Datang: What's wrong with my fief being a billion points larger?

Liu Rengui and Feng Li looked at the results of the interrogation and both remained silent for a while.

This news really made them shocked and angry, but also helpless, and they could only sigh in the end.

"Shili, this news must not be spread out, and we will make a decision after the king arrives.

At the same time, we must prepare our army. When the king arrives, he may send troops to Persia, so we must be prepared."

"Don't worry, I know the seriousness of this matter and I won't let anyone spread it.

But will the king really invade Persia?

I remember that the main purpose of the king's personal expedition this time was to conquer the Jie Ri Dynasty and the surrounding countries, and then go back to prepare for the war with Li Er.

If we invade Persia again, even if the Persian army is destroyed here, it will be difficult to destroy Persia in a short period of time. "

The two did not think about this matter anymore, but discussed the possibility of sending troops to Persia.

Liu Rengui and Feng Li obviously had different opinions. Liu Rengui believed that Li Yuanji would send troops to Persia, but Feng Li did not believe it.

Liu Rengui also agreed with what Feng Li said. If they invaded Persia, it would delay the time to prepare for the war with Li Er. After all, their most important enemy was Li Er, not the people here.

As long as Li Er is defeated and Li Yuanji succeeds to the throne, it would be the correct choice to deal with these people later.

However, Liu Rengui was well aware that Persia, which controlled firearms, was an external enemy that had posed a threat to the Tang Dynasty.

Although Persia's firearms are now inferior to theirs, the war with Li Er obviously cannot be ended in a short time. Once the war starts, there is no way to withdraw.

During this period, if Persia became powerful, even if Li Yuanji succeeded to the throne, Persia would be a big enemy.

He knew Li Yuanji's character, and although he was not sure, he felt that it was possible.

"Let's not argue about this for now. Let's start preparing. No matter what the king does, we will just follow his orders."

The two stopped arguing and immediately began to make preparations. The army was ready for war and did not continue to attack other countries.

Another half a month passed, and Li Yuanji led a large army and hurriedly arrived. When they entered the camp, Li Yuanji directly asked Liu Rengui and Feng Li.

"I heard that you wiped out the 400,000-strong Persian army. You did a great job. Very good.

Now that so much time has passed, have you found out about Persian firearms? How did Persia acquire firearms technology? "

Li Yuanji was marching at an accelerated pace. When the battle report from Liu Rengui and Feng Li reached him, his first reaction was disbelief.

The 400,000-strong Persian army equipped with firearms was actually defeated by Liu Rengui and Feng Li with 120,000 men and part of the fleet?
No matter how he looked at it, Li Yuanji felt that this matter was a bit far-fetched. After all, there were 400,000 Persian troops. Even if they were just 400,000 pigs, it would not be so easy to deal with them if they rushed over.

When he understood everything, Li Yuanji immediately breathed a sigh of relief and was extremely happy.

Liu Rengui and Feng Li used two crude strategies, but the Persian army didn't even have any doubts. He really didn't expect that these Persians were so stupid. They went to the battlefield without even reading any military tactics?
This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that all the Persian troops with firearms were wiped out. This shows that the Persian firearms are only at this level and have not exceeded his expectations.

Li Yuanji then slowed down his pace and finally arrived after such a long time.

Liu Rengui and Feng Li heard this, and Liu Rengui handed the results of the interrogation to Li Yuanji.

"Your Majesty, I knew that you were coming in person, so I did not mention this in the battle report. Please check it out."

Li Yuanji didn't say anything. He just picked up the results of the interrogation and started reading them. The more he read, the gloomier his expression became.

"This f*cking Li Er is simply a prodigal son! He's so hateful!
Firearms are such an important national defense force, but he actually gave them to Persia. What on earth was he thinking? "

Seeing to the end, Li Yuanji couldn't bear it anymore. He was extremely disappointed with Li Er, and his anger was overflowing.

The firearms of Persia were given by Li Er. Actually, what Li Er gave were gunpowder and muskets, but Li Er also showed off his newly developed matchlock rifle and cannon in front of the Persians so that the Persians would remember them and really make them when they returned.

Because as long as you know how to make a musket, it is not difficult to make a matchlock gun. Only the flintlock gun is difficult and requires some precise parts.

The reason why Li Er sent these to Persia was that Persia went to the Tang Dynasty to pay tribute, recognized Li Er as the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, defined Li Yuanji as a prince of the Tang Dynasty, a subordinate and subject of Li Er, and hoped that Li Er could mediate Li Yuanji's war in the Harsha Dynasty.

Just because Persia took the initiative to pay tribute, traveling such a long distance, taking half a year to travel by sea, to pay tribute to Li Er and recognize the Tang Dynasty as its suzerain state, Li Er believed that the influence of the Tang Dynasty had spread so far.

