Before noon, Xu Qing came to Yan Wang's Mansion again, and as soon as he arrived at the door, Yan Wang happily said to Xu Qing that he had good news to tell Xu Qing, and sent someone to the Longmen Dart Bureau to invite Xu Qing, but Xu Qing was not there.

Xu Qing said "oh": "My son-in-law has something to go out, what is the good news, father-in-law, please tell me." ”

King Yan said: "Come into the house, don't stand and talk." "Hmm." Xu Qing responded.

In the reception hall, the pretty palace maid left after serving refreshments, and at Xu Qing's request, King Yan dismissed the guards and palace maids, and even the fourth daughter of King Yan, Xu Qing's wife Li Rui was dismissed.

King Yan said: "Dong Yuanshan promised to cancel the marriage contract between Dong Bijun and Mu Jiandao, but he did not agree to marry his youngest daughter to you immediately, he insisted on going to the Mili Palace in person to withdraw from the marriage, and then let his youngest daughter get engaged to you, and then marry after a year and a half." ”

Xu Qing said: "You are very fast. ”

King Yan said: "What you confessed, can I not be fast?" I personally visited Dong Yuanshan last night, but fortunately Dong Yuanshan gave me face, otherwise I really don't know how to deal with you. ”

Xu Qing said: "This matter went smoothly beyond my expectations. Looks like my plans have to be adjusted. ”

Yan Wang: "What plan?" ”

Xu Qing: "It's not a plan to colonize North Korea. ”

King Yan asked suspiciously, "Zhimin? What do you mean? ”

Xu Qing explained: "Colonization is to occupy a piece of land, and then move some people to the past, reproduce offspring, and become more and more powerful, and the aboriginal people who originally lived there are no longer the masters there, but are enslaved by foreign occupiers, or ruled by foreign occupiers. ”

King Yan said: "I understand, but I don't understand, how can you colonize Korea without the support of the army?" ”

Xu Qing said: "Didn't I come to discuss with you?" Do you want to get rich, do you want to occupy more land and people? ”

Yan Wang said: "Yes, of course I want to, but my fiefdom is in Fanyang, and the population and land are certain, and it is not possible to increase it if you want to." I have no such plan to go to Korea to open up a new world, and I will not go to Korea unless the Empress Wu forces me to be anxious and cuts the feudal domain to my head. If I lead troops to Korea, it will be no different from openly rebelling. I am King Yan, the son of the former Emperor Taizong, how can I oppose the country laid down by the first emperor? ”

Xu Qing said: "I'm not persuading you to rebel, and I don't plan to rebel myself." I just don't want Goguryeo and Baekje, which were defeated by the Tang army with the blood of tens of thousands of soldiers, to be included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, but the Tang Dynasty cannot exercise jurisdiction, and in the long run, the Tang Dynasty will definitely lose Goguryeo and Baekje. Silla was rapidly rising to fill the power vacuum created by the withdrawal of the Tang army from Goguryeo and Baekje, replacing Goguryeo as the new overlord of the Korean Peninsula. In time, Silla will inevitably annex Goguryeo and Baekje, unify the entire Korean Peninsula, and then invade Liaodong and Fanyang in the Tang Dynasty. I estimate that according to the momentum of Silla's development, the Silla army will be under the city of Youju in less than ten years. ”

King Yan didn't know what a power vacuum was, so he asked Xu Qing and explained it in words he could understand.

Speaking of a little farther, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty conquered Goguryeo several times, and the largest expeditionary military operation sent 700,000 troops, and the troops set off one after another, from Chang'an to the front line of Goguryeo, stretching for thousands of miles, end to end. Yang Guang's construction of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal consumed people's and financial resources, fought the Turks, and spent a lot of military and financial resources, and the former Sui Dynasty's national strength could not afford the military operations of the expedition to Goguryeo, so they looted the people's fat and people's ointment, and forcibly recruited strong men, which finally aroused the people's resentment boiling, and the general of the expeditionary force, Yang Xuangan, rebelled, and opened the prelude to overthrowing Yang Guang.

Speaking of a little closer, Tang Taizong and the emperor of the current dynasty sent large armies to expedition to Goguryeo several times, each time sending troops ranging from tens of thousands to 100,000, 200,000, and 300,000. The Tang Dynasty fought for decades, and after countless wars, it was only with the cooperation of Silla, who was bullied by Goguryeo and Baekje, that it defeated the Goguryeo and Baekje armies and destroyed Goguryeo and Baekje.

