Although Li Tong raised the problem, he was not responsible for solving it. Of course, even if he wanted to solve it, everyone might not give up the stage and let him play it out.

He did not object to the army of Daibeidao ascended the guards. He also understood that although this army had not fought for several months, its morale was indeed low and he was homesick. He then arranged to go directly to the border states to defend the Turks. It was indeed a bit harsh. If he didn't care about military strength, it would make the morale of the army even more difficult to revive.

Among the ministers, the opinions of Li Zhaode and Di Renjie are quite representative, and can be said to represent hawks and doves.

Li Zhaode advocated recruiting brave men in various states, especially Guanzhong, and going north to Shuofang. Once the Turks disturbed them, they would be hit hard. Di Renjie advocated rumoring the border states to strengthen the walls and clear the fields, focusing on defense, and at the same time sent envoys to the Turks to communicate with Mochu. If necessary, they could even give them a certain name to ensure that the court could survive this political turbulent period as soon as possible.

The two of them have their own opinions, their own reasons, and they also have a group of supporters, which made the discussion deadlock. Until today's meeting ended, there was still no consensus.

After the ministers retreated from the court, Li Dan deliberately left Li Tong. This time Li Tong did not refuse, and rescued Wang Meichang for a while also eased his relationship with his fourth uncle.

"I remember that the country was killed by more than 600,000 people from the Arctic, who could be the enemy in the world! Times have changed, and today, a group of thieves who lost their country have actually made our country stalemate. I don't know how to deal with it! Sad, hateful, I really feel ashamed of my ancestors!"

Li Dan met Li Tong in the hall of Guanfeng Hall, waved his hand to the screen of the people who left the palace, looked at his nephew and stroked his knees and sighed.

"The old things are hidden and cannot be looked back. Fortunately, I am now back to the right things and strive to do it, and I only want to be ashamed."

Hearing Li Tong say this, Li Dan showed a smile on his face and pointed at the nephew and said, "I really envy Shenzhi, your young and strong mind. Yes, our uncles and nephews are both in their prime, so why should we be afraid of the short-term danger in front of us? Then, what kind of discussion do you agree with, Shenzhi, do you agree with more?"

What Li Zhaode and Di Renjie said is ultimately about whether they want face or life.

From Li Zhaode's perspective, the Turks were just a group of people who destroyed their country, and were able to survive with the grace and power of the Tang Dynasty. Although the Gu Dulu brothers gathered for a while, the court never recognized them.

If this opening is released, the Turks' rule over the desert will be more reasonable, and will give more choices to wait and see the border with the barbarian states and the Hu people, and the disasters brought about will be long-term.

But Di Renjie felt that he should focus more on reality. During the reign of Emperor Gaozong, there were already signs of military gain and military destruction. It was an indisputable fact that the government had collapsed and the country had no strong military. The long-term political turmoil around the Wuzhou and Zhou dynasties also brought about serious internal friction.

In this case, instead of investing a lot of manpower and material resources to maintain border order outside the core interests of the empire, it is better to seize the time to restore domestic order as soon as possible, take a rest first, and then make a strong plan.

Li Tong was not sure whether his fourth uncle asked him for his opinion, whether he was unable to make up his mind, or a test for him, or both. However, on this issue, he did not intend to hide his own private interests.

"The Turkic thieves wandered around and were unpredictable. If they used troops this winter, they would probably have harmed our border town. What is the most important thing now is to make up for the attack and defense."

Speaking of this issue, Li Tong was also a little depressed. The Daibei Army had a rare opportunity to break through the air gate, but he was lingering in the gate. He only learned that Gu Dulu had died suddenly on the way back. He must have put into practice what Mochu had done, and he hoped that the border states could defend properly and not let the Turks invade this time cause too much damage.

As for how to prevent the Turks in the future, there is actually a ready-made solution, that is, the Sanshoucheng City built by Zhang Renyuan in history. In the Tang Dynasty, no Great Wall was built on a large scale, and the construction of Sanshoucheng City itself was mainly attacked. It was not until the mid-to-late Tang Dynasty after the Anshi Rebellion that Sanshoucheng City was transformed into a defensive system.

Historically, Zhang Renyuan took advantage of Mochu's Western Expedition and the emptiness of Monan and took advantage of this gap to build the three surrender cities. From then on, the Tang Dynasty had an overall border defense and offensive system in Monan, directly excluding the Turkic activity trajectory from Monan.

Although the Turkic activities are rampant and have a certain strategic initiative in the south of the desert, it does not mean that there is no foundation for building the Three Suicheng City. In fact, the current foundation is even better than the Zhang Renyuan period in history.

Although Gu Dulu was the leader of the restoration of the Turks, the Turks became truly powerful during the Mochu period. Especially after the Yingzhou Rebellion broke out, Wu Zhou's power in the north was fully exposed, which was a rare period of growth for the Turks. Mochu was also officially recognized by the court during this period. Almost all the banished states on the border turned to the Turks, and the Turks' movement trajectory in the south of the desert was even more rampant.

It was in this situation that Zhang Renyuan presided over the construction of the Sansujiang City during the Jinglong period of Emperor Zhongzong, which finally allowed the court to effectively suppress the Turks. The establishment of the Sansujiang City was also one of the few highlights of the border affairs of the Zhongzong dynasty.

As for the moment, although the Turks have successfully restored their country, they are not able to completely suppress the border troubles in a short period of time, but they have not yet reached the level of great difficulty.

