1novels Chapter 127 Too Ruthless (Please recommend a ticket)
Chapter 127 Too Ruthless (Please recommend a ticket)
Chapter 127 Too Ruthless (Please recommend a ticket)
Li Shimin smiled dumbly, and said: "I have led soldiers for so many years, and you still come to test me? Of course the most important things in war are morale, armor and weapons, and money and food."
"Your Majesty is very wise, what you said is very correct." Lin Xuan patted his ass, and continued: "I summed up what Your Majesty said in one point. Fighting wars is the strength of the country, and those things that foreigners have learned in the Tang Dynasty seem useless. , but it can improve their national strength very well. They will definitely not be content with the status quo and attack Datang when they are strong. Do you still think they should learn from it?"
Lin Xuan didn't believe that so many capable people in Datang would fail to see this.
However, no one stopped it. To put it bluntly, it was the pride of being a kingdom of heaven.
I feel that those countries admire the culture of the Tang Dynasty, and it is a very face-saving thing to study in the Tang Dynasty.
But I forgot that people who are not of my race must have a different heart.
Li Shimin was silent, he had to admit that what Lin Xuan said made sense.
"People from Fusang country can be driven away directly, what about those from other countries?" Li Shimin asked.
He already agreed with Lin Xuan's statement, but he must find a reason to drive people from other countries away.
Lin Xuan smiled and said, "People from other countries can keep it. Don't they admire Tang culture? Let them all go to Guozijian to learn Confucian culture."
Don't you want to study? If I let you study at the highest institution in the Tang Dynasty, you should have nothing to say.
Li Shimin's eyes lit up, and he praised: "Your method is very good."
"Your Majesty is absurd." Lin Xuan said modestly.
"Li Mu, pass the decree: Fusang sent Tang envoys, if they do not abide by the laws of the Tang Dynasty, they will all be expelled back." Li Shimin was also a decisive person, and he made up his mind to implement it immediately.
"Yes!" Li Mu took the order and left.
Li Shimin stared at Lin Xuan with interest, and he found that Lin Xuan could always put forward some particularly useful points of view.
"Your Majesty, you don't want to punish the minister, do you?" Lin Xuan was a little scared by Li Shimin.
Li Shimin sneered: "You beat Fusang envoy to Tang Dynasty in public, do you think this is over?"
Lin Xuan curled his lips inwardly, you have decreed to expel people, and now you are talking about me, you must be plotting against me.
"Your Majesty can directly order you if you have anything to do. I will do my best to share your Majesty's worries." Lin Xuan was very knowledgeable.
Li Shimin nodded in satisfaction, and said: "The Xue Yantuo, Huihe and other tribes invade our borders all the year round, plundering money and people. I have always wanted to send troops to destroy them, but most of them are nomads and have no fixed place. What can you do?" No?"
Li Shimin was praised for his broad-mindedness in history, but his mind was very small. Those foreign races invaded the border every year, which made him always hold a grudge.
However, those alien races are nomads and live in no fixed place.
If you hit him, he will run away. The grassland is so big that it doesn't make sense if there are too many people.
Before destroying the Eastern Turks, they also succeeded in one fell swoop by occupying the right time (it was snowing heavily in winter) and the right location (sneak attack and ambush).
The most famous battle against foreign races in history is Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who destroyed the Xiongnu.
But when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty destroyed the Xiongnu, he relied on the money and food wealth accumulated by the two emperors, Wen and Jing, for decades.
"Historical Records Ping Zhun Shu" records: "During the more than [-] years of Han Xing, the country was fine, except for floods and droughts, and the people provided enough for their families. They were all full of contempt, granaries, and houses, and the government treasury had surplus goods. The money of the capital is huge, and it is rotten and cannot be corrected; the millet of Taicang is filled with dew and accumulates outside, until it is corrupt and inedible. There are horses in the streets and alleys, and there are groups of rice paddies.”
With such a strong foundation of money and food, plus Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, such commanders still fought the Huns for more than 40 years before driving the Huns out of Mobei.
