Fu Tang

Honglu Temple is arguing with Khitan about the six states of Yanyun. Yun Liuzhou came to change.

Li Congjia looked at the replacement conditions given by Khitan, and found that this Nima was about to be transferred to Ulan Bator in later generations. This area is much larger than Korea!

"Is Ye Luxian so kind?" Li Congjia looked at the map and said, "I always feel that something is wrong."

Shi Xueting asked: "If it were you, would you rather have this piece of land or the Six States of Yanyun?"

Li Congjia said decisively: "Yanyun Six States, many places over there are Gobi, what do I want to do here?"

Look at Shi Xueting's face, it's just like this, Li Congjia said: "No, I mean, I thought before that Khitan might only be willing to give us this piece of grassland, and the Yanyun Six States would definitely not give it to us. , Now although they don’t give Yanyun Six States, they still have to compensate the land, abnormal things are monsters, there must be a problem!”

Shi Xueting said: "Don't worry about whether there is a problem, anyway, the Yanyun six states can't let it go, if you don't take this opportunity to get it back, you may not have a chance in the future."

Li Congjia said calmly: "Why don't you have a chance? If you are upset, just hit me!"

Shi Xueting: ...

How did it become so violent?

No matter how much Li Congjia and Shi Xueting discuss here, Honglu Temple will also argue with the other side. The issue of territory will be discussed for a long time in later generations, and they even scold each other every day, let alone in this age when nothing is developed. .

In fact, Li Congjia always felt that if the Tang army hadn't been stationed on the Goryeo land tree, the Khitan people might have just fought there and forcibly occupied it to pick peaches.

However, even the Khitan now know that they can't fight against Datang recklessly. In the past, they could rely on their own cavalry, but now they are directly abolished in the face of artillery cavalry. What else can they do?It would be good if Datang didn't want to beat them.

Yeluxian is smarter than Yelujing because he is able to judge the situation, and when he can be tough, he is tough, and when he knows it is not good, he just bows his head. It is not as important as saving face.

In fact, he agreed so happily this time, and the Khitan court was not without objections, and there were even many objections, but they were all firmly suppressed by Yeluxian.

After his queen Xiao Chuo found out, she came to him personally and said, "Khan, you are feeding Tang's ambitions. Now he wants to exchange Koryo for our pastures for Yanyun Liuzhou. Maybe one day, they won't even exchange it." Will change again!"

Ye Luxian frowned and said, "If he doesn't want to replace you now, is there anything I can do?"

Xiao Chuo said: "Don't allow Tang Guo to grow up. We should break its wings while it is still a baby eagle!"

Ye Luxian didn't speak, and Chai Shuyi, who was sitting next to him, said softly: "The Tang Kingdom in the Western Regions was the young eagle, and now it has grown up."

Xiao Chuo glared at her: "I'm talking to Da Khan, what are you talking about, someone!"

"Enough!" Ye Luxian patted the desk anxiously and said, "A Chai's words are not completely unreasonable. I have made my own decision on this matter. The queen will go back and take care of Manjusri."

Xiao Chuo gritted his teeth and gave Chai Shuyi a bitter look, scaring Chai Shuyi so much that she hid behind Yeluxian trembling.

After Xiao Chuo left, Chai Shuyi said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, it was my fault just now, I shouldn't talk too much, and I will go to receive the punishment later. It's just... my family was ruined because of the Tang State, and I have been enemies with the Tang State for many years. Well, we are well aware of Tang State, and now I only have such a family, I really don't want to see Khitan follow in the footsteps of my Chai family."

Ye Luxian put his arms around Chai Shuyi's waist, raised her chin and said, "Why are you crying? Don't worry, Khitan will not fall just like that. Temporary hibernation is just a means of hunting."

Chai Shuyi looked at Ye Luxian with a look of admiration and said, "Your Majesty is so talented and general, it must not be comparable to that ignorant kid like Li Yu."

Ye Luxian laughed, picked up Chai Shuyi and turned around to enter the side hall. After a while, the low panting sounds of men and women intertwined in the side hall.

When Chai Shuyi returned to the harem, she happened to meet the female official sent by Xiao Chuo. The female official looked at Chai Shuyi blankly, and just wanted to speak, but when she saw Chai Shuyi covering her mouth and retching, her expression changed suddenly, and she wanted to do something. What, but it is estimated that the maids around Chai Shuyi can only grit their teeth and watch those maids go to invite a doctor, and then witness the "good news" that Chai Shuyi is pregnant.

Naturally, there was no punishment or anything, so the female officer could only rush to report to Xiao Chuo.

