Chapter 39 Chapter Thirty-Nine

The full text of "Three Benefits of Respect for Virtue" is as follows: There are three benefits for respecting morality, and Tang Jian will not die in vain; I have the beauty of anger, and thrift has the luck of rebirth; As the saying goes, a general can run a horse on his forehead, and a prime minister can punt a boat on his stomach.Li Shimin felt that it was all about talking but not practicing fake tricks.So he rewarded Yuchi Jingde with a thousand pieces of silk and satin who dared to fight against him. With this order, all the officials shouted long live.Master Ming ministers upright, clear appreciation of rewards and punishments, magnanimity, this is the driving force for the struggle of all officials, and it is the root of the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.In the future, if you have anything to say directly, insist on yourself, the emperor will definitely not blame you.

Twenty-three-year-old Li Shimin was very happy to get thirty-seven-year-old Yuchi Jingde.However, fortune and misfortune depend on each other, and there are good things and bad things, and more troubles will swarm after he returns to court.At the end of May, the army returned to Chang'an.The first news Li Shimin heard was about Turks, and the first thing that fell into his ears was the rumor of the marriage between Turks and Wang Shichong.Wang Shichong joined forces with the Turks, making it clear that he wanted to fight Li Yuan. Turks are very greedy. They not only like to invest, but also like to take a stick in every possible melon.When Li Yuan sent troops to attack Liu Wuzhou, the Turks sent two thousand soldiers to help the Tang army, and secretly had an ambiguous affair with Liu Wuzhou.Unwilling to be lonely, Turkic sent Ashina Jieduo to bring a thousand horses to propose marriage to Wang Shichong.Chu Luo Khan seems to have already figured out what exactly he wants to do, and if he keeps fooling around, he will never be the one who gets hurt.

However, things are far from that simple. Let Chuluo Khan willingly wait for the unification of the Central Plains, and then get along with that unified dynasty and submit to it, do you think it is possible? Obviously impossible. In the summer on the grassland, mosquitoes are as big as grasshoppers, flying and rampaging, and the weather is as hot as car exhaust.In winter on the prairie, there is knife snow and icy wind blowing.In Turkic territory, there are 365 days in a year when the city cannot be seen, and wolves and dust are encountered twice in three days.Therefore, the Central Plains is their dream place, even though they will tear down their houses and replace them with tents when they come to the Central Plains.But this is not important, what is important is that there are treasures and beauties in the Central Plains!

Chuluo Khan took over Shibi Khan's gun and began to curry favor with Liu Wuzhou. Later, when Liu Wuzhou was defeated, he killed him directly; now, his task is to make Dongdu and Xijing fight more and more. The more powerful the better, in the words of the Central Plains people: Dogs bite dogs, idlers pick bones.Chuluo Khan's plan is that after Li Yuan and Wang Shichong go to war, they must not be able to take care of both sides.At that time, Chang'an's defenses were lax, and the Turks went south in one fell swoop and annexed the Central Plains, just around the corner!But when they came back to their senses, everyone found that the plan was very good, but he stayed in the grassland camp all the time without moving.

Chu Luo Khan waved his hand and said: "We are all brothers. I will help Li Yuan send troops, and Li Yuan will give me face." So Chu Luo Khan ran to Taiyuan to sit in town in order to stimulate Li Yuan. .Li Zhongwen, the general manager of Taiyuan, was very angry, but he didn't dare to provoke him.For the sake of international friendship, Chuluo Khan made a special statement that he came here this time to help Li Zhongwen do a good job in defense, and sent his subordinate Rentler to station in the north of Shiling. shameless. However, it doesn't matter whether you want to face or not. Anyway, Taiyuan has already garrisoned troops, and it will be good to have a big rear when attacking Chang'an.Chu Luo's face was filled with a happy smile, looking up at 135°, Changshengtian.

