The great enthusiasm suddenly erupted from Goguryeo, and the whole country was united in order to roll up their sleeves and do a big fight. The King of Goguryeo ordered that 300,000 civilians be recruited from all over the country to go to the east bank of the Liao River to build a thousand-mile Great Wall.

Gao Jianwu said that this is for the sake of the prosperity of Goguryeo and to avoid the invasion of the Tang Dynasty. Everyone should put in their efforts, and the governments and people in various places should actively cooperate.

For the Goguryeo people, this is a major project. Goguryeo occupied Liaodong for more than 200 years and built hundreds of mountain cities of all sizes, but it took more than 200 years to build them one after another. Now, the king said that it would take three years to integrate the entire mountain city on the east bank of the Liao River.

To make the Tang army helpless in the face of this iron wall.

The entire Goguryeo was mobilized by recruiting civil servants and digging out money and grain.

Not only that, the entire Liaodong defense line is also sending more troops. According to the proposal of Yizhi Wende, each of the nine cities is permanently stationed in 5,000 troops, and 20,000 reserve teams will be trained around each city.

Yuan Taizuo proposed to go to Liaodong City in person to preside over the defense, but Yizhi Wende opposed it without surprise.

According to the newly reached consensus by the court, Goguryeo's focus this year is in Liaodong. The court sent a major official to lead the entire Liaodong defense line.

This is a mountain city of hundreds of large and small, with 45,000 permanent troops and 180,000 reserve troops. In the future, various food and grass equipment were continuously transported to Liaodong. The 300,000 civilians who built the city were quite amazing.

With such power, Gao Jianwu was not at ease to let Yuan Taizuo, the powerful in Liaodong, be in charge of the presidency.

Yizhi Wende took action personally, and there was no one more suitable person than Yuan Taizuo. Yuan Taizuo's status was there. Fortunately, Yizhi Wende was in military achievements and was an important official in the court. He went there personally, and Yuan Taizuo could not object.

Things settled, and Yuan Taizuo was still in charge of Pyongyang, assisting King Gao Jianwu, and also responsible for raising food, grass and weapons, and Pyongyang's defense.

Yizhi Wende served as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong and was responsible for the Liaodong defense line. In addition, he promoted the city lord of Anshi. Liang Wanchun, who was also from five major tribes, but at the same time had a disagreement with the Yuan clan, was the master of the western region and was the deputy of Yizhi Wende, responsible for the southern section of the Liaodong defense line, and the northern section was personally responsible for the Yizhi Wende.

The military leader of the northern tribe, Yuan Taizuo, was in charge of the defense of the south, which was also the scheming of Gao Jianwu and Yizhi Wende. After all, the south was the territory of the royal family and the royal party. Even if Yizhi Wende went to Liaodong, there was still a royal army here. Yuan Taizuo was nominally responsible for southern defense, but in fact, the military power in the south was still in the hands of the royal family and the court.

"I am going to Liaodong here and decided to rectify the defense and build the Great Wall, so that the Liaohe River defense line will become a wall of iron and iron, and will keep the Tang Dynasty from outside the country."

Eji Wende stood at the gate of Pyongyang City and had a heart-to-heart talk with Gao Jianwu who was coming to see him off. "Your Majesty must be careful of Yuan Taizuo, and beware of this old thief doing something wrong."

Gao Jianwu held the hand of Eji Wende, "I will leave it to you now. As for Pyongyang, don't worry. The Yuan clan's power is in the north, and he does not have much strength in Pyongyang. The south is still under the control of the court, and the old thief Yuan dared not do anything randomly. Although the last Western Expedition failed, unfortunately, the Yuan clan's strength was greatly damaged."

"You are going to Liaodong here, remember to take the opportunity to integrate the tribes in Liaodong. If you can get the support of the Liaodong tribes and the city lords, then the court can make efforts to eliminate the Yuan clan and the ones who follow the rebellion."

They planned to get rid of Yuan's clan, but they didn't know how long it took.

When Yuan Taizuo was a father, he was already above the royal family. It was a public fact that the Yuan clan was too big to lose. Several generations of kings wanted to get rid of Yuan clan, but they were not capable enough.

