Man Tanghong

Chapter 856 The old thief
Li Yuanji's words are tantamount to pointing out that Li Shiji is not a good person.

Li Shiji smiled wryly and said, "Your Highness may have misunderstood my subject..."

Misunderstand?

What can be wrong?
Let’s not mention the official history. No one dares to write you as a good person in the novels. They can only put you under the skin of a Taoist priest and make you a conspirator of gods and ghosts. Tell me what a good person you can be?
Li Yuanji stared at Li Shiji with a smile and said nothing.

Li Shiji has been watched for a long time, even if the city is extremely deep, he has to lower his head slightly and sigh at this moment: "Forget it, since your highness wants to let the minister accompany the King of Xiangyi, then the minister will give up his life to feed the tiger and accompany the King of Xiangyi." Just once."

Wouldn't it be over if I said so early?

Did I spend too much time talking?
As for giving up his life to feed a tiger, Li Yuanji doesn't believe even a punctuation mark.

For a conspirator and military strategist of Li Shiji's level, after he went to Turkic, it is not certain who is the tiger between him and Suni.

Baoqi Suni was sold by him and had to count the money for him.

You know, in history, this guy has done more than once to kill his son-in-law.

For the first time, if it is said that the son-in-law did not know, was unprepared, and was chopped off, it would be excusable.

But the second time you want to say that the son-in-law is ignorant and unprepared, it is completely unjustified.

The Xu family is not a newly rising family. They were already a wealthy family in the former Sui Dynasty, and they have been officials for generations.

Choosing a son-in-law will definitely not choose a bad guy, and ordinary people will not be able to enter the gate of his Xu residence.

In this case, the son-in-law he chose must be a smart man with status and background.

How could such a smart person not guard against her after seeing her habit of killing her son-in-law?

He was able to kill his son-in-law even though his son-in-law was guarding him. What does that mean?
It means that he either made sense of his son-in-law and made him willing to sacrifice himself, or he calculated his son-in-law and forced him to sacrifice himself.

These two situations, no matter which one they are, prove that he is a man who is good at calculating and proficient in guiding trends.

Sun Nishi is inferior to Jieli in terms of brains and abilities, so how can he be his opponent?

So after he went to Turkic, only he played Suni's part, and Suni didn't play his part.

The only thing Li Yuanji is worried about now is that after Li Shiji goes to Turkic, he will play too much and kill Turkic in advance.

In that case, although Datang would have one less enemy, Li Jing and the others would definitely have to blow up.

They hibernate silently and prepare meticulously. They just want to make great achievements in the war against the Turks. If the Turks are killed by Li Shiji, what achievements will they make?

They still have to fight Li Shiji desperately?
Although it is of great benefit to Datang to take down the Turks without bloodshed, it is only a short-term benefit.

Li Yuanji is not a short-sighted person. He does not want such short-term benefits, but long-term benefits.

After Jieli defeated Qingzhou, the Turks had already lost the capital to compete with the Tang Dynasty, and it was impossible for them to come to Chang'an and force the Tang Dynasty to sign the Weishui alliance as in history.

After Suni betrayed the Turks and chose to confront Xieli, the Turks lost even the capital to be an enemy of the Tang Dynasty.

Today, the reason why Li Yuanji wants to control the war between Xieli and Suni is to weaken the power of the Turks on the one hand, so that Tang will not have to pay such a high price when conquering the Turks; Jieli and Suni lost the time to fight, leaving enough time for Datang to gather strength.

When Datang has gathered its strength, it will be the time for Datang to open the country and fight north and south.

At that time, Turkic will not only be a battlefield, a place that must be conquered, but also a training ground for the Tang Dynasty.

The soldiers and horses of Datang had been fighting inside Datang before, and the strategies and tactics they were familiar with were all strategies and tactics against their own people. After opening the country, they had to use different strategies and tactics when facing the grassland people.

Therefore, Datang must have a training ground for soldiers to familiarize themselves with the strategies and tactics of the prairie people.

And Turkic is the training ground that Li Yuanji is optimistic about. As long as some soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty are trained in this training ground in Turkic, it will be easier for the Tang Dynasty to conquer Tuyuhun, Western Turkic, Tubo, and even more distant places. .

More importantly, Datang can also try to rule the grassland during this period.

Should we continue to use the method of our ancestors to control the barbarians, or should we build the Protectorate Mansion according to the historical method of the Tang Dynasty, or should we completely remove or absorb the people on the grassland and let the Han people move there, or establish a feudal state on the grassland so that When the royal family and nobles of the Tang Dynasty returned home, they all had to try it.

How to manage the grasslands, how to thoroughly integrate the grasslands into the Han land, and make it an inseparable part of the Han land, this is a big proposition in Datang.

It is also a big proposition in the entire history of feudal dynasties.

In the entire history of feudal dynasties, no one can perfectly solve this problem.

Although later generations have solved this problem, there is no way to learn from the experience of later generations, because the political system is different, and there is a gap of thousands of years, and the methods of later generations are not suitable for Datang at all.

