The crimson silk threads are thin and the ice is shiny, and the snow is greasy and fragrant.
I want to cover up my lingering feelings with the fragrant curtain, the red quilt is surging,
…
When she woke up in the morning and opened her eyes, Li Xuan hugged the charming and innocent woman who was sleeping soundly next to her and gently smelled the fragrant hair.
It was already hazy outside the window, and the sound of the fifth watch drum could be vaguely heard.
Li Xuan was lying on the bed, thinking about the situation in the DPRK. It was a rare quiet time these days.
Without Ming Chongyan secretly stirring up trouble, everyone seemed to have had a good year.
The East Palace, Secret Guards, Six Ministries, Nine Temples, Five Prisons, Yongzhou Prefecture, Chang'an Wannian County, and countless people in the capital all lived a good year in peace.
But Li Xuan knew that all this was temporary.
Once Ming Chongyan died, the entire court would undergo earth-shaking changes, but it seemed that he had not thought of this.
Perhaps many people did not expect that Ming Chongyan would die.
As time goes by, more and more people will pay more and more attention to Ming Chongyan.
Killing him will become increasingly difficult.
But only by killing him can we talk about the future.
Li Xuan closed her eyes slightly, and the world immediately changed perspective.
Yanshoufang, southwest of the imperial city.
To the east is Taipingfang and to the west is Xishi.
A black dove hawk stood outside the southwest corner door of a deep house, its sharp eyes falling on the door.
It has been watching here all night.
Ever since it caught a familiar figure flashing in the day before yesterday, it has been keeping an eye on it.
It has no intention of trespassing, not because this is the mansion of a fourth-rank official in the court, but because the person hiding here is Ming Chongyan.
To kill Ming Chongyan, his strange Taoist cultivation must be taken into consideration.
It must not be taken lightly.
The sky is getting brighter.
The door of the workshop opened, and in the backyard, an extremely ordinary old man opened the cage, and the pigeon hawk entered without any hesitation.
After the old man packed up the cage, he started his usual day collecting night scents.
The other party's mansion.
In the backyard of the family temple.
Ming Chongyan turned into a temple blessing and cleaned it gently.
…
On the second day of their wedding, the bride came home.
Li Xuan and Qu Dou'er stayed at Qu's house until the afternoon, and then Li Xuan took Qu Dou'er directly to the manor in the suburbs.
Newlyweds always spend their honeymoon alone.
All the servants of the Qu family who followed Qu Dou'er into Prince Peng's Mansion were all taken away.
Butler Zhou Sheng had already begun to arrange for the servants and servants to be busy, while looking at everyone with a pair of cold eyes.
Holding Qu Dou'er's cute body in his arms and sitting on the swaying black-awned boat, Li Xuan looked towards Chang'an City in the east and said softly: "Chang'an is magnificent, the largest city in the world. After this trip to Changzhou, I am afraid that in the future, I can only come back once after the end of the year.”
Qu Dou'er married Li Xuan and became a concubine.
Liu Jinyu could not go to Changzhou with Li Xuan, but Qu Douer could.
Liu Jinyu took Xia'er and Zhao'er to live in Chang'an, and Qu Dou'er followed Li Xuan to Changzhou to serve Li Xuan.
"Aye said, when you marry, you must obey your husband. Wherever your husband is, Dou'er will be there." Qu Dou'er leaned in Li Xuan's arms and said softly: "Although Dou'er grew up in Chang'an, my father said that we His hometown is Gaochang."
Gaochang, the land of Turpan in later generations, is now where Xizhou of the Tang Dynasty is located.
"Gaochang, does father-in-law want to go back?" Li Xuan asked softly.
"I have thought about it, but I can't go back." Qu Dou'er is not the kind of girl who is too smart and sensitive. She just said honestly: "Gaochang has been the land of the Tang Dynasty forever. The Gaochang royal family is just talking about it. And my father is not the real heir of Gaochang Kingdom."
Li Xuan nodded slightly, he already had some understanding of this matter.
Qu Chongyu was the nephew of Qu Zhisheng, the last king of Gaochang Kingdom. Qu Zhisheng angered the Tang Dynasty and was destroyed by Hou Junji.
Qu Zhisheng later belonged to the Tang Dynasty and was granted the title of General of Zuowuwei and Duke of Jincheng County; Qu Chongyu's father, Qu Zhizhan, was granted the title of General of Zhonglang of Youwuwei and Duke of Tianshan County.
