In the hall of Chang'an's mansion, Li Xiao was lying comfortably in a rattan chair to enjoy the coolness.

He had already asked people to pick up Wan Niang and Zhenmei to live in Chang'an, and before the corn was harvested, he still had to stay in Beijing often, so it would be more convenient for the two of them to come over.

After the eldest grandson Wuji had eaten and drunk enough, he had already left. The two actually didn't talk about anything, although the eldest grandson Wuji wanted to talk about something with Li Xiao, but he didn't want to talk about anything, and there was nothing to talk about.

Reserve more vitality for Datang, after all, Datang is not really invincible in the world. Although the Eastern Turks were destroyed, the Turks in the Western Regions were still capricious, and even the surrendered Tuyuhun was rebellious and impermanent.

Not to mention, on that plateau, there is a more powerful force that has risen. During the Zhenguan Dynasty, the Tubo people were just a small fight, attacking and harassing the border states, and the Tang army sent troops to repel them, and the two sides negotiated peace. Li Shimin put Princess Wencheng and his pro-Songtsen Gampo, and the troops on both sides were suspended.

But Li Xiao knew that the Tubo people would not be satisfied with the status quo. The Tibetans, who have already swept the plateau tribes, will show their sharp minions to the Tang Dynasty.

Historically, the Tang Dynasty has been fighting and making peace with Tubo since the time of Gaozong, which can be said to have lasted for more than 200 years. Even the powerful Tang Empire in the countless wars against Tibet, in fact, in the situation of fewer victories and more defeats, not to mention, after the Anshi Rebellion, the Western Regions, Longyou, and Hehuang land all fell into the hands of Tubo, and even Chang'an City was also breached.

Now Tubo Zampu is still Songtsen Gampo, and nominally Songtsen Gampo is Li Zhi's brother-in-law.

After Li Zhi ascended the throne, he also canonized Songtsen Gampo as the king of Xihai County and the commander of the horses. At this time, the national strength of the Tang Dynasty was still strong, so Songtsen Gampo was also busy sweeping away the disobedient forces on the plateau, and was busy fighting troops.

But this awesome dry cloth won't live for a few years, and he will die in a few years.

And as soon as this one dies, the Tubo will get rid of the vassal relationship with the Tang Dynasty, and the Tubo, who annexed the various tribes of the plateau, will set its sights on Tuyuhun in Qinghai and want to annex the Tang Dynasty, a vassal state that is not often rebellious.

The Tang Tu would eventually go to war in Qinghai, the Tang Dynasty would destroy Tuyuhun, and the Tubo would unite with the Western Turks to attack the pro-Tang states of the Western Regions, and a great power war lasting for 200 years would begin.

It can be said that Tang and Tibet are old enemies, and the two countries almost prosper and die together, and have fought almost for a lifetime. The weakness of the Tang Dynasty is inseparable from the blood and strength lost in Tubo.

It's been a few years, so let's reserve some strength for Datang.

If the eldest grandson Wuji, Chu Suiliang, Han Jin, Li Daozong, Xue Wanche and others did not die, they would not have implicated countless Guanlong wealthy families, and the Tang Dynasty's Weifu army would not be seriously weakened.

Lying on the chair, Li Xiao thought that after a while, when the corn is harvested, then another crop can be planted in the autumn, so that there will be enough corn seeds next year to promote corn planting to a wider area.

Guanlong, Hexi, and even Liaodong can be planted with corn to increase grain for the border army and enhance the combat effectiveness of the border army.

Let Li Xiao personally go to the front line to fight for the Tang Empire, Li Xiao is unwilling, it is too dangerous. But staying in the rear and doing his best, Li Xiao is also willing to contribute his own strength to the Tang Empire.

At this time, Xue Rengui took Cheng Boxian and Xue Chuyu to sacrifice Xue Chuyu, and they should have landed in Baekje, and a full-scale battle of the Eastern Crusade should have begun.

The conquest of Liao, this is also a huge foreign campaign, the emperors of the Sui and Tang dynasties used troops against Liao, and even the two emperors personally conquered, many people have not understood that Yang Guang's conquest of Liao has been lost, why did the wise Li Shimin personally conquer Goguryeo?

All because Goguryeo was a strong threat to the Central Plains Dynasty, even no less than the Turkic people in the northern steppe. The steppe nomads are booming and disappearing, and the tribes are alternating, but the Goguryeo people in the northeast have gone through hundreds of years, becoming stronger and stronger, and constantly encroaching.

Not only has they annexed the land of Liaodong that the Central Plains Dynasty once ruled, but they have even swallowed up Liaoxi, and if they don't control them completely, they will enter the Hebei Plain, which no emperor will allow.

On the side of the couch, how can you allow others to sleep soundly?

Therefore, after Yang Guang subdued the Turks, he began to conquer Liao and fight the Goguryeo.

Later, the Yang family died, and the Li family sat in the world. After Li Shimin was disgraced by the Weiqiao Bridge, he also began to fight the Goguryeo people.

Whether it was Yang Guang, the Yang Emperor of the Sui Dynasty, who was known as the mediocre, or Li Shimin, the wise Heavenly Khan, they were unexpectedly unanimous in this matter, and even none of the Zhenguan ministers opposed the Eastern Crusade.

It's a pity that Li Shimin, who destroyed the Eastern Turks, and personally conquered Goguryeo and failed to achieve his goal. Now the monarchs and ministers of the Tang Dynasty regard Goguryeo as the first foreign enemy of the Tang Dynasty, and they all want to destroy it quickly.

