Chapter 47 Chapter 47: Fang Xuanling Overturns the Vinegar, Li Shimin Discusses Xue Yantuo Again

Long, long ago, Fang Xuanling did not have a concubine, and now, he still does not.At that time, Li Shimin saw that Liang Guogong, who was a dignified man in the Tang Dynasty, didn't even have a concubine, so he made up his own mind and wanted to marry him. After listening to the arrangement, Fang Xuanling couldn't stand on the spot. He knelt on the ground and begged Li Shimin to take back his order.Li Shimin asked a little strangely: "Xuanling, I'm just a concubine, and I didn't ask you to help her into the main room. Why are you so excited?" Fang Xuanling said: "I dare not accept concubines!"

Li Shimin asked: "Why?" Fang Xuanling said: "I have a wife!" Li Shimin smiled, "I didn't know you had a wife, but it was because you had a wife that I let you take a concubine." Fang Xuanling panicked, "I have and only one wife!" Li Shimin suddenly understood, he smiled and said to Fang Xuanling: "It's okay, I'll just make it up like this." So, let the eldest grandson queen, who is more face-saving, call Fang Xuanling's wife to the harem, and explain to her face to face Condition.Generally speaking, it is the emperor's preferential treatment for princes and ministers to accept concubines.As the wives of princes and ministers, it is also one of the obligations to accept their three wives and four concubines.But Empress Changsun was exhausted, Fang's daughter-in-law couldn't understand, and refused to do so.After the queen reported the situation, Li Shimin decided to meet her in person.

"Mrs. Fang, there are two ways here. First, you can choose to let Xuan Ling take the beauty home, and everyone will live in harmony together; second, you can drink this glass of poisoned wine, so as not to be jealous and angry in the future." .Which one do you choose? (If you would rather live without jealousy, you would rather die with jealousy.)” Fang Xuanling's wife looks a little heroic: "The concubine would rather die because of jealousy. (The concubine would rather die because of jealousy.)" Li Shimin nodded, asked someone to bring a glass of wine and said:

"If this is the case, then you should drink this glass of poisoned wine! (If so, you can drink this poisonous wine.)" The Fang family's daughter-in-law picked up the wine glass and downed it in one gulp, waiting for the arrival of death with a resolute expression. After waiting for a long time, the god of death did not come, but I felt sour in my mouth.Li Shimin sneered, "When I saw her, I felt scared, let alone Xuanling." Then, he looked at Fang Xuanling's wife and said helplessly, "You love Xuanling so much, I have no choice but to take it back! It's not poisoned wine, it's vinegar."

That is to say, from this day on, stories about women being jealous spread.All the court officials knew about Fang Xuanling's fear of his wife, and they didn't have anything to do to comfort him.Jealousy jar, jealousy, vinegar jar, these words used to describe the jealousy of a woman, all started from Fang Xuanling.Still, being jealous is an amazing feeling, especially when a lot of people are jealous of you, right? Xiao Yu's answer is no. After being sent to the local area, he was still thinking about Fang Xuanling.At the end of this year (the 19th year of Zhenguan, 645 AD), Fang Xuanling was dismissed from office and sent home because of a trivial matter, which made Xiao Yu see the hope of Tang Dynasty and the future of Sheji.But then, bad things happened to the court one after another.

First of all, there was the issue of grievances. When Xiao Yu left the court, no one complained for him. When Fang Xuanling stepped down, many people wrote to oppose it.Most of the opponents were famous people. Of course, it was these people who made Li Shimin realize that he was making a mistake again.Chu Suiliang said, "Fang Xuanling has made decades of contributions, but he was dismissed because of a few insignificant incidents. Wouldn't it make other people feel sad? People won't do their best in a place where people feel sad." Li Shimin said: "I was wrong, I will correct it."

In fact, Li Shimin wanted Fang Xuanling to go home, and he was more kind.Because all the benefits of Fang Xuanling remained the same, but he no longer had to worry about government affairs.But the problem is that Li Shimin took advantage of small things to push the boat along the way, taking advantage of other people's minor faults, and directly sent them home to rest.In theory, nothing.But in fact, this is related to the success or failure of a person's life. Therefore, the discerning Chu Suiliang said in his letter: "If your majesty wants him to retire because of his old age, he should follow the etiquette and let him retire properly. How can you use this method?"

