My own guess is the same as Ah Huan's guess, and I also think that my mother was summoned for Li Dan's matter, who knew that I really arrived in front of the car, but I saw that my mother liked to move the color, and it didn't look like she was angry. ”

I was overjoyed for a while, and worried for a while, happy because Ashao lived up to expectations and made meritorious contributions to the border, and worried because she had only been there for a year, and there was such a big war - the Great Dou Army said that it was 9,500 people, but most of them were newly recruited athletes, and there were more than 5,000 dead and wounded and captured in Tibet, and the number of people dispatched would naturally not be less than this number, even if these 9,500 people were all in battle, they might not have a chance of winning, not to mention that the Great Dou Army was guarding a wide area, and Ashao could really bring out this number of people and horses.

My mother didn't pay attention to my thoughts, but smiled and said, "Dugu Shao is good-Tang Xiujing is also sparse, please recover the four towns of Anxi, I think so, what do you think?"

The 'you' she said are Gao Yanfu, Gao Jingang, Ah Qing, Wan'er, He Lou's, Cui Mingde and me in front of the emperor at this time, except for Cui Mingde, no one can have any understanding of this matter, even Cui Mingde, and he can't get in touch with the militaristic cardinals, and he really wants to ask her "How is the defense of Xizhou?" and "How many soldiers and civilians are there in Liangzhou?", she could only stare dryly, so we look at me and I look at you, look at each other for a while, Gao Yanfu stepped forward first and said: "The saint sees the lofty, the saint thinks it is okay, and naturally it is okay." "After talking about looking at us, but except for Gao Jingang, no one opened his mouth to echo - the battles against Tibet and the Turks for many years were mixed wins and losses, sometimes I thought I would win, but I lost, sometimes I thought I might not be able to win, but it was a big victory, this battle, what is the victory or defeat, no one can judge, at this time it is easy to follow the mother's wishes, and when the mother thinks about it afterwards, she will not seriously blame, but' The impression of 'slapping the horse' must have been left, although we usually have a lot of whiskers and slapping horses, after all, there are still some ambitions in the chest, so no one is willing to come out.

Gao Yanfu saw that we didn't speak, felt a little embarrassed, coughed lightly, and said softly: "What does the princess think?"

My mother also set her eyes on me, at this time I was the highest in status and the closest in blood, so I could only step forward and say: "If you go back to your mother, son... I don't understand. ”

Presumably, my mother is also used to saying these two words, smiled slightly, shook her head and said, "I know you don't understand, try to say it, I don't blame you for saying wrong." ”

I looked at Wan'er, saw her looking down respectfully, and then looked at Cui Mingde, her usual expressionless face, and then at her mother, who looked at me with a smile and said, "It's useless to look at anyone, I want to hear you - you have to say it too, come one by one." ”

He Lou and Gao King Kong both moved their feet, Cui Mingde and Wan'er also lowered their heads, they must have been thinking about how to reply, I racked my brains, and recalled all the famous sayings, aphorisms, TV series, movies, jokes, hundred plays, history books, and military books that I had learned and heard in my two lives, and finally found a sentence that seemed to have some insights: "War... It is a continuation of politics, cough, child means, the two countries are at war, and the victory is... Victory or defeat does not happen overnight, there is a strategy... That, the difference between strategy and trickery. We must despise the enemy in strategy and value the enemy in strategy..."

Cui Mingde said: "Your Majesty, the concubine thinks that the princess means that the two countries are at war, go to the army to fight, then fight the enemy, then attack the army, and attack the city at the bottom." ”

The mother raised her head with interest and said with a smile: "I have read the book of soldiers, everyone knows how to say these few words, and what to interpret these sentences?—— Taiping himself." ”

I glanced at Cui Mingde gratefully, and after she reminded me, I had some ideas: "Although the front line of the war is important, the rear cannot be ignored, and the grain and grass, soldiers, city walls, equipment, and people's hearts are all indispensable." "Since Ashao went to the front, I have often thought about military issues, from the point of view of the previous life, the two countries are at war, not fighting with a large number of soldiers, but whose national strength is strong, and what is willing to use at what price to achieve what purpose, the war I remember, one is the eight-year war of resistance against Japanese aggression and the war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party mentioned in the textbook, what "rural encirclement of the city", "millet plus □□", "Long March", "anti-encirclement and suppression", these are weak against strong, which is inconsistent with the current situation, and the other is the famous United States attack Iraq.

