Chapter 52: The Plan Hasn't Changed Fast
Chen Yi was also shocked. He really couldn't understand why he had said a lot about how to recruit more soldiers to guard the Anbei Protectorate, and directly placed the vast land under the rule of the Tang Dynasty. Li Xianhui immediately expressed his support for him. This was really strange.
If Helan Minzhi, Cen Changqian and others stood up to support him like this, he would happily accept it, but Li Xian directly expressed his support for him. He was very unhappy and a little worried. He really didn't know how Wu Zetian would feel.
Wu Zetian was naturally very strange, so he looked at Li Xian in surprise and Chen Yi, but in the end he didn't say anything.
"Empress, Your Majesty, I also agree with what Chen Shangshu said!" Cen Changqian stood up after a while in a cold show and supported Chen Yi. Then several other ministers expressed their support, but Helan Minzhi did not express his opinion.
After listening to the opinions of the ministers for a while, Wu Zetian also spoke: "I also think that what Chen Shangshu said is reasonable. Even if all the beloved ministers think it is reasonable, Your Majesty agrees. Then let's make such a decision: Let General Pei temporarily control the north and wait for the warmth of next spring! Liu Shangshu of the Ministry of Works has served in the Shanyu Protectorate for many years, and he is familiar with the situation there. I believe that after these huge victories, all tribes dare not act rashly. Those who betray our Tang Dynasty should take this opportunity to strengthen the governance of the north to avoid recurrence!"
Wu Zetian's words gave the final discussion result to this imperial meeting. Of course, there were not many ministers opposing the proposal in the subsequent court discussion. The court quickly ordered to increase the recruitment of young and middle-aged people from Qinghai and Xining Protectorate to join the army. This group of soldiers would be sent to the north to guard the northern border. Ten days after the conscript order was issued, the court issued another edict. It agreed to the request of the Minister of War Chen Yi to rebuild the Anbei Protectorate.
The rebuilt Anbei Protectorate was located in Yunzhong City. Pei Xingjian temporarily took over the position of Anbei Protectorate. When Pei Xingjian settled down the affairs of Anbei, the court would send other officials to serve. The Anbei Protectorate includes all the places under the jurisdiction of Hanhai Protectorate and Shanyu Protectorate. The Hanhai Protectorate is in charge of the area north of the desert. It has eight governor's offices and Jiuzhou Prefectures, with Mangbuzhi as Hanhai Protectorate. The governor's office and the prefecture court will appoint Han people or surrendered Hu officials. The Shanyu Protectorate manages the land south of the desert. It has six governor's offices and ten prefectures, with Xiao Siye as the governor's office. Each governor's office and the prefecture chief officer are also appointed by the court.
Taking over the military power of the Dingxiangdao army, the court directly governed the north and south of the desert with a tough attitude. This is completely different from the previous methods of restraint and control. The leaders of each tribe are naturally dissatisfied. However, our tens of thousands of troops live in the south of the desert. As long as the weather is suitable, we can leave the desert to eliminate the rebellion at any time. Nearly 300,000 rebels of the two divisions of Ashina and Ashide Wenfu were destroyed in a few days. Under the current circumstances, can any tribe in the north and south of the desert be compared with Ashide Wenfu's troops? The overthrow of the previous and the later chariots are a famous saying. More than 100,000 elite Tang army soldiers guarded south of Yinshan. They did not intend to return, and the famous generals such as Pei Xingjian and Liu Shenli did not return to the court. Even if those tribe leaders with dissolute intentions would not dare to do it at this time.
After the imperial edict was issued, the only thing each tribe could do was to accept the imperial orders.
Perhaps they did not want to see Han officials directly governing the land and pastures that had always belonged to them, but the resistance was not now, nor was it when the 100,000 elite Tang army soldiers were stationed on the side. Perhaps at this time, the Tang army generals just hoped that some tribes that were dissatisfied with the orders of the court would jump out and become the target of their attempt to sharpen the swords.
No one wants to be such an unlucky person.
Pei Xingjian, the current minister of the dynasty who temporarily took over the political affairs of Anbei, also issued his military orders while the imperial edict was issued. If any tribe leader was unwilling to obey the Tang Dynasty and wanted to break away from the rule of the Tang Dynasty, then the neighboring tribes could raise troops to suppress the chaos without the orders of the Dingxiangdao Military Headquarters, and he would report military merits to the court. This was tantamount to finding an excuse for the mutual struggle between tribes. In the next one or two years, in order to compete for ranches and livestock, the tribes fought from time to time, and the Tang army guarding this land took the opportunity to reap the benefits of the fisherman. Of course, this is a later story.
Winter will soon come and the end of the year will soon come.
Because of Wu Zetian's strong performance and Li Xian's concession, the situation in the court almost replicated the way Li Zhi was when he was emperor. Most of the court affairs were taken over by Wu Zetian, while Li Xian only handled relatively less important matters, and most of the affairs were made by Wu Zetian. This is of course an abnormal situation. The emperor has become an adult and should have handled political affairs himself. However, Li Zhi has been lying on his sickbed for many years. Wu Zetian has adapted many ministers to the court affairs. In addition, Li Xian is cowardly and has not been able to make strong decisions on many major matters, and he cannot even make decisions, which disappoints many ministers. Wu Zetian, who has always shown strong performance, gave the best way to solve the matter, just like the reconstruction of the Anbei Grand Protectorate this time.
