Cultivation of chastity

Li Tai breathed a sigh of relief when this matter was confirmed, but now Li Tai looked at Fang Xuanling and Hou Junji with more or less hesitation in his eyes.

"Qing Que, what else is there for you kid?" Li Shimin looked at Li Tai's appearance and knew that Li Tai's business was not over yet.

And Li Tai said, "It's mainly the Tibetan captives from the Dafeichuan War. I want to get them to build roads."

"I think it is very meaningful to speed up the road construction on the Henan Road to open up the expressway between Chang'an and Luoyang as soon as possible!" Hou Junji stood up and said decisively.

There is no way, from the words just now, Hou Junji already knew that he couldn't eat meat in Chang'an because of the traffic.

In this case, if the King of Wei really builds the road between Chang'an and Luoyang, the army's food will definitely be upgraded.

I can't eat beef from Xihai, so it's okay to eat mutton from Youzhou!
Li Shimin naturally knew what Hou Junji was paying attention to, so he cast his eyes on Fang Xuanling, and said, "Fang Qing, what do you think?"

"Honglu Temple is still discussing this matter with Tubo. Tubo naturally hopes to send everyone back, but if so many captives are sent back, what if Tubo reorganizes its offensive!" Fang Xuanling said,
"So on this point, we have not reached an agreement with Tubo."

Of course, Fang Xuanling said so, but Fang Xuanling knew very well that Honglu Temple would definitely not want to hand over people.

Although it is said that this group of people are prisoners of war, Honglu Temple is very aware of King Wei's desire for manpower through their hands. It is one thing whether King Wei is willing to give money or not, but Li Tai It must be the attitude of appreciating Honglu Temple.

After all, King Wei has cooperated with Honglu Temple too many times in these years.

In the large-scale projects proposed by Li Tai, there are more or less slaves brought from other races.

Even though most of the treatment given to them by the corvee in Li Tai was much better than their original life, but even so, they still had to do all kinds of dangerous work, not the Han people.

Needless to say, even the various dangerous projects on Henan Road are basically participated by foreigners.

And if these aliens want to enjoy normal treatment, they need to master the language and etiquette of the Han nationality.

If you can write Chinese characters, you can basically become a person who manages the personnel of your own clan, and you don't need to do dangerous work.

Of course, a lot of dangerous work is not forcing foreigners to do it, but after completing some dangerous tasks for a certain number of times, they will be able to leave their ethnicity, get their Han name, and have a Han household registration.

This is at least much simpler than the Chinese household registration in the 21st century. It's just a few lives to survive, and it's not for them to win the Nobel Prize.

However, when foreigners settled in the Han nationality, they more or less had to deal with Honglu Temple.

All in all, because of various reasons, the relationship between Li Tai and Honglu Temple is quite complicated, and it can be regarded as a solid interest relationship.

"Honghe Temple? I'll ask the Minister of Honghe Temple!" Li Tai looked at Li Shimin and said,

"Then Aye and these people can build roads for me, anyway, they will only waste the court's food if they are kept in custody.

As for changing, this is a population of 10,000+. If Datang digests it, then our population of Datang can take a big step forward! "

"You're the only one who counts well!" Li Shimin heard Li Tai's words and said, "Don't you have a lot of money! You also give out New Year's goods to the students in your school.
Give Chang'an officials a new year's gift before the New Year, and then these Tibetan captives will be handed over to you! "

"Thank you, Aye!" Li Tai agreed decisively when he heard Li Shimin's words, saying:
"However, if you can't deliver things like beef and mutton, then send some poultry and rice cakes, and I will hand them over to the Secretary of State for the imperial court to distribute them!

After all, I don't have so many people on hand, and I can send all the materials to the officials. "

"Up to you!" Li Shimin stroked his beard when he heard Li Tai's words, expressing his satisfaction.

Fang Xuanling also laughed and said, "If that's the case, then the old minister will take the place of the officials in Beijing, thank you King Wei!"

After Li Shimin agreed to this matter, Li Tai also said goodbye to Li Shimin, "Aye, I'm going to visit my mother!"

"Let's go!" Li Shimin waved his hand, "Your mother has been thinking about you these days!"

Li Tai bowed to Li Shimin when he heard this, and then decisively walked away, after all, it was pointless to keep him.

And Li Shimin watched Li Tai's departure, and said in a slightly solemn voice: "The monarch's talent..."

