Chapter 368: Cutting Its National Strength

O Marquis! The five people couldn't believe their ears, and King Yan actually asked the Tang Emperor for the title of marquis for them!

Originally, I thought that they would lead the army to the Tang Dynasty and be willing to be servants, and it would be good to be able to get an official position of local governor and assassin after destroying Silla, but I didn't expect to get an additional marquis.

The five of them were shocked by the generous reward smashed by Li Yu, and they were almost stupid, and they knelt on the ground and forgot to thank them for a while.

Other Silla ministers and generals were even more envious and jealous in their eyes, Silla has been established for more than 300 years, and there has never been a marquis!

Knowing that surrendering to the Tang army to counterattack Silla would have such great benefits, it was better to lead the troops to surrender with Xue'a Fan Datu and others early, and today they might be able to get a marquis like them.

As soon as he heard that he was going to give five Silla generals to ask His Majesty for the title of marquis, Zhang Shi and other generals who had worked hard in the southern expedition were not calm.

"Even His Royal Highness can ask for a marquis for them, so we, the generals who have made great achievements, must at least ask for the title of the prince......"

A group of generals were appreciative and thought in their hearts whether His Royal Highness should ask His Majesty for himself to be a marquis or a prince, and the reward he deserved. In their hearts, the land must not be scarce, and they only care if they have a reward of gold and silver.

The rebels of Gogoryeo were exterminated, and the land rewarded by His Royal Highness was enough, and the family simply did not have enough manpower to reclaim the land. As for the maintenance of slaves, tenants? There is so much barren land under the direct jurisdiction of the Andong Protectorate, who would be so stupid to be a tenant for the powerful people. His Highness is trying to move the victims of the disaster to Andong to overseas colonies.

As for keeping slaves, King Yan strictly forbade the use of his own clan as slaves, and once discovered, it was a felony of raiding the family and being exiled.

King Yan can't manage the mainland of the Tang Dynasty, but Anton, he is talking about the Tao, and several generals refused to release the slaves and maids of the same clan who were kept at home, and all the land and rewards obtained by relying on military exploits were confiscated, and the whole family was exiled to a small desert island in the Liuqiu Islands.

His Royal Highness asked for the title of marquis for the five Silla generals such as Ah Fan Datu, and Xue Jun was clear in his heart. The marquis who asked for the title was not the marquis of the Tang Dynasty, but the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty in the name of the Silla suzerainty ordered the Queen of Silla to succeed to the throne to grant five Marquis of Silla, and their fiefs and rewards were all issued by Silla, and none of the Tang Dynasty would be spent, and there would be no names of the five of them in the Tang Dynasty's knighthood book.

To put it bluntly, Li Yu used the title of Silla to borrow flowers to offer Buddha, so that the five people were grateful to themselves and bought people's hearts. Take this to tell the four yi, when the king waves his army to attack the country, when the army is surrendered to the king, the high-ranking officials and the lords, the money and beauty will definitely not be missing you. Those who surrender first will get more than those who surrender later.

"Don't you dare to thank you soon?" Xue Jun scolded lightly.

The five people who fell into dementia reacted, kowtowed like garlic to thank King Yan for their love, and swore to the sky that they would be willing to be driven by King Yan, and that New Luo Nuo had a thief who was not subordinate to King Yan, and he would report to His Royal Highness to be hanged.

With five marquis who are not considered the title of the Tang Dynasty, he has gained the loyalty of five Silla generals, although there is a question mark, Li Yu is still satisfied with his small strategy, and the one with a smile on his face is called a treacherous one.

The division of the Silla territory into one government and five states and the appointment of corresponding officials and generals was not the end, Xue Jun turned the page and said something that made the Silla generals present feel troubled.

