Di Xin slowly sipped the tea. When everyone in the hall stopped discussing and all looked at him, he put down the tea cup.
"How can I, the king, not know the concerns of all your lords?"
Di Xin smiled, tapped the table as he was used to, and said: "But, I wonder if any of you have heard of this sentence: There are only eternal interests, but no eternal enemies."
There are only eternal interests and no eternal enemies.
Everyone chewed on Di Xin's words carefully, and the more they thought about it, the more they felt it made sense. After a while, many officials had a look of surprise in their eyes.
Di Xin paused for a moment, and after everyone digested this sentence, he continued: "The dissatisfaction with me at the border gates is simply because they can only stick to the border with the permission of the imperial court, but I am able to send troops.
Barbarians.”
"What they are dissatisfied with is that once my personal conquest is successful, the barbarians are pacified, and the credit for expanding the territory can only be enjoyed by the Northern Territory."
"Other than that, there are no other conflicts between the king and them."
In fact, there was another person who had other conflicts with him, and that was Wuchenghou who supported King Jing, but Wuchenghou was not guarding the eastern border.
As long as the eastern border gate sends troops, other border gates will have no choice but to follow suit as long as they receive Emperor Xin's Xiu Shu, and Wuchenghou will be no exception.
Since the conflict between Marquis Wu Cheng and him would not cause any obstacles, Emperor Xin did not say much at the moment.
He looked around at the people in the hall and said with a smile: "Tell me, how would they react if the king promised to share part of the profit from the expansion of the territory?"
"this……"
"Share the credit..."
"It seems possible..."
With a crash, everyone in the hall exploded.
It's not that no one among them is thinking in this direction, but they rejected this guess before waiting for the results to be obtained, and the source of it is complex even if it is said to be simple, but it is also simple even if it is said to be simple.
Everyone has seen what His Highness Prince Yu has done in Northern Xinjiang over the past few years.
The smart people among them have already figured out that His Highness King Yu must also have ambitions for the highest throne in the capital, otherwise he would not have achieved so much fame in Northern Xinjiang.
The so-called master of great achievements, the achievements and reputation that His Highness Prince Yu has achieved are great for the current emperor, but they are a very big hidden danger for the future emperor.
With the name of "Wise King" and his contribution to pacifying the Turks, if another prince succeeds to the throne in the future, he will definitely be wary of His Royal Highness Prince Yu, and then find a way to keep it going.
Therefore, as His Royal Highness Prince Yu becomes more famous now, he must fight for the position of emperor as long as he wants to survive.
But His Royal Highness Prince Yu is far away from the border and cannot manage the power in the court like the prince in the capital, so what he can do is to make more contributions.
The pacification of the Turks was already a contribution to the expansion of the territory, so what could be greater than the achievement of the expansion of the territory?
Yes, that means opening up more territories.
In the eyes of those who are interested, His Royal Highness King Yu's personal expedition is to continue to accumulate advantages and increase bargaining chips in the subsequent battle for the throne of Dali.
By promising others to take a share of the pie, and with the help of various border officials in name, His Highness’ personal contribution to this expedition will not be so great.
He gathered the power of all the border areas to pacify the surrounding barbarians. It is more shocking to say that there is no way to pacify the barbarians by himself.
The credit for this personal expedition was very important to His Highness, so no one expected from the beginning that His Highness would be willing to share the credit.
There was no sense in raising this choice in front of His Highness.
But what they didn't expect was that His Highness would actually say it himself.
Except for Hou Chengjie, although he also reacted the same way as everyone else, Di Xin could understand from the look in his eyes that he had already seen the choice he would make.
Faced with everyone's confusion, Di Xin stood up and said calmly but with an undeniable domineering tone: "My lords, please don't limit your sight to one place."
He drew a big circle on the map behind him with his hand and said: "The goal of our expedition is not just one or two barbarians, but along the territory of Dali, to wipe out the surrounding barbarians and restore them.
I am far away from the eternal peace of my territory."
"Such a big plan cannot be accomplished by relying on the strength of the Beijiang family. Asking for help is what we have to do."
"If this expedition is successful, then even if part of the credit is given out, the credit for us will still be several times or even dozens of times greater than just pacifying one Goguryeo."
Everyone was stunned.
That's right, they only considered that dividing the credit and profits would leave very little credit for Northern Xinjiang, but they forgot that it would be difficult to complete the entire plan with only the 30,000 soldiers in Northern Xinjiang.
If the plan fails, then everything else will be just empty talk.
His Royal Highness Prince Yu did not say anything, but they also drew another point from it.
No matter how big or small the contribution made by His Highness Prince Yu is to the expansion of territory, it will be enough to enrich the country for three generations. This will also ease the relationship with the border officers and soldiers everywhere.
This can be said to be a loss of mulberry trees and a gain of locust trees, but it cannot be considered a loss.
Gains and losses, in the face of the overall situation, gains are not necessarily good, and losses are not all bad. It all depends on how to weigh the pros and cons.
Hou Chengjie was the first to hold up his hands and said: "Your Highness is wise, but your humble position is beyond comparison."
The officials paused for a moment, and after they realized what they were doing, they all raised their hands and said, "Your Highness is wise."
Then, Hou Chengjie asked another question: "Your Highness, barbarians everywhere are now setting up troops on the border. Even if the border officers agree to borrow troops, what should we do if we are ambushed by the barbarians?"
Guarding the territory is the most important responsibility of border officers, so even if Emperor Xin is agreed to borrow troops, their number will not be too large.
The borrowed troops can be used to defend the city relying on the city and the terrain, but if they are attacked on the road, the result may be disastrous.
And the barbarians will definitely find ways to ambush them.
Although Hou Chengjie is a civil servant, he has lived in the border for a long time and has experienced many wars. Facing the borrowed troops from the eastern border, it is still possible to see how the barbarians would respond to such a simple reaction.
However, due to the limitations of the civil servant, he could see the problem, but this time he really didn't know how to solve it.
In response to this, Di Xin just smiled and said: "Master Hou, don't worry. If the eastern border pass agrees to lend troops, I will lead my troops to greet you."
Hou Chengjie:......
Other officials in the hall:...
The loan of troops must be nominally used to protect the safety of His Highness King Yu, but now, the troops that should have been protecting His Highness need to be protected by His Highness first.
