Depressed, Yang Guang really knocked him on the head twice.
“Erlang, my cousin avenged you.” Yang Guang said with a smile.
Li Shimin bowed: “Thank you cousin, thank you Your Majesty.”
Li Xuanba ran out from behind Yang Guang and bowed: “Thank you Your Majesty!”
Seeing this, Li Yuan laughed angrily by his two naughty sons.
“Get up, how long will you have to kneel?” Yang Guang pulled Li Yuan up.
These two people now feel a bit like they did when they were together in the Palace of Emperor Wen of Sui, and the atmosphere has improved a lot.
Li Yuan complained: “Your Majesty, what if you spoil them too much, what if they are spoiled?”
Yang Guang said with confidence: “If your son is not the fault of his father, it is that you, Li Yuan, did not teach the children well.”
Li Yuan sighed long and glared at Li Shimin and Li Xuanba again.
The two children were obviously very well-behaved when they were in Xingyang. Why did they become such a naughty look with the emperor for four months?
“Your Majesty, General Changsun is here.” A eunuch whispered.
Yang Guang laughed and said, “Let General Changsun come in quickly. Come and change the target. Li Yuan, don’t hide!”
Li Yuan said confidently, “If you don’t hide, I won’t lose than archery.”
“What a big tone, let me try you.” Before Changsun Sheng arrived, the voice came first, “I pay homage to Your Majesty!”
“Please get up. Come and teach me, the overly proud cousin, a lesson.” Yang Guang helped Changsun Sheng up.
When Emperor Wen of Sui passed away, Yang Guang ordered Changsun Sheng to take charge of the palace and not to secretly send a funeral. The funeral was only held after he took over the power of the court and was able to succeed in the throne. Therefore, Changsun Sheng was Yang Guang’s confidant in succession to the throne. Yang Guang trusted him more.
Changsun Sheng is fifty-three years old this year. Although he has been in the north for a long time to defend against the Turks, his face has changed much more than that of the ministers of the same age who are pampered in the court, his shoulders and arms are very strong, and his hands are like eagle claws. He is obviously a very capable general.
Li Xuanba pulled Li Shimin to salute Changsun Sheng, and at the same time spread the great achievements of Changsun Sheng to Li Shimin in his heart.
Like the early Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty was a very well-known but paradoxically located in the “historical blind desert”. That is, most people in later generations can tell the previous paragraph, but they don’t understand the details of the history of the early Tang Dynasty.
For example, Changsun Sheng was not famous in later generations, and many people even didn’t know that he was Empress Changsun’s father.
But as long as people who have completed nine years of compulsory education, they must know the idiom “kill two birds with one stone”. This allusion of “killing two birds with one stone” is Changsun Sheng.
His abilities look at the entire Chinese history and he is also a top diplomat.
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Turks were very powerful. Almost all the Northern Dynasties needed to be supported by the Turks before they could be established. The Turks regarded the Central Plains dynasty as the “child dynasty” they supported and often called themselves “father”.
In order to seize the interests, the Turks often helped weak forces and suppressed powerful forces so that the Central Plains could remain divided.
Emperor Wen of Sui was very tough towards the Turks and wanted to expel the Turks from the Central Plains. However, the military strength of the Sui Dynasty was not enough to be completely hostile to the Turks, and the south was not unified yet, so I was worried that the Turks would take the opportunity to cause trouble.
The one who took the lead is Changsun Sheng.
Emperor Wen of Sui authorized Changsun Sheng to be fully responsible for the affairs of the Turks. Changsun Sheng wandered among all Turkic tribes all year round, implementing the strategy of “getting far and close against each other, getting away from the strong and getting together with the weak”.
He used superb diplomatic means to split the Turks into East and West Turks, solving the worries of Emperor Wen of Sui going south to destroy Chen.
He then led one faction to fight another, supported the Qimin Khan, and eliminated the Bujia Khan. He almost did not engage in large-scale battles with the Turks, and then played the Turks into a mess. In the year when Yang Guang ascended the throne, the threat of Turkic in the northern Sui Dynasty was basically lifted, and there was no border trouble in the following ten years, so there was capital for Yang Guang to be in trouble.
Li Xuanba: [When the Sui Dynasty was established, the Turks could still call themselves the “father” of the Central Plains dynasty. Then, they were half-disabled by General Changsun Sheng for twenty-three years. If General Changsun Sheng was placed in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, he would definitely be able to compete with Zhang Yi and Su Qin. Whether it is ability, perseverance or loyalty, General Changsun Sheng deserves to be remembered by the world. 】
Unfortunately, he was not remembered by the world.
Li Xuanba believed that the difference between the people in the early Tang Dynasty was probably a book called “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”. “Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties” really doesn’t work. I wonder if I can make up for this?
Anyway, he will definitely be a playboy in the future, and it is just right for writing.