Now Luo is relatively happy. Princess Yicheng of the Sui Dynasty was Chuluo Khan's grandmother, his stepmother, and his wife.According to the Turkic custom, for wives, the father dies and the son succeeds (except the biological mother).Chuluo Khan's mind was not on Princess Yicheng at all, he fell in love with Queen Xiao.At the beginning, Princess Yicheng always begged Chu Luo to take her sister-in-law to live with her. Chu Luo was very impatient, but as his wife's son and grandson, he was too embarrassed to refuse, so he agreed.At that time Empress Xiao was still in Dou Jiande's hands, Chu Luo said: "It's easy to handle, if you don't give it to him, beat him."

Dou Jiande is to Turks, just like flies and sparrows, the gap in strength is too great.The Turks want someone, should they give it or not?If you don't give it, you will definitely suffer. As a last resort, Dou Jiande sent Empress Xiao to Chu Luo.Dou Jiande respected Empress Xiao very much, and when Chuluo Khan sent someone to pick her up, Dou Jiande was very reluctant.Dou Jiande respected Empress Xiao, but he didn't care about her.Originally, Chu Luo sent someone to pick him up just to fulfill his wife's wish.Unexpectedly, when he saw Empress Xiao for the first time, his soul was about to fly into the sky.

Empress Xiao is glamorous and charming, and seems to have an enchanting temperament.Empress Xiao is not a serious person. In front of Yang Guang, she is his girlfriend who is holding Nongyu.Now, she has become a cold beauty.Chuluo Khan was almost suffocated. Everyone said that the sheep are beautiful, and what they want is a smell of mutton and pungentness.It was the first time he saw such a quiet and glamorous woman, he couldn't stand it. Thus, Empress Xiao became Chuluo Khan's daughter-in-law. The happy Chu Luo saw what he wanted to see, and Li Yuan and Wang Shichong were getting ready to fight as they expected.

It was Li Yuan who acted first, because from the actual situation, those guys who followed suit were all helping Wang Shichong.It is true that there are not a few people who follow the wind and steer the rudder. There is one person who stands out from the crowd, and his name is Yang Shilin.Yang Shilin is a capable man. He was an official of the Tang Dynasty, but he colluded with Xiao Mian and secretly connected with Wang Shichong. Every base has his eyeliner. He is a real family slave of the three surnames.Yang Shilin is not sincere to anyone, others are sincere heroes, and he is a sincere bear.After Yang Shilin's behavior was exposed, Li Yuan sent people to punish him.

Yang Shilin has no other skills other than two-faced and three-handed.He never doubted his intelligence, but he was very dissatisfied with his subordinate Tian Zan.Yang Shilin believes that only by killing Tian Zan can he be safe.In this way, Tian Zan's life was seriously threatened. In order to survive, he first killed Yang Shilin and led his troops to Wang Shichong.Before Li Yuan's troops arrived, the matter was over.Tian Zan and Li Yuan had a misunderstanding. Everyone wanted to kill Yang Shilin, but now they became enemies.Tian Zan was afraid that Li Yuan would accuse him of killing state officials. Li Yuan thought that Tian Zan's defection to Wang Shichong was against him.Since it's a misunderstanding, everyone can send a text message, post the status of the school, etc. It can be resolved.However, in the wicked old society, there were no mobile phones, let alone campuses.

