bastard seizes tang

Chapter 80
The heavy snow on the grassland came suddenly, without the slightest warning, it fell day and night, and the Turkic people were caught off guard.

At this juncture, no matter how belligerent Jieli is, he has to put away his ambitions and focus the entire court on how to deal with the snow disaster. It is not difficult for Li Ke to guess what it is.

Days of heavy snow has submerged the entire Turkic, and the towering Jinshan in the distance is already white, as if wrapped in a layer of white.

And at the foot of the mountain, the originally dark green grass was dyed white in an instant before it faded, leaving a vast expanse of white.

After Li Ke got the news from Xieli, he put on his winter jacket and fox fur cloak, took Wang Xuance and Su Dingfang with him, and went out of the big tent against the stabbing wind and snow, and went to the sweat tent. direction.

"Jie Lizhao is in a hurry, I must be going to the doctor in a hurry." Li Ke stepped on the soft snow, listening to the sound of "creaking, creaking" on the snow, and said to Wang Xuance.

Wang Xuance nodded, and said to Li Ke: "We live in Khan Court, and that's the case, not to mention the nomadic Turkic people. The heavy snow came suddenly. I don't know how much the nomads who went out earlier will be able to come back."

Although the Jinshan Mountain is large, the grassland at the foot of the Jinshan Mountain is still limited. Most of the fertile pastures around here are owned by the Khan court or the Turkic nobles. If ordinary Turkic people want to herd sheep, they either choose to become slaves to the nobles, or they can only It is to follow the direction of the wind, drive your own cattle and sheep, and take your own tent to go on a nomadic journey.

And most of these herdsmen leave in spring and return at the end of autumn, so most of them will prepare some thick clothes for autumn, but they may not prepare fur coats for winter early, so under the sudden heavy snow There are definitely not a few Turkic herdsmen who were frozen to death. Of course, there are also those cattle and sheep who were too late to return to the mountain.

A snowstorm almost wiped out the entire Turkic family's accumulation for more than half a year. Not only the mandarin family, but even the expenses in the sweat court became tense. This is what Li Ke can feel personally.

Once the Turkic snow falls, there is almost no possibility of warming up again. It is foreseeable that from this time to the spring of the next year, this predicament will not be alleviated. Finally, Xieli couldn't sit still and moved to borrow food from Datang thoughts.

As for borrowing food from Datang, no one would be better than Li Ke, the third prince, to ask for food. This time, Jieli recruited Li Ke, probably for this reason.

Li Ke looked up at the sky, the heavy snow still had no intention of stopping.

Li Ke said to Wang Xuance: "It is difficult for a man to conquer the sky, let alone in this barren Mobei, facing this heavy snow, Xieli must have nothing to do."

Wang Xuance asked, "Then what does His Highness mean?"

Naturally, what Wang Xuance asked was not how to help the Turks get out of the current predicament, but Li Ke's attitude towards Xieli's borrowing of food from the Tang Dynasty.

Li Ke thought about it for a while and replied: "Let's not care about these things, this king will agree first. Whether the king will lend or not is up to the king, but the meaning of the father is beyond the king's control."

From Li Ke's point of view, it is natural that he is preparing to perfunctory Xieli, and then reconsider.

After all, Li Ke was in Turkic at this time. If he rashly refused Jieli's request to borrow food at this time, Jieli would definitely not let him go. Li Ke could answer first, but when Li Ke's letter arrived in Chang'an, borrow It has nothing to do with Li Ke whether to borrow or not.

Wang Xuance said: "Your Highness's words are very true, there is no need for His Highness to get himself into trouble for a moment in Turkic."

Wang Xuance knew Li Ke's temperament and believed that Li Ke would make the right choice, but as Li Ke's adviser, Wang Xuance still did what he should do.

When Li Ke came to the sweat tent, the sweat tent was surprisingly quiet, not as loud as Li Ke imagined, but rather deserted.

