"Fourth brother, why do you have to hand over the land you have worked so hard to hand back? If this is the case, the soldiers will not be convinced. ”

Wang Chengjian, who was sitting opposite Wang Chengyuan, was surprised. Wang Chengzong's eyes flashed, but they immediately dimmed. Wang Chengyuan said:

"At the beginning, our plan was to give a gift to the imperial court after taking Beizhou, and now the imperial court has received the great gift of Tian Xing's surrender, and our little Beizhou has not been able to enter the eyes of the princes of the imperial court. After the three battles of Huaixi, Ziqing, and Weibo, a large number of national dukes and marquis were sealed, like Pei Du Xianggong, who was just a county lieutenant in the twenty-first year of Zhenyuan, and now it has only been six years, and he has already entered the lord to worship the prime minister. Unfortunately, our family is one of those few. ”

Wang Chengyuan's words seemed to have some ridicule for Wang Chengjian's ignorance of current affairs, which made Wang Chengjian can't help but have a face on his face. Seeing that Wang Cheng had a brief seizure, Wang Chengzong snorted coldly and said:

"When is it, you're still bickering here!"

Wang Chengjian swallowed the words from his mouth back into his stomach. Wang Chengzong said with a lower face:

"Chengyuan, you're too frivolous."

Wang Chengyuan hurriedly confessed, and Wang Chengjian dissipated his anger. Wang Chengzong said:

"Cheng Jian, Cheng Yuan didn't mean to be angry with you, it's just that the current situation is indeed very unfavorable to our Wang family. The affairs of the Wang family can't rely on those outsiders who are like grass on the wall, we can only rely on our own people in the Wang family, Chengdi is leading the army, and only the three of us brothers are fighting? ”

Seeing that Wang Chengjian also admitted his mistake, Wang Chengzong gave up. Wang Chengzong muttered:

"I think that the eldest father (grandfather, referring to Wang Wujun) was originally a Khitan, and he relied on the rebellion before the battle to kill Li Weiyue (the son of Li Baochen, who rebelled and was killed by Wang Wujun) to get the land of several states to stand on his own feet and live in the Central Plains. The three towns of Heshuo are the smallest in my family's territory and the weakest in power, and now Wei Bo has surrendered, Youzhou is at odds with my family, and Liu Jina Lao'er has more than 100,000 elite soldiers, and he would rather return to the dynasty than help my family. My family's 30-year foundation, can't it really be preserved? ”

After that, he was in tears. Wang Chengjian also whimpered. Wang Chengyuan sighed and said:

"It's not that there is no way to protect yourself, but if you do this, you can only last for a while, but you can't last a lifetime. If you want to add sin, why should you do it? The eldest brother really wants to protect my family's foundation, but the younger brother thinks it's better to take advantage of the morning and ask the family to join the court. ”

Wang Chengjian said:

"Chengyuan, you want us to go to Chang'an to breathe down and look at people's faces to live?"

Wang Chengyuan said:

"The foundation is in the people, not in the territory, as long as my Wang family is here, why can't I fight for another foundation?"

Seeing that Wang Chengzong did not express his position, Wang Chengyuan knew that his brother was still nostalgic for this foundation, and said:

"What I just said is the best policy, and there is also the middle policy, which is to send an envoy to the court, ask for the two states of De and Di, please assassinate history, and lose two taxes. After the war of the imperial court, the national strength was greatly consumed, and at the moment he refused to use his sword soldiers, it is estimated that it is very likely to agree. After the court agreed, my family was based in Hengzhou and Jizhou, guarding the courtiers' ways, waiting for the situation to change, and perhaps it could be restored. It's just that this will inevitably leave the impression of vacillation in the imperial court, and even if I enter the court in the future, it will be difficult for my family to come out again. The next strategy is to support the army and respect itself, and refuse the king's division outside the door. Using the land of the four states to compete with millions of iron armor in the world, even if it can gain momentum for a while, it will not be able to support it for long, and it can also fulfill many villain enemies, this is a must-lose strategy, needless to say. ”

Wang Chengdi said:

"I choose a strategy, take a step, look at a step, and there may not be no chance for my family."

Wang Chengzong said:

"In that case, let's get ready to go to the book. Chengyuan, I have to ask you to go to Luoyang at that time. ”

Wang Chengyuan sighed in his heart, knowing that he could not persuade Wang Chengzong, he got up and said:

"Chengyuan will definitely do his best."

Wang Chengjian asked:

"And what about Bay?"

That's the main topic tonight. Wang Chengyuan is still young, and it is not easy to have such insight, and it is really difficult to deal with such a complex problem. After thinking about it, he reluctantly said:

"Let's wait and see what happens."

Wang Chengzong, Wang Chengjian and others didn't want to hand over the meat of sin, so it would be a military feat when they settled accounts in the future, so they were happy that Wang Chengyuan did not object. As for ordering Wang Chengdi, Wang Tingcuo and others to be on strict guard, it is naturally not a problem.

Luoyang, inside the Ming Hall, Lu Zhen played:

"Your Majesty, Pei Du secretly reported that hundreds of Yi people were found among the captured sergeants in Ziqing."

"Yiren?"

Li Yu was surprised,

"But red-haired, blue-eyed, high-nosed, deep-eyed?"

