Chapter 1423 Hidden hidden dangers
In the evening, Qin Lang hosted a banquet in honor of Chen Lingzi, the envoy of Yutang from Luoyang, and his party.
Because it is the period of national mourning, the banquet is also very simple. There is no singing and dancing to add to the fun, and there is no wine or meat.
The place of reception is Luzon Royal Palace.
Compared with the Luzon Knights Fort, which is full of edges and corners and has the ferocious atmosphere of war giants, the Luzon Palace makes Chen Lingzi feel familiar and even comfortable. The palace supervisor and others were built according to the decree, and it was built according to the Luoyang East Palace.
Even the names of the three halls and the four gates of the palace were appointed by Emperor Shizu.
The front hall is the Chengyun Hall, the middle hall is the Round Hall, the back hall is the Cunxin Hall, and the four gates are the Limen Gate at the south end, the Guangzhi Gate in the north, the Renmen Gate in the east, and the Zunyi Gate in the west. Let the vassal king live in the capital city, but he can see the meaning of the name, and he will not forget the important task of screening the imperial family of the vassal.
Even, not only the royal city of Lusong was like this, but the imperial edicts of Li Yin’s period to enfeoff all over the suzerains and vassals were all unified in specifications and shapes, and the names of the palaces and palaces were also unified.
So the Luzon King City, in fact, has many similar existences on the four sides of the Tang Dynasty.
Specifically, it may be adjusted according to the degree of power, or the wealth of the feudal area. For example, the Royal City of Luzon is actually higher than the normal standard. It was built according to the standard of the Eastern Palace, and some materials may even be more sufficient. , the enclosure is larger.
And some places are relatively poor, and the imperial court is unwilling to pay more, so the brick walls may become rammed earth walls, the materials of the palace may also be reduced, and the size of the city may even be reduced.
Some may even just repair a large frame. After the city walls, palaces, etc. are built, the remaining doors, windows, furniture, and even floor tiles, rockery and trees have to be added and decorated by the vassal himself.
In Chen Lingzi’s opinion, the Lusong Palace is bigger than the Luoyang East Palace. The city wall is not only the gate, but the rest of the city wall is also covered with bricks. The moat is wider, not to mention the tall archery tower and the gate tower.
The square is paved with bricks, and the roof of the hall is made of blue glazed tiles.
The details are more majestic, and the materials are more exquisite. Every plant and tree in the rockery garden in Miyagi is also very delicate.
"The imperial court has already started to negotiate peace with Dashi, and Pei Kuangzheng of Zhongtai is the ambassador of the alliance..." Chen Lingzi told Qin Lang that the imperial court had decided to stop the Western Expedition and negotiate peace with Zhaowu, Tocharo, and Dashi.
Qin Lang was peeling a blue crab, and his movements were neither fast nor slow. He didn't even need to use tools to pick off the flesh of a big blue crab.
He felt very awkward about the new official name changed by the imperial court.
Shangshu Province was changed to Zhongtai, and Zuo Pushe was changed to Zuo Kuangzheng.
What is even more awkward is that the Zhongshu Province was changed to Dongtai, but the Zhongshu Ling turned out to be the right minister. Since the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the left has always been respected, and according to the tradition of the ancients, the left is also the east. For example, Jiangzuo is called Jiangdong, and Longyou is also called Longxi.
The Zhongshu Province was changed to Dongtai, so your Zhongshuling should be the left minister.
In the end, he has to be called the right minister, isn't it awkward?
Then the right minister is still respected, and the right minister in Dongtai is awkward no matter how you listen. As for changing all six departments into a certain department, and then the other three departments under each department are also compulsively changed to a certain department, making up two Fourteen divisions.
For example, the Ministry of War was changed to Si Rong when it was doing well, and then the Department of the Ministry of War was changed to Si Rong Division, the Office Division was changed to Sicheng Division, the Driving Division was changed to Siyu Division, and the Treasury Division was changed to Treasury Division.
The original names of the Six Departments and the Twenty-Four Divisions were quite good, and they were clear at a glance. Now, when I look at a certain division of the Twenty-Four Divisions, I am dazzled and even more confused.
