Datang: Dad, I really didn't want to rebel!

Chapter 199

Chapter 263

The ranks of scholars, farmers, businessmen and commerce are too deep-rooted, and a serious scholar like Su Tan will never allow the slightest bit of sand to be mixed in his eyes.

Businessmen are a bit higher than those without household registration. Their descendants cannot take part in scientific examinations, and it is even difficult for them to stand up for a few lifetimes.

Unless you are like Samurai Yu, who invested money in Li Yuan Entrepreneurship Group when he was still a businessman. After Li Yuan succeeded in starting his own business, he was given a very prominent position.

However, this kind of successful case is difficult to replicate, mainly because the conditions are too harsh. The most successful businessmen investing are Lu Buwei and Samurai Xun.

But the main condition for their success is that the objects they invest in succeed.

Ying Zheng, invested by Lu Buwei, became the first emperor, and Li Yuan, invested by the warrior Xun, also successfully established Datang.

However, these things also cannot change the status of merchants, at most they can change their own status.

Li Chengqian said to Su Dan: "Zhang Yue, the main reason is that Qianzhou was too short of money before. As a last resort, I can only think of some business to make the people live a better life."

Su Dan stroked his beard and nodded, "In this way, it is indeed excusable, but Your Highness, some things can be done behind the scenes, and must not be brought to the surface. If the world knows that Your Highness is doing the business of a businessman, you His prestige will definitely be greatly reduced."

"Don't worry, Yue Zhang, my son-in-law will take care of these things." Li Chengqian said.

"Ok!"

Su Dan nodded, and suddenly said: "You just need to know how to measure, Xiaohan is almost seven months pregnant, and she is about to give birth, how about letting her stay in Xiazhou?"

"This…"

Li Chengqian frowned, looked at Su Han, "Xiao Han, what do you think?"

Su Han rubbed his stomach and said, "I'd better go back with my husband. I think when the child is born, I can see my father for the first time."

"Ugh!"

Although Su Quan had been mentally prepared for a long time, but when she heard her say it in person, she still couldn't help sighing.

"As expected, she was not admitted to the female university. Okay, so if she stays at home for two more days, there shouldn't be any problem, right?"

Su Han looked at Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian nodded, "No problem, I've taken care of Qianzhou's affairs, and it will be fine in a while."

"Okay, Xiaohan, you should spend this time with your mother well, otherwise after this farewell, I don't know when we can meet again." Su Qian said.

"Well, I know Dad!"

...

In June of the 20th year of Zhenguan.

The whole Tang army under Zhang Liang arrived at the city of Jian'an.

Recently, the Tang army has been advancing with great success. In addition to Zhang Liang, Li Ji, Zhang Jian, and Li Daozong also conquered the city of Goguryeo in several ways.

Li Daozong's troops marched towards the city of Liaodong, and it seemed that Liaodong could be captured. However, Goguryeo suddenly had tens of thousands of troops to help.

Li Daozong only had a few thousand people, and there was Li Ji's troops next door, but the two departments combined only had 1 people.

Goguryeo has tens of thousands of people and is defending the city. If you attack the city rashly, let alone whether it can be captured, the casualties will definitely be great.

Both Li Ji and Li Daozong are famous generals, and they want to lead their troops to be the most perfect, so as to reduce a little damage, that must be the best.

Even the counselors under Li Daozong suggested that the Goguryeo army is much larger than the Tang army, and we should stand still.

His proposal was appreciated and slapped by Li Daozong.

Appreciation is because his ideas are in line with Li Daozong's values. As for the slap... it is because Li Daozong rejected the proposal.

It's a fart if you don't move, you've already hit someone's door, so you must work hard.

This is called reverse thinking. Li Daozong felt that Goguryeo might rely on the large number of people and thought that the Tang army would not dare to do anything to them, so Li Daozong did the opposite and decided to send troops to attack and kill their spirit.

After Li Daozong made up his mind, he wrote a letter to Li Ji about the matter, and then asked him if he had any ideas.

After Li Ji read it, he immediately replied a letter to Li Daozong.

It read: "Just four is four. We were sent to clear the road for His Majesty. Now the road is not clean, how can we hide?"

So when the difference in strength was four or five times, the Tang army attacked violently.

This really caught the Goguryeo army by surprise. Tens of thousands of troops were thrown into disarray and retreated.

Then, Li Shimin personally led the troops to block the entire Liaodong siege, attacking day and night, but within five days, the Goguryeo army could no longer resist, and then Liaodong fell into the hands of the Tang army.

In this offensive and defensive battle, the Tang army killed more than 1 Goguryeo soldiers and captured more than 1 people. In addition, there were more than 4 people in the city.

After conquering Liaodong, Goguryeo's defense line was broken. Then the Tang army moved forward and took down more than a dozen cities. At the beginning of June, they successfully took down Baiyan City.

Li Daozong and the others took Baiyan City, Zhang Liang took Jian'an City, and then the two armies attacked Anshi together.

Once Anshi is broken, it will be Pyongyang's turn. By then, Goguryeo will be completely destroyed.

At this moment, Jian'an City had been captured by Tang Jun, so Zhang Liang was sitting on a bed, writing the victory report with excitement on his face.

What a surprise, what a surprise.

Originally, Zhang Liang joined the Dongzheng team just to persuade Li Shimin to give up this idea.

Unexpectedly, in a daze, he made such a great contribution.

Conquering Jian'an was tantamount to expanding the territory for Datang. If he went back to reward him for his meritorious deeds in the future, he would definitely be rewarded.

Therefore, Zhang Liang decided to write down his credit and give it to Li Shimin.

Since it is a good report, it must be written in a good way. Zhang Liang exaggerated his contribution many times in the good news.

For example, to win Jian'an City, all the strategies were formulated by several generals such as Li Daozong, and Zhang Liang's role was to issue orders.

Zhang Liang's talents can be used to govern states and counties and stabilize the country, but it is obviously not suitable for him to lead troops to fight.

For example, after taking down Jian'an, he made a fatal mistake!

Thousands of Tang troops entered the city and only focused on clearing the battlefield, but they forgot the most important thing.

That is to send people to defend!
Perhaps Tang Jun thought that the Goguryeo army was beaten and abandoned, and it should be impossible to come back, so he gave up his vigilance.

However, outside Jian'an City, there were still many Goguryeo troops ambushing. After observing for a while, they found that the gate of Jian'an City had been open all the time.

"Why don't they close the door and be on guard?" a Goguryeo soldier asked strangely.

Another Goguryeo soldier frowned and thought for a while, "The people of Tang Dynasty are treacherous and cunning, there must be some kind of trick in doing this."

A Goguryeo general shook his head, "What do you know? I heard that the Central Plains Dynasty had a strategy called the Empty City Strategy. Could it be that this is what they are using now?"

"Empty city plan? I know, I know, did a guy named Zhuge Liang come up with it?"

"Ah? Is it Zhuge Liang? How could it be an allusion from the Central Plains Dynasty? Isn't Zhuge Liang from Goguryeo?"

"That's right. Looking at it this way, this allusion must come from Goguryeo!"

(End of this chapter)