Zhao Wudi's name entered the sight of Empress Wu for the first time, and it left a deep impression in Empress Wu's heart, and thanks to the east wind of Shuo Fang's victory, it was still a very good impression.
For a child of a poor family, being able to be in the emperor's heart and let the Empress Wu take the initiative to remember your name is even more rare than being a petty official, which can be described as a God-given opportunity, but it is hard to find.
How many people in the world have their heads hanging beams, cones and thorns, and they have been studying hard for decades, and they have turned over several baskets of sage books, hoping that one day they will be able to jump over the dragon gate like the golden carp, and be able to rank in the court and see the face of the sky, but a few people can succeed For the children of the poor family, the career is just like the big wave of sand, wave after wave, wave after wave, in the end, what can be left is only a few luckiest golden sands.
Shizi is like this, and the warriors are no exception, the Tang army has the Northern Ya Tianzi pro-army, the Southern Ya Sixteen Guards, plus hundreds of folded Chongfu, as well as the border troops in various places, the total number is not only tens of millions, and the low-level officers among them can be described as countless, unless it is a coincidence to make a world-class achievement, but also to meet a benevolent general who is not greedy for the merits of his subordinates, it is possible to ascend to the sky in one step and squeeze into the ranks of Zhu Fuzi.
According to the regulations of the official system of the Tang Dynasty, the color of the official court clothes is divided into four types: green, green, crimson and purple according to the different grades, specifically the green clothes above the ninth grade, the green robe above the seventh grade, the scarlet robe above the fifth grade, and the purple robe above the third grade.
Therefore, anyone who can wear a scarlet robe and a purple robe is an official of the fifth grade or above, and it can be regarded as a bloody way out of the army of officials who cross the river and rank among the high-ranking officials.
The question of how many scholars, how many low-level officials, and how many grass-roots officers are there in the entire Tang Dynasty cannot be answered even by the officials of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Officials.
Now, Zhao Wudi was lucky enough to be inadvertently remembered by the Empress Wu, and intentionally cultivated and put it to great use, as the saying goes, his ancestral tomb was smoking However, this is just the inner thoughts of the martial queen, and for a while, it cannot be realized.
Because Zhao Wushu was still far away in front of Shuofang's army, thousands of miles away from the divine capital, he couldn't immediately recruit him to come to meet him.
And whether he is a tiger or a sick cat, the martial queen still has doubts in her heart.
Before seeing and taking the school examination in person, the martial queen, who has always been cautious about selecting talents, will definitely not make a presumptuous assertion just based on Qin Huaiyu's words.
In front of him, although Shuofang won a big victory, annihilated the 50,000 army of the small Turkic Khan Kubli in one fell swoop, and dealt a heavy blow to the Turks.
However, this does not mean that the war in the north has subsided, on the contrary, the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks has just begun, and the real big war and bitter battle are still to come, and when the 300,000 Tang troops under Wu Sansi and Sha Zha Zhongyi arrive in the north, it will be the decisive battle between the two sides.
In fact, as far as the current overall situation and the results of the first stage are concerned, if you count the losses of the 120,000 troops of the Wuyi Sect in Yunzhou, which was deliberately concealed by the Empress Wu, on the whole, Mo Si still has the upper hand.
And the Tang Dynasty can be described as a big defeat and a fiasco, and its battle losses exceeded the number of Turks by many times, which made the Empress Wu have a toothache when he thought about it.
Yunzhou Wu Yizong fled without a fight, burying 120,000 troops in one fell swoop, plus the losses of other border cities, this first stage alone made the Tang Dynasty lose nearly 200,000 soldiers.
At the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the standing army was only five or six hundred thousand, and after several expansions in the Gaozong Dynasty, it is now only nearly one million.
Empress Wu hated Wu Yizong in her heart, if Wu Yizong stood in front of her now, she would definitely catch him and beat him violently, otherwise it was not enough to calm the hatred in her heart However, Wu Yizong was her nephew, and she was also the one who overrode public opinion and insisted on going her own way, ignoring the advice of the prime ministers of the political affairs hall, and forcibly pushed him to the position of the governor of Yunzhou.
If Wu Yizong's affairs were revealed, it was hard to imagine how the subjects of the world who knew the truth would look at the Wu family and the families of those fallen soldiers, and whether they would lose confidence in the court and her Therefore, Wu Yizong's loss of Yunzhou cannot be made public, at least not in the immediate future.
Only wait until Wu Sansi recovers Yunzhou, cleans up the relevant hands, and transfers all the responsibility for the defeat of Yunzhou to Cheng Boxian's head, and then conveys the so-called "truth" to the ministers, so that they can discuss the guilt to Cheng Boxian and the old Cheng family.
The so-called "the mouth of the people is better than the mouth of the Sichuan", even if you are the emperor who is high, you can't do a word and block the mouth of the people of the world.
Yang Guang, the former Yang Emperor of the Sui Dynasty, was anxious for quick success and quick profit, and he gathered the strength of the whole country to develop the Grand Canal and Sanyu Goryeo, exhausting the national and people's strength, making the whole world complain and miserable.
Empress Wu knows the way to govern the country and the people, and can guide and divert the attention of all the people in the world, but she must not blindly fool and deceive.
Taking history as a mirror, the martial queen will never repeat the mistakes of Emperor Yang of Sui.
Therefore, she can temporarily conceal the truth of the defeat in Yunzhou, but it is only temporary, and its purpose is nothing more than to gain time, so that Wu Sansi can implement the plan of stealing beams and changing pillars, transferring flowers and trees, and transferring the anger of the people of the world to Cheng Boxian's head, so as to fish out Wu Yizong.
As for whether Cheng Boxian and the old Cheng family suffered an unwarranted disaster, Empress Wu did not have a trace of guilt or guilt in her heart.
But those who achieve great things are not informal, and if someone succeeds, someone must act as a stepping stone, and even some people will inevitably become victims.
Since Cheng Boxian is on the wrong team, and since the old Cheng family is wholeheartedly the filial son of Li Tang, then, as a political enemy, he is a life-and-death war opponent.
This is to transfer the crisis, so as to divert the attention of the subjects of the world, for this set, the martial queen who fought all the way from the Nine Palaces, it is very familiar, and there is no need to think about it.
The crisis of Yunzhou's defeat found a scapegoat, and Shuofang's victory came in such a timely manner, thus changing the sluggish and decadent atmosphere in the court, and greatly boosting the morale of the army and the people.
Empress Wu was originally mentally prepared for the fall of Shuofang, and sent Wu Sansi and Shazha Zhongyi armies totaling 300,000 respectively, bent on seeking a decisive battle for Mosi, so as to regain the lost land and restore the lost glory.
Now, for Empress Wu, Shuo Fang has become a variable, and although this variable has completely annihilated the 50,000 iron cavalry of the Little Khan Kubli, there are still nearly 200,000 people in the north who control the strings, can the thousands of wounded soldiers in Qin Huaiyu's hands be able to hold it: