Great victory in Hexi!

When the news reached Li Yan, he had already checked the battle situation in Hexi through the system.

Li Yan had already anticipated the collapse of the Tibetan army of 50,000.

But when the news came from Hexi that Shang Qi Xin'er was dead, Li Yan was really surprised.

Shang Qixin'er was the host of Tubo, the top nobleman in Tubo, and his status was comparable to that of the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty.

Such a person died in such a confused way, without even knowing who killed Shang Qi Xin'er.

In addition to lamenting the impermanence of the world, Li Yan also lamented that swords have no eyes.

The torrent of history is overwhelming. Although the general trend of history is unstoppable, there are still many accidental factors among the numerous historical trends.

The death of Shang Qi Xin'er was naturally a great blessing to Li Yan.

For Qinchuan, who was in the process of conquering the city and territory in the East Tubo Road, if Shang Qi's heart died, the entire East Tubo Road would be in chaos for a long time.

Maybe he can actually capture Tianqian City.

However, Qinchuan could only be regarded as an idler. Li Yan did not have high expectations whether he could capture the Tubo East Road.

In other words, Li Yan didn't have much expectations for this victory.

The Tubo East Road has been crippled, and this is the biggest result of this Hexi battle.

First, the Uighurs were pacified, and then the Tibetans were destroyed. After two major battles, Longyou was finally given a relatively stable external environment.

But Li Yan's pressure had just begun. As the Battle of Hexi came to an end, Longyou's forces finally found their way beyond the Great Wall.

From the moment he occupied Wuwei City, Li Yan was finally involved in the torrent of war in the Central Plains.

Starting from the Mid-Tang Dynasty, the most serious problem of the Tang Dynasty has never been border troubles.

The Tubo and Uighurs could be considered terrifying enemies in any period of the Central Plains Dynasty.

But for the Tang Dynasty, these border troubles had always only remained in the border areas.

Datang's problems with its confidants were never external problems.

By occupying Hexi, Li Yan finally had the tentacles to intervene in the imperial court.

According to the previous judgments of Shang Bo Cui Tao and other players, the Tang Dynasty court would not be as unresponsive as last time.

The news of Tubo East's defeat in Hexi will eventually reach Fengxiang Mansion.

Li Yan also began to wonder how his father would face this shocking news.

But Li Yan didn't know how troubled the Tang court was today.

After the defeat of Qingqu, the Tang Dynasty lost the elites of Shuofang and Longyou.

These elites were the most loyal frontier troops of the Tang Dynasty and the strongest trump card in the emperor's hand.

The impact of this loss on Datang was not a simple defeat.

Guo Ziyi stayed in Wugong to reorganize the army, recruiting troops on the spot while recruiting soldiers. However, the capital city had been ravaged by war countless times, and there were no suitable sources of troops anywhere.

In addition to the shortage of troops, the loss of Nanyang also caused the court to lose its iron workshop, an industrial town that had been the official iron officer's location since the Han Dynasty, making it impossible for the Tang army to replenish its weapons and equipment.

The previous corruption of the horse administration also caused an apparent shortage in the number of cavalry.

Guo Ziyi wanted to re-establish the Shuofang cavalry, but he couldn't get a thousand horses.

The imperial court's punishment of Guo Ziyi was personally brought to Wugong by Secretary Superintendent Li Mi.

After reading out the imperial edict, Li Mi pulled Guo Ziyi up and said, "Shuai Guo, if the government is in crisis, your Majesty will still rely on you to suppress the rebellion. Don't be discouraged."

Li Mi looked at the gray-haired Guo Ziyi. This famous general who had been working for the Tang Dynasty all his life was actually sixty years old.

In this era, sixty years old is already quite a long life, and Guo Ziyi is still worrying about the Tang Dynasty.

Li Mi couldn't help but feel sad. If Guo Ziyi really left, who would be able to shoulder the great cause of suppressing the rebellion of the Tang Dynasty?

Li Siye? Or Pugu Huaien?

Li Siye is still a bit younger and has never been as prestigious as Guo Ziyi. Moreover, Li Siye likes to take the lead. He is okay as a strong general, but he is not capable of commanding the entire army.

Pugu Huai'en was also a general who performed outstandingly in countering the rebellion, and is now also a pioneer general under Guo Ziyi.

But Pugu Huai'en was a foreigner. Since the Anlushan Rebellion, although the Tang Dynasty did not deprive foreign generals of their military power, it had significantly strengthened its control over these generals.

Li Mi helped Guo Ziyi get up. The two of them had known each other for a long time. They were so high-spirited when Lingwu helped Emperor ascend the throne.

At this moment, the two of them were so powerless.

Guo Ziyi sighed, but instead of asking about the internal dynamics of the court, he asked Li Mi:

"Mi Gong, how is Suiyang?"

Suiyang is now Shangqiu, Henan.

Before the Battle of Qingqu, An Qingxu ordered his general Yin Ziqi to attack Suiyang in order to open up a channel for the rebels to return to their home base of Hedong.

