Luoyang.

This morning, the hall was full of laughter and laughter, and everyone was full of joy.

When the civil and military officials learned that Xu Seji had won a great victory in Baekje, that the king had been captured in the country, and that all parts of Baekje had surrendered, their eyebrows fluttered.

It's really happy in my heart and smiling on my face.

Luo Cheng sat on the dragon chair and was also very happy.

"I previously gave Xu Shiji an additional 12,000 troops, and gave him 10 million military expenses, originally said that now the imperial court has freed up its hands to clean up Fuyu, and I never thought that I could win a war, and even asked Xu Shiji not to think about destroying the country in a war, but who knows, Xu Shiji really gave me a surprise. Mobilized in August, by November had captured and surrendered the whole of Baekje. ”

Wei Zheng said with a smile, "It turns out that Baekje's clamor is fierce, but it is just a soil dog, not even a wolf, as soon as my Great Qin Heavenly Soldier comes out, he will immediately become a dead dog." ”

"Haha, Wei Xiang's analogy is good. The Baekje Rebellion also caused me some trouble, but now that Baekje has fallen, it has become a good thing. ”

Baekje was destroyed, and now the imperial court has to discuss what to do.

Although there was also a pedantic official who said that another prince of Buyeo should be selected to canonize him as the king of Baekje, and then make Baekje a vassal state. Luo Cheng didn't bother to pay attention to this kind of pedantic proposal. Of course, the imperial court was mainly courting a country like Silla.

But since the Baekje rebellion was defeated again, it was natural to take the opportunity to change the county.

"The minister thought that Baekje could be set up as Baekje-do, and the five divisions of the original country could be changed to five counties, which were divided into five counties, namely Xiongjin, Mahan, Dongmyeong, Geumryon, and Dean."

Fang Xuanling, who had just returned from the foreign governor's reign, proposed, "The minister thinks that although Baekje is called 37 counties, 200 cities, and 800,000 households, Baekje is small, and it is a bit too much to set up one." It is better to belong to Andong Province and set up Baekje-gun under the jurisdiction of five counties including Xiongjin. ”

At this time, Wei Zheng objected.

The reason is that although Baekje is small, it has a large population, and the previous statistics have 800,000 households, and if you add the slaves of the powerful nobles, then it should have a population of 3 or 4 million. Even the most populous county in the Central Plains at the beginning of the Great Cause, a county with a population of only one million.

In the past two years, Baekje has lost a lot of people due to the war, so there are still about 3 million, and if you add some Goguryeo people who fled to Baekje before, there should still be more than 3 million.

Luo Cheng thought for a moment.

"There are a lot of five counties, but it is really not good to set up only one county, I think we can set up three counties of Xiongjin, Dean, and Dongmyeong, each county has five counties, and the fifteen counties of the three counties of Baekje are not subordinate to Andong Province, but a separate Korean province."

"Your Majesty, isn't it appropriate for Baekje to set up a road?"

Hou Mochen also objected.

But Luo Cheng still has a long-term plan, if Baekje is included in Andong, then Andong Province will occupy almost the entire Korean Peninsula except Silla, bounded by the Yalu River in the north and the sea in the south, this area is too independent and does not meet the establishment standards of the imperial court's dog-toothed provincial divisions, especially if Andong is so far away, after a few generations, it is very easy to rebel or secession, and it has to be prevented in advance.

Of course, Baekje-do is not big now, but there is still room for Nasung, and in the future, Silla may also be annexed, and when Baekje and Silla are merged, the Korean Peninsula will be divided into two, and Baekje-do will not be small.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that although Baekje has surrendered, the rebels must be severely punished." Hou Mo Chen Yi advocates.

He believed that the remnants of Goguryeo before Baekje must be hunted down, and once captured, they were all reduced to slavery and sold to the Central Plains. Those Baekje nobles and soldiers who led the way to participate in the Baekje rebellion were also severely punished, the first ones were executed, and the rest were all reduced to slaves, and the nine clans were also held accountable and transported to the Central Plains to be sold into slavery.

This not only eliminated the anti-Qin people in Baekje, but also weakened the power of Baekje and reduced its population, and the imperial court could also take advantage of the situation to confiscate the property and land of these people, and then move to the Central Plains to immigrate to the Han people and grant them land.

Past experience has shown that in order to gain a foothold in a newly occupied area, or even to rule for a long time, the key is to have a sufficient number of Han Chinese.

Otherwise, sooner or later there will still be instability, and even rebellion will break out again.

In order to be able to turn Goguryeo into the territory of Great Qin, the imperial court relied on this ruthless iron and blood to make today's Andong a paradise for immigrants.

Hou Mochen believed that it would be best to be able to clean up half of the more than 3 million Baekje Goguryeo people and transport them to the Central Plains as slaves, which would not only solve the instability of Baekje, but also enable the imperial court to make a lot of money through slave sales. The proceeds from these slave sales could also be used to cover the expenses of immigrating to Baekje.

However, there were also scholars such as Wen Yanbo who reminded the emperor.

If it is done as Hou Mochen said, it will inevitably lead to another rebellion in Baekje.

After all, no one wants to be a slave.

"I'm not afraid of rebellion, whoever rebels will be uprooted, aren't Fuyu Long and Jiebo and others rebelling? Hasn't it fallen now? So the imperial court did not have to worry about saying that they were rebelling at all. The minister thought that in order to govern Andong, the most important thing was that the number of our Han people must outnumber the number of those Baekje people, otherwise, sooner or later there would be chaos. Therefore, it is actually a good thing that they are going to rebel now, and we have a reason to uproot them once and for all. ”

Fuyu Long and others have already been lowered, and generals such as Jiebo have also been reduced, and even the more than 200 cities in Baekje have also been surrendered, and Xu Shiji has sent troops to take over the cities in an all-round way.

At this time, if Baekje set off a wave of rebellion, the imperial court really had nothing to worry too much about. After all, rebellion also has to be strong.

Now that Baekje has been given a heavy setback, who will lead the rebels?

Yes, there will definitely be people who will come out, for example, after Baekje was jointly destroyed by the Tang and Silla, Hei Tooth Tsunezhi and others set off a revolt, but they have never really succeeded. Later, the Tang Dynasty was forced to withdraw its troops from the peninsula under military pressure from the northwest and Tibet, as well as from the north and the Tiele people, but in the end, the Silla people only took advantage of the peninsula and seized the Baekje and Goguryeo lands on the peninsula.

Now the imperial court has no military pressure at all in other aspects, and it can even increase the number of troops on the peninsula, so there is really no need to worry about forcing them to rebel at this time.

In the short term, it is true that overly hard-line policies are not conducive to stability, but in the long run, it is better to break the pustule early.

"Sage, there is another matter, Xu Shiji reported that Silla had previously sent 50,000 troops to help attack the Baekje rebels, but they now occupied more than ten cities in Baekje, but they refused to hand it over."