People in Datang have been expelled from school

Chapter 657 What's Your Majesty's Urgency?

Du Ruhui followed Li Zheng's words, thought over and over again, and hesitated to speak.

Fang Xuanling looked solemn, "Now that there is such a big storm in the court, I think the five surnames will make even more outrageous actions in order to prevent the dispatch of troops."

Li Shimin looked at Li Zheng with a calm expression, "Li Zheng, what do you think?"

Li Zhengchang sighed, "Since this is the case, your majesty should not send troops, and your majesty does not want to have any more troubles in the court."

Du Ruhui couldn't help it, "These officials of the five surnames are really too arrogant to use such methods."

After listening to Li Zheng's words, Li Shimin said in a low voice: "Li Zheng, do you mean that there will be no troops in the court? How can Tubo be pacified without troops?"

Li Zheng held a teacup in his hand and said, "The mountain people have their own tricks."

Li Shimin took a step forward, stared at Li Zheng and asked again: "If something happens to Li Ke, should I punish you!"

Looking at Li Shimin's expression, Li Zheng said: "Your Majesty, it is not so easy to pacify Tubo. No one knows how long this battle will take. If Songtsan Gampo quelled Tubo so quickly, he would pay off the 500 million guan in no time." , we still lose money.”

For some reason, seeing Li Zheng's calm expression, Li Shimin also calmed down a lot.

It seems that this is not something urgent.

What am I in a hurry for?
Are you really intimidated by the five surnames?
Li Shimin thought to himself.

Li Zheng continued: "Does Your Majesty want Tubo to be pacified? What if Tubo pacifies our business?"

Hearing the word business, Li Shimin coughed hard twice.

There are some things that the fewer people know, the better.

Neither Fang Xuanling nor Du Ruhui knew about the weapons business.

Li Shimin glanced at Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui and said, "You two go to the entrance of the village and wait. I have some things to discuss with Li Zheng alone."

"Here."

Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui saluted in unison and left.

Wang Ding stood quietly not far away.

Right now, there are only two monarchs and ministers left by the river, Li Shimin put away his clothes, sat aside and said, "Then tell me what you think."

Li Zheng picked up a stone and threw it into the river, looked at the ripples on the river and said: "Before the guards set off, I told His Highness the King of Shu that they didn't go to Tubo this time to go head-to-head with the Western Turks. And it is to check the military situation, to find out the way forward for the future rear army to enter Tubo."

Li Shimin said in a low voice: "Even if it's just to investigate the military situation, it's a lonely army going deep."

"Your Majesty, His Highness the King of Shu is now in Tubo, and Songtsan Gampo certainly does not want His Highness the King of Shu to have trouble, and the Western Turks may not dare to attack the people of the Central Plains, and I have already re-used the eyeliner back then. In a few days he will I will return to Tibet and continue to do business with my Majesty."

The weapons business has been suspended for half a year, and now it is finally starting again?

Li Zheng went on to say: "First of all, the weapon business will be restarted. My eyeliner will be operated in Tubo. I have told him to support His Highness the King of Shu. There is a high probability that His Highness the King of Shu will not confront the Western Turks unless it is absolutely necessary. Moreover, the Western Turks may not dare to touch the people of the Central Plains."

Li Shimin listened patiently.

"Although it is a matter of uncertainty for His Majesty to go to Tubo now, it didn't say that you can't go to the Western Turks, right? Even if you don't go to the Western Turks, we have [-] soldiers on the border between the Western Turks and the Great Tang. , as a warning to the Western Turks.”

Hearing this, Li Shimin caught a clue.

Li Zheng said again: "Of course, the Western Turkic people don't have as strong a concept of home as the Central Plains people. Even if we go to surround the Western Turkic people and copy their backs, the Western Turkic people may break their pots and smash their homes. .”

"Just a little warning. Sending troops to the Western Turks is really unrealistic. You just need to send troops at the border."

Li Zheng picked up his teacup and took a sip of water, "My mouth is a little dry."

Li Shimin asked: "What should we do after Chen Bing on the border of Western Turks? Is it useful for the situation in Tubo?"

Glancing at Li Shimin, Li Zheng said helplessly: "Why is your Majesty bothering about the Tubo issue? What does the situation in Tubo have to do with us? Songtsan Gampo borrowed 500 million guan, so we still have to help him , lend him money, but also do things for him? Isn’t this stupid?”

Li Shimin glared at Li Zheng, thinking, is this kid saying that I am stupid?

"I lent Songtsan Gampo the first tranche of 500 million guanbu. I also said at the time that I lent him the first tranche, and all of it was converted into food and the military pay of the court. So far, Songtsan Gampo has not taken Take a penny, right?"

Li Shimin nodded, Li Zheng was right, he lent Songtsan Gambo 500 million guan, and it was written in the contract that it was the first [-] guan.

Li Zheng closed the lid of the teacup, "When a person talks, don't just listen to what he said, but also what he didn't say."

Li Shimin looked at Li Zheng, "Then you didn't say anything?"

Li Zheng said with emotion: "After the suppression of Tubo, Tubo is still Tubo, Songtsen Gampo is still Songtsen Gampo, except for those in the contract, there are only those, frontier defense, commerce, population, military strength? And some land? Your Majesty's appetite is too small."

Li Shimin's eyebrows twitched a few more times, this kid just speaks well, does he have to arrange what I mean by a few sentences?
Did this kid do it on purpose?
I thought about continuing to listen to Li Zheng.

"Whatever he has, we have to give him the extra, and what he doesn't have, we will take what he has. If His Majesty only focuses on those small benefits, it will be a waste of effort."

Li Shimin looked at Li Zheng and said in a low voice: "How do I feel, although you didn't say a single word of scolding me from the beginning to the end, but when I put your words together and think about it, you are calling me stupid, short-sighted, and disregarding the overall situation?"

"How dare you, how dare you scold Your Majesty."

Li Shimin said with a straight face, "I always feel that you can say enough things in one sentence. You have to make several detours and despise me. In your Li Zheng's eyes, is I such a stupid person? Or Say you think I don't have your vision and ambition?"

Li Zheng shook the fan in his hand and smiled.

Li Shimin stood up abruptly, "Why are you laughing, talk well."

The cold autumn wind blew, and Li Zheng said in a low voice: "Tubo can't just be Tubo, Tubo must become a belonging, this belonging does not mean a vassal or a vassal state, but the whole of Tubo to be included in the territory of the Great Tang. This is the ambition His Majesty should have."

"Will the entire Tubo be included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty?" Li Shimin repeated, unconsciously looking in the direction of Tubo.

(End of this chapter)