Valley Emperor

In Jinling City, in the Royal Courtyard, Li Xuan was holding a small meeting with several ministers on duty in the imperial study, and what everyone said was exactly how to negotiate with the Tatars about the truce and mutual market.

"According to the minister's opinion, these Tatars are very willing to stop the war and exchange markets!" Qian Mengjiu said: "According to the colleagues of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, when they were negotiating in Youzhou City, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Colleagues haven't forced much, they just let out a few border towns and cities.

And looking at their actions, it is estimated that if we force one or two, it is possible for them to hand over all the remaining seven or eight border towns and cities. Since their will is so strong, they might as well contact one or two, not sure. You can get unexpected benefits! "

At this moment, Lieutenant General Lei Wan said: "The matter of the border towns and cities does not mean that they really want to stop the war and negotiate peace. Our army's view is that they are more likely to know that they can't keep these things. Border towns and cities, simply pretend to be generous, and take the initiative to let them go!"

Speaking of this, Lieutenant General Lei Wan paused, and then said in a confident tone: "If it wasn't for the Huguang Battle that dragged down a lot of our resources, otherwise, many border towns in the north would have been recaptured long ago, as long as With sufficient supplies, we can give our army half a year, no, three months, and we will be able to take back all the border towns and cities along the northern Great Wall!"

"We lack cavalry, so it's hard to say when we go out of the pass, but it's easy to conquer and retake the border towns and cities in these passes. Let alone us, even if the former Ming army goes, we can still take it back. Come back, these Tatars are all cavalry, and their field ability is good, but the city offensive and defensive battles are far from it. If they hadn’t taken the initiative to put them in the gate, they would even acquiesce to the Tatars occupying these border towns. , these Tatars have not been able to enter the Great Wall!"

"The time is ripe, we can get it back by ourselves, it's only a year and a half away from here!"

The confident words of Lieutenant General Lei Wan can be regarded as setting the tone for the army, that is, the army does not think that the Tatars have any real value in selling these cities.

But if the empire's major interests are sold just for this time, then the empire will suffer!

And the empire suffers, the army will never agree!

The territory of the empire, it was captured by the ancient emperor with the army, every inch of land, every piece of Tang Tongbao, is stained with the blood of army soldiers!

However, Lieutenant General Lei Wan changed his words at this time, and then said: "Of course, if they can open up the supply of horses, they can also give them a little sweetness!"

At this time, Lieutenant General Lei Wan has basically put forward the army's views and opinions on behalf of the army, that is, in principle, the empire cannot suffer losses, but if the Tartars are stupid and dare to provide a large number of horses to the Tang Dynasty, Then the Army is the first to agree!

As long as there are enough horses and preparations for two or three years, the army will have the ability to conquer the grasslands in the north. At that time, a paper of agreement will be just wasted paper. The army believes that His Majesty will be very happy to see the army kill the grasslands. , to open up the territory for the Tang Dynasty!

Simply put, the army only needs horses, and if there are no horses, the army will oppose it!

It is not only the army generals who can see this. In fact, Liu Bagou, Qian Mengjiu and other civil servants also know the importance of horses. This vocabulary!

The people in the northern grasslands also know very well what their biggest bargaining chip is, and they always want to exchange horses for more benefits. Of course, they also know that once the Central Plains Dynasty gets a lot of horses, basically It is their doomsday, so even if they sell horses, they will never be sold in large quantities.

At this time, Liu Bagou also spoke up: "Yesterday, the colleagues of the Ministry of Commerce also found the minister's side, saying that they hope to reach an agreement on the mutual market as much as possible without harming the interests of the empire. They said that if the opening of the mutual market is , then many products of the empire will have a new sales channel, tea, salt, porcelain, silk, woven cloth, soap and many other products can be exchanged for a large number of horses, cattle, sheep, gold and silver for the empire, and also said, In the industrial market of the empire, there is a shortage of wool, and it is difficult for a woolen fabric factory newly built by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises to find enough wool, and it is difficult to produce at present!"

After listening to Li Xuan, he was also a little speechless. Recently, the officials of the Ministry of Commerce have been thinking about opening the market for commodities and looking for various industrial raw materials!

For overseas trade, colonization, and exploration of new routes, the Ministry of Commerce is more active than the Navy. At the beginning of the establishment of the Datang Western Company, although this was Li Xuan's original intention, in fact, the Ministry of Commerce also had a lot of problems. strength.

In order to persuade the navy and the army to allow the establishment of the Datang Western Company, the Ministry of Commerce lobbied the army and navy for a long time.

