Li Jing's gentleman is cautious, or he has successfully lived as a single husband, and in his lifetime, with his unnatural military exploits and irreplaceable position as the first person in the army, he has not exposed too many hidden dangers.
However, after his death, he left a "rich legacy" to his children and grandchildren, more precisely, aftermath.
The cause of the past is the fruit of the coming day.
The cause that Li Jing planted, and the bitter fruit that thus bears, will naturally be swallowed by his descendants.
There is no retirement with the country, no Danshu iron coupons, no hereditary honors, and no care for the noble class and the entire Jiangmen, after three generations and decades, since his grandson Li Jingzhi inherited the Sanyuan County Prince, he has basically been idle at home, eating and waiting for death.
It was only six years ago that the Turkic Mosi Great Khan raided Yinshan, resulting in the outbreak of the Yinshan War, and the Tang Dynasty was in an extremely unfavorable and imminent collapse situation, Li Jingzhi was able to worship the general and lead an army alone, relying on a surprise attack to defeat the enemy's edge, and kill the Turkic five thousand iron cavalry in one fell swoop, helping the Tang Dynasty win time to breathe, and was able to calmly gather 500,000 troops to gather in Yinshan, and fight the Turks with absolute superiority in strength, thus achieving a defeat and barely acceptable ending.
The reason why the prime ministers nominated Li Jingzhi was based on many considerations.
First of all, I want to thank Li Jing for living as a lone husband, so that in the battle for imperial power between Li Tang and the Wu family, Li Jingzhi does not belong to the people who need to be guarded against by the Wu family.
Secondly, in the Battle of Yinshan six years ago, Li Jingzhi was still very impressive when he was ordered to be in danger, and he had the capital to be a famous general.
This time, let him lead the troops to Shuofang, it should still be reassuring, even if the attack is insufficient, but the defense is still no problem.
Anyway, sooner or later, the Turks will have to retreat to Yinshan, and after they retreat, they will follow behind to receive it.
Li Jingzhi is not Li Tang's die-hard loyalist, and he is not branded with Li Tang, although he is also not loyal to Empress Wu, but as long as it is not a stumbling block to Empress Wu, I believe that as a compromise and balance, she will agree.
Actually, in the heart of the Empress Wu, he still doesn't want to use Li Jingzhi.
Although there are no available people among the Wu family's nephews, she still prefers to use the veteran Shazha Zhongyi.
As for the reason is very simple, Shazha Zhongyi is not a Han person, but a Shatuo person, who has always been regarded as a foreign race in the Tang Dynasty, and has been squeezed out by the scholars, so he can only choose to be loyal to the Empress Wu, and has no other choice.
However, since the prime ministers of the political hall recommended Li Jingzhi together, it is not easy for Empress Wu to refuse.
The game of power between monarchs and ministers is a mutual compromise again and again, and for the courtiers to play some innocuous little actions and cleverness behind their backs, as long as they are not too excessive and do not break through her bottom line, under normal circumstances, they can only turn a blind eye and turn a blind eye, and it is not easy to find out.
Although she is strong, she is almost obsessed with the game of thrones, and she tirelessly fights with the sky, the earth, and people, and has endless fun.
However, it is impossible for a huge empire to be played by her alone.
Just as courtiers can't do without her if they need power, so powerful as a martial queen is also inseparable from courtiers.
After all, a person's power is limited, and it is impossible to do everything in detail.
After she set the general direction, how to improve and implement and track the process and results of the implementation are inseparable from the courtiers.
Therefore, although Li Jingzhi was not what she thought, she still decided to compromise and fulfill the small wishes of the prime ministers.
This is the art of the emperor, the way of control, one relaxation, one tightening and one loosening, that is, as the saying goes, a slap and then a sweet date.
You just slap someone, don't give benefits to coax, and after a long time, you will find that when you stretch out the slap, you look around and look at the dazed, and you can't find a face to beat.
On the contrary, it is not enough to just give sweet dates without slapping them, and after a long time, people will have no sense of awe, and they have become accustomed to eating sweet dates.
If one day you forget to give sweet dates, the courtiers will hate you because of disappointment, and betray you, and then take revenge on you.
Just when Empress Wu decided to compromise and reward the prime ministers with a sweet date, an accident happened Xiao Wenzi hurriedly entered, knelt down in front of the imperial case of the Empress Wu with a letter of 800 miles in both hands, and said hurriedly: "After the enlightenment of the heavens, Lou Shide, the deputy protector of Anxi and the ambassador of Anxi Tuntian, played an 800-mile rush, and the military department did not dare to delay, so it was urgently presented to the emperor. ” When Empress Wu heard this, her face was solemn, and her heart and liver that had just been relaxed instantly picked up again, and her slender long eyebrows couldn't help frowning, and even her plump and white hands were trembling slightly.
She was thinking about it repeatedly in her heart, guessing all kinds of possibilities, and the most disturbing thing for her was that the Western Turks and the Tubo people were also uneasy, and they were in cahoots with the Eastern Turks Mosi, taking advantage of the time when Mosi was attacking the northern frontier of the Tang Dynasty, echoing each other from afar, and robbing while the fire was burning.
Although I was sad in my heart, I couldn't help but look at the music in my hand.
She took a deep breath, calmed her mind, opened Lou Shide's recital, and looked at it very carefully.
It seems that Lou Shide did not write a chapter, but a splendid article written when he participated in the imperial examination, and the words were beautiful, so that the Empress Wu did not want to miss every word.
It's a pity that Empress Wu's face is getting more and more ugly, or more and more eccentric.
A sneer appeared at the corner of Empress Wu's mouth, and she secretly wondered in her heart: "The Turks unusually sent troops in the cold and freezing season in winter, and it was really not a whim, but a premeditated action.
The Turks attacked the northern frontier, the Tibetans raised troops in the west, and the Western Turks were also ready to move, and the three sides echoed each other from afar, trying to catch me off guard, so as to take care of one and lose the other.
Gao Ming, Gao Ming's insidious and vicious plan is not something that a barbarian like Mo Si can come up with, needless to say that it is Xu Jingye's miscellaneous plan.
And Xu Jingye, a Han race whose ancestors have been Han for generations, served the barbarians, and still took the initiative to defect, and he was desperate, which really made me unable to understand. ” Empress Wu rolled up the chapter again, and instructed Xiao Wenzi: "Xiao Wenzi, pass this chapter to all the ministers." ” Empress Wu's move is a bit of a bad taste, just like fighting with the prime ministers.
Don't you muttering behind your back, I like to be dictatorial This time, I will never be arbitrary about the affairs of Anxi, so I will let you bother your mind and think of a perfect plan to quell the Anxi rebellion for me.
First of all, the chief Bingbi of the political affairs hall and Nei Shi Wei Fangzhi took Lou Shide's recital, read it carefully, looked at it and took a big breath of cold air, and touched his cheeks with a dry left hand, as if he had a terrible toothache Wei Fangzhen didn't say a word after reading it, just sighed vigorously, and casually passed the chapter to the left servant Wang Fangqing beside him.
Wang Fangqing looked at it and saw that his face was as black as ink, but his mouth was closed tightly, and he threw the letter to Cen Changqian, the Chinese scholar, like a hot charcoal fire: