(Thank you Nanying Yu, the senseless so-called support, thank you!) ）

The new seizure of the Liaodong Peninsula, coupled with the large territory of Pyongyang and the domestic city on both sides of the lower reaches of the Yalu River, also forced the Bohai people to withdraw from the alliance with the Khitan and Goguryeo, and received a large amount of war reparations.

But Li Jing was not as excited and happy as everyone imagined, he was very sad.

On the tower of Anwu Gate, the southwest gate of the second city gate in the west of the domestic city, which had just been taken over from the Bohai people, the warm wind of May blewed, picking up a few scattered strands of hair and blowing on Li Jing's face. He didn't bother to move, he lay comfortably on the chaise longue, feeling the cool breeze on his face.

"The king of the county, Mr. Jing, Mr. Li and Mr. Gai are all looking for the king of the county." Gongsun Lan wore a red soft hat and a Luo gauze robe, slowly walked to Li Jing's side, stretched out her hand to help him mess up the loose hair, and skillfully tied his hair in a bun.

Li Jing's eyes didn't open for a moment, he knew what the three advisors were looking for him. With the addition of the newly established Hengzhou extorted from the Bohai people, the Zhenguo Army now has jurisdiction over 15 counties in 10 prefectures plus Ziqing Town. With such a large territory, in addition to Jinzhou, Dengzhou, and Laizhou, the other seven states are mostly newly occupied. Combined, the seven states have just over 200,000 people. The Zhenguo Army needs a large population to enrich the prefectures and counties, and at the same time, dozens of counties in the seven prefectures also need a large number of officials and officials to manage.

There are also soldiers and horses stationed in various states and cities, plus the resettlement of the people after they have migrated, as well as food and housing, and even the summer harvest is about to come. Harvesting grain in the field. and the beginning of summer planting. There's so much to do. During this time, he was busy fighting, and Li Jing was also exhausted. Now that the war has finally come to an end and a phased victory has been achieved, Li Jing wants to take a relaxing break to recuperate.

The successive military victories of the Zhenguo army also brought with them many cumbersome affairs after the rapid occupation of a large amount of territory. If we fail to secure our newly acquired territory, the problems we will cause can even rot the fruits of this victory.

Li Jing found that it was necessary to fully stabilize these new territories. It may mean that for a long time, the Zhenguo army will not be able to launch a major campaign. Because the logistics are difficult to keep up, the newly occupied territory must be transformed into a solid control area, so that the Zhenguo army can continue the offensive with confidence.

This discovery made Li Jing very depressed. He originally wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of Bohai's withdrawal to uproot Goguryeo in one fell swoop and annex it in one fell swoop. But now it seems that if you can't stabilize the territory you occupy now, even if you can get lucky enough to win other territories in Goguryeo, it will be difficult to hold on. Once disconnected somewhere. The entire chain can break.

However, although Li Jing has such an awareness, the generals under his command do not think so. The generals were encouraged by the victory at hand. They all wanted to destroy Goguryeo in one go, and even directly capture Liaoxi.

Li Zhen and Lin Wei of Pingzhou sent several urgent letters in succession, saying that the three military masters of Pingzhou, Liu Xun, Fu Wenda, and Li Juyi, had all asked for war several times, hoping that the troops would go out of Shanhaiguan, take Liaoxi directly, and recapture Yingzhou. Although it was written in the letter that the three military masters were anxious to fight, Li Jing could see that Liu Xun and others were not the only ones in Pingzhou who were eager to fight, and even Li Zhen and Lin Wei, who had always been considered very stable by Li Jing, were already a little unable to hold back. Seeing that Li Jing and other generals have won the land of six states in a row in ten months, it is not easy for them to hold on until now.

And the generals on the Liaodong side took turns to come to ask for a meeting, and after a few words, they began to ask for battle, willing to lead the troops to fight.

Not only did the military masters come, but Li Jing's nine disciples, although they were only the owners of the box at the moment, they all patted their chests and shouted that they were willing to fight with only the soldiers and horses of their headquarters. Many generals even shouted that they wanted to take such and such a city, and if they couldn't take it, they would raise their heads to see the clouds.

As soon as he pulled out and asked to see his subordinates who asked for battle, Li Jing was not at peace, and he had to hide in the domestic city. When he arrived here, there were still many generals who came to ask for him, and Li Jing had no choice but to hide in the city gate.

"Make me a cup of tea!" Li Jing opened his eyelids and looked at Gongsun Landao.

