Man Tanghong

Chapter 835

Hearing this, Tang Jian said in surprise: "Now that my Tang Dynasty has not started to conquer the Eastern Turks, Your Highness has already set its sights on the Western Turks?"

Is it too early? !
The journey of a thousand miles has just completed a hundred miles, so you are thinking about things five hundred miles away?
With the current national strength of the Tang Dynasty, it is not a problem to conquer the Eastern Turks, but it may be difficult to conquer the Western Turks.

It's not that there is not enough money and food to support the expedition of the army, but that there is not enough population to provide the expeditionary army for Datang.

Li Yuanji saw the doubts in Tang Jian's heart, and patiently explained: "I have heard people say that those who are not enough to plan for the whole world are not enough to plan for a moment, and those who are not enough to plan the overall situation are not enough to plan for a region.

It may take many years for my Tang Dynasty to conquer the Western Turks, but we must start preparing now.

Because when we can go to conquer the Western Turks, and then make preparations, it will be too late.

At that time, we will inevitably pay a heavy price for our lack of preparation in the early stage. "

The phrase "not enough to seek" is a famous saying of Qing Dynasty Chen Danran in "Moving the Capital and Establishing a Feudal Domain", which did not exist at this time.

So you can't say it directly, you have to pretend to be someone else's name.

As soon as these words came out, Tang Jianzhen was very upset, his eyes widened in an instant, and there was a bright light shining inside.

"Those who can't plan for the whole world can't plan for a moment, and those who can't plan for the whole world can't plan for a region... Who can say this must be a great sage?"

Tang Jian was not stingy with his praise at all.

But he never mentioned the matter of meeting this great sage.

This is also to be expected.

There are many great sages in the Tang Dynasty, and those who are not willing to be used by the Tang Dynasty, or who are unwilling to become an official, abound.

Therefore, the ministers of the Tang Dynasty would not clamor to see this great sage after hearing one or two more powerful quotes.

Therefore, great sages are very popular among scholars and among the people, but not necessarily in court.

After all, if the great sages have real skills and are quite powerful, they will grab other people's positions in the court. There are only so many positions for important ministers of the Tang Dynasty, and one who is robbed will be one less.

So in the Tang Dynasty, only Sun Simiao, a highly professional sage, would be sought after by everyone, and the rest might not.

"Now you know why I want you to send someone to the Western Turks?"

Li Yuanji stared at Tang Jian and asked.

Tang Jian nodded solemnly and said, "I understand..."

For marching and fighting, knowing yourself and the enemy can win every battle.

If Datang could understand all the conditions of the Western Turks in advance, and send spies to lurk into the Western Turks, it would be much easier when the Tang Dynasty conquered the Western Turks.

Tang Jian is not a person who only knows how to go on missions, but has no knowledge of literature and martial arts, so he knows this truth very well.

"Now that you understand, let's go back and do it. Remember, don't make a fuss, just take it slowly. If necessary, you can cooperate with the strength department in Yingzhou. I believe that with the help of the strength department, you will gain a firm foothold in Western Turkic Easier."

Li Yuanji exhorted.

No matter how you step on the strength department, it is also a branch of the Western Turkic royal family. Its understanding of Western Turkic and its influence in Western Turkic far surpasses any power in the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, it will be easy to be sure when going to Western Turkic as an envoy to do things in Western Turkic, with the help of the strength department.

"Here!"

Tang Jian stood up and agreed.

Li Yuanji asked Tang Jian to sit down again, and chatted with Tang Jian about the recent situation of Wang Xuance and Chai Lingwu after they became teachers.

Tang Jian can also be regarded as the noble person of Wang Xuance and Chai Lingwu on the road of life, so under the influence of Wang Xuance, Chai Lingwu respects Tang Jian very much. The family asked Tang Jian for advice and learned from Tang Jian.

So Tang Jian now understands the two of them even more than their parents.

Li Yuanji has no time to pay attention to the movements of the juniors. Even if he is very optimistic about Wang Xuance, he doesn't have the time to watch him all the time. In addition, his status makes the juniors afraid to get close to him, so he can only know about it through Tang Jian. Take a look at the current situation of the juniors.

First, let's take care of the lives of the juniors.

Secondly, I also have something to talk to Tang Jian about.

How embarrassing it would be if two people were sitting like this.

When mentioning Wang Xuance and Chai Lingwu, Tang Jian immediately became interested, and the smile on his face never stopped.

According to what Tang Jian said, Wang Xuance was quite well-behaved after his apprenticeship, except that he watched politics behind Chen Shuda's back every day and learned from the scribes of the three provinces, there was nothing special about him.

Chai Lingwu was different. He didn't seem to be learning from Wang Gui at all, but rather went to collect debts from Wang Gui.

After winning the replacement of the old lady of the Wang family, and getting the support of the old lady, he became a tyrant in the palace.

Every day, he either yells at Wang's children for bullying melons, or beats Wang Gui's chest and feet angrily.

Unfortunately, Wang Gui was not good enough to hit him hard, he raised the board and hit him twice, but someone protected him.

