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The early morning sun shines obliquely, on the Kaiyuan Hall of the Zihui Palace in Luoyang, the civil and military Baiguan Mountain calls long live, and they all claim to congratulate.

Yi Feng smiled, "Zhongqing is flat." ”

"Hundreds of officials have something to do, and they have nothing to retreat from!"

Pei Shiju, the squire of the Yellow Gate, stepped forward and said: "Marshal Gao Jia, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, led the Western Expeditionary Army to Hexi to defeat the Datou and Tuyuhun coalition forces, Datou was defeated and took the Western Regions, Murong Fuyun was captured, and now the countries of the Western Regions are shaken, Gaochang and other countries have sent delegations to pay tribute and worship, and Datou Khan and Dulan Khan have sent missions to ask for submission and surrender, and have since ceased to stop the war. At present, the envoys of all parties have arrived in Beijing, I don't know what to do with His Majesty's intentions? ”

Tuyuhun is a branch of the Xianbei Murong Department, since the Western Jin Dynasty is located in the Qilian Mountains and the upper valley of the Yellow River, the Sui Dynasty, its nomadic range, from the west of Xiping Linqiang City, and the end of the east, south of Qilian, north of the Snow Mountain, four thousand miles from east to west, two thousand miles from north to south, the capital of Fuqicheng in the west of Qinghai forty-five miles, as a country that occupies thousands of miles, although Tuyuhun lives in the remote, and mainly nomadic, but the population is not small, the largest mobilization of troops in the country reaches 80,000, according to the Hu nationality is almost the practice of the whole people are soldiers, The total population of Tuyuhun also exceeds 300,000. At the beginning, in order to stabilize the northwest region and fight against the Turks with all his might, in the eleventh year of the emperor's reign, the daughter of the clan was named the Guanghua Lord and married Murong Shifu, the Khan of Tuyuhun, and then Murong Shifu was killed by his brother, and Murong Fuyun succeeded to the throne of Khan, and still married Princess Guanghua as his wife. It can be said that during the Gaozu period, the relationship between Tuyuhun and the Sui Dynasty was not bad. Through the guò marriage, there are not many major contradictions between the two parties.

But wait for Yang Xiu to kill Gaozu and usurp the throne. In order to win over Zhufan to borrow troops, he promised Tuyuhun many conditions. Among them, there is the princess of the clan and the pro-Tuyuhun, as well as the reward of the Hehuang region that Tuyuhun has always longed for but cannot get to Tuyuhun. The Hehuang area is the valley between the Huangshui and the Yellow River to the west of Qinghai Lake, and in a narrower sense, it refers to the Huangshui River Valley. Although Tuyuhun occupies an area of several thousand miles, most of them are very poor, which is why they only have a population of more than 300,000. Populations over a million are not a problem.

Then Liu Xiu was quickly defeated and committed suicide, and Yi Feng was proclaimed emperor by Chan, and naturally completely rejected the previous deals. Murong Fuyun was extremely difficult to accept the loss and recovery of the Hehuang region. In order to keep this fertile land, he eventually joined forces with Datou and joined forces to enter Kou Dunhuang while Sui was at war with Goguryeo. Originally, they didn't really want to attack the Sui Dynasty, but they just wanted to show an attitude and wanted to blackmail the Sui Dynasty militarily. The Sui Dynasty was forced to negotiate peace with them and maintain the division of forces before the Northern Expedition. It's just that they expected the wrong shape, and Yi Feng is not the kind of person who can be blackmailed at all. In other words, Yi Feng is quite clear about the whole situation. He knew very well the strength of the enemy and the enemy, so he had long seen through that they were just bluffing and trying to blackmail. In this regard, Yi Feng sent a large army to the west. As expected, the two sides fought in Hexi. In this battle, although the Tuyuhun and Turkic coalition forces had more than 200,000. After the Northern Expedition, the strength of the head was greatly reduced, and the more than 100,000 horses that could barely be put together were no longer elite, and the 50,000 soldiers and horses gathered by Tuyuhun could not change the final situation.

Gao Jia led the Western Expeditionary Army in Hexi steadily, the battle before and after more than half a year, and finally until the Sui army won the battle of Liaodong, Yi Feng once again increased the troops in Hexi, with the arrival of the new army, Gao Jia seized the opportunity to attack in many ways, first divided the troops to attack the territory of Tuyuhun, forced the Tuyuhun army to return to the division, and then intercepted halfway, first broke the Tuyuhun army, and then faced Datou, Datou was defeated again in Dunhuang, and retreated to the Western Regions.

Gao Jia took advantage of the situation to turn around and kill Tuyuhun, and after a rapid sweep, the Tuyuhun King City was breached, the Khan was captured, and the Tuyuhun Kingdom was destroyed.

The Great Sui destroyed Tuyuhun, which had been established for nearly 300 years, causing the entire Western Regions to tremble, and the most frightened of them were Dulan and Datou. The battle of the Northern Expedition of Sui defeated the Turks, but it was only a great loss of vitality, and there was still a certain strength. But immediately after the defeat of Goguryeo in the east of Sui, the destruction of Tuyuhun in the west, and the defeat of the Turks, both Datou and Dulan felt that a great disaster was coming. There is no one who can contain the interference of the Sui Dynasty, pacify the civil strife, defeat Goguryeo and Tuyuhun, and now the next target of the Sui Dynasty must be the Turks.

The states of the Western Regions, such as Gaochang and Yiwu, which were originally dependent on the Turks, sent envoys to the Central Plains to pay tribute to the Sui Emperor.

Even Du Lan and Da Tou finally lowered their proud heads and sent an embassy.

In addition to sending a mission, Datou and Dulan also sent their own sons as hostages, and even sent their granddaughters and daughters to Sui with the group, hoping to avoid this catastrophe through Guò and their relatives.

