Chapter 168 Consultation on Liaodong, Bohai State

"General, Zhang Chengye supervises the army and asks to see you!" This will Li Cunhuan rest a little longer, and after drinking the fragrant tea in his hand, Zhang Chengye has already stepped into the meeting hall. Let Li Cunhuan not be depressed, and there is no way to take a break if he really wants to.

"What's the matter?" Li Cunhuan was a little lazy and asked helplessly.

Probably knowing Li Cunhuan's fatigue, Zhang Chengye behaved very casually, "It was Duan Ziyao who reported that there were not many Han people in Jian'an Prefecture and asked for 100,000 immigrants!" ”

Li Cunhuan smiled bitterly: "He Duan Ziyao really doesn't have a backache when he stands and talks, 100,000 people!" Not to mention that there are no 100,000 displaced people, even if there are, where will I get so much food to provide them with transfer? ”

Zhang Chengye said with a bitter face: "But there are indeed too few Han people in Jian'an Prefecture. There are 20,000 Goguryeo remnants in Jian'an Prefecture and Liaodong City, with more than 112,000 mouths, 6,000 Khitan people with more than 24,000 mouths, and 10,000 Jurchen households with more than 45,000 mouths. There are 10,000 Han households and more than 54,000 people. It's only a quarter of the population! ”

Li Cunhuan calculated that there were more than 46,000 households and 235,000 people of all ethnic groups combined. I couldn't help but be surprised. That's nearly one-tenth of Lulong's population! "Where did you get such a population!"

Zhang Chengye smiled bitterly when he heard this: "Where is more, in fact, there is less, when Gaozong conquered Goguryeo and immigrated 400,000 to the Central Plains, there are still more than 100,000 households staying in Liaodong." Later, Goguryeo King Gaozang was used, and Gaozang sent these 400,000 Goguryeo remnants back to Liaodong, and there were millions of people in Liaodong at this time! What's more, Liaodong was originally the most mature area developed by Goguryeo, and it is not surprising that there are so many people here, in fact, the people there, except for the Khitans, there are no more people to go to nomadism, and farming has become an important source of income for them! ”

Li Cunhuan nodded and said: "Actually, they have basically been sinicized, except for the name, the others are no longer much different from the Han people!" You can let them join the household registration of the Han people and strengthen unity! ”

"The general's words are a little wrong, those Goguryeo remnants are better, they were originally just tenants, but the Jurchens and Khitans are different, they were originally the ruling class, they have a certain strength in their hands, and they are local tyrants! Not easy to deal with! ”

"Let Fu Cunxian deal with it! With the black-clothed army here, are you still afraid that they will turn the sky upside down? Li Cunhuan said murderously.

"I'm afraid it will make the relationship between Lu Long and Bohai Kingdom bad." Zhang Chengye sighed a little helplessly and said.

The Bohai Kingdom was founded by the Jin Ya people, who were the name given to it in the Tang Dynasty, and in the Song Dynasty they switched to Jurchen, and the Jurchen was used in advance for the sake of easy reading. They were not the barbarian people of the last Ming Dynasty. In this era, the Bohai State had become a Han Chinese, following the Tang Dynasty to set up Wujing, and the Tang Dynasty to set up prefectures, prefectures, and counties. In terms of political system, it basically copied the system of the Tang Dynasty. At the same time, the Bohai State uniformly used the Chinese language, and the nobles in the country admired Han culture, and their culture was also based on Han culture, and there was no civilization of their own.

However, even so, there is still no shortage of brave soldiers in the Bohai Kingdom, the southern part of the Bohai Kingdom has developed agriculture and handicraft industry, and the tax revenue accounts for four-fifths of the country, but the northern part is the annexed Heishui Jurchen, Yu Lou, Yuexi, Tieli and other tribes, they live by fishing and hunting, and are good at fighting in the mountains and forests. Moreover, at this time, the industry of the Bohai State was very developed, and iron tools were completely needed by the whole society, and they were able to produce part of the steel. Although the equipment is not as sophisticated as that of the Central Plains, it is no longer the kind of nomadic people who can be bullied by people at will. Therefore, Zhang Chengye has no scruples.

Just as Li Cunhuan was pondering, Zhang Chengye suddenly spoke.

"General! And I found a very interesting phenomenon, that is, there is a powerful shipyard in the Bohai Kingdom, according to the information sent by Duan Ziyao, it is written that the Bohai people and Lu trade, since the (Tang) Dynasty Emperor has been peaceful Lu Yudenzhou trade, every year has not been cut off, especially the sale of war horses! ”

When Li Cunhuan heard this, he couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth, and he felt that he was quite powerful at first, but he found out carefully, needless to say, Silla has Dengzhou, the largest shipbuilding base in the north, and now even the Jurchens, who used to be on horseback, actually have excellent shipbuilding skills.

Li Cunhuan couldn't help but feel strange when he thought of this, according to his current understanding, the Tang Dynasty should already have the technology of the European Age of Discovery. And from a recent important news, I learned that the Gong Descendants had contacted Qian Biao four years ago, hoping to get his help, but was rejected by Qian Biao, who was not so capable at that time, and even intervened in the affairs of the Korean Peninsula. But it also shows that Silla's seafaring technology, which is feasible from the Korean Peninsula to Fujian, where there is no mature seafaring technology. But why didn't the Tang Dynasty set off a hurricane of the Age of Discovery? Asia is closer to the Americas than Europe.

However, Li Cunhuan is not a brick family or a beast, so he didn't pay attention to this problem after thinking about it for a while. Sha Yuke on the other side ordered: "You go and call Han Yanhui over!" ”

"Yes!" Sha Eucalyptus replied.

Han Yanhui soon came, just saluted Li Cunhuan, and ignored Zhang Chengye, he was not an ordinary dislike for the eunuch Han Yanhui, and he did not persuade Li Cunhuan to remove Zhang Chengye from his position as a supervisor of the army by Li Cunhuan's side.

Li Cunhuan opened his mouth and asked, "What is the current situation in the Bohai Kingdom?" ”

Li Cunhuan is not familiar with this, and Jinyiwei is not so penetrated, so he can only ask Han Yanhui, who is familiar with the scriptures, and he can get some more accurate data in his mouth.

Han Yanhui pondered for a while and said: "According to the records in the history books, if it is respected, the current Bohai Kingdom should have between 1.5 million and 2 million people, with no less than 100,000 soldiers and horses. Moreover, the horse of the Bohai Kingdom is the most famous, and when it comes to war horses, I am afraid that Lu Long is not as good as the Bohai Kingdom. If the general wants to use force against the Bohai State, I am afraid that it will not be easy to gain an advantage in cavalry warfare, after all, the Bohai State still occupies a geographical advantage. ”

Li Cunhuan nodded when he heard this, it is best to use cavalry to conquer these areas of the Bohai Kingdom, firstly, to save the trouble of transferring troops from the south, and secondly, the cavalry is fast, which is the most suitable for dealing with nomads. But it also depends on the object. It seems that it is not so easy to destroy the Bohai Kingdom, although Li Cunhuan is not weaker than the Bohai Kingdom in terms of strength, but he has Li Keyong in the west and Zhu Wen in the south, and there are not many soldiers and horses that can be mobilized, so the best thing is to fight quickly.

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