The prime ministers of the whole house had a headache, for the sake of the war crusade, the prime ministers and the king of Min did not know how many zhang they had done, the king of Min was benevolent, generous, resolute, enthusiastic and diligent, nothing was lost to Emperor Taizong, only one point, too belligerent.

Tang Taizong's life is regarded as a great achievement, from pacifying the world when he was the king of Qin to destroying the Turks and leveling Gaochang, but compared to this reign for more than ten years without a war, it is really a small thing.

Having said that, can there be a great Min that is not warlike today?

However, just after fighting the big tiger Arabia, it hasn't stopped for two months, and then he turned around and went to Byzantium, which is thousands of miles away, and Li Jie is still cold about the family affairs of his children's in-laws and turns to the conquest, and the ministers all feel that they can't keep up with Li Jie's train of thought, and they are about to collapse one by one.

When the ministers were shocked and confused, the old Li Ji, who had just been appointed as the head of the march of the Asia Dao, reacted quickly, and the old guy simply looked righteous and awe-inspiring, and simply closed his sleeves and bowed.

"Back to Your Majesty, the old minister has no soldiers! Since His Majesty wants the old minister to conquer Constantinople, the old minister should lead his children and grandchildren to go all out, even if he fights this old bone, the old minister will die under the city of Constantinople! ”

Old Li Ji's answer almost choked Li Jie half to death, how many children and grandchildren of the old guy's own soldiers? During the Three Kingdoms, there was indeed a fierce general Zhao Yun, who single-handedly rode twenty infantry and twenty cities, but it was an internal war in the Han Dynasty, or under the name of Uncle Liu Huang, the people of the same culture, and Li Ji, who was in his early sixties, could not compare to Zhao Yun's kind of fierce general, could Li Jie let him go alone?

However, there is some truth in Lao Li Ji's words, don't look at the millions of mercenaries in Damin, but now Li Jie's ability to transfer out of the soldiers is really not much, don't forget that millions of people have just experienced the moving battle of the Yamouk River, the battle that decided the fate of the empire is not only the pressure on the commander, but also the ordinary soldiers are almost not suffocated, some have done it several times, and the members of the commando team have been awakened in nightmares every night for several months, and their eyes are full of charred comrades and the hideous faces of the Arabs.

Now that there is no war on the Western Front, and the vast majority of the army in Damin has returned to the east, if they are recalled at this time, it is still a trivial matter for the credibility of the imperial court to be damaged, and the prime ministers present are afraid that the army will directly riot.

"Your Majesty!"

It was Wang Fangyi who started a round, and without waiting for his colleagues to object, he first stood up and said deeply: "The Eastern Romans are treacherous, and now they are even more frenzied, harassing our trade line with wisps, the crime is extremely heinous, and not crusading is not enough to resent!" You have to beg for it! ”

is worthy of being the prime minister, and the first sentence named the crusade against the Eastern Romans and obeyed Li Jie's intentions, but then his tone changed, and he was bitter.

"However, Your Majesty, it is also true that my soldiers are tired and sluggish, the Great Dynasty establishes the world with faith, since it has promised the soldiers to let them go home, it is really not good to recruit them at this time, and please wait patiently for a few months, and wait for the left and right guards to change the guards, the left and right prison guards and the Fujian King Tielin to mobilize to the front line and then make plans!"

Wang Fangyi's mouth of these armies has been stationed in Tianzhu mainland, to the north to deter Tubo, to the south to deter the unruly Southern Tianzhu tribes, to send new forces to the front line, Wang Fangyi said quite reasonable, but these important tasks of the army can not be transferred, before the transfer, you must find enough resistance to live on the top of the army, can be reliable The army is basically in a state of rest, and when Wang Fangyi said that the army is ready, a year or two will pass.

Knowing that the second assistant was going to use the word procrastination, the rest of Di Renjie, Laiji Yuwenjie and many other princes all gave up their hands in agreement, and seeing a voice of approval, they really wanted to fool Li Jie over.

If it was another king, he might have agreed in a daze, but it was Li Jie, who was very assertive, and before the banquet, Li Jie had already thought of a rough plan, so he didn't take Wang Fangyi's fool to heart at all.

With a wave of his big sleeves and brushing the wine and food on both sides, Li Jie casually took out a map from his shirt and spread it out, spread it on the table, pointed to the red attack arrow on the map and smiled.

"It seems that our army and Constantinople, the core of the Romans, are separated by thousands of miles of Asia Minor, to the south, there are rugged Anatolian mountains blocking us, to the north, it is to make a detour of thousands of miles, and far from the sea, easy to defend and difficult to attack, in fact, our army is facing nothing more than a paper tiger, years after year, the population of the Eastern Rome in Asia Minor has lost six or seven tenths, Constantine IV simply does not have enough strength to defend against empty Anatolia, this time he is constantly attacking our Korean caravans, ports, The purpose is to attract the attention of our army to the sea! ”

"If you give him two years, Anatolia wouldn't be the big sieve that leaks everywhere like it is now! When the time comes, the sniping of tens of thousands of Roman legions can make our army suffer heavy losses! ”

"But Your Majesty, I'm ......"