"It's a blessing for a saint to have this unicorn, why should a saint be worried!" Fang Xuanling said in a deep voice.

To be honest, Li Tai actually underestimated the value of his monarch talent.

Because Li Tai's idea is that he doesn't need to hide his talents in front of the founding king like Li Shimin, and he will try his best to show his talents, which will not make Li Shimin feel afraid, and even feel relieved.

At the same time, I can strengthen my own camp and oppress the prince's camp, and at the same time have a strong attraction to the neutral camp.

But this is a slightly fantasy world. There is no dispute that there is no dispute about establishing the right to be the rightful person.

Because the so-called virtuous in this world can be seen by everyone, that is, the general talent of generals, the spiritual talent of counselors, or the quasi-spiritual talent of other capable people, and even the king has the talent of a monarch.

Therefore, if none of Li Shimin's sons had the talent of a monarch, then there would naturally be no problem with establishing a successor.

But it will be different if there is a monarch's talent. This is a sign of virtuousness, not empty words, but a gift confirmed by God.

Even the Confucianists can only firmly maintain the inheritance of Li Shimin and Li Tai in the face of the crown prince without the talent of the monarch and the king of Wei with the talent of the monarch, but it cannot be said that it is unreasonable for Li Shimin to pass on the throne to Li Tai.

To put it simply, the emergence of the monarch's talent has increased the cost of competing for Li Shimin's position to some extent, and has become a new benchmark.

The prince does not have the talent of a monarch, and the king of Wei has the talent of a monarch, which shows that the king of Wei has his own way of being a king, and the prince does not even have his own basic heart to govern.

Under such circumstances, at least for Li Chengqian, as long as he didn't master the talent of a monarch, he would be flawed in the face of Li Tai. Even those who united with Li Chengqian would feel inferior to the Wei Wangdang.

Therefore, Li Shimin's attitude towards Li Tai became more tolerant the later he went. The important reason is that Li Tai showed his talent as a monarch.

This directly proves that Li Tai is better than Li Chengqian. This is not what anyone said, but what God said.

Just like this, Hou Junji originally wanted to get closer to Li Chengqian, to increase his favorability with Li Chengqian.

But after Li Tai showed his talent as a monarch, Hou Junji no longer felt against Li Tai, and even occasionally helped Li Tai say a few good words.

Because, as a participant of Xuanwumen, Hou Junji himself witnessed Li Shimin, who had the talent of a monarch, kill Li Jiancheng, who had no talent for a monarch, at Xuanwumen.

At least for Hou Junji, Li Tai's talent as a monarch is much more reliable than Li Chengqian's crown prince status.

Anyway, I haven't invested much in Li Chengqian, and I still have my own investment in Xihai County, so why don't I jump to Li Tai's side!

After all, even this year, Wang Xuance sent horses here, which is much more true than Li Chengqian's empty words.

Therefore, Li Tai showed the talent of a monarch, and actually got more than Li Tai expected.

With Li Tai's departure, this matter has come to an end, Li Shimin looked at Fang Xuanling, and couldn't help asking:

"How's the situation over there in Western Turks?"

After Fang Xuanling saluted Li Shimin, he said: "The west of Liyu Valley was set up as Yipidulu Khan. After the establishment of Yugu, it fought with Zhilishi Khan. As a result, the east and west were divided, and the west of the Yili River belonged to Yipi. Dulu Khan, Edom belongs to Zhilishi Khan."

"It seems that it is not easy to get through this Silk Road!" Li Shimin said after hearing Fang Xuanling's words,
"Continue to do a good job in the defense of the four counties in Hexi, and you need to be vigilant until you fail to lead the old Turkic troops to harass our Datang border!"

"No!" Hou Junji stood up naturally, because he was the Minister of the Ministry of War, and this was his business.

"In addition, we need to be vigilant against Xue Yantuo. After careful calculation, it has been almost nine years since the pharmacist attacked Xieli who captured the Eastern Turks, and it will be the tenth year next year.

With the recovery speed of the grassland, even if Xue Yantuo has not recovered to the momentum of the East Turks, he is afraid that he will feel more or less uneasy! "Li Shimin said in a deep voice.

"If Xue Yantuo's Yi Shiyi man doesn't know what to do, please ask the saint to let me lead the army to destroy him!"

Hou Junji decisively expressed his loyalty to Li Shimin, the most important thing was that he needed military exploits to wash away his lost points in Tubo.

