Li Shichang was in charge of the military department, and his answer to the war in Goryeo could not be ambiguous and unprofessional, whether it was then or now. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Especially today, he should insist on his own opinions, and not give people the impression that he has no decision and sways back and forth.

But he couldn't help but wonder, what is the opinion of Gao Jun and Guo Xiaoke?

The emperor was quite satisfied with the two ministers' answers, a smile appeared on his face, and then he turned to Li Shiyun and asked, "Lord Li's meaning might as well be carefully placed in public." ”

Li Shiyun said, "Your Majesty, the division is famous, Goryeo has not provoked me, and Silla has not sent an envoy to ask for help. If the name is not right, the momentum will not grow, and if the words do not go well, the army's heart will be shaken. ”

The emperor nodded, but reached out to open the document delivered by Xizhou on the Longshu case, and read:

"If a house is prosperous, it will not like to hate its neighbor. The country seeks peace and security, and the vassals must be humble. In the event of a bad household, there is a way to relocate, and the neighbor rebels against the clan can only suppress one way, and the house can be moved lightly, and the territory is not reluctant to give up an inch. Guotai and the people's security is the righteousness of the country, and protecting the territory and the people is the name of the teacher. ”

Li Shiyun said, "Your Majesty, this is the right word, this is the right word......

The emperor said, "This is not what I said, but from Guo Xiaoke and Gao Jun." ”

Li Shiyun said, "But when the division fights the heaviest day, from the season, the spring is now the farming season, so that the people of the country abandon the cultivation and join the army, the victory or defeat is undecided, and the agricultural time has been wrong!" ”

The emperor did not answer him, but went to the bookcase to read again, and read:

"Goryeo has repeatedly invaded Silla, but it is really bringing old grudges and moving new soldiers to despise my Tang Dynasty. If I don't pay a blind eye, then the vassals will be separated, and it will be difficult to bring them together. This three springs are warming, and it is appropriate to use troops in the cold. ”

"Goryeo is a small country, the land is few and the people are sparse, and the strength cannot last long, with my strength, it can be worth 10% of his merit. If we talk about farming, I will add a soup to my rice, and I will have no grain in the pot. If you talk about what you have gained, I will be a soldier for a while, and I will be hungry for four seasons on the other side. If we talk about the fortune of the country, I will move a brigade to help a country, and I will regret it when I am tired outside and difficult at home. In this way, three times, to help the weak and suppress the strong, Goryeo is not honest. ”

Eldest Sun Wuji listened and couldn't help nodding secretly. What Gao Jun and Guo Xiaoke said in their reply letters, whether Master Chu understands it or not, he understands it anyway:

No one likes a vicious neighbor when they live at home, and if the country is to be stable, then the vassal must be humble and respectful.

When you meet a vicious neighbor, you can't afford to provoke him, and there is always a way to move away from him. But for the disrespectful vassal state, there is only one way to suppress him to be honest. Because you can't lose an inch of the country, if you let him give him an inch and he tries to make you a foot, no one can hide.

Don't think that there is no name for a teacher, Goryeo ignores my majesty, oppresses the small vassal country of the Tang Dynasty without authorization, and disturbs my tranquility, this is a crime!

Goryeo despises me, and if I pretend to be deaf and dumb, the other weak vassal states will be separated from me, and it will be difficult to rein in again.

Now that March is sunny and the weather is getting warmer, it is a good time to use troops in cold places.

Goryeo is sparsely populated, and although it looks menacing, it doesn't last long. Even if the Tang Dynasty mobilized the entire Liaodong people's strength to rejuvenate the army, it would only move one-tenth of its strength, but Goryeo needed to mobilize the strength of the whole country and cheer up to deal with it.

So who delays the agricultural time more? We just need to add an extra spoonful of soup and make the rice a little thinner, and Goryeo is afraid that there is not even a grain of grain in all the grain bags.

Whose end is more bleak? The Tang Dynasty only performed a military horse once, and Goryeo was going to starve for a year.

