There are naturally different game rules for games like this on different occasions. The most common one is the game of favors at the wine table.
In this kind of thing, sometimes arbitrarily choosing to offend others is actually more likely to gain respect than always compromising.
Of course, it doesn't necessarily have good results. Different scenarios have different ideas, but learning to say no is always better than never saying no.
Learning to refuse is the first step in adulthood. Learning to refuse others is the prerequisite for stopping relying on others.
This kind of experience, at least every boy, will go through it, and it is often very impressive.
Li Er is no exception.
To put it simply, although this wave of military actions is actually reasonable, in the final analysis.
Li Er didn't want to give face to these pirates or the Romans.
Don't give me even a little bit, that's the situation.
The dog pirates can choose to accept it and then fight with my army, or they can choose to turn a blind eye and be crushed by my army unilaterally!
It's that simple!
Of course, Du Ruhui was not the only one who supported Li Er's decision, because Du Ruhui was not the only one who thought about this matter.
But all the ministers around Li Er have been thinking about this. What is Datang's current optimal response strategy?
After Li Er made his decision, of course these ministers also studied Li Er's idea - and of course the emperor's mood was also studied, but that was not the main consideration.
The main consideration is that this is still logical and reasonable, and it will still be valuable after a wave of practice.
After all, the simplest observation is that pirates caused panic, and panic caused the decline of timeliness in the maritime trade market.
Of course, this "timeliness" is conditional - the condition is the acknowledgment that Datang will eventually be able to deal with this wave of pirate threats!
If it cannot be solved in the end, then of course it will be permanent.
And Li Er's attempt to force a group fight, although it was forceful, would undoubtedly not solve the final problem.
It's like in a game, you have good development but all your teammates have collapsed, and all your opponents are fat. At this time, you choose to kill the opponent's shooter alone.
Although doing this is certainly effective, it cannot change the situation after all.
However, although it cannot reverse the situation, it seems to be an act of venting anger.
It can indeed delay the opponent's ability to achieve the ultimate goal!
The ultimate goal of the opponent in the game is of course to knock down the base and end the game.
Now, the pirates are just pawns, and these guys do not have an ultimate goal - this is why Chang Yuchun resigned from the bandit group in the early Ming Dynasty to join Zhu Yuanzhang - but the Romans behind these guys really have an ultimate goal!
The long-term strategic purpose of the Romans was of course to be the mirror image of the Tang Dynasty, to destroy the Tang Dynasty and then dominate the world.
Although the ideas are different, each has its own reasons.
The final plot is the same!
And this time the plan is to destroy the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty's strategy is to transport population and military power to the Americas through sea trade, and eventually take all the fertile land in the Americas as its own. No, if you add South America,
That’s twice as much fertile land!
As for the Romans' thinking, in fact, it's not that the team of emperors and ministers in the Tang Dynasty couldn't see it, they just couldn't come up with a solution. However, the effect the Romans wanted was still very obvious, which was panic. Once the atmosphere of panic spread
, the frequency of trade activities naturally plummeted.
As for what benefits this kind of sea trade has brought to Datang, these people like to do it so much.
Whether anyone among the Romans could figure out the mystery, and whether the Roman emperor himself knew about it, it didn't matter at the moment. The most important thing in the game was the opponent's rank, but the most important thing was the specific operation.
Since the other party was creating panic, although Datang could not counter this wave of operations, it could only stop the losses and reduce the damage as much as possible, and Li Er's wave of impulsive actions were really effective and reasonable.
but.
Just like the Roman operation itself, it completely exceeded the expectations of the Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers team.
Everything in the world may be unexpected. In addition to the fact that people's minds are easy to manipulate, fate always surprises people.
Naturally, this wave of counterattacks in the Tang Dynasty was considered useful by Li Er, and the ministers also felt that it would definitely be useful.
There is also the possibility of "it actually being useless".
On the day after Li Er issued the edict, the ministers of the DPRK and China moved around and coordinated with various yamen to start deploying military operations.
Some theories say that the biggest difference between modern warfare and ancient times is logistics, but this is completely one-sided.
The logistical pressure and material consumption of modern warfare are indeed exaggerated.
However, the proportion of these logistics consumption materials to the country's total wealth has actually never been so high as to be exaggerated!
Even the seemingly cruel World War II.
Although the countries of Germany, France, Britain and the United States that went to war were experiencing shortages of various materials and soaring prices, there was no famine - at least, the kind of famine that shook the political power in ancient times has never happened, even for the Soviet people during World War II.
During this period, there were people who stuttered. The real unlucky guy was only involved in it and played an important role, but he was clearly a guy from an agricultural country.
This was not the case in ancient times. The popularity of Confucianism's theory of passing the Qin Dynasty had a strong social foundation.
Because ancient wars would really lead to large-scale famines!
This logistical intensity.
In terms of the total value of materials, it is definitely far inferior to Modern Warfare, and it cannot even be compared with a modern e-commerce platform's Double Eleven, or even a single-day sales volume in an off-season on a modern e-commerce platform.
But for the ancient world, the resources consumed by a war would often directly reduce the lifeline of a huge population.
And now Datang is organizing this war.
Because they were going to attack the pirates in a sudden and heavy attack, the organization was under great pressure this time, especially the logistical supplies.
Not only must we prepare food and wages, military uniforms, bows and arrows, grenades and gunpowder,
The key is to organize manpower and then dispatch the navy.
Because it is a navy, regardless of modern times, it has always been a place where there are more equipment than people - the ship itself is a huge thing.
This is another battle.
Of course, you need to prepare spare parts for repairing the ship, as well as fresh water and so on.
Because the battle is on the Nanyang sea, it is natural to prepare medicines to prevent heatstroke. This is not because the imperial army of the Tang Dynasty has become more squeamish than at the beginning of the founding of the country, but because of practical needs. After all, even merchants who go to sea will prepare such things.
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But for such a huge material preparation, Datang actually completed it quietly.
