Chapter 63 Interests between States
"Li Mao'er! Are you talking about human words? There are more than 70,000 people in my Tiele Department, and if you don't change it, you won't change it! ”
"Leader Tiele, this king respects you as the brother of the Great Khan, so he doesn't care, but if you are so indiscriminate, you should know the fate of your wild words, and this king will now also send you a sage's words, do not do to others what you do not want, the Tang people will be your Turkic slaves, and the Turks will not be my Tang slaves? Can't you farm if you're used to grazing? ”
After Li Mao finished speaking, he immediately got up and walked towards the outside of the big tent, and before leaving, he did not forget to turn back and make a Turkic hand salute to Viga Khan.
"Tie Le, don't hurry up and apologize to His Royal Highness King Shou, the prince of the Tang Heavenly Kingdom is also something you can slander!" "But he ......" "Why are you not going to listen to Ben Khan's words?" "No...... No...... Tie Le said nothing, and asked His Royal Highness King Shou for forgiveness! ”
As he spoke, the Tiele leader immediately raised his leg and stepped over the low table, and then without waiting for Li Mao's reaction, he blocked his way with his iron-like body, and then knelt on one knee.
"King Shou, the little brother is reckless and unreasonable, you don't have to worry about him in general, this hostage Ben Khan promised to change, this time your Royal Highness Shou Wang is full of sincerity, Ben Khan also saw it, for the long-term peace and stability of the people of the two countries, Ben Khan is willing to cooperate with you in business! This matter will be handled by the Taishi! ”
"Then this king will first go back to the surrendered city today to wait for your good news from Viga Khan, and the business affairs will be discussed when the Gu Desire Taishi brings my Tang people to the surrendered city for exchange! Leave! ”
After Li Mao walked out of the big tent, Viga Khan immediately picked up the wine jug and smashed it into Tieler's head! "Li Mao'er is too deceitful, too deceitful!"
"Great Khan, compared with the future development of trade and trade in the Turkic Khanate, why should you care about the slight gains and losses of today's words? If Li Mao can really fulfill his promise, it will be a great blessing for millions of herdsmen on the grassland! ”
"Fufen, Master, do you think Li Mao'er is a good person? Didn't you see that I had this flask for him? Isn't it just some salt and tea? It's no big deal to grab them! Where to use what business! ”
Hearing these words from the reckless man of Tiele, Gu Yu didn't even have the interest of opening his mouth to refute, but just smiled and instructed a few slaves and maids around him to help him back to his seat, and continued to persuade Viga Khan.
"Great Khan, at this time, with Li Mao's business cooperation, it can be said that it is even worse for the Hui tribe, although my Turks have always curbed their trade routes, but the Hui merchants can always find ways to detour Tuyuhun and make friends with the Tang Dynasty, and now as long as I ...... the Turkic Khanate"
"Okay, what you said Ben Khan also understands, it's just that Li Mao is too arrogant, what if he secretly hooks up with the Hui beggar department at both ends of the first mouse?"
"It's not hard to handle! Li Mao's trip to Jiannan Road is to be a confidant in the Tubo country, as long as we show all sincerity, think of him Li Mao will not dare to tear up the covenant rashly, after all, there is still the Tang Emperor above him to contain him! ”
"Sincerity, is it possible that my Turks still help the army to attack the Tubo country with him?" "This is exactly what the subordinates mean, otherwise they can't form an iron alliance, Li Tang is in full swing at the moment, with the existing strength of my Turks, it is difficult to guarantee that he will not be suspicious of his conquest in the future, but once the iron alliance is formed, Li Tang will only attack other small countries and lose strength in vain, judging from the royal family change of Li Tang's establishment for more than a hundred years, the subordinates dare to assert that within more than ten years, there will be another civil strife, and now the Great Khan why not learn from the Yue King Goujian to lie down and taste the courage?"
"Good, good! Taishi's words woke up the dreamer, all the leaders, you are all dignified grassland men, aren't you even as good as that arrogant hook? The eagle of the steppe will never give in to the hungry wolf, and we will hover and watch him until the day of death......" "Great Khan Shengming, I am willing to follow the Great Khan forever!" ”
The shouts in the Viga camp were higher and higher, and although Li Mao and his party, who had already walked away, couldn't hear what they were making trouble about, they unconsciously accelerated the pace of their march slightly.
