"It would be nice if I could grab some cattle and sheep from the grassland."
Li Chao said to Li Shimin.
Under normal circumstances, the country is facing a catastrophe and famine, and the use of troops abroad at this time will inevitably favor the crisis of emptiness of the heart.
But this time with the sudden change in the north, Datang doesn't need to be the one who charges ahead.
The Tiele people don't really want to build their own country, so give them an edict to support them to build a country, and give Yi Nan the title of Khan.
Anyway, it doesn't cost Datang anything, it's the so-called benefit without cost.
This is the case with long-range and close-range attacks.
Tiele is said to be another species of the Xiongnu, living in Mobei, with many tribes, successively submitted to the Xiongnu, Xianbei, and Turkic, and also established his own Gaoche Khanate.
Xue Yantuo is the strong part of the Tiele tribes, during the Sui Daye, because the Turkic Luo Khan did not levy taxes, the Tiele tribes had grievances, and the Luo directly killed more than 100 Tiele chieftains, which led to a rebellion, and the leaders of the Qibi tribe and the leader of Xue Yantuo were the big and small khans, and later changed to the Western Turks.
In these years, the Eastern and Western Turks were at peace with each other, the well water did not interfere with the river water, the Eastern Turkic Khanate moved south, and the center of gravity moved south.
The Tiele tribes also took the opportunity to fill the vacancies left by the Mobei after the Turkic people moved south in large numbers, and their strength gradually increased.
The current leader of Xue Yantuo, Yi Nan, is actually the grandson of Yi Zhixiao Khan, who was pushed out by the Tiele tribes in the early years.
Yi Nan's strength is quite strong, with 80,000 tents of tribes, and he is second to none in Mobei.
Because Jieli came to power not long ago, but imposed heavy taxes on the Tiele people, the Tiele people became more and more dissatisfied with the Turks, and Yi Nan had the intention to incite the strings, and everyone immediately expressed their willingness to respect him as the Great Khan and build their own Khanate of the Tiele people together.
After eating a few barbecues with the envoys of the Tang Dynasty, Yi Nan tested the attitude of the Tang envoys, and after getting the Tang Dynasty's willingness to fully support him, he became more and more determined to establish his own country and claim the title of Khan.
After hearing that Jieli and his nephew Yu Shots were going to war, Yi Nan, who had received the support of Hui Hui, Qi Bi, Baye Gu, Tongluo, and Fu Gu, simply openly raised troops.
"Your Majesty, the current Yi Nan, urgently needs a public support from our Tang Dynasty, if Your Majesty can send an envoy to Mobei, Xu Yinan can establish the Xue Yantuo Khanate, canonize him as a khan, and give him a drum, I believe he will definitely fight the Turks even harder."
At the foot of the Yin Mountain in Monan, on the river loop, there are fat cattle and sheep everywhere.
In the year of famine, if you can grab the cattle and sheep that are profitable, and get hundreds of thousands of heads back, it will be a lot of money.
"It's still Wenyuan who knows me best," Li Shimin stroked the dragon chair and was very happy.
"However, I am a little worried about Tong Ye Hu, this person is also a great talent, since he inherited the Western Turks from the hands of the Archers, the strength of the Western Turks has become stronger day by day.
This time, if I canonize him as the Great Khan of the Turkic Khanate, it would not be a good thing if he waved his troops eastward under the banner of our Tang Dynasty, and then defeated Jieli and others to become the Great Khan of the Turks and unify the Turkic East and West."
During the Sui Dynasty, such a thing happened back then.
The Eastern Turkic Khan fought against the Western Turks under the banner of the Sui Dynasty, and the Western Turks were like a bamboo, and those Western Turks really thought that the Sui Dynasty had sent troops to join the Eastern Turkic Khan, and they fled one after another.
He almost made him surrender the Western Turks, but fortunately he died violently in the army.
The Eastern Turks are now in civil strife, and the Western Turks are strong, so if they are given the name of the Western Turks as a division, if they take the opportunity to destroy the Eastern Turks and get a unified Turk at that time, it will not be a trouble for themselves "Your Majesty is overwhelmed."
Li Chao disagreed.
The Western Turks were only a pioneer sent by the Turkic Khanate to expand westward, and later the map became bigger and bigger, and finally it was difficult to fall.
Even when the Khanate was in civil strife over the right of succession, the Western Turks wanted to snatch the suzerain's succession.
In the Sui Dynasty, the Western Turks and the Eastern Turks were toyed with by the Sui Dynasty, tossed back and forth, and finally reached the dream of sitting on the suzerain's khan, or in the decisive battle with Yang Su's cavalry, the Western Turks were much more honest and developed westward with peace of mind.
Tong Yehu is indeed an ambitious person, or he would not have married and married Tang, let alone set his sights on the Eastern Grassland.
But if it is said that Tong Ye Hu can easily defeat all the large and small khans in the east and become the Great Khan of the entire Turk by relying on a canonization of the Tang Dynasty, it is too good to think.
No one in the Eastern Turks is still convinced, they don't even accept Jieli, how can they still obey the Tongye protection In the eyes of the Turks, they are the descendants of the great sects, and the Western Turks are all side branches, what qualifications do they have to compete for the position of the Great Khan Besides, there's not a Tieler.
The Tiele people were against the Turks, not only against Jieli, but also against Tongye Hu.
With such a complicated situation, it is impossible for Tong Yehu to smoothly unify all the tribes and sit on the throne of the Great Khan, at most he is only a nominal Great Khan.
A Western Turkic khan becoming the Great Khan of the entire Khanate will not ease the Turkic strife, but will only complicate the situation.
