Li Yu has four personal maids around him, they are Xin'er, who is well-behaved and empathetic, and makes a good sword; Curious, lively and lovely Ling'er; gentle and virtuous, quiet Mei'er; Big grin, lively and active martial arts strong apricots. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The fourth daughter was originally a slave maid in the palace, Li Yu was three years old, and he was unhappy with a group of maids and eunuchs who were much older than him, and after obtaining the consent of his mother Empress Wu, he personally went to the palace to select a delicate face like jade, fresh and beautiful, and he was still a small and lovely Lori at the same age to accompany him.

In addition to sleeping differently, the five of them are often together, and what Li Yu learns, the four of them learn.

After more than ten years of training, the four girls have shown different talents due to their different personalities and preferences, and as they grow older, their help to Li Yu has gradually increased.

Xin'er is thoughtful and active, and she writes a good poem, revealing that Chang'an is even better than Li Yu. People in Chang'an often say that there is a stunning and talented daughter in the palace of King Yan, who is moved by his poetry and looks at it from afar.

How many talented people from Chang'an came to stay outside the gate of Yanwang's Mansion, just to see the beauty!

In desperation, she had to resent the injustice of the world, how could such a celestial girl be the plaything of the powerful family?

In recent years, Li Yu has also found that he is extremely sensitive to politics, and Li Yu often cites examples from the DPRK and China to ask him to answer, and Xin'er's answer is the Tao, which greatly impresses Li Yu. I smiled in my heart: I seem to have picked up a treasure!

After Li Yu opened his mansion three years ago, he opened an industry in Chang'an, and originally appointed Cui Xuan, who was originally a businessman and was taken in by Li Yu. Later, it was found that Xin'er was very thorough about business, and Li Yu often asked Xin'er to supervise the royal property in the following days, with Ling'er and Mei'er as his deputies. Under the guidance of Li Yu, the Yanwangfu industry will be operated vigorously and controlled throughout the country.

Xing'er is good at martial arts, good at riding and shooting knives and guns, and with a delicate face, she is so heroic and cool, she naturally became Li Yu's personal bodyguard, and commanded the left guard of Xiuyi to protect Li Yu's safety.

After Li Yu pacified Anshi, Xing'er took the lead in leading thirty Xiuyi left guards to come, and after the battle of Da'an Mountain, Xin'er, Mei'er, and Ling'er also came to An'an with the caravan.

In addition to Mei'er and Ling'er, who are the same age as Li Yu, Xing'er is one year older than Li Yu, and Xin'er is two years older than Li Yu.

"Wei joined the army, how many guards were sent by the major trading houses during this time?"

Li Yu, who was planning a new round of offensive, asked for soldiers to join the army, and Wei Chengqing asked about the replenishment of soldiers.

At present, Li Yu's Yanyun Iron Cavalry left and right guards and the Seven Divine Beast Guards add up to only 27,000 soldiers and horses, and they have to send troops to defend dozens of counties in more than a dozen prefectures of the Governor's Mansion.

It was precisely because of the lack of troops that Li Yu was unable to launch an offensive on the south bank of Yalu Water when he won the great victory of Wugu and Bozhuo, and he stopped in Liaodong for more than a month. As in history, Jian Mu Cen supported An Shun as the king and raised an army against the Tang Dynasty, and had enough time to consolidate the results of the war.

At the moment, Li Yu doesn't want to drag it out, the longer it drags on, the stronger the Anshun rebels will be with the support of Silla, and the more difficult it will be to fight.

However, the problem of insufficient troops could not be solved in a short time, and the reason for this was that Liaodong was too far away from the Central Plains.

"This ...... His Highness had only five thousand eight hundred people. Wei Chengqing hesitated and reported an accurate number.

"So little?" Li Yu was surprised, "Tens of thousands of horses came in the first ten days of last month, why is it that now a month has passed, and only more than 5,000 people have come?" ”

"Your Highness's shopkeepers have sent letters to them, and there are few of them under them, and most of the guards have been sent to Anshi by scriptures, and the remaining part is still on the way here. At present, the major trading houses are recruiting guards, and they will not have enough men to send to Liaodong for a long time to come. ”

"When did the letter come?" Li Yu asked rhetorically, he didn't see the letter sent by the firm.

"Here!" Xin'er, who was making tea next to Li Yu, took out a paper bag from under a notebook directly from Li Yu's desk.

Xin'er took out the letter from the paper bag and put it in Li Yu's face, and said with a smile: "The letter from Jun Jun was sent by Wei Senjun yesterday, and you were too busy to look at it, who is to blame!" ”

"Delivered it yesterday?" Li Yu shook his head and didn't have any image, he didn't care about other things at all when he dealt with those Goguryeo officials yesterday, and he was too busy!

Li Yu scanned the letters, and sure enough, the major commercial houses sent letters saying that they had no one to send, and that there would be no more people to send to Liaodong for at least four or five months.

Putting down the letter, Li Yu realized that he was still a little too optimistic before! Now the replenishment of troops will not be able to get a single soldier for nearly half a year.

"The major commercial houses are still coming, and there are many people on the way."

