Chapter 375: Where Did the Enemy Come From?
Meow meow?
What forces can't think so?
Who is bad for aggression, to come and invade the Tang Dynasty that has been reformed by the devil?
The most important thing is that there doesn't seem to be such a thing in history?
It would be good if the Tang Dynasty in history did not invade others, let alone the Tang Dynasty that had been changed by the devil.
Do you know how much effort Bai Yuqi took to restrain Li Shimin's ever-expanding ambitions and prevent his reckless military force from affecting the basic development of the Tang Dynasty?
Although Bai Yuqi didn't mind Li Shimin's ambition to be the "co-lord of the world".
I'm even happy to see his plan to help him expand the source of faith, but the question is, don't you be in a hurry?
As the saying goes, only inside can be outside, and even his own nest has not been able to develop before he is in a hurry to fight out, aren't you afraid that the steps are too big and pull the eggs?
Why did the Chinese Dynasty remain entrenched in Asia and never really expand its territory to other regions even during its greatest period?
Aside from various factors such as transportation, communications, and insufficient local control by the center, isn't it because of the lack of population?
No matter how strong and invincible the combat effectiveness of the army is, is it not in vain to defeat the territory without its own people to govern it?
This is also why Bai Yuqi occupied Yingzhou and had a very strong industrial production capacity.
But he was not in a hurry to promote the main reason for the Tang Dynasty to carry out overseas colonization, otherwise wouldn't it be beautiful to occupy those borderless lands such as North America and South America first?
Datang's most important task at present is to repair infrastructure, hold back the population, develop people's livelihood, and prepare for the future explosion of troops.
That's why Bai Yuqi adopted the Wuji system of boiling frogs in warm water to restrain the imperial rule and official-oriented thinking that the Tang Dynasty has always had.
So that the Chinese people, who had suffered so much from the war, could have time to recuperate and recuperate, and for this reason, they even did not hesitate to give up the opportunity to rapidly expand the source of faith.
Therefore, Datang's current strength is actually far beyond the same period in history as Datang countless times.
At the very least, in terms of transportation and material supply, it is no longer less threatened by natural disasters, public security and civil cohesion in the territory have almost reached its peak, and the social environment is also steadily advancing towards the goal of "Datong is moderately prosperous".
But the problem is that with the collapse of the Eastern and Western Turks and various nomadic peoples in northern Xinjiang, they have been completely included in the Tang Dynasty's sphere of influence.
Not to mention the enemy, even the uncivilized Tunguska savages in the deep mountains and old forests are about to be caught and extinct by the wandering mercenary group.
If it weren't for the current infrastructure construction corps of [Tiangongmen], which would focus on the Central Plains and the development of the south, the road infrastructure construction in the northwest would be relatively slow.
I can't figure out the mercenary guild's mercenary groups that are addicted to hard work, and wherever the roads are built, they can catch and exterminate the indigenous people everywhere.
Therefore, with the depletion of "human resources" in northern Xinjiang and the difficulty of "labor trading", a large number of mercenary forces have actually withdrawn to the Central Plains.
Either go straight to Lingnan and participate in the "development" of the Indochina Peninsula such as Nanzhao, Linyi, or go straight to the west to open up new population resources.
The Tuyuhun and the party items sandwiched between Tubo and the Tang Dynasty are almost dead in name only in the absence of an official war, and they are stunned by the ten rooms and nine empty rooms that have been plagued by the mercenaries!
The fate of Tuyuhun and the party made Tubo on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau tremble.
Because the plateau environment has been unstoppable, the Central Plains people, whose physique has been greatly strengthened by the Ao Neng, have invaded.
If it weren't for the sparsely populated land and scattered crowds, coupled with the fact that the road infrastructure did not keep up, the Tang mercenaries would have traveled thousands of miles, which was time-consuming and laborious, and they could not catch a few people, which was not cost-effective, and it is estimated that their fate would not be much different from Tuyuhun and the party.
As for the Tianzhu behind Tubo, if it weren't for the protection of the Himalayan Kunlun moat, it is estimated that sooner or later it would be poisoned by the mercenaries.
So, in this case, where did the enemy come from?
Because of the vast land and sparse population, there was no large-scale migration in northern Xinjiang for the time being, but only as a resource and agricultural and animal husbandry production area.
Only the factories and mines opened by [Tiangongmen] and the farms and pastures built by [Shennongmen] have population gathering points, and it is not an exaggeration to say that there are no people for thousands of miles.
And whether it is [Tiangongmen] or [Shennongmen], there is very little manpower invested in production, and a huge farm and pasture may only have a production team of more than 100 people.
After discovering that there was an enemy invasion, he left his belongings and ran away...... The industry of [Wujimen] has always been people-oriented!
Anyway, with their numbers, they can't do anything if they really encounter the enemy, so they can do whatever they want, and save their lives first.
It is estimated that this invading enemy army is also a little confused, doesn't it mean that there is a large and rich empire in the East?
How is it that there is not even a single figure after walking thousands of miles? And such a vast and fertile grassland, no one has come to occupy it?
So when the foreign enemy was still wandering around the steppe looking for people.
The members of the production team who escaped back passed the news to Li Shimin through the [communication card] layer by layer, and quickly passed the news to Li Shimin.
I don't know if this foreign enemy is unlucky, or if Datang is lucky.
In order to attack the peninsula, the Tang Dynasty not only dispatched a large number of soldiers to Goguryeo.
even launched a national mobilization order to recruit mercenaries, so at this moment, almost half of the soldiers in Datang gathered in Liaodong.
The most pitiful thing is that because the striker is too sharp.
The massive amount of manpower and material resources mobilized by Li Shimin almost didn't come in handy, and the battle ended.
Li Shimin, who drove the expedition in person, went to Liaodong to be a supervisor, and did some things to urge the army to build bridges, pave roads, and clean up the battlefield.
Therefore, when receiving the news of the invasion of foreign enemies, the Tang Army was in a state of readiness from materials to troops.
Li Shimin, who had not caught the battle before, was happy, and did not wait for Bai Yuqi, who had stayed on the peninsula to search for the missing Tang army, and when they came back, he hurriedly roared and ordered the whole army to attack and go straight to the northern frontier, lest he run slowly and be robbed of his merits by Bai Yuqi.
To say that Li Shimin, the emperor, is aggrieved enough.
finally took off my father, and before he could get used to how to be an emperor, he suddenly found that he couldn't do anything as an emperor.
As long as he lies in the dormitory, eats and waits for death to be a good mascot, the country can develop vigorously, which makes Li Shimin, who is ambitious and ready to display his grand strategy, how can he stand it?
In this way, it is better to continue to be his king of Qin, so that he can take a group of dog-legged little brothers to fight in the east and west, so as not to live in the palace and do nothing like being in prison.
So Li Shimin decided, since I have nothing to do in governing the country, then I still do my best work!
My world, I will fight by myself!