Eight hundred miles north of Chang'an is the Dingxiang Road, which is now occupied by the Turkic Jieli.

Next to Dingxiang to the west is Shuofang County, and to the west of Shuofang is Yanchuan County, these two places are not small, Liang Shi has been entrenched here for many years, and there has been an intensifying force in the past two years, and Lingwu County in the west has almost been eaten by him.

To the east of Dingxiang, across the river is the boundary of Datong in Shanxi, and the northernmost city ruled by the Tang Dynasty is Yunzhou. Now Shanxi is Li Ji as the governor.

To the south of Dingxiang is Yanzhou of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang army is now on the border is Yanzhou, the black ink produced in Yanzhou is more famous, Yanzhou ink can be used as oil and ink, and even there are soldiers on the border who are used as fierce fire oil to defend the city.

Thousands of miles north of Dingxiang is Wuyuan County, and the county seat is called Jiuyuan City! In history, Jiuyuan Lu Bu is famous, and this is Lu Bu's hometown. Unfortunately, at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Lü Bu's hometown was also occupied by Turkic barbarians.

Less than 200 miles north of Wuyuan County, it is the famous Yin Mountain, the Yin Mountain in the Tang Dynasty poem, 'Don't teach Hu Ma to do Yin Mountain'.

The highest honor of the legendary military general is Huo Quai's wolf Juxu. Wolf Juxu Mountain is said to be near the Turkic Golden Horde's court more than 1,800 miles north of Wuyuan, and the Kent Mountain in later Mongolia. It is conceivable how far the god of war Huo Quai's strong team has hit.

Back to the text, the Tang Dynasty mobilized troops and horses with great momentum, preparing to attack the Turks in the north, and come to besiege Wei to save Zhao.

Originally, Li Ji planned to gather 50,000 soldiers and horses and set off from Yunzhou City, Datong County, but in order to eradicate Liang Shidu and recover Dingxiang County, Chang'an also raised 50,000 troops to the north, passing through Yanzhou and killing towards the north.

Shuofang's Liang Shi was so frightened that they were like flies, and hurriedly sent people to the Turks to ask for help.

"Wait, Your Majesty, I think we should change the number of letters." A young player stepped forward.

This person's name is Xue Li, who was originally a person from Longmen in Jiangzhou, who was humiliated in his hometown, and fled to the northwest Shuofang, where he happened to be met by the Liang division who went out on patrol, and felt that he was a good seedling, so he accepted him as a subordinate and was ready to be cultivated.

I don't want this young man to be intelligent, civil and military all-rounder, he helped Liang Shidu solve several tricky troubles at a young age, and under his suggestion, Shuofang and Yanchuan are getting better and better, and the civil and military affairs of the entire Liang State are convinced.

So the 'heart of the people' to support Xue Li, Liang Shi was happy, decided to follow the example of the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty, the ancient first emperor worshiped the twelve-year-old Ganluo as the prime minister, and now there is my Liang Shidu, the emperor of the Liang State, worship the eighteen-year-old Xue Li as the phase, it is also a beautiful talk. Let the people see it, they will praise me Liang Shi for knowing people and being good at his duties, a generation of bright monarchs.

It is logical that Master Liang has raised this young general trained by himself to become his first confidant.

Originally, Liang Shi planned to accept Xue Li as his righteous son, but Xue Li was unwilling, claiming that the family heirloom Dumiao did not dare to change his surname. Whoever thinks that Master Liang is not angry but happy, and thinks that Xue Li can not forget his ancestors and is a good boy with affection and righteousness.

Hearing Xue Li interrupt, Liang Shi was puzzled, "What does Xiangguo mean?" The attack of 50,000 soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty was witnessed by our dark pile. ”

Xue Li shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, the Turks know that our Liang State has 50,000 soldiers and horses, so it is unlikely that the Tang Dynasty wants to take my Liang State with 50,000 soldiers." If you send someone to ask for help, Jieli may not send troops to help. ”

"Well, that's right! Then according to the meaning of Xiangguo, report more? Liang Shidu groaned.

Xue Li nodded: "Yes, not only should you report more, but you should also ask the Turks for resources." Our Liang State is not for our own development, we are blocking the threat of the Tang Dynasty for the Turks, and if we are destroyed, the Turks will have to face the Tang Dynasty. The truth of the cold lips and teeth, Jieli will not understand. Moreover, according to reliable information, Jieli led 100,000 troops to fight Tang Youzhou. Now that Tang Chang'an is sending troops north, it should be going to the Turks, and we are blocking the knife for him. ”

The official in charge of finance immediately stood up and echoed: "Yes, Your Majesty, Xiangguo's words are reasonable. Datang regards us as a thorn in the side, and all kinds of cards on the business road are for us Liang Guo. So a lot of supplies we had to talk to the Turks. When we used to ask the Turks for help, when did they treat us as people? All when we were begging dogs! ”

"It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and we have a legitimate reason to ask them for supplies. If they don't give it, we don't care, magnify the Tang army's soldiers and horses to pass, and let them kill the Turks. ”

Everyone looked at this one in amazement, and said in their hearts that he was ruthless enough, was he so resentful of the Turks?