Not to mention the fact that Hei Yachang defeated Turkic bones in the third year of Chuigong, just a few times Xue Huaiyi fought against the Turkic people in the north, they all did not encounter any enemy and did not fight against the Turkic people at all. On the one hand, it was naturally because Xue Huaiyi was lucky, and on the other hand, the Turkic people did not have enough strength to fight the army.

Therefore, the current strategic initiative of the Turks is the time and location for bandits to commit crimes. It mainly relies on the Tang Dynasty that did not have a systematic offensive and defensive system on the southern border of the desert.

After all, when the heroine Wu Zetian was in the country, she did not dare to delegate too much power to the border generals, and she also changed frequently, which was often a mess. From this point of view, during the restoration and growth of the Turks, Wu Zetian was even more close to the two brothers Gu Dulu than their own sons.

"The Turkic disaster is just the disease of bandits, but if you ignore it for a long time and fail to deal with it, it will inevitably lead to a disaster of decay. I would like to send good border talents to inspect the river and build a strong city, take the city as the point and the beacon as the trust, and penetrate directly into the hinterland of the southern desert to block the enemy's mobility. If this continues, the bandits will be weak!"

Although Li Tong knew about the good strategy of defeating the enemy like Sanshoujiang City, he did not understand the specific tactical considerations and location where he chose.

But as long as this idea is proposed, the specific tactic implementation can be handed over to relevant personnel. Not to mention anything else, Zhang Renyuan is still in the Anxi Protectorate. Based on the principle of illness towards superficial Chinese medicine, he can now be directly sent to Shuofang for on-site inspection.

However, after hearing this plan, Li Dan couldn't help frowning and said, "In ancient times, we have been scrambling thieves, and they all guarded the river. Now we have rashly built a city in the southern part of the desert. The military power has been abandoned and the money and food is consumed a lot. If it is owned by the thief, it will probably have greater harm!"

The questions raised by Li Dan are not without reason. One of the major tactical innovations of the Three Sushucheng City was to build the city in the hinterland of the southern mourning grassland. Although there were buildings similar to the Sushucheng City before the Tang Dynasty, it was truly a veritable Sushucheng City, and it was a place for accepting the surrender of the Hushang City in the northern mourning city. It did not have much strategic significance in itself.

The reason why Sanshoujiang City can exert such high strategic value is not only the innovation of tactics itself, but also another important reason is that it must be matched with the already strong military combat power of the Tang Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty was already quite popular with Hu Feng and was not at a disadvantage in the field of cavalry combat. At least, nomadic peoples had never suppressed the farming ethnic groups when they were enemies with the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, the three surrender cities essentially directly pushed the Tang army's forward front to the hinterland of the southern desert. Otherwise, it would be difficult to form such a difficult-to-break strategic suppression based on only three cities and a group of beacons.

As for building cities in the hinterland of the southern desert and maintaining it, it is certain that the cost is quite huge. However, compared with the Turks' unscrupulous storm in the southern desert and repeatedly invading the border states, these expenses are really worth mentioning.

If the Turks are not effectively restricted and blocked, the price they will pay in the future will be huge, far from the expenses of the three surrendered cities that can fill this big pit.

"I was born as the descendants of the Tian family, and they had the food and clothing, so I didn't need to be granted a grandfather to enjoy wealth and honor. I would like to donate all the gifts to the country, just to seek peace in the border towns. The thief Hu dared not go south to herd his horses!"

Li Tong stood up and bowed, saying seriously.

It is very difficult to directly let the imperial treasury allocate money and grain to build a city in the south of the desert. Li Tong is very clear about this. However, the earlier the three surrender cities were built, the sooner the benefit, and this is urgent.

Li Tong is currently enthroned by 2,300 households, and is the richest among the royal family. But to be honest, apart from the vanity of the highest number of actual enthrones, he actually doesn't care much about the actual income. If he really has no money to support his family, he will have to make a living.

Furthermore, Li Tong also wanted to suppress the trend of overflowing the situation. Although the national strength became increasingly stronger during the Kaiyuan period, the direct income of the imperial court did not increase proportionally. The main reason was that the royal family and the powerful occupied a large amount of tax household income.

Although the Tang Dynasty treated the royal family far less than that of the Ming Dynasty in later generations, the royal family's title was also a heavy financial burden. Before Zhenguan, the imperial court was still relatively restrained in this regard, even if the prince's fief was less than a thousand households.

However, in the reign of Emperor Gaozong, in order to win over the royal family, there was a little no need to adjust it. Basically, the princes had a thousand households to establish a title, and all of Wu Zetian's children were out of the title. But the problem was not too big. After all, those royal families were soon killed by Wu Zetian, and their sons were not merciless.

The real popularity of the Tang Dynasty began with the Zhongzong Dynasty. The emperor Li Xian was originally inconvenient, so he only showed his grace. Princesses such as the Prince of Xiang, Taiping, Anle all rose to 7,000 households. The royal families killed by Wu Zetian were all able to be inherited and granted, which was even better than before.

This policy was also inherited during the Kaiyuan period. Li Longji and his brothers all started with 5,000 households, and even Li Shouli, a big treasure, had a 1,800 households. Although the princes and grandchildren were later reduced to 2,000 households and 1,000 princes, it was more than doubled compared with the early Tang Dynasty. Not to mention that there were a large number of coup heroes, they all had to be granted.

Li Tong is now willing to donate his fief to build the Three Suicheng City. In addition to promoting his style and jointly defending the bandits, he is also planning for himself.
Chapter completed!