People will have special emotions in different places based on their own experiences. This emotion is not only reflected in emotional feelings, but also directly affects the person's physical state.

For example, the Empress Dowager's love for Luoyang far exceeds that of Chang'an. When she was about to set off in Chang'an, the Empress Dowager's physical condition was still very poor. The saint even worried that she could withdrew from a long distance and hesitated whether she should take the Empress Dowager with her.

However, as she officially embarked on the road, the Empress Dowager's mental state gradually improved. Especially after arriving in Luoyang and seeing the familiar human affairs again, the Empress Dowager completely lost her appearance and became more energetic.

Unlike his grandmother's unique feelings for Dongdu, Li Tong actually has no special love for Luoyang. Although rationally speaking, Heluo is more suitable as the ruling center of the Tang Dynasty than Guanzhong, emotionally speaking, Chang'an's weight in Li Tong's heart is still far more than Luoyang.

In fact, the city of Luoyang did not leave any beautiful experiences and memories for Li Tong. He was trembling when he first came to this world, fought for power with the kings of the Wu family step by step, and was worried about cleaning up the mess of his two living uncles during the Yasukuni period.

Although he is now the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty with great power, these past memories have not been forgotten in his mind. Although they are not usually reflected, he still has subconscious resistance to Luoyang, especially the Taichu Palace.

When he arrived in Luoyang, he rarely stayed in Taichu Palace except for the grand ceremonies and other grand ceremony occasions, and was more willing to live and work in Shangyang Palace during normal times.

Perhaps in the future, when he is old and weak, he will indulge in reminiscing of the old times like his grandmother, and will take time to visit the old places such as the Taichu Palace, the Renzhiyuan, and other places where he lived in previous years. But now, there are very few such feelings.

To be honest, the living environment in Luoyang is much better than that in Chang'an, especially in the Luoshui River, Shangyang Palace in summer, has beautiful scenery and abundant water vapor, without the heat and dryness on the Chang'an Dragon Shouyuan.

The people of Luoyang also welcomed the saints again to the Eastern Capital. In addition to the crowds coming to welcome the saints into the city, people often gathered in the south of Tianjin Bridge during the normal season, looking at the two palaces in Luobei, which have become popular again.

In the past few days since I arrived in Luoyang, the monarch and ministers have been adjusting their work and life conditions and have not immediately started to deal with military and national affairs.

In terms of official affairs, Prime Minister Song Jing had arrived in Luoyang a few months ago. The structure of the vocational affairs of hundreds of officials has been sorted out and built a good foundation. The ministers each perform their duties and get started very quickly.

But in terms of life, it varies from person to person. This time, there were more court officials who arrived in Luoyang with him than in the seventh year of Kaiyuan. A considerable number of these people did not have a fixed place of residence in Luoyang.

Although the court also solved some of these problems before the official transfer, only a small number of ministers in the court were taken care of, and most of the court officials still had to organize themselves.

In order to ensure that the court officials could settle down with peace of mind and concentrate on their work, the court also specially gave the ministers a season of money to the ministers. This amount of money was also quite considerable, greatly alleviating the expenditure pressure on the court officials in their home purchases and life.

This batch of rewards for wealth and goods benefited not only the officials in the court. After all, they also used them to consume in the market after receiving the gifts, which indirectly made Luoyang's market more prosperous, and all industries and people's livelihoods can benefit from it.

During this period, Luoyang's market's ability to withstand has been greatly reflected, especially in basic living needs such as food and clothing. Faced with the huge increase in consumption demand, the market conditions in Luoyang's industries have not fluctuated much, especially the grain prices, which have always been maintained at a relatively stable level, and there is no need to deliberately use the power of the court to calm down and regulate.

Although the commercial environment in Chang'an has become quite solid after several years of development, the problem of grain prices related to people's livelihood has always existed. Not only does it have significant fluctuations in every season, but it is also deeply affected by various factors such as poor harvests and stagnation. It is completely inferior to Luoyang's uniqueness.

The saint arrived in Luoyang in late June and did not arrange a major court meeting. He only summoned some representative figures from various industries on the Heluo surface to show kindness and condolences, leaving the court with more than ten days of buffering time.

It was not until July that the first dynasty meeting of the Luoyang court was held in the Mingtang of Taichu Palace. In addition to the civil and military officials inside and outside the Tang Dynasty, there were also the six masters and envoys of the chiefs of the six barbarians and Hu.

Although this is not the first time he presided over a grand ceremony in Mingtang, Li Tong is still excited whenever he arrives at this magnificent hall. In addition to feeling the ancient craftsmanship, the human affairs scenes he experienced in Mingtang also flash in his mind like glimpses.

