Li Shimin called Shi Bufan a strategist, but Shi Bufan also directly acquiesced. And his real-time extraordinary knows very well that his specific military command is definitely not as good as those real generals. However, he has self-confidence, but in the overall situation of the national strategy, he is desperate to throw them off for several streets. Because Shi Bufan is a traveler, and he is also a person who has studied history and knows the complex relationship between the Turks and the Tang Dynasty, and even the nomadic and agricultural peoples of all dynasties. Therefore, he is confident that no other general is better than him in dealing with nomadic relations.

Since ancient times, many people have remembered the famous general, and remembered the famous general who was specifically responsible for commanding the war, but few people knew that the truly brilliant strategists were civilian officials. However, this does not mean that Shi Bufan agrees with the direct intervention of civilian officials in the specific command of the army, and civilian officials only need to be responsible for the strategic direction, and the specific implementation is the responsibility of the army generals. The Tang Dynasty was able to destroy the Turks, in fact, political means accounted for the vast majority, but military means were secondary. If Jieli had not been disintegrated and isolated through various political means, the final destruction of the Turks would not have been so easy to overwhelm. Even when Emperor Yang of Sui destroyed Goguryeo, there were problems both militarily and politically. And Li Shimin's later conquest of Goguryeo also made a mistake in political strategy, so it caused the most unacceptable "peace treaty" in Li Shimin's life. It was not until later that the Tang Dynasty adopted the correct political guiding ideology and successfully destroyed Goguryeo by destroying Baekje first and alliing with Silla.

Therefore, Shi Bufan knew very well that perhaps with the right political guidance strategy, the army might not be able to win. However, if there is no correct political guidance, no matter how powerful such an army is, it will decline one day. This has been justified countless times in history. How many powerful armies have failed in the end without correct political guidance? The Qin Dynasty aimed to unify the six countries, but the six countries were still dreaming of the Spring and Autumn Period of being the king and the hegemon, and this difference in political guiding ideology created the most important part of the Qin State to unify the world.

"Your Majesty, in fact, since this Turkic Jieli Khan is coming to attack us, then use us to relieve their internal pressure. Then we might as well be like this, I think since they have this idea, they themselves are already in turmoil internally, and they themselves are already a mess of chicken feathers. In this way, Jieli came to attack our Datang this time, in fact, he was drinking to quench his thirst, and he was even more overlord. Although it seems that they are very powerful, as long as we find the right way, with the rift within them, we can still use many ways. As long as we smash a hammer at the rift within them, they are likely to split within themselves. ”

"And the Turkic system of tribal alliances doomed them to unite together in the face of enemies who might have enough interests and strong enough. But when it comes to the distribution of spoils, or the defeat of a powerful enemy, they will definitely make a fuss over the issue of sharing the spoils. ”

"So, I might as well choose not to fight them directly for the time being, and instead adopt a relatively gentle strategy to deal with them. In this way, we can take advantage of their internal contradictions, and then provoke them to divide them, and then we can also get better benefits. At that time, once they split internally, even if they don't fight because of this, then it will be impossible for them to attack our Datang. So, they are divided internally, which is very good for us. Just like during the Great Sui period, Pei Ju successfully provoked Turkic civil strife. So that the deep rift inside the Turks has been cracked again, and then split into the Eastern and Western Turks. And now we can do it again, and then use some of our political tactics to split them internally, so that we can deal with them very well. This will not only solve the crisis in our Chang'an, but can even win great benefits for the next war against the Turks. ”

Li Shimin asked, "What are you going to do?" ”

"I think, I have a way, I have probably caught the political and economic death hole of the Turks!" Shi Bufan said with a smile.

Soon, another minister was also summoned by Li Shimin, this person is already seventy-nine years old, if you are eighty years old, the old man Pei Ju. This Pei Ju may not be known to ordinary people, but if you say another name, maybe many people will be very familiar with it. Maybe many people have only heard of "Shi Zhixuan", but they have not heard of Pei Ju. And the role of "Shi Zhixuan" originated from a supporting role in the later writer Huang Yi's work "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", and this supporting role Shi Zhixuan once had an identity as Pei Ju.

