Various flowing clouds floated in the sky, chasing with the wind and breathing with the wind. The sun gradually sets, and the colorful rays of clouds are plated on the white lines between water and sky, as if they are miracles in the heavens.
Li Heng stood in a casual outfit with his hands on his back in the lake island in the Beiyuan, Daming Palace, looking at the rippling water waves in the Taiye Pool from afar. (Note 1)
"It's going to be windy, Your Majesty, please add a piece of clothing." The prince's grand lord, the right servant She Wei Jiansu, walked behind Li Heng at some time and put a thin shirt on the Emperor of Tang Dynasty.
Li Heng sighed deeply, and walked tremblingly towards the shore of Taiye Pool with Wei Jiansu's support.[
"What important political affairs have been in the court recently? The prince is still in good condition?" Li Heng walked to a corridor built on the water, found a place to sit down, and gasped. Although he was still breathing heavily.
He was in his early fifties, but his body was not as good as before. He would have sweated heavily after walking just a few steps. Following the advice of the imperial physician, Li Heng decided to calm down and moved to Beiyuan since last year.
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Although Li Heng handed over all the military and national affairs to the prince for handling, he would secretly order Wei Jiansu and other important officials to come to Beiyuan every few days to report to him the important matters.
Li Heng is still very mny in some matters. But on a few issues, he and the prince will also have differences. In Li Heng's opinion, the prince is more immature when dealing with some problems.
Wei found that Su was now in his seventies and had all his weaknesses. When he saw the emperor ask, he hurriedly bowed his hands and answered respectfully: "Report to Your Majesty, there has been no major event in the court recently. It is either the one who suppressed the rebellion by the army.
Things, thanks to you, will be good news."
Li Heng waved his hand and said, "Let's talk."
Wei Jiansu nodded and replied slowly: "In March, the rebels were in conflict, and Shi Siming was killed by his son Shi Chaoyi. Guo Ziyi, deputy marshal of the world's troops, took advantage of the situation to pursue the rebels, and Shi Chaoyi fled north and dispersed.
Encheng was ordered by the Holy Emperor to lead the Shuofang army to pursue and besiege him in Weizhou."
Li Heng sighed lightly, "The rebels are unrighteous troops. How can the rebels win the hearts of people after they have repeatedly produced sons to kill their fathers and ministers to kill kings? How can the prince say this?"
Wei Jiansu said in harmony: "After learning about this, His Highness ordered the three armies to reward him. He ordered Guo Ziyi and Pugu Huaien to enfeoff official positions under the fifth rank. His Highness ordered the meritorious soldiers who should be enfeoffed with official positions under the fifth rank or above.
The two planned to issue a list and submit it to the court for approval before the end of the year. As for money, grain, cloth, and silk, we will record it for now. We will distribute the grain and silk from the Jianghuai River next year after the grain and silk from the Beijing capital."
Li Heng said slightly, "He has done this properly, you continue."
"In April, the rebel Tian Chengsi advanced from Suiyang and fought fiercely with Pugu Huaien. Later, the troops were defeated and retreated to Zhangshui. Seeing that the rebels had lost power, the Houtian bandit submitted a petition to the court for surrender. His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince, accepted it after judging the situation.
He gave his request and appointed Tian Chengsi as the governor of Weibo."
Wei Jiansu swallowed a mouthful of foam and said carefully. The enfeoffment of the rebel general is not a trivial matter. The prince’s move is suspected of being usurped. With Li Heng’s measure, he may not be good.
Unexpectedly, Li Heng praised him after hearing this: "It's done well, it's done well! Tian Chengsi has always been a big concern in my Tang Dynasty. I always wonder how to get rid of him, but I never thought about it.
The prince actually persuaded him to surrender."
After a moment of pause, Li Heng said, "Well, let's deal with this matter for the time being. By the way, what's going on in Hexi and Anxi? Are the Tubo people still so arrogant?"
Wei Jiansu bowed and said, "Tubo took advantage of the time when our Anxi soldiers returned to fight back to fight the rebellion, and invaded the former Anxi land, but the soldiers used their lives to resist, which made the thieves retreat slightly. Now, the four towns of Anxi were in the Longyou and Hexi provinces.
The passage with us Chang'an was interrupted, but thanks to heaven, the remaining troops in the four towns remained in the towns."
After hearing this, Li Heng couldn't help feeling a little lonely, and waved his hand and asked, "Where are the Uighurs? I gave them so much silver. Didn't they send troops to help the four towns resist Tubo?"
Wei Jiansu only found it funny after hearing this. The Uighurs were the Tielebe tribe, and they believed in the Canglang, and were full of a self-pride mentality of the strong as respect. Now the Tang Dynasty is weak, so it is better if they don’t take the opportunity to take advantage of the situation.
, still expect them to send troops to help?
"Report to your Majesty, the Uighurs have never sent troops to help."
Wei Jiansu sighed in his heart and reported the truth.
