Xiangyang.
After more than half a year, he returned to Xiangyang.
Li Chao went home to live directly, and the family was still the same old way, and the old men who stayed to watch the house and some old servants and mothers-in-law all happily welcomed Li Chao home.
Li Sixing plundered in Jiangxia, but he was quite honest in Xiangyang.
In addition, not long after he entered Xiangyang, Li Chao led the army to arrive, and he surrendered immediately, and Xiangyang was still well preserved.
"A few days ago, some soldiers came over a few times, but they didn't dare to mess around."
The old servant reported to Li Chao that everything was fine in the Li Mansion.
Because before the Hanjing turmoil, Ke Qing sent his family members from Hanjing to Wudang Mountain, and Li Yuan did not catch the Li family's family members as hostages.
Later, he tried to win over Li Chao as the king, but Li Chao's industry was not touched.
After Li Chao Hongzhou broke Liu Zhenghui, Li Chao's property in Hanjing was seized by Li Yuan, but he came quickly in Xiangyang and did not move.
In fact, money is a trivial matter, and it is good for the family to have nothing to do.
"When will the mistress and Xiaolangjun come back?"
The old servant Zhang Luo bought a lot of dishes such as chicken, duck, fish, etc., and set up a banquet to welcome Li Chao.
He also deliberately pulled an old ox from Lijia Zhuangzi outside the city and slaughtered it, because Zhenguan had smooth trade with the Turks, Tuyuhun, Khitan and other countries in recent years, and a large number of livestock were imported into the Central Plains.
Not only is there no shortage of war horses, but there is also no shortage of ploughing cattle and horses, and there are even many cattle that are directly transported to various places for slaughter and meat.
The imperial court also relaxed its control over the slaughter of cattle, and it was generally enough to report it.
"They are now in Lushan, Hongzhou, and I have sent someone to pick them up, just in time to come back for the New Year."
The old cattle that plough the fields are actually more delicious than veal.
Although the meat is older, it is sweeter, and with beef liver and tripe, etc., to make a dish of beef eight fresh, the real fresh and sweet.
Li Chao originally planned to let Thirteen Niang and them go to Dengzhou to live for a while, but Cui Yingying was worried about her family.
In this turmoil, Li Chao's loss is actually not small.
Not to mention the huge losses of Li Ji's industries in Hanjing, Xiangyang, Luoyang, Taiyuan, Yangzhou, Hongzhou and other important big pools because of the turmoil, and because of the war, the entire industry and commerce have stagnated and even regressed.
Fortunately, the Li family is also a big family, and this loss can still be beared.
Cui Yingying, Zheng Hongxian, Zhao Siniang and a group of women were distressed to death.
Li Chao felt that after this turmoil, the new law would definitely be unhindered, and the Li family's industry would have broad prospects.
After staying in Xiangyang for a few days, Cui Yingying and the others had not yet arrived, but Wang Chengen arrived with his three military horses.
Leading 60,000 troops ashore at the east wharf of Xiangyang City, Wang Chengen also had a feeling of high spirits.
In the past, I just followed the emperor and was just an internal servant, serving the emperor and living, and I really didn't feel the taste of commanding thousands of troops.
However, Wang Chengen is still a relatively smart person, and after arriving in Xiangyang, he did not directly bring people into Xiangyang City.
He first stationed three corps outside the city, and then led the officers into the city to see Li Chao.
"King Yue is really amazing, once again he fought bloodlessly, and captured the important town of Xiangyang without a fight."
At this time, Xiangyang Li Chao also had a lot of soldiers and horses in his hands.
He had brought with him 8,000 men, and there were 2,000 on board, which was 10,000 horses.
Yangzhou was not attacked, and there were almost no casualties in the water battle in Hongzhou.
It was 10,000 people when I set out from Dengzhou, and it was still so many when I arrived in Xiangyang.
Li Sixing led more than 10,000 men and horses to surrender, and the 20,000 people led by Liu Shilong, Guangluqing, who came to reinforce before, surrendered.
Li Chao also has more than 40,000 under his command.
Originally, according to Li Chao's meaning, the 30,000 soldiers surrendered, but in fact, there were few real soldiers, and he planned to train and then send them to his hometown with road expenses.
But before Wang Chengen, Hongzhou was in front of the whole army, and Li Chao also left people behind.
Although these people are purely a waste of rations, but from another point of view, after all, these people have participated in the restoration of the Emperor Taishang, and if they are directly sent home, they will be used by some local guys when they are not done, or they will be used by some local guys, or they will be in trouble in the township.
If you stay here, you can at least manage it.
First, it will strengthen the momentum, and second, it will not be easy to cause chaos when the situation calms down before putting it back.
Wang Chengen seems to be addicted to leading troops now.
As soon as he saw Li Chao, he first proposed to integrate the troops in Xiangyang.
Wang Chengen originally planned to organize two armies, but Li Chao wanted the Huai army to become an independent army, and the addition of those rabbles would not only not improve the combat effectiveness, but would only drag it down.
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Therefore, in the end, Xiangyang's troops were organized into three armies.
Li Chao's Huai army of 10,000 people formed one army alone, and the other 30,000 people were organized into two armies, each with 15,000 troops.
As a result, Wang Chengen, the envoy who watched the army, also looked at the appearance of 100,000 troops.
"King Yue, the rebels in Xiangyang City must be eliminated first."
Wang Chengen proposed to Li Chao to clean Xiangyang.
"This is what Your Majesty meant," Li Chao asked.
There were only two people in the study, and Wang Chengen readily admitted.
"This time, the restoration of the Emperor Taishang and the number of people who participated in the rebellion shocked His Majesty and made him angry.
When I come, Your Majesty will confess that there will be no forgiveness or mercy on those who are rebellious. ” Li Chao was silent.
In fact, he is more opposed to a large-scale purge in his heart, and it is necessary to make an example of killing chickens appropriately, but if it becomes a comprehensive purge, it will not be a good thing.
After this turmoil, the good situation of Datang was seriously damaged and its vitality was greatly damaged.
If there is another big purge, it will hurt the muscles and bones.
Those people deserve to die, but killing people is never the solution.
Killing all opponents is just an ideal state, and in reality, there are very few people who can really do this, and they are very few successful.
It's like the end of the dynasty, the heroes rebelled.
Why can't so many peasant armies succeed, and in the end it is often those powerful nobles who seize the world?
Because many peasant armies did not have a long-term vision, they only knew how to burn, kill and loot, and did not even know how to unite, and they only blindly killed and looted those nobles, bureaucrats, and landlords, and in doing so, they often led to their defeat.
Why Li Yuan succeeded at the end of the Sui Dynasty Because Li Yuan can unite all forces, regardless of whether there are differences or not, find a way to pull them together first.
Li Shimin could not kill many of the Shi landlords because they opposed him.
After the Xuanwumen Incident, if he came to a big purge, I was afraid that the world would be in chaos.
But on the other hand, in Li Shimin's view, this turmoil is precisely because he was too soft-hearted. 、 Now the emperor has decided to be tough.
Li Chao should have written against it, persuading the emperor that it was wrong.
But in the end, Li Chao didn't plan to say anything.
At this time, the emperor may not be able to listen to whatever he says, especially his words, and the emperor is even more likely to not listen to him.
"Since the prince has the emperor's will, then the prince will let it go, and he will obey the order."
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