Qu Chongyu inherited the title of Duke of Tianshan County from his father, and was promoted to General Youwuwei through meritorious service.
"Gaochang is very close to Shanshan, right?" Li Xuan lowered his head and looked at Qu Dou'er.
Qu Dou'er knew the terrain in that area quite well and whispered, "It's less than a hundred miles away."
"My father-in-law is stationed in Xincheng, northwest of Delingha. This year, as long as the eastern Tuyuhun can defeat the western Tuyuhun and fight all the way to Shanshan, my father-in-law can go back." Li Xuan hugged Qu Dou'er tightly.
"Father said that I can't go back. Grandpa doesn't have that kind of courage." Qu Dou'er still heard something at home.
Li Xuan nodded slightly, but was thinking about the entire route in his mind.
At that time, I didn’t know who asked Murong Yi to marry Qu Chongyu.
If everything went well back then, the Tang Dynasty could skip the northern route and go directly to the southern route, from Tuyuhun in the east, through Tuyuhun in the west, all the way to the hometown of Changzhou, which is Xizhou.
That is where the four towns of Anxi are located.
Through this road, Datang can greatly enhance its control over the four towns in Anxi.
But unfortunately, the plan was very good, but it happened to meet the Murong family.
Li Xuan hugged Qu Dou'er tightly and said softly: "If you are fine, you can go visit your father-in-law on weekdays. It's not far anyway."
"Yeah!" Qu Dou'er responded softly.
She is willing to go to Changzhou because her father is also in Changzhou and her husband is also in Changzhou, so there is a place for her in Changzhou.
Li Xuan lowered her head and meditated.
On the surface, everything can be connected from Changzhou to Tuyuhun in the east, to Tuyuhun in the west, and then to the hometown of Gaochang, Anxi and Xizhou. But in fact, one Murong family is enough for everyone to put away their thoughts. .
It's not because Murong is too strong, but because Murong is too weak.
Even though the Murong clan was weak, they still had great ambitions.
In this case, whoever dares to entrust his trust to them will not even know how to die.
At this time, an idea flashed in Li Xuan's mind.
Now he suddenly understood why Qu Chongyu was motionless last year.
Murong family.
It was because he was worried that Murong would cause trouble, so Qu Chongyu would rather stay still and not make any meritorious service, but also watch over Murong, lest they really cause trouble, and even he would not be able to deal with it.
So how should Li Xuan arrange everything that follows.
To the south we need to march towards Supi, to the west we need to keep an eye on Tuyuhun, and to the east we need to observe Hezhou and Kuozhou...
He wanted to see how many other people's foreshadowings there were.
…
On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Li Zhizhao, the prince of Nanchang and Duke of Jinchang, was born in March.
Qu Dou'er leaned on Liu Jinyu, laughing and chatting quietly with Liu Shubi and Liu Qiongyu. Qu Chongyu, who was standing behind, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Looking up at Li Xuan who was whispering something to Liu Rengui, Qu Chongyu sighed in his heart. He let Dou'er stay in the palace for more than half a year last year. It seemed like he was doing the right thing.
Li Xuan noticed Qu Chongyu's gaze, nodded slightly, and then looked at Liu Rengui and asked: "Yue Weng, has the post of Sima of Changzhou been decided by the court? If not, I'm afraid this year's war will be delayed."
"It's just a Sima. With you in Changzhou, what are you worried about?" Liu Rengui glanced sideways at Li Xuan and asked, "Why do you have someone to transfer?"
Li Xuan chuckled, and then said: "What do you think, Weng Yue, of the Youtun Guardsman taking the torch to the south?"
"Youtun Guardsman General Nanjing?" Liu Rengui thought for a while and said, "Is he the captain who accompanied you to fight on the battlefield at Shazhuyu River?"
"Now I have accumulated merit and been promoted to a general." Li Xuan said softly: "In the past two years of the Tang Dynasty, there were probably not many wars. Most of them were on the front line of Changzhou. If you want to go further, you can only go to Changzhou. Then come to Changzhou. The state also needs a Sima who can gather party fighters."
The position of Changzhou Sima is not to compete with the left and right guards and Changzhou soldiers for strength, but to recruit Sima who can gather warriors from the Party members and condense them into troops.
Although what is not needed here is a Sima who only knows how to scheming, snatching the left and right guards when he comes, and oppressing the party members.