In the end, after various consultations, the company armed with Datang Western Company’s officers must hire retired officers. In the event of war, the company’s armed forces must unconditionally obey the dispatch of the Privy Council and the Naval Command to support the army and navy. Only then did the army and navy bosses agree to grant Datang Xiyang a license to form an armed force, and dispatch active troops to retire to join Datang Xiyang, otherwise, Datang Xiyang will go to that trick. So many officers and soldiers!

You must know that in the Tang Dynasty, there were only three military academies, namely, the martial arts school, which belonged to the army, the imperial school, and the maritime school, which belonged to the navy. Even the Guards were military schools without majors.

If Datang Western Company wants to get officers, it can only rely on the army and navy!

Everyone discussed and discussed, and finally reached a consensus, and Li Xuan personally set up a few principled issues that could not be discussed!

First of all, we must not talk about artillery, because artillery is a powerful weapon for attacking fortifications. If the Tartars have a large number of artillery, the Great Wall will be full of loopholes in minutes!

But muskets can be sold appropriately, but they must be limited to backward arquebuses, and the quantity cannot be large.

Anyway, the Tang Dynasty has already begun to fully change the flintlock guns, and although the arquebus has not been completely retired from active service, it has basically been reduced to second-line equipment.

At the same time, the musket is of average technical content. In the surrounding countries, Fusang has it, not to mention Europeans, and there are also many countries in Central Asia. If the Tatars want it, it is Being able to get through Central Asia, West Asia, and Europe is just a bit of a hassle.

Besides, if the Tatars give up the traditional cavalry and start to play line musketeers, then it will be a good thing for the Tang Dynasty!

Thinking of the Tatars abandoning the traditional cavalry and shooting, and then making a bunch of line musketeers, Li Xuan felt an inexplicable joy, and he would definitely beat them so much that his parents wouldn't recognize them.

These days, if the Tatars dare to shoot muskets with the Tang Army, this is basically courting death!

In addition to guns, horses must also be obtained. This is the premise of the Tang Dynasty's truce and mutual market. If there are no horses, then there is no need to talk about it, because the Tang Dynasty has no other urgent needs for other things of the Tartars. Give the horses, that's a fart, keep beating!

If there are no horses to be exchanged in the mutual market, then continue to wage war to **** them!

The horses that the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty rode were all robbed. They were robbed from the Ming army before, and then from the Tartars!

Besides, it is not only the Tatar family who have horses, but also the Chahar tribe in the east. This so-called central Mongolian household has been out of luck in recent years. He was beaten and killed all the way by Altan Khan, and finally escaped. To the Liaodong Hetao, the southeastern half of the Greater Khingan Mountains.

Further west, there is Oara. Although Oara was the enemy of life and death of the Central Plains Dynasty many years ago, but now, the Oaras have long been dead, and the great enemy of the Central Plains Dynasty is the Tartars.

And uniting Oara and Chahar to fight against the Tatars, this was what the Ming Dynasty did before, and now the Tang Dynasty is also going to continue to do this!

Therefore, although horses are very important, it does not mean that the Tang Dynasty cannot obtain them from other places. Even the two grassland tribes mentioned above do not sell horses to the Tang Dynasty, but there is also a Central Asian tribe, where horses Much is!

And after Li Xuan determined these principled bottom lines, the next thing was to hand over to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Even the ministers on duty in the imperial study were all busy with their own work.

Anyway, the people from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are the most professional. Although they are the ministers of the imperial study, it is unfortunate that none of the seven ministers on duty in the imperial study are from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and they are not good at this kind of vassal affairs!

The only people from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the imperial study are the ministers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but the ministers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are only ministers who walk in the imperial study. The number of ministers in the imperial study has been relatively large in the past two years, there are more than 20, basically as long as they are The head of a department with a relatively heavy weight can get the title of a walking minister. If there are more people, this title will be worthless.

At least, they are not qualified to participate in this kind of small meeting of the imperial study room today, and only seven ministers on duty in the imperial study room are able to participate!

After the people from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs got the precise instructions from above ~www.wuxiaspot.com~, the negotiations with Tagli started!

What to talk about, of course, talk about armistice and mutual market, talk about handover of border towns, and talk about horse trade!

However, after talking for a few times, Tagri found that what the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Tang Dynasty said was basically no different from what he heard in Youzhou City. Even his request to see the emperor was not allowed.

If you want to have an audience, you must first sign the truce and mutual market agreement before we talk, otherwise, why should you, a Tartar, visit our supreme sage of all ages?

Well, even if the agreement is signed, it doesn't mean that you can see it if you want, it depends on the mood of the Son of Heaven!

If you are in a good mood, I will let you take a look from a distance, and it must be mentioned that you must not look directly at the Son of Heaven for a long time when you meet him. !

If the Son of Heaven is in a bad mood, why don't you stay cool in Tagli!