Datang romantic little landlord

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He looked at Cheng Yaojin with a smile again: "If Uncle Cheng reaches the plateau, I'm afraid he will be short of breath and weak, and he will not be able to use two or three out of ten of his abilities. In this case, how to fight against the Tubo people?"

Li Er and the others heard that there was such an anecdote in the world, they couldn't help but look at each other.

Fang Xuanling couldn't help frowning and asked, "Ziyou, aren't those Tibetans afraid of altitude sickness?"

Li Wangyou nodded: "Fang Gong, the Tubo people have been used to living on the plateau since childhood. Although they will also be affected by altitude sickness, the impact is much smaller. Therefore, if there is a war between Tubo and my Tang Dynasty , even if they lose, they can just retreat to the plateau, and we can't do anything to them. In this way, it means that Tubo is already invincible."

Li Er's face was sinking like water at the moment: "Ziyou, if it's true as you said, then this Tubo is really a trouble in my confidant!"

Fang Xuanling, Gao Shilian, Changsun Wuji and other bigwigs also nodded one after another.

Such a potential enemy made them feel very uncomfortable just thinking about it.

Relying on geographical advantages, only Tubo can attack Datang, but Datang cannot invade Tubo's hinterland.

In this way, wouldn't the Tubo army come and go whenever they wanted?Even if you can't fight, you can return to the plateau, recuperate, and lick your wounds.

Datang was passively beaten, so he could only invest huge manpower and material resources to strictly guard the border area.

And looking at the map, Li Er and the others felt even more tense.

The ones next to Tubo were Yizhou and other places where the richness of the Tang Dynasty was located. Once the Tubo army attacked the Tang Dynasty, Yizhou would be the first to suffer.

After all, Gao Shilian had been the governor of Yizhou for many years, so he was naturally anxious when he saw this situation.

"Your Majesty, if it is true what Ziyou said, this Tubo must be guarded against!"

"That's right, how can you allow other people to snore beside the couch! If Tubo is not eliminated, wouldn't my Tang Dynasty be like a stick in the throat? Your Majesty, this matter is no small matter!"

Several big bosses couldn't help but feel a little anxious, and they spoke to Li Er one after another.

On the other hand, Cheng Yaojin suddenly raised his head and laughed loudly, causing everyone to look sideways, wondering why this old rascal went crazy again?

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Cheng Yaojin's big laugh surprised Li Er and the others.

"Wahhahaha, Your Majesty, gentlemen, what are you doing here? Ziyou, since he knows so much about Tubo, are you afraid that he doesn't have a way to deal with altitude sickness? Ziyou, don't be tricky. Come quickly!"

What Cheng Yaojin said made Li Er and the others slightly startled, and then they all nodded in agreement.

Since Li Wangyou's master is the Taoist ancestor, there is nothing to worry about.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Li Wangyou rubbed his nose with a smirk: "Uncle, gentlemen, there is actually no special medicine for altitude sickness. If the army wants to march and fight on the plateau, there is only one way, and that is to adapt. "

Although rhodiola and the like can effectively prevent altitude sickness, it is obviously impossible to have so much drug supply for an army of hundreds of thousands.

In this way, the only solution is to establish a training base on the plateau and let Tang Jun gradually adapt to altitude sickness.

Li Er asked: "Ziyou, please tell me in detail how to adapt?"

"Uncle, the high altitude is due to the terrain, and the oxygen content in the air is low. This cannot be changed even if the master respects his old man. Therefore, if the army wants to enter the plateau to fight, it must slowly adapt to the plateau climate. Generally speaking, the army on the plateau On top of that, after about three months of adaptation, I can gradually adapt to altitude sickness. Although I still suffer from shortness of breath and heart palpitations during strenuous exercise, at least compared with Tibetans, the gap is not too big."

Li Er frowned again: "Ziyou, I understand your method, but where can I find a plateau in the Tang Dynasty so that the soldiers can adapt?"

