Li Yu was unimpressed by Xue Jun's proposal, and from the beginning he never thought of destroying Silla and annexing its land and population to the Tang Dynasty.

Not to mention the strategy of referring to the imperial court's treatment of Baekje and Gogoryo, which required huge administrative costs and military expenditures, the restoration of the country after the destruction of Baekje and Gogoryeo was enough for the imperial court to drink.

At that time, Baekje's restoration movement almost drove the Tang army into the sea, and Tang Gaozong saw that Baekje was not guaranteed, so Liu Renyuan, the governor of Xiongjin Prefecture, led his army back to the Tang Dynasty. With the insistence of Yoo In-joon, who was rescued by Nofi, and Silla, as an ally at the time, sent the grain and grass in time, Baekje might have succeeded in recovering the country.

It took three years for the Tang Dynasty to completely suppress the restoration movement of Gogolyo, but due to Silla's support for the remnants of Gogolyo behind the scenes and the invasion of the north, the Tang Dynasty was unable to look east because of the invasion of Tibet. After this great turmoil, the Tang Dynasty gradually lost its actual control over the old land of Gogolyo, and in the Wu and Zhou dynasties, it was reduced to a state of bondage, and the Korean Peninsula was also occupied by Silla since the Taedong River, and the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate became a nominal existence.

As a traverser, Nuofei Li Yu had long known that in the first year of the General Chapter, the remnants of Gaogoli would set off a restoration movement under the leadership of Jianmu Cen, An Shun and other former Gaogoli officials. He prepared the soldiers in advance for food and ordnance, and led the private soldiers he formed and the guards of the Tent Mansion and the Family Mansion led by the Prince's Mansion suddenly appeared on the land of Liaodong, and caught the remnants of Gaogoli off guard. Before they became powerful and the various departments were unified, they broke and exterminated the rebels of the Gaogoli remnants in Liaodong, and suppressed the forces of Jian Mu Cen and An Shun to the south of Yalu Water, which was difficult to expand, and there was not enough time to digest the territory and enhance their strength. This was the following year to put down the rebellion of the remnants of Gogoryeo and thwart the attempt of the northern Silla criminals to seize the land.

Otherwise, when the imperial court learned that there was a rebellion among the remnants of Gaogouli in Andong, it would be several months to pass, and then wait for the imperial court to dispatch troops to transport grain to Liaodong to quell the rebellion, and it would be almost the end of the year at the earliest.

At this time, the rebels of Gogoryeo had already achieved internal unity, and it became more difficult to quell the rebellion.

In addition, because of the sudden lack of preparation for the grain ring, the arrival of the harsh winter is not conducive to the transportation of grain, which makes the progress of the Tang army's counterinsurgency extremely slow.

This is also why it took Li Jinxing and Gao Kan three years to quell the restoration movement of the remnants of Gaogoli.

Li Yu didn't want to learn from the imperial court's model of governing Baekje and Gogo-ryeo, and after dividing Silla into a state and county and merging it into the Tang Dynasty, as soon as the front foot led the army to leave, the Silla people set off a huge restoration movement on the back foot. The subsequent counterinsurgency is tantamount to fighting another war of annihilation.

Although the Tang Dynasty fought two wars of annihilation in Baekje and Gogoryo, it finally suppressed the people's desire to restore the country in the two lands and did not set off any more rebellions.

Naturally, Li Yu was not afraid of the Silla people's restoration movement.

But! This move is completely inconsistent with Li Yu's plan to build Silla into a stable cow to support himself!

Therefore, Li Yu decided: "I intend to make Kim Jong-ah, the eldest princess of Silla, the queen of Silla." ”

"This ......"

Xue Jun, Xue Ne and others were surprised for a while.

The eldest princess of Silla, Kim Jong-ah, knew that she had been admitted to the house by Her Royal Highness and served Her Highness as a concubine for several days, and Her Royal Highness made her the queen of Silla, which made them a little puzzled.

"Your Royal Highness, Kim Jong-ah was originally the eldest princess of Silla, and the country was reduced to a lowly concubine in His Highness's palace. His Royal Highness Nuo appointed her as the queen, and it was inevitable that there would be a rebellion against Silla, and the battle might be empty for half a year. ”

As one of the civil officials who accompanied Li Yu on the southern expedition, Xiao Shu, who served as the governor of the Yan Wangfu, expressed his worries and was approved by many colleagues.

