Li Chao smiled slightly.

"Your Highness, but Linyi is not a good bird."

"What's wrong with Lin Yi?"

"Linyi was the territory of Xianglin County, Xiangjun during the Qin and Han Dynasties. The place where Ma Yuan casts the pillars, and went to the South China Sea for three thousand miles. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Qu Lian, the son of Gongcao, who was surnamed Zhong, killed the county magistrate and proclaimed himself king, and then the descendants inherited it."

"Since Sun Wu, we have often not been to China. The country's people are fierce, and they are used to the mountains and rivers before fighting, and they are not idle in the land. They are noble and inferior to men, and they have married the same surname. During the Jin Dynasty, they captured Rinan County and killed five or six thousand people."

"Since the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Linyi has often invaded the counties of Rinan, Jiude, Jiuzhen, etc., and has become weak in Jiaozhou."

Chengqian was shocked. It turned out that Linyi was really not a good bird. The founding king was originally just the son of a small Gongcao in Xianglin County at the end of the Han Dynasty. He took advantage of the chaos to kill the county magistrate and proclaimed himself king. In the following hundreds of years, he often invaded the counties in the north and often killed people and abducted money.

"This Linyi should also be conquered!"

Li Chao picked up the teacup and drank it leisurely.

Yang Shidao thought, "The King of Zhao means that the Three Kingdoms will attack and fight each other, and then I will reap the benefits of the fisherman?"

"No, no, no," Li Chao shook his head, just sitting there, that was too negative. It was rare to encounter such a good opportunity. Of course, Datang had to actively participate, and the pie would not fall from the sky. He had to fight for it himself.

During the Southern Dynasty, the Southern Song and Southern Qi all fought with Linyi.

There were victories and defeats, and basically Lin Yi first sent troops to invade, first occupying some territory, killing and looting. Then the Southern Dynasty sent troops to conquer Lin Yi, and finally defeated Lin Yi, and the King of Lin Yi sent envoys to pay tribute to peace. So, the Southern Dynasty court finally gave the King of Lin Yi a title and rewarded something. Well, the two families withdrew their troops.

After ten or twenty years, Lin Yi was going to beg for mercy again. When he was beaten to the top of his head, he had to beg for mercy.

Repeat and repeat. The last time they were beaten was during the Sui Dynasty. They invaded again. As a result, the Sui Dynasty sent troops to defeat their capital and even the throne of their king was removed.

"Your Highness, Linyi has a mountain of gold, and the gold juice even flows out of Pu. The Linyi State used gold and silver to cast a statue of man, which was as large as ten circumferences. During the Southern Qi Dynasty, the governor of Jiaozhou, Tan He, attacked Linyi, and Fan Yangmai, the king of Linyi, planned to lose tens of thousands of jin of gold, tens of thousands of jin of silver, and 300,000 jin of copper, which was not a southern part of the country to seek peace. As a result, the Minister of Linyi refused. Tan Hezhi marched and defeated Linyi's army, destroyed countless gold people, seized tens of thousands of jin of gold and returned!"

When Li Chao said this, he was a little jealous.

Tens of thousands of kilograms of gold, not copper, but gold. Although there was a habit of using copper coins as gold in the Central Plains, here, gold, silver and copper are in parallel, and this gold is not fake. The acquisition of tens of thousands of kilograms of gold shows that the Southern Qi army was really a big profit this time.

Mr. Yang sat aside and listened a little embarrassedly.

He was the son of the royal family of the Sui Dynasty and the King of Guan Yangxiong. He knew better than Li Chao that the Sui Dynasty attacked Linyi. In fact, the Sui Dynasty was not Yang Guang but Yang Jian. It was the end of Renshou. Because the Sui Dynasty had already had its troops and power in the world, the Turks in the north surrendered one after another.

There was nothing wrong in the world, so the ministers talked about Linyi, because after the Sui Dynasty pacified Chen, Linyi, who had originally paid tribute to the Southern Chen, no longer paid tribute to the Central Plains.

At this time, the Sui Dynasty had nothing to do, so it began to turn over old accounts and teach this small country of Linyi. It just so happened that the ministers said that Linyi had many treasures, and some people also said that Tan He, the governor of Jiaozhou, fought against Linyi during the Southern Qi Dynasty, and obtained tens of thousands of gold.

So, Yang Jian really sent General Liu Fang as the general manager of Huanzhou Road, leading Qinzhou Governor Ning Changzhen, Huanzhou Governor Li Han, and Qin Xiong, Kaifu, led more than 10,000 infantry and cavalry, as well as thousands of criminals to attack.

At that time, King Linyi led the battle elephant to fight. Liu Fang was defeated for a while, then thought of a way, dug many small holes, covered them with grass, and deliberately lured Linyi's army.

The King of Linyi led his army to fight, and Liu Fang pretended to retreat. The King of Linyi pursued him and arrived at the ambush site. Linyi's war elephants were trapped. Linyi's army was in chaos, and Liu Fang's ambush all out and defeated Linyi.

After that, the Sui army was full of morale and played triumphant songs all the way. The Linyi army was defeated repeatedly and lost the city and land and fled.

Liu Fang attacked the capital of Linyi and seized 18 huge golden elephants made of gold from Linyi and countless treasures. Fang returned. After this defeat, Linyi was hurriedly sent envoys to the court to apologize, and then paid tribute.

However, although Liu Fang won a great victory that time, he also won many golden treasures. However, when he withdrew, he was infected with an epidemic, and as a result, most of the entire army was killed and injured.

