"Lao Cui, if you are on the battlefield, you are about to die, and there are several enemies around you, what will you do?"

Tang Ping suddenly turned his head and asked Lao Cui.

"Hey, Childe, you can't expect me to be better!" Lao Cui smiled, but his life was originally saved by Tang Ping, and although the two of them are usually called master and servant, they are actually more like friends, so he doesn't care at all.

"But if that happens, I'll point to one of them!"

Although he didn't know that Tang Ping was going to ask himself this question at this time, he still gave his own answer.

"That's right, just one person!" Tang Ping looked back at Fang Du and the others: "If the scale of the locust plague is too large, where will the things of the Tang Dynasty fly to after eating?" ”

The two of them have done their homework on this matter for a long time, and this kind of thing has happened more than once in history, so it is easy to answer: "There is a high probability that it will fly to Dongyue Kingdom." ”

"That's not the end, let's tell Dongyue that together with the locust plague, our Datang will burn all the crops, and then send troops to Dongyue Kingdom!"

Fang Du and the two were speechless, how can this idea sound unreliable, can countries get along like this?

Seeing that the two didn't seem to understand, Tang Ping analyzed: "With the locust plague, can we keep the food in the field or not?" ”

"Naturally, it can't be saved!" Who doesn't understand this? If the locusts flew all over the world, almost all the green plants on the ground would be eaten up by them, except for potatoes buried in the ground.

"Yes, I can't keep it anyway, so it doesn't make a difference between burning and not burning, right? At this time, we just want to let Dongyue know that we are not doing well, and they will not be able to please them. When the Tang Dynasty dies, they will have to gnaw their flesh. ”

To put it bluntly, Tang Ping's method is to play a scoundrel and threaten the Dongyue Kingdom, either trade grain to me, or everyone will break up and the net will be broken.

In this era, Confucianism is still the mainstream, who can come up with such a scoundrel method in the Tang Dynasty and the Manchu Dynasty?

"This ......" Fang Xuanling hesitated and said: "Datang has always served the world with virtue, so I'm afraid it will ......."

"Convince people with virtue!" Tang Ping nodded: "But Master Fang only knows that Confucius convinces people with virtue, and he doesn't know that his sword is called virtue, right?" Confucius wanted people to convince themselves, and he always used the sword to solve problems! ”

These words directly stunned Fang Du and the others.

The two have been familiar with the Four Books and the Five Classics since they were children, but they never thought that the phrase "convincing people with virtue" could be explained in this way.

Li Bai, who was on the side, slapped the table and laughed: "Second master, hahaha, it turns out that this is what it means to convince people with virtue!" Hahaha, ouch, my stomach hurts from laughter! ”

Tang Ping ignored him, but continued to enlighten Fang Du and the others: "Didn't they all say that they repay grievances with virtue, how can they repay virtue?" At the beginning, we proposed a trading contract with Dongyue in a proper manner, and they also agreed to this contract, but now they are the first to break the contract, how can we still become the unreasonable side? ”

This sentence is very reasonable, Fang Du and the others nodded slightly when they heard it, it was this that everyone was angry about yesterday, but because the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the surrounding countries is delicate now, no one in the court dares to start a war so lightly.

"And we just want the East Vietnamese to see our determination, and we don't really want to fight, if they send food over, we naturally don't have to fight." Tang Ping paused here when he said this, and then asked with some doubts: "Oh, by the way, if we want to fight Dongyue, can we fight?" ”

This is also a key issue, just like the five permanent members of later generations said that they would hammer such and such a country, which is considered a threat. But if such and such a small country says that it will hammer the five permanent members, isn't it a joke?

For details, you can refer to the fate of Kadazo.

Although this method is a bit of a hooligan, but it is like this between countries, otherwise why would later generations jokingly call the five permanent hooligans?

"That's nature!" Speaking of Datang's combat strength, Fang Du and the others are still very confident: "My Datang is just in the land of four wars, so there are too many troops involved in the surrounding defense. ”

"The last time the Turks were able to fight outside Chang'an City, it was mainly because the Jingzhou Assassin Shi fornicated with the Turks to open the northern gateway of the Tang Dynasty, allowing the Turks to break through their martial arts all the way and trap Chang'an."

"But if we raise the troops of the Tang Dynasty, whether it is Turkic, Tibetan, Eastern Vietnam or Western Barbarians, we can win the battle!"

To put it bluntly, now that Datang is in the middle, he can fight any of the four people casually.

"That's it! As long as you can beat it! Tang Ping clapped his hands: "Send envoys directly to Dongyue, and then make a troop transfer in the country, and tell Dongyue to either trade grain, or we will go over and get it ourselves." Truth is only within the range of the bow and arrow! ”

Datang doesn't care about this matter, as long as he makes a gesture, he thinks that Dongyue will carefully consider the possibility of Datang attacking Dongyue.

Fang Du and the others originally just came to see if the blind cat could touch the dead mouse, but they didn't expect to really encounter such a way that was not a solution.

In fact, it's not that they can't think of such a solution, but they don't think about it in that direction.

How to say it, the people of this era, especially the literati, are a little too upright, that is, they call themselves gentlemen.

Moreover, Tang Ping's method is to think about it carefully, but it is just to force Dongyue to submit by force, and it may not really start the war lightly.

As for whether this will be confirmed in all countries, hehe, please, the final history books between countries are written by the victors.

Several neighboring countries are plotting against Datang, but why doesn't Datang covet them?

They are all thousand-year-old foxes, so there is no need to talk about fasting.

Once they got along, the two said goodbye to Tang Ping directly, and then hurriedly went to the palace again.

Last night, there was a one-night meeting, and Li Shimin didn't sleep at this meeting, and was discussing countermeasures with Li Jiancheng in the Xiande Palace.

Hearing Fang Du and the two begging to see him, he knew that most of them had a way, so they directly announced the people in.

"The two Aiqing have a plan?"

"Not bad!" Fang Du and the others explained the method given by Tang Ping, and at the end, Fang Xuanling added: "This is what Tang Ping of Shanghe Village said." ”

Li Shimin originally wondered why the two of them would come up with such a way to play cards without following the routine, but it was not so strange when he heard that Tang Ping said it.

Because Tang Ping thinks that his thinking is different from that of people in this era, in Li Yuanji's words, the thinking of heaven and man is different from that of our mortals, which is normal.

Moreover, everything Tang Ping did after he appeared brought countless benefits to Datang, so Li Shimin would not doubt his motives.

I went through the method that the two of them said in my heart, and I felt that there was indeed no way to do it now.

"In that case, why don't you let Tang Ping lead the team to Dongyue?"