The waning moon is like a hook, and the water is turbulent.

Murong Nuo sat opposite Li Xuan, one hand pressed on the table and the other hand under the table.

As soon as he raised his eyes, he asked calmly and directly: "Dare to ask the prince, does Datang want to give up Tuyuhun?" ”

Li Xuan held the wine glass and shook his hand lightly.

Although the question was direct, it was not too surprising.

Raising his head and looking at Murong Nuo's bowl, Li Xuan said with a faint expression: "The general is a smart person, what is the situation now, the general should see it more clearly than anyone else, why bother to ask knowingly." ”

"In this way, Datang is really going to give up Tuyuhun." Murong Nuo's voice was a little bitter, and Li Xuan's disguised admission made the most likely guess in his heart come true.

"Datang will never give up any ally, as long as he doesn't turn his back on Datang." Li Xuan gently raised his wine glass, looked at Murong Nuo's bowl opposite, and said, "General, Xuan is here to toast you, I hope that Tuyuhun and Datang can join hands with each other to create a bright future." ”

With a "ding" sound, the wine glass touched lightly, and Murong Nuo drank all the wine in the cup with a sip, and then asked faintly: "The prince just said that he was already extremely distrustful of Tuyuhun, I don't know if I can tell Murong what Tuyuhun did wrong, so that the prince does not trust it so much." ”

"General, today's Tuyuhun has a lot of problems, grain and grass, army, restoration of the country, resistance to the enemy...... Dare to ask the general, how does the Murong clan respond? Li Xuan looked at Murong Nuo with a calm expression, and he asked all the four questions back, and the first question of grain and grass alone made Murong Nuo silent for a while.

There were some things that Li Xuan didn't say, but Murong Nuo knew that he shouldn't ask.

It is necessary to seek grain and grass support from Datang, which is the most difficult.

Today's drought in the Tang Dynasty has affected the autumn harvest, and even the food of the Northwest Provincial Army has been affected.

Liu Renliang sent Li Xuan to ambush the city this time, just from Li Xuan's drastic actions, it can be seen that the Tang Dynasty can support Tuyuhun very little grain and grass.

At this time, they don't even want to take it out at all.

Unless Tuyuhun is really unable to hold on, they will take out the last bit to help Tuyuhun get through the last hurdle, but before that, they will definitely not reach out to help.

"Just like what the prince did before, dig deep into Qinghai Lake, accumulate catches, ask for help from the marshal, and then spend the whole winter." Murong Nuo finally said the words of asking Liu Renliang for help, because other than that, he really couldn't think of any way to solve Tuyuhun.

"General, all things, it is better to seek the outside than to the inside." Li Xuan's expression was still indifferent, and he said: "Today's Tuguhun is far from the point of falling into the exhaustion of mountains and rivers, if the general digs deep into its potential, there is no need, and the current problem can be solved." ”

Murong Nuo's brows furrowed slightly, he looked at Li Xuan, and arched his hand: "Please also ask the prince to give advice?" ”

Li Xuan waved his hand and said: "Don't dare to teach, what the general lacks now is a good hand who can really help the general deal with internal affairs...... This time the Tang Dynasty was quiet and drought, and it seemed that the court was short of food, but in fact, the last thing the court lacked was grain, and what the court lacked was actually wealth. ”

"Use Tuyuhun's wealth in exchange for the grain of the Tang Dynasty." Murong Nuo finally understood what Li Xuan was really talking about, and he raised his head to stare at Li Xuan: "It turns out that the prince is eyeing Tuyuhun's wealth, so he moved Tuxi, Tujing and Tugu Cavalry. ”

Sucking blood on Tuyuhun's body, no, it's cutting meat.

"It's never the king who really focuses on Tuyuhun wealth and plunders the wealth, it's Tubo, it's the Qinling, and they've been doing it for many years, aren't they, otherwise this time they wouldn't easily take away 100,000 cattle and sheep from Fuqi City." Li Xuan shook his head calmly.