Yi Feng said: "During the Kaihuang period, Gaozu attached great importance to the harmony with Tuyuhun, so he specially let the Guanghua Light Lord enter Tuyuhun and kiss, and then came to Tuyuhun Khan's brother Murong Fuyun but launched a rebellion, killed his brother and seized the position of Khan, and then raped with Yang Xiuwolf Bèi, not thinking that the Central Plains has reflected on the benevolence of Tuyuhun for many years and the heart of seizing my territory. However, he thought that I was weak, and even took advantage of the war between our Great Sui and Goguryeo, and united with the Turks to invade our Hexi again. Now that Fu Yun's army is defeated and the country is captured, but the people who reach the head are delusional to rely on a woman to escape the catastrophe, how can it be so easy in the world? I mean that the Turks are not allowed to surrender. ”

There was silence in the temple.

Yi Feng continued, "Tugu is destroyed, and I intend to take this opportunity to send troops to the Northern Expedition again to capture Datou and Dulansheng." ”

For the emperor's ambition, the ministers were secretly frightened in their hearts. In just two years, the imperial court has carried out the first eastern expedition to Goguryeo, then the northern expedition, then the pacification of civil strife, then the second eastern expedition to Liaodong, then the western expedition, and then the army to destroy Tuyuhun, now the Turks called the ministers to surrender, the emperor still refused to agree, and the second time to send troops to the Northern Expedition, within two years, this kind of hundreds of thousands of people have been fought five times, it can be said that it has reached the limit.

Yang Su came out of the ranks, "Your Majesty, in the past two years, the imperial court has been fighting year after year, and the soldiers have been fighting in all directions, fighting endlessly, and they are tired, and it is very difficult for the court to supply grain, grass and equipment. Now that Goguryeo, Turkic, and Western Regions have asked for surrender, do they agree for the time being, and wait for the soldiers and people to recuperate for a while, and then discuss it? ”

Yi Feng looked at Su Wei, "Right servant shooting, what do you see?" ”

Although Su Wei knew that the emperor's intention was to fight, but as a left servant, he also knew a lot about the situation of the imperial court, and he wanted to go on another northern expedition, and there were countless soldiers, horses, grains and grass to be mobilized, and they would still be the most difficult in Shangshu Province at that time. Therefore, after hesitating again and again, he still said truthfully, "At the beginning of the Northern Expedition, it was because the Turks regained their strength after many years of recuperation, especially Datou, although they lived in a corner of the Western Regions, they defeated Persia, stabilized the Western Regions, and then defeated Dulan, and became the great khan of the Turks for more than ten years. And Datou is very ambitious, if he does not take the initiative to attack the Northern Expedition while his rule over the Turks is not stable, then it will be a great disaster in the future. However, the current situation is different from the original after all, after the Northern Expedition, the Turks have been defeated, their vitality has been greatly damaged, most of them have been surrendered, and after the previous battle of Hexi, Datou was defeated again, and now the Turks are no longer the henchmen of the imperial court, and the troops can be postponed. After all, after years of using troops in the imperial court, not to mention the fatigue of the soldiers and the people, even the imperial court's finances have also dried up, this is also a very dangerous thing, and it is not too late to recuperate the people's strength and wait for the air to recover before considering the Northern Expedition. ”

Both servants clearly opposed the Northern Expedition again, and the reasons were similar, the use of troops was too frequent, the financial consumption of the imperial court was too great, and the people were tired. After all, among the millions of troops in the imperial court, there are hundreds of thousands of government soldiers, these people are usually farmers, but in wartime they have to be requisitioned to the front line, although they do not pay military salaries, but they also have to give allowances, and more importantly, it will inevitably affect the family production of these hundreds of thousands of government soldiers, and the lack of labor force will definitely affect the cultivation of the family. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of troops are mobilized to fight, and military allowances, rewards, and pensions are all massive figures, not to mention the need to levy multiples of civilian men to transfer logistics baggage for each battle. In addition, the consumption of the war is also huge, grain, grass, ordnance, as well as war horses, horses, etc., in the first battle of Liaodong, although the number of casualties is not large, but the loss of war horses and horses is counted in 100,000.

Of course, the imperial court has now collected Liaodong, conquered Tuyuhun, and successively established the three provinces of Liaodong, Liaobei and Qinghai, plus the previous three provinces of Liaoxi, Saiwai and Saibei, and the resettlement and reclamation plan of these six provinces cost countless money and grain, and these massive inputs are difficult to achieve results in the short term. The imperial court has a preferential policy of tax exemption for three years in these six provinces to encourage the people to immigrate, which also means that there will be no return on investment for at least three years.

The annual income of the imperial court is basically fixed, fighting a war of more than 100,000 people, sometimes it will consume several years of national reserves, successive major wars, coupled with the immigration and development of the newly established provinces, the continuous investment of the imperial court, if you add the several major projects that have risen in the Central Plains, the construction plan, and the canal development plan, this money is really sucked away like flowing water, and the imperial court now has a deficit of more than 30 million yuan, 20 million bank loans, and 10 million bonds, but this money has been pulled out completely. Now the meritorious rewards of the soldiers of the Western Expeditionary Army have not yet been assessed, and once evaluated, this is a huge expenditure, not to mention the Northern Expedition again, it will be countless money and food expenditures, where does the money come from?

Although the titles that the imperial court had previously re-established and cleaned up and recovered the fields, they were nothing more than wet water compared to these expenses.

In short, the attitudes of Yang Su and Su Wei are very clear, although the financial problem is not the biggest obstacle to the Northern Expedition, it is indeed an unavoidable difficulty. Unless the emperor can come up with another twenty or thirty million yuan, it is better not to talk about the Northern Expedition again. (To be continued......)