Remember to drive out, not exterminate.
Why didn't Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty take advantage of the victory and pursue it?
It's not that he doesn't want to, but that the treasury has been emptied and there is no money.
Although Xue Yantuo, Huihe and other tribes are far behind the original Huns.
However, the national power of the Tang Dynasty was also far behind that of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
Li Shimin was not as lucky as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and he had the shadow of his grandfather and father.
He even won the throne by himself.
Li Shimin is not a pure-bred Han Chinese, he has a quarter of Xianbei blood.
Although he knows people and makes good use of them, he accepts advice with an open mind.
But it also inherited the cruelty of nomads and their emphasis on territory.
In Li Shimin's eyes, the entire Tang Dynasty is his territory. If you come to grab it today and grab it tomorrow, he can't bear it at all.
Lin Xuan nodded and said: "Your Majesty is right, the nomads are really difficult to solve. But I have a way to solve this problem!"
"You can't help it." Li Shimin said subconsciously when he heard Lin Xuan's words and felt that Lin Xuan had nothing to do.
But immediately after hearing the second half of Lin Xuan's words, he stood up excitedly, grabbed Lin Xuan's shoulders tightly with a pair of big hands, and said, "You...what did you say?"
Because of excitement, Li Shimin's voice trembled a little.
Lin Xuan didn't expect that Li Shimin's body was a little fat, but his strength was not weak, and it hurt a little bit when he was scratched.
"Your Majesty, don't get excited. I really have a solution. Not to mention far away, but close to it, it can keep my Great Tang frontier safe for a hundred years. If it is implemented well, those nomadic territories will always become my Great Tang land. !” Lin Xuan said confidently.
"Say it!" Li Shimin stared at Lin Xuan closely with a pair of tiger eyes.
Lin Xuan said: "Your Majesty, before talking about this method, I have a question to ask Your Majesty. I wonder if Your Majesty cares about what future generations think of you?"
Li Shimin was silent for a while, the expression on his face fluctuated, and he opened his mouth after a long time: "If it will last forever, of course I care! If it has mixed reputation, I don't care."
In fact, Li Shimin is a very contradictory person. If you want to say that he cares about his reputation, he did things like killing his brother and imprisoning his father for the throne.
Let's say he doesn't care, after he became emperor, he not only smeared Li Jiancheng wantonly, but also forbade anyone to talk about what happened back then.
"The minister's method is to kill people, destroy land, and destroy livestock." Lin Xuan said word by word.
"Sigh~"
In Li Shimin's city, after hearing Lin Xuan's words, he couldn't help but take a breath.
No wonder Lin Xuan asked him before whether he cared about what future generations would think of him. This strategy was really inhumane.
Li Shimin frowned and said, "This act is inhumane. Are you sure it's a mixed reputation, not a long-lasting stigma?"
Lin Xuan knew that Li Shimin was moved, because Li Shimin didn't refuse this method, but was worried that it would leave a bad reputation forever.
Lin Xuan sneered: "Your Majesty, if they are not of my race, their hearts must be different. Although this action is harmful to the peace of heaven, it does not mean that His Majesty will kill them all. As long as those alien races are willing to surrender, they can become the people of Datang."
During the Three Kingdoms period, there were often mountains and more riots in Wu State, which restrained a large number of troops.Zhuge Ke was ordered to lead his troops to exterminate Shanyue. Because Shanyue hid in the mountains, he would fight if he could beat him, run away if he couldn't beat him, and chase him if he couldn't catch him.
Zhuge Ke thought of a way. He didn't fight Shanyue, and he didn't send troops into the mountain. He just sent troops to guard the dangerous place.
When the grain that Shanyue planted in the mountains was ripe, he sent troops in to burn it.
Shanyue had no food available, so in order not to starve to death, he had to surrender.
Lin Xuan's method was based on Zhuge Ke's method, with some modifications.
With so many capable ministers in the Tang Dynasty, it is impossible not to think of this method, but this method is too ruthless, and no one wants to bear this infamy.
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