Qin Feng was silent, he put down his wine glass, and said slowly: "Since the beginning of the Shang Zhou Dynasty, Liaodong has been our country's territory, and we have never thought of giving up. The group of clowns who jumped off the beam in Goguryeo took advantage www.biquge.info of the chaos in the Central Plains to live in our territory, and a thief was hundreds of years, but they couldn't jump for long. No matter how mediocre Yang Guang is, his purpose is good, and he sent troops to recover his homeland. But Goguryeo not only did not return my territory, but also slaughtered millions of my warriors and compatriots, so my hatred for this despicable nation is no less than yours, and from the current situation, it is indeed a good opportunity to recover my homeland. It's just ......"

Qin Feng smiled bitterly and said, "It's just that Brother Qiu, don't have much hope." Today's saint is wise and martial, he is not Yang Guang, and he will not forcibly send troops with his temperament. Even if His Majesty insists on sending troops, the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs will speak out. The Eastern Turks were the most powerful overlords in the first place, and there is nothing wrong with that. However, the Turks were all flat steppes, and relatively speaking, the conditions of Goguryeo were even harsher, and both the terrain and the weather were far from being comparable to those of the Turks. At the beginning, Yang Guang waved his troops to attack Goguryeo, and the cost was huge, and Goguryeo's Eulzhi Wende saw through the weakness of the Sui army's poor logistics, and gave the Sui Dynasty seven great victories with the tactics of luring the enemy into depth, lengthening the Sui army's battle line. Then he surrendered and forced the Sui army to retreat, and then a large flood washed away 300,000 Sui soldiers. The main force of the Goguryeo army descended from the sky and launched a fierce attack on the Sui army. The hungry Sui army was unable to fight any longer, and the armies collapsed at the slightest touch, and fled in the wilderness. Therefore, the various tests faced by the battle against Goguryeo were only surpassed by the northern expedition to the Turks. I, Datang, have just retired from the front line for less than half a year, and it is impossible for us to launch a large-scale expedition. This unreasonable expedition is not called an expedition, it is called labor and loss of money. Why did Yang Guang rebel and leave? It's just because Yang Guang, who is high in the sky, only has his own great achievements in his eyes, and he can understand the suffering of the people! This can also explain why the people of the Sui Dynasty cut off their hands and feet in order to escape the terrible service, and happily called their severed hands and feet Fushou Fuzu. What a miserable thing it was, and in the face of such a miserable situation, the people smiled happily, because they were crippled and did not have to serve as conscription. ”

"In terms of cultural governance, Emperor Wen Yang Jian is not inferior to the Wenjing of the Han Dynasty, and the martial arts are far beyond the reach of Wenjing. Under his painstaking management, the treasury is abundant, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the country is rich and the people are strong. In the five years of the Great Cause, there were more than 8.9 million households in the country, and the population was as high as 50 million. However, at the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there were less than two million households. The war is about money and food, but my Tang Dynasty is sparsely populated, where does the large amount of money and food needed for this march come from? If taxes are raised, the result may be another disaster. The lessons of the past are especially not far away, how can you not know with the wisdom of Your Majesty? ”

Qiu Yi has been listening carefully, he has been accustomed to military affairs since he was a child, and he knows that fighting is to fight money and food, not to say that you can fight. I strongly agree with Qin Feng's words. It's just that when there were a pair of eyes full of longing and anticipation in his mind, his heart was suddenly confused, and he slammed his fist on the table, making a loud bang, his face was hideous, his breathing was short, and he said unwillingly and painfully: "Is it so in vain that you missed the God-given opportunity to recover your homeland?" ”

Qin Feng smiled mysteriously and said, "Not really, as long as what you say is true, it is still very useful." At the very least, before Datang has enough economic strength to send troops, it can still let them fight and lose both......"

Throughout the ages, everyone has his own standards for identifying people.

Qin Feng is naturally no exception.

Qiu Yi is not very old, but he is steady and sophisticated, every move, bold and straightforward, which makes people feel good, Qin Feng believes his words.

Qiu Yi's definition in Qin Feng's heart at this moment: either a patriot who has been dormant in Goguryeo for many years, or a big liar with unparalleled deception.

Even if it's a liar, so what?

He is just a messenger, and whether he wants to receive it or not depends on Li Shimin's intentions.

Even if Qiu Yi has evil intentions, as a civilian, he is dozens of meters away from Li Shimin, without any weapons, and wants to cause any harm to Li Shimin, whose martial arts have reached the first-class level, in full view of everyone. Even peerless masters such as Xiang Yu can't do it. If Qiu Yi did not intend to assassinate Li Shimin, but intended to use the conspiracy not to trap. It's okay, Datang is powerful in the world, doesn't it have its own intelligence network?

They have a lot of time to verify that it is appropriate, if it is true, it is naturally a good thing, if the enemy has another ghost, why can't they just calculate it?

Qin Feng is no longer a rookie in the political arena, and he also considers this matter from many aspects. Of course, this can't be said that he doesn't trust Qiu Yi, but he is in a high position, and he needs to be cautious in everything so as not to harm his family.

Qin Feng ceremoniously entertained Qiu Yi and inquired in detail about the situation in Goguryeo.

Qiu Yi knew everything and told Qin Feng everything he knew.

Qin Feng nodded again and again after hearing this, which was similar to what he imagined.

