"Old Cui, if you were on the battlefield and you were about to die, and there were several enemies around you, what would you do?"
Tang Ping suddenly turned around and asked Lao Cui.
"Hey, young master, you can't expect me to do better!" Lao Cui chuckled, but his life was originally saved by Tang Ping, and although the two of them are usually called master and servant, they are actually more like friends, so he I don't care at all.
"But if we really encounter that situation, I will definitely point at one of them!"
Although he didn't know that Tang Ping was going to ask himself this question at this time, he still gave his answer.
"That's right, just do it by one person!" Tang Ping looked back at Fang and Du: "If the scale of the locust plague is too large, where will Datang's food fly to after eating it?"
The two of them have done their homework on this matter a long time ago, and this kind of thing has happened more than once in history, so they can easily answer: "There is a high probability that they will fly to East Vietnam."
"Then it's over, let's tell the East Yue Kingdom that if there is a locust plague, our Tang Dynasty will burn all the crops and then send troops to the East Yue Kingdom!"
Fang and Du were speechless. This idea sounded unreliable. Can countries get along like this?
Seeing that the two of them didn't seem to understand, Tang Ping analyzed: "With the locust plague, can we keep the food in the fields or can't we?"
"Nature can't be saved!" Who doesn't understand this truth? If locusts fly over in overwhelming numbers, they will eat up almost all green plants on the ground, except those buried underground like potatoes.
"Yes, we can't save it anyway, so there is no difference between burning or not burning, right? We want to let Dongyue know at this time that we are not living well, and they will not be able to get better. When the Tang Dynasty falls, we will also Eat their flesh off."
To put it bluntly, Tang Ping's method is to act rogue and threaten the East Yue Kingdom, either to trade food to me, or to break up and break up.
In this era, Confucianism is still the mainstream. Who in the civil and military circles of the Tang Dynasty and Manchu Dynasty could come up with such a rogue method?
"This..." Fang Xuanling hesitated and said: "The Tang Dynasty has always conquered the world with its virtues. I'm afraid this will..."
"Convince people with virtue!" Tang Ping nodded: "But Mr. Fang only knows that Confucius persuades people with virtue, but he doesn't know that his sword is called virtue, right? Confucius always used his sword to make people believe in him. questionable!"
These words immediately stunned Fang and Du.
The two of them have been familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics since they were children, but they never thought that the phrase "conquering people with virtue" could be explained in this way.
On the other hand, Li Bai slapped the table and laughed loudly: "Second Master, hahaha, so this is what it means to convince people with virtue! Hahaha, oh, my stomach hurts from laughing!"
Tang Ping ignored him and continued to enlighten Fang and Du: "Don't they all say repay evil with kindness? How can we repay kindness with kindness? We proposed a trade contract with Dongyue in a formal manner at the beginning, and they agreed to the contract. Now that they broke the contract first, how can we still become the unreasonable side?"
This sentence is very reasonable. Fang and Du nodded slightly after hearing this. This was what made everyone angry yesterday. However, because of the delicate relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the surrounding countries, no one in the court dared to do this. Start the battle lightly.
"And we just want to let the East Yue Kingdom see our determination, and we don't really want to fight. If they send food over, we naturally don't have to fight." Tang Ping paused here, and then asked with some doubts. : "Oh, by the way, if we want to fight Dongyue, can we do it?"
This is also a key issue, just like the five permanent members of later generations who said they would attack a certain country, that was considered a threat. But if a certain small country says it wants to attack the five permanent members, wouldn't it be a joke?
For details, please refer to the fate of Ka Dazuo.
Although this method is a bit of a hooliganism, it is like this between countries. Otherwise, why would later generations nickname the Wuchang as the five hooligans?
"That's natural!" When talking about Datang's combat power, Fang and Du were very confident: "Our Datang is only in a place of four battles, so the surrounding defenses involve too many troops."
"The last time the Turks were able to attack outside the city of Chang'an, it was mainly because the Jingzhou governor had an affair with the Turks, which opened the door to the northern part of the Tang Dynasty, allowing the Turks to conquer Chang'an all the way and trapped Chang'an."
"But if we use all the troops of the Tang Dynasty, we can defeat the Turks, Tubos, East Vietnamese and Western Barbarians!"
To put it bluntly, now that Datang is in the middle, you can hit any one of the four people at will.
"That's enough! As long as we can beat it!" Tang Ping clapped his hands: "Send envoys directly to East Vietnam, then mobilize domestic forces, and tell East Vietnam to either trade grain, or we can go and get it ourselves. The truth lies only in bows and arrows Within range!”
The Tang Dynasty did not take the blame for this matter. As long as it made a gesture, Dongyue would seriously consider the possibility of the Tang Dynasty attacking Dongyue.
Fang and Du originally came here just to see if the blind cat could encounter a dead mouse, but they didn't expect to encounter such an impossible solution.
In fact, it's not that they couldn't think of such a method, but they didn't think about it.
How should I put it? People in this era, especially literati, are a little too self-righteous and think of themselves as gentlemen.
And if you think about it carefully, Tang Ping's method was just to use force to force Dongyue to submit, and it may not really start the war lightly.
As for whether this will be true in all countries, hehe, please, the final history books between countries are written by the victors.
Several surrounding countries plotted against the Tang Dynasty, but why didn't the Tang Dynasty covet them?
They are all foxes of thousands of years, let alone Liao Zhai.
Once they understood this, the two of them said goodbye to Tang Ping directly, and then hurried back to the palace.
There was a whole night of meetings last night, and Li Shimin didn't sleep at all. He was discussing countermeasures with Li Jiancheng in the Xiande Hall.
When I heard Fang and Du asking for a meeting, I knew that one of them probably had a solution, so I called them in directly.
"Do you two have a plan?"
"Not bad!" Fang and Du explained the method given by Tang Ping. At the end, Fang Xuanling added: "This is what Tang Ping of Shanghe Village said."
Li Shimin was originally wondering why the two of them came up with such an unconventional way of playing cards, but it was not so strange when he heard that it was Tang Ping who said it.
Because in his opinion, Tang Ping's thinking is different from that of people of this era. In Li Yuanji's words, it is normal for the thoughts of heavenly beings to be different from those of us mortals.
Moreover, everything Tang Ping did after his appearance brought countless benefits to Datang, so Li Shimin would not doubt his motives.
I went through the solutions the two mentioned in my mind again, and I felt that there was indeed no solution now.
"In that case, how about letting Tang Ping lead the mission to East Vietnam?"
