In the thirteenth year of Zhenguan, too many things happened.
The rebel generals of the Tang Dynasty gathered in the Northeast to stir up troubles. The Northeastern countries were either destroyed or lost their territory.
Later, the Tang Dynasty cleaned up the mess left by Hou Junji, and the territory expanded hundreds of miles.
At the same time, in the southwest, Datang suddenly declared war on Tubo.
After counting the thirteen crimes of Tubo Zampu, the army swept through the entire Tubo with the help of the Tubo rebel army.
The once powerful Tubo collapsed in the face of the devastating offensive of the Tang Dynasty.
It only took four months for Tubo Zampo Songtsan Gampo and Prime Minister Ludongzan to be captured by the Tang army and sent back to Chang'an.
Tubo returned to the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo Autonomous Region was established.
Then the Tang Dynasty followed suit and allowed surrounding ethnic minorities to establish their own autonomous regions, but their finances and military affairs were all managed by the Tang Dynasty.
Even if these aliens have opinions, they can't raise them. After all, this is an era where whoever has the bigger fist has the final say.
The current Tang Dynasty is the one with the biggest fist.
Moreover, the Tang Dynasty is a country of etiquette, but who knows whether there will be rebel generals Wang Junji and Zhang Junji in the future?
They did not directly destroy themselves, but allowed them to manage their own territory. What else could they be dissatisfied about?
Coupled with the Tubo war, it became clear to everyone afterwards that the so-called Tubo uprising army was backed by the Tang Dynasty.
Otherwise, whose equipment for the rebel army is better than that of the regular army?
Which country's people now don't know that the people of the Tang Dynasty are living a good life?
Taxes are low, corvees are few, officials govern the country clearly, and people eat well and earn more.
The people in power from all ethnic groups feel that if they continue to be ignorant, rebels will soon appear on their territory.
It's fine now. Although the financial power is not in his hands, if there is a natural disaster or something, he can still get funding from the Datang Central Committee, which doesn't seem to be a loss.
As a result, Gaochang Miaoman and other countries joined the Tang Dynasty and became autonomous regions, and the situation in the entire Central Plains continent changed instantly.
A huge Tang Dynasty appeared in the middle of the map.
Li Shimin looked at the latest map sent to him in the Xiande Hall and compared it with the globe in his hand.
It seems that the current territory of the Tang Dynasty is larger than the territory of China on the globe.
Of course, all these achievements are inseparable from my good nephew.
"Chengqian, has your cousin come back these days?" Li Shimin turned to ask Li Chengqian.
"Not in the past few days. I heard that the leader of the Silla Kingdom sent someone to ask if the land north of the Yalu River could be returned to them."
"Give it back to them?" Li Shimin raised his eyebrows. The leader of the Silla Kingdom was just ignorant. Even if he didn't join the Tang Dynasty, he actually wanted to get it himself.
Returning the land to them, isn’t this a dream?
"What do you have to say to Tang Ping about this matter? Tell them that if they have any objections, they can come to Chang'an to see me and discuss it in detail. Ask Tang Ping to come back quickly. The ceremony to worship the heaven will be held soon."
Li Shimin was excited. Forgetting the heaven-sacrifice ceremony in previous years, this year was different.
He has completed the unification, and his territory is the largest in history. Of course, he must take this opportunity to tell the world, otherwise what is the difference between Jin Yi Night Walk?
At this time, what can we do if a great hero like Tang Ping is not here?
Fortunately, now Tang Ping can come and go anywhere at will. All he has to do is go to his convenience store and give him a call.
After receiving Li Shimin's instructions, Li Chengqian did not dare to neglect and went directly to the convenience store in Shanghe Village, called Tang Ping and told him everything.
"Okay, I get it!"
Tang Ping here mainly needs to deal with a lot of things in the east and north. Although he is not good at internal affairs, Wang Qingluan can help him.
Moreover, Hou Junji has been in the Northeast for so many years. He has not sent anyone back to Chang'an the property of the royal family and nobles from all over the Northeast. Instead, he has used it himself.
