According to historical records, in the first year of Xianheng, which was 670 AD, the emperor pardoned the whole country due to a severe drought and changed the name to Xianheng.

The Tang Dynasty abolished the four Anxi towns, the Tang army recovered the Tuyuhun state and defeated the Dafeichuan army, but Xue Rengui, Guo Shifeng and Ashina Daozhen were spared from death and removed from the list.

Goryeo was dissatisfied with the rule of the Tang Dynasty, so the Tang Dynasty once again conquered Goryeo, which took four years.

But the history books record the historical facts of Li Hong's previous life, and the current historian is in the Daming Palace, recording them with great joy.

There was a severe drought in Guanzhong, but due to the disaster relief mechanism of Li Hong, the Minister of Revenue at the time, and the joint relief efforts of Zong Chuke of Jingzhao Prefecture, the drought did not have much impact on Guanzhong.

The relief food that the people received from the canal almost made them forget about the drought.

Even the officials of all ranks in Chang'an were all smiling and relaxed, and they all spoke highly of the Ministry of Revenue's vigorous and decisive disaster relief strategy under Jinghui's leadership.

And the credit for all this, whether it was Li Zhi, Wu Mei, or the bigwigs of the three provinces and six ministries, all knew that it was created by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the Chongwenguan.

Therefore, Li Zhi was smiling every day these days. Even quarreling with Wu Mei seemed more fun to him. He even seldom went to Prince Pu's Mansion where Helan Minyue was imprisoned.

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April of the first year of Xianheng: Report... His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Li Hong, the Grand Protector of Anxi Protectorate, defeated the Tibetan Zedang and annihilated Nie Chizan, one of the seven Tibetan Tianchi kings, with 20,000 cavalry, totaling 80,000 soldiers.

Report... His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Grand Protector of Anxi Protectorate Li Hong defeated the Siboye tribe of Tubo and annihilated 60,000 troops of Muchizan, one of the Seventh Prince of Tianchi.

Report... His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Li Hong, the Grand Protector of Anxi Protectorate, defeated the Tibetan Samye and annihilated the 50,000 troops of Ding Chizan, one of the Seventh King of Tianchi.

Report... His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Grand Protector of Anxi Protectorate Li Hong, conquered the Tibetan cities of Duokang and Zhangzhung, annihilated the 40,000 troops of the Seventh Prince of Tianchi, Suo Chizan and Da Chizan, and killed Suo Chizan and Da Chizan in battle.

"Where is he now?" Li Zhi stood up and walked to the sand table. He had been dreaming about Li Hong's victory over Tubo in recent days.

What made him even more excited was that as Li Hong continued to advance, with such an unstoppable momentum, the capture of the Tubo royal city of Lhasa would be just around the corner.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Grand Protector of Anxi Protectorate Li Hong have now deployed their troops in Gongbu City, which is jointly guarded by Dechizan and Sichizan, two of the seven Tibetan Tianchi kings. As long as Gongbu is defeated, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can go straight to Lhasa City." The Minister of War Ren Yaxiang said excitedly and heroically.

"How many troops does he have now?" Li Zhi asked, rubbing his hands excitedly and looking at the topographic map of Tubo on the sand table.

"Your Majesty, the Crown Prince is leading a total of more than 47,000 troops, and Heichi Changzhi has been ordered to set out from Shule to provide assistance." Seeing Li Zhi's excitement, Ren Yaxiang also felt like it was New Year's Day, and continued, "Now Shule has more than 10,000 troops, led by Yao Chong to guard it. Suiye City also has more than 10,000 troops, led by Huan Yanfan to guard it."

Li Zhi frowned when he heard this. He had never heard of these two people, so he looked up and asked the Minister of Personnel: "Who are these two people? What official rank do they hold? Why have I never heard of them?"

Minister of Personnel Li Yiyan's expression tensed up, and he said uneasily, "Your Majesty, these two are students that the Crown Prince wants to take away from the Hongwen Academy. Because they have not yet entered the officialdom, their ranks are not registered in the Ministry of Personnel."

"Are you capable of taking on this important task?" Li Zhi was unhappy. All the people without any rank were sent to guard the garrison.

"This...I...don't know yet..." Li Yiyan said fearfully with sweat on his forehead.

"My son went through life and death in Tubo, but the Ministry of Personnel never sent officials to the Anxi Protectorate to assist my son? What is your intention, Li Yiyan? Shule and Suiye are the line of defense of our Tang Dynasty against Tubo and the White Arabs. How can they be easily handed over to others?" Li Zhi was really angry.

When asking this question, instead of using "I", he used "my son". This is enough to show that Li Zhi was very angry at the court and the lack of full support from Li Hong.

"Your Majesty, since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince took office as the Grand Protector, the Anxi Protectorate has never selected officials from the Ministry of Personnel. It has always relied on the original officials of the Anxi Protectorate. I and others have also written to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, but have not received a reply from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Li Yiyan said cautiously.

"Resign from office, and Vice Minister of Personnel Guo Zhengyi will be appointed as Minister of Personnel. The court is dismissed." Li Zhi ignored Li Yiyan's explanation and left after he finished speaking.

"Your Majesty, I will obey your punishment, but I have something else I need to report to your Majesty immediately." Li Yiyan looked at Li Zhi who was about to leave and spoke hurriedly.

It seems that he didn't take his dismissal too seriously.