Li Xian's point of view was to make a decision after Pei Xingjian returned to Beijing and asked for his opinions, but Wu Zetian denied it. Wu Zetian's opinion was that Pei Xingjian and Liu Shenli, two war generals who were very prestigious among the Turks, would get things done during Anbei.
Wu Zetian's decision was naturally more recognized by the ministers than Li Xian's opinions. It can be said that after Li Xian became emperor, although Wu Zetian did not interfere in the government affairs as naturally as when Li Zhi was emperor, Li Xian's incompetence made Wu Zetian unable to come out to manage the government. Six ministers in charge, Pei Xingjian led his army to an expedition, Liu Rengui was old and unwilling to be a director, Helanmin did not question Li Xian at the time, and Chen Yi wanted to show the balance in front of Wu Zetian and Li Xian, and there would be no extreme performance. Li Jingxuan was promoted by Wu Zetian. It can be said that only Xue Yuanchao could give Li Xian substantial advice.
Xue Yuanchao's views on the court affairs in the land were obviously not as far-sighted as Pei Xingjian and others. Many of the suggestions he gave were not recognized by Wu Zetian and opposed by other ministers.
Under such circumstances, Li Xian's life was not easy. Even this year, he was very unhappy. At the New Year's Day ceremony, the scale of Zhufan's greetings was far greater than any previous year, but such a grand scene only made Li Xian feel temporary glory. After the New Year's Day ceremony, after Wu Zetian said a few words in a cold face, all his good mood disappeared, and he lived a depressed whole year.
Although the situation in the court was very subtle, Li Xian was not discouraged. He was secretly accumulating his own strength, and the person who could give him the best advice was Queen Wei.
Many suggestions were given to him by Wei Shi. The facts also proved that most of the ideas given by Wei Shi Shi was very good. Li Xian looked at his "wife" with more and more admiration, and there was a bit of obedience. Many of Wei Shi's opinions naturally followed Chen Yi. Of course, the suggestions given by Chen Yi could not encourage Li Xian to confront anyone. He just advised Li Xian to endure it and move when the time was right.
These words were naturally processed by Wei Shi and then said to Li Xian. After hearing this, Li Xian felt it made sense. Under Wu Zetian's tyranny, he won over the people in the court without leaving any trace, hoping to use more people for his own use. Chen Yi was naturally one of the people Li Xian wanted to win over the most, but Chen Yi, who had a deeper purpose, had no other statement except to give Li Xian a little sweetness through Wei Shi, and he was still a celebrity in front of Wu Zetian. Because he successfully recovered his energy for Wu Zetian, he privately proposed a series of very effective government policies. His favorability once again surpassed Helan Minzhi, who was a little disobedient to Wu Zetian's words during this period.
Chen Yi would not make any requests in front of Wu Zetian. Even if he disagrees with what Wu Zetian said, he would just tactfully say that he would not fight to the death unless his fundamental interests were involved. However, Helan Min was different. He repeatedly made his requests in front of Wu Zetian, hoping that Wu Zetian would be promoted to his official position again, and repeatedly suggested that Wu Zetian further seize power, strive to be the only queen in history, and bring glory to the Wu family.
Because once when talking about this, Wu Zetian's intention to be made the emperor after Wu Zetian became emperor, and Wu Zetian was noticed. Wu Zetian also became wary of Helan Minzhi. Although Helan Minzhi explained again later, he said that he just hoped that Wu Zetian could be the honor of the Nine Kings, shine the honor of the Wu family, and benefit the descendants of the Wu family, but Wu Zetian had already felt disgusted with him. Although the disgust was not serious, this feeling also made a gap between her and Helan Min, just like Wu Zetian and Chen Yi some time ago.
What Helanmin did after the New Year was to have a dedicated relationship with Wu Zetian. He knew that all his glory was because of Wu Zetian's favor. He was too impatient before, so he put away his aggressive look and learned to be a human being with his tail, and respected Wu Zetian's opinions in everything.
In March when the weather was getting warmer, Wei finally gave birth, which did not disappoint Chen Yi and many others. Wei successfully gave birth to a big fat boy weighing more than eight pounds.
After knowing that she gave birth to her son, Wei almost died happily and cried with joy. She knew that she had too many ideas that could be realized because of the birth of this son. Li Xian, who didn't know the reason, was naturally very happy. She couldn't stop talking for several days and ran over to ask Wu Zetian for a reward, and hoped that her mother would give her newborn son a name. With her own grandson, Wu Zetian was of course very happy, and named her grandson Li Chongrun, and when the child was full of the moon, she pardoned the world to celebrate.
Chen Yi was also happy. When he first saw the child's eyebrows, he was completely convinced of something and knew what he would do in the next few years. A very big thing, with a good start, Chen Yi was naturally full of confidence and planned for the funeral.
However, the plan always did not change quickly, and then something unexpected happened! (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, novels are better, updated and faster!
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