However, since he was not strong enough to directly rob the Japanese country with the Han princes, and Li Shimin was really jealous of the gold and silver, he simply did the opposite and "formed an alliance" with the Japanese country. ways to achieve your goals.
If it were just one or two princes of the Han Dynasty, maybe Li Shimin would have the idea of taking it head-on and directly use force to rob it. Whoever has the bigger fist will benefit from it!
But there are five princes, and the five princes have joined forces. Moreover, among the five princes, there is also the big brother Jin Jun. No matter how confident Li Shimin is, he does not think that under this situation, he will have much frontal strength. odds of winning. Therefore, it is important to find another way to achieve your goals.
In fact, when the Japanese invaded Xuzhou of the Han Dynasty, Li Shimin also noticed the Japanese. When Qin Zheng was unable to break through in a short time, Li Shimin thought of occupying this place to expand his strength.
However, things cannot be done just by thinking about it, you must collect enough information in advance. And just when Li Shimin sent people to continuously collect information about the Japanese country, the Han Dynasty had already taken action first.
Not long after the princes of the Han Dynasty conquered Japan, Li Shimin had already begun to contact the Japanese country. It's just that it was just a preliminary contact at that time, and not many interests were involved.
Moreover, at the beginning, Li Shimin did not know the news about gold and silver in Japan. To be more precise, like the Han princes, although he had heard those rumors, after all, those rumors had not confirmed the truth or falsehood of those rumors. The contact at that time was just based on the attitude of taking a shot first if there is a date or no date.
But as the great names of Japan failed one after another, Li Shimin saw more opportunities.
What is the situation in Japan now? Takeda Shingen and Oda Nobunaga have both been defeated, leaving only Uesugi Kenshin in good condition. Moreover, because the Han navy has more important things to do, it is too lazy to continue with Uesugi Kenshin. The letter was played, so the troops of the daimyo headed by Uesugi Kenshin were preserved.
Tathagata, nearly three-quarters of the Japanese army has been buried in these battles. Although the Japanese country still has a large number of soldiers and horses, they are new recruits who have just been recruited, and their combat effectiveness is really impressive.
But no matter how impressive the combat effectiveness of these new soldiers is, the Japanese lords can only ask them to recruit them. If they recruit these new soldiers, at least they will still have soldiers under their command. If they do not recruit these new soldiers, how will they have the strength to resist? The soldiers and horses of the big man!
If they don't even have these soldiers and horses, then when the Han princes come to attack, they may really have to wash their necks and prepare to be attacked by others!
The situation in Japan has deteriorated to this extent. For Li Shimin, it is not the best time to take advantage of the situation, but to beautify it a little, it is the best time to "form an alliance"!
Therefore, Li Shimin sent his counselor Yan Zhuang to take the initiative to contact the famous names in the Japanese country.
Yan Zhuang, although not many people may have heard of this person's name, he is a peerless strategist and one of the most powerful strategists under Li Shimin.
In history, he first tempted An Lushan to raise an army, then murdered An Lushan. When the situation was over, he surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and finally died a good death.
It has to be said that this man is a representative figure of intellectuals in troubled times. He has maximized his advantages in intelligence, agility, decisiveness, and judgment of general trends. He can take advantage of the situation and retreat unscathed. In history, there are very few people who can make trouble like him, but still escape unscathed in the end!
What Li Shimin wanted to do at first was just what Li Xiang, Qin Zheng, and Liu Bang did to the grassland, selling them arms and becoming an arms dealer. Of course, Li Tang was not rich in terms of armor and weapons, and Li Shimin mainly sold war horses!
And Li Tang himself didn't have any war horses, so where did Li Shimin's war horses come from? Of course they came from Nurhaci and Tuoba Tao. Li Shimin spent twice the price to buy war horses from Nurhachi and Tuoba Tao, and then turned around and sold them to the famous names of the Japanese country for ten times the price!
Not to mention Li Shimin, I am afraid that Li Xiang would be jealous after seeing the profits in between.
Of course, Nurhachi and Tuoba Tao are not fools. Although there is no shortage of battles on the grassland, it does not mean that they will be willing to transport these war horses! The advantage of nomadic peoples over agricultural peoples is war horses. Of course, they will control the number of war horses flowing out.
Moreover, the number of war horses Li Shimin wanted this time was so large. Although Li Shimin was willing to pay a certain amount of benefits, the asking price of Nurhaci and Tuoba Tao was still ridiculously high!
War horses are not a valuable thing on the grassland, otherwise those horse dealers would not be able to make a lot of money by buying them from the grassland and reselling them to the Central Plains or the South.
Although Nurhachi and Tuoba Tao's asking price for Li Shimin's war horse this time has not reached the price of the war horse in the south, it has even exceeded the price of the war horse in the Central Plains.
However, even with such a batch of "high-priced horses", Li Shimin was still willing to buy them in large quantities!
After all, although Li Shimin spent a lot of money to buy it, his seller was stupid and rich. No matter how high his purchase price was, he could still sell it at ten times the price.
First of all, Li Shimin's war horses are truly tall horses from the north. The horses native to the Japanese country are incomparable to these horses. The height of these horses is basically more than one and a half times, or even twice, the height of the native Japanese horses.
The famous people of the Japanese country had never encountered such tall horses in the Japanese mainland, and naturally they did not know the real market price of these horses. Although they must have known that they had been taken advantage of when they bought them from Li Shimin, they did not know how much they had been taken advantage of. Not sure.
Secondly, these great names of Japan really needed these war horses. This time, these great names of Japan suffered a big loss in terms of cavalry. Their own cavalry faced the big Han's cavalry, just like a group of younger brothers, being treated like food.
The current situation on their side also requires them to purchase these war horses from Li Shimin in order to change the uniforms of their cavalry.
Therefore, Li Shimin came into contact with the Japanese country for the first time, perfectly acting as a middleman, and almost earned a lot of benefits in this empty-handed way. However, both Nurhaci and Tuoba Tao's side, and the Japanese daimyo's side, were quite satisfied!
And as the famous people in the Japanese country began to contact Li Shimin, they also deliberately inquired about Li Shimin's news. As these famous people in the Japanese country learned more and more about Li Shimin and the situation in Li Tang, what happened There are more and more ideas.
Therefore, this also gave them an opportunity to form an alliance, or to be more precise, it gave Li Shimin a chance to kill them!
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