Shanyang's spring ploughing work is very busy, especially this year, the children of the peasant sect have opened up and planted a medicine field that no one has tried before, for all kinds of herbal crops, almost the whole process has to be followed up by them and Sun Xiangfu personally, but fortunately, the medical school has sent more than 2,000 students to help the medicine field, in mid-May, thousands of acres of medicinal fields replanted from the flower fields outside the city, finally began to emerge, and at this time, Sun Xiangfu finally received a war report from the Northeast.

What he didn't expect was that Yuangai Suwen did not die in the hands of Li Shimin in the end, but died at the hands of the people of Goguryeo, and the strong city of Pyongyang, without letting the Tang army spend a single soldier, was broken by the rebellion of Goguryeo's own people, and Yuangai Suwen scraped the entire Goguryeo, and the wealth obtained was also used by Li Shimin to make a popular project, and distributed it to those young and strong people who defected to the battle and incited Yuangai Suwen to forcibly recruit from all over the country, overthrowing his rule over Pyongyang City. and those who took the initiative to help propagate the benevolence and righteousness of the Tang Dynasty, so that the Tang army could smoothly take over the various prefectures and counties of Goguryeo.

After that, Li Shimin held a grand military parade under the city of Pyongyang, and all the nearly 300,000 officers and soldiers of the Tang Army of the Eastern Expedition were consulted.

Half of the young and strong soldiers of these two small countries were killed by Yuangai Suwenkeng under the city of Yanjin, and there was almost no resistance to the 30 Tang Army, so Zhang Gongjin smoothly led the troops to take over the military and political power of the two countries, with the generals of the Tang Army as the main structure, and carried out a major change in the management system of the two countries.

In fact, Li Shimin was very annoyed by the actions of these two countries before, a typical type of wall grass, this time he did not kill the two lords, it was also for the sake of his own reputation, and after arriving in Chang'an, he and the two of them were the same as the lords of the small countries in the Western Regions, and they were given the title of a county prince and county marquis, and every month, they were given hundreds of yuan to let them live in Chang'an.

After everything was settled, Li Shimin announced the establishment of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate to manage the entire Northeast and the Korean Peninsula region, the Metropolitan Governor was served by Zhang Gongjin, and there were three central Protectorates, namely the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate, and the Metropolitan Protector was served by Su Dingfang, who managed the military of the entire Korean Peninsula region, with 20,000 Tang Army soldiers under its banner, as well as 50,000 soldiers from Silla, Baekje and Goguryeo, composed of the Andong Army.

The Heishui Protectorate, which is served by Cheng Mingzhen, has 10,000 Tang Army, 10,000 Jin Army, and 30,000 Goguryeo Surrendered Soldiers, and manages the east of Kaiyuan, the old land of the Yan Ya Department, and the Heishui Jin Ya and many ethnic minority tribes of more than 3,000 miles along the northern coast, and the border with the ghost country of the European plate.

The Dongyi Protectorate, which was served by Zhang Jian, had 10,000 Tang Army, Xiabu, Khitan, and Murwei three divisions, a total of 30,000 tribal troops, and 20,000 Goguryeo troops composed of the Dongyi Army, which managed Murwei, Xiabu, Khitan Division, and a part of the original territory in northern Goguryeo.

As for Xincheng, Liaodong, Anshi, Jishi, Beisha and other population towns that were originally close to Hebei Province, all of them were assigned to Hebei Province, and the defensive fortresses were demolished and the prefectures and counties were set up to govern.

After dividing out several major population towns along Hebei Province, there were about 3 million people and 180,000 troops under the rule of Andong Dadu Protectorate, and Zhang Gongjin became a high-ranking official at the level of governor of Datang Prefecture, who actually managed the population and had the largest number of troops, which was also Li Shimin's affirmation of his achievements in the Eastern Crusade.

Su Dingfang was transferred by Li Shimin from the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate to be the Anton Metropolitan Protector, then, on the side of the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate, there is a lack of a senior general who is in command of the military in the front, Li Shimin transferred Niu Jinda, who had eliminated the party departments, and served as the deputy governor of the Metropolitan Protectorate of Anton and the military commander of the Metropolitan Protectorate of Anton Pacific.

This is tantamount to the implementation of Niu Jinda's grade in advance before he returned to the dynasty to reward him, you know, in the past, Su Dingfang was only the commander of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, and the Governor of the Anbei Army, and did not add the title of Deputy Protector of the Metropolitan Protector of Anbei, this position is added, and Niu Jinda will not be lower than the Sixteenth Wei General in the future, and the grade is also the third grade, and after Li Shimin goes back, his dukedom is estimated to not be able to run away.

After everything was arranged, Li Shimin inspected the land of the two small countries of Silla and Baekje, and asked Hou Junji to lead the main army except for the remaining troops to return to Chang'an by land, and he divided his troops into 50,000 troops, and Li Jing, Wei Chigong, Zhang Liang, Liu Hongji, Duan Zhixuan and other ministers went south by sea to inspect all parts of Lingnan, and when they returned, they would inspect Jiangnan and Huainan by way.

Anyway, it would take more than three months for the main army to return by land from Pyongyang, and it would take less than a month for him to go to Lingnan by sea sail and sail and sail to Lingnan, and it would not take more than a month to travel from Lingnan to Chang'an.

Li Shimin, who went to sea by boat for the first time, was a little apprehensive in his heart, the sea was the existence of the ancients, and he himself was born in the north, when the fleet went further south, the more he felt that his skin was wet, and the strong sunlight on the sea in summer tanned his skin a lot, but fortunately, the speed of this galleon was fast enough, and after the fresh energy of riding the wind and waves in the first few days, he only suffered for ten days, and then arrived at Guangzhou Bay.