Li Jie is right, the problem is that the problem of the army has not been solved, Li Ji opened his mouth and wanted to interject, who knew that Li Jie had already thought of it, and with a wave of his sleeves, he blocked his words, and Lang Lang said.

"The lack of soldiers has long been thought about, there is no need to mobilize troops and horses from Tianzhu, our army can completely solve the problem of the source of troops in West Asia, to the south, but just more than 200,000 Arab cavalry have laid down their arms and disbanded, from them, it is completely possible to transfer 120,000 people to form a new corps."

"In the north, those Caucasians have been restless lately, and have seen the fertile land of the two river valleys, and do not want to live in their poor countryside anymore, and the Great Min can promise to recruit another 50,000 to 70,000 troops from the land of Asia Minor, and the Armenian ironclad cavalry is still quite strong in combat effectiveness."

"These, plus a small number of Fujian troops as the center, used as the first wave of the attack on Constantinople is enough, don't forget that we still have 100,000 Eastern Roman legions who are eager to return home, and after two or three months of fighting with the Arabs as the pioneers, these Roman legions will also rest and can go into battle again!"

"And strategically, our army does not need to fight with the Romans for Asia Minor city by city, at this time it is completely possible to give full play to our Min navy, starting from Antioch, the navy transports the Arab cavalry all the way to land from the beach, detour behind enemy lines, occupy the harbor, and go east, gnaw down the important naval base of the Romans, Rhodes."

After Li Jie finished speaking, the other prime ministers who listened to it were stunned, not that Li Jie's plan was bad, but that this plan was somewhat beyond their imagination, first, all the major battles of the Fujian army were fought with the Central Plains army to form a core corps for decisive battles, and it was the first time that foreign tribes were completely used on a large scale, and second, the amphibious landing operation with ships carrying cavalry was still a new tactic at that time, and it was a precedent that had not been used by predecessors.

After listening to it for a long time, Wang Fangyi stumbled with some surprise and said, "But, will those Arabs fight for us?" After all, our dynasty has just finished a national war with the Arabs! ”

"Of course!" In this regard, Li Jie was full of confidence, pinched his chin and nodded with the majesty of the Chinese emperor: "The widow is their new co-master, and these Arabs are all poor and need to rely on robbery to make a living, give them a chance to go out and rob, can they not agree?"

Seeing that the ministers still looked like they were not confident, Li Jie shouted helplessly: "Even if this attack on Constantinople fails!" The vast majority of the dead are also Arabs and Caucasians, these two races have a natural element of robbery in their blood, and even if they are killed in battle, it is better than them staying in the desert and the mountains to make trouble for me! ”

This is more persuasive than the tactics and strategies that Li Jie has just enumerated, and many ministers have recently made a lot of trouble with the robbery of Arabs that have swarmed everywhere, and it is better for the Arabs to die outside than for them to stay in their hometown and scourge the merchants of Damin.

Borrowing the knives of the Arabs and Caucasians to kill the Romans, it is not the blood of the Min people, so you can pay some money, why not?

However, seeing that King Min's holy purpose was about to be passed in the meeting of the two prime ministers of Fengge Luantai, Lai Ji muttered in a low voice and stuck the topic in place.

Who will convince the group of colleagues in the Imperial Observatory?

These words made the prime ministers who had just burned their blood out of power, the imperial power was supreme, but if the holy decree of the King of Min wanted to be issued, it still needed the consent of the vast majority of the prime ministers of Fengge Luantai, and the prime minister's power constrained the royal power to prevent them from being dominant.

This is also the reason why Li Jie's banquet only invited the prime ministers, but did not invite Xiao Sheng, Li Gang, etc.

Seeing that this group of guys was looking forward and backward again, in desperation, Li Jie, who was slapping the table, suddenly stood up and stared at a group of prime ministers showing their hole cards.

"There are two great emperors in the world, the Eastern Emperor, and I am the Tang Emperor! Western Emperor! Roman emperors, the cradle of Western civilization! I, Li Jie, don't want to rebel, so I don't win the Tang Dynasty throne left by my father to my brother, so I Li Jie wants to be the emperor! You must be called the Emperor of the West! ”

"There is no advance or retreat in the hegemony! Are you unwilling to help the widow dominate the industry? ”

Emperor! These two words seem to have magical power, and as Li Jie opened his sleeves, all the cabinet ministers stood up with a bang!

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The wedding banquet of the King of Min was dispersed after less than an hour, rubbing his uneaten stomach on the one hand, and on the other hand, the likes of King Fang Yi of Jiji looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

Again, it's time to set foot on King Min's thief ship!