The first enemy country that Li Er deeply hated was the Turks.
During the Weishui Alliance, Jieli Khan took advantage of the chaos caused by the Xuanwu Gate Incident to force Li Er to sign an alliance under the city. Li Er considered it a shame and humiliation and vowed to take revenge.
After many hardships, he finally defeated the Turks and captured Jieli as a dancer in the Khan King's Song and Dance Troupe.
In addition to the Turks, there is another country that makes Li Er very unhappy. It is the kind of country that he wants to attack at a glance.
What Li Er and even the entire Tang Dynasty disliked was Goguryeo.
The reason is very simple. The Tang Dynasty inherited the legal system of the former Sui Dynasty. However, the three conquests of the Sui Dynasty in Goguryeo failed miserably and millions of people were lost. This was a personal pain for the people of the Tang Dynasty.
It was precisely because Yang Guang had lost millions in Goguryeo that Li Er attached great importance to the conquest of Goguryeo and wanted to make complete preparations before taking action.
The combat effectiveness of Goguryeo's army was not a threat to the Tang army.
What really troubled the Tang army was the cold weather in winter and the long supply lines.
This is also the root cause of the failure of the Sui army's three conquests.
After the large-scale popularization of cotton and woolen cloth and the large-scale use of coal, the cold in winter has been effectively dealt with.
As for logistical supplies, what Li Er carefully supervised was the railway line extending from Luoyang to Youzhou.
The construction of this railway line started a long time ago, but it has not been completed for many years. The main reason is that there are many big rivers along the way and it is extremely difficult to build bridges.
It was not until Li Yunze decided to take action again and brought advanced construction equipment and raw materials from the modern world that the solution was finally solved.
As for if the technology has not reached the corresponding level after several decades, resulting in the inability to maintain and operate the situation, Li Yunze would have already run away and would be out of control.
When the railway line was finally completed and opened to traffic, Li Er finally showed his fangs towards Goguryeo.
He drove away the Goguryeo envoy and declared war on Goguryeo on the grounds that he stepped out with his left foot first when he met the Goguryeo envoy.
Train after train carried a large number of Tang Army sergeants and military supplies to Youzhou. At the same time, fleets began to be secretly assembled in Jiangdu and other places, preparing to raid Goguryeo's ally Baekje by sea.
Li Er has been waiting for this battle for many years.
He wants to prove that he is better than his cousin, and he wants to do what his cousin failed to do!
The entire Tang Dynasty began to rotate at high speed, and all power was tilted towards Youzhou.
Under this general environment, the former crown prince Li Chengqian's mission to suppress the Japanese kingdom was not so eye-catching.
Relying on his prestige and strength, Li Er forcibly suppressed the opposition and established the arrangement of establishing virtuous people rather than senior officials.
He had been giving Li Chengqian a chance, but this kid's psychological endurance was too great, and he could not bear the pressure and disappointed Li Er again and again.
It wasn't until Empress Changsun died of illness that Li Chengqian, who had lost his biggest supporter, was finally given up.
When Li Chengqian left, no one from the officials or nobles came to see him off.
There is nothing to say, they have to avoid suspicion. After all, if they come to see each other off, then the emperor who will succeed him will definitely have small shoes to wear.
The only people who really came to see him off were the royal family members.
Princess Changle, who had a bulging belly, said goodbye to her brother, wiping tears and feeling very depressed.
However, Li Chengqian looked relaxed as never before, and there was a smile on his face that he had not seen for a long time.
After comforting Princess Changle, Li Chengqian looked at Li Yunze, "Brother-in-law, please take good care of my sister."
"It's natural."
Li Yunze nodded and then presented a box.
"What is this?" Li Chengqian took it and opened it, looking at the thick paper inside and he was very confused.
"The gift." Li Yunze explained, "It contains the mineral distribution map of Japan, as well as the construction drawings of new sea ships. Japan is an island country, and the sea is the lifeline. Develop the fishery and navigation industry well, and keep going east, east, and east.
You will eventually find what you like
's paradise."
After saying that, he took a step forward, leaned close to Li Chengqian's ear and whispered, "Thirty thousand miles to the east of the sea, there is a continent that has not yet been explored. You can find a way to get there, so that you can completely stay away from the pressure that keeps you awake."
There is only one pressure that keeps Li Chengqian awake, and that is his father, Li Er.
The Tian family is ruthless, which can be seen from the names between father and son.
In an ordinary family, there are fathers and sons, but in the Heavenly family, they are fathers, emperors, sons, and ministers.
First the minister, then the son.
Li Chengqian has felt the pressure of Li Er since he was a child. As he grows older, this pressure gradually turns into fear, until it completely crushes him.
It may be a good thing for him to go to sea and create a world of his own now.
"In the fleet on the coast, I left you a set of shipyard equipment, a ship of high-quality rice seeds, and some other things."
Li Chengqian, who looked complicated, stared at Li Yunze and nodded slowly, "Thank you."
"It's actually quite good that you don't have to quarrel with your brothers." Li Yunze patted him on the shoulder, "Be careful to suppress Hou Junji's forces. The Hou family members can be used but be on guard. At least when His Majesty is around, he won't dare
Explosive sting.”