So I can only explore and find out a method suitable for Datang.

And this exploration must have a test bed, and Turkic is the test field chosen by Li Yuanji.

In order to prevent Li Shiji from messing around after going to Turkic, Li Yuanji had to remind: "Li Aiqing, after you go to Turkic, remember, just help Suni stabilize the current defeat, don't do anything else."

Li Shiji is such a smart person, he immediately understood the deep meaning of these words, and immediately asked tentatively: "Your Highness, do you want to use Turks to do other things?"

Li Yuanji didn't hide everything, and leaked a little news to Li Shiji, "I think you can also see that since Sunishi and Jieli separated, Turkic has lost the right to be an enemy of my Tang Dynasty." .

Now that Turkic civil strife continues to deplete power, after Suni Shi and Jieli decide the winner, it will be difficult for Turkic to show their teeth to us, let alone our enemy.

So the Turkic Turks are no longer my concern in Datang.

I, Datang, should take a longer-term view. "

Li Shiji's eyes flickered and said: "Your Highness, what you mean is... I, the Tang Dynasty, want to conquer other places?"

Li Yuanji nodded without hesitation and said: "Is there any king in the world? You can't just talk about it casually. Wherever you look, anyone who refuses to submit to my Great Tang will be included in my Great Tang conquest." .

And the most powerful among them are the Western Turks, Tuyuhun, and the rising Tubo.

The people in these places mainly herd horses and herd sheep, center on tribes, and fight with cavalry.

If I, Datang, want them to bow their heads and surrender, I must fight them.

And the soldiers of my Great Tang have been fighting inside my Great Tang before, and they are not familiar with their fighting methods.

So we need a training ground, a training ground for my Tang soldiers to familiarize themselves with the fighting methods of the prairie people. "

Hearing this, Li Shiji's eyes flickered more anxiously, and his speech became more anxious, "When our soldiers from the Tang Dynasty have trained, is it time for us to conquer these places?"

Li Yuanji nodded slowly.

The reason why Li Shiji's reaction was so excited was because he heard many hidden meanings through these words.

For example, the conquest of Turks was not the end of Tang's conquest of the Quartet, but only the beginning.

This shows that there will be wars in Datang in the following ten years, or even decades.

This also shows that in the following ten years, or even decades, Datang will not do the same thing.

This is definitely good news for a military official like him, especially one with outstanding abilities.

Because it means that he doesn't have to worry about being hidden by birds and killing donkeys.

He can live comfortably for more than ten years, or even decades.

Now that the official title has reached his current level, it is meaningless to pursue credit. The stability and stability of the regime is what he wants.

The stability and stability of the political power also means to a certain extent that the horses are released from the Nanshan Mountains and the swords and guns are put into storage.

This is another very dangerous thing for him as a military official.

Now, after learning that the Tang Dynasty is stable internally, he will spread the war to the outside and implement the internal sage and external king. A military official like him can not only enjoy the happy life brought by internal stability and stability, but will also not be ruined by birds. Gongzang will still have a place to play, and it will be of great use, how could he be unhappy?
As for the fact that the outside world has become chaotic, unstable, and devastated because of Tang Dynasty's implementation of the kingly way, what does that have to do with him?
As a minister of the Tang Dynasty, he only needs to care about the stability of the Tang Dynasty and whether he is happy or not.

The places outside Datang are stable and unstable, and people outside Datang are not happy, what does it have to do with him?
Li Yuanji only revealed a little bit of his plan to Li Shiji in order to prevent Li Shiji from messing up after he went to Turkic, and in order to prevent Li Shiji from worrying about things like running out of birds and making troubles.

Looking at Li Shiji's reaction now, the effect is not bad, so he can relax a little bit.

As for completely letting go, that's impossible.

Faced with a person like Li Shiji, if you dare to put your mind at ease, he will dare to take advantage of your loopholes. You don't even need to try, he will definitely dare.

You can't expect that a person who already had his own power before you started a family, who has taken refuge in you, accompanied you to start a family, and has gone through all the process of your starting a family, will have any awe of you.

"Turk is the training ground chosen by His Highness?"

Li Shiji asked with burning eyes.

Li Yuanji nodded and said, "Not bad..."

Li Shiji became more interested, and said with a smile: "This is indeed an excellent training ground. If it is operated properly, it will definitely sharpen an elite army to deal with the grassland people."

As he said that, Li Shiji raised his head and said with a bright smile: "How much does Your Highness need me to do?"

Li Yuanji rolled his eyes indiscriminately.

Just now he said that he was strong and difficult, and he was afraid that he would teach his apprentice and beat his master to death.

Now it's completely a pair of wisdom beads in your hands, as if Turks are in the palm of your hand? !

None of these old thieves who have left their names in history is an honest person.

　Thanks to 'Xuanyuan Huowu' for rewarding two thousand book coins!Thanks for the five hundred book coins for the reward of 'It's very delicious'!
　　
　
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