Chapter Seventy-Four: The Tang Dynasty Regarding Songtsen Gampo's peace this time, almost everyone understands that this is just his strategy to delay the army, and the most important thing for the Tang Dynasty to do is to take advantage of the victory to pursue, defeat the main force of Tubo in one fell swoop, hit the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and take the entire territory of Tubo.
However, although everyone understands, but they can't stand the fact that Tubo is rich, all kinds of money and goods are stuffed into the homes of the Tang nobles, although some important ministers have doubled the gifts back, but there are also some people who accept the generous gifts of Tubo, and then pretend to be confused, and the cliché says that the killing is too heavy, and it hurts the sky and Yunyun......
Li Shimin obviously knew that these people had received gifts, but the civil official group was too large and pressed step by step, so that Li Shimin almost agreed.
Fortunately, Li Zhen was aware of it in advance, and had already mentioned this to Li Shimin the day before, thinking of what Li Zhen had said to him, Li Shimin finally gritted his teeth and did not let go.
Not only did they not let go, but they also took advantage of this to lose their temper, investigated and punished a large number of bribe-taking officials, and severely suppressed the civilian-official clique.
However, the civilian clique did not give up, and in the face of Li Shimin's suppression, not only did not shrink back and lick the wounds, but went more and more excessively, and every time Datang defeated a country in the future, they would stand up and continue to fight.
Especially this time to personally conquer Goguryeo, when all preparations were made, Li Shimin finally announced his battle plan in the court.
The family and the Confucian group immediately panicked, and even more desperately opposed.
Of course, they did not do this to fight with Li Shimin, the Confucian group is not so childish, and the reason why they do this is purely to protect themselves.
The reason is very simple, why did Li Shimin know that most of the underground civil official collectives had decayed, but he still did not make great efforts to clean up the civilian official group?
Could it be that he really has no spare talents, so he can only rely on Confucianism and family power?
Of course not.
There are many people who want to be officials in this world, and people with talents but no way to serve the country can be seen everywhere, as long as Li Shimin dares to remove the people of the civilian official group, some people are willing to sacrifice their loyalty and step on the corpses of their predecessors to ascend to the throne.
But there is a question, such a large-scale purge of officialdom is bound to cause national turmoil, will those alien races who have been coveting the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty take advantage of the weakness to enter the well, fall into the well, and take advantage of the chaos of the Tang Dynasty to give the Tang Dynasty a ruthless one?
Don't even think about it, this is bound to happen, and it is likely that the alien race that will attack is not one, but many countries attacking at the same time, and the impact will be catastrophic.
What's more, some people may even lure wolves into the house and take the initiative to let aliens into the Central Plains, bringing boundless disasters to Datang, and may even shake the foundation of Datang.
This is also the main reason why Li Shimin did not dare to move Confucianism before, not that he couldn't move, but that he didn't dare to move, and if he moved, the country might be ruined.
But now it is different, and Li Shimin has begun to cut out external threats.
Datang's external threats are basically concentrated in three directions, namely the north, west, south and northeast.
The good thing to say in the north is the Turks, and this was done more than ten years ago, so I won't say much.
Then there is the west, the western Tubo, Gaochang and Tuyuhun have been destroyed, and the Anxi Protectorate has also been established, and a big nail has been planted in the Western Regions, so there is basically no need to worry about the threat here.
That is to say, now, in addition to the Western Turks, the threat of the Tang Dynasty in the west has been eliminated.
Although there is also a Western Turk, but the Western Turk is a big country, Datang does not know how many spies are planted in it, any military movement there will cause Datang to be alarmed, and make a full response at the first time, there is no need to worry about the Western Turks will suddenly attack.
Then there is the south, not to mention the south, mainly Nanyang and Tianzhu, Tianzhu and Datang are separated by a Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Himalayas, basically do not worry.
In other words, the threat to the south of the Tang Dynasty is basically only one in the Indochina Peninsula.
But now on the Indochina Peninsula, except for one Six Edicts, the rest of the countries have been destroyed, and the entire Indochina Peninsula has been included in the Tang Dynasty.
Even the remaining six edicts were surrounded by Datang on all sides, trembling under Datang's soldiers.
The reason why the six edicts were left, Li Zhen also took into account that the six edicts belonged to the later generations of Yunnan Province, and also belonged to the Chinese bloodline, not to mention that the warriors had super combat effectiveness (the six edicts were mountainous, and the people who came out of the mountains were all natural infantry, just like the people who came out of the grassland were born cavalry), and the conquest by force would only bring losses to the Tang Dynasty, far better than a peaceful solution, not only to reduce the losses, but also to add a lot of excellent soldiers to the Tang Dynasty, killing two birds with one stone.
And in the face of the solicitation of the Tang Dynasty, the chiefs of the Six Edicts naturally welcomed it with both hands, especially after hearing that the Six Edicts would be merged into the Tang Dynasty and the people of the Six Edicts would become the people of the Tang Dynasty.
It's not that they are so easy to be content, it's really what Datang did in Nanyang, which made the six edicts almost crazy.
At every turn, the clan became slaves, toiling to death in dark slave camps......
It's horrible.
Compared with what happened to them, the treatment of the six edicts is much better, not only can they become the people of the Tang Dynasty and enjoy all the treatment enjoyed by the people of the Tang Dynasty, but they can also send soldiers from the clan to join the Tang army, conquer the Quartet, and make meritorious contributions and be promoted to become generals......
It's not a good day.
Therefore, Nanyang has basically been annexed by the Tang Dynasty, and the threat of the south has also been lifted.
The northern, western, and southern threats were eliminated, and the Tang Dynasty was left with only one Goguryeo in the northeast, as well as the Ya tribes.
Now Li Shimin is preparing to drive the imperial expedition again, and the troops are pointing at Goguryeo, and the Tang Dynasty is fully prepared for this battle, and the outcome of the war will basically not have much variable, and Goguryeo will lose.
In the northeast, only Goguryeo can be regarded as a little threat to the Tang Dynasty, and the rest, such as Silla and Baekje, are all small countries in Pun, and the Tang Dynasty only needs one wave to conquer them.
Although the Tatar tribes are strong, they are also divided into several forces, and there are many internal contradictions, and the Tang Dynasty does not need to send troops at all, as long as they pull a group to fight a batch, they can make no effort and let the Tatar tribes fight among themselves.
In other words, as long as Goguryeo is destroyed, there will basically be no enemies outside the Tang Dynasty, so where will Li Shimin aim his butcher's knife next?
There is no doubt that it is naturally the family and Confucianism that once opposed him and forced him to be embarrassed, the family and Confucianism brought so much trouble to Li Shimin before, and now that the external enemies are cleared, it is time to solve the internal enemies.