After Kang Sumi followed the guards, Chaotian Hall was silent.

"Your Highness, the Turks are too arrogant!" Wei Zheng said angrily: "This is not a peace talk at all, but blackmail, the ambition of the Turkic wolf son, if we take a step back, they will take ten steps, and then use the materials of our Great Sui Dynasty to expand themselves, in the end, even if our Great Sui dominates the world, it will be a broken mountain and river to face the powerful Turkic Khanate!" The minister suggested that from now on, there should be no trade with them! ”

Yang Tong's pupils couldn't help shrinking, he could be regarded as having seen the terrifying foresight of these ancient ministers. Although today's history has produced a lot of changes because of his appearance of Yang Tong, the butterfly effect is not enough to affect the overall situation, especially the insatiable Jieli.

For the Turks, Jieli is a capable male lord, as the overlord of the steppe, he has hundreds of thousands of brave and warlike Turkic elite horsemen, in history, he took advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains to imitate the Central Plains tribute system, so that the Central Plains princes next to the Turks pay tribute to him, if not, then send troops to rob.

The Turks have wolf-like habits, and will never go head-to-head with you, they often form groups of 10,000 people, annihilating weak enemies one by one, and fleeing when encountering large armies, specializing in looting villages, burning and looting. Render powerless for all the princes next to the Turks.

Whether it is Li Yuan, Liu Wuzhou, Xue Ju or Dou Jiande, these heroes who dominate the party, they all have to pay tribute obediently. Not to mention Gao Kaidao, Yuan Junzhang, and Liang Shidu, who are directly surrendered.

This is also a helpless matter for the princes of the Central Plains, even if Li Yuan and Dou Jiande have not weak strength, but in the face of the Turks' banditry of slaughtering a village today and robbing one or two counties tomorrow, there is no way, and they cannot let the people live in the city, do not cultivate and do not work. In the long run, the national strength will be exhausted, rather than let the Turks rob it, it is better to obediently pay the protection fee, which may also save the casualties of the people, and the loss is not so serious.

The Turks were in this situation, without spending a single soldier to obtain a lot of wealth, Jieli Khan's prestige also rose, and the national strength of the Turks also flourished. If it weren't for Li Tang's emergence of a Li Shimin, and Li Jing, Li Ji, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, and other famous generals and ministers who are rare in the ages, I am afraid it would take several generations like the Han Dynasty to be qualified to fight against the Turks.

If Yang Tong compromises with the Turkic Khan to quench his thirst, even if he dominates the world in the future, then he will face the threat of the Turkic beast just like the Li Tang Dynasty in history.

"Since we know that we are enemies, of course we can't support them! From this moment on, our Great Sui and the Turks entered a state of hostility and ordered the closure of all the passes and cities of the New Great Wall! All trade and commerce were forbidden, and if a Turk approached the Great Wall, he would be killed. Yang Tong said fiercely.

"Reconsideration!" Fang Xuanling continued: "And in the long border between the Turks and the Central Plains, thousands of miles from Liaodong to Wuyuan are the territory of my Great Sui, and now there is a new Great Wall separating the two from north to south, as long as the fortresses, passes, and fortified cities are closed, even a person cannot enter or exit, and the Tang Dynasty is surrounded by my Great Sui, Western Qin, and Liang Shidu, and it is difficult for Li Yuan to trade with the Turks." Therefore, the Turkic move to get left and right is actually putting pressure on us, and in fact cannot get the slightest practical thing from Li Yuan's hands. However, in order to prevent Xue Ju from selling prohibited materials to the Turks, the minister suggested that Pai Liang would sit in Wuwei and block the eastern section of the Hexi Corridor, and at the same time use the geographical advantage and the old Great Wall to defend against the Turks and Li Rail. ”

Yang Tong suddenly realized, according to Fang Xuanling's words, the Turks really only have such a choice as the Great Sui, although Li Rail can trade with the Turks, but the few border areas he occupied are vast and sparsely populated, since the defeat, self-sufficiency and insufficient, how can there be anything to give to the Turks, it is not bad without Turkic help.

After thinking about the many generals and ministers of Guannei Dao, he finally said: "Move Duan Decao to guard Wuwei County, and lead Shuofang's 40,000 troops to settle in; The king of Qianwang Fubao is the county guard of Lingwu, and Xue Wan is the county guard of Huining. Let Li Jing keep in touch with the southern khan at all times, and at the same time, allow all the people of the southern khan to enter the southern grassland for grazing, and extend the new Great Wall to the Wuyuan North Yellow River as soon as possible! ”

Fang Xuanling suggested: "Your Highness, the Turks have gradually recovered their strength, and sooner or later they will go south, and they need someone to be in charge of the military affairs of Dingxiang, Mayi, and Yanmen. ”

"Who's more suitable?"

