Chapter 1049 Chai Lingwu: No matter who becomes the emperor, he is my uncle and must protect me
Li Yuanji said funnyly: "Why do you care?"
Hou Junji was helping the Tang Dynasty to make great achievements, and it was too late to reward him, so why should he be restrained?
If he restrains himself, then who will tell the Western Turkic countries, the Western Regions, and the majesty of the Tang Dynasty?
If he restrained himself, how could he promote the kindness of the Tang Dynasty when he went back to inspect the Western Turkic countries and the Western Regions?
Between countries, there must be people who do bad things.
If everyone is a good person, then who will be afraid of you?
Maybe everyone will think you are easy to bully and come to bully you.
So what Hou Junji did was right, and he could even have gone a little further.
For example, ask Sun Simiao to contact all Taoist leaders in the Tang Dynasty and ask them to take people to stay in the temples that have been vacated.
If the Tang Dynasty wanted to conquer the Western Turks, it must not only conquer them with force, but also conquer them culturally and with faith. Only in this way can it be considered a complete conquest, and only in this way can the Western Turks be truly included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty.
"Okay, okay, I asked you why Hou Junji is so arrogant. It turns out that you are supporting him behind his back. Just spoil him. Sooner or later, you will spoil him and turn him into a disaster!"
When Li Shentong heard that Li Yuanji refused to punish Hou Junji, he felt so sad that he still shouted with his eyes wide open.
Li Yuanji smiled calmly and said: "If you don't like him, you can replace him, but I think that after you go, you may do more than him!"
Li Shentong opened his mouth, but did not refute.
After all, he was the one who, after learning what the human skin drum was made of, scolded the barbarians from the Western Regions for three days for extorting natural resources.
If he had gone to the Western Regions, he would probably have raised his butcher's knife against the monks in the temple in order to save those big-eyed, white-skinned, pitiful foreign girls.
"what are you writing?"
Just when Li Shentong was about to say something more, he saw Li Yuanji writing and couldn't help but ask questions.
Li Yuanji pointed to the paper under his pen and motioned to Li Shentong to read it himself.
After Li Shentong stretched his neck and took a look, he looked happy and said, "Have you figured it out and started writing to Hou Junji to reprimand him?"
Li Yuanji said nothing and motioned to Li Shentong to continue reading.
When he wrote the key points and Li Shentong saw the key points again, Li Shentong couldn't help but said: "It seems like it's okay to give Hou Junji another chance..."
Li Yuanji chuckled and said, "That's not what you just said!"
Li Shentong said unabashedly: "If he really listens to you and gives me ten or eight beauties from the Western Regions, then he deserves another chance."
Li Yuanji pointed at Li Shentong and said in a confused voice: "You! You are so old, but you still like these things and are not afraid of dying in bed."
Li Shentong immediately patted his chest and said: "The men of our Li family are all very capable. Ten or eight of them are not enough to fill the gap between our teeth. It is impossible for them to die on the bed."
Li Yuanji shook his head and smiled: "I hope you can still say this in a few years."
Li Shentong immediately scratched his neck and said: "Don't talk about it in a few years, even in ten or twenty years, I will say the same."
Li Yuanji smiled and said no more.
After helping Hou Junji deal with the "enemy" Li Shentong, he asked about the changes in Chang'an City, "Uncle, you said my letter has been sent back for more than a month, why is there no movement at all in Chang'an City."
When Li Shentong suddenly heard this, he was stunned, and then he pretended to be careless and said: "How do I know this! Maybe the saint thinks you are right, has already adopted your suggestion, and is preparing to give you a surprise.
"
Li Yuanji said with a smile: "Are you scared?"
Li Shentong was completely stunned. After his eyes moved slightly, he shook his head and said, "How is that possible!"
Li Yuanji shook his head with a smile, took out a letter from the secret box beside him, and handed it to Li Shentong, "Read it yourself!"
Li Shentong quickly took the letter, opened it and read it at a glance. After reading the letter, he stared and said, "You know everything?"
Li Yuanji nodded and said: "Nowadays, people in Chang'an City call Yu Wenbao my dog, and Yuwen is my puppy. Since he is my dog, how can he turn towards others?
What happened in Chang'an City, and they can still hide it from me?"
Li Shentong said with an embarrassed look: "I didn't mean to hide it from you. It was the saint who didn't let me tell you. I don't dare not listen to the saint's words."
Li Yuanji nodded and said: "I know, but since my father thinks what I say is reasonable, he has agreed to all the conditions I have put forward, and has chosen to support me, why bother to come here in person with the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty?"
Li Shentong hesitated for a moment and said: "Maybe the saint thinks that the throne can only be passed on to your brothers and cannot be passed on to your grandchildren, so he wants to come over and pass the throne to you. As for who you want to pass it to after you get the throne.
, that’s your business, he won’t interfere.”
Li Yuanji sighed and said: "If my father passes the throne to me, then I will immediately pass it to Chengde, so it makes no sense for him to do so."
