Li Mu solved the satisfying thing very well, and specially wrote a letter to praise it. and said that if Li Mu wanted to, he could be named the Duke of the Kingdom. In line with his identity as a scholar, as for Prince Feng, it is not possible for the time being. Although Li Mu's identity is no longer known to anyone in the world. But if Li Mu is crowned as the prince, it is equivalent to Li Shimin admitting that the Xuanwumen change back then was wrong. Moreover, if Li Mu is named the prince, it will give the government and the opposition a vague state. When one day, when Li Shimin returns to the sky, will the prince inherit the world, or will it be returned to Li Jiancheng and inherited by Li Mu?

Li Mu's current power has completely lost its tail.

Li Mu has operated Dingxiang, Luoyang, Yangzhou, these three places, are all important towns of the Tang Dynasty. In addition, his stepfather Tang Jian ran Shuzhou and sat in the southwest. His father-in-law, Li Ji, the governor of the state, led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and waved the army to Liaodong. He is in Chang'an, although he does not have an open business, but Li Shimin knows that Li Mu's father-in-law is in vain, and now he has become the leader of Chang'an City's 'Dao'er', with four beams and eight pillars under his hands, like a big net, which controls the one hundred and eight squares of Chang'an City in his hands.

What kind of person Bai Nao'er is, anyone with long eyes can see it. It is clear that someone is managing for him, and the people who manage it are all from the heir hall.

For the heir hall, Li Shimin has always been a big trouble. More than once, he wanted to exterminate the Successor Hall, but the more he learned about the Successor Hall, the more he found that the Successor Hall could not be exterminated, and it could not be destroyed.

Let's take this as an example, if there is no heir hall, most of Datang's trade routes will be cut off. From now on, if the traders do not leave the prefecture and county, the economy will inevitably be greatly affected.

Therefore, Li Shimin must let the Jihetang exist, unless one day, he thinks of a system that can completely eliminate the Jihetang.

Li Shimin has been liberal and martial all his life, but he is not good at this financial journey. And throughout the imperial court, there are few people who are good at business. These people are all tied together, and they are not Li Mu's opponents.

Now the enemies of the Tang Dynasty, externally, only Xue Yantuo and Goguryeo are left with two major troubles. Internally, Li Shimin is most afraid of two, one is the gate valve family, and the other is Li Mu.

The gate valve family is hateful, but Li Shimin is confident that he can suppress it. Because they are a plate of loose sand, which can never be condensed. And Li Mu, Li Shimin has no way at all. It can be said that if Li Mu wanted to rebel, Li Shimin was not confident that he would be able to control the situation.

But that's it, Li Shimin still dares to let Li Mu be the prison and the secretary. With such a mind, he really deserves to be a model for emperors through the ages.

……

Li Mu is the representative of Shang Shuling, and all court affairs must eventually be handed over to him. Even Fang Xuanling is nominally his subordinate. In order to strengthen the connection with Li Shimin, Li Mu trained hundreds of carrier pigeons, with which the transmission of information is more convenient. Basically, any message, it can be delivered in three to five days.

The information will go to Li Mu first, and then he will choose whether to make it public. He transferred Tang Guan back and set up a news agency under Datang Daily. It is responsible for sorting out these news every day, and at the gates of the major squares in Chang'an, posting notices every day to publicize the news of Wang Shi to reassure the people.

In April, Li Ji led his army to Youzhou. In May, Li Shimin's car drove to Dingzhou. The soldiers were not accustomed to the water and soil, and they were sick. Li Shimin personally questioned the sick soldiers and entrusted them to the state and county for treatment. There are many places where the powerful do not recruit names in advance and voluntarily join the army in private clothes. Li Shimin issued an order praising the bravery of these people, but did not agree to their request to accompany the army, but dismissed them.

At the end of May, Li Ji led his army to cross the Liaoshui River from Tongding and reached Xuansu. Officially stepping into the territory of Goguryeo, the Goguryeo army and people were very afraid, and the cities were closed to themselves. Li Daozong led thousands of soldiers to Xincheng. Zhang Jian led his army across Liaoshui and marched towards Jian'an City, defeating the Goguryeo defenders and beheading thousands of ranks.

In June, Li Ji captured the city of Goguryeo, capturing more than 20,000 people and more than 100,000 stone of grain. At the end of June, Zhang Liang led his army to cross the sea from Donglai and attack Beisha City. Cheng Mingzhen led the army to arrive at night, with Wang Dadu as the vanguard. In July, the Tang army captured the city of Beisha and captured 8,000 men and women.

Li Mu looked at the battle report in his hand, and then looked at the map hanging on the wall, and said in his heart that this Goguryeo is just these two times? The Tang army is simply overwhelming, and according to this progress, it is estimated that they will be able to return to the DPRK before the end of the year.

