"The cannibals have mastered the artillery casting technology and can design their own artillery."
"In this case, after we leave Dashi, it is estimated that within a year, the sea will be full of man-eating gunboats,"
"When the time comes, how will we control the Maritime Silk Road?"
Li Chengqian: "Everything the teacher said makes sense, but even if we destroy the shipyard of the Great Eater, it will only temporarily delay the shipbuilding speed of the Great Eater."
"After all, they should have acquired enough shipbuilding technology. As long as we leave Dashi, it will not be difficult for them to rebuild the shipyard."
Su Chen said helplessly: "There is nothing we can do about this. We can only postpone it for a while. If the cannibals are dishonest in the future, we will send troops again."
At present, the Tang Dynasty court does not have a clear attitude towards Dashi, the Maritime Silk Road, etc. Su Chen can only take care of the present and discuss the future matters later.
Su Chen said and looked at Li Chengqian: "Does your Highness have a permanent solution?
tell me the story."
Li Chengqian smiled and said: "There is no one-and-done solution for students. It's just that I put forward some conditions this morning, and I think the teacher can listen to them."
Su Chen was stunned: "Those big food aristocrats?
What did they say?"
Li Chengqian said: "Teacher, there are indeed many smart people in those big food nobles. As soon as they saw the teacher ordered to bombard the cities along the coast, they immediately guessed the teacher's purpose."
Su Chen: "This is not difficult to guess, and then they ran to His Highness and you begged for mercy?"
Li Chengqian: "Yes, they came to me to beg for mercy, saying that they can guarantee us that their shipyard will only build ordinary merchant ships, not warships."
Su Chen shook his head: "This kind of guarantee has no effect!"
Li Chengqian nodded and said: "This student knows, but since they have made such a promise, they should not dare to violate it in a short period of time. This is not much different from the effect of destroying their shipyard."
"If this is the case, we don't have to offend all the nobles of Dashi. Moreover, if we bombard all the cities along the coast of Dashi, it will not be of any benefit to us in opening the Maritime Silk Road in the future."
"And these food nobles seem to have guessed that we will open the Maritime Silk Road. They said they want to open mutual trade with Datang in the future."
"Teacher, I think these guys should be eyeing the profits from future business. In this case, they won't easily break their promise to us."
Su Chen frowned. It's really hard to say this. Businessmen will do anything to make money.
But Su Chen looked at Li Chengqian with some doubts in his heart: "Your Highness, these alone are not enough for you to make a trip in person!"
Li Chengqian smiled and said: "Teacher is really good at predicting things. I was about to tell him another thing!"
"Teacher, they are planning to make Zubair king. Teacher knows this."
Su Chen: "They have had this plan for a long time, but they never had the courage. I guess once our army retreats, Osman will settle the score with them."
Li Chengqian: "Teacher, these nobles should come for real this time."
Su Chen shook his head: "Even so, they should not be Osman's opponents. Besides, what does this have to do with us?"
Li Chengqian smiled and said: "Teacher, can we support them secretly? If two kings coexist at that time..."
Su Chen looked at Li Chengqian: "Your Highness, do you want Dashi to be divided?"
Li Chengqian nodded: "You can try it!"
"Teacher, we should be mortal enemies with Osman. Even if we teach him a lesson this time, I estimate that once we leave, he will continue to plot to harm the Tang Dynasty."
"And who knows how many good things those remnants of the family gave him. It's hard to predict what will happen in the future."
Su Chen: "So His Highness is trying to cultivate a great food country that is close to the Tang Dynasty?"
Li Chengqian: "It won't do any harm anyway, right?"
Su Chen nodded and said, "That's right. Even if Zubair becomes an enemy of the Tang Dynasty in the future, it doesn't matter. He can still cause some internal friction to the Tang Dynasty."
"But how to support them secretly? Does Your Highness have any arrangements?"
Since Li Chengqian came to find him, Su Chen felt that he should have a complete plan.
Li Chengqian smiled and said: "Actually, we don't have to do anything, we just need to delay Osman here for a few days!"
Su Chen looked at Li Chengqian: "Is this the request of those big food nobles to His Highness?"
Li Chengqian nodded and said: "Yes, I didn't expect them to ask me for help."
"But this doesn't seem to be difficult for us, and the benefits are huge,"
"So I promised them on behalf of the teacher. Look, teacher..."
Su Chen was happy now: "Your Highness, of course you can't let go of such a good opportunity!"
"This is like the big food nobles selling the big food for their own benefit. Why don't you take the advantage you got for nothing!"
Su Chen also didn't expect that the nobles would ask him for help in order to deal with Osman.
Datang and Dashi are still in a state of war. They are enemies.
These big food aristocrats really know how to play!
"How long did it take for those people to reveal to His Highness what they were going to do?"
Li Chengqian said: "They seem to be waiting for a general named Telha to bring the army back to the peninsula from the front line. Only in this way can they have the confidence to compete with the Ottomans."
Su Chen thought for a while: "Taylor?
I seem to have heard this name mentioned by the Byzantine envoy, and he should be one of the commanders who fought against Byzantium on the Western Front."
"If the leading commander on the front line suddenly rebels and runs away with his army, wouldn't Dashi be completely defeated in the Levant region?"
"These big food aristocrats have completely bought up their own country!"
Li Chengqian laughed and said: "Anyway, it's their cannibalism, let's just watch the fun!"
"Ottoman is on the other side, right?
It shouldn’t be difficult to hold him back, right?”
Su Chen also smiled and said: "The hot air balloon has been watching, Osman is on the other side,"
"As long as we don't move, Osman should not dare to act rashly. He is also worried that our army will cross the Gila River and approach Ctesiphon!"
As soon as Su Chen finished speaking, Liu Jingren hurried into the tent:
"Commander! There is something strange happening to the Ottomans opposite! It seems like they are preparing for the departure of the army."
Su Chen and Li Chengqian looked at each other: "Has Osman discovered something?"
"This bunch of rich food aristocrats who succeed only in failure but fail in failure!"
Su Chen and Li Chengqian came to the river to see what Osman was going to do.
At this time, Muwesa hurriedly ran over from the pontoon. When he saw Li Chengqian, he was slightly stunned, and then said happily:
"I have met His Highness the Crown Prince. It turns out that His Highness has arrived at the camp. Can we continue the previous negotiations?"