Hearing this, Li Shimin smiled with satisfaction and said: "I know what you think, Junji. If there is a war in the future, I will definitely appoint you as a general, but Xue Yantuo is afraid that he will not dare to stroke the tiger's beard of our Tang Dynasty now!"

Of course, that's what Fang Xuanling said, "Xue Yantuo's Zhenzhu Khan asked his two sons to command the south and north respectively. Congratulate the two of them and divide them!"

To be honest, this strategy of differentiation is simple but effective.

Moreover, this strategy was not actually used against Yi Shiyi, but against their two sons.

Yi Shiyinan stepped on the corpse of the Eastern Turks and developed Xue Yantuo into the largest tribe in the northwest of the Tang Dynasty. It can be said that he is the hero of the Xue Yantuo tribe.

But Yi Shiyinan's two sons are different.

This is to cultivate the confrontation between these two guys since childhood, paving the way for the future turmoil in Xue Yantuo after Yi Shiyi's death.

Unless there is a hero like Wei Wang among them who can completely suppress the opponent.

Otherwise, under such a strategy, the day when Yi Shiyinan died was basically the day when Xue Yantuo split, and it was also the best time for Datang to take action against Xue Yantuo.

To be honest, after the battle between the big Han and the Xiongnu, and the painful lessons of the Wuhuluhuahua, Datang has more or less experience in dealing with these alien races emerging from the wilderness.

First of all, they are afraid of power and not virtuous. Those who can be beaten by force should not talk nonsense. If their regime is destroyed, their population will naturally be digested by Datang.

Secondly, if these guys have become popular, then use two peaches to kill three warriors, drive wolves away, and sow dissension against their children. If you can't deal with them, why can't you deal with their sons?

After all, this kind of foreign race that has risen suddenly is the most unaware of the importance of the stability of a regime.

The vast majority are the first generation is the best among the grassland peoples, and the second generation is basically destroyed in the internal struggle.

There is one who counts as a foreign race around the Tang Dynasty who has eaten the iron fist of Li Tang's imperialism.

And most of them were destroyed directly after eating this iron fist, including not limited to Goguryeo, Turks, Xue Yantuo, Uighur...

Even if Tubo, the snowy empire that had mutual contacts with Li Tang, Li Tang insisted on delaying the destruction of Tubo before dying.

It's hard to find out why people want to find an old enemy for Li Tang, because Li Tang has avenged all his revenge.

Even if it disintegrates in the end, what is left to the Han people is actually a separatist force with excessive martial arts virtues.

However, no matter what the Tang Dynasty thought, it never occurred to him that a unified regime of the Han people in the later generations, not to mention regaining the courage to chase the north, would not even be able to win the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun. This is simply worse than Sun Quan.

Although Sun Quan could never pass Hefei in his life, at least he carried the Soochow soldiers and horses under the city of Hefei a few times.

But he hadn't even touched the walls of Youzhou City a few times, and he was afraid that both the Han and Tang Dynasties would feel unimaginable about the combat power of the Song army.

"And follow this plan first!"

Li Shimin's plan proposed by Fang Xuanling is still very simple. Although it is a very simple divorce plan, it is simple and effective for foreigners.

And at this moment, Li Shimin said in a deep voice, "The southwest is stable, and the north is a check and balance, so we can free up our hands to deal with Goguryeo!"

"Saint, this time is definitely not a good time to deal with Goguryeo. If we force the Northern Expedition, we may repeat the mistakes of the previous Sui Dynasty!"

Seeing that Li Shimin intended to attack Goguryeo, Wei Zheng quickly stood up and persuaded him.

"I understand!" Hearing Wei Zheng's words, Li Shimin knew that the current Tang Dynasty was really afraid of Li Shimin's persistent crusade against Goguryeo.

Because Li Shimin and Yang Guang are so similar!

The same has the meritorious deeds of setting the world, the same is unbelievably strong in martial arts and martial arts, and the status is registered by almost very similar methods.

To be honest, Fang Xuanling didn't dare to think that if Li Shimin also met three times under the Goguryeo city, would the Tang Dynasty, which he put his efforts on, fall apart like the Sui Dynasty and plunge the Chinese people into chaos again!
"Of course I will learn from the lessons of the former Sui Dynasty!" Li Shimin said in a deep voice, "I just want to build a material warehouse in Youzhou, and wait until there is a change in Goguryeo in the future, and then go to the military!"

Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng looked at each other, but didn't say anything more.