In fact, there is a lot of quarrel among the high-level officials of the Bohai State about whether to give up Liaodong, because Liaodong accounts for one-third of the entire Bohai population, and it is very wealthy.

This is against the abandonment of Liaodong, believing that it is impossible for the Tang Dynasty to firmly conquer the east, and Bohai can also be defended, and these people are mainly hardliners in Bohai and Goguryeo families.

For example, Gao Feng, the left minister, opposed the abandonment of Liaodong.

Those who agree to give up Liaodong are mostly because of a passage that Damen Yi said to Dawuyi at the beginning of the Bohai State.

Damen Yi once said to Da Wuyi, "Tang, a big country, the soldiers are ten thousand times me, and I will die if I have a grudge with it." In the past, when Goryeo was prosperous, there were 300,000 soldiers, and the resistance to the Tang Dynasty was the enemy, which could be described as strong, and the Tang soldiers were swept away. Now we are one of the three of Goryeo, and the king will disobey it, and I can't. ”

Later generations of Bohai kings believed that the full occupation of Liaodong meant bordering the Tang Dynasty, and once the Tang Dynasty regained its strength, it was difficult to ensure that it would not repeat the mistakes of Goguryeo.

In order to avoid bordering the Tang Dynasty, the Bohai State has not fully occupied Liaodong.

Of course, it was difficult for the Bohai State to fully occupy Liaodong, because the strength of the Goguryeo and Tang people here was not bad, and then the strategy of supporting Goguryeo to suppress the Tang people was adopted.

Nominally, the Bohai State occupied Liaodong, but only those cities near the Bohai State, Liaonan and Liaoxi, and the Bohai State did not occupy it.

In the beginning, the majority of the people within the Balhae Kingdom opposed the abandonment of Liaodong, because the strength of the Goguryeo Balhae Kingdom was not bad.

In the past, he was only an official in the court, but with the annexation of Liaodong to the Balhae Kingdom, the Goguryeo people of Liaodong and the Goguryeo people of the former Balhae Kingdom formed an alliance.

At the suggestion of Goguryeo officials of the Bohai court, the Bohai State chose to support the Goguryeo people in Liaodong and suppress the Tang people in Liaodong; At the same time, the strength of the Goguryeo people in Liaodong also made those Goguryeo officials in the court of the Bohai State full of confidence.

This is a bit like the court ministers before the Tang Dynasty colluded with the envoys of the feudal towns and towns, and fulfilled each other.

However, with the Tang people's dispatch of troops to Liaodong and the fall of Nanjing, the direction of the Bohai Imperial Court changed again, and there were more people in favor of abandoning Liaodong.

"Your Majesty, now the army of the Tang Dynasty has entered Liaodong, occupied Jili Prefecture, Jian'an Prefecture and other places, and basically occupied the southern part of Liaodong region; And in the east, the Tang Pyongyang Governorate captured Nanjing.

If you don't agree to the conditions of the Tang Dynasty and give up Liaodong, there will be more and more Tang troops in Liaodong and the Pyongyang Governorate.

Now that I am worried about domestic and foreign troubles in Bohai, if I start a war with the Tang Dynasty, it is easy to repeat the mistakes of Goguryeo, please think twice! ”

The right minister of the Bohai Kingdom stood up and persuaded the King of Bohai who was sitting on the dragon chair.

In Bohai, the king of Bohai was made the emperor, and he did not serve the Tang Dynasty.

The right phase is from the Bohai Li family, and the ancestor was originally a Han person, but he took root and settled in the Bohai country, and he is a representative of the Bohai Li family.

In the Bohai Kingdom, Gao, Wang, Li, Zhang, Wu, Yang, He, and Pei are all big surnames, and the important ministers in the court basically come from these surnames, or they are princes and nobles.

This right minister is very resolutely opposed to Bohai and Datang as enemies, and believes that there is no need to fight with Datang for a Liaodong that is not actually controlled at all.

"I think the right minister is in private collusion with the Tang people, Liaodong occupies one-third of my Bohai population, if you give up, wouldn't you be a sinner in Bohai?"

As soon as the right minister's voice fell, someone came out to object.

Although Liaodong has a large population, it pays very little tax to the national treasury. I, Bohai, did not actually control Liaodong, so there was no need to make enemies with Datang because of this. ”

"You are colluding with the Tang Dynasty and betraying my Bohai Kingdom!"