Tuyuhun has taken refuge in Tubo for many years, and he doesn't know how much gold and silver treasures he has donated to Tubo, and he is more skilled than anyone else in this method.

This is why there is a design to use the lack of food to calculate the Tang Dynasty, which is one of the plans for Qinling.

In Datang's response to the incident in Fu Qi City, Li Xuan was just one of them.

Without the emperor's nod, where would Li Xuan dare to easily move tens of thousands of Tibetan people to Qugou New Town.

Anyone can see the benefits of this, once it succeeds, the value of Fu Qi City to Datang will be greatly reduced.

At least in the battle with Tubo, Tuyuhun is no longer important.

But that doesn't mean that Tuyuhun is really useless.

20,000 soldiers and tens of thousands of people, if they really hit the Tang side desperately, it will bring huge trouble, so Li Xuan needs to deal with the follow-up.

Murong Nuo knew Li Xuan's intentions very well, but he wanted more.

"The 100,000 cattle and sheep." Murong Nuo raised his head to look at Li Xuan, and said in a deep voice: "Tuyuhun can be bought back for money, but the price is ......."

Although the Tuyuhun royal family is in the Tang Dynasty, they are definitely not without money.

"This is a matter of Tobe Langzhong, and it is not under the control of this king." Li Xuan waved his hand directly, the 100,000 cattle and sheep were never in his hands, he could give these 100,000 cattle and sheep to his soldiers by asking the court to issue meritorious deeds, and then let his soldiers lease them to the Tuyuhun people in Qugou New City to eat rent and collect profits, but they must not be sold directly to Murong Nuo's bowl.

"In other words, this matter is feasible, and the key is the price." Murong Nuo got the answer to the question he wanted.

"The general can relocate the herdsmen of Anle Prefecture, and of course livestock, and then lease them to the people of Fuqi City like land to collect taxes." Li Xuan lifted the wine jug and poured a glass of wine for Murong Nuo's bowl.

Murong Nuo held down the wine glass, shook his head, and said, "That's next year, and this year is not appropriate." ”

"There are a lot of valuable things in Fu Qi City, the cattle and sheep skins stored in the people's homes, and the salt mines around them, all of which can be taken to Shanzhou in exchange for large prices, and then you can find the imperial court or big merchants." Li Xuan picked up the wine glass and drank all the wine in the cup.

Murong Nuo raised his eyes to look at Li Xuan, and said softly: "It turns out that this is the strategy used by the prince to solve the food shortage in Fuqi City. ”

"Datang does not ban salt, but there is still a shortage of salt, if the general can send a large amount of green salt to Datang to stabilize the price of salt, the court and the people can accept higher food prices." Li Xuan poured herself another glass.

Datang's salt industry special transportation, that was after the Anshi Rebellion, and there is no yet.

"But the chaka fell into the hands of the left guard." Murong Nuo's bowl finally lifted his wine glass.

"It was taken down by the Left Guard, and I have to go to the Left Guard General Qi Bi He Li to talk about it." Li Xuan directly pushed the matter out.

What Chaka really mastered there was not the left guard, but the household department.

The reason why Datang and Tubo are constantly fighting is that in addition to threatening each other's borders, is the salt mines around Qinghai Lake, and once Chaka, the largest salt mine, falls into the hands of Datang, it can immediately make up for the continuous loss of food and wages.

This matter is really in the hands of the Queen of Heaven, just like the entire household of Datang is in the hands of the Queen of Heaven, and no one can easily move.

"What about Fu Qi City?" Murong Nuo's face was slightly gloomy.

Li Xuan glanced at him in surprise and said: "This area is vast all around, there are many salt mines, and even Qinghai Lake can be steamed and dried salt, how easy it is to take salt." ”

"It takes craftsmen." Murong Nuo raised his head and looked at Li Xuan.

