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"General, the younger one is Yu Er, the elite scout of the third team of the scout battalion. I found out that it is a mountain of food and grass, not to mention a 20 army. It is estimated that a 100 million army is enough. I have been eating for two months, and I dare not delay, after finding out the enemy's situation, I immediately came to report back."

What? ? ?

Grain mountain? 100 million troops can eat for two months, so 20 troops can eat for ten months?Where did Datang get so much food?And aren't they going to war?We only have an army of [-], and the opponent still has thunderbolts. Is this going to be a protracted war with us?

No, is it going to smash us to death with grain?

Ulchi Takede couldn't understand it, he thought of many reasons, and was soon overthrown by himself.

"Let's wait and see, prepare for battle first, no matter what, they will always attack the city. We have already fortified the walls and cleared the country. Anshicheng is the current west gate of Goguryeo. They never imagined that we would set up two concrete walls in the city. , This is an iron wall, even if it is thunder, I will not be afraid."

In the next few days, Datang once again had no movement. No, it was not accurate. There is meat.

In this kind of life, not to mention the drooling of the scouts who went to investigate, even the soldiers guarding the city smacked their lips one by one. There is no need for the scouts to come back to reveal the truth. , people in the city can't avoid it.

Ulchi Wude was depressed for a while, Da Tang is too damaged, he is so strong, and he is not going head-to-head in actual combat, but still playing clever tricks?Isn't this bullying?

What are you doing?Don't fight well and eat and drink all day long?Can this take us down?Does it make us drool to death?

With 20 troops in hand, why not attack the city?Are you so afraid of death?It's a pity why our Goguryeo is so poor?Even this general can no longer guarantee to eat a meal of meat every day.

In fact, he didn't know that at this level, Yuan Gai Suwen tried his best to spare the rations for his frontline soldiers.

Because the front-line defenders have been confronting the Tang army since a few months ago, the consumption of the [-] troops in the past few months is a terrifying figure. It's urgent.

At this time, Yuangai Suwen was also struggling with a rumor, that is, Bai Fan, who had already done his work, put the advertisements he wrote on the people and cities of Goguryeo. No one knew that every city was flying all over the sky. Where did the white paper come from, it seems to have appeared out of thin air.

Even villages in various places gradually appeared in the hands of local people more or less within a few days.

This is paper, white and white paper, I heard that only dignitaries have seen this thing, ordinary scholars can't touch such good paper, why it looks like it fell from the sky, the sky is full yes?

The most important thing is the content on the paper. Most people are illiterate, but if there is a thought that can read, everyone can understand it all.

But how is this possible?Is that a good thing?It's obviously a lie. If there is such a good thing, don't the people of Datang take it all by themselves?

Most people don't believe it, but this also caused the first wave of public opinion offensive to Goguryeo, which is tentative. Yuan Gai Suwen can't see it well. I know very well that due to the war in Goguryeo this year, there is a serious shortage of food. If the people have a day without food, they will definitely try their luck.

But Yuan Gai Suwen didn't expect that the leaflets flying all over the sky were just the first news of Goguryeo's bad news, and the next death knell made him, a hero in this world, tremble. Datang completely sealed off the border and prohibited any business with the peninsula. Not even needles and threads flow into the peninsula.

Even Silla's curved trade method was cut off by Datang. In other words, Datang was about to attack. This time, the attack was aimed at the entire peninsula, and even Silla was counted as the enemy.

It's over. Goguryeo is short of supplies and cannot be self-sufficient at all. Baekje and Silla are poorer than us. If things go on like this, the country will be chaotic. How dare Tang Dynasty do this?Thousands of generations have never seen a court that dared to block merchants like this, even smuggling. Could it be that the Tang Dynasty has already united to such a degree?Did Emperor Li Er have complete control over everything?

For the first time, Yuan Gai Suwen felt a feeling of fear in his heart.

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Chapter 762 Rumors and Panic

In the city of Pyongyang, a rumor spread around the people at lightning speed that Datang had cut off all the commercial routes of Goguryeo, and they would no longer be able to buy anything from Datang.

This rumor made those ignorant people think it was a fantasy. What is the trade route?That is the lifeblood of trade from south to north. If someone comes and goes, there will be a trade route. How to cut it off?

Besides, even if Datang and Goguryeo belong to enemy countries, it is impossible to move the merchant class in the world. What about controlling business?If it was a coercive method, I am afraid that there would have been chaos in Datang.

But they never imagined that in Datang, not only the government represented by the emperor can influence merchants, but also the leader of merchants in Tang Dynasty, Lantian Hou Baifan, who holds the world's number one chamber of commerce, the Baishi Chamber of Commerce, and has several sub-chambers under its jurisdiction: The Chamber of Commerce, the Zhongnan Chamber of Commerce, the United Chamber of Commerce, etc., it can be said that Bai Fan alone represents half the sky of the Datang business community.

As long as Bai Fan says a word, businessmen need to cooperate with the great plan to destroy the country. No one in the world dares to show their heads. Even if they take a little risk and want to smuggle, they will probably be captured by the impeccable intelligence network of the Beggar Clan within a day. It can be said that this On the one hand, Bai Fan is more powerful than the emperor.

Even those aristocratic business houses that have been passed down for thousands of years still have to act according to Bai Fan's wink. Whoever dares to be disobedient will soon have the Bai's Chamber of Commerce to ban the original business of these people. There is no way. Strength, but the strength of producing and selling high-quality products in any industry.

