Great Tang Southern Emperor

"But according to what you said, Zhen'er, wouldn't my Tang Dynasty also be shackled by Tubo salt?" After lusting, Li Shimin suddenly thought of a problem. Both sides have something that the other needs urgently, and this will form a mutual restraint. The situation, this is not good for Datang to control Tubo in the future.

"If people don't eat salt, they will lose strength, but if they don't eat, they will definitely starve to death." Li Zhen said: "Father, although my Tang Dynasty lacks salt, it's not that there are no salt production areas, but the production is a bit cheating, but after so many years Didn’t the bitter ones also come here? But Tubo is different, they are extremely short of food, as long as we cut off this line, especially after we raise them, then Tubo will starve to death .”

"That's true, but there is another problem." Wen Yanbo asked again: "There are not a few countries adjacent to Tubo. In addition to our Tang Dynasty, Tubo also has close relations with Jieri Dynasty, Nanzhao, Niboluo, and Dashi. , Tuyuhun, Bolu and other countries are connected, even if the Tang Dynasty cuts off Tubo's food supply, Tubo can still buy food from other countries."

"This gentleness is too much to worry about, so you don't have to worry about it." Before Li Zhen said anything this time, Fang Xuanling took over and explained: "Tubo is surrounded by small countries, and most of them are barren, and they even provide for themselves. If it’s not enough, how can there be surplus food for Tubo? For example, Nipoluo and Nanzhao, the situation of these two countries is similar to that of Tubo. There are many mountains in the territory, few farmlands, and food is not rich;

Bolu is close to the desert, sparsely populated, the land is barren, and the food produced is not enough for its own consumption;

Tuyuhun is next to our Tang Dynasty. As long as we put enough pressure on them, and even buy their grain directly at high prices, we will not abandon Datang, where the roads are cheap and high, and go to Tubo, where the prices are cheap, the mountains are high, and the roads are difficult. selling food;

There is no need to worry about Dashi. Although Dashi's tentacles have extended to the border of Tubo, their real core is far away in the far west. The part of Tubo is just Jimi Prefecture, which is not worth mentioning.

Therefore, the only thing to worry about is the Jieri Dynasty in Tianzhu. The Jieri Dynasty is a great dynasty that unified the entire northern Tianzhu. It was established by a generation of hero King Jieri. The wealth of products is not inferior to that of our Tang Dynasty, and it is entirely possible for Tubo to break through the blockade of our Tang Dynasty through the Jieri Dynasty.But this problem is not without a solution, but it will take a little time. "

"There is no need to solve it at all. In fact, the Jieri Dynasty is the least likely country to do business with Tu." Li Zhen said decisively, seeing the doubts on everyone's faces, she just explained with a smile: "You only know one thing and don't know the other. , although Jieri Dynasty is indeed rich, everyone does not know that there is a whole mountain range between Tubo and Tianzhu. This mountain range has the highest peak and deepest valley in the world. If you want to cross this mountain range To do business with Tubo, I am afraid that the food will be exhausted on the way before reaching Tubo."

Trekking across the Himalayas is a very difficult task even in the 21st century, let alone 1000 years ago, so Fang Xuanling's concerns are simply not valid.

"So that's the reason, I'm so ignorant," Fang Xuanling quickly apologized.

Li Zhen also hurriedly said modestly: "No, no, in fact, Fangxiang has already surprised me very much. If I hadn't been taught by my grandfather, my vision would not be as good as Fangxiang's."

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Chapter 169

Chapter 95

That night, everyone discussed until dawn, and Li Zhen was asked more questions;

That night, Li Zhen was so tired that she fell asleep until noon the next day;

That night, Li Shimin issued an imperial decree, which is Li Zhen's current decree;

That night, Li Zhen was appointed as the Governor of the Turkic Metropolitan Protectorate, in charge of all post-war reconstruction and management of the Turks;

That night, this imperial decree was passed by everyone, and no one objected, including Wei Zheng, because no one was more suitable than Li Zhen.

