"Li Yuan has already sent someone to talk to us, his conditions are, first, we must send troops to harass Li Xin, and second, he said that our asking price is too high, and he can't afford it. Let's do it another way. Thirdly, troops must be sent by the end of September. Tell me, will we agree to Li Yuan's conditions? Holding the golden scepter in his hand, Jieli Khan looked at the crowd and said. Finally, his eyes fell on the Tuli Khan, who had been jumping up and down lately, trying to persuade more people to oppose the proposal.

"Khan, if I had led a great army to destroy them at once, why should I share the goods with them?" Yi Nan said loudly. His words aroused the approval of everyone, and in their opinion, he was already giving Li Yuan a lot of face by sending troops to help Li Yuan, and it was simply unforgivable for Li Yuan to make so many requests.

"Bastard, do you think I'm really greedy for Li Yuan's money?" Jieli Khan glanced at everyone and said, "Money is just something outside of the body, what can we buy when we get so much money?" Do you want to look at it at home? No, we sent troops to help Li Yuan, not for the money, but for the Central Plains, the Central Plains is cowardly, but occupies picturesque rivers and mountains, these rivers and mountains themselves should be owned by us, for the strongest warriors, but we have no experience in how to attack the Central Plains, so we need someone to guide us. Li Yuan is our guide, you know? The reason why I agreed to help him was not only the money, but more importantly, we also need to enter the Central Plains in the future. ”

The people in the big tent were silent for a moment, they didn't expect Jieli Khan to have such ambitions, and what they were thinking about was to invade the Central Plains and seize the picturesque rivers and mountains of the Central Plains.

"Of course, the money is still needed. Don't want money, this money is Li Yuan's, he will use this money to recruit troops and buy horses, if he doesn't get it right, his strength will become bigger and bigger in the future, what we need is for him and Li Xin to fight the same, and finally fight to the death, both lose, that is, when we go south to herd horses. Jieli Khan looked at the crowd and said.

"Please show the Great Khan." Obsessed with his thoughts, he said.

"First, our army is 100,000 men. Fifty gold per person, a horse of silk and satin, for each city captured, we don't want too much, half of it is ours, the soldiers are hard outside, and the women are not less. Second, if a soldier of our army has broken the law. It must be left to us to dispose of; Thirdly, our Turks can participate in a siege battle every time they attack a city, and the rest of the time, they are mainly field battles. The leader of the tribe and the general must remember these words, we must learn the other party's siege methods, and we also need to ensure the safety of our own soldiers and horses. Fourth, I can promise to send troops to attack Li Xin. Jieli Khan held out his finger. looked at the stubbornness and said.

"Yes, the Admiral understands." Obsessiveness nodded and said.

"The candidate to attack Li Xin, Tuli. You lead the army to a walk. Jieli Khan glanced at Tuli Khan and said, "You lead the Khitan, Jin and other tribes to go, send 80,000 troops, attack from the Longshan Trail, harass and return to the grassland, and then attack Youzhou from the east, attack Huating, and seize the grain and grass of Huating first." ”

"Yes." Tuli Khan's face was gloomy, but he had to stand up and speak.

It seems that Jieli Khan is taking care of himself, but in fact, Jieli Khan is weakening his own strength and prestige, attacking Guanzhong? What is Guanzhong? At the beginning of the year, Bi Khan and Jieli Khan led 200,000 troops did not take advantage of Li Xin, but suffered heavy losses, and now lead 80,000 troops to attack hundreds of thousands of people in Guanzhong, which is clearly to cut their own strength, and it looks like the southern expedition does not have their own, fifty gold per person, a horse of silk and silk, these are not yet at war, obviously, from Jieli Khan's statement, these things will be lost to themselves and their subordinate tribes, and they will also make their subordinate tribes feel resentful, they hate Jieli Khan at the same time, They will also hate their own incompetence. so that their prestige will be affected. But the orders of Jieli Khan could not be ignored.

"Also, what is Li Xin doing now? This point also needs to be clarified, Li Yuan sent someone to say that he has 50,000 horses in Hedong, which is a rather large number, and he still has more than 100,000 troops in Guanzhong, Li Yuan wants us to drag Li Xin, not to let us fight against Li Xin. Jieli Khan glanced at Ashina Simo and said, "Li Xin is cunning, and no one knows if this person knows about our actions. ”

"Tuli, you have to be careful when dealing with Li Xin in Guanzhong!" Jieli Khan looked at Tuli Khan and said, "Li Xin in Guanzhong is not easy to deal with. ”

"Brother Chen will not let the Great Khan down." Tuli Khan looked at Jieli Khan deeply and said, although he was very angry in his heart, he didn't dare to show it on his face.

