Travel to the early Tang Dynasty and become a salted fish

After opening the memorial and just casually looking at it a few times, Li Shimin felt dizzy.

I saw that it said:

Hou Junji, the newly appointed marching general of Dingxiang Road, and deputy general Zhang Gongjin, together with Li Ji, the governor of the merged state, Chai Shao, the governor of Huazhou, and Xue Wanche, the governor of Lingzhou, led an army of 1000 in Mayi to fight with the [-] Xuanmen brought by Yuchi Jingde who was pursuing Wang Junkuo. Army A meets.

Originally, according to the order of the former army chief Li Jing, he planned to divide his troops into six groups to march towards the Turks, and use Li Jing himself as bait to lead his troops to raid the Evil Sun Ridge.

However, Hou Junji believed that Li Jing's move was too reckless and he might be surrounded by the enemy, so he decided to join forces and directly led 20000 front troops to raid Evil Yang Ridge overnight.

But what everyone didn't expect was that when Hou Jun gathered his troops and approached the city of Wuyangling, Wang Junkuo, who was asked by Jieli Khan to submit a certificate of surrender, happened to be bringing 3000 of his own soldiers, as well as those from the Turks. The 5000 cavalrymen who had gathered together arrived at the foot of Wuyang Ridge.

When the two sides met for the first time, they were both frightened by each other. Then they reacted and faced off in front of Evil Sun Ridge.

Originally, if Li Junxian relied on his numerical advantage and directly ordered to attack Wang Junkuo's troops at this time, he might be able to disperse them.

However, Li Junxian was too cautious in doing things and suspected that the other party knew his plan, so he stopped moving forward, hoping to wait for the arrival of the Chinese army and then capture Evil Yang Ridge in one go.

This gave Wang Junkuo a chance to breathe.

He asked the defenders of Evil Yang Ridge to open the city gate, retreat into the city with his soldiers, and sent scouts to the rear to ask for help from Jieli Khan.

If at this time, Li Junxian ordered an attack on the city before reinforcements arrived, it would not be a problem to capture Evil Yang Ridge.

But he thought that since the other party sent out a signal for help, Jieli Khan would definitely come to support him.

He ordered the front army to besiege Wuyang Ridge but not attack.

The Chinese army that had just arrived was ambushing Jieli Khan's reinforcements on the only way to come, preparing to encircle them for reinforcements.

Originally, these strategies were barely satisfactory, but the bad thing was that Li Junxian hesitated and let the Chinese army go to ambush him based on meritorious service without waiting for the logistics to catch up.

If such a thing were to happen in normal times, it would not be a big deal at all. Unfortunately, God may think that the time is not right and the Turks are not exhausted yet and can still survive for a while.

So there was a frost disaster.

After one night, the entire land was buried in white snow.

Wang Junkuo and the Turkic army in the city of Evil Yangling were protected by the city. Although many people died, they did not harm their roots.

As for the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty outside the city, because the logistics did not keep up, the soldiers did not have warm clothes, and they did not even prepare much firewood for heating.

Countless people froze to death and suffered frostbite, and not even a tenth of the horses they brought were left alive.

The most pitiable ones were those Chinese soldiers who went to ambush Jieli Khan.

Not only did they have no warm clothes, because they were setting up an ambush, they didn't even prepare their tents. Everyone was directly exposed to the vast snow, and almost the entire army was wiped out.

What made Li Shimin cry the most was that when this memorial was sent out, Wang Junkuo in Evil Sun Ridge braved the wind and snow, took his 3000 soldiers, opened the city gate, and launched an attack directly against the troops stationed outside the city. attack.

Although the report did not indicate the final battle situation, one can easily guess whether the soldiers of the Tang Army could survive under such harsh conditions, let alone being attacked by the enemy.

Holding the report tightly in his hand and looking at the group of kneeling ministers below, Li Shimin gritted his teeth and said to Du Ruhui:

"Keming, you, Xuan Ling, and the auxiliary engineers come to my study room. I have something important to discuss."

After thinking about it, Li Shimin sighed and said to Wang Dehai: "Go and summon Duke Wei and Duke Lu to see you."

As he spoke, he glanced hard at the ministers on the ground, flicked his sleeves, and turned away without looking back.

Everyone was at a loss for a moment by Li Shimin's attitude.

Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui looked at each other and saw worry in each other's eyes.

Soon, several decrees were heard in the palace, requiring all the factions under the Tang Dynasty to start preparing for war with all their strength and recruit troops from all over.

As soon as the news came out, people in Chang'an City were panicked.

Some sensitive people soon realized what was going on, and began to send spies to the border to inquire for information.

At this time, when food was the most important thing, Chu Mo ushered in a large wave of wealthy businessmen, and even several family heads with the five surnames and Qiwang came to visit him one after another.

The only purpose of these people coming here is to hope that Chu Mo can come forward and convince the Emperor to re-evaluate the tax standards and delay the collection of this year's commercial tax.

Regarding the arrival of these people, Chu Mo's original intention was to expel them all.

Just kidding, these bastards don't fight for their own interests. Instead, they want to push me, an honest person, to be the leader. How can there be such a good thing?

But in the end, he couldn't stand Li Zhenying's insistence, so Chu Mo reluctantly agreed to meet them.

According to Li Zhenying's original words: These people are the leaders of the entire Datang business world. If they are all offended at once, then Chu Mo's shops and goods will no longer be sold in the Tang Dynasty.

Although Chu Mo sneered at Li Zhenying's words on the surface, his reason told him that this was the truth.

So, Chu Mo pretended to be unwilling and welcomed these people into Shiweitian.

Seeing Chu Mo, Cui Yingying from the Boling Cui family stepped out of the crowd and saluted Chu Mo:

"Young Master Chu is really a busy man. It's really not easy for us to meet Mr. Chu."

Chu Mo first glanced at Cui Yingying in confusion, then turned to look at Li Zhenying.

Seeing this, Li Zhenying hurriedly whispered into Chu Mo's ear.

It turned out that after the competition between banks, the five surnames and Qiwang were completely defeated, and then they were cheated by Chu Mo on the secret recipe, several family owners began to reflect on themselves.

They believed that the reason why their side suffered Chu Mo's scheme was entirely because they, the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes, all worked independently and did not exchange information in a timely manner.

After some discussion, everyone promoted Cui Yingying, who was quite talented in business, and made her the spokesperson of several companies.

Of course, this spokesperson also has a time limit.

Each family of the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes will take turns to introduce a spokesperson every three years, who will be fully responsible for their business affairs.

Since Cui Yingying became the spokesperson, she has been using various methods, and she has quickly made her name in Chang'an City, and her popularity is slightly catching up with Chu Xin's.

Therefore, when she came this time, she was given high expectations by everyone, hoping that through Cui Yingying, Chu Mo could stand out.