Li Chengqian got on the train with his whole family, old and young, and many in-laws.
Li Er tried his best to give him as much strength as possible. In addition to planning to immigrate millions, he also sent a large amount of supplies and so on.
Perhaps only at this time, the relationship between Li Er and Li Chengqian is father and son, not father and son.
Most of the natives in the Japanese country had been wiped out by Hou Junji, and the remaining ones were basically young women.
The Tang Dynasty will continue to immigrate there, and in a few decades there will no longer be the word "Japan" in the world.
Li Er did not come to see him off because he was afraid that he would be soft-hearted and let Li Chengqian stay.
However, his character flaws destined Li Chengqian to be unfit to inherit the throne.
In order to optimally pass on the throne that he exchanged for the lives of his father, brother and younger brother, Li Er had to make such an arrangement.
The train whistle sounded at the front of the train, and amid the roar, the long train slowly started to set off.
Many royal relatives and relatives on the platform waved and shouted, saying their final goodbyes to Li Chengqian and others.
We have gone thousands of miles away, and I am afraid we will never have the chance to meet again in this life.
The tearful Princess Changle fell into Li Yunze's arms. She really didn't understand why her father and brother would make such a fuss.
Li Yunze patted her shoulder and comforted her, "This is actually a good thing for your elder brother. He has got rid of the psychological shadow of many years and started a new life again. You should bless him."
Princess Changle didn't understand this and could only sob weakly.
Li Yunze looked around and saw that none of Li Chengqian's brothers were here.
Facing their exiled eldest brother, they were worried that coming to see him off would offend Li Er, but they didn't understand that the seemingly cold-hearted Li Er valued family ties the most at this time.
Those who don't come to see me off will definitely be in bad luck in the future.
Sure enough, just a few days later, Li Er suddenly announced without warning that Li You, the king of Qi, would go out to control Luzon and be granted the title of King of Song, and King Li Min of Shu would go out to control Borneo and be granted the title of King of Lan.
There is no doubt that this means that Li You and Li Min are out.
The reason is very simple. During the operation to overthrow Li Chengqian, these two brothers were the most cheerful.
As the saying goes, the first bird is shot, and Li Er felt guilty for banishing Li Chengqian, so he had to find someone to vent his anger on.
Because these two brothers danced the most joyfully in the past, they were also the first to be unlucky.
Places like Luzon and Borneo have almost nothing except mines and plantations.
Not to mention the enjoyment of Chang'an City, the weather is hot and miasma is rampant, and it is good to be able to live without contracting diseases.
It was really bad luck to be kicked to a place like that.
The two brothers cried and begged, and even asked their mother and concubine to help plead for mercy.
It's a pity that Li Er at this time was the father, not the father, so it was useless for anyone to say anything, and he was forcibly packed up and sent away.
Li Yunze didn't give them any gifts, and he didn't even go to the station to see them off in person.
I just arranged for someone to deliver some daily necessities and a few boxes of medicines commonly used in tropical areas.
After all, Nanyang in this era is a truly wild land, where savages are rampant.
If you want to survive in such a place with harsh living conditions, the most important thing should be luck.
After Li Er sent away his three sons one after another, everyone, whether in the court or in the royal family, held their breath and concentrated, and even walked quietly, for fear of offending the emperor and suffering unreasonable disaster.
In this environment, all the things and work promoted by Li Er are progressing at an unprecedented speed.
In the eyes of others, Li Er was exiling his sons.
But in fact, Li Er was carrying out Li Yunze's proposal and enfeoffing his sons to the end of the world.
Even if the descendants of those sons performed well in the future, or even killed them directly to inherit the Tang Dynasty, it didn't matter to him, because they were all his descendants, and they had to worship him when worshiping their ancestors.
Li Er is a generation of emperors with great ambitions, not an old man whose parents are short-lived and want their children to hang around him all day long.
After feeling sad for a while, Li Er quickly recovered and returned to his work as an emperor.
In the current Tang Dynasty, the most important and only important thing is to defeat Goguryeo.
When the whole nation attacked the Tang Dynasty, Li Er had wanted to go into battle and fight in person, but due to the external environment and internal turmoil, he had to stay in Chang'an City and take charge.
Now that the external opponents have basically been defeated, Li Er is finally free to go into battle himself.
There were many things to do before the expedition. The first thing was to stabilize the interior, so Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng and others were left to guard the home.
The second step is to provide food, clothing, housing and transportation to hundreds of thousands of troops and civilians before the soldiers and horses are mobilized. They need to be assembled on the front line in advance.
The increasingly affluent Tang Dynasty was now even able to provide sufficient supplies to the common people.
Even a civilian who was conscripted into the labor force could still receive supplies such as cotton clothes, quilts, leather hats, leather gloves, leather boots, woolen blankets, etc. that were luxuries just a few years ago.
In order to deal with the well-defended cities of the Goguryeo people, the gunpowder that had been secretly prepared for many years was all taken away this time.
Li Er's thoughts were very simple. This time he wanted to completely destroy Goguryeo in one battle.
After the autumn harvest in the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, Li Er took his luxurious regiment of famous generals and boarded the train leaving Chang'an City.