"You'er, it's a lot."

Li Shimin looked at Li You's back, and said proudly, how can Li Mu not understand what it means, isn't this just boasting about his 'seed'? Li Mu didn't want to pat the fart, but in the face of Li Shimin's gaze, as if something was going to happen if he didn't shoot the fart, he grinned and said 'from the heart': "Your Majesty, there is a proverb among the people, dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes, and mice give birth to holes." After all, Li You is your biological son, inheriting your bloodline, isn't it normal to have a future? ”

Li Shimin stared at Li Mu's eyes: "Normal? ”

"Naturally!" Li Mu replied very firmly and categorically. Li Shimin smiled with satisfaction, and sat down next to Li Mu, where Li You had just sat down. Li Mu dared to let him sit down, and quickly gave up the main seat. Li Shimin also sat down unceremoniously, he looked at Li Mu for a while before he spoke, and said, "After going to sea for half a year, you have also lost weight." ”

"Alas," Li Mu wanted to say something, but for some reason, the hypocritical flattery was too lazy to say. When the words came to his lips, only a sigh remained.

"In the past six months, I have fought a small battle."

"The minister heard about it." Li Mu hurriedly said.

It's a small battle, but it's actually not small. It's just that it's a small battle because it was fought too fast, the casualties are small, and the military supplies consumed are small.

It was Tuyuhun who was fighting, and Li Mu had long expected that this battle would be inevitable. As early as when the Tang Dynasty was rubbing with the Turks, when Tuyuhun stabbed him in the back, Li Mu knew that Tuyuhun was dying.

When Li Shimin pours out his hand, he will definitely clean it up.

After this year's spring ploughing, it's just right. Originally, Li Shimin planned to move Goguryeo, but Li Ji's army was transferred. But he was persuaded by Li Mu and didn't do it this year. The fighting in the east stopped, and the supplies prepared for the war were saved. After the summer, Li Shimin asked the household department to make statistics, and this year is another bumper harvest year. Don't worry about next year's grain, so what are the remaining materials from last year for?

So Li Shimin went down with a holy decree, and these houses were sent to Li Xiaogong, the protector of Dingxiang Capital.

Li Xiaogong naturally understood what Li Shimin meant, after the materials were in place, Li Xiaogong teamed up, no, it should be said to be a contact, he contacted the 36 countries of the Western Regions, so that each country had to send troops, and then borrowed 20,000 Turkic soldiers and horses from the brother country, 5,000 soldiers and horses from Gaochang State, together with the 15,000 soldiers and horses he had been constantly recruiting and organizing the displaced people, with a total of more than 40,000 people, known as 100,000, and found an excuse to start a war against Tuyuhun.

After the alliance between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks, Tuyuhun had realized that something was going to happen to him sooner or later. In the past year, I have been doubly careful, I can endure it, and let it go. Even a piece of grassland next to the border of the Tang Dynasty was given up, and the people of Tuyuhun were not allowed to graze. They think that they have regressed so much, after all, the Heavenly Empire wants to be faced, so I won't coax you and bully me, right?

Facts have proved that Tuyuhun overestimated the face of the Celestial Empire. Li Shimin is as open-minded as the sea, but when it comes to fighting, he is more serious than anyone else. If you stab me in the back, I'll have to you sooner or later. Li Xiaogong is even more shameless, Li Shimin asked him to make excuses, he thought about it for several days, and finally told Tuyuhun. The sheep grazing in our Dingxiang Duhufu were stolen by your Tuguhun people, and they were stolen overnight, a total of 30,000 horses. Give you three days, either return the sheep or fight, choose?

Is this what people say?

When King Tuyuhun saw Li Xiaogong's letter, he almost died of a stroke on the spot. Not to mention how nonsense it is to be able to steal sheep out of the heavily guarded Dingxiang Protectorate, even if there is such a thing. Thirty thousand sheep! Catch all the sheep in this grassland, can there be so many points, you Datang is farming, not grazing, where can you steal so many sheep?

Okay, then admit it and give you the sheep. It's too late to catch it in three days! Aren't you just trying to fight?

If you want to fight, you just say it's okay, isn't this bullying?

Is it tolerable or unbearable! King Tuyuhun also has a temper, doesn't he want to fight? Then let's fight!

