Chapter 22 The Battle of the Frontline News Dynasty
Time entered June, and news from the frontline battlefields entered Chang'an like a tide and appeared on the eucalyptus table in the political hall.
Busy officials from three provinces and six ministries came and went in a hurry with documents.
After Fang Xuanling gave instructions on a grain and grass document, he submitted it to the emperor for review. After receiving approval, Fang Xuanling had someone quickly take it to the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of War.
Li Zhiyun stood in front of the map and marked the location of his own troops and the enemy's troops on the map according to the frontline battle report.
Judging from the map, Qin Qiong and Xu Shiji on the western front, leading the Tang army and Xue Yantuo's soldiers and horses, have already occupied the Baidao, suppressing the troops stationed at Niutouchao Na Mountain, and also cut off Jieli's possibility of escaping westward.
On the eastern front, Duan Zhixuan, Xie Shufang, and Su Lie had already led their troops into Yunzhou, joined Yuchigong, the marching commander of Yunzhou Road, and stationed themselves at Niupi Pass.
After several months of fighting, the troops on both the east and west fronts were depleted. Qin Qiong's and Xu Shiji's troops on the west front were slightly better, with more than 38,000 people left.
The situation on the eastern front was more tragic. Duan Zhixuan, Xie Shufang, and Su Lie combined had only more than 70,000 troops.
You know, Duan Zhixuan and Xie Shufang originally had an army of 100,000 men, while Su Lie had 20,000 troops.
In other words, more than 50,000 people died on the Eastern Front.
Now, including the 30,000 troops led by Captain Chi Gong, Niupi Pass has a total of 100,000 troops, which is more than enough to defend Jie Li.
Li Zhiyun is not very worried about this.
The only thing he is curious about now is how Li Jing plans to break the deadlock.
"What method will you use?" Li Zhiyun murmured.
Historically, he knew that Li Jing adopted the method of sneak attack on the Turkic king's tent, but now the situation has changed.
He was a little curious about Li Jing's choice.
It has been two months since the war started. The granaries in the pass are being depleted rapidly, and tens of thousands of civilians in various states are also being mobilized quickly.
The numbers are shocking.
Even Li Zhiyun was a little impatient, hoping to hear good news from the front line as soon as possible.
At this moment, Fang Xuanling came over and said softly: "Your Majesty, I have some ideas about the recruitment of civilians on Hedong Road."
"speak."
In order to ensure that the 300,000 troops fought wholeheartedly, Li Zhiyun mobilized the people of several states in Hedong Province to transport grain and grass.
And doing so will have serious consequences.
Without strong labor for farming, the grain output of Hedong Road will definitely be greatly reduced this year.
But he has no choice. If he doesn't seize this opportunity, when a natural disaster strikes next year, the situation will only be more difficult than it is now.
Fang Xuanling said: "Because of farming, the people are not very willing to cooperate with the imperial court. I think it is better to order that as long as you voluntarily help the imperial court transport grain and grass, you can be exempted from two years of labor service."
Li Zhiyun was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Isn't this using the future to pay for the present?"
"Yes." Fang Xuanling said: "But Your Majesty, if we can defeat the Turks, the imperial court will also suffer losses, and we will still have to recuperate and recuperate. By then, Your Majesty will still have to reduce the taxes of several states in Hedong Province."
Hearing this, Li Zhiyun thought for a moment and said, "Let's do it like this."
"yes."
In the face of killing the Turks, Li Zhiyun could make sacrifices.
As long as the Turks are dead, there will be no more national wars in the Tang Dynasty. Even if troops are sent out at that time, it will not be hundreds of thousands of troops.
It can be said that only by killing the Turks can the Tang Dynasty finally gain a firm foothold.
In the next few decades, it can slowly recover. Furthermore, Li Zhiyun has already made a plan on how to suck blood from the grassland and strengthen the Han people.
At the beginning of the month, the Tai Chi Hall is held.
Li Zhiyun was dressed in black and gold imperial clothes, wearing an emperor's crown on his head, and walked up to the imperial couch on the high platform with a sword.
As the ministers paid their respects, Li Zhiyun slowly knelt down and began to discuss the affairs of the court. From Li Zhiyun's point of view, the entire hall had a panoramic view. As long as Li Zhiyun was not short-sighted, he could basically see every minister below.