Gongsun Lan is always a woman who can make Li Jing feel comfortable, and a cup of hot tea is quickly served. In addition to tea, there is also beef jerky, shredded kelp salad and a large bowl of gruel. "Look at your appearance, you must not have eaten breakfast, drink some gruel to cushion your stomach, just drink tea."

Before Li Jing finished drinking a bowl of porridge, Li Liang, Gai Yu and Jing Xiang came to the city gatehouse. As soon as he saw that these three were all dressed in Confucian robes with black edges on a white background, holding a folding fan in their hands, as if they had inadvertently met him while browsing the domestic city, Li Jing had to sigh.

"I thought I could steal half a day of leisure, but the three gentlemen refused to give me the slightest chance. Find your own place to sit! ”

Li Liang and the three of them didn't care, and directly asked the guards to move a few horses to sit opposite Li Jing, and Jing Xiang said directly to Li Jing: "The king of the county is really interested, the scenery here is indeed better than other places, the beauty is beside him, and there are white porridge dishes, envy others." ”

Li Jing glanced at him, "If you want to eat, just say it." Li Jing turned his head and smiled at Gongsun and said, "Give our three Mr. Thorn Shi also a gruel side dish." ”

Li Liang and the three of them all held the position of assassin history, and they also held important positions in the Zhenguo Army and the Protectorate of Anton, and the current Northern Expedition camp has not been disbanded, and the three of them are also in important positions. The three of them came in groups, so naturally they couldn't have come to enjoy the scenery. After a few words, he began to talk about official business.

"The newly established Xiuzhou, Hengzhou, and Qingzhou prefectures, the assassins, defense envoys, and the chief officials of the twelve counties below, as well as the Cao officials and even the officials below, all need to be appointed and dismissed immediately, and the snake cannot be headless. Only with the officer in charge, the following immigration and other affairs can be carried out. Li Liang said while holding the gruel, looking at the way he drank the porridge, it was like he hadn't eaten for a few days. After three or five strokes, he turned his head to look at Gongsun Landao, "Auntie, another bowl of porridge!" ”

Jing Xiang and Gai Yu also immediately said: "Give me another bowl too." While he also said, "Sitting on the city gate tower and drinking porridge, the taste is different." The angry Li Jing stared.

Li Jing also knew that these things were indeed a top priority that had to be solved. Then he said to the three people: "Do you have any suitable candidates to recommend." "Unfortunately, all three of them are very cunning. For such an important position as the history of assassination, the appointment and dismissal of candidates. All three of them shook their heads quite intelligently and didn't answer at all. Although Li Jing opened his mouth to ask them, the appointment and dismissal of such state-level officials was the biggest and most core power in Li Jing's hands, and they would never touch it easily.

Seeing this, Li Jing also knew that it was not appropriate for him to ask them. After thinking about it, he said laterally: "I have a preliminary list for Li Chun to be the assassin of Xiuzhou." Zeng Yuanyu served as the defense envoy of Xiuzhou. Xiao Dingbang served as the assassin of Qingzhou, and Pei You served as the defense envoy. Han Anguo served as the assassin of Hengzhou, and Guo Shunli served as the defense envoy. The envoys of the three states will then discuss with the candidates of the counties and counties of the three states. ”

Li Jing found that as his territory expanded dramatically, the officials in his feudal towns almost all held multiple positions at the same time. Especially for those officers, although Li Jing practiced the separation of civil and military affairs, the officers served in the army of the feudal town on the one hand, and the state of the feudal town on the other. The defense envoys of the ten states are basically served by the commanders of each army. This is not a good phenomenon. But Li Jing has no other way to solve this problem for the time being. In the final analysis, there are still too few suitable officials under Li Jing.

The three of them are two people from families like Li Jing, Han Anguo and Xiao Dingbang. The assassins of the two states seem to have something to say, but they don't say a word. In fact, Li Jing was also a little hesitant about choosing these two people, but in fact, if he didn't use them, Li Jing would not have a better candidate. The other candidates simply do not have enough qualifications, but most of the qualified ones are military generals. The separation of civil and military affairs is a system set by Li Jing himself, and he doesn't want him to break him again.

On the contrary, it is the candidates of the county commanders, county magistrates, and county lieutenants of each county, and Li Jing is not worried that no one is available. Since Li Jing established the Wenhua Pavilion in Dengzhou, and gave those talented and famous people who came to consult idle official positions, and invited them to serve as professors, teachers, etc., and also helped them print and publish anthologies, it immediately attracted many literati to vote. Moreover, since the publication of the newspapers, weekly magazines, and semi-monthly editions of January magazines printed in Dengzhou, those literati began to be able to easily publish their own poems and classical interpretations and opinions in these places, and even openly criticized and participated in some local affairs of the Zhenguo Army, attracting more literati to come to this land that made all the literati excited.

