Chapter 343: Recognize the Reality
If there is still a glimmer of possibility, Suzong Li Heng did not want to give Li Fei any reward.
It is more important to preserve the Tang Dynasty. In the current situation, the Tang Dynasty can no longer withstand any setbacks. In order not to make people distract and to encourage morale, Suzong Li Heng could wish to cut Li Fei into pieces in his heart, but he could not obviously treat Li Fei harshly at this moment. He wanted to show his king's "magnanimity". After all, few people were willing to fight for a narrow-minded king.
He was unable to make up his mind, so Emperor Suzong Li Heng asked the eunuch Li Fuguo, who was the most trusted eunuch, to help him come up with ideas.
"Your Majesty does not want to give Li Fei a title, nor does he want to increase real power to Li Fei, so he will add the same amount of land and fief as the title, and then grant him the crown prince's grand tutor, and add more than a dozen other unnecessary empty titles." Li Fuguo also hated Li Fei very much. He did not want to see Li Fei get the title, or more real power, because Li Fei was the first person to point at his nose and scold him for being a "little eunuch". He thought it was a great humiliation and wanted to find an opportunity to kill Li Fei in the future.
"Crown Prince's Grand Tutor? Li Fei is about ten years younger than the prince. It seems inappropriate to let him be the prince's junior teacher?" Suzong Li Heng frowned. He didn't care about the other dozen false names, just a few of them. Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong both had dozens of false positions, but it was useless. But the prince's Grand Tutor is different. He is the prince's legitimate teacher. Li Fei is so old that he is the prince's teacher. No matter how he thinks, he feels a little awkward.
"Your Majesty, the Crown Prince is just a false reputation. There have been many teachers in the past dynasty, but no one can really win the title of the Crown Prince. Moreover, few people who have been awarded the Crown Prince in the past dynasty have actually taught the Crown Prince at that time. This is just a false position to appease important officials or have been meritorious generals in the past dynasty. It sounds loud, but it does not have much practical significance. It is worth it to use it to exchange for the title of Li Fei County!" Li Fuguo explained with a smile.
Although the Duke of the State is only one level away from the title of the county prince, it is a qualitative change and can be called the "prince". Although the prince is one level worse than the prince, he has the word "king" after all, and is not the top title of the royal family, and the meaning is much greater than that of the prince and the Grand Tutor.
Suzong Li Heng thought about it and felt that it was, and he was better than giving Li Fei the title of Prince or more real power, so he reluctantly agreed.
The imperial edict was issued soon.
Although he only gave Li Fei the land and fief of the prince, but did not give Li Fei the title of Prince, but he had the crown prince and the grand rank of the prince and the other dozen empty positions. Ordinary people and generals could not distinguish between them. The number alone was enough to scare them.
Sure enough, the morale of the Lingwu court was greatly boosted.
Seeing this scene, Suzong Li Heng felt a little relieved.
There are still many difficulties to be solved next.
The first time it sent troops to recover Guanzhong and Chang'an City, it not only suffered a crushing defeat, but also lost more than 80,000 troops. The strength of the Lingwu court suddenly became empty. Not to mention continuing to recover Guanzhong and Chang'an City, it would be very difficult to deal with the possible attacks of the anti-army towards Lingwu. In this way, when will the Tang Dynasty be rehabilitated?
Fang Guan was defeated in the presidency of the expedition. Not only was he dismissed from his post as prime minister, but he was not suitable to continue to be the commander who led the army to rehabilitate him. He had to choose another suitable candidate.
Suzong Li Heng immediately convened a court meeting to discuss the new candidates for the rehabilitation.
This is something that determines the future fate of the Tang Dynasty. With Fang Guan’s previous lessons, both Suzong Li Heng and other civil and military officials have recognized the reality. It is more appropriate to lead troops to fight wars. No one dares to mention another person with no experience in leading troops to be the rehabilitation commander, even if this person’s status is higher than that of the prime minister Fang Guan.
After a few competitions, there were only a few people, including Guo Ziyi, the governor of Shuofang, Lu Jing, the governor of Shannan Road, and Li Guangjin, the former commander of the Northern Army.
It would be better if Li Guangjin didn't say it, but he didn't have much record of making a name for himself. It was because of his good background and high titles that Fang Guan was attracted to him and proposed to be the chief general of the Northern Army. Although the three main generals, Liu Guizhe and Yang Xiwen surrendered to the anti-army army in the end, only Li Guangjin did not, so he should be praised, but it does not mean that he took the risk to rehabilitate him as the head coach.
Lu Jing once obeyed the orders under Geshuhan, and followed Geshuhan to make great military achievements. He was promoted to the governor of Shannandao. He also successfully defended Nanyang some time ago and did not threaten Xiangyang, Jiangling and other places by anti-army places. His battlefield experience was extremely rich, and he was not bad in terms of military achievements or experience.
Finally, Guo Ziyi, as the governor of Shuofang, has been invading Hedong in an unstoppable manner since Jiuyuan sent troops. He often defeated a larger number of anti-army with a small number of troops and recovered the entire Hedong. Although Hedong Road is almost occupied by anti-army again, it is undeniable that Guo Ziyi's previous contributions are. Moreover, Lingwu's Tang army, the Anxi Army and the Longyou Army have been abolished at this moment, with less than 10,000 remaining troops, while Guo Ziyi's Shuofang army has not hurt the roots and still has 30,000 people, so Guo Ziyi is more suitable than Lu Jing.
In fact, Guo Ziyi was a suitable candidate for the last time he went to fight for Guanzhong and Chang'an City. However, when he experienced the rebellion of An Lushan, Li Fei led the Iron Cavalry to forcibly force the threat at Mawei Post. Suzong Li Heng was like Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, and was subconsciously wary of the generals leading the troops. Because of his heart's defense, if he could not use it, Suzong Li Heng would rather give up and suppress it. This is why, although the prime minister Fang Guan took the position of marshal, Guo Ziyi still couldn't even make it one of the commanders of the army.
After obviously losing a crushing defeat at this time, he turned around and asked Guo Ziyi to be the head coach. Suzong Li Heng felt like he was slapped in the face.
Seeing that Suzong Li Heng was still hesitant, he seemed to be dissatisfied with the three candidates.
An official didn't know what he was thinking, but suddenly stood up and suggested Li Fei.
It’s true that someone took the lead, and a few more people who agreed immediately came out.
In order to prove that he is right, these officials have counted out the military achievements that Li Fei has made in the past few years with one word.
I don't know that when counting it, it seems that there is no candidate who is more likely to lead the rehabilitation than Li Fei. From the first battle, the three thousand cavalry attacked the Khitan royal city, and then defeated the 80,000 army of the Bohai Kingdom, and the troops came to the capital of the Bohai Kingdom, forcing the Bohai Kingdom to surrender. Later, An Lushan rebelled, Li Fei wiped out the Khitan and Xi tribes who followed An Lushan to rebel, and annihilated the Youzhou defenders who were dispatched to rescue the Xi tribe, and rushed to Youzhou city, and almost directly killed into the An Lushan's anti-army nest. He also talked about the two consecutive victories that Li Fei had just heard, resolving the encirclement of Nanyang and annihilated more than 80,000 anti-army, resolving the siege of Suiyang and annihilated more than 60,000 anti-army.
If we include the army of Bohai Kingdom, in less than three years, the enemy troops that were trapped in Li Fei will have about 300,000. If Geshuhan and Gao Xianzhi are still there, the two generals' achievements can steadily surpass Li Fei's front line. Guo Ziyi is now relying on only a few battles in Hedong, but it is still much worse than that.
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Chapter completed!