Li Yuanji asked with a smile, "So... have you thought about it?"
Liang Luoren's hard chewing of the mutton froze, and he swallowed the mutton that had not been minced in his mouth into his stomach. He looked confused and didn't know how to speak.
Seeing this, Li Yuanji continued to smile and said: "If you haven't thought about it yet, I can give you some more time to continue thinking about it."
With that said, Li Yuanji was about to get up and go find Li Shimin and Ashina Simo.
Liang Luoren suddenly became anxious and said hurriedly: "No need..."
When Li Yuanji heard this, he sat down again, looked at Liang Luoren with a smile and said, "What, have you thought about it?"
Liang Luoren nodded with difficulty and said with a complicated expression: "If...I mean if I am willing to do my best for you, after you conquer Liangdu, can you leave a way for my people to survive?"
Li Yuanji thought for a moment and said with a smile: "Only for you..."
As for Master Liang's group, they must be killed.
This is the tradition of the old Li family, the tone set by Li Yuan, and cannot be lost.
When Liang Luoren heard this, he looked like a death row prisoner who was about to go to the killing ground, his face full of reluctance and sadness.
Li Yuanji continued: "You should understand that this is the best condition I can get for you. If it were up to my father to make the decision, not only Liang Shidu's team would die, but your team would also die.
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When Liang Luoren heard this, the unwillingness and sadness on his face became even stronger.
But he did not refuse this condition. Instead, like a body without a soul, he nodded stiffly and said a word.
"good!"
He had no choice, or in other words, since the Tang Dynasty was destined to conquer the Liang Kingdom, he had no room to bargain with the Tang Dynasty.
All he can do is accept Datang's conditions, or reject Datang's conditions.
But when the Tang Dynasty was destined to conquer the Liang Kingdom, he accepted the conditions of the Tang Dynasty. The Liang clan still had a way to survive. If he did not accept it, then everyone in the Liang clan would most likely die.
From the fate of Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande, Li Zitong and others, it is not difficult to see that the Tang Dynasty was never merciful in eradicating political opponents.
Not only will it cut the weeds, but it will also remove the roots.
Therefore, he had no other choice except agreeing to Datang's conditions.
He couldn't even refuse the Tang Dynasty, because in his heart, the life and death of the Liang family was obviously more important than the survival of the Liang country.
"Since you agreed, don't cry in despair and come with me to the banquet."
Li Yuanji had already guessed that Liang Luoren would agree, so he was not surprised by Liang Luoren's answer. He stood up, patted Liang Luoren on the shoulder, smiled and invited Liang Luoren to spend the bonfire party with Li Shimin and Ashina Simo.
The serious business has been discussed, and drinking and eating meat has become the only main theme.
Ashina Simo by the bonfire was already drunk, filling his stomach one bag after another. From time to time he would laugh and hold up the wine bag to clink glasses with Li Shimin, and chatter about the customs and customs of Mobei to Li Shimin.
Li Shimin was not interested in having a quick drink with Ashina Simo, but he was very interested in what Ashina Simo told about the customs and customs of Mobei.
So he drank with Ashina Simo as if he was coping, and listened patiently to Ashina Simo's talk about the customs and customs of Mobei.
When Li Yuanji took Liang Luoren to the bonfire, Ashina Simo was talking about the white camel in Mobei, saying that the white camel was the messenger of the gods in the world, and it would bring good luck every time it appeared. He had also witnessed it with his own eyes,
Said cheerfully.
"I didn't expect that King Heshun would have such an opportunity. It's really enviable."
Li Yuanji asked Liang Luoren to find a place to sit by himself, and then complimented Ashina Simo casually, interjecting into the topic of Ashina Simo.
Ashina Simo seemed to be more interested in him than Li Shimin. Seeing that he was very interested in the white camel, he immediately became more cheerful and talked more energetically.
When he was almost drunk, he even shouted that he would help him catch a white camel.
Li Yuanji did not dare to agree, because the religion on the grassland coveted the white camel more than the nobles on the grassland. Competing with the religion on the grassland for the white camel was simply causing trouble for the Tang Dynasty.
When the Tang Dynasty had not completely conquered the grasslands and established its own political power on the grasslands, it was still inappropriate to have conflicts with the religions on the grasslands.
After all, those religions on the grassland, if you let them succeed, they may not succeed, but if you let them fail, they will fail every time.
The reason why the grasslands have never formed their own culture, and the reason why the grassland people have not had a century-old national destiny, is all because of those religions.
They dominated the spirit of the prairie people and monopolized the culture of the prairie people, making it impossible for the prairie people to form their own culture. In the end, they could only have their minds controlled by them and be enslaved by them.