As if sensing what Li Mu thought, the army attacked Liaodong City and met with stubborn resistance. The state of breaking through the bamboo is also stagnant here. Li Shimin was so angry that he scolded Emperor Yang of Sui, and according to the information sent back, Li Shimin scolded for five days.

In fact, I don't blame Li Shimin for scolding, this has to go back to a piece of history. Why is Liaodong City so strong? In fact, it was not originally like this, in the ninth year of the great cause, Emperor Yang of Sui drove his own expedition to Goguryeo. At the end of April, Emperor Yang of Sui ordered the generals to attack the city of Liaodong and allowed the generals to "engage cheaply". The Sui army set up flying towers, crashes, and ladders under the city of Liaodong, and dug tunnels to cooperate, and attacked the city for more than 20 days without stopping the city of Liaodong without stopping, and the Sui Dynasty and Goguryeo both suffered heavy casualties.

Attacking Liaodong City for a long time but not capturing, Emperor Yang ordered to make more than 100,000 cloth bags, which were full of soil, and wanted to pile up into a 30-step wide and high Yuliang Avenue with the city, so that the soldiers could climb the city along this road; He also built an eight-wheeled chariot, which was higher than the city wall, and shot down into the city. Just when the siege was ready and Liaodong was about to be conquered, and the situation was critical, Yang Xuangan rebelled. In order to lead the army to quell the rebellion, Emperor Yang of Sui secretly summoned the generals to withdraw their troops.

The military materials, equipment, and attack tools left by the Sui army were like hills and mountains, and the barracks, tents, and case blockades were all abandoned. These materials were not wasted at all, and all of them were used by Goguryeo to strengthen Liaodong City. Therefore, the Liaodong City that Li Shimin faced was a stronger Liaodong City than the Liaodong City that had resisted the Sui army for several months and left the Sui army without any means. This is all the result of Emperor Yang of Sui's brain-dead back then, how can Li Shimin not be angry?

Seeing that a blitzkrieg was impossible, Li Shimin had no choice but to change his strategy. Surround Liaodong City, surround but not fight, and divide troops to help. At first, the results were remarkable, and the Goguryeo army, in frontal combat, really had a big gap with the Tang army. But after hitting a few times, people are not stupid. If you can't beat it head-on, do you still have to wait for you to kill it? They believed that the walls of Liaodong City were tall, and the city was full of grain and grass, and it was not a problem to hold on for a year. And the army of the Tang Dynasty is on an expedition, and the grain and grass supply line is not limited to thousands of miles, and it will definitely not last long.

Since it can't be helped, there is no help over there. All the Goguryeo armies retreated into their own cities and implemented the strategy of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness. Everywhere the Tang army went, they often couldn't even look at a single citizen, and when they attacked the city, they couldn't attack it for a while. The two sides have entered a stalemate, and no one can help the other.

Li Shimin had no choice but to prepare for a long-term struggle, and ordered Li Mu to collect the autumn grain and have to speed up the transportation to Liaodong, and at the same time asked Li Mu to find a way to collect meteorites and make explosives. If you want to break Liaodong City, you will rely on the flesh and blood of the soldiers to fill it, and I don't know how many casualties you will have to suffer. But if there is gunpowder, it will be able to do more with less.

……

Just when Li Mu was struggling with whether to make gunpowder and send it to the front line, a surprising news reached Chang'an.

The mud is dead.

Li Xiaogong sent back the news that Ni Yu died of illness. But Li Mu didn't believe it, he had met Ni Yi, and the appearance of Mu Mu in his memory did not look like a seriously ill person. There must be something strange about his death.

In fact, Li Mu didn't care much about the life and death of Ni Mu. But the question now is that Ni is the maintainer of relations between the Tang Dynasty and the Western Turks. Ni is the Great Khan of the Western Turks, and the Western Turks will make peace with the Tang Dynasty. The military materials, equipment, and attack tools left by the Sui army were like hills and mountains, and the barracks, tents, and case blockades were all abandoned. These materials were not wasted at all, and all of them were used by Goguryeo to strengthen Liaodong City. Therefore, the Liaodong City that Li Shimin faced was a stronger Liaodong City than the Liaodong City that had resisted the Sui army for several months and left the Sui army without any means. This is all the result of Emperor Yang of Sui's brain-dead back then, how can Li Shimin not be angry?

Seeing that a blitzkrieg was impossible, Li Shimin had no choice but to change his strategy. Surround Liaodong City, surround but not fight, and divide troops to help. At first, the results were remarkable, and the Goguryeo army, in frontal combat, really had a big gap with the Tang army. But after hitting a few times, people are not stupid. If you can't beat it head-on, do you still have to wait for you to kill it? They believed that the walls of Liaodong City were tall, and the city was full of grain and grass, and it was not a problem to hold on for a year. And the army of the Tang Dynasty is on an expedition, and the grain and grass supply line is not limited to thousands of miles, and it will definitely not last long.

