Chapter 31: The Traitor Within
After receiving the summons brought by the new envoy of the Andong Protector of Yanwang, all the governors, assassins, and county commanders in Liaodong who were still loyal to the Tang Dynasty rushed to Anshi non-stop. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
For the first time, Li Yu summoned so many subordinates who had never met before, and opened the previously planned documents again to see if there were any omissions.
Gong Cao joined the army Xiao Shouye walked into Li Yu's study at this time, and said with a happy face: "Your Highness, there is good news from Zhang Gensheng!" ā
"Could it be that he found the iron ore?"
Zhang Gensheng was the head of the exploration team sent by Li Yu to find the iron ore, and he came with good news that the iron ore must have fallen.
"Exactly, this is the letter he sent back."
Xiao Shouye took out a letter from his sleeve, took out the letter inside and handed it to Li Yu.
In the letter, he said that he had found iron ore on a hill tens of feet high in the north of Qiansx, which the locals said, and that after several days of digging and exploration, the bottom of the mountain was actually a rare large iron mine. It is recommended that His Highness immediately send people to dig mountains and mines, and build iron mills. ā
Li Yusi looked at it and asked, "Do we have more slave labor?" ā
"This, think about it!"
Xiao Shouye touched his forehead and counted how many people were left of the slave labor in his hands after more than a month of devastation, and how many people could be squeezed out of the current project.
"Your Highness, there are more than 10,000 people who were captured before, and 5,000 of them are in the east-west, north-south roads from Xiu'an City to Bozhuo City, and from Anshi City to Qingnipu, and more than 2,000 people are doing logging and repairing the city wall. From the middle, 2,000 people can be transferred to mine, and in another ten days, the two roads can be built, and then there will be enough people to mine. ā
"Two thousand people were enough in the early days of the construction of the iron mill." Li Yu calculated, there was no problem, anyway, the war was about to start again, and where would there be a shortage of slave laborers for the captured prisoners.
"Xiao Dayang, you immediately send people to send slave workers to Zhang Gensheng to find the iron mine, don't rush to open the mine first, first build the city at the foot of the mountain before opening the mine." Li Yu commanded.
"No."
Xiao Shouye went out to run errands, and Xin'er, dressed in a green skirt and wearing a bright smile, walked in the door.
"Jun Xun, Li Changshi came to inform that all the generals and the town guards from all over Liaodong have arrived, and they are waiting for Jun Xun."
"I'll go." When Li Yu passed by Xin'er's side, he didn't forget to pinch Xin'er's smooth and fast-flowing face, which made the other party's cheeks blush and be shy.
"The last general, the minister to meet His Royal Highness, the king ......"
Li Yu walked into the main hall, and a group of civil and military ministers in the hall hurriedly saluted him. Most of the subordinates he brought from the palace called him His Royal Highness in public, and most of the people who called the king were officials from all over Liaodong. There are also a few Goguryeo people who are old and can't speak Chinese, and it feels strange to listen to them.
He sat on the top seat and looked at the many courtiers sitting on either side of the lower seat. Li Yu moved his body to make himself sit more comfortably.
Kneeling on the floor with your legs together, if you don't adjust your sitting, your calves won't be able to sit for long.
"This is the first time that you have been summoned since this king took office at the beginning of the year to protect Anton, so you may wish to introduce yourself first, so that this king and his subordinates can get to know each other."
It is impossible that Li Yu, these Goguryeo officials who have come to Anshi at present, do not know each other, and they have already arranged for the officials of the former Metropolitan Protectorate to introduce him.
Pyongyang was broken by the army led by Jianmoucen, and when the officials at all levels of the former capital protectorate fled to Liaodong, they were taken over by Li Yu, and they also had a general understanding of the governors of Liaodong and the state-level Goguryeo officials.
"The governor of Anzhou Prefecture is the governor of the prefecture, Gao Xuan, the Shizhou Thorn History Zhang He, and the Yanzhou Thorn History Sun Daiyin...... I've seen the king. ā
Li Yu smiled and carefully looked at the Goguryeo officials in the cities where they reported their names, and these people all won this honor because of their meritorious service to the Tang Dynasty.
The so-called meritorious majority of people actually saw that the Tang army was powerful, and they couldn't resist it, so they took the initiative to surrender and won the Tang Dynasty.
It was this grandson who made Li Yu look twice, but this grandfather took the initiative to surrender when he conquered Liaodong, and it took a lot of effort to vote, and he was finally named the history of Yanzhou Thorn. Decades have passed, but he is still not dead, and he looks like he is seventy or eighty.