Goguryeo's strength was limited, and the real difficulty was due to the climate. Historically, Li Shimin's conquest of Goguryeo was also affected by the climate and environment. In that battle, Li Shimin personally conquered and did not command the battle for many years, and the military level of the former supreme military commander of the Tang Dynasty was not unfamiliar. led the army of tigers and wolves of the Tang Dynasty, attacked the city all the way, broke the Liaodong City, Kegaimu City, Dingbei Sha City, and paraded the troops by the Yalu River in a grand manner. In this expedition to Goguryeo, the Tang army conquered the ten cities of Xuansu, Hengshan, Gaimu, Momi, Liaodong, Baiyan, Beisha, Maigu, Yinshan, and Houhuang, and beheaded 40,000 people in the three major battles of Xincheng, Jian'an, and Zhujiao, but they only paid the price of 2,000 soldiers.

Such a record, compared with Yang Guang, it is a world of difference. But in the end, Li Shimin still retreated, and in the harsh environment, let Goguryeo's bridgehead fortress Anshi Fortress block the pace of advance. The battle line was too long, the consumption was too great, and the country could not be without a king, so Li Shimin had to retreat to the Central Plains with more than 3,000 Goguryeo officers and chieftains who had surrendered captively. Although this battle hit Goguryeo hard, it recovered the homeland of Liaodong and returned the lost land to the embrace of China, which was a rare victory. The arrogant Li Shimin could not accept this victory because he failed to destroy Goguryeo after all, and thought he had failed.

Now is a great opportunity, remember that in history, Yuan Dazuo's son, Yuan Gai Suwen, directly relied on superior forces to kill the king of Goguryeo, King Rongliu, stabilized the situation of Goguryeo with iron and blood, gathered all the strength of Goguryeo, and turned it into a stinky and hard stone to block the Tang army.

Although Yuan Dazuo is a character, compared with his son Yuan Gai Suwen, he is a little less iron-blooded.

The King of Rongliu and Yuangai Suwen in history are like fire and water, and King Rongliu wants to assassinate Aobai by Kangxi and kill Yuangai Suwen, who is the most threatening to his throne. However, King Rongliu was not secretive, so Yuangai Suwen learned of King Rongliu's overall plan and preemptively intervened, under the pretext of inviting King Rongliu and his ministers to inspect his army and set up a feast for hospitality. At the banquet, Yuan Gai Suwen killed 100 ministers of King Rongliu, and then broke into the palace to kill King Rongliu and divide the body, and did not hold a funeral for King Rongliu. After that, Yuangai Suwen proclaimed himself the "Great Mo Lizhi", and established the nephew of the king of Rongliu, Gao Zang, as the king and regent. The King of Gozang is in vain, and the military power and state affairs are all controlled by Yuangai Suwen. In history, Yuangai Suwen "looks beautiful, has a beautiful beard, and the crown clothes are decorated with gold, wearing five knives, and he dare not look up left and right." so that the nobles will bow down to the ground, and they will be lifted up by their horses. In and out of Chen Bing, long call forbidden".

In the early days of his regency, Yuangai Suwen tried to make friends with the Tang Dynasty, supporting the replacement of Buddhism with Taoism, and in 643 he sent people to the Tang Dynasty to ask for the eight Taoist scriptures. Of course, Yuangai Suwen did not concentrate on the development of Taoism, this practice was just to improve relations with the Tang Dynasty, because he was carrying out the plan to annex Silla and unify the peninsula, and then gather the forces of the peninsula to enter the Tang Dynasty.

How can Datang be so fooled? Li Shimin, who had extraordinary political vision, knew that a divided peninsula was more in the interests of the Tang Dynasty, and when Yuangai Suwen launched the battle to annex Silla, the Tang Dynasty officially sent troops.

In 644, Li Shimin sent 500 ships and 40,000 soldiers by water to cross the sea from Laizhou to attack Pyongyang, and 60,000 troops by land from the northeast to Liaodong, and personally led the six armies to supervise the battle on the front line. On the land, the Tang army captured the important town "Liaoyang City", which had withstood several expeditions of Emperor Yang of Sui, but the Tang army did not directly attack Pyongyang, but when attacking Anshi City, an important town in the southwest of Liaoyang City, it was blocked by Yang Wanchun, the lord of Anshi City, for two months and failed to break through. Considering the impending cold winter, Taizong hurriedly ordered the withdrawal of troops. On the way back, there was a heavy snowstorm that killed thousands of people, and the expedition ended in failure.

In 661, Tang's alliance with Silla captured Baekje, an ally in southwestern Goguryeo, and continued to attack Goguryeo for the next eight years.

In 662, in the Battle of Snake Water, Yuangai Suwen defeated the Tang Dynasty.

In 666, Yuangai Suwen died. The three sons of Yuangai Suwen fought each other. The eldest son, Yuannan, was framed by his two younger brothers and defected to the Tang Dynasty to help the Tang attack Goguryeo.

Due to years of famine and civil strife, Goguryeo was finally destroyed by the combined forces of Tang and Silla in 668.

Yuan Gai Suwen's threat to the Tang Dynasty is far beyond the reach of his father Yuan Dazuo, this guy has fought against two outstanding emperors of the Tang Dynasty, and he has won more than he loses. Such a terrifying guy can only be eliminated when he is not yet grown, otherwise, the situation in the northeast will be like history, which will contain the Tang Dynasty for decades, so that the Tang Dynasty will not be able to deal with the Tubo Kingdom in the southwest with all its might. Knowing what kind of person Yuan Gai Suwen is, if he is still given the opportunity to ascend to the throne, then Qin Feng will really be ashamed of the title of traverser.