The battle lasted seven days.

The real battle was over in three days. For the remaining four days, the Tang Dynasty coalition army chased after the king of Tuyuhun in the land of Tuyuhun. By the way, they collected the sheep they 'stole' from the Tang Dynasty, but the number of 30,000 heads was still too exaggerated, and the army 'collected' it for four days, and finally only barely collected 10,000 heads.

Three thousand were distributed to the Turkic brothers, one thousand were distributed to Gaochang, and dozens of heads were distributed to each of the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions. The remaining 2,000 will become the breeding sheep of Dingxiang Duhufu, and the pasture near Dingxiang can finally be used, and the next time you plant it, you don't have to 'open your mouth to come'.

Of course, this loot alone is far from satisfying Datang's appetite. Tuyuhun sent envoys to sue for peace, and finally ceded most of Qinghai Lake to Datang, and this matter was settled.

And to Qinghai Lake, the eldest grandson Wuji made a great effort. With the Datang Salt Industry here, the eldest grandson Wuji can't help but die.

With Qinghai Lake, it will be much more convenient to make salt in the future.

Li Mu was also very happy to hear this news. With Qinghai Lake, he will have an inexhaustible supply of raw materials for making glass in the future. It's just that now, he has no plans to increase glass production, and he doesn't mention it.

After chatting about Li Shimin's side, Li Mu also reported to Li Shimin what he had done in the Wa Kingdom.

Li Shimin was not much surprised by Li Mu's support for the eldest brother of Shanbei. Obviously, he already knew that in Li Mu's fleet, there were bad people and Dongchang's eyeliner indispensable. Li Mu actually knew it, he just pretended not to know, this can be regarded as a tacit understanding between the monarch and the minister, and no one wants to pierce this layer of window paper.

"I really didn't expect that the small country would hide such a large silver mine. If I hadn't listened to you, I wouldn't have believed it. Saying that, Li Shimin became angry again: "The little Japanese country, the land of projectiles, dares to be arrogant and claim to be the emperor!" Do they have me in their eyes? If you do a good job, such a scoundrel, you should make them bow down. If it weren't for the sea, I would have conquered them! ”

"There is no need for conquest." Li Mu hurriedly persuaded: "Your Majesty, the frog at the bottom of the well of the Japanese country has no knowledge. What they call themselves behind closed doors is just a sign of ignorance. For us, what values them is nothing more than silver mines. There is no need for conquest, it is not enough to mobilize the people, even if it is subdued, in the end, don't we still want their silver mines? ”

"I understand." Li Shimin snorted and said, "It's just talking, you did a good job, divide your clan, sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight-" He glanced at Li Mu deeply and said: "This emperor's mental technique, at your age, it is not easy to understand this." ”

Li Mu smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty, you look at the ministers like this, look up and down, look left and right, and don't look like being an emperor, how can there be any imperial tricks." The scheming of the ministers is just a little clever. ”

Li Shimin smiled, noncommittal, and immediately changed the topic, and said: "The affairs of the Japanese country, you just let it go, and I fully support you." After a pause, he said again: "What do you think about You'er's matter?" ”

"Hmm-" Li Mu pondered for a while and said, "Your Majesty, what do you say about this score, is it public or selfish?" ”

"Is this still public-minded, selfish?" Li Shimin smiled and asked: "Then you can tell me everything, what do you say about this work, and what about selfishness?"

"Your Majesty, if it is a public heart, the minister will support Li You." Li Mu Zhengse explained: "Originally, the minister also had a lot of doubts about Li You. But after Chen's understanding of the crew, he found that Li You, this kid, is really this piece of material. ”

"Oh?" Li Shimin was curious: "How do you say this?" ”

"When he first went to sea, Li You knew almost nothing. He doesn't know how to look at maps, he doesn't know how to look at waterways. When he met people from Fanbang, he couldn't communicate a word. But by the time he returned, he could already read the map and discern the direction through the stars. Judging the weather through the salty sea breeze, I learned at least a dozen Fanbang languages and simple words-" Li Mu said seriously: "Your Majesty, this can't be explained by luck alone. It's a talent, a rare talent. ”

