Great Tang Southern Emperor

There is only one Silla lingering in the northeastern countries, and Tubo, which is at the top of the world, has become the new territory of the Tang Dynasty.

Although the Western Turks are still there, they have been frightened by the Tang Dynasty. As long as the Tang Dynasty is willing, they can sweep them away with iron cavalry at any time.

The Khitan have not yet developed, and Li Zhen will not give them a chance to rise. Sooner or later, the iron hoof of the Tang Dynasty will fall on their heads.

The Wa country is not even unified at home, and Datang's fleet is already cruising above their heads. Sooner or later, this place will become a new colony of Datang.

The destruction of the barbarians in the southwest, the surrender of the surrender, although the Six Edicts are still there, they just took advantage of the weakness of the Tang Dynasty to sneak attack on the Tang Dynasty. Once the Tang Dynasty is serious, no one is the opponent of the Tang Dynasty...

The external aggression has been eliminated. As for the interior, the main enemy has been suppressed, which is enough to ensure that they will not affect the national policy. Although there are still hidden enemies, with their strength, they can only make trouble in the dark. It is impossible to let Datang hurt his muscles and bones.

It can be said that Datang's internal troubles have now disappeared, and the surrounding foreign troubles have basically been resolved. In addition, the world map presented by Li Zhen has broadened his horizons. Li Shimin's pride is no less than Li Zhen's.

Li Shimin's wish has long been not to be famous in history, and he is not satisfied with standing side by side with Emperor Qin and Han Wu. This wish has been realized long after Nanyang was opened up. What he wants to do most now is to have a good relationship with those ancient sage kings The contest of the contest, and Alexander, the first conqueror throughout the ages, naturally became his goal.

"Father and emperor are willing, and sons and ministers naturally support it." Li Zhen naturally did not dare to coup with Li Shimin on this kind of matter, but she sighed in her heart. It is now 18 years since Zhenguan, and in history Li Shimin only served as a coup d'état. The 23-year emperor, that is to say, if calculated according to the age in history, he only has five years of life left at most. If he wants to conquer the world in five years, even the gods will not be able to do it.

"However, with the current situation in the Tang Dynasty, I am afraid that such a large-scale expedition cannot be supported, so please calm down." This is the second reason why Li Zhen is not optimistic about Li Shimin's expedition. The current situation in the Tang Dynasty is very dangerous. , even if we can get through this crisis, we must take a short-term recuperation. Don't think about launching a war in three to five years-and Li Shimin's life is only five years. He prolongs his life, but with Li Shimin's diligence, he only sleeps for an hour a day when he is the hardest, and with his living habits, even if he has the elixir of immortality, he may not live for long.

"It's natural, Zhen'er doesn't have to worry, before the battle of conquest begins, I will naturally take a rest, but once the Great Tang cultivates, I will march westward to compete with the Alexander the Great you speak of. "

However, although Li Shimin is full of pride, he also knows his own family affairs. Although the Tang Dynasty is not on the verge of collapse, it is not much better. Now that the war of conquest is launched, his fate may not be better than that of Alexander the Great. It may even be worse than Alexander. The Alexander Empire collapsed after the death of Alexander the Great, and if Li Shimin dared to play like this, I'm afraid Datang would collapse in his lifetime.

Chapter 943 Embarrassment...

Chapter 3 and Two Difficulties...

"Father wants to go on an expedition, and my ministers will naturally support it. However, given the current situation in the Tang Dynasty, I am afraid that such a large-scale expedition cannot be supported in a short period of time. Therefore, please calm down and don't get angry." This is Li The second reason why Zhen is not optimistic about Li Shimin's expedition is that the current situation in Datang is very dangerous. Even if it can survive this crisis, it must take a short period of recuperation. Don't think about launching a war in three to five years— —And Li Shimin's life is only five years. Even if there is a brilliant doctor who can prolong his life, but with Li Shimin's diligence, he only sleeps for an hour a day when he is the hardest, and with his living habits, even if he is With the elixir of immortality, I'm afraid I won't live long.

"Hahaha... Zhen'er, you are overthinking. Don't you think that I can't even think of this? How could I make such a mistake? You can rest assured that before the start of the battle of conquest, I will naturally carry out It’s a time to rest and recuperate. But once the Tang Dynasty has cultivated, I will march westward and compare it with the Alexander the Great you said to see who is the real conqueror.” Li Shimin laughed and said to Li Zhen’s consolation No appreciation.

