Unify the Western Regions!
This was not only Li Chengyuan's expectation, but also the thoughts of everyone present.
To the Great Zhou, the Great Tang in the east and the Turks in the north were not good people.
Only by unifying the various small city-states in the Western Regions would it be a more reasonable direction of development.
Zhuge Liang had already made plans. He said,"Your Majesty! I believe that our primary goal now is to start training new recruits!”
"At present, the hearts of the people in the Great Zhou have already stabilized. Many families have extra green soldiers. They are all high-quality troops!”
"Wait until the first autumn harvest! The recruits also had the initial combat ability! The Great Zhou could start a war!”
"There is very little rain this summer. It has been more than a month since we started our escape, but there hasn't been a single heavy rain. The autumn harvests of the Western Regions must be very bleak.”
Zhuge Liang's plan was rigorous and steady, but it did not lose his desire to attack.
Very quickly, Wei Zheng, Xiang Yu, Su Dingfang, and the others agreed that this was the best method.
However, Li Chengyuan did not say anything. He was still deep in thought.
Zhuge Liang's method seemed steady.
However, he had overlooked an important issue.
That was the Great Tang!
Fang Xuanling and Cheng Yaojin had not been killed and had fled back to the Great Tang.
However, this did not mean that Li Shiming's anger towards him and the Great Zhou had decreased. It might even increase.
This was especially so after the last clash, where the Great Tang's thirty thousand elites had been defeated and their generals and strategists captured.
Li Shiming must have realized the threat of the Great Zhou.
As an emperor on horseback, Li Shiming, who had been fighting for many years, naturally knew what it meant to raise a tiger to invite trouble. Moreover, he had Li Shiming's wife in his hands.
"Li Er will not give the Great Zhou a chance to develop!”
Li Chengyuan said noncommittally.
Everyone in the hall was momentarily stunned. They had indeed overlooked the existence of the Great Tang.
Zhuge Liang said,"Your Majesty, the Tang Empire wants to attack us for the time being, but they may not be able to do so!"”
"Although the Great Tang is very large, this subject has recently learned from Xuan Cheng and Ding Fang that the Great Tang is actually strong on the outside but weak on the inside.”
"If they want to attack the Great Zhou, they will need at least one hundred thousand soldiers. The provisions needed for the western expedition will be quite a burden for the Great Tang.”
"Moreover, the summer drought will affect the autumn harvest, so the Great Tang will not gamble on this life-saving grain!”
Li Chengyuan smiled faintly.
Li Er, this bastard, if he didn't know how to gamble...
He wouldn't be the most outstanding emperor among the 400 emperors in China.
Before he ascended the throne, he started to gamble his life in wars, including the coup of Xuanwu Sect and the future alliance at Weishui River. Even after the reign of Zhenguan, there were many examples of gambling.
Li Chengyuan had a premonition that Li Shiming had not given up yet!
However, this vague premonition might be argued by Wolong. Moreover, there was Wei Zheng from the Tang Empire at the table.
Li Chengyuan didn't want to waste his breath and chose to change the topic.
He knocked on the table and said,"Gentlemen! I actually have a plan. The Great Zhou could even conquer the Western Regions without spending much troops and food!”
Instantly, everyone became interested. They straightened their backs and waited for Li Chengyuan to speak.
When Li Chengyuan saw this, he also said bluntly,"The Western Regions is very different from the Great Tang. The rule here is not very stable, and the people are scattered in tribes! Their loyalty to the king isn't very high, so we can make use of this!”
Everyone seemed to have found a new direction.
Zhuge Liang's eyes lit up and he said,""Your Majesty, do you mean that we can still imitate the Great Zhou's method of establishing a country and capture the leader first?”
Li Chengyuan smiled. Zhuge Liang was indeed Zhuge Liang. He knew what he meant just by pointing it out.
In fact, this method was something that Li Chengyuan had thought about for a few days after deciding to unify the Western Regions.
One had to know that the Western Regions was still filled with small countries and many city-states.
It was only after the rise of Tubo that the Western Regions had a truly unified and powerful political power!
Before this, the Western Regions could be said to be extremely loose!
Even their language might have different tones.
Even so, although the Tubo Dynasty in his previous life was cloaked in the skin of an autocratic monarch, it was still a slave country in private!
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Tubo fell into chaos and a slave uprising broke out.
Moreover, even if the Great Zhou had changed its system, there were still slave traders at the borders of the Great Zhou!
The other countries in the Western Regions were definitely flooded with slaves.
Under such circumstances, there was no need to talk about the cohesiveness of the countries in the Western Regions. Their ruling power depended entirely on the large number of troops under their kings.
Relying on force and food to unite the subjects, one could imagine that the loyalty of the subjects was very low!
This gave the Great Zhou a chance!
Li Chengyuan thought of this and said,""You might not know this, but the Great Zhou has been flourishing recently. Other than the merchants at the border ganging up on the Great Zhou merchants, there have also been cases of foreign races wanting to relocate the Great Zhou!”
Everyone was stunned. Why did His Majesty say this again?
Li Chengyuan began to analyze his thoughts one by one.
Zhuge Liang and the others were mesmerized as they listened. They kept praising the Emperor for his foresight and his insight!
"Just as Wo Long said, to capture the thief, we must first capture the leader!" Li Chengyuan finally said. We can rely on the curved plow and other items as bait! Hold a feast and invite the armies of the Western Regions! Let's have a second plum blossom!"
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