The palace is still the same as usual, and there is no joy, anger or sorrow.

is always a busy figure, whether it is an official, a chamberlain or a palace maid, maybe only the guards standing there motionless are the most idle people, right?

Today, Datang is still very poor, but at least it is not as poor as it was in previous years.

Before the winter of this year, several heating rooms were also renovated in the palace, such as the palace where the court meeting was held, the cabinet, the emperor's study, the dormitory and so on.

The reform is still continuing, and the day is getting closer and closer to handing over the finances, but many localities are simply unable to hand over the finances.

Therefore, Li Yuanji gave the latest solution is to send a large number of supervisors to check the finances, and then according to the actual situation, to reduce the share handed over to the imperial court this year.

For the imperial court, it is not that there is really no money, but that there is no money to the states and counties below.

Of course, it is impossible not to give it, after all, there are basically no income items in some places, so according to the first round of investigation, a list of more than 40 counties that need funds from the central court to survive next year has been listed.

Today happened to be the day of the Great Dynasty Meeting, and the supervisors at the meeting said these things, and the ministers also agreed, and then said some other insignificant things, and the meeting was dismissed directly.

Today's court meetings can be resolved in an hour, unlike in the past, when it took at least half a day each time.

Li Yuanji's personality has also changed the temper of these officials, if there is something to say, there is nothing to dismiss the meeting, don't take any nonsense to the court to say, since you have said it, you must come up with a countermeasure, if you can't take it, just say it, don't go to the next court meeting, or the cabinet meeting, or solve it in private, and then put it forward at the next meeting.

After leaving for more than a year, all of this now makes Li Jing feel a little unfamiliar, but he has to sigh at the efficiency of doing so.

In the same way, in addition to efficiency, there are other things that have to be worried.

In less than an hour, the Great Dynasty Meeting was over.

But for Li Jing, his affairs are far from over.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, everyone went straight to the cabinet, which is the focus of today.

"After the minister arrived in Yazhou, he began to train the troops according to the method described by His Majesty, but also did some tests, and found some strong soldiers to kick directly to the highest place, and the reaction on the first day was about to feel a little difficult to breathe, but on the second day, dizziness, nausea and other symptoms began to appear gradually. Later, the camp was gradually transferred, and this problem was completely solved half a year ago, and now the 40,000 soldiers of Shu Dao can fully adapt to the environment there, even if they stay on it for two months, there will be no adverse reactions. When he arrived at the cabinet, Li Jing directly reported his work in Yazhou.

Adapting to the plateau climate is not so difficult, as long as the nutrition keeps up and gradually shifts to the higher places to adapt, a normal person, in fact, half a year is enough at most.

Except for the delay on the way to Yazhou, the shortest training was nine months, and at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters, at least these people under Li Jing stayed on it for no less than two months without coming down.

Of course, those who returned several times and couldn't adapt in the end were all sent back.

But it's only a few hundred people, and it doesn't affect the overall situation.

"What about Tibet?" Li Yuanji continued to ask.

Training in Yazhou, that's because there is no other place more suitable except Yazhou, but the height of Yazhou still can't be compared with Tubo.

"There is no problem within 500 miles, and after 500 miles, the minister does not dare to guarantee it, but it is estimated that more than 20% of people will have adverse reactions." Li Jing said directly.

Since the goal is Tibet, it is naturally impossible to train only in Yazhou.

Sending an elite team deep into Tibet, firstly, to spy on the terrain and environment, to prepare in advance, and secondly, to conduct experiments for the large army, so that Li Jing had a bottom in his heart, knowing that he had to stop and adapt to where he could attack at most.

"Where's Tuyuhun?" Li Yuanji turned his head again and asked Su Dingfang, who also returned to the dynasty to report on his work.

"Tuyuhun is not a big problem, the minister once sent people to disguise themselves as Tuyuhun herdsmen, and bought off their herdsmen, and followed them all the way to the border with Tubo, most places can be adapted, and the terrain is relatively gentle, and the soldiers hardly have to adapt." Su Dingfang said.

There are three roads into Tibet, one is through Yazhou, passing through mountains and rivers, which is very difficult to walk, and there are even no roads in many places.

The other is through Tuyuhun, because Tuyuhun itself is a plateau, and it is relatively stable, if the army attacks Tuyuhun and then directly attacks Tubo, the time for adaptive training will be reduced a lot, and it is also very suitable.

The last one is to enter through the Western Regions, but that road is not considered for the time being, because the Tang army cannot pass, and the logistics supply line is too long to be cost-effective.

Li Yuanji secretly calculated.

This so-called debriefing is actually to understand how the preparations of Yumen Pass and Yazhou are.

According to the twists and turns of the two, they all said that the preparations were almost complete, especially Su Dingfang, who was more fully prepared, not only sent the business team to go deep into Tuyuhun to spy on the terrain many times, but even drew a simple topographic map.

