Chapter 1068 King Wu Returns

In fact, the courtiers had long felt that something was not right about putting the two princes on the front line. Now that Li Shimin could make this decision, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Li Xiang has been staying in Goguryeo, and Wu King Li Ke has stayed in Fusang, but Everyone understood that King Wu was just a decoration on the front line and was not necessary at all.

But no one dared to say this. The person who arranged this matter was Li Shimin. What did he think? It's not good for those of us to speculate. If our speculation is correct, it may not be good for us, but if our speculation is wrong, then a crime will definitely be placed on you, so these people did not say anything.

Now King Wu has been renamed King of Shu. This obviously means that he does not want King Wu to stay in the capital, but at the same time he does not want King Wu to be in Fusang. The area under the jurisdiction of King Shu is around Sichuan, to be precise, around Chengdu. , that can be regarded as Li Xiang's base camp. Putting the King of Shu there would also cause trouble for Li Xiang.

But compared to the previous troubles, this one is much smaller, and there are many officials of the Xiao family in Sichuan. These people are all from Li Xiang's family. Even if Li Ke arrives in Sichuan, I'm afraid something will happen. He also couldn't use any of his tricks. In the final analysis, this prince was still feeling aggrieved.

However, because the Sichuan troops left Nanzhao, it cannot be said that everything in Nanzhao has been solved now. If anything happens to Nanzhao, King Wu can cavalry south at any time. At that time, Li Xiang's influence will not be so When he gets older, Li Ke can also find an opportunity to make meritorious deeds.

"I would like to report to the emperor that there is something wrong with this matter. According to the prince's enfeoffment, King Wu should be in front of King Shu, but this time King Wu did not do anything wrong and changed the title to King of Shu without authorization, right?"

Xiao Yu has returned from Sichuan and is now the Minister of the Ministry of Justice. He is considered one of the senior officials of the imperial court. However, he has never spoken to Wu King Li Ke before. After all, the relationship between the two is somewhat unclear. Everyone belongs to the Sui Dynasty lineage, but today this guy stood up and spoke.

In fact, everyone felt that this matter was inappropriate, but no one said anything. Who was willing to speak to Li Ke? Concubine Yang seems to be the hottest candidate for the harem now, but Li Shimin has no plans to establish a queen, so Concubine Yang will be just a concubine in the end, and there is no foundation to support it outside. Li Ke has been defeated before, so Who cares about this?

If someone else had brought it up, Li Shimin would have had to think about it for a long time, but when these words came out of Xiao Yu's mouth, Li Shimin knew that something was really wrong. He had indeed thought of it just now and had not considered it. .

In fact, in terms of titles of kings, King Qin and King Jin were always at the top, followed naturally by King Wu and King Shu. All the sons of Li Shimin wanted to be named King of Qin, mainly because they wanted to occupy a good position. Fortunately, Li Shimin became the emperor from the Qin Palace.

But it is a pity that Li Shimin did not seal this word, so Wei King Li Tai and Wu King Li Ke are the two most noble princes.

Now that the King of Wu has changed his title to the King of Shu, he has not made any mistakes. This indeed made the Manchu Civil and Military Association make too many guesses. Xiao Yu said this because he may be different from before in the future. After Li Ke arrived in Sichuan, he would definitely have too much contact with their children. Even if Xiao Yu tried to avoid suspicion, he would still be implicated in the end. It was better to be a good person from the beginning and sell favors to Li Ke. .

"Then make the second son King of Chengdu."

Li Shimin is also an old man in the political arena. Li Ke's eldest son has already been crowned king, and now the second son is crowned king of Chengdu. This is not the kind of rubbish prince who has no seal. This one has a fiefdom.

The fiefdoms of father and son are both in Shu, and they will definitely live there forever from now on. Sichuan now is different from before. No one wanted to go to that kind of place before. Now it has been almost transformed by Xiao Yu. Li Ke and his son used to be purely peach pickers, but the relationship between Xiao Yu and Li Ke is unclear. If someone else picks peaches, Xiao Yu will feel a little uncomfortable, but if he is picked by others, If Li Ke took it off, he would be unable to say anything in his heart.

"Long live the wise."

The matter has come to an end, but Li Jing, Minister of War, did not go back. He had another thing to say. Normally, the prince of a place should be in charge of military and political power, but Sichuan is different from other places. After all, As a follow-up position to attack Nanzhao, there are a lot of local DingTalk. Changsun Chong was in charge before. If Li Ke passes by, who will be in charge?

"Regarding this matter, we will continue as before. We will not make too many deployments of the army for the time being. We will wait until Nanzhao stabilizes."

When Li Shimin said this, everyone felt sad for King Wu Li Ke for a long time. They thought that they would be able to control some rights in the future. But now it seems that except for people's livelihood matters, other things have nothing to do with you. Although people's livelihood matters are nominally yours, Prince Yu is in control, but the imperial court has sent so many officials to the area, which is very restrictive.

"However, the Ministry of War drafted a proposal to allow King Wu to train troops in Sichuan and organize them into three battalions with a strength of about 15,000 people."

Li Shimin's operations are becoming more and more surprising. Today, more and more things are reversed. Most of the armies of the Tang Dynasty are still in the hands of the Ministry of War, but the combat effectiveness of these armies is not high. The armies with truly high combat effectiveness Everything is in the hands of Li Xiang. Even if King Wu is asked to train the army at this moment, the training will not be as good as Li Xiang's previous army.

Li Xiang had already written to the court before that he wanted to abolish some of the useless troops, which would save a lot of fiscal revenue. But now Li Shimin still wants the King of Wu to train troops. I really don’t know what this old man is thinking. .

In fact, Li Shimin was also suffering in his heart. He had to balance the affairs of the court and his own family. King Wu had always been the son he was more optimistic about, but unfortunately, Xue Yantuo Station destroyed everyone's hopes for him. Now if we don't find something for him, I'm afraid this son will slowly decline. This is definitely not what Li Shimin wants to see.

I originally thought that King Wu could make a difference in Fusang, but King Wu was unwilling to have a conflict with Li Xiang...