Signing in to Datang: Rebellion at the beginning

Chapter 78 Thunderbolt
After the Tang State paid a price to get coal, neighboring countries also began to have ideas.

After all, it is not only the people of Long Kingdom and Tang Kingdom who are suffering from the cold this winter.

There are also East Turkic, Western Turkic, Tubo, and Wa, and many other small countries.

These countries are also suffering from the cold.

As a result, people have been sent to the Dragon Country to seek the method of coal, and these countries are very conscious. After all, they have learned from the Tang Dynasty, so they naturally become more sensible.

As a big country, Tang State paid some price when asking for coal.

What about them?

So in this conscious situation, these countries took out some gold and silver, some jewelry, or cotton cloth and the like to exchange coal with Li Ke.

For the envoys from various countries who came to exchange, Li Ke said that they would not refuse and accept them all.

And after receiving their things, they were all given a piece of paper with the method of finding coal and separating coal.

These people took the simple method, but they went back happily.

Obviously, Datang suffered a disadvantage in the front, but it did not make people in these countries realize that they suffered a disadvantage.

After countries have a way to find coal, they finally have a countermeasure in the face of severe cold weather.

This winter, countless people in countless surrounding countries have spent it in warmth.

Spring is here.

In Li Er's view, the grievance accumulated this winter is finally over.

As soon as spring came, Li Er couldn't wait to call some generals and ministers together to start discussing this year's war.

In the original plan, Li Er was planning to attack the East Turks in one fell swoop and take them down completely.

Then proceed to deal with Western Turks and Tuyuhun.

But now it's different.

He even wanted to quickly take down Longguo and trample Li Ke under his feet.

Therefore, during the discussion, it was mentioned many times whether it was possible to spare troops to deal with the Dragon Kingdom.

Several generals were more opposed.

After all, Turks and Tuyuhun are old enemies.

After several discussions, Li Er did not get a satisfactory result.

But he realized a problem!
Since the beginning of spring, the East Turks and Tuyuhun, who have always been warlike, have no intention of sending troops to Tang.

This made Li Er have some doubts.

Even sent someone to investigate the situation.

After confirming that the two countries had no plans to become enemies with Tang, Li Er became completely puzzled.

These two countries have always liked to provoke around the Tang country, and they will provoke whenever they have the opportunity.

Why didn't they come to provoke Tang Guo after winter?
Are they less belligerent?

This is obviously inexplicable.

How did he know that when East Turkic and Tuyuhun sent envoys to Dragon Kingdom to cooperate with Dragon Kingdom, Li Ke refused and warned them at the same time.

No matter which piece of land they took from the Tang Kingdom, they would return it to Li Ke tenfold in the future.

The implication is obvious, Dragon Kingdom will take down Tang Kingdom sooner or later.

Therefore, I warned Tuyuhun and East Turks not to make any more plans for the meat in Li Ke's mouth.

After careful consideration, Tuyuhun and East Turkic later made a decision together, although they were not optimistic that Li Ke could really win Tang.

That is, they are not involved in it for the time being.

That is to say, they want to see Long Guo and Tang Guo fight, and then reap the benefits of the fisherman.

After all, no matter which side wins, the other side will suffer huge damage.

In this case, it is perfect for East Turkic and Tuyuhun to pick up the leak.

It's better than the two of them fighting Tang Guo to the death and letting Long Guo come to pick up the bargain in the end.

So in the end, it was unanimously decided not to fight Tang Guo.

Sit back and watch.

Here.

After repeatedly confirming that Tuyuhun and East Turks had no intention of sending troops to Tang, Li Er was immediately overjoyed.

He had been looking forward to this day for a long time.

Ever since Li Ke established the Dragon Kingdom, Li Er has been very unhappy, especially wanting to spare his troops to take the Dragon Kingdom down.

I don't want to watch the Dragon Kingdom continue to grow stronger.

But for a long time, East Turkic and Tuyuhun fought against Li Er, leaving him with no troops to draw.

Therefore, the Dragon Kingdom has been allowed to grow.

Now that he can finally free up his hand, Li Er will never let go of this opportunity.

So after discussing with some military generals, it was finally decided to send some troops to continue to station at the border between East Turkic and Tang, and between Tuyuhun and Tang.

The rest of the troops went to the Dragon Kingdom.

Li Er, we must take down the Dragon Kingdom forcefully.

And this time he wants to conquer in person, he wants to take the Dragon Kingdom established by Li Ke with his own hands.

And he wanted to trample Li Ke under his feet, and then tell Li Ke that no matter whether he is his son or not, he is stronger than him...

Of course, these are just Li Er's wishful thinking.

Whether it can be done is hard to say.

After the army was reorganized, 20 soldiers quickly gathered at the border between Long Kingdom and Tang Kingdom.

When Li Er took some generals and prepared to station his army in Qingyang City, a big border city, the vanguard in front came back and told Li Er a news that made him feel like a bolt from the blue.

"Your Majesty, when my vanguard was about to enter Qingyang City, it was stopped by the Border Guard Jiedu envoy Zhao Yang."

Li Er was stunned: "Why did he stop?"

"Return to Your Majesty, he said... He said that he and the border guards had already surrendered to Li Ke, and that Qingyang City had already belonged to the Dragon Kingdom..."

At that moment, Li Er fainted out of anger!

(End of this chapter)