Man Tanghong

"What do they want?"

Li Yuanji asked.

The Minister of Honglu Temple hesitated for a moment, and said with an even weirder expression: "They want 120 three iron pots, 68 carts of linen, and 21 carts of yuan clothes..."

The minister of Honglu Temple said a lot in one breath, just like reporting the name of a dish.

There are so many things and the types are very complicated, which makes people baffled.

Li Gang knew some inside information, so after listening to the report from the Minister of Honglu Temple, he just meditated silently and had no other reaction.

Li Yuanji also knew the inside story, so when the Minister of Honglu Temple was reporting, he silently picked up the book that had been left on the imperial case for a long time and quickly flipped through it.

After a long time, Li Yuanji put down the book, and said to Honglu Temple Minister: "You go down and wait first, I want to discuss with Li Gong, see if you want to agree to the conditions of the Turkic people."

Full of doubts, the Minister of Honglu Temple bowed and left the Tai Chi Hall after bowing.

After Honglu Siqing left, Li Yuanji frowned, and Li Gang frowned too, stroked his gray beard and said in a deep voice: "It's a big deal for us that Xieli got involved with the Tuyuhun people." That's not good news."

Li Yuanji nodded and said nothing.

The conditions put forward by the Turkic people contained a large number of figures, and the source of these figures was Tang Jian.

This is the method he taught Tang Jian to pass the news secretly. This method is incomprehensible to the Turks, so the Turks will not discover the mystery when they put forward the conditions.

In this way, the news delivered by Tang Jian can be accurately transmitted back to Datang.

According to the news sent back by Tang Jian, the reason why the Turks used gold to redeem their Kehe Dun was at the request of the Tuyuhun people.

After Yicheng and Empress Xiao were captured by the Tang Dynasty, Yang Zhengdao used his own channels to contact Guanghua in Tuyuhun, and let Guanghua reconcile it. He asked Tuyuhun Khan to come forward and persuade Jieli to The method is exchanged for Yicheng.

In exchange, Tuyuhun would provide Turks with 30 stones of grain, [-] swords, and [-] sets of armor after Jieli returned Yicheng.

For Xieli, this deal was profitable no matter how you looked at it, so Xieli agreed without even thinking about it.

He also called together capable people under his command to discuss how to get Yicheng back.

During the negotiation process, some Western Turkic envoys offered advice to Xieli, saying that they could exchange gold and silver of the same weight for Yicheng according to the redemption method in the Far West.

And Xieli chose to adopt this method when other capable people had no good solution.

However, due to the high value of the same weight of gold and silver, Xieli didn't want to bleed heavily, so he blackmailed Yang Zhengdao and others, as well as Tuyuhun once more.

Ask Yang Zhengdao and others to pay a part of the gold and silver, and let Tuyuhun Khan agree to him, and form an offensive and defensive alliance when dealing with Datang in the future.

For unknown reasons, Yang Zhengdao and Tuyuhun Khan agreed to these conditions.

Not only that, after Tuyuhun Khan agreed, he sent people to the Turkic royal court to kill the white horse with Xieli and make an oath, which was the conclusion of the contract.

Tuyuhun and Turks officially became allies in dealing with Tang Dynasty.

In the future, if Datang goes to war with any of them, he will face both of them.

And one of them is in the north of Datang, and the other is in the west of Datang. If Datang wants to fight with them, they must divide their troops into two groups and attack them from the north and west.

This is a test for Datang's baggage transportation.

That's why Li Gang said that this is not good news.

"Why do you think Guanghua is so determined to return Yicheng? Why does Tuyuhun Khan spare no effort to support her?"

After being silent for a long time, Li Yuanji suddenly looked at Li Gang and asked a question.

In this matter, Tuyuhun Khan's behavior is quite strange.

Khan Tuyuhun was obviously thankless in this matter.

He didn't understand why Tuyuhun Khan would do this.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Gang hesitated and said, "Perhaps after welcoming Yicheng back to the Turks, will there be any unexpected benefits for them?"

Li Yuanji questioned: "What unexpected benefits? You can't take advantage of Yicheng's influence in Turkic to occupy the territory of Turkic?"

This kind of thing, let alone righteousness, even if Tuli went back, it might not be possible.

After all, Xieli is very strict about his "Jiangshan Sheji", even Tuli's nephew and Sunishi's nephew are strictly guarded by him.

Yicheng is an outsider, even if he is a Turkic Kehe Dun, he would never want to seek any benefits for Tuyuhun under Jieli's nose.

"That's impossible……"

Li Gang shook his head and sighed, "Jieli doesn't even want to let go of his nephew, so how could he let Yicheng, an outsider, seek benefits for Tuyuhun?
The minister speculated that Guanghua probably wanted to use Yicheng's influence in Turkic to strengthen the cooperation between Tuyuhun and Turkic.

