Chen Ying said with grief and anger: "It's not just danger, it's the end of the world! In a place called Tumu Fort, this empire suffered the most painful failure since its founding. The 200,000 army was killed by the enemy with only 30,000 people. More than 50 civil and military ministers were buried in the battlefield. Several generations of emperors worked hard to manage, and the accumulated elite soldiers and talents were wiped out, and even the emperor was captured!"

Li Jiancheng was silent for a moment and said, "This result is also expected, but I still don't understand the purpose of telling this story."

Chen Ying smiled and said, "Your Majesty, don't worry, the story has not been finished yet. After learning this bad news, the ministers of this empire welcomed the emperor's younger brother with unprecedented efficiency, and told the enemy that he was a prisoner that had expired. If you like to kill, kill, and let go, we don't care at all. If you want to fight, we will accompany you to the end! These are normal, but one thing is abnormal..."

Chen Ying paused, noticed that Li Jiancheng was listening carefully, and continued: "When the new emperor first went to court, all the civil servants who were scared by that idiot in the past jumped out, and blamed the fool's fault for the defeat on the idiot's stupidity and wanted the emperor to destroy the nine clans. This did not wrongly accuse the idiot of that idiot. He deserved to die, but... the ministers seemed too excited. Before the emperor made a decision, they fought against the idiot's accomplices in front of the emperor, and killed three in the court. This really allowed the emperor to see the blood and mighty nature of these weak scholars. It is said that the emperor was so scared that he was speechless."

Li Jiancheng frowned and said, "This is too presumptuous. If it is placed in our Tang Dynasty, no matter what the reason, those who do such things will be punished extremely severely and will never be forgiven."

"Your Majesty, I think that the emperor probably wants to punish them, but I really don't have the confidence, because the army and nobles who were most loyal to the royal family were buried outside the pass..." Chen Ying looked at Li Jiancheng and said, "In the end, he had to pinch his nose and acknowledge the ministers' absurd actions and execute all the idiot's gang members. This matter itself is not wrong, but it is not difficult to see if it breaks out the right and wrong. The founding of the country destroyed the imperial power. From then on, the civil servant group firmly controlled this huge empire. No matter how corrupt, intrigue, and messed up the state affairs, no one could do anything to them. This pattern continued until the demise of the dynasty!"

Li Jiancheng seemed to have understood what Chen Ying meant at this time.

The emperor and the scholars and officials rule the world together. This is the ideal of the civil officials to be proud of and their lifelong pursuit. Is this view wrong?

Li Jiancheng had all kinds of questions in his heart, but he had to continue listening patiently.

Li Jiancheng began to think about which dynasty was the Ming Dynasty that Chen Ying referred to? Could it be... What Li Jiancheng didn't understand was that this Ming Dynasty was still eight hundred years later.

Chen Ying sighed a long sigh and then said, "This incident completely changed the fate of the empire. Before that, the empire was determined to advance and the four barbarians surrendered. After this battle, the empire became closed and conservative, and quickly lost the bloodiness of the founding emperor swept the desert. Since then, all kings of all dynasties have regarded the border as if they were afraid of the way. Not to mention the imperial commander in person, they dared not even look at the border."

Chen Ying paused for a moment and said with some self-deprecating self-deprecating: "However, there are exceptions in everything. Just like the Han Dynasty, from Emperor Gaozu to Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing, they were all afraid of the Huns as tigers. After the Emperor Wuwen of Han, they completely reversed the situation. After decades of death, the emperor who was defeated at the border and even himself was a prisoner, his grandson sneaked out of the capital and ran to the border, mobilized a large army to fight a fierce battle with the nomadic peoples who frequently invaded the border of the empire. In addition, it was a battle of more than 100,000 troops repeatedly. Finally, he helped his grandfather find the place back, and the nomadic people did not dare to be arrogant for a long time. But what is funny is that historical records record that the imperial army killed 16 enemies in this battle!"

Li Jiancheng was a soldier, and he blurted out: "How is this possible! More than 100,000 troops fought to the death. Even if they didn't use knives or guns, they would only kill such a few people with bricks! Tens of thousands of people gathered and even if they had to trample on each stampede, hundreds of people would die! I must have remembered it wrong!"

