Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Shimin once again gathered officials in Chang'an City and began to make his own arrangements.
Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, and Du Ruhui, as Li Shimin's absolute confidants, were arranged by Li Shimin to stay behind in Chang'an City. Several people were extremely surprised.
"Your Majesty asked us to stay in Chang'an City, but where is your Majesty going?"
Du Ruhui pretended to understand but still looked confused as he asked Li Shimin. After he asked this question, many courtiers also looked at Li Shimin, wondering what arrangements Li Shimin would make.
Li Shimin looked at them and said with a smile.
"My dear ministers, the Northern Territory has reached such a critical moment. His Highness the Crown Prince won first and then lost. The situation is even more dangerous.
I didn't expect that the Turkic dog thieves were so crazy that they actually drove our Tang army soldiers and civilians to attack the Tang army's formation.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was kind, and he had no choice but to desperately save them before they suffered such a defeat. At this moment, our defense of the Tang Army in the North suffered serious losses. As the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, I must take the lead and lead the soldiers to rescue the North and defeat the Turks. "
After Li Shimin finished speaking, all the officials in the court complimented Li Shimin, but Li Shimin didn't know what they were thinking. Many people did things that made it difficult for him to make a decision when he was seriously ill. .
However, Li Shimin saw that many officials in front of him were making detailed arrangements when another messenger hurriedly delivered urgent information.
Li Shimin saw the intelligence sent, Chai Shao, Li Shentong, and Li Chengqian worked together to defeat the assault vanguard again, and defeated less than a thousand of the 100,000 Turkic troops who entered the Tang Dynasty. They fled around Lingzhou. Now that he is sending troops to chase him, he can't help but feel very good.
"Okay, great, you are indeed my Qilin'er."
Suddenly, Li Shimin became so happy after reading a letter, which made the courtiers very curious.
"Your Majesty, I don't know why you are so happy."
Changsun Wuji came out to ask, and Li Shimin looked at Changsun Wuji and waved the letter in his hand.
"This is a letter jointly sent by General Chai and General Li."
"oh?"
Now the ministers were surprised.
According to the news not long ago, aren't they following Li Chengqian? Why did they merge into one unit again?
But just when everyone was confused, Li Shimin had already signaled the eunuch to read out the contents of the letter.
It turned out that the three generals had defeated the Turks opposite them and joined forces again.
Three generals?
correct!
Aren't Li Shentong, Chai Shao, and Hou Junji three great generals?
As for who can mobilize the three of them? Who else besides Prince Li Chengqian?
Although the Tang army suffered heavy losses this time, there are still close to 50,000 troops. How can they hold on in the north for a while longer?
After Li Shimin said this, the ministers lamented that the great fortune of the Tang Dynasty was unparalleled and invincible.
Li Shimin couldn't help but sneered in his eyes when he saw their disobedient appearance.
I just don't know how the soldiers and horses of the North Land's missing commanders are gathering now.
Maybe today is a good day. As soon as Li Shimin finished saying this, another messenger came to deliver the letter.
Li Shimin did not expect the content of the letter.
As the champion, Xu Yunyan was given the order to act expeditiously by Li Shimin. He was originally going to come to Chang'an City as a pawn to deal with anyone who had ulterior motives for the throne. However, when the Turks from the North suddenly invaded the border, Xu Yunyan, as the champion, Xu Yunyan still resolutely returned to where he should be.
Li Shimin couldn't help laughing when he saw the information sent by the messenger.
"Good! That's really good. You are worthy of being my queen, the champion of the Tang Dynasty."
It surprised everyone again
news, and after everyone looked over, Changsun Wuji had no choice but to move forward again. Who made Changsun Wuji take a step forward just now?
Li Shimin curled his lips. Did he want to read out the contents of the messenger?
Looking at Changsun Wuji, Li Shimin waved his hand as he moved forward again.
"You don't have to move forward. Just read this letter out again."
The first sentence was addressed to Changsun Wuji, but the second half was addressed to the eunuch who just read the letter jointly sent by Chai Shao and Li Shentong.
After the eunuch took the letter, he began to read it in a measured tone.
This is the information that was sent back to the rear after being searched by the Jin Yiwei and the men in black, and was sent by the intelligence personnel at the rear.
After hearing that Xu Yunyan defeated the 30,000 Turkic main vanguard in a battle, everyone was even more stunned.
At this time, more than one of the Turks' 300,000 soldiers and horses was lost. Their Majesty once again raised troops to go north to join forces with Li Chengqian and Xu Yunyan. In addition, Li Shimin had a high probability of winning.
Li Shimin is so proud!
"Since today is such a good day, we will start to gather our troops and horses, and when we have enough food and supplies, we will immediately set out to march north.
The champion has begun to stagnate the main Turkic force, and the prince has also gathered three generals to prepare to go north to support the champion, hoping that they can continue their efforts and create new achievements. "
As soon as Li Shimin finished speaking, everyone complimented him again. After that, Li Shimin started the things that must be done in the court meeting every day. After singing the praises of Li Tang, he started to play if there was something to do and left the court if there was nothing to do.
In such a critical time, there are always some people who don't want Li Tang to have a smooth life, and this pops up again.