Before Li Er, Persia had never paid tribute to the Central Plains dynasty. Now Li Er did it. With a wave of his hand, Li Er gave Persia not only firearms technology, but also smelting technology, forging technology for building cities, and sea shipping technology for convenient travel, including some thoughts of ancient sages, military books, theories of state governance, etc., as well as salt and iron technology in terms of people's livelihood.

Today, Li Er has all the nations coming to pay tribute to him and is revered as the Heavenly Khan by the people of the grassland. Li Er has become so arrogant that he thinks the Tang Dynasty is invincible.

As for giving so much to Persia, it was more because Persia defined Li Yuanji as a subordinate of Li Er, and also asked Li Er to come forward to mediate the war.

There was no communication between the Tang Dynasty and India. Before Li Yuanji invented a ship that could sail long distances, there was no contact between the two countries. In history, only Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty visited India, and that was just a private visit.

Even with ships capable of long-distance voyages, the Tang Dynasty still had little influence here, not to mention Persia, which was no less powerful than the Harsha Dynasty and even more distant.

Today, the Tang Dynasty has such a great influence here that people call them Tang people, all because of Li Yuanji.

Trade is only part of it. More importantly, it is his powerful military force and the deterrence brought by the destruction of many countries that made people here recognize him and think that the entire Tang Dynasty is so powerful.

Now that Persia was paying tribute, Li Er had the illusion that it was the influence of the Tang Dynasty rather than the influence of Li Yuanji.

Especially for Changsun Wuji who proposed to give these things, Li Yuanji was extremely angry and wanted to wipe out Changsun Wuji's entire clan.

Li Yuanji could immediately guess from Changsun Wuji's proposal that he must be trying to strengthen Persia, create difficulties for him, and create a strong enemy for him.

This person has a problem with his thinking. He disregards the interests of his country and family, and just wants to create difficulties for him and make powerful enemies, so he spreads these technologies like this.

Li Yuanji really couldn't accept it. In history, Li Er had indeed done a lot of things like this. As long as someone came to pay tribute, he would give gifts to the surrounding countries, all of which were his best gifts, and help others for free.

In history, which countries such as Japan, Tubo, Linyi, Zhenla, etc. did not benefit from Li Er?
Now, all these small countries have been destroyed by him, and Li Er actually gave them to Persia directly. Does he really think that they are far away and cannot threaten the Tang Dynasty? Or does he think that the Tang Dynasty can easily control Persia?
Even though Persia was destroyed in history, the new dynasty, the Arab Empire, was no worse than the Tang Dynasty and its fighting power was still strong. After a burst of anger, Li Yuanji had to face the fact that Persia was able to make its own matchlock guns and cannons from the matchlock guns and cannons that Li Er had seen, with only gunpowder, fire guns, and smelting technology.

So will Persia develop more advanced firearms next?
His current dilemma is whether or not to send troops to Persia, which is a very difficult choice.

Persia is a large country. Once he sends troops to Persia, he may not be able to withdraw for a year or two. Now his army's equipment has not been fully replaced. If the fighting continues here, the army's equipment replacement will be delayed, and the training after the equipment replacement will also be delayed.

If there is no timely training and timely change of tactics, the enhancements brought by rifles and new artillery cannot be fully reflected.

But if we don’t send troops to Persia, what if Persia develops more advanced firearms in the future?
At that time, it will be more difficult to attack Persia, and the casualties will be greater.

Now Li Yuanji no longer thought about incorporating Persia into his fiefdom. His fiefdom now spanned from the Harsha Dynasty to the Mohe, and from west to east, it almost spanned continents.

It extends from Kucha in the north to Srivijaya in the south.

To put it in more familiar terms, the area extends from southern Pakistan in the west to Russia's Sakhalin Island in the north, as well as parts of the Far East, and from the Philippines and Malaysia in the south. All places within this area are Li Yuanji's fiefdom.

Now Li Yuanji could loudly say, "What's wrong with his fiefdom as the King of Qi being a billion times larger?", because his fiefdom was indeed large enough.

Now that his fiefdom has grown to this extent, he does need to continue expanding it, but not now. Now he must prioritize dealing with Li Er.

Li Yuanji frowned and thought for a while, then looked at Liu Rengui and Feng Li.

"What do you think about this? Should we fight Persia?"

Liu Rengui and Feng Li looked at each other in confusion for a moment, and Feng Li spoke first.

"Your Majesty, I suggest that we fight, but not now.

I believe that the most important thing now is still the battle with Li Er. The people of the Tang Dynasty are still in dire straits, and Your Majesty should prioritize rescuing the people of the Tang Dynasty.

