Chapter 27 Chapter Twenty Seven

Xiao Song was promoted because of Lu Xiangxian's recommendation and Li Dan's inspection, and became the censor in the palace.After Li Longji came to the throne, Xiao Song worshiped as a member of Zhongshushe.Xiao Song stood awkwardly at Zhongshushe, because right now, there are mainly four members of Zhongshushe, calligrapher Cui Lin, writer Wang Qiu, poet Qi Huan, and Xiao Song who is nothing.Zhongshu Province is full of talented people. Since you are nothing, everyone will look down on you. There was only one person who said loudly to everyone after Xiao Song was hit hard: "Although Xiao Song doesn't like to study and can't write, but he is smart and capable, and he has a strategy. I don't care if you take care of him, anyway, I have to Treat him well."

Everyone really wanted to despise the person who said this, but seeing Yao Chong (Zi Weiling at the time) was serious, he felt embarrassed to laugh at him.Later, Xiao Song served as Governor of Songzhou, Zuo Cheng of Shangshu, and Minister of the Ministry of War.His character exploded, and when he took the position of Minister of the Ministry of War, Xiao Song was no longer the former Xiao Song, but a genius who could be proud of the world. In the fifteenth year of Kaiyuan (627 A.D.), the governor of Liangzhou and the governor of Hexi, Wang Junxi, continued to attack Tubo.Alas, in fact, this guy launches a surprise attack on Tubo every year. He doesn’t send troops to serve the motherland in a heartless manner, but relies on his large number of troops and his ability to be independent.He cheated the four parts of Huihe first, mainly because he went to the four parts to get in touch with each other before, but unfortunately the four parts didn't appreciate it.Wang Junxi held a grudge, and said in the memorial that the leaders of the four departments were planning to rebel.

Several leaders were wronged and exiled, so he took the opportunity to send troops to attack the west of Qinghai, and then asked the court for credit and reward.Li Longji was very happy, thinking that he had made outstanding achievements, and gave him General You Yulin. Tubo is not so easy to bully. The Tubo generals Xin Nuoluo Gonglu and Zhulong Mangbuzhi couldn't bear the anger, and led the army to launch a revenge operation. They directly captured Guazhou City (northwest of Gansu Province) and robbed countless military supplies and food. , Destroy the city.What makes Wang Junwu not calm is that the Tubo people not only destroyed Guazhou, but also took away the governor Tian Yuan; Snatched away.

Under the leadership of the Tubo generals, the father-robbing operation is like a thunderbolt, and the speed is extremely fast, making it hard to guard against.After Tubo destroyed Guazhou, it began to attack Yumen Army and Changle County (more than 100 miles northwest of Guazhou).Jia Shishun, the magistrate of Changle County, resisted tenaciously, but Tubo was unable to attack repeatedly and had no choice but to retreat.At this time, the people of the four tribes of Huihe felt very sad and indignant at the fact that their leader was framed and exiled by Wang Junwu. They became angry and determined to learn Wang Junwu's method, and use the same way to give back to him.

The Fourth Department wrote a letter to Liangzhou: "Tubo wants to go to Turkic by way of Jiuquan." Wang Junwu was overjoyed, he is a person who is good at seizing any opportunity, he led the Liangzhou army and rushed to Jiuquan. However, when he arrived at Jiuquan, he looked around and found no Tubo troops.At this time, the Huihe army ambushing all around suddenly broke out and divided the Liangzhou official army into two parts, one part was Wang Junwu and several other people who were unfortunately selected, and the rest was the Liangzhou army.Wang Junxi died, and the Huihe people who attacked Wang Junxi decisively killed him.Huihe was very satisfied with the destruction of Wangjun, and retreated quickly.

