Chapter 455: The Fall of Goguryeo

Goguryeo is destroyed!

This military power, which once reigned side by side with Tuyuhun, Rouran, and Turks, quickly fell and perished under the offensive of the Xia State, and the flesh and blood it left behind made the Xia State, a new power, quickly increase its national strength and become stronger.

Although at this time, there was still a Goguryeo army occupying the domestic city in the upper reaches of the Aprochu River, and a child who claimed to be a descendant of Goyang Sung became the new king of Goguryeo there, but in the eyes of the current Xia people and in the history books of later generations, the fall of Pyongyang City is regarded as a sign of Goguryeo's official demise.

Even when Pyongyang City fell, Gao Wencan was still leading the Goguryeo army in Liaodong to fight the Xia army in the northern battlefield, but the essence of Goguryeo's destruction has not changed, not to mention that the defeat of Gao Wencan's department was only three days later than the fall of Pyongyang.

After defeating Goguryeo and sweeping away all the unwilling forces around Pyongyang City, Wang Ze ordered Zhang Hang, Chu Honghang, Cao An, Meng Xian and others to lead the expanded Blue Wolf Army of 60,000 people, as well as two special forces of Wolf Tooth and Viper, to sweep the Goguryeo army around the domestic city.

Although this Goguryeo army was not strong, it could not be defeated by relying on the surrounding mountains and could escape, so only the Blue Wolf Army, which had been aiming at mountain and jungle warfare from the beginning of its establishment, was the most suitable to attack here, and after having the Wolf Tooth Army and the Viper Army, their offensive Goguryeo people were even more difficult to resist.

After sending the Blue Wolf Army to attack the domestic city, where the last resistance of Goguryeo was located, Wang Ze finally began to deal with the aftermath of Goguryeo's demise.

As the original overlord of the East China Sea, the legacy left to the Xia Kingdom after the fall of Goguryeo was huge, because its collapse was too fast and even left a lot of materials, just seized grain, gold, and silver, which was also because Goguryeo was blocked for many years, and the amount of foreign trade was very small, resulting in a relatively large storage of precious metals such as gold and silver.

In addition, the extremely abundant human resources in Goguryeo alone gave great benefits to the Xia State, so that the labor gap of the Xia State was met at once, and it can be said that the Xia State has never had such abundant human resources since its establishment.

After Goguryeo swallowed up Baekje, it vigorously developed the land in the Sumoshui and Nanshui basins, and its population had a population of more than 7 million at its peak, and the total population of Goguryeo in its heyday was only one or two million worse than the total population of the Northern Zhou Dynasty at that time.

At that time, there were only about 3 million people in the Xia Kingdom, and the total population of Goguryeo was nearly twice that of the Xia Kingdom at that time.

In the first war against Goguryeo launched by the Xia Kingdom, through the occupation of the hometown of Baekje in the south of Goguryeo, the hometown south of Hanshui, and the basins of Nanshui and Sumoshui, Goguryeo lost nearly one million people, plus a series of wars, and deaths from epidemics, and when Goyangcheng had no choice but to sue for peace, the population of Goguryeo was finally only more than 5 million people.

In particular, when the hometown of Baekje and the Blue Wolf Army of Choan besieged Pyongyang City, they plundered a large number of Goguryeo people around it, resulting in the largest loss of its population, and this war made Goguryeo's population loss never recover.

By the time of the fall of Goguryeo, the population of the Xia Kingdom itself had increased to more than 5 million, nearly 6 million people, and after the fall of Goguryeo, the Xia Kingdom gained more than 4 million people from it, of which more than 2 million were Han people living in Goguryeo.

Millions of others still die in the war, or in the series of changes caused by the war, after all, human life is too fragile, and even a small plague can cause a tragedy for thousands of miles.

However, the fact that the total population of Goguryeo is smaller is a good thing for the Xia Kingdom, which is more conducive to the integration of the Xia Kingdom with the Goguryeo people.

After the annexation of Goguryeo, the total population of the Xia Kingdom soared from less than 6 million to 10 million, comparable to the population of the Northern Zhou before the Northern Zhou conquered the Northern Qi.

As the war in the Central Plains continued, Wang Ze asked his father Wang Yong to relocate millions of people from the Central Plains to the East China Sea, and after adding this part of the people, there were at least eight million Han people in the Xia Kingdom, and the overall population was more than 11 million.

After having such a large population, with the vast territory of the Xia State, there is no doubt that this is already the prototype of a superpower, as long as it stabilizes after more than ten years of development, the powerful Xia State will not be afraid of anyone's threat, whether it is the Northern Zhou that will unify the north, or the Turks, the overlord of the world today.

It's just that Wang Ze has to face a big problem at this time!