Although Li Shimin was full of pride and couldn't wait to wrestle with the Western Empire, but he also knew his own family affairs. Although the Tang Dynasty at this time was not on the verge of collapse, it was not much better.Now that the war of conquest is launched, his fate may not be better than that of Alexander the Great, and may even be worse than that of Alexander-at least the Alexander Empire collapsed after the death of Alexander the Great, and if Li Shimin dared to play like this, I am afraid Tang Hui will collapse in his lifetime.

"In this way, my son is relieved." Li Zhen breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. He was not afraid that Li Shimin would take the credit for conquering the world with himself. He is a down-to-earth pragmatist, as long as he can do anything that is good for him, his reputation is not in his consideration at all.Otherwise, he would not risk the disgrace of the world and become a businessman with the dignity of a prince. Even if he won the title of God of Wealth and even aroused the crazy worship of the people, Li Zhen's reputation among scholars is also very high. It didn't sound good, but he never cared about it, as if those ridicules didn't exist at all.

So as long as it is something that is beneficial to Datang, Li Zhen will not care who hangs a so-called reputation. Compared with actual benefits, reputation is the cheapest thing—unfortunately, it is this kind of cheapness. Since ancient times, few people have been able to hide from it. Instead, they worked desperately for this inedible and unwearable thing, which is really not worth it.

Closer to home, Li Zhen doesn't care about fame at all, and Li Shimin may not be able to compete with Li Zhen. Even if there is a genius doctor to continue his life, his life can only last ten years at most, and five of them need to rest and recuperate. The five years to conquer the world?

It's still the same sentence, even if the gods come, they can't do it.

This credit will eventually fall on Li Zhen's head.

Since the credit for conquering the world is ultimately his own, why should he fight with Li Shimin?

The only thing he was afraid of was that Li Shimin's blood would get hot for a while, and he would go to war immediately regardless of whether he didn't care about it, and then everything would be over - he should sell his property immediately and run away, and redevelop overseas, hoping to counterattack the mainland one day...

Now it seems that it is Li Zhen who underestimated Li Shimin, the eternal sage...

But think about it, how can Li Shimin be an ordinary person who can leave the title of sage in history?How could he not be superior?How could it be possible to make such a mistake—we will find out by studying Li Shimin's life that Li Shimin may have made many small mistakes in his life, but the real big mistakes are very few. The only mistake is Regardless of the opposition of the ministers to the expedition to Goguryeo... Besides, this is not a mistake. Of course he lost, but Goguryeo didn't lose well, and the loss was much greater than that of Datang.

"However, Zhen'er, you have paid a lot for the Tang Dynasty, so I can't chill your heart." Putting aside the matter of conquering the world, Li Shimin turned the topic back to the issue of the navy: "You don't support it in the court. Under such circumstances, he built three fleets for Datang with his own efforts. Under the circumstances that everyone was not optimistic about, he created a military branch, and now he returned the navy to the country without asking for anything. , this achievement is not enough to convince people's hearts... Dear dear friends, how do you think Zhen'er should be rewarded for this achievement?"

"This……"

Baiguan fell silent, not because Baiguan didn't want to reward Li Zhen, on the contrary, they wanted to reward Li Zhen very much at this time, because if they didn't even reward Li Zhen for such a great contribution, then they would be rewarded for their meritorious service in the future. Where is the face to be rewarded?

Therefore, Li Zhen not only had to give rewards, on the contrary, he wanted to reward them greatly, heavily, the more rewards the better, but...

What should be rewarded for him?

Li Zhen is now the crown prince, the heir apparent of the Tang Dynasty, under one person and above tens of thousands of people in the entire Tang Dynasty.He also holds the control of all the territories south of the south of the Lingnan in the entire Tang Dynasty. Basically, the development of all parts of Nanyang cannot bypass Li Zhen. He is also the direct controller of all the troops in the south of the Lingnan... Such a powerful force, Except for Li Shimin, Li Zhen has the highest authority in the entire Tang Dynasty.

No matter in terms of status or power, he is second in the world, second only to the existence of the emperor - how should you reward such a person?

Reward an official position. He is already the prince of the Tang Dynasty. If he is promoted, he will be the emperor. Now the emperor is not dead. If you dare to give him a promotion, he will not dare to take it.

And reward money?This is even more nonsense. Li Zhen is the God of Wealth in the Tang Dynasty. His annual income is more than the tax revenue of the national treasury. Even the navy is a shelf built by him alone. During this period, he hardly spent a penny from the court... like this A person, reward him with money?Is this rewarding him?Are you still embarrassing him?