Since it can't be helped, there is no help over there. All the Goguryeo armies retreated into their own cities and implemented the strategy of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness. Everywhere the Tang army went, they often couldn't even look at a single citizen, and when they attacked the city, they couldn't attack it for a while. The two sides have entered a stalemate, and no one can help the other.

Li Shimin had no choice but to prepare for a long-term struggle, and ordered Li Mu to collect the autumn grain and have to speed up the transportation to Liaodong, and at the same time asked Li Mu to find a way to collect meteorites and make explosives. If you want to break Liaodong City, you will rely on the flesh and blood of the soldiers to fill it, and I don't know how many casualties you will have to suffer. But if there is gunpowder, it will be able to do more with less.

……

Just when Li Mu was struggling with whether to make gunpowder and send it to the front line, a surprising news reached Chang'an.

The mud is dead.

Li Xiaogong sent back the news that Ni Yu died of illness. But Li Mu didn't believe it, he had met Ni Yi, and the appearance of Mu Mu in his memory did not look like a seriously ill person. There must be something strange about his death.

In fact, Li Mu didn't care much about the life and death of Ni Mu. But the question now is that Ni is the maintainer of relations between the Tang Dynasty and the Western Turks. Ni is the Great Khan of the Western Turks, and the Western Turks will make peace with the Tang Dynasty. The military materials, equipment, and attack tools left by the Sui army were like hills and mountains, and the barracks, tents, and case blockades were all abandoned. These materials were not wasted at all, and all of them were used by Goguryeo to strengthen Liaodong City. Therefore, the Liaodong City that Li Shimin faced was a stronger Liaodong City than the Liaodong City that had resisted the Sui army for several months and left the Sui army without any means. This is all the result of Emperor Yang of Sui's brain-dead back then, how can Li Shimin not be angry?

Seeing that a blitzkrieg was impossible, Li Shimin had no choice but to change his strategy. Surround Liaodong City, surround but not fight, and divide troops to help. At first, the results were remarkable, and the Goguryeo army, in frontal combat, really had a big gap with the Tang army. But after hitting a few times, people are not stupid. If you can't beat it head-on, do you still have to wait for you to kill it? They believed that the walls of Liaodong City were tall, and the city was full of grain and grass, and it was not a problem to hold on for a year. And the army of the Tang Dynasty is on an expedition, and the grain and grass supply line is not limited to thousands of miles, and it will definitely not last long.

Since it can't be helped, there is no help over there. All the Goguryeo armies retreated into their own cities and implemented the strategy of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness. Everywhere the Tang army went, they often couldn't even look at a single citizen, and when they attacked the city, they couldn't attack it for a while. The two sides have entered a stalemate, and no one can help the other.

Li Shimin had no choice but to prepare for a long-term struggle, and ordered Li Mu to collect the autumn grain and have to speed up the transportation to Liaodong, and at the same time asked Li Mu to find a way to collect meteorites and make explosives. If you want to break Liaodong City, you will rely on the flesh and blood of the soldiers to fill it, and I don't know how many casualties you will have to suffer. But if there is gunpowder, it will be able to do more with less.

……

Just when Li Mu was struggling with whether to make gunpowder and send it to the front line, a surprising news reached Chang'an.

The mud is dead.

Li Xiaogong sent back the news that Ni Yu died of illness. But Li Mu didn't believe it, he had met Ni Yi, and the appearance of Mu Mu in his memory did not look like a seriously ill person. There must be something strange about his death.

In fact, Li Mu didn't care much about the life and death of Ni Mu. But the question now is that Ni is the maintainer of relations between the Tang Dynasty and the Western Turks. Ni is the Great Khan of the Western Turks, and the Western Turks will make peace with the Tang Dynasty. The military materials, equipment, and attack tools left by the Sui army were like hills and mountains, and the barracks, tents, and case blockades were all abandoned. These materials were not wasted at all, and all of them were used by Goguryeo to strengthen Liaodong City. Therefore, the Liaodong City that Li Shimin faced was a stronger Liaodong City than the Liaodong City that had resisted the Sui army for several months and left the Sui army without any means. This is all the result of Emperor Yang of Sui's brain-dead back then, how can Li Shimin not be angry?

Seeing that a blitzkrieg was impossible, Li Shimin had no choice but to change his strategy. Surround Liaodong City, surround but not fight, and divide troops to help. At first, the results were remarkable, and the Goguryeo army, in frontal combat, really had a big gap with the Tang army. But after hitting a few times, people are not stupid. If you can't beat it head-on, do you still have to wait for you to kill it? They believed that the walls of Liaodong City were tall, and the city was full of grain and grass, and it was not a problem to hold on for a year. And the army of the Tang Dynasty is on an expedition, and the grain and grass supply line is not limited to thousands of miles, and it will definitely not last long.

Since it can't be helped, there is no help over there. All the Goguryeo armies retreated into their own cities and implemented the strategy of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness