Li Shimin grabbed his beard, and his moustache was very greasy on his lips, but the decoration was very short. Hearing Li Chao's determination without hesitation, he exerted force on his hand and accidentally pulled down a beard.

His female teeth were so painful that she cracked her mouth.

"Can you talk?" Li Shimin was worried. When he first succeeded to the throne, he had already sent envoys to the Western Regions to form a ally with Tong Ye Hu. He had a good relationship before. Tong Ye Hu submitted a congratulatory letter and sent a delegation, and sent a lot of cattle, horses and came.

But now, Tong Ye Hu suddenly became the number one enemy of the Tang Dynasty.

"The frontier of the empire is defended by the swords of soldiers, and the safety of the dynasty is not negotiated at the negotiating table. Without strong strength as a backing, when we negotiate, we will only be regarded as weak and seeking surrender, and will only encourage the enemy's ambitions more and more."

Li Shimin sighed and leaned back on the back of the chair.

"So, we can only meet each other and start a fight with them?"

"In this battle, we cannot avoid it. If we don't fight, they will only become more and more like we are weak and bullied, and will not pay attention to our peace. Only by fighting first and winning can they return to the negotiating table."

Li Chao really saw a long way to see the current situation with the Turks. Last year, when Li Shimin succeeded to the throne, the Turks wanted to go south. Later, the Tang Dynasty maintained a peaceful situation and did not fight.

But two years later, the Turks still fought, but Jie Li Khan, who wanted to fight the Tang Dynasty, has now become Li Shimin's guest. What they are going to fight now is the Tang Dynasty used two years ago to deal with Jie Li's Western Mo ally.

At this time, the situation changes rapidly, and the situation changes so quickly.

But two years later, the strength of the northern enemy became stronger. On the contrary, after two years of the Tang Dynasty, the territory was much larger. However, after experiencing this once-in-a-decade disaster in the north, the Tang Dynasty's treasury was empty and it was in an extremely weak stage. It was okay to fight a small-scale border war, but if you fight a full-scale war, you would not have enough confidence.

Li Shimin really wants to be tough now, but he knows that he lacks confidence.

The account book that Li Chao gave him was full of red letters page by page.

If you have no food and money, what kind of war should you use? The disasters in the Central Plains have not yet passed, so how can you fight in the north now?

"Wen Yuan, can't you really have a good talk with Tong Ye Hu?" Li Shimin hesitated for a while and gritted his teeth, "If Tong Ye Hu is willing to talk, I can give him Dingxiang first."

Li Chao was a little surprised and was willing to compromise.

"Your Majesty's intention is to give Dai Bei to Tongye Hu?"

Li Shimin nodded.

I know my own background. Although the imperial court had many soldiers and generals and elite generals on the northern border, the imperial court could not support them in fighting a big battle.

Li Chao still shook his head.

After brewing the oolong tea, Li Chao blew it with a small purple clay tea cup and took a sip. Sure enough, the tea tree king's tea tasted the best.

"Your Majesty, we can't satisfy him even if we give Daibei to Tongye Hu at this time. He had just defeated Tiel and merged with the Turkic tribes in the eastern region. Now that the troops are strong and the horses are strong, how can he satisfy this? We can only make him more greedy when we seek peace at this time."

"Where is the Hetao to Tongyehu?" Li Shimin asked again.

"I mean for the time being."

He saw Li Chao looking at him and said helplessly.

The Hetao Plain was built by Li Chao, Li Jing, Li Ji, Changsun Wuji and others, and they finally recovered it. Now he is going to send it out, so he is very unwilling to do so. But so what if he doesn't want to do it, he can't fight, at least he can't fight this year.

Now Li Shimin only hopes that after Tongye Hu can accept Hetao, his appetite will be satisfied, so that the Tang Dynasty can be delayed until next year or the year after recovery, and then go north again to calculate the old accounts with Tongye Hu.

"Your Majesty, I think we can talk to the Turks, but we have to know that we must be prepared for war and for tough battles."

Of course, peace talks are possible, but this can be used as a means to deceive the Turks. Regardless of whether they can cheat them or not, try it first, at least delay the time, what if they can cheat them.

But you can deceive the Turks, but you can't deceive yourself. If you really believe that peace talks can be accomplished, isn't this wishful thinking stupid?

"War, the court has no money, and the deficit is 30 million." Li Shimin spread his hands to Li Chao.

Li Chao drank tea and didn't speak. Of course he knew that the court had no money. He was in charge of the Ministry of Revenue now. The court's money bags were in his hands. Even the court could owed 30 million yuan, thanks to Li Chao. It was not Li Chao, but Li Shimin owed 30 million yuan the national debt he had obtained.

Now Li Shimin said to him that he had no money, and there seemed to be a different meaning in this.

"Wen Yuan, can you issue some more bonds?"

"How much does Your Majesty want to send?" Li Chao asked.

