Chapter 650: Burning Ambition
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The Goguryeo people were slaughtered as fat sheep. This is not just talk.
As the most powerful power in Northeast Asia, Goguryeo has a good economic power in addition to its military power.
In the Yao, the Khitan people were still carrying out primitive slash-and-burn farming, hunting and sheep herding, Goguryeo had begun to intensively cultivate the fields, Goguryeo not only made iron tools, but also had a good level of iron smelting, and the farmers basically used iron tools for farming.
Although the low-class people are very poor and have the habit of dieting on weekdays, the families of the rich in the country do not work carefully, and there are thousands of people who sit and eat, and they are provided by the lower households. The Khitan, Jin and other tribes themselves did not know how to produce iron tools, but the Goguryeo people sold the iron tools they made to the Khitan, Jin Ya and other tribes in exchange for cattle and sheep.
Especially as an agrarian nation, Goguryeo also had the habit of saving grain, not only the country, the city had a large warehouse, but also every family had its own small warehouse, called Zhujing. The people traded with each other on weekdays, and paid taxes with cuckoo silk as the trading currency, and when Goguryeo paid tribute to the Wa kingdom in history, it specially imported cloth and fur, which was called leather coin. For example, if they submitted to the Goguryeo, Khitan, Fuwo, and Jin tribes, the king of Goguryeo gave them strict orders, demanding tribute of cloth, cattle and sheep, fish, salt, and grain.
But even so, Goguryeo is only a little better than the Khitan and Jin Ya economy, and even if they loot, they may not necessarily gain anything, but may lose their travel expenses. However, Zhou Zhou said in the recital that if he went to the mountains of Liaodong, he would definitely not be able to get any oil and water, but what he chose to fight was the richest Sashui in Goguryeo and the lower plains of the Hunshui. Sashui is a name that the Great Sui people bitterly for, and when the Liao army of the 30th Chinese New Year's Eve fought here, they were defeated by Ulzhi Wende.
Sasu is the Cheongcheon River today, and the lower plains of Sashui have been the most important agricultural area of Goguryeo from the past to the present day. Zhou Zhou quoted the words of a general who had participated in the expedition to Liao, and wrote in the recital that from Sashui to Shangshui, the water division could be traced back to 200 miles.
The location of the water is more important than the location of the water. Hunshui is today's Taedong River, which is where Gyeonggi Pyongyang is located. When he first came to Hu'er to attack Pyongyang, he crossed the sea and arrived at the mouth of the Hunshui Sea, went straight up the river, and directly hit the city of Pyongyang.
Sasui. The lower reaches of the Hunshui Plain are all important agricultural areas of Goguryeo, and it can be described as a heaven and an earth compared to attacking the defense line of the Great Wall for thousands of miles to gnaw this hard bone. Now the Goguryeo government and the opposition, in order to fight against the increasingly powerful Zhao State in the south, Goguryeo has built the defense line of the Great Wall in the west to be extremely strong. Better than it was back then.
The 300,000 elite Sui army led by Yu Zhongwen advanced all the way here, but they were defeated in front of Sashui. The results of the battle were not as good as the 40,000 naval troops of Laihu'er, you must know that Lai'er directly captured Pyongyang, if it weren't for some negligence, he didn't guard against the night attack of the Goguryeo. The battle for Liao had already been successful.
As far as Zhou Zhou is concerned, there are only 3,000 water troops, less than one percent of the 300,000 army, and to survive the Liao River and harass the Goguryeo people head-on is like a grasshopper shaking a tree, and Goguryeo does not care about it at all. However, attacking Goguryeo around the sea route did not have this worry at all, because it could go straight to Goguryeo's henchmen.
Zhou Zhou also said that there is another reason why the plan can be successful. Because Goguryeo has always paid little attention to the navy, this is far inferior to Silla and Baekje among the three countries of the peninsula. During the conquest of Liao, the Hu'er Navy's army entered the city of Pyongyang unimpeded, and the Goguryeo Navy's Mao didn't know where it was.
It was just that, the Goguryeo people have not grown up until now, only in the past few years, the maritime trade of Silla and Zhao has been smooth, and Goguryeo has not thought of sending a navy to plunder for a long time, which shows how Goguryeo does not pay attention to the navy.
There was no naval interception, for the pirate fleet of Zhouzhou. The Bohai Sea comes and goes as freely as its own pool, and even if it loses the battle, it can retreat with its whole body. Zhou Zhou wrote a plan to plunder the coastal areas of Goguryeo, saying that this move could not only feed the war with war, but also destroy the economy of the coastal areas of Goguryeo.
Zhou Zhou wrote a bunch of things. However, Li Chongjiu watched it for a long time, but from Zhouzhou's plan, he saw another possibility. In Li Chongjiu's opinion, Zhouzhou, as the county guard of Liaodong County, is too short-sighted and only knows how to make small fights. In Li Chongjiu's view, if you want to do it, you have to make it big.
A huge ambition and plan were brewing in Li Chongjiu's chest, that is, with the strength of today's Zhao State, he personally led the whole army to the sea to raid Pyongyang, what kind of consequence.
It is not impossible, and its own 100 seagoing warships have already taken shape and have the strength to strike across the sea. The most important thing is that there is a mental calculation or not, when Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty attacked Liaodong, it was so great that even the ants on the ground knew that the Sui army was going to attack Goguryeo.
And Li Chongjiu crossed the sea this time, not by 6 routes, but by sea, and when the time came to the sudden arrival of troops in the city, what would the Goguryeo royal family in Pyongyang think? What's more, Li Chongjiu has another advantage over Yang Guang, that is, he still has the strong support of Silla, a good ally, by his side.
