The army led by Li Ji arrived in Mayi City only one day later than Niu Jinda, but as the governor of Bingzhou, he managed all the important military and political affairs in the land of Bingzhou, at least the four counties and one city in Shuozhou he had to master, this was the gateway to Bingzhou, and after the busy military affairs were assigned, he remembered to see Sun Xiangfu.

After a salute, Li Ji took the lead in speaking, "I heard that Zhengming is quite good at the way of germination, what do you think of the land of Shuozhou?" ”

Sun Xiangfu and Li Ji actually had nothing to do with each other, and when he saw that he didn't regard himself as an outsider, he replied, "The surrounding forces are uneven, and there is no possibility of growth in the land of Shuozhou." ”

When Li Ji heard this, he frowned, but he understood what Sun Xiangfu meant, Shuozhou is surrounded by mountains on three sides, but one side is connected to the grassland, but it is connected to this side of the grassland, and the distance from the Hui Department in the west and the Xue Yantuo Department in the north is less than 500 miles.

The Hui and Xue Yantuo have developed rapidly in the past two years, especially the Xue Yantuo Ministry, and now the young Zhuang who control the strings have reached nearly 100,000, and the Hui Ministry is slightly weaker, and the Qingzhuang also has about 50,000 or 60,000, as the power grows stronger and stronger, the ambition of their leader has also begun to swell, of course, at present, they just want to destroy the Turks and become the overlord of the steppe.

"Your Majesty wants to unite with the Hui Dynasty, and Xue Yantuo and the two departments will jointly exterminate the Turks, so before the Turks are destroyed, these two departments should not be hostile to our Tang Dynasty." Li Ji said a piece of news that Sun Xiangfu's current identity should not know.

"So in other words, we only have been in operation in Shuozhou for a year or two." Sun Xiangfu raised his eyebrows when he heard this, if it is really a peaceful time of one or two years, then, under his own leadership, Shuozhou should also be initially developed.

"What, do you think our Datang will be able to destroy the Turks in a year or two?" Li Ji smiled, but he looked at Sun Xiangfu with a very ignorant look.

The grassland tribes are different from the dynasties of the Central Plains, where the fields and houses of the people of the Central Plains are, the roots are there, and if they leave the fields and houses, they will starve to death. The steppe tribe is a nation that can be said to go, defeat them can do it, but it is very difficult to destroy, the strong man has been more than 400 years, but he has completely destroyed the Xiongnu? Just chasing around on the grassland will take many years to determine the winner and loser.

"If it is to unite the Hui and Xue Yantuo, it will not be difficult to destroy the Turks within a year or two, but at that time, I am afraid that the Hui and Xue Yantuo will become new Turks."

Listening to Sun Xiangfu's argument, Li Ji's eyes became solemn, and he said, "You don't agree with Your Majesty's joint strategy to break the enemy, but there is a better way to break the enemy?" ”

"Well, this is not at the moment, I just think that the more forces on the grassland now, the more stable the position of our Datang will be, why not let them kill each other, let's develop our own internal affairs, improve the national strength, and after three or five years, the internal stability will be stable, and there will be the strength to normalize the expedition, wouldn't it be better to eradicate them one by one?"

"The strength of the expedition to normalize?"

"Well, it's the economic strength to be able to support one, or even multiple, professional combat armies for a long time." Sun Xiangfu accidentally got another word out of the aftermath, and hurriedly explained.

"How is this possible?"

Li Ji only fantasized a little, and felt that what Sun Xiangfu said was an impossible problem, the productivity of the ancients was low, and the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty came from the peasant households, and they were recruited when they were fighting, and they farmed at home when they were not fighting, so that they could barely ensure the country's production, and even many times, because they wanted to let the soldiers stay at home and run the farming, the emperor or the separatist forces would choose to postpone the war, just like the spring ploughing period, generally no one would start a war, because if the farming was not good, everyone would have no food. There is nothing to eat, but it is more of a problem than losing the battle.

Sun Xiangfu shook his head with a smile when he heard this, "This is possible, my family has raised three hundred guards, and you have seen their combat effectiveness, when they are in my house, they don't need to farm at all, they just need to concentrate on honing their killing skills, and I can also provide them with big fish and meat to eat every day, and build the best equipment for them to wear, when there are many people like me in Datang, it will be completely fine." ”

"If everyone could know the same hair growth techniques as you, do you think you would still be able to make money?" Li Ji saw that Sun Xiangfu was outrageous, and couldn't help but retort.

"You don't need everyone! I can raise 300 people with one, I am 3,000 people with ten, and I only need 100 at most to raise a professional elite army of 30,000 people, I believe that there are more than 100 people in Datang who are richer than me! Sun Xiangfu crossed his fingers like teaching elementary school students and counted to Li Ji.

"However, those people are not willing to take money out to support the sergeants!" Li Ji retorted again.

"Then find a way to get them to pay for the army!"

"What's the solution?"

"Of course, it's the benefits. Just like Ma Zhou's previous suggestion that the Tang Dynasty should send troops to protect the safety of Hu Merchants in the Western Regions, as soon as the military expenses were paid by Hu Merchants in the Western Regions, didn't the imperial court just spend no money, and trained an army with experience in traveling far away? ”

"Well, this kind of good thing happens every year." Li Ji was a little tasteful, and seemed to have some regrets that he had not competed with Li Jing.

"If there are no conditions, let's create conditions!" Sun Xiangfu spread out the handways that were shackled in the shackles.

Li Ji raised his eyebrows when he heard this, staring at Sun Xiangfu and said, "How to create?" ”

Sun Xiangfu smiled and said, "Then it depends on how big your heart is." ”

"What do you say when it's big? What do you say if you're small? ”

"If it's big, if you row him out for one or two thousand miles, naturally some people are willing to spend money to support the tens of thousands of troops of the imperial court, and if you are small, you can go out for three or five hundred miles, and some people are willing to spend money to support the imperial court's army of several thousand people."

"Zoning? How to draw it? We don't have much land in Datang, and if we draw a little, we will have less, and Your Majesty will not do this kind of thing of killing chickens and taking eggs. ”

"Who said that the land of the Tang Dynasty was demarcated, of course it was the land of the Turks."

"The land of the Turks? Grassland? Who would want that kind of land? ”

"Someone will ask for it, and they will even rush to ask for it, as long as the land can bring them benefits." Sun Xiangfu sold Guan Zidao.

Li Ji was a little anxious by his unhurried appearance, and said, "If you kid don't tell the truth, the old man will truthfully report what you did in Shuozhou to Your Majesty." ”

"Uh, the grass people didn't do anything in Shuozhou!" Sun Xiangfu touched his nose and said.

Li Ji sneered when he heard this, "Hehe, do you want the old man to remind you, but the household registration book of the field was given to Niu Jinda through your hands?" ”

"Well, that's the case, isn't this a rainy day, to help the imperial court sell the Turkic land?"

"It's a good precaution, but you should tell the old man how the imperial court can sell the land of the Turks to those rich people at a price." Li Ji pointed to the core of the question.