Great Tang Southern Emperor

"Open the box."

"Click."

"Bang."

"Boom."

"Whoa."

"..."

Accompanied by the sound of various boxes being opened, box after box of treasures appeared in front of the world.

"Hiss! So many babies."

"Oh my god, everything in here is priceless."

"A rare treasure, just one is enough for the whole family to eat and drink for a lifetime."

"It would be great if it was mine, even if there is only one."

"You guys make way, let me see."

"What are you squeezing in the back? The eggs are all crushed."

"..."

As boxes of treasures were displayed, the onlookers expressed their shock one after another. If it weren't for the soldiers who pulled up a separation line, they might have rushed in.

The common people were astonished, but the powerful class of the Tang Dynasty headed by Li Shimin was also shocked inexplicably.

"This is a fine agarwood Buddha statue. Such a large agarwood is too rare."

"And this, do you think this is red sandalwood? Nanyang people really don't know how to make red sandalwood into this kind of thing."

"It's such a big imperial green jade Buddha statue, even His Royal Highness doesn't have such a big imperial green jade?"

"..."

"Zhen'er, where did you get all these things?" Li Shimin saw that [-]% of these boxes were Buddhist supplies, and he immediately became curious: "With so many Buddhist supplies, you don't mean you robbed Nanyang. temple?"

"Father is wrong." Li Zhen denied with a smile: "This is Fang Yiai's doing, and my son didn't intervene."

"That is to say, it was really taken out of the temple?" Li Shimin naturally heard the meaning of Li Zhen's words, and couldn't help giving him a blank look.

"It's not his fault." Li Zhen couldn't help explaining Fang Yiai: "Father, don't you know how rich Buddhism is there? Some temples have gilded roofs, and the Buddha statues enshrined are even purer. Made by gold, the monks there were not involved in production but one was richer than the other. In addition, at that time, the Buddhist sect attacked his ministers. Fang Yiai couldn't see it, so he asked Xue Rengui for an order to rob Nanyang temples... It is said that he Even the water tanks in those temples were not spared, and they were all taken away. When I found out, I was really happy to die. However, the temples in Nanyang are indeed very rich. The largest pure gold Buddha statue that I have ever seen is enough It is more than one foot high, and the whole body of the Buddha statue is made of pure gold. According to our estimation, it weighs at least a thousand catties, but it's a pity that the Buddha statue is too big, so we can't bring it back, otherwise it can open the eyes of the emperor."

"I don't mean to blame you, this Buddhist sect is indeed arrogant enough, it seems that it can't be done without suppression." Li Shimin said softly: "What I mean is that it's better not to do such things blatantly in the future. Although the Buddhist sect has suffered heavy losses, it is still very influential in the court and among the people, please ask him to pay more attention in the future."

"Yes, Erchen understands."

The two talked in a cloud of fog, and others could not understand, but they knew each other's meaning - Li Zhen was advising Li Shimin to do something about Buddhism in China. The temples in Nanyang can be so rich, and the temples in China are compared with it. Probably not much more.

But Li Shimin was worried that the current stall of the imperial court was a bit too big, and it would not be able to hold it any longer. What he meant was to put aside the Buddhist affairs first, and solve other things first, and wait until everything was settled. There is still time to concoct Buddhism slowly.

Chapter 719 The Great Military Parade of the Prisoner Presentation Ceremony (3)

Chapter 82 Prisoner Presentation Ceremony (3) The Grand Parade

An hour later, the treasure presenting ceremony was finally over with the cheers of all the people. Except for those treasures that were placed in their original positions, the rest of the people returned to their positions. Li Shimin led his concubine The concubines and ministers returned to the city gate, and the Thousand Young Army, led by Li Zhen, returned to the outside of the city by another way, rejoined the large army, and prepared for the second project.

After presenting the treasure, the next step is the military parade. This time, not only the young army, but [-] elites were selected from all the troops that participated in the war last year, and they jointly promoted the Great Tang Dynasty to the people of the Great Tang Dynasty and foreign envoys. strong.

Speaking of which, the project of the military parade was proposed by Li Zhen.

In ancient China, there was no such thing as a military parade. The earliest recorded military parade was the Zhangde Autumn Exercise in the 32nd year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty. Before that, there was no way to promote force through a military parade in ancient times.

How did ancient times publicize the country's prosperity to foreign countries?It is mainly divided into two methods: civil and military.

Wen naturally used economic means to show the prosperity of the country.

For example, during the period of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, in order to show off his wealth, Emperor Yang of Sui invited the leaders of various ethnic groups in the Western Regions to come to Luoyang to watch a hundred opera performances.The leaders of various ethnic groups asked to allow merchants from the Western Regions to enter Luoyang to do business. Emperor Sui Yang agreed and ordered people to decorate the city of Luoyang.The trees inside and outside the city are wrapped with silk, merchants must wear gorgeous clothes, and even vegetable sellers have to use exquisite straw mats to pave the floor.Merchants from the Western Regions passed by hotels and restaurants, and the owner warmly invited them to sit down, and they were not allowed to charge a penny when they went out drunk.

