Chapter 417: If you want to do good things, you must first sharpen your tools
In the middle of August of the 16th year of Zhenguan, the Anxi guardian Guo Xiaoke led the cavalry to attack and defeated the two armies of the Western Turkish Dulu Khan, who were sent by the Western Turkish Dulu Khan, one by one. The Ministry of Juyue was killed and the Ministry of Jumi surrendered. Yibidulu Khan was frightened and retreated westward and broke several small countries along the slope. However, civil strife broke out in order to compete for property. The Western Turkic tribes submitted a letter to Uncle Li to abolish Yibidulu Khan.
However, the local ministers in the court were divided into two factions. Some people believe that this is the time to promote the power of the Tang Dynasty. They should take advantage of the civil strife and attack them with one spirit, so as not to let the Western Turks worry about disturbing the borders of the Tang Dynasty and the western borders of our Tang Dynasty.
Another faction disagreed with it, thinking that although our dynasty was sharp, the Turks were nomadic people, and they came and went like the wind, and they wanted to do their best with one blow, but it was unimaginable. Therefore, they wanted Uncle Li to agree to the request of various Western Turkic tribes, and to be the Khan of the Western Turkic Khan to calm people's hearts.
Finally, for some reason, Uncle Li adopted the suggestion of enthroning the new Khan of the Turks, and the former Khan Yipidulu could only escape westward to Tucharo.
"It seems that your Majesty really wants to attack Goguryeo." The old man's guess is no different from my expectations. Now, Tubo is fighting with Xiangxiong Kingdom, fighting fiercely. In the north, Xue Yantuo has been disabled by the two battles between Uncle Li Ji and Su's famous general. In addition to resentment, only fear is left. In the northeast, Goguryeo also has signs of civil strife. The conflict between the eastern Goguryeo and the ministers of Goguryeo has become increasingly unresolved. I believe that it will not take too long, and Goguryeo will be in chaos.
"It's a pity that I haven't prepared all the things yet, otherwise, this is the best time." Uncle Li angrily threw the information on the case table.
"Your Majesty. Our army is not ready yet, but if the Lord of the Eastern Goguryeo really had the ambition to touch the king, I thought it was the time when my Tang Dynasty could make a big fuss." I smiled at Uncle Li, and carefully folded the information and placed it on the table.
Uncle Li glanced at me: "Where does the son-in-law start? I want to hear it."
I glanced left and right, and saw that Uncle Li didn't say anything. Uncle Li understood what I meant. He waved away the eunuch maids around him and leaned closer to me: "Son-in-law, come on."
"My father-in-law, Gao Jianwu, the servants of Goguryeo King Gao Jianwu." I said this very lightly and lowly, but after hearing some words, Uncle Li was shocked when he heard this. A pair of eagle eyes flashed through his eyes and went dark again. However, I could still see his uncontrollable joy from the corner of Uncle Li's bent mouth.
"Be serious?" Uncle Li asked me, and I nodded surely. Uncle Li didn't say anything anymore, but just patted my shoulder to show praise.
I paused for Uncle Li to be less excited, and we asked again: "Your Majesty, why not include Silla and Baekjeqi in the territory of the Tang Dynasty?"
"What the wise son-in-law said, haha, Silla and Baekje are all ministers of our dynasty. What is the use of it? I have countless vassal states around me. I will attack without any reason. How do other vassal states think of my Tang Dynasty?" Uncle Li was a little dissatisfied.
I saw Uncle Li's expression. I knew that it was not the time to talk about this place, because Uncle Li now only had one opponent that could make him move, that is, Goguryeo, a place that caused the Sui Dynasty to conquer the whole country several times, but ended up in vain. The Sui army fought against Goguryeo, and piled up corpses like mountainous areas. But what did Goguryeo do? He actually used skeletons to build the "Jingguan", that is, the skeleton pyramid, to show off their achievements. How can this be tolerated?
Uncle Li wanted to destroy Goguryeo, which proved that the Tang Dynasty was far more powerful than the previous dynasty's civil and military achievements. After going to Mount Tai last year, when Xue Yantuo's army invaded the border, he had to stop thinking about the Fengshan land, Uncle Li wanted to make another contribution and conduct the Fengshan ceremony to show the world. He was the heroic ruler of the world, suppressing those families with huge energy in the Central Plains, always felt that the establishment of the Tang Dynasty was not the orthodox Han dynasty. These families always felt that the Li family dynasty was the blood of a different race and did not belong to the orthodox Chinese. They were even unwilling to marry their daughters into the royal family. For this reason, the Li family royal family, led by Uncle Li, has always been resentful.