Suiyang is not only stuck in the connection between the rebels in the two capitals and their hometown in Hedong, but it is also an important channel for the Tang Dynasty to connect the Jianghuai River.

The Grand Canal in Suiyang City was dug during the period of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. Together with the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River, it is called the Jianghuai Gateway.

In this era when large-scale transportation requires shipping, Suiyang is the channel for blood transfusions from Jianghuai to Fengxiang Mansion.

On the fifth day, Qi established a salt hospital in Jianghuai and collected and rented land in Qingzhang in the south of the Yangtze River.

Relying on blood transfusions from Jianghuai, Datang could support the huge expenses of countering the rebellion.

The reason why the Tang Army was able to recover quickly from previous defeats was due to the continuous blood supply from the Jianghuai River.

But once Suiyang's blood transfusion channel is cut off, the Fengxiang Mansion's court will immediately fall into a financial crisis.

When the time comes, the recruited soldiers will have no money or food, and they will go to Fengxiang Mansion to "violently demand wages."

Guo Ziyi is a famous general in the world. He naturally knows the importance of Suiyang. It can be said that the gains and losses of Suiyang are the key to whether the imperial court can regain the two capitals.

Li Mi said: "Zhang Xun and Zhang Jiedu are defending Suiyang. The rebels have not captured the city despite several attacks. They can still hold on for some time."

Guo Ziyi sighed, if the two capitals could be captured in the Battle of Qingqu, they would not be in such a passive situation.

It's a pity that the matter has passed, and both of them wisely did not discuss the process of the battle at Qingqu.

Li Mi and Guo Ziyi have similar positions, they both take counterinsurgency as their first priority and maintain the stability of the court.

This stability does not mean that they support the prince, but it is to stabilize the situation of the court and not let the troubles in the court affect the suppression of the rebellion.

However, this judgment gradually changed in the minds of the two of them.

Li Mi wanted to maintain the stability of the court, but as the number of people in the Tang Dynasty increased, although the two capitals were not recovered, the previous dramas returned to the court.

Li Mi, who devoted himself to cultivating Taoism, felt extremely tired when he saw all the chaos in the Fengxiang Mansion's court.

Although he still wanted to maintain the stability of the court, he was now just a secretary supervisor far away from the center of the court. He was not able to participate in the meetings between the emperor and the cabinet at Yanying Hall.

The emperor did not trust and rely on him as much as he did during the Lingwu period, and Li Mi was actually powerless.

Guo Ziyi's mentality also changed after the Battle of Qingqu.

Although the court has determined that the Battle of Qingqu was a major defeat caused by Guo Ziyi falling into An Qingxu's ambush and rushing to regain Xijing.

But the discerning people in the court knew that Guo Ziyi took the blame for the defeat of Qingqu.

Otherwise, the emperor's punishment would not have been so high and lightly directed. He would have just removed Guo Ziyi's false title of "Pingzhang Military and State Important Affairs", demoted him to Shangshu Zuopushe, and still allowed him to lead the army to suppress the rebellion.

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Another subtle order was to order Li Chu, the crown prince and the marshal of the world's troops, to return to Fengxiang Mansion and ask him to urge the Uighur Prince Yehu to send troops as soon as possible to assist the Tang Dynasty in attacking the two capitals.

After this battle, Guo Ziyi's doubts about the crown prince's ability also shook his previous determination to "stabilize the court situation."

Things have changed and people have changed, and neither of them mentioned anything about stabilizing the political situation.

Old friends meet, but they are speechless.

Li Mi had no choice but to break the silence with another topic.

"After Yan Xiantai took office, he was indeed upright. He bluntly impeached several ministers. Now the atmosphere in the court of Fengxiang Mansion has improved a lot."

Yan Xiantai is Yan Zhenqing. Now he is appointed by the emperor as the Yushi Dafu and is in charge of Yushitai.

The Yushitai is responsible for inspecting hundreds of officials. The Yushitai is also called the Xantai and is one of the most important positions in the imperial court.

Yan Zhenqing was upright by nature and was not afraid of offending the powerful. After he took office as the imperial censor, he impeached many important officials in the court and cleared away the bad habits in Fengxiang Mansion.

Guo Ziyi just nodded, obviously this was not a topic he was interested in.

Li Mi then said: "Guo Pushe should have heard about another major event in Fengxiang Mansion. The old Uighur Khan died, and the new Khan sent a marriage envoy to Fengxiang Mansion to propose to the Princess of Tang Dynasty. He was assassinated in Yuanzhou.

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Guo Ziyi also has cronies in Fengxiang Mansion, so naturally such a sensational event cannot be hidden from him.

Guo Ziyi nodded and said: "I heard that the envoy of King Jianning happened to be at the post house and saved the Uyghur marriage envoy."

Li Mi said: "That's right. Counting the days, King Jianning's envoy and the Uighur envoy should also arrive at Fengxiang Mansion."

Guo Ziyi frowned and said: "What did the court discuss? When I was in Lingzhou, Gel Khan was very ambitious and crossed the Tianshan Mountains many times to invade Lingzhou."
To be continued...