Li Shentong retorted: "How could it be meaningless? You stopped the fighting between your brothers and even spared the lives of two brothers. With you as an example, future generations will fight no matter how fierce they are.
No matter how much you go too far, you won't kill your brother."
Li Yuanji shook his head and said: "Idiots are just dreaming. If future generations really regard our ancestors as examples and take our moral failings as a warning in everything, then it will be no matter whether it is Xia, Shang, Zhou or Qin.
, Han or Sui, they will not perish."
Facts have proved that when future generations use their ancestors as examples, they will only selectively follow some rules set by their ancestors that are beneficial to themselves, and will only use some things that happened to their ancestors that are beneficial to themselves as examples.
The same is true when civil and military officials assist the king. They will also use some examples and rules that are beneficial to them from the previous emperor, the previous emperor, and even the founding king to benefit themselves.
Therefore, the so-called ancestral law is actually a joke from beginning to end.
If there is an ancestral law that does not involve anyone's interests, then it will definitely be followed by future generations as a golden rule.
Or it may be treated as rubbish and discarded casually.
But if it involves the interests of some people, or the interests of the nobility, then it will be changed anytime and anywhere, replaced by new laws anytime and anywhere, abolished and re-established anytime and anywhere.
How to choose depends entirely on whose interests the mainstream people in the court support.
Therefore, it is difficult to realize what Li Shentong said. Li Shimin did this in history and wrote a book on how to be an emperor, teaching future generations to become emperors according to what was written in his book.
As a result, Li Zhi married his little mother as soon as he came to power.
Li Yuanji was sure that in the "Emperor Fan" written by Li Shimin for Li Zhi, there was absolutely no provision for Li Zhi to marry his younger mother.
It can be seen from this that any ancestral law or ancestral example is nothing in the eyes of future generations.
If they want to defend, they can defend. If they don't want to defend, no one can do anything to them.
"Then doing it is better than not doing it, right? If you don't do anything, then future generations will not be able to find an example to follow from their ancestors."
Li Shentong couldn't help but continue to argue.
Li Yuanji smiled and asked: "When you die, do you decide where you will be buried?"
Li Shentong was stunned for a moment. He really couldn't control this.
Even if he had decided on a place in advance, it would be no match for the weather. If God didn't want him to be buried there and some disaster destroyed the place, he would have to find another place.
If the person in power waved his hand and asked him to go to the underworld and continue to be Li Yuan's younger brother, then he would be hidden in Li Yuan's mausoleum.
Even if he escapes this, if future generations are unfilial, they may dig him out and hide him somewhere else.
Therefore, even if he carved this kind of thing on an iron plate, posted it on the wall of his home, and gave countless instructions to his children and grandchildren, he still wouldn't be able to decide.
"Now, do you still think that we can influence everything for future generations?"
Li Yuanji saw Li Shentong fell into silence and continued to ask with a smile.
Li Shentong shook his head in despair.
Li Yuanji continued: "So, what we can do is to do our own thing well, and don't think about dictating everything about future generations. Maybe we are tired of pointing fingers, and people still don't want to see us, and they still don't want to see us during the holidays."
You won’t worship us.”
Li Shentong nodded stiffly, feeling an urge to beat his children and grandchildren to vent his anger.
Don't care whether they will be filial or not in the future, or whether they will listen to his last words, let's give him a good beating first.
This is called guarding against subtle changes!
"If you can, please go back for me and tell me that there is no need for my father to come, and there is no need to pass the throne to me. By the way, tell Shi Wanbao and ask him to find out who in Chang'an City is spreading the news that Yu Wenbao is my dog.
Just do whatever you want to do with it after it comes out!"
Seeing that Li Shentong was convinced by him, Li Yuanji immediately began to give orders to Li Shentong.
When Li Shentong heard this, he stared in astonishment and said, "You have to care about such a trivial matter?"
Li Shentong was talking about Yu Wenbao.
Li Yuanji smiled calmly and said: "They said Yu Wenbao is my dog, so you should know that beating a dog depends on the owner. And I am obviously not a talkative owner!"
When Li Shentong heard this, he didn't know what to say. He cupped his hands hastily and walked out of the cabin.
When he walked to the door of the house, he suddenly stopped and turned around and said: "Don't keep the beauty Hou Junji gave me!"
Li Yuanji said dumbfounded: "Don't worry, there won't be any missing. If there are missing, I will ask Hou Junji to give you ten or eight more!"
Li Shentong nodded with satisfaction and said, "That's good!"
After saying this, Li Shentong felt no nostalgia and left the camp in a hurry.
…
Time flies and it’s July again.
In July, the fire is flowing, and the grassland is crisp and clear. Horses, sheep, and cows are having fun.
After Hou Junji reached the border of the Western Turks, he finally stopped. After Yin Kaishan captured Sanmi Mountain, he led his army to sweep all the places west and south of Sanmi Mountain and north of Hepantuo.
Li Shiji finally survived until Ashinasheer surrendered.
