My father, Li Shimin, please call me Crown Prince

Chapter 238 Yeon Gaesomun at the End of His Road
The people of this era are illiterate, so how can they understand the righteousness of their country and family?

The simplest thing is, whoever can provide them with enough food, give them hope in life and enable them to survive is their benefactor.

After Li Chengqian tried a noble, he usually took away 70% of their money.

The remaining 30% will be confiscated and returned to the people.

Land and other properties are basically redistributed.

The tenant farmers became masters of their own land and only had to pay one-fifth of the taxes, and the rest was theirs.

Not to mention the poor peasants, who originally had nothing, and now being given money, food and land is like a new life.

Moreover, Li Chengqian issued the Prince's edict.

Order the abolition of all related debts between the people and the nobles.

No matter whether it was borrowed previously or from other sources, all were written off.

They belonged to the Goryeo nobles, and even the indentures and land deeds approved by the government were all invalidated.

Under such circumstances, would the people of Goryeo want to go back to the days before, when they were hungry, cold, and had to work as farmhands for the nobles every day, without seeing any money all year round?

Even a fool wouldn't want to go back.

Once you have experienced this kind of life, you will never be willing to give it up.

This is how the people of Goryeo suddenly became the most staunch supporters of the Tang prince's party.

From the people's hearts to the military's hearts.

Goryeo's soldiers also came from ordinary families.

Now their parents, wives and children are all loyal to the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty. While they are serving in the army, they can also get some tax reductions for their families. Who would not want such a good thing?

When I served in the army under Yeon Gaesomun, I had to carry a lot of food with me. If someone died, they died, and I would have nothing.

Now, if someone dies in battle, the family can receive a pension and even more tax relief, but without the breadwinner, they will not be able to survive.

As a result, the loyalty of the Goryeo soldiers has already surpassed that of the Han people who followed the prince of the Tang Dynasty.

More than anyone else, they hope that the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty can rule them forever.

Only under the rule of the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty can we live a good life.

Have a good time.

This simple sentence reflects the expectations of many people.

Many families that were facing destruction were reborn because of a series of decrees issued by the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty.

Many people have already set up longevity tablets for the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty at home and offer sacrifices to him day and night.

This is a true saint.

Yeon Gaesomun lost.

Completely defeated.

The cities captured by the Tang army were tried and reformed.

The people there were like crazy and regarded the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty as a god.

Don't even talk about instigating rebellion.

If anyone spoke ill of the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty on any street, the people around him would jump up and beat him up.

In a sense, the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty has become the true king of Goryeo.

He is the king recognized by all the people in their hearts.

Not in terms of power, but in terms of ideology.

The war continued throughout Goryeo.

Logically speaking, the counterattack of all the Goryeo nobles should have made it more difficult for the Tang army to quell the rebellion.

But in fact, the Tang army's offensive was getting faster and faster.

This is the general trend.

Often, before the people arrived in some cities, the local nobles were overthrown by the Goryeo people to welcome the arrival of the royal army.

Once the process is implemented, the people will be won over.

Yeon Gaesomun has reached the end of his rope.

Even before the end of the year, I already see no hope.

Just one month, mid-November.

Almost 90% of Goryeo was pacified, and Yeon Gaesomun was forced to move northward and flee into the mountains and forests.

November 23, the 17th year of Zhenguan.

The entire territory of Goryeo has been completely controlled by Li Chengqian.

Boxes of gold, silver and jewelry and carriages full of grain were continuously transported over.

No one has ever done anything so direct as to plunder all the wealth of the nobles.

This is a big country with a population of three million.

He once took advantage of the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty to collect an unknown amount of wealth from the Central Plains.

Now they are all in Li Chengqian's hands.

The national treasury can hardly hold on.

In fact, in many cases, a country’s lack of money does not mean that the country’s nobles are poor.

The wealth of any group of nobles could exceed that of the national treasury.

When all the nobles' assets were gathered together.

It's really a mountain of gold and silver.

The grain has been stored in the national treasury warehouses.

It is more than the grain that Yeon Gaesomun stored in Anshi City.

The food supply for Anshi City to its population of one million was mainly obtained through the national treasury and by forcibly conscripting people, and the interests of the aristocracy were not actually affected.

How much oil and water do the common people have?

The grain had been scraped away countless times, so how could it be as much as the grain stored in the hands of the nobles?

