Great Tang Southern Emperor

Chapter 606

Chapter 71 Li Shimin Prepares to Conquer

"But others don't know, and maybe what they want is the heavenly book?" Sun Simiao said, "Your Highness, you don't know how powerful your appearance is to those who have fallen into despair. Tonic, it’s just that you were either by the emperor’s side or among the ten thousand armies before, and they couldn’t attack you, now that they finally saw the emptiness of Lingnan’s defense, they couldn’t let go of such a good opportunity.”

"Then let them come, just come, let me see, what kind of abilities do they have, dare to plan on my head." Li Zhen sneered, the purpose of this group of people has been clearly revealed: "I didn't expect that there are so many brave people these days. They even plotted against me for the so-called opportunity of becoming a fairy. Don't say I don't have this thing, even if I have it, it's not something they can get their hands on s things."

Li Zhen also figured it out, things have already happened, the ceremony of welcoming guests from the Nine Corpses has already begun, and the first smiling corpse has appeared, then there is no possibility of interruption of this etiquette. , When all the nine corpses appear, it is time for the Lord to appear, and then I will settle accounts with them.

However, Li Zhen wasn't afraid of them either. If this group of people were really so powerful, they wouldn't be hiding in the dark, pretending to be ghosts.

"Let me take a good look, what qualifications do they have to dare to challenge this king?" The sneer at the corner of Li Zhen's mouth became more ferocious: "The nine surnames of Zhaowu, my king hasn't troubled them yet, yet they dare to find me Wang's bad luck, well, it's really good, when this matter is over, then Zhaowu's nine surnames will be buried with them for their stupidity."

The Nine Surnames of Zhaowu is a power located in Central Asia, with a total of nine countries. This power does not seem to be a powerful force, but in fact this power is indeed not very strong.Among the countries in the Western Regions where there are many vassals, the combined strength of Zhaowu's nine surnames can only be regarded as first-class. Compared with Gaochang Tuyuhun, which was not wiped out before, it is even worse.

However, such a small faction group has been doing one thing that is not greedy - they are actually plotting against the Great Tang.

Even worse, they almost succeeded. The two leaders of the Anshi Rebellion 100 years later, An Lushan and Shi Siming, were people from Zhaowu's nine surnames Zhong'an Guo and Shi Guo.Although the Anshi Rebellion failed in the end, it was poisonous endlessly. The prosperity of the Tang Dynasty has turned from prosperity to decline. Foreshadowing.

Although he has come to this era and led Datang on a different path, the future has been completely rewritten.However, what I changed was only the fate of Datang, but did not change the calculation of Zhaowu's nine surnames planning Datang. If they were allowed to live, even if there was no Anlushan Shi Siming, there would be Kanglu Shangmi Siming or Cao Lushan He Siming. Continue to Cholera Datang.

Therefore, no matter whether it is for the revenge of the Tang Dynasty in the previous life, or for the future of the current Tang Dynasty, Li Zhen will not let go of the nine surnames of Zhaowu.

Not only the nine surnames of Zhaowu, but also all the forces that threatened or attacked Datang, Li Zhen will not let them go, and they have already done so.

The first one is Tubo. Now that Tibet has been captured by the Tang Dynasty, there will never be a Tubo army attacking Chang'an and looting Chang'an in the future.

Tubo was just the first one, followed by Linyi. This small country has also suffered a lot from Tang Dynasty in history, and even lost the land of Huanzhou.

These two have been resolved, but among the unresolved opponents, there are Zhaowu Nine Surnames, Heiyi Dashi, Goguryeo, Wa Kingdom, Western Turks, Khitan, Silla, Baekje... none of them can escape.

But now Li Zhen is going to attack Tianzhu and dominate Nanyang, so the war in the north is temporarily ignored.

But according to the news Li Zhen got, those alien races in the north may not need to do it themselves—perhaps after so many years of recuperation, they have accumulated enough war resources;

It may also be that Goguryeo mobilized military horses at the border some time ago, which brought a lot of trouble to the already chaotic Datang;

Or it was stimulated by Li Zhen's conquest of Nanyang, opening up thousands of miles for the Tang Dynasty, and making great contributions to the world;

Or for other reasons.

In short, Li Shimin has already begun to prepare for the beginning of spring in the coming year, that is, the 17th year of Zhenguan. Not long after his birthday, he sent an army northward to conquer Goguryeo by himself, to shame the failure of the Sui Dynasty in Goguryeo.

This matter is regarded as very important. It is said that the preparatory work has been completed, a large amount of supplies have been transported to Yingzhou, and some elites have secretly set out to move towards Yingzhou.

