Cai Cong is both angry and happy, such a lonely boss in a humane society can be said to be ruthless and unrighteous, but as a character like one, it can be regarded as doing his job well if he can forget his feelings and assert righteousness.

"How can I talk to the king of the town like this? Go down! ”

Li Chengqian pretended to say to one with a straight face, and bowed respectfully, Li Chengqian asked Cai Cong with a smile: "How do you feel?" The disciples who trained themselves are so disobedient. ”

"There are mixed joys and sorrows, among the many disciples, only this kid has walked out of his own way, although I want to slap him in the face, but I always feel that he has done a good job."

Cai Cong said with a wry smile, Li Chengqian smiled, the only disciple who made Cai Cong feel that he was a teacher, but he obeyed orders at his house.

"Don't talk nonsense with me, have you noticed that the sea border has become more and more unstable in the past few years?"

"Many barbarians set up small wooden boats, and they dare to go to sea to rob, and there are also big ships like Da Shi, Polo, and Tianzhu all build big ships to go to sea, not only to rob the sea resources, but also to loot my Tang Dynasty's merchant ships, I have put up with them for a long time."

When Li Chengqian talked about the situation at sea, his grievances were really not small. The navigation strategy brought a large amount of gold and silver resources to Datang, and the new grain alone made the entire Datang no longer starve to death.

Now there are so many people robbing things and merchant ships, this is simply pulling the beard of a tiger, and they are all looking for death!

"So I propose to take Nanzhao as a maritime transit station, where to garrison and camp, to protect the stability of maritime merchants internally, and to fight thieves from various countries externally, and to promote the prestige of our Tang Dynasty."

"Aren't we stationed our own troops overseas? If the Southern Zhao is defeated, then the troops will be mobilized again, is this too much of a move? Gaochang is already fighting, and Tubo is also going to move troops, so if he moves troops at sea at this time, will the military department and the household department be too difficult? ”

Li Chengqian couldn't keep up with Cai Cong's thinking, and he didn't dare to be as bold as Cai Cong, the big Han who practiced the way of Huang Lao back then, how much family business he had accumulated in sixty years, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was defeated in a war, and he didn't want to follow the steps of Han Wu.

"This is not only a war, but also a layout, the war at sea will be the biggest focus in the future, and now do more layout, the future will be the key to a hundred years."

Cai Cong swore that Li Chengqian would believe it or not, although the sea is rich, the fundamental concept of land for thousands of years has been deeply rooted in everyone's thoughts.

"You've heard the story of fishing with all your might, haven't you? This land is so big, and in the future, the more people there are, the less land will be divided. And as I told you, the sea is much larger than the land, and all the land together is less than a third of the ocean. At present, Datang occupies less than one-twentieth of the land area.

In the future, we will conquer these lands, and the sea will provide us with food, gold, silver, and copper and iron, which no other country has. ”

Cai Cong said frantically that in his previous life, the country did not pay enough attention to the ocean and suffered a lot of news, but he did not see it less.

"But the pressure on the household department is already very great, Chang'an and Yangzhou want to restore the people's livelihood, taxes are reduced, if you mobilize troops against Tubo, it is not an overnight thing, and the consumption of troops and financial resources is a bottomless pit!"

"So I plan to send Fang Niu to lead 10,000 troops from Fusang Mansion into Nanzhao Kingdom, and then recruit 20,000 young people from the country, Fusang's gold and silver are enough to feed them, and there is no need for additional money from the household department."

Hearing Cai Cong's words, Li Chengqian couldn't help but smile bitterly, fortunately he didn't treat Cai Cong as an outsider, how could an emperor tolerate Cai Cong making such a self-determination?

"I plan to adopt the strategy of Huairou and use the prestige and wealth of the Tang Dynasty to lure the entire Nanzhao Kingdom into the territory of the Tang Dynasty. If they don't agree, they will slaughter their royal family and replace it with an obedient royal family. ”

Cai Cong said with a smile, Li Chengqian was speechless, this guy was talking to himself, and he couldn't interject at all.

