bastard seizes tang

Chapter 137 Turkic Argument
With Xieli captured, Turkic has no owner, and the entire Turkic homeland has become a piece of loose sand.

The former land of Mobei and Jinshan was occupied by Xue Yantuo Zhenzhu Pijia Khan Yinan, while the whole Monan became the territory of Tang Dynasty.

After Li Jing, the head coach of the Northern Expedition Army, returned to Beijing triumphantly, Li Ji still served as the governor of Bingzhou and the general manager of the Tongmo Road marching to manage Monan. Datang has completely pacified Monan, and the territory of Datang has been expanded to the north of Yinshan Mountain and the south of Gobi, and the territory of Datang has expanded thousands of miles.

With the rapid expansion of the territory of the Tang Dynasty, many problems also followed. The first is the territory and the resettlement of the Turkic people. Enter the palace to discuss matters, and Li Ke has been in Turkic hostage for four years, and is quite familiar with Turkic affairs, so he is also included in the discussion.

Besides Li Ke, among the princes, only Prince Li Chengqian can participate in today's political discussions.

The place for discussion was Liangyi Hall in Taiji Palace. When Li Ke arrived at Liangyi Hall, most of the ministers who came to discuss matters had already arrived. Li Ke sat down in the hall, and after a while, Li Shimin arrived.

"Your Majesty, ministers, etc., see Your Majesty." Li Shimin entered, and all the ministers in the hall stood up to pay homage.

Li Shimin sat down on the emperor's throne above him, pressed his hands, and said to the people in the hall: "The purpose of calling all the ministers here today, I think the ministers already know that the Turkic land is newly acquired, and the people, old officials, and new officials are here." Things are still to be decided, I wonder if you have a good plan?"

In fact, regarding the Turkic homeland and the resettlement of the people, there have long been disputes between the court and the upper and lower levels.

As soon as Li Shimin's voice fell, Yan Shigu, the servant of Zhongshu, said first: "Your Majesty, since Beidi, all Chinese dynasties have not been able to submit completely. Now that your majesty has made great achievements and surrendered to Turks, I think that your majesty is the first of its kind in ancient times. Let the Turkic people be placed in Hebei and Henan, and separate the leaders of the various tribes as usual, so that the Turks will be safe."

When the Tang Dynasty newly acquired the Turkic land, the most worrying thing was that the people would be in chaos and the Turkic soldiers mutinied. Yan Shigu meant to move all the Turkic people to the Tang territory, so that they would abandon their herds and turn to farming. As long as there was no one in the Turkic territory, the grasslands would be It was naturally quiet above.

Yan Shigu's words are reasonable, but after careful calculation, in order to avoid Turkic chaos, all the Turkic people were moved to Datang. Since then, there is no one on the grassland. What's the use of Datang? The teacher's words have the meaning of giving up food because of choking.

Sure enough, there were many people in the hall who disagreed with Yan Shigu, as soon as Yan Shigu finished speaking, Li Baiyao, the servant of the Ministry of Rites, stood up.

Li Baiyao said: "Your Majesty, I think that the relocation of people is very costly and unnecessary. Although the Turks call themselves a country, all the ministries in the country are in charge of their own affairs, and they do not belong to each other except the Khan. I think it should be effective. In the old system, the chiefs of the grassland tribes, including Ashina, were entrusted, and only one of them was under his command. In this way, the Turks were weak due to the division of the country, and it would be difficult for us to be enemies of the Tang Dynasty."

What Li Baiyao said was to imitate the old system of the Western Zhou Dynasty, divide the country and use its power. A Turk was divided into various tribes, and the strength of the tribes was naturally greatly reduced. With the power of the tribes, they were absolutely powerless to fight against the Tang Dynasty.

However, although Li Baiyao's words are good, they can have a short-term effect, but they can last for a long time.

After all, although Li Baiyao's master is divided into various departments, he still retains the strength of the Turks as a whole, and the strength of the Turks has not been greatly damaged. Who can guarantee whether there will be another hero on the grassland in the future? At that time, if he could unify all the tribes in the grassland, then the Turks would become the great enemy of the Tang Dynasty again.

Yan Shigu refuted Li Baiyao, saying: "Li Shilang's words are for a while, they will last for a lifetime, but they will not be stable for a hundred lifetimes, and it will eventually become a disaster in the future."

Li Baiyao said: "Then what should be said by Shilang Yan, if the land of Monan is empty, what use is it for us in the Tang Dynasty? It's just a waste of troops."

