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Chapter 775 Plan ahead and prepare for Liaodong

Li Tianqu first pointed out that the Khitan has been in civil strife now, but he promised to have a relationship with Yelu Abaoji. After all, the other party was also the founding emperor of the country. With his powerful lord, he must be enough to eliminate the rebellious forces under his command, and the result should not be disconnected from the original historical trajectory.

First, there was a rebellion between brothers. Even if their clan brothers repeatedly betrayed, Yelu Abaoji would pardon most of them one after another without disposing of them. In fact, in the power struggles of all dynasties, it was really rare to talk about brothers and sisters to brothers who had clearly reached their opposition.

However, even though Yelu Abaoji attached great importance to family affection, until other tribes of the Khitan had to restore the old Khan electoral system and forced him to give way... Abaoji would still be a decisive and even cruel person. He probably would still retreat to advance, pretending to agree to give way to the arrears and only ask to manage the city where the Han people gathered. However, while the other tribes were careless, they took advantage of the fact that everyone was drunk at the banquet and sent ambush troops to kill all the leaders of the tribes...

Since he could roughly predict the process and results of Yelu Abaoji's rebellion, Li Tianqu now expressed his willingness to establish a good relationship with him, and naturally he also intended to use the Khitan to restrain the Later Tang Dynasty.

After hearing Li Tianqu say that, Wang Yu immediately showed joy and then hurriedly leaned over and replied:

"If Your Majesty is willing to communicate with the Khitan and issue an edict to enthrone the title, my lord will repay his kindness and be willing to offer war horses, furs, animal tendons, livestock, pearls and jade every year, and all kinds of tributes were offered to the court, and they will be friendly and friendly in the past generations! However,... the Jin people widely occupied Lulong, Hedong, Zhenwu towns, and even the Dangxiang people who occupied the Dingnan Army were willing to be minions... The Khitan sent envoys to meet His Majesty, and had no choice but to go on more water, and it was difficult to ensure that the sails were safe during each voyage..."

As he was speaking, a look of cunning flashed in Wang Yu's eyes, and he reverently said:

"The Lord of Jin is arrogant and dares to usurp the emperor and openly become enemies of the Celestial Empire. The Khitan is also willing to help His Majesty raise an army to attack. At that time, if the north and south attack, they will divide the territory under the rule of the Lulong army of Jin. This will not only help Your Majesty attack the enemy country, but also the Khitan dynasty will pay tribute to the Celestial Empire every year..."

"Let's stay! It's one thing for me to have friendly contacts with the Khitan king, but the war between our dynasty and the Jin people is another thing. As for when our Wei Dynasty will use troops and then confront the Jin dynasty, this is a major event for the country. I have my own sense of responsibility, so there is no need for the Khitan to decide for our dynasty..."

Before Wang Yu finished speaking, Li Tianqu's face darkened, and he immediately interrupted him with a cold and cold voice, cursing in his heart:

The thief is undying! You, a slave, are really trying every means to plan for foreign tribes to invade the Central Plains! Although I have joined forces with Zhu Wen to fight against Qin Zong's power, and with Yang Xingmi to fight against Sun Ru, I have also worked with Li Keyong and Yang Xingmi to deal with Zhu Wen... But it would be fine to use the Khitan to restrain and consume Li Cunxu's military power, but if I indulge foreign tribes to encroach on the Central Plains, would it be the same?

Even if it was not like the son Emperor Shi Jingtang, who called the Khitans father and ceded the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, he was able to become the founding emperor of the third dynasty of the Five Dynasties... But if I agreed to share the territory under the Later Tang Dynasty with the Khitans, and gave Yelu Abaoji the opportunity to lay a foundation in Yanyun's land... this would inevitably bring in infamy.

I am fighting with Li Cunxu, and you can also fight the Later Tang Dynasty. However, when will you send troops, Yelu Abaoji has no confidence to call me Wei Dynasty, and I don’t have to cooperate with the Khitan to go to war together. When will Li Cunxu fight the Khitan back to the north of the Seitou area, I will continue with him. In short, if you want to use our Wei Dynasty to achieve the purpose of encroaching on the territory of Heshuo, that is a delusion!