Li Shimin picked up the tea and took a sip. The best oolong tea, the rare tea king tree tea leaves, Li Shimin drank it in one sip like a cow drink, and had no intention of savoring it. "If you really fight with Tongye Hu, you will have to 30 million yuan."

The Tang Dynasty's military system is correct, and the government soldiers are equipped with their own equipment, but a war of mobilizing at least 300,000 people would have to mobilize almost 50% of the Tang Dynasty's military forces. The food, grass, and weapons that require consumption, etc., which is quite huge. Moreover, to maintain such a war and support so many soldiers to fight, a large number of civilians must be mobilized.

Li Shimin had a headache for a battle of this scale. At least he scored into several large corpses, formed multiple combat corpses, and started wars on multiple fronts. Only then could he be commanded.

Battles with more than 100,000 people basically do not fight in one place, but are divided into multiple war zones and composed of countless small battles. With the communication capabilities of this era, they are actually commanded by the famous generals separately.

No one can lead the entire battle at once.

If you really want to fight with Tongye Hu, the entire northern border will be a battlefield. From Hexi to Longyou, from Shuofang to Guanzhong, then to Hedong and Hebei, Li Shimin is not short of generals who can fight for such a long front of thousands of miles.

Li Jing, Li Ji, Li Chao, Qin Qiong, Yuchi, Gong, Chai Shao and other famous generals, one of them leads the way, and this is no problem.

There were so many soldiers in the Tang Dynasty, but the key was the difficulty of logistics and food.

Li Shimin calculated based on the mobilization of 300,000 soldiers, and 30 million military expenses were the minimum standard.

When fighting, money is the battle.

Food, arms, rewards, pensions, etc., are quite terrifying.

"Your Majesty, we can only dispatch troops within 100,000 at most. If we exceed this number, we will collapse without fighting." Li Chao said to Li Shimin bluntly.

Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to support the battle of more than 100,000 troops, let alone 300,000. There are soldiers, but the same thing is true, logistics, food and money cannot be supported.

"Can't you get 30 million?"

"Thirty million coins? I have no choice but to ask Your Majesty to replace the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue!"

"If you can't get money, then there will be no one in the court." Li Shimin was directly. When it comes to making money, no one is more powerful than Li Chao.

"Your Majesty, the imperial court has collected more than 12 million taxes this year and issued 30 million bonds. To put it bluntly, this is not just about eating the food of the Yin Dynasty. We will use the taxes for the next five years in advance. If we issue them now, no one dares to buy them."

The bonds issued by the imperial court were not entirely voluntarily accepted by the people. Although Li Chao's family bought a bond of one million yuan, he knew that many wealthy households were actually half-persuaded and forced by local officials. Basically, they set the indicators directly and set the purchase tasks based on the wealthy households' property.

I bought it several times a year, but who would like to buy it alone without interest?

If you say that it will happen every one or two years, you can still understand that this year's disaster is a major disaster, but it was issued 30 million in the first place and then it will be issued again. It's really not cost to print bonds.

"How much can I get?"

"At most, three to five million, no matter how much it is, it really won't work."

Three to five million, how enough money is enough to fight a big battle?

"Wen Yuan, can you borrow it?"

Borrow? Li Chao looked at the emperor. Is he trying to borrow money? Who should I borrow? It is impossible to borrow money from the rich again. Last time I borrowed grain, I just used the money from the government debt to repay the white note, and then I actually owed the rich again the principal and interest of the government debt.

If you borrow it now, you have not paid back the previous debt, so it will be difficult to borrow it again.

"I heard that Sihai Company has strong financial resources, profits a lot, stock prices have increased sharply, and market value is very high. I plan to borrow some money from Sihai Company. Do you think it's okay?"

Li Chao was speechless.

It was simply stunned.

This is simply messy.

Seeing Li Chao's bad expression, Li Shimin said again, "I borrowed the 20% shares of the court in Sihai Company from you. The prince sold half of the shares and 20% shares of the court. How about borrowing 15 million for mortgage?"

Li Chao thought to himself that you might as well rob it. The 20% of the shares in the court were originally given to the court by Li Chaobai. Moreover, the prince's stock is a stock with multiple decision-making power, and the court's stock with no decision-making power and only dividends, so how can it be the same?

Besides, you are just mortgaged and loaned, not selling.

Where can I borrow more than the value of the mortgage? Who would like to borrow money like this? What would I borrow as much as I would?

Li Chao felt that he could not be abusive to Li Shimin's bad habits.

"Your Majesty, this is inappropriate."

Li Shimin glared at Li Chao in dissatisfaction, "Then what can you get a lot of money?"

Li Chao really has a way to make money, but he didn't want to take out some of the solutions he used to do.

"Your Majesty, I have a not-so-good solution here. I can raise money first to help you."

"Oh, tell me, what's the best way."

Li Chao sighed, "This is actually not a good idea. If this hole is opened, I am afraid it will be very troublesome in the future."
Chapter completed!