At first glance, when he saw Gu Han, Li Ze almost didn't recognize it. I still remember that the two of them met when he went to Goryeo, at that time, Gu Han was still a thin guy, he hadn't seen him for nearly two years, and he had grown at least twenty catties of meat. Looking at the face that was gradually rounding, Li Ze was stunned for a while.

Gu Han was a little ashamed, and blushed to the ground: "I've seen Li Xiang." ”

"I thought you had suffered enough in the past two years, and it looks like you're doing well, and you've changed from a national face to a melon face." Li Ze laughed.

Gu Han's face turned a little redder, and he sat on the chair opposite Li Ze with a lift of his robe, and said: "At first, it was still very hard, drilling in the forest all day long, climbing ice and snow, and later expelling the soldiers and horses of Liaodong and promoting the reconciliation between Tan Daoji and Li Zaidao. ”

Li Ze laughed: "Big fish and meat every day, listen to songs and dances, and chant poems, your days are really enviable, you can say it in front of me, but don't say it outside, it's easy to be beaten." ”

Gu Han had a bitter face: "When I first passed, I also felt very comfortable, but as the days went by, I felt miserable, and now as long as I see those gilded invitations, my heart is shocked." But I still have to go, this day, it's really not good. On the days when I don't go to the banquet, I boil some millet porridge at home with a plate of pickle gnocchi, which is very comfortable. ”

"I don't know how blessed I am!" Li Ze patted the mountains of documents in front of him, "I want to beat you up." ”

"It's also my blessing to be able to make Li Xiang breathe and be more happy." Gu Han said with a smile.

Li Ze shook his head again and again: "Look, look, even his temperament has changed now." I've learned to pat on the back. ”

Gu Han, the first governor of the Tang Dynasty in Goryeo, his special significance is naturally self-evident, so after he returned, Li Ze dedicated a whole night for him to listen to his return. After a few cold words, the two of them also turned to the right thing.

"Overall, Goryeo is working the way we want it to be." Gu Han said: "Li Zaidao is on the throne, and Tan Daoji is the prime minister in charge of political affairs. When I left Goryeo, I had just helped them complete the structure of the first Goryeo law, which clarified the supremacy of the emperor and the principle of the rotation of prime ministers in the general outline. ”

"Li Zaidao is not a faint monarch, and Tan Daoji is a generation of famous ministers, so they don't have any ideas about the present?" Li Ze asked with a smile.

"Li Zaidao doesn't have any ideas yet, and all his attention is still on fighting with Tan Daoji. The two of them competed over the choice of the county guards in the counties of Goryeo. Although Lee Jae-do has Park Zicheng as a general, on the whole, he still falls at an absolute disadvantage, and there are only five people in the 22 counties of Goryeo who support Lee Jae-do. Gu Han said with a smile: "Of course, Park Zicheng's combat effectiveness is amazing, and with our support, this person has become the head of the household department of Goryeo and the leader of the anti-Tan Daoji line." Every time with Tan Daoji in the front of the court. ”

"Of course, Li Zaidao's people have to have a real power force, otherwise the five counties that support him will soon be unable to survive under the suppression of Tan Daoji." Li Ze said with a smile. "In this way, if Lee Jae-do didn't have our support, he would have quickly lost the battle against Tan Daoji.

"Exactly!" Gu Han said: "Tan Daoji used the power of the prime minister to exclude these five counties on top of some fundamental policies for domestic development, but we naturally will not sit idly by, so our businessmen in Datang have injected a lot of money into these five counties to help them develop. ”

Li Ze nodded: "Tan Daoji is extraordinary, this person is the focus of our attention, let's focus on him?" ”

Gu Han nodded and said, "This person is indeed capable. After regaining power, the first thing I did was to imitate the national policy of my Tang Dynasty, equalize the land, and reduce taxes. This move alone immediately earned him great prestige. ”

"Equalize the land, reduce taxes, then the country's income will be greatly reduced, our Datang relies on increasing commercial taxes, what does he rely on in Goryeo?"

"So now their court is having a hard time. However, Tan Daoji is also a ruthless person, this person's prime minister's mansion is just a few tiled houses, I have proposed that the prime minister's palace and the place where the emperor live, should be renovated to show majesty, but this person categorically refused. In his words, every penny now has to be used on the blade. For personal enjoyment, you can go to the back row. He doesn't repair, the emperor can only live in the dilapidated palace aggrieved, it's funny, once I was invited to Li Zaidao's banquet, it rained heavily halfway, Li Zaidao's hospitality hall, actually outside the big down, inside the small. ”

Li Ze didn't have the slightest smile on his face.

"It seems that not only is Tan Dao Ji heroic, but even Li Zaidao should not be underestimated!"