Xue Jun was a little thoughtful.

Li Yu understood what Xiao Shu meant, it was nothing more than Kim Jung-ah's noble status as the eldest princess of Silla, and she was taken captive by herself and reduced to a lowly concubine. If she is made the queen of Silla again, it is inevitable that after she becomes the queen, she will feel humiliated and resentful for the concubine who once became herself. After being instigated and instigated by a group of Silla courtiers who did not do anything and became vassals of the Tang Dynasty and were sucked by blood, Silla would inevitably rebel against the Tang Dynasty again. Then his own cow plan will go bankrupt.

However, does Lee Wook's plan to make Kim Jong-ah queen of Silla stop there?

Of course not!

What Li Yu needs is to prop up a puppet regime in Silla to serve him, so that he can suck blood and milk cows, and Kim Jong-ah, the queen, is just one part of the whole plan to support the puppet regime.

As for why he established a puppet regime instead of directly annexing Silla to the Tang Dynasty as proposed by Xue Jun, Li Yu naturally wanted to prevent the Silla people from learning from Baekje and the remnants of Gogoryeo from setting off a restoration movement after he led the army away, and then spent countless money, food, and troops to fight another counterinsurgency war, and finally smashed Silla, unable to raise cows, unable to milk milk, and suffered a lot of losses himself, wasting valuable manpower, material and financial resources in vain to affect overseas colonization plans.

Li Yu smiled and appeased the courtiers who raised objections: "You also know that a few years ago, the imperial court destroyed Baekje and Gogolyo, and divided their land into prefectures and counties, and unified them with the Governor's Mansion and the Metropolitan Protectorate. It is not the same that after the main force of the imperial court's conquest army withdrew, the remnants of Baekje and Gogoolyeo set off a restoration movement, and the imperial court had to send elite troops to quell the rebellion. Therefore, it is necessary to avoid the recurrence of the events of Baekje and Gogoryo in Silla in the administration of Silla. Therefore, the king considered supporting Kim Jong-ah as the queen of Silla and establishing a puppet regime that was completely subordinate to the Tang Dynasty to rule Silla. I, the Tang Dynasty, can manipulate the national affairs of Silla through this puppet regime and obtain Silla's finances and taxes. In this way, the Silla people will not have the pain of losing their country, and those Silla people who are unwilling to submit will have no excuse to call on the Silla people to rise up and resist. ”

"Isn't that beautiful!"

"But Your Highness, how can we ensure that the puppet regime headed by Kim Jong-ah will obey our country with peace of mind for a long time?"

"What's this?" Li Yu smiled a little embarrassedly and said: "When I helped Kim Jong-ah to be the queen of Silla, His Majesty allowed me to accept Kim Jong-ah as a Confucian, and told the world that only the son born to me and Kim Jong-ah could inherit the throne of Silla, and he must follow his father's surname Lee." ”

"Ah......h

The ministers opened their mouths in astonishment, never expecting that His Royal Highness would let his future son inherit the throne of Silla and change the Silla dynasty. Although her mother is a Silla princess and is not Chinese, the distinction between Huayi in China has always been based on paternal blood. In the future, the son of His Royal Highness and Queen Silla will inherit the throne of Silla with his father's surname, and His Royal Highness will be able to control Silla through his son.

Even if the plan succeeds, His Royal Highness's son will inherit the throne of Silla in the future, and he will probably not be willing to become his father's puppet, not to mention that he will grow up under the care of his mother of Queen Silla.

The ministers who participated in the deliberations in the palace were the elites of this era, and after a short period of consternation, they thought of the hidden dangers and raised them to Li Yu.

"I have also thought of the worries of your Aiqing, and in the future, after the children born to me and Kim Jong-ah reach the age of four, they will all be brought back to the king to raise them, so as to cultivate the relationship between father and son, teach the Chinese code system, and the culture of etiquette and music, so that they will not be accustomed to Yidi, and forget that the blood flowing in their bodies is the blood of the grandson of Yan and Huang. When the sons reach adulthood, I will select those who are qualified to return to Silla to inherit the throne. ”

"This is only the first step in my treatment of Silla, and it is also the most crucial step."