Li Xuan's face became more and more surprised, and he looked at Murong Nuo's bowl in unimaginable light, and asked, "Could it be that Murong Clan, can't even find a craftsman who can find mines and dry salt?" ”

"There are craftsmen, but what the prince is talking about is not ordinary craftsmen, even in the entire Tuyuhun there are not few." Murong Nuo shook his head slightly, sighed lightly, and said, "It's not that the Murong clan doesn't have such craftsmen, it's just that after many years of wandering, such craftsmen have long been scattered. ”

Li Xuan was silent, and after a long time, he slowly spoke: "In this matter, the general sent a letter to the Ministry of Industry to inquire." ”

"But Ben didn't want to go to the Ministry of Works." Murong Nuo said a word and directly picked up the matter.

Once this kind of thing goes to the Ministry of Industry, the imperial court will inevitably intervene in it, Murong Nuo asked Li Xuan to find a way, and he also gave Li Xuan a piece of interest.

Li Xuan nodded lightly and said: "The general doesn't want to find the Ministry of Industry, you can go to others, the Hezhou Yuan family, the Longxi Li family, and other families can participate in it, and they also have food." ”

Murong Nuo glanced at Li Xuan deeply, could it be that Li Xuan really didn't plot the benefits of this?

Li Xuan looked at Murong Nuo calmly, it was not that he did not seek the interests here, but that he could not trust Murong Nuo's approach.

The Murong clan will inevitably betray in the future, and it will not only be Datang who will betray at that time, but also him.

"In addition, the general can also go west, the general is back, and Dayan Mangjiebo is probably not far away." Li Xuan raised his wine glass again, and then drank it all, Murong Nuo, the king of Qinghai, was not so steady.

"It seems that the westward army is going to prepare in advance." After Murong Nuo finished speaking, he raised his eyes to look at Li Xuan, he always felt that Li Xuan's words had a deep meaning.

"It will take at least a few months to solve the matter of grain and grass, and I am afraid that it will take several months for the westward army to prepare, and it will be winter, so the general's return to the country should be almost ready, I don't know if there is a time limit." Li Xuan's gentle words made Murong Nuo's breathing suddenly heavy.

He raised his wine glass, then drank it all, and finally looked at Li Xuan and said, "Don't worry, this matter still needs to be nodded in the middle of the court." ”

Li Xuan smiled and said softly: "Then the general has to hurry up, it is better to be in the middle of the court, but it is not easy to say in Tubo, this time the king has a plan and will solve it temporarily, but if they go straight to ambush the city next time, the garrison in the city will ......."

Li Xuan couldn't help but shake his head, and there was also a hint of imperceptible contempt in his eyes when he looked at Murong Nuo.

The Tuyuhun people are suitable for cannibalism, but externally, they are always the weakest.

"Ben will step up the training of the army." Murong Nuo's face was gloomy for a while, compared to Li Xuan's record, Murong Clan's record was really a little unmatched.

Raising his head, Murong Nuo's bowl suddenly burst into laughter and waved his hand behind him.

Immediately, a red wooden box was placed on the low table by the sergeant.

"This is a jade Buddha, I heard that the lord of Fuchang County came to the world, and he was an uncle in this capital, although he can't go back, but the ceremony is indispensable." Murong Nuo's eyes looked at Li Xuan calmly.

Li Xuan took a light breath, nodded, and said, "In this way, thank you to the general." ”

After speaking, Li Xuan stood up and arched his hand at Murong Nuo's bowl: "Governor Dadu, Xuan will take his leave, and this Fuqi City will be returned to the Dadu Governor, I hope that the Murong Clan can Yongchang this Fuqi City." ”

"Rest assured, the Murong clan will always be loyal to the Tang Dynasty." Murong Nuo stood up, and then watched Li Xuan swarm away with his cavalry.

In the darkness of the night, Murong Nuo's face was gloomy and terrifying.

The king of Nanchang is so optimistic about Murong Nuo's return to the country, so what about the court?

(End of chapter)