"These ungrateful wolves!" Li Heng felt his blood surge and waved his arm angrily. "I treat it like my hands and feet, but it abandons me like clothes. I must avenge this hatred! Cough, cough, cough
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"Your Majesty, pay attention to the dragon body!" Wei Jiansu hurriedly leaned forward and patted Li Heng on the back, and said bitterly: "Now, our Tang Dynasty is not without soldiers to fight, but in fact, there is no general who leads the army. Guo Ziyi
Generals such as Li Guangbi are all rare geniuses. Where can I get the time to go to Anxi to generals?"[
Li Heng sighed deeply, Wei Jiansu said it well, what the Tang Dynasty lacks the most now is excellent generals. The old saying goes, it is easy to get a general but he is hard to find. Now he understands the meaning.
"If that person was there, maybe the situation wouldn't be like this now." Li Heng wiped the sweat from the forehead and smiled bitterly with a self-deprecating smile.
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"Your Majesty" Wei Jiansu felt a pain in his heart when he heard Li Heng suddenly mention the person. This person's name has always been a taboo in the palace, and no one dared to mention it on his own initiative. Today, His Majesty actually said it himself.
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Yes, that man used to burn the city of Fuqi and flood the Jiuquzhou. It would be a pity if he could stay for the court to use it, which would have really changed the current situation in Anxi.
"I was a little too harsh when I treated him? If I didn't force him, would he not rebel?"
Li Heng frowned and asked Wei Jiansu for the answer. This matter had been buried in his heart for too long and had been torturing him constantly. He was eager to hear the result from Wei Jiansu's mouth.
Once a person gets older, he will naturally talk more naturally. There is no difference between the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty wearing a crowned dragon robe and the bitterness of being ragged and unable to eat.
Li Heng first heard the slander of the slander Pei Mian and killed the man's brothers, forcing the man to lead nearly 10,000 soldiers of the Jianghuai Army to the west to Yangguan. This time it was hard to look back on.
"Why did Your Majesty say this? Why did you say this?"
Pei Mian felt ache and said in a deep voice: "As the saying goes, the king asked his minister to die, and even if His Majesty put a horizontal knife on the man's neck, he shouldn't spit out a word. What's more, His Majesty just killed him.
He can only blame him for all this!"
"You, I will flatter me!" Li Hengnai shook his head and pointed out Wei Jiansu's little thoughts in one sentence. How can the king and his ministers not understand each other's nature for many years? After so many years, I have been with him at that time.
There have been reflections on that matter. If it were me, I would be afraid that I would have reversed it?
"If I hadn't forced myself too quickly at that time, maybe this son would have become another Guo Linggong now."
Li Heng's tone inevitably brought melancholy. There are always too many shortcomings in life, even emperors and emperors cannot avoid it.
He has been framed too much in his life, with Li Linfu in the first place and Yang Guozhong in the second place. Therefore, he is cautious about everyone around him and holds "I would rather let the world down than let the world down."
But in the end he realized that not everyone was interested in the dragon throne in the Daming Palace, and not everyone regarded interests as important.
But he knew all this too late.
Wei found out that he was not good at saying anything, and said, "But your Majesty don't have to worry too much. I heard that after this son went out of Yangguan, he took his soldiers and the Tubo people who plundered the villages and counties, and the Uighurs beat him hard.
After a few battles, the bully-wealthy hukou returned to his nest. He helped the four towns a lot in both open and secretly."
"Oh? Is this really the case?" A ray of light ignited in Li Heng's dim and turbid eyes, and he asked afterwards: "Now that Jianghuai army is still so capable of fighting?"
It's no wonder that Li Heng had this question. After all, when the man led the imperial edict to Yangzhou to fight against the enemy north, most of the soldiers were in their thirties, but now after careful calculations, they should be nearly forty?
Wei Jiansu nodded and said, "I also think that under the leadership of that man, the Jianghuai Army has become more and more braver in the battle. From time to time, Minfu Township people joined the army. Now there are 50,000 or 60,000 people.
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Li Heng frowned and said, "Wei Aiqing thinks that if I enthroned him as the Protector of Anxi at this time, would he accept it?"
"Your Majesty, this" Wei Jiansu heard this and didn't know how to answer.
You, the old man, decided that man was rebellious at the time, but now I want to summon him to the court, is it not easy, right?
"Forget it, forgot it, I am ashamed of him, I am ashamed of him." Li Heng also knew that his thoughts were a bit unrealistic, so he sighed and waved his hand.
"Your Majesty, in fact, I think that no matter where this son is, he is guarding the country for His Majesty or not." Wei Jiansu couldn't bear Li Heng's sadness, so he inserted a sentence in a while.
"Oh, what do you say about this?"
"Your Majesty, can you tell that this son has retreated to the land of Gualiang? The eleven states of Hexi in the Tang Dynasty were originally divided by Tubo and Uighurs, but since then, he has captured Gualiang and Liang,
It formed a confrontation with Tubo and Uighurs."
After a moment of pause, Wei saw Su Shi Shi said, "If I remember correctly, that person once said a sentence, "Where the rising sun is the Tang Dynasty." Since this is the case, will this son enter the court or not
They are all fighting for the Tang Dynasty!”
The place where the rising sun is the Great Tang Dynasty
Where the rising sun is the Tang Dynasty!
Li Heng clenched his fists suddenly, his already hunched spine thrust up again, and an undetectable light flashed in his eyes.
Note 1: Taiye Pond, located in the Beiyuan of Daming Palace, is an artificial lake.
ps: The ending of this "Peace Chang'an" is the official version. If you don't like it, you can watch the ephemeral version.