Water Margin people

Chapter 1260 The endless battle

"You still have to fight!"

Li Gang looked at Sun Lei in shock. If the Jin Kingdom in Liaodong, the grasslands in the north, and Xixia were solved, the territory of Sun Lei's Qi Kingdom would far exceed that of the Song Dynasty, and would approach the heyday of the Tang and Han Dynasties.

But even with this, Sun Lei was still not satisfied and continued to conquer the Western Regions!

"Who does Your Majesty want to fight?"

Lu Zhishen, Lin Chong and others walked in at this time. When they heard Li Gang said that he wanted to fight, they immediately asked. They thought it was Li Gang and others who wanted to organize people to resist.

"Let's talk about the future. Let's sit down and have something to eat together!"

Sun Lei greeted the brothers. When he was in Liangshan, he usually ate four dishes and one soup, but the imperial meal in Tokyo had dozens of dishes.

"Your question is very strange, why not fight?"

Sun Lei looked at Li Gang and asked.

"Wars every year will only increase the burden on the people, and going to war will not end well!"

"You want to conquer the Western Regions? That's not Liaodong or the grassland! Both the Han and Tang dynasties spent their national power to open up the Western Regions, but what's the result? With a distance of thousands of miles, it's impossible to control it for a long time! In the end, it can only be turned into useless things!"

Li Gang looked at Sun Lei and said that when the Han and Tang dynasties were powerful, they both opened up the Western Region Protectorate, thinking of filling the national treasury with trade along the Silk Road, but they all ended in failure.

The Central Plains and the Western Regions are separated by thousands of miles, and are blocked by thousands of mountains and rivers. The Western Regions are full of alien races, disobedient to education, often rebellious, and some even guard the trade routes and plunder.

In the end, the Western Region Protectorate was unable to make ends meet and fell apart. The place that had been worked so hard had to give up.

"These are all clichés! Nothing new!"

Sun Lei put down his chopsticks and drank a glass of wine.

"You just think that investment and return are not proportional, but when have I ever lost money in business?"

"You people are stupid because you are too stupid. You don't know how to do business, let alone trade."

"Look at this, a glass jug with a few glasses, isn't it beautiful? It's worth two war horses! This jar of wine is worth a cow!"

"As for the transportation issue that you are most worried about, this is not my concern at all. They want these goods, and I only want the money. Pay with one hand and deliver with the other. As for transportation, that is their problem."

Sun Lei looked at Li Gang and smiled.

Listening to Sun Lei's simple and rude words, Li Gang was speechless for a while.

"You are doing business with countries in the Western Region, not selling cooking cakes on the streets. Have you not considered the consequences?"

Li Gang looked at Sun Lei. He finally found some confidence. Sun Lei was just a young man who didn't know anything about politics. Trade with the Western Regions was not just about trade, but also involved the culture, military, etc. of various countries. thing.

"I think you don't understand. This trade is exactly the same as selling cooking cakes! Why do you think it's so complicated?"

Sun Lei looked at Li Gang, he knew that Li Gang had thought too much about the problem.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will definitely conquer the Western Region for Your Majesty!"

Hua Rong said.

"Well, there will come a day!"

Sun Lei nodded.

"Don't listen to that old man's nonsense. In fact, the Western Regions are not that far away. Starting from Xining Prefecture and walking along the Qilian Mountains along the Hexi Corridor, you can reach Gaochang Uighurs in just over a thousand miles. That's where the Western Regions are."

Lu Zhishen said that he had traveled all over the Five Routes of Guanxi back then. The westernmost part of the Song Dynasty was Xining Prefecture on Qinfeng Road, which was also the gateway to the Western Region of the Song Dynasty.

"Look, Master Lu said, more than a thousand miles away, it's closer than going from Tokyo to Liaodong!"

Sun Lei said with a smile, he didn't have any specific concept, but Lu Zhishen did, and Lu Zhishen was once at the border, so these words were very weighty.

"As for how to fight in the Western Region?"

Sun Lei looked at the brothers again.

"Of course, we need to fight to feed war. Anyone who doesn't surrender wherever he goes will die!"

Yang Zhi said directly, traveling thousands of miles to fight against foreigners, it is necessary to kill decisively.

"Haha, smart!" Sun Lei praised him, and his words spoke to his heart.

"you……"

Li Gang looked at the table full of laughing people and didn't know what to say. The truth did not make sense to these people. These people were not reasonable at all.

"We are robbers!"

Sun Lei looked at Li Gang with a smile and emphasized that the army has gone to a foreign country, so naturally they are unwilling to talk about the truth. Wherever the sword is, the last word is the last word.

"You continue to judge those people tomorrow and try to finish it as soon as possible."

Sun Lei looked at Xiao Jiasui and Zhu Wu and said.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

The two of them saluted.

"As for you, this is really difficult to handle!"

Sun Lei looked at Li Gang. These people were smelly and tough. They refused to surrender even to the death. They were killed without any charges. If they were let go, they were afraid of causing trouble in the future. They were really troublesome.

Li Gang didn't care at this time. He had already given up on life and death.

"It would be good to incorporate you into the army and be the first to join!"

Sun Lei suddenly said with a smile, isn't this how the surrender of generals and pawns in the past dynasties was used? After all, if these people are killed, they will have a bad reputation, and if they are released, they will be a disaster.

"If you don't think us old guys are useless! We would rather die on the battlefield!"

Li Gang knew that Sun Lei was about to attack Jin Guo, so he looked away at this time.

"The young ones naturally charge forward, and the old ones also have their uses! Our country of Qi has always known how to make good use of its people."

Sun Lei chuckled.

"Chai Jin, the Zhao family's people are left to you to deal with. He can just watch and handle them."

Sun Lei looked at Chai Jin, God's way is reincarnation, how the Zhao family dealt with the Chai family, now let Chai Jin deal with the Zhao family.

After arranging things, Sun Lei went to the side hall.

"Your Majesty, are you ready to leave?"

Xiao Jiasui asked following Sun Lei.

"The year is over, the weather is getting warmer soon, and the war in Liaodong is about to start. It's time to deal with those troublesome Jin people."

"From the intelligence point of view, the Jin Kingdom is very ambitious this time. It has also contacted Grassland, Goryeo, and Xixia, hoping to send troops together."

"After I leave, Tokyo will be handed over to the military advisor."

Sun Lei looked at Xiao Jiasui and said, logically he should be based in Tokyo at this time to stabilize the world, and then move north after the Central Plains is completely pacified.

But the situation is unpredictable. It will take at least two or three years to stabilize the world, but he cannot give Jin Guo two or three years to breathe, and he must kill him while he is sick.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, I will definitely guard Tokyo!"

Xiao Jiasui saluted solemnly.

"Don't worry too much. I will take away those surrendered soldiers and generals. These people cannot stay in Tokyo."

Sun Lei said, it is impossible for more than 500,000 surrendered soldiers to stay in Tokyo.

"Your Majesty wants to use the war to consume them?"

Xiao Jiasui asked.

"It can't be said that they are consumed, it's just necessary for the war, and it's not like letting them die! It's just a normal battle!"

Sun Lei said, the battlefield is the best training ground. These 500,000 soldiers must be trained this year. This can greatly alleviate the problem of insufficient soldiers in Qi State. As for those who are stubborn, dying on the battlefield can be considered a reward. A good home for them.

Next, the trial continued, and the people of Tokyo watched on the streets as those corrupt officials who committed all kinds of evil received the punishment they deserved.

The bloody killings won the hearts of the people and frightened some people who were lucky. It was not that Qi State did not know how to kill people. On the contrary, Qi State did not show any mercy when killing people.