Who's getting the most out of it? The Tang Dynasty used an army to suppress the strong and help the weak, and won the support of the weak country Silla, while the slightly stronger Goryeo was punished and weakened, and it was necessary to think about making trouble for the Tang Dynasty in the future.

After three battles like this, Goryeo will be honest.

After the emperor finished reading, he looked at the eldest grandson Wuji, Chu Suiliang, and then at Li Shixian, as if the first two had been easily convinced.

The emperor secretly thought, in fact, the original opinion of these two was not resolute, and it was natural that they would be faster when they turned the corner, and it would not be so awkward.

And Li Shiyun is different, his reasons are also right, but his vision is purely military.

In the third year of Wude, the emperor's identity at that time was still the king of Qin. When Dou Jiande was broken in the Tiger Prison Pass, Li Shichang and Guo Xiaoke both charged under him.

At that time, the Tang army only relied on 3,500 light cavalry to not only defeat Dou Jiande's 120,000 army in front of the Tiger Prison Pass and on the shore of the river, but also captured Dou Jiande alive.

At that time, in the eyes of the emperor, Guo Xiaoke and Li Shichang always felt a little lacking in bravery and battle.

It is based on this understanding that until now, the emperor has asked Guo Xiaoke to guard the western border, and he has to build a high Jun, so he has the consideration of making up for his lack of courage. And Li Shichang is already in the center, in charge of the military department.

Now, from the debate on whether to crusade against Goryeo, the emperor has some understanding of these two people - they have their own abilities, but Guo Xiaoke is selfless, and Li Shixian's heart is a little more.

The emperor was well aware of the personal friendship between Guo Xiaoke and Gao Jun, and their letters unambiguously expressed their support for sending troops, which must be the result of the synthesis of Guo and Gao's opinions.

So excluding Guo Xiaoke's always thoughtful, calm and thoughtful characteristics, thinking about Gao Jun's personal opinion, he must be more inclined to send troops to teach Goryeo a hard lesson.

In the eighteenth year since Zhenguan, the Tang Dynasty's major crusade against Goryeo has occurred twice. The first pretext for the crusade against Goryeo actually appeared in the sixteenth year of Jeongguan.

At that time, Chang'an received definite news that Gai Suwen, who was responsible for building a fortress along the Liao River to defend against the Tang Dynasty and was known for being tough on the Tang Dynasty, won the victory in the Goryeo court.

He killed the king of Goryeo and more than a hundred of his supporters in a mutiny, and established himself as the military leader, Da Mo Lizhi, to carry out a strategy to further free himself from the influence of the Tang Dynasty.

That year, although the emperor had sufficient reasons to intervene in Goryeo, he did not take immediate action. He once reminded his courtiers that Youzhou and Yingzhou, which were indispensable for attacking Liaodong, had not yet recovered from the effects of the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty.

But soon several events forced him to have a showdown. Relations between Goryeo, Baekje, and Silla became increasingly strained, and Goryeo's attitude toward the Tang Dynasty became increasingly hostile.

In the later part of the 17th year of Jeongguan, Silla, who claimed to be a vassal of the Tang Dynasty, reported to Chang'an, and Goryeo united with Baekje to attack Silla in several ways, and cut off the route of the Silla tribute envoys to Chang'an.

The emperor used polite means to stop the aggressive actions of Goryeo, which was ineffective. Gai Suwen even detained an envoy from Chang'an.

Only then did the emperor decide to personally conquer the country that had committed the following crimes.

At that time, the plan to go to Goryeo was unpopular among the ministers, who could not help but recall the crushing defeat of Emperor Yang of Sui in the Goryeo War.

Wuji, the eldest grandson who was closest to the emperor, strongly opposed any expedition, and Chu Suiliang also tried his best to discourage His Majesty from going on a personal expedition, and the only one who was in favor of beating Goryeo at that time was Li Shiyun.