Apart from Khan Jieli, Pasha Zhao Deyan was the only one in the huge tent.

"Li Ke joined the Khan." Li Ke walked into the big tent and leaned over to Xieli.

"The third prince is here, take a seat." Xie Li's attitude today was more amiable than before, pointing to the bearded stool beside him and said to Li Ke.

Li Ke sat down on the chair Li Ke pointed to, and sat in a circle around the fire with Xie Li and Zhao Deyan.

"The third prince is here, are you still used to it?" Jieli asked Li Ke while he was warming the fire.

As soon as Jie Lifang opened his mouth, Li Ke guessed what Jie Li meant, and Li Ke replied tactfully: "Except for being a little colder, everything else is fine."

Jieli saw that Li Ke took over his own words, so he sighed: "The third prince has not been in Turkic for a year, I am afraid I don't know, not only the third prince feels cold this year, but even the people of Turkic feel cold. The snow here comes much earlier than last year, if it was last year, now is still the time to herd sheep and horses."

Li Ke looked at Jieli's pretended exclamation, and couldn't help laughing inwardly.

The heavy snow came early this year, and Li Ke naturally knew about it. If it was the same last year, where did he have the energy to go south to invade Tang, and Li Ke would not appear here.

Naturally, although Li Ke thought so in his heart, he rubbed his hands in response to the situation, and replied: "I wonder why, that is, the weather has turned cold so quickly in just a few days."

At this time, Zhao Deyan interjected in a timely manner: "The third prince doesn't know something. The climate has changed suddenly in just a few days, and the third prince is not the only one who suffers from the cold. Nearly [-]% of our Turkic people have died of frostbite and frostbite. The cattle grazing outside The loss of sheep and horses is countless, and this year's winter for the Turkic people may be sad."

Hearing this, Li Ke frowned and said, "This snow is so serious?"

Zhao Deyan said: "The Turkic people are no different than the Tang Dynasty. The Turkic people don't have a lot of food in their homes. What they rely on for the winter is the cattle and sheep. But now these cattle and sheep are all frozen to death before they are fed. The Turkic people may not even be able to feed themselves. It's a problem."

Li Ke's heart suddenly sank when he heard Zhao Deyan's words. Although Zhao Deyan's words had ulterior motives, they were telling the truth.

The confrontation between the two countries is a battle between the monarchs, ministers and soldiers of the two countries. Ordinary people are innocent after all. If the people freeze to death and starve to death, Li Ke will not feel very good.

Li Ke sighed quietly: "God is ruthless, it has always been like this. Although there are no snowstorms in the Tang Dynasty, there are droughts and floods. Although I am not a Turkic person, I can empathize with it."

Jieli said to Li Ke: "Mr. Zhao just had a conversation with Ben Khan. He mentioned that if the Tang Dynasty were to suffer a disaster in Guanzhong, he would raise taxes from the local area to support the central government. I wonder if there is such a thing?"

Li Ke didn't know why Jieli would suddenly ask such a question, but he still replied truthfully: "It is true. If my Tang Guanzhong fails to harvest, I will increase taxes from Huainan, Hebei, Shannan and other places, and collect more grain taxes. Alleviate the crisis of food shortage in Guanzhong.”

As Li Ke was talking, he suddenly remembered something, so he asked, "Khan asked this suddenly, did he also have the same intention?"

Jieli nodded and said: "That's right, Ben Khan also wants to accept Mr. Zhao's words, and the Turkic tribes have doubled the tax collection, which has solved the crisis of the Khan Court."

Jieli actually wanted to add Fu to each department?Li Ke was slightly shocked when he heard Xieli's words.

But before Li Ke could slow down, Zhao Deyan on the side had already said: "The Khan loves the people, and he wants to raise taxes from various ministries, and he has saved the people of the Khan court, but it will take time for the local collection, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to solve the urgent need. I don’t know if His Highness writes a letter, and when the Khan goes to the Tang court to borrow food, will the two countries be allied?”

(End of this chapter)