Great Tang Southern Emperor

"You don't have to worry about that. Zhen'er's illness is no longer a problem. You should be able to wake up tomorrow morning. Then I will ask for a warrant for you." Li Shimin said, if you really want to send a young man in this battle Army, Li Zhen is actually the most suitable one. Although Li Zhen's battlefield art is not good, but he doesn't like to play any tricks.

Speaking of Li Zhen's personality, he is actually different from others. Why did he spend a lot of money and time training so many young soldiers?In the final analysis, to put it bluntly, Li Zhen is an out-and-out elite soldier plus half a violent player. He doesn't like those twists and turns on the battlefield, and he doesn't have to worry about how many people the opponent has. Anyway, my people are better than you. Well, it is conceivable that, based on the rule that each term of the Boys’ Army has more people than the previous period, counting the first two periods, after five years, Li Zhen will have more than 40 elite Boys’ Army in his hands. With an elite army, who else in this world can stop Li Zhen's footsteps?

However, it is a pity that Li Zhen is sick now, and the illness is very serious. Even if he can wake up tomorrow, he will have to lie on the bed for at least a while-and don't forget, the injury on his buttocks has not healed, at least It will take a month, and after a month of Li Zhen's recovery, the war is over. At present, there is only one young soldier in Lingnan, which can only be handed over to Li Jing to lead.

Li Shimin was not at all worried that Li Zhen would not hand over the control of the Youth Army. Li Zhen was not the kind of person who didn't know the general situation, not to mention that he was the prince of the Tang Dynasty and had a close relationship with the Tang Dynasty.Besides, Nanyang was developed by him himself, and it contained a lot of Li Zhen's painstaking efforts. Based on this alone, he would never want to see anything happen here.

However, Li Shimin did not have the idea of ​​holding it in his hands. He also came from his youth, and he also led the army to fight when he was a teenager (in 617 AD, Li Shimin Jinyang rebelled against the Sui Dynasty). The Xuanjia Army that runs across the world... His experience is too similar to Li Zhen's, so he has no other ideas about Li Zhen's private training of the army. If he really has no soldiers to send this time, he will not use the Youth Army.

Li Shimin understands Li Zhen very well, and he also knows that Li Zhen is not the kind of impatient person. This can be seen from the fact that Li Zhen voluntarily took root in Lingnan for five years to build Yuezhou City.As for whether Li Zhen will rebel with the help of the army, there is no doubt about it. Li Shimin rebelled back then because Li Jiancheng persecuted him too much. If you start in advance, then when Li Jiancheng's layout is completed, Li Shimin will die.

But Li Zhen is different. Li Zhen's current situation is much stronger than he was back then. Although there are also a group of brothers who want to fight for the throne, Li Zhen's own strength and influence are far superior to the rest of the brothers. Even the former prince Li Chengqian was defeated by Li Zhen. Zhen Sheng was forced to step down from the position. With Li Zhen's strength, no one can surpass him.

If you have to use something to describe the situation Li Shimin and Li Zhen are facing, you can probably use the international situation in later generations as a metaphor.

Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng are probably Ying Jiang and Mao Xiong in the past. Bipolar struggle for hegemony, either you die or I die. Everyone knows the final result. Ying Jiang exhausted all means and finally exhausted Mao Xiong to death.

If it is used to describe Li Zhen and his brothers, it should be Li Zhen in the 90s, the eagle sauce, and how strong his brothers are. Although the brothers are stronger than each other, it is obvious that Li Zhen is the eagle sauce. Zhen is even more terrifying.

Moreover, Li Zhen's status is much more stable than that of Yingjiang. Yingjiang's hegemony lasted for less than 20 years. Although Yingjiang is still a super power after 20 years, children such as the big hairy rabbit foot pot chicken have also risen and started. To challenge the position of Eagle Sauce, unless there is another technological explosion, it is basically impossible for Eagle Sauce to regain the strength of the 90s.

Li Zhen is different, he is now the crown prince and is the orthodox of the country, even if his brothers come from behind and surpass Li Zhen in power, as long as Li Zhen can maintain his crown prince status, the future big boss will still be his.

"So, thank you, Your Majesty." Li Jing didn't know that Li Shimin had thought so much in such a short period of time, and he was very excited now.

Li Jing, the name of the Boys' Army, has long heard of it, but he only met him once at the military parade.

But just through this meeting, Li Jing knew that this legendary elite team would definitely live up to his reputation—looking at all the armies in the world, whether it was the Turkic wolf cavalry from long ago, or the Xuanjia army of the Tang Dynasty itself, and even more so. What's more, the religious fighters of the Dashi Empire are far behind compared to the Boys' Army.

