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Chapter 865: Thousands of achievements
"Who told you to hide it from them? I want you to open the gate openly. Once my army leaves, it doesn't matter whether they know or not."

Li Yan's face was gloomy, and he shook his head slowly: "This time the Tang army surrounded me, and I have already torn my face with Jie Li. I will take these 20,000 people to fight with Jie Li for the ownership of the Turks. If I don't have enough strength, escaping to the Turks will be a dead end. What can I use to fight Jie Li?"

"I must take these 20,000 people with me. Not only do I want to take them away, I also want the 20,000 horses of your Flying Tiger Army."

Before Hou Junji could speak, Li Yan waved his hand and said in an unquestionable tone: "There are 40,000 horses in the city, but three days ago, before Jie Li left, the spies he arranged for them to be poisoned with croton, so they can't go to the battlefield for the time being."

"These horses are all good horses that I have selected after years of fighting on the grasslands. They are as good as those of the Flying Tiger Army. As long as they rest for a period of time, they will be able to recover as before."

"In the warehouse, there are still 200,000 taels of gold. Jie Li and Zhang Sun Wuji agreed to use them to purchase materials. I will give them to you as well."

"As for how to explain it, I have already thought about it for you."

After that, Li Yan lowered his voice and spoke slowly to Hou Junji. Hou Junji's expression kept changing. Finally, he swallowed his saliva in fear and asked tremblingly, "Your Highness, for you and Haitang, I will sacrifice my old bones."

"However, although this plan is brilliant, it is hard to hide it from a smart man like Changsun Wuji. Besides, will the emperor really not do anything to me afterwards?"

Li Yan looked like he had everything under control and comforted him, "Don't worry, the friendship between you and the emperor is different. As long as you don't rebel, the emperor won't kill you. And with this statement, the emperor will at most remove your position as the general of the right guard. Maybe even your title of Duke of Lu won't be affected."

"You have been the Right Guard General for five or six years."

"When did the emperor allow a general with military power to work for such a long time? Especially he is the most important general of the left and right guards among the sixteen guards in the capital. In the final analysis, it is because you are the most important representative of the Eastern Palace faction, and I am not in the capital?"

Seeing that Hou Junji was a little confused, Li Yan was actually also very troubled by the transfer of these official positions and how to allocate them. It was not until the last six months of the Qing Dynasty when Emperor Kangxi was about to pass on the throne that he figured it out for himself.

The adjustments here are based on certain rules and principles.

Those who command troops in the capital have name but no substance; those who fight outside have substance but no name; the respected have no real power, and the powerful have no name. The reality of power and the high and low positions can never be consistent with their names, otherwise the country will be in danger of overthrow.

The so-called true transmission can be just one sentence, while false transmission requires thousands of books!

The seemingly dazzling job rotation is just relying on these balancing mechanisms. Once you figure them out, the changes will become clear.

At this time, Li Yan revealed a little to Hou Junji.
Li Yan analyzed calmly, "As long as I return to the capital, not only will you lose your position as the Right Guard General, but even Changsun Wuji's position as the Right Prime Minister will be taken down, and even a series of officials from the Eastern Palace will be implicated."

"This is necessary for the stability of the imperial power and cannot be changed by anyone's will."

"Even in the past, as long as you were in this position, your father would never let you lead troops outside like Cheng Yaojin and Li Jing?"

Hou Junji was shocked. So that was the case. No wonder he had been rejected by the emperor several times when he requested to go to Dingxiang. At that time, Hou Junji thought that Li Shimin was partial to him, but now, after Li Yan's advice, he immediately understood.

Li Shimin did this for the sake of the overall situation. Li Jing and Cheng Yaojin were also very prestigious in Dingxiang, and were generals commanding hundreds of thousands of troops. However, once they entered Chang'an, they were alone, with high positions and titles but no real power.

Among some of the Sixteen Guards in Chang'an, the title was either an empty title or a low-level military position below the Zhonglang General. Now, except for the two left and right guards, the other Sixteen Guards Generals have long become a symbol of honor like Gongbo, Hujun, Guanglu Dafu and other scattered officials and nobles.

Now that Li Yan had pointed it out, Hou Junji suddenly understood, and at the same time he felt secretly regretful. If he had known this earlier, he would have resigned from the position of General of the Right Guard.

"This time, the emperor asked you to come to Liaodong to take up the position of Right Guard General, so he will consider others."

At this point, Li Yan stretched out his right hand, tapped the table lightly, and thought: "The situation in Liaodong has been settled, and the credit has been distributed. The next step is to take over the mess step by step, arrange officials, comfort the people, and relocate the population. There are no more wars to fight?"

"The emperor asked Changsun Wuji to come here for the sake of the subsequent civil governance. Changsun Wuji will not be able to return to Chang'an in two or three years."

"And Yuchi Jingde has a violent temper. He offended people everywhere in Chang'an City. After staying in Xiangyang for five years, I'm afraid he won't change much. The emperor transferred him here, probably to use his thunderbolt methods to deter the remaining natives from possibly disobeying him."

"To put it bluntly, he is here to do the dirty work."