"I also hope this is wrong, but this is not wrong. Killing sixteen enemies, the emperor personally killed one enemy soldier, and recorded it in the history books with dignity." Chen Ying spat angrily and said, "It's really a big deal!"

"If this is the case, it will be even more impossible! The emperor personally killed one enemy soldier, which shows that the war was extremely fierce. The enemy broke through many defenses and came to the emperor. How could it be that only sixteen enemy soldiers could be eliminated!" Li Jiancheng suddenly remembered the newly compiled "Book of Jin", one of which recorded a battle.

During the battle of Liantai in the eighth year of Yonghe of Jin, Murong Ke used iron locks to connect war horses, and selected five thousand brave but not stubborn among the Xianbei soldiers who were good at shooting, and arranged them to advance in a square formation. At that time, the Wei leader Ran Min led his troops to repeatedly rush to Murong Ke's formation. He joined the army Gao Kai to save Murong Ke, but was stabbed by Ran Min with a spear and died without treatment.

However, although Murong Ke won that battle, his 140,000 infantry and cavalry under his command were destroyed by Ran Min's 10,000 infantry and completely lost their combat effectiveness. Even in the battle of besieging Yecheng, Murong Rong had to send the general of the army, Murong Ping, to lead the army to attack. If Murong Ke still has some strength, he will never give up the merit of destroying the country.

What's even more regrettable is that the Former Yan actually sent to control all parts of the Central Plains two years later, because the Wei State used less than 200,000 troops to fight over the 200,000 elite troops of the Former Yan. The Former Yan was worried that entering the Central Plains would attract interference from the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

"If it were me, I wouldn't believe it. The 70,000 to 80,000 troops went to fight and killed 16 enemies. The emperor killed one person with his hand. That is to say, the tens of thousands of troops only eliminated fifteen enemy troops. The emperor could grab one of them, and the luck was really good! However, this is how the historians recorded it, and the civil servants said so." Chen Ying smiled bitterly: "In the battle of Lingzhou, I annihilated more than 40,000 Turkic troops. The only enemy I killed was to clean the battlefield after the war!"

At this time, Li Jiancheng finally got back to the taste.

He blurted out: "It must be because civil servants do not want the emperor's true achievements to be known and to increase the emperor's reputation, so they hide the true records of this battle. Yes, it must be like this! You said before that after the defeat of Tumubao, civil servants overwhelmed the emperor for the first time. For their own power and status, they certainly do not want variables to appear, and let the emperor suppress them!"

He thrilled to high-highlights and said, "It seems that it can be inferred that in that miserable defeat, the civil servants were probably not innocent. Maybe they were looking forward to the emperor's defeat and ruining all the troops and generals loyal to the emperor outside the pass to realize their ambition of dominance..."

Speaking of this, Li Jiancheng suddenly felt shocked and stunned.

Because he suddenly thought of the former Sui Dynasty, and Yang Guang poured out a million-dollar army.

He also went on the expedition with absolute advantage, but was defeated inexplicably, and his elite troops were almost completely lost. He also... Everything, Yang Guang's experience is so similar to the experience of the unlucky emperor of the Ming Dynasty!

However, it is ashamed that the standards of these aristocratic clans seem to be inferior to those of the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty. At least those civil officials are not as good as those of them, and they are so explicit!

Li Jiancheng knows very well who is behind Yang Xuangan's rebellion.

Li Jiancheng knew better what happened to the thirty-six ways of the king and the seventy-two ways of Chenyan. In fact, the Li Tang court also played a role in this fission.

The techniques are the same, the results are the same, and even the ultimate goal is the same!

During the three campaigns of Goguryeo, Yang Guang ruined millions of allegiance to his army, and finally died tragically in Jiangdu, who ended up being boneless and unstoppable.

However, during this period, he was always angry and confused. He didn't know that those guys were desperately dragging their feet and conspiring to force Chen Ying to rebel. Once the Anxi army and the court turned against each other, the world would be in chaos. Li Jiancheng couldn't figure out what they were trying to do. Now the lightning flashed open the fog, and the terrible answer slowly emerged in front of him with bloody conspiracy.