In the past, Turkic soldiers were strong and horses were strong, and there were hundreds of thousands of people who controlled strings. With their own strength, they could overwhelm my Tang Dynasty.

So even if Tuyuhun wanted to join forces with Turks, it still had to depend on Xieli's mood.

But now it’s different, the Turks were defeated in Gyeongju, the people who controlled the strings were killed by us, and tens of thousands were captured.

In such a situation, if Tuyuhun joined forces again, even if Jieli didn't want to, he would have to reach a cooperation with Tuyuhun to deal with my Datang's counterattack. "

Li Yuanji nodded thoughtfully and said: "That is to say, Tuyuhun has always wanted to cooperate with the Turks, and wanted to use the power of the Turks to guard against our Tang Dynasty, and even invade our Datang, but they did not dare to act rashly." Go to the Turks, for fear that the Turks will turn back, or use them as dead soldiers, wear down their strength, and finally annex them.

So they want to use righteousness as a bridge, let Yicheng reconcile, avoid the Turkic rebellion, avoid the risk of the Turkic taking them as dead soldiers, or even annexing them? "

Li Gang nodded slowly.

But Li Yuanji felt that this matter was not so simple, but he couldn't guess what other tricks were involved in it for a while, so he didn't talk about this topic again, but pondered: "Then how do you think we should deal with it? "

Li Gang paused with his hand stroking his beard, and laughed cheerfully, "How else can I deal with it, just don't agree to them."

What Li Gang meant was that he would not agree to trade with Xieli, nor return Yicheng to the Turks.

This method may seem crude, but it is by far the best way to deal with the alliance between Tuyuhun and Turks.

Without Yicheng's mediation, no matter what the purpose of Tuyuhun's alliance with the Turks, it would be impossible to achieve it.

"That's the way to go. However, Tuyuhun and Turkic have formed an alliance, and it is very likely that they will join forces to invade our Tang Dynasty. We must guard against it."

"..."

Li Gang pondered for a while, then raised his head and said: "Then let Liu Hongji take precautions, and then transfer Li Jing to Liangzhou to sit in charge?"

Liu Hongji had been sitting on the Great Wall outside Xiaoguan since the previous abrupt battle ended, reminding Liu Hongji to be on guard would indeed play a certain role.

But it can't play a full role.

Because if the Turks want to go south, they can go south not only from the end of the Great Wall where Liu Hongji sits, but also from the end of the Great Wall where Li Shenfu sits.

If we really want to talk about it, the risk of the side of the Great Wall where Li Shenfu sits is higher than that where Liu Hongji sits.

Because at one end of the Great Wall where Li Shenfu sits, there are not only Turks, but also Liang Shidu.

And Liang Shidu has always played the role of Turkic vanguard in many previous abrupt battles.

So if the Turks go south again, Liang Shidu will definitely continue to be the vanguard, and the place where Li Shenfu sits is even more dangerous.

Therefore, while reminding Liu Hongji, he should also remind Li Shenfu, and he must also send a powerful assistant to Li Shenfu.

"We can't just remind Liu Hongji and not remind me, Uncle Wang. In comparison, if the Turks go south again, they are more likely to come down from Uncle Wang."

Li Yuanji said with emotion.

Li Gang was stunned for a moment, nodded his head and said in agreement: "Your Highness is right, but I was negligent..."

Li Yuanji continued: "Besides, it's not appropriate for Li Jing to sit in Liangzhou..."

Although Li Jing's status in the Tang Dynasty has become very popular after capturing Yicheng, Empress Xiao, and recovering the Jade Seal of Chuanguo, such a general cannot be sent to Liangzhou just because Liangzhou needs it. Do the work of mediocrity.

In Datang, only the generals who are not outstanding in ability and who are old and old are suitable for guarding.

Those with outstanding abilities and young ones are all very aggressive. It is the best arrangement to let them massacre the city and destroy the country. Letting them guard and serve as benches will only wear down their vigor and waste them. Suspicion of talent.

"Forehead?!"

Li Gang was stunned again, hesitantly said: "Then who are you going to let go?"

Li Yuanji thought for a while and said, "Just Huang Junhan!"

Although Huang Junhan's reputation in history books is not great, and he doesn't have much pen and ink in the romance, but in reality, his ability is still very outstanding.

Otherwise, in the process of following Li Shimin's campaign, he would not have played the role of the marching chief repeatedly.

You know, Li Shimin has a lot of talents under his command, and those who compete with him for the marching chief are all famous figures in history.

He can suppress these big men and sit firmly in the position of the marching chief, which shows how strong his ability is.

That is to say, he is getting older, his vigor is not so aggressive, and his aggressiveness is not so strong.

Otherwise, he shouldn't be sent to live in Liangzhou.

Because it is a bit overkill.

That is, in the early Tang Dynasty, there were so many outstanding civil servants and military generals, and it was okay to use a great talent occasionally.

If it was in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, or at the end of the Tang Dynasty, a great talent like Huang Junhan would be confessed.