Dashi actually started to send troops through Tocharo, preparing to attack our four towns in Anxi!
Li Hong tore open two secret letters from the Red Ling Envoy, read them quickly and handed them to others.
Pei Xingjian and others took the secret letter from Li Hong and quickly browsed through it. Everyone looked puzzled. The Prince of Food, Saleh, is now in the Tang Dynasty. What gave them such courage? , Dare to sink troops into the Tang border at this time.
"Your Highness, how about you meet Saleh first? Find out what kind of medicine he is selling in the gourd, and why he suddenly showed hostility to me, Datang." Liu Rengui said slowly.
"We need to meet, but I think I need to understand, what do they want! What do they want to do! Or are they really just for my Tang Dynasty's products to put pressure on Shen Bing?" Pei Xingjian stroked his beard and pondered solemnly. road.
Li Hong put the two secret letters that Ren Yaxiang had put back on the table, turned them over, and said with a disdainful smile: "What their purpose is is not important to us. What is important is how. It allows Xue Rengui and Hei Chichang to achieve a great victory with the least amount of troops and at the least cost."
"Your Highness, do you want to...?" Pei Xingjian's eyes lit up. No one knows Anxi and Tubo better than him, so His Highness wants a big victory, but is it really that simple
Li Hong's eyes were bright, flashing with fierce light, and he said firmly: "Yes, with the strength of the Anxi Corps, it can be said to be easy to repel the invading enemy, not to mention that we have the four Anxi soldiers to rely on! But how can we make the willing It would be best if Tochara came in through the passage and turned them against each other, and then... "
"Let them fight first, and in the end we will reap the benefits and take the opportunity to expand the territory of the Tang Dynasty to the territory of Tochara, or even the entire territory of Tochara, and then we will settle the borders with the cannibals!" Chen Jingzhi! He raised his head and understood Li Hong's intention.
"Then it's up to you. Go to the Persian Temple to find Belus, or his son Narshiye. Didn't he say last year that Tochara has their friends? Now is the opportunity, so you must convince them to let them They promised Tocharo that they would send troops to cooperate with us in the Tang Dynasty to eliminate the invading cannibals." Li Hong took a charcoal pen in his hand, searched around on the map, and then pointed at Chen Jingzhi and said. .
Chen Jingzhi's spirit was shaken, and he immediately saluted and said: "Yes, Your Highness, I will take care of it now."
"Remember not to show any eagerness and attitude, let them see that this is for the sake of their restoration, understand?" The charcoal in Li Hong's hand, above Suiye City in the Fourth Town of Anxi, originally belonged to the Tuqi Shi carefully drew a circle around his sphere of influence, put down the charcoal and said to Chen Jingzhi.
"Yes, Your Highness, I understand." Chen Jingzhi then took the order and left.
As Chen Jingzhi left, a huge map of the four towns in Anxi was hung up in Shangshu Ling's study, with the place where Li Hong had just drawn a large circle on it.
Li Hong pointed to the circled place for Liu Rengui, Ren Yaxiang and Pei Xingjian, and then said: "I think you all should know that there were the Ashinadu branch, the Wunu Shibi tribe, and the Huala branch now. The remnants of Zimo were not moved back to the four towns in time, and some of them attached themselves to Khwarazm. Therefore, Khwarazm has always been a place where I, the Tang Dynasty, could not let go of my hands and feet to deal with Tochara, or concentrate on it. One of the disadvantages of fighting against the cannibals is that this time we will take advantage of the conflict between Tocharia and the cannibals to completely defeat Khwarezm by surprise and make it a vassal, thereby destroying the rich aquatic plants across the river there. The land became the jurisdiction of the Anxi Protectorate."
"Your Highness..." Pei Xingjian said in silence, and then looked at Chen Jingzhi who had disappeared.
What His Highness said is completely inconsistent with what Chen Jingzhi said just now. What Chen Jingzhi just realized was that His Highness intended to destroy Tochara.
"Needless to say, I understand. If you tell Chen Jingzhi, do you think that when facing Belus, that old fox who has been immersed in the Tang Dynasty for many years and has been wandering around Tocharo and the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty, lobbying everywhere, Chen Jingzhi Can Jingzhi hide it? So it is better to let him make mistakes. In this way, Belus can believe that we are determined to restore the country for him and are not just using him." Li Hong bit his lip. He glanced at the map and said calmly.
"Yes, Your Highness, I understand. But although Khwarezm is rich in water and grass, it is separated by a river. It is not easy to completely occupy and then completely govern. After all, the land of rich water and grass is surrounded by yellow sand. , if you want to completely occupy it, you must relocate the people.”
"Don't move the people, only move the horses. After the Anbei Corps has included other governorates in Yunzhong, there will be no shortage of war horses. What's more, now we have to start moving a large number of war horses to the Annan Corps, and we must ensure that Anxi and Anbei , Annan’s use of horses, if we don’t find some external sources of horses, we will just wait for the horses to give birth, when will it happen?” Li Hong knocked on the table and said.