The current king of Linyi was Fan Fanzhi, who led the war elephant to fight against the Sui army and was defeated and even lost the capital. At this time, Fan Fanzhi was already old, and Linyi's affairs were mostly presided over by his prince Fan Touli.

Fan Toulli was still very thoughtful. Seeing that Zhen La fought against Fu Nan, Fu Nan retreated step by step, she didn't want to see Zhen La's family dominant, so she decisively sent troops to shake Fu Nan and sent people to seek support from the Tang Dynasty.

"The emergence of a powerful force in the Southern Barbarians is not good for the Tang Dynasty." Li Chao set a tone first and then said, "But what does Linyi say about the kingdom? It was originally the territory of the Central Plains during the Qin and Han Dynasties. The Han ruled for hundreds of years. As a result, the Qu family killing order was established at the end of the Later Han Dynasty. From the end of the Han Dynasty to the present, Linyi has repeatedly invaded the state and committed territory, killing people and looting people."

"The territory of Linyi is the old border of our Han family, and the country is also a wolf."

Li Chao meant that he would just take advantage of the opportunity to destroy Linyi. After all, Linyi occupied the central area of ​​Vietnam in later generations, which was a coastal area. For the Tang Dynasty, this territory was still very important.

If it can be recovered, the future maritime trade will be safer, and of course it can also expand territory, or regain old borders.

"But now Linyi, Zhenla and Funan have a balanced power. If we send troops to Linyi, Zhenla will win this battle. At that time, wouldn't Zhenla be the leader?" Yang asked.

"I don't think so." Li Chao shook his head, "We can talk to Zhen La and Fu Nan first."

"What are you talking about?"

"When we talk to Zhenla, we are willing to send troops to support him. The plan is that we will attack Linyi for them so that Zhenla can do its best to clean up Funan. The condition for sending troops is that Linyi will return to the Tang Dynasty afterwards. In addition, the boundary between us and Zhenla should be redefine. For example, we are in the northwest, and we should take the watershed south of the Majiang River as the boundary."

After hearing Li Chao's words, Yang Shidao thought about the new boundaries he said.

The watershed of the mountains south of the Majiang River?

The original boundary was bounded by the watershed between the Heishui River and the Red River.

Li Chao's Zhao State actually took over a very large territory of Zhenla. However, it was all mountains and nothing. Now the Zhenla people have not said anything about that, but Li Chao spoke out loudly, trying to move the boundary from the mountain watershed between the Heishui River and the Majiang State, which he now occupied, to the south to the mountain watershed on the south side of the Majiang River.

Two times before and after, this was equivalent to the Tang Dynasty moving the border southward by three major mountains.

A huge land that is several hundred miles wide from north to south and seven to eight hundred miles long from east to west. Even if it is a mountainous area, it is a very large piece of land after all.

"The real la people may not agree, right?"

"It doesn't matter if we don't agree. Then we will tell them that we will support Funan and directly send troops to attack Zhenla. By then, what we cut off from Zhenla will not be the mountainous area of ​​this headquarters. Maybe we will help Nan and directly destroy Zhenla."

Yang Shidao secretly gave Li Chao a shameless evaluation.

Too shameless, how can you be like this in life?

"King Zhao, this is just a matter of damage to my reputation, right?"

"How can something that takes advantage of is a harm?" Li Chao corrected Master Yang. To the outside world, it must be more realistic and tough. Why do you be polite to a Southern Barbarians? If you don't take advantage of it, you will be bastards.

Yang Shidao really wants to say, King Zhao, you are pretending to be public and private. Holding the banner of the Tang Dynasty, Zhenla forced him to admit that the fief of Zhao State you seized, and now he even wants to use the name of the Tang Dynasty to double his Zhao State.

Li Chao looked righteous, "I'm all for the Tang Dynasty and the Han family. Even if I have to bear some infamy, I'm willing."

Is this a little bit of infamous? It was you, Li Chao, who took the opportunity to consolidate your fiefdom and expanded it by hundreds of miles.

"I'm afraid that Funan may not agree to our conquest of Linyi."

"Don't agree? Then we fight with Funan, and we will destroy Linyi and Funan. By then, our Guangnan and Vietnam will be connected together. At that time, Vietnam will no longer be an enclave." Li Chao said murderously.

Funan is now unable to protect himself. If the Tang Dynasty expressed its willingness to send troops to support him, but the condition was to destroy his ally Lin Yi, what could he say? He would not have the spare energy to deal with Zhen La.

"What if Zhenla takes the opportunity to destroy Funan?" Yang Shidao asked again.

"It's not a big deal. That Zhenla is not a tradition. Will the king succeed to the throne and destroy other brothers? This system is too cruel. I believe that the king's brothers must be very resentful to the king who has ruined them. Then we will find a way to support a prince to raise an army to create a king's rebellion. I believe that with our full support, Zhenla will definitely be very lively."

Historically, after Zhen La destroyed Funan, it was not long before internal strife and split into Lu Zhen La in the north and Shu Zhen La in the south.

Besides, even if you cannot provoke the split, it is not a big deal.

It is enough that the Tang Dynasty can take this opportunity to annex Linyi.

As for whether Zhen La can destroy Funan, it doesn't matter. So what if they destroy Funan, they can still really shout at the Tang Dynasty to make a fist.

Li Chao still valued Linyi, who was relying on the sea. It was not only beneficial to the Tang Dynasty, but also to their Nanyang Company.

If Funan is occupied by Zhenla, at most, after digesting Linyi, it will be possible to send troops to seize the original Funan land.
Chapter completed!