"You don't know, your nephew is walking sideways in the palace now, once Wang Shujie lifts the board to teach him, his young daughter will immediately jump out, look at him pitifully, and plead for your nephew.

If he is ruthless and continues to teach, his young daughter will invite Mrs. Wang to come.

Now Wang Shujie can't beat or scold your nephew, so he can only confess.

Hahahahaha..."

Tang Jian laughed loudly at the end.

It can be seen that he is very happy to see Wang Gui being deflated.

He was even happier that Wang Gui had no choice but to take advantage of his son-in-law.

What made him even happier was that this son-in-law was introduced by him.

Li Yuanji said dumbfoundedly: "Wang Shujie didn't offend you, why do you like watching him suffer so much?"

Tang Jian said with a cheerful smile: "Wang Shujie didn't offend the minister, but the minister just can't understand how he looks like he is inferior to everyone."

Although talking about people behind their backs is not done by a gentleman.

Maybe those who got mixed up in the court, and who is an upright gentleman?

Tang Jian is obviously not.

Of course Li Yuanji wasn't either.

Li Yuanji pointed at Tang Jian, shook his head and said with a smile, "You, you, you are so funny!"

Tang Jian was not ashamed, but proud, and laughed even more heartily.

Who made Wang Gui so annoying.

Especially after becoming a doctor of imperial history, it is even more disgusting.

Relying on his background from a top aristocratic family, he would feel inferior to anyone he saw, and looking at those who were not as well-born as him, it was like looking at stinky shit.

Although he didn't say anything contemptuous of others, his aura of being superior and contemptuous of anyone could be felt from a long distance away.

So there are many people who don't like him.

That is to say, he has a high status and a high status, so he uses this kind of momentum to face the subordinate officials, and the subordinate officials will not have much reaction.

Only people who are at his level, or who are in a similar position to him, will feel disgusted.

Otherwise, he would have been accused by thousands of people.

Now he is the imperial censor again, what he does is to offend people,
So there are even more people who hate him.

Tang Jian is a smooth and easy-going person, generally he doesn't offend others, but if he can have some fun with someone he doesn't like, he won't refuse.

Obviously, Wang Gui is his joy now.

Seeing Wang Gui deflated, to him, is probably more enjoyable than going to the Jiaofang Division to watch beauties dance.

"You, it's better to be restrained in the future, otherwise Wang Shujie will stare at you, and you will feel better."

Li Yuanji warned in an angry and funny way.

Wang Gui is definitely not an easy person to deal with, at least for Tang Jian.

If Tang Jian really offended Wang Gui, Wang Gui would most likely use the power of Yushitai to deal with him.

In order for Tang Jian to help Datang properly in the future, it is better to remind him.

Tang Jian nodded and said with a smile, "I know how to measure..."

hope so……

Li Yuanji murmured in his heart, but said: "Seeing that it's noon, stay in the palace and have dinner with me."

Tang Jian declined twice, and then rushed to the place to eat with Li Yuanji.

The Taiji Hall is the most solemn meeting place in the Tang Dynasty, so except for the New Year's Eve banquet and the celebration banquet, no other banquets can be held.

So there are other places to eat in the palace.

After a simple meal, Li Yuanji ordered Liu Jun to send visitors to send Tang Jian out of the palace.

Within two days after Tang Jian left the palace, he began to take care of the affairs of going to the Western Turks.

Although Honglu Temple has always been responsible for diplomatic work, the Ministry of Rites also takes part in diplomatic work. When necessary, Honglu Temple has to work under the guidance of the Ministry of Rites.

So Tang Jian, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, went out in person, and the people in Honglu Temple quickly cooperated with Tang Jian's work without stumbling.

……

Time flickered to Dongyue.

After Tang Jian sent the first batch of envoys to the Western Turks out of Chang'an City, the battle between Jieli and Suniso changed.

After occupying one-tenth of Suni's lost territory, Xieli chose to stop fighting.

Suni did not take the opportunity to fight back, but also chose to stop the fight, and once again sent someone to ask Datang for a large amount of military assistance.

The reason why Jie Li and Suni Shi stopped fighting was not that Jie Li wanted to let Suni Shi go, or that Suni Shi had confessed to Xie Li.

But once it enters the winter month, the temperature in Turkic will drop suddenly. When it is the coldest, if you urinate out, your little brother may be frozen.

Therefore, every year around the beginning of autumn, the Turkic people will prepare for the winter, and when the winter comes, they will be like a blind bear, nestling in one place and not moving.

The reason why it lasted until Dongyue this year was also because of the war.

If there had been no war, Jieli and Sunishi would probably have found a place close to the water source to go to Wodong long ago.

Therefore, what caused Xieli and Suni to stop fighting was not that one side wanted to let the other side go, nor was it that one side was intimidated, but the weather.

After Jieli and Sunishi chose to strike at the same time, Datang's border cities in Daizhou and Lingzhou became popular at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In addition to asking Datang for military aid, Suni took out a large number of cattle, sheep and horses and exchanged them with Datang for supplies.

And personally appeared at the border market in Daizhou, supervising the delivery of every shipment.

(End of this chapter)