Li Shimin knew that his mistakes could be corrected, so he sent someone to chase Fang Xuanling back.But Fang Xuanling declined the prime minister's affairs because his health was getting worse and worse.In order to meet Fang Xuanling more often, Li Shimin even went to visit Fang's house in person. The feeling of "not seeing each other in a day is like three autumns" is not only experienced between male and female friends.From a small county magistrate back then to a world-renowned prime minister today, Fang Xuanling has too many stories. Because he is so famous, so famous, everyone in the world says he is good, but you just don't know what good things he has really done.Fang Xuanling does good deeds and never publicizes them everywhere.If you forget something, you forget it. If Fang Xuanling doesn't mention it, there will be no one to mention it.In this era, it is really rare for Li Shimin to have such a trustworthy friend.

Fang Xuanling's life was very hard. Although his virtues were not recorded in the history books after he became a prime minister, the story of his youth has already caused a sensation in Jinan.Fang Xuanling is extremely filial. When he is at home, whenever there is something good to eat, he will definitely let his elders eat first.When Fang Xuanling was fifteen years old, Fang Yanqian (father) was no longer alive, and he was adopted to his uncle.After his stepmother died, he went on a hunger strike for five days and five nights. The news spread like wildfire and was praised by others. Fang Xuanling, the prime minister with power over the ruling and opposition parties, always remembers his father's teachings and acts fairly and properly.

Li Shimin trusted Fang Xuanling very much. On the way to conquer Goryeo, he received a letter from Chang'an in Xijing, saying that the Minister of the Household Department needed to be replaced.The flying letter was in the hands of Li Shimin. Li Shimin thought for several days, and finally settled on Li Wei, Secretary of Agriculture.At this time, there happened to be officials who came from Chang'an, and Li Shimin personally summoned them to ask: "I want Li Wei to be Minister of the Household Department, what did Xuanling say?" Official said: "When Duke Liang praised him, he said, Li Wei's beard is pretty!"