The three provinces were changed to East Taiwan, West Station, Middle Station, and then Fengge Luantai was the Transshipment Department and the Privy Council? The Imperial Academy became Yutang, Yushitai became Xiantai, Secretary Province became Lantai, and Xuanhuiyuan became Lintai Supervisor.
Who contacted this.
Guozijian was transformed into Sichengguan, Shaofujian was transformed into Internal Affairs Office, Taifu Temple was transformed into Foreign Affairs Office, Honglu Temple was transformed into Tongwen Temple, Dali Temple was transformed into Xingxing Temple...
What a mess, Li Zhao died after changing it.
And now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, he hasn’t changed it back. It is estimated that the reason may be that his father has died for three years and has not changed his ways.
Even now, the eunuchs established by Li Yinshi have been restored to power, the envoys of the Imperial Academy, the envoys of Xuanhui Academy, the envoys of the Privy Council, and even the lieutenants of the guards have been restored. The army has not yet recovered.
But step by step, the eunuchs are indeed in power again. Although they are only doing things according to the order, as long as they have real power, they should not be underestimated. Sooner or later this is going to be a big problem.
Li Yin set up these to let the eunuchs take power. He used his own slaves to reduce the power of the prime ministers and further strengthened his imperial power.
And Li Zhao restored these things before he died, no doubt because his son was too young and the queen was young. He was afraid that the widowed mother and orphans would be bullied in the future, so he resumed the inner court and asked the eunuchs and slaves to help the queen to show her face and walk outside.
The original intention of the idea is good, and it also has certain practical effects.
But the problem is, after the beast of power is released from the cage, it will not be easy to lock it back in the future.
The emperor is only three years old now, and it will take about 20 years for him to be in charge. After 20 years in power, the inner court controlled by the eunuchs will be stabilized. How can they easily give up power by then?
Relying on the eunuchs to control the inner dynasty, and even the forbidden army, the military and political power is in control. This power belongs to the emperor. It can completely suppress the prime ministers of the outer dynasty, and naturally has the ability to abolish the establishment.
Qin Lang didn't care much about the wars far away in the Western Regions, because he knew that whether it was for the Tang Dynasty or the Dashi, the wars in the Western Regions were beyond the reach of both sides, especially when there were Tucharo and Zhaowu Zhuang in the middle. The country is caught in the middle, and it is still too early for the two sides to roll up their sleeves for a decisive battle.
Datang still has Western Turkic people to deal with in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and for the Great Food Kingdom that has just ended the civil war, they must have not completely ended the civil strife. Even in the lowland plains on the south coast of the Caspian Sea, there are many small The country, these princes who were once conquered by the Sasanian Empire and then granted titles, still refuse to submit to Dashi because of the danger of the mountains in the south.
Before the Great Food Civil War, troops had been dispatched many times, but almost all of them returned without success. Historically, the kingdoms on the south coast of the Caspian Sea have fought with Dashi for decades, on and off. It was not until more than 70 years after the fall of Persian Sassanid that the princes and princes on the south coast of the Caspian Sea finally surrendered to Dashi. Food.
In addition to the southern shore of the Caspian Sea, there are also the chiefs of the remote mountain tribes in Sistan and Baluchistan in the southeastern plateau, and they have not yet surrendered to Dashi.
Before the Persian emperor fled eastward, he once ran to the mountains of Beluchistan, intending to use it as a stronghold for resistance, but in the end the mountain tribe chiefs united and ran away the emperor.
They have always been rebellious, and they are very dissatisfied with the Persian emperor's various tax increases on their territory, and then they have to levy their young men to fight, but they are still very incompetent and can't win.
After the chiefs drove away the emperor, they ignored the big cannibal's call for safety, and they continued to work together with the big cannibal. Anyway, there is no way to collect taxes from them, let alone recruit strong men.
They want to unite and govern themselves.
When Datang controlled the Khorasan area before, he went to appease these people, and these people also ignored Datang's invitation. Anyway, they didn't want to worship anyone, they just wanted to be the boss.