In addition to announcing a series of personnel and government orders after the imperial court moved to the Eastern Capital, the most important event was the formal announcement of the expedition and storm of the Turkic tent in the northern desert. Zhang Ren, the general manager of Shuofang, led 200,000 Tang troops to the north today. At the same time, the Hu Fans' support troops would also go north in batches under the dispatch of the court.

Although everything was not at the beginning of Zhenguan, the remnants of Turkic remnants in the northern part of the Mohe River were no longer as strong as the era of the Eastern Turkic Jieli Khan. The power of the Tang Dynasty alone was enough to sweep it and pacify it, and there was no need to rely on the Hu to send troops to assist in the war.

But the relationship between the clan and vassal states is settled, and I don’t need it to be my business. If you don’t mean it, it will be a big problem. Even if you just send troops to Mobei for a trip, this is also an obligation that cannot be rejected by the people. By the way, let’s see what the consequences of those who go against me will die.

After the court meeting, the saint did not return to Shangyang Palace immediately, but summoned Song Jing and other important officials in the other hall of Mingtang to continue discussing the details of the Northern Expedition.

Although this military operation was planned for a long time and was officially announced today, the war will actually take a few months to start at the turn of autumn and winter.

In addition to the time it took to dispatch the soldiers and horses and materials from the Tang Dynasty to the front line, it also lies in the special nomadic living habits of the Turks. In spring and summer, the grasslands are abundant, and they migrate and nomadic, and they have no place to stay, making it extremely difficult to track them.

Only when the weather is cold and cold in autumn and winter, the Turkic tribes will gather together to resist the changes in the weather. Only when the troops are sent can we more accurately grasp the whereabouts of the main Turkic force and encircle them, and eliminate the living forces of the Turkic forces to the greatest extent, so as to achieve their contributions in one battle.

In the next few months, in addition to normal military preparations and dispatches, there is another important task, which is to connect and integrate the Hu forces in the north and south of the desert, eliminate the vassals around the Turks, thereby isolating the Turks and strengthening their momentum.

Although Jie Li Khan at that time caused the Turks to be resentful because of his cruelty and incompetence, he was still in a state of decline and his deterrence had not completely disappeared.

Today, the Turkic Mochu is far inferior to that of the past. Before the establishment of the Sanshoujiang City, the Turkic army was able to repeatedly invade the enemy, and its momentum was very strong. However, the first war launched by Mochu after taking over the throne of Khan ended in a crushing defeat, and was later isolated from the south of the desert by the Sanshoujiang City.

If the Tang Dynasty had not been busy with internal affairs and resting in the past few years, it would not have even left a breathing opportunity for Mochu. How many Turkic forces still remain, it would have been decided after the war. But if it was about external influence, it would be impossible to compare with the Jieli era.

Therefore, the Tang Dynasty's integration and isolation work before the war was also carried out very smoothly. After sorting out the personnel of the Hu's assisted forces, the Privy Councilor Guo Zhiyun made an instructor and said: "In this expedition, the people who helped the fight were more than 157,000, and the people who were overthrown by Hu Bang, and the total number of 180 were detained in the prefectures..."

This data had been summarized and sorted out as early as Chang'an, and it increased after being transferred to the Eastern Capital. It covered not only the Hu forces in the north and south of the desert, but also other areas that the Tang forces could influence.

When Li Tong heard this data, he also showed a gratified smile on his face. The country's major events are only rituals and military affairs. In normal times, it always lacks a direct reflection on how strong the Tang Dynasty's national strength and influence are, but it is quite specific in such major events.

In his early years, he personally led the army to fight against Tubo in Qinghai. Although there were many Hus who helped the war, it was not a little worse than the current data. Now, except for the Hu tribe forces with a closer relationship with the guest, the Tang Dynasty did not specifically issue a formal conscript order to Hu tribe, but these Hu tribes have already actively participated in the war.

What is reflected behind this is naturally that the national strength and deterrence of the Tang Dynasty have made great progress compared to the fourth year of Kaiyuan.

Many people may feel that the Northern Expedition and the Turks are about to fight, and the imperial court should not have caused a storm to rectify the people of the Tang and Hu in May. In addition, it also undermined the internal stability on the eve of the war, forcing the Hu to surrender to the Turks to fight against the Tang Dynasty together.

But this idea is too simple and one-sided. Not to mention that the Hu people are afraid of power but not virtue, they will not be close and obedient to the Tang Dynasty because of tolerance and indulgence. The key is that the Hu people who were rectified by the imperial court were not the same as the Hu forces that needed to be integrated on the eve of the war.

