When Gao Ren left the palace of the king of Wei in despair, preparing to return to Goguryeo to return to the king of Dongchuan, the four teachers and students in the palace of the Marquis of Hanzhong were still discussing the conflict between Great Wei and Goguryeo.

After Jiang Wei predicted that Goguryeo would send an envoy to preemptively surrender to the Great Wei, Cao Chong also expressed his opinion.

"The population of Goguryeo was less than a million, between 600,000 and 800,000. There are about 100,000 troops, and they really don't have the courage to start a full-scale war with Great Wei. ”

The strength of Goguryeo's population, Cao Chong had seen it in Cao Cao's study, and remembered it more clearly, and now it was time to explain it to Lin Chuan and the others.

After learning about the population and strength of Goguryeo, Deng Ai said to the other three: "Single, single, and single Goguryeo really don't have the courage and strength to start a war with Great Wei, but Goguryeo and Great Wei still border Xianbei, if the Xianbei people intervene in it, the pressure on Great Wei to start a war with Xianbei and Goguryeo at the same time is still not small." ”

Now although the people of Great Wei have been fed and clothed, the population has also ushered in a wave of outbreaks, and now the population of Great Wei is close to the 15 million mark.

However, because of the high-yield grain seeds provided by Lin Chuan, such as wheat can yield 7,000 catties per mu, potatoes and sweet potatoes can yield 8,000 catties per mu, and corn can also yield 7,000 catties per mu.

Therefore, for the people of the current Great Wei, land is not very scarce.

Since there was no shortage of land, the Great Wei naturally had no idea of plundering land from top to bottom.

This is also the reason why Lin Chuan asked Liu Ba to personally lead the team to the Yangzhou branch to vigorously build a production base, preparing to use industry to drive the development of various counties in the south of the Great Wei Dynasty, so as to attract the population.

After Deng Ai finished speaking, Jiang Wei and Cao Chong both fell into thought.

"According to the news from the shopkeeper Zhao of the Youzhou Branch, there was some change in the Kebi Neng Department before, and a large amount of grain and salt was purchased from the mutual market in a short period of time, but the root of the step is still a normal purchase quantity."

Lin Chuan told the three students the news from the Youzhou branch.

"The teacher guessed that it might be that Kebi was unwilling to be completely controlled by the Great Wei Economic Lifeline, so he wanted to give it a go.

However, if Kebi can't shake Youzhou, where Lord Cheng is in charge, he should have secretly contacted Budugen and wanted to join forces.

However, judging from the final result, it should be that Bu Dugen did not agree with Kebineng's suggestion and did not dare to join forces with him to start a war against Great Wei. ”

According to the mutual market transaction information provided by the shopkeeper Zhao of the Youzhou Branch, Lin Chuan had roughly guessed the reaction of Kebineng and Budugen.

After Deng Ai and Jiang Wei heard Lin Chuan's analysis, their eyes couldn't help but light up.

"Old, old, teacher, in this way, the possibility of the joint efforts of Kebi Neng Department and Budugen is already very small, and the results of opening a mutual market with Xianbei have finally appeared, hahaha!"

Thinking that Xianbei was about to become a county under the rule of Great Wei, Deng Ai, who could not go to the battlefield in person, was also very happy.

After Cao Chong synthesized the information that Lin Chuan, Jiang Wei and Deng Ai said in his mind, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration!

"Teacher, what would happen if you let the Xianbei people fight the Goguryeo people?"

Cao Chong said excitedly to Lin Chuan.

"Xianbei people fight Goguryeo people? Cangshu's idea is good! As a teacher, he felt that it was not impossible to achieve, but it was possible to force Xianbei and Goguryeo to join forces against the Great Wei. ”

Lin Chuan agreed with Cao Chong's idea, but felt that it was too risky.

The population of Goguryeo ranged from 600,000 to 800,000, and the population of Xianbei ranged from 800,000 to 1 million.

If the population of both sides is maximized, then Goguryeo and Xianbei together have a population of 1.8 million, which already accounts for more than 10% of the total population of the Great Wei.

Moreover, Goguryeo and Xianbei are different from the Great Wei, and their two forces have been in constant war both internally and externally, and the strength of their armies has not declined.

Xianbei, a nomadic people who are all soldiers, can at least use one-third of the total population to participate in the battle, which means that the Xianbei people can gather a total of about 300,000 cavalry.

The Goguryeo people also had about 100,000 troops, and if Xianbei and Goguryeo joined forces, the two sides would add up to 400,000 troops!

This is equivalent to the total number of troops of the Sun-Liu coalition army in the Battle of Chibi that year.

Next, the four teachers and students did not continue to discuss the possibility of the Great Wei and Xianbei going to war with Goguryeo at the same time.

However, Lin Chuan knew that Cao Cao finally sent Wuqiu Jian to attack the capital of Goguryeo's royal capital, Maru.

Therefore, Cao Cao couldn't be unmoved in the face of Goguryeo's sending such a good excuse for war, maybe he would have made some moves now.

As Lin Chuan guessed, Cao Cao had already made up his mind at this time to let Xianbei Kebi Nengbu send troops to Goguryeo.

Originally, Cao Cao's plan was to send Yang Xiu to negotiate with Kebineng first, and force Kebineng to send troops to Goguryeo as quickly as possible.

With the mobilization ability of the Xianbei people, about 50,000 cavalry could be assembled in less than three days, and it only took one day to attack Goguryeo, and Goguryeo would not be given any chance to prepare at all.

Unfortunately, the final plan did not catch up with the changes, and the king of Dongchuan of Goguryeo was so worried that the Great Wei would send troops to Goguryeo, so he immediately sent Gao Ren as an envoy to Yecheng with a large sum of gold, silver and jewelry to ask Cao Cao for his guilt.

However, since Cao Cao had made up his mind to eat the fat of Goguryeo, it was impossible to give up halfway.

Moreover, Cao Cao's previous condition of mutual market that Cao Cao asked Goguryeo's envoy Gao Ren to convey to the king of Dongchuan was already a clear indication that Great Wei was going to war with Goguryeo.

In the palace of King Wei, Cao Cao sent someone to summon Yang Xiu, preparing to explain to Yang Xiu about the envoy Xianbei Kebi Nengbu.

After receiving Cao Cao's summons, Yang Xiu quickly came to the palace of King Wei after bidding farewell to Cao Zhi.

"Dezu meets Lord Wei!"

"Haha, Dezu doesn't have to be polite."

After Cao Cao saw Yang Xiu, he went straight to the point.

"Calling Dezu here this time is because this king has an important matter to hand over to Dezu to do."

Yang Xiu's heart moved when he heard this, he also heard about Goguryeo's envoy to ask for guilt, and he was still talking about this matter with Cao Zhi before coming to the Wei Palace.

"Lord Wei, is this matter related to the Goguryeo people?"

Yang Xiu, who already had eyebrows in his heart, asked Cao Cao.

"Dezu is very intelligent, and he guessed the king's thoughts at once! Yes, the important task entrusted to Dezu this time is related to the Goguryeo people. ”

Cao Cao confirmed Yang Xiu's guess, and then said to Yang Xiu.

After Yang Xiu received Cao Cao's reply, he confidently said to Cao Cao: "Please instruct Lord Wei, Dezu will definitely do his best to complete what Lord Wei has entrusted him!" ”

Cao Cao laughed twice when he heard this, and then said to Yang Xiu in a deep voice: "Dezu, this king needs you to send an envoy to Xianbei Kebineng on behalf of this king, and persuade Kebi to send troops to attack Goguryeo as quickly as possible!" ”