After Sun Xiangfu handed over the news from Zhao Long to Li Shimin, Li Shimin was overjoyed, and immediately discussed with Fang Xuanling, Li Jing and others how to use this high virtue to make a fuss.

In terms of military strategy, Sun Xiangfu is self-aware, so that Li Jing and Fang Xuanling seem to be more reliable, fortunately, the four departments of the Northeast are quite obedient, after Li Shimin talked to them, they immediately agreed to the plan to send troops, but they didn't expect their army to become the main force of the Tang Dynasty so quickly, in history, when Li Shimin conquered Goguryeo, the role played was both positive and negative, like the Shen Ya Department, first helped Goguryeo, and then voted for the Tang Dynasty.

In life, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, but at the level of national wars, it is not necessarily, and attacking from afar is something that most leaders are willing to do.

Therefore, Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling and other ministers still agree with the loyalty of the leaders of the four departments, and give them some promises that if they take Goguryeo in the future, they will establish the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate as the center of the northern region, and use the model of the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate to develop the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate and make the entire Northeast region rich as soon as possible.

Several leaders were overjoyed when they heard this, because after the establishment of this Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, from the army to the management, they would all be the subjects of their four departments, and economically, the annual tribute required by the imperial court was also very small, so they were willing to fully cooperate with the emperor's plan, and they did not resist at all to hand over the army to Su Dingfang to lead.

After negotiating this matter, several leaders and Su Dingfang set off with a small number of light cavalry overnight, and Sun Xiangfu also had one more person in the team returning to Chang'an, Hou Junji.

Li Shimin has always been very accurate, as the successor of the next military department in his heart, Hou Junji is the most good at training and strategy among the generals of the guards, the army expedition, there is more than a little preparation to be made, Hou Junji must seize all the time to prepare, and Sun Xiangfu has become the second-in-command of the preparation group for this war, Hou Junji is responsible for the deployment and training of troops. He is mainly responsible for military equipment and grain and grass logistics, plus the position of deputy chief examiner of the imperial examination hanging on his body, Sun Xiangfu felt a lot of pressure before he arrived in Chang'an.

"Duke Lu, next year's expedition to Goguryeo, Your Majesty said that you want the elite of the Sixteen Guards to be exhausted, I don't know, how many elites are there in total of these Sixteen Guards?" Taking advantage of the interval between changing horses and resting, Sun Xiangfu, who had never participated in military aircraft at the national level, asked Hou Junji like a little white.

"The establishment of the sixteen guards is more than 25,000 to 40,000 people, elite, refers to the veterans who have been on the battlefield, except for those who stay in the place, there are almost more than 10,000 guards to participate in the war! In addition, with the people who assist in transporting supplies, we will dispatch at least 250,000 people next year. ”

"More than 250,000?" Hearing this number, Sun Xiangfu's scalp was a little numb.

With such a huge scale of battle, I know that many people will die if I think about it with my ass, and I blame Sun Xiangfu for reading less history books, Li Shimin fought Goguryeo in history, and every time it came down, it was the result of tens of thousands of people, and the number of recorded beheadings alone added up to nearly 100,000 people, and the specific casualties must be much larger than the number of beheadings, but even so, he did not fight down, which shows the scale of Goguryeo's resistance to the Tang army at that time.

"What? What do you think is a lot? In fact, this is Your Majesty's compassion for the people, as much as possible to reduce the scale of the battle to the minimum, Goguryeo has 37 counties, more than 200 cities, more than 1 million households, this is not counting their major allies, long before my Tang Dynasty, they can support more than 100,000 mobile cavalry, even if there are some rebellions at the moment, I estimate that they have at least 500,000 troops in the country, why do they dare to be disrespectful to my Tang Dynasty? That's because they have such strength, Yang Guangzheng's million-strong army can't attack it, which shows that they are not so easy to fight. ”

