And over there, Han Yi went to find Yuan Zhe and Yuan Peony again, and the three of them summed up the matter of transporting materials to the north, because the Yuan family has been preparing in this regard, and has already had the experience of going south, which is not a problem for the Yuan family, but whether they can let the rest of the businessmen take the bait, Yuan Zhe and Yuan Peony are not sure, but this is not what they are most concerned about, they are not doing good deeds, nor are they helping the imperial court, the Yuan family is just doing this to get productivity and resources, this is a deal.

Since Han Yi was so sure, the two of them naturally wouldn't say anything.

After the three of them finished summing up, the matter was settled.

So there was a strange scene on the wharf, originally this was the rest period of the wharf, but this year was different, the wharf suddenly became lively, a large number of materials began to be loaded, and went north directly, including Yuan Zhe also went north with the ship.

Nowadays, the wharf was the place where merchants paid the most attention, so the matter soon spread throughout Chang'an City.

And everyone also knows that these are the ships of the Guanzhong Group, and the materials are basically the Yuan family, but now the north wind is blowing, so the ship must go north, and the fleet of the Guanzhong Group, the goods of the Yuan family rarely cross the north of the Yellow River, and they are generally to Chang'an and Luoyang.

Immediately attracted a lot of discussion.

In a private room in the new market, I saw Qian Dafang, Zhao Sijia, Yuwen Xiumi and other wealthy businessmen in Chang'an sitting inside.

"What are you going to do here? This is about to be the New Year, and everyone is stocking up on goods to prepare for going south next year, but the Yuan family suddenly shipped north, which is really incomprehensible. ”

"Didn't anyone ask you?" Qian Dafang said curiously.

Yuwen Xiumi said: "I asked Yuan Zhe a few days ago, but he only said that the goods would be transported to Laizhou, Dengzhou and other places, as for why, he didn't elaborate. ”

Ji Wanchun said: "This Yuan Zhe is the head of the Yuan family, and the head of the Yuan family generally does not leave Chang'an, so it can be seen that this is not a trivial matter!" ”

He Ruohan said suddenly: "Actually, Chang'an is nothing, there are not many goods, I just came back from Sanmen Mountain a few days ago, and the Yuan family will hoard the grain to Sanmen Mountain this year, and the grain to be transported to Chang'an will be loaded and shipped to the north." ”

"Grain? It can't be! ”

Qian Dafang said with a puzzled face: "The land in this Shandong region is fertile, and there have been no natural or man-made disasters recently, but there is no shortage of food, and it is not profitable to transport the grain over there, and you may have to pay for the freight." "He's a grain merchant, and he's all too familiar with it.

Yuwen Xiumi frowned and said, "Could it be ......." ”

"What is it?"

"For war?" Yuwen Shuya was not sure.

Zhao Sijia's eyes widened, and he said: "Yes, the imperial court seems to be planning to send troops to Goguryeo recently, didn't they all say that Your Majesty plans to go to Goguryeo this time." ”

Qian Dafang said: "This is impossible, this court fights, what does it matter to his Yuan family." ”

"You can't say that, maybe this was donated by the Yuan family to the imperial court, didn't the Yuan family often donate materials to the imperial court before."

"It can't be." He Ruohan shook his head and said, "You haven't seen the scale of Sanmen Mountain, and it is impossible for the Yuan family to donate so much." ”

"And why do you say that?"

"I want to know that I'm not going to sit here."

"If it's not a donation, then there must be something greasy in it, this Yuan family is not a vegetarian."

A few people were thinking about it.

Suddenly, Dou Yi suddenly said: "At this stall, the Yuan family suddenly transported grain to Lai, Deng and other places, I think even if it is not donated to the imperial court, it has a great deal to do with the imperial court's dispatch of troops this time." ”

Qian Dafang and the others nodded one after another, it was no coincidence that the imperial court over there had just spread the news that it was going to send troops to Goguryeo, and the Yuan family here was in a hurry to transport strategic materials over there.

Zhao Sijia said: "But if it weren't for the donation, what is this Yuan family map?" ”

Qian Dafang said suddenly: "You say, will you be a slave?" ”

"Slave?" He Ruohan said: "How do you say this? ”

Qian Dafang said: "Isn't the imperial court now promulgating the slave and maid tax, and in the future, this slave and maid will not be able to raise more, but the imperial court has not restricted Silla maids and Kunlun slaves." Every time there is a war, as long as the war is won, those generals will take a lot of prisoners to the market to sell as slaves and maids, and now this foreign slave and maid is valuable, does this Yuan family want to be the first to take the lead, and exchange this grain with the court for slaves and maids before the war? ”

Because of the recent uproar over the slave and maid, the two things were soon connected.

The rest blinked.

"Yes, yes, that's it." Zhao Sijia said suddenly.

Yuwen Xiumi said angrily: "No wonder Yuan Zhe is secretive and refuses to tell the reason, it turns out that this is the plan!" ”

Dou Heng said: "Don't talk about slaves now, there is no shortage of people in our family now, if I were the Yuan family, I would be silent." ”

"Such a good thing, you can't let the Yuan family swallow it alone!"

"Alas....!" Dou Heng sighed and said, "It's a pity that I'm a shipbuilder and don't have much food. Old money, why don't you sell me some food. "Because of the Caoyun reform, there is a need to build ships everywhere, and he is really short of labor now, and he is too willing to spend money to buy slaves and maids.

Qian smiled generously.