Li Longji was shocked when he learned the truth. He thought Wang Junwu's death was embarrassing. How can Liangzhou be invincible if such a person is in charge? Xiao Song, Minister of the Ministry of War, was promoted to Shangshu of the Ministry of War and Hexi Jiedu envoy, and sentenced Liangzhou affairs (in charge of Liangzhou military affairs).When Xiao Song took office, he asked Pei Kuan, Guo Xuji, and Niu Xianke to be under his cover. He also asked Jiankang Army Envoy and Zuo Jinwu General Zhang Shougui to be the governor of Guazhou. He built the city, recruited the people, and restored their lives.Li Longji thought that Xiao Song was very reliable, and added him as Doctor Yinqing Guanglu.However, the situation at that time was that Tubo Xinuoluo Gonglu's prestige spread far and wide, making all opponents frightened, everyone was terrified, what could Xiao Song do?

Xiao Song wrote a letter to Xin Nuoluo Gonglu, the main content of the letter is as follows—— As time goes on, life and death are rich, dear, I specially asked someone to go to Yangzhou to buy a good ticket, and the Gongbi Station has no staff. I traveled so far to come to a place close to you. It is easy to deliver letters here, thousands of mountains The land of water is here, but the road is impassable. I am exhausted to write this letter to you.But at last it was written, thank God thank you, and thank you for the great friendship between us.Well, let's be serious now, I don't know how you are doing recently, everything is fine on my side, just rest assured, take care, and don't forget our agreement!

—— Song This letter (the content roughly matches the original letter, except for the wording) was sent to Tubo, but not to Xinuoluo Gonglu.It was Xiao Song who deliberately sent the letter to the wrong place, and the letter reached Zanpu. On that day, Xinuoluo Gonglu saw strangely that two rows of mighty warriors suddenly appeared in front of him.Then he died, inexplicably.It was not until very, very long later that Tubo knew that this was a scam directed by Xiao Song.He didn't love Xin Nuo Luo Gong Lu at all, let alone any friendship that traveled across thousands of mountains and rivers.

Xiao Song, you are cruel! In autumn, Tubo was still angry, so it aggressively attacked Guazhou. When Tubo soldiers approached the city, the people and soldiers in Guazhou City panicked (because they had experienced it once), only Zhang Shougui seemed to be very calm. He laughed loudly, told the crowd to retreat, and led several subordinates and maidservants to the A banquet was set up in the city, drinking and having fun while listening to music.Fortunately, Zhang Shougui's opponent is Tubo, and the general is dead, no one can see that this is a replica of the "empty city plan", so he is suspicious and dare not attack.

Tubo withdrew their troops, but Zhang Shougui's ambushes in the field caught them by surprise.Afterwards, Longyou Jiedu envoy and Shanzhou governor Zhang Zhiliang led his troops to Feng Bogu in the southwest of Qinghai to fight against Tubo, winning another big victory.In August, Xiao Song decided to let the deputy general Du Binke lead four thousand crossbowmen to fight Tubo at Qilian City (Gansu Minyue).The battle lasted from morning to night, and the archers gathered and separated, going round and round, advancing and retreating in an orderly manner, breaking Tubo into chaos.Du Binke took the lead and beheaded one of Tubo's lieutenants, and the rest of Tubo fled to the valley, crying all over the mountain.