Chai Shuyi was very happy, but when she was alone, she seemed a little worried. After thinking about it, she still wrote the message with special ink in the middle of the night, and let the mouse that had been tamed long ago take it out.

Two days later, Shi Xueting frowned when he received the news.

When he read the news, he happened to be beside Li Congjia. Seeing him like this, Li Congjia asked, "What happened?"

Shi Xueting said: "The woman sent to Ye Luxian's side is pregnant."

Li Congjia knew what Shi Xueting was worried about almost instantly. It was nothing more than worrying that this woman would think more about her own child after she had her own child, which would harm Datang's interests.

Li Congjia was very open about this, he said: "Don't think about it too much, it's a good thing that she has a child, for her child, she can't tolerate Xiao Chuo, it's a pity that she can't let her join the Xiao family, Otherwise, maybe she can still win the empress position, and her son may also become the next Khitan emperor."

Shi Xueting breathed a sigh of relief and said: "I think so too. Anyway, our goal is Xiao Chuo, not other things. Let her figure out the rest. Now she and Xiao Chuo are in conflict. Impossible, we can only find foreign aid, the only thing we can do is to kill Xiao Chuo and let Ye Luxian marry other Xiao daughters."

Li Congjia felt a little regretful, the marriage between the Khitan royal family and the Xiao family was too irresistible, no matter how many concubines the emperor had, and how many children these concubines gave him, the queen must be the Xiao family, and the emperor must be born to a daughter of the Xiao family Son, no matter how many other women give birth to sons, it is useless no matter how smart the son is, unless he rebels in the future.

However, the rebellion of the prince whose mother's family is not visible is impossible to succeed, because the Xiao family will not support it!

However, Li Congjia only wanted Xiao Chuo to be killed before, and even now he doesn't care so much about whether Xiao Chuo can die-in the face of absolute force value, personal wisdom is sometimes useless, this woman What's the use of fighting again?Unless Khitan's weapons are stronger than Datang's.

Thinking of this, Li Congjia suddenly asked: "Does that woman know many secrets?"

Shi Xueting shook his head: "No, because she doesn't need to spy on information, so I just cultivated some skills in a certain aspect of her."

Li Congjia was relieved immediately, thinking about it, he really should not send a woman to the palace as an undercover agent, because the palace is so strictly guarded, it is very difficult to send news to the outside world.

That is to say, Shi Xueting has found someone who likes to raise all kinds of rats, and they are very obedient, so that they can rely on the rats to deliver, otherwise the manpower is unreliable, and the pigeons will be shot down every minute, so how can they pass the news?

Since he doesn't know many things and will achieve his goal in the future, Li Congjia doesn't care about it at all. He is more concerned about the problems of the Yanyun six states.It's a headache just thinking about it.

Li Congjia began to think about whether to write a letter of credence to Khitan, and discuss it specifically. The sixteen prefectures of Yanyun can play a shielding role. Whether it is for Khitan or Datang, only a few states have a shielding effect. It's so big, it's better to give it all to Datang.

It's just that his idea was dismissed, because Ye Luxian's proposal to return the Yanyun six states is not impossible, but it needs Datang to give them a lot of food and gold and silver treasures.

Li Congjia was very surprised by Ye Luxian's sudden change of attitude. His first reaction was: "Isn't Ye Luxian trying to trick us first, and then send Yanyun Liuzhou back?"

Shi Xueting asked: "You will give him this chance?"

Now as long as the neighboring countries will avoid conflicts with Datang, after all, everyone has already understood the power of firearms, and those who are silent now are generally developing their own firearms, such as Dali.

Of course, Khitan may also be paying attention to getting it back one day in the future, after all, they have also begun to study firearms.

Li Congjia said: "Let's see how much they want first. If we can exchange grain and money for land, I can exchange the entire Khitan!"

Shi Xueting: I'm afraid I'm going crazy.

Of course, the actual situation is that when Li Congjia saw the conditions proposed by Khitan, he slapped the table and said, "What a beautiful idea!"

Shi Xueting beside him couldn't help but said: "Who said that the entire Khitan can be replaced?"

Li Congjia was almost out of breath: "Such a lion opens its mouth, how dare they do it."

The food they need can catch up with Datang's annual output, and it is still the output after the Lingnan subsidy, not to mention the amount of gold, silver and jewelry.

Li Congjia said very resolutely: "No, even at this price it is too expensive, I firmly disagree!"

Shi Xueting said: "If you don't agree, they won't exchange it for you."

