After the two stories were told, Zhang Xian looked at Li Ruoxu, who was bowing his head and falling into contemplation, and saw that he was just contemplative and had no intention of speaking, so he turned his head and looked at the sea in the distance again.

"General, do you think that the Goryeo people should not be killed as the first method, just because they have a stubbornness in their bones that they are unwilling to give into, just because they are actually worthy of sympathy and pity?"

After a while, when Zhang Xian was already thinking about how not to carry out Liu Xing's order to slaughter the incoming enemy and not become a disobedient general, Li Ruoxu looked up at him and asked.

Hearing Li Ruoxu's question, Zhang Xian turned around and looked at him again, and said with a deep gaze: "If you have more friends, it will be easy to walk, but if you have more enemies, it will be difficult to walk." What's more, those Koreans must have been squeezed in their own country, and in desperation, they were willing to be minions of a foreign race that had not bullied them all these years. ”

After a slight pause in his words, Zhang Xian's tone became extremely deep: "If we can appease those Koreans and return them to our court, it is better than completely pushing them into hostility." Those Koreans just want to ask for a place to live, Liaodong is so big, arbitrarily set aside a region to appease it, I believe those Koreans will not be begging for death! ”

Hearing his words, Li Ruoxu's face turned pale: "The land of Goryeo, this lonely bamboo country, the Zhou Dynasty was sealed in Jizi, the Han Dynasty was divided into three counties, and the Jin clan also unified Liaodong ......"

As soon as Li Ruoxu opened his mouth, he first said what Pei Ju, a famous minister of the Sui and Tang dynasties, said to Emperor Yang of Sui. Immediately, he also told Zhang Xian the story.

What kind of story is Li Ruoxu telling? It's not so much a story, it's better to say that he directly told Zhang Xian about the historical facts.

During the Sui Dynasty, Goguryeo had become a relatively large country in the northeast. Pyongyang City, the hometown of Hanlelang County, the capital of the country, dared to take a name and called Chang'an City.

Pyongyang Fortress and Domestic City, Seoul. It is also called the "Three Capitals" of Goguryeo. At this time, the Goguryeo people occupied most of Liaodong. The hereditary lord of Goguryeo is the prince of Liaodong County. Goguryeo was the overlord of Liaodong and a powerful regime.

Because the country itself was gradually becoming stronger, the Goguryeo monarch at that time began to expand his ambitions, so that the relationship between Goguryeo and Sui gradually entered a state of war.

In the tenth year of Emperor Kaihuang of Sui, the king of the Goguryeo Plain at that time "managed the army and accumulated the valley as a policy of resistance", and repeatedly attacked the Liaodong region of Sui on a small scale.

Until then, Goguryeo had maintained a tense and peaceful relationship with the Sui. After the Northern Dynasty, the monarch of Goguryeo voluntarily accepted the canonization of Emperor Gaozuwen of Sui as the "King of Goryeo"

At this time, the alliance between Baekje and Silla had long since collapsed. The southern part of Goguryeo was relatively calm. In the sixth year of the emperor's reign, the king of Pyongyang moved the capital from Pyongyang to Chang'an, and until the fall of Goguryi, that dynasty existed for a total of 83 years.

However, later due to Goguryeo's many small-scale attacks on the northern frontier of Sui, Yang Jian, the first emperor of the Sui Dynasty, was very dissatisfied and wrote to King Gaotang of the plain: "The king is the breadth of Liaoshui, how can it be like the Yangtze River? The people of Goryeo, how many Chen countries? If I don't have a good education, I will blame the king and order a general, why should I do more! ”。

The sixteenth year of the reign of King Youngyang of Goguryeo. Sui's envoy met Goguryeo's envoy in Turkia after encountering it. Because the two aliens were unwilling to submit and invaded the Sui border for a long time, they angered the Sui court. Angry, Yang Jian sent a letter to Goguryeo, demanding that Goguryeo end its alliance with the Turks, stop its continuous invasion of the Sui frontier, and submit to the Sui.

