Chapter 176: Porcelain is not porcelain
"Hmm...... Your Majesty means that you want to use troops against the Turks?"
After listening to Fang Xuanling's explanation, Bai Yuqi rubbed his chin and thought for a while.
Historically, Hongluqing, who sent an envoy to the Turks, suggested to Li Shimin after Zheng Yuanshou returned that he should take this opportunity to attack the Turks, and the ministers of the DPRK and China also agreed, but Li Shimin rejected this suggestion, mainly because the situation in the Tang Dynasty at that time was no longer allowed to raise swords.
But now, Li Shimin is obviously moved, even if he learns from the "heavenly opportunity" leaked to him by Bai Yuqi that there will be droughts and locust plagues and floods in the next two years, he still can't hold back his ambition.
This is obviously the emergence of Bai Yuqi, a "god", which greatly changed the original trajectory of history, making Li Shimin unconsciously dependent on him.
The salt shortage and grain shortage in the country have been alleviated, and a large number of displaced people have been properly resettled, plus they have just received 10,000 sets of immortal armor from Bai Yuqi.
Li Shimin, who seemed to have put down a few heavy boulders in his heart, couldn't help but feel itchy, thinking that he could take the risk of fighting for that time?
Anyway, the family has an impregnable Baizhang Xiongcheng to shelter.
Even if the war is lost, the worst result is only to withdraw to the Taiji Imperial Capital, and defend the city with a strong wall and clear wilderness.
Those Turkic barbarians, let alone attacking the Taiji Imperial Capital with a 50-meter-high wall, even Chang'an City, which was originally only 5.4 meters high, could not be attacked.
The Turkic barbarians, who were not good at siege warfare, encountered a severe snow disaster, and countless mules, horses, cattle and sheep froze to death, so naturally they lacked supplies, and it was even more impossible to take siege warfare.
In this way, Datang is already invincible before it starts, so what is there to hesitate about?
As for the disaster in the next two years, with the living immortal Emperor Wuji in charge, the drought and locust plague and flood will definitely be able to survive smoothly, right?
To put it simply, Li Shimin's confidence was inflated by this series of advantages, but because he was somewhat uncertain in his heart, he couldn't help but run to Kuyu City to ask Bai Yuqi for a statement that strengthened his confidence.
Bai Yuqi rubbed his chin and pondered for a long time.
All the Tang monarchs and ministers looked at him with blank eyes, and they hoped that he would give him an accurate word.
You ask me if I am a porcelain, I must be a porcelain...... What a ghost!
Bai Yuqi secretly rolled his eyes, if he wanted to say that he would definitely support the fight against the Turks, and with Datang now without internal worries, the chances of winning are not small.
But the problem is, he can't just spoil this group of Tang monarchs and ministers, or he will expect him, the Wuji Emperor, to be the emperor of Wuji when he encounters anything in the future, and he will be the one who fails, so how wronged is he?
The story of "Ascend Mien, Fight Mi Hatred" tells us that he will be grateful to you for helping others in times of need.
But if you help someone too much, so that they form a natural dependence, once you stop helping him, it will make him resent you.
The purpose of Bai Yuqi's various tosses is to better harvest his faith, and he is not really to be a nanny for Datang.
The so-called "saving the suffering" is naturally saved when there is "suffering and difficulty", and if you save someone in advance and you are not grateful, why save him?
Therefore, even Bai Yuqi felt that it was a good opportunity to attack the Turks under the current conditions, but he couldn't get used to these Tang monarchs.
Besides, Li Shimin, an emperor of the Tang Dynasty, wanted to fight the Turks, why did he come to ask him for advice from someone outside the court?
What do you rely on to fight a war?
It's not like you can go out and cut people on a horse and with a knife, you rely on logistics to fight a war!
Although ancient warfare did not rely as much on logistics as later generations, a war was equally costly, and even more difficult when transportation conditions were insufficient.
Li Shimin wanted to take advantage of the Turkic chaos and be stabbed by the disaster, which meant that the Tang army had to also enter the snowstorm environment to fight, which required a lot of grain and logistical support, but now he has a lot of food and manpower in his hands, isn't it Bai Yuqi, the Wuji Emperor?
Bai Yuqi worked hard to hoard food and prepare for the disaster, and also spoiled the displaced people who suffered from the disaster like little treasures, for fear of dying, what is the picture?
Isn't it just to reduce population loss and expand the number of believers?
Li Shimin now wants to fight a war to increase his "imperial merits", but he came to plot the food and the population that Bai Yuqi had managed to get, so it was strange that he was willing to do it!
Moreover, fighting is a death story, and even if it is not sacrificed in battle, the cold environment of the Turks in the current snowstorm may lead to a large number of casualties among troops who are not accustomed to that environment.
As a decision-maker accustomed to fighting, Li Shimin can only regard human life as a number, as long as these losses can eventually be exchanged for victory.
But Bai Yuqi can't do it, can he stand this?
It will take a decade or two to grow back after a potential believer dies, and how much less faith do you have to accept in between?
Therefore, Bai Yuqi was very decisive, and refused Li Shimin's request to imply that he would support some food and manpower on the alarmist reason that the southern grain route could not be opened before the drought and locust plague arrived, and Datang would be in danger.
"Missed this opportunity, I don't know when I will be able to call that Jieli old man to ambush!"
Li Shimin saw that Bai Yuqi did not support his plan to use troops, although he was a little disappointed, he was not too entangled, and just sighed regretfully.
After all, he is not unaware of the current situation of the Tang Dynasty, if he is the kind of person who disregards the lives and deaths of the people for his own merits, he will not take the initiative to reject the plan agreed to by hundreds of civil and military officials in history.
However, according to the current development situation of Datang, as long as it can survive the two-year famine, it can always accumulate enough strength to take down the Turks, a big henchman, in one fell swoop.
Bear with it, just bear with it!
After all, in history, didn't Li Shimin wait until the grain harvest and the four years of Zhenguan, who was fighting rice for three or five dollars, to destroy the Turks in one fell swoop and capture Jieli alive to sing and dance for himself.
"However, I heard that Your Majesty has an alliance with Najieli Khan. ”
"He once swore to the Naturi Khan as brothers, and now the brothers of the steppe white disaster are in trouble and must not be saved......"
Bai Yuqi, who refused Li Shimin's request, rubbed his slick chin again, blinked his eyes without knowing what he thought, and gasped for breath.
The Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers were stunned for a moment, what is the meaning of the Weishui alliance with Jieli and the brotherhood covenant with Tuli, it is impossible not to understand with the ability of the Wuji Emperor, right?
Even if the emperor has always been benevolent, how can he still sympathize with those Turkic barbarians who drink blood with mushrooms and hairs?
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