Although he played a mess in the battle for the throne and made a lot of tricks, Li Tai is a politician after all, if he didn't have any political sensitivity, he wouldn't be able to be favored until now, he just received a sternly worded holy decree today, and Li Jie dared to do so excessively, it was impossible to rely on it without support. [Mobile phone, tablet to read novels, please visit m. directly, update faster, more data-saving]

Listening to Sun Fanyin's advice, Li Tai calmed down, although he was still trembling with an angry green watermelon-like fat body, but at least he was not robbed of his mind by anger, and after summoning Yan Guozhang, he hummed and returned to the messy desk, sitting on the chair, his stomach was extremely uncomfortable, and Li Tai slapped the table angrily.

"Come on, put all these things on the table!"

The people of the Liao Palace, trembling and lowering their heads, hurriedly picked up all the copywriting that fell on the ground, and at this time, a personable Confucian man in a forty-year-old green shirt walked in slowly, and bowed deeply in Sun Fanyin's jealous gaze.

"Xiaguan Yan Liang pays a visit to the King of Liao!"

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, uncle, please get up, please get up!" Changing the arrogance of the past, Li Tai stood up quite respectfully and stretched out his hand to float, but he was not polite, Yan Liang stood up very generously, and actually walked to Li Tai's side, and Sun Fanyin, who was still kneeling underground, couldn't help but blush.

Don't look at his full status among the nobles of Goguryeo, in fact, Li Tai, the king of Wei, who is diametrically opposed to the crown prince Li Chengqian, is an absolute Han theorist, the prince is good at Hu Feng, and Li Tai is deducted to the level of perversion of classical Sinology, so what he really trusts is the civil official group formed by the Central Plains family that was handed down from the Han Dynasty.

This group of foreign civil officials and bureaucrats almost controls all the power positions of the Liaodong Governor's Office, large and small, and is also Li Tai's father-in-law, Sun Phayin knelt on the ground trembling, and Yan Liang could sit next to Li Tai, and the difference was clearly visible.

Li Tai's concubine Yan Wan is nominally the daughter of Yan Lide, the secretary of the Ministry of Public Works of Da'an, in fact, Yan Wan's biological father is the little-known younger brother of the Yan family, and Yan Liang seems to be above Yan Lide, but unfortunately he stood on the wrong side, and stood on the side of the prince during the dispute between the prince and the king of Qin, so he had to take his daughter under his umbrella and run away by himself, this unique experience also made Li Tai trust him more and more.

"Idle people wait to retreat!"

Yan Liang, Li Tai immediately waved his wide sleeves to drive people away, as if he had been amnestied, the palace eunuchs and the unlucky Hu Cao all crawled out of the hall, and Sun Chuanyin, who was kneeling on the ground, also subconsciously wanted to retreat, but just about to stand up, hesitated, the old guy still knelt on the ground, it was a matter of the game between the two kings, and he couldn't help but care.

He didn't seem to take Sun Fanyin in his eyes, and glanced at him contemptuously, Yan Liang turned his head and arched his hand to ask Li Tai: "Your Highness summoned the officials, is it for the sake of King Shuo?" ”

"Of course, he Li Jie has already forced people too much, and he can't swallow this breath!"

"Indeed, King Shuo's foundation in the Liaodong Governor's Mansion is too deep, and His Royal Highness is really an obstacle, and when he was crowned King of Liao, he did not die with a blow, which caused a lot of trouble for His Highness now, and he had to get rid of ......."

Li Tai and the two whispered secretly, pricked up their ears, Sun Vayin didn't hear a word clearly for a long time, the anxious old guy was sweating, no one noticed, kneeling at the door farther away, bowing his head to serve as a guard Wanyan slave, but a pair of ears turned like a cat, and the eyes that were low on the ground also jumped......

Regarding the resurgence of King Shuo and the strong invasion of Liaodong, the Liaowang Mansion maintained a surprisingly calm and silence, and could not help but once again set off an uproar in half of the country where Goguryeo fell, some Goguryeo nobles were terrified, and some were cheering.

In just a few days, the investment of duty-free rolls has re-attracted the merchants who stayed in Yingzhou and Denglai to wait and see, even in the cold winter, the market has become prosperous again, a steady stream of Central Plains materials, rice grain, and even some pickles and pickles are entering Liaodong in large quantities, and countless merchants or Goguryeo nobles have stepped into Li Jie's temporary residence in Liaozhou every day, bringing the number of goods, and coming out with tax-free tickets, which is very lively.

It's a pity that no one was able to meet King Shuo in person, which made many people with different thoughts lament and choke.

At this time of winning people's hearts, Li Jie and Li You ran into a big ravine near the new city, and they were also disgraced and embarrassed.

It's really a gray face, the sky is full of ashes left after the burning of trees and meadows, even the prince is not immune, but compared to Li You, who is angry and slapping the ashes on his head, the same face is half black, Li Jie is holding the hand of Mu Yunniang, the woman who went to Liaohe to find it, and his excited eyes are shining.

The parched trees and meadows burned, and the surface soil was peeled away, revealing the black boulders that were still hot and sparkling.

It's all coal, an incomparably huge open-pit coal mine.

