When Luo Su proposed that the countries within the Tian Khan international system should not attack each other, Li Shimin once asked him a question, "National teacher, what if the Tang Dynasty needs to take the initiative to provoke a war, will it restrict the Tang Dynasty by formulating rules like this?" ”

Luo Su replied to him, "The king uses kindness to influence his subjects, and uses harsh punishments to force his subjects to fear, hoping that this will make his subjects loyal forever, but there will still be people who want to rebel."

Because this is man, and most people, including your brothers and sons, are greedy, stupid, short-sighted, ignorant, arrogant, and arrogant.

You think that if you have great strength, others will fear you, you think that everyone will have self-knowledge, but that is just your wishful thinking, most people in this world have a kind of mysterious self-confidence, and will do things that make you feel unbelievable.

Needless to say, the strength of the Winter Turks is indeed strong, and it is normal for the Tang Dynasty to compete with the two tigers, and it is normal for wars to occur.

But you see.

That Xiyan Kingdom will soon dare to provoke Datang just because it is far away from Datang.

The more remote power, Gaochang, which controls the crossroads in and out of the Western Regions, now has a good relationship with the Tang Dynasty, but will soon become arrogant because of its huge commercial interests.

Don't say that those Hu people, Xiyan and Gaochang, are all countries established by the Han people, and they are all like this, not to mention the Hu people who are already well versed in the country of the weak and the strong, Xue Yantuo, wantonly annexed the tribes and grasslands of the Winter Turks, which will definitely be a scourge in the future. ”

Luo Su's judgment made Li Shimin feel the same way, and said: "What the national teacher said is really a golden and jade good word.

I have always wondered if the relationship between the Central Plains and the countries of the Western Regions will never be friendly forever, because the Western Regions are too far away.

Gaochang is seven thousand miles away from Datang, and two thousand miles of desert is enough to make anyone who sits in a well and watches the sky arrogant.

Don't talk about the Western Regions, even in the Central Plains, there are always people who will rely on the natural danger in Shu and the natural risk of the Yangtze River, and want to cut off the king, but they don't know that the so-called natural danger will be broken as soon as they poke it. ”

Luo Su smiled, but there was no trace of a smile, "So Tianziling doesn't have to worry at all that when Datang wants to provoke a war, there will be no reason to start a war, they will definitely jump out, what you need to think about is how to win the war, and how to deal with the aftermath after winning the war."

Those countries in the Western Regions are still very different from the Mobei grassland, on the grassland, the law of the jungle is the law of the jungle, and there is no concept of the country in essence, whose tribe is strong, and whose tribe name is used.

The Huns, Xianbei people, and Turkic peoples are like this.

However, the Western Regions are cultured, and in terms of national survival, there are some concepts of the state and Zhou periods, and they like to restore the country, and all countries have a high sense of national and ethnic groups.

If you can't settle it properly, you will fall into a continuous bloody war, which is an unacceptable result for the Tang Dynasty, and no matter how strong the empire is, it will be dragged down in the war of law and order. ”

After a few years passed, the Western Yan Kingdom really provoked the great powers as Luo Su said, and even invaded Liangzhou and killed itself.

Xue Yantuo, who surrendered to the Tang Dynasty at the beginning, was also arrogant and wanton, and finally reaped the consequences, and was beheaded by Li Ke, the king of Yan, on the desert, and the people of the tribe were divided among other tribes on the grassland, and used his head to build a high platform for Li Ke's prestige.

And Gao Changguo also drifted away from the Tang Dynasty, and even intercepted the envoys who came to the Tang Dynasty to meet him.

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In the Taiji Palace, Li Shimin held the piece of music passed back from Anxi in his hand, and said angrily at the imperial meeting: "The last time King Gaochang came to Chang'an for an audience, he shirked it, but this time not only did he not come, but even blocked the audience of other countries in the Western Regions.

What should the nations that do not obey the decree of the Heavenly Khan do? ”

He Li immediately said loudly: "Crusade against him, destroy his country, behead him, punish him with the harshest punishment, the majesty of the Heavenly Khan does not allow anyone to question it."

Please send down a holy decree from Your Majesty, and the minister is willing to lead a large army to the crusade. ”

There is naturally a reason why Qi Bi He Li is in a hurry, although his surname is Qi Bi, it has nothing to do with the Qi Bi who was given his surname by Luo Xuanxing in Liaodong Kingdom.

His ancestral home is in the Western Regions, which belongs to a branch of Tiele and lives together with Gaochang Kingdom.

He was very worried that the Khambi State and the Gaochang State were mixed together, and now the status of the Khambi State was very high, because Khima He Li was not only Li Shimin's minister, but also Li Shimin's brother-in-law, and the Khan of the Kham, that is, the younger brother of Khambi He Li, was one of the Mingyue Khans of the Western Regions.

He is very worried that those brainless nobles in the country will not know that the world is vast, provoking the prosperous central country, although he is no longer ready to return to the country of Qibi, born as a Tang Dynasty person, and died as a Tang ghost, but after all, it is the mother country, and he still hopes that his people can live well.

Qi Bi He Li's statement made Li Shimin very happy, this is the general I trust, what is the background of the fan, my Tang Dynasty is inclusive, so there are generals like Qi Bi He Li and Ashina Sheer, "What Aiqing said is very in line with my intentions."

I decided to set up the Gaochang Road in Gaochang Kingdom and a radius of 1,000 miles, and appointed the Grand Governor to crusade against Gaochang Kingdom. ”

This Gaochang Dao is not the same as the Dao within Datang.

In the Central Plains, the province is the prefecture's higher-level supervision area, no permanent officials, only temporary appointments, the first year of Zhenguan, the third year of Zhenguan, the eighth year of Zhenguan and the eleventh year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin respectively appointed 15 provincial supervision envoys to supervise the administration of officials in various places.

And Gaochang Road is not a supervision area, but a temporary division of the combat area, just like when Li Jing attacked and destroyed the Winter Turks, he was the chief of the march of Dingxiang Road, and when he attacked and destroyed Xiyan, he was the chief of the march of Qinghai Road.

This is the combat mode of the Tang Dynasty under the government soldier system, the soldiers and generals are separated, but they are not completely separated, which not only ensures combat effectiveness, but also prevents the support of troops from sitting on the big side, of course, the shortcomings are also very big, but in the hands of Li Shimin, this combat mode is almost perfect.

It has won all battles externally, but the burden on the domestic market is very small.

It is necessary to fight against Gaochang, in the Tang Dynasty, even if it is a civilian official, in terms of waging a war, they will never start a war because they are afraid of losing, if they oppose it, it must be that the treasury has no money.

What about Datang's treasury?

Of course, the granary is abundant, the money is abundant, and as for the morale of the people, since the destruction of the Xiyan Kingdom, the Tang Dynasty has not had a war for several years, and now the people have no war-weariness at all, which can be described as popular support.

The only problem now is.

Who does the Son of Heaven want to be the head of this Gaochang Dao marching army!

(End of chapter)