"You want to pull the Bohai Sea into the abyss of war, once the war with the Tang Dynasty starts, the former Goguryeo will be the future Bohai."

For a time, above the imperial court, because of the Liaodong issue, people from the two factions argued endlessly.

Before, such a situation would not have been possible, because there were many people who opposed the abandonment of Liaodong.

In addition to the minister who was in charge of Xuanzhao Province (equivalent to the high-ranking officials under the Tang Dynasty), the Minister of the Great Interior who was in charge of Zhengtang Province (equivalent to the Tang Shangshu Province) was opposed to giving up Liaodong.

In addition, most of the six departments and the twelve divisions under Xuanzhao Province are opposed, so above the court, the opposition is too loud.

But now it's different, the Tang Dynasty sent troops to Liaodong and captured Nanjing, and many people began to panic.

The first to defect was the Bohai nobles, who thought that there was no need to drag the Bohai State into the abyss of war because of Liaodong, and the current Bohai State could not withstand the war.

Because most of Liaodong was controlled by the Goguryeo people, the Bohai nobles couldn't intervene, and they didn't feel distressed if they gave up.

These nobles took the lead in defecting, and also affected some of the court ministers, and then the court of the Bohai Kingdom appeared in the current situation.

"Father, the child thinks that we should avoid war with the Tang Dynasty. Now that Datang has regained its strength, if it starts a war with Datang, it will bring ruin to the Bohai Kingdom.

And the Tang Dynasty's recovery of Liaodong is to deal with the Khitans, and we can unite with the Tang Dynasty to crusade against the Khitans.

For the Bohai Kingdom, the Khitan is the enemy of life and death. When the courtiers were arguing, the prince Dafeng, who was the king of Bohai, stood up and said.

The Dafeng descendants know more about today's Datang, because the Bohai Kingdom often sends envoys to the Datang, and the Dafeng descendants have followed the mission once a few years ago and have also seen the strength of the Datang.

Although Da Feng is not the eldest son of the King of Bohai, he is deeply loved by the King of Bohai, Da Weiying, and he stands up to support the abandonment of Liaodong, which is somewhat unexpected by many people.

As for the Khitan.

The ancestors of the Bohai people had lived with the Khitans in Yingzhou for a long time and participated in the Yingzhou Rebellion launched by the Khitans, so Bohai had a good relationship with the Khitan in the early days, and there may have been some kind of alliance or tacit understanding in the period of great martial arts.

It's just that after the founding of the Bohai Nation, the contradiction with the Khitan became big, otherwise Bohai would not have gathered heavy troops to defend the Khitan in Fuyufu.

The current relationship between the two families is no problem to describe as feuds.

Da Weiying was also a little hesitant, he looked at the group of people below, and finally looked at Gao Feng, and asked, "Zuo Xiang, you just came back from the Tang Dynasty mission, how did the Tang envoys explain the capture of Nanjing by their army?" ”

Gao Feng saluted and said, "Back to Your Majesty, the envoys of the Tang Dynasty did not explain the reason, but only said that if I Bohai promised to withdraw the officials and troops in Liaodong, the troops of the Tang Dynasty would withdraw from Nanjing, otherwise it would be a never-ending war." ”

"It's really hateful, the Tang Dynasty is so hateful, it's in vain to become the kingdom of the Heavenly Empire." As soon as Gao Feng's words fell, someone stood up and accused Datang.

"The envoys of the Tang Dynasty really said that?"

Da Weiying was also frightened, could he really be the king of the dead country?

"Back to Your Majesty, the envoys of the Tang Dynasty did say so. But the envoys of the Tang Dynasty also said that as long as our Bohai State is willing to withdraw from Liaodong, we can avoid the war, and the Tang Dynasty will also return Nanjing. Moreover, Datang also hopes that our Bohai can send troops to jointly crusade against the Khitan. Although Gao Feng wanted to refuse, he did not intend to hide the conversation with Zhong Chuan.

"As long as Bohai gives up Liaodong, will the Tang Dynasty's army really withdraw from Nanjing and help me Bohai send troops to attack the Khitan?"

Da Weiying hurriedly asked.

At this time, some ministers found that their majesty was so excited when he heard about the crusade against the Khitan?