New Shun 1730

In the study room, the clock has rung six times.

The father and son stood facing each other, not talking about the common people, nor about ghosts and gods, but only talking about the heart-wrenching words of "the imperial power controls the Wude Palace as a check and balance knife".

No words were spoken, and no one else was present. The son has won the bet and has taken the most difficult first step. Liu Sheng is no longer the shrunken bastard jokingly called by insiders, but has become a cunning fox.

"If Your Majesty wants to do it, your words will be useful. If Your Majesty doesn't want to, your words will be useless. You should know what Wude Palace is. You have ambitions and are worried about world affairs, so you must know it." advance and retreat."

"What is advance and retreat? Advance means what your Majesty wants to do. If it suits you, seize the opportunity to do it well; retreat means what your Majesty doesn't want to do but you want to do. It's not that you can't do it, but you can't do it directly. , let alone submit letters all day long. If you want to do it, you should plan it in advance and do it secretly. Once it is done, it cannot be changed. "

"Have you thought clearly about what His Majesty is going to do?"

If these words are heard by a third person, whether intentional or not, they are disrespectful remarks.

Originally, Liu Sheng thought that Liu Yu was still young and had not talked about this before.

Even when the Western Education Ban incident occurred, Liu Yu was only given a peripheral warning, and many things were not discussed in depth.

But Liu Yu has been away for more than a year and has done several things...especially his low-key performance in the siege of the Ergun River Bastion. Liu Sheng feels that Liu Yu has seen some things clearly, and this can be discussed. Talk.

Liu Yu thought to himself, you don't need to tell me what the virtues of imperial power are, I understand it very well. He was just a fellow traveler before the fork in the road. He used me and I used him.

Liu Sheng never thought that Liu Yu's thoughts were more terrifying than he could imagine, and now he was just focusing on "guessing his mind."

Liu Sheng has read all the notes and annotations in the four books.

Like Liu Yu's opinion, this was a deliberate omission of the topic, and it was also a sign that he wanted to reuse Liu Yu as a Taoist priest.

However, you need to think clearly about where this road is going.

Liu Yu held up the "Book of Han" and flipped through the "Biographies of Zhang Qian and Li Guangli". He pondered for a moment and said, "My son has other ideas about this matter. How does my father think the DPRK will react to the acquisition of the Western Regions?"

"I won't object."

Liu Yu also agreed with this statement and said with a smile: "So, is it necessary to flatter me and praise my virtues? What your Majesty lacks is an article that proves that taking the Western Regions is the right strategy? Besides, your Majesty should know my level and make praising strategies. , I’m just afraid of making people laugh.”

"First of all, our dynasty was established in Xijing. Taizu, Taizong, Shizong, and Gaozong were all born in Tianbaofu. Affairs in the west must be settled. Those who set their capital in Chang'an will not run the Western Regions. Although our dynasty is set in the capital, How can we allow others to dance swords in the important place of Xijing?"

"Secondly, Mongolia is dead. Our dynasty and Rakshasa divided the land of Mongolia. The Junggar tribe is not Khalkha, but has a handicraft industry that can smelt iron and make cannons. Back then, Galdan had the name of Khan. If If Junggar is not destroyed and allowed to reunite Mongolia, there may be civil disaster. Since our government does not want the emperor to guard the country, it will definitely fight. "

Dashun of the Junggar tribe will definitely be attacked, and everyone in the country knows this.

The reason why we didn't fight before, or rather we only did so a little, was to raise a tiger as a deterrent so that the wolf in the north could learn how to bark.

Now that the Khalkha tribe has surrendered and the former wolf has learned to bark, it is time to consider getting rid of the tiger.

The Junggar tribe belongs to the Choros family, not the Golden family.

The fate of the non-golden clan's successors has already been set a precedent for those who have achieved such a reputation as Tumubao.

However, the Junggar tribe had a formal khan position. After the signing of the "Khalkha-Wala Code", Mongolia had religious leaders.

Galdan of the Junggar tribe was made a khan by religious leaders.

An inaccurate analogy is equivalent to the Pope crowning Napoleon, the kingdom being upgraded to an empire, Galdan being called Khan as a descendant of the Choros family rather than the Borzjin family, which is very appealing in Mongolia where the Yellow Sect is the ethnic religion. .