What they want is power! Supreme power!

Those guys have already surpassed the law in the Tang Dynasty. They have supreme power, for fear of being divided by others a little.

In order to always retain the power in their hands, they use any means to eliminate the challengers, even if they suffer.

Despicable and shameless!

Li Jiancheng's eyes were filled with rage, and the cup in his hand rustled, and thin cracks burst out.

Chen Ying noticed the tragic experience of the cup, and did not speak anymore, hiding a smile in his eyes.

This conversation is very casual and somewhat irrelevant, but it is like a tens of millions of tons of nuclear bomb thrown into the sea, about to cause a tremendous wave.

At this moment, Li Jiancheng finally understood something.

The army was his only support. As *** said, Russia had only three allies, namely the Army, the Air Force and the Navy.

In the Tang Dynasty, Li Jiancheng's allies actually had only sixteen guards, 360 armies in the world, and the four major protectors, and only those generals who started their own business by relying on military merits.

If there were no military generals to check and balance civil officials, they would expand without limits, and finally suppress the imperial power under their feet and ravage them wantonly.

Chen Ying’s story is over.

Li Jiancheng was still pondering, his hands trembled slightly, and he must have had a fierce battle between heaven and man in his heart.

Chen Ying stopped talking, and said everything he should say, it depends on how Li Jiancheng made a decision.

He picked up the wine glass and tasted the wine, waiting patiently.

After a while, Li Jiancheng raised his head and smiled reluctantly, "Your dream is very wonderful."

Li Jiancheng took a sip of wine and said with lingering fear: "Those merchants..."

"It is basically impossible to win battles if you respect literature and dethrone martial arts. Respect business and suppress martial arts... will only go to destruction!" Chen Ying looked at Li Jiancheng and said solemnly: "Marriors can only be used, not reused. These two Guanzhong food wars were once I was passively counterattacked and I provoked them. This is not important. What is important is that they are all greedy rats. Whether it is a aristocratic or a merchant, they are all birds of a feather, no matter they are! In the eyes of merchants, they don't care. Even if the dynasty perishes, they can still make money! For them, the entire dynasty is just a market. If you don't make a good job here, they can withdraw funds and leave at any time!"

Li Jiancheng punched the table again, but this time heavier, his fist was bleeding.

Li Jiancheng said suddenly without realizing it: "Don't mention these disappointing things, tell me about your dream. You seem to talk about how this dynasty perished?"

"It was destroyed by internal and external troubles. In the last fifty years of this dynasty, border troubles became more and more serious, and the terrible Little Ice Age was encountered. The climate became extremely harsh, natural disasters and man-made disasters continued, and officials became more and more rampant. In the end, natural disasters and man-made disasters forced the people to a dead end. The people rose up to overthrow this dynasty, and the great enemies outside the frontier were also eyeing them. The most terrifying thing is that even when they reached this point, the civil and military officials in the court still fought in an internal struggle and dragged each other down. When the last group of soldiers who could fight and the last few generals who could fight were destroyed one by one by one, the dynasty that had been withered for three hundred years finally fell down."

Chen Ying's eyes showed sincere sadness. He sighed and continued: "The emperor was still a good person. Until the end, he did not borrow troops from foreign tribes to deal with the peasant army. When he lost the country and the capital, he hanged himself on a tree. What was hateful are the civil and military officials! The emperor borrowed money from them as military expenses to resist the enemy. They all cried and shouted that they had no money, but after the peasant army captured the imperial capital, they confiscated 70 million 200 silver from their homes in one breath, which was equivalent to the income of the entire imperial treasury for twenty-four years!"

Li Jiancheng looked at Chen Ying and said, "This scene seems familiar!"

"Yes, in the fourth year of Wude, our Tang Dynasty and Wang Shichong fought against Luoyang!" Chen Ying seemed to have returned to the time when he was in high spirits, and said with a confused look on his face: "The King of Qin was defeated in Luoyang, and the court lost a hundred thousand troops, and the court borrowed money from them..."

