Chapter 1128 The vassal king is engaged in trouble
In fact, it is not just the emperors of big empires who are causing trouble, but also "old men" who have some assets will often face this kind of thing.
Therefore... let alone other methods, the Xianbei people have been able to develop and grow to this day and even established Goguryeo - the founding of the country was not short, and of course they have their own methods.
There are no exquisite methods, but there are still many rough methods. Not to mention the distance, the two big cities of Xuantu City and Anshi City are extremely solid.
In this way, even if the general goes south or west to expand in the Grass Valley, with these two big cities supporting him, at least it will be difficult to turn back and cause trouble.
As for how high the difficulty is? Anyway, in Li Sheng's world line, the Tang Dynasty conquered Goguryeo several times. As a result, even Li Er overturned many times and tried 11,100,000 ways, but he couldn't break through the Anshi City Fortress.
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Of course, in addition to Anshi City, Xuantu City in front should not be underestimated... After all, they all have the intention of controlling the vassal king.
At this moment, in Xuantu City, there happened to be a certain noble person from Goguryeo.
From the king Gao Jianwu to the famous military minister Yeon Gaesumun, as well as several generals... a group of people gathered here.
In the hall, Gao Jianwu was seen walking around with a pale face.
In the past two years, Gao Jianwu felt that Goguryeo was also an adventure sent from heaven, and even made him feel that maybe Goguryeo was really favored by God...
In the past, Goguryeo was at war with the Tang State. After a great battle, Goguryeo's vitality could be said to be severely damaged.
Gao Jianwu was worried day and night. He was worried that if Tang continued to advance with the power of its great victory, would Goguryeo be able to withstand it?
Normally, it wouldn't be that scary. After all, Goguryeo's lively Guozuo has been around for quite some time. If Hyuntu City and Anshi City were so easy to break, Goguryeo wouldn't be alive today.
But...it's hard to say how far Goguryeo can resist after being defeated in the field!
Fortunately, Gao Jianwu soon received good news. The Tang State had no intention of continuing to send troops to conquer Goguryeo, but was busy with overseas affairs...
The Tang Empire was going to expand towards the sea in the south, which really made Gao Jianwu breathe a sigh of relief.
The founding king of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan, defeated all the heroes, and today's leader Li Er has made countless military exploits. He is truly a ruthless person.
Do these people have a strong desire to expand? That is simply an idiotic question that cannot be answered...
No one knows when it will expand to Goguryeo.
But fortunately, there may be something more charming than Goguryeo outside the ocean. The Tang Dynasty did not come for a while, which made Gao Jianwu breath a sigh of relief - but not completely relieved.
After all, although the Tang Kingdom did not come, it is said that it expanded rapidly at sea.
Now the Tang State has not even moved its imperial army, and their maritime merchants have already spread everywhere. Their imperial army has only beaten pirates so far... But even so, the Tang State's maritime imperial army has become famous all over the world.
In short, the Tang Dynasty just did not expand northward, it is not that it did not expand, they expanded rapidly...
After a great defeat, Gao Jianwu heard how much warm land the Tang State occupied outside the southern sea, which produced grain like fountains, and beat the heads of the large bandits who led hundreds of ships to bloody ends.
I couldn't help but feel frightened.
I can't bear to have such a neighbor.
It was simply unbearable, and Gao Jianwu didn't just feel that he couldn't stand it, he really thought of many solutions from the premise of "unbearable".
For example...sending beautiful women to the Tang Dynasty for marriage. The climate in Goguryeo is cold, but people are tall, and beautiful women are often in good shape. For example...sending gifts, sending...
But after much thought, Gao Jianwu gave up all these thoughts because of the news from the south...
Gao Jianwu wanted to understand one thing. Didn't those tribes and countries overseas to the south of the Tang Dynasty send them gifts? It was impossible not to send them.
So what is the effect? Anyway, it is said that the area of the Tang Dynasty's military towns in the South China Sea is almost as big as Goguryeo...
Why don't you give me an egg? Sooner or later, this will become the territory of the Tang State.
Of course... there is another way, and Gao Jianwu also knows it, that is to directly surrender.
But...thinking about it, it seems that it may not be reliable, because the Tang State has a habit of sending protons to Chang'an after professing vassalage. If something goes wrong, they can just have them go there - this seems too much. After all, the Tang State has a short period of time.
Yes...Isn't it true that we haven't taken action against Goguryeo yet?
But although the years of worry are sad...
But one day, Gao Jianwu encountered an adventure.
It was a wave of messengers coming all the way from the west.
This wave of envoys claimed to be from Rome and came specifically to become allies with Goguryeo!
To the west... Gao Jianwu thought for a long time and didn't know when there would be Rome in the west. He only knew that there was a Turk, but weren't the Turks already finished?
However, despite the entanglement and doubts in my heart, after all, having an ally is better than having no one at all... Besides, to see if this ally can be of any use, you have to try it out first.
This contact with Gao Jianwu felt like a huge pie fell from the sky.
Rome directly sent gunpowder technology, steel-making technology, papermaking and printing technology to Goguryeo... and even sent chemical fertilizers to Goguryeo!
This was something that Gao Jianwu was so greedy that he had lost sleep for countless nights.
But unfortunately, the craftsmen of Goguryeo were not as powerful as those of the Tang Dynasty. This thing was extremely complicated to make, and even many of the equipment... Goguryeo couldn't even make it.
So there was nothing else to do. Slowly, Goguryeo gradually accepted its fate and gave up on refining fertilizers.
But this time, Rome actually promised that Goguryeo could send a large-scale convoy there every year to receive fertilizer directly from Rome!
Of course, it was not easy along the way, because most of the territory to the west of Goguryeo was the original Turkic territory.
Now that the Turks are finished, they have become the foundation of the Tang Dynasty. It is not easy to transport fertilizers on such a large scale.
Of course, fortunately, Goguryeo didn't have many things but a lot of awesome riders. In addition, it was more familiar with Mobei than Tang Dynasty. After gradually trying various ways, it finally worked.
The power of chemical fertilizers is also obvious.
In the past two years, Goguryeo, which was originally severely weakened by a major defeat, regained its strength in an instant!
The wealth of cattle, sheep and horses is beyond description.
I don’t know how many tribes there are in the surrounding areas. They all originally belonged to Goguryeo’s moderation, but outside the core area, many tribes were thorny and stubborn.