To be on the safe side, Li Jing also left Chang'an, went to the Turkic Protectorate, and led the Turkic garrison to respond to Li Shimin.Once the battle was unfavorable, or the battle between Tang Dynasty and Goguryeo fell into a state of anxiety, he would immediately march eastward and give Goguryeo a ruthless side.

There is also the Dengzhou Fleet. With the development of shipping, Li Shimin has realized the importance of the navy, so the Dengzhou Fleet will also participate in this war, escorting the Henan Province and a part of the Hebei Province Army from the sea, directly from the back of Goguryeo. Knife, it is best to conquer Pingrang City in one battle.

Then the army immediately returned to the east and killed Silla (it is also a very disgusting country, fought several battles with Datang, and embezzled the south of the Datong River, which originally belonged to the hometown of Khan Lelang and Daifang in the Tang Dynasty) , Forced to surrender Baekje and unify the Koryo Peninsula.

This battle was two years earlier than in history, but although it was two years earlier in time, the Tang Dynasty today is completely different from the Tang Dynasty in history. It is a pity, not a failure, it can only be said that the strategic goal has not been achieved.In history, the Great Tang lost only 2000 people in that battle, but the heads of Goguryeo harvested exceeded 7 (usually, the number of enemies killed must exceed the number of beheadings), and more than a dozen cities were also captured. In the end, they were all destroyed and abandoned, but none of the population inside Datang was let go, and more than [-] Goguryeo population was robbed and returned to Datang.

So no matter how you say it, Datang has made a lot of money, and it is still a lot of money. If there are more wars like this, Goguryeo will collapse sooner or later.

But the fact is that Taizong did the same. After returning to Chang'an, the ministers suggested attacking and harassing the Goguryeo faction, which made the people of the country exhausted and delayed the farming season. After a few years, Goguryeo would collapse due to food shortage. Following this suggestion, he sent generals to harass Goguryeo many times, and fought more than 100 small battles, forcing the king of Goguryeo to send his son to Chang Ah to apologize, and then he gave up.

Chapter 607

Chapter 72 The Confucian Pot

If the failure of the Goguryeo battle in history can be attributed to the willingness of the weather (it was late autumn and it was snowing in the north, and the soldiers and horses were unbearable, so Taizong had to return to the dynasty), then this time it is impossible Failed.

Not to mention that Datang has prepared all kinds of rich materials, let’s just talk about the current equipment of Datang. With blast furnace steelmaking technology, Datang’s equipment has been upgraded for several generations, and it is now even the most common weapon used by soldiers. , put it in other countries, it can be used as a general-level general's personal weapon, it is too sophisticated.

Moreover, there are all kinds of firearms in the Tang Dynasty today, not to mention cannons, even the simplest gunpowder packs-how many times can the walls of Goguryeo, which are built of mud and gravel, survive the blasting?If it can withstand three explosions of ten-kilogram explosives, isn't it already invincible?

What's more, a few days ago, Li Zhen wrote a letter to Li Shimin to make some suggestions, so that he should not be soft-hearted when fighting Goguryeo, and don't worry about the so-called reputation. He should be killed and arrested. The foreign barbarians, even if they imitated the culture of the Tang Dynasty, they only learned a little bit of superficiality. They still have barbaric genes in their bones, and it is their nature to bully the weak and fear the strong.

In fact, there is no need for Li Zhen to remind, Li Shimin already understood the gap between himself and Li Zhen after reading the battle report from Nanyang - of course, it is not that he is worse than Li Zhen, but that the two have different perspectives on issues, As a time traveler, Li Zhen's vision is naturally much better than Li Shimin's.

Why did those emperors in ancient times know that the foreign race would surrender and rebel, but they still took pleasure in sparing the lives of those who surrendered?Knowing that they will rebel again in the future and bring even greater disasters to themselves?But still unwilling to add insult to injury and drive the enemy to extinction.

To put it bluntly, it is actually the responsibility of Confucianism.

The reason why Confucianism’s responsibility is mentioned here is not that there is a problem with Confucius’ thinking. In fact, Confucianism’s starting point is good, but the problem is that later Confucian disciples, in order to cater to the interests of the ruling class, wantonly tampered with Confucius’ thought, took it out of context, and then The whole Confucianism has changed.

Then, with the support of the emperor, Confucianism, originally intended to cater to the interests of the emperor, slowly turned around and began to influence the thoughts of the emperor. In order to maintain their own interests, the affected emperors supported Confucianism more strongly, and Confucianism grew stronger again. Then influence the emperor again...