Those Hu people who entered the Tang Dynasty or from different tribes, but they had one thing in common, that is, they escaped from the original tribal environment and devoted themselves to the border of the Tang Dynasty, and used the protection provided by the Tang Dynasty to get rid of the control of the chief ruler who had been in charge of the past.

In the past, the Tang Dynasty had weak control in this regard, and Hu people from all sides entered the Tang Dynasty were also in an endless stream. This was a process of weakening the surrounding Hu forces. Now the Tang Dynasty has clear legislation, and the control of Hu people entering the Tang Dynasty was more strict and detailed, which to a certain extent also curbed the trend of Hu people entering the Tang Dynasty.

For those powerful surrounding Hu chiefs, they not only did not think that the promulgation of various Hu laws and regulations of the Tang Dynasty was too strict and harsh, but they even vaguely hoped that the laws and regulations in this regard would be more fierce.

After all, these decrees were only implemented within the territory of the Tang Dynasty and would not cover their respective tribal territories. No matter how strict they were, they would suffer less. This proves that the Tang Dynasty was not a lawless paradise, making the tribes no longer keen on escaping into the Tang Dynasty.

In the early years, whenever the Tang Dynasty had war, it needed to recruit nearby Hu forces, and even ordered the prefectures and county governments to expel the fleeing Hu in the territory and ordered the ban on recruiting Hu slaves.

Now the national strength is different from the past, and the posture does not need to be achieved that step, but strengthening the management of the Hu people in the country is actually a show of kindness to the surrounding Hu forces.

What determines the head is always just the butt, but it is never racial blood. Those Hu chiefs will never feel sympathy and grief and anger about the bad situation of the people who entered the Tang Dynasty.

In this long list of Binhu assisted battles, Li Tong discovered a strange existence, pointing to a font size on the list and said with surprise: "The Japanese envoy has not left the country yet?"

The Japanese sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty, not to mention that they were even longer. The most recent time was when the sages of the throne moved to Luoyang in the seventh year of Kaiyuan and focused on dealing with the dispute with Silla, the Japanese sent envoys to Luoyang.

Although there have been many studies on the conquest of the Tang envoys in the later generations of Japan, in this era, Japan's presence in the Tang Dynasty's tribute system is really not strong.

First, the power of Japan itself is insufficient. The biggest move was that when the Tang Dynasty attacked Baekje, Japan helped Baekje, but it was defeated by Liu Rengui in the Battle of Baijiangkou. It was also because of the importance of the three Korean issues that the Tang Dynasty specially sent envoys to scold Japan after the Battle of Baijiangkou.

The second is due to the geographical environment. Today, the ambitions of the Tang Dynasty's territory are only on land, and they are more keen to compete with the powerful forces on the mainland, but they are not very enthusiastic about overseas state forces and have not yet developed any desire to conquer.

Another reason is that the envoys sent to Tang in Japan during this period were of insignificance, and they knew very little about the customs and etiquette and culture of the Tang Dynasty. Even if they had any communication, they were often talked with each other. The communication was extremely inefficient, so the court was often too lazy to deal with it.

Including the seventh year of Kaiyuan, the Japanese envoy entered the DPRK, Li Tong did not formally summon him, but ordered the Honglu Temple to be responsible for contacting him. As for what he had communicated, he had already left behind him, at least it was not enough to have any impact on the current situation.

But it has to be said that although the Japanese have various disadvantages, their learning ability is really strong.

There were few achievements in the history of the Tang envoys, but in the Kaiyuan period, he had a deep understanding of the customs, etiquette and culture of the Tang Dynasty. The outstanding Tang envoys such as Abe Zhongmalu, who was famous in the Han Dynasty, enjoyed a great reputation among the Tang Dynasty's scholars, and also established considerable friendships with the Shilin figures at that time.

Li Tong asked this question because he found the figure of Japan on the list. The Japanese envoy Sutian Zhenren submitted a letter to the court and asked 300 samurai to participate in the battle to defeat the Turks in the Tang Dynasty.

If it weren't for the origin mark on the list, Li Tong thought that he had traveled to the cultivation interface in a trance. He recalled that the Japanese envoys in the seventh year of Kaiyuan also had this name, so he asked this question.