Now Li Chengqian can be said to have truly gathered the entire national strength of Goryeo and held it all in his hands.

However, Li Chengqian did not say that he would generously give these grains to his generals and confidants.

There were some rewards, but they were mainly antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and titles.

It is not an actual reward of money or food.

Most of the money and grain were used for people's livelihood and military expenditures.

More importantly, a large number of craftsmen were summoned to Pyongyang and given generous salaries.

Under the arrangement of Li Chengqian.

A large number of factories were built.

A large new area has been planned directly in the eastern part of Pyongyang as the location of an industrial cluster.

Various factories were built.

It was winter and the people had no food to grow, so they recruited a large number of workers.

Food, accommodation and wages are provided.

The same tactics that were once used in the Tang Dynasty were used again in Pyongyang.

Those small-scale workshops in the Eastern Palace were designed as factories, and large-scale production began according to the assembly line model.

After experiencing war, the entire Goryeo country not only did not feel decadent, but instead felt prosperous.

Because of the generous welfare policies.

As a result, a large number of Silla people in the areas near the Silla border could not resist the temptation and flocked to the Goryeo region.

There is no clear dividing line now, and it is not a problem to walk back and forth even though it is blocked.

Even from the Yingzhou area of ​​the Tang Dynasty, a large number of people flocked to Goryeo.

This is not a politically initiated immigration, but more of a spontaneous immigration by the people.

The Han people in Yingzhou did not have any psychological burden. The current Goryeo region had nominally become part of the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty was already preparing to rename the entire Goryeo region as Liaodong Road, the eleventh road of the Tang Dynasty.

So whether to go to present-day Goryeo or to the Tang Dynasty.

But in the past, even working was much more comfortable than life in Yingzhou.
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Silla, the capital of Jincheng. Inside Wolseong.

Queen Kinderman is holding an emergency meeting.

During this period, Silla was not idle either.

First, according to the order of the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty, preparations for food and fodder were made, and at the same time, soldiers were recruited from the people under the rule of Silla.

They could not disobey the orders of the Crown Prince of Tang at this time and arouse his suspicion.

Besides, recruiting soldiers and food was also part of the original plan.

In addition, there are auditions for popular children and beautiful women.

In the intelligence gathering work on the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty, there was not only information about Le Tong, but also about the Roman princess.

They had never seen Le Tong, the former crown prince of the Tang Dynasty. No one had ever seen him, so they didn't know if it would work.

To be on the safe side, beautiful women are also offered.

After all, the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty is popular with both men and women, so if Le Tong isn’t enough, he’ll go with Mei Ji.

Silla maids were the most popular in the entire Tang Dynasty.

Most of the Silla maids came from wealthy farmers and ordinary official families with certain economic strength on the Korean Peninsula. They had the opportunity to learn to read and write since childhood and were exposed to Confucian culture passed down from the Central Plains, so they had a certain cultural literacy.

They are generally docile, intelligent and clever. After training, they can master Tang Dynasty Mandarin, local etiquette, needlework and cooking skills so as to better serve their masters.

This time, Silla selected Silla maids to provide them to the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty.

The number of applicants reached a peak.

There were strict hierarchical differences in who one served as a maid, but serving as a maid to the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty, the future Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, was undoubtedly an opportunity to rise to the top overnight.

If she is lucky enough to be favored by the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty and give birth to a son or daughter, she will become the future Empress of the Tang Dynasty.

The imperial concubine of the Tang Dynasty.

What a wonderful word.

Even if it was the Queen of Silla who came to see him, he had to perform the ceremony.

For a Silla woman, such an opportunity is undoubtedly the greatest fortune in her life.

This time, even the daughters of Silla's great nobles could not help but participate in the selection, and even did not hesitate to use their power to interfere.

However, Jin Deman was also very clear that the Silla maid sent over would play a key role.

It would be embarrassing if the prince looked down upon all of them.

Therefore, during the selection process, he would even conduct inspections personally, repeatedly and strictly enforce the requirements, not giving anyone special treatment, and only the most outstanding woman in all aspects of comprehensive qualities would be selected before she could be given to the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty.

Relatively speaking, the selection of Le Tong is much simpler.

The first thing is to be handsome. There are not many handsome men, so there won’t be many people in the range.