Since the whole dynasty has this awareness, and coupled with Dashun's ideological reasons, there should be no objections to the restoration of the Western Regions. Even if there is opposition, it is easy to be labeled as a "traitor who harms the country".

Regardless of how energetic the remonstrators were clamoring over the issue of the Rakshasa mission's specifications, they probably wouldn't clamor over matters like defining the Western Region.

So the problem arises.

The emperor gave Liu Yu a copy of the "Book of Han", which clearly included the biographies of Bowang Hou and Li Ershi.

The purpose of making policy papers should not be to ask these people to write about how important it is to conquer the Western Regions, let alone how to conquer the Western Regions.

When he said this, Liu Sheng also felt that this was indeed the case.

The three strategies of the Wude Palace Examination are: military strategy, which must be "organized troops"; political strategy, which must be "internal and external importance".

In terms of historical analysis, if the emperor was planning to omit the topic and let the appointment slip, what would "The Biography of Zhang Qian and Li Guangli" actually say?

The opportunity has been given to you. If you fail to use the opportunity or even try to figure it out, it will inevitably be a waste of opportunity.

When looking for a gunman, you must first figure out the problem, points and ideas, and then the gunman can polish it.

Liu Sheng thought about it for a long time and asked doubtfully: "Is it possible that you want to talk about border policy? Although the Tang Dynasty had the governor of Anxi, Gao Xianzhi was greedy and violent, so that the countries in the Western Regions became rebellious, which eventually led to the defeat of Talos?"

Liu Yu shook his head.

"If that's the case, your Majesty can just give me three books. Just put a note with the biography of Gao Xianzhi in "Old Tang". Besides, this time is different from the Tang Dynasty. There is Junggar in the Western Regions, so how can there be any small country?"

"Yeah, that makes sense." Liu Sheng smacked his lips for a while, and felt that what Liu Yu said made sense, and that was probably not what he meant.

He also took the "Book of Han" and read it carefully. When he read, "When I was in Daxia, I saw Qiong's bamboo stick and Shu cloth. I asked how I got this. The people of Daxia said: 'My servant went to the market and poisoned the country. . The country of Shendu is thousands of miles southeast of Daxia. Its customs are the same as those of Daxia, but its people are humid and hot, and their people ride on elephants to fight."

He was shocked and asked in surprise: "Could it be His Majesty's intention to be in India? Zhang Qian saw the bamboo sticks and cloth from Shu in Daxia, and concluded that there was a road from the southwest to India... Could it be, could it be... Could it be that Your Majesty wanted to After capturing Junggar, he then attacked India, thinking he would leave a name for the ages?”

Liu Yu laughed out loud and said to himself that I felt that my mind was "already" the best in the world. Unexpectedly, I didn't expect to know until I met my father that I was only "almost".

"My father has been away from the battlefield for a long time, but he can even say these words. We have traveled no more than ten thousand miles to Junggar. There has been no Chinese sound there for six hundred years since it returned to the rebel army. There is no food, grass, and cultivation, let alone India now has a big country, even if it doesn’t, how can we get to India without the logistics? To capture Junggar and then attack India, my father’s idea... is really..."

"Hahahahaha..." Liu Sheng himself also laughed. It was really not easy to figure out what he meant. He could even come up with such an unreliable idea.

Just when he was laughing and thinking that he was wrong, Liu Yu said again: "But what father said is not unreasonable."

After finishing speaking, he turned out the annotations in the "History of the Song Dynasty" and said: "Your Majesty said: The lessons of the country's dynasties should be observed in the Han, Tang, Song, and Ming Dynasties. That is to say, it is neither the entire Han Dynasty nor the entire Tang Dynasty. It needs to be considered comprehensively. If we take the millennium theory and combine the events of the Han, Tang, Song and Ming dynasties, there will be another explanation.”

"The reason for the passage of the Western Regions during the Han Dynasty was for the Huns. However, it was Wei Qiaoqi and Huo Guanjun who defeated the Xiongnu, not Zhang Qian and Li Guangli. Your Majesty conveyed this sequence to me, and I am afraid that his intention was to 'profit the wealth of the Western Regions'."