"The old thief was willing to give up the position of Liaodong presidency this time, which surprised Gu a little."

Yizhi Wende also felt strange, "I guess it was because the Yuan family suffered a lot last time. Even his favorite Yuangaijin was captured by the Tang people. I heard that he had a hand cut, which probably affected the old thief. Moreover, hosting Liaodong is not a very easy thing, and the old thief may not have the intention to sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight. We are on the front line of Liaodong, but the old thief secretly protects his strength and is also very scheming."

"This old thief." Gao Jianwu sighed.

"Anyway, the king is in Beijing, just be more careful of the old thief. Once the old thief dares to make any changes, Your Majesty will immediately send someone to summon him. I will lead the troops back to serve the king immediately!"

"Is Eji Wende gone?"

In Yuan's secret room, Yuan Gaijin asked about his father who came in.

"Well, I'm leaving. This thief thought he had taken a big advantage. Don't you know that he was defeated by our plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain."

Yeon Gaijin smiled bitterly.

"It was Li Chao's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain."

The plan was moving forward step by step as Li Chao's reservation, but Yeon Gaijin was not happy. The more smooth the plan went, the more powerless he felt for Li Chao.

Everything was under Li Chao's plan. Li Chao's plan in the Central Plains made the entire Goguryeo dance for it.

Now Goguryeo is determined to build the Liaohe defense. Not only does it recruit 300,000 young and strong men to build the Great Wall, but it also needs to transfer a large amount of materials to go there. Not to mention, the Liaohe defense line must station 50,000 permanent troops and train 180,000 reserve troops.

"Goguryeo is over." Yuan Gaijin sighed.

Yuan Taizuo's second son Yuan Putu said unconsciously, "It's only Gao Jianwu, and my Yuan clan will not finish it. When Goguryeo is destroyed, our Yuan family's Korean country will be built."

Yongaijin did not refute the words of this young brother.

But he knew that Goguryeo, which had been established for hundreds of years, had really come to an end.

All Goguryeo were deceived by Li Chao.

They really thought the Tang Dynasty was going to attack Goguryeo in a large scale, and they thought they would come from western Liaoning like the Sui Dynasty. Li Chao asked his father to come out with the plan for the Great Wall of Liaodong, and deceived Liaodong to put all the efforts of the whole country to build the Liaodong Great Wall and station it in Liaodong.

Now the south of Goguryeo is very empty. Although Pyongyang still has 20,000 royal troops and there are many royal army loyal to the court around it, these soldiers are simply unable to compare with the soldiers sent to Liaodong to garrison.

Even if Li Chao did not come from the sea, Goguryeo wanted to build the Liaodong Great Wall, maintain the defense of Liaodong, and invest huge manpower and material resources.

The whole country built the Great Wall, and half of the troops defended Liaodong.

The Tang army did not need to attack. After a few years, Goguryeo would become weak. So many young and strong people went to build cities and guard the borders, who would plow the fields and who would grazle?

"The wind of faith has risen, and the navy of the Tang Kingdom is coming, maybe it's coming." Yuan Taizuo also sighed a little.

Although Yuan Gaijin is hiding in the secret room of the Yuan family, he is the contact person between Li Chao and the Yuan family. Someone outside is helping him collect information and convey information.

But he didn't know when Li Chao would come, and he didn't receive any news about this.

Huaibei Road Dengzhou.

Dengzhou, Penglai Water City.

Li Chao sat on the bell and drum tower on the ninth floor of the Shuicheng, looking at the dock and military port in the distance.

In the past two years, more and more Taoist establishments in the Tang Dynasty have been established. Although Taoist is still empty and officials are temporarily supervised and specialized, a new level of administrative agency has indeed been added to counties and prefectures.

However, many establishments, although they are roughly the same as those in later generations, have many different names.

For example, Huaibei Road, which was later in Shandong. However, in the Tang Dynasty today, there was Shandong Road, but in Hubei, there was Shanxi, but in Hanzhong, Guizhou and Hunan.

Later Shandong Shanxi had another name in the Tang Dynasty, which was called Huaibei Road in Shandong and Hedong Road in Shanxi.