At this time, Li Chengqian's will had caused an uproar, and Lu Dongzan's body was pickled and completely undecomposed, and hung on the city wall for people to see.

The envoys of various countries went out one after another, they were not dazzled or blind, and they all left in silence after reading it.

That is Lu Dongzan, that is the great minister of Tubo, but now no one dares to stand up and say that it is Lu Dongzan, the Tubo envoy was escorted out of Chang'an, Lu Dongzan's youngest son and Songtsen Gampo's son were crying and were about to faint, that was his father! That's the hero of Tibet! What a humiliation it is to be hung on the city wall now?

They cried and begged, they knelt on the ground, they turned to envoys from other countries, but they were faced with cold and ruthless faces, and no one dared to give them help and support.

At this time, they no longer had the luxury of hoping that Datang would be able to stop the war, they just asked Datang to return Lu Dongzan's body to them.

And they are also clearly aware that this time their losses are great, originally thought that the habits of the Tang Dynasty can give them a few years of buffer time, but they did not expect that Lu Dongzan's death could not be exchanged for temporary peace, now the war is coming, and their wise military advisor is no longer there.

"Find another way! You find an opportunity to escape, try to save your father's body, he is our hero in Tibet, and we cannot let him suffer such humiliation. ”

The Tibetan envoys were blasted out of Chang'an, and then escorted by official messengers, who would send them to the border of the Tang Dynasty.

Songtsen Gampo's son said to Lu Dongzan's youngest son with tears in his eyes, asking him to flee back to Chang'an, even if he robbed it, he wanted to snatch Lu Dongzan's body back.

"Isn't the little prince unable to see through? They said that my father was a fake, just to start a war, and they must be actively preparing for war now.

The most important thing we need to do at the moment is to rush back to Tibet, assist the king, assist my brother, and unite all the forces that can be combined to fight against the Tang Dynasty. My father didn't even want his life for the sake of Tibet, and he never wanted us to see us ignore the survival of Tibet for the sake of his corpse. ”

Lu Dongzan's youngest son said with red eyes, although his heart was full of sadness, his thinking was not messed up, but he clearly analyzed the current situation. With such a rational mind, it is no wonder that Lu Dongzan and his sons have held the military power of Tibet for half a century.

"Tang Guo is so shameless, the prime minister will not die in vain, one day Xiao Wang will definitely avenge his old man."

Songtsen Gampo's son gritted his teeth and said, the two decided not to procrastinate, to rush back to Tibet at full speed, and to do their part.

However, the official errand of the escort envoy group is not an ordinary official errand, no matter what you say, how you call it, I just walk slowly, I will walk thirty miles on this day, and you don't want to go out of the Datang border in a month or two.

This will make the morale of the regiment furious, the weapons that can be guarded have been confiscated, and the number of officials is much more than them, and they are helpless!

On the other hand, there were also cries in the harem. Li Chengqian ordered the queen and the virtuous concubine to be fined for half a year, not to mention, and even to beat their personal maids with a cane before expelling them from the palace.

The personal maids of the two cried and wailed, but fortunately, the eunuch who did it was afraid of offending the two and secretly released the water, otherwise these palace maids would have to end up with a disability.

"Niangniang, I'm afraid that the slave will not be able to serve you anymore in the future, so you can send a maid home when you go back, and the slave will teach her to make your favorite snow cloud cream."

"Niangniang, the slave and maid will not be able to serve you in the future, and the new maid will be sent home in the future, and the slave and maid will be trained and trained, you love to kick the quilt when you sleep, and you can't hear the movement at night, these must be taught to them, otherwise they will be clumsy, and the slave and maid are afraid that they will not be able to serve you well."

Several of Chu Yao's personal maidservants endured severe pain and knelt on the ground to say goodbye to Chu Yao, all of them blurring their vision with tears.

They served Chu Yao when they were young, and they have been honored to serve Chu Yao well all their lives. Now that he has been kicked out of the palace, he is not only full of fear for the future, but also afraid that the newcomer will not be able to serve Chu Yao well.