"It has to be General Li Jing."

"General Li Jing is invited to come and discuss the matter!"

"No!"

Li Jing, a family Daoxing, a retired official in Tianshui, Longyou, is brave and good at archery, and his archery skills are extraordinary. He rose to prominence in the battle to destroy the Northern Qi Dynasty and was awarded the post of Yitong Sanji. Later, he participated in the rebellion of Wei Chi Hui and was awarded the title of Duke of Pingkou County; In the ninth year of the emperor's reign, as the head of the march, he followed the general Wang Shiji to attack and destroy Nanchen, and after Jiangnan Gao Zhizhi and others rebelled, Li Jing followed Yang Su Jiangnan to quell the rebellion, and later awarded the history of the Yanzhou assassination.

Later, he sent troops to Liaodong with Wang Shiji and served as the commander of the horse army. Although this expedition was unsuccessful, but later he participated in many battles with the Turks, and also escorted Princess Yicheng to the Turks and relatives, when Han Hong, the governor of Shizhou was defeated by the Turkic invasion, Li Jing took hundreds of people who escorted the princess to the rescue, killed a large number of Turkic soldiers, and killed the Turks. After the war, he was awarded the history of Hanju by the emperor.

During the Renshou period, he served as the governor of Daizhou.

Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, the Han King Yang Liang rebelled, Li Jing participated in the counterinsurgency, and then led the troops to pacify the barbarians, defeated Tuyuhun in Qinghai, in the first Goguryeo Campaign, he was demoted to Yan'an County Sima for offending Yuwenshu, after the Battle of Yanmen, Yang Guang finally remembered this famous veteran, appointed him as the Yanmen County Guard, and later changed to Beiping County Guard and Linyu Palace Supervisor, controlling millions of stone money and grain and countless ordnance armor in the warehouse!

No matter how chaotic the situation is, Li Jing has never embezzled a single piece of money.

Although Li Jing is nearly sixty years old, he is still strong and brave, and he is still loyal to the Great Sui led by Yang Tong. In less than a moment, he came in a hurry and saluted: "Humble Li Jing greets His Highness." ”

"Old general, please take a seat!"

Looking at the old general's pale beard, Yang Tong was a little embarrassed to speak, such a veteran has exhausted his life's work for the Great Sui, and he should enjoy Qingfu in Yecheng.

"Thank you!" Li Jing saw that everyone's expressions were a little ugly, and after sitting down, he asked, "Your Highness, what happened?" ”

Yang Tong sighed, and told the six conditions of the Turkic envoy Kang Sumi, as well as everyone's analysis, Li Jing listened to it and said angrily: "Such an arrogant person, His Highness will never agree." ”

"Of course not!" Yang Tong smiled, pondered for a while, and said, "I want to ask you for a new position." ”

Li Jing's eyes lit up, and he understood: "Acting as the governor of the state? ”

"I plan to make you the governor of Monan Province, in charge of the four counties of Yanmen, Mayi, Dingxiang, and Baitan." Yang Tong nodded and said, "I will let Xue Wanshu, the Shou of Longquan County, be your deputy general, and his 10,000 army, and the 20,000 army in the hands of Gao Junya, the Shou of Mayi County, will be handed over to you to be in charge." ”

"Your Highness, are you ready to fight the Turks?"

"I will not agree to any of the Turkic conditions, this will be the reason for us to break with the Turks again, as for whether to fight or not, it is difficult to say, after all, the domestic situation is really worrying. I now need a competent person to build an iron wall on the border of Bingzhou with the help of the new Great Wall! ”

Li Jing nodded, and said energetically: "The minister understands, and the minister is willing to share his worries for His Highness." ”

"Bitter cold, you ......"

"Your Highness, rest assured, the old minister is in good health, and he can still shoot a three-stone strong bow!" Li Jing patted his chest very unhappily and said, "I will never miss a major national event." ”

Yang Tong smiled, and finally said: "Now that the new Great Wall is tall and strong, you have 30,000 troops, plus the county soldiers should be enough, and we have been implementing the militia system of hiding soldiers from the people, if the situation is critical, it will not be a problem to transfer 100,000 troops from the four counties." ”

"The old minister understands, I don't know when His Royal Highness wants the old minister to take office?"

"After Shangyuan, how?"

"How can that work?" Li Jing said dissatisfiedly: "Your Royal Highness is also a person who knows the soldiers, when you know the military situation like fire, the old minister hopes to leave tomorrow." ”

"Okay!" Yang Tong looked at the old general's unhappy appearance, he was amused and moved, and said to Yang Gongren: "First draw up the appointment of the old general." ”

Yang Gongren quickly drafted an order, and Yang Tong stamped the jade seal, Li Jing got the appointment letter, bowed, turned around and retreated.

There was no mud or water in the whole process!