Yuwen Xiumi said: "I said shopkeeper Dou, you are really, now you can't buy anything with money, there is so much grain in Shandong, why do we bother to buy food, can't we just go over there to buy it." ”

Dou Heng's eyes lit up and said, "Yes, why didn't I think of this." ”

Qian Dafang listened and thought secretly, the price of grain in our Guanzhong has always been higher than that in Shandong, and then calculate the freight, it is indeed much more cost-effective to buy it there.

Dou Yi said: "This is just our speculation, now that the matter of sending troops has not been decided, you can't help but think too far, or let's go to Brother Han first to ask about the situation, and then make plans." ”

This Han Yi is the banner of businessmen in the court, so of course he is looking for Brother Han if he has something.

So, these businessmen went to Han Yi to investigate. Of course, Han Yi would not tell them that if these businessmen knew that he had planned to make them pay for this war in the early days, then they would definitely sit on the ground and raise the price.

Anyway, Han Yi neither admitted it, but he didn't deny it either, if you have this plan, it's negotiable.

But for these merchants, that's enough!

However, at this time, Li Zhi finally convened a military conference and met with Li Ji, Qi Bi He Li, Ren Yaxiang, Gao Kan, Ashina Mi Shot and other military generals, and of course, Han Yi.

At the beginning of the meeting, Li Zhi told everyone that he would not drive in person.

As soon as these words came out, Li Ji breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, and the hanging big stone finally fell. These generals don't know how to hide themselves. Li Zhi looked at their expressions, and also understood that they didn't want to go by themselves, and he was a little embarrassed, but he was also glad that he didn't insist on going his own way, of course he was still inferior to these generals in the war, since everyone didn't approve of it, it must be reasonable.

Next, Li Zhi asked Li Ji about the battle plan.

These days, they are all discussing the battle plan against Goguryeo, and the general policy has not changed, that is, to take Baekje first, and then destroy Goguryeo.

Although this has to be done step by step, before the elimination of Baekje, it is not appropriate to send a large army, but it is necessary to put pressure on Goguryeo in the Liaodong region, Li Ji suggested that Li Zhi first announced to the world that he would send troops to Goguryeo, and at the same time he had to send generals over to requisition the Khitan army and the Turkic army, creating a momentum of a large army pressing the border, so that Goguryeo would put heavy troops in the Liaodong region and confront the Tang army, and there was no time to save Baekje, because Baekje had already received help from the Wa State there, and if you added Goguryeo's reinforcements, it would be difficult to fight, If the Tang Dynasty wanted to go to Baekje, they had to transport soldiers by boat.

In the end, it was decided to transfer the three generals of Qibi He Li, Ashina Micha, and Gao Kan to the Liaodong region, mobilize Turkic and Khitan troops, and cooperate with the naval division of Laizhou to fight, but the land route was only a feint, and the destruction of Baekje was the main goal. As for the task of uniting the Silla army to attack Baekje, Li Zhi decided to hand it over to Su Dingfang, who was rushing over.

The reason why Su Dingfang was asked to destroy Baekje was mainly because Su Dingfang's reputation and status in the army were not very high, and the army attached great importance to this, if Su Dingfang and Qibi He Li and these people were put together, then Su Dingfang would inevitably be inferior to them, so his military talent might not be able to be brought into play, but Li Zhi valued Su Dingfang very much, and he also promoted Su Dingfang to the position of commander and let him be in charge, so Li Zhi simply let him attack Baekje, and this way was completely handed over to Su Dingfang.

In addition, although Li Zhi did not plan to drive the expedition in person, he still insisted on handing over all the logistics to Han Yi to manage, but he could not be appointed as a grain officer, which was no longer worthy of Han Yi's current status, so he decided to make Han Yi the pacification master of Liaodong Province, in charge of logistics, and Yang Sixun, the Duke of Guanguo, as his deputy envoy.

After destroying Baekje, Li Ji and the others commanded the three armies and went to the battlefield.

After this discussion, Li Zhi suddenly stood up and said with a serious face: "All generals must remember that there is no harmony in this battle, but all the letters sent by Goguryeo asking for peace will be burned, and there is no need to ask me. ”

Because Goguryeo has a lot of criminal records, as soon as you go to fight it, it immediately asks for peace, not to mention being a minister, Dad is willing to shout, but when your class teacher returns to the court, it rises again, and this army comes and goes, and there is no morale at all. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty is a lesson from the past, of course, Li Zhi is also afraid that Goguryeo will delay the army, and under normal circumstances, the enemy country surrenders, it must be the oil emperor who is in charge, this messenger comes and goes, time is wasted, if it is the imperial driving pro-conquest, there is no such problem, but Li Zhi has now decided not to drive the pro-conquest, so Li Zhi told them very clearly, this battle is not harmonious, there is no such option, you must not send the letter to Chang'an, if it is sent to Chang'an, then he will have to talk to those ministers, enough headache, let's not surrender to Goguryeo, we have only one purpose, to destroy Goguryeo physically.

It can be seen that Li Zhi is not cowardly, and he is still very resolute in the use of foreign troops. Having said that, in fact, cowardice is just a means for him, when the kings competed for the prince, if he wasn't cowardly, the eldest grandson Wuji really wouldn't necessarily help him.

Li Ji and they listened, of course they were very excited, because they only know how to fight, and negotiation is all done by Wenchen, and they are most annoyed that Wenchen suddenly inserted a pole in, so that they can't go up or down, Li Zhi arranged it like this, everything became simple and clear, that is, to fight all the way to the end.

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