Despite the opposition of the courtiers, there was no longer Wei Zheng, who had been a headache for the emperor, and he died in the seventeenth year. This conservative guy! As soon as he died in the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, the emperor began a carefully prepared expedition in the eighteenth year of Zhenguan.

Wei Zheng has always discouraged him from pursuing the policy of "good and great success" on the grounds that the evil consequences brought about by the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty have not been eliminated. For example, don't carry out large-scale military crusades that cost people and money.

Shortsighted! Wei Zheng also said this when he captured Gaochang. But look at it now! The emperor had the idea of pulling Wei Zheng out again, asking him to go to Xizhou to take a look, and then telling him to shut up.

The first time the emperor personally conquered, the Tang Dynasty collected all the cities in Liaodong and won a lot.

In the second crusade against Goryeo, the Tang Dynasty advanced by land and water, and hundreds of giant ships were used, and more people and horses were used, but the actual benefits seen by ordinary people were actually not greater than the first time.

In this regard, although the ministers did not dare to say it in private, in fact, there would always be a calculation in their hearts.

If you attack Goryeo again this time, maybe someone else will use "reckless force" to slander the emperor. The emperor said secretly, "Am I willing to toss?!" ”

But for the general, he must seek victory or defeat, and for the king, he must seek the general trend, which cannot be forced on anyone.

For the first time, the letter from Xizhou put forward the idea of "suppressing the strong and helping the weak" in both the government and the opposition, and this is a sober wind! Just these four words are worth a prime minister!

The emperor sighed secretly a few times - it's really hard to find a bosom friend!

Datang has a vast territory and is surrounded by foreign races, if it only blindly kills and occupies everyone, Datang will never be as strong as it is now, and I am afraid that it has already been tired on the road of conquest.

You have this place, but what about the other place that is further away? There will always be a marginal area that you can't, can't do, and don't plan to spend too much effort occupying.

The relationship between the Tang Dynasty and Goryeo, Baekje, and Silla was complicated. The key to tasteless and unwilling is to check and balance!

Geographically, Silla is located in the southeastern part of the Goryeo Peninsula and does not share a border with Daetang. In terms of distance, Silla is the farthest of the Three Kingdoms from the Tang Dynasty, with Goryeo to the north and Baekje to the west.

The reason why the Tang Dynasty supported Silla was precisely because Silla lived on the side of Goryeo and Baekje, and its existence itself was a kind of containment of Goryeo and Baekje.

Even if Silla is unable to launch an attack, it will be a worry for Goryeo and Baekje after all. It was precisely because of the pro-Tang Dynasty Silla that Goryeo and Baekje had scruples and did not dare to send troops to disturb the Tang Dynasty with all their might and blatantly.

Looking at the relationship between the three kingdoms in the past, before the sixteenth year of Jeongguan, Goryeo, Baekje, and Silla were basically friendly exchanges, and there were no soldiers to meet each other.

One of the reasons why the Tang Dynasty sent troops to attack Goryeo was that Goryeo closed the roads leading to the Tang Dynasty from the other two countries without authorization and was not allowed to interact with the Tang Dynasty.

It can be seen that there is intrigue between the three countries. This situation of discord between the three countries provided an excuse and conditions for the intervention of the Tang forces.

However, due to the long distance, the climate is very different from China, and the mountains and little land on the Yalushui side, and the land does not grow grass, the emperor never thought of directly sending troops to govern it.

Therefore, the art of checks and balances is more suitable for them - I don't take advantage of you, do I want to support you if I take advantage of you? But you can't stab at it, you can't give birth to a disobedient heart.

By the beginning of the 21st year of Zhenguan, the emperor had found that the situation east of Yalushui was becoming more and more dangerous, and it was also more and more unfavorable for the Tang Dynasty to impose checks and balances on the Three Kingdoms.

Not only did Goryeo raid and capture the castle of Silla, but Silla, a loyal vassal of the Tang Dynasty who had been loyal to him until now, was in jeopardy, and Baekje simply cut off its tribute to the Tang Dynasty.

It's not too late to make amends.