Although the king of Goguryeo Yingyang ostensibly accepted Sui Gaozu's ultimatum. However, in the following year, the king of Yingyang and Su Mo and the Yan Yan preemptively attacked the Sui military garrison in Jizhou Road.

At that time, there were also Baekje, Silla, and Jin Ya regimes in the northeast of the Central Plains, and they were mostly subservient to the Sui. At the beginning of the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, Goguryeo adopted a policy of submission to the Sui Dynasty in order to eliminate other small states, but as the Sui Dynasty became stronger, Goguryeo gradually became frightened, so it joined forces with other countries to invade the Sui Dynasty.

As a result, in the eighteenth year of the emperor's reign, the king of Goguryeo led more than 10,000 cavalry to attack Liaoxi, but was repelled by Wei, the governor of Yingzhou.

Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian finally couldn't bear it anymore and sent an army of 300,000 to attack Goguryeo by land and water, but due to the road and weather, the supply of grain and grass was not available. He suffered another illness, and eight or nine out of ten of the Sui soldiers died.

At the same time, the king of Goguryeo was intimidated by the prestige of the Sui army and also sent an envoy to apologize, so Emperor Wen of Sui withdrew his troops and treated him as before.

Although there was no substantial war in this expedition, it laid the lead for future large-scale expeditions. At that time, the Sui Dynasty had completed the conquest of the western, northern and southern ethnic groups, and the domestic economy had reached its peak. And Yang Guang, the Yang Emperor of Sui who succeeded to the throne, was a very ambitious person, and the war against Goguryeo was only a matter of time.

In the third year of the great cause not long after Emperor Yang of Sui ascended the throne, King Yingyang of Goguryeo secretly communicated with the Turks behind the back of Sui envoys. At that time, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty toured north to Yulin and stayed at the Turkic Qimin Khan, "Qimin did not dare to hide, and led him to see the emperor".

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty ordered Niu Hong to convey his will to the Goguryeo envoy: "I serve the country with the sincerity of the people, so I go to the place where I go, and I should go to Zhuo County, and return to the day, and the king of Goryeo knows that it is advisable to come to the court as soon as possible, do not doubt yourself, and the gift of nurturing should be the same as that of the people." If they do not go to court, they will surely enlighten the people to patrol the other land."

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty knew that King Yingyang of Goguryeo was secretly communicating with the Turks, but Yang Guang did not immediately sanction him at that time, but only gave him a warning, so that he could do his best as a courtier and make a pilgrimage on time, and he could still be treated the same as the Qimin Khan.

However, King Yingyang of Goguryeo insisted on "not obeying" the will of Emperor Yang of Sui, which led to "the emperor's discussion". At that time, the Sui only discussed the conquest of Goguryeo and did not send troops.

It wasn't until later that Yang Guang stabilized his own backyard, and finally in the eighth year of the Great Cause, he wanted to restore the hometown of Liaodong, claiming that "he loved the Chinese soil, and he was the Yi class", and accused Goryeo of "being the party of the Khitan, pious Liu Haishu, Xi Jing Ya's clothes, and invading Liaoxi". Under the pretext that the king of Goryeo refused to enter the court, he ordered the start of three expeditions to Goryeo......

After telling the history of those old things, Li Ruo looked at Zhang Xian intently: "A group of treacherous aliens, the stories told by the general are made up by his clan in order to deceive the people. Its ambition has never been real, and its thief heart has been messing with our Central Plains frontier for a long time. ”

After a pause, Li Ruoxu's face became gloomy, and he said in a deep voice: "If the general has compassion for this kind of enemy, has he forgotten the famous saying of Taifu, 'To be merciful to the enemy is to be cruel to oneself'?" I promise that if the general insists on doing so, the Taifu will definitely not forgive him when he knows about it. ”

To be merciful to the enemy is to be cruel to oneself, when he heard this sentence come out of Li Ruoxu's mouth. was not frightened by his last threatening and intimidating words, Zhang Xian woke up in shock, and immediately said secretly in his heart: Yes! The Koreans are enemies no matter what, so how could I be born to make such a mistake?

After thinking about this for a lifetime, Zhang Xian immediately settled down, and turned around to send out an order. (To be continued.) )