Hearing Li Xiu mention the arrogance of Tuli again, Li Shimin also showed a look of embarrassment on his face, and only after a while did he speak: "Li Xiu, Tuli is an important chess piece for us to deal with the Turks, so for the time being, we still have to focus on appeasement!" ”

"Your Majesty, the reason why Tuli dares to run rampant in the land of my Tang Dynasty is that, on the one hand, as Your Majesty said, I still need him in the Tang Dynasty, and on the other hand, Tuli still has a force in his hands that only obeys his orders, which is equivalent to the vassal states under my Tang Dynasty, and now there are not many Turks under his rule, but in the future, if my Tang Dynasty exterminates the Turks, there will definitely be more Turkic people who will be obedient, and then Your Majesty will deal with these Turks?" Li Xiu finally told his true purpose at this time. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"I see, you are not targeting the Turks, but all the Turks!" Li Shimin finally understood Li Xiu's true intentions at this time, and said with a slight smile, this is not the first time Li Xiu has mentioned this issue, in fact, Li Shimin has long found out that Li Xiu is very wary of all foreign races, and even distrusts them from the bottom of his bones.

"Your Majesty is wise, the Turks are declining day by day, last year's minister promised His Majesty that the Turks will be destroyed within three years, and there is not much time left, and when the Turks are destroyed, how should those Turkic people who have returned to the Turks be settled?" Li Xiu said with a serious face at this time.

Li Shimin has always liked to balance on the grassland, the advantage of this is to achieve the goal of controlling the grassland with very few troops, but this requires extremely superb means, and it was nothing when he was alive, but after his death, the border troubles of the Tang Dynasty became more and more serious, and the power of the Hu people became stronger and stronger, and finally directly led to the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, which also marked the decline of the Tang Dynasty, and even the Tang Dynasty after it could only be described as lingering.

"Didn't Wuji already set a three-step strategy, let's destroy the Turks first, and then divide and disintegrate the forces on the grassland, and finally find a way to completely eliminate the threat of the northern grassland." Li Shimin explained very patiently, but when he spoke, he still added weight to the words "differentiation and disintegration", in fact, he still wanted to balance on the grassland.

"Your Majesty, the minister also agrees with Brother Wuji's steppe strategy, but there are many ways to divide and disintegrate, such as the Turks being destroyed, so after the remaining Turks are submissive, Your Majesty is afraid that you will hand over these Turks to Tuli, and then control these Turks through Tuli, but Tuli dares to be so arrogant now, if his strength grows in the future, is His Majesty sure to control him?" Li Xiu also explained and analyzed very patiently at this time.

"It's just a sudden profit, if he dares to have two hearts, it's a big deal to change someone else to replace him!" Li Shimin didn't care about it, when the Turks were destroyed, how many Turkic nobles would be willing to be loyal to the Tang Dynasty?

"It's easy to replace a Turk, but as long as the Turks live in the steppe, no one dares to guarantee that they won't rebel in the future!" Li Xiu said again with a solemn face.

"Living on the prairie? What do you mean......" Li Shimin was stunned for a moment when he heard Li Xiu's words, and then looked at him with some shock.

"Your Majesty's guess is right, the minister thinks that after the Turks are destroyed, it is not appropriate to settle the Turks on the steppe, otherwise there will be chaos in the future, and the only way is to move them inward!" Li Xiu proposed helplessly at the moment.

There are two ways to completely solve the Turks, one is to kill all the Turks, but this is not realistic at all, and it will provoke the Turks to resist to the death, and even drag the Tang Dynasty into the quagmire of war. In this way, there is only one other way left, that is, to assimilate the Turks, make them completely forget their identity, join the big family of Datang, and add bricks and tiles to the prosperity of Datang.

"Moving in?" Li Shimin frowned when he heard Li Xiu's proposal, and after a while, he was embarrassed and said, "Internal relocation is a method, but the Turks are barbaric and aggressive in nature, and their customs are different from those of the Han people. ”

"Your Majesty, the minister's internal relocation strategy is not what you think." I saw Li Xiu smile indifferently at this time, and then he explained, "My Datang land is vast, but the population is not too much, except for the prosperous places in Guanzhong, many places are sparsely populated, especially in the south and other places, where the climate is hot and the land is fertile, but because no one cultivates it, it can only grow grass, which is a pity!" ”

"South...... South? Li Shimin couldn't help but widen his eyes when he heard Li Xiu's proposal, the current south is not as rich as later generations, although after the development of the Three Kingdoms and the Two Jin Dynasty, but most of the south is still poor mountains and bad waters, miasma is rampant, the weather is hot, people can easily give birth to all kinds of diseases when they get there, and the exiled prisoners of the Tang Dynasty are sent to the south, which shows that the environment in some areas of the south is bad.

"Your Majesty has also seen this year's drought, in contrast, the water network in the south is dense, and there is almost no need to worry about the problem of water sources, such as the Taihu Lake Basin, as long as it is properly managed, you can get countless fertile fields, and we have high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes, and sweet potatoes are easy to plant, as long as they are planted in the ground, they can grow, even if those Turks don't know how to cultivate technology, it doesn't matter, this is simply a crop prepared for the Turks, as long as they are willing to plant, they will definitely not have to worry about hunger in the future!" Li Xiu said very seriously.

Moving the Turks to the south to reclaim the wasteland, this is what Li Xiu called the method of internal migration, and he was very kind to prepare sweet potatoes for them such a high-yield and easy-to-grow crop, as for the poor conditions in the south, whether the Turks would not adapt to the soil and water when they got there, this is not what Li Xiu has to consider, anyway, they are not the real people of the Tang Dynasty, and they are not distressed when they die.

"Let the Turks go and reclaim the wastelands of the south? Your method is really ......" Li Shimin finally understood what Li Xiu meant when he heard this, but he didn't know how to evaluate this method, from the perspective of the Tang Dynasty, this method is indeed killing two birds with one stone, that is, solving the threat of the Turks, and increasing the planting area in the south, just let the Turks and other nomads go to farm, and it is also to go to the humid, hot and miasma south, and then I don't know how many people will die there because they are not adapted to the local climate.

"But what if the Turks who went to the south rebelled?" After thinking about it for a long time, Li Shimin suddenly said a little worried again, after all, the Turks are not stupid, and the Tang Dynasty can also use deception to move them to the south in the early stage, but if they find out that they have been deceived and rebel, it will be a big trouble.