Regarding the Turkic internal opposition to Jieli, Tuli and Yu Shot, Li Chao shamelessly said that he could support both.
Support Tuli to be the Great Khan, and then support Yu Sheshe to be the Little Khan, so as to divide the Eastern Turks into two and clear Jieli out.
As for Tuli and Yu Shooting in the end, whether they can sit down and talk about it is another matter.
In short, Datang is against Jieli, but Tuli and Yu Sheshe both support it, but if one of the two is not polite to Datang, then Datang will fully support the other.
Anyway, the goal of the Tang Dynasty is also very clear, to bring down the Eastern Turks, and at the same time drive the Turks out of the area south of Yinshan.
"Shuofang, Hedong, Hebei, Hexi, the soldiers and horses of all provinces can find opportunities to grab some cattle and sheep, maybe they can solve some grain and grass supply by themselves," Li Chao said with a smile.
Li Shimin admires Li Chao very much, and in just a few words, he can always analyze the whole situation very thoroughly.
"Your Majesty, it's time for dinner."
The king's chamberlain whispered over to report.
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"Ouch, I've forgotten the time for this chat."
Li Shimin said with a smile, "Wenyuan, when you arrive in Shannan, I have to find you responsible for this first meal."
Say, go eat something special."
The king's chamberlain reminded on the side, "Your Majesty, the imperial meal is ready, and you can pass the meal."
"I don't eat imperial food today, I want to eat Li Dahu."
Li Chao knew that Li Shimin liked to eat some snacks that the palace kitchen did not do, and were full of local characteristics.
In fact, he himself likes to eat these, and what is delicious about the same food every day, he always has to change the taste and ingredients at the right time.
"There is indeed a good thing, kudzu glutinous ba, which tastes good."
After talking about things for a long time, Li Shimin was really hungry, so he got off the dragon chair, and he directly took Li Chao's hand and walked out.
Li Chao is not suitable for holding hands with a big man, he is suspected of engaging in the foundation, but the person who holds his hand is the emperor, and Li Chao can only helplessly let him hold it.
Kudzu is a very good thing, the south of the mountain is mountainous, and there are many kudzu in the mountain.
In the late autumn season, it is a good time to dig kudzu, bring a hoe and a firewood knife, go to the deep mountains and old forests to look for kudzu vines, and look for those old kudzu.
Kudzu can be dug back to make arrowroot powder, and arrowroot powder can be used to make glutinous rice cakes and so on.
In the past, almost every household in the mountains had to dig kudzu to make glutinous rice in autumn.
The men go into the mountains to dig kudzu, and the women process it at home.
Some big Ge may be more than ten or twenty years old, and the big Ge King is even more than a hundred catties, or even hundreds of catties.
In a day, just dig a few roots and it will be a good harvest.
When it gets dark, tie up the kudzu and go home in the sunset.
Dig up the fresh kudzu root and wash it home, and those fine roots with low powder content can also be cut into slices and dried to make kudzu root tea, and make water as tea to drink.
Pueraria with high powder content should be hammered flat on the stone, broken repeatedly, pulped, put into water for cleaning, and sieve the slurry water into the tank for medium precipitation.
After repeated processing, the kudzu pulp becomes arrowroot powder, which can be dried and dried in the sun to become a good arrowroot powder.
This year, the people responded to the government's call to prepare for famine and hunger, looking for edible food everywhere, processing and stockpiling.
The kudzu root on the mountain has also become a key collection target.
It turned out that it was just the people in the mountains who made some of it themselves, but this year, the government organized people to dig arrowroot, process it, and make arrowroot powder.
"This powder smells good" Li Shimin saw Li Chao stirring the arrowroot powder with cold water and making a paste, and said with a smile.
"This is a good thing, similar to lotus root flour, in terms of nutrition is no worse than rice and wheat, but it is not easy to process.
In fact, there is a more direct way to make kudzu glutinous cakes, which is to make the arrowroot powder cake directly. ” Pick up a frying pan, pour some oil, and heat until about 60%.
Li Chao poured the kudzu powder into the pot, shook it and spread it into a thin cake, and smoothed the middle part.
He skillfully turns the pan slowly, slowly frying the brown, and then flipping the other side.
"It's ready to eat" Li Shimin stood next to him and watched that the cake had been yellowed on both sides, and he was a little impatient.
"You can eat it, but you can also add bacon and stir-fry it to make it more flavorful."
Li Chengqian smelled the fragrance and came in, and saw Li Chao cutting bacon, so he directly picked up a piece of cut cake and put it in his mouth, "Well, the kudzu root glutinous cake is so fragrant." ” The bacon has already been washed and sliced, Li Chaonao water, add the fried kudzu root glutinous cake to the same fry, add salt and other seasonings, and fry it out of the pot after a while.
Li Shimin looked at this plate of kudzu glutinous bacon, and couldn't help nodding in admiration, the kudzu glutinous bacons were shiny and shiny, translucent with a little white.
Pick up a piece to pay off, the skin is crispy and fragrant, bite through the crispy skin, soft and glutinous, and the aftertaste is sweet.
After the bacon and glutinous rice are fried together, it is not so greasy, refreshing and delicious, the incense is gradually lighter, and the aftertaste is quiet.
"Aftertaste, good" Li Shimin nodded in praise, but Prince Chengqian didn't evaluate it at all, because he was burying his head in eating, how could he have time to evaluate.
This is the experience he summed up with his brothers-in-law, don't talk when eating, not because it is rude to talk during dinner, but because when you eat and talk, the delicious food will be robbed. t1706231537: