wuji came out, many people reacted and began to support Changsun Wuji. And those people from aristocratic families saw that the limelight was so unclear, and some people couldn't help but come out to support Changsun Wuji.
What they did this time was nothing more than to alienate Li Ying and Li Shimin. Now it seems that the situation is similar. Not only did they alienate Li Shimin and Li Ying, because they did not impeach Li Ying, they only impeached Li Chengqian.
At the same time, they also had an unexpected gain, which was beyond their plan but what they had expected. However, they did not expect that the plan would be so simple.
This scene made Li Shimin look ugly.
Seeing his son's subordinate officials in this state planted a seed in Li Shimin's heart that the Xuanwu Gate incident would occur at any time.
Looking at Li Shimin's ugly face, and from time to time looking at the officials who looked like his sons, these aristocratic families celebrated each other. Gradually, he let things happen in the court and went with the flow.
Things in the court gradually calmed down during court meetings again and again, but what about the hatred in Li Shimin's heart!
"These people talk about Li Chengqian every day. They often say that Li Chengqian is short-lived. They just fancy the position of the wife! Why are you so confused!"
Although Li Shimin also wanted to see how his heirs would behave when Li Chengqian was not in the court, and see if any of them were prettier than Li Chengqian.
But this time, Li Shimin was disappointed. Their child was actually used as a knife to attack him in front of such a big right and wrong.
This time Li Shimin didn't say anything about Xu Yunyan, which surprised Xu Yunyan. If Xu Yunyan knew that he was targeted again by a wealthy family, but it didn't leave any hidden danger in Li Shimin's heart, I don't know how happy he would be. .
However, just when things in the court came to an end, and the Tang Dynasty was once again in good weather, and the harvest continued to develop according to the current good momentum, when Li Shimin was handling things in the court, an urgent messenger rushed in quickly He entered the study room where Li Shimin was.
"Your Majesty, Chengda is nearly 600 miles away and urgent!"
He was working on a memorial. This memorial was very beautifully written. It not only praised Li Tang's virtues, but also praised the good weather in various places. When Li Shimin was very proud of the praise, he suddenly heard the messenger who came to deliver the letter said: General Cheng rushed six hundred miles away, and Li Shimin was so frightened that he stood up from his seat.
"What's wrong? What happened?"
Fortunately, Li Yuan wasn't watching this time, otherwise he might not have known how to call Li Shimin.
Not long ago, after Li Yuan heard that someone was impeaching Li Chengqian, he stopped leaving the palace to inquire about political affairs without even thinking about it. Instead, he stayed in his palace unharmed and let old guys like Pei Ji accompany him and ignored other matters.
Pei Ji was also happy to be free. After handing over all the intelligence agencies to Li Shimin, Li Shimin sighed as he looked at the intelligence agencies that had been corroded and riddled with holes, or that were basically useless.
Then they were no longer used and left to fend for themselves, which made Li Shimin unaware of what was going on outside most of the time.
Although he wants to set up his own intelligence agency, he cannot touch the money on the surface. If he does, he will be targeted by interested people.
Just when Li Shimin was looking at these good memorials and putting these worries behind him, something like this happened again, which frightened Li Shimin.
However, Li Shimin was worthy of being the former Tiance General and the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
He hurried forward, took the memorial, and started to read it, but he felt happy instantly after seeing it.
"Okay! Great! Someone is here!"
As Li Shimin finished speaking, the six hundred miles urgent messenger was startled. "What do you mean? Are these people going to drag me out and chop me?"
Just when the messenger was anxious here, Li Shimin said.
"Take the messenger down and be rewarded with a first-class honorary officer. You will be given a Chang'an mansion."
As Li Shimin finished speaking, the messenger was instantly surprised.
He was a small messenger who didn't even have a rank, and suddenly he was given a rank of officer. Although he was only a ninth-rank officer with no real power, it also made him jump from a soldier to an official, not to mention this Li Shimin also rewarded him with a courtyard in Chang'an with a wave of his hand.
What good thing made Li Shimin so happy?
The messenger and those present were not clear about it, but they did not ask Li Shimin any questions, but did as Li Shimin said.
After the room became quiet again, Li Shimin looked at the memorial in his hand and couldn't help laughing.
"Li Ying, Li Ying, you have done a really good job this time. You actually discovered gold mines during your expedition against Japan. You have mined so much gold and silver in more than a month.
If I remember correctly these amounts, aren't they the annual taxes of the Tang Dynasty?
good! Very good! Now that it has been safely transported to the seaside and handed over to General Cheng, I have to figure out how to transport it safely to the treasury, but we cannot let others People know.
How much can I do with one year's taxes? This is only the rest of the month. What will happen if the tax is added for another period of time? "
The more Li Shimin thought about it, the more excited he became, and he couldn't help but jump up and down.
"I, the Tang Dynasty, will have no worries from now on."
However, just when Li Shimin arranged for a messenger to secretly deliver a letter to Li Chengqian and Li Ying to ask them to continue their efforts, and at the same time asked Cheng Yaojin to escort the gold and silver they had sent to Chang'an City, he forgot what the ancients had always said.
Blessings are where misfortunes lie, and misfortunes are where blessings depend.
Just when Li Shimin was happily acting like a child when there was no one in the imperial city, there was a cloud of war in the Anbei Protectorate in the north.
Anbei Protectorate Deputy Protector Shi Jin and Chief Shi Feng Tao sat on the main seats, and all the generals were divided into two sides.
"Your information is accurate. The Western Turks intend to use troops against the Tang Dynasty?"
Seeing the latest information brought by the leaders of several small Turkic tribes, the two people looked solemn.
The other generals and commanders are boiling with fighting spirit here.
"Shi Duhu, why do we need to fight with the Western Turks? Why don't we just send troops to fight them?"
Li Zhong was the first to come out and said he wanted to fight the Western Turks, but Shi Jin directly waved his hand and told him to sit down.
"With just over 10,000 people, how can we defeat so many troops from the Western Turks? What should we do if we lose the first battle?"
Feng Tao expressed everyone's worries, but Li Zhong raised his head.
"I, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, are not willing to die, not to mention the support of many Turkic tribes, as long as they are with us."
As soon as Li Zhong said it, everyone shook their heads.
"No, they don't have the status of sergeants now. What can they do if they rashly go to the battlefield and suffer such casualties?"
But just when Shi Jin was worried about what might happen to these people without their status as soldiers, these small tribes were expressing themselves here.
"We have newly joined the Tang Dynasty and are willing to work with the Tang Dynasty to completely bring peace to the Western Turks. From now on, we will be Tang people and no longer Turks. What do you think, sir?"
These people showed their identities here, but Shi Jin was still a little worried when he looked at them.
"I still need to go to your Majesty to see what it means. I don't know what our Lord Protector will do if he knows about something?"