I didn't plan to rush to attack so early, and in the plan, this debriefing should be carried out before the end of next year, and then the attack will begin after the next year, and all the preparations will be made towards the beginning of the next year.

But the plan is not as good as the change, two months ago, the Tibetan envoy finally couldn't bear it, revealing a very important news.

Tibet was unstable, and the old nobles were dissatisfied with the coming to power of Songtsen Gampo, or rather with his promotion of new nobles and weakening of the old nobles after he came to power, so a rebellion broke out.

It was not Songtsen Gampo's decision to propose marriage, but the decision of his uncle Tan Koer and Prime Minister Shang Nang.

The purpose is to make peace with the Tang Dynasty, to deter those old nobles with the prestige of the Tang Dynasty, and at the same time, in the name of the family, like the Tang Dynasty, ask for some grenades for counterinsurgency.

Although relying on the help of the new nobles, Songtsen Gampo temporarily suppressed the rebellion of the old nobles, but the suppression was not very thorough, and the signs of rebellion were still there.

Since the preparations are almost complete, the other party's internal stability is not yet completely stable, if you don't fight at this time, when will you wait?

"If there is a war, how long will it take to destroy Tuyuhun?" I have confidence, but after all, I am not on the front line, and I don't know a lot of things.

If you fight one by one, then you can deploy it calmly in terms of time, but this time you want to destroy two countries at once, so the problem comes.

Su Dingfang counted with his fingers, well, 10,000 defenders of Yumen Pass are necessary, and 20,000 defenders are scattered in the countries of the Western Regions, with as little as 1,000 and as many as 3,000 in each country, which will definitely not be moved, and there are only 20,000 available soldiers left in his hand.

20,000 people to fight Tuguhun? Su Dingfang suddenly felt as if he was a little funny.

"50,000 people can inflict a heavy blow on it, and 100,000 people can destroy its country in half a year." After thinking about it, Su Dingfang said a more secure answer.

"What if I give you 150,000? Is it possible for 3 months? Li Yuanji continued to ask.

Bing, what he has in his hand is, in fact, he has been preparing for a long time, and in the generation from Longzhou to Yumen Pass, he has stationed 150,000 troops, which are all prepared to be used to annihilate Tuyuhun.

Su Dingfang frowned slightly, Tuyuhun is not one of those small countries in the Western Regions, its land area itself is not small, coupled with its nomadic characteristics, in fact, it is difficult to destroy it in a short time.

Just like when the Eastern and Turkic were destroyed before, didn't it still take several battles to inflict heavy losses on them, and then cause them to be greatly damaged and had to surrender?

But Su Dingfang is not one of those ordinary generals, he will consider the difficulty, but he will not say it.

Before that, he had thought about how to quickly destroy Tuyuhun, and it was not impossible.

"If Your Majesty sends Wang Xuance to work with his ministers, he is eighty percent sure that Tuyuhun will be destroyed within three months." After thinking about it, Su Dingfang still said his request.

It is actually very difficult to destroy a country in a short period of time without the help of effective diplomacy, and Wang Xuance's set of methods of suppression and differentiation made Su Dingfang appreciate it very much.

"Yes!" Li Yuanji nodded, Wang Xuance is still idle in the East China Sea, not deliberately lazy, but the speed of construction of sea ships is too slow, the news from last month has just delivered more than ten sea ships, the number is far from enough, according to this rate, it will take two or three years at the fastest to implement his plan.

Wang Xuance was sent there before, in order to familiarize himself with the environment and people, but now that there is something in the west, it is not impossible to transfer him back.

"I will give you another 150,000 troops, assisted by Hou Junji, the head of the Jishi Road March, Zhang Liang, the head of the Shanshan Road March, the governor of Liangzhou, and Li Daliang, the head of the last road march, the governor of Minzhou, Li Daoyan, the head of the Chishui Road March, and Gao Zhensheng, the head of the Lizhou Thorn Shiyan Road, will assist you, and attack in the spring, and within three months, Tuguhun will be destroyed." Li Yuanji said the people who had been planned in one breath, in fact, these 200,000 troops were also waiting under these people, this time, Li Yuanji began to prepare a year in advance.

But this is not the end, Li Yuanji looked at Li Jing again, and continued: "Yazhou can start westward after the beginning of spring, mainly to adapt. If there is snow, be careful, I have heard that it is difficult to survive when it snows there, if nothing else, a full-scale attack on Tibet can be launched in May at the latest, and I will send someone to inform you when the time comes. ”

Although it is somewhat difficult to destroy early, it is more advantageous than late extinction, and in the later period of history, Tubo has almost always suppressed the Tang Dynasty to fight again, and the Western Regions, even including the Tang Dynasty itself, have not been attacked by Tubo.

But what happens after it is extinguished? This is a big problem, and it is necessary to ask the ministers to go to the temple to calculate the result.