"Your Highness, I really didn't expect that after killing so many of his Turks, we would be able to withdraw unscathed, and the last general would look at these warriors in the grassland!"
"Brother Xun, never underestimate your enemies, you can despise them in terms of momentum, but you have to learn to see their advantages in your heart, if one day there is really a peerless hero on the grassland, then the good life of our Central Plains people will come to an end, do you want to be hundreds of thousands of cavalry like one person up and down, obey the order and are not afraid of life and death, what can you do to stop it!"
"This ...... This is naturally difficult to resist, Your Highness, do you think that such a heroic figure will appear on the grassland soon? The last general thought that it was up to them that each tribe was now in its own way, and that it would be difficult for them to put aside their selfish allegiance to Viga alone! Besides, now with the combat power of our Datang, what are they afraid of when they come with a million cavalry! ”
The two of them were talking and laughing on horses, and Li Mao nodded slightly in agreement after hearing Wang Zhongsi say this, and the fact is indeed as he said, the entire Chinese nation has been proud of the Tang Dynasty for thousands of years, and it has its own capital that stands out from the crowd.
Aside from the strong national strength, even the individual combat ability of the Tang Army is also remarkable, brave, daring to fight, coupled with superior equipment, or hundreds of thousands of war horses cultivated by natural horse farms in Inner Mongolia, all of which are actually invisibly restraining the superiority of the steppe nomads.
And Tubo, a powerful country that has sprung up, would have been beaten to death by the Tang Dynasty more than ten times if it hadn't taken advantage of its natural geographical advantages and happened to encounter a period of rising temperatures that had not been encountered in a thousand years.
"Your Highness, since you have the concerns you just mentioned in your heart, why do you want to go to the Turkic countries to discuss cooperation with them this time? Wouldn't this be a problem for raising tigers, the last general also knew that it would be unwise for the Tang Dynasty to be enemies with both sides of the Tibetan and Turkic sides at the same time, but knowing the ambitions of the Turkic wolves, but cooperating so unrestrictedly, the last general couldn't figure it out! ”
"Can't figure it out? When I was a child, I heard a story called boiling a frog in warm water, and if you put a frog into the boiling hot water, it will jump out instantly, and it will not die, but if you put the frog in cold water and slowly add firewood, then it will be difficult to jump out when it finds that the water temperature is too hot! ”
After hearing Li Mao whisper this story, the big and small Shuang'er, Wangcai and others immediately all rode up and surrounded them, and even some cavalry under Wang Zhongsi were very curious and listened closely.
"Your Highness, are you telling the truth? That little man has to go back and try it! After Wangcai made a start, some soldiers naturally had the courage to ask me word by word.
"Your Highness, what do you say have to do with cooperating with Turkic thieves! Why can't we understand at all? Is it also to use hot water to slowly scald them to death? ”
Seeing Li Mao laughing, the rest of the people naturally laughed too. "Hanzi, where did this endless prairie come from to boil! There is not even a big river, and such a desolate place is regarded as a treasure by the Turkic people! ”
"You're half right, although the grassland seems to be desolate at the beginning, it is not desolate and useless, and it is not water that this king is going to cook them next, but the unique advanced civilization of the Tang Dynasty and the rich life that their Turks have dreamed of, please take a leave of absence, if you want to have silk to wear in summer, green vegetables to eat in winter, and a carriage to sit in when you are tired, and a little song to listen to when you are bored, then suddenly one day you will give up these days and return to eat nests and heads every day, are you willing?"
"I don't want to! Of course not! "Is that so?" Now everyone in their Turkic Khanate herds horses and raises cattle and sheep, not to mention the lack of iron and salt, and only gnaws meat for three meals a day. And what this king has to do is to strengthen cooperation with them, so that their lives are getting better and better, in the eyes of this king, they are already my people of the Tang Dynasty, in the next ten years, they will not have any more wars, and they will not be forced to go out to rob others due to the arrival of winter famine...... Didn't the Vigha Khan want to cultivate his voice and practice obscure schemes? And the king did as he wished......"
After Li Mao finished saying such a big sentence, he closed his mouth in satisfaction and glanced around, but at this moment, he was greeted by the stunned and incomprehensible expressions of dozens of people.