Li Yuanji's words made it clear that Li Shiji was not a good person.
Li Shiji smiled bitterly and said: "Your Highness may have misunderstood me..."
Misunderstand?
What misunderstanding could there be?
Forget about the official history, the novels don’t even dare to write you as a good person. They can only give you the skin of a Taoist priest and make you a conspirator of gods and ghosts. Tell me what kind of good person you can be?
Li Yuanji chuckled and stared at Li Shiji without saying anything.
Li Shiji had been watched for a long time. Even though the city was very deep, he had to lower his head slightly and sighed: "Well, since Your Highness has to let me accompany the King of Xiangyi for a while, then I will sacrifice my life to feed the tiger and accompany the King of Xiangyi."
Give it a try."
Wouldn't it be over if I said that earlier?
Is it causing me to waste too much time talking?
As for sacrificing one's life to feed a tiger, Li Yuanji doesn't believe it even if it's just a punctuation mark.
For a conspirator and military strategist of Li Shiji's level, after going to the Turks, it is not certain who is the tiger between him and Suni.
If Qi Sunis was sold by him, he would have to help him count the money.
You know, this guy has done this thing more than once in history.
It would be understandable to say that the son-in-law was killed for the first time because he was unaware and unprepared.
But for the second time, it would be completely unjustifiable to say that the son-in-law was unaware and unprepared.
The Xu Mansion is not a newly rising family. They were already a high-ranking family in the Sui Dynasty, and they have been officials for generations.
When choosing a son-in-law, he would definitely not choose a coward, and ordinary people would not be able to enter the gate of his Xu Mansion.
In this case, the son-in-law he chooses must be a smart man with status and background.
How could such a smart person not be on guard after seeing her habit of killing her son-in-law to establish her authority?
He was able to kill his son-in-law even when he was guarding him. What does this mean?
It means that he either talked things through with his son-in-law and made him willing to sacrifice his life, or he plotted against his son-in-law and forced him to sacrifice his life.
Both situations, no matter which one they are, prove that he is a man who is good at calculation and good at maneuvering the situation.
Sunisu is inferior to Jieli both in terms of mind and ability, so how can he be his opponent?
So after he went to the Turks, he was the only one who played Suni's share, and Suni lost his share.
The only thing Li Yuanji is worried about now is that after Li Shiji goes to the Turks, he will go too far and kill the Turks in advance.
In that case, although Datang would have one less powerful enemy, Li Jing and others would definitely have to explode.
They were dormant in silence and prepared carefully, just to make great achievements in the war against the Turks. If the Turks were killed by Li Shiji, what achievements would they make?
Do they still have to fight Li Shiji to the death?
Although conquering the Turks without bloodshed would be of great benefit to the Tang Dynasty, this was only a short-term benefit.
Li Yuanji is not a short-sighted person. He does not want such short-term benefits, but wants long-term benefits.
After Jieli defeated Qingzhou, the Turks had lost the capital to compete with the Tang Dynasty, and it was impossible for the Turks to march to Chang'an and force the Tang Dynasty to sign the Weishui River Alliance like in history.
After Suni betrayed the Turks and chose to fight against Jieli, the Turks even lost the capital to become an enemy of the Tang Dynasty.
Nowadays, the reason why Li Yuanji wants to control the war between Jieli and Sunis is, on the one hand, to weaken the power of the Turks, so that the Tang Dynasty does not have to pay such a high price when conquering the Turks, and on the other hand, it is to control
The time between Jie Li and Sunisu fighting left enough time for Tang Dynasty to gather strength.
When the Tang Dynasty gathered its strength, it was time for the Tang Dynasty to open its borders and fight in the north and south.
By that time, Turks will not only be a battlefield, but also a place that must be conquered, and it will also be a training ground for the Tang Dynasty.
The soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty had been fighting within the Tang Dynasty. The strategies and tactics they were familiar with were those used to deal with their own people. After opening the country, they had to use different strategies and tactics to face the grassland people.
Therefore, the Tang Dynasty must have a training ground for soldiers to familiarize themselves with the strategies and tactics of the prairie people.
The Turks are Li Yuanji's favorite military training ground. As long as some of the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty are trained in the Turks' military training ground, it will be easier for the Tang Dynasty to conquer Tuyuhun, Western Turks, Tubo, and even more distant places.
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More importantly, during this period, Datang could also try how to rule the grasslands.
Should we continue to use the methods of our ancestors to control the barbarians with barbarians, or should we establish a protective palace in accordance with the historical method of the Tang Dynasty? Or should we completely clear out or absorb the people on the grasslands and let the Han people move there, or establish a feudal state on the grasslands and let them move there.
The royal relatives of the Tang Dynasty all needed to try it when they returned to heaven.
How to manage the grassland, how to completely integrate the grassland into the Han Dynasty and make it an integral part of the Han Dynasty was a big proposition in the Tang Dynasty.
It is also a big proposition in the history of the entire feudal dynasty.
Throughout the history of feudal dynasties, no one could solve this problem perfectly.