"The minister summed up that the number of people on the road of the commercial houses will not exceed 10,000, and it is expected that all of them will arrive in Anshi in May." Wei Chengqing gave an exact number.

"Ten thousand? The number of troops that can be replenished is more than 15,000, and the strength of the army will be more than 42,000 in another month. It would be enough to attack the rebels with these 40,000 men and horses, but I still have to defend the city captured in the rear! ”

Li Yu muttered, making a slight comparison in his heart. Historically, the Tang Dynasty re-leveled Goguryeo and appointed Gao Kan and Li Jinxing to lead 40,000 troops, and it took four years to pacify them.

It was enough to drag on until May to defeat Goguryeo's troops, but the situation he was facing now was different from the one faced by Gao Kan and Li Jinxing in history.

The two of them only needed to lead the army to fight in the front, and the Tang Dynasty sent officials to escort grain and grass in the rear, and in order to appease the Goguryeo people, Li Zhi actually removed all the Han officials in the Andong area and transferred them back in exchange for the peace of mind of the Goguryeo people. Only then did Gao Kan and Li Jinxing recruit the rebels on the front line without any worries.

The question is, will Li Yu do this? The price of this is that in the Andong region, he can only restrain the local area but cannot directly rule the local area, so what's the point of going to Liaodong with all his efforts?

"Let's go down!"

"If."

Wei Chengqing's departure left behind Li Yu's worries about the troops.

The reinforcements sent by the imperial court must be on the way, but the imperial army will have to wait until July at least the earliest to arrive in Liaodong. With nearly three months to go, doesn't this give An Shun enough time to put all the Goguryeo rebels in order?

And even if the army sent by the imperial court is under his own command, it is not his own descendant army. Historically, its soldiers and horses are also around 40,000, which is as many as the soldiers and horses he commands, and it is a question whether it will have an impact on his control of Anton.

It's annoying! Li Yu held his head and raised it, and saw Xin'er holding the brewed tea in front of him.

"Jun Xun is still worried about the lack of troops?"

"Yes, most of the guards of the trading house have been withdrawn to Liaodong by me, and they think that there is no one to adjust them, so it will be difficult to solve the problem of replenishing soldiers."

"Didn't Jun order the northern trading houses to recruit the victims?"

"The fastest group of victims will still be floating on the Yellow River, and when the victims arrive in Liaodong, they will not be able to be dragged to fight as soldiers as soon as they get off the boat. If this is transmitted back to Datang, we are tricking the victims to serve as soldiers in Liaodong, so how will we recruit the victims to develop Liaodong in the future? Li Yu replied helplessly.

"Even if the disaster victims don't arrive, they won't need ...... for the time being" Xin'er frowned and thought, Liaodong, Liaodong, which had long been opened by the Yan Kingdom, Liaodong County of the Qin and Han Dynasties. Xin'er flashed a flash of surprise and said: "Jun Xun, we can recruit troops on the spot!" ”

"Recruiting on the spot? But this is the land of the original Goguryeo, and there are many Goguryeo people living in it, and they have too late to hate me in the Tang Dynasty, so recruit them as soldiers, isn't this asking for trouble? Li Yu shook his head and vetoed it.

"Jun Xun, aren't you familiar with history books? How can you forget the history of Liaodong? Xin'er looked at Li Yu and reminded.

"The Liaodong region we occupy now is Liaodong County during the Qin and Han dynasties, and most of the people living there for generations are Han Chinese, and they have been occupied by the Goguryeo people for more than 300 years. For example, most of the people living in southern Liaoning were still Han children, and no one responded to the Goguryeo people in this rebellion. Although there are not many Han people in the area west of Liaodong, almost all of the local Goguryeo wealthy families have been moved to the interior of the Tang Dynasty and dispersed, which means that the local Goguryeo people do not have the same influence as in the Goguryeo period. The local Han people investigated during the time when the slave family came, and no one responded to the Goguryeo people. It can be seen that the Han people in Liaodong did not recognize and be loyal to the Goguryeo people. These Han people deserve our trust to recruit them as soldiers to solve the current problem of insufficient troops! ”

Xin'er's words woke up the dreamer with a word, which made Li Yu suddenly realize, and after thinking about it, he really felt that this method was feasible.

After the conquest of other ethnic groups in Goguryeo, the five nobles were initially ruled by the five nobles, who did not produce and were subordinate to the Han people like the conquered Liaodong, who were responsible for the supply of the five nobles of Goguryeo, and the Han people were basically in a slave position.

Although the local ruling model was improved by learning from Huaxia, the descendants of the five nobles of the original Goguryeo still occupied the upper echelon of the rule, and the Han people as a whole still occupied the lower echelons of the entire country.

Moreover, the fields were all owned by Goguryeo nobles, and most of the Han people were serfs and cultivated the land for the Goguryeo people. This is also why Goguryeo has ruled Liaodong for hundreds of years, and the local Han and Goguryeo people are still so clearly distinguished, and there is no integration.

"Xin'er's method is wonderful!"

The delighted Li Yu stretched out his hands and pulled Xin'er into his arms amid the screams, and took Xin'er, who was fifteen years old and gradually grew up, into his arms, and the weak and charming girl's body made Li Yu think about it.