Chapter 575: Digging Your Own Grave
"Oh?" Li Jing seemed to be very interested in what Chen Fei said, stared at him, and asked interestingly, "How did you see Your Majesty's intentions?" ”
How can you see it? In fact, Chen Fei didn't guess Li Shimin's intention at first, because he suddenly remembered it when he saw Gao Chang on the map, and then comprehended it.
But ....... Words must not be said like this, and lies must be rounded to be convincing. If you suddenly tell Li Jing, I have traveled over a thousand years and know a lot about what is going to happen... Possibly? I guess Li Jing will take him for a fool, right?
"Well... Actually, it's very simple, Uncle Li, please see, Your Majesty sent me to Yumen Pass, and Yumen Pass is the Silk Road. If Your Majesty has no intention of interfering in the Silk Road, why should you put me at Yumen Pass? Any desolate town in the Western Regions is fine, why is it the throat of the Western Regions? ”
"Yes, some insight, but only half right." Li Jing touched his beard and looked at Chen Fei meaningfully.
"Halfway right?" Chen Fei was stunned for a moment, and then reacted, Li Jing's so-called half of what he said was right, it should mean that he guessed Li Shimin's general thoughts, but Li Shimin didn't come up with some small actions.
Like what.... Destroy Gaochang Kingdom!
"If the Silk Road is only half right, then the other half is mostly the 36 countries of the Western Regions." Chen Fei said slowly.
Li Jing was shocked in his heart, and couldn't help but look at Chen Fei twice, and secretly said that this kid is really smart, what His Majesty thinks in his heart, he can actually guess it.
If Chen Fei is thirty or forty years old, Li Jing can still accept it in his heart, but the problem is that he is only sixteen years old now! Such a wicked teenager really made Li Jing not know what to say.
"Boy, how did you know that Your Majesty was going to do something against the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions?" Having said this, Li Jing's face was also a little serious.
Because what he is talking to Chen Fei about now is a very serious topic, which is related to the next trend of the situation in the Western Regions!
Chen Fei smiled slightly, thought about his words a little, and spoke unhurriedly. "Actually, it's very simple, Uncle Li, going out from Yumen Pass and Yangguan is the Silk Road to Western countries, and through this road, it has attracted great wealth to my Datang. New vegetables, tons of jewelry, and more. Your Majesty is naturally very concerned about these two trade routes, but the Silk Road is not safe now! ”
After a pause, Chen Fei continued: "As far as I know, there are many robbers of all sizes on the Silk Road, which has seriously affected the security of the passage in the Western Regions, and many merchants in my Tang Dynasty have died at the hands of bandits. And these robbers have gained a lot of wealth by robbing and killing merchants, so much so that this wealth... It attracts a lot of surrounding countries! ”
Speaking of this, Chen Fei looked up at Li Jing slightly, and found that he had a serious face and no objection expression, and secretly said that he should have said eight or nine without leaving ten, so he continued:
"Therefore, many of the bandits now should be counterfeited by the armies of neighboring countries! Disguise yourself as a bandit, rob past merchants, and make huge profits! Although there are border guards stationed in my Datang, they can only take care of the area around Yumen Pass, and further away, that is, Xizhou can also take into account, and many other places are banditry in other countries, and the lives of merchants in the past are not guaranteed, and if it goes on like this, the Silk Road will sooner or later be abandoned because it is too dangerous. Therefore, His Majesty wants to attack the 36 countries of the Western Regions and shock the Silk Road! ”
After Chen Fei finished speaking, Li Jing touched his beard and stood in place for a long time, and suddenly, he raised his head and looked at Chen Fei, with an inexplicable light flashing in his eyes. "Boy, the analysis is very good, then in your opinion, which of the 36 countries of the Western Regions will Your Majesty attack?"
Which country to take? This... This question...... It's in Chen Fei's arms! Almost without any consideration, he blurted out: "Gao Chang! ”
Li Jing raised his eyebrows: "Oh? Why Gaochang? ”
"The reason is very simple, Your Majesty plans to arrange me to Yumen Pass, after Yumen Pass goes out, follow the Silk Road, the first country is Gaochang, if you want to attack the Western Regions, you can't get around Gaochang no matter what, not to mention..."A sneer appeared at the corner of Chen Fei's mouth, "Gaochang still has a lot of contradictions with our Datang!" ”
Yes, there is indeed a lot of contradiction between Gaochang and Datang, and the root of the contradiction lies in Xizhou. A small city nearly 100 miles east of Gaochang.
The population of the whole city is more than 10,000, and further east is the vast Lop Nur Desert, and after this thousand miles of desert, it is the Yumen Pass.
It stands to reason that this place in Xizhou is a big barrier to the east of Gaochang, and there shouldn't be too much intersection and friction with Datang, after all, there is a desert separated by thousands of miles.
But Datang just stretched out his hand to Xizhou. Originally, this place was the city of Gaochang Kingdom, and at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, a large number of Tang people moved into Xizhou, resulting in about half of the Tang people in Xizhou City. Subsequently, Li Shimin simply stationed troops here for defense, so it didn't take long for Xizhou to rightfully become the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and the territory of the Tang Dynasty expanded thousands of miles to the west.
Poor Gaochang Kingdom, the city was robbed, but he dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, because King Gaochang knew that their country's military strength could not compete with the Tang Dynasty at all.
At the beginning, the hegemon-level country of the Western Regions, Tuguhun, was terrified by the Tang Dynasty. Suddenly. The country was destroyed by the Tang Dynasty, how dare you let Gaochang, a small country, go against the Tang Dynasty? Looking for death?
So Xizhou became the city of Datang. Although Gao Chang was resentful, he had nothing to do, and he didn't dare to know what to do with Xizhou.
But secretly, he did a lot of small actions! For example, the Silk Road west of Xizhou is the most robbers, and most of the robbers are disguised by soldiers of Gaochang Kingdom.
If you don't come openly, you will come darkly, I am afraid that the monarch of Gaochang Kingdom is caught in the door, how can his small actions escape Li Shimin's eyes? So Li Shimin was angry, last year he asked the kings of the Western Regions to come to Chang'an for pilgrimage, but the king of Gaochang did not appear, Li Shimin invited three times, he refused three times in a row on the grounds that he was unwell, it can be said that he did not give face to this heavenly khan once.
Although Tian Khan is broad-minded, it doesn't mean that he can blindly tolerate you!
Or no revenge! Once you get revenge, you're going to be doomed! Just like the original East. Suddenly. It's the same. So this time, Li Shimin is going to get serious!
Gao Chang? Do you think that if you are far away, my Datang will not be able to clean you up?
Originally, Li Shimin was worried about the problem of low morale and insufficient combat power of the army after traveling long distances and crossing the desert, but Chen Fei's thunderbolt can perfectly solve this problem, therefore, Li Shimin can't wait, he wants to start a war, the male soldiers of the Tang Dynasty have been immersed for too long, and it is time for them to show their fangs!
Poor King Gaochang didn't know that Li Shimin was already planning to deal with him, and at this moment he was still planning how to stab him in the back of the Tang Dynasty.
Confronting Datang head-on, he didn't dare, but he was a good hand behind his back, probably resentful of Datang's snatching of Xizhou, and ordered a large number of troops to take off their uniforms to form a gang of thieves to wreak havoc near Xizhou!
To do so is to dig your own grave! Poor that he himself did not know it at all!
Working overtime today, just two chapters, and four more tomorrow.
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