In Lizheng Hall, Guanyin maid saw her husband coming back with a pale face, sat straight on the couch and remained silent.

"Erlang, but why are you uncomfortable?"

Li Shimin looked up and looked at his concerned wife, "Guanyin Bi, do you think I will be defeated by the Turkic invasion?"

"Why did Erlang say that?"

"I had planned to fight a decisive battle with 200,000 Turkic Khan Jieli Khan under Chang'an City, but today I heard Wang Gui's reminder in the palace, and suddenly became worried. What if I couldn't win?"

Li Shimin commanded the army for many years, but it was not undefeated. When he was conquering the Western Qin tyrant Xue Ju, he encountered the biggest defeat in his life. The defeat of Qianshuiyuan, and the Tang army was almost gone in that battle, and the eight generals were captured.

Although the court later issued an edict saying that this battle was not the responsibility of the King of Qin, because he suddenly suffered from malaria and could not command the army, and Liu Wenjing was the leader and commanded it. As a result, he underestimated the enemy and led to a great defeat. But in fact, although he was not in command of that battle, the Tang army was trapped outside for a long time. Even if he was not sick, he could not find a decisive strategy to win.

After that battle, Li Shimin fought against Liu Wuzhou, pacified Wang Shichong, defeated Dou Jiande, and defeated Liu Heita, and was invincible.

However, after that, he commanded several battles with the Turks, although there were small victories, he did not achieve a decisive victory. The Turks were no more elite than Liu Wu, Zhou, King Shichong, etc., and even when Yang Guang was in the time of the Sui Dynasty, he had a tragic situation of being surrounded by soldiers in Yanmen.

Shortly after the Li family raised an army in Taiyuan to establish the Tang Dynasty, the Turkic army went south to attack Taiyuan. The Li family was unable to resist at all, and finally had to donate gold, silver, money, and children sought peace. Even now, the Tang Dynasty had been established for nine years, but every year the Tang Dynasty had to pay gold, silver and wealth to the Turks in order to achieve peace on the border.

In this way, the Turks invaded for many years, and led their troops into the country to rob, and fought several times to Zelu and entered the heart of Hedong and Hebei.

Guanyin Bi did not expect that she would suddenly have such self-doubt to her trusted husband.

She approached her husband and gently kneaded her shoulders and neck.

"I am just a woman in the harem and do not understand the affairs of the previous dynasty. But I also know the military strategy and strategies. When asking the opinions of the generals in the court, especially the generals on the front line, why didn't Erlang send envoys to ask for the opinions of Qin Qiong, Li Jing, Li Shiji, etc. in Liangzhou?"

"If, I mean, what if, if they also feel that they can't win this battle alone, what should they do?" Li Shimin turned his head and asked his wife.

"If everyone thinks they are not sure, then don't fight."

"No?"

"At that time, Emperor Gao of Han, Liu Bang, also had a siege of Bai Deng. Liu Bang was trapped in Pingcheng Bai Deng Mountain for seven days and seven nights. Later, he adopted Chen Ping's plan to escape from danger and finally signed an alliance with the Huns, using the royal family daughter Maodun Shanyu. After that, he used the Great Wall as the boundary to rest, and finally the great defeat of the Huns during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han!"

Li Shimin sighed.

"At the beginning of the rebellion in Taiyuan, my father and I borrowed troops from the Turkish Shibi Khan. Since then, the Turks have asked for more and more gold and silver rewards. Later, we even saw that our Tang Dynasty had the momentum to unify the Central Plains, and even repeatedly invaded the alliance, Liu Wuzhou, Gao Kaidao and others have received open support from the Turks. In order to end the chaos in the Central Plains as soon as possible, our Tang Dynasty has been tolerant of the rude demands of the Turks in every possible way, for nine years."

Li Shimin gritted his teeth and said, "For nine years, the Turks have been bullying in every way."

"Erlang, if you are not sure, why not endure for a few years? King Goujian of Yue slept with firewood and tasted gall, wouldn't he finally destroy the Wu Kingdom? Three thousand Yue Jia finally destroyed Wu, and one hundred and two Qin Passes belonged to Chu. I have been tolerated for nine years, so why not endure for a few years?"

Li Shimin gritted his teeth, "I am not willing to give up!"

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Luoyang, Beimang Mountain.

Qin Lang took Luo Tong to the Beimang Mountain to worship his father.

This was the first time Luo Tong saw his father's grave. In the past, he only worshipped his father in the fierce general temple in Mingzhou.

"Taipinglang, kowtow to your father!"

The young Luo Tong went to worship, and Qin Lang's adopted son Li Cunxiao also kowtowed.

"Xingjian, you can kowtow too."

Qin Lang greeted a seven-year-old child. The child was a few years older than Taipinglang, but about the same as Li Cunxiao.

He was Pei Renji's son, Pei Xingyan's younger brother, who Qin Qiong repeatedly asked Qin Lang to find. Through the big net of the Fufu Department, he worked hard without any effort, and finally found him in Weizhou, north of Luoyang. At that time, a personal soldier of Pei Renji took him to escape from Luoyang and ran to the countryside of Henei, Huaizhou. Soon he died of illness, and Pei Xingjian was raised by his relatives.

The man didn't know that the child was the youngest son of Pei Xingyan, the general of the Sui Dynasty, and he thought it was the child of his relatives. It had just passed several years. If the sanctuary had not been searching for it with all his strength, and came to the door through clues, and finally confirmed it through a piece of Pei Renji's relics worn by the child, he would have really grown up there from now on.

A pot of national wine, a stick of incense.