After hearing this, Song Jing stood up and smiled and said, "The Japanese envoy did not leave the country. In the seventh year of Kaiyuan, he was not allowed to be summoned. Because he had a war atmosphere with Silla at that time, he did not dare to leave the country and return to China, so he went south to Yangzhou and lingered before he left. He heard that the sage was about to go to Luoyang again, the Japanese envoy returned to Luoyang from Yangzhou. He had entered the city more than a month ago and submitted several letters, but the ministers were plagued by other matters and could not leave to meet him."

"How many Japanese envoys have joined the country? Is it because the three hundred people assisted in the war this time, is it already the entire mission?"

After hearing this, Li Tong asked with a smile, and Song Jing did not expect that the saint would be so interested in this overseas Japanese slave country. He did not remember the personnel matters of the Japanese country. After being arrested for a while, he replied again: "The saint is not bad. There are 308 Japanese envoys who entered the country, and three of them died when they stayed in Yangzhou. This time, he was in charge of helping with the war. It is probably because all his entourages are in the order of the Arctic."

Li Tong was even more happy to hear this answer. Just 300 people couldn't even form a battalion. To put it bluntly, it might be possible that a certain scout guerrilla encounter could be directly killed and destroyed.

But although the power is not great, his attitude is full of attentiveness and sincerity. Li Tong then asked again: "I think this kind of attentive performance is a great demand. What is the matter with the Japanese envoy this time?"

This time, Song Jing did not need to be brought to justice and answered: "What the Japanese envoys called for is, one is that the name of the Japanese country is vulgar and unwilling, and begged the saint to give another title; two is that the people are foolish and ignorant, and begged the court to recruit nobles from their country to receive education; three is that the court is asking the court to pardon the crime of rebellion in exile of the Baekje family."

The name of Japan has been recorded since the Han Dynasty, and later generations also discovered the golden seal of the title of King Wanu of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty. In previous years, the feudal state of Japan was not prospered and the system was not completely gone, so there was no special feeling for such a name.

However, as the wisdom of the upper class gradually became apparent, he gradually looked down on this old account, so he repeatedly asked the Tang Dynasty to change its country name and title.

Li Tong didn't know much about the history of Japan, but only knew that he should be in the so-called Nara era at the moment, and he didn't know much about the origin of the name of Japan. Later generations, Japan has become stronger, and there is a lot of research and analysis that the name of Japan did not come from the title of the Tang Dynasty, but was born from the origin of its country.

But no matter what Japan calls it, if you want to gain a sense of existence internationally, you can only appeal to the Tang Dynasty. If the Tang Dynasty calls you a Japanese, then naturally you can only be a Japanese.

Putting aside the issue of national name, Li Tong had quite an idea about the two subsequent demands of the Japanese envoy.

He did not have strong expectations for conquering the Japanese territory at the moment, and the Fengyuan system was established, but cultural output could be carried out. Now there are a large number of international students in the Imperial College, so it is not a big problem to add a few more.

As for the pardon of Baekje's remnants who fled to Japan, it is enough to reflect the long-standing national nature of Japan, bullying the weak and fearing the strong.

Before the Battle at Baijiangkou, Japan was arrogant and believed that it needed to show off its overseas country and even wanted to interfere with the situation in the Three South Koreans. Even the monarch of the Japanese wanted to come and fight in person, but he died before he even went on the expedition. He couldn't take a look at how brilliant the flames were burned by his own warship.

After the end of the Battle of Baijiangkou, Japan was completely at peace and sent envoys to apologize, and was also very concerned about the strategic trends of the Tang Dynasty in the Northeast.

Previously, the Tang Dynasty rebuilt the Xiongjin Governor's Office during negotiations with Silla and took back the former land of Baekje again. This did not have a direct threat to Japan, so the Japanese hurriedly asked the court to pardon the Baekje deceased in the area, for fear that these Baekje people would be implicated and provoked the disaster to the local area.

At present, Li Tong has no intention of making more overseas strategies, and he has to leave some things for his descendants to do. If future generations are not powerful enough, even if he sets up a framework for things, it will be a generational policy that will cost the people and cause money.

But having said that, Li Tong also wanted to test the bottom line of the Japanese. After thinking for a while, he said: "The remnants of Baekje are fierce and hard to tame. In order to escape legal sanctions, they actually fled overseas. The Japanese leader rashly accepted it. How could he know that it is a blessing or a disaster?

Although the country and I have had old differences, they have been very respectful in recent years. They cannot bear to see that they are nurturing the country and do not provide relief. They ordered the Ministry and the Japanese envoy to plan to choose a place to set up a government in the distant country, and to control the people who fled in Baekje. If things fail, there is no need to force the order. The country will be in chaos in the coming year, so don't say that it is unpredictable."
Chapter completed!