It can be seen that the strength of Goguryeo is strong, and it is the henchman of the Han regime, and all the emperors of the Han regime who have ideals, ambitions, and abilities want to conquer Goguryeo and bring Goguryeo into their rule. Goguryeo is only one of the three countries of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla on the Korean Peninsula, and its strength is still so strong, if Silla annexes the Tang Dynasty and has been included in the territory, but only implements military and administrative jurisdiction for a few years, and retreats to the Goguryeo and Baekje regions when the rebellion is serious, then Silla will definitely be able to pose a threat to the Tang Dynasty, and Fanyang and Liaodong will bear the brunt.

King Yan was deeply impressed by Xu Qing's words and asked, "How do you plan to deal with the rise of Silla?" ”

Xu Qingdao said: "I said it, colonize Korea. The Tang Dynasty eliminated Goguryeo five years ago, and Baekje even earlier, officially incorporated these two small countries into the territory of the Tang Dynasty, set up the Andong Protectorate, set up prefectures and counties, counted the acres of household registration, and exercised military and administrative jurisdiction over the former Goguryeo and Baekje regions. Although the Andong Protectorate had recently moved to Liaodong and the Tang troops that had been guarding the former Goguryeo and Baekje had withdrawn, Goguryeo and Baekje were still nominally the land of the Tang Dynasty, and even Silla, who actually controlled the former Goguryeo and Baekje, did not dare to deny this.

We can grasp this point, while Silla is not strong enough to dare to go to war with the Tang Dynasty, we will send the people to the former Goguryeo and Baekje regions to open up the wasteland and tuntian, and then send some people there to do trade, and transport the things that North Korea lacks, and the things that the Tang Dynasty has from the Tang Dynasty to sell, and then the things that the Tang Dynasty lacks, and the things that North Korea has back to the Tang Dynasty to sell, and earn the difference.

Under the pretext of protecting immigrants and trade, we can move civilian armed forces, such as dart divisions and veterans, to North Korea. If the Koreans dare to resist, we will destroy the rebels. However, in order to reduce resistance, we can give both grace and might, distribute food to the people when there is a famine in North Korea, open schools, let the children of the North Korean people go to school for free, let the North Koreans learn Chinese, Chinese characters and Chinese culture from an early age, and after 10, 20 years, 100 or 200 years, they will forget that they are Koreans and will be assimilated by us. ”

King Yan clapped his hands and said, "I think this plan is completely feasible, how did you come up with it?" ”

Xu Qing said: "You have forgotten that I am an astrologer, I know a lot of things you don't know, and I know a lot of things you don't understand. Our colonization of Korea is like the Tang army's garrison of the border tuntian, the difference is only carried out by the people and led by the imperial court. In the early stage of colonization, there was only investment, and there was no return, but there will definitely be a return in the later stage, and the return is definitely beyond your imagination. I plan to use the identity of the Fanyang Merchants' Liaison Association to set up a joint-stock cooperative company engaged in trade, and mobilize all the businessmen of the Merchant Network Association to invest in shares. ”

Yan Wang asked what it meant by shares, companies, and shares, and Xu Qing gave a concise explanation.

King Yan is very interested in this, and the opportunity to make money legally is in front of him, who doesn't have two eyes shining? King Yan was appointed as Fan Yang's envoy, and Fan Yang's financial taxes had to support Fan Yang's army and government officials, and the pressure was not small, and he had to think about how to promote economic development and earn more money every day.

Yan Wang said: "I also want to buy shares, how much money do I have to pay to buy shares?" ”

Xu Qing said: "The more the merrier, with your identity, at least 10,000 taels of gold." ”

Yan Wang said: "I don't have such gold, seven thousand taels, can seven thousand taels be shared?" ”

The 20,000 taels of gold that King Yan had accumulated for many years were stored in the home of Fang Zairong, the leader of the original gang, and was robbed by Xu Qing, Xu Qing knew that there was not much money left in King Yan's hand, and the lion opened his mouth to slander King Yan, not expecting him to take out 10,000 taels of gold to buy shares, and he was already very satisfied with his 7,000 taels of gold.

