Chapter 180: Offering Prisoners (Thanks to the Leader Meng Meng She Ba Huang)
"My Lord, you know Yuan Zhi's talent very well. What's there to worry about?"
Kong Ming was not worried at all. This was his trust in his old friend.
"I just..." Liu Bei didn't know how to describe his feelings for a while.
Kong Ming waved his feather fan to show that he understood everything.
After all, if you think about it carefully, what virtue and ability did Shi Ren and Mi Fang have to guard Jiangling and Gong'an respectively?
It's nothing more than the Lord's "nostalgia" and being lenient to old ministers, which is quite like the style of Emperor Guangwu.
Kong Ming felt that this was not a problem at all. As long as the ministers checked the gaps and filled the gaps in time, wouldn't it be fine?
And...
"My Lord, now there are officials for brocade, sugar, iron, and weirs, and Chengdu is repairing and dredging. Every place is in need of people."
"Women and the elderly are busy with their own things, and young men have their own uses."
Kong Ming said that the implementation of a series of policies and the shrinking of the Chengdu treasury accumulated by Liu Yan and Liu Zhang have resulted in the fact that the people of Chengdu are now basically busy.
Planting mulberry trees, weaving brocade, cutting sugarcane, making sugar, smelting iron, repairing roads, building water power plants, cleaning and protecting Dujiangyan, etc., as long as you think about it, there are many places to use people.
"After the first month of the year, we have to plant and raise seedlings, and the people will have no time to spare."
Liu Bei kept nodding his head, he understood what Kong Ming meant:
"Set up a school to collect children and teach them."
And in an instant, Liu Bei chose the candidate in his mind:
"This matter should be handed over to Zilong. Since the school is for the benefit of Yizhou, it should be funded by the local big families to benefit the village."
Liu Bei sighed:
"I don't ask for great talents from this school, I just hope that they can be respectful and self-disciplined in the future, and don't repeat the disaster of Shi Ren and Mi Fang."
Kong Ming gave a thumbs up and laughed, feeling that the lord and himself were getting more and more tacit.
At this time, Jingzhou was drizzling. Shi Ren wiped his face and sneezed while standing on the boat.
Touching his nose, Shi Ren was a little worried. Could it be that he had caught a cold?
If he really caught a cold, his little money bag would be empty.
Tightening his armor, Shi Ren, who missed the charcoal fire in the military camp, tried to look at the sandbar on the side of the boat:
General Guan, please finish the talk quickly and let's go back, okay?
Lu Su brought four guards to the sandbar. As soon as they met, he felt that he was inferior in momentum.
For safety reasons, Lu Su selected four good players, all of whom carried a hundred-tempered steel knife.
Guan Yu sat there leisurely, with no one or a knife around him, only a pot of warm wine sitting on the charcoal stove with steam.
He waved his hand to signal the guards to stop. Some guards were worried and wanted to follow, but they got a warning look from Lu Su, so they could only stop with grievance.
"Your Excellency is in a good mood."
Lu Su did not act pretentiously and sat directly on the chair that had been wet by the rain.
"Please drink this cup to drive away the cold."
Guan Yu had no grudges and took the initiative to fill Lu Su's cup.
After taking a sip of wine, Lu Su felt that he "huffed" directly: "So spicy... good wine!"
Since he was in the wrong, Lu Su said generously:
"I can guarantee that the public security matter will never be repeated!"
Guan Yu did not speak and filled Lu Su's cup again.
Lu Su drank again and said:
"But Sun and Liu are close friends. Jiangdong has mines but no law. I heard that there is a craftsman in Jingzhou who has made a new law and wants to exchange iron mines for them. Is it okay?"
Guan Yu still did not speak and filled Lu Su's cup again.
Lu Su looked at the wine glass in his hand and could not speak. Guan Yu poured himself a glass without speaking and drank it full.
As a last resort, Lu Su also drank a full cup again, and gritted his teeth and said:
"In addition to the iron ore, the blueprints of the Mengchong warship can also be given to you, my lord."