And if the spirit and culture of a country or a nation are in the hands of a group of mysterious people, what do you expect this country and this nation to achieve?
The most important thing is that this group of gods, gods, ghosts and ghosts are not the kind of gods, gods, ghosts and ghosts in the West who combine gods and government into one, but are gods, gods, ghosts and ghosts who simply bring out gods.
They don't care whether your country, your nation, your tribe is alive or dead.
They only care about you and whether your successor will serve them forever.
They only want to take and never want to repay.
They only thought about being slave owners and never thought about doing anything to help slaves.
And how can slaves transcend when their minds and culture are controlled?
"Hehehe...hehehe..."
Amidst Ashina Simo's unique snoring, Li Shimin, who was sitting by the campfire with blurred eyes, suddenly said, "What are you thinking about?"
Li Yuanji threw the eaten sheep bones into the bonfire, looked at Ashina Simo who was lying on the grass with his belly exposed, and then looked at Liang Luoren who was sleeping soundly under the big willow tree, feeling a little melancholy.
He said: "After thinking about me in the Tang Dynasty..."
Li Shimin surprisingly did not taunt, but looked at Ashina Simo with the same melancholy and said: "He is using a beast-like method to make us feel at ease about him."
When a beast surrenders to another stronger beast, it will expose its belly to show that it is harmless and does not dare to grin.
Prairie people often associate with wild beasts, so they also learned the beast's way of surrender.
Therefore, prairie people never expose their bellies when sleeping, especially the nobles on the prairie.
Ashina Simo now showed his belly without any scruples, which was to show his loyalty and harmlessness to the Tang Dynasty.
Li Shimin paused and then continued: "We cannot let us Tang people show our bellies to others under any circumstances."
Li Yuanji was silent for a while and sighed: "This is difficult..."
It was easy for Tang people to cover their belly tightly in a short period of time.
But it would be very difficult for Tang people to cover their belly tightly for a long time.
Because it is unknown whether the Tang Dynasty can survive forever, let alone the Tang people.
The entire Han nation is not very aggressive. In its five thousand years of history, the Han people have rarely left Asia.
So when the Han people unified the Central Plains and governed the Central Plains reasonably well, internal fighting became the only main theme.
In history, almost all dynasties after the Tang Dynasty were invaded by others because of endless internal fighting.
After studying the history of changes in the past dynasties, historians of later generations have come to a common point of view, that is, the main reason for the demise of most dynasties is land annexation.
And what is the root cause of land annexation being the main culprit for the collapse of dynasties?
Some people say it was the greed of the nobles, others said it was the emperor's inaction, and still others held other views.
But these views are all based on the fact that land is limited.
And this "numerous" refers to the fact that there is a finite amount of land in the Central Plains. After the nobles and landlords take over, the poor will have no place to stand, and they will have to rebel.
So why not enlarge our thinking and enlarge the pattern to look at this problem.
The land in the Central Plains is countable, but is the land outside the Central Plains also countable?
The land in the Central Plains has been occupied, why not try to get out?
The earth is so big, suitable for farming, and there is so much space suitable for human habitation.
Even if the Han people tried their best to conquer and develop, they would not be able to finish the development within a few hundred years.
Therefore, after going abroad, the problem of land annexation will no longer exist, at least until the Han people complete the development of the earth, the problem of land annexation will not arise.
But the Han people did not go out until later generations.
The root cause of this problem is that the Han people are less aggressive.
After unifying the Central Plains and gaining the honor of coming to court from all nations, the Han people in power were satisfied and began to stick to the rules.
Therefore, it is almost impossible for the Tang people to never show their belly to others. If we want the Han people to never show their belly to others, we must mobilize the aggressiveness of the Han people.
And this aggressiveness cannot be mobilized overnight.
Concepts such as fallen leaves returning to their roots and homeland being hard to leave have been deeply rooted in people's hearts.
The Han people have been firmly locked in the Central Plains.
To mobilize the aggressiveness of the Han people, we must break this traditional concept that has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
But this traditional concept is almost impossible to break in this era.
Because this requires a cultural innovation to break
There was no soil for cultural innovation in this era.
It can only be done step by step.
Li Yuanji didn't know how long he could live, and he wasn't sure he could accomplish this feat in his lifetime.
So he could only answer Li Shimin with two words: "It's difficult".
Li Shimin is a man who has a strategy, great ambition and fierceness in his heart, so he doesn't know what it means to retreat when faced with difficulties. He said firmly: "Even if it is difficult, you have to do it!"
Li Yuanji smiled and shook his head without saying anything.
At this time, he especially envied Li Shimin, a native.
Because he is ignorant, he can be fearless.
It's not like him, who knows too much and knows how difficult it is to do what he has to do, so he can't be fearless.