"Your Majesty, please calm the wrath of thunder!" The eldest grandson Wuji hurriedly saluted, and the ministers also immediately bowed down and asked Li Shimin to calm his anger. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Daozong said again: "Your Majesty, please ask Your Majesty to calm your anger first, and listen to what Xiahou has to do!" ”

"Xiahou mentioned that there is so much arable land in Liaodong, doesn't he want to use the cultivated land in Liaodong to induce the people to support the imperial court to retake Liaodong?" Li Jing knew Xia Hongsheng in the end, and he had already guessed Xia Hongsheng's intentions.

"Not bad." Xia Hongsheng nodded, and said to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, land is the thing that the people crave the most, and it is also the best way to alleviate land annexation. At this time, it is also the best way to induce the people to support the imperial court to start this war. Who wouldn't want more land? Therefore, there are three ways for Weichen: First, the imperial court can publish this data first, so that the people know that there is so much arable land in Liaodong, and it was originally owned by China, but it was occupied. Second, if Liaodong can be recovered, those who are willing to move to Liaodong will be given land to him at a multiple of ten times or even more of his existing land. Third, if you want to recover Liaodong and conquer Goguryeo, you should replace the government soldiers with recruitment. Privying them voluntarily into the army can minimize the impact of conscription on the people. And those who recruit soldiers can also admire the land. For example, after the war, how much land each soldier will have, how much land will be allocated to his household, how much land will be allocated to the families of the war dead, and so on, so as to arouse their enthusiasm for enlisting in the army. In this way, the people will vigorously support the imperial court in launching this war, and do their best to help the imperial court win this war. ”

After Xia Hongsheng finished speaking, a room full of people fell into thought.

Fang Xuanling smiled and said, "Hehe, if you use Xiahou's method, you can also add one." Isn't it more attractive for the people to be exempt from taxes for a few years in the land of Liaodong? ”

Xia Hongsheng smiled: "Yes! Yes, extremely! ”

Fang Xuanling smiled again, turned to Li Shimin, and said: "If the cultivated land in Liaodong is really as much as Xiahou said, then the minister thinks that this strategy is feasible. The advantages of this strategy are twofold, one is that the people can be driven by the benefits, forget the disaster of the former Sui conquest of Goguryeo, and support the imperial court to launch the expedition. The people support the imperial court, so the conquest of the imperial court becomes conforming to the will of the people, which is said to be peaceful. Second, it can promote the migration of the population of Guanzhong to Liaodong, develop the land of Liaodong, and firmly grasp the land of Liaodong in the hands of the Tang Dynasty. ”

"Your Majesty, in the land of Liaodong, spies have been secretly surveying for several years, and all kinds of information that have been reported back one after another in the past few years have only been calculated the day before yesterday. Duan Zan looked at Xia Hongsheng, and then walked out and said, "Weichen can prove that what Xia Hou said is true. There are so many in the land of Liaodong! ”

In fact, Li Shimin already believed Xia Hongsheng's words, because what Xia Hongsheng told him had never been wrong.

At this moment, when I heard Duan Zan say the same, I was even more convinced in my heart.

Therefore, it is even more annoying.

"Look at who is occupying Liaodong?!" Li Shimin said in a deep voice: "Yan Ya, Khitan, Murowei, Xi nationality, Goguryeo...... The fertile soil of my Han family has become a barbarian land! I will recapture Liaodong, and the princes will discuss again, how to fight this battle! ”

A group of generals were suddenly excited, and one or two rubbed their hands.

"Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that this battle should be used both on land and water. Gao Jianwu built the Great Wall to block the land troops of the Tang Dynasty, and he could attack it by water first. The United Silla destroyed Baekje, and then with Baekje as the rear, the troops were divided into two routes. All the way out of the state, all the way from Baekje. First of all, the name of the important minister of our dynasty was in the army of Bingzhou, so that Goguryeo thought that the main force of the Tang Dynasty should attack all the way from Bingzhou, so that it neglected the direction of Baekje. After that, the Tang Dynasty sailors landed from Baekje and went north, smashed Huanglong, and attacked from the two sides. Goguryeo was bound to take care of the end. After the sailors landed in Baekje, they could leave the ironclad ships to cruise in place in case Silla had two hearts. Li Jing thought for a while and took the lead in speaking.

After listening to Li Jing's words, all the generals frequently bowed their heads.

Xia Hongsheng was also happy in his heart - fortunately, the time for the conquest of Goguryeo was much earlier, and Li Jing, an open-minded figure, was not so old.

In the original history, Li Shimin did not take Li Jing on the expedition because Li Jing was too old. Li Laoer's intentions are good, but this is obviously a big mistake. Li Jing can be said to be a rare all-round general in Chinese history, at home and abroad, plateau warfare, plain warfare, desert warfare, siege warfare, city defense warfare, and water warfare...... Almost all of them have the experience of fighting and winning, and they can be said to win every battle. For attacking a country like Goguryeo, it is obvious that Li Jing can adapt better than other generals and can play a greater role.

Li Shimin arrived in the eighteenth year of Zhenguan, that is, in 644 AD, before he began to conquer Goguryeo. At that time, Li Jing was already seventy-three years old, and his health was no longer good, so he had to stay halfway through. Li Shimin himself is already 46 years old. Both of them died in the same year, in the twenty-third year of Zhenguan, that is, in 649 A.D.

If one of the two is able to get better and live a few more years, then it will not be too late to completely destroy Goguryeo.

But now, the time for the conquest of Goguryeo has been advanced by a full ten years!

And today's Datang is different from the original historical Datang. Whether it is food and grass, or military equipment, or the confidence and support of the people, and even the bodies of Li Shimin and Li Jing, compared with the same point in the original history, they have all changed too well.

Datang is already more dazzling than the original Tang Dynasty in history. And Goguryeo is still the point of the shining candle flame.

And the remnant candle, can An compete with the sun?

"The policy of defending the country, Weichen seconded it!" After listening to Li Jing's words, Li Daozong immediately said: "If you conquer Goguryeo, this is a foolproof strategy. ”

Li Jing's prestige in the army is unparalleled, and this is also the biggest reason why Li Jing has lived in a simple house in recent years, is willing to do nothing, stay in the military academy to concentrate on handling military academy affairs, and teach military academy students. Li Shimin knows and is afraid of this, so in the past few years, there have been not particularly important wars, and Li Jing will not be used. This is the secret tacit understanding between Li Shimin and Li Jing, the monarch and the minister.

Because Li Jing knew how to keep a low profile, rather than using his prestige to make the emperor feel a sense of crisis, Li Shimin also treated him kindly.

Moreover, the plan proposed by Li Jing itself is the best plan at present.

Therefore, the generals in the army soon seconded the proposal one by one.

"Half a year." In the end, Li Shimin's eagle eyes slowly swept over the people in the hall, and then said in a low but unviolable voice: "I will give Zhuqing half a year to prepare for it." Half a year later, the army marched and the expedition began! (To be continued.) )