This time it was Lu Zhen's turn to be surprised. Lu Zhen said:

"Your Majesty is wrong, where is there such a person in the world? Pei Du reported that these people were the dead soldiers that Li Shidao had searched from, and Pei Du interrogated them, and they all said that they were from the sea, where the sun rose. ”

Li Yu was stunned, little Japan? Lu Zhen said:

"Pei Du suspects that these people are Bohai people."

The so-called Bohai people are the people of Bohai County, and the Bohai Kingdom (698-926) was a local ethnic regime established during the Tang Dynasty with the Sumo Jin Ya people as the main body. It was founded in 698 A.D. (the first year of Wu Zetian's holy calendar), and was originally called "Zhenguo". Seven years later (705 AD) it was attached to the Tang Dynasty, and fifteen years later (713 AD) it was canonized as the "Bohai Kingdom", which also became the Northern Shao Kingdom due to the homonym, echoing the Southern Zhao Kingdom in the south. In 926 A.D., it was destroyed by the Khitan Kingdom, and it lasted 229 years.

At this time, the Bohai Sea was at its strongest, occupying a vast area such as most of present-day Tohoku, the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, and parts of Russia along the Sea of Japan. With Jilin as the center, its territory extends to both sides of the middle and lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River in the north, the coast of the Tatar Strait and Sakhalin Island, the Sea of Japan in the east, the Baicheng and Da'an on the border between Jilin and Inner Mongolia in the west, and the vicinity of Hamxing in North Korea in the south. There are five capitals and 15 prefectures, 62 prefectures and more than 130 counties.

Although the power is great, but the Bohai County is still a subject state of the Tang Dynasty, and at the same time belongs to one of the Tang Prefectures, its king must accept the Tang Dynasty canonization to be legitimate, and while accepting the Tang Dynasty canonization, he also has to accept the appointment of the governor of the Tang Dynasty Khuhan Prefecture, in addition, there is also the obligation to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty.

"If it's really Bohai people, I think it's the tributary that will be bad."

Li recited. Lu Zhen bowed slightly and said:

"Your Majesty."

Since the establishment of the feudal system, the tributary affairs of the Bohai Prefecture have been handled by the envoys of the Pinglu Jiedu. After the internal relocation of Pinglu, the post of the feudal lord did not change, and the Bohai County changed to pay tribute by sea, that is to say, for more than 60 years, the envoys and tributaries of the Bohai County had to pass through Ziqing by sea according to the procedure, and then go to Chang'an under the arrangement of the envoy of Ziqing Pinglu Jiedu.

After thinking about the relationship, Li recited:

"The Li family in Ziqing was originally a Goguryeo person, and the Goguryeo remnants in the Bohai County also occupy a considerable weight, and the dozens of tributes in the past 60 years are very likely to bring the relationship between the two sides closer quickly, and even the Li family is very likely to collude with a certain force in Bohai and form an alliance with each other, so Bohai will send people to help in the war."

Lu Zhen said:

"The minister also guessed so, and the specific situation depends on the results of Pei Xianggong's interrogation."

Lu Zhen This is a sign of prudence, but in fact, in his heart, he is only afraid that he has locked the Bohai Sea. Li Yu asked:

"Lu Xianggong, if it is really Bohai who sent someone here, what should I do?"

Lu Zhen said:

"If this is the case, Your Majesty will have to plan for the long term. The minister concentrated on internal affairs, and foreign affairs were more concerned with the west and south, and did not know much about Liaodong. But I also know that the Bohai Kingdom (surnamed Da) has rebelled against the Tang Dynasty and fled to the north to stand on its own since Da Zuorong, and it was only reattached to Zhongzong Shi. Emperor Xuanzong once wanted to seek it, but his country was too far away and it was not easy to seek it. After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty had little deterrence against the various departments of the grassland, although the Bohai Sea often came to the court, the so-called non-my race, its heart must be different, if it is verified this time, it shows that the Bohai Sea will not be satisfied with the side of the peace. Liaodong fertile fields for thousands of miles, no matter who gets it will be a great threat to the Central Plains, the former Sui Yang Emperor three expeditions to Goguryeo, my dynasty Taizong Gaozong for decades of effort, are all for this. The minister thought that His Majesty should plan this matter as soon as possible. ”

Looking at Lu Zhen's posture, even if Bohai is not involved in this matter, he will not be allowed to be allowed by the national strength in the future. Li Chanted:

"What Lu Xianggong said won my heart."

The monarch and the ministers looked at each other and laughed.

From the Great Sui to the Tang Dynasty, several expeditions to Goguryeo, countless good sons of the Han family were not allowed to return to their hometowns, and the results achieved were only to unify the Korean Peninsula by Silla, and the Sumo Jin people dominated the northern frontier?

No, of course never!

Li Chanted:

"The Department of Grain Statistics will now begin to infiltrate the Balhai Sea and Silla. It should be noted that there are Bohai students and businessmen in Datang. ”

Lu Zhen said:

"Obey."

Li Chanted:

"Then how is Liu Wu's itinerary? I can't wait to meet this capricious Father Liu. ”

Li Yu's idea is good, but what came before Liu Wu was a battle report. Tian Xing led Wei Bo's elite to attack Beizhou by night, and recaptured Beizhou that Wang Chengdi and Wang Chengdi had just occupied. Tian Xing wrote that "the minister dared to call Wei Bo complete his entry into the dynasty today", and Wang Chengzong impeached Tian Xing for attacking the official army and harboring evil intentions.