After all, the Western Regions were not all a nest of quails. The ten Western Turkic surnames, especially the newly emerging Tuqishi, have shown their strength to influence the development of the Western Regions to a certain extent in the competition between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo around the four towns of Anxi.

The Tang Dynasty was huge in size, which was an important factor in maintaining its strength. However, for this reason, the border affairs itself is a complex problem, which can affect the whole body. If you cannot consider it in full and only obsess with temporary progress, the consequences may be a longer-term worry.

After all, the control of the Western Regions also includes checks and balances over the situation in the Mobei region. If the control over the Western Regions is compressed due to excessive investment in Qinghai, the loss of control over the situation in the Mobei region will be far from being able to make up for by a three-subjugation city system.

After a while of silence, the ministers thought about their own plans and then expressed their opinions. The meaning revealed in and out is that although the Tubo side has profound contradictions and has great room for utilization, this kind of national policy of the enemy should not be too heavy, and it should not be interrupted because of too blind optimism. The current court is about to shrink and recuperate.

After listening to the statements from the ministers, Li Tong fell into deep thought. Some of the problems he had already considered, some of them did not pay enough attention to and considered them comprehensively enough, and some ideas would inevitably seem to be taken for granted.

As for the differences between him and the prime ministers, it lies in the intensity of intervention in the situation in Tubo. What he envisioned was to try his best to intervene, and even to actively create opportunities to intervene in depth. The prime ministers believed that even if there was indeed an opportunity to take advantage of this, they should also conduct limited intervention based on the actual situation under the Tang Dynasty, with the premise of consolidating their advantages, and there was no need to rush to make breakthroughs.

Two ideas, one is radical and the other is conservative. After listening to the prime ministers' statements, Li Tong also realized that the power to prepare for deep interference in the situation in Tubo is not the degree of intensification of the conflict between the monarch and ministers of Tubo, but the limitations of the national strength of the Tang Dynasty itself.

To increase investment in the Western Front is not just about stopping the Liaodong war and transferring troops from the eastern battlefield back to Guanzhong, but rather a systematic upgrade of the entire border defense system. If it is just a breakthrough in one aspect, it will easily lead to a disconnection with the border defense as a whole, and the result is difficult to predict whether it is good or bad.

This kind of holistic upgrade is obviously not something that the current court can accomplish. In fact, just pulling Liaodong troops back to Guanzhong will bring great financial pressure to the court, and there is no consideration for whether the war situation in Liaodong will be repeated.

After some contemplation, reason told Li Tong that the views held by the prime ministers were more pragmatic. The two Qinghai wars and the repeated changes of hands in the four Anxi towns have proved that the national strength of Tubo should not be underestimated, and the struggle with such a powerful regime is difficult to complete through one or two wins.

In the struggle against such powerful enemies, the civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty also had rich experience. The Eastern Turks and Goguryeo before were both opponents that were no less than Tubo today, and eventually they were destroyed by the swords of the Tang Dynasty.

The two attacks and destruction of powerful countries were quite similar, and they were nothing more than divisive and win over. They isolated their country through diplomatic and military means, and thus conquered and destroyed them in one fell swoop.

Seeing that the saint was silent, Yao Yuanchong continued, "The land was hidden for a long time and was unrighteous. The division was long and the short-term. Today's Tubo is actually an alien of habit. Several generations of Zanpu could not enjoy the country for a long time, and it was also condemned by heaven. The righteousness of the king and ministers, father and son was originally rare, so the past was arrogant and difficult to control. All the merits and achievements gathered together in Dongzan's family, and their minions were vicious, so no one could beat them.

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Now Qinling is not allowed to establish a country outside the country's gate, and it is not allowed to be in the court. This is also a national fortune that is in conflict and difficult to last for a long time. Before, the saints were on the side, and they had already made a clever establishment of the country of Xikang. Today, the vassal of Xikang is still short and insufficient to support, but it can prevent the reorganization of foreign countries, which can be abdomen and weaken the king's rule.

The old Qinling was indeed fierce and difficult to control, but after defeating Haidong, he was very furious and defeated. He lost his king's family and was not the ancient clan. He searched for land and attacked him and failed to make up for his country. However, if he survived, he would be a great rebellion for the enemy country and even more damage to the king's power…”

If Li Tong had some regrets that he had seen the opportunity before, but was unable to meet, then after hearing Yao Yuanchong's words, his thoughts became smoother again.

In fact, Li Tong has long known some of the views quoted by Yao Yuanchong. Although Tubo is powerful at present, it is still not a model of a unified dynasty in terms of political structure.

The so-called great things in the world will be united for a long time, and the combination will be united for a long time, but not all regions are like this. To establish a concept and tradition of great unity, it cannot be accomplished in a short period of time.

The most obvious example in modern times is the Turks. As the overlord of the grassland, the Turks always threatened the Central Plains dynasty much longer than the unification of Tubo, but they were also broken in the Sui Dynasty.

The unification of Tubo is an anomaly, which was completed by Songtsen Gampo, Lu Dongzan and other monarchs and ministers through superb political means and continuous and unremitting aggression and annexation. Being able to maintain a whole later is the dividends brought by unification. The military meritorious clans united to obtain greater power for foreign aggression, and continued to plunder and maintain a relatively fragile alliance.

But at present, as the pace of foreign invasion stopped, the conflict between them had become prominent. Lu Dongzan's family occupied Qinghai and refused to share, which first destroyed the Tubo's profit distribution model. Later, the ancient clan was forced to leave again in the middle of the country, which destroyed the blood tradition.

Originally, Qinling had won many foreign battles in history, and was able to earn merits by the strongest Tang army in the world, and was definitely the first-class general in the world.

But his final defeat seemed a bit ridiculous. Facing the young Zamp's step-by-step pressing can almost be said to be powerless. It is not because several generations of Zamp's short-lived ghosts have established the concept of Zamp's destiny, but because the dominance of the Gar family has destroyed the distribution pattern of power and interests in its domestic situation, so they betrayed their relatives.

Yao Yuanchong's meaning is also very clear, that is, to continue to strengthen the strategy of Xikang State, and at the same time, to maintain the conflict between the monarch and ministers of Tubo, so as to limit the actual unity of Tubo and weaken Zanpu's prestige in ruling Tibet.

This method was used not only once in the Tang Dynasty, but also more than once. For example, the Eastern Turkic Jie Li and Tuli became enemies of the uncle and nephew, and the Goguryeo Glory's monarch and the powerful ministers of the Quan family are now just changing the target to Tubo's Zamp and the Great Theory.
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