The blazing ambition is burning in Li Chongjiu's heart, risky, or too risky, there are too many variables in the cross-sea expedition, whether the soldiers can withstand the long-distance sea bumps, the wind direction, climate and currents are all big problems.
The Yuan army conquered Japan twice, and as a result, they were fed fish and shrimp is a good example. However, it seems that in history, the Sui and Tang dynasties were much better, except for when Yang Jian attacked Goguryeo, he was unlucky, and the navy was loaded into the bottom of the sea to feed the fish and shrimp. After several expeditions to Liao, the Great Sui sailors had already figured out Gao
The situation in the sea area of Gureo, nothing has happened again.
The most important thing is that Li Chongjiu has a group of maritime merchants who often travel back and forth between Silla and Dazhao. They have absolutely no problem knowing the sea.
Li Chongjiu squinted his eyes and paced up the hall, with a contemplative look on his face from time to time. Thinking of this, Li Chongjiu couldn't sit still anymore, and immediately said: "Immediately send Wen Yanbo, Ji Chuan, Zhang Xuansu, Yu Shinan, Wei Zheng, and Wang Qi to enter the palace overnight to see me." ”
At this moment, Wei Zheng has not fallen asleep, and he is correcting and folding in the study, although Li Chongjiu ordered him to shoot for Shangshu's left servant, but there are still some things at hand that have not yet been delivered, so he must still do it.
Unlike Li Chongjiu, who focuses on the overall situation, Wei Zheng, Li Chongjiu's housekeeper, focuses on daily trivial matters. For example, a piece that seems to be inconsequential, abolishing the ban on beef sparseness, has caused a lot of waves in the government and the opposition in Youjing.
This matter starts from last year. Since the end of last year, Luo Khan led a large army to attack Youjing and returned in vain, the Turks have really stopped for a while.
The Turkic Great Zhao couldn't help each other, so they could only sit down and negotiate peacefully. After Li Chongjiu captured Luoyang, the Turks never attacked the Zhao border again, and the strategy of peaceful mutual exchange between the two countries has always been well pursued.
In particular, the Turks have a bumper crop of sheep and horses this year, which is difficult to digest, and no matter how many cattle and sheep there are on this steppe, there is no way to encounter a cold winter. So this time, the Turks drove a large number of cattle and sheep and sold them south.
If there are more things, the price will be cheap, so the mutual trade between the two companies this autumn has reached an unprecedented height. Turkic horses and cattle are all good things, and they are urgently needed by both the court and the people of Zhao State.
The common people and businessmen were all moved when they heard the news, and even Li Chongjiu was surprised when he heard that the Turks had sold cattle, sheep and horses so cheaply this year, and Wei Zhengdao Turks What happened to them, in the past, they wanted to buy a horse for me to hide, and this time they took the initiative to come to the door and sent me so much.
Of course, Li Chongjiu couldn't help it, so he asked Lin Dangfeng to buy 10,000 military horses that could be used as combat horses from the Turks in the name of the imperial court, as well as 1,000 good stallions for breeding. Of course, private transactions are several times higher than those of the state. Zhao's animal power was greatly displayed.
In the capture of Youjing just now, Wei Zheng gave Li Chongjiu a lecture and said that Zhao Guotang didn't even have a set of oxen, let alone horses. A thousand households don't even have a single ox to plough. And now the folk cattle, mules and horses, has been greatly rich, but for the people of Youjing, the biggest distress is not that they can't afford it, but that they can't afford it, and the horse feed and livestock feed in Youjing have already been rising.
But even so, the middle-class family in Youjing, this year can take a horse and a donkey to travel, scholars ride horses, go to the suburbs of Youjing to go to the suburbs, shoot willows, race horses, ordinary people's homes, take a donkey to grind the grain or travel is also good. Ordinary peasant households can also add an extra ploughing ox to save labor, and when the farm is busy, they can plough the fields, and when they harvest, they can also use ox carts to pull up grain and sell it in places outside the township.
Because there were plenty of cattle and cattle were not expensive, a courtier asked Li Chongjiu to lift the ban on slaughtering cattle, so that the restaurants in the market could sell beef.
This courtier may not have imagined that after his letter was neglected in Zhongshu Province, it would cause dozens of Yanguan to fight with the officials of Zhongshu and Shangshu Provinces.
This time, the speech officials and the real power departments were divided into two camps, and they played to each other like snowflakes and handed them to the central province.
The position of the official is clear, that is, the prohibition of eating beef is an ancient system, and there is a saying in the Qin law that the horse thief dies, and the cattle thief is added. Yanguan said that when the country was strong, it was necessary to encourage farming and warfare, and cattle were the foundation of farming, the strength of the country, and cattle and horses were the foundation of the country, so they opposed the killing of cattle.
However, the real power department sneered at the long remarks of the speech officials. A Lang Zhong of the household department said in the fold above, the words are very good, yes, but the private slaughter of cattle among Zhao Guomin has long been common. The imperial court could not control it, and many local departments also turned a blind eye, so instead of letting it go, it was better to legislate a tax on those who slaughtered cattle.
Not only would it increase the country's income, but it would also reduce the number of cattle being slaughtered.
The day when he went to Zhongshu Province, he was counterattacked by the official, saying that you are empty talk, when did Zhao Guo slaughter cattle everywhere, why haven't I heard of it.
Immediately, this Tobe Langzhong listed the facts one by one, and the officials who watched it were shocked.
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