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"The political affairs hall must make every effort to provide logistical support for the war in eastern Liaodong, and in addition, the officials must also prepare for the establishment of prefectures and counties in eastern Liaodong from now on, and select officials from all levels of government and yamen in provinces, prefectures and counties in advance."

Yi Feng was above the court meeting and issued direct requirements to the ministers of the political hall in charge of political affairs. The war was the business of the Privy Council and the three guards, but the logistics of the war and the aftermath and management of the war had to be entrusted to the political affairs hall. The land of Liaodong was extremely important to the Central Plains Dynasty. Historically, Sui Chang couldn't do it, and Tang couldn't keep it although he got it. The Sui and Tang dynasties used troops in Liaodong one after another, and the two emperors drove the expedition in person, and finally destroyed the Goguryeo Kingdom. Are the two emperors capricious? What about Emperor Wen of Sui and Emperor Gaozong of Tang? This must not be described as capricious, nor can it be said to be an invasion, because Liaodong has been the territory of the Han Dynasty since the Han Dynasty, and even further afield, Zhou Shi was already Jizi Korea. However, the recovery of territory can only be the secondary reason for the continuous use of troops by several emperors of the two dynasties, and the most important reason, Yi Feng believes that Liaodong is still a threat to the Central Plains Dynasty.

Although the greatest threat to the Central Plains Dynasty came from the nomads of the northern grasslands, due to the problems of living habits, although the grasslands and the Central Plains people were inherently contradictory, generally speaking, the steppe nomads often only invaded the border. Unless the Han people were strict and infighting, and the power of the Central Plains was extremely weakened, the nomads had a chance to take advantage of it, such as the Wuhu and Sixteen Kingdoms, and the Xianbei Northern Wei Dynasty. However, although Liaodong has not yet penetrated into the northern plains, it has reached the core area of the Central Plains. However, Goguryeo in Liaodong has always been regarded as a problem by people with knowledge in the Central Plains, and the most important reason is that Goguryeo is not a nomadic tribe. They are fishing, hunting, farming, half-farming, half-hunting and half-fishing. Liaodong is also a country of mountains, plains, forests, and coasts, and they are not as loose as the nomadic tribes of the steppe. Historically, the Murong clan did not have Liaodong, so devouring the thistle was a disaster for the Central Plains. The reason for their rise is to occupy Liaodong, with the dangerous terrain and the rich land and the abundance of fishing and hunting, the width of the Yuan Xi is enough to profess themselves, and they surrender and accept judgments, unite the surrounding Fan forces, so they can dominate one side. Since the Jin Dynasty. Liaodong has not belonged to the Central Plains for hundreds of years, and Murong Yan, Tuoba Wei, and Goguryeo have successively existed. In later history, the land of Liaodong also became more and more important, and in the five dynasties, the Khitan possessed its land and gradually cultivated Jingyi to invade the Central Plains. After that, the Jin people also rose here to destroy the weak Song Dynasty, although the Mongols arose in the Yuanyuan. But Liaodong was also taken first, and the Jin people in the west were pulled out at all.

It's all because Liaodong is not as good as the grassland, there are Liaohe plains to cultivate, and mountains and forests to hunt and fish. Whoever gets Liaodong will be able to have a stable rear and be able to rise and grow. There is no need to first compete for the important rich places in the Central Plains such as Hebei, Hedong, and Hetao. You can get stronger.

At this time, Goguryeo was already a 500-year-old northeastern kingdom. In the past few hundred years, it has destroyed more than a dozen small countries in the Northeast and conquered countless tribes. Their civilization is no longer barbaric, but like the Central Plains, there is a central court, and there are also local counties, with a population of millions, with 300,000 standing soldiers and horses, and even 600,000 people can be mobilized at any time. After hundreds of years of operation, they completely occupied Liaodong, and then expanded on two sides, one to develop on the Samhan Peninsula, and the other to constantly take advantage of the war in the Central Plains to devour the Liaohe Plain. When the Goguryeo people crossed the Liao River and set foot in western Liao, it was no longer possible for the Central Plains to ignore them and ignore them. It is impossible for a kingdom that has been established for more than 500 years, occupies the vast land of Liaodong, has hundreds of thousands of troops, and even has a population of millions, to ignore him. If you are not careful, Goguryeo may invade the Central Plains like the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Since the spring, there has not been a dynasty in the Central Plains that has enjoyed the country for 500 years.

If you have a chance, of course, you have to destroy Goguryeo first, and you must not wait for Goguryeo to completely occupy the Guanwai, and it will be difficult to destroy. We have to kill him before he is fully strong, and prevent him from happening.