Then reward him with rights?Please, this is even more impossible. Now Li Zhen has mastered a small half of Datang's military power, and he also has a logistics unit such as an arsenal. With a large army in his hand, he still has logistics production capacity. This is a military giant. , if Li Zhen is willing, he can become a warlord at any time, that is, Li Zhenzhi is not here, otherwise he will definitely become the most troublesome existence in Datang.He already has so much power, and the imperial court is planning to restrict his power. If you still want to give him power, don't even think about it.

Chapter 944

Chapter 3 and Three

I don’t know how to reward, but if you say no reward, it’s not okay. If you don’t reward people for such a great contribution, not only will you have no face to reward yourself for your meritorious service, but who in the entire Tang Dynasty can contribute more than the crown prince? ?The crown prince does not need to be rewarded for such a great achievement, who can make a higher contribution than the crown prince?Where would they have the face to reward?

If they really do not give rewards, it means that they will offend everyone in the world, and once they offend the people in the world, even if all the civil and military officials are high-ranking princes and dukes, they will eventually be rejected by the people in the world. Burned by their wrath, there is no place to die.

Besides, the crown prince made such a great contribution, but you didn't reward him, what would Li Zhen think?Could he have misunderstood something?And with Li Zhen's sensitive identity, if he misunderstood something, I'm afraid it will have a series of bad effects. Maybe the emperor can only appease Li Zhen if he abandons some people (such as those who advocate not rewarding the prince). 's angry.

What's more, even if Li Zhen doesn't mind, the people under him won't be willing——My Highness has made such a great contribution, and you will give me a verbal commendation?So what if my Highness is the Prince of the Tang Dynasty?Doesn't the prince need to be rewarded for his meritorious service?What kind of reason is this?

He is a prince, but he is not yet an emperor. Even if the future Emperor Li Zhen has made such a great contribution, he is still qualified to reward himself, right?It's too chilling for you to treat meritorious ministers like this. If you don't even reward such meritorious service, who will work hard on the battlefield in the future...

So the crown prince had to reward him, but he wanted to reward him greatly, but...

How should I reward him?

embarrassing...

headache...

Tangled ah……

Hundreds of officials were caught in a conflict, Li Zhen had to be rewarded for his contributions, but there was no way to reward Li Zhen, even if they had been officials for decades, they had never seen such a strange thing.Not to mention ordinary people, even the few prime ministers standing in the court at this time were struggling to pull their hair out - this is the first time I have seen such a thing that there is no reward for decades of officialdom.

If Li Zhen is an ordinary person, then that's fine, this situation is really easy to solve-since there is no reward, let's kill it.Anyway, since ancient times, the kings have done this to those who have made great contributions to the sky, especially Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, made a bad start for the future, especially Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang, who used this law to the extreme.

But Li Zhen was different. Not only did he make great contributions, but his status was even more frighteningly high - he was a prince, a prince, and the future emperor.It's easy for you to kill, but what happens after you kill?Where are you going to get another Li Zhen to inherit the throne?

Although the emperor had many sons, none of them was comparable to Li Zhen in talent. If Li Zhen died, what would happen to the future of the Tang Dynasty?For the convenience in front of him, Datang lost the future. Wouldn't it be a small loss for the big?

Even those who wished that Li Zhen would die without a burial place would never dare to express their thoughts at this time, otherwise they would definitely die first.

Now it is easy for you to kill Li Zhen because there is no reward, but Datang will lose the future. How can such self-destruction of the Great Wall be something they can do?

Even if they are willing, but can the emperor agree?Li Zhen is his most trusted and reassuring son, and he is also the future heir to the throne chosen by him - you are forcing me to kill my own son in order to save trouble, do you think I will agree?

And there is another problem. Li Shimin is one of the few emperors in history who neither killed nor suspected heroes (even if he killed, the ministers rebelled first, and he rarely took the initiative to kill his officials), which is comparable to Qin Shihuang.

On the one hand, the reason why he didn't kill the heroes was because he was able to control them, and on the other hand, it was also because he needed to leave a good reputation in history to wash away the stains brought about by the Xuanwu Gate.

But if it is not passed now, you are going to kill my son, you are going to kill Datang's future, what use is it for me to have such a good reputation?

Isn't this forcing Li Shimin to kill?

Prince Li Zhen is not the only person who is a master of high merit in the Tang Dynasty. If it is really discussed, everyone in Lingyan Pavilion can be regarded as a master of high merit. Li Zhen will be killed, and everyone in Lingyan Pavilion Don't all people have to die?