"Speak." Li Zhi stopped, turned around and looked at him coldly.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Li Yiyan took out a letter from his sleeve pocket, slowly opened it and handed it to Yangwu, then said: "Your Majesty, this is a letter sent by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince today, requesting the Ministry of Personnel to dispatch Dai Zhide and several gentlemen from the Hongwen Academy to the Anxi Protectorate immediately. Now Ma Zai is waiting at Yumen Pass."

Li Zhi said nothing. He took the letter from Li Hong to Li Yiyan, read it carefully, and then left without looking back.

What on earth is this little bastard Li Hong up to in Tubo? I'm afraid that now, except for him and Pei Xingjian, no one knows their plan.

Li Zhi was wondering what Li Hong was trying to do! He had already dismissed Dai Zhide from office and stripped him of his title, and now he wanted Dai Zhide to go to Anxi. What was the reason?

With a lot on his mind, he walked to Wu Mei's palace, only to see Li Xian and Li Zhe kneeling there, being scolded by Wu Mei.

Puzzled, Li Zhi walked around the two kneeling princes, shook his head, and sat down next to Wu Mei before asking, "What happened again?"

"Take a look for yourself." Wu Mei handed an article to Li Zhi with a cold face.

"Cockfighting Ode? Who wrote it? What's the story?" Li Zhi also frowned and looked at Li Xian and Li Zhe.

Li Xian lowered his head, his face a little pale, and Li Zhe was the same, with his head hanging like a defeated rooster.

Looking at the two people who were enjoying cockfighting in the palace every day, Wu Mei couldn't help but think of Li Hong who was fighting a bloody battle far away in Tibet.

With this comparison, Wu Mei couldn't help but shake her head and sigh. Although they were all princes, there was a huge difference between these two and the ancestor who made people want to beat him eight hundred times a day but still not feel satisfied.

Although he tinkers with some strange things every day and looks like he deserves a beating every day, but look at the Taiyi City that looks like it is making money, and then look at the four towns of Anxi today, such achievements are almost as great as those of the late emperor when he was this age.

But the two before him only knew how to enjoy cockfighting in the palace, leading a leisurely and luxurious life.

Wang Bo, as a court official, was introduced by the examiner to Li Xian's Peiwang Mansion to serve as a compiler. In order to please his master Li Xian, he wrote an "Exhortation to King Ying Li Zhe on Chickens" to criticize Li Zhe's fighting cocks in order to cheer Li Xian up.

That year, he passed the imperial examination written by Li Changbo, "Ode to the Emperor's Journey to Mount Dongyue", and then passed the imperial examination. He was awarded the title of Chao San Lang and became the youngest official appointed by the imperial court in the Tang Dynasty.

Then there was another article, "Ode to Qianyuan Palace", which was praised by Li Zhi as having a flowery pen and beautiful writing style. He exclaimed: "A genius, a genius, a genius of my Tang Dynasty."

It was also because of this incident that Wang Bo, who was not yet twenty, was listed alongside Yang Jiong, Lu Zhaolin and Luo Binwang, and was promoted to the first of the Four Talents.

When Li Hong learned about this, he just curled his lips and showed disdain.

At that time, Wu Mei thought that Li Hong was just a young man and was a little jealous of Wang Bo's fame.

After all, his son is also a talented young man. Although he has not written many poems, each of them is well-known and a rare masterpiece.

What's more, when they visited Qujiang Lake, Wang Bo composed a poem, but Li Hong did not. Although he finally won applause with his magic trick, he even had the momentum to surpass Wang Bo.

But Wu Mei always thought that Li Hong disliked Wang Bo because Wang Bo's talent was slightly superior to his.

Now it seems that Li Hong was a man of foresight. He had seen through Wang Bo at a young age and did not hold him in his hand like Yang Jiong did.

Although Yang Jiong has not yet been promoted to a high rank, he is already a talented person who can stand on his own in the four towns of Anxi.

In comparison, whether it was Wang Bo, Li Xian, or Li Zhe, they were all far behind Li Hong.

I'm afraid that even Yang Jiong's later achievements could not be compared with Wang Bo's.

"What a crooked genius! When the two princes were fighting cocks, not only did he not stop it, but he wrote a manifesto to add to the fun! He even fabricated and exaggerated the events, with the intention of sowing discord between the princes. This person must not be allowed to stay and must be expelled from the palace immediately!" Li Zhi was so angry that he threw the manifesto about cockfighting to the ground and hummed in a low voice.

Li Zhi's words made Li Xian and Li Zhe, who were already trembling with fear, turn pale immediately. For them, this was the first time they saw their father so angry.

Even if I was so angry in the past, it was because the fifth brother messed around in the four towns of Anxi, causing my father and mother to quarrel. I never thought that they would end up like this today.

But for some reason, even the fifth brother could still keep a cheerful face when facing his furious father and mother, while the two of them were almost scared to death at this moment, with their legs so weak that they couldn't stand up.

Wu Mei didn't say anything, but was just thinking, why could Li Hong see through it at a glance that Wang Bo was not as good as Yang Jiong?

Both of them are famous talents, but why did Li Hong favor Yang Jiong, but not like Wang Bo, who was slightly better?

It is just as Li Hong said at the time, no matter how talented a person is, if he has an improper character, he will be a disaster if I use him.

Thinking of this, he discovered that the letter Li Zhi had placed on the table was from Li Hong asking the Ministry of Personnel to dispatch Dai Zhide and others to the Western Regions.

Wu Mei then read the letter in a low voice: "Killing people and destroying their hearts, destroying the country and destroying the culture."

It seems that this little bastard is planning to make some big plans in Tubo.