Xu Shiji collected his troops and returned to the city, so he asked Deng Wei and Su Dingfang to take more than 10,000 prisoners back to Yingzhou, Houcheng is not big, and there are many troops, but it cannot be settled, and Goguryeo should not be able to go north in a short period of time after this battle. Yizhi Wende, who rushed to Liaodong City, was actually still preparing to mobilize another 50,000 troops and go north to Houcheng, but he heard that the Horn Room Department had fled from the front line of Changbai Mountain, and the coalition army of Heishui Shan had arrived in Xuansu County, so he could only give up the plan to send troops.

After receiving the news, Yang Chong immediately decided to celebrate the New Year in Zhuojun and invited the Turkic, Khitan, Xi, Jin, Beji, Baekje, Silla, Goguryeo and other ethnic groups in the northeast to gather at Fanyang Palace. Chang'an received the news that there were still two months left, so he immediately sent the Ministry of Criminal Rites Shangshu Choi to accompany the Baekje, Silla, and Goguryeo missions; Yang Chong defeated the six tribes of the Yan Dynasty who were attached to Goguryeo and re-established Xuansu County, which was already no less than Yang Guang's merit.

Of course, the current Xuansu County can not be compared with the Han Dynasty, when the Xuanwu County reached the Datong River in the south and Lelang County as neighbors, reached Fuyu in the north, the Great Wall in the west, and the Changbai Mountain in the east and connected with Wofu, Goguryeo was only one of the counties. However, the upper echelons were still satisfied, Yang Chong only relied on the strength of Hebei and Jiangzuo, and although Guanzhong had some troops and materials, for ordinary people, there was no sense of urgency to fight at all.

Goguryeo envoy Yuan Wensheng visited Cui Chuzhi, after a year of fierce fighting in the country, lost 100,000 troops, lost power and land, sent someone to send news, asking Yuan Wensheng to inquire about the bottom line of the Great Sui; Cui Chuzhi did not hide it, and directly showed the letter written by Yang Chong to Yuan Wensheng and said: "King Yue said very clearly, he has no intention of peeping at Goguryeo, but only restores the four counties of the Han Dynasty, and now Xuansu County has been established, if Goguryeo can return the corpses of 300,000 Sui soldiers, the remaining three counties will be located in Liaodong." ”

Yuan Wensheng has been an envoy to the Central Plains for a long time, and he knows that Yang Chong can't get around the corpses of 300,000 Sui soldiers, but the king of Goguryeo can't get around this matter. Yuan Wensheng tried to squeeze out a smile and said, "Master Cui, do you think this will work, when you arrive in Zhuo County, you recommend me to visit King Yue, can you make peace on this." ”

Cui Chuzhi shook his head weakly and said: "This possibility is almost non-existent, I heard that Shangshu Province said that the King of Yue will set up the Heishui Governor's Mansion and the Baishan Governor's Mansion to place the Heishui Governor and the Beji people respectively; I invite you to go, in the hope that Goguryeo can give them a way to live, and everyone will live in peace in the future. If Goguryeo did not agree to return the corpses, sooner or later he would go to take it himself, according to the personality of the king of Yue. ”

Yuan Wensheng's heart was half relieved, according to Cui Chuzhi's statement, Yang Chong wanted to appease the Heishui Yan and Beji people for the time being, and he didn't care about this, and returned to the post house, and Yuan Wensheng immediately sent a messenger to send a letter back. The envoys of Baekje and Silla were also running around, and Goguryeo's setbacks in Liaodong would definitely affect relations with themselves, and some things needed to be prepared for; When everyone arrived in Zhuo County, they found that the Turks were the most important, not only did the Turks come in person, but the city also sent Kang Sheli with a mission.

Dali City can not be calm, Turki got the city after the strength of the city greatly increased, although the prestige of the Turk is not enough to deter everyone, but after the Turk is rich, with the help of the princess of Huainan, wantonly bought the tribes in the northeast, the same Turkic Bu Li set up several times, saying that his subordinates defected to the Turks. Jieli Khan was afraid that the Zhuojun Assembly would become an alliance between Yang Chong and Tuli, and Kang Sheali's task was to make trouble.

Therefore, the first person Kang Sheli visited was the Goguryeo envoy Yuan Wensheng, the Turks were also nominally the suzerainty of Goguryeo, and the two talked more relaxedly, and Yuan Wensheng immediately asked the Turks if they could help Goguryeo; Kang Sheli did not hide it: "Yang Chong is really the great enemy of our foreign race, since we began to cooperate with him, like the Northeast Tooth Banner of Tuli, trade and taxation have been improved, and the economy has not collapsed, so we have won the war against Xue Yantuo. But we have a hard time, the fifteen cities of Qiaozhi, which were originally prepared to make things difficult for Yang Chong, are now being built into a small Western Regions by Yang Chong, and they all want Yang Chong to immediately set up another capital protection mansion there. ”

Yuan Wensheng said in surprise: "Aren't the fifteen cities under the jurisdiction of the Turks? ”

Kang Yanli smiled bitterly and said: "Yang Chong gave Huo Luo a blueprint to build residential areas and workshops in those cities, and not only the Hu people in the Western Regions, but also many nobles of our Turks, went to live there to earn money. Now that the largest of them, Kangcheng and Qiuzi City, the tax revenue is about to catch up with Dali City, Yang Chong really tried his best, what those Hu people believe in the Western Regions, he will send whatever religion he wants. ”

Yuan Wensheng was a learned person in the Goguryeo Yuan clan, so he naturally knew the harm of this situation, and when people had faith, they would have a second object of allegiance, and Yang Chong's purpose was to divide; As the capital of a country, Dali City is financially constrained by the fifteen cities, which can only be taken by force, but the Great Sui is eyeing the tiger, and if one is not careful, the fifteen cities will return to the Great Sui without a fight, and the Turks will lose a place to make money.

Yuan Wensheng thought of the two capital protectors of the white mountain and black water that Cui Chu said directly, and asked a little nervously: "What is the situation of the cloud capital protection mansion?" ”

Kang Sheali wondered Yuan Wensheng's question and replied: "Duhu usurped Yang Chong as the backing, recruited farmers in Jiuyuan City, the end point of the northern end of the Qin Straight Road, removed more than 1,000 mountain people, appointed Dong Dengming as the county guard, and rebuilt Qinbei County; Dong Dengming was in Qinbei County, and he usurped cattle, sheep, horses, llamas and leather for Duhu. Now Duhu is repairing Zhenwu City, and I heard that Yang Chong has transferred him to 1,000 prisoners of the Yan tribe, and once they start to immigrate, they will establish Yanbei County. ”

Yuan Wensheng completely understood, according to this practice, so many cities built by Buyeo, Sushen, and Goguryeo in the northeast could be used by Yang Chong to settle the Yan Ya and other clans. A pattern floated in Yuan Wensheng's mind, between the white mountains and black waters, dozens of large and small castles were erected, the Ya tribe was half-cultivated and half-pastoral, and the Sui people were strong and iron-mounted; In that way, on the eastern front of Goguryeo, it was equivalent to the emergence of a powerful state.

So it turned out that the Sui people were clever, so that Goguryeo was almost completely surrounded by various forces, and it had to invest a lot of troops and material resources every year to maintain its undefeated, just like the Turks now, due to the annual wars, they could only endure the pressure of the Great Sui. Yuan Wensheng couldn't help laughing, no wonder Sofu Sun kept saying that the officials in the court were arrogant, and even the Turks could endure their anger, and Goguryeo had nothing to bear.

(End of chapter)