Li Congjia rolled up his sleeves directly: "Which side are you on?"

Shi Xueting quickly grabbed his wrist and said: "Don't do anything, what I'm saying is the truth, now we want the Yanyun six states, but Khitan doesn't give it to you, you should take it as we want Khitan, and Khitan has shown The willingness to change means that they don't want to conflict with Datang, otherwise they just refuse."

Li Congjia raised his eyebrows and said, "That's not necessarily the case. What if they just want to delay the time? Territory matters can be entangled for a few years. After a few years... it's hard to say who owns it."

Shi Xueting nodded: "There is indeed such a possibility, so we still need to discuss it." He looked down at Khitan's conditions and said, "In fact, there are only two possibilities for Khitan's high request, or not. Sincerity does not want to change, the other is that they have other purposes."

"Other purposes? What else can they want from Datang..." Li Congjia suddenly stopped in the middle of speaking, and looked up at Shi Xueting.

Shi Xueting said with a smile: "It seems that I need to check the recent information about the Khitan to see if they have any plans to use the Tang Dynasty weapons."

Li Congjia muttered, "Weapons? How could Datang exchange weapons with them? At most, they are food treasures."

Shi Xueting didn't speak, but asked to send all the recent information about Khitan, and then he checked it bit by bit.

In the end, it turned out that Khitan has been conducting experiments with new weapons recently. Thunder boxes are now standard equipment in almost all countries. When Li Congjia had not yet unified the world, Li Congjia had sold them to other countries in the Central Plains for thunder boxes.

There are many countries in the Central Plains who have a good relationship with Khitan. It is not so strange for Khitan to get the Thunder Box. With the Thunder Box, they definitely want to continue to develop on this basis.

However, although Li Congjia doesn't know many principles, some of the things he knows are the essence of hundreds of thousands of years of research in the Celestial Dynasty. If you look carefully at the research direction and advanced methods of Datang weapons, you can see the weapons after the Thunder Box In fact, there is not much similarity with the thunder box, except that the composition of the ammunition is similar.

Khitan didn't know how Datang's weapons were made. The most used by Datang and Khitan was artillery, and this kind of big guy had extremely high requirements for the smelting process, and even now it was in danger of exploding at any time.

Khitan researched it for a long time, but he couldn't research the firecracker, nor the artillery. After investing so much manpower and material resources, he got nothing. No matter how good-tempered Ye Luxian was, he wanted to kill someone.

But if you can't study it, you can't study it. Li Congjia's brain hole is not comparable to people in this era, not to mention that Khitan originally lagged behind the Central Plains in terms of science and technology.

Li Congjia immediately felt a sense of crisis. He knew that Khitan would not sit still, but he did not expect that they had already started researching weapons.

In this era, the awareness of intellectual property protection is particularly indifferent. Not to mention that now is the time of later generations, the awareness of intellectual property protection is also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Thanks to him who came up with the patent law before, and thanks to the lack of attention to human rights these days , If you find that something is not right, just arrest it, otherwise Li Congjia is really worried that someone will steal the data of Datang weapons and sell them to Khitan.

Li Congjia strengthened the supervision of the materials, and at the same time told Honglu Temple: "We can discuss about food and wealth, and we cannot agree to any other conditions."

At the beginning, Honglu Temple didn't understand why Li Congjia wanted to emphasize this point. When they found that Khitan was tentatively telling them that they could exchange it with other things, such as some weapons, they knew Li Congjia's idea. mean.

Regarding this, Wei Renpu said: "Actually, it's not impossible to change. Wouldn't it be good to replace some of the weapons we eliminated with them?"

Although the truth is such a truth, Li Congjia always felt uneasy. Shi Xueting stood aside all the time, seeing that Li Congjia couldn't persuade the cabinet ministers, he said, "I'm afraid the Khitans don't just want weapons to use, but It's for research."

Wei Renpu and the others didn't say anything. To be honest, they didn't know how far the weapon research had gone. After all, they didn't understand this aspect either. Finally, Zhao Pu said, "Let the Minister of the Ministry of Industry talk about it."

Although the origin of hot weapons is in the hands of Li Congjia, except for the thunder box, the rest of the weapons are researched by others. The information provided by Li Congjia is limited, at most it is the formulation of some small details, so this aspect can only be Ask the Minister of Industry.

The Minister of the Ministry of Industry came to Xuanzheng Palace and knew Li Congjia's question, and immediately said: "That's just right, we can directly let soldiers all over the country replace the new generation of weapons. In fact, the second generation of weapons has already been developed, and the firearms battalion used them before. I have always wanted to promote it, after all, the firearms in the hands of the Firearms Camp will be updated to the third generation, but Li Shangshu said before that the first generation of weapons has not been used up, and it would be too wasteful to replace them now, so I didn’t let them change.”