But there is something left in my heart. If Khwarezm is not allowed to surrender at this time, in a few years, it will be time for the people of the country to hold up their Quran and start conquering.
At that time, the influence of the Tang Dynasty will be just like history, which will only be recorded in the history books of its own people, but will never leave any traces in other people's places.
And for now, once Khwarezm was conquered by the Great Eater Kingdom, and with the Khwarezm tribe involving a large part of the Tang Dynasty's attention, if the Tang Dynasty wanted to concentrate on fighting the Great Eater Kingdom, it would become It was extremely difficult.
So no matter what, since the Big Food Country has begun to continue to expand eastward and has begun to covet the wealth and land in the east, it might as well strike first and occupy a favorable strategic deployment before continuing to conquer the west.
After finishing speaking, looking at the three people with thoughtful expressions, Li Hong knocked on the table again and pointed to places such as Liuzhao in the southwest, as well as Zhenla, Piao Kingdom, Huanwang and so on further south.
In these places, it is impossible to rely solely on waterways. Attack on land is naturally the top priority, so naturally, a large number of war horses need to be transported there.
"So Ren Yaxiang understands? The mission of the Ministry of War this year is to transport a large number of war horses to the Annan Corps. As for why, you can all understand by looking at the map. I appoint you Pei Xingjian as the Commander-in-Chief of the Nanhai Navy. I have already made your mission clear to you, but no one will know about the Ministry of War’s movements this year.” Li Hong drew back and forth on the map of the current horse breeding land of the Tang Dynasty. Circle it and show it to Ren Yaxiang.
According to the trend of history, it will not take a few years for the Later Turks to rise from the Dingxiang Dudufu. Coupled with the strength of Shiwei and Mohe, the Tang Dynasty not only lacks soldiers due to successive wars, but also finds it difficult to take care of both sides. The two sides rioted at the same time, so they had to gradually reduce their territory.
Now, Li Hong has given the war horses gradually to the grassland, Shiwei, Mohe and other places, and even the war horses in Anxi, Tubo, Tuyuhun and other places, according to the excess production capacity, after meeting the local prerequisites. Therefore, even if these nomadic tribes wanted to rebel, they would not have enough war horses to rebel.
In short, in Li Hong's view, even if the local herdsmen in the Anxi, Anbei, and Andong Protectorate now lack good horses for grazing, they should not be allowed to have other unnecessary thoughts because of the surplus of good horses.
If it weren't for the inherent disadvantage of war horses in terms of endurance in farming compared to oxen, Li Hong would have wished that all the farmland was plowed with good horses.
Therefore, promoting horse-drawn carriages in large quantities is also what Li Hong is planning to do. Whether it is the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of Works, etc., they will no longer be like before. If they want to do something, they will have no other choice but to rely on waterways.
"Then... what if His Majesty or the Queen asks about it?" Pei Xingjian felt that keeping secrets was not difficult. In the face of other people, with their qualifications, no one would pry around at will.
What's more, they can also be completely vigilant when facing other people.
But... what to do when faced with inquiries from the emperor and empress? Deceiving the king
"This... let me think about it." Li Hong tilted his head and looked sideways at the ceiling of Shangshu Ling's study, tapping his fingers on the table rhythmically, thinking for a long time before looking at the three of them and asking: "Do you dare to deceive the emperor? "
“….”
"Forget it, when I go to the palace to visit my father and mother in the past two days, I told them to just leave it alone. I'm asking you to deceive the emperor, but I'm not asking you to rebel. Why are you all crying and looking sad! It's okay, go down. "Okay." Someone waved his hand impatiently, and the three of them left in despair.
But a voice sounded in the minds of the three of them at the same time: The crime of deceiving the emperor is about as serious as rebellion, right? What is the difference
Whether it is the reform of the Ministry of War or the trends of the Ministry of War, after having a clear direction, not only Li Hong breathed a big sigh of relief, but also Pei Xingjian, Liu Rengui and others also breathed a big sigh of relief, and they knew Instead of being like in the past few years, facing the coexistence of government soldiers and recruited soldiers, but not knowing how to deal with it, they were stumbling around like a headless fly.
Someone humming a little tune, accompanied by Hua Meng and Jingzhe, staggered toward the East Palace.
Even though I am now supervising the country, I am afraid that I will soon be the superintendent of the country until my father reaches the Zen throne. This is no longer a secret among the court and ministers.
But now, Father Long and Mother Long have never planned to leave the Daming Palace and give it to themselves. They even revealed it intentionally or unintentionally, even if you, Li Hong, become the emperor, I will not let the Daming Palace. You are not allowed to live in it for me. Even if I go to Luoyang Palace for a year, you are not allowed to live there privately.
Fortunately, Li Hong was very satisfied with everything in the East Palace, and the harem of the East Palace, behind Li Zheng Hall, had already been built specifically for the residence of the Crown Princess and others, so for him, He said that the functions of the East Palace were enough for him, and he was even wealthy.
(End of chapter)