"This is a quagmire that will take a long time to digest. Killing innocent people will only bring you a bad reputation. I guess my father-in-law is not interested in this, right?"

Hou Junji was excited, his eyes sparkling, silently looking at Li Yan who was immersed in his thoughts, secretly sighing that the prince had really grown up, his gestures showed the demeanor of an emperor, arranging the situation and deploying officials like chess pieces. His casual words showed that he was a son of heaven considering the local situation, and his means of controlling the overall situation were perfect and easy to come by.

Hou Junji felt extremely relieved.
Li Yan stared at Hou Junji and said calmly: "It's just right to use this crime to transfer him back to Chang'an. With the merit of conquering Goguryeo before, he can make up for his mistake. In addition, as the flag bearer of the Eastern Palace, suppressing him too harshly will cause the power balance in the court to be unbalanced."

"Father will not be too harsh on me. At most, he will remove me from my position and ask me to return home to recuperate for a while."

"My father-in-law can also take this opportunity to rest more, spend more time with his family, and prepare for taking over the world's great achievements and going down in history in the future."

Upon hearing this, Hou Junji suddenly became energetic: "Your Highness, you don't know that I don't care whether I am an official or not. As long as I can fight and wake up every day to hear the sound of fighting on the battlefield, I am willing to be a small soldier!"

"It's just that the Tang Dynasty has been rectifying its internal affairs in the past two years, so how can there be a war?"

"Even for Goguryeo, if it weren't for you, the Crown Prince, inciting the Turks to do this, I would not be able to leave the capital. Even so, there was no war in Liaodong. I staged a few dramas with Jie Li. Outsiders looked like I was showing off, but in fact, I was very frustrated."

"Where is the unparalleled feat you mentioned?"

Li Yan smiled calmly: "The trouble of the Tang Dynasty is in the north. Apart from the Turks, there are the northeast and northwest. Now that the northeast is taken care of, the rest is naturally the west. Father-in-law, you can study the distribution of forces in the west, the local customs, and the methods of marching and fighting."

"In a few years, maybe it will be useful."

When Hou Junji heard this, he gasped. He didn't expect that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was so bold.

The battle in the Northeast has not yet ended, and they have already set their sights on the Northwest. That place is not just the tiny country of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, but a vast fertile land that is no less vast than that of the Tang Dynasty. Unlike the small corner of Liaodong, a war would really break out there.

It requires the full might of the Tang Dynasty to accomplish this, as it is a place of unprecedented merit!
Hou Junji's blood boiled with excitement due to the shocking battle he imagined in his mind. He clenched his fists and had a look of confidence and ambition on his face.

When he looked at Li Yan again, he immediately felt that it would not be without benefits for the Crown Prince to go to the grassland. With him, he could completely conquer the grassland and then march westward to conquer the Xueyantuo, Western Turks, Gaochang, Tuyuhun, and Tubo countries.

Under the pincer attack from both the Tang Dynasty and the Turks, no matter how vast the Western Regions were, they would inevitably be taken over.

"Ha ha ha ha."

Hou Junji picked up the wine jar, filled it for Li Yan and himself, and said proudly: "Your Highness, for the future of the Tang Dynasty, you are willing to risk your life and go deep into the enemy's territory. What else can I, Hou Junji, say?"

"This is a struggle for the eternal cause of China. Junji can only support it with all his strength and do his best."

"The grassland is bitterly cold, and you have to face an enemy like Jie Li. Jun Ji cannot help Your Highness on the road ahead. I can only offer this wine to wish Your Highness a smooth journey through all the obstacles ahead."

"However, Your Highness, just do your best. If things don't work out, Your Highness must prioritize your own safety and not take any risks. Your Highness should know that the Tang Dynasty still has the Emperor and Empress, as well as Haitang and her son, who are all waiting for Your Highness to return safely."

Hou Junji called himself by his own name, and was impressed by Li Yan's broad mind and vision. He expressed his willingness to be a subject and to serve him. Li Yan could naturally hear it, and said generously: "Everything in Chang'an is in my hands, father-in-law."

After saying that, the two of them drank it all in one gulp, then smiled at each other, their laughter shaking the entire hall with the joyful echo.

The conversation tonight also completely changed Hou Junji's fate. In the next few years, he single-handedly supported the overall situation of the Eastern Palace. No matter how difficult the situation was, he never retreated and was never defeated.

Because he knew that in the northern grasslands, there was a rising overlord who would give him the strongest support.

The future struggle for the throne of the Tang Dynasty was no longer under the control of Li Shimin, and was not even in Chang'an alone. The real deciding factor had shifted to the north.

It’s useless for other princes to jump around in Chang’an, and Li Shimin can’t make the decision?

He only had to deal with the situation in Chang'an. No matter how difficult the situation was, it was not as difficult as the situation of the Crown Prince in Mobei. The Crown Prince, at a young age, went deep into the tiger's den, which was more difficult than Wei Qing and Huo Qubing in the Han Dynasty. It was unprecedented. His goal was also bigger, which was to completely solve the problem of the northern grassland.

(End of this chapter)