If they continue to sit idly by and let them continue to do whatever they want, the system of suzerainty and vassals that the emperor has painstakingly managed may be disintegrated in the east of Liaodong.

Goryeo sits big, what is the situation of that?? Is it a full meal, or a year's worth of life?

Suppress the strong and help the weak.

The emperor guessed whether these four words came from Gao Jun or Guo Xiaoke......

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In fact, these four words are neither from Guo Xiaoke, nor from Gao Jun, but from Gao Jun's eighth lady and Sima Suyin, a woman from Xizhou.

At that time, after Gao Jun and Master Guo talked about sending troops, he also showed his teeth and claws:

"The little brother made people pinch his neck, and he couldn't shout 'help' anymore, you sat here without even stretching out your hand, saying that you didn't receive the little brother's request for help, saying that the teacher was nameless? Just because of this, Gao Li just called me godfather, and he was also a godson who didn't know how to be polite, and he owed a beating. ”

At that time, Su Yin joked, "Why is it a godson?" When Lirong is born, whether it is male or female, it will be called Goryeo,"

Gao Jun is not a fuel-efficient lamp, so he pretended to be ignorant and asked, "You say...... Is that guy in Goryeo called Gai Suwen or Gao Suwen? ”

Su Yin's face flushed, and then he felt that he wanted to speak more elegantly, so he wrote "suppressing the strong and helping the weak".

Because of these four words, half a month later, the peace of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion was disrupted.

Gao Jun was a little caught off guard, because the happy days in Xizhou had just begun, all industries were prosperous, the Quartet was calm, and the pastoral affairs were prosperous, and Liu Yuru also turned a blind eye to the Ninth Lady Lilan.

When he thought that such days would continue indefinitely, in late March, the edict of Chang'an arrived.

His Majesty the Emperor promoted Gao Jun to the post of secretary of the Ministry of War, chief pastoral supervisor, and concurrently the national military and horse affairs, and went to the post in the edict. Of course, the post of Silk Road Supervisor is still hanging.

The Metropolitan Protectorate immediately moved back to Xizhou from Yanqi, and the Metropolitan Protector Guo Xiaoke concurrently led the Governor of Xizhou and gave him the Pillar State. The governor of the prefecture, Shi Gaomin, is also the governor of the western governor.

In March Wuzi, the emperor has issued an edict, Niu Jinda, the general of Zuo Wuwei, is the general of the Qingqiu Road march, and Li Shiyun, the former secretary of the military department, is the chief of the Liaodong Road march, and leads the three generals to attack Goryeo.

Liu Yuru is simply a bit of a six-god masterless.

On the one hand, she was happy, so that Gao Jun was promoted to the third grade. On the other hand, she was worried that the elder Ge had analyzed the reason for Hou Junji's loss of power to her before his death, that "his merits are not competent, his qualifications are not enough, and he is a big recruit", and Gao Jun's age as Shangshu is younger than Hou Junji.

She said, "Why don't you let Uncle Guo sit in this military department?" That's good! ”

The officials are different from Xizhou, which is far away from Emperor Tiangao, and has always been unrestrained and accustomed to Gao Jun, like a wild horse, can he adapt to it after going to Chang'an?

Xie Jinlian had no worries, of course, she was full of joy, because she was able to settle in Chang'an with Gao Jun in a dignified and upright manner as the second lady of Shangshu of the Ministry of War.

In the past, when she dragged her illness, pulled Tiantian, and endured the squeeze of her brother and sister-in-law in the grass house on the north slope of the old village, did she dare to think that there was today?

Lirong is also excited, she likes the liveliness of Chang'an and her higher status;

Su Yin was a little troubled, because the edict didn't mention her, she had to be Xizhou Sima;

Lilan was also troubled, she was the only one of them who had not been given a knighthood. Except for Liu Yuru, who is Mrs. Yaoguo, everyone else is a county gentleman, and she is not sure if she can go, and she can't ask with a shy face.

She felt anxious and aggrieved, even if she could...... What about the pool?