Here it is.
Repairing cities and residences, building new pipelines, and subsidizing the people, etc., he even gave some money himself.
During this period of time, the situation in the entire Northeast has been stabilized. Looking at the weather getting warmer, it is almost time to go back.
Naturally, the large army was led by someone, so he didn't have to worry about it. He could just go back with his wife, children, and family members.
First, I went to Turks to say goodbye to Gu Xiaotang.
If it were the past, Gu Xiaotang would naturally be reluctant to leave. After all, even his son would follow Tang Ping to Chang'an.
But now that Tang Ping can come to Turks at any time, it doesn't matter.
Then Tang Ping led people to the Turkic Prison.
"Are they still not saying anything?" Tang Ping asked Lu Yi.
Several Faceless people were imprisoned here, but even though Luyi was from the Secret Spy Department, he still hadn't gotten anything useful out of Faceless's mouth for such a long time.
Because this is the person Li Shimin also wants, he can't really be tortured to death.
Lu Yi said with some shame: "No, I still didn't ask."
She even used some modern interrogation techniques that Tang Ping had seen from movies and TV shows.
But Wu Mian was so strong-willed that no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't get him to speak.
Tang Ping also visited several times. It was as if Wu Mian had used hypnosis on himself, completely isolating himself from the outside world.
No matter how you ask, he will always be indifferent. If you want to be tortured, you will be tortured. If you don't want to be given food, you won't be given food.
Anyway
Just didn't speak.
Just like him is his old bodyguard.
His scholar-disciple recruited everything he knew within a few days, but to be honest, it took Tang Ping and the others a while to find out what he had recruited, so it could be said that it was of little use.
Tang Ping had a headache. This guy was originally a remnant of the Wang family and had been stirring things up behind the scenes. Even after the fall of the Wang family in Taiyuan, he didn't stop.
Without the financial support of the Wang family, he can still stir up troubles in various countries, and there must be a huge organization behind him.
This feeling of the enemy in the dark and me in the light made Tang Ping very unhappy.
"But I received some strange news today..." Lu Yi whispered.
"Oh? What strange news?"
"Near the village where we captured Wu Mian, a batch of buried cash was found in a river beach, amounting to as much as a thousand taels. Many families in the local area got into a fight, and they all They said they buried it themselves, but according to the local government, none of these families could have that much money.”
"So a batch of ownerless cash appeared near the village where we captured Wu Mian..." Tang Ping pondered for a moment, how could such a coincidence happen?
A man without a face would have to pay people to work for him. For example, the Jiangnan assassin who assassinated Liu Bo last time was hired by him with a lot of money.
It is unlikely that there will be too many banknotes like Tang Dynasty coins without faces, so more cash and other currencies of the past are used.
Such a large amount of cash cannot appear out of thin air. If the location can be traced, maybe we can follow the clues and find the forces buried under the water without a face.
"Assign people to investigate and don't let go of any clues."
"Don't worry, sir, arrangements have been made."
Lu Yi is the safest person to do this kind of thing. Even if Tang Ping doesn't say anything, she will first find out the truth and then report back.
"Okay, then take Wu Mian and the others back to Chang'an and hand them over to His Majesty first."
Of course, the Secret Intelligence Department had drugs that made people sleepy. After knocking out the Faceless people, Tang Ping took them back to Chang'an.
There are also people from the Secret Service here who will take them into the palace. Wu Mian is the main culprit who murdered Princess Pingyang, and Li Shimin has been waiting for him.
It was an unexpected surprise to be able to capture him back to Chang'an this time.
As soon as the person was sent away, a walkie-talkie placed in Tang Ping's store rang.
On the other end are the guards at the entrance of Shanghe Village.
Not just anyone can enter Shanghe Village now.
"Pingguo Gong, a young monk came to the village and asked you to save his master."
"Little monk?"
"Yes, he said his name is Wukong."
"What? What's his name?"
"Goku!"
