The Tang Dynasty has no intention of fighting in the near future, and one of the important reasons for this is that the world is withering and needs to recuperate.

Wang Xuanjing knew very well what the world was like now, and he looked at the imperial court taxes for the three years of the Sui Dynasty's great cause, and at that time it was recorded that the collection of various grain taxes was 42.97 million stones, of which 36.73 million stone were tax grains.

Chang closed 6240,000 stones, 4.5 million silk silks, 7.8 million linen cloth, 4.3 million copper coins, and more than 100,000 silver.

In the third year of the great cause, it can be said that it was the most glorious period of the Sui Dynasty, at this time Yang Guang, who had just ascended the throne, had not yet begun to fool around, and there was the afterglow of Emperor Wen, and this period was also the most annual income of the Sui Dynasty.

And now, although it has been ten years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the tax revenue in the world is still less than one-third or even one-quarter of the three-year period of the Great Cause.

After experiencing the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, 10% of the world's population went to 60%, and only a little more than one-third remained.

In fact, if you really want to send troops, the imperial court can also come up with a lot of grain and grass, just last year's wave, even if the money and grain borrowed by the Wang family were returned, there were still millions of money and grain in the hands of the imperial court.

With so much money and grain, it can be said that since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there has never been such a rich war, because many ministers of the imperial court have written to the Turks after seeing that the money and grain in the court are so abundant, and they want to send troops out of the Turks to repay the shame of the first year of Zhenguan and the plundering of Guanzhong by the Khan.

However, Wang Xuanjing and Li Shimin both objected, Wang Xuanjing said that the Turks were at their peak at this time, and they returned with a full load of profits and prestige, and they were not suitable for sending troops, and the world was tired, so they should take this opportunity to recuperate instead of sending troops.

Li Shimin said even more soberly: "It is a good thing that the imperial court has abundant money and grain, but is the granary of the former Sui treasury not abundant?" You must know that there are still more than 100,000 stone of grain in the Luokou warehouse, is the fall of the Sui Dynasty because the money and grain are not abundant? ”

"Not really!"

"Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty plundered a lot of money and grain from the people, wantonly abused the people's power, and the people lived in poverty, is this also a prosperous era?"

"The scourge of Sui Yang is still in front of me, how can I use troops in a big way regardless of the hardships of the people?"

Fang Xuanling next to him also said with a smile: "Your Majesty, if Chengping is today, although there is a disaster, but the imperial court has been able to provide disaster relief, and there are no large number of displaced people, and the price of grain in Chang'an City is even lower than that during the Kaihuang period. ”

"Now is the best life for the people since the opening of the emperor, and this is all the work of Your Majesty."

"It is not my work, it is all the cooperation of the ministers that has the Tang Dynasty today." Li Shimin said with a smile: "However, it is not a good thing that the price of grain is too low, the grain is cheap and hurts the farmers, and it is not uncommon for the people to sell their sons and daughters in good years." ”

Even though it has been a long time since the classic grain war last year, Li Shimin still finds it thrilling, and for the first time he realized the importance of grain prices and the power of the economy.

Fortunately, he won last time, but what about the next time? If Wang Xuanjing hadn't predicted in advance, I was afraid that the imperial court would have suffered heavy losses last year.

Even in order to borrow grain from those family lords and Guanlong nobles, he, the emperor, had to promise those people a lot of benefits.

"I am ready to re-implement the regular closing of the position, collect grain at the same price in the harvest year, so as to ensure that the people do not hurt the peasants because of the cheap grain, and sell the grain at the same price in the disaster year, so as to ensure that the people will not sell their children and daughters." Li Shimin said.

"Your Majesty Shengming!" The ministers were also frightened by the situation last time, and even not only food, but also many important civilian goods were ready to be included.

Li Shimin now pays attention to the people's livelihood and recuperates with the people, but it does not mean that he does not want to establish military merits. As an immediate emperor, seriously speaking, he is better at leading an army to fight than to recuperate and govern the world.

Especially since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the border situation has become more and more severe, the DTZ in the north is in the heyday, and the Liaodong State continues to invade the northeast, which makes the imperial court like a man.

The miscellaneous beards in the land of the river, as well as Tuyuhun are also troubles.

The land of Hehuang is rich in water and grass, suitable for raising horses and farming, if Tuyuhun continues to grow, it is a threat to Hexi Longyou, and Hexi Longyou is the barrier in Guanzhong, once lost here, the northern Hu people can rush into Guanzhong.

So although the current Datang has been established, it is not as stable as it seems.

Li Shimin's purpose of allowing the people to recuperate now is to accumulate strength and wait for the enemy to make mistakes. As the so-called side of the couch, it is not allowed for others to sleep soundly.

Therefore, Li Shimin has been accumulating strength and preparing to fight with the Turks.

And Jingluo Hexi is also an important part of this.

After the Turkic split into the Eastern and Western Turks, there was a grudge between the two families, and the Western Turks were still far away from the Central Plains, so they could now ignore it, and the main thing they faced was DTZ.

In order to deal with DTZ, Li Shimin prepared several sets of plans, he prepared a three-way army to attack the Turks, and Hexi was to attack the Turks from the west.

Li Shimin sent Wang Xuanji to the land of Hehuang, not only to connect the Western Regions, but also to stabilize Hexi and Hehuang, and at the same time send troops to cut off the back road of DTZ when he was ready to make a move against the Turks.

Turkic.

The Turks at this time can be said to be unexpectedly powerful.

It's just that unlike the policy of the Tang Dynasty to make great efforts to govern and recuperate, Jieli Khan went south to Guanzhong and drank Ma Weishui, and his momentum was huge. He did what his father, and even his grandparents, had not.

forced the Central Plains Dynasty to succumb, and also sent rich materials and goods.

Therefore, since the withdrawal of troops from Chang'an in the first year of Zhenguan, Jieli has become more and more arrogant, and after obtaining a large amount of goods from the Central Plains, Jieli Khan has more oppression on other Hu people who submitted to the Turks.

This also caused the Xue Yantuo, Hui and other tribes that were originally subordinated to the Turkic tent to become more and more dissatisfied, and finally rebelled against the Turks.

The rebellion of these tribes enraged the Jieli Khan, and he sent the Tuli Khan to fight against him. As a result, Tuli Khan was defeated, and at this time, Jieli Khan did not appease, but put him under house arrest, and he was even more intoxicated and enjoyed.

This weakened DTZ's strength, and more seriously, his actions led to an increasingly fierce struggle for power among the Turkic factions.

Li Shimin has always been very concerned about the Turks, and sent a large number of scouts into the grassland to collect intelligence on the grassland, and even when he learned about the situation of the Turks, he almost couldn't hold back and set out to conquer the grassland at the beginning of the second year of Zhenguan.

Fortunately, in the end, he endured it, but what Li Shimin didn't expect was that Jieli Khan's operation made Tuli Khan feel in crisis, and he secretly asked Datang for help.

This made Li Shimin feel that the time to defeat the Turks was getting closer and closer.

(End of chapter)