The people selected thereafter will have to undergo training from Silla's most famous masters of various skills.

And there is not much time left.

According to the plan, it will be sent to the prince after the New Year.

Including the selection, there is only about one month in total, which is very tight.

In addition to the selection matter, there is also the cooperation with Baekje.

But this is top secret.

The details cannot be known to too many people, lest the news reach the ears of the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty, which would be really bad luck.

Therefore, Jin Chunqiu was arranged to go on a diplomatic mission to Baekje, under the pretext of asking Baekje to surrender to the Tang Dynasty.

Emergency meeting today.

It is about the massive population loss in Silla.

Now that the border with Goryeo is approaching, a large number of Silla people are migrating to Goryeo.

Under normal circumstances, this would definitely not be allowed, and local officials would not allow the people to leave.

However, the Han officials trusted by Goryeo intervened in the matter.

He ordered Silla officials not to forcibly restrain the people and to give them the power to choose freely.

The Tang Dynasty was the suzerain state.

Silla was a vassal state.

In terms of official rank, it is naturally one level lower than that of the suzerain state.

Therefore, they did not dare to resist and could only report the situation. They could not afford to offend the officials of the Tang Dynasty.

If they get into trouble, I'm afraid they won't be able to save their queen.

"According to reports from local governments, the number of people who have migrated to Goryeo is already over ten thousand."

"And this was just some time ago. Today, I'm afraid there are more people."

"Everyone, tell me how to deal with this."

Queen Jin Deman also felt very troubled. Now facing the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty, she had to be cautious in every aspect.

This incident happened again.

It was impossible for her to question the Crown Prince of Tang.

"Your Majesty, the situation is special right now. You should be patient and not offend the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty."

“If we win in the end, these places will still belong to Silla. It would be a good thing to let them support us now.”

"But we can't just sit there and do nothing. We can warn these people secretly. If anyone dares to flee without permission, they will be punished."

Vimalakirti suggested after thinking for a while.

Jin Deman thought for a moment and asked, "How can we punish him without leaving any evidence?"

This is also because they were worried that Tang officials would find reasons to blame.

Bidam glanced at Jin Yuxin and said, "We can find some soldiers to pretend to be bandits, and rob and force these people to leave."

"In this way, the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty will have no reason to blame us."

Jin Yuxin was somewhat dissatisfied and said, "What if the Tang Dynasty wanted to arrest these bandits?"

In terms of character, Kim Yu-shin was relatively upright, and he was very disgusted by such despicable tricks.

I asked this question only because I was forced by the situation and could not directly object.

Vimalakirti said with a smile: "That also requires people from the Tang Dynasty who can find talents."

"Everyone knows about this kind of thing, as long as we don't expose it openly."

"It's impossible for the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty to be angry and blame me because a few bandits appeared in Silla."

Queen Kindman nodded with satisfaction: "Let's do it."

Kinderman was in a pretty good mood.

Although there is no news from Baekje for the time being, I believe that due to the intimidation from the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty, everything will go smoothly.

If they could really capture the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, Silla would become a more powerful country than Goryeo in the past, and would not even need to obey the orders of the Tang Dynasty.

But Kindman didn't expect that not everyone would think the same way as her.

For example, her sister.

The 28th monarch of Silla in history, Queen Jindeok, the last heir to the holy nobles of Silla, Kim Seung-man.

Jin Shengman is naturally close to the Tang Dynasty.

This has a lot to do with her love for Tang Dynasty culture since childhood.

Historically, after she ascended the throne, she strengthened friendly relations with the Tang Dynasty and even organized people to imitate the clothing style of the Tang Dynasty to make a unified Silla official uniform.

Although Jin Shengman is already 33 years old this year, she is still a virgin.

Even after becoming Queen Jindeok, Kim Seung-man never married or had children.

It was also for this reason that the line of succession to the holy throne of Silla was cut off, and in the end, it was Kim Chun-chu, the true bone, who inherited the throne of Silla.

Girls' feelings are always poetry.

Older girls are still girls.

She admired the strength of the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty.

She treasured the poem "Qingyu'an Yuan Xi" as a treasure. Even though she knew it was a replica from the Tang Dynasty, she still cherished it the most.

And now, she accidentally got the news that her sister, Queen Seondeok, was going to harm the Crown Prince of Tang.

(End of this chapter)