Chapter 82: The Weishui Alliance
'Huh! If you can continue to do this in a month, this king will have your surname! Li Yuanji sneered in his heart, and the Tuli Khan did not have any good intentions.
But for such an opponent, Li Yuanji doesn't take it to heart, and people who haven't even solved their own internal problems always want to intervene outside.
I really don't know what this thing thinks in his head, he holds military power, although he is not as good as Jieli Khan, but there are not many supporters of Tuli Khan, if he changes himself to Tuli, he will inevitably find a way to kill Jieli and then take the position himself.
Of course, who made himself the king of Qi? It is the prince of the Tang Dynasty, although he said that it would be easy to kill Li Shimin, but in fact, he has no hole cards at all, and after a few months of operation, it is good that the current hole cards can save his life.
However, this B is still pretending, not only to scare the Turks, but also not to arouse Li Shimin's disgust, otherwise it is useful to pretend to be this B?
"You should be glad that it is not this king who is the emperor, otherwise, your 200,000 army is afraid that you will fatten the land of the Tang Dynasty." Sample, want to dig a pit for this king? If you don't take your tiger in the future, you will take a detour when you see this king, and Lao Tzu will not be this prince.
Although Jieli Khan also had this intention, after Li Yuanji's words were spoken, Jieli Khan had to dispel this idea.
Li Shimin's reputation outside the country is not very good, and as an enemy of the Tang Dynasty, Jieli Khan naturally has to try his best to inquire about everything inside the Tang Dynasty, and a prince like Li Yuanji is naturally the object of his attention.
It was precisely because of this understanding that he felt that what Li Yuanji said must be true, and in this way, Jieli Khan ignored a more serious fact.
In fact, Li Shimin is not much better than Li Yuanji, but Li Yuanji's limelight temporarily overshadowed Li Shimin, and no one dared to say it after Li Shimin ascended the throne, and later revised the history books, so whether it is modern people or future generations, they only remember Li Yuanji's arrogance, but they never knew that Li Shimin was actually about the same before he took the throne.
"400,000 catties of tea, 200,000 horses of silk, 100,000 catties of refined salt! Our department provided Tang with 3,000 war horses and 10,000 sheep. Jieli Khan gritted his teeth and put forward his own conditions for the withdrawal of troops.
"Huh!" Li Yuanji couldn't help but sneer, Jieli Khan really knows how to open his mouth, so many things, put them on the grassland, it's not a problem to change 10,000 high-quality war horses, do you really think that Lao Tzu is Kaizi for you to slaughter?
"Do you think that's possible? Cows, sheep? I don't lack Datang, this person! It's okay to have a big appetite, but it's easy to hold on to eating too much. ”
"300,000 catties of tea, 150,000 horses of silk, 80,000 catties of refined salt, there can be no less, otherwise Ben Khan would rather fight!" Jieli Khan gritted his teeth with hatred, but he was reluctant to make such a big benefit.
When the market is good, a tea brick can be exchanged for four or five sheep, and two tea bricks can be exchanged for a horse, even in normal times, four tea bricks can basically be exchanged for a war horse.
The grassland people mainly take cattle and sheep as the main food, and the oil and meat are too big, causing many people to have symptoms of indigestion, and tea can just help clean up the stomach and intestines, which can not only help digestion, but also prolong life, so tea has always been a bestseller in the grassland, but the Central Plains Dynasty has been extremely strict in this regard, so tea has always been priceless in the Turkic market.
If you can take advantage of this opportunity to get a large amount of tea, your own strength will definitely increase dramatically, and it will be easy to eliminate the Tuli Department in one fell swoop.
"200,000 catties of tea, 100,000 horses of silk, 50,000 catties of refined salt, otherwise this king doesn't mind having a trick with you." Li Yuanji raised his chin slightly, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and said with an innocent smile.
Jieli and the Second Turkic Khan hesitated for a moment, glanced at each other, and then nodded in agreement.
Now both of them have no confidence in their hearts, and they don't have the confidence to fight at all, 200,000 catties of tea, 100,000 horses of silk, and 50,000 catties of refined salt, although they are half lower than the conditions first proposed, but they are far beyond their expectations.
