Early in the morning of the second day, Xue Qingbao sent someone to send an invitation card to invite Li Mao to the banquet. With the rise of his status, Li Mao rarely goes out to banquets, not all of them look down on people because it is too troublesome. Whenever he arrives in a place, the left wing of the pro-army will set up a warning area, drive away all irrelevant people, etc., and then check all the people in the warning area, and even more eager to investigate the eighteen generations of the ancestors of the cooks and fire workers to ensure safety.

In order to save each other's worries, Li Mao simply didn't go out, and invited guests to dinner to do it himself, which saved a lot of things.

However, Xue Qingbao is not an outsider after all, he is Xue Dingding's father and Li Mao's father-in-law, whether he is close to the family or not, this face has to be given. What's more, Xue Dingding deliberately rushed back to Liaodong City from Youzhou for this banquet, in order not to break her heart, Li Mao should also go to eat this meal.

The left chamber is to make some arrangements, and it will not be relaxed because of Xue Qingbao's special status.

Yesterday, more than 130 people's lives were ruined in one breath, including Zhao Guangliang, one of the founding eight fathers of Liaodong, Li Mao's mood was extremely depressed, and he was even more sad when he drank wine, and he was drunk after drinking a few glasses of wine.

Xue Qingbao had already prepared the guest room, and was busy arranging for his daughter to serve Li Mao to rest, Li Mao heard that he slept in Xue Dingding's old boudoir and hurriedly agreed, he drank a lot, because he was not in a good mood, he got drunk, and he woke up after sleeping, and visited this small building and the front and back gardens under the guidance of Xue Dingding. The night was cold, Xue Dingding's cheeks were red from the cold, but people were very excited, Li Mao held her hand and said: "I will be free in the future, and I will often come back to live and relieve the sorrow of lovesickness." ”

Xue Dingding said: "Marrying a chicken and marrying a dog is like a dog, and the chicken and dog still know how to follow her husband, how can I be so ignorant." ”

Li Mao patted his wife's back and said, "It's up to you left and right, you are happy." He pressed his hand on Xue Dingding's old bed and asked, "Should it collapse?" ”

Xue Dingding's cheeks were crimson, he was embarrassed, and the warm nephrite was in his arms, Li Mao remembered that since the beginning of the Eastern Expedition to the Bohai Sea, he had not been close to women for half a year.

On the way, Li Mao saw that Shikong's expression was a little strange, so he said: "If you have something to say, let it go, and if you have a fart, it's uncomfortable to hold in your heart." ”

Shi Kong said: "There is a sentence that I don't say that I am derelict in my duty, let's say it, I really don't know how to speak." Last night, the guards caught a few people listening to the root of the wall outside the garden, one was the housekeeper of the Xue house, and the other was the long-term entourage of Xue Zhijun. ”

Li Mao smiled: "He wants to know how my love with his daughter is, people say that a wife is expensive by her husband, and he is now a father and a daughter, it is normal for people." It seems that the rules can't be broken, except for entering the palace to face the saint, we won't go anywhere in the future, just stay at our own home. ”

Shi Kong was relieved to see Li Mao so generous, after he caught someone, Xue Qingbao encouraged his daughter to intercede, Xue Dingding pleaded with him, he was not good, and he was afraid that Li Mao would blame himself for dereliction of duty afterwards, and now his heart was on the ground, and he was happy.

After the winter, the war in Silla is basically over, the winter on the peninsula is extremely cold, which is not conducive to the use of troops on both sides, and the truce and strike have become the common choice of the two families, now the Bohai Sea has been destroyed, nearly 100,000 troops gathered in Liaodong, Jin Xiuzong panicked all day, and continuously sent envoys to Liaodong City to ask to see Li Mao to express his surrender, but Li Mao refused to meet.

He is waiting for the beginning of spring, and if the time is right after the beginning of spring, the 100,000 army will turn the spearhead and go straight to Jincheng, pull out Kim so-jong and Park Hyuk-chul, and put them in the prisoner car to sacrifice them in Chang'an. If the timing is not right, it is not too late to accept Jin Xiuzong's submission, without Bohai as an ally, Jin Xiuzong is a turtle in an urn, and it is not the same to catch it early or late.

Now that there is nothing to do on the peninsula, Li Mao decided to call the king of Northern Silla over to give him a lecture and help him open his mind.