The two powerful generals of the world, Pei Xingyan and Luo Shixin, have only turned into a pile of soil on Beim Mountain. It is said that Beim Mountain has the most tombs and countless emperors and generals have buried them, but history is like smoke, and the great achievements of many emperors and generals are still circulating in the world.

After worshiping, go down the mountain.

In Luoyang City, Ah Huang was busy taking some horses and slaves brought back from Youzhou. Luoyang is the capital of the Sui Dynasty. Even if the dynasty has changed now, it is located in the center of the world, especially the north and south canals connected nearby, so it is still very lively now.

Having lost its political center, there is a trend of becoming the economic center of the world, where gold, silver, money, and food and goods are all gathered here.

The good goods brought by Qin Lang and the others are very popular.

Listening to Ah Huang's excited report, Qin Lang felt a little unrestrained.

"Sanlang, the oral order of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is for you."

Li Shimin couldn't wait for Qin Lang to return to Beijing, so he simply sent someone to look for him.

The person who came to announce the edict was still Zheng Xuanli. This guy has now become a secretary of the Secretariat, a cold bench in the Qingshui Yamen, and is always sent to do such a chore.

After listening to the edict, Qin Lang fell into deep thought. Li Shimin sent Zheng Xuanli to come day and night just to ask him about his suggestions on fighting the Turks.

"Ask me suggestions?"

Qin Lang smiled bitterly, "My advice is just for soldiers to block the enemy and water to flood the earth. If he wants to fight, he will fight!"

Zheng Xuanli looked at Qin Lang, "Is this the reply from Duke Yiguo?"

"Well, that's right. Just say this, tell Your Highness the Crown Prince for me. Add another sentence: Peace is something that cannot be obtained from gold, silver, money and silk, and peace can only be made."

Zheng Xuanli nodded, solemnly took a pen and wrote down these two sentences without missing a word, and showed them to Qin Lang. Qin Lang nodded, and he sprinkled some incense ash on the ink, then closed it, poured hot wax and sealed it.

"Your Highness told me to see Duke Yi and urge Duke Yi to return to Beijing as soon as possible, saying that now Chang'an is in need of Duke Yi."

After saying that, Zheng Xuanli did not dare to stay, so he turned around and rode his horse on his horse, then rode back to Chang'an.

Three days later, the dusty Zheng Xuanli handed the letter to Li Shimin.

After opening it and reading it, Li Shimin couldn't help but chuckled.

"The young man is indeed full of sharpness."

Li Shimin not only sent people to the border generals to ask questions these days, but also issued the crown prince order. All officials in Chang'an need to express their own suggestions, and even asked questions to the governors and county governors of other prefectures and counties, and asked them to write a letter to speak out.

All officials had a good reputation, but what impressed Li Shimin the most was a memorial from Ma Zhou, the chief clerk of the tutoring department. Ma Zhou made an advice and persuaded him that he was no longer the King of Qin who was specializing in conquering the conquering the country, but the crown prince who was regent in the state. Everything should be based on the overall situation. He also said that the most important task of the country at present is to comply with the people's strength and recuperate, so we should stop conquering and promoting civil affairs, and not blindly raising troops and using military forces.

This memorial made him interested in Qin Lang's seventh rank subordinate, and sent someone to carefully investigate his experience of observing sex. He knew that Qin Lang was away now, and he was mainly assisting Qin Yong in charge of the daily affairs of the sanctuary department. Moreover, this person has good abilities and has managed the sanctuary department in an orderly manner.

Ma Zhou also presided over the construction of Chang'an's bell and drum tower system. In addition to the original Wuhou Street Shop, many tall bell and drum towers were established, with bell and drum soldiers on it. He changed the practice of sending Wuhou patrol cavalry to open and close the city gate, and used bell and drum commands to open and close the city gate. The bell opened the city gate and the bell was a curfew police order, and designed a set of flag light signals to transmit signals between the bell and drum towers, which accelerated the message transmission speed many times in the huge capital of Chang'an City. He even designed a new traffic rule that the city gates entered and exited the city gates and horses were on the right on the roads, so that the order of the Chang'an city gates and streets was great.

Li Shimin specially summoned Ma Zhoujin to meet him. After an hour of interview with him, he was even more amazed at Ma Zhou.

"This Qin Lang picked up a drunkard from the Wuhou Street Shop. He was so talented. It's really amazing."

One shouted and beaten, the other said he didn't beaten, but what both of them were right.

Picking up the pen, Li Shimin wrote a letter of the prince's order, and was appointed as the governor of the governor Ma Zhou, who served on duty in the province. This was also a temporary job, similar to Qin Lang's subordinates' walking, so that Ma Zhou could meet at the provincial level at any time in preparation for consulting with the staff.

It is extremely rare for a small town chief clerk to be so favored by the prince.

"When is it time to send someone to urge Qin Lang? It's still slowly on the road, and he's still doing business along the way. It's really unreasonable." Li Shimin called Zheng Xuanli and asked him to go to Luoyang to urge Qin Lang again.

Zheng Xuanli complained in his heart, but he didn't dare to disobey, so he had to reluctantly respond.

In Luoyang City, Qin Lang saw Zheng Xuanli, who had lost weight and had two legs crossed, and after listening to Li Shimin's oral order, Qin Lang immediately set off.

On July 29th, Qin Lang finally returned to Chang'an City. As soon as he entered the city, he went to Pingkangfang's home to see Yuxiao first. As a result, the envoy from the Eastern Palace had stopped him halfway.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince knows that you have returned to Beijing and call you to see you immediately."

"Can I change my clothes first when I get home?"

"No, the prince asked you to come in immediately."

Qin Lang sighed and had to follow him to the East Palace.

As soon as he entered the Eastern Palace, he was introduced to Xiande Hall by the eunuch.
Chapter completed!