"Unexpectedly, it took less than 20 days to take the sea route from the northeast to Lingnan."

"Your Majesty doesn't know, take the sea route, starting from Beisha Port, the distance to Guangzhou, only more than 4,000 miles, our five-sail sailboat clippers, are all warships, and do not carry heavy cargo, when the sea is downwind, an hour can go out of fifty or sixty miles, day and night sailing, a day is five or six hundred miles, the reason why I walked for nearly 20 days, because there are a few days of wind direction is not right, you are still in the city with harbors along the way, check it.

If it is a straight line, these ships really carry heavy grain goods, from Liaodong to and from Jiangnan, Lingnan, in fact, you can go a trip in ten days, a month, you can go back and forth, the loss of transportation, than by land province several times, often 10,000 stone grain from Jiangnan, or Lingnan out, to Laizhou Port or Beisha Port, only the loss of more than 100 stone grain eaten by the shipwright. ”

The empty ship is full of sails, tailwind, running on the sea, it is naturally very fast, Zhang Liang is the most knowledgeable ship among the senior generals of the Tang Dynasty, after he received a batch of new warships from Weinan Shipyard, for those warships in the past, he can no longer look at them, simply from last year's shipyard began to put into production, the shipment of hydroships has been very large, and now, the Datang Navy has changed half of such new ships, and the overall combat power can be called invincible at sea.

Also participating in the southern tour are Li Jing, Li Daozong and others have been to Lingnan, among which Li Jing is the person who pacified Lingnan for the Tang Dynasty, looking at the Guangzhou Bay Wharf that has already been renewed, they can't help but sigh, "The scene of Lingnan is a hundred times more prosperous than it was back then." ”

What is the idea of a hundredfold?

This can be seen from the number of sailing ships docked in Guangzhou Bay alone.

At this moment, there are at least thousands of large ships docked at the docking station dozens of miles long along the coast, including those with and without water vessels, warships, and fishing boats, among which there are at least hundreds of large ships with ten thousand stones.

The shipyard is not only in Weinan, the shipyard in Lingnan is not small, and they are specialized in competing for the sea sailing, the kind of high shipboard and sail ship, in terms of style, there is a big difference with the ship made by Weinan Shipyard, but only in terms of the speed of sea navigation, it is even better than the water ship made in Guanzhong, those large cargo ships due to the high side of the ship, there is a kind of big sail that can be flexibly deployed to the two wings of the hull, when downwind, the speed, can be called terrifying.

On the wharf, even if the heat wave is rolling, Feng An, who came to greet Li Shimin, and hundreds of thousands of Lingnan soldiers and civilians are also very enthusiastic, they are now not short of food, their bodies are much stronger than before, all of them are wearing new clothes, and even many of them are wearing cool silk clothes, and most of them still have the habit of wearing gold and silver.

When the warships of the army docked at the port one after another, they handed over all kinds of melons and fruits from Lingnan one after another, many of which were made of cold well water.

"Minister Feng An, welcome Your Majesty······"

"Greetings to Your Majesty······"

When Li Shimin stepped down from the big boat, he unexpectedly heard hundreds of thousands of people say the words 'Greeting Your Majesty' in Chinese.

Don't underestimate such a small action, to train hundreds of thousands of people of all ethnic groups in Baiyue who do not understand Chinese to this extent, the time and energy it needs to invest are not a little, just listening to these four words in their mouths, Li Shimin's heart is a little moved.

Feng Andao, who personally helped up and bowed down, said, "There is Lao Fengqing to greet him." ”

Then, he shouted to the crowd of Lingnan people, "There are all the fathers and elders of Laolingnan who have greeted each other······

Li Shimin never forgets that he came to Lingnan to harvest the hearts of the people, so his words and actions are very kind and warm-hearted.

With Feng An's leadership, he walked directly into the Lingnan people, tasted the melons and fruits they raised with their hands, praised them for their diligence and simplicity, in recent years, for Guanzhong, for the entire Tang Dynasty, to provide food, salt, cane sugar and other scarce materials of the merits, and some of the elders shook hands, greetings, etc., until tossing on the dock for an hour or two, before repeatedly persuading the people to return home, and then took the car arranged by Feng Ang to go to Guangzhou New Town.

The car is a very spacious open-top four-wheeled carriage, which can seat a lot of people, Li Jingwei Chi Gong and others are naturally qualified to accompany the driver, of course, there is Feng An.

"Your Majesty, the minister has taken matters into his own hands and built a palace for you in the city, and I hope you don't dislike it."

"The Imperial Palace? Hehe, Feng Qing has learned Sun Zhengming's set out of ten! Li Shimin smiled when he heard this.

Since Feng Ang dared to call it a palace and invited him to live in it, this house must have been repaired! For such a naked sycophant, Li Shimin likes it very much, anyway, there is money here in Lingnan now, and if it is convenient to come and go in the future, he doesn't mind coming here to live more, it is as strong as Qin and Han, and he has not been able to completely subjugate this land to Wanghua, if he does it in his hands, wouldn't it prove that he is stronger than Qin Huang and Han Wu?

The carriage traveled very quickly on the straight and wide cement road, and when he saw the tall city walls of Guangzhou, Li Shimin felt a strong smell of Sun Zhengming.

Because, Shanyang and Dingxiang are also this architectural style, not to say that Sun Xiangfu has a preference for building tall city walls, but because, in this period, the tall and strong city walls can make the people living in it feel more at ease.

Of course, the overall design and architecture of Guangzhou City was originally from the hands of Sun Xiangfu's architectural team, and in all aspects, the practical and easy-to-use design will naturally be used in this city.