Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 1458 Middleman Li Shimin
However, since he is not strong enough to compete with the big Han princes directly on the Wa Kingdom, and Li Shimin is really jealous of those gold and silver, then he simply does the opposite and "forms an alliance" with the Wa Kingdom. way to achieve your goals.

If it was just one or two princes of the big man, maybe Li Shimin would still have the idea of ​​a positive wave, and directly use force to grab it. Whoever has the biggest fist will benefit from it!

But there are princes of the five routes, and the princes of the five routes join hands. Besides, among the princes of the five routes, there is the big brother of the Jin army. odds.Therefore, it is very important to find another way to achieve your goals.

In fact, when the Wa Kingdom invaded Xuzhou, the Great Han Dynasty, Li Shimin also noticed the Wa Kingdom.With Qin Zheng unable to break through in a short period of time, it's not that Li Shimin didn't think about occupying here to expand his strength.

It's just that things can't be done just by thinking about it, and enough information must be collected in advance.But when Li Shimin sent his men to continuously collect information about the Wa Kingdom, the big man's side had already taken the lead.

And not long after the Han princes conquered Dongying, Li Shimin had already started to contact the Japanese country.It's just that it was only a preliminary contact at that time, and it didn't involve too many interests.

Moreover, at the very beginning, Li Shimin didn't know the news about gold and silver in the Wa country. More precisely, like those Han princes, although he had heard those rumors, after all, those rumors had not been confirmed to be true or false.At that time, the contact was only out of the attitude of whether there is no date, but it is necessary to make a shot first.

But with the successive failures of those big names in the Wa Kingdom, this also allowed Li Shimin to see more opportunities.

What is the situation in Japan now? Both Takeda Shingen and Oda Nobunaga have been defeated, and Uesugi Kenshin is left to remain good. Moreover, since the navy of the big man has more important things, he is too lazy to continue with Uesugi Kenshin Xin played, so the force of the daimyos headed by Uesugi Kenshin was preserved.

Tathagata, nearly three-quarters of the Japanese army has been buried in these wars.Although the current Wa country still has a large number of soldiers and horses, they are recruits who have just been recruited, and their combat effectiveness is really touching.

But no matter how impressive the fighting power of these recruits is, the big names of these Japanese countries can only ask them to recruit them. At least they have soldiers under their ranks. If they don’t recruit these recruits, how can they have the strength to resist? The soldiers and horses of the big man!

If there are no such soldiers and horses, then when the Han princes come to fight, they may really have to wash their necks and prepare to be stabbed by others!
The situation in the Wa country has deteriorated to such an extent, so for Li Shimin, isn't it the best time to take advantage of the fire and loot, and to beautify it a little bit, that is the best time to "form an alliance"!
Therefore, Li Shimin sent Yan Zhuang, a counselor under his command, to take the initiative to contact those big names in the Wa country.

Yan Zhuang, although not many people may have heard of this person's name, but he is a peerless strategist and one of the most powerful strategists under Li Shimin's hands.

In history, he first bewitched An Lushan to raise troops, then murdered An Lushan, and when the general situation was over, he voted for the Tang Dynasty, and finally died well.

It has to be said that this person is a representative figure of intellectuals in troubled times. He has brought into full play the advantages of intelligence, quick-wittedness and decisiveness, and judgment of the general situation to the extreme.In history, there are very few people who can play tricks like him, but can retreat unscathed in the end!

At the beginning, what Li Shimin wanted to do was just what Li Xiang, Qin Zheng, and Liu Bang did to the grassland, selling arms to them and becoming an arms dealer.Of course, Li Tang is not rich in terms of armor and weapons, and Li Shimin mainly sells war horses!
And Li Tang himself didn't have any war horses, so where did Li Shimin's war horses come from? Of course they came from Nurhachi and Tuoba Tao.Li Shimin spent double the price to buy war horses from Nurhachi and Tuoba Tao, and then turned around and sold them to the big names of the Wa Kingdom for ten times the price!

The profit in the middle, not to mention Li Shimin, I am afraid that Li Xiang will be envious after seeing it.

Of course, Nurhachi and Tuoba Tao are not fools. Although there is no shortage of battles on the grassland, it doesn't mean that they will be willing to transport these war horses out!The advantage of nomadic peoples over farming peoples is their war horses. Of course, they will control the outflow of war horses.

Moreover, the number of Li Shimin's secondary horses is so large. Although Li Shimin is willing to pay a certain amount of benefits, the asking price of Nurhachi and Tuoba Tao is still ridiculously high!

War horses are not worth much on the prairie, otherwise those horse dealers would buy them from the prairie and resell them to the Central Plains or the South, and they wouldn't be making a lot of money.

Although Nurhachi and Tuoba Tao's asking price for Li Shimin's war horse this time has not yet reached the price of the war horse in the south, it has even exceeded the price of the war horse in the Central Plains.

However, even with such a batch of "high-priced horses", Li Shimin was still willing to buy them in large quantities!
After all, although Li Shimin spent a lot of money on the purchase, but his seller was a fool with a lot of money. No matter how high his purchase price was, he still had a way to sell it at ten times the price.

For one thing, Li Shimin's war horses are the real tall horses in the north. Those horses in the Japanese country are not comparable to these horses.

The big names in the Japanese country have never encountered such tall horses in the native country of the Japanese country, so naturally they don't know the real market of these horses. Not sure.

Secondly, these daimyos of the Wa Kingdom really need these war horses. This time, these daimyos of the Wa Kingdom suffered a great loss in the cavalry.Facing the cavalry of the big man, their own cavalry was like a group of younger brothers, being chopped down like vegetables.

The current situation on their side also requires them to purchase this batch of war horses from Li Shimin in order to change their cavalry.

Therefore, when Li Shimin came into contact with the Wa Kingdom for the first time, he acted perfectly as a middleman, and almost made a lot of profits by using this empty-handed white wolf method.However, no matter whether it was the side of Nurhachi and Tuoba Tao, or the side of the Japanese daimyo, they were quite satisfied!

And as the big names in the Wa country began to contact Li Shimin, they also deliberately inquired about Li Shimin's news, and as the big names in the Wa country learned more and more about Li Shimin and Li Tang's situation, the resulting There are more and more ideas.

Therefore, this also gave them both a chance to form an alliance, or to be more precise, gave Li Shimin a chance to kill them once!

(End of this chapter)