Although later generations have solved this problem, there is no way to learn from the experience of later generations. Because the political systems were different and there was a gap of thousands of years, the methods of later generations were simply not applicable to the Tang Dynasty.
So we can only explore and find a method suitable for Datang.
This exploration must have a test bed, and the Turks were the test field chosen by Li Yuanji. In order to prevent Li Shiji from causing chaos after going to the Turks, Li Yuanji had to remind: "Li Aiqing, after you go to the Turks, remember to help Suni lose his
Just stabilize the current situation of defeat, and don’t do anything else.”
Li Shiji was such a smart person. He immediately understood the profound meaning of these words and immediately asked tentatively: "Your Highness, do you want to use the Turks to do other things?"
Li Yuanji did not hide everything, but revealed a little information to Li Shiji, "I believe you can also see that since the separation of Sunisu and Jieli, the Turks have lost the qualification to be enemies of the Tang Dynasty.
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Nowadays, the Turks are in civil strife and their power continues to be depleted. After Sunishi and Jieli decide the winner, the Turks will no longer be enemies with us, and it will be difficult for them to show their teeth to us.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! So the Turks are no longer what I should worry about in the Tang Dynasty.
I, Datang, should take a longer-term view."
Li Shiji's eyes flickered and he said: "Your Highness, what you mean is... I, the Tang Dynasty, want to conquer other places?"
Li Yuanji nodded without hesitation and said: "Everyone in the world is the land of the king. You can't just say it casually. Wherever you look, anyone who refuses to surrender to the Tang Dynasty will be conquered by the Tang Dynasty."
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The most powerful among them are the Western Turks, Tuyuhun, and the rising Tubo.
The people in these places mainly herd horses and herd sheep, with tribes as the center, and cavalry as raiders for warfare.
If we, the Tang Dynasty, want them to surrender and become our vassals, we must fight with them.
The officers and soldiers of our Datang Dynasty have been fighting within our Datang Dynasty before and are not familiar with their fighting methods.
So we need a training ground, a training ground where our soldiers of the Tang Dynasty can become familiar with the fighting methods of the grassland people."
When Li Shiji heard this, his eyes flickered even more urgently, and his speaking speed became much more urgent, "When our soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are trained, will we conquer these places?"
Li Yuanji nodded slowly.
The reason why Li Shiji's reaction was so exciting was that he heard many hidden meanings through these words.
For example, the conquest of the Turks was not the end of the Tang Dynasty's conquests in all directions, but only the beginning.
This shows that in the following ten years or even decades in the Tang Dynasty, wars would occur.
This also shows that in the following ten years or even decades, the Tang Dynasty would not do anything to hide the birds.
This is definitely good news for him as a military minister, especially one with outstanding abilities.
Because this means that he doesn't have to worry about being hid by the bird and killed by the donkey.
He can live comfortably for ten years or even decades.
When an official has reached his current state, it is meaningless to pursue merit anymore. The stability of the political power is what he wants.
To a certain extent, political stability and stability also mean that horses are released to Nanshan and swords and guns are stored in storage.
This is a very dangerous thing for him as a military minister.
Now, after knowing that the internal stability of the Tang Dynasty is stable, the war will spread to the outside world and the internal sage and the external king will be implemented. Military ministers like him can not only enjoy the internal stability and the happy life brought by the stability, but also will not be exterminated.
Gong Zang will still be useful, and it will be of great use. How could he not be happy?
As for the external world becoming chaotic, unstable, and devastated because of the Tang Dynasty's implementation of royal laws, what does that have to do with him?
As a Tang official, he only needs to care about the stability of the Tang Dynasty and whether he is happy or not.
What does it have to do with whether places outside the Tang Dynasty are stable or not, and whether people outside the Tang Dynasty are happy or not?
Li Yuanji revealed a little bit of his plan to Li Shiji just to prevent Li Shiji from causing trouble after he went to the Turks, and to prevent Li Shiji from worrying about things like the birds disappearing and the bows hiding.
Now looking at Li Shiji's reaction, the effect is not bad, so he can feel relieved a little bit.
As for completely letting go, that's impossible.
When facing someone like Li Shiji, if you dare to completely relax, he will dare to take advantage of your loopholes. He will definitely dare to do so without even trying.
You can't expect that a person who already had his own power before you started your business will have any respect for you after he joins you, starts up with you, and goes through all the steps of your start-up.
"Tujue is the training ground chosen by His Highness?"
Li Shiji asked with burning eyes.
Li Yuanji nodded and said: "Not bad..."
Li Shiji became more interested and said with a smile: "This is indeed an excellent training ground. If it is operated properly, it will definitely produce an elite army to deal with the grassland people."
After saying that, Li Shiji raised his head and said with a bright smile: "What does Your Highness need from me?"
Li Yuanji rolled his eyes without any trace.
Just now he said that he was forcing others to do something difficult, and he looked like he was afraid of beating the master to death for teaching his disciples.
Now he is completely in control of his wisdom, as if the Turks are in the palm of his hand?!
As expected, none of these old thieves who have gone down in history are honest people.