Li Baiyao's words reached Li Shimin's heart at once, what Li Shimin wanted when he took over Monan was definitely not a piece of white land, but a vast and untraceable pasture that could be used for horse herding in the Tang Dynasty.

If there is no one in Monan, Li Shimin's land would be like eating chicken ribs, it would be useless to ask for it, and it would be a pity to abandon it.

With Li Baiyao's words, Yan Shigu's emigration strategy was completely abolished.

This matter has little to do with Li Ke, he heard it in his ears and kept it in his heart, but he didn't intend to step forward to answer.

But those who have their own masters, those who have their own masters, and those who have their own masters, the people of this master town are Wei Zheng.

Official Wei Zheng pays homage to the secretary and junior supervisor. It is reasonable to say that today's court councilors are all ministers and officials, and there should be no other seat. However, the secretary supervisor Xiao Jing fell ill, and Li Shimin knew Wei Zheng's talent well, so he issued an edict to see him.

Wei Zheng saw that Li Shimin's expression seemed to be unstoppable, so he went up to pay homage and said, "Your Majesty, I believe that the Turkic people are bandits in the world, and they are the enemies of our people in the Tang Dynasty. Now Your Majesty subdues the Turkic people. However, everyone in the Turkic people has a beastly heart, so don't believe it." , Now we have [-] captives in the Tang Dynasty, if they are moved to Hebei and Henan, the number will be several times more in ten years, this is really a problem for the Tang Dynasty, I hope Your Majesty must be very careful, and don't follow the story of Emperor Wu of the Western Jin Dynasty."

In the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty, the people of Hu and Han lived together. Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, refused to listen to the dissuasion of his officials and insisted on doing so. As a result, 20 years later, half of the lands of Yi and Luo were occupied by the Hu people. Hua planted the root of disaster.

Li Shimin asked: "Then according to your opinion, what should we do?"

Wei Zheng replied: "According to my opinion, we should drive all the Turkic Hu people back to the north of Yinshan Mountain, dismantle their soldiers and armor, collect all the good horses, and suppress them with the elite of our Tang Dynasty. People have the opportunity to rebel, so as to stabilize Monan."

Although Wei Zheng is a civil servant, he has a ruthless style in his words and suggestions, which is exactly the same as his admonition to Li Jiancheng to assassinate Li Shimin back then.

Of course, Wei Zheng's idea is far from an isolated case. The monarchs and ministers of the Tang Dynasty regarded themselves as the celestial kingdom, and regarded the Turks as the generation of Huren pigs and dogs. In their eyes, it would be all right to kill Huren.

But when Li Ke heard Wei Zheng's words, his complexion suddenly turned ugly.

If Li Shimin really adopted Wei Zheng's opinion and drove all the Turks to the north of Yinshan Mountain, he would undoubtedly become a deadly enemy with the Turks, and instead sent these people to Xue Yantuo further north, forcing these Turks to take the lead against the Tang Dynasty. Because of his hatred for Beitou Yinan, he added soldiers to Xue Yantuo, and for no reason made another strong enemy for Datang.

At this time, Xue Yantuo was new in the land of Mobei, and he was still powerless to be an enemy of the Tang Dynasty. They still looked docile in front of the Tang Dynasty, so few people in the court realized the threat that Xue Yantuo's people were about to bring.

But Li Ke knew very well that Xue Yantuo's barbarian Khan was by no means a good person. He dared to oppose the Turks at the beginning, and he would dare to oppose the Tang Dynasty in the future. Xue Yantuo will become a more terrible enemy than the Turks, and the Tang Dynasty's many years of planning will be wiped out, and the north will reappear.

In the history of Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin used many famous generals of Turkic origin. Obviously he did not adopt Wei Zheng's opinion, but who can say these things for sure.

Li Ke looked at the people in the hall, but no one came out to oppose Wei Zhengzhi's words, Li Ke couldn't sit still.

If Li Shimin really used Wei Zheng's words, then it would be a catastrophe for the entire Turks, and it would also plant the root of disaster for the future Northern Line of the Tang Dynasty.

Although Li Ke didn't want to offend Wei Zheng, didn't want to be the leader, and even less wanted to make a voice in the court prematurely and call others' attention to him, but now he couldn't help it.

Li Ke stood up suddenly, bowed to Li Shimin and said: "I want to report to my father, I think Wei Shaojian's words are too exaggerated, and I'm afraid it's inappropriate."

(End of this chapter)