Chapter 143

"Your Highness, since I was in charge of the Ministry of rites, I admit that although I have made no great achievements, I have never made a big mistake. As a minister of the Tang Dynasty, I naturally think of the Tang Dynasty and mediate with foreign affairs? I believe that diplomatic mediation is actually for the prestige and moralization of the Tang Dynasty to be recognized by other countries. Just like your Majesty's conferring Zen, all countries send envoys and ministers with them, and all countries come to our Tang Dynasty to celebrate. This is the prestige of the Tang Dynasty and the principal responsibility of the Minister of rites. " Dai Zhide looks very ugly. The Ministry of Rites has always paid attention to etiquette. If, as his highness prince said, the Grand Tang Empire would not be extremely rude.

Li Hong shook his head and laughed bitterly, but the faces of other courtiers were startled. Dai Zhide's words were extremely tough. Although they had been disagreeable, they were limited by the monarch and his ministers. His highness said that, Dai Zhide could only listen to him. Even if he was dissatisfied, he could not refute the crown prince in front of all the courtiers.

"Dai Zhide, if this is the main idea of you as Minister of rites, I think you can quit the position of minister and return home." Li Hong squints and stares at Dai Zhide's cheek.

"Hum, I don't know what I did wrong as Minister of rites. If your highness just let me resign to support the aged just because I contradicted you just now, I have nothing to say." Dai Zhide wanted to carry it to the end, ignoring the pull of Li Yiyan, the Minister of the Ministry of government, and continued to be tough.

Li Hong didn't think so. He said slowly, "if all the officials in the Tang Dynasty are like you, we'll wait for the destruction of the country. What's the Centennial industry? In those days, you were recommended by Wang xuance to the imperial court. Now, do you have half of his achievements in the Ministry of rites? "

"Your Highness, don't you understand what you are talking about? Wang xuance, as an envoy to the western regions, naturally had some achievements, although he was less than half of him. But the minister admitted that he had not introduced people like Luoyou Saha! I have never been confined to the predicament of the Tang Dynasty because of the minister's opinion

Although Wang xuance was not convicted, everyone knows that the former emperor died of poisoning after taking some of his elixir pills!

Although Wang xuance was not convicted of this, he did not get any promotion since then, and he became a person forgotten by the court.

Although Li Zhi still used Wang xuance as an envoy to the western regions after he ascended the throne, Wang xuance at that time had already lost the style of "one person destroying one country".

What's more, Xuanzang's pilgrimage to the West for Buddhist Scriptures was far more influential than Wang xuance's "one man destroys one country". Naturally, all the popularity of Wang xuance was robbed by Xuanzang. So even now, Wang xuance has been dead for several years, and people still have different opinions about him.

Li Hong still had a faint smile on his face. A charcoal pen in his hand slid back and forth on the table top. He still said without hesitation: "although you have never done anything like Wang xuance, now you are very much like the nibra minister who advocated borrowing troops to Wang xuance when Wang xuance" destroyed one country by one person "

Looking at the bewilderment of all the ministers, Li Hong took the slender stick in Xiaoxue's hand, got up from his seat and pulled back the black cloth behind him. All of a sudden, it was a huge sand table of the Tang Empire, including the terrain and location of other countries around the Tang Dynasty, which were all marked in detail.

Li Hong looked at Dai Zhide with a sneer. Then he glanced at the ministers again and said, "Wang xuance and Jiang Shiren went to Tianzhu with more than 30 people. On the way, they were robbed by aroshun, a small country affiliated to Tianzhu. At last, Wang xuance escaped alone and borrowed 7000 soldiers from nibra. Therefore, Wang xuance set up an extraordinary feat, that is, relying on himself and the 7000 troops borrowed, he destroyed the small country of aroshun, which killed 30 people such as Jiang Shiren on the way. But where is the nibra today? Dai Zhide, you are under Wang xuance's command. Do you still think that the value of reinforcements is high? "

After Li Hong finished speaking, he looked at the courtiers: "history is always conservative, history is always similar, and history can always give you great enlightenment in details! Dai Zhide, you strongly advocate sending troops to Koryo. If we send troops to Koryo again, we will be eaten by Tianzhu and Tubo just like nibura. Now nibora is half occupied by Tubo and Tianzhu. Why? Because he borrowed troops from the officials of the Tang Dynasty and destroyed aroshun! Aroshunna is a dependent country of Tianzhu. Why did Tubo follow the struggle? It was because the nibra destroyed the strategic balance there! Force the two great powers to feel crisis because of the action of Nepal! That's why we want to destroy him! Dai Zhide, do you want me to be like the nibra? "

Li Hong throws the slender stick in his hand to Xiaoxue and sits back to his position.