Li Wangyou smiled and pointed to the map: "Uncle, Tuyuhun is the best place to train troops. Tuyuhun is located on the edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and many areas already belong to the plateau. As long as uncle sends an army to capture Tuyuhun in the future and include it in the territory, we can Train troops here, and in the future, it will be easy to fight from Tuyuhun to the hinterland of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau!"

Historically, after Tuyuhun was defeated by the Tang Dynasty, it was taken advantage of by Tubo instead, allowing Tubo to annex Tuyuhun.

Li Wangyou knew history well, so naturally he would not make such a mistake.

Li Er, Fang Xuanling and other big bosses immediately approached the map, carefully figured out the terrain of Tuyuhun, and began to ponder in their hearts how to annex this land.

Li Wangyou continued: "Uncle, gentlemen, there are still two difficulties in attacking the plateau. One is the temperature, and the other is the difficulty of supplying the army."

"Ziyou, tell me in detail."

"Uncle, gentlemen, I don't know if I have heard a sentence, the heights are too cold?"

Li Er and the others looked at each other and shook their heads blankly.

Li Wangyou's question is naturally nonsense, and this question comes from Su Dongpo's "Shui Tiao Ge Tou".Li Wangyou hadn't had time to copy this term, so of course Li Er and the others had never heard of it.

"Uncle, gentlemen, have you ever climbed high and looked far? Do you think the top of the mountain is colder?"

"That's right, that's true." Everyone still didn't understand what Li Wangyou wanted to say.

"In fact, the higher the terrain, the colder it will be. Master said that if the terrain is a thousand meters higher, uh, it will be much colder."

When Li Wangyou said this, he didn't know how to explain it.

Every time the altitude rises by 1000 meters, the temperature drops by six degrees. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has an altitude of 5000 to [-] meters, and the temperature is ten to twenty degrees lower than that in Chang'an.

But China has no concept of temperature since ancient times, and only uses cold, cold, cool, warm, hot, and hot to indicate the range of temperature differences.

He really wanted to introduce the temperature to everyone, but without a thermometer, it was too much effort to explain the temperature with empty teeth.

But to make a thermometer, there must be glass...

After thinking about it for a while, Li Wangyou didn't think of how to express the temperature, so he could only scratch his head and continued: "Let's put it this way, if it's midsummer in Chang'an, when you reach the plateau, it's just like early spring. If it's winter, the temperature on the plateau It is extremely cold, just like the winter in Liaodong."

"Oh? There is such a thing? If so, it will be troublesome." Li Er and the others frowned again when they heard this.

These big brothers, who have experienced battles for a long time, naturally know how troublesome it is to fight with an army in winter.

Especially in the early Tang Dynasty, the means of keeping out the cold were relatively scarce.

"Uncle, gentlemen, it's not difficult to deal with the army to keep out the cold, just fill the clothes with cotton and make padded jackets."

Li Er and the others were dumbfounded again when they heard this.

Gao Shilian couldn't help shaking his head: "Ziyou, are you confused? Jackets are so expensive, how can the army afford them?"

Li Er and the others also nodded one after another, feeling that what Li Wangyou said was really inappropriate, and they didn't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive.

Everyone's reaction was naturally within Li Wangyou's expectation.

In history, although cotton has appeared for a long time, until the Ming Dynasty, China did not really popularize the cultivation of cotton.

Even until the late Tang Dynasty, cotton was still an exotic flower and weed in the gardens of many wealthy families in the north.

In the early Tang Dynasty, cotton was naturally available, and it was even used as a tribute to the court.

But because of the scarcity and difficulty in weaving, the price of cotton and cotton cloth is quite expensive.Just like when Su Changqing first met Empress Changsun in a clothing store and recommended cotton clothes to her, the price was not affordable for ordinary people.

In the early Tang Dynasty, if you were wearing a padded jacket, it would be much more fashionable than wearing a mink and velvet.

That's why Li Er and the others felt that Li Wangyou's words were really unreliable.