Man Tanghong

Chapter 936 His candied fruit, my arsenic

"But the road from Mengshezhao to the west is not easy, and the same goes for Linyi."

Li Yuanji put down the strategy in his hand and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

From the very beginning when he wanted to enter the West, he had considered how to enter the West.

During the Han Dynasty in history, the body poison was indeed spied from the Western Regions and Western Shu respectively.

Theoretically, the road from Shuxi to the West is even closer.

But the road from the west of Shu to the west is not easy.

Along the way, not only have to go through mountains and forests, but also have to deal with all kinds of poisonous insects and beasts, as well as the miasma in the jungle.

This is nothing to the natives living in the deep mountains and old forests, but it is a huge obstacle to the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.

It's just that a snake eats insect bites, and most northern soldiers are not able to adapt.

When Wang Mang conquered the Southwest, he was defeated by miasma and snake bites.

So for the current Tang Dynasty, the road from the Western Regions to the West is safer.

It was a bit far away, but apart from the yellow sand all over the sky and some specific climate influences in the Western Regions, there were not too many poisonous insects and beasts coming out to block the way.

More importantly, when the Tang Dynasty entered the West, the advance troops it sent were Turkic, Tuyuhun, and Tubo people.

These people have already adapted to life on the grasslands and deserts, and can easily pass through the Western Regions and reach the West.

Datang only needs to follow behind them and enjoy their success.

So there is no need to take such a big risk and invest so much manpower and material resources to open up the road to the west of Shu.

However, Linyi's sea route can be developed.

Although Datang's shipbuilding industry can't support ocean voyages now.

But the distance from Linyi to Tianzhu is not far away, and the distance is like from Yangzhou to Jiaozhou in the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, it is feasible to occupy Linyi, build a pier in Linyi, and use Linyi as a springboard to take a peek at Tianzhu and the places west of Tianzhu.

However, in comparison, it is safer to enter the West from the Western Regions.

Because if you enter the West from the Western Regions, Datang can send a large number of advance troops to help travel and eradicate various threats.

Datang only needs to face the most difficult enemy directly.

However, according to historical records, the prairie people were invincible when they entered the west, and they had few opponents. The most powerful crusaders in the west have not yet appeared.

The Turkic, Tubo, and Tuyuhun people can completely lie down when they enter the West. Datang only needs to provide them with sufficient armaments and sufficient technical support.

Therefore, there are not many tough battles that need to be fought by Datang.

As long as the Tang Dynasty can keep suppressing the Turks, Tubo, and Tuyuhun, they can always share the richest fruits from their spoils.

Therefore, for Datang, the risk of entering the West from the Western Regions is the least, and the effort required is also small, but the harvest is the greatest.

Hearing this, Li Shimin stared and said, "You want to spy on the west, places that we don't understand and don't know, how can you do it without paying a price?
Only by paying can there be gains. "

Li Yuanji smiled indifferently: "But I want others to pay for us, and we will take the harvest directly."

Li Shimin stretched out his hand, wanting to pat the table, but his hand hung over the table but did not fall, but continued to stare and said: "How can there be something in the world that only reaps without giving?
You want to use the strength of Turks, Tuyuhun, and Tubo to help you spy on the West. You don't need to pay a huge price in the early stage.

But once the Turks, Tuyuhun, and Tubo have gained a firm foothold in the West and become big, you can't do without paying the price.

So when we do things, we can use other people's hands, but we can't completely use other people's hands. We must have our own things, and we must have our own backing hands! "

Li Yuanji nodded and said: "I admit that what you said is reasonable. We should have our own back-ups in doing things, but we use Turkic, Tuyuhun, and Tubo to help us spy on the West. It does not conflict with our own back-up preparations." .

I just said that I don't want to use a huge price to open up the road to the West, and I won't open up without saying that. "

Li Shimin was stunned, and said: "You want to spy on the west in Turkic, Tubo, and Tuyuhun, and after confirming that there is indeed a hot land in the west, you can open up other ways to enter the west?"

In the eyes of many people in Datang, the west is a barren land. In the eyes of a few broad-minded people in Datang, although the west is not a barren land, it is not a good place either.

It is reasonable for Li Shimin to think so.

After all, when most wise men enter an unknown place, they will not bet all their treasures at once, but will find a way to ask other people to help them find the way.

Waiting for others to figure out the way, the wise man will make a bet and bet everything on it.

This is the same as trying to test and feint in war.

A good general will figure out the enemy's specific strength and various layouts through various temptations and feints before the battle. When everything is clear, the whole army will attack, aim at the enemy's weak points, and give the enemy a painful blow. hit.