The Andong Metropolitan Protectorate has nine prefectures under its jurisdiction, and 100 counties in 42 prefectures.
Now only the four governors of Xincheng, Jian'an, Bei Fuyu, and Liaozhou, the governors of 16 prefectures, the county commanders of 30 counties, and a group of Han officials who served as other drivers and long histories in the same number came. Not counting the loss of the city and land, he just fled by himself, and now he has run to Anshi, and some time ago he called for the seven states to escort back the history of the seven states and more than a dozen county orders.
"I have summoned you here today, and I think you all know what it is! Since March, Andong has been in rebellion in various places, and Silla has sent a large army into the interior of Liaodong. Now that most of the entire Andong region has fallen into the hands of the enemy, if it were not for the timely arrival of this king with his troops, I don't know where this situation would get out of control? ā
Li Yu was heartbroken and told about the current bad situation in Andong, and asked a group of Goguryeo ministers to say no, not to say no. The rebels were the remnants of Goguryeo, and so were they, and in this rebellion, many Goguryeo magistrates appointed by the Tang Dynasty were involved.
One of the fundamental reasons why they did not participate was that the place they were guarding was located east of the Liao River, facing the Tang Dynasty. He suffered the most in the war a few years ago, and without that strength, he did not dare to rebel because he was not optimistic about the prospects of the anti-Tang Dynasty.
As for the civil and military officials of the former Yan Wangfu brought by Li Yu, they are now promoted to subordinate officials at all levels of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, and they will sit on the left side of the main hall and look at the Goguryeo colleagues opposite.
Li Yu glanced at the Goguryeo official sitting on his right with an expressionless face. Mai Gu and Xinyue Shuzhou Thorn Shi panicked for a while. But after thinking about it, it's just a teenage hairy child, and several victories are obviously won by the command of his courtiers, and he still has the edict of the Tang Emperor in his hand, as long as he is not caught, he is still worried about the evidence of surrendering to Silla before.
"My Datang is generous and benevolent, and if you have kindness, you will be rewarded, and if you have merit, you will be rewarded. You were originally subjects of Goguryeo, and you were able to serve as the chief official of a place hereditarily after the fall of Goguryeo, either because of our Tang Dynasty or because of our Tang Dynasty's loyalty and righteousness. But some of them are loyal and righteous on the surface, but behind the scenes, they are rebellious and colluding with the Silla thieves. ā
Li Yu viciously shook the case in front of him, and said with an ugly face: "There are still some people who have no desire to serve the country, and when the rebels came, they fled without a fight. ā
These words made the fleeing Goguryeo officials extremely harsh in their ears, and they were unhappy but did not dare to say anything, and sat in their seats without saying a word.
At this time, the elderly Sun Daiyin stood up and said: "My lord, such a thief without a king and a father should immediately send troops to strangle him to warn those who have bad intentions. The soldiers and horses of Yanzhou are ready to be dispatched by the king at any time to go out to suppress the thieves! ā
Automatically ignoring the runaway officials mentioned by Li Yu, for Sun Daiyin, the Andong region still wants to maintain the previous situation after this great rebellion. In addition to the governors, the governors, prefectures, and counties were still hereditary from the Goguryeo.
The old fox, Gao Xuan and other Goguryeo officials secretly cursed in their hearts, and they had to stand up one after another to show their loyalty: "I built the Governor's Mansion of Anzhou and Xinzhou...... Wait for the soldiers and horses to wait for the king's order to go out to suppress the thieves at any time! ā
"But there are thieves in the hall."
"Huh?" Sun Daiyin, Gao Xuan and others were stunned for a moment, there are thieves in the hall? Do you mean them? Could it be that the imperial court saw that the remnants of Goguryeo had set off a rebellion, and some appointed Goguryeo officials were involved in it, so they decided that we should not be trusted? Shall we clean up before we clean up the rebels?
"Smack."
Li Yu threw down six documents from the desk and shouted loudly in the main hall: "Where is the history of the six states of Maigu, Xinyue, Cangyan, Mudi, Xukou, and Nansu?" ā
The six assassins whose names were read stood up from the crowd nervously: "Wait here!" ā
"How many of you pick up the paperwork on the ground and see what is written on it?"
Hearing Li Yu say this, the six people walked over and picked up the documents on the ground with a nervous expression, and each picked up the one they looked familiar with. Picking it up and opening it, all of a sudden, the faces of the six people turned dark, and what they had been worried about since King Yan said those words turned out to be a reality.
Isn't this the document I sent to the Silla general Sha Lu who occupied the black bones more than a month ago? This bastard should have passed it on to the king of Silla or burned it after seeing it!