Now we have resolved the surrounding dangers, and the Persian manpower has been eliminated here. Even though Persia has firearms technology, it is still no match for us.

After the war with Li Er is over, the king will win, kill the usurper Li Er, and ascend the throne as the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Then, he can send troops to Persia, which will surely intimidate the surrounding areas and demonstrate the power of the Tang Dynasty.

Even if we send troops to Persia now, the firearms technology has already been leaked. By then, Persia might directly spread the firearms technology outward, and we won't be able to continue to send troops to eliminate it, which will still cause hidden dangers.

Only when the king ascends the throne and becomes emperor, and then gathers all the forces, who in the world dares not to obey! "

Feng Li still maintained a clear mind and he still insisted on the idea of ​​not sending troops for the time being. In his eyes, sending troops to Persia now would be more trouble than gain, even if he could get Persian land.

After hearing this, Li Yuanji nodded in agreement. From a rational point of view, what Feng Li said made sense.

But Li Yuanji knew very well that he had to conquer Persia, not only because of the hidden threat of firearms, but also because of the resources there, especially the vast natural resources from the surrounding countries, which would be needed in the future.

Li Yuanji then looked at Liu Rengui, who spoke immediately.

"Your Majesty, I suggest that you send troops to teach Persia a lesson. Our army has no conflicts with Persia, but now they have brazenly gathered 400,000 troops to attack. This is a challenge to your authority and must be fought back!
Invading Persia does not require the destruction of Persia for the time being, but Persia must be made to pay a price for it, and they must know the consequences of sending troops against the king, and they must bear the due punishment.

Only in this way can we deter other countries and make them not dare to invade the king's fiefdom.

Only by punishing Persia and compensating the king for his losses can the king's majesty be better demonstrated!"

Liu Rengui knew that Li Yuanji had the idea of ​​attacking Persia, but he was still weighing the pros and cons, and he himself thought the same way.

Liu Rengui came to Lingnan earlier than Feng Li. After experiencing so much, he would never allow anyone to send troops against them without any fight back.

Liu Rengui, who had experienced so many wars of annihilation, had only one idea, that is, since Persia dared to invade without reason, it must pay the price it deserves.

They have always been the ones who sent troops to destroy other countries and conquer other countries. No other country has ever dared to send troops to attack them. Liu Rengui would never allow this. In his eyes, even if the 400,000 Persian troops were wiped out this time, he still considered it a shame.

Because it was Persia that took the initiative to attack.

This is because people like Xie Shufang, Xi Junmai, and Su Dingfang are not here. If they were here, Liu Rengui could guarantee that they would all agree to invade Persia.

Even if we cannot destroy Persia now, we must teach Persia a lesson and let them know the consequences of daring to send troops to them.

This is the majesty they have developed from conquering so many countries in succession, because they are the only ones who can mobilize military forces against other countries. Whoever dares to use military force against them will die!

Because Feng Li came later, he could not feel the inner feelings of Liu Rengui and others.

From the time when Li Yuanji entered Lingnan until now, when have they ever been beaten and not fought back?

Liu Rengui's words shocked Feng Li's heart. At this moment, he vaguely understood why Liu Rengui asked him to start preparing to send troops to Persia before Li Yuanji came. It turned out that the reason was not complicated, and it was not entirely because of Li Yuanji, but Liu Rengui himself wanted to do so.

At this moment, Feng Li also looked at Li Yuanji with burning eyes. He threw all rationality aside for the time being. This humiliation must be avenged!
Li Yuanji looked at Liu Rengui and just smiled, a smile full of satisfaction.

Yes, now that Li Yuanji has developed to this point, no one would dare to touch his tiger's whiskers. The previous countries such as Zhenla have fully proved that going against him will lead to death.

Now Persia has forgotten those things and thinks that he would not dare to do that because he is fighting on many fronts and dares to provoke him.

If he does not teach Persia a lesson today and make Persia realize its mistakes deeply, during his battle with Li Er, I am afraid that other Persians will jump out and make trouble.

Li Yuanji looked at the two men with murderous intent.

“What you said makes sense, but I prefer what Zhengze said. It has always been us who beat others. When will it be others’ turn to beat us?

In the war against Tubo, all the participants except the Western Turks were destroyed, and the Western Turks were also destroyed sooner or later.

Now Persia dares to send troops again, it must be punished!"

"Pass on my king's order and write a letter to Persia, asking them to admit their mistakes and pay compensation. They also need to hand over all those who agreed to send troops this time to me. The King of Persia must be replaced!
If you cannot do this, I will personally lead the army to destroy Persia!" (End of this chapter)