As a military strategist, Li Shimin has already integrated this habit into his bone marrow, so he also thinks like this when he thinks about problems.

When others say something related to this, they will naturally think about it.

Unfortunately, Li Shimin guessed wrongly what Li Yuanji was thinking.

Li Yuanji didn't think so.

In the eyes of Tang people, the West is hazy and unknown.

But in Li Yuanji's eyes, everything in the West is clear.

So he didn't need to try it out.

He just simply didn't want to pay too much.

After all, in this era of no roads, no cars, and no planes, the road to the West is not easy.

The more roads you want to take, the higher the price you need to pay.

And this kind of price is not something that the current Datang can afford.

So first use the strength of others to walk through one path, and then use the strength of others to walk through other paths, and finally gather enough of your own strength, and then use your own strength to stabilize these paths is the best choice.

Li Yuanji shook his head and said, "I haven't thought about it that way, I just don't want to spend too much to test the road."

Li Shimin's eyes stared like copper bells for a moment, and his eyes were filled with 'do you know that your words contradict yourself'.

Li Yuanji sighed and explained: "Dingkou in my Tang Dynasty can barely reach 300 million households, which is less than one-sixth of the heyday of the Han Dynasty. It can't even fill the territory of my Tang Dynasty, let alone fill us. The Turks are about to be captured.

Therefore, it is impossible for us to send a large number of soldiers and horses to go through the mountains and forests where Mengshezhao is located, and it is even more impossible to send a large number of soldiers and horses to go through the jungles in the west of Mengshezhao to conquer the west.

So we can only rely on the power of others to help us spy on the West.

When others help us find out the situation in the West and open up all the roads for us, we can go directly along the roads they found out.

At that time, my Dingkou in Datang should have recovered to a very impressive number.

We can then take control of the paths they blazed for us, and even replace them.

Only then will we really begin to spy on the West.

Before that, we could only support the Turks, Tubo, and Tuyuhun behind our backs, and let them go to the west to stir up trouble. "

Li Shimin frowned instantly, "Since that's the case, why don't you wait until my Datang's Dingkou recovers before you spy on the West?"

Li Yuanji laughed and said, "At that time, does Second Brother think I still have time to spy on the West?"

Li Shimin opened his mouth, wanting to say yes, but he didn't say it.

By that time, Li Yuanji might be in his forties or fifties, and his ambitions might have long since been smoothed out by the turmoil of the Tang Dynasty, and the possibility of continuing to spy on the West is extremely low.

In addition, Li Yuan might have passed away by then. If Li Yuanji was in Datang, he would definitely inherit Li Yuan's position.

Even if Li Yuanji didn't want to, before Li Yuan died, he would try every means to push Li Yuanji to the top position, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty would try their best to beg Li Yuanji to take the top position.

Surrounded by everyone, Li Yuanji had no room to back down.

Once Li Yuanji succeeded Li Yuan, he was bound by all the trifles of the Tang Dynasty, and he couldn't do whatever he wanted.

At that time, let alone spying on the west, even if you want to conquest by the emperor, you will have to talk to the civil and military men of the Manchu Dynasty several times before you can get what you want.

So Datang can spy on the West later, but Li Yuanji can't.

Li Yuanji had to set the tone, arrange the overall situation, and start well before Li Yuan was still alive.

Only in this way, Li Yuanji will not be forced back by Li Yuan, wrapped up by civil and military personnel, boarded that position, and locked in that position.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin's heart was inexplicably a little acidic, and it became complicated.

He and Li Jiancheng were vying for the position, and they didn't hesitate to hurt their blood relatives, but Li Yuanji actually said no, so he didn't want it. In order to achieve his goal, he even planned an extremely crazy plan to spy on the West.

This reminded him of a sentence.

His candied fruit, my arsenic.

The throne that everyone yearns for, the throne that everyone wants, in Li Yuanji's eyes, not only is it not a sweet pastry, but like a tiger and wolf.

For a moment, Li Shimin suddenly felt whether he was superficial or lacking ambition.

Otherwise, how could he hurt his brothers, nephews, and flesh and blood relatives for a mere corner of the Central Plains?

However, this idea was thrown out by Li Shimin not long after it was born in Li Shimin's mind.

This corner of the Central Plains is something that many people have longed for for a lifetime, so how can he underestimate it?
Thinking back to the time when the 72 roads fought against the king together, who wasn't for it?
During the 72 road anti-king competition, so many people died, isn't it also because of it?
He didn't get it now, yet he dared to look down on it, isn't he a little arrogant, a little too ambitious?

(End of this chapter)