This is also the most tempting price that Lu Su can offer after thinking about it. After all, Guan Yu is still training the navy, right?
But in fact, Lu Su also discussed with Bu Zhi and thought that this was acceptable:
How many shipbuilders and shipwrights are there in Jiangdong? How many are there in Jingzhou?
And Jiangdong is already planning a new generation of blueprints for the Mengchong warships. When the Jingzhou shipwrights have mastered the old ship drawings, Jiangdong's warships may have been innovated again.
Guan Yu paused and picked up the wine pot again. Lu Su was shocked and hurriedly blocked it:
"My lord, I really can't drink anymore!"
Guan Yu gave up with regret, turned his head and looked at Lu Su and said:
"In this case, I will exchange the iron smelting technique for Jiangdong iron ore and shipbuilding blueprints, and I will slap my hands as an oath."
Lu Su stretched out his palm and slapped Guan Yu three times in a row.
After the high-five, Guan Yu stood up and left. Lu Su said solemnly:
"Since you trust Jiangdong, Jiangdong will not break your promise."
Guan Yu had already stepped on the boat beside the sandbar. Hearing this, he turned his head and looked at Lu Su deeply and said:
"I don't trust Jiangdong, but I trust Zijing."
Then Guan Yu opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end there were only four words:
"Take care."
After that, the boat was like an arrow from a bow, rushing into the misty rain.
In the boat, Guan Yu instructed Zhao Lei:
"Tell Madam Huang that I have reached an agreement with Jiangdong according to her suggestion, and ask her to prepare a crude method of iron smelting."
Lu Su stood on the sandbar for a long time, and finally exhaled a breath of turbid air, returned to the table and chair, filled another cup by himself, and drank the warm wine in one gulp while looking at the river.
A faint sigh was left on the sandbar:
"Gongjin..."
July of the third year of Zhenguan.
Li Shimin paced back and forth in the Taiji Hall.
He still remembered that it was almost last year when he, Fang, Du and Changsun, visited the Guanting, and ordered Zhang Gongjin to closely monitor the Turks.
The subsequent Turks were also very cooperative. Beyegu, Uighur, Tongluo, and Tuli were all ready to make a move. Among them, Tuli was the most straightforward, planning to come to the Tang Dynasty and become an idle rich man.
This opportunity cannot be missed, so Li Shimin did not hesitate.
Li Jing was appointed the general manager of the march on Daizhou Road, and Li Shi was appointed the general manager of the march on Tonghan Road. Both routes attacked the Turks.
In addition, he ordered Huazhou, Lingzhou, Yanyun and other places to mobilize their troops and attack, echoing the two armies.
A hundred thousand troops were all controlled by Li Jing.
Li Jing was as reliable as ever and did not disappoint Li Shimin's expectations.
The attack started in May and the Turks were defeated. Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty, his wife Xiao, and her grandson Yang Zhengdao were captured and sent to Chang'an.
Li Shimin was not embarrassed about these two people. Yang Zhengdao was Yang Jian's posthumous son, and Yang Jian was killed by Yu Wenhuaji.
Yang Zhengdao and the Xiao family passed through the hands of Dou Jiande and the Turks. Now they have returned to Chang'an. When talking to Li Shimin, they shed tears several times.
Li Shimin gave the grandfather and grandson a house in Xingdaoli to live in, and granted them the idle post of minister of civil service.
However, when issuing the edict, Li Shimin suddenly remembered that Queen Xiao of later generations lived in the Liao Kingdom and was able to raise a large army. She must have been a talented woman among women.
Just thinking about Song Dynasty... that Song Dynasty was forced into such a situation by a woman, Li Shimin wanted to laugh from the bottom of his heart.
In June, Li Jing led the army to move slowly. After cooperating with Datong Dao, on the 27th, he defeated the Turks in Yinshan Mountain and captured Jieli Khan.
This military letter was received by Li Shimin almost the day after seeing the light curtain.
Now Li Shimin is pacing back and forth in Liangyi Hall, looking at the map of the Tang Dynasty territory on the desk from time to time.