Although the two horses were just in charge of horses, they were proficient in veterinary arts. They had been dealing with those powerful families who loved horses for many years, and their channels for obtaining information increased greatly. This would definitely be of great help to facilitate Uncle Li's future attack on Goguryeo.
More than half a year has passed, and it has been nearly half of the cement road from Chang'an to Luoyang built by tens of thousands of prisoners. It is really a mountain to be opened.
Build a bridge when encountering water. In short, try to move forward as far as possible at the shortest straight distance, just move forward at the shortest straight distance. Now, the Minister of the Ministry of Works has changed people and has become my senior brother Yan Lide. I have also seen this brother many times, and I am also an official who is obsessed with painting. On the construction of the cement straight road from Chang'an to Luoyang, the Minister of Works also met with me, the original proposer, and had a lot of talks. At this time, the construction of the cement straight road had already passed through Zheng County, across Tongguan, Daguguan to Hucheng
The distance between the road was more than halfway, and the distance between the roads in the past was more than twice as short as before, and the wide and flat road surface was more than twice the width of the roads in the past, with a width of more than two meters. Such a huge project was precisely because of the use of a variety of new construction equipment and the use of prisoners of war in large quantities, which did not cause public grievances. It also did not consume a large amount of treasury funds. On the contrary, after I proposed that after building the roads in the land, all those who set out on the roads would have to pay, and then use these tolls to repair the roads at any time, the proposal of the Minister of Works of the Ministry of Works was paid.
"In the past, road construction was all done by courts and money and was built by the people in service. It not only took a long time, but also delayed the farming time. Now, using prisoners of war to build roads, or saving a lot of land, money and grain for our Tang Dynasty, and did not allow the people to serve more labor. I am afraid that Lord Fang had already had some concerns about the things he got, right?" Yan Lide and Yan Liben and his brothers sat on the same bed with me, invited each other to drink, and there was also a head of the Wushu Research Institute, Lord Zhong Zhong.
"Where is, Fang is just a plain person. Everything is calculated first. Which policy is beneficial to the country and the people? I will offer it to Your Majesty. In other words, Your Majesty is wise and good at accepting advice." By the way, he also flattered Uncle Li. Everyone quickly raised their hands respectfully and expressed their loyalty to Uncle Li.
"Today, Yan asked two adults to discuss important matters." Yan Lide finally got to the point. Originally, Uncle Li had decided to personally conquer Goryeo in Zhenguan for 18 years, and now most of the 16 years have passed. It is time to prepare materials. The preparation area is naturally military supplies, so this matter naturally fell on the forehead of the new Minister of Works Yan Lide. After all, he is the Minister of Works. Who else can he find if he doesn't ask for military equipment? However, after several wars, the things in the Wushui Academy have spread to the top leaders of the Tang Dynasty, which naturally made Yan Lide very jealous. But although the problem is the name of the main place, I am still there. The actual leader of the Wushui Academy is that he is the kind of senior leader who doesn't care about small things and big things.
Of course, Uncle Li personally issued an order to cut off the land from the workplace. Jing Lide did not want to take back the control of the land from the Wuyan Institute, but hoped that we could cooperate with the Ministry of Works to improve a series of heavy siege weapons from the Tang Dynasty. After all, Goguryeo is essentially different from the nomadic peoples in the north. There are a large number of underground cities in the land of Goguryeo. These are not allowed to be stepped on by cavalry, but require a large number of heavy siege equipment to conquer the fortress.
As the saying goes, if you want to do things well, you must first sharpen your tools. Uncle Li must have thought of specializing in improving military equipment. Therefore, Yan Lide came to deal with us.
Since it was the order of Uncle Li, we could only accept this uneasy order. After all, it is only less than two years since Uncle Li's limited land date. It has been less than two years since the 18th year of Zhenguan. It takes a lot of effort to improve the large-scale siege equipment.
"Mr. Yan, please be relieved. The Wushen Institute is a place where our dynasty specializes in improving and new military equipment. Since Your Majesty has his destiny, we should do our best to live up to the high expectations of Your Majesty and Master Yan." I first patted my chest and recognized it. At least we also know some physics. Now most of the local siege equipment is related to junior high school physics, which is exactly the scope of my ability to teach.
"So, Mr. Yan thanks the two of you for your strong help. Come!" Lord Yan Lide raised his glass to invite him to drink.
Before he could put down the wine cup, Bonnarjin rushed in from outside the private room with sweat. Everyone was stunned when they looked at the giant man with round waist and big arms. I stood up in amazement. Before I could say anything, Bonnarjin had already spoken first: "Dear the master of the land, the third lady is afraid that she will give birth. The old master asked me to call the master back soon."
Chapter completed!