As for the territory of the Tang Dynasty, they really didn't think about this, let the nomads live a settled life, anyway, the two of them felt that it was absolutely impossible, it was far more cost-effective to ask for resources than land, and they didn't lack land.
The two sides made an alliance with white horses, and agreed to hand over 20,000 catties of tea, 5,000 horses of silk and 3,000 catties of refined salt to the Turks tomorrow, and the rest would be paid off within half a year.
The two khans of Jieli and Tuli agreed that when they returned to the steppe, they would immediately start arranging the sacrifice of horses and sheep.
At the same time, the time for the withdrawal of troops was also agreed, as long as the 20,000 catties of tea were received in the early stage, the two khans would withdraw their troops first.
The letter of alliance was written by the historian, and the second khan called his subordinates who understood the man from various ministries, and after checking it correctly, he signed and signed it.
The content of the contract is very simple, only the terms of the exchange between the two parties, and the requirement that they are not allowed to attack each other in the future, and the annual trading volume.
Solving this matter does not have much sense of accomplishment for Li Yuanji, in fact, after winning that battle, the result is already doomed, even if he does not appear, the end of history is the same.
I just did what should have been done by Li Shimin, repeating his steps, and there is really nothing to show off.
Rather than taking credit in this regard, Li Yuanji wants to return to his Taipingfang and then run it well, at least it is more meaningful than what he is doing now.
"What has Your Highness been bargaining with them for so long? Anyway, it won't be long before Datang will raise troops to march north, and whatever they say is what they say! Wei Chi Jingde shook his head a little unhappily, the Turks will be destroyed, this is the common firm belief of the entire Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, what Li Yuanji did was meaningless and useless in the eyes of Wei Chi Jingde, and he wasted so many tongues, and besides, the tea had already been prepared, but Li Yuanji insisted on delaying it until tomorrow, and the quantity was reduced a lot.
Although he also understood Li Yuanji's intentions in his heart, he was just unhappy and felt that this matter should not be done like this.
"Negotiating! You're really not suitable! When you go back, you will understand if you have time to drink with Tang Jian a few more times. Li Yuanji responded with a wry smile, if that's the case, what else was there to fight in yesterday's battle? Isn't it good to wait directly by the Weishui?
Relieved, he finally completed this damn task, and now he just wants to lie on the bed and sleep for three days and three nights, and waved his hand: "Okay, there's nothing to do here, this king will go back to Taipingfang first, and I'll leave it to you here." ”
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Li Yuanji patted his ass and left, but Wei Chi Jingde couldn't go, and the four legions behind him couldn't go, the Turks were still there, and they had to keep an eye here.
After learning the news that the matter had been resolved, Li Shimin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
The first serious crisis he had encountered since he ascended the throne had finally been resolved, and what made Li Shimin feel helpless was that it was his confidant Li Yuanji who solved this problem.
Although he felt helpless, he could only do so, if it wasn't for the abnormal changes in his body, it would not be Li Yuanji's turn to come forward.
"Your Majesty, this matter is handled by King Qi very appropriately, and it is exactly the same as the method that Your Majesty thought about before!" The eldest grandson Wuji said with a worried face.
The words were not too straightforward, but they vaguely reminded Li Shimin.
Sure enough, after listening to the reminder of the eldest grandson Wuji, Li Shimin also suddenly realized this problem, wasn't the countermeasure that they came up with after discussing it for a few days? Why is Li Yuanji's idea like this?
Is it someone leaking inside? Or is Li Yuanji really smart to the point that his think tanks can't be compared to each other?
But no matter what, for yourself, this is a threat, where should you go?
looked up at Fang Xuanling, but found that this guy was stunned, and looked at Du Ruhui again, this thing was actually sleepy, all of them were shrewd guys, Li Shimin felt a headache.
Seeing Li Shimin's tangled expression, the eldest grandson Wuji was very satisfied, and he didn't continue to stimulate Li Shimin, and even pretended that nothing had happened.