Li Jiancheng said angrily: "They took the opportunity to start a business and wanted to divide the land of Henan Prefecture. After Henan's victory, the court owed them a lot of debts!"

Speaking of this, Li Jiancheng suddenly stood up and said, "I finally figured it out!"

"Just figure it out!" Chen Ying sat there calmly.

Li Jiancheng looked at Chen Ying and said, "I know you are very wronged and unwilling to do so now. I will give you an explanation!"

In the seventh year of Kaiyuan, many things were discovered, first of all, the Tang Dynasty Political Affairs Hall became the past.

Li Jiancheng established the Tang Dynasty's responsibility cabinet system. The Tang Dynasty's responsibility was one term for ten years. The cabinet prime minister was responsible for forming cabinet members, and the cabinet was responsible for the daily operation of the court.

At the same time, the General's headquarters was independent of the cabinet and established a military headquarters.

The emperor was the only leader of the army, and the cabinet and the local government shall not interfere in local military affairs. At the same time, local security was separated from the regular army. The Zhechong Mansion, which was originally the main force of the Tang army, continued to be retained, but the Zhechong Mansion was only responsible for internal security affairs, such as quelling local riots and handling emergencies.

Foreign wars are dominated by the military.

One of the most thoughtful things were also quietly spread.

In April of the seventh year of Kaiyuan, Empress Zheng Guanyin was born with a difficult childbirth, and she died of one corpse and two deaths.

In May, it was reported by the palace servant.

Prince Li Chengdao of the Tang Dynasty, incest with Concubine Pei Shu.

Li Jiancheng dismissed Prince Li Chengdao for his crime of great unfilial piety and exiled to Lingnan.

The third son of the emperor, Li Chengde, King of Yue, took advantage of the situation and became the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty and entered the Eastern Palace.

In June, King Chen Qian of Anxi held an engagement with Princess Anning.

...

Guangzhou City in June is already very stuffy.

Li Shimin was very unaccustomed to the climate of Guangzhou. He could only relieve the dampness and heat of the air after soaking for two hours a day. However, he finally didn't have to worry about the stuffiness of Guangzhou, because he looked at the battle report in front of him and his hands and feet were cold.

"Ten months ago, the Battle of the East China Sea broke out, and 413 warships of the Fusang Tang Dynasty were destroyed. Sun Heng'an, the then general of the Henghai General of the Fusang Tang Dynasty, was killed in battle. He was sentenced to 125,000 Fusang Tang troops who had no time to land on the Tang Dynasty, were buried in the belly of the fish."

"Seven days ago, Duke of Anyang County, the leading general, Li Shimin's brother-in-law, Zhang Cong, was seriously injured, and his 110,000 troops under his command were either killed or surrendered, and his entire army was wiped out!"

After reading the report, Li Shimin's hands trembled uncontrollably, his whole body was cold, he had difficulty breathing, and he was almost suffocating!

How could this happen? The Li Tang court, who had won victory after victory, was attracted by Cheng Zhijie or Qin Qiong to Anxi or Anbei, and at the worst, it was also attracted to Lingnan.

According to the information, Li Jiancheng and Chen Ying had a estrangement, and even if they did not meet each other, they would run away in anger.

Especially his brother-in-law Zhang Cong, this is a buried talent. As Changsun Wugui's second brother-in-law, he has always been a civil servant. He did not expect that the first leader at the age of 42 showed extraordinary talent.

In the first battle, he conquered Fuzhou and captured Fuzhou's general manager.

In the next battle, Quanzhou was captured.

Almost effortless.

In the battle again, Xiao Nuo defeated the famous Tang Dynasty general and the rising star, known as the Tang Dynasty god of war Li Jing, and directly attacked Xiao Nuo for 300 miles.

It can be said that Zhang Cong occupied two-thirds of the southeast along the way, and miraculously captured Zhangzhou and defeated the last army of the Tang army in the southeast.

It can be said that the dawn of victory has appeared!

However, in a blink of an eye, the situation had a 180-degree reversal. The invincible fleet of Fusang Tang won first and then lost, and was defeated by the Tang army with few attacks, almost killing them without leaving any armor!

What exactly went wrong with this?
To be continued...