Chapter 15 Chapter Fifteen

Yao Chong has already had the experience of being a prime minister three times, and each time he also served as Minister of the Ministry of War.Zhang said that he was quite self-aware. Yao Chong was already very capable. He was familiar with border guards, scouts, soldiers, horses and equipment.When the emperor asked, none of the officials dared to speak (because they didn't know), and Yao Chong stood up at this time, and he must be able to answer fluently. Yao Chong also liked to scold Li Longji very much. At one time, he said that Li Longji's attitude was not correct, and asked him to be admonishing, close to virtuous officials, and distant villains;Li Longji accepted them all, and Yao Chong's reputation gradually overwhelmed Zhang Shuo.

On that day, Yao Chong gave a performance to talk about the placement of Yuanwailang and the small official. Li Longji looked up at the sky above the hall at a forty-five degree angle, but did not say a word.Yao Chong said it three times, and when he saw Li Longji's expression was cold, he retreated in fear.After Yao Chong left, Gao Lishi asked him: "Your Majesty just said that you will take care of everything, and the prime minister is here to play. You should say yes or no in person. How can you not speak?" Li Longji said: "I entrusted Yuan Zhi with all the affairs of the common people, just to let him use his talents, and let me make decisions when there are major issues. He also asked me to seize small matters like Lang and officials. Three provinces, six departments and two Fourteenth Division, is this huge organization just a decoration?"

After Gao Lishi heard this, he was overjoyed. It happened that he was going to the Ministry of Zhongshu to announce the decree, so he happily chased after Yao Chong. "Yuanzhi, just now the emperor just said that in the future, small matters will be decided by us as assistants. Don't think too much about it when there are big things!" After listening to Yao Chong, he was overjoyed. It's done.Yao Chong was very proud of being favored, and he didn't think much of Zhang Shuo.At this time, someone advised him to stay away from those flattery, do more good things, and think less crooked ideas.The person who persuaded Yao Chong was Zhang Jiuling.

In November of the first year of Kaiyuan (713 A.D.), the ministers submitted a form, please add Li Longji's honorary title as Kaiyuan Shenwu Emperor.On this day, Yao Yuanzhi also had to change his name, because there was a word "Yuan" in his name, so everyone will call him "Yao Chong" from now on. In addition to these, Li Longji also changed the title of the official position: Shangshu left and right servant shot - left and right prime minister; Zhongshu Province - Ziwei Province; Menxia Province - Huangmen Province, Shizhong - Supervisor; Yongzhou - Jingzhao Mansion, Luozhou - Henan Mansion;

Long history - Yin, Sima - Shaoyin. Hundreds of officials have also changed, the most important one is Yao Chong and Ziwei Ling, which is the original Zhongshu Ling.Obviously, this guy has successfully squeezed Zhang Shuo from Zhong Shuling's position. We handed over the camera to the director to see how Yao Chong operates. Well, Zhang Shuo appeared in the camera, with a good image, but a bit wretched, and he was running to Qi Wang Li Fan's house in a panic to ask for help.His flustered eyes showed his poor mental quality.He went to Li Fan to seek Li Fan's help, because King Qi Li Fan is a very good man.Seeing this, Yao Chong laughed loudly.

On the second day, in the side hall, Yao Chong limped home with his broken leg after playing. Seeing this scene, Li Longji stopped Yao Chong: "Aiqing, do you have foot problems?" "What I suffer from is not a foot disease, but a heart disease!" (Worrying about the country and the people) "What's wrong?" "King Qi is His Majesty's younger brother, and Zhang Yue is His Majesty's assistant minister. The two of them are together every day, and I feel uncomfortable!" (So cruel) Yao Chong's heart disease was transmitted to Li Longji, and Li Longji also had a heart disease.In this way, Zhang said that he no longer needs to be the prime minister, and moved to the left to be the governor of the state.