The news of success was sent to the imperial court, and Li Longji was overjoyed, and took Xiao Song as the third rank of Tongzhong Shumen.The reason why Li Longji felt that Xiao Song could serve as Zhongshu Ling was because he felt that as long as someone who is well versed in the art of war must be familiar with human relationships and political means.The more important reason is that before Zhang Shuo, Zhang Jiazhen, Li Yuanhong, Du Xian and others became friends one after another, Yuan Qianyao was just a clapping party. They often quarreled, and then the quarrel almost turned into a fight. The two scolded me and scolded you, Li Longji was very upset. On this day, Huangmen Shilang and Tongping Zhangshi Du Siam were demoted as the governor of Jingzhou; Yu Wenrong, the servant, was reappointed as the servant of the Huangmen, and Pei Guangting, the servant of the Ministry of War, was transferred to be the servant of the Zhongshu, and they worked together in the same order; Xiao Song also served as the order of the Zhongshu, and led Hexi from afar.It's all arranged, everything is arranged. Li Longji is very proud of his arrangement—— Xiao Song is a general and a prime minister, although his eloquence and literary talent are not good, but he can do practical things, 100%! Pei Guangting inherited his father's tradition, with unique vision and sharp analysis, 100%! Yu Wenrong was good at collecting money, and he described the forced apportionment and plundering of money as normal taxes, which made Li Longji think he was very capable, and state and county officials also looked up to him. From then on, Yu Wenrong was promoted by collecting money. percentage! Yu Wenrong often said to others: "Give me three months, and I can make the world peaceful!" Yu Wenrong also loves fantasy. He set up an imaginary enemy for himself, fearing being replaced by others. Yu Wenrong believes that the most threatening person in the entire court to his position is the prince Li Yi who has repeatedly made outstanding achievements. Because the relationship between Li Yi and Li Longji is very good, Yu Wenrong is very jealous, otherwise he would not have done the thing of letting Yushi Li Yin spread rumors to impeach him.Yu Wenrong deserves to be looked down upon. This person likes to ask for credit. Whenever he wants to do a good deed, he will make a statement first, for fear that others will not know.And the publicity is very strong, so that people can know what he will do in the future and how hard he will work. Of course, he will say that the difficulty of doing this is very great, he will be more credited if he succeeds, and it will not be easy for him if he fails.This made Li Longji complain for him.However, I don't really admire him for the above point, but I admire him for the bottom point, that is, Brother Yuwen does good things to publicize, and he does bad things to publicize.Be the same outside and inside, do what you want, do your best, and be selfless. This is Yu Wenrong, a big-mouthed fork. Therefore, before Yu Shi impeached Li Wei, Yu Wenrong had already told others his thoughts.According to the investigation, there are many "others" here, and many of them happen to have a good relationship with Li Yi. Li Yi was very angry when he found out, and ran to see Li Longji.He told Li Longji that someone named Li Yin must impeach him tomorrow.Li Longji asked why.Li Yi told how Yu Wenrong arranged, how it was staged, and how it harmed people.Li Longji said, well, if this is the case, let's wait and see! The next day, Li Yin wrote a letter, and he wanted to impeach Li Yi.Li Longji was furious because of this. As soon as Yu Wenrong was restored, he was demoted to be the governor of Ruzhou (central and western Henan).His unselfish and specifically harmful behavior gives us some useful enlightenment: First, he was dismissed after serving as a prime minister for a hundred days. He used to be afraid that others would take his position, but now there is no need to worry. Second, Yu Wenrong has fully expanded the means of using public resources to exploit the people, which is a model for officials of later generations to imitate; third, although Yu Wenrong is gone, his spirit has remained in Li Longji's life, and Li Longji has always been Thinking that the money Yu Wenrong raised was normal taxation, he stopped saving and started to extravagant. Thank you Yuwen Rong. Li Longji missed him very much, because Pei Guangting would not exploit him. Li Longji felt that the life of the emperor was very tight, so he asked seriously: "You all say that Yu Wenrong is a villain, but after I take him away, the country is not enough. , What's going on here?" Li Longji suddenly asked, "How did you assist me?" Pei Guangting and the others were frightened by Li Longji's question, and stood there daring not to speak.The problem was solved slowly over time. A few months later, Yu Wenrong was demoted again because of corruption and bribery.A year later, Sinong Shaoqing Jiang Cen gave Yu Wenrong the last reminder.The Department of Agriculture (Ministry of Finance) discovered that the previous state reserve had lost tens of thousands of money. Under the care of the previous department leaders, the money disappeared. Only then did Li Longji know that Yu Wenrong must have embezzled the state reserve.Li Longji traveled to Yuwenrong to Yanzhou. On the way, Yuwenrong, who was once proud, died of depression. In November of the seventeenth year of Kaiyuan (729 A.D.), Li Longji went to Qiao, Ding, Xian, Zhao, and Qianling to worship his ancestors. In February of the eighteenth year of Kaiyuan (730 A.D.), Li Longji hosted a banquet for hundreds of officials in a scenic spot. From the prime minister to Yuanwailang, a total of twelve super-long banquets were held. Everyone had a good time and gave 5,000 guan each.