Goguryeo must be fought, and with the combat capability of the Tang Dynasty's current army, it will definitely be able to fight. Even if he is in danger, a few piles of explosives can be smoothed out for him.

However, even if it is, it is not rushed.

In fact, the resistance to fighting Goguryeo now does not lie in Goguryeo. Reasons and excuses for sending troops are really easy to find, and if it doesn't work, you just make one yourself, and it's not impossible. The resistance to sending troops to Goguryeo now is actually in the Tang Dynasty.

After all, the former Sui three expeditions to Goryeo, returned in vain, and buried countless Han family children, which led to uprisings in various places, and finally caused the fall of the Sui Dynasty, this lesson is too great, and it is also the source of reasons for the courtiers who disagreed.

It is precisely because of this that if the conquest of Goguryeo is launched at this time, then the people of the people must recall the consequences of Emperor Yang's three expeditions to Goryeo, and they must panic, and even return to the days of Emperor Yang of Sui's three expeditions to Goguryeo in a trance, and that fear will return to the hearts of the people again, making them do irrational things.

To put an end to this phenomenon and enable the people to come out of the shadow of Emperor Yang of Sui's three expeditions to Goguryeo, two necessary conditions are needed. The first is that it is necessary to let the people know and believe that now that the Tang army is so strong, Goguryeo is no longer a threat at all, and this war will not be like the war of Emperor Yang of Sui to conquer Goguryeo. The second is to guide public opinion, so that the people will be angry and resentful of Goguryeo, and then make the people spontaneously seek war, hoping that the imperial court can send troops to Goguryeo, just as the people before longed for the imperial court to send troops to the Turks.

In this way, the conquest of Goguryeo is no longer a "decision of the imperial court", but a "decision of the people of the world", and the imperial court's conquest of Goguryeo is no longer the will of the emperor, but conforms to the will of the people. In this way, the greatest possible support of the people for the war will be obtained.

In the original history, ten years later, Quangai Suwen rebelled, killed more than 100 Goguryeo ministers, and killed Gao Jianwu, the king of Goguryeo. Xia Hongsheng wanted to advance this time, so that Quangai Suwen could completely control the Yuan family earlier, stimulate the rebellion in his heart as soon as possible, and even provide him with convenience secretly, which was his rebellion against Gao Jianwu. Since Goguryeo was canonized by Li Yuan as Shangzhu, it was a nominal vassal state of the Tang Dynasty. There was a coup d'état in the vassal country, and the Tang Dynasty, as the suzerain's country, should have turned the chaos back to righteousness, avenged Gao Jianwu, and punished Suwen. As Fang Cai said, in fact, the army sent Goguryeo, and the reason is easy to find. That White Bone Jingguan is one. However, due to domestic reasons in Datang, it is not possible to send troops immediately at the moment. These times could not be left empty, so using various ways to lure or force the Yuan family to rebel not only weakened Goguryeo, but also provided a reasonable reason for the Tang Dynasty to send troops, and won time for the Tang Dynasty's domestic brewing of the conquest of Goguryeo.

It is not difficult to make the Yuan family rebel. First, this family is now the lord of Goguryeo, and it poses a threat to Gao Jianwu. Second, Yuan Taizuo and Yuan Gai Suwen are notorious and have many opponents, but they are helpless because they hold military and political power. Thirdly, the Yuan family relied on military and political power, and it was also arrogant and rude, and it had other thoughts in mind.

Therefore, as long as the Tang Dynasty spies operated in Goguryeo many times, blamed each other, and separated each other, it was not difficult to intensify the contradiction between the Yuan family and Gao Jianwu.

However, there is one more critical issue.

If this problem is not solved, the army of the Tang Dynasty will greatly weaken its combat effectiveness when it reaches Liaodong.

Cold.

Datang's current cold protection can't withstand the cold in eastern Liaodong at all. Once the war continues into the second half of the year, the Goguryeo people will have the upper hand, and the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty will not be able to exert their due combat effectiveness because they can't stand the local cold.

Since the summer, about 4,000 years, the clothing of the ancient Chinese people was mainly silk and linen in the first 3,000 years, and gradually changed to cotton in the next 1,000 years. In the first 3,000 years, the royal family and nobles used sheepskins, fox white furs and other high-end animal skins to keep warm, and the common people could also use low-quality sheepskins or dog skins to keep warm. At the same time, in addition, "Zhou Li" has a lot of attention to the clothes of the Son of Heaven and the princes, Qiu is a profane clothing, and the way to wear it is: underwear - Qiu - 裼 - attack, and the outside must be covered with clothes. The material of the outer clothes and clothes also varies according to the level of status and wealth. Therefore, the yield of animal skins with good warmth effect is very low, and even if there is, it is also on the princes and nobles, and the vast number of people in the army are not qualified to wear them, they can only use some inferior animal skins, but the warmth effect is greatly reduced.

In addition, during the 3,300 years from the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Tang and Song dynasties, in addition to cultivating grain crops such as millet, wheat and rice, the Central Plains mainly cultivated mulberry, Zhe, hemp, ramie and so on. Bai Juyi's poem "Qin Zhongyin and Heavy Fu" says: "Thick land is planted with mulberry hemp, and it is used to help the people." "With the multiplication of the population and the reclamation of the land, there are mulberry trees and trees everywhere, which is not easy to imagine in later generations of China, let alone recoverable. At that time, silk and linen, which was widely cultivated, was not only used as a raw material for textiles, but also could be made into hemp rope and the like. Silk wool is the raw material for making bedding, winter clothes and other things to keep warm from the cold. The poem "Heavy Fu" describes that in the "official treasury", "the silk is like a mountain, and the silk wool is like a cloud", and the government collects a large amount of silk cotton from the people, which is for officials and soldiers to use as winter clothes.

And the cold effect of these things is still acceptable in the Central Plains. But if it is changed to Liaodong, then it will not work. The soldiers of the Central Plains themselves were not as hardy as those born and raised in the bitter cold land of Goguryeo, and the main warm things such as silk linen and inferior animal skins could not resist the severe cold of Liaodong.

Therefore, either the war against Goguryeo ended within the short summer of Liaodong, or it was necessary to prepare to keep warm from the cold.

For this, Xia Hongsheng came to Anyi Fang near Dongshi.

"Master Hou!" After knocking on the door, the little guy who opened the door was surprised.

"Tell Arhan to come to Benhou." Xia Hongsheng said, and then walked in.

How dare that little guy stop it? Even Alhan is Xia Hongsheng's subordinate, and he is a small man, and he is even more daring. didn't get Xia Hongsheng's words, so he didn't dare to run past Xia Hongsheng to inform him.

Xia Hongsheng walked to the main hall, and the little guy quickly confessed and ran to call Arhan.

Soon, Arhan appeared in front of the main hall on a running basis.

"Arhan meets the Hou Ye!" Alhan hurriedly saluted Xia Hongsheng: "Alhan didn't know that Hou Ye was here in person, and he didn't greet him from afar, please forgive Hou Ye!" ”

Xia Hongsheng waved his hand and asked Arhan to sit down.

Before he could ask, he saw that Alhan squinted his eyes, as if he had never woken up, yawning and crying, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and Alhan subconsciously wiped the corners of his mouth with the cuffs, and there seemed to be irritability between his eyebrows.

Xia Hongsheng saw that Alhan's demeanor was wrong, as if he was sick, and said that he was sick and unwell, so he didn't ask carefully, so he said to him: "Alhan, why do you look like this?" If you are uncomfortable, go to Lang Zhong to see it first. (To be continued.) )