Jiangsu and Zhejiang are called Jiangdong, but Jiangxi is still called Jiangxi. Guangdong is called Lingdong Lingxi, and Jiaozhou is called Vietnam.

In addition, the names of Shuofang, Suiyuan, Hexi, etc. are also unavailable in later generations.

But these changes are nothing, just names.

The real changes are like the Denglai Water City in front of you. Dengzhou, which is located on the top of the Shandong Peninsula in later generations, has now become an important shipyard for Li Ji Shipyard, and it has also become the home port of the Royal Navy Fubo Fleet.

Also, it is close to the mouth of the Yellow River, so it has become one of the most lively commercial ports today.

Dengzhou Port, Yangzhou Port, Hangzhou Port, Fuzhou Port, Guangzhou Port, Jiaozhou Port, and the six most prosperous sea ports in the Tang Dynasty, and Dengzhou Port is the only northern sea port.

Every day, countless commercial goods are transported from the south to the sea, and then they go ashore or transfer to other ships into the Yellow River or Ji River. There are also many commercial goods that go down the Yellow River from the north, transported here, loaded from the wharf, and sold to Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, and Japan and the south.

This is a vibrant port city, with noisy day and night.

The once small city is now a top-level city in the Tang Dynasty with a population of over 100,000.

"This trade wind has already risen. The ships to Silla going down the South China Sea have left the port one after another. When will we set off?" Cheng Yaojin asked, wiping his slightly sweaty forehead.

The sea breeze in Denglai made Cheng Yaojin more accustomed to it, and it was more comfortable than Chang'an and Xiangyang. After all, it was only a few hundred miles away from his hometown. But staying here every day was boring.

Half a year passed in a blink of an eye, and he was still here. Although it was unexpectedly lively and comfortable to stay here, merchants from all over the world, even those blonde and blue-eyed Hu merchants, Western Region Husbands in the restaurants, Silla maids, and Japanese maids.

But he was still thinking about going to sea.

"I also want to set sail to sea, but this is not enough manpower."

"It's so difficult to recruit a few people," Cheng Yaojin complained.

Li Chao smiled bitterly, "It's not as simple as recruiting a few people. We are not the only ones who recruit people."

Since the beginning of the New Year, a large number of people from powerful families have come from Dengzhou. They come to buy ships from the shipyard and then recruit sailors.

Everyone originally thought that in half a year, the ship would definitely be better, and the crew would be sailors. They even thought that after recruiting good people, they would have to wait a few months before they could go out to sea in the trade winds and rob Liaodong.

As a result, I paid for the money to buy the boat, but I had to queue up to get it. Even if I added the money, I could only reduce the amount of money to pick up the boat every month, and I could not get it immediately.

Even if you add a lot of money and get the boat, all you get is an empty boat, you have to decorate it, and the final accessories and other luggage. The most depressing thing is that you have to recruit crew members by yourself.

Compared to buying a boat, it is harder to recruit crew members. It is harder to recruit an experienced crew member.

Dengzhou College, a school specializing in training crew sailors, was opened by Li Ji. The college recruited a large number of young people, even some fishermen, crew members, etc. who had experience in sailing on the sea, and the college was cramming.

But the first batch of students had long been signed by various commercial fleets with high salaries, and even the second batch of the third batch was signed early.

Now let alone looking for a professional sailor from Dengzhou College, even an old fisherman can't find it.

In Dengzhou, it is difficult to find someone who can get on the boat now.

Each family had to send people back to their hometowns, recruit people in their own manors, and then pay for them to attend the college for training.

Even Li Chao is short of ships and people now.

The existing merchant ships of the Li family were too late to make money by running fixed routes.

"Forget it, wait a little longer. At worst, I won't go there this year. When the ship is built next year, the crew will be trained. It will not be too late for each family to go out to sea together."

Cheng Yaojin rolled his eyes and said, "Will you wait for next year? I'll be moldy. No, you have a few boats? Let's not wait. Let's ride the wind and go to Goguryeo for two more fun."

Let’s talk about it for a while, Li Chao doesn’t know what to say.
Chapter completed!