On that day, Li Shimin flew to Chang'an and changed Li Wei to the governor of Luozhou. Find ways to succeed, not excuses for failure.This is what should be said before the war. After the war, it is also necessary to analyze the reasons for the failure. After returning to Chang'an from Liaodong, Li Shimin had nothing serious to do except drive Xiao Yu.But the terrible thing is that Li Shimin has been unable to figure it out. Why didn't Tang Jun take Pyongyang?He had never suffered such a big defeat in his life, and for the first time he couldn't figure out the problems on the battlefield.He was determined to ask Li Jing, who had been watching from the sidelines, for advice.One day, when the courtiers had a meeting, Li Shimin asked a question.Li Jing performed Tai Chi first, and handed over the question to Li Daozong.Li Daozong replied: "At that time, the minister wanted to lead the army straight to Pyongyang, but His Majesty refused to let it go. This is the reason." Li Shimin was at a loss, frowned and said, "I was too busy at the time, I forgot what happened." Facts have proved that not going to Pyongyang to destroy Gai Suwen is the biggest failure of this war. In May of the 20th year of Zhenguan (646), King Gaozang of Goryeo and Molizhi Gaisuwen of Goryeo sent envoys to apologize and present two beauties. Li Shimin accepted their apology, but he didn't want beauties, and sent them back to their place of origin. There has been an endless stream of envoys to Chang'an, but the situation in some places has been less stable in recent months.The Xueyantuo tribe is one of them. After Zhenzhu Khan was scared to death by Li Shimin's credential, his brainless son succeeded him and became Domi Khan.Domi Khan is a villain, and people in the Xueyantuo tribe don't like him very much.Xue Yantuo produced such a mindless khan, and the Huihe chief said that he needs to be eliminated.He united Tumidu, Pugu, Tongluo and other tribes and took the opportunity to provoke a war. After several large-scale melees, Duomi was defeated. When the incident spread to Chang'an, Li Shimin responded: Take Jiangxia King Li Daozong and Zuowei General Ashinasheer as the ambassadors to appease Hanhai; send the right leader Wei Zhishusili to lead the Turkic soldiers, and the right Xiaowei general Qibi Heli to lead the Liangzhou soldiers and Hu soldiers, Daizhou The governor Xue Wanche and the governor of Yingzhou Zhang Jian each led their own troops and marched side by side to conquer Xue Yantuo. Look at the current status of the Xue Yantuo tribe: Li Shimin earlier sent Xiaowei Yuwenfa to several tribes in Wuluohu and Mohe, and happened to meet a group of troops sent to the east by Xueyantuo tribe.When Yu Wenfa heard the news, he led Mohe soldiers to destroy it.Xue Yantuo was disturbed in the country, especially the loud man, who was near the tooth tent, and whenever he saw smoke, he would shout: "Tang soldiers are coming!" The tribes suddenly became chaotic. Reactions from other tribes: In order to encircle Wei and save Zhao, the high-spirited Domi Khan mounted his horse in person and led thousands of cavalry straight to the Shijian tribe of Ashide.Unexpectedly, they encountered a large group of Uighur soldiers on the way. When the enemies met, they were extremely jealous. Duomi asked the troops to fight to the end. Later, he caused Huihe to be defeated miserably.Domi's fate was a bit tragic. His whole family, including his clan and subordinates, were almost killed off.Huihe won. After they occupied Xue Yantuo's tribe, the leaders of the various tribes in the interior began to attack each other again, making a lot of noise, which made the whole Western Region restless. In such a short period of time, countless tribes rushed to send envoys to Chang'an, asking Li Shimin to recognize their existence. Chang'an's response: Although Xue Yantuo was punished badly by Huihe, there were still 70,000 people left.After Domi's death, they fled to the west and elected Damozhi, the nephew of Zhenzhu Khan's elder brother, as Yitbusha Khan, and everyone pretended to listen to him.A few days later, Yitebushi Khan took the title of Khan and sent an envoy to present him. Li Shimin sent Cui Dunli, Minister of the Ministry of War, to comfort and express his approval. A few days later, the chiefs of Huihe, Pugu, Duolan, Bayegu, Tongluo, Sijie, Huxue, Xijie, Adiao, Qibi, Baibu and other tribes came to Chang'an one after another.Li Shimin met them in Fanglan Hall, and ordered Si Shan to entertain them, and to hold a meeting for them every five days. In the spring of the twenty-first year of Zhenguan (647), Li Shimin issued an edict to open the state capital: The Huihe part is Hanhai Prefecture; The servant bone is Jinweifu; Many geese are Yanran's mansion; Ba Ye was the Youling Mansion in ancient times; Tongluo is Guilin Mansion; Sijie became Lushan Mansion; Hun is Gaolan Prefecture; Huxue is Gaoque Prefecture; Xi Jie became Jiluzhou; Ah fell to Jitian state; Qibi is Yuxi Prefecture; The white part is Yanzhou; Each took its chief as the governor and governor, and each gave gold, silver, silk and brocade robes. Statements from the chiefs: "Since the ministers are from the Tang Dynasty, coming to the emperor's place is like visiting parents." "After everyone's discussion, we agreed that a road should be opened in the south of Huihe and north of Turks. The name of this road should be 'Santian Khan Road'!" "On this road, please open sixty-eight posthouses, each with horses for the Tang Dynasty and the envoys of other countries. As Tang people, we also have to pay taxes, so we use year-old tribute and mink as rent. In the future, there will be more For any housework, please ask a literati who can write Chinese characters to help write the table book." Li Shimin's reply: "allow." All countries and tribes sent envoys to Chang'an, and Goryeo was no exception.But there is one thing that is different, the letter from Goryeo seems to be more exciting than before. According to Li Shimin, the memorials sent by the envoys from Korea cannot be called memorials at all, they are simply Smecta!No need to guess, everyone knows that Gai Suwen deserves a beating again. Gai Suwen's first letter: "I am from Tang Dynasty, and I am loyal to His Majesty. I know that I have made a mistake. Give me a chance to reform myself!" Gai Suwen's second letter: "I have thought about it. The people of Goryeo are not as easy to manage as the people of the Central Plains. It is not easy for me to manage them in the so-called troubled times. Therefore, their pain is not worth mentioning." Gai Suwen's third letter: "In today's world, Goryeo and Datang are the two greatest countries. I am writing to you, it should be regarded as a good talk." Gai Suwen's fourth letter: "I don't like Shilla, but for your sake, I won't flatter him." Li Shimin was angry. Gai Suwen: Excuse me, what is the difference between humans and pigs? Li Shimin: A pig has always been a pig, but a human may not be human.