Of course, it’s not that they can’t train an army like the Boys’ Army. The problem is that the more elite the army, the more expensive it is to train. Besides serving as the emperor's guard, what effect can it have on the battlefield?

After all, there are many rich countries in the world, but who the hell can throw money into them without worrying about the cost like Li Zhen?Is the country still governed?Can't get by?

It is said that a flock of sheep led by a lion can kill a flock of lions led by a sheep. This sentence fully illustrates the role of a good commander.However, just like soldiers worshiping and looking forward to famous marshals, every marshal hopes that he has elite soldiers under his command. If it is not a last resort, who would be willing to lead a group of mobs?Li Jing, as the number one military god even in history, he is very eager for excellent soldiers.

Datang's army is of course not a rabble, but compared with the youth army, it is still a little bit worse after all.

Li Jing has long wanted to command the youth army, to see what kind of chemical reaction will be produced when the world's number one marshal cooperates with the world's number one army, and how much sparks can they collide with?

It must be very gorgeous.

Chapter 901 Wei Zheng's Pot

Chapter 261 Wei Zheng's Pot

"Let's do this. After Zhen'er wakes up, I will tell him personally. Now I want to talk about another thing." Li Shimin's face suddenly became gloomy, and he stared at Wei Zheng coldly: "Xuan Cheng, Hou Junji was recommended by you, and now he has rebelled, I need an explanation."

The main reason why Li Shimin questioned Wei Zheng was this. Hou Junji was able to become Minister of the Ministry of War because he was recommended by Wei Zheng. Before his death, Wei Zheng mainly recommended two people to Li Shimin. Ji Ji thinks that they have great talents and can be reused.

Especially Hou Junji, he strongly recommended to Li Shimin, and praised him many times, thinking that this person has the talent of a prime minister, and the army should let him be the commander (the national security should not forget the danger, there must be a general, and the guards Ma Yi Commissioned Jun to collect knowledge), Li Shimin thought repeatedly and did not adopt it.

The reason why it was not adopted was because Hou Junji was an old general of Qin Wangfu. When Taizong was still Qin Wang, Hou Junji followed him in the south and north wars, and made many contributions.Just like this, Li Shimin also knows Hou Junji well. Hou Junji is proud and self-satisfied, his words are false, and he is also very greedy and likes to show off. Once he is wronged, he will hold grudges in his heart. If he gains power, he is afraid that the country will not be stable.

What's more, the appointment of a prime minister needs to be controlled by the emperor, but Wei Zheng, a censor doctor (at that time was still a censor doctor, not a prime minister), although he was on the same level as a prime minister in terms of status, he was half a rank lower than a prime minister. Li Shimin's recommendation of Hou Junji as prime minister may be out of public interest and he does not want talents to be buried. However, he has committed a big taboo in recommending a prime minister offside.Wei Zheng served the feudal rule. Under the feudal ethics, his talent was transferred by the will of the feudal emperor.But Wei Zheng, as a courtier, messed up ethics and violated taboos, so of course he would not be liked by the emperor.

However, Wei Zheng is Li Shimin's most important minister after all, and the person he recommends to Li Shimin has to give face, and it is definitely not worth thinking about not giving it to the prime minister. A minister of the Ministry of War should be used as compensation.

So Hou Junji took the position of Minister of War.

Then in the 17th year of Zhenguan, Hou Junji followed the prince Li Chengqian to rebel, was defeated and killed, and all the dissatisfaction with Wei Zheng accumulated in Li Shimin's heart suddenly surged out.

However, Wei Zheng had died three months ago. Li Shimin, who had nowhere to get angry, simply overturned his tombstone, scraped off the inscription on it to vent his anger, and regretted the marriage contract between Princess Hengshan and Wei Shuyu, the son of Wei Zheng— —In Li Shimin's life, he only did such a thing once.

Although the Tang Dynasty today is different from the Tang Dynasty in history, Li Zhen had little influence on the Tang Dynasty at the beginning. The history of the Tang Dynasty at that time was still moving forward along the old track, so Hou Junji was still recommended by Wei Zheng, and he still took the position of Minister of War.

Up to now, the trajectory of Datang has changed. Originally, Li Zhen thought that Hou Junji’s life experience had changed, but it was not until the incident of Hou Junji’s smuggling of military fire that Li Zhen realized how correct it is that the country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change. talk.

Li Zhen even changed the development track of Datang, but Hou Junji was still running on the road of death, and finally made an irreparable mistake.

Hou Junji committed a crime, so as the recommender, Wei Zheng must give Li Shimin an explanation.

"I'm guilty...I have nothing to say." Wei Zheng took off his hat on his own initiative, and knelt down slowly: "I have eyes but no eyes, know people but don't know them, and only know talents but not virtues, which has caused great losses to the Tang Dynasty. , In vain to be an official of the Tang Dynasty, I really have no face to see my colleagues again, I am ashamed of my trust in Your Majesty, I also ask Your Majesty for permission, I beg for the bones."