It can be said that it is precisely because of such favorable conditions that Dashi actually has no ability to expand eastward and northward. They have not even settled the northern and southern parts of the Persian Plateau yet.
It's just that Li Yin's death made the entire Western Regions turn against the Tang Dynasty, which made the big cannibals feel that the opportunity is coming, especially when the Western Turks came to the door and invited them to go east and north to fight against the Tang Dynasty, of course they were not willing to miss this opportunity. Chance.
It's just that the war didn't go well.
The big cannibal recruited many soldiers and horses, spent a lot of money and food, and ran to fight in the river. As a result, the Tang army stronghold in Sistan, Jiling City, has never been captured, and Mulu Town in the north of Khorasan has not been captured for a long time.
Not to mention Dawan and Suiye.
In the end, it was difficult to ride a tiger in Talas.
As a result, as the Tang Dynasty unexpectedly crossed the snow-capped mountains and entered the Dawan Basin, it broke the siege of the Dawan Army Town, and took advantage of the trend to wipe out the country of Bahan, completely occupying the rich and dangerous Dawan Basin After that, the chrysanthemums of Sogdian countries were exposed to the attack range of Dawan Tang army.
And Talas's big food army is also facing the risk of being attacked by the north and the south.
Wait until the Tang army dispatched another surprise force, crossed Kunlun and Congling, even wiped out Bolu and other countries on the snow-capped plateau, and probed along the glacier valley to the edge of Tocharo. This battle will be even more difficult to fight.
At this time, Datang took the initiative to propose a truce.
The big cannibal also borrowed the **** to get off the donkey.
Although they also know that if they miss this opportunity, they can't take advantage of the opportunity to defeat Tang Jun and drive them out of the Western Regions. It will be even more difficult next time.
But in fact they have already failed. Both Tuqishi and Ge Luolu have been defeated and far away. The Western Turkic tribes in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains can no longer threaten the Tang army in the Western Regions.
After the Tang army stabilized the towns of Suiye and Dawan, they had already advanced the line of defense to the Hezhong area, especially after the Dawan Basin was completely captured by the Tang army. In fact, the entire Hezhong area has become a piece of fat in the mouth of the Tang army.
The big cannibals can no longer be contested, even if they want to keep the Sogdians, it will be difficult.
Besides, why did the big cannibal go to great lengths to protect the Sogdians?
Originally, this was a gamble and speculation. Now that the opportunity is gone, let’s withdraw quickly.
Continue to confront, and when summer comes, the Tang army will have an army of 200,000 to 300,000, and if they send troops in three directions, then the expeditionary army of Dashi may not be able to escape even if they want to withdraw, and they will be swallowed by the Tang army's dumplings.
This time was a great opportunity, but in the final analysis, the big cannibals made a mistake in their predictions. They did not expect that the Tang army's distant fortresses such as Jiling City and Mulu City, which were thousands of miles away, could be so strong that they could not be attacked for a long time.
Suiye, Dawan, Yili and other military towns were also attacked and besieged by the Western Turks, Sogdians, and Tocharians, and could not be attacked for a long time.
Fighting back and forth, there was no real victory except for Guo Xiaoke's trap at the beginning, the annihilation of three thousand Anxi Tang cavalry, and thousands of servants from the Western Regions.
Tang Jun was willing to negotiate a peace, and they couldn't ask for it.
The Sogdians don’t want to negotiate a peace now. They want to drag the Tocharians and the big cannibals to continue the fight. It would be best to recruit the Khazars too, but who is willing to take the millet out of the fire for them?
The situation in the Western Regions is more favorable to the Tang army. The court should take it easy at this time and discuss a peace truce first. Qin Lang does not object. He retracts his fists for the sake of punching more powerfully next time.
"The Queen of Heaven asked the servants to ask the Grand Master what suggestions they have for the war in the Western Regions?"
"I support the decision made by Tianhou and the two ministers. If Lu Song needs to send troops to help out at that time, Lu Song will definitely respond positively." Qin Lang took out a fresh and tender crab leg stick, dipped it into the dipping sauce and replied.
(end of this chapter)