If this is really the case, Li Xuan will kill someone.
"The needs of Changzhou are not the responsibility of one Sima." After a slight pause, Liu Rengui continued: "The DPRK plans to establish the Heyuan Prefecture in Changzhou. Tuyuhun, Dangxiang, and all the tribes must unite in to recuperate and recuperate. The war will begin next year."
Li Xuan raised her eyebrows and understood immediately.
A Sima is only a fifth-rank official, but in Heyuan Prefecture, a Zhechong Captain alone is a fourth-rank official.
Not to mention, there are also Captain Guo Yi on the left and right.
Li Xuan whispered: "It seems that Your Majesty really wants to use the power of a state to destroy Tubo!"
Li Xuan originally wanted to use one Sima to summon a thousand elite cavalry from the party, but the emperor wanted to use three thousand elite cavalry.
Of course, there are more than 30,000 households in the party, and they can raise tens of thousands of cavalry at any time, but there are only 3,000 regular state soldiers affiliated with the Tang Dynasty.
There are only three thousand regular state soldiers responsible for logistics and ordnance supplies.
During the war, all these people could be dragged to the front line to fight, but Datang was not responsible for their logistics, food, grass and ordnance supplies, so they could only rely on them to rob them.
"In addition, this year in addition to Changzhou, there is also war in the West Tuyuhun. If we can get through the West Tuyuhun and reach Xizhou directly, then the Tang Dynasty's control over the Western Regions will be strengthened, and Wenxi County Duke's war in the Western Regions will be over. Liu Rengui said softly.
The war in the Western Regions lasted longer than that in Changzhou, but there was no way. The Western Regions covered a vast area, and the food and grass supply issues could be solved by the Western Regions themselves, without the intervention of the DPRK.
Just when Li Xuan was about to continue talking to Liu Rengui, a voice from outside suddenly sounded: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived."
Li Xuan stood up immediately and looked at Liu Rengui with surprise.
Liu Rengui frowned and shook his head slightly. He also knew nothing about Li Xian's arrival.
…
After hanging a jade-carved Bodhisattva statue on Li Zhizhao's body, Li Xian nodded to Liu Jinyu with a gentle expression.
"Thank you, Your Highness." Li Xuan invited Li Xian to sit down and asked casually: "How do you use your time today, Your Highness?"
"I'm just stopping by for a while. Uncle Wang, please take a walk with me." Li Xian glanced in the direction of the backyard.
Li Xuan understood the idea, stood up and said with cupped hands: "Your Highness, please."
Li Xian took the lead to walk towards the backyard. Li Xuan glanced at Liu Rengui and then quickly followed.
Walking in the deserted backyard, Li Xian was silent for a long time before speaking: "Uncle Wang has been away from Beijing for a long time. I wonder where he can teach me?"
Every time Li Xuan left the center, she would have a conversation with Li Xian, but that conversation was only allowed by the emperor.
Li Xuan originally thought that she would not see Li Xian until after her resignation tomorrow, but now it seems that Li Xian is impatient to wait.
In other words, the emperor did not arrange for Li Xuan to meet Li Xian tomorrow...
Seeing the small lake in front of him, Li Xuan said solemnly: "Your Highness, all affairs in the court should still be based on government affairs, but government affairs in the final analysis is just one word, tax."
When Li Xuan said this, her expression was slightly difficult.
The Ministry of Household Affairs was the place that Empress Wu was in charge of. Even if the previous Ministers of the Ministry of Household Affairs were not hers, Empress Wu could still firmly control the Ministry of Household Affairs with terrifying methods.
“Although household tax statistics are ultimately in the hands of the Ministry of Household Affairs, in the final analysis, they are still in the hands of local states and counties.
Although Datang is quiet this year, it may not be so next year.
It would be best for Your Highness to go deep into local states and counties this year and check the number of registered acres of land in each state and county.
You don't need to do much, just compare the current number of acres with the years of Takeru Zhenguan... It will be more beneficial to His Highness to find out the problem, remove the officials, and recover taxes and grains. "
Li Xuan looked solemn and bowed slightly.
This was his last strategy against Li Xianxian, his last strategy before he scrapped it.
Whether Li Xian can survive this depends on his understanding and execution of this strategy.
If he understands and implements it well, he, the prince, will definitely be able to survive for one more year.
This is Li Xuan's method.
(End of chapter)