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu only had a specific understanding of Goguryeo's strength, no wonder Wang Hao tried every means to encourage the Tang Dynasty to attack Goguryeo, and Li Shimin's heart has always been eager to try Goguryeo, if it weren't for Sun Xiangfu crossing over and using a series of means to improve the national strength of the Tang Dynasty a lot, the war potential of others is really not lower than that of the Tang Dynasty. Historically, Li Shimin also killed Jieli's sneak attack because of the sneak attack, so he could rise a little, otherwise, who the overlord of East Asia in this period is, it is really hard to say, at least Tubo and Goguryeo are not much worse than Li Tang in terms of military strength.

Many historians in later generations believe that in the early Tang Dynasty, the number of Goguryeo's troops should have been more than 600,000, and the reason why the victory was achieved in the Gaozong period was because during the Taizong period, certain results had been accumulated.

Li Shimin conquered Goguryeo in the east, and took more than a dozen fortresses and cities such as Xuansu, Hengshan, Gaimu, Momi, Liaodong, Baiyan, and Beisha, and tore apart Goguryeo's strongest defense line against the Tang Dynasty, not only crippling their main battle troops, but also incorporating more than 100,000 households with a high degree of sinicization and strong productivity in these places into the Tang Dynasty.

After that, he let Niu Jinda, Li Ji, Li Haihai and other generals lead the two armies of the waterway to divide the division, and constantly attack and harass Goguryeo, so that it has been tired of coping with it, and can not produce and recuperate well, so as to slowly create the conditions for Goguryeo to destroy Goguryeo.

Therefore, this war is likely to be protracted and cannot be taken lightly, so the task of providing food and grass and equipment for these 250,000 troops will be even more difficult.

Soon, after Sun Xiangfu got the daily consumption data of all kinds of soldiers here in Hou Junji, suddenly, he only felt a stone pressed on his chest.

It is no wonder that a strong country often falls into economic difficulties because of a war, from prosperity to decline, it turns out that in ancient times, fighting a war was the most money-burning job, and there was no one.

A young and strong soldier needs to eat three meals a day in wartime, and it is not excluded that the winter is cold, and the food consumption alone is more than one stone per soldier per month, and even more than two stones for a large amount of food, so the grain consumed by the 250,000 army in a month is almost more than 400,000 stone, and in a year, it is about 5 million stone, which is almost half of the output of rice in Jiangnan Zhancheng, and to transport so much grain to the front line, the other half of the output is almost also put into it.

In the plan, there will be almost 100,000 cavalry on this expedition, then, the war horses and livestock that need to be fed may be as high as 200,000 heads, and the consumption of forage and beans is almost the same as three times the value of human consumption, Sun Xiangfu is not good at arithmetic, so he roughly calculated in his heart, with the current market price, just to solve the problem of eating, it will cost nearly five million in a year.

Then, counting more valuable iron weapons, armor equipment, and warships, it is estimated that 10 million yuan of investment is far from enough.

After calculating this account, Sun Xiangfu knew why to start a national war, a country often has to accumulate for many years, or even a generation, based on the tax balance of two or three million yuan per year in the past of the Tang Dynasty, without more than five years of accumulation, where would he dare to fight a war of this scale, and even if he fought, he would not dare to fight for a long time, and within a year, it must be over.

"I know why Your Majesty is downplaying, so he assigned this task to me, I was afraid that it would be too detailed, I would postpone it, no, Lugong, I have to go back, I can't do this job!"

"Hehe, if you can't do this job, no one in our Datang will be able to do it, don't worry, didn't you give you the right to special expropriation, although this amount is large, you may not be able to make it up if you go to various places to collect it." Hou Junji seems to have more confidence than Sun Xiangfu himself.

In ancient times, when there was a war, the real people were the people who really suffered, and if you asked Sun Xiangfu to reach out to the people who were not very rich, he would definitely not do it.

Therefore, in the next hurry, Sun Xiangfu's mind has been thinking about how to solve the problem without passing on these war expenses to the people.

