Li Jing took a dragon boat back to the Eastern Capital, and then took a train back to Chang'an from the Eastern Capital.

Liu Bowen and other prime ministers, as well as hundreds of civil and military officials, went to the railway station to welcome Li Jing's return.

Li Jing returned to Daming Palace and told the hundred officials about the harvest this time, not only subduing the Linyi Kingdom, but also bringing back a lot of treasures, discovering copper mines in Hongzhou and so on.

"How's the border now?"

After chatting for a while, Li Jing directly led the topic back to the border issue, has the situation in the Western Turkic Koubian been resolved?

How many troops and horses did the Western Turks, Turkish, and Murwei send out this time?

"The Western Turks have invaded more than ten prefectures such as Lingzhou and Xiazhou in the Tang Dynasty, and many places in Longyou have been plundered by the Western Turks, losing a lot of horses."

Li Dezhao, the squire of the military department, came out of the ranks and reported to Li Jing the situation on the border, and the Longyou area was invaded by the Western Turks, losing a lot of war horses, and there were no casualties among ordinary people for the time being.

"Is there only the Western Turks? What about Turgish and Murowe? ”

Li Jing frowned, didn't he say that there were three forces that invaded the border of the Tang Dynasty?

Why is it that only the Western Turks are wandering around, and the other two major forces are not moving in the slightest?

This is so strange that it has to make people wonder if the previous military situation is fake.

"Murwei is a subordinate of the Western Turks and should ...... There should be a raid with the Western Turks, the specific situation is not very clear, and the several states in Longyou only talked about the Western Turks. ”

"As for the Turgish, it has been intercepted by the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and the two sides are still in a confrontation, although there is a conflict between the enemy and us, it is just some small friction."

Li Dezhao spoke again.

Now it's Li Jing's turn to be unhappy, that's how you guys do things, and you use such things to perfunctory me, the emperor?

I didn't even figure out the specific situation, and you were embarrassed to say it, and you didn't even figure out how many soldiers and horses the other party was, but what was reported was some trivial things.

However, I don't dare to say anything, if the Western Turks dare to invade the border of the Tang Dynasty, they must deal a heavy blow to the Western Turks.

This is the price of daring to offend the Tang Dynasty, and the Western Turks must pay for their mistakes.

Li Jing also intends to take this opportunity to completely subdue the Western Turks, just like the Manchus in later generations tamed the steppe tough guys!

He doesn't believe in the ways and means of using radishes in the big stick to tame the Western Turks, will the Western Turks be tougher than the tough guys of the steppe?

Like the Manchu Qing Dynasty, first conquer the Western Turks by force, and completely hurt the Western Turks, until they are afraid, as long as they dare to show their teeth, they will be destroyed directly for you, and see if you dare to show your teeth!

Then they were suppressed and divided to disintegrate them, and the Manchus divided the Monan of the steppe peoples into 49 banners and the Khalkha into 86 banners, and the tribes were independent of each other and had no subordinate relationship.

The grassland people in each banner cannot move at will, and even if they do business with each other, they must obtain permission from the imperial court and obtain a permit.

Next, the Manchu Qing Dynasty adopted a soft strategy to win over the princes and nobles of the steppe, and in addition to making peace, they also gave these princes and nobles extremely high power and status.

Allow them to have the power of life and death in their respective territories, and give them very generous economic treatment every year, so that they can be corroded by sugar-coated shells.

In the end, Buddhism was used to control their spiritual thoughts, so that they changed from a martial nation to a soft egg who no longer practiced martial arts, and the Manchus even forced ordinary herdsmen to leave one person from each family.

This practice of carrots and sticks not only solved the threat posed by the steppe, but also cultivated a large number of thugs to fight for the Manchus.

As for the thorn head, it has already been encircled and suppressed many times, and it has been wiped out under the crusade.

In the Taizong Dynasty, there was a disagreement on how to arrange Yidi, and some ministers advocated scattering the Turks, scattering them all over the country, and sinicizing all of them.

But Wei Yanbo, the Chinese scholar at that time, did not agree with this method, and felt that there was no need to sinicize them at all, and they needed to be treated well, so let these foreigners stay in Hebei and let them stay as they were, so that they would be magnanimous to them, and they would definitely be grateful to the Tang Dynasty.

I have to say that Wei Yanbo is the first virgin of the Tang Dynasty, this gang of murderous foreigners, where do they know what gratitude is, and the consequences of doing so, the foreigners will not only not be grateful to you, but will also poison you.

Then there is Wei Zheng, according to the analysis of the tragic situation of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Wei Zheng advocated either killing all these foreigners, or driving them all back, and absolutely not staying in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, otherwise, once these foreigners become strong, the first thing to do is the Tang Dynasty.

Of the three plans, the first one is more reliable, Wei Zheng's suggestion is the safest, but the second is the most dangerous, the Anshi Rebellion is because the Hu people gathered in Hebei, and An Lushan can launch the Anshi Rebellion.

At that time, Emperor Taizong Wenwu was too confident and thought that he could suppress these Hu people, so he took the second suggestion, and as a result, in the 13th year of Zhenguan, the younger brother of the Turkic Khan, led 40 Turks, raided and killed more than a dozen palace guards, and almost lost Taizong's life.

It's a pity!

Later, the successor emperor did not learn this lesson, as long as the foreigners who belonged to the Tang Dynasty, they were all arranged to the north, north of the Yellow River, which laid the foundation for An Lushan to launch the Anshi Rebellion and let the Tang Dynasty turn from prosperity to decline!

Li Jing secretly made up his mind that he could not continue to make this mistake no matter what, and he wanted to disperse all the foreigners and scatter them all over the country.

"This is not the answer I want, I want to know all the information of the Western Turks, how many soldiers and horses do they have this time?"

Li Jing asked.

"It's not very clear how many soldiers and horses the Western Turks have, but the Lingzhou Assassin has just sent a battle report, he led his troops to fight the Western Turks, and finally retreated outnumbered, but also killed thousands of heads."

Shangshu's left servant Cen Changqian stood up, holding a wat board and said.

"Which part of the Lingzhou Assassin can be said to attack Lingzhou? How many soldiers are there? ”

Hearing that thousands of Western Turks were killed, I was in a better mood, and finally it was no longer a bad military report, although I still couldn't beat the Western Turks, but at least I had the courage to fight with the Western Turks.

This Lingzhou Assassin is much stronger than other states, although it is still glorious in defeat, it also kills thousands of enemy soldiers.

"This is not clearly stated in the battle report, but according to the Lingzhou assassin Sima Tuo killed thousands of enemy troops, plus there are more than 13,000 defenders in Lingzhou, the Western Turks who attacked Lingzhou this time are at least about 30,000."

Cen Changqian analyzed according to Sima Tuo's battle report and the situation of the defenders in Lingzhou, and blindly guessed that the Western Turkic army that invaded Lingzhou this time would definitely not be less than 30,000.

As for the situation in other states, it is a blind guess that this time the Western Turks launched an invasion of 200,000 troops.