Great Tang Southern Emperor

To put it bluntly, Li You is a gangster with the attributes of a rogue leader. He belongs to the kind of person who is not afraid of anything, but he is still young after all (Li You's birth date is unknown, but according to Li Tai was born in 620, Li Zhen was born in 627 Li You was born in 620-627, and Li Zhen and Li You were separated by Li Yin and Li Yun, so it can be guessed that Li You was born before 625. Yes, the age is between five and nine years old now), and he can still be trained, at least for a while, Li Zhen has trained him well.

Under Li Zhen's slow guidance, Li You gradually developed the illusion that bullying the weak is not a real skill, and only beating people of the same level is real skill. It has been a while since he has gone out to harm the people.

But at this moment, Li You is really jealous. They are both the sons of the emperor. Why can you, Li Zhen, get a thousand households, while we only have eight hundred households?This is so unfair.

Li Zhen's heart skipped a beat, she was in a bad mood, and her own worries still appeared, and she knew that someone would be dissatisfied because she had more money than them.

"Brothers, don't misunderstand me. In fact, my food town is the same as yours. As for the two hundred extra households, my younger brother bought it from my father and emperor." Li Zhen said the matter of exchanging saltpeter ice for the fief. Come out, although some people will still be secretly dissatisfied after the explanation, but at least they can accept it.

"It turned out to be like this, but the fourth brother misunderstood the eighth brother." At the beginning, Li Tai had the same idea as Li You. I am the most beloved child of the father. I don't even have a thousand households. How can you get it so much?

"It turns out that's the case, but saltpeter ice is indeed worth two hundred households." Li Ke is the most free and easy one, and even offered to help Li Zhen explain: "You may not know that the whole world is now because of the saltpeter ice method. And the benefits are endless. In previous years, many people died of heat every year. Although some people died of heat this year, it was only [-]% less than in previous years. What kind of merit is this? I even feel that two hundred households It's a little less."

"Thank you, third brother. At that time, I thought it was twenty households. I thought the father was too stingy." Li Zhen explained the misunderstanding at that time, and everyone burst into laughter. The dissatisfaction is also reduced with the laughter, and the atmosphere returns to what a fart?

"Brother, what does this second imperial decree say? Who is Mei Niang, the second daughter of the Wu family? What is Princess Yue?" Just as everyone was preparing for the big banquet, Li Zhi, the youngest kid present, said The atmosphere of the banquet was reduced to the extreme, followed by a stronger outbreak.

"Hahaha" Hearing Li Zhi ask Li Zhen this, everyone couldn't help it, they all laughed, Li Zhen's face turned green, only Li Zhi was still confused.

"Children, don't rummage through other people's things." Li Zhen snatched the edict from Li Zhi and placed it on the highest place.

"Speaking of which, we haven't congratulated the eighth brother on marrying Meijiao Niang." Li Tai teased.

"That's right, congratulations to my eighth brother for marrying a beautiful lady." Li Yin immediately followed suit.

"Speaking of the eighth brother, when will you bring your sister-in-law and let the brothers guard you?" Li Ke didn't want to be bad, but I thought you were a good person.

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"Go, go, I'm depressed, I really don't know what the father thinks, why marry me a princess properly?" Being teased by his brothers, Li Zhen wanted to vomit blood, and muttered dissatisfiedly, her heart was even more I am very depressed, not to mention that we were killed by Wu Zetian in history, but in terms of age, Wu Zetian is three years older than me. Does the emperor also believe in the rumor that "the female junior holds a golden brick"?

"Hmph, you really don't know good people. I have seen the second daughter of the Wu family with my own eyes. Although she is still young, she can already tell that she is a beauty. What are you dissatisfied with?" A voice sounded from behind the crowd. .

"I have seen my father (the emperor)." As Li Shimin's son, he didn't need to look back at all, he could know who the owner of the voice was just by listening.

"Everyone get up." Li Shimin had already arrived, seeing how respectful Li Zhen brothers were, Li Shimin felt very relieved.

Because he came to power by killing his elder brother and younger brother in a mutiny, the last thing he wants to see is that his son also embarks on the old path of fratricide, but it is a pity that he in history did not avoid it after all. , watching Li Chengqian, Li Tai, and Li Ke fight to the death, but the three of them ended badly, and finally Li Zhi took advantage of it.

Li Zhen in this life was also unwilling to see such a tragedy happen, so from the very beginning, he set out to maintain the relationship between the brothers.Besides, Li Zhen felt that everyone's structure was a bit too small - isn't it just a throne after all?The size of this world has grown, so why not be an emperor?Why should we keep our eyes on the Central Plains?

What did you say?Those places are all owned by the Lord?

Hum, that was before.

Now that Lao Tzu is here, there is no land outside the Central Plains.

"Where is Chengqian?" Li Shimin looked around and found that Li Chengqian was not among his sons. He couldn't help frowning. Could it be that because he became the prince, he could ignore his brothers?