When Li Tianqu interrupted his words in a cold voice, Wang Yu felt a sudden sensation and a cold sweat oozed out from behind. After all, he didn't know that the Emperor of Wei in front of him looked at this era from the perspective of later generations, and he had no intention of giving the Khitans who were not yet completely assimilated by the Han civilization to take root in Yanyun. He had long since characterized his adopted son Abaoji's son as a traitor who worked hard by foreigners... Wang Yu only thought that he was anxious for a moment, which made Emperor Wei unhappy, so he immediately knelt on the ground and repeatedly claimed the crime.

After all, we still have to use Wang Yu, the lackey. At least for a period of time, we can't always be arrogant. What's more, we have to use the Khitan to promise certain interests. At the same time, we must also prepare for the future struggle for Liaodong in the long run... Before summoning Wang Yu, Li Tianqu had already thought of a plan, so he slowed down his tone and said:

"But you say that the Khitans and our dynasty were isolated from the Jin people, and sent envoys to negotiate and pay tribute to each other, which is inconvenient. After all, the storm at sea is unpredictable. Even if you are careful, it is inevitable that a ship will sink due to strong winds and waves. Imagine that Japan sent Tang envoys to the Tang Dynasty. In the sixteen missions that were sent to the Tang Dynasty, ten ships died due to the storm and storm, and the ships sank from the reefs.

But I believe you should also hear that the Wei Dynasty set up a Maritime Trade Department to expand maritime trade, and merchant ships from all over the provinces and ports in the sea gathered... Not only did it build a sea-ship merchant ship that is strong and suitable for the ocean, but it also set up a Haizhen port on Danluo Island, and it has been prosperous so far.

And then under the jurisdiction of Andong Protectorate, Jili Prefecture, Jian'an Prefecture, Anshizhou and other places (all located in the Liaodong Peninsula), Duli Town (launkou District, Dalian City, Liaoning Province) is also across the sea from the prefectures with Maritime Bureaus in Dengzhou, our provinces... "

Um?

When Wang Yu heard Li Tianqu change his subject again, he probably realized that the matter he had to curry favor with, the Emperor of Wei Dynasty, was immediately interested and listened more carefully:

"...Duli Town is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and there are also Fengming, Xizhong, Changxing, Guanglu, Dachangshan, Xiaochangshan... and many other islands. If our dynasty chooses a suitable place to go and build a Haizhen Port. Not only will the sea route be closer, but it will be conducive to rest and replenishment along the way. With our Wei Dynasty merchant ships and ships, it is more conducive to ocean-going navigation. At that time, whether it is the Khitan sending envoys, tributes, or the two countries trade with each other, it will be more convenient? Why should we be afraid of the dangerous waves?"

The reason why Li Tianqu wanted to build Haizhen Port and communicated with the Khitan was more convenient because in terms of the current situation, it was located in the Liaodong Peninsula of Liaoning Province in later generations, and was a territory under the jurisdiction of the Andong Protectorate during the Tang Dynasty. Although the Khitan had an increasingly greater impact on the local rule, the actual situation was still relatively complex, and it was somewhat similar to the area where the three no-counsels were involved.

After all, as the Tang Dynasty gradually declined, it gradually lost its actual control over the Anton Protectorate. This territory was occupied by Goguryeo. Since the Tang Dynasty destroyed Goguryeo and established the Anton Protectorate, but when the power gradually withdrew from the Liaodong Peninsula, the Bohai Kingdom located in the northeast was still afraid of the remaining power of the Central Plains dynasty, so it did not dare to take the opportunity to erode the Tang court's hometown westward.

Therefore, during the rise of the Khitan, the Liaodong Peninsula was also filled with tribes and tribes, and powerful people of all sizes were in control of their own. However, compared with the Uighurs, Tubo, Dangxiang and others in the northwest who either dominated the country or occupied the scale of a vassal state, the situation seemed to be more scattered. Apart from the gradually growing Khitan, there was no hero who could dominate the area on the Liaodong Peninsula.

After the Khitan was ruled by Yelu Abaoji, it is still in a stage of wild growth. It has to covet the territory of the Bohai Kingdom to the east; it has conquered many tribes one after another; it has advanced to the north to the north; it is still thinking about challenging Li Cunxu to the south... The Khitan pursues the Nabo system where even the monarchs live without a fixed place, so Khitans may appear everywhere outside the border, but the expansion speed is too fast, and it may not have been established in all places. At least at present, the Khitan's direct rule over the Liaodong Peninsula is relatively limited.

So Li Tianqu was also thinking: If I use money and grain to open the road, and trade with each other as bait... can I make the Khitan excited now and plant a flag in the Liaodong territory first?
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