"Easy to do?" Li Shimin leaned back on the back of the seat, smiled interestingly, and said, "Then Xia Qing will listen to it." ”

Xia Hongsheng nodded and said, "Weichen believes that the Turks will first observe Xue Yantuo's movements. If Xue Yantuo's envoy had not set off, the Turks would have been holding a wait-and-see attitude. Jieli is not a fool, and he will not use coercive means to offend the nobles within the Turks when there is a threat from Xue Yantuo outside and a struggle for power with Turks inside. And since the intelligence said that Xue Yantuo's envoy might not set off until June, Weichen estimated that even if Jieli wanted to send an envoy to become a minister, it would be in June. On the one hand, he sent an envoy to Chang'an to proclaim his ministers and ask His Majesty for peace, and on the other hand, he obstructed Xue Yantuo's envoy halfway, so that he could not arrive in Chang'an smoothly and pay tribute to His Majesty. ”

"Go on." Li Shimin nodded, not much of a reaction, thinking that he had already heard this answer from other ministers.

So Xia Hongsheng continued: "Then next, let's assume that the Turks have sent an envoy and set off for Chang'an with the will of being a vassal and seeking peace, while Xue Yantuo's envoy was hindered by the Turks on the way and could not advance. In this case, Your Majesty actually doesn't have to worry. Because now we know that Jieli has this intention, but it has not been implemented. According to the normal situation, the Tang Dynasty should have known about these things after the Turkic envoys arrived in Chang'an. So as long as the Turkic envoys can't reach Chang'an, then Your Majesty will naturally not know about the Turks' vassal and peace relations. If the Turkic envoys do not come to an end, His Majesty will not know about these things for a day. And so it goes. The Turks can only do it in a hurry. Even if he was in a hurry to die, he had no choice. ”

Li Shimin finally had a little expression on his face now, and asked with a smile: "Then what can Xia Qing do, so that the Turkic envoys will not be able to reach Chang'an, and will not let me be truthful?" ”

Xia Hongsheng smiled and replied: "Back to Your Majesty, there is really a way, but it is a little bit of ......a loss."

"Oh? Let's hear it. But it doesn't hurt to say it! Li Shimin smiled and said.

"Robbery!" Xia Hongsheng raised his voice a little, and then explained to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, when the envoy comes to pay tribute, he must bring something, if there is no thing, it is not sincere." An envoy with no sincerity, Datang naturally doesn't have to pay attention to it. It's just driven away, and no one in the world will feel inappropriate and say anything. Presumably. No country will allow a man to come and pay tribute. But he came empty-handed and insincere, and instead asked for the existence of the envoy who married the princess. I am a big Tang Dynasty, so naturally I can't suffer this strange humiliation. Stern refusal, expelling envoys, this is light, it is the great power of the Tang Dynasty. It is normal to send troops to attack, which country is willing to suffer this insult, and which people are willing to see their country suffer this insult?! Therefore, we can pay close attention to the Turkic journey to Chang'an, plant people in advance, and once the Turkic envoys appear, we will send the installed people to rob them halfway and rob the Turkic tributary materials. Hey, the gift was snatched away, and the Turkic envoy came to Chang'an empty-handed, to see if he still had the face to come to Chang'an. Even if the Turkic envoy has the face to come to Chang'an, His Majesty can expel him for the crime of disrespect. If you want to have a good talk, okay, you go back and do it again with sincerity. He will come again, and he will rob again, and he will rob again, and this matter will not drag on. Just as the Turks connived at the Turks to plunder the border cities, Jieli said that he would be severely investigated and punished, but the raids did not decrease. Say one thing and do another, we Datang will too! Just drag on for time, until the Turks can't stand it, until we find excuses and reasons. ”

When everyone heard this, they all bowed their heads and smiled, Li Tao stroked the short beard on his face, nodded and said, "En...... This strategy is devastating, but it is extremely effective. It's just ...... to operate."

"Robbery?" Li Shimin looked at Xia Hongsheng with some surprise: "This ...... Xia Qing, how can you say that Datang is also the country of the suzerain, if this method is spread out, and it is known that Datang actually robbed the envoy who came to pay tribute halfway, then Datang, and I, wouldn't it be discredited? ”

Xia Hongsheng was also surprised and said that he didn't expect Li Shimin to take care of this, this method is simple and rude and effective, it is the best choice at all, Li Shimin only needs to pretend to be confused and pose, he shouldn't have this bit of cheekiness - I heard Li Shimin say again: "Xia Qing and tell me in detail, if you want to do this, you must do it without leakage, and you must not let others know about it, let alone have anything to do with my Tang court, with me, and with the courtiers, Xia Qing can understand what I mean?" ”

Sure enough, I didn't mistake you, only with a thick face and a black heart can you be a good emperor!

Xia Hongsheng smiled and said, "That's nature." The only difficult thing to operate, and the most important place, is that the act of not exposing the robbery was secretly instructed by the imperial court. Therefore, Weichen suggested that it is best not to even involve the people of the special combat team. It is best to try to call on those reckless people to spontaneously go and rob the Turkic envoys and rob the Turkic things. Once they succeeded, His Majesty could appease Jieli and promise to investigate the robbers strictly, while rejecting the Turks' demands because of incomplete etiquette. In this way, everyone is happy. ”

"But how can you call on those reckless people to plunder the gifts of the Turks?" Du Ruhui asked: "Since it is an envoy and a minister, there are naturally a lot of gifts, and there will be no shortage of guards." If you go...... Ahem, isn't it dangerous, who would want to go? ”

"Speaking of which, in fact, there are many things that the imperial court is not good to do, or it is inconvenient to use the road. Not only this time, I am afraid that this kind of thing will not be less in the future, the game between countries has always been the priority of interests, even if it is a short-term concession, it will only be for the long-term greater interests. Most people do whatever it takes for the sake of profit, let alone between countries? This is destined to be indispensable in the future. There should be a way to stop thinking about it in the future. Xia Hongsheng sighed, shook his head, and said: "As for how to call on those reckless people to do things for the imperial court, there is no better way for Weichen. ”

"This, Your Majesty, the last general has a not-so-mature idea, and I don't know if it can be done." Duan Zan suddenly stood up at this time and said, "Speaking of which, this idea is still a joke made by Xiahou before......" (To be continued.) )