As for the ministers, they were divided into two rows, left and right, and sat kneeling facing each other. Those with higher status, such as officials of the Six Ministers and Ministers of the Six Ministers, had a eucalyptus table in front of them. Those with lower status could only sit in the crowd with a tablet in hand.
inside.
There were so many people in the palace, and at first glance, it was completely dark.
The most important matters discussed by the imperial court in the past few months were all about the war situation on the front line. Some people felt that we could not fight and had to withdraw our troops, otherwise we would suffer heavy losses. Some people firmly supported the emperor and wanted to fight against the Turks.
Others are indifferent and wait to die.
An hour later, Li Zhiyun once again refuted an official who wanted to withdraw troops from Shangshu, saying firmly: "Anyone who dares to withdraw troops again will be killed!"
When the emperor spoke harshly, officials naturally did not dare to speak out against him.
Although the current emperor is indeed young, the problem is that youth does not mean lack of strength. Don't look at the 300,000 troops going out, but there are still nearly 100,000 troops in the Chang'an guards!
These soldiers and horses are all in the hands of the emperor. Who dares to go against the emperor?
Seeing that the ministers stopped talking, Li Zhiyun also snorted. There was no turning back when he opened his bow. He must kill the old Turk this time.
At this moment, Taishi ordered Fu Yi to step out of the queue.
"Your Majesty, I have something to say."
"explain."
Fu Yi sorted out his words and said: "Your Majesty, the country's system was first created, mostly based on the old system of the Sui Dynasty. After our dynasty inherited the troubled times, we should not stick to the old ways, but should forge ahead with determination. I think that now that the dynasty has changed, if the Sui system is continued, the people will be affected by it.
The Sui Dynasty caused panic. The world has been suffering from the Sui Dynasty for a long time. I feel that I should correct Shuo, change my sex, change my laws and regulations, and remove my official title..."
Fu Yi Balabala quoted a lot of scriptures and said a lot. The core meaning is that our Tang Dynasty must be completely separated from the former Sui Dynasty and cannot be involved with the violent Sui Dynasty.
After Fu Yi finished speaking, Pei Ji jumped out to refute before Li Zhiyun could speak.
"I disagree with what the Taishi Ling said. This Wude Code was edited by the late emperor himself after the founding of the dynasty. How can it have anything to do with the former Sui Dynasty? Don't mourn your ancestors and cry at the wrong grave."
Li Zhiyun twitched the corner of his mouth, but he didn't expect Pei Ji to be quite humorous.
The reason why Pei Ji resented others changing the laws without authorization was because he was the one who presided over the revision of the Wude Code.
Although the new emperor likes to add two laws and regulations for everything, he still didn't change his name. Fu Yi wanted to change his name this time, how could Pei Ji tolerate it.
This is a historical achievement he made that will be written into history books in the future. He will never allow others to change the name Wu Delu while he is alive.
Of course, he would never care about such a trivial matter as Wu Delu actually copied the Kaihuang rule. The Sui Dynasty is gone, so what will happen if I copy you.
Fu Yi had no choice but to give up the law change order due to Pei Ji's strong opposition.
Li Zhiyun was too lazy to disgust Pei Ji because of such a trivial matter. It didn't matter if he didn't change it. Anyway, in his opinion, as long as he could add rules and orders casually, that was enough. It didn't matter what his name was.
Pei Ji is now very cooperative with Li Zhiyun. In this case, Li Zhiyun is naturally happy to accept the kindness and maintain the stability of the court.
Later, several ministers came out to oppose Fu Yi's change of official name, and Fu Yi was left alone for a while.
Li Zhiyun is not surprised by this, because everyone is used to stability.
The ministers believed that if Fu Yi's memorial was passed, wouldn't the emperor start laying off people?
How can this work!
It's not that Li Zhiyun doesn't know the thoughts of those officials who oppose Fu Yi's change of official name, but now he can't spare the time to clean up the waste of corpses.
He has to wait until he kills the Turks.
He was opposed to this, and he was opposed to that. Fu Yi was besieged by many people.
Reform is bound to offend some people's interests, so it's not surprising that Fu Yi is under siege.