Historically, the Sui Dynasty realized this, but in the end it failed to win, but it just fought a defeat, Sui died, and Goguryeo was basically disabled. Then the Tang Dynasty invaded Liaodong again, but Goguryeo still held out for several decades, and finally united with Silla by the time of Tang Gaozong, and finally destroyed this northeastern power. Unfortunately, in the end, although the Tang Dynasty destroyed Goguryeo and set up a ruling body in Goguryeo, it still failed to hold it in the end, which made future generations sigh and cheapen a Silla for nothing to unify the Samhan Peninsula.

Destroying Goguryeo is not the ultimate goal, you have to destroy Goguryeo and then rule this territory forever, so that he will always be the land of Han, this is the real goal of Yi Feng. In order to achieve this goal, we must not only blindly use the military, but also be able to follow up in a timely manner in logistics and aftermath, especially after the capture of Liaodong, for those conquered cities, we must immediately send civil officials to govern and manage them. Only by taking such a two-pronged approach to military and civil affairs can we achieve long-term peace and stability.

However, the most urgent task at the moment is to achieve a military victory before we can talk about civil follow-up.

"Officials from Liaoxi Province should be selected immediately." There is no need to worry about the recovery of Liaoxi, so there is no need to worry about the labor army after the recovery.

According to the system of the imperial court, the appointment and dismissal power of officials above the third rank is in the hands of the emperor, the appointment and dismissal power of civil officials above the fifth rank and below the third rank is in the political affairs hall, the appointment and dismissal power of military attachés is in the Privy Council, and the appointment and dismissal power of civil and military officials below the fifth rank is divided into the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War.

The power to appoint and dismiss civil and military officials at the provincial and state levels is in Yi Feng's hands, but the Privy Council and the Cabinet also have the right to nominate people.

"The minister was appointed by Qu Tutong as the political envoy of the left cloth of Liaoxi Province, and Dugu was the political envoy of the right cloth." The left servant shoots Yang Su's recommendation.

"Yes." Yi Feng also understands these two people, Qu Tutong was originally a very decent person in the history of the Fuzhou Assassin, and Dugu was the brother of the Empress Dowager Dugu, and at the request of the Empress Dowager Dugu, her reputation was usually not bad. Although it was nominated by Yang Su, as long as the proposed candidate was agreeable, Yi Feng would not oppose it for the sake of opposition.

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Liaodong, Xincheng.

Goguryeo set up mattresses in large and important cities according to the size of each prefecture and county, and set up provincial envoys in ordinary prefectures and counties. As a magistrate. In addition to this, there are five ministers at the local level. Mattress, Taishou, Zai and other official positions. Goguryeo set up a taishou in the place where the county was set up as the administrator of the county-level prefecture or city. Slaughtered in small towns. But whether it is Taishou or Zai, or Wubu Mattress, they are both local governors and military commanders. On the east bank of the Liaohe River, except for Liaodong City, which is a standard flat-land city, most of the rest of the cities belong to mountain cities. Mountain cities are not necessarily like the cities of the Central Plains, most of them are actually a fortress built on a hill with a wall, such as Wu Fort during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Most of these mountain towns are located in places where rivers and rivers are dangerous and traffic fortresses. The choice of the location of the mountain city is also mostly based on the danger of mountains and rivers or the need for water and land. The vast majority of mountain castles are built in craters that span mountain ridges or are surrounded by valleys around the ground. The scale of these mountain cities is also different, the circumference of the large one is more than 20 miles, and the small one is only more than 100 steps, which has a certain relationship with the status, function, and construction time of the mountain city. Most of the mountain fortresses of Goguryeo are made of mountain stones, and the large, medium and small mountain cities of different sizes echo each other, forming a tight defense system.

In a mountain city, there are generally facilities such as generals, beacons, warehouses, barracks, pools, etc., and most of the city walls also have female walls, pheasant moats, corner towers, watchtowers, etc., all of which are related to military defense. It has formed a unique urban pattern of Goguryeo Mountain City.

Goguryeo is also a multi-ethnic kingdom, and its army is mainly composed of Goguryeo people, Jin Ya people, Buyeo people, Han people, Xianbei people, Ma Han, Zhan and other ethnic groups. The Goguryeo army had three armies: infantry, cavalry, and water, but the main and vast majority of them were infantry, followed by cavalry. Cavalry of the Goguryeo people. The war horses ridden were mainly unique to Goguryeo, called Guoxia horses, and they were small in size. But he is very agile and very good at running in the mountains. Some resemble Dian horses.

The mountain city of Xincheng is a standard Goguryeo mountain city. Built on the Gower Mountains. The circumference of the city wall is eight miles, there are three gates of north, east and south, the terrain of the mountain city is dangerous, it is condescending, and it guards the north of the Xiaoliao River. Moreover, this mountain city is not independent, but a joint defense body composed of three ring-shaped small cities in the east city, the west city, the south acropolis, the north acropolis, and the southeast corner, a total of seven city fortresses.