The topic goes back to the city of Pyongyang in Goguryeo. Unlike many unresponsive people, many smart people have realized that something is wrong, especially the shops in the city. Many shops announced their closure when the rumors started.

This is the sensitivity of merchants. Even if these people are only retailers at the bottom level and have no access to the upper-level firms that are interested in Datang Trade, they know that there is nothing wrong with it. The goods on the website can no longer be sold. Some people think that rare goods can be lived in, and they will become rare after hoarding.

In the palace of Goguryeo, many of the original big families of Goguryeo have come to the door. Without him, foreign trade is the channel for these families to make money. Now that the channel is blocked by the government, it should be solved by the government, even if it is Datang. If it is unilateral, Goguryeo should also send envoys to communicate and resolve it.

Yuan Gai Su Wen thought, if it can be solved by diplomatic reprimand, then there will be no such things at all. This time, it is obvious that the Tang Dynasty is coming aggressively, and it is going to kill me, Goguryeo. A group of vampires of the people need your money and effort to serve the country I didn't see where I was when I was there, and now I can't make money and think of the court.

Goguryeo, whose heart is like a mirror, is against Lu, and his vision is far ahead of everyone else. This time, Datang is going to kill him. Even if he sends diplomats, it will not help. But these families don’t know, so let’s take advantage of the news. Although there is a time difference, we can get some practical benefits from their arms.

"It is absolutely unbearable for Datang to bully me like this.

However, now that the imperial court is facing internal and external troubles, border guards are still struggling to defend against the enemy, and the ministers of the court are busy day and night. If this matter is to be completed, do you also consider contributing to the defense of the country? ? "

Yuan Gai Su Wen bluntly wants to benefit.

These people have been in business for many years, so of course they are extremely shrewd. If they want horses to run, they have to eat grass. The sooner they get through the business barriers, the sooner everyone can earn money, there is nothing wrong with it.

"My Golden Grain Chamber of Commerce will send thousands of grains of grain to comfort the frontline soldiers." An old man was the first to speak. This is the person in charge of the largest chamber of commerce in Goguryeo.

"Our Jinchou Chamber of Commerce will pay five thousand guan."

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One by one the merchants all spoke up one after another, some offered money, some offered food, of course they still paid a lot, firstly because they didn’t have much food in their hands, and secondly, many smart people understood that in the current troubled times, food is the most important thing. Hard currency, money is somewhat useless.

As for whether these people have ever worried about front-line wars and the like, are you kidding?Back then, the Sui Dynasty in the Central Plains raised 200 million troops three times to invade, didn't they still return in defeat?Datang 20 to destroy Goguryeo?Ghosts don't believe it, which is why many people give money readily.

But five days later, bad news came from the border. All the diplomats sent to Datang were detained as prisoners, and none of them came back. Goguryeo belongs to the enemy country, and it will never do business, and no goods are allowed to flow into Goguryeo. As for diplomats?Take money to redeem, in order to avenge the killing of my Tang envoy last time.

It's just that Li Jing's price is a bit high, and he will soon be able to buy a city of Goguryeo, so it is impossible for Yuan Gai Suwen to agree.

Soon this news spread to the country via the Anshi City defenders, and the previous rumors were officially confirmed, and the people were all in chaos.

Yuan Gai Suwen was furious, Datang was despicable, and the detainment of envoys was nothing more than to prevent us from covering up the news, and at the same time conspired to cause panic among the domestic people through the mouth of the border guards, such a vicious strategy.

The common people had to panic. If the Tang Dynasty cut off the commercial roads, and did not talk about clothes and cloth, but food, the food would definitely not be enough. In the past, the food produced by Goguryeo itself could not be enough for a year, and many of them belonged to the Tang Dynasty. Grain merchants sold it at a high price.

As for whether merchants in the Tang Dynasty bought and sold grain to Goguryeo, whether this behavior was treason, obviously it was not in the Tang Dynasty, even in the former Sui Dynasty.

The food in the hands of the people, except for the food tax that must be paid to the court every year, the rest is the surplus food of the family. Some people have more acres of land and sufficient food production. Naturally, they will not let the hoarded food rot in the warehouse, and will sell it. To the officials and merchants of the imperial court, or to sell to private merchants to collect grain.

In this way, some of the grain in the hands of these merchants is sold to people in the city who have no land, and more is sold to foreign countries to export grain. Doing this business can stimulate the economy and make money faster.

But this time, Datang cut off the commercial road, that is, cut off the grain road. On the day when the grain store in the city was closed, even an ordinary person knew that the surplus grain at home was not enough to survive the winter, and there would be a famine.

That's right, not only Pyongyang City, but also other cities in Goguryeo. Ba Lai described it, if it wasn't for eating, I'm afraid people would starve to death this winter.

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Chapter 763 Tunning Grain, Unlimited Tunning Grain

After the failure of diplomacy, the Goguryeo court could no longer hide any news, but all the nobles of some status knew that a disaster was coming. Maybe it would not be necessary for the army of the Tang Dynasty to fight, and a big war would break out in the country because of food.

The Golden Grain Chamber of Commerce was taken away by the big opponent Lu Yuangai Suwen. A thousand shi of grain is just a drop in the bucket. The Golden Grain Chamber of Commerce accounts for [-]% of the entire grain industry in Koguryo. It can be said that every city has their grain shops. Even if there is no food from Datang, relying on their grain alone, it can be sold normally in the country for a month.

It's just that in this period, even if someone has food in their hands, they have to hide it, and no one dares to publicize how much food they have, otherwise the people around them will be red-eyed, and they may do something for the ration of survival dangerous thing.