The so-called begging for bones means asking for resignation, asking for the bones to be buried in their hometown, and returning to their hometown to spend their old age, which means resigning.

But how could Li Shimin let Wei Zheng go so easily?Li Shimin was indeed very annoyed, but he was not so angry that he lost his mind. Wei Zheng's talent Li Shimin knew very well that if he really agreed to his request, it would not only be chilling for his officials, but more importantly, the Tang Dynasty. It will also lose a virtuous minister, which is too serious a loss.

What's more, it's impossible for Li Shimin to dismiss Wei Zheng just because he didn't know anyone well, otherwise it would be easy for people to compare Wei Zheng with Li Zhen. So after Fang Yiai took down the city of Linyi, he connived at the soldiers to massacre the city, causing tens of thousands of deaths (the official explanation is this, everyone knows the actual situation), committed a typo, and charged Li Zhen with the same crime It's because I don't know who I know, but the punishment is only a one-year salary.

Li Zhenzhi was only fined one year's salary if he didn't know who he was, while Wei Zhengshi would be dismissed if he didn't know who he was. Isn't the gap too big?

The same crime, but the punishment is very different. This will give people the impression that Li Shimin is partial to selfish revenge, and will have a considerable impact on his reputation. This is not what Li Shimin wants to see.

Of course, Li Shimin is not so easy to talk to. If you, Wei Zheng, made a mistake and want to resign, I have to persuade you well, serve you like a grandfather, and beg you not to resign?How can there be such a good thing?

"Hmph, what a beautiful thought. The person you recommended, Tang, caused such a disaster, but you want to avoid it by resigning. How can there be such a beautiful thing in this world?" Li Shimin's face turned cold, and he pointed at Wei Zheng and said loudly: "Wei Xuancheng, you have improperly recommended people, you have allowed the thieves to steal high positions, and conspired to rebel, which led to the peril of our Tang Dynasty. The crime cannot be punished, but I think you are loyal to the emperor and diligent, you can speak out and make admonitions, and you have made great achievements. I sentence you to surrender. Rank three, fined salary for three years, this time, as the supervisor of the army, he went out with Li Yaoshi, the Duke of Wei, to crusade against Hou Ni, and his meritorious deeds will be punished, will you accept it?"

"My minister Wei Xuancheng, I am convinced." What else could Wei Zheng say?Li Shimin gave him this step, of course he has to take it, otherwise no one can say what the angry Li Shimin will do.

"Well, dear friends, what do you think?"

"Your Majesty has clear rewards and punishments, and I am convinced." Du Ruhui quickly stood up and echoed.

"I have no objection, such a punishment is very good." Fang Xuanling followed suit.

"With Xuan Cheng here, I have greater confidence in this action." Li Jing also said with a smile.

"Your Majesty has clear rewards and punishments, and the ministers have no objections." Others.

"..."

The several prime ministers of the Tang Dynasty have a good friendship, and the two sides have worked together for more than ten years. Although they were enemies at the beginning, no matter how big the enmity is, ten years should smooth it out, so the relationship between the few people is still very good of.Seeing that Wei Zheng resigned voluntarily just now, they were really afraid that Li Shimin would get hotheaded, so they agreed. Fortunately, the worst thing didn't happen, and Li Shimin was still very rational.

"That's it, let's end this matter like this." Li Shimin waved his hand and started to talk about other things: "Next, let's talk about the immigration issue in Borneo. It’s a good method, let’s discuss it, can this method be used in Nanyang?”

"Your Majesty, I think..." The next step is to discuss business matters, which will be ignored here.

Chapter 902 Wake up... so blue and thin...

Chapter 262 Wake up... so blue and thin...

"Oh, ouch~ I'm so sick..." Just as everyone was discussing important national affairs with Li Shimin, Li Zhen suddenly woke up like this.

Chen Tianlu's prediction was wrong after all. He predicted the effectiveness of antibiotics in this era. In this era without antibiotics, the resistance of viruses is very poor-Yunnan cuisine Li Zhen did not wake up the next day However, the high fever subsided at noon that day, and Li Zhenren naturally woke up without the high fever.

"What's wrong with me? I'm so dizzy, so blue and thin..." Although the fever has subsided and the person is awake, but after all, it is a severe infection, the wound is inflamed, and there is typhoid fever, Li Zhen's consciousness Still not awake, my head is groggy, as if it has been filled with water, and I just shake my head lightly, and I feel that my brain is dangling, like water in a water bottle, which is very uncomfortable.

"Zhen'er, you finally woke up."