There are about 15,000 soldiers and horses stationed in these seven castles, and the nearby villages have a population of more than 100,000. Before Gao Yuan entered Liaoxi, he took 10,000 people from Xincheng, and at this time there were only 5,000 defenders left in the city, guarding seven cities.

The main city of Xincheng was served by a son of the Goguryeo royal family as the eastern Goguryeo Fusa, which was equivalent to the original governor of the Sui Dynasty, and sat in Xincheng, an important town in the middle of the east bank of the Liao River, and each of the other seven cities had a city ruler. However, at this time, the eastern mattress Sa Gao Deyin had already led his troops to march west with King Gao Yuan, so the seven cities of Xincheng were guarded by the son of Xincheng Zai Gao Nu.

After the mattress left, Gao Nuzi did not take the important task of staying behind Gao Deyin to heart, and did not send someone to increase the police price. What are you wary of? The king went to the hometown of the Han people, pushed the border to the west nearly a thousand miles away, there is a wide Liao River in the west, and then to the west, there are two hundred miles of Liaoze, the carriage and horses are not passable, there is an important town in the south Liaodong City, there is a heavy town in the north Fuyu City, between the new city and Liaodong, there are enough six or seven cities along the Xiaoliao River, this new city is simply impregnable, what can be guarded against. If there is really something, there is already a beacon fire in front of us.

"Report to the general, the south gate sent someone to report, saying that the big pair Lu and Mo Lizhi left behind in the capital division followed the king's order, and transferred a group of soldiers and horses from Wugu and domestic cities to Liaoxi for reinforcements, and now passing by our new city, the generals who commanded the army asked to enter the city to rest, and let us provide them with grain and grass." One of the guards interrupted Gao Nuzi's drinking and really, and reported to him.

Gao Nuzi was dissatisfied with being interrupted and playing with the beauty, rolled his eyes and glared at the guards, and then said, "Such a trivial matter is also going to disturb me, since it is the soldiers and horses that Lu and Mo Lizhi transferred to Liaoxi to reinforce according to the king's order, then let them enter the city to rest and recuperate, and pull out the grain and grass supplies according to the will." Gao Nuzi did not suspect that there might be a problem in this, after all, Xincheng and Liaodong City are the same as Liaodong City, they are important towns in the middle of the east of the Liaohe River, the city is huge, not only has heavy troops, but also has been used as a grain and grass transfer base on the east bank of the Liaohe River, storing a large number of grain and grass ordnance. The king was in Liaoxi, and he also heard the news. However, he didn't think there was anything, there would always be losses and wins in wars, although there was a small defeat, but the king still occupied Yingzhou after all. Since the Han people dare to come to fight, then just fight them, what is there to fear. In the centuries-old dynasty of Goguryeo, the soldiers were strong and the horses were strong, and they were afraid that the Han people would not succeed. I heard that the Han people have just recently fought for the throne, and their sons have killed their fathers and brothers have fought each other, although the civil strife is said to have ended, it must have been greatly damaged. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in Goguryeo could not defeat the Sui State, which was founded less than 20 years ago?

The guard was taught a lesson, bowed his head and replied, "Yes." And he withdrew.

Carefully retreated, just in time to meet the guards of the city gate waiting outside the palace.

"What did the general say?"

"Tell me, since they are soldiers who were ordered to go west to reinforce them, of course you want to let them in, do you want these brothers to sleep outside the city at night after a hard day's work?" The guards were angry and had nowhere to vent, and the guards who beat the city gate immediately reprimanded. The scolded city gate guards dared to be angry and didn't dare to speak, and they had to beat their smiling faces, and finally the guards scolded enough and told him to get out.

Outside the city gate, he turned around and walked for a while, turned around and spat at the fox and fake tiger guard, scolded a few words in his heart, and trotted back to the south gate.

"What did the general say?" The gatekeeper asked.

The guard who went to interrogate really wanted to say a fart like the guard, but the other party was his immediate boss, and he could only say that the general said that he would open the city gate and invite the brothers who were ordered to go west to reinforce the city into the city.

"Oh, did the general answer like that? Did you tell the general that something was wrong with me, and that I didn't see their appointees? ”

The guard didn't have a chance to convey the guard's suspicions to the guard just now, but at this time, he didn't dare to tell the truth, so he had to lie and say that he had said it, but the general didn't say anything, just asked them to open the city and let people in.

"It seems that I am suspicious, since the general has an order, then open the city gate."

"Yes." The guard answered, turned his head and shouted, "The general has an order, open the city gates." ”

At night, the south gate of the new city slowly opened, and the city gate guards went out of the city with the guards of the south gate to invite the 'friendly troops' outside the city to enter the city!

"Brothers have worked hard, Xinchengzai has sent a message, please go into the city to rest and replenish supplies!" The south gate guard looked at the 'brothers' on the straddle horse and smiled enthusiastically, and finally did not forget to shout a slogan: "Long live the king, the western expedition will be victorious!" (To be continued......)