The two talked very successfully, and King Yan wanted to ask for more details of the colonization plan, Xu Qing said that he would not talk about it for the time being, and asked King Yan to send someone to invite Dong Yuanshan, the owner of Mingjian Villa, and Wang Jun, the former shopkeeper of Xianghe Qian Village, to have lunch together and chat while eating.

King Yan immediately sent someone to ride a fast horse to invite Dong and Wang.

Dong and Wang were invited soon after, just in time for lunch. At the dinner table, Xu Qing, Yan Wang, Dong Yuanshan, and Wang Jun, four celebrities from Fan Yang, gathered together to enjoy delicious food while talking about Xu Qing's plan to colonize Korea. Xu Qing's plan to colonize Korea attracted King Yan to invest 7,000 taels of gold into the shares, Xu Qing himself invested 10,000 taels of gold into the shares, Wang Jun unconditionally supported the great benefactor Xu Qing, said that he would take out 6,000 taels of gold into the shares, Dong Yuanshan is a businessman, thinking that the colonial plan is too risky, I am afraid that it will fail due to too many casualties, but because of the situation, he agreed to take out 1,000 taels of gold to invest in shares.

Xu Qing threw out another more attractive way to make money, which was to issue silver bills, and all the money invested in the colonial plan was deposited in Xianghe Qianzhuang, and at the same time counted as the shares of Xianghe Qianzhuang. Merchants were then attracted to use the silver ticket. The silver dart has Yan Wang, Xu Qing, Dong Yuanshan and Wang Jun, four well-known figures in Fanyang joint guarantee, I believe that it will be promoted, the silver ticket is easy to carry, can save transportation costs, reduce the handling fee between gold, silver and copper money, and the application prospect is very wide.

Dong Yuanshan saw that this was not risky and profitable, and he was willing to increase the share of capital contribution to three thousand taels of gold. King Yan persuaded Dong Yuanshan to be generous to his son-in-law, increasing it to six thousand taels of gold, the same as Wang Jun. Due to the face of King Yan, Dong Yuanshan increased the investment amount to 6,000 taels of gold.

Xu Qing once again postponed the day of departure to Chang'an, and quickly organized a plenary meeting of the Fanyang Businessmen Liaison Conference, which was attended by King Yan in person, and Dong Yuanshan and Wang Jun attended the meeting. Xu Qing announced the establishment of the Datang Trading Company, which will recruit a large number of veterans and ordinary people to immigrate to North Korea to settle in Tuntian and carry out trade, while Xianghe Qianzhuang will carry out shareholding reform, recruit shareholders, and then issue silver bills.

Listening to Xu Qing talk about the bright future, he invested 10,000 taels of gold, Yan Wang invested 7,000 taels of gold, Dong Yuanshan and Wang Jun each invested 6,000 taels of gold, and all the businessmen were enthusiastic, feeling that the opportunity to make a lot of money had come, and they should not miss it, so they joined the shares one after another. Hundreds of minority shareholders raised more than 50,000 taels of gold.

Xu Qing and Yanwang joint action to recruit veterans to join the Datang Trading Company and the Pyongyang Branch of the Longmen Dart Bureau, Xu with a high salary, plus high benefits, work for three years to divide the house, work for five years to divide the house and daughter-in-law, veterans who participated in the war before the Tang Dynasty conquest of Goguryeo and the former Baekje have higher salaries and better benefits, work for two years to divide the house, work for three years to divide the house and daughter-in-law, the existing house is equivalent to the money of a house in the city, and the daughter-in-law is also paid the same as the money of a house in the city.

In just five days, Xu Qing and King Yan recruited more than 20,000 veterans, of whom about one-third had participated in the wars of Goguryeo and Baekje before the Tang Expedition.

Xu Qing's Yanshan base is a horse farm, raising tens of thousands of horses, Xu Qing used the money of the Datang Trading Company to buy it, which is not only conducive to the colonial plan, but also to make a profit.

The immigrants who have cleared the land will have to wait until the spring of the next year to recruit them, but now it is winter, there are no crops, and the immigrants have nothing to do when they go to North Korea.

The 2,700 men of the vanguard of the Yanshan base in Xu Qing's colonization of Korea set off in the first batch on horseback, transported grain and forage for the horses in horse-drawn carts, and entered Pyongyang by land from Liaodong.

The 20,000 newly recruited veterans entered North Korea in five groups by sea boat, half into Pyongyang and half into Xiongjin City. Weapons, horses, grain, grass, and clothing were transported with the ship.