Li Yuanai's words were so serious that Li Zhi, Li Ji, Lai Ji, Du Zhenglun, Xu Jingzong and others all showed surprise.

Lai Ji frowned and said, "Is this move too radical? The Western Regions are too far away and cannot stand the conquest. If you really want to further control, you need to send a large army to station, which is unpredictable. It may also cause uneasiness and even rebellion among the countries. Your Highness, you should know that it is easy to get over the top..."

Du Zhenglun also said: "The biggest advantage of the Western Regions is trade with the West. Once the Western Regions are turbulent, the economic blow to our North Korea will be particularly huge, and it is probably not worth the loss!"

Li Zhi looked at Li Yuanai strangely. He also had a certain desire to expand the Western Regions.

After all, since Zhang Qian opened up the Western Regions, his achievements in the development of the Western Regions have almost become equated with the king's military merits.

However, it is not easy to explore the Western Regions. The environment there is complicated, and from Liangzhou to the Western Regions, you have to pass a sand dunes of two thousand miles. There is no water and grass in the ground, and the day is hot and the night is cold, and the heat and heat are alternately alternating, which is not conducive to the support of the army.

The imperial court often had nowhere to do with the situation in the Western Regions, and its control over the Western Regions was soft control.

The Western Regions mainly respect the imperial court and pay tribute every year. When encountering problems, they apply for arbitration from the local Protectorate.

The strength of the Protectorate is limited. If you really encounter problems, you have to send troops from the Western Regions to borrow troops to calm the turmoil.

This model is more than enough to deal with rebellions from many small countries in the Western Regions, but once a large army gets involved, there will be various unstable factors.

However, it is unpredictable whether it is necessary to arrange a large army to enter the Western Regions, whether it will cause panic among the countries in the Western Regions.

There are also troops' supplies, soldiers' military pay, etc., which are all burdens to the court.

The Western Regions are still stable today. In addition to the Western Turks, the nine kingdoms of Zhaowu all respect the Tang Dynasty. It is necessary to break this stable situation.

Moreover, even if the Western Turks were evil, they would not be disrespectful to the court.

However, Ashina Helu, a leader of the Western Turks, attacked the Chumukunluchu tribe and annexed it in order to expand his strength.

This is a contradictory attack among the tribes within the Western Turks. To put it in detail, it has nothing to do with the Tang Dynasty, but the Tang Dynasty was used to being domineering.

That is to say, the so-called internal and external barbarians, and everyone who dares to claim to be a soldier will be killed.

As long as you are around the Tang Dynasty, even if you are a lion and tiger, you have to lie on the ground and be an obedient domestic dog. You can't yell and show your teeth, otherwise your Tang Dynasty father will deal with you...

Li Yuanai didn't know the relationship and smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, you guys, you know that you can take too much steps and pull the balls, but you don't care about me at all times! As Ying Gong said, Silla is different from other allies. Through long-term development, they absorbed our Central Plains culture and derived their own culture, their own connotations and their own backgrounds from the inside. They are no longer so-called barbarians. We are progressing, and they are also progressing. Take the Turks in the late previous dynasty for example. From the east to the Khitan, Shiwei, Tuyuhun, Gaochang countries, there are more than one million people who control the strings, Rongdi is strong, which has never been seen in ancient times. They not only dominate the East and West grasslands, but also began to go deep into the Central Plains with the intention of controlling the princes of the Central Plains. Which one of Liu Wuzhou, Dou Jiande, Wang Shichong, or even the Supreme Emperor did not surrender to them?"

"While Jie Li reusing the Sui Dynasty Zhao Deyan, a Sui Dynasty, imitating the Sui system reform on the grassland, he supported this and fought that, and supported which one to fight this and used the technique of weighing the trade-offs. Isn't it just to consume our own strength in China so that we can enter the Central Plains?"

"Jie Li failed. He took too much steps, which is enough to warn us. Barbarians cannot always be barbarians. They will also make progress and become difficult countries."

Li Zhi, Li Ji, Lai Ji, Du Zhenglun, and Xu Jingzong all had a sense of Li Yuanai's alarmist words, but they had to admit that what he said was indeed reasonable.

Li Yuanai sighed and said, "According to my understanding, there is a country growing and growing under our noses, and most of us are not aware of its danger."

Li Ji suddenly spoke, "What Your Highness is talking about Tubo?"

Li Yuanai was shocked and said, "Duke Ying also noticed it?"

Li Ji shook his head slightly and said, "No, just looking around, the only one who can truly threaten our dynasty is the Great Food Kingdom in the West. That's too far, and there may not be any intersection for at least decades. As for the Western Turks and the Baekje Alliance of Japan, it's not worth mentioning. Only Tubo has developed rapidly, mainly because Lu Dongzan gave me a deep impression in the past. This person is very talented and has a prime minister. Songtsen Gampo is also a hero of his generation. Tubo has them, and it's no problem to be based on the plateau. Therefore, this guess..."

Li Yuanai said: "Lu Dongzan was the prime minister. Tubo government affairs were clear and clear. Lu Dongzan had a son named Lu Qinling. He was very talented. When it comes to the ability to command troops, he was not inferior to most of the generals in our dynasty. Tubo rulers were young, and all the power was in the hands of Lu Dongzan’s father and son. Therefore, the generals and ministers were united and developed rapidly, and their strength should not be underestimated."

Others don’t know, how could Li Yuanai not understand the power of Tubo?

The Tang Dynasty was used to being invincible in the world, and while being confident, it was inevitable that it would be a little proud and regarded the countries in the world as nothing.

As a result, when Tubo took action, Lu Dongzan used his power and plotted against Qinling, and directly controlled the four towns of Anxi with a series of means, and the Tang army was fooled by a series of methods.

In the Battle of Dafeichuan, Lun Qinling took advantage of the disagreement of the generals of the Tang army and directly killed Xue Rengui with 400,000 troops from the whole country, forcing the Tang Dynasty to temporarily give up the four towns of Anxi.

Dafeichuan was the biggest failure in foreign wars since the founding of the Tang Dynasty. Tubo became a powerful western power in this battle that competed with the Tang Dynasty.

Tubo and the Tang Dynasty have been entangled for two hundred years. Although the Tang Dynasty won more than lose less, there is no doubt that he is the most difficult and troublesome opponent in the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, the plateau climate where Tubo is located gives them great convenience, but this is their advantage.

Tubo completely took advantage of its advantages. They competed with the Tang Dynasty for Longyou in the Western Regions, with the Uighurs for the Western Regions, and with the Arab Empire for the Central Asian Hezhong region. Whether it is the Tang, Uighurs or the Arab Empire were the top forces at that time, and Tubo was not at a disadvantage in their face.

In history, it was because Li Zhi despised Tubo too much and devoted his attention to the Haidong Peninsula and the Western Regions. Unexpectedly, the small vassal congress of Tubo, the birth of the famous prime ministers like Songtsen Gampo, the famous generals like Lu Dongzan, and the famous general Lun Qinling, who had a military stratum that was no less than Xue Rengui, made them grow and grow under their noses.

Li Yuanai doesn't want to repeat the same mistake.

These days I have been studying the Tubo data.

Tubo is located on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, so it is not easy to destroy them.

But if they want to truly develop and grow, they must seize the current Tuyuhun old land, that is, Qinghai Lake, control the resources of Qinghai Lake and the four towns of Anxi, and attract the wealth of the Western Regions to Tubo.
Chapter completed!