"Okay, okay." Jieli Khan also had a smile on his face. He glanced at everyone in the big tent, but saw that the faces of the Khitan, Murowei and other tribal leaders were not very good, on the contrary, the faces of the other tribal leaders showed joy, after all, if you enter the Central Plains, you can get more benefits.

Liu Wenjing went back and returned to Jinyang with the requirements and conditions of the Turkic Jieli Khan, are the Turks very demanding? To put it bluntly, such a requirement is not high, but Liu Wenjing can't call the shots, and he always feels that the Turks have a conspiracy.

After Liu Wenjing returned to Jinyang, the first thing he did was not to go to the palace to meet Li Yuan, but to go to the Qin Palace, to see Li Shimin.

"Second son, the Turks seem to have given us a lot of benefits, and even, even if they agreed to attack Li Xin, they didn't shirk it, and let the Turki Khan lead the army, and his subordinates always think that there is some trickery in this?" After Liu Wenjing finished speaking, he said with some worry.

"It's just trying to weaken the Tuli Khan's soldiers." Li Shimin said indifferently: "Tuli Khan is his younger brother, mastering many tribes such as Khitan and Murwei, although these tribes are in the east of the grassland, but the strength is not bad, when Jieli Khan ascended to the throne, there was no way to canonize his younger brother as Tuli Khan, and now he sees that Tuli Khan's strength is much stronger, and he is a little worried, so he will let Tuli Khan attack Li Xin, is to use Li Xin's hand to weaken Tuli Khan's strength." Li Xin's Guanzhong is not so easy to attack. ”

"Second son, what should we do then?" The eldest grandson Wuji said in a low voice: "The Turks sent 100,000 troops, according to Li Xin's mercenaries back then, we at least need to send 100,000 troops or more, but do we have so many soldiers and horses?" ”

"I'm afraid my father is going to recruit soldiers again!" Li Shimin sighed and said: "Our soldiers and horses plus the soldiers and horses defending in various places are only 100,000 at most, if we are defending, we need at least 50,000 people, how can these 50,000 people be good?" Can conscription continue again? Can we continue to recruit soldiers? ”

"How can you do it if you don't continue to recruit soldiers?" The eldest grandson Wuji said in a low voice: "If you don't recruit troops, how can you resist Li Xin's attack, the second prince knows, there are 50,000 soldiers and horses in Hedong, and 50,000 horses are enough to attack Jinyang." Don't underestimate it! ”

"Poor, I'm afraid the people of our state are going to be unlucky, aren't we hanging the people to kill crimes, just to let the people live a good life? But look at it, after we entered the state and merged with the state, we let the common people suffer after us, and the common people went to the army with heavy conscription, and now they have to go to the army. Do they still have time to grow food? Li Shimin sighed and said: "This time the Turks entered the Central Plains, our military strength can become stronger, but the people of the Central Plains will also follow behind the unlucky, if this king is in command, it would be better, if it is someone else, I am afraid that I will not be able to control this hundreds of thousands of troops at all." Our Da Zhao's reputation is ruined. ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince probably thinks so too, so he doesn't want to agree to this." Fang Xuanling sighed a little and said: "If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can agree to let the second prince lead the army, the possibility of the second prince leading the army will increase greatly." It's just that the emperor probably won't agree to the second prince to lead the army so easily! ”

"What does Xuan Ling mean? Wouldn't my father have promised me to lead the army? Li Shimin said with some worry.

"No, the emperor will definitely let His Highness lead the army, because only His Highness can lead the army to conquer Youzhou and Hebei." Liu Wenjing said: "It's just that another person will definitely be allowed to spy on the second son, only in this way will the emperor rest assured." After all, the emperor is still not very relieved about that matter! ”

"I'm going to meet His Royal Highness the Prince." Li Shimin thought for a while and said, "This matter is very important, and I must discuss it with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." The arrangement of grain and grass, the servitude of the people, these are all arranged by His Royal Highness the Prince, hey, in fact, if we brothers can take care of our brotherly feelings, no matter how strong Li Xin is, he is not our brother's opponent, even Li Xin. What a pity! Ay! Lord Liu, you should go and meet your father first! ”

"The minister is going to see the emperor." Liu Wenjing nodded, he didn't see the Son of Heaven after entering Beijing, but he came to see Li Shimin, which is a mistake in itself, where did Liu Wenjing dare to stay here with Li Shimin for too long.

In the East Palace, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin sat across the case, the two brothers were relatively speaking, only the fragrance of tea in front of them was ethereal, slowly going up, the two brothers were like this, it had not been a long time, and now it has made something more between the two, less is more, the two brothers have calm faces, and the brotherly love has become much more indifferent.

"Liu Wenjing has returned, and the Turks have agreed to our conditions." Li Shimin finally spoke.

"You can be the commander-in-chief, I'm afraid my father will make King Qi the deputy commander." Li Jiancheng sighed and said, "Although I want to stop it, my father won't agree." (To be continued......)