Before Li Congjia could speak, Zhao Pu next to him said, "It's not just because there's no need to waste it? Is it because I'm out of money again?"

Minister of the Ministry of Industry looked at Li Congjia a little aggrieved: "Your Majesty said at the beginning that you don't need to save money on weapons."

But I didn't let you burn money!Li Congjia couldn't help rolling his eyes, a middle-aged man who was about to enter old age was acting pitiful to him, this scene was so weird no matter how you looked at it.

Li Congjia asked: "If the Khitan got the weapons and equipment of the first generation, is it possible for them to develop a substitute that is almost the same as the weapons of the second generation?"

Minister of the Ministry of Industry patted his chest and said: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, our research is jointly developed by the top talents in the Tang Dynasty, and those barbarians in Khitan can't keep up with their flattery!"

Li Congjia waved his hand and said, "The Khitan people are still very capable of learning, don't look down on them, be conservative, and you can treat them... well, as half of the Central Plains people."

Minister of the Ministry of Industry thought for a while and said, "Probably not."

With his words, Li Congjia felt relieved, and turned around and asked Chunsheng to send a message to the Minister of Honglu Temple: "You can exchange weapons for a generation with them, and it is best not to use food and treasures."

Anyway, the firearms of the entire army have to be replaced, which is another way to use waste.

Honglu Temple was already used to Li Congjia's orders several times a day. They didn't know why Li Congjia changed his mind, but these people didn't ask too much, they only knew that they could do their jobs well.

Although Li Congjia let go, Honglu Temple did not let go immediately. They understood the key points of the negotiation. The Khitan was just probing before. If they did not show a very firm attitude, the Khitan would definitely make a request.

Sure enough, after Honglu Temple rejected the amount of food and treasure they requested, the Khitan made a new request: weapons in exchange.

So a new round of negotiations started, but as Shi Xueting said, the previous high price was just a foreshadowing for the Khitan, and their real goal was the Tang Dynasty's weapons.

The negotiators at Honglu Temple naturally refused at the beginning, but the rejection was not so thorough, and it seemed that there was room for maneuver, and then from not very firm refusal, to ambiguous refusal, to a slightly open request for instructions, Until the final agreement, the front line was very long, and it took two months.

In the end, Honglu Temple successfully completed the mission - they only replaced the six states of Yanyun with only half of the equipment replaced.

And Khitan was also very satisfied, because Datang's weapons didn't change too much in shape, they couldn't tell the weapons of several generations, and the most important thing was that they didn't expect that Datang's weapons were developed so rapidly.

So after nearly half a year, Datang and Khitan finally reached an agreement, using Khitan's half of the Shangjing Road, plus Yanyun Liuzhou and Datang to exchange for the Koryo that had just been defeated.

Since then, the Sixteen States of Yanyun have finally completely returned to Datang, and Li Congjia can sleep more peacefully.

When the news came back, all the ministers were very excited. In their opinion, even a big victory over Goryeo did not make them happy. With Yanyun sixteen states, as long as the defense line there is strengthened, the Khitan It would be very difficult to attack Datang, not to mention that part of the Shangjing Road was ceded to Datang. It can be said that the Khitan's passage to the south is very narrow, and it is not the same as before.

Compared to everyone's excitement, Shi Xueting didn't seem so happy, he just sighed and said: "Khitan's ambition is not small, and Ye Luxian should not be underestimated."

Li Congjia reacted for a while before he understood what he meant. If Yeluxian insisted on using food and gold and silver treasures, it would fully expose his short-sightedness. Changing weapons means that Yeluxian has the idea of ​​​​developing the armed forces of domestic soldiers. You know It can be said that Khitan soldiers are completely incapable of handling this kind of firearm, and it does not conform to their previous combat habits.

Now Ye Luxian is afraid that they will get used to the new fighting style, that is to say, Ye Luxian may still have the idea of ​​taking down the Yanyun Sixteen States sooner or later, or have the grand ambition of directly unifying the Central Plains.

Li Congjia was very calm about this. The unequal scientific and technological strength of the two sides made Khitan suffer a dumb loss. Of course, this need not be said. Anyway, Ye Luxian wants to surpass Datang, it can only be in a dream.

However, when Li Congjia was happy to exchange some of the waste for the precious Yanyun six states, those six states did not cooperate, and some people rebelled the next day.