"Hit Xue Yantuo?" Li Shimin was surprised, he could understand that he chose a tribe to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys, but why did he choose Xue Yantuo, how good it is to choose these small tribes, after all, Xue Yantuo is not a soft persimmon. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"The most active one in the north now is Xue Yantuo, who has the longest outstretched hand, occupies the most territory of the Eastern Turks, and has the largest number of remnants of the Eastern Turks, and the greatest threat to the Tang Dynasty in the future. Now that the 100,000 troops we sent out to conquer the Eastern Turks also happen to be still in the Dingxiang area, there is no class teacher to return to the court, and it is very suitable to take Xue Yantuo to open the knife. Wu Yuanqing explained.

Wu Yuanqing remembered very well that after the Eastern Turks were wiped out in history, it was this Xue Yantuo who took the opportunity to rise.

Xue Yantuo was originally one of the Tiele tribes, which was formed by the merger of Xue and Yantuo, and was previously subordinate to the Eastern Turks. The Tang Dynasty was annexed two years ago because of its rebellion against the tyranny of the Eastern Turks, and then established a khanate with the support of the Tang Dynasty.

But Xue Yantuo is undoubtedly a wolf with ambition and does not know how to be grateful. The Tang Dynasty attacked the Eastern Turks, and Xue Yantuo Yinan Khan said that he had sent troops to assist the Tang Dynasty in attacking the Eastern Turks, but he did not make an inch.

It stands to reason that if you don't make meritorious service, you can obediently retract it, but Xue Yantuo didn't, but took advantage of the emptiness of the grassland after the Tang Dynasty defeated the Turks, and sent troops everywhere to invade and occupy.

According to the intelligence collected by the Tang Dynasty Military Department, it is estimated that Xue Yantuo now has 200,000 troops, and the territory actually occupied starts from the Daxing'an Mountains in the east, reaches the Altai Mountains in the west, borders the Hetao in the south, and reaches the Selenge River in the north. After the collapse of the Eastern Turks, the Hui set up a tent on the Tula River, but it was already completely attached to Xue Yantuo, and this was less than three years after Xue Yantuo was founded.

If Wu Yuanqing is not mistaken, in the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, Xue Yantuo will send troops to invade the Tang Dynasty.

For such a tribal state, it would be too much to say that they would not take advantage of the fact that they had not yet digested the invasion of the Eastern Turkic population, and the land dividend would teach him a harsh lesson.

"Your Majesty, all the territory of this Eastern Turk is down by us, and it should be Datang's, as the saying goes, how can others snore on the side of the couch, and now Xue Yantuo's jackal covets it, Datang must teach them a hard lesson, otherwise it will not be enough to deter Xiaoxiao." Seeing Li Shimin groaning, Wu Yuanqing said again.

"But Xue Yantuo is now a subject country of the Tang Dynasty after all, and Yi Nan has also been canonized by me, so I'm afraid it's not good for the Tang Dynasty to send troops like this" Li Shimin was a little worried.

"Your Majesty, I heard that Deputy Governor Zhang Baoxiang reported to Chief Manager Li Jing that Yi Nan sent 50,000 troops to attack our Tang Army, and he led the army to eliminate more than 10,000 people in its front, I don't know if there is such a thing?" Wu Yuanqing asked.

Li Shimin sneered: "This is true, but after Li Jing got the report, he sent troops to outflank the troops sent by Yi Nan, but found that the enemy actually only came with 5,000 people, and it was obvious that Zhang Baoxiang was lying about the military situation." And Li Jing couldn't bear Zhang Baoxiang to be punished, so he had the audacity to hide the matter in a report to me. ”

Li Shimin's secret agents are very awesome, especially when the army goes out, and I don't know how many hundred horsemen have been planted in the army. When Li Jing's twist and turn didn't arrive, Li Shimin had actually received the exact news.

For Li Jing daring to hide the truth from him, Li Shimin was not only furious in his heart, but also felt uneasy about the army in Li Jing's hands. This time, he dared to hide Zhang Baoxiang's matter from himself, and maybe next time he dared to hide something bigger.

In addition, Xiao Yu had impeached Li Jing for governing the army before, and when he broke through the tooth tent of Jieli Khan, many treasures and goods that Jieli had looted for many years were looted by the soldiers.

Li Shimin was actually ready to send Changsun Wuji to Dingxiang to deal with this matter in the name of the labor army, if it weren't for the sudden occurrence of such a foreign envoy and minister impeaching Wu Yuanqing, Changsun Wuji would have already made the trip.

Wu Yuanqing didn't know what Li Shimin was worried about, but even if he knew, it wouldn't matter to him.

He is now thinking about convincing Li Shimin to send troops to Xue Yantuo: "Your Majesty, whether it is 50,000 or 5,000, even if Yi Nan only sends 500 people to attack the Tang army, it is enough to become a reason for the Tang Dynasty to use troops against him." Moreover, Yi Nan is the khan canonized by the Tang Dynasty, and legally speaking, he is a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty. If the Tang Dynasty can't show its attitude in the face of such a thing and resolutely teach it back, it will definitely leave an impression of weakness and bullying on other subject countries, and if they follow suit in the future, the Tang frontier will never be peaceful. ”

"We have just eliminated the Eastern Turks, the treasury has consumed a huge amount, and the soldiers are also exhausted, and now it is really inappropriate to use troops against Xue Yantuo, the hundred officials will inevitably oppose it, and even if we teach Xue Yantuo a lesson and let them spit out the territory they occupied, what is the use of our Tang Dynasty, and it is impossible for us to send people to graze on the grassland." Li Shimin shook his head.

It costs money to fight a war, and now that the treasury of Datang is empty, it is bound to be impossible to fight Xue Yantuo again.

If it is said that the attack on the Eastern Turks is due to political needs, then there is no special need to attack Xue Yantuo politically.

If it is not for political needs, then at least there should be economic interests, but the grassland has no economic interests for Datang, it is completely dispensable, like chicken ribs, it is a pity to abandon it.

With neither political needs nor economic interests, the Tang Dynasty spent a huge amount of money on the treasury to attack the unprofitable Xue Yantuo, which was purely mentally ill.

Not to mention that Li Shimin's brain is not sick, even if he is sick in the brain, it is impossible for civil and military officials to mess around with him.

Although this Datang is the world of the Li family, it is also the world of hundreds of officials, and whether the Tang Dynasty is good or not is related to the interests of civil and military officials, especially the interests of these heroes who follow Li Shimin to fight the world.

As far as Wu Yuanqing and his family are also beneficiaries of this interest, if Datang is not good, their family will definitely not be good.

Li Shimin was unwilling to do loss-making business, and neither was Wu Yuanqing. The reason why he encouraged Li Shimin to attack Xue Yantuo and make them spit out the occupied grassland territory was because he knew that it would definitely be profitable to fight a war.

And this profit is on the things he brought into the palace.

"What is this?" Li Shimin looked at the things that Wu Yuanqing took out and put on the table, and asked suspiciously.

"This is a glove," Mr. Wu said.

"I know this is a glove, and I ask what is this made of?" Li Shimin glared at Wu Yuanqing angrily.

"Wool, this is woven from wool, and this wool is spun from wool." Wu Yuanqing said with a smile: "And this wool can not only knit gloves, but also knit sweaters, hats, etc., and you don't need to wear thick fur coats if you have this thing in winter." ”