The new city of Goguryeo will have two resounding names in the future, Hetuala, the land of Longxing in the Qing Dynasty, and Fushun, Liaoning, the coal capital of China in later generations!

Don't think that in the era of no industrialization, coal is useless, the heat energy provided by coal is much higher than charcoal firewood, and the quality of steel smelted by making coke from coal is much higher than that of the iron-making furnace of the Tang Dynasty now, and more importantly, this is Liaodong, and it is absolutely not enough to rely on cotton clothes for heating in winter.

The most important point is that according to the specific agreement with the eldest grandson Wuji, this place belongs to Li Jie, even after the war, thinking of Li Tai's guy who collects high taxes and has to buy coal from himself at a high price, Li Jie is happy to think about it.

"Summon, recruit people, quickly build a road to Anshi City, and strive to transport it to the front line in a short time!" Looking at the huge coal mine, Li Jie excitedly ordered loudly.

The changes brought about by the return of King Shuo are still obvious enough, in just half a month, the 80,000 troops of the Tang Army who have gathered under the city of Liaodong have completed the change, the thick cotton hat is under the helmet, and the armor is also a warm cotton pad, not only the cold threat is greatly reduced during the battle, but also seems to be more resistant to fighting and falling.

This is not over, the original monotonous food, just rice and cereals have become fish and meat, thousands of tons of dried fish caught by the Denglai fishing fleet are constantly transported, eggs, meat, milk of the Khitan tribe in Jishan and Yashan in Liaodong, and even pickles, dried vegetables, and food that are rare in winter, the Tang army has made a big improvement.

And the place of residence has also changed, the original marching tents have all been replaced by simple wooden shacks, covered with tent canopy outside, and then lit with coal stoves inside, and made of loess to build a fire kang, in addition to living warm and hot water to drink, it seems to be more comfortable than in the hometown, in this case, the morale of the sluggish Tang army has naturally been improved.

In particular, Li Jie's arrival also brought some unique ancient army innovations!

"For the sake of Datang, kill!"

Under the city of Anshi, the sound of shouting and killing was earth-shattering, the Tang army equipped with a strong crossbow shot the dense and innumerable crossbow arrows to the narrow city head of Anshi City, so that the defenders could not raise their heads, behind the crossbow array, sixteen traction trebuchets were pulled by more than a thousand Tang troops shouting the trumpet, and the red-hot coal blocks were projected onto Cheng's head like a meteor rain, and the smoke and fire made the defenders all suffocate their faces red and black, coughing, especially the grass and wood houses close to the city wall, the fire was sultry.

After the rain of arrows, the Tang army was as dense as rain pushing goose hole cars, crashing vehicles, ladders and other siege machinery shouted and rushed forward, and the Goguryeo defenders who had been tortured for a long time hurriedly picked up the rolling stone and wood to meet the battle again.

In half a day, the Tang army actually opened the gap three times, if it weren't for Yang Wanchun personally leading the guards to fight to the death, Anshi City would be really dangerous.

The brutal siege battle lasted until the evening, and the Tang army retreated from the battlefield full of fireworks, and under the fierce offensive of a day, Yang Wanchun himself filled a few wounds, staring at the Tang army that was still orderly and full of morale when retreating, Yang Wanchun was lying on the city wall full of surprise.

"How is that possible? After the defeat of Tushan and such a cold weather, how could the Tang army still maintain such a strong morale? ”

"I guess he's back!" also followed the bloody battle for a day, Yang Xinyi also gasped for breath, and after answering, Yang Xinyi carefully rummaged on the city wall, and reached out to pull out a corpse of the Tang Army who died on the city wall, still with angry eyes.

Under the dark armor, the thick cotton coat was suddenly revealed, and the corner of the cotton collar was stained with blood, and a small red circle was embroidered, and inside was a clover shape.

"That's right, it must be him, and the items produced by the Central Plains Cotton Textile Guild will also be embroidered with such a decoration, and King Shuo calls it a trademark!" Pointing her finger at that point, Yang Xinyi explained to Yang Wanchun with certainty.

Under the city, the special troops of the Tang Army wearing white sheets came out with a war-free card, unhurriedly packed up the bodies of the dead, and even greeted the city with a big grin, asking them to throw the corpses down.

The Tang army camp was also full of smoke at this time, and even the cheers of the soldiers could be heard here, looking at the black smoke above the Tang army camp that had become a small city under the city, looking at the Tang army under the city, and then looking at the Goguryeo defenders who were shivering and shivering around him, Yang Wanchun couldn't help but sigh.

"This battle is difficult!"

"Lord of the city, do you want the last general to go down and drive them away?" Seeing Yang Wanchun's ugly look, he immediately knelt on the ground angrily and asked for instructions, but Yang Wanchun waved his hand a little disheartened: "Let them go, Yang Biao, you also organize people to send the wounded and dead bodies of the Tang Army down and take back the bodies of our soldiers." ”

Stunned, Yang Biao suddenly received the order, and after a while, several large hanging baskets hung down and became busy, in the city, Yang Wanchun went down to the city in frustration, so panicked that Yang Xinyi hurriedly followed, accompanied Yang Wanchun and walked towards the city lord's mansion together.