Sure enough, the next day, the Ministry of War and the Privy Council appointed Qin Qiong as the Sima of the Yingzhou Assassin's Mansion, and Qin Qiong went north with 3,000 soldiers to garrison Changli County. Changli County is on the coast of western Liaoning, and it is impossible to judge for a while whether it is aimed at the Turks, Goguryeo, or the other party's ethnic groups, but one thing is certain, this is to strengthen the strength of Liaoxi, after the foreign envoys from all walks of life in Chang'an got the news, they immediately sent capable personnel back to deliver the message, and the Great Sui began to strengthen the power of the northeast.

The people of Chang'an are even more agitated, since the opening of the emperor eighteen years, the Great Sui has been planted in Liaodong four times, hundreds of thousands of soldiers died on the way north and on the battlefield in Liaodong, so it caused chaos in the world, now just peaceful, Yang Chong is going to muddy the water, which is intolerable. The Imperial Historical Observatory and the powerful were sent into the political hall like snowflakes, and they dissuaded the imperial court, hoping to give the people a time to recuperate after explaining the civil strife in the Central Plains for many years.

Yang Chong inspected the people's conditions all the way, stopped and stopped, and whenever he went to a place, he inspected the local agriculture and cities, and asked Xu Jingzong and others to make a framework; When Yang Chong arrived in Luoyang, news came that shocked Chang'an, Goguryeo had detained Wen Dayou and sent sailors to attack Chen Ling's fleet. The Ministry of Rites was crowded with people, and the envoys from various countries were asking each other for news, and the Turkic envoys had a long talk with Cui Chu, but they didn't come up with anything useful, and they were anxiously thinking about who to visit next.

Baekje's envoy Qiu Myung came from the oblique thorn and pulled Zhi Zhi Sili to no man's land and said: "Twenty Goguryeo sea ships pretended to be pirates and attacked the Great Sui caravan in three ways in the Yellow Sea, sinking and burning three cargo ships, and paying the price of seventeen ships; Later, when the Great Sui Navy pursued the remaining three ships, a naval battle broke out with the Goguryeo Navy Army, and Goguryeo also prepared 40 warships to respond, and after a day of fierce fighting, Goguryeo lost 25 warships, only destroyed six ships of the Sui Army, and fled from the battlefield in embarrassment. ”

Forty-two against nine, such a heavy loss, even if the tonnage of the Goguryeo ships is small, they cannot bear the consequences of fighting; Stubbornly asked Wei Qiu Ming: "The Great Sui Navy is good at fighting to such a point?" ”

Wei Qiu Ming said in a low voice: "We have a reconnaissance ship close to the battlefield, the personnel of the Great Sui Navy are mixed, in addition to the Han people, there are also Shanyue and Great Cannibals, but they are well-equipped, Goguryeo's twenty-five warships, nineteen of them were sprayed by the fire dragon in the air, and then the whole ship was set on fire and burned, and the soldiers had to abandon the ship and escape." I inquired, it should be the kind of Greek fire that Yang Xuangan broke Zhou Fashang back then, and if this thing is not broken, Goguryeo has no chance of winning at all. ”

Although Goguryeo is the hegemon of the three countries on the Korean Peninsula, Baekje is the real first in terms of naval warfare, with 200 warships of all kinds; Goguryeo had only one hundred and twenty ships, and it can be said that the Battle of the Yellow Sea lost one-third of Goguryeo's strength. Stubborn and worried: "Judging from the losses of both sides, Goguryeo is a war against the country, and I am afraid that at most it will end up with the naval army of the Great Sui, but with you here, how dare Goguryeo do such a move." ”

If the Goguryeo naval army was lost, then Baekje's opportunity would come, and it would only be possible to seize a large number of cities and land by attacking Goguryeo by sea, so Goguryeo could only avoid the Sui generals without fighting. Wei Qiuming himself is a famous general in the army, and sneered: "Today, the Ministry of Rites is looking for us, just to buy ten to twenty sea ships from our Baekje, according to my estimate, the Sui army will advance by land and water, close to Liaodong, and force Goguryeo to fight another naval battle." ”

After the southern invasion of Goguryeo King Zhao, Baekje and Goguryeo broke up, and the two sides attacked each other for the Han River valley for more than 100 years. Stubbornly persuaded him: "The general can remind the country, the lips are cold, if our northern tribes are single-handed, even the Turks are not the opponents of the Great Sui, and the longer Goguryeo supports, the more beneficial it will be to you." ”

Wei Qiuming said helplessly: "It's useless to lose your lordship, this time the conditions offered by the Great Sui are amazing, how many tonnage of sea ships come, they will pay for steel according to 10% of the tonnage, and the first order is 1 million catties of iron, you know, Baekje does not produce iron, we can't refuse this temptation." ”

Zhi Sili's face twitched, he figured out the value of the Antun Iron Works, Yang Chong took out one million catties of iron, and he could exchange 10 million catties of ships with a transportation capacity from Baekje, which was equivalent to forty or fifty sea warships. The Great Sui could make up for its own shipbuilding shortcomings, and Baekje could equip an additional 20,000 to 30,000 troops with one million catties of iron to fight Goguryeo again.

Zhi lost his strength and hurriedly returned to the separate post house of the Turks in the north of the city, wrote the information and sent it out, and sent another piece of information to the eyeliner of the news, and the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, Meng Tuo, met with the envoy of Silla, Park Sinan, and the envoy of the Wa Kingdom, Inoue Mita Yun, and the Great Sui General sent a member of the Ministry of Rites, Gao Biaoren, to be ordered to send envoys to the Wa Kingdom and Silla. This is the first time in more than ten years that the Great Sui sent envoys to the Wa Kingdom and Silla, and there would be no other intention than to make these small countries unite and make Goguryeo enemies.

The war between the Great Sui and Goguryeo is this year, but Yang Chong and Yang Guang are different, and they don't seem to be ready to fight with the strength of the whole country. Stubbornly losing his thinking power is a little unpredictable, Yang Chong is really so confident, relying on the strength of Zhuojun, he beat Goguryeo all over the ground to find teeth? He only had one family to visit the scholars and officials who had good relations, but what made him wonder was that everyone said that the Ministry of War and the Privy Council had not discussed, and even the discussion would not pass, allowing Yang Chong to start a war without authorization.

Stubbornly unable to understand the feelings of these people, they were frightened by the war of Goguryeo, and the Great Sui paid the price of almost losing the country in exchange for a useless letter of surrender from Goguryeo. But he has lived in Chang'an for two years, and he knows that in the army, Goguryeo is a pain in his heart, as well as the families of the hundreds of thousands of undead, and he always thinks that the Sui army can fight through Liaodong and bring the remains of his relatives back to the Central Plains.

To fight or not to fight, in fact, there are supporters and opponents, everything depends on how the Yue king in Luoyang acts; Jieli's reply arrived in a few days, telling Zhifu Sili the news that it could not have been worse, that Tuli had been defeated by the combined forces of the Xi and the Xi Kingdom. The Turks are the last force of the Turks in the Northeast, and the failure of his tooth banner means that the Turks have lost their dominant position in the Northeast, which is a great advantage for Yang Chong.

(End of chapter)