"Ministers often say that there is no waste in this world. Everyone has his shining points, what he is good at, and the most valuable side. Li Mu looked at Li Shimin's face and said;" I'm not afraid that Your Majesty doesn't like to hear it, Li You is a person, and the minister really didn't see any shining points in him before. But when he returned from going to sea this time, he saw it. ”

"He is now a young man who has ideals, goals, and is willing to fight for them. Such a person, he will definitely be able to do well. All he needs now is trust. ”

"That's good." Li Shimin nodded and said, "Trust, I can give it to him." Just like I trust you, just let him do it. "I understand." Li Shimin snorted and said, "It's just talking, you did a good job, divide your clan, sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight-" He glanced at Li Mu deeply and said: "This emperor's mental technique, at your age, it is not easy to understand this." ”

Li Mu smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty, you look at the ministers like this, look up and down, look left and right, and don't look like being an emperor, how can there be any imperial tricks." The scheming of the ministers is just a little clever. ”

Li Shimin smiled, noncommittal, and immediately changed the topic, and said: "The affairs of the Japanese country, you just let it go, and I fully support you." After a pause, he said again: "What do you think about You'er's matter?" ”

"Hmm-" Li Mu pondered for a while and said, "Your Majesty, what do you say about this score, is it public or selfish?" ”

"Is this still public-minded, selfish?" Li Shimin smiled and asked: "Then you can tell me everything, what do you say about this work, and what about selfishness?"

"Your Majesty, if it is a public heart, the minister will support Li You." Li Mu Zhengse explained: "Originally, the minister also had a lot of doubts about Li You. But after Chen's understanding of the crew, he found that Li You, this kid, is really this piece of material. ”

"Oh?" Li Shimin was curious: "How do you say this?" ”

"When he first went to sea, Li You knew almost nothing. He doesn't know how to look at maps, he doesn't know how to look at waterways. When he met people from Fanbang, he couldn't communicate a word. But by the time he returned, he could already read the map and discern the direction through the stars. Judging the weather through the salty sea breeze, I learned at least a dozen Fanbang languages and simple words-" Li Mu said seriously: "Your Majesty, this can't be explained by luck alone. It's a talent, a rare talent. ”

"Ministers often say that there is no waste in this world. Everyone has his shining points, what he is good at, and the most valuable side. Li Mu looked at Li Shimin's face and said;" I'm not afraid that Your Majesty doesn't like to hear it, Li You is a person, and the minister really didn't see any shining points in him before. But when he returned from going to sea this time, he saw it. ”

"He is now a young man who has ideals, goals, and is willing to fight for them. Such a person, he will definitely be able to do well. All he needs now is trust. ”

"That's good." Li Shimin nodded and said, "Trust, I can give it to him." Just like I trust you, just let him do it. "I understand." Li Shimin snorted and said, "It's just talking, you did a good job, divide your clan, sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight-" He glanced at Li Mu deeply and said: "This emperor's mental technique, at your age, it is not easy to understand this." ”

Li Mu smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty, you look at the ministers like this, look up and down, look left and right, and don't look like being an emperor, how can there be any imperial tricks." The scheming of the ministers is just a little clever. ”

Li Shimin smiled, noncommittal, and immediately changed the topic, and said: "The affairs of the Japanese country, you just let it go, and I fully support you." After a pause, he said again: "What do you think about You'er's matter?" ”

"Hmm-" Li Mu pondered for a while and said, "Your Majesty, what do you say about this score, is it public or selfish?" ”

"Is this still public-minded, selfish?" Li Shimin smiled and asked: "Then you can tell me everything, what do you say about this work, and what about selfishness?"

"Your Majesty, if it is a public heart, the minister will support Li You." Li Mu Zhengse explained: "Originally, the minister also had a lot of doubts about Li You. But after Chen's understanding of the crew, he found that Li You, this kid, is really this piece of material. ”

"Oh?" Li Shimin was curious: "How do you say this?" ”

"When he first went to sea, Li You knew almost nothing. He doesn't know how to look at maps, he doesn't know how to look at waterways. When he met people from Fanbang, he couldn't communicate a word. But by the time he returned, he could already read the map and discern the direction through the stars. Judging the weather through the salty sea breeze, I learned at least a dozen Fanbang languages and simple words-" Li Mu said seriously: "Your Majesty, this can't be explained by luck alone. It's a talent, a rare talent. ”