This time, Tian Qian contacted the Internal Security Office to turn the three major sub-stations of Liaodong, Silla and Bohai in Liaodong, Silla and Bohai upside down, implicating many high-level officials, not to mention Zhao Guangliang alone, Kim Daoan was also more or less involved, especially when he was out of Pyongyang City, he had frequent private contacts with Silla and Bohae, and he was very unclean under his buttocks, if he was not now the king of Northern Silla, his name would be criticized by Li Maomo along with Zhao Guangliang with the word "Yun", and then secretly executed.

But now that his dangerous period has passed, Li Mao decided to give him a way out.

Jin Daoan was recommended to Li Mao by Li Jie, and in his heart he has always regarded Li Jie as his backer, Li Jie recruited dead soldiers in Chang'an to deal with Wang Shoucheng, and Jin Daoan secretly contributed a lot.

Now that the big backer behind the scenes is gone, Kim Do-an can only hug Li Mao's thick legs, Li Mao talked with him three times, and Kim Do-an returned to Pyongyang with ease and became his puppet king with peace of mind.

In the second half of the first year of Yamato, floods and droughts broke out in the south, and the government was unfavorable for disaster relief, resulting in the rise of displaced people, and the displaced people in Lingnan, Guiguan, Yongguan and other places rose up even more, united with Huangdongman to capture the towns and slaughter officials.

The displaced people in the Jiangnan and Huainan areas attacked and robbed their houses everywhere, the wealthy and wealthy families recruited villagers one after another, built fortifications for self-defense, and the local government also took the opportunity to expand its troops.

As far as the impact reached, the transportation of Jiangnan and Huainan fell into complete paralysis, millions of soldiers and civilians in Chang'an had no food and clothing, hundreds of thousands of border guards in western Beijing lacked food and clothing, and the sky of Datang became extremely dark for a while.

For Li Mao, this year is also an extremely difficult year, the southern expedition to Silla and the eastern expedition to the Bohai Sea are more difficult than expected, especially the Battle of Bohai made him break out in a cold sweat, at the critical moment, if it was not for Li Yu to come forward, the current situation is unimaginable. Li Yu is a noble person given to him by God, and he can't be found.

In view of the continued deterioration of the situation in the south, Li Mao finally abandoned the plan to conquer Silla in the south in the spring, and he received the envoy of Kim so-jong and asked Kim so-jong to go to the king, proclaim himself a vassal to Kim Do-an, and pay tribute to Silla specialties to the Tang Dynasty. If Jin Xiuzong can do this, Datang will give him a chance to reform himself.

Go to the king to claim the title of minister, Jin Xiuzong doesn't do it, but changing the king's name can be considered, and as for tribute, it is naturally more worth considering. In the past, Silla envoys carried tributes to Chang'an through the seaway, and they received ten benefits from one tribute, which was very cost-effective. However, Li Mao was picky, and the specialties he wanted were high-quality rice and seafood produced in Silla, and the quantity was set to death, and if he did not agree, he would go to war, and if he agreed, it would be equivalent to putting a rope around his neck, and he could only prostrate on the ground as cattle and horses for a few years.

Jin Xiuzong thought about it again and again, but he silently put the rope around his neck and made people dogs, which is better than letting people kill people as dogs. The king of Yue Gou Jian can taste the gall by lying on the salary, and the three thousand Yue Jia can swallow Wu, and the king of Silla can also lie down and taste the gall, and he will be full of wings in the future, and it is not too late to take revenge.

Li Mao was not afraid of what tricks Jin Xiuzong would play, and if he dared to be disobedient, he would let Jin Daoan bite him.

Nearly 100,000 troops and horses were stationed in Liaodong to rest and train, sweep away the remnants of the barbarians, and consolidate the heart of the rear. As for the people in the north, they are not yet civilized and are not united, and the big stick and honey are divided and disintegrated, and each one is the best policy. Brave and belligerent are not to be feared, and it is not their fault that they are barbaric and uncivilized, as long as they continue to maintain a state of scattered sand, as long as there are no heroes among them, they will continue to be chaotic.

Li Mao used Gao Su's son Gao Wen as a pro-army general, and reused Gao's children to protect Gao's special interests in Bezhou. The father and son of the Gao family have been dealing with the Tatar people for many years, and they are experienced, and they rely on such people a lot, so that the strategies formulated can be targeted, and they can play those unruly barbarians to death in the forest.