Chapter 452: Cruel Prelude
When the Baekje people were in the woods a few days later, they found the naked queen. Her body was already crawling with insect repellent and there were two huge blood holes in her chest. A wooden stick was inserted into the lower genitals, and black blood marks remained on the stick.
The people of Baekje went mad, and their queen suffered such a humiliating and tragic death. And their queen is a high-ranking official who went to worship the Tang Dynasty to express his submission.
Li Tai smiled! The Baekje people attacked the Tang army like crazy, although the sudden attack brought great losses to the Tang Dynasty. But Li Tai was still very happy, he didn't care how much the Tang army lost, the loss of one or two thousand people in more than 100,000 horses was nothing, what he cared about was that the imperial court could not transfer a single soldier from Liaodong.
Well, now the Baekje people are driven insane. The people of Silla were also going crazy, because the prince of Silla who had come to worship them was cut into more than a dozen pieces. When he was found, his head hung on a tree and he stuffed it into his mouth. After searching for several days, the body was not put together neatly.
Chai Shao's eyes were as red as a wolf, and he knew who had ordered the attack on the envoy team of the Baekje and Silla peoples. But he couldn't say it, at least not explicitly. If the matter is reported, Li Er will not do anything to his son. But the Chai family, which is declining day by day, will be retaliated against either explicitly or covertly. Chai Shao didn't want to set up a strong enemy for himself, and the Chai family still wanted to survive in Datang.
Pinching his nose, he recognized the statement that the Goryeo people were pretending to be Tang troops, and reorganized his team to prepare for the battle against the combined forces of Baekje and Silla.
"The matter in Goryeo has just been settled, and Silla and Baekje have rebelled again." Li Er in the Taiji Hall was very depressed, and there was always depressing news coming from the battlefield thousands of miles away recently.
Li Chengqian and Hou Junji fought another battle with the Tubo people in the Western Regions, although they won and lost each other. But Shanshancheng was robbed by the Tubo people, and it seems that Yun Hao was not wrong. The Tibetan people came down from the plateau to grab things, and these fierce guys were so poor that they were scum. The iron pot for cooking vegetables, they all think it is a good thing. Not to mention, the cattle and sheep that have been fat for a summer.
The harsh plateau lacked everything, and this victorious robbery gave the Tubo people a hard layer of fat. I believe that next time, the robbery of the Tibetan people will be more fierce and rampant.
"Tang Jian has already gone to Tibet, and I believe that he will soon be able to bring His Majesty's will to Yangtong and Subi. As long as they launched an attack on Songtsen Gampo on the plateau, it would be impossible for the Tibetans to continue to make trouble in the Western Regions. At least, for now, the Tibetans in the Western Regions will no longer be supported. Chu Guogong was right, one less Tubo died. The climate on the plateau is harsh and unsuitable for cultivating grain, and their population growth is far less than that of the Tang Dynasty.
As long as enough damage is inflicted on them, it will take them a very long time to recover. During this time, we can continue to support the opposition in Songtsen Gampo. A divided Tibet is very much in line with the interests of the Tang Dynasty. ”
Li Er nodded, the words of the eldest grandson Wuji were very much his appetite. It is not impossible to attack the plateau with the strength of the whole country, but what can you get in exchange for going to the plateau? Desert, Gobi, or a mess of rocks. That place was not suitable for the growth of the Han people, or even for the growth of crops. Except for the tenacious barley, other crops are difficult to grow.
Spending such a big price to get a barren land is too much of a loss. The best way is to turn the plateau into a divided plateau, on which all the Tibetans kill each other. The hatred forged by blood makes peace never come to this land, and the steppe is forever divided. Although such a plateau is bloody, it is most in the interests of Datang.
As the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Er is qualified. As for how many Tubo people died, this was not within Li Er's consideration. In fact, Li Er's heart longed for them all to die. Let the plateau completely become a no-man's land!
"Your Majesty! The Duke of Chu was ordered to meet him! ”
Li Er glanced at the yellow gate that was passing the word with dissatisfaction, and Yun Hao, the bastard, came again with the hour.
"Biography!" Li Er snorted coldly, and his order was spread by a sharp voice.
Yun Hao still went to the hall with that boneless appearance, and Jiao'er Langdang didn't look like the Duke of the Tang Dynasty, but more like a splash in the East and West Market.
"The Silla and Baekje people rebelled, and the Tubo people plundered Shanshan City. It's all bad news, you clever head give me an idea. What should I do? "Li Er is too lazy to talk nonsense with Yun Hao, and last time he brought this bastard for questioning. As a result, at noon, Yun Hao actually went to the imperial dining room and ate the Hash ants paid tribute to Liaodong.
Ashina Simo almost turned over Changbai Mountain, which can be regarded as a basket. Transported to Chang'an, there are not more than one out of ten alive. As a result, he was fried by this bastard, and drank Li Er's treasured grape wine. was so angry that Li Er had the heart to smash the table, and he couldn't say anything about it. The emperor of the Tang Empire quarreled with the ministers. spread it, Yun Hao was shameless, and Li Er felt that the emperor's face still had to be maintained.
We have to end the court meeting today, or there will be something missing in the imperial dining room.
