Bai Fan went down the hall by himself, everyone in the hall couldn't persuade him, and Li Er couldn't make a sound, so he could only watch him walk out quickly.

Looking at Bai Fan's figure, and then looking back at the impeached imperial history, Li Erxin said, how did you create such a bureau today? Wasn't it supposed to have gotten a thunderstorm himself, and then start a war with the outside world domineeringly? Now the thunder is in hand, but the situation seems to be not only inconvincing, but also needs to stop Bai Fan from making a move.

"Your Majesty, the matter of our expedition to the Western Turks ......"

Old Li Jing asked.

Li Er was a little upset, and waved his hand impatiently: "Discuss again, retreat from the dynasty!" ”

Li Er, who had gone down to the court, had no patience to sit in the palace, changed into a disguise, and came directly to the Marquis of Lantian Mansion, Bai Fan's performance today was too weird, and he had to ask clearly.

Bai Fan had already arranged everything at home, brewed kung fu tea, and waited for Li Er to come to the door.

Li Er angrily reprimanded: "You kid, you will advise, don't you have to come to the stage of the court?" ”

Bai Fan pressed Li Er onto the tea table, and then said with a smile: "Hugh wants to talk about me, don't you also find someone to impeach me?" ”

"I'm ......"

Li Er hurriedly covered his mouth, he was fooled, why did he admit it in a hurry?

With a sneer, Li Er casually picked up the teacup and took a sip.

"Let's say, what do you think about the Western Turks, I will give you an explanation, in short, it is impossible not to fight, the power of the Tang Dynasty is not scared, but frightened."

Nodding, Bai Fan smiled and said: "I think so too, but I just heard that Your Majesty is bent on destroying the country, and no one can persuade him, so he made this decision, it is impossible to destroy the country, even if we have thunder in hand, it is impossible." ”

"How so? Didn't Tuyuhun just take it in seven days? At that time, there was still a shortage of thunderstorms, but now we should have enough thunderstorms. Li Er didn't believe it.

Waving his hand and adding tea to Li Er, Bai Fan explained: "It's not a matter of weapons, the number of thunderbolts is not the point, I said that if I hand it over to the Ministry of Industry, I will hand it over, and Your Majesty can make it yourself as much as you want in the future." ”

"Hey, I'm not here for this ......"

Li Er's smile is so fake and fake, Bai Fan really can't stand it.

"Like I said, if you want to destroy the country this time, you must kill people and slaughter the city, otherwise, even if the other party temporarily submits to our thunder, but the local people will not return, the emperor of the Western Regions is far away, our hands can't reach out, and sooner or later something will happen.

Besides, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are watching, with the example of the Eastern Turks, the significance of victory has now been upgraded, and it is no longer a matter of how many people are killed or who is defeated.

Everyone wants to eat some oil and water with a big war, we want the population, we want the territory, we want the people's will, we want the prisoners and laborers, and if we want to do everything, it is not something that we can solve now by being angry and rushing back to fight back. ”

After listening quietly, Li Er sighed, he was anxious, seeing the fate of Tuyuhun and Tubo, he believed in the thunder too much.

"In that case, what do you say about this battle? Is it just to let the Western Turks go? ”

Bai Fan sneered, "Hmph, let it go?" He thinks beautifully, a bunch of barbarians dare to backfire on us, see if I don't let them drink the northwest wind collectively. ”

"Oh? Will the plan be settled? ”

After drinking the cup of tea in his hand slowly, Li Er's patience next to him was almost worn out.

"The Western Turks have indeed developed rapidly in relying on us in recent years, but they have imported everything from our Datang, which is a big mistake, usually when the relationship between our two countries is good, we will try to supply them, and once the war starts, we can cut off their source of goods.

For example, grain and tea, they live on sheep on the grassland, but eating sheep at a time will cause it to be too greasy, and must be supplemented with grain and vegetables, and tea is also their necessities, and drinks such as tea can solve the greasy problem very well.

Moreover, the population of the Western Turks has increased dramatically in recent years, if it is all dependent on eating sheep, hehe, they can't afford to eat, how many sheep does a family need to be able to eat for a year?