After all, Ashina Sheer was a kind-hearted person. After running out of ammunition and food, he did not choose to adopt the Ashina loyalist's suggestion of eating people, but chose to surrender.
On the day of surrender, it is said that the sky was bleeding and the earth was wailing. It was quite miserable.
It seems to be lamenting the decline of a great nation, and also seems to be feeling sad for the decline of a great nation.
This is what is said in the documents of Li Shiji, Yu Chigong, Cheng Yaojin and others.
However, according to the gossip handed back by Li Chengqian, the so-called sky is bleeding refers to the red clouds all over the sky, and the so-called earth is wailing is when Li Shiji led his people to deliver meals to the people under Ashina Sheer.
Some people are crying.
They were not moved, but felt sad for the decline of the Turks.
After they surrendered, the Eastern Turks were completely destroyed, and the Western Turks were only a matter of time away from being destroyed.
The Turkic nation may be about to disappear, so they feel sad.
However, even if they cried tears of blood, nothing would change.
"Your Highness, a letter from His Highness Prince Xinxing County!"
In the palace, after Li Yuanji read Li Chengqian's small report, Chu Suiliang handed him a letter. Standing next to Chu Suiliang was Chai Lingwu, who had followed Chu Suiliang.
After arriving, I had to go find Wang Xuance, but after chatting with Gao Kan for a few days, I found Gao Kan interesting again, so I shamelessly decided to stay in front of my uncle's tent as a halberd bearer.
However, his official rank was much higher than that of Zhiji Lang, so Li Yuanji temporarily appointed him as the chief historian of Xingyuanli to assist Chu Suiliang in handling some miscellaneous matters.
Li Yuanji looked at the letter sent by Chu Suiliang and said with a headache: "Are you complaining about Li Shiji again?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Chu Suiliang suppressed a smile and nodded. He thought this emerging prince of Turkic origin was very interesting. Such a high-ranking official could actually complain about others, and even directly gave him power.
who complained.
Li Yuanji took Ashina Simo's letter, read it quickly, and said to Chu Suiliang: "Draft a document and give it to Li Shiji, asking Li Shiji to hand over the rest of the war in the northwest and northeast of the Western Turks to Ashina Simo.
Snasimo.”
When Ashina Simo wrote a letter to complain about Li Shiji, it was not unreasonable, but a real grievance.
Li Shiji asked for orders to transfer them to Jinshan. As a result, they rushed to Jinshan with 150,000 people. Li Shiji ignored them and waited until they could no longer wait and asked about them. The main battle had already been fought.
, and there is no room for others to exert themselves, so how can they not feel aggrieved?
If it were Li Yuanji, Li Yuanji would also feel wronged.
Isn't Li Shiji just playing tricks on people? He is still teasing 150,000 people. The problem is very serious and compensation must be made.
"Here!"
After Chu Suiliang agreed, he went to draft the document.
Chai Lingwu Ze took advantage of this emptiness and stepped forward, licking his face and saying with a smile: "Uncle, please let Gao Kan and I go fight with General Hou, and we will go and make meritorious service for you."
Li Yuanji rolled his eyes at Chai Lingwu and said, "I think you think I'm sleeping too peacefully. If you do anything wrong, your mother will come here to take my life."
Since the conflict between the brothers was alleviated and there was no fear of life, Li Xiuning returned to the family physically and mentally, and his love for Chai Zhewei and Chai Lingwu doubled day by day.
So it was okay to let Chai Lingwu go out and take risks in the past, but if he lets Chai Lingwu go out and take risks now, Li Xiuning will definitely explode.
From Li Xiuning's point of view, neither his Lao Chai family nor our Lao Li family lacks food for her two sons. There is no need to fight on the battlefield to gain any fame.
Others have to risk their lives for this thing, but she doesn't need it. She just needs to open her mouth to get it, and her sons don't need it either. One can just wait to inherit their father's title, and the other can go to his uncle to sell a weirdo.
Everything is available.
Anyway, no matter who was the emperor in the Tang Dynasty, he was their uncle and could not lose out to his nephew.
Therefore, Li Yuanji said that he would not let Chai Lingwu go to Hou Jun to gather troops.
Hou Junji seems to be majestic now, but the danger factor is already full. No one knows when the Turks and Westerners who have been beaten by him will gather together to plot against him, so Hou Junji's army
I can't go there now.
When Chai Lingwu heard this, he patted his chest and promised: "Don't worry, if I really die in battle, my mother will never come to trouble you!"
Li Yuanji rolled his eyes at Chai Lingwu again and ignored him.
If he believes this kind of trick to fool a fool, then he will be a fool.
"uncle!"
"roll!"
"okay!"
Seeing that Chai Lingwu was about to act coquettishly and cutely, Li Yuanji straightened his face and decisively told him to get lost. He also knew the importance and left quickly.
After all, it is natural for an uncle to beat his nephew, and his fragile nephew cannot withstand his uncle's beating.
No one in the Tang Dynasty could withstand his uncle's beating!