You must know that the country's conditions at that time were not good. The Sui Dynasty had just ended the 300-year melee between the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the national strength barely recovered a little, but the people often felt cold and hungry.Under such circumstances, Emperor Sui Yang's behavior is undoubtedly a typical slap in the face to make a fat man, which not only wastes national power, but also arouses dissatisfaction among the people.

But this fat man is a little too much, even the foreign envoys can see the falsehood.At that time, someone raised a question: "There are also poor people in your country who don't have enough clothes to cover their bodies. Why don't you use silk to make clothes for them instead of wrapping them around trees?"

No one knows how Emperor Yangdi of Sui Dynasty answered at that time, but he was speechless for sure.

This is Wen's method, and Li Zhen doesn't like it.

The so-called martial method is naturally to declare one's majesty through force. For example, in the pre-Qin period, there was a method of declaring force called Zhujingguan.

What is Jingguan?

It is a high mound formed in ancient times to show off martial arts, gather enemy corpses, and seal the soil.

That is to say, after winning a battle, the corpses of the enemy will be piled up high to look like a tomb, and the swimsuit will show off their military exploits.

"Old Tang Book" Volume [-], Biography [-], "Dongyi Biography" has a record: "In the second year of Zhenguan, Turkic Jieli Khan was defeated, Jianwu sent envoys to congratulate him, and sealed the domain Picture. In five years, the Emperor ordered the Grand Master Sun of Guangzhou Sima to arrest the Sui warriors and destroy the capital of Korea."

It's a pity that the Jingguan here was not built by the Tang Dynasty itself, but by Goguryeo using the bones of the soldiers who died in the three conquests of Goguryeo by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. It was only destroyed by Li Shimin's order in the period of Li Shimin.

In fact, after the pre-Qin period, Huaxia rarely built Beijing temples, because in the Confucian concept, building Beijing temples was a cruel act, which was inconsistent with the benevolence they pursued.No matter who built the Beijing Temple, they will face the furious criticism of historians, who will write you as a national sinner every minute. Believe it or not?

Li Zhen didn't mind using military methods to promote the majesty of the Tang Dynasty. He never cared about the slander of Confucianism and historians. If he cared about such a little reputation, why would he demote millions of people in Nanyang into slaves?

But how can there be any corpses for him to watch now?What's more, Li Zhen is shameless, Li Shimin values ​​his reputation very much, so he may not agree.

So in the end, the only way to promote national power was economic means. Even this time when various countries came to envoy, Li Shimin used gentle means to show the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

It's just that Li Zhen couldn't understand this kind of behavior of slapping a swollen face to pretend to be a fat man, and there was no corpse to build a Beijing temple, so she took the initiative to bring up the military parade ceremony.

Sure enough, Li Shimin himself had no interest in letting foreigners take advantage, but there was no better way, and he could only use the former Sui method. Although it was weakened on the basis of the former Sui Dynasty, he was still depressed.

Now that I heard Li Zhen proposed the grand military parade, I immediately understood the benefits of it. Not only can I use this to promote the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, give the countries a disgrace, and it can also reduce the expenditure of the court—you must know that in order to receive those foreign missions , Datang spent a total of nearly 100 million yuan, and these aliens are still not satisfied, and they still want to take advantage of Datang...

If it weren't for the fact that they are all guests and they are not easy to sell, Li Shimin would have killed them a long time ago-you are beautiful, you want to take advantage of such a big advantage, how can there be so many benefits for you Accounted for?

Knowing the role of the military parade, Li Shimin was very pleasantly surprised, but after discussing in the court, he handed over this task to Li Jing, but Li Zhen was also given the position of consultant (there was such a position in ancient times, such as "Han Shu Xiongnu There is a record in "Biography of Zan": "Advisor Feng Tang, and talk about the general."), providing technical guidance for the military parade.

only……

What Li Zhen didn't expect was that after Li Jing became the general manager, he would basically have to ask him for all questions, so Li Zhen, the consultant, became a busy person on the contrary-this was not what Li Zhen thought. Same.When he thought about it, he was just a freelance job as a consultant.

However, the current situation is that almost the entire military parade ceremony is dominated by him, and Li Jing, who is the commander-in-chief, has become an assistant helping to make up for it--how the matter has reached this point, Li Zhen still doesn't understand why she is being killed by those Are the old foxes overshadowed?

But the matter has come to this point, apart from giving the old foxes a middle finger and expressing contempt for these old rascals, Li Zhen has no other solution, so she has no choice but to bite the bullet.As for refusal, this is definitely impossible. Not to mention the importance of the military parade to the next Tang Dynasty, but to say that the preparations for the military parade have already begun at this time. Li Zhen wanted to decline, but Li Shimin would not allow him to give up halfway.