If not, it can be regarded as finding something for my brother-in-law to do, and after packing some cold milk skin and other foods to take home for his younger brothers and sisters, Sun Xiangfu entered his study again.

Textbook writing is very brain-consuming, and he has to dig up all the things he has almost forgotten again, and a high-achieving student, if you let him always spin on some basic knowledge, it will feel very boring, so the whole progress is not fast.

"Governor, Prince Wang Xu invites you to the banquet tomorrow."

Zhang Ke took advantage of the time to serve tea to Sun Xiangfu, handed over a post from Wang Xu, put it on the desk and said.

"What's the matter with this guy?"

"I don't know, why don't I compile the information collected by the firing group and send it to you?"

In order to ensure the stability of the base camp, Shanyang and Dingxiang, the intelligence group is specially responsible for monitoring the basic situation of the major families, in the past year, they are afraid that they have also accumulated a lot of information, take a look, but can have a more specific understanding of the situation of Shanyang and Dingxiang, so, Sun Xiangfu nodded and said, "Well, go and do it!" I only look at the Wang family, a few others, you can choose by yourself, there are important aspects, and then report to me. ”

After Zhang Ke received the order, he went down to work, and after Sun Xiangfu took a sip of tea, he habitually leaned his head on the back of the chair, wanting people to press his head to relax, but found that this was not in Chang'an's mansion, Yu Xiu'er, Hongmei, and Chuntao were not serving by his side at all.

Depressed and sat up straight, he realized that there were still some piled up official documents on the desk that had not been processed.

"From Qi City?"

Sun Xiangfu untied one of the large envelopes a little unexpectedly and began to watch it, without looking at the date, he also knew that this letter was sent more than half a month ago, and the news inside was a little lagging.

Zhang Chengxing reported in the letter the progress of the construction of Shangqi City, those family members, now this city is being built as their own home, but they are very attentive.

There is also a new situation, that is, the fields are replaced by the Fanyang Lu family, the Zhaojun Li family, the Longxi Li family, the Boling Cui family and the Xingyang Zheng family around Shangqi City, who are more willing to operate alone, and they strongly demand to expand the scale of construction of Shangqi City, dividing it into five large areas, each responsible for building a large piece, resulting in the future scale of the city, which will be more than twice as large as Shanyang, and moreover, this city is surrounded by five counties of considerable size, needless to say, these five county seats, respectively, correspond to the fields of the five families, The people in power are also these five.

These things, in fact, are also within Sun Xiangfu's expectations, the five surnames and seven families, now the degree of trust in each other, has dropped a big step, it is clear that the distinction between Jing Wei and Wei is inevitable, the reason why they replaced the land to go to Shangqi City is because they want to be more optimistic about the commercial development of the Western Regions than the agricultural development in the Guannei.

How do these companies do their business externally, Sun Xiangfu will not interfere with them too much, anyway, the better they do, the more they will benefit, it will be the people of Datang who provide them with goods.

What the imperial court has to do, in addition to collecting their taxes, is security, Zhang Chengxing's second half of the official documents, almost all about military matters, he received a letter from Tang Jian asking for support, and ordered Xi Junmai to lead 5,000 horsemen, along with Cheng Yanjin, who was stationed in Tingzhou, to participate in the disputes of the Western Turks.

At present, there is no detailed battle report, but Zhang Chengxing has intermittently incorporated several small and medium-sized tribes from the Western Turks.

Thinking about it, Tang Jian was already operating the affairs of the Western Turks in accordance with the steps agreed upon in Chang'an City, once that side was successful, Cheng Biting Jin's army would be able to take advantage of the situation to absorb Qiuzi, Khotan, Gaochang and other countries, advance the garrison of the army to Broken Leaf City, and open the entire passage of the Tang Dynasty to the west and to the Middle East.

It is not a trivial matter to move the sword soldiers, this is also a major insecurity factor in the north, and Sun Xiangfu has to report to Li Shimin when he turns around, after all, the two major forces of the Western Turks, with a total strength of more than 100,000, even if they are operated properly, they are not so easy to eat, and all the troops of the Tang Dynasty over there add up to more than 30,000 people.

Not long after, Zhang Ke walked in with a stack of intelligence materials, most of which were about the news of the Wang family in the past year, and after Sun Xiangfu had roughly read it, he had some understanding of the next move of the Wang family.

"Send someone to inform Wang Xu, I will go to the banquet on time tomorrow."

"No."

After Zhang Ke retreated, a smile appeared on the corner of Sun Xiangfu's mouth.

The Wang family is becoming more and more greedy, but this is what Sun Xiangfu is happy to see, if the five surnames and seven families don't fight, how can the court profit from it! You can't let the Wang family only earn and not spend in the north, because if this goes on for a long time, it will be harmful to economic development.

Early the next morning, Sun Xiangfu went to the barracks to report to Li Shimin about the situation in the west, which made Li Shimin a little surprised, because Cheng Yanjin's army had already entered the territory of the Western Turks, and his messenger must have been slower than Zhang Chengxing, who was two or three thousand miles away.

"Zhengming thinks that Tang Jian and Zhijie have a high chance of winning?"

"At least seventy percent."

"Why?"

"Because, Khotan, Qiuzi, Gaochang and other small countries bordering our Tang Dynasty all have the heart of surrender, Tang Gong should find a way to persuade them to send troops to help, when the time comes, the troops in the hands of Lu Gong are no less than one of Yibi Boluo and Mohelu, and Tai'an City supports the past 3,000 Anbei Army, and Shangqi City supports the past 5,000 Anbei Army as a surprise soldier, and it should not be difficult to clean up the two Western Turkic Khans who are both defeated."

