Chapter 113: Thoughts of the Eastern Expedition
Li Zheng patted Feng Ang's back and helped him to calm down and said again: "Don't be satisfied with General Feng. Don't look at people in Chang'an saying that I have money. In fact, I spend money every day like water. I have to spend money today when I got the money yesterday. The money has become someone else's before it heats up."
"Besides, Jingyang Village still has a long way to go before getting rid of poverty and becoming rich."
Feng Ang finally smoothed his breathing, but you, Li Zheng, are still poor?
"Are you still poor? It is said that the Turks are rushing to give you money."
"There is indeed such a thing. I have to say that the Turkic Zhishi is very polite. It is time to deliver the first payment. I don't know when they will deliver it."
Li Zheng is now well-off and still says that he is very poor, and he doesn't know how much money this kid has to earn.
Feng Ang kept pouring tea into his mouth, thinking that Li Zheng was such a talented person.
I didn't expect to be such a cunning and philanthropic person.
The gap in my heart is inexplicably large.
"General Feng, why not go to the village for a walk."
"I won't go." Feng Ang was confused and said again: "I recently talked about something in the court."
"What's the matter?" Li Zheng asked.
Feng Ang stared at Li Zheng and said, "Do you know what happened to Yang Guang and Goguryeo when he was fighting for Yang Guang three times?"
Li Zheng shook the goose feather fan in his hand and nodded slightly, "I haven't experienced it yet, but I've heard of it."
Feng Ang said: "A few days ago, when I was having a banquet with a group of generals, I talked about something that Goguryeo still refused to pay tribute and sanction, and Your Majesty was furious."
Li Zheng sighed: "Your Majesty's body should be less angry, and he is prone to hypertension."
“What is hypertension?”
"It's a disease that people easily get when they reach middle age." Li Zheng explained and asked again: "Maybe Your Majesty want to go east to go to Goguryeo."
"Your Majesty didn't say it, but your Majesty has been looking at the map of Goguryeo recently."
Li Zheng nodded thoughtfully.
Feng Ang asked, "Everyone said that you, Li Zheng, are like a god. Even Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang want to ask you for advice. I ask you if Your Majesty will go east to go to Goguryeo?"
Li Zheng shook his head and said, "I can't count as predicted as a god. I just guessed it by looking at some signs."
"Tell me, listen."
Li Zheng waved his hand and said, "I dare not speculate on Your Majesty's thoughts, and I don't want to participate in the affairs of the court."
"Don't worry, I don't think I can't tell what you have calculated. It's a secret that cannot be revealed."
"I'm not willing to say it, but I really don't know what Your Majesty is thinking."
Feng Ang smiled and said, "If Your Majesty wants to go to Goguryeo, the generals in the court will definitely respond. Too many people want military merits, and I want them too."
"Military merit?" Li Zheng smiled bitterly, "Goguryeo is not easy to fight."
Feng Ang said loudly: "What kind of thing is the small country? I have given me three thousand soldiers and armor to flatten him."
"The general is majestic and domineering, I admire him."
Feng Ang said with a hearty smile: "That's still the mighty and domineering Majesty."
Li Zheng saluted towards Chang'an.
"You know that you, Li Zheng, have calculated the snow disaster accurately. Don't think I don't know. Even Tuyuhun's affairs were calculated."
"Is that so? I forgot that something happened next." Li Zheng thought, this was wrong, when did he become a big charlatan?
In the future, the number one charlatan in the Tang Dynasty was written on his epitaph?
Thinking of this, Li Zheng took a breath and explained: "Actually it's just science. There are signs of snow disasters, and there are also signs of Tuyuhun's affairs. There are no such thing as a magical calculation. General Feng praised it."
"Mizan? Then I asked you, how did you know that I had intended to come to Chang'an for a long time? I can find out clearly."
"General Feng is really Men Qing'er."
Feng Ann smiled disdainfully and said, "It's not that the prince's subordinates are under the King of Wei. Those staff members said they were joking after getting drunk."
Li Zheng sighed, "Tell General Feng, so what do you mean by General Feng's son in Chang'an, are you worried about your own son, right?"
Feng Ann nodded, "It's true that this is true."
Li Zheng said again: "General Feng was beaten by General Li Jing and was so angry that he didn't dare to provoke General Li Jing today. If he annoyed His Majesty, he might be a 100,000 army to attack Lingnan. At that time, General Feng's life would be hard to say, and the general's prestige in Lingnan would be lost."
"If you come to Chang'an, you can not only change your decent person, but also make the people of Lingnan think that you will give your advice to Your Majesty and make the people of Lingnan live a better life. So in the next inference, if General Feng does not want everyone to betray his relatives and sacrifice his son, he will definitely come to Chang'an."
Feng Ang saw that Li Zheng's expression changed. He thought that this kid was just a philander, but now it seems that this kid counts his thoughts for eight or nine out of ten.
Li Zheng said again: "Actually, it's easy to infer that it's like someone offended me. The man was very frightened and I knew it in advance, so I arranged for a fortune teller to stop him and told him that the disaster was about to come. After keeping him, he guessed 70 to 80 points. Then he took the bait and calculated one by one."
"And I can kill him a sum of money. Wouldn't it be a good idea to relieve my hatred? It's a way of wealth, right?"
It turns out that he can still play like this. Feng Ang refreshed his understanding of fortune telling and would never believe those fortune telling Taoist priests again.
Looking at Li Zheng and Feng Ang suddenly thought of something and asked: "Have you done this?"
Li Zheng cleared his throat awkwardly and said, "I want to do this, but I'm too busy."
"It's also a bit unethical." Feng Ang said.
Li Zheng nodded too.
Li Shimin's later expedition to Goguryeo did happen.
Goguryeo is just a small country in the cape, smaller than Japan at best.
However, there have always been actions to conquer Goguryeo in history. Since the Qin Dynasty unified the Central Plains, Goguryeo has always been the territory of the Central Plains dynasty.
During this period, it was also repeated, and I looked down on such a small border country.
Goguryeo and Japan are both small countries born from the sea.
With backward productivity and underdeveloped agriculture, for today's Japan, a typhoon will put Japan at risk of being destroyed.
On the contrary, Goguryeo is still bordering the Central Plains. For the Central Plains, Goguryeo has the natural barrier of Changbai Mountain.
The cost of trying to conquer Goguryeo is very high, and the results are just Goguryeo's loyalty.
During the Han Dynasty, Goguryeo was actually a very aggressive country.
Goguryeo needs land too much, and they have always wanted to expand externally.
Chapter completed!