Who says it's not, only those who have really suffered from white eyes know how many grievances they have saved, dare not speak out, and now they finally get the opportunity, can they not vent?

Who would have thought that Xue Li suddenly stroked his palm and praised, "Liu Shangshu is a good plan!" We can send someone to contact Datang, and when the time comes, get out of the way, let Datang go over and attack the Turks directly, maybe the Turks know the pain, and naturally know to send troops to support. Otherwise, with empty mouths and white teeth, Jieli may not care about our life or death. ”

At this time, someone stood up and reminded: "Xiangguo can't, it's too risky." Beware of the misfortune of the false way. ”

Liang Shidu also felt that it was not advisable, "Xiangguo, this plan is too dangerous, let's see if the Turks come to help first." ”

Xue Li smiled, "Your Majesty, of course the minister knows the allusion to the false path to destroy the enemy. So we can only let 10,000 people go, even if 3,000 people pass, as long as we find some trouble for the Turks. ”

What's this......

Xue Li took the opportunity to add a fire and said, "Your Majesty, our Liang country is sandwiched between two powerful countries, and the slightest carelessness will be a catastrophe. If you want to survive from it, you have to sway from side to side, and you can't completely offend one of them. Even if Datang hates us to the bone now, if we don't start a war head-on, we still have a good talk. Only when both sides are false and wronged can they safely reap the benefits from both sides. ”

"Now, Youzhou in the northeast of the Tang Dynasty has encountered the threat of Jieli, and they want to send troops north to attack the Turks and solve the difficulties of Youzhou. It shows that Datang is also in a hurry, and it is not specifically for us, so we have the opportunity to make profits from Datang. Sending someone to talk to them, even if they can't get along, can delay time. ”

Liang Shidu's eyes lit up, "Reasonable!" Xiangguo said a word and solved the mystery, no wonder the two countries raised troops for no reason, it turned out that there was something wrong in Youzhou. Haha, I have a great talent in Xiangguo, why worry about Liang Guo's prosperity? ”

The military department Shangshu asked curiously: "Xiangguo is young, he can have this insight and clever plan, amazing, I really don't know which master to learn?" ”

Xue Li smiled, and said in his heart, don't forget to explore my details?

"There is no teacher, it's just that I have read more books since I was a child. This plan is nothing, as early as the Han Dynasty, someone did this, called 'raising Kou self-respect'. ”

Self-respect? I've heard of it for a bit of learning, but not necessarily for the big guys.

Xue Li gave a brief introduction, saying that at the beginning, there was a secession of the vassal king, deliberately cultivating grass under his rule to make it bigger, and then asking the court for money and food to suppress the bandits, but it is always unfavorable to suppress the bandits, so he has to keep suppressing them, and the purpose is to keep sucking the blood of the court and fattening his own fiefdom.

Now Liang is sandwiched between two big countries, although it is precarious, but blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, and it may not be impossible to become bigger and stronger.

After listening to Xue Li's clever plan, Master Liang was overjoyed, and trusted this young man more and more, he was simply sent by God to prosper Liang. In the past, Liu Bang had Zhang Liang, and now I have Liang Shi Xue Li. Come here, reward the country with a thousand taels of gold, and ten beauties!

Xue Li was glad to thank him, and at the same time sent people to contact the Tang army, and on the other hand, he sent people to ask the Turks for help.

In fact, these two groups of people were Xue Li's own people, and he wanted to figure out what was going on. What kind of self-respect is to fool Master Liang into sucking the blood of Jieli. When the time comes, Liang Guo will return to Datang, aren't they all Datang's materials?

Originally, Xue Li came to Liang Shidu's side to set up this guy, and then get rid of him and lead Liang to surrender to the Tang Dynasty collectively. But later, Liang Shidu's side developed very well, and Xue Li decided to let Liang Shidu live a few more days first, and it would not be too late to kill him when it was useful in the future.

I have become the prime minister, and I have grasped the military and political affairs of Yanchuan County and Shuofang County, and I am not afraid that the people of Liang will harm the people, and I will vigorously develop the people's livelihood under the banner of Liang Guo, and govern this place in an orderly manner, so that Liang Shidu will no longer be a scourge, just a mascot.