Of course, this Pei Ju is not that Shi Zhixuan, but that Huang Yi also wrote Pei Ju's credit to Shi Zhixuan, that is, he contributed to the split between the Eastern and Western Turks. Don't look at this thing, the Turkic division seems to be just a word, but this status is different. Based on the relationship between the Sui Dynasty and the Turks, there was a bit of a relationship between China and the United States in later generations, with cooperation and great competition, one being an emerging power and the other being an established power. If nothing else, hegemony will emerge from the competition between these two powers.

However, this Pei Ju was able to rely on political skills to divide this Turkic into two parts, and this merit is almost equivalent to if a certain guy in later generations can divide the United States into two parts by political means, this merit for the country and the nation is simply impossible to calculate in quantity. Even, this is something that countless military strategists can't do. Although there are Turkic internal problems, it is one thing to have internal problems, whether the enemy country will seize the opportunity, and then ruthlessly turn the opportunity into a fact, this is the ability.

So this Pei Ju is definitely one of the great diplomats and strategists during the Sui Dynasty, but unfortunately he was born at the wrong time, encountered troubled times in his later years, and then the Sui Dynasty fell, and his credit was diluted intentionally or unintentionally. Moreover, he was already old when the Tang Dynasty was established, and he did not have much time to continue to establish merits for the Tang Dynasty, so he was not remembered by history. However, since Shi Bufan is a part-time researcher at the Institute of Eurasian Relations and has a certain amount of research in international relations, he naturally does not know the ancient diplomat Pei Ju.

"Pei Ju, do you say that Shi Xiaoshulang's plan to deal with the Turks is appropriate?" Li Shimin asked.

When it came time to deal with Turkic relations, Li Shimin actually trusted this Pei Ju more, after all, this was an old diplomat, so Li Shimin still had to invite him over as a reference. After all, Shi Bufan is too "young", and it is normal to let this veteran diplomat check it.

Pei Ju looked at Shi Bufan's plan, and then immediately said, "Okay, that's good!" I'm afraid I can't even think of that. Your plan is better than mine! ”

Li Shimin immediately asked: "Pei Ju, you said that Shixiao Shulang is no less than you?" ”

"It's not as good as me, it's me who is not as good as him!" Pei Ju still said frankly.

"......" Li Shimin was speechless, this Pei Ju actually said so directly.

Pei Ju felt a little bitter in his heart, he looked at Shi Bufan but had a very complicated gaze.

"Why is he from a poor family, if he is from a scholar clan, even if it is just a small scholar clan, then I can let him inherit my mantle!" Pei Ju also thought helplessly.

Pei Ju looked at Shi Bufan's plan for the division and disintegration of the Turks, so that Pei Ju really felt that there were talents in the country. Because Pei Ju saw a lot of things in Shi Bufan's plan, even he didn't understand. Pei Ju found that Shi Bufan's plan was not purely from the political aspect, but also from the economic aspect. And these plans are refreshing to Pei Ju, which he will never know in his life. Because although Pei Ju is good at scheming, he doesn't quite understand the truth that the economic base determines the superstructure.

Pei Ju only started from the conspiracy aspect, but Shi Bufan was a complete conspiracy. If Pei Ju is asked to do this, Pei Ju himself admits that he can't do it. Because his plans are afraid of being discovered, and if his plot is discovered, it won't work. However, Shi Bufan's plan is to tell the Turks completely that I want to provoke you, and I just want to cause internal discord among you. But the Turks had no choice, so Pei Ju also knew that he was not as good as the times. Because Shi Bufan directly plays a role in their most fundamental economic foundation, and Pei Ju is at most making a fuss about the "superstructure", and even the "superstructure" is not too comprehensive. Shi Bufan's plan was directly to "draw salary from the bottom of the kettle", but Pei Ju was just "raising the soup to stop boiling" back then, and the gap was big.