We have cut off their food sources on the pretext of starting a war, and they will not last more than half a year without us sending troops. ”

Li Er pondered for a moment and said, "No, they have thirty-six countries in the Western Regions, and those small countries produce grain. ”

"So, we need to fight, even to cut off their food routes.

However, we only conquered Gaochang, and this is only for us to recover the lost territory, not to take the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions. ”

"Why?"

"You can't win back the hearts of the people now, after all, those small countries have just experienced the war, and if there is a second war soon, they have no sense of belonging to the upper country.

We took Gaochang and coerced with thunder, and then the Western Turks paid war compensation, hum, don't want anything else, we want things like grain and sheep, if he doesn't give it, we will blow it all the way to his Western Turkic court.

If he gave it, then they would be even more nervous, and if they couldn't slow down within a year, they would tighten the grain of the Western Regions countries to supply the Western Turks, and in this way, the hearts of the people in the Western Regions would be lost.

Wait until a year later, when the people of the Western Regions are in dire straits, we will send out a righteous army to unify the Western Regions in one fell swoop, so that the Western Turks are sandwiched between the Western Regions and the Eastern Turks of our Tang Dynasty, which is the turtle in the urn of our Tang Dynasty, and we can clean it up whenever we want. ”

After listening to this, Li Er pondered for a long time, a plan is a good strategy, but is a year a long time?

"Why do you have to take a year, you must know that the Western Regions are in the hands of others, our westward trade route has been cut off, and the Western Turks will take the opportunity to make a fortune in the west, and after a long time, not only will they grow, but also our domestic business travel will have accidents."

"Don't worry, business travel, with the popularity of fairy food in our country, the domestic demand is huge, and there is no need for a short-term business line in the Western Regions.

As for the Western Turks making a fortune to the west? can only be exchanged for gold and silver, but if you can't exchange for food, you can only wait for death.

The reason why it is a year is because after a year we will have enough food, without food, even if the Western Regions are in hand, sooner or later it will be troublesome, but with the immortal grain, after the unification of the Western Regions, send a good general to recruit troops locally, a strong army of 100,000 people is not a problem, so that the affairs of the Western Regions can be settled once and for all. ”

"Well, I like to do it once and for all!"

Li Er laughed, raised the small cup on the table, and had a toast with Bai Fan, at this time, although the kung fu teacup was small, it made the two of them drink the feeling of victory.

Since there is a plan and is not ready to make a big show, there is no need to mobilize the people, ten good generals, Li Daozong led the troops, Duan Zhixuan was the deputy, and the two of them happened to be guilty of meritorious service, and led 60,000 troops to the west to recover Gaochang.

Li Yuanba, the king of Chu, invited himself to be the vanguard, because the Western Turks were afraid of Li Yuanba, and the most angry thing about the Western Turkic rebellion this time was not the emperor or Bai Fan, but Li Yuanba.

So when he heard that he was going to go on an expedition, Li Yuanba didn't say a word, led 5,000 elite soldiers of the Left Guard, joined the Qi family army, brought a large number of thunderbolts, and led a group of belligerent juniors and disciples of the academy to the northwest.

Duan Zhixuan, who had just left Chang'an, quickly caught up with the leader Li Daozong, and hurriedly urged: "Old Li, we need to march all the way." ”

Why is that? A 60,000-strong army on a hurried march? Old Duan, do you want to make meritorious service and want to go crazy? The Western Regions are thousands of miles away, and it will take twenty days to march quickly. Li Daozong was puzzled.

"Hey, do you think I don't know?

But you don't know, the king of Chu led an army of 6,000 to lead the vanguard, and he has already roared away, but they have brought enough thunder, our brothers are guilty of meritorious service, if you run slowly, I'm afraid you won't even be able to drink the soup, and you don't know the character of the king of Chu. ”

I......

Li Daozong instantly felt that he had been pitted, and originally thought that with the thunder of the sky, he could use it casually, and he could coerce the Quartet, and he raised his eyebrows, but he didn't expect to be such a master as Li Yuanba.

Today's second chapter, thank you for your support.

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