That is, he insisted on moving all the people who originally lived in Goguryeo, and then mixed the people of the Xia Kingdom and the people from the Central Plains with them, forming a situation where the three lived together, and after a rough calculation, at least more than 6 million people were going to carry out a large-scale migration. Cow Bar Literature Network

The migration of six million people was a great burden even for the superpowers of later generations, and it was undoubtedly a great pressure on the finances of the Xia Kingdom today.

Even if the people's requirements for life at this time were not as high as those of later generations, the consumption of various materials, money and food was still a daunting astronomical data.

However, in Wang Ze's view, no matter how big the price is, such a large population migration must be carried out, because this Xia State has accepted new citizens equivalent to the total population of the Xia State in the past, which will have a strong impact on the original social form of the Xia State.

If we can't take advantage of the favorable opportunity of the new destruction of Goguryeo and the new arrival of immigrants from the Central Plains to blend these people from different regions, there will be great regional and cultural differences in the Xia Kingdom in the future, and eventually lead to great ideological differences among the people.

Although the people living in the Central Plains, the Han people in the former Goguryeo and the Han people of the Xia Kingdom were all Han people, because of the different regions where they came, there were great differences in customs, diet, and even language between them, which was obviously not conducive to the further growth of the Xia national society.

Taking advantage of the fact that these millions of people have just joined the gang and are still more cautious about blending them, otherwise these people will have re-formed a small group in the future, and the cost of trying to blend them together will not only be as big as today.

People have a problem of recognizing life, a person will always be careful to abide by the local rules when they arrive in a new and unfamiliar environment, and if a good environment guides them, they will soon learn the rules and some good habits here with an open mind, and keep up with the local people.

For example, when the Chinese people in later generations were in China, because of environmental reasons, they threw garbage one by one and justifiably, but after arriving in some other Chinese countries such as Lijiapo, they were absolutely careful not to throw away garbage.

Those Han people in the Central Plains are just that, they are thousands of miles away from home and are more obedient to the arrangement, and if these Han people in Goguryeo want to stay in Goguryeo, they will inevitably feel that they are the masters here, and they naturally feel that they have an inexplicable sense of regional superiority, so Wang Ze must move all these Han people away.

In the face of Wang Ze's efforts to persuade, Liu Xin, Yang Ku, Lu Wen and Xiao Jing could not say anything, after all, if a new country wants to maintain stability and unity in the future, it must eliminate these regional differences as much as possible, although the price paid now is greater, but these contradictions can be eliminated in the future.

What's more, now the Xia State controls the maritime trade between the East and the West, and just collecting the transit taxes of maritime merchants from various countries is a huge income, so the Xia State is not short of that money, even if the national production will stagnate for more than a year because of the migration, but the grain stored in the Xia State over the years is enough to allow all the people to eat for more than two years, so this decision has been implemented.

With the re-migration of millions of people, the mining of minerals in Goguryeo also began.

After the fall of Goguryeo, the Xia State could finally safely exploit the large-scale open-pit iron ore of Maoshan in the later generations of North Korea, because it was too close to Goguryeo itself, so even if the Xia State had occupied the Tongmen River for more than ten years, it had not dared to develop on a large scale, and it was only a small-scale mining of iron ore.

In addition, after occupying Liaodong, Xia also obtained several large iron mines in Liaodong in later generations, which further improved the national strength of Xia State, and the Goguryeo young people obtained made Xia State nearly double the scale of iron ore and coal mining.

For the planning of Goguryeo's original territory after the fall of Goguryeo, Wang Ze divided the west coast south of Aprosu to the north bank of the Han River into Lelang County, still with Pyongyang City as the county seat, and the eastern part of the peninsula, including the later Gaima Plateau to the mouth of the Tongmen River, was classified as Wofu County, with Wonsan Fortress as the county seat.

Because the population of Liaodong is still relatively small, it is currently the front line of the Xia State facing the Khitan and Turks, so Wang Ze decided to divide the south of the new city into Liaodong County, and the county seat is Liaodong City, and Liaodong County is reset to the north to the shore of Sumoshui, and the county seat is Fuyu City.

Even Wang Ze set the vast land in the upper reaches of the difficult water as Jiangzhou County, with Jiangzhou City as the county seat, and this time Xia Guo increased the establishment of five counties in one go.

After the full occupation of Goguryeo's homeland, the territory of the Xia Kingdom plus the territory of the Nanyang Kingdom has reached an astonishing more than 3 million square kilometers, which is many times more than the territory of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, even if the total population of the Xia Kingdom has increased to more than 11 million people, so that there are still less than three people per square kilometer, which can be described as a vast and sparsely populated area.

After these messy things are done, it is already the spring of the twentieth year of the summer calendar.

Just as Wang Ze was confidently preparing to build up the newly occupied territory of Liaodong, Hu Bingchang, who was patrolling the perimeter of Fuyu City, suddenly issued an urgent report, and tens of thousands of cavalry rolled in, and it was the Khitans and Turks who intervened.