As an old diplomat, of course, he is very aware of the gap, so he is also honest that he is not as good as the times. Of course, Pei Ju is so honest, it is because he has passed the time when he is young and vigorous. Pei Ju is seventy-nine years old this year, and most of his contemporaries have passed away. In this era of average life expectancy of more than fifty years, even Pei Ju knows that he may burp at any time, so what else does he have to fight with a junior?

The only thing that makes Pei Ju regret is that Shi Bufan is not a scholar, even if Shi Bufan is just an ordinary little scholar, then he can accept Shi Bufan to inherit his mantle. Pei Ju knew that his son was not a weapon and could not inherit his mantle. If you can choose a person from the scholar clan to inherit the mantle, you can even let him be your son-in-law, so that it may be regarded as a inheritance mantle, but it can be protected by your son-in-law and not decline.

It's a pity that Shi Bufan is a poor family, which makes Pei Ju very pity. There is almost no intermarriage between the scholars and the Hanmen, almost impossible! In this era, even if the Shi clan is in decline, it is still a Shi clan. The beggars of the scholar clan do not marry officials from poor families, this is an iron law. The Shi clan and the Hanmen are determined by natural blood, this is the culture of the circle of the Shi clan, even if the Shi clan declines, it is also the Shi clan, just like Cheng Yanjin even if he becomes a martial artist, but he is also a Shandong Shi clan.

Although Shi Bufan's economic conditions were much better than Cheng Yanjin's suffering, he was always just a poor family, which was determined by his bloodline, not the identity of a circle. So Pei Ju can only be a pity, what he has learned in this life is broken, and he can't take care of his offspring. Pei Ju's descendants are not successful, this is what he knows, but the impossible gap between Shi Bufan and the Pei family, a scholar and a cold family, cannot make Shi Bufan become Pei Ju's political successor, and he cannot inherit his mantle. If it is purely in terms of talent, it is most suitable to be extraordinary, but their natural identity makes it impossible for them to really come together.

"Well, even if I can't make you my disciple, at least don't offend you. Help you once, I hope you can remember this little bit of my affection in the future! Pei Ju said.

Pei Ju knew that he was old and could burp at any time, and it was no longer his turn to worry about what to suppress the cold family. At present, he only hopes to make a wide range of contacts, and strive to let these "connections" protect his descendants. Although Shi Bufan is cold, maybe if Pei Ju is twenty years younger, he will not value Shi Bufan. But now that he is at Pei Ju's age, he has to make connections everywhere and give favors everywhere, isn't he just hoping to keep the wealth of his descendants? Therefore, when he faced Shi Bufan, he also "did not taboo" and directly wanted to make friends with Shi Bufan, regardless of Shi Bufan's background.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Shixiao Shulang's plan is the best at present. I'm afraid, no one else can come up with such a perfect plan. The old man thinks he is inferior to him! Therefore, the old man hopes to send the old man's grandson to the Hongwen Pavilion and hand it over to the school scholar to teach a few points. Pei Ju said cheekily.

Shi Bufan was quite surprised, how could this Pei Ju be so cheeky to build momentum for himself? To say that the class relationship between them is not the same, but Pei Ju is so "shameless"? Using his old face to build momentum for himself like this is not in line with the situation! However, when he heard the last sentence, he understood.

"Hey, this is really an old diplomat, it turns out that the roots are here! At an age where you may burp at any time, isn't that the city of Dafa Li giving grace everywhere, hoping to protect the future of your offspring? I kind of understand, you are similar to those bureaucrats in later generations! Whenever you are about to retire, Dafa City comes to take care of your children and descendants, or your own political successor, hoping that others will get this affection and take care of your descendants or political successors in the future. Sure enough, he is worthy of being an old official, and he understands very well the truth that people go to tea and cool, and he has the right not to expire and be invalid! Shi Bufan scolded in his heart.