Although many of these people are simply literati and poets, there are also many who are very good at current affairs and the rule of officials. Li Jing selected many suitable people from among these people and asked them to serve as advisors and advisors. Now the Zhenguo Army needs a large number of officials, and these state and county officials can be promoted from the original officials in the current Denglai Prefecture, and the vacancies left by the promotion can be filled by these advisers and advisers.

Jing Xiang also raised the issue of the need for a large number of immigrants to the newly occupied prefectures in eastern Liaodong, and according to his proposal, the six prefectures of Jizhou, Jianzhou, Anzhou, Xiuzhou, Hengzhou, and Qingzhou in eastern Liaodong now have only 200,000 people, and the population is too small, which is not conducive to the control of the prefectures by the Zhenguo army. Therefore, he proposed, that at least 400,000 people would need to be emigrated to the states, bringing the size of the states to 100,000. In this way, the land of Liaodong can be completely made a stable territory under the real Tang Andong Protectorate.

"If you need people, you will go to Denglai to recruit, recruit from Pingzhou, and even directly send people to the Central Plains to recruit. Whether it is a refugee or a homeless person, as long as they are young and have no disabilities, they can be recruited. You can even go farther and send ships to Huainan, Zhenhai, eastern Zhejiang, and western Zhejiang to recruit. ”

Jing Xiang smacked his mouth, "It's a little difficult." In the past two years, the disaster has eased, and although the grass thieves made some noise last year, they were severely suppressed by the imperial court, and many people who were coerced were recaptured and resettled by the imperial court. Moreover, it is not easy to recruit people in various places, and now there is no disaster in various places, as long as there is no military disaster, it is impossible for the local government to let the people under its rule abandon the land. ”

Li Jing frowned, also aware of the problem. In the past, a large number of refugees poured into Dengzhou, and even set up teams outside Dengzhou, because of the famine caused by successive famines. But now that there is no such catastrophe in various places, and the military disaster is not serious, how can the government allow the people to abandon the land and flee the famine. When the people have fled, there will be no one to cultivate, and there will be no tax money and no food. The landlords of those estates were also not going to let their tenants go easily.

But now he needs a large number of people, although he has three million people, but the Zhenguo army needs not only farming, but also a large number of workshops and mines. No one, laid down these states and counties so solid. It was impossible to ask the imperial court to relocate the people, and it was impossible for the people in the court to agree to Li Jing's relocation from other places.

Li Jing wanted to scold his mother, in the first two years, people were everywhere, and he still had to pick and choose, and now it is estimated that it is not easy to get a disability.

"Find a way to spend money to go to the local government to buy those beggars, homeless people, and proletarians. Then send people to spread the news that we need a large number of people here, and those who come will pay for settling-in. Then send people to set up recruitment points along the Yellow River, Jishui, Huai River, Yangtze River and other major rivers, and as long as they sign up there, they will be picked up and sent over. ”

Gai Yu put forward an idea on the side, "You can also spend money to buy slaves directly, our goods can be exchanged for slaves directly, those landlords and manors in the Central Plains have many slaves, we can buy them directly, and we can also buy slaves with Silla, Japan, and Bohai." After buying it, we can state that these people will be able to get free after many years of giving us Tuntian, and presumably they will keep it seriously. ”

"Here's a way!" Li Jing nodded, in this way, the Zhenguo army may have to spend a lot of money to obtain the population. But now there is no way to do it, after all, population is an important resource.

If you can, you can actually get the population faster by fighting a few battles. But to where to fight? The Bohai direction has just signed an agreement with them, and to attack them at this time is tantamount to tearing up the agreement, and it will inevitably turn the forced Bohai Sea to the enemy again, which is a thing that outweighs the loss. It is also possible to attack Silla, but the situation on the Silla side is not very good, Silla has not been hostile to their actions, and if they send troops to Silla, it will also lead to an additional enemy.

Goguryeo can do it, but what Li Jing lacks now is not territory, but population.

"This is forcing me to rob people." Li Jing sighed. The most reluctant said in a loud voice: "Didn't all the generals shout that they want to ask for war, then let's fight." Ziming, you will inform the military lords of all armies in a while, and after three days, the domestic city will be discussed, and since you want to fight, then simply fight a big one. (To be continued......)