That night, everything was negotiated, and all conversations were recorded and sealed, waiting for the day of commissioning.

I hurt you that night

Ah bah, what the hell?

She was almost choked to death by the last sentence, but Li Zhen also managed to recover, just in time to see Li Jing's closed mouth just now, and asked quickly: "Chief Manager, what did you say?"

Li Jing smiled wryly when he heard the words: "It turns out that His Highness didn't listen at all."

"I'm sorry, I was distracted just now." Li Zhen was also quite embarrassed, thinking so much after thinking about it: "Please tell the chief manager to repeat it again."

Li Jing had no choice but to ask again: "The minister is asking, what does His Highness have to do with the execution of these prisoners?"

"Well, it doesn't really matter." Li Zhen said indifferently.

"Eh?" Everyone was surprised, and Xieli struggled to ask: "Since it doesn't matter, why did you take out the imperial decree? And why did you slaughter my people?"

"There is absolutely no reason to kill your people. If you want to kill, you can kill them. Just kill someone. Do you need any reason? Anyway, they are all captives, and keeping them is a waste of food." Li Zhen walked slowly to Xieli, smiling He said: "As for why you have to take out the imperial decree, of course it is to prove my identity. Now I am the chief protector of the Turkic capital. Although the capital has not yet been established, I am already the chief protector. Everything here It's all up to me, and what's even better is that the imperial decree also states that I have the right to kill first and then act later, so that I can kill at will, even if you exterminate your Turkic family, with this decree, no one will Dare to ask half a sentence, and a little explanation afterwards is enough. Besides, didn’t you say that? You have to follow the rules on the grassland, and I respect your opinion.”

Hearing this, Jieli struggled even harder, his eyes were bloodshot, and he roared: "You can't finish killing, even if you finish killing these hundreds of thousands, there are so many Turkic people on the grassland, you can't finish killing them!" .”

"As long as there are numbers, how can it be impossible to kill them all?" Li Zhen didn't care, lowered her eyes and said in a low voice: "You Turks only have a few million people in total. As long as this kind of massacre happens a few more times, how can it be impossible to kill them all? Or do you think that the birth rate of your Turks can exceed the massacre speed of my army?"

"Hahaha" Jie Li burst out laughing suddenly, those who didn't know thought he was frightened crazy by Li Zhen.

Li Zhen frowned: "What are you laughing at?"

"I'm laughing, you are a child after all, even though your performance just now was very good, but you forgot, I am a person who has been a khan for more than ten years, what kind of person have you never seen? Your skill In my eyes, it’s still too weak.” Xie Li smiled happily, he finally won once, although the object of the win was only a child, but if he wins, he wins, and his mind that has been tortured for the past few days has finally completely relaxed down.

"You think I dare not?" Li Zhen finally understood Xie Li's thoughts, co-authoring with him that he thought his previous performance was acting.

"Fang Yiai, first kill 1000 people and eat the meat." Li Zhen's face remained unchanged, and he ordered in a cold voice: "Let Jieli Khan, too, experience the methods of my Tang Dynasty."

"Ga..." Jieli was stunned for a moment, and the remaining half of the laughter was stuck in his throat, and he couldn't utter it anymore, because from Li Zhen's expression, it was clear that Li Zhen was not trying to scare anyone.

"Your Highness, you really want to come?" Fang Yiai was also stunned. He also thought that Li Zhen was just trying to scare Xieli, but now it seems that he was not completely threatening.Immediately, he also hesitated. After all, it was a thousand lives, so he really couldn't let go of this hand.

"I said you don't want to do it. If you don't dare, let me come." Fang Yiai hesitated, but some people were unambiguous. , let your servants carry out this task."

"Who are you calling a coward?" Fang Yiai retorted.

"Whoever dares not kill is a coward." After finishing speaking, Ben Yin ignored Fang Yi'ai and asked Li Zhen, "Is it possible? Your Highness."