History is always astonishingly similar. The example he just cited just now is that after a few years, the Tang Dynasty was too busy to take care of itself, just like the actual situation of the Nepal Brahma!

It's just that the lean camel is bigger than the horse, and the weak Tang Dynasty is not something that can be shaken by those small countries. But Anxi and Anton, who worked hard and paid for their lives and blood, were not forced to give up because of the lack of troops and the inability to maintain them!

Dai Zhide looked at the sand table behind him. He didn't expect that the prince's highness was using the counter evidence to prove that he strongly advocated sending troops was wrong. This made him speechless and did not know how to refute the evidence.

Liu Rengui also quietly watched the sand table behind Li Hong. His keen sense of being a general was incomparable to others. He took a deep breath and said, "Your Highness, the nibra you mentioned is just a country. But now, as the object of admiration of all countries in the world, we are now well-equipped and well-known generals. I think it is not a small area like Koryo Even if Anxi is unstable now, I don't think that the situation you mentioned will appear in the Tang Dynasty for a while. ""How long is your one and a half? a year? two years? decade? Or eight years? " Li Hong would like to be slapped!

How many people are holding this so-called shangguo mentality, in the end? Look at how many helpless and heartrending cries and cries left in the land of Japan after more than a thousand years of learning too much culture from the Tang Dynasty!

Zhongshu, Peiyan and Cen changqian, after listening to Liu Rengui's words, also can't help nodding. In their hearts, as ministers of shangguo, especially in the confident Tang Dynasty, no one would believe that there would be crisis in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

"Your Highness, I think Liu Shangshu is right. Why don't we send less troops to reinforce Liu Renyuan and sun Ren's division, so that we can not lose the face of the Tang Dynasty, but also publicize the prestige of the Tang Dynasty. " Zhang Wenzhen, as the right servant of Shangshu Province, said at the moment.

Li Hong just shook his head when he looked at the crowd. If Zhang Wenzhen said that, it would be no different from going back. In history, is it not that he first sent Qi Li and then he sent Li Ji?

If we really follow Zhang Wenzhen's words, will our words be in vain?

"Jinghui, tell them about the grain and forage situation in Koryo, especially the harvest of Koryo in the past two years, and the number of soldiers in the Tang Dynasty." Li Hong rubbed his temple with some headache and said to his subordinates, Minister of Hubu Jinghui.

"Yes, your highness."

"After more than one year's investigation by the Ministry of Hubu on the soldiers of all parts of the country, as well as the investigation of grain and grass in the eastern Liaoning Province..." Jinghui, like a bamboo tube pouring beans, crackled and told all the data one by one to all the officials in the court. Moreover, a form in his hand was also sent to the courtiers.

After Jinghui sits down, Li Hong takes the data handed over by Yang Jiong again. After a look, he doesn't let Yang Jiong, who is not of enough level here, but says lightly: "inform them."

"Yes, your highness." Yang Jiong was nervous and didn't know how to address Li Hong when he was nervous, so he called out his highness in embarrassment.

Li Hong waved his hand in disapproval and said, "this is the newly introduced Academy of Chongwen Museum, which is to calculate the future. That is to say, through the paper and pen in our hands, the knowledge we have learned, and the way of calculation, we can calculate how long our soldiers in the Tang Dynasty can cope with the two wars at the same time. This includes the number of soldiers in the Tang Dynasty today, the number of soldiers of all ages, and the average number of casualties in a war. Therefore, it can be inferred that our soldiers in the Tang Dynasty can still die for several years in the resolution of your courtiers! "

Looking at Liu Rengui in the court, Li Hong continued to say: "benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trust, the virtue and prestige you want, if you don't have the strength of the Tang Dynasty to support you, your virtue and prestige will be nonsense in the eyes of others! Dai Zhide, I'd like to tell you one thing that the Ministry of rites should hang on the wall: weak countries have no diplomacy! If you still don't understand, you can really resign and go home. You are no longer fit to sit in the position of minister of rites

Seeing that every courtier had the data in his hand and studied them carefully, Li Hong believed that perhaps these advanced calculation methods could make the ministers lying on the shangguoguang ring sober up.

Looking at the data in his hand, Liu Rengui showed great concentration. According to the above simple figures, I'm afraid it will be less than three or five years. It will be extremely difficult for the Tang Dynasty to continue to use troops in Liaodong and Anxi at the same time.

Especially with the reduction of the number of government soldiers and the death of a large number of young soldiers, those over 40 years old gradually became the main force.

Liu Rengui can't imagine, if these figures are true No, these figures are true. He knows clearly how many people die in Liaodong every year.

In the past few years, Koryo has had a bumper harvest in remote areas. However, in the Tang Dynasty, the generals and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty used troops in Liaodong. It has always been the Tang Dynasty that provided food and grass by itself!

www.novelhold.com , the fastest update of the webnovel!