Hearing this, Li Shimin nodded and continued to ask, "If you can take down the Western Turks, Zhengming thinks, how can you rule them?" ”

"You can first follow the example of the Metropolitan Protectorate of Antahio, set up the Metropolitan Protectorate of Anxi, and gradually build up the state and county system, and then abolish the Metropolitan Protectorate."

"In this way, do you think that the Protectorate of Anbei is also going to be revoked?"

"Exactly, the territory under the jurisdiction of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate is too broad, and now, with Xue Yantuo in Mobei, it may be necessary to manage it in a unified manner and suppress it, if the land of Mobei is under the rule, there is no need to exist, at that time, Your Majesty only needs to set up another Metropolitan Protectorate over there and manage Mobei alone."

Hearing this, Li Shimin nodded with satisfaction, with the expansion of the territory of the Tang Dynasty to the west, to the north, and to the east, the Metropolitan Protectorate of Anbei actually belongs to a central area, and it is obviously inappropriate to let a minister be in charge of power in the central area, Sun Xiangfu is self-aware, but he has helped Li Shimin save a lot of things.

"This is the latest battle report from Goguryeo, you can take a look at it first!"

The affairs of the Western Turks are thousands of miles away, and they can only rely on a few ministers over there to make decisions on the spot, and explain the situation to the center afterwards, while on the Goguryeo side, since receiving the news that the Tang army has sworn to go on the expedition, Yuangai Suwen's attack has become crazy.

As the previous ministers expected, Silla, Baekje, Wa, and the northern coastal tribes of Goguryeo were all invited by Yuangae Suwen to form an alliance, and the number of alliance troops exceeded 800,000, not counting the more than 200,000 soldiers and horses that Yuangae Suwen had deployed on the front line of Xincheng and Beisha City.

In early June, 800,000 allied troops from all directions launched a siege on the Gao German army near Pyongyang.

Zhang Gongjin decisively chose to break through to the sea and evacuate, but it is difficult to say how many people can stand out under the encirclement of 800,000 troops in the end.

"A million army, it seems that this battle is even more difficult to fight than imagined!"

Once there is a gap of several times in the number of troops, it will form a crushing in strength, which is also the reason why Zhang Gongjin was able to stabilize his position in the face of the attack of more than 200,000 Goguryeo troops, and when he faced 800,000 troops, he was instantly defeated, because the 800,000 army can be divided into multi-line attacks, and each way, there are men and horses equal to the strength of all their own troops, Zhang Gongjin is less than 100,000 horses, one point, it is easy to be broken one by one, and if it is not divided, it is surrounded and beaten, consumed, and no matter how it fights, it is lost.

"The million army is the advantage of Goguryeo, but also their disadvantage, although our army is only more than 200,000, but the food is sufficient, the supply is continuous, on the other hand, Goguryeo, they due to the internal war, from last year to this year, the whole country has not been well cultivated, even if they have some food reserves earlier, but for a long time, it will inevitably be poor, I only hope that Gongjin can get out of danger safely, at that time, take the sea route to land and attack everywhere, so that their huge coalition army is tired of coping, and after winter, the food consumption of the Goguryeo army will intensify, It was the moment of their defeat. ”

Li Shimin is a strategist, even in the face of millions of enemy troops, he also has strong confidence, after he finished speaking, Li Jing added, "We can see this, Yuangai Suwen must also see this, so, now he must want to take advantage of the advantage of having more people, quickly solve the battle, Laizhou direction, our naval army is stronger than Goguryeo, they are in vain, the first line of the Kaiyuan City of the Upper Route Army, and the first line of the Liaodong of the Middle Route Army, will definitely be their main direction of attack, the Central Route Army has an army of nearly 100,000 new equipment, There should be no problem in dealing with the attack of the Goguryeo coalition army.

The upper road army, is a full cavalry configuration, the defensive battle is only afraid that it will not be easy to fight, we are not in Nengshanyang delayed, we should set off quickly, support the upper road army, we have few people, but well-equipped, as long as they occupy the advantage of the main attack in their defensive town, there is no need to worry that they will divide the line to counterattack, regain the lost ground, as long as it lasts until the cold winter, the big victory that His Majesty said can be expected. ”

It is now late June, when the army arrived in Kaiyuan, in fact, it was already mid-July, in the northeast region, the middle and late October of the solar calendar began to snow, that is to say, the Tang army only needs to stabilize the first two months, and the battle behind it will be easy to fight, because the Goguryeo army does not have the Tang army's cotton jacket such high-end cold-proof equipment, and there is no Tang army's sufficient refined food, meat and various canned food as supplies, when the time comes, their combat power will be greatly reduced, perhaps, they will take the initiative to retreat from the front.

The key is that even if they retreat, there will be a shortage of food, because their grain will only eat less and less, and the Tang Army will not let them go to the fields to grow grain with peace of mind at the beginning of spring next year.

In this period, the war is fought in the economy, and the war is fought in logistics supply, which is undoubted, Sun Xiangfu spent so much effort to improve the economic strength of the Tang Dynasty, just so that the Tang Dynasty can take the initiative in the face of this kind of problem, if it is not for Wang Hao to promote the war of Goguryeo prematurely, as long as you wait for another two or three years, the economic strength of the Tang Dynasty will go to a higher level, and when Goguryeo faces the Tang Dynasty, there is basically no chance to fight back.

Because, at that time, even if they wanted to organize an alliance army to fight against the Tang Dynasty, it was impossible, and the Tang Dynasty could completely use economic means to let a small country like Silla Baekje honestly stay in its own territory and wait for the Tang army to come and absorb it.