Da Shi actually began to send troops to borrow Tocharo, preparing to come to the city of my four towns in Anxi!

Li Hong tore open the two secret letters from Hongling's urgent envoy, read them quickly, and handed them to the others.

Pei Xingjian and the others took the secret letter in Li Hong's hand, and quickly browsed through it in the hands of several people, and looked puzzled one by one, the prince of the Great Food Saleh is now in Datang, what makes them have the courage to dare to sink into the border of Datang at this time.

"Your Highness, how about you meet Saleh first? Look at what kind of medicine he sells in the gourd, why he suddenly showed hostility to my Datang. Liu Renliang said slowly.

"Seeing is to see, but the minister has to figure out what they want! What do you want to do! Or is it really just for the sake of my Datang's goods, so as to put pressure on Shen Bing? Pei Xingjian stroked his beard and pondered solemnly.

Li Hong put the two secret letters that Ren Yaxiang put back on the case, turned them upside down, and said with a disdainful smile on the corner of his mouth: "What their purpose is, it doesn't matter to us, what matters is how to make Xue Rengui and Heiya Chang get a big victory with the least number of troops and the smallest cost." ”

"Your Highness, do you want to ......?" Pei Xingjian's eyes lit up, Anxi and Tubo are no more familiar than him, so His Royal Highness wants a big victory, but is it really that simple?

Li Hong's eyes were bright, flashing with a fierce light, and he said firmly: "Yes, with the strength of the Anxi Corps, it can be said that it is easy to repel the invading enemy, not to mention that we have the four major military towns of Anxi to rely on!" But how to bring in Charizarians who are willing to borrow the Tao, it is best to be able to turn them against each other and then ....... ”

"Let them fight first, and in the end, we will take advantage of the fisherman, and take the opportunity to expand the territory of my Tang Dynasty to the territory of Tocharo, and even the entire territory of Tocharo, and then settle the border land with the big cannibals!" Chen Jingzhi raised his head and comprehended Li Hong's intentions and said.

"Then you, go to the Persian temple to find Belus, or his son Narhiye, didn't he say last year that Tocharo had their friends? Now is the opportunity, so you must convince them that Tochar is willing to send troops to join forces with me and destroy the invading army of the Great Cannibals. Li Hong held a charcoal pen in his hand, searched around the map, and then pointed to Chen Jingzhi and said.

Chen Jingzhi's spirit was shocked, and he immediately saluted: "Yes, Your Highness, the minister will do it." ”

"Remember not to show any eagerness, let them see that this is for the sake of their restoration, understand?" The charcoal in Li Hong's hand, above the Broken Leaf City in the four towns of Anxi, originally belonged to the sphere of influence of the Tuqishi, drew a circle heavily, put down the charcoal and said to Chen Jingzhi.

"Yes, Your Highness, the minister understands." Chen Jingzhi then took the order and left.

With Chen Jingzhi leaving, Shang Shuling's study immediately hung up a huge map of the four towns of Anxi, on which there was a place where Li Hong had drawn a big circle just now.

Li Hong pointed to the place where the circle was drawn to Liu Renliang, Ren Yaxiang and Pei Xingjian, and then said: "I think you should all know that it was originally the Ashina Duzhi, as well as the five crossbows lost Bibu, and now where Khorezm is located. At the beginning, those remnants were too late for me to move back to the four towns, and some of them were attached to Khorezm, so Khorezm has always been a disadvantage for my Tang Dynasty to be unable to let go of his hands and feet to deal with Tocharo, or to concentrate on fighting against the Great Cannibals. ”

"Your Highness......." Pei Xingjian said in a lost voice, and then looked at Chen Jingzhi, who had disappeared.

His Royal Highness's words are completely inconsistent with what Chen Jingzhi said just now, what Chen Jingzhi just understood was His Highness's intention to destroy Tochar.

"Needless to say, I understand. If you tell Chen Jingzhi, do you think Chen Jingzhi can hide it when he faces Belus, the old fox who has been immersed in the Tang Dynasty for many years, and can always wander around Tocharian and my Datang officialdom, lobbying around? Therefore, it is better to let him make his mistake wrong, so that Belus can convince us of our determination to restore his country, and not just use him. Li Hong bit his lip, glanced at the map and said lightly.

"Yes, Your Highness, the minister understands. However, although Khorezm is rich in water and grass, it is separated by a river, and it is not easy to completely occupy it and then completely govern it. After all, the land with fertile water and grass is surrounded by yellow sand, and if you want to completely occupy it, you must relocate the people. ”

"Don't move the people, only move the horses, after the Anbei Corps includes the other capitals of Yunzhong, the war horses needed will not be less, not to mention that now we have to start moving a large number of war horses to the Annan Corps, and we must ensure that Anxi, Anbei, and Annan use horses, and don't find some foreign horse sources, we are just waiting for the horses to give birth to cubs, when will it be done?" Li Hong knocked on the table and said.