The news of that war and the public opinion on the Internet were varied, and I had never paid serious attention to it at that time, but in retrospect, with the strength of the United States, it could not quickly submit to Iraq, which was much weaker than it, but was mired in the quagmire, which is because the two sides were willing to pay different prices and goals to achieve, and sometimes the so-called "barefoot is not afraid of wearing shoes" However, from another point of view, considering that the casualties of the US military are compared to those of Iraq, and the trend of the final situation, behind the war, what is fought is not just a simple one, two, or a year or a few years of war, the so-called strategy should be a more long-term layout, where to build how big a city, where to be defended by how many people, there are countless frontiers, which is more important and which is more important, which battles can be lost, which ones cannot be lost, are all knowledge.

While thinking about it, I slowly said to my mother: "The cardinal of the military state, I don't dare to say anything, if I send someone outside, then this person's itinerary, who should take it, what is the matter, how much it costs, how to know if he is doing a good job, whether it is really because he is doing a good job or because of the right time and place, whether it is his fault or the fault of others if it is bad, how to reward and punish the merits, how to make people work hard and the family can follow suit... It's all a child's concern. By extension, the same is true in the military. Tang Xiujing asked for the repossession of the four towns of Anxi, and asked A-Niang to consider: how much it will cost to recover this place - not only the money and soldiers, but also the hearts of the people, hundreds of officials, and foreign vassals, the guards, management, and military barriers of our country, and the impact in the future; what is the benefit of recovering this place, but also to consider the money and silk, people's hearts, and other things, not only this year, next year, or a few years later, but also the determination of the tenth and hundred generations; what is the timing of recovering this place; and the means of recovery. ”

Mother laughed and said, "What I want to ask about is the timing and means of recovery, and you are better to ask about me." ”

I said: "The major affairs of the country of soldiers, Your Majesty's Prime Minister, the situation in the world, are all in the hands of Your Majesty, the prime minister and the concubines are only to help His Majesty take care of one or two trivial matters, how dare you talk about the major affairs of the country?" Seeing that my mother was noncommittal, Fang said: "Since the three generations, the war between the Central Plains and the foreign feudal domains has not stopped, the first Tang Dynasty has gone down from Gaozu, and the four feudal clans have fought against each other, our country upholds etiquette and righteousness, and is friendly with the neighbors, but the heart of the leopard and wolf in the border is endless, I don't offend people, people also offend me, I show courtesy, and he thinks I am weak, so in the long run, there will be a big war." Soldiers, soldiers, generals, food, weapons, cities, kings, and ministers. Under today's party, the number of households has surged, Dingkou is several times that of that year, taxes are also several times, state-owned treasures, households have surplus grain, weapons and weapons, and foot dressing are used, the city wall has been repaired several times in decades, and the beacon fire has never been reported every day. It's not that I'm patting on the back, my mother has always been resolute in employing people, and at the beginning of her ascension to the throne, she wantonly appointed cool officials, and there was still a suspicion of thousands of horses, and the recent situation has been stable, but it has become more and more relaxed, such as Di Renjie, who I know (and only know), do not mention the famous ministers, and the newly promoted Li Zhaode and others are also very capable. Heavy reputation, at the beginning of his mother's reign, he lost a lot of territory, and the country was actually quite criticized, once the country was stable, the call for recovery must be very high, and his mother, as the emperor, could not care about the people's backs, and now compared with that year, the treasury is more abundant, the number of people has increased several times, and there is also confidence to fight - according to this, Tang Xiujing's proposal is at the right time, and last year Cui Mingde asked Dugu Shao to ask for help, and it was also the best time.

I secretly glanced at Cui Mingde and finished the last sentence: "I think that there is only one 'will' word that is missing now." 166 Reading Network