The colleague who spent all day with him, You Pushe, Comrade Liu Youqiu, the third rank under Tong Zhongshu, was dismissed from the position of prime minister because he had nothing to do and took part in chatting, and went to the East Palace to take a position that was not painful or itchy (Prince Prince) less insurance).In terms of strategy, Zhang said that if he wants to fight Yao Chong, he still needs to go back to the furnace and practice for a few years.In addition to his confidant's troubles, Yao Chong happily performed a major operation on the court. During the two or three years when Emperor Zhongzong and Empress Wei were in power, the imperial court left a mess. Because Li Xian loved Buddhism so much, the nobles and wealthy households followed him one after another.If it is to please the emperor, then the emperor's favor is also quite good.

But Li Longji couldn't be happy. The main reason is that these monks don't have a heart for Buddhism at all, let alone want to help all living beings and carry forward the spirit of humanitarianism.They built so many Buddhist temples with great fanfare, with only one purpose - tax avoidance. Prime Minister Yao Chong said, "Buddha can't save Zhao, and Kumarajiva can't save Qin. Qi Xiang and Liang Wu are disasters. Those who want to live in peace and happiness are themselves Buddhas. Why let a bunch of traitors Broke the law?" Li Longji adopted Yao Chong's method and asked Yousi to assess nuns and monks. Those who can't recite a word of various scriptures will be eliminated, and those who say they are dedicated to the Buddha, but they don't see it. disuse.In a few days, there were more than 12,000 fake monks and nuns, and according to reports from the department, most of them were fashionably dressed and wealthy.

Recently, something went wrong in Yingzhou, because during Wu Zetian's time, Yingzhou was captured, and the Yingzhou government was forced to move to Yuyang, east of Youzhou. Someone told the Junzhou Jiedu envoy, saying: "Mohe and Xi, in fact, all want to surrender to Tang, but there is no Yingzhou, and there is no place to go. They are invaded by Mo Chuo every day, so they just follow Mo Chuo. If we If Yingzhou can be rebuilt, these tribes will follow the trend.” It was the Khitan who captured Yingzhou. Xue Na thought the analysis was correct, and Shangzuo requested to send troops to attack Khitan and take back Yingzhou of Datang.Thinking of the great victory that happened two years ago, Li Longji immediately agreed.The strange thing is that Yao Chong tried his best to admonish him, which was more frightening than the emperor's suicide.But this time, Li Longji didn't listen to Yao Chong's words, nor did he give Yao Chong any chance to explain his thoughts.Xue Na was appointed as the third rank of Tong Ziwei Huangmen (that is, the third rank of Tong Zhongshu's sect), and led the army to conquer Khitan.

In the first month of the second year of Kaiyuan (714 AD), the army set off. Tang Jun fought all the way to the Northeast, and the bitter thing happened in an instant. The Turkic Khan in the Northwest silently took the first step and asked his son Tong Russia to lead tens of thousands of troops to besiege the Beiting Duhu Mansion.Although Tong'er was small, he was very brave. He led an army and fought all the way to Tingzhou City (Gaochang).Because of the huge momentum, the defenders were afraid and did not dare to move out. My classmates with Russia waited outside Tingzhou for many days, but there was no one to fight.So he was very distressed, and started playing outside the city, trying to destroy Tingzhou by starving people to death.One day, Tong Russia was defeated because a group of men and horses came out from the city gate, and the leader was Guo Qianguan, the governor of Tingzhou in the Tang Dynasty.Because I had so much fun these days, I didn't have time to attack the city, and everyone was slack.Tong Russia was driven dozens of miles away by Tang soldiers.