This territory map has been modified according to the map provided by the light screen, so now the territory of Tang Dynasty can only be said to be visible on the map, but it is far from being eye-catching.
But now, now that Jieli has been captured, the territory should be expanded, right?
Li Shimin did it as soon as he thought of it. Li Shimin picked up the ink pen and lightly painted the blank space in the north of the map with vermilion.
After looking at it with satisfaction, the chamberlain happened to come and said that Li Jing, Li Shiji and Jieli Khan had entered Chang'an.
"Open the Shuntian Gate!"
Li Shimin couldn't wait to drive to Shuntian Gate. Standing on the gate tower of the palace, Li Shimin looked up.
At this time, the entire city of Chang'an had fallen into a sea of joy. In front of him, he could see the people of Chang'an crowding the straight road.
The one at the front was undoubtedly Li Jing, with Li Shi 𪟝 half a horse behind. The two generals looked very calm. They only looked at each other and smiled when they were occasionally hit by flowers from the common people, looking beaming with joy.
Immediately behind him was the dejected and tightly bound Jie Li, curled up on the horse and trying to make himself look smaller, but the shame and anger in his heart and the various Chinese idioms of the people of the Tang Dynasty still made him almost crazy.
He couldn't quite understand the words of the people of Tang Dynasty, but he could understand the joy and ridicule in them. This was already considered torture to him.
The Tang cavalry were accompanying them. Their armors were broken and dusty, but the eyes of these Tang Dynasty athletes seemed to have divine light. In their words, the fleeing Yinshan barbarian cavalry demonstrated their glorious achievements in defeating the enemy. The descendants of Jieli Khan were all outlined, which gave them the confidence to talk and laugh loudly now.
The people shouted celebration words to each other that they could not hear clearly, and finally threw the copper coins in their pockets, the bouquets of flowers picked by the roadside, the handkerchief sachets, etc. towards Tang Qi to vent their excitement.
Is this the Tang Dynasty created by him?
No, this is just the beginning! Li Shimin once again saw the map slowly unfolding in front of him, but this time the map was completely red in the east.
"Your Majesty?" Li Shimin felt someone tugging on his sleeve.
When I came back to my senses, I discovered that the prisoner-offering team had finished walking down the straight road and was waiting below.
Li Jing and Li Shi 𪟝 all dismounted, and Jieli Khan knelt behind and huddled in a ball, waiting for his decision.
Li Shimin has thought about the current scene many times. He wanted to ridicule loudly, and wanted to turn around and boast loudly to the palace where his father was, but in the end he laughed at himself and said loudly:
"Dedicate the Ancestral Temple!"
Soon, the words of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty were passed on by the chamberlains, and finally fell into the sea of people below.
He saw Jieli Khan paralyzed on the ground like a puddle of smelly mud, he saw Li Jing and Li Shi 𪟝 cupping his hands in front of him, he saw the Tang cavalry roaring loudly and boasting to vent their excitement,
The people of Li Shimin were roaring in the mountains, and finally they converged into two clear shouts and reached his ears:
"Long live!"
"The Tang Dynasty is victorious!"
The ministers and officials on the tower congratulated each other one after another, and Li Shimin was surrounded and laughed.
The process of dedicating the Ancestral Temple was not simple, so Jieli Khan was escorted away by the chamberlains. They had to make this Turkic man clean and fragrant before tomorrow morning, and turn it into a gift that would please His Majesty's ancestors.
That night, Li Shimin took Li Jing and Li Shi, who were still in disbelief, to Li Yuan's Da'an Palace.
The servants didn't know what was going on inside. They only knew that kings and princesses were summoned again at night, and the sound of pipa music could be heard in the palace even late at night.
But what does this mean? The chamberlains are also happy today, and when they see each other they will say congratulations:
"Long live the Tang Dynasty!"
Thanks to the boss [Meng Meng She Ba Huang] for the reward of 100,000 gold and five baht!
The first alliance leader in my life, I didn’t expect it, I only saw it after a friend reminded me.
The leader will definitely add more updates, but he can only keep accounts first.