But there are a few words left in my heart, if Khorezm is not allowed to bow down at this time, in a few years, it will be time for the Great Cannibals to start conquering with their Koran.

At that time, the influence of the Tang Dynasty will be like history, only recorded in the history books of its own people, but it will not leave any traces in other people's places.

And for now, once Khorezm is conquered by the Great Food Country, with Khorezm, a tribe that involves a large part of Datang's attention, it will become extremely difficult for Datang to concentrate on fighting the Great Cannibals.

Therefore, in any case, since the Great Food Country has begun to continue to expand eastward and has begun to covet the wealth and land of the East, it is better to start first and occupy a favorable strategic deployment before continuing to conquer the west.

After speaking, seeing that the three of them all showed thoughtful expressions, Li Hong knocked on the case again, and pointed to the six edicts in the southwest, as well as Zhenla, Biguo, and Huanwang further south.

In these places, it is impossible to rely on the water alone, and the attack on land is naturally the top priority, so the war horses naturally need to be transported in large quantities there.

"So Ren Yaxiang understands? The task of this year's military department is to transport a large number of war horses to the Annan Corps, as for why, if you look at the map, you must be able to understand it, I will appoint you Pei Xingjian as the governor of the South China Sea Naval Division, and I will already give you a clear understanding of your task, but any movement of the military department this year must not be known to the three of you. "Li Hong is on the map, and now the horse breeding ground of the Tang Dynasty, is drawing circles back and forth, and instructing Ren Yaxiang to see.

In terms of the trend of history, it will not take a few more years for the Later Turks to rise from the Dingxiang Governor's Office, coupled with the strength of the Murwei and the Yan Dynasty, so that the Tang Dynasty has to gradually shrink its territory because of the years of war, not only is the government not enough soldiers, but it is also difficult to take into account the simultaneous riots of the two sides, so it has to begin to gradually shrink its territory.

And now, Li Hong gradually moved the war horses in the grassland, Murowei, Jianya and other places, and even the war horses in Anxi, Tubo, Tuyuhun and other places, all according to the overcapacity of the local prerequisites, so that these nomadic tribes, even if they have the intention to rebel, there are not enough war horses to rebel.

In short, in Li Hong's view, even if the local herdsmen in Anxi Prefecture, Anbei Prefecture, and Andong Prefecture lack good horses to graze, they cannot be allowed to have other superfluous thoughts because of the surplus of good horses.

If it weren't for the congenital deficiency of war horses compared to ploughing cattle and having endurance in planting agriculture, Li Hong would have been eager to plough the farmland with good horses.

Therefore, a large number of horse-drawn carriages are also what Li Hong is preparing to do, whether it is the household department, the Ministry of Industry, etc., there will be no other way to do anything than rely on waterways.

"That'...... What if Your Majesty or the Empress asks? Pei Xingjian felt that it was not difficult to keep secrets, and in the face of other people, with their qualifications, no one would ask at will.

What's more, they can also be very vigilant in the face of others.

But...... What should I do when faced with inquiries from the emperor and the empress? Bully?

"This ...... Think about it. Li Hong tilted his head and looked at the ceiling of Shang Shuling's study, his fingers knocked rhythmically on the table, and after thinking for a long time, he looked at the three of them and asked, "Do you dare to bully the king?" ”

“……。”

"Forget it, when I go to the palace to visit my father and mother in the palace in the past two days, I tell them not to ask, let you deceive the king, and not let you rebel, one by one crying and mourning! It's all right, let's go down. Someone waved his hand impatiently, and the three of them walked away.

But there was a voice in their hearts that sounded in the minds of the three of them at the same time: The crime of bullying the king is about the same as the crime of rebellion, right? What's the difference?

Whether it is the reform of the Ministry of War or the trend of the Ministry of War, after having a clear direction, not only Li Hong is greatly relieved in his heart, but also Pei Xingjian, Liu Renliang and others are also greatly relieved, and they also know which direction they should work into, instead of facing the coexistence of government soldiers and recruits as they did in previous years, but they don't know how to deal with it, and they are like headless flies.

Someone who was humming a little tune, accompanied by Hua Meng and Jing Jing, staggered in the direction of the East Palace.

Although he is now in charge of the country, I am afraid that this will be the day when he will be in charge of the throne of his father, which is already above the court and among the ministers, and it is not a secret.

But now, Father Long and Mother Long have never planned to leave the Daming Palace and give the Daming Palace to themselves, and even revealed it intentionally or unintentionally, even if you Li Hong become the emperor, I don't let this Daming Palace, you are not allowed to live in it for me, even if I go to Luoyang Palace for a year, you are not allowed to live privately.

But fortunately, Li Hong is very satisfied with everything in the East Palace, and the harem of the East Palace, in the place further back of the Lizheng Palace, has already been built a palace dedicated to the residence of the crown princess and others, so for him, the functions of the East Palace are enough for his own use, and he is even rich.