"If the Silla people and the Baekje people are reversed, then it is the opposite. Just send troops to exterminate it, Su Dingfang's Shandong. Let him take his 10,000 soldiers and take them to be transported by the Liaodong Naval Division, and stick a knife in their backs. If you can't take care of the end of the story, the Silla Baekje coalition army will die a miserable death. Yun Hao said without the slightest hesitation. Anyway, the people on the peninsula have backbones in the back of their heads, and now they can go on another expedition after killing them.
"Su Dingfang!" Li Er remembered that when Li Jing was the secretary of the military department, he had considered the establishment of a larger-scale Marine Corps. Datang's ocean-going trade is becoming more and more prosperous, and a special team is needed to protect the interests of maritime merchants.
Commercial taxes have now become the bulk of Li Er's income, and Li Er is a qualified emperor, and since he has collected other people's protection fees, he will fulfill his obligations. Li Jing's recital was quickly approved, but the scale was reduced from 50,000 to 10,000, and Li Er thought that it was a better way to get 10,000 people to do it, and it was not too late to expand it after doing a good job. As a result, Li Jing's disciple Su Dingfang began to train the marines in Dengzhou.
"Your Majesty! This plan is feasible, and now my Datang has stationed more than 100,000 troops in Goryeo. Silla and Baekje poured all their strength into the country, but they could only confront our army. If Su Dingfang sneaked into their rear, it would definitely disrupt their position. The army took advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, and the front and rear attacks will definitely be able to achieve miraculous results. The eldest grandson Wuji was a little ashamed, because he didn't come up with such a method. Even after Yun Hao said it, he remembered that there was such a person as Su Dingfang.
"Since Wuji said it, let the military department write a word. With the full support of the Liaodong Naval Division, Su Dingfang crossed the sea to attack behind enemy lines. Li Er knew that this battle plan was very risky, and if Su Dingfang and the 10,000 people didn't get it right, they wouldn't be able to come back. But he still supported this plan, and the war on the peninsula should end as soon as possible. Fighting on two fronts will consume too much national strength, and if we continue to fight like this. The family money saved in the past few years is about to be hollowed out.
It's not easy to live a few days of prosperity, and Li Er doesn't want to be poor again.
"What about the Tibetan people?" In fact, Li Er wanted to end the Western Front earlier, and now the territory of the Western Regions has seriously exceeded the control ability of the Tang Dynasty. Hou Junji's 50,000 Tang Dynasty troops were thrown like a bean in the Western Regions. Although there were a large number of servant troops, Li Er had never trusted them in his heart.
"They robbed Shanshan City, so let them continue to rob it. Hou Junji has so many people in his hands, and if he wants to be scattered in so many cities in the Western Regions, he will definitely be broken by each of them. ”
Listening to Yun Hao's words, Li Er was so angry that he almost didn't jump up. Recruited the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions, and now they have been robbed. If they can't be protected, where will the face of the Tang Emperor rest.
"Yun Hao, you'd better know what you're talking about?" The eldest grandson Wuji shouted sharply.
"The Tibetan people are all poor ghosts, and they can see anything. Now that I have grabbed a handful and made a fortune, I will naturally not be able to take it back. Those who have made a fortune will return to the plateau, and more Tibetans will go down the plateau. When there are enough of them, that's when we close the net.
Fighting on the plateau is not good for our army. But when they arrived on the Western Plains, the advantage of the Tubo people was gone. If Hou Junji couldn't beat him at that time, it would be his incompetence. The minister suggested that Li Ji of Dafeichuan should also be transferred over, and strive to kill all the Tubo people in the Western Regions.
The environment on the Tibetan Plateau is very harsh, and the food is not abundant enough. They believe in the Bon religion and like to teach people to burn things. I heard that the Gurus of Bon also liked to use human skin to make drums. They have lost tens of thousands of young people, and it will take a long time to recover. As long as every time their population recovers, we will lure them down and rob. If the Tubo people are cut stubble by stubble like leeks, Tubo will never become strong, and it will never threaten the Tang Dynasty.
No matter how strong the Tibetans were, it would take eighteen years to train a qualified warrior. And it won't take long for us to make a crossbow arrow, or a gunpowder bullet. Exchanging constant killing for peace, although somewhat cruel, is beneficial to the Tang Dynasty. ”
Li Er has a big mouth, this is indeed a good plan.
Use the wealth of the barbarians in the Western Regions to lure the Tibetans down from the plateau. Then the Tang army will avenge the barbarians who have been robbed. It not only defended the majesty of the Tang Dynasty, but also cut off the terrible enemy.
A lot of young people have been killed, and the sequelae is the decline in productivity. The poorer the Tibetans will become, and the poorer they will become, the more eager they will be to improve their lives through robbery. Then they will walk down the plateau in groups, and then they will be shot by the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty with advanced weapons. If this cycle continues, Li Er does not think that the Tubo people can still pose a threat to the Tang people or the people of the Western Regions.
"We can also support the Tibetan people on the plateau, such as Yangtong or Subi. Efforts were made to sow discord between the various Tibetan tribes and make them kill each other. The Hundred Horsemen Division is actually very suitable for this kind of thing, once there is a blood feud between the tribes, it is very difficult to resolve it, I don't believe that those selfish Tubo people will have such courage. ”
The eldest grandson Wuji felt sad for the Tubo people, and he knew that Li Er would definitely agree with Yun Hao's statement. Then the right people were ordered to carry it out, and the end result was civil strife on the plateau, coupled with poverty and economic blockade. That land that is not fertile will forever grow with poverty, ignorance, hatred and murder throughout the tribes.
Can people still live in such a place?