However, Tong Russia later realized that this Guo Qianguan is actually not that scary, isn’t he just taking advantage of me not paying attention?After understanding this truth, Tong'er smiled. He gave a speech in high spirits, and then rode alone to the city of Tingzhou, where he was captured alive. The Turkic army is equal to Russia's triumphant return, but Tong Russia has not returned for a long time.Later they heard that Little Khan fought the enemy bravely, but was captured.Everyone ran to the front of Tingzhou and cried loudly, and sent an envoy to say that they were willing to exchange the whole army's food and supplies for the same life.When they saw Tong Russia's body, everyone cried even worse, and they withdrew while crying.This is a tragedy, but what is even more tragic is that Shi Ashibi, the Turkic second-in-command who attacked Tingzhou, did not dare to go back to see Mochuo because he lost Khan's own son. After thinking hard for a day, he arranged for the army to continue on their way, while he took the risk to spy on the enemy.The soldiers were moved by his spirit of taking the lead and disregarding personal safety.Shi Ashi bid farewell with tears, and then, he led his wife and children, rode all the way to the southeast, and ran to Chang'an.Shi A Shibi became the Great General of the Right Guard of the Tang Dynasty, and was named King of Yanbei County, and his wife became Princess Jinshan. Mo Chuai was disgusted by the behavior of Li Longji and his subordinates, but he didn't dare to take any action.Mo Shui is very old now, and no longer needs to open up camps, just need to be quiet for a while, and abuse his people as much as he wants.It is said that silently killing people without blinking an eye, so the tribe regretted not following the general to the Tang Dynasty. In April, the proud Great Khan silently sent an envoy to Chang'an to propose marriage. He also added many mighty titles to himself: Qianhe Yongqing Prince Consort, Heavenly Rewarded Man, and Turkic Holy Heavenly Bone Dulu Khan.There was no chaos in the northwest for the time being, and in the northeast, Khitan also ushered in an army of 60,000 led by Xue Na.General Du Binke, the guard at the left side of the gate, thought, "It's midsummer, and the soldiers are all carrying armor and food, and they are going deep into the enemy's army. I am afraid it will be difficult to succeed." Xue Na thought, "In midsummer, the grass is fat and the lambs are plump. It's just in time to snatch them now. We can wipe them out in one fell swoop. At this moment, don't miss this opportunity!" Who is right? The Khitan people know. The army marched from Tanzhou (Miyun, Beijing) to the Luanshui Mountain Gorge, and suffered a massacre.At this time, the Khitan army had been waiting on the mountain for a long time, Xue Na's actions gave the Khitan a great opportunity.Seeing Xue Na leading the army pass through the mountain gorge, Khitan suddenly rushed out, and everyone responded, the sound of killing swept down the sky.The Tang army had no way to retreat, no way to advance, trampled on each other, and had nowhere to use their weapons. They were rushed into several sections by the Khitan soldiers rushing down from the slope, and nine out of ten died.The only gratifying thing is that Xue Na led dozens of fierce men to kill a bloody road. The Khitan people saw Xue Na running away in a panic, and they couldn't catch up with him, they felt puzzled and stood on the mountain and cursed.The scene of Xue Na stooping and fleeing wildly on horseback gave the Khitan people a chance to use their imagination, and they gave Xue Na an insulting nickname - "Xue Po". Xue Na was indeed a good enough woman. After escaping, he didn't want to die, so he blamed all the crimes on General Hu, Li Sijing and others.Li Longji decreed to kill Li Sijing and other eight people in Youzhou to save Xue Na's death, cut his official rank, and severely punish everyone else (except Du Binke). Border troubles suddenly increased, and after the disastrous defeat of the Khitan conquest, Tibet in the southwest became noisy again.Tubo generals Di Dayan and Kilixu led an army of 100,000 to plunder Lintao, marched into Lanzhou, entered Weiyuan, and plundered herd horses.There is a good reason why Tubo can enter the Tang Dynasty so smoothly. At the beginning, Yang Ju, the governor of Shanzhou, once made a petition to the court, advocating that all the land of Jiuqu should be given to Tubo.His opinion is mainly that Jiuqu is not suitable for farming and there are no people living in it. It is better to give it to them as it is, which is beneficial to Datang.What he didn't know was that this land was indeed the only way to grow crops, but it was the best place to herd horses and sheep.Therefore, thanks to Mr. Yang Ju, Tubo stationed troops near Lintao and was able to invade. Knowing that he could not forgive, Yang Ju committed suicide in fear of crime. Li Longji intentionally asked Xue Na to make up for his mistakes, and let him serve as General Zuo Yulin and Longyou Defense Envoy as a commoner.At the same time, with Guo Zhiyun, the general of Youxiaowei, as the deputy envoy, he led the army to attack Tubo together with the eunuch Shaoqing Wang Jun.Xue Na began to recruit warriors on a large scale, and the recruited warriors practiced in Helong territory. Until October, Tubo invaded again, which directly annoyed the aggressive Li Longji. Li Longji issued an edict to send more than 100,000 troops and 40,000 horses, and the royal driver will personally conquer!