"His Royal Highness King Yan found that the northern territory of Silla was too far away from Jinseong, the capital of Silla, and that there were unsubdued tribes in the mountains who did not submit to the king's rebellion. In order to facilitate the administration of the local area, it was necessary to crack down on the Tatar people in the mountains who did not submit to the king, and to promote and educate them, and at the same time, to reduce the burden on the people of Silla and restore the people's livelihood with peace of mind. After discussion and formulation by the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, and approved by His Royal Highness King Yan, it was decided to set up the Jinxiang Metropolitan Governor's Office in the northern part of Silla that originally occupied the coast of the Goguryeo Whale Sea, including Beilie, Quanjing, Xiuxiang, Dahu, Daolin, Gelian, Chigi, Mucheng, Axexiang, and Sangyang, and was directly subordinate to the Andong Metropolitan Governorate. The commander of the Dongyi Left Army made Nai Malu lead an army of 5,000 to garrison. ”

Naimalu Won, the general of the western Silla Navy Division of Kim Dae, led the people to surrender to Li Shangdan after the ** Castle War, and made many military exploits in the southward battle.

Li Yu saw that this person was not a Silla person, but a Baekje Buyeo, and after the death of Baekje, the general who was attached to Silla was not allowed to be reused by Silla, and he had no loyalty to Silla, and most of his subordinates were Buyeo.

In Li Yu's opinion, it is possible to temporarily include his troops in the sequence of Anton's army to see its performance. behaves well, Li Yu naturally doesn't care about his identity as a Fuyu person.

What's more, after the demise of Baekje, the Buyeo people lost their status as the ruling class in Baekje, and in the face of the large number of Samhans, their ethnic groups gradually assimilated into the Samhans, so naturally there was no need to worry about the disaster of Yongjia caused by Liu Yuan, a Xiongnu of the Western Jin Dynasty.

If the performance is not good, Li Yu doesn't care about using his troops as cannon fodder to exterminate the Ya people in the mountains.

You must know that the tribes living in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula and the upper reaches of the Yalu River and the Tumen River basin are not the Heishui Ya tribes that are backward in productivity, and they don't even have much iron tools and population.

After learning that he was reused by King Yan, Naimalu was deeply grateful and kowtowed to thank him, Xue Jun continued to read: "To the south of the Qizhong River and to the north of Yichuan County, the Hanshan River Valley is to be directly subordinate to the Andong Metropolitan Governor's Mansion. ”

Yi Yu cut out the lower reaches of the Hansan River in the northwest corner of Silla and established a Hansan Governorate, saying that it was to conquer the mountains and reduce the burden on Silla. However, everyone knows that the lower reaches of the Hansan River have vast and fertile plains along the river, and it is the most important place for Silla's population and wealth, accounting for one-third of Silla's national strength. If you count the entire Hansan River Basin, that's one-half.

The Hansan River is the Han River, where Seoul in Korea is located, the economic center of Korea, the location of Jinban County in the Western Han Dynasty, and the key business place after Gogoryo defeated Baekje and seized it. It was Silla who united with Baekje to defeat Gogo-ryo-yeo, and then crossed the river and demolished the bridge to catch Baekje off guard before swallowing this place alone, and had the strong national power to reject Baekje in the west and resist Gogo-yeo in the north.

This place has been developed for nearly 800 years, and I have never heard of a Tatar people migrating here.

Although the Silla ministers and generals were reluctant to Li Yu to separate the lower reaches of the Hansan River from Silla, they had to bow their heads under the eaves, and Silla could only obey the arrangements of the young prince in front of him.

As for the Jinxiang Governor's Mansion, which was established by Li Yu by dividing several counties in the northeastern part of Silla, it was just a bitter cold land that had been taken from Gogo-yeo a few years ago, with few people and poor land, and a large number of people from the mountains to plunder.

If King Yan wants it, take it.

The establishment of the Hansan Governorate was a conspiracy between Li Yu and Xue Jun and other advisors to weaken Silla's national strength in preparation for future troubles, and at the same time to provide stable grain and taxes for the Andong Governorate.

Therefore, Li Yu did not appoint the corresponding officials of the Metropolitan Governor's Office for the time being, and only selected virtuous ministers and good generals from the Metropolitan Governor's Office to serve in the corresponding positions after returning to Pyongyang.