After Chang Lin left, Li Shimin also stood up and spoke.
"Then let's go to Tai Chi Hall." Although Liang Yi Hall is large enough, since it is a formal meeting, it must be moved to a formal place.
After everyone walked out of Liangyi Hall, Li Shimin looked at Li Ke and asked, "How do you decide to deal with the Tubo matter?"
"How to deal with what? What does this have to do with our Tang Dynasty? The rebels were the Tibetan herdsmen, and after the rebellion, these Tubo herdsmen sincerely wanted to join our Tang Dynasty and become our Tang people. These are two different things." Li Ke shook his head.
Li Ke's words made many ministers beside him feel helpless. The eyes of several generals who rushed over were shining, while these civil servants were somewhat confused.
Wei Zheng couldn't help but said: "Your Highness, isn't this a little too shameless? After all, we are the Kingdom of Heaven, and Tubo is our country of the Tang Dynasty. If this is the case, wouldn't it mean that everyone in our country of the Tang Dynasty will be in danger in the future? Is there even a possibility of a group attacking?"
"Hey, hey, hey, Duke Zheng, what you said is that we hope that everyone in them is in danger. If they are in danger, then our cavalry of the Tang Dynasty will knock down these places!" Cheng Yaojin immediately said. shouted.
Wei Zheng was a little helpless. You soldiers naturally want to fight.
He was too lazy to argue with Cheng Yaojin, but waited for Li Ke's answer.
Li Ke smiled and said, "Let's talk about this at the meeting later."
In less than half an hour, all the military members currently in Chang'an City rushed to Taiji Hall. In addition to the historian responsible for recording, there were Changsun Wuji, Wei Zheng, and Fang Xuanling, the heads of the three provinces. In addition, all The head of the military department and members of the military department.
They are Li Jing, Li Xiaogong, Yuchigong, Duan Zhixuan, Liu Hongji, Chai Shao, Zhang Liang, Hou Junji, Cheng Yaojin, Huo Gang, and then Li Shimin and Li Ke.
Chang Lin first read to everyone the contents of the eight-hundred-mile emergency and the information from the intelligence department.
After Chang Lin finished reading, almost all the generals immediately looked at Huo Gang.
They all know the specific system of the imperial court's Eight Hundred Miles Express. As soon as they know what happened, they will send people to start transmitting information to Chang'an. At the same time, the local officials have the right to make any disposition that is beneficial to the Tang Dynasty. .
In other words, the 800-mile express delivery must be the first message delivered back, but the information from the intelligence department is not much slower than the 800-mile express delivery. More importantly, the information from the intelligence department is more detailed. In other words, Have all the spies from this intelligence department penetrated deep into Tubo?
This... how long has it been since the Intelligence Ministry was established?
They were all the main generals before the Tang Dynasty, so they knew very well that there must not have been such an efficient intelligence department before the Tang Dynasty. If there had been, they would have obtained the intelligence in the first few battles.
"Everyone has watched it, how do you feel now?" Li Shimin knocked on the table and asked.
Military meetings are different from court meetings. Everyone sits around the same table, including Li Shimin.
"This... is a bit unbelievable." Zhang Liang, who came over later, couldn't help but said.
"Who says it's not the case? Isn't this... just a weapon without bloodshed?" Liu Hongji also nodded.
"This must be His Highness's early arrangement. Otherwise, even if these serfs rebelled, they would just replace some nobles. How could they want to join our Tang Dynasty." Cheng Yaojin said.
"It is true that I arranged for some people to go in. In fact, their task was very simple. They were to tell the Tibetan serfs what a normal life should be like? They were not born serfs. They should If you have your own land, you should live your own life." Li Ke nodded and said.
Everyone is speechless. Li Ke's words seem to be an understatement, but it is not that simple. Everyone knows very well that ordinary people are very ignorant, have no education, and have not read books. You tell them What can they understand about the truth? If these people were so easy to incite, the Tang Dynasty would not be so easy to rule.
What's more, how can you ensure that those who have obtained the rights give up the opportunity to become nobility and choose to integrate into the Tang Dynasty?
These seemingly simple sentences contain too much meaning.
"Let's not talk about this today. Now that things have happened, the Governor of the Xizhou Protectorate has sent 30,000 elite cavalry to Yadong Yankou. In other words, in theory, the entire Tubo has been under the control of the Tang Dynasty. ." Li Ke said.
"Your Highness, the same question I asked before, is there something wrong with doing this? Will it put many of our subjects in danger, such as Xue Yantuo, Shiwei, Khitan and other tribes in the north?" General Wei Zheng had just said The question was asked again.
"There's nothing wrong. I didn't answer you just now, but what I want to say now is that I know many of you have such thoughts, but I tell you, you must abandon such thoughts in the future."
"We are not a celestial kingdom, nor are we the center of the world. Although the Tang Dynasty is very powerful, there may be countries more powerful than the Tang Dynasty in the world." Li Ke said with a serious face.
Everyone was stunned for a moment. Is there any country more powerful than the Tang Dynasty?
"Did His Highness talk about Persia, Arabia and Rome?" Chai Shao asked curiously.
Because of Li Ke, almost all the generals in the Tang Dynasty have now seen the map compiled by Li Ke, and the names of these countries are naturally based on the names Li Ke said.
"No." Li Ke shook his head lightly.
"It can only be said that Persia, Arabia and Rome are the most powerful countries we can come into contact with, but in fact! The world is very big! And if our Tang Dynasty is arrogant and stubborn, how can we become an empire on which the sun never sets?" Li Ke looked at them and said.
Li Ke waved, and Chang Lin over there immediately opened the map.
Everyone is familiar with this map, so it’s not surprising.
Li Ke stood up and walked to the map, pointed to several countries on the map and said: "According to the calculations of the Taishi Bureau, the planet under our feet is very big. The straight-line distance from us now to the westernmost edge of this continent is about two meters. Thousands of miles! And within this distance of two thousand miles, there are several powerful countries!"
"And on this continent, the oldest country with recorded history can extend back to four thousand years ago!" Li Ke pointed to the location of Egypt in later generations.
Everyone was a little shocked.
"But the area of this continent is very vast, because it is only a small area bordering our continent. No one knows whether there will be more powerful countries deep in the continent! What if they threaten us, the Tang Dynasty? ?!" Li Ke pointed at Africa in future generations and said.