"Father misunderstood, elder brother hasn't finished his homework, so he didn't come here today, and he came here before." Li Zhen saw Li Shimin's thoughts, and hurriedly smoothed things over without conscience, but her heart was helplessly tight.Where did Li Chengqian come to him?He invited him to every banquet, but Li Chengqian would refuse for various reasons. At first, Li Zhen didn't think it was strange, but thought that Li Chengqian became a prince, and his self-confidence was a little inflated, so he didn't take his younger brothers seriously.

But soon, he knew that Li Chengqian was deliberately avoiding him.Because once Li Ke invited everyone to appreciate lotus in his suburban manor, both of them went that time, but after seeing Li Zhenzhi, Li Chengqian's complexion instantly became ugly, and even others greeted him with love. Ignore it, and finally left after staying for less than half an hour.

Chapter 75

Chapter 4 turned out to be a military supervisor

Now Li Zhen would be a fool if he didn't know that Li Chengqian was deliberately targeting him, but what made him puzzled was that he didn't have many intersections with this big brother, except for the time when he fell into the water and just passed through the werewolf. One time, that is, a few occasional encounters during the usual royal dinner, Ke Ke didn't seem to have offended him.

However, Li Zhen forgot how brilliant she was some time ago. It can be said that the legend about Li Zhen in the palace never stopped during that time, so that even Li Chengqian's limelight was completely overshadowed.

Li Chengqian is not a man with a big heart, otherwise he wouldn't have said, 'I am the Son of Heaven, I should do whatever I want.If there are those who advise, I will kill them, and kill 500 people.Is it uncertain? ' Such a goddamn talk.Seeing that his limelight is being covered up by Li Zhen now, it's no wonder he has a good impression of Li Zhen.

If it is said that the cover-up of the limelight only made Li Chengqian loathe Li Zhen, then the more favored Li Zhen made him feel a real threat—although it is still the third year of Zhenguan (629 AD, it seemed to be 630 years before), Li Chengqian has not uttered the above stupid sentence, nor has he broken his leg because of stealing a cow, nor has he shown his admiration for Turkic culture, so Li Shimin and even the government and the public have a good impression of Li Chengqian.

But in the same way, Li Chengqian has just been crowned prince for a few years, and his foundation in the court is not stable, and he has no outstanding achievements. It is completely different from Li Zhen, who not only presented the saltpeter ice making method in a short period of time, but also Later, papermaking, printing, horseshoes, "Three Hundred No Thousands" and many elementary school classics were presented one after another.Even Li Chengqian is using these Mongolian classics. Naturally, he knows the value of these things, and he can also calculate Li Zhen's credit. In Li Shimin's heart, he also gave Li Zhen a lot of credit.In Li Chengqian's view, these contributions could already threaten his crown prince.

What makes Li Chengqian hate Li Zhen even more is the little inside story revealed by Lu Guogong Hou Junji (I don’t know when Hou Junji took refuge in Li Chengqian, here it is recorded that Li Chengqian just became the prince, Hou Junji took refuge in the past)— — It was Li Shimin's inexplicable tone and actions after Li Zhen left the Young Prison Mansion that day.

After hearing this, Li Chengqian was even more furious. Although Li Shimin did not reveal his true thoughts, Li Chengqian thought that Li Shimin had listed Li Zhen as a candidate for the crown prince. At this time, Li Chengqian had already regarded Li Zhen as his lifelong prince. The enemy completely cut off the idea of ​​soliciting.

It's a pity that the current Li Chengqian is still too young after all (Li Chengqian was born in the second year of Wude, and now he is 11 years old in the third year of Zhenguan), without a city mansion, he almost engraved his hatred for Li Zhen on his face, directly rejecting Li Zhen. Zhen was thousands of miles away, instead of deliberately getting close, and then killed Li Zhenyin at a critical moment.

Thanks to this, Li Zhen was mentally prepared and saved a lot of trouble.

"If that's the case, then forget it." Li Shimin's complexion brightened up a bit. Of course, he knew that Li Chengqian was full of disgust for Li Zhen, so this good complexion at this time was for Li Zhen's consideration of the overall situation.

"By the way, father, you came just in time." Li Zhen suddenly remembered something, took out the third imperial edict, wrinkled her face and said bitterly: "Father, what did you write in the imperial edict for your child? Yes? My baby knows every word on it, but once they are linked together, my baby doesn’t know what is written.”

"Pfft! Hahaha" Everyone burst out laughing when they heard Li Zhen's pitiful words. Li Ke and Li Tai hugged each other and were almost strangled to death by Li Tai; Li You was drinking water and took a sip of water after hearing this It was all sprayed on Li Yun's face; Li Yun's hair crown didn't know where it fell, and his hair fell loose, without the image of a prince; even the youngest Li Zhi grinned, but that His confused eyes told everyone that he was laughing purely because everyone was laughing, as for why everyone was laughing, I'm sorry—i&039; sorry, i don&039;t know!