Falling into a vicious circle like this, it is also the Confucian thought that originally paid attention to repaying grievances with straightness has become repaying grievances with virtue;

The idea of ​​enlightening people's wisdom that "the people can make it, follow it, not make it, and know it" has become a policy of fooling the people of "the people can make it, but not make it known";

The exhortation to the king that "only women, sons and villains are difficult to raise" has become a famous aphorism that discriminates against women "only women and villains are difficult to raise"...

Then the king became more and more concerned about his own conduct, emphasizing benevolence, emphasizing filial piety, avoiding killing, and putting an end to bloodshed.

For the sake of his own reputation, in order to show his magnanimity, he knew that the foreign race was a white-eyed wolf who was not familiar with it, and he knew that his actions were a legacy of raising a tiger, but for the sake of the so-called reputation, for the praise of the officials and The two kind words of the foreign race are letting off the life of the offender.

The most typical example is Li Shimin. In history, Tubo invaded Songzhou and was defeated by the Tang Dynasty. Originally, the Tang Dynasty should have taken advantage of the victory to pursue it. When Princess Wencheng married him, there were countless types of craftsmen and techniques in the dowry. With these craftsmen and techniques, Tubo entered an agricultural society in one fell swoop, and its productivity increased significantly.

That's right, Princess Wencheng's entry into Tibet did bring temporary peace to Tubo and the Tang Dynasty, but what about after that?Tubo absorbed the technology and craftsmen of Datang, and developed successfully. Then Qin Ling taught Datang a lesson in Dafeichuan, defeated the famous general Xue Rengui, and added a new chapter to the resume of this ever-victorious general. Thick stain.The Tang Dynasty almost lost the Four Towns of Anxi and Tuyuhun because of this battle. Fortunately, they regained them later, otherwise the Tang Dynasty would completely lose control of the Western Regions.

Then there was the Anshi Rebellion, and Tubo took advantage of the chaos to invade Chang'an and plundered the entire Chang'an, leaving only devastation, which brought endless shame to the Tang Dynasty—this was the first time since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, People broke into the capital city, even Xieli did not do this back then.

This is what Li Shimin left behind. If he hadn't spared Tubo back then, but had taken advantage of the victory to pursue him, even if he hadn't wiped out Tubo, at least he could have severely injured Tubo and kept them honest for at least 100 years.

There are also Turks, also because Li Shimin let the Turks go, and eventually the Turks surrendered and rebelled, rebelled and surrendered, surrendered and rebelled, rebelled and surrendered... When the Tang Dynasty was strong, they immediately became honest and waited. Once Datang weakened, he immediately reverted to his old ways and rebelled again, bringing endless losses to Datang.If he in history could swallow the Turks in one fell swoop like Li Zhen is today, how can there be so many shits in the future?

This is true of Li Shimin, and so is Wu Zetian. Back then when the Khitan and Datang went to war, the Great Tang beat Khitan into a grandson, and then Khitan handed over the form to proclaim his minister very knowledgeable about current affairs. Maybe it was too sincere in the surrender form, or something else The reason, Wu Zetian just let Khitan go.

Afterwards, the Khitan fought several battles with the Tang Dynasty, and they always lost more than they won. They were finally honest. Until the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Khitan took advantage of this opportunity to grow rapidly.Coincidentally, the Song Dynasty was also established at this time, and then he bumped into the Khitan head-on, broke his head and bled, and was directly beaten into a grandson.

And it was also the Song Dynasty that emphasized literature over military affairs, which led Confucianism to enter the golden period of development again. Various theories emerged in an endless stream. After nearly a thousand years, the Han Erlangs never raised their heads again.

So, this pot, Confucianism is really the culprit, and it is difficult for them to get rid of this pot.

Having said so much, I am not criticizing Confucianism. As I said before, Confucianism’s initial thinking is good. In fact, no matter which theory it is, it is good when it first takes shape. Otherwise, these theories are also good. will not be accepted by the world.

However, the theories are good, but people are different. For their own purposes, these ideas are misinterpreted by people with ulterior motives, and become one set of fallacies and heresies.

Some people say that they did this for the development of Confucianism, but they even discarded the core principles of Confucianism. Is this kind of Confucianism still Confucianism?Even if this kind of Confucianism develops, what is the use of it other than harming the country and the people?

Chapter 608 Copper Peas

Chapter 73 Copper Peas

However, what was said before is not necessarily absolute. Some talented emperors may not really want to let offenders go.