Chapter 765: Enlarged Meeting of the Military Department

After Chang Lin left, Li Shimin also stood up and spoke.

"Then let's go to the Taiji Temple." Although the area of the Liangyi Hall is also sufficient, since it is a formal meeting, it must be replaced with a formal place.

When everyone walked out of the Liangyi Palace, Li Shimin looked at Li Ke and asked, "What do you decide to do with this matter of Tubo?" ”

"What to do? What does this have to do with our Datang? It was the Tibetan herdsmen who rebelled, and after these Tibetan herdsmen rebelled, they sincerely wanted to belong to our Tang Dynasty and become our Tang people, which are two different things. Li Ke shook his head and said.

Li Ke's words made many ministers next to him a little helpless, and the eyes of several generals who rushed over were bright, and these civil officials were somewhat entangled.

Wei Zheng couldn't help but speak: "Your Highness, isn't this too shameless, we are the Heavenly Empire, and Tubo is my Tang Dynasty's vassal country, in this case, wouldn't it be that everyone in my Tang Dynasty vassal country will be in danger in the future?" Is it even possible to attack them en masse? ”

"Hey, hey, Zheng Guogong, what you said, we wish that everyone of them would be in danger, if they were all in danger, then our Datang Iron Cavalry would knock down these places!" Cheng Yanjin immediately opened his mouth and shouted.

Wei Zheng was a little helpless, you soldiers naturally wanted to fight.

He didn't bother to argue with Cheng Yanjin, but waited for Li Ke's answer.

Li Ke smiled, "Let's talk about this at the meeting later." ”

In less than half an hour, all the members of the military department who were currently in Chang'an City rushed to the Taiji Palace, except for the historians who were in charge of the records, they were the heads of the three provinces, Changsun Wuji, Wei Zheng, and Fang Xuanling, and in addition to all the military department heads and military department members.

They are Li Jing, Li Xiaogong, Wei Chigong, Duan Zhixuan, Liu Hongji, Chai Shao, Zhang Liang, Hou Junji, Cheng Yanjin, Huo Gang, and then Li Shimin and Li Ke.

Chang Lin first read the content of this eight-hundred-mile expedited and the intelligence department's intelligence to everyone.

After Chang Lin finished reading, almost all the generals looked at Huo Gang for the first time.

The imperial court's eight-hundred-mile expedited they all knew what kind of system it was, and they would send people to start transmitting information to Chang'an as soon as they knew about it, and at the same time, the local officials in charge had the right to make any disposition in favor of Datang.

In other words, the 800 li rush must be the first time to pass back the news, but the news of the intelligence department is not much slower than the 800 li rush, and more importantly, the news of the intelligence department is more detailed, that is to say, have the spies of the intelligence department gone deep into Tibet?

This...... How long has the Ministry of Intelligence been in existence?

They were all the main generals before Datang, so they knew very well that Datang definitely didn't have such an efficient intelligence department before, and if they had, they would definitely have gotten information in the first few battles.

"Everyone has seen it, how do you feel now?" Li Shimin knocked on the table and asked.

The military meeting is different from the court hall, everyone sits around the same table, including Li Shimin.

"This ...... It's kind of unbelievable. Zhang Liang, who came over later, couldn't help but speak.

"Who's to say it's not, this ...... Isn't it just a bloodless blade? Liu Hongji also nodded.

"This must be His Highness's arrangement in the early stage, otherwise, even if these serfs rebel, they are just replacing some nobles, how could they want to join our Datang." Cheng Yanjin said.

"It is true that I arranged some people to go in, in fact, the task of arranging them is very simple, that is, let them tell those serfs in Tibet and tell them what normal life should be like? They were not born serfs, they should have their own land and should live their own life. Li Ke nodded and said.

Everyone was a little speechless, Li Ke's words seemed to be an understatement, but how could this matter be so simple, everyone knew very well that ordinary people were very ignorant, they had no culture, they hadn't read books, what can they understand if you tell them the truth? If these people were so easy to agitate, Datang would not be so easy to rule.

What's more, how do you ensure that those who have been given the right give up their chance to become nobles and choose to integrate into the Tang Dynasty?

It seems like a few simple sentences, but there are so many meanings in it.

"Let's not talk about this today, now that things have happened, the Xizhou Metropolitan Protector has sent 30,000 elite cavalry to Yadong Barrier, that is to say, theoretically, the entire Tubo has been under the management of my Tang Dynasty." Li Ke said.

"Your Highness, is it still the same question I asked earlier, is there something wrong with this? Will it cause many of our subjects to be in danger, such as Xue Yantuo, Murwei, Khitan and other departments in the north? Wei Zheng asked the question just now.

"There's nothing wrong with that, I didn't answer you just now, but what I want to say now is that I know that many of you have such thoughts, but I tell you that such thoughts will be discarded in the future."

"We are not the Celestial Empire, nor are we the center of the world, although Datang is very powerful, but there may be countries in this world that are stronger than Datang." Li Ke said with a serious face.

Everyone was stunned for a moment, is there a stronger country than Datang?

"Your Highness is talking about Persia, Arabia and Rome?" Chai Shao asked with some curiosity.

Because of Li Ke, almost all the generals of the Tang Dynasty have now seen the maps sorted out by Li Ke, and the names of these countries are naturally according to the names that Li Ke said.

"It's not." Li Ke shook his head lightly and said.

"It can only be said that Persia, Arabia and Rome are the most powerful countries we can reach, but actually! The world is huge! And if our Tang Dynasty is arrogant and self-contained, how can it become an empire on which the sun never sets? Li Ke looked at them and said.

Li Ke beckoned, and Chang Lin over there immediately opened the map.

Everyone is familiar with this map, so it's no surprise.

Li Ke stood up and walked to the side of the map, pointed to several countries on the map and said: "According to the calculations of the Taishi Bureau, the planet under our feet is very large, and the straight-line distance from us to the westernmost part of this continent is about 20,000 li!" And at a distance of 20,000 miles, there are several powerful countries! ”

"And on this continent, the oldest country with a recorded history can last back four thousand years!" Li Ke pointed to the location of Egypt in the later generations.

Everyone was a little stunned.

"But the area of this continent is very vast, because it borders our continent with only such a small piece, and no one knows if there will be more powerful countries in the depths of the continent! What if they threaten our Datang?! Li Ke pointed to the future generations of Africa and said.