Li Shimin also laughed, and while laughing, he patted Li Zhen's butt lightly: "What kind of bastard are you talking about? This is in front of your brothers and sisters. If those officials hear it, I'm afraid you will have to do it again." Participating in you."

"But my son really doesn't understand." Li Zhen said 'wronged': "My son only understands one sentence to go to Wei Guogong's account to listen to the order, and the rest doesn't know anything."

"Eighth brother, so you are asking this." Li Ke finally broke free from Li Tai's arms, and explained with a smile: "Actually, the imperial decree is very simple, that is, to make you the commander of the Dingxiang Road. History, under the account of Pai Wei Gong, to put it bluntly is to supervise the army."

"Supervise the army, just supervise the army. Why are you talking so much nonsense? And it's all clichés, clichés, nothing new." Li Zhen pouted and closed the imperial decree: "The beginning of the three imperial decrees is exactly the same, and the person who wrote the imperial decree did not. Are you sincere? Father, you have to give him a good lesson."

"Hahaha" Everyone laughed again, who dared to criticize the imperial decree in front of Li Shimin, they were also convinced by Li Zhen's boldness.

"Kids, what do you know?" Li Shimin patted Li Zhen's butt with some embarrassment.

In fact, these three imperial decrees were all written by him, but thinking that these are the central decree after all (an order or edict issued by the emperor himself, abnormally passed through the Zhongshu door, and directly handed over to the relevant agencies for execution), it is still for his son to read, So I started to be lazy, anyway, the beginning of the imperial decree was almost the same, so I just copied three points without changing a single word. Naturally, I was a little embarrassed to be brought up by Li Zhen at this time.

"Yes, my son will stop talking." Li Zhen stuck out her tongue and kept silent, but she muttered in her heart that this old man is not good enough, and after a long time he was given the position of supervisor of the army.

What is a supervisor?

Although supervising the army is also a kind of military position, and it is a senior officer second only to the general manager, but to put it bluntly, this is a Bodhisattva, and it is simply a display in the army. Apart from monitoring the words and deeds of the army commander, he has no right at all. Not to mention controlling the military.

Of course, this was in the Tang Dynasty. In fact, in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the right to supervise the army was still great. After all, most of the supervisors were held by the emperor's cronies, and they could meet the emperor directly, so ordinary army commanders did not dare to offend too much. , I am afraid that the supervising army will participate in the performance.There are even some coaches who simply follow the orders of the supervising army directly, just to avoid offending the supervising army.

Li Zhen disliked it, but Li Ke and Li Tai were already envious and hated to death. It was very difficult for royal children to go to the battlefield, especially the direct princes. Under normal circumstances, no emperor would send his son to the battlefield.Moreover, relatives and nobles do not lead the army. This is an unwritten rule that has basically been followed by all dynasties.It's just that Li Zhen's situation is special. Under the old grandfather's excuse, Li Shimin reluctantly agreed to him.Even so, it was only given to a supervising army with no real power. Its intention is obvious. Sending you there is to let you plate a layer of gold. As for the frontline battlefield, you don't even think about it.

Of course, it is not without benefits for Li Zhen to go to the battlefield. He is the prince of the Tang Dynasty after all. If this identity is spread out, it will greatly improve the entire army of the Tang Dynasty—His Royal Highness King Yue followed us to the war at all costs. , What do we fighters have to be afraid of?Could it be that our lowly life is better than that of a dignified and noble family?Thinking about it this way, the morale will naturally rise unconsciously, and the next battle will be easy to fight.

Chapter 76

Chapter 5 is going to war

"Father, what do you mean, are you going to fight next? Who is the target?" Li Zhen asked innocently, but her heart was already running fast, and now it is September of the third year of Zhenguan. In November, Yalkin and Ashnadur of the East Turks will lead their troops to harass Hexi.Suzhou defender Zhang Shigui (this guy was a good man in history with great military exploits, but unfortunately he was hacked out of Xiang in the novel. Li Daozong was treated the same as this guy, as well as Pang Taishi and Pan Mei in the Northern Song Dynasty) and Zhang Bao, the guard of Ganzhou, led his troops to fight against each other, fortified the walls and cleared the field, and used the city to block the Turkic cavalry. In the end, the Turks returned without success, and also found an excuse for Li Shimin to fight back against the Turkic troops.

General Zhang Gongjin wrote to Tang Taizong Li Shimin, listing six reasons for sending troops to the Turks.

On the 23rd, Emperor Taizong ordered the troops to be divided into six routes to exterminate the Eastern Turks:

On the first road, Li Jing, Minister of the Ministry of War and Dai Guogong, was the general manager of the Dingxiang Road, and Yuchi Jingde and Su Dingfang were the deputy, leading the Chinese army;