"Okay, let's do it." Li Zhen ordered, but she forgot in her heart that she was under the governor of Egypt and often went to the battlefield. According to the Western habits, it is not uncommon to kill captives. I am afraid that I have done a lot of things like this, so it is no wonder that there is no psychological pressure.

"By the way, the interpreter told them that they were killed because their Khan was unwilling to submit, so don't blame me, blame Jieli if you want to." Seeing that 1000 people were quickly picked out to stand Beside a big pit, Li Zhen suddenly reminded.

"Yes." The interpreter was also very uncomfortable, but he still respected Li Zhen's meaning and translated it to the prisoners.

"" After the interpreter's chattering translation, thousands of captives immediately cast hateful eyes on Jieli. As for the 1000 people who were selected, they even cursed. With the expression on his face and Xieli Jiangzi's face, he knew that what he said was definitely not a good thing.

"No, no, what do you want?" Seeing 1000 people and being pushed to the side of the big pit, Jie Li suddenly became anxious: "Don't you just want me to kneel? I just kneel, just beg You do not kill my people."

Xieli was about to kneel down as he said that, but the two soldiers who were holding him suddenly exerted force, resisting Xieli's tendency to kneel down, and he didn't kneel down in a daze.

"What do you really want? What do you want to do?" Jieli didn't kneel, and he didn't kneel. He could only watch a thousand people being pushed into the pit, and the soldiers in charge of burying them didn't care whether they begged for mercy. No matter whether they were crying or climbing up, they didn’t make a sound. Only when someone was about to climb to the top, they knocked down with a pickaxe, and then continued to fill the soil. The crying was soon covered by the ruthless loess. Soon there was no sound in the pit.

"Oh, I finally feel better after killing some people, but I'm still a little unhappy." Li Zhen scratched the back of her head and stretched her waist: "Ben Yin, kill another thousand, oh no, kill five more." Thousands."

"Don't!" Xie Li suddenly roared, blood and tears flowed from his eyes, he looked at Li Zhen and cried, "Please, don't kill me anymore, I'll give you whatever you want, as long as it's what I have, I'm willing." Here you are, don’t you just want me to surrender? I just surrender, and you can take everything from me.”

Chapter 170

Chapter 96 If you are not happy, you will kill

Li Zhen stopped Ben Yin's movements, turned around and asked, "What can you give me? You don't even have a country, so what do you have now?"

"There is also that piece of animal skin, which is a relic of the Xiongnu Maodun Chanyu. It is written in the early Donghu characters. It records the hidden location of the wealth that the Huns have plundered for hundreds of years from Maodun to the former Zhao Liuyuan. The wealth inside It is said that you can buy the whole world. Donghu is nearly a thousand years away, and there are not many people in this world who can recognize Donghu characters. As far as I know, only the great priest of my great Turkic can understand the above characters, but the great priest has been in five years. He escaped into the Qilian Mountains a few years ago, and I am the only one who knows his approximate whereabouts—I will tell you everything I know, and I only ask you to let them live." At this juncture, as long as he can save his people, Jieli couldn't care less about anything.

"It turned out to be a treasure map, but a treasure map can't express your sincerity." Li Zhen shook her head, and then whispered in Jieli's ear: "What I want is very simple, that is, your Ashina family's sincerity." The position of the royal family in the grassland has completely retreated, and there will never be an Ashina family on the grassland again. So if you are really willing to give up everything for your people, you'd better do what I want. Be selfish, if everything goes well, I will treat them well, but if it doesn't go well, I really don't mind bloodbathing the grassland."

"How are you doing?"

"As I said, a little cowardice, a little fear of death, a little selfishness, and a little indifference are enough." After Li Zhen finished giving orders, she turned her head: "Ben Yin, what are you doing? Didn't you volunteer to take on this task? ? Why is it not implemented yet?"

"Yes, right away." Benyin immediately agreed, and at the same time wandered around among the captives, picking out qualified targets.

The captives leaned on each other, looking at the wandering cause in fear, as if the cause was not a person, but a fatal impermanence.