"Of course." Gu Han said: "But no matter what they think, they can only dance within the track we delineated." This year, I just thwarted an ambitious plan for Tan Daoji. ”

"Tell me about it!" Li Ze asked with interest.

"Tan Dao Ji wants to create a script that belongs to Goryeo!" Gu Han said: "All their official texts used to use our script, but now, he actually wants to change his course and create a script belonging to the Goryeo clan, and his ambition is fully revealed. In the end, Tan Daoji had to shelve the plan completely. ”

"It's a good job." Li Ze said: "Whoever has this kind of thought and wants to get rid of us has actually bred in his heart. The Ministry of Rites is also preparing a plan, and there will be a large number of people entering Goryeo in the future, and the main thing for these people is to go to Goryeo to open private schools and teach Goryeo people to learn our script, our etiquette, our traditions, and our history. At the same time, the major academies will also allocate a certain number of places to recruit the children of the powerful people of Goryeo and even those outstanding talents in the countryside, and they must be trained to become hardcore supporters of the Tang Dynasty, and after a few years, these people can return to China and slowly replace the current rulers in Goryeo. We do not covet their land, but they must be our most faithful companions. The same words, the same values. ”

"This is a strategy to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, but here, I'm afraid there will always be some dissidents." Gu Han reminded.

"Of course. However, as long as it is the general trend, a little noise cannot change the overall situation. Li Ze said: "The important thing is that we want to make the people of Goryeo feel that only by relying on our Tang Dynasty can they have a good life, and once they leave us, they will immediately relive the nightmare of the old days." To do this, their economic lifeblood must be in our hands. ”

Gu Han said: "We have been doing this thing. The current Goryeo is extremely short of funds, and those so-called magnates, to be honest, are not as good as some rich people in our Datang Dynasty. A large number of businessmen organized by the Department of Commerce injected large sums of money into Goryeo, and the destination of these funds was the pillar industries of Goryeo, such as salt, iron, bulk grain, and mineral deposits. Some factories have opened one after another, recruiting a large number of local workers, effectively improving the quality of life of local people. ”

"Once our businessmen go abroad, most of them have a bad temper. In order to chase profits, you can do anything, but Goryeo is different from those overseas Fanyi, so you have to keep an eye on this matter. Li Ze advised: "If necessary, catch a few people who come out of the way and make an example, and make sure that the ordinary people of Goryeo understand that our Tang Dynasty is a civilized country, and we are here to help them, not to suck their blood." ”

"Yes!" Gu Han said awe-inspiringly. "The Koreans learn our language and speak our Tang language, so they are naturally a brotherly country, and we naturally cannot tolerate people doing excessive acts against them."

"How is the army of the Koreans?"

"Tan Daoji has reduced the army on a large scale. Now there are only 50,000 regular troops left in the whole of Goryeo, of which 10,000 are in the capital, and the remaining 40,000 are stationed in various places, and the most important thing is to suppress bandits. After many years of war, there were many bandits in Goryeo. The harm to the local economy is enormous. The military power is basically in the hands of Tan Daoji, and even in the capital, the troops loyal to the emperor are only a few thousand. Gu Han said: "But we have five thousand troops stationed in its capital, and there are warships parked in the port, this is the Dinghai Divine Needle." ”

"How effective is the army?"

"It should be said that the remaining tens of thousands of troops are still very impressive in combat effectiveness." Gu Han said: "After all, they are all veterans who have fought for many years, and they still have a little ability to survive until now, and after accepting a large number of our equipment, their combat effectiveness has improved even more significantly." Now I am lobbying their military department to promote our Datang military discipline, this matter is already eyebrowed, if nothing else, in the second half of this year, this matter will be implemented. In this way, we can justifiably send a large number of officers into their army in the name of instructors. ”

"You didn't miss anything!" Li Ze nodded appreciatively: "There are two things that you are going to do next." ”

"Please give orders to Li Xiang!" Gu Han said.

"First, the banditry in Goryeo basically can't become a big climate, and as a brother state of the Tang Dynasty, I think Goryeo has the responsibility and obligation to contribute to the Tang Dynasty, so I hope they can send a force to the Tang Dynasty to help us attack the south."

Gu Han was slightly stunned, but immediately understood, and nodded again and again.

"Second, I heard that the Japanese in the coastal areas of Goryeo were quite rampant? Let Tan Daoji send another team of men and horses to cooperate with our sailors, firstly, to fight against the Japanese Invaders, and secondly, to fight against the nest of the Wolves. ”

Hearing this, Gu Han smiled and said, "I don't know where Li Xiang has fallen in love again?" ”

Li Ze smiled and turned the globe on the big case, and clicked on a place: "I think this place in the Ryukyus is good." Take it down and hold it in your hand. I'll leave it to you to complete. In other words, what we can support you is the sailor ship. ”

"I will live up to the hopes of Li Xiang!" Gu Han said.