"The Han and Tang Dynasties managed the Western Regions, firstly to prevent nomadic herders and to obtain fertile water and grass for cultivation, and secondly, to facilitate trade with Western countries. Especially after the Han and Tang dynasties emptied the Western Regions and made millions of dollars a year, this is Zhang Bowang A great achievement.”

"Nowadays, the country is changing, and if we only think about the experience of the Han and Tang dynasties, we will be desperate for the sword."

"Since I don't carve a boat and ask for a sword, where does my father think the 'Han and Tang Western Regions' of our dynasty are?"

Hearing such an unreasonable direction, Liu Sheng took a deep breath and felt that it seemed to make sense. In the previous conversation, he knew some of Liu Yu's thoughts and asked doubtfully: "You mean... the 'Western Regions' of the imperial dynasty are in Nanyang? Are you going to break the topic from here?"

Liu Yu stood up, walked around in front of his father a few times and said, "Yes, I want to break the question from here."

"The 'Western Region' of my dynasty is in Nanyang. If we clear the Western Region, we will gain wealth."

"The 'Shuofang, Yanmen, and Liaodong' that I dynasty refer to are actually in the Western Regions geographically."

"The Northeast has been settled. After the Li Ting swept the caves, the Han people in Liaodong multiplied. They were all immigrants from Shandong, Henan, and Hebei. The disaster in Liaodong was gone. Khalkha surrendered and was sandwiched between the Rakshasa and the Central Plains. Firearms were released and divided. The feudal system no longer has the power to cause trouble.”

"The southwestern chieftain is not worth mentioning. Even if he rebels, the previous dynasty has been pioneering Yunnan for 300 years, and we have accumulated strength, so there will be no harm."

"There is no Tubo on the snow-capped mountains."

"Then, our dynasty's border troubles such as 'Shuofang, Yanmen, and Liaodong' are actually in the Western Regions. And our dynasty's 'Western Regions' that benefit from connecting the east and west are in the South China Sea."

"Zhang Qian emptied the Western Regions, so the Han Dynasty had millions of people; the Tang Dynasty had the governor of Anxi, so Chang'an had pepper gems. Now that the dry roads have been abandoned, and Westerners sail thousands of miles, the Western Regions are no longer the place where east and west meet during the Han and Tang Dynasties. I want to go to court To have the advantage of "emptying out the Western Region", we must manage the South China Sea, which is the advantage of our country's Western Region."

"Geographically, the Western Region is bordered by Rakshasa in the north and nomadic in the west. The yellow and green religions are mixed, the self-rebellion army was defeated, and the Han Dynasty has not been heard for 600 years. If this place is not managed well, it will be our country in the future. Shuofang, Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty."

"In comparison with the Han, Tang, Song and Ming Dynasties, the Yangguan of our dynasty should be regarded as Taiwan; the Liaodong Dusi of our dynasty should be regarded as the Western Regions; the Turkic Huns of our dynasty should be regarded as the Western countries; the Xixia of our dynasty should be regarded as Annan and Burma... ...As for the Rakshasa, they are nothing but the food of the Talos War. Their strength has been exhausted. Siberia is bitterly cold. Even if they are bordering each other, it will only be a battle of a thousand men. It will not cause any harm in a hundred years, unless there are chariots and horses capable of carrying tens of thousands of people in a hundred years. Siberia.”

"Take the bend of the platform as Yangguan, and the Anxi Protector's Palace in our dynasty should be compared to the Malacca countries; the Beiting Protector's Palace in our dynasty should be the Ryukyu Islands of Japan."

"With the advantage of sailing ships, Annan rice can be used for the army of Anxi to gather millet; with the advantage of firearms, Japanese copper and silver can be used as soldiers of Beiting. Fight for supremacy on the sea, drive to the Western countries, and hunt in the South Sea."

"The ocean is made of soup, and the shore is a cauldron and wok! The boats are made of knives and chopsticks, sharing the elk of the South Sea! In this way, we are not carving a boat to seek a sword, but observing the gains and losses of the Han, Tang, Song, and Ming Dynasties."

"Father, do you think it's okay to break the topic like this?"

It looks like it will be on the shelves tomorrow. . . .