More than 2,000 miles away, the fast horse walked for seven or eight days in a row, and finally arrived, when the exhausted Sun Xiangfu led the guards to his castle-like mansion, there was no one to greet him, on the contrary, there were many guards in front of the mansion, looking like a great enemy.

"Governor, you're finally back! Madame is about to give birth, and many midwives have come to see her, and the imperial doctor is also ······"

Sun Xiangfu didn't have time to listen below, lost the reins, ran towards the house, and entered the hall, only to find that in addition to the people of the Yu family, the eldest grandson queen was actually there, and she looked anxious.

"The minister has seen the queen's mother, how is the situation now?"

Empress Eldest Sun stretched out her hand to exempt Sun Xiangfu from the ceremony, but she couldn't answer, and looked at the imperial doctor and the two old mothers in the palace who were in charge of production.

"Governor Sun, the situation is a little bad, Mrs. Jun has been suffering from abdominal pain for two hours, and the baby has not come out yet, and, and ······"

"And what?"

Seeing that the old imperial doctor's eyes were dodging and he didn't dare to answer head-on, Sun Xiangfu grabbed the two arms of the imperial doctor and asked nervously.

"Moreover, the county lady's physical strength is getting worse and worse, and she is afraid that she will ······"

The couple's physical strength began to decline, and the child has not yet come out, in other words, it is 'dystocia', in this period, dystocia is basically the end of one corpse and two lives, and Sun Fu this time, it is likely to be one corpse and three lives.

No wonder Yu Chang and his wife clenched their fists with pale faces.

"Zhengming, this palace has already asked the imperial doctor to boil a hundred years of old ginseng to pour Xiu'er, perhaps, when the medicinal power is exerted, she can regenerate new power and give birth to the child."

When Empress Changsun gave birth to Li Chengqian in her first child, it was not very smooth, she relied on ginseng to boost her qi, and she persisted for a long time before giving birth to Li Chengqian.

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu always felt unreliable, and soon, he came to Yu Xiu'er's delivery room, and heard the heart-rending and increasingly weak screams in the room, Sun Xiangfu finally yelled at Zhang Ke, "Take the knife I prepared." ”

After that, Sun Xiangfu was about to push the door in, but was stopped by the old mother who was waiting in front of the door.

"Governor, the maternity ward is a place of filth, so it's better not to go in."

The imperial physician Ling Zhen Chen heard what Sun Xiangfu said, but he was shocked, and hurriedly rushed up to stop him, "Sun Dudu spares his life, the doctor is not guilty, but Mrs. Naijun is pregnant with twins in her first child······"

"Get out of the way, Ben Governor asked people to get knives, not to kill you healers, but to hurry up and carry out caesarean section."

Time was urgent, Sun Xiangfu was too lazy to explain too much to them, but when he said the word 'caesarean section', even Empress Changsun's face was pale, as a woman, he couldn't see this kind of thing happening in front of his eyes.

"Zhengming can't, the child can be reborn if he is gone, if you do this thing of saving your son and killing your wife today, this palace will not spare you."

When Yu Chang and his wife heard this, they also blocked the door from left to right, and said with tears on their faces, "Virtuous son-in-law, the little girl is pregnant and born to your grandson's family, you can't end up like this, if you want to cut off the belly of the little girl, please cut off the heads of my husband and wife first." ”

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu was speechless for a while, what is this!

"Hey, who said that caesarean section will kill people, my Sun Zhengming is not such a wolf-hearted person, if you don't get out of the way, Xiu'er will be really dangerous."

At this moment, what Sun Xiangfu hopes most is what Li Chunfeng's crow mouth said, because the caesarean section is a thing that he is worried about Yu Xiuer's birth, so he began to do theoretical research in a hurry, but he really hasn't practiced it positively! If it doesn't work, it will be three lives for wives and children, and this pressure is indescribable.