Therefore, Tian Zan and Li Yuan could only move forward tragically. In mid-June, Li Yuan summoned a group of ministers.What Li Yuan meant was that all other things should be put aside first, and a general attack on Wang Shichong should be launched first, with the goal directed at Luoyang. When Wang Shichong learned that Li Yuan was going to fight him, he didn't show any panic.Years of war experience told him that when the general panicked, the whole army would panic, and he buried all the panic in his heart.Wang Shichong was not confident in his own strength, so he ordered all the brave generals in his jurisdiction to gather in Tokyo to prepare for Li Yuan.Wang Shichong was still worried, and he stationed a large number of soldiers and horses in all the four cities before Luoyang City, blocking them at different levels. It seems that both Turkic and Wang Shichong are smart enough. But Li Yuan is not stupid, he is now fifty-four years old, and he will not be too hotheaded to put all his eggs in one basket.He now has enough time and energy to continue playing the game, because everyone knows that if he works alone with Wang Shichong, he is sure to win, and for the rest, Li Yuan has long been prepared.In order to prevent the Turks from taking advantage of the fire, Li Yuan sent Prince Li Jiancheng to guard Puban, and sent Tang Jian to Taiyuan to appease the masses. This approach is really clever. The general who is familiar with the Turks in the court is Li Jiancheng, the eldest son of Li Yuan, who is the nemesis of the Turks.There is also Tang Jian. After he went to Bingzhou, he removed Li Zhongwen from his position as the general manager and asked him to return to Beijing to temporarily manage the mess in Taiyuan.This approach has changed so much that the Turkic people are dumbfounded.It seems that Li Yuan wants to play big.For this war, Li Yuan has a well-thought-out plan, and the only person who makes people worry about it is Qu Tutong. Li Yuan was very upset when he thought of Qu Tutong's two sons. They were both in Luoyang. If the army really attacked, no one could say whether they would be killed by mistake.And Qu Tutong is the vanguard of this war.Li Yuan asked Qu Tutong: "The Great Tang expedition to Luoyang can't be done without you, but what should your two sons do?" Qu Tutong said, "I was originally a prisoner. The Holy Majesty personally untied me and gave me a heavy responsibility. I am very grateful." Do. This minister is a person who died once, this life is actually not important to the old minister. It is best to let the minister be the vanguard, and what happens to the two sons is really nothing to worry about!" Qu Tutong asked Li Yuan was very moved.He said that Qu Tutong was a righteous man, and he could go so far! But in fact, Li Yuan knew in his heart that Qu Tutong's two sons were more or less fortunate in the fight against Luoyang this time. It would be too cruel for Qu Tutong to watch his son die.There was no time to think about these details. When Qin Wang Li Shimin led the army to Xin'an, the Turks sent people to help the weaker Wang Shichong so that both sides could die cleanly. When the Turks moved secretly, Li Xiyu, the general manager of Tang Luzhou, discovered their tracks.Li Xiyu and Li Xizhi are both descendants of Xizi. He is Li Xizhi's younger brother, who has read thousands of volumes and has made outstanding military exploits.When Li Xiyu saw the Turkic people coming, he took the army and strangled the Turkic support troops. The Turkic people were defeated and lost tens of thousands of cattle and sheep. During this time, Li Shimin's army just arrived in Xin'an. The Turks suffered a great loss and refused to help Wang Shichong. They were very sad for the tens of thousands of cattle and sheep they had lost.Turk was injured, and he always wanted to get his book back when he was injured.Simply, don't support Wang Shichong, just mop up Li Yuan.Therefore, taking advantage of the golden moment when Li Yuan's troops were concentrated elsewhere, the Turks went to the Tang Dynasty to rob.Robbery, which looks simple, is actually a technical job.Robbery requires manpower, and more importantly, guides.Turks are very happy that they have found such a person, this person is Liang Shidu. Liang Shidu, a native of the Central Plains, was a famous warmonger in ancient my country.Almost all the wars between the Turks, Jihu and the Tang Dynasty, and the robbery of the Turks and Jihu to the Tang Dynasty were all instigated by him.Master Liang is very familiar with the specific process of robbery. Robbery is no more than mobilizing an army. Because of the light equipment, he can basically come here once a month. The cycle is not normal, making it hard to guard against.Teacher Liang is a guide, a qualified guide. It is indeed not easy for Master Liang to be able to mix with Jihu. It requires a thick skin.After Turkic suffered a loss, he called Liang Shidu, and Liang Shidu cried out his distress when he heard that Turkic was injured.So, the Turks and Jihu went south.According to historical records, the folk customs of Jihu are obscene and violent, especially women. They are cruel and innocent, and their minds are extremely small and uneducated.Liang Shidu came out as a guide at this time, which was beyond Li Yuan's expectation.So Duan Decao, the chief of the army, was ordered to block. This block fully demonstrated a truth. Make a bet, lose money and lose money, and never try to get it back. Facing a group of chaotic troops trying to grab things, Duan Decao won a big victory and beheaded more than a thousand ranks. Li Yuan was very satisfied, but Wang Shichong was very depressed. Tian Zan: I had a drink with King Zheng yesterday, raised my glass and said, "Let's all die together!" I really drank too much at that time. Li Yuan: Did Wang Shichong drink alcohol yesterday?