The data on the Pure Land newspaper is real.

In fact, there is no need to talk about the Yuan Pure Land, Yuan Gai Suwen himself knows it.

The iron ingots in Goguryeo's inventory can be used for at least 30 years, depending on the consumption of previous years. Moreover, Datang also sells low-grade cowhide, although it is a little rough, and there are wounds and so on on the cowhide, but it is indeed cowhide.

Cowhide is a strategic material, and the stock of cowhide is enough to make armor for 100,000 people.

"Our Great Goguryeo is developing rapidly, and the current national strength is strong, which is the merit of my brother."

Hearing Yuan Pure Land's praise, Yuan Gai Suwen shook his head again.

Yuan Pure Land said again: "What can Datang do, even if it is to raise troops to attack, with a national strength like ours, even a million army will return in vain, not to mention that Datang even helped us form a sailor, and there are already forty warships at the moment, we are not weak." ”

After Yuan Pure Land finished speaking, he waited for a long time, and saw that Yuan Gai Suwen still did not speak, and continued: "The Tang people have invested tens of millions of yuan in the industries invested in our Great Goguryeo, and this is not counting the coins invested in the Maoshan Iron Mine, these are like pledges, once the war starts, our Great Goguryeo can confiscate all this." ”

Yuangai Suwen raised his head: "I know what you said, but the more it is like this, the more disturbing it becomes. ”

"We can try."

"How to tempt?"

Won Pure Land replied: "Most of the profits from the porcelain vase business were taken by the Baekje nobles, which has caused the dissatisfaction of many nobles in our Great Goguryeo, and the Tang Emperor said that we would discuss an explanation with Baekje. ”

"How?"

"Negotiate, let's offer a sky-high price, let the Baekje people turn their faces first, and then raise troops to destroy Baekje directly."

Yuangai Suwen pressed his hands on his forehead and thought, and after a long time, Yuangai Suwen said: "In this way, you have brought enough treasures to find a reason to go to Chang'an City, give gifts and banquets, and inquire what we think of the nobles and officials of the Tang Dynasty in Baekje, and I will deploy troops and horses to prepare for war." ”

Yuan Pure Land looked very excited, and asked again, "Can I buy another batch of ordnance from the Tang people?" ”

"The Tang people will definitely not agree on the surface, if a few top nobles acquiesce, then they will propose to buy weapons. If the Tang people sell us ordnance, then we will immediately send troops to fight, don't waste time negotiating, and support an obedient Baekje king and important Baekje officials after the battle. ”

Yuangai Suwen gave Yuanjing Land a very detailed arrangement.

After listening to this, the Pure Land's expression was full of excitement.

Ongai Suwen continued, "If Baekje is annexed, then with Baekje's territory and population, we will have a better chance of victory if we go to war with the Tang people. ”

"What if the Tang people never thought of starting a war with us, but just doing some business with each other?"

Facing the question of the Yuan Pure Land, Yuan Gai Suwen shook his head: "Impossible, we will have a battle with the Tang people, but I need to wait for the opportunity, once there is chaos within the Tang people, or a strong foreign enemy fights with the Tang people, then we will take the opportunity to go north and occupy Yanzhou, so that our children and grandchildren can compete with the Tang people for the world." ”

"Brother is wise, I will go and make arrangements according to my brother's instructions."

After the Pure Land left, Yuan Gai Suwen walked to his bookcase and took out a wooden box, which contained a large amount of information about willow wood that he had collected.

Yuangai Suwen didn't know how many times he had looked through these materials, but every time he looked through them, he became more confused.

According to the information, this willow horse looks like a merchant, and it also lured the Tang people to like to be a merchant. It seems that his war is only to be a better businessman, such a person is in a high position, why? ”

Yuangai Suwen felt that he could not understand the Tang people at all.

Said that Yanagi married a princess?

But the Tang people are not the only ones who marry the princess, and there are several excellent generals.

But this colt who likes to be a merchant is becoming more and more noble, is it true that coins are more important than land?

Yuan Gai Suwen was confused, very confused.

He didn't understand Liu Mu more and more, and he didn't understand the Tang Emperor, you must know that the Tang Emperor was a ruthless man who was recruited and killed, how could he trust a horse who couldn't lead soldiers and couldn't go to the battlefield in person.

After collecting the information of Liu Mu, Yuan Gai Suwen thought that it would not hurt to let Yuan Pure Land go to Chang'an to test it.

Yuangai Suwen didn't know that Maoshan was no longer the Maoshan in his memory, and the detailed information here was something he couldn't detect.

A mountain forest warehouse in the Maoshan Iron Mine.

Externally, this is a warehouse, and internally it is a prison.

Five new officials sent by the Goguryeo royal city were locked up in a wooden cage under a tree, the height of which made it impossible to stand and the width of which made it impossible to sit down completely.

More than 20 original slaves, Goguryeo slaves who were sold here as mining slaves, wearing clean and neat clothes, were sitting not far away staring at these five Goguryeo officials.

One of them suddenly said: "It's very cold in the evening, I don't know what will happen if I keep watering them?" ”

"Good idea." The other said excitedly, and then immediately commanded his subordinates to fetch water.

The Goguryeo officials who were locked up in the cage could not understand what the slaves were saying, because the Goguryeo slaves here in Maoshan no longer used Goguryeo, but used Chinese.

Some of these slaves have become officials, with official positions of the eighth and ninth grades of the Tang Dynasty.

A Goguryeo Tang official wearing an official uniform who was also a slave in the mining area came in from outside, saw that he was fetching water and asked a few questions, and after receiving the answer, he said: "You use snacks, and they don't have any wounds on their bodies." Corporal punishment was absolutely not allowed, and the dogs of any Goguryeo nobleman would be worse off than death if they could not be submitted. ”

"Yes!" Twenty responded loudly.

"With dim sum, our life is good, those nobles still have to find a way to take forty percent of their income, if the news from here comes back, we still have our families, we have to return to the old life, no longer have clean clothes, no longer have meat to eat, work under the whip every day, and our children will not be able to read and write."

"Captain, don't worry about this. We sent out nearly 1,000 secret sentries on the border of the entire mining area, and anyone who dared to sneak in and sneak out would be arrested as long as they did not have a waist card. ”

The lieutenant sat down, and immediately someone poured a cup of tea.

"Tea, I never thought I would be able to drink tea before." After sighing, the captain took a sip of tea, and his eyes lit up: "Good tea, you actually have such good tea." ”

"This is the instructor from Hangzhou, I heard that it is this year's second-class Longjing tea, the team in the training competition rated an excellent, the instructor gave us a few tubes."