Chapter 156: Severe Food Shortage

In the carnival feast of the two coalition forces, Luo Tong led the troops to quickly capture Seoul, and the two coalition forces were unable to touch the north, and many people died inexplicably when they were still tossing on women.

Luo Tong restrained his soldiers not to invade the people of Seoul, and posted a notice to appease the people, telling everyone that the Tang army had come to rescue the suffering people of Seoul.

The timely appearance of the Tang army saved the people of Seoul and was warmly welcomed by the surviving people.

Before the fall of Seoul, the king of Silla fled in panic, but it was the Tang army that came from afar who rescued them in time, and the people were of course more grateful to the Tang army.

After learning that the Tang Dynasty had sent troops and recaptured Seoul, the kings and ministers of Silla were greatly appreciative and excited, and immediately turned around and returned to Seoul, preparing to take over Seoul from the Tang army.

After Luo Tong led his troops into Seoul, he seized a large amount of property from the hands of the allied forces of the two countries, and the allied forces of the two countries looted almost all the royal palaces in Seoul, and turned them into trophies of the Tang army.

After the king of Silla returned to Seoul, the Tang army did not stop them, after all, the Tang army came to support and help, and they were not invaders, of course, there was no reason to stop it, and the master of Seoul, King Silla, returned.

When the Silla kings and ministers returned to Seoul, I was heartbroken to see that the royal palace and treasury had become empty.

There was no money and food, everyone's life was not easy, and I heard that although the palace was robbed by the allied forces of the two countries, the property in the palace was robbed, and it was not transported out of the city in time, but was surrounded by the Tang army, which arrived in time.

There is no doubt that the property that was originally in the palace and the property of the people in the city has fallen into the hands of the Tang army.

The ministers strongly suggested that the king of Silla would come forward and ask the generals who led the troops of the Tang Dynasty for the spoils that the Tang soldiers had collected from the combined forces of the two countries.

Their reason was that those things were originally the property of the palace and treasury of Silla, or the property of the people of Seoul, and they should have been left in Seoul, and these goods belonged to Seoul in the first place.

The king of Silla felt a little unable to let go, and said to the minister: "The Tang Dynasty sent troops to aid us Silla, and we have not yet asked us to pay for food, so I am afraid it is not appropriate for us to ask for money and goods from others at this time, right?" ”

"Your Majesty, these Tang troops were all sent by the envoys of the Liaodong Festival of the Tang Dynasty, didn't the king already give the Princess Wushuang to the envoys of the Liaodong Festival of the Tang Dynasty? According to this calculation, the king can say that he is already the father-in-law of the envoy of the Tang Dynasty Liaodong Festival, and the son-in-law sent troops to help his father-in-law and regain the lost country, isn't that very right?

And we didn't say that we didn't do anything at all, but after the two coalition forces withdrew, if the king had no money and no food in his hands, then how could our country be rebuilt, and the people also needed our relief, and what would we use to help these displaced people at that time.

If there is no money and food to settle these people and relieve these people, even if the two countries withdraw their troops, the people will be forced to rise up, then our Silla is not the same, it will be finished, and it will still be difficult to escape the fate of being divided between Goguryeo and Baekje. ”

"Your Majesty, although it is said that the Tang Dynasty sent troops to aid us, and we should give some money and food, but the money and silver collected by the Tang army from the combined forces of the two countries are too much, and it is almost all the wealth of our Seoul, and it can even be said that most of the wealth of our entire Silla.

If the Tang army is all owned by itself, then what do we need the Tang army to support us, whether it is snatched by the alliance of the two countries, or taken away by the Tang army, what difference does it make to the king, without this money and silver, our dynasty will be overthrown by our people sooner or later. ”

The king of Silla felt that what the ministers said was not unreasonable, so he thought of trying it with the generals of the Tang army, after all, their Liaodong Jiedu envoy was his son-in-law.

If the king of Silla and his ministers knew that Princess Wushuang had not become the woman of the envoy of Liaodong Jiedu, they didn't know if they would be so arrogant.

The Tang army did not completely evacuate from Seoul, and while continuing to drive out the allied forces of the two countries and drive them out of the borders of Silla, while rescuing some of the Silla people who were in urgent need of help.

Seoul temporarily became the supply and demand base of grain and grass for the Tang Army, and all the grain and grass snatched from the combined forces of the two countries were concentrated in Seoul.

Luo Tong did not stay in Seoul, but was left in Seoul by the grain envoy who was in charge of the transfer of grain and grass, and Seoul was temporarily under the joint control of the Tang army and the Silla court.

On the battlefield of expelling the combined forces of the two countries, Silla's army actually followed behind the Tang army and took over the newly recovered city.

This situation is actually quite ridiculous to say, but it is actually such a situation.

Only a small amount of the strategic materials stolen by the Tang army from the combined forces of the two countries, including grain, were handed over to the army of Silla, and most of the grain was directly distributed to the surviving people of Silla.

The generals and soldiers of Silla's army, unwilling to accept most of the benefits, were occupied by the Tang army, and protested against the Tang army several times.

Luo Tong sneered and said to the Silla generals who came to protest: "There are still a lot of cities in front, all of which are still in the hands of the two coalition forces, if you drive the two coalition forces away and recover these cities, all the materials will be yours, and we don't want a penny, how?" ”

The Silla generals, who had come to ask for benefits, and the soldiers they had brought with them, opened their mouths wide at once, but they could not say anything to refute them.

Looking at the grain distributed from the hands of the Tang army in the hands of the common people, these Silla soldiers were red-eyed.

The food distributed to them by the Tang army can only ensure that they will not starve to death, and it is basically impossible to eat a full meal.

There will not be much food in the cities taken from the combined forces of the two countries.

Because the surplus grain was transported away by the allied forces of the two countries, not to mention the grain in the official warehouse in the city, even the homes of the people in the city were also looted.

Because of the harassment of the Tang army, Goguryeo's agricultural time was seriously delayed, and Goguryeo basically did not have much grain harvest this year, which also caused an extreme shortage of grain in Goguryeo.

Therefore, after capturing a Silla city, the first thing to do is to collect the food in the city and transport it back to Pyongyang, leaving only a small amount of food for the combined forces of the two countries to eat.

As for the people of Silla, then I'm sorry, if you don't starve to death, even if you die, your life is great, and starving to death can only count you unlucky.

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