"Your Majesty, General Li is on an expedition and there is still such a powerful enemy in the north. Should we first remove General Li and gather his troops to completely eliminate the Turks in the north? The Supreme Emperor of Jinling..."
He originally wanted to talk about the emperor of Jinling, but the person in charge of Jinling was the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan, and Li Yuan had already been buried by Li Shimin.
Everyone had no choice but to call Li Yuan the Supreme Emperor. These people intended to let Li Yuan's side fight Li Jing with their own hands.
Li Shimin's heart was like a mirror: "As the saying goes, a country cannot be without a master for a day, let alone a country with two monarchs."
Li Shimin's words made everyone stunned.
What you said makes sense, but now that the foreign enemies are in such a situation, you still want to confirm the legitimacy of your throne in the mainland. Is that interesting? It's better for you two to unite and deal with this Turkic people first.
Maybe by then you will be evenly matched, wouldn't it be more advantageous for us to choose between them?
Now that there is just a little improvement in Jinling, you send a large army to encircle and suppress us. How do we make a choice?
Are you forcing us to choose you? But you don’t think well of our aristocratic family, what should we do?
The little friends of the officials in the court were ruthlessly broken up by Li Shimin, and the topic changed directly from trivial matters to how to assemble food and grass, how to raise gold and silver, how to reward soldiers, and how to arrange for the relatives and family members of casualty soldiers.
Things were discussed quickly and a charter was soon in place.
By the time the court meeting was over and the army had assembled, Li Shimin looked at his eldest son Wuji, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, who were standing in front of him, patted their shoulders and spoke earnestly.
"Now the whole of Chang'an, no! The whole lobby will be left to you. You must keep an eye on me."
The three of them nodded solemnly and promised in front of Li Shimin.
Nothing will happen to them.
After Li Shimin saw their satisfactory answers, he turned around and started rushing towards the school field. He was going to the school field to encourage the soldiers and then immediately set off to march north.
After arriving in Luoyang from Li Jing, Zhang
Liang and Cheng Yaojin stood beside Li Jing, ready to develop Jinling with Li Jing at any time.
It's not that there is no one stationed in Luoyang. Some people in Luoyang with ulterior motives saw that Li Jing had left, Zhang Liang and Cheng Yaojin had also left, and they couldn't help but have other thoughts.
Several people with sly eyebrows gathered together and looked at the governor's mansion in the distance, chattering and discussing here.
"Tonight we will go to the governor's office in Luoyang and deal with the governor first. When Luoyang is in chaos, we will take advantage of the situation and control Luoyang and Jinling to coordinate with each other and cut off Li Jing's army. Jinling will definitely be able to defeat Li Jing."
At that time, Jiangnan belonged to Jinling, but when these people were talking about how to divide the territory of Jiangnan, one of them looked at the person next to him with a sly look and said something.
"But Jiangnan belongs to Jinling, what kind of benefits can we get?"
"You're stupid. Li Shimin can't stand us, the aristocratic families, so does Jinling also look down on us, the aristocratic families?"
"Who can say for sure?"
The person who first raised the question said this, and everyone was stunned for a moment.
yes! They were too wishful thinking and felt that Jinling could definitely trust them.
Although Li Shimin didn't trust them, this question made the people in front of him a little confused.
"What should I do?"
While everyone was discussing here, a person from a wealthy family in Luoyang who originally proposed to assassinate Wang Huan made a direct comment.
"What's so difficult about this? I know that the Xie family is in charge of Jinling. The Xie family is a famous family. Don't they accept the power of our family? Luoyang should still be captured, even if it is If Jinling doesn’t accept us, won’t we be able to gain the bargaining chips we deserve by controlling this majestic Luoyang City?”
Just as they were discussing here, suddenly the door of the secret room where they were was opened.
Several figures wearing Feiyu suits appeared at the door.
"Oh, what a coincidence. You are still here discussing these things? Don't you know that we have been following you for a long time? The evidence is really complete."
Jin Yiwei suddenly appeared, making the scene stunned.
what happened? How is this possible?
"There aren't many troops left in Luoyang now. Our aristocratic family has the final say. Who are you? Surrender and we can protect your glory and wealth. Don't blame us for being ruthless if you are stubborn and go against us!"
"Oh, what you said is so cruel."
Before Jin Yiwei could say anything, he was already being threatened, which made these Jin Yiwei even more curious.
"How could you say that?"
The Jin Yiwei looked at them and said with a smile.
"Our most important responsibility is to find excuses for you in such difficult times, and now you have jumped out on your own."
As soon as the people from Jinyiwei finished speaking, the people from these aristocratic families couldn't help but feel a little thump in their hearts.
No, were they completely manipulated by Li Shimin and applauded?
Then his expression immediately changed.
"We want to provide food and grass for His Majesty after taking control of Luoyang."
"Really? Why is this different from what you just said?"
This time it was completely embarrassing.
"You really don't need our support?"
After the rich family asked this question, Jin Yiwei looked at them as if they were idiots.
"Why do we need your support? As long as we uproot you one after another, and all the local official positions you hold are arranged for His Majesty's cronies, do you still need to appear in front of His Majesty?"