However, in history, the battle against Goguryeo was fought for many years, and it was not until more than ten years later that Baekje and Goguryeo were destroyed, but in the end, due to the attack of the Tibetans and the Western Turks, they were forced to withdraw their troops, and the results were taken away by the Silla.

Even because the focus of the emperor's affairs shifted to the west, the Khitan and Tatar people in the northeast rose, Silla unified the Samhan Peninsula, and the Tatar people established the Bohai State, and the Khitan has since become a threat to the north of the Central Plains, until the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the Khitans established the Great Liao, and then continued to threaten the Central Plains Dynasty for hundreds of years.

"I hope that the Pingliao policy I proposed before can allow the Tang Dynasty to destroy Goguryeo more than ten years in advance, so that the Tang Dynasty has more time to withdraw from the Northeast Battlefield, and I also hope that the Tang Dynasty can have more time to stabilize this result and digest the Goguryeo and Baekje that conquered and occupied Goguryeo, instead of cheapening the Silla people in the end."

Li Xiao thought about it in his heart, and then suddenly smiled again.

He is just a small six-grade corn supervisor, a corn planter, and his worries are farther than those of the prime ministers.

Or do you want to be realistic, knowing this yourself, what practical can you do for yourself?

The original 1,200 acres of land at home has now added hundreds of acres of Yongye land, and the fields in his hands are almost 2,000 acres now.

Maybe you can buy some more land yourself? The Qinling Mountains are quite suitable for reclaiming wasteland, but in the past, this kind of mountainous land was difficult to plant, the harvest was very low, and it was not cost-effective to reclaim, but after having corn, it could be cultivated extensively, and even if the harvest was lower, it would definitely be cost-effective.

But even if you have the money to buy land, there is still a shortage of people.

The Li family's land is now tenants for the surrounding tenants to plant, which means that Guanzhong is vast and sparsely populated, and the people have few fields, otherwise it is useless to have land and no one to plant.

Maybe the war in Liaodong started, just through Xue Rengui and them, to see if they could buy some Goguryeo and Baekje slaves from Liaodong to come back.

"Do you spend money to buy them from Xue Rengui and them, or do you just buy a few boats and get some people to go to Baekje to loot and capture slaves?" Li Xiao thought of the armed slave capture team, and it seemed more cost-effective to hunt directly than to buy.

Thinking of this, Li Xiao didn't have the heart to lie there anymore, he got up and walked towards the pond.

There, Zhao Zhiman was practicing archery.

Zhao Zhi is full of fierce generals, can kill tigers with both fists, can catch up with war horses on foot, and now has become the head of the Li family's family and Li Xiao's personal bodyguard and coachman, but he has not put down his kung fu.

When he has free time, he will ride a horse and shoot arrows.

"Good archery."

Li Xiao looked at Zhao Zhiman's several arrows in a row, and the arrows were in the center of the arrow rake dozens of steps away, and couldn't help but applaud. He really admired his archery skills, and he was thirty steps away, and it was good to be able to shoot five or six arrows with ten arrows. If you shoot an arrow on horseback, even if you shoot a fixed target, it is difficult to hit one or two arrows in ten arrows, and if you talk about a moving target, it is even more difficult, unless you shoot within twenty steps, the accuracy is slightly better.

"It's good to practice more, practice makes perfect, nothing else." Zhao Zhiman put away his bow, "San Lang, you have to practice riding and archery more when you have time, as a disciple of Guan Long, you are still a nobleman, if you don't know how to ride and shoot, you will be ridiculed." ”

The Tang Dynasty is still martial, especially Guan Long's children, and everyone is martial. The aristocrats naturally didn't say that they started with military exploits. Even the children of ordinary landlords, they must be vying to enter the government as a government soldier, everyone wants not only to be a government soldier to be rent-free, but also to be a government soldier to have the opportunity to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, so as to be honored and promoted, enter the official career, and change the fate of themselves and the entire family.

"Okay, practice more in the future." Li Xiaoying, now that he is in the Tang Dynasty, literati are used to traveling with swords, if he is a nobleman who can't ride and shoot, it is indeed ridiculous.

"By the way, Second Brother, you said that now that Brother Qin is fighting on the other side of the sea, you must be itching here. What if I organized a team of family members and hired a boat to transport them to Baekje and capture the Baekje people and come back to farm for slavery? ”

Zhao Zhiman looked at Li Xiao in surprise, he didn't expect him to have such thoughts.

"Crossing the sea to catch slaves is quite risky, but it is also feasible."

"Naturally, there is a risk, but if you personally lead the team, second brother, with your ability, I believe that it should not be a problem to attack some Baekje villages and capture some Baekje people back as slaves, right?" Li Xiao said with a smile.

"Let me go?" Zhao Zhiman's tone was a little excited.

"Well, although I have pleaded with Your Majesty many times for the second brother, it doesn't seem to have any effect. The second brother stayed with me, and he was indeed very aggrieved. It's better to let the second brother go to the sea to show his skills, maybe there will be a turnaround in the future. ”

Zhao Zhiman's breathing quickened.

"I'm willing to go, when to go."

"Don't worry, this matter has to be considered in the long run, we have to be prepared to plan, and we can't fight an unprepared war."

is a tiger, you have to let the tiger return to the mountain, let him roar in the mountains and forests, instead of nesting around him to be the head of the family.

Organizing a slave hunting team to go to other countries to catch people and come back as slaves is a bit of a bad thing, but Li Xiao has never had a good impression of the people on the Samhan Peninsula, and there is no humane care in these years.

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