Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 563 Landing in Pyongyang
An Xiyu, the governor of Silla North Province, has been a little uneasy recently.

An Xiyu tried his best to overcome all opinions and asked his son An Shougui to lead the family's private soldiers to build a city by the Yalu River. In fact, he knew the power of Datang better than anyone else.

An Xiyu once entered the Tang Dynasty as an envoy to the Tang Dynasty, and also studied in the Imperial College of the Tang Dynasty for a period of time. He is a well-known Tang Dynasty school in Silla.

But it was because of his understanding of Datang that An Xiyu thought it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take advantage of the rebellion in the three towns east of the Tang Dynasty to occupy the land west of the Yalu River.

The geographical conditions of North Silla Province are very harsh. The small plain near Pingcheng has to feed the population of North Province, and the savages and barbarians in the mountains of North Province continue to harass Pingcheng.

But in the Yalu River Basin, it is a vast black land, and it is also the fertile land where Goguryeo rose.

After Tang conquered Goguryeo, he set up the Andong Protectorate, but did not develop these lands.

Looking at the vast waste of fertile black land, how could An Xiyu, who is the ruler of Beidao, not covet it?

Silla needs land, and needs more land that can be developed. This is the best way An Xiyu can solve the problem of Silla after thinking about it.

Although Silla is a small country, its domestic struggles are not inferior to that of Tang Dynasty, and internal conflicts are very sharp.

The biggest contradiction is the "bone product" system implemented in Silla.

The Silla Kingdom is a country built on bloodlines, the three most powerful tribes in the tribal alliance period.

The three surnames Park, Kim, and Se are the largest nobles in the Silla ruling group. They can not only inherit the throne, but also monopolize the entire bureaucratic system and have supreme power.The three royal families of Pu, Xi and Jin have the highest status and are called "sacred bones".

The children of the holy bone nobles who intermarried with other big nobles are called "true bone" nobles. Although they can also have extremely high power, they are considered by the holy bone nobles as mixed blood that has polluted the blood, and they discriminate politically. .

Under the holy bones and real bones, there are three classes of six-headed, five-headed, and four-headed. For example, the An family where An Xiyu lives is a six-headed noble, second to the real bone noble.

However, in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, Jin Chunqiu, a real nobleman, ascended to the throne of Silla.

Jin Chunqiu was originally an important minister of Silla, and he was in power from an official position. He also traveled to Goguryeo, Japan, and the Tang Dynasty to promote the pro-Tang diplomatic line and launch the Tang Hua movement in China.

Jin Chunqiu assisted the Tang Dynasty in defeating Baekje. He was the Silla monarch who unified the peninsula and ended the tradition of the sacred bone nobles inheriting the throne.

However, the holy bone nobles, who were not willing to let the power fall into the hands of the real bone nobles, fought for power and profit with the new real bone nobles in Jincheng, and many conflicts broke out.

The real bone and the sacred bone compete for the highest seat of power, so the local nobles of Silla and the sent Tang faction like An Xiyu compete for the position in the Silla court.

Jin Chunqiu promoted the reform of Tangization and sent many envoys to Tang Dynasty.

These envoys sent to Tang Dynasty can often stay in Datang to study for a period of time after paying tribute to Datang.

In the later period of Jin Chunqiu's administration, Silla even consciously sent overseas students to Datang to study the laws and regulations of Datang.

After returning from their studies, these envoys sent to the Tang Dynasty could enter the Silla court to hold important positions and promote the reform of Tangization in Silla.

However, as more and more envoys were sent to the Tang Dynasty, it also aroused the dissatisfaction of conservative nobles.

Originally, those official positions in the small imperial court of Silla were all held by the real bone nobles and nobles of the sixth rank, fifth rank, and fourth rank.

In order to suppress these nobles, the king of Silla would often send the second sons of these big families, or simply the children of poor families to study in the Tang Dynasty.

These second sons without inheritance rights and children from poor families entered the small court, which affected the interests of the nobles, and various political struggles became more and more fierce.

Now that King Jin Xianying of Silla has succeeded to the throne, he has sent dozens of envoys to the Tang Dynasty, which has also intensified the struggle between the factions who know the Tang Dynasty and the factions who oppose the Tang Dynasty.

The root cause of these upper-level struggles, apart from the struggle for the right to speak in the Silla court, is another reason is the land.

Jin Chunqiu also learned from the Sui and Tang Dynasties and implemented the land granting system. In the hands of the previous Silla kings, the land granting system increased the prestige of the Silla kings in the country, and pushed Silla's original loose tribal alliance into a feudal monarchy.

However, after the demise of Baekje and Goguryeo one after another, Silla could no longer expand its territory, and with more and more people, the land grant system was as unsustainable as the Tang Dynasty.

However, the original aristocratic power in Silla was strong, and the consequences of the collapse of the land grant system were much more serious than those in the Tang Dynasty.

Local tyrants continued to grow through granting land, and the monarchy once concentrated through the land granting system was weakened again, and local powerful factions began to rise.

Although it was impossible for An Xiyu to understand why there were so many problems in the land granting system, he quickly grasped the key point. If Silla could obtain more land, then the domestic problems would be solved easily.

The king of Silla can use the new land to buy people's hearts, and the nobles can also work together to expand outward, instead of nesting on the peninsula and fighting internally.

For all of this, after An Xiyu became the governor of North Province, he began to train troops in Pingcheng, preparing to take advantage of the civil strife in the Tang Dynasty to occupy the land of Andong. If he can occupy Andong at this time, then maybe he can really restore Goguryeo glory.

Coming down from the small imperial court of Beidao, An Xiyu called Cheng Minglang who was beside him and asked:

"Is there no news from the north?"

Cheng Minglang is equivalent to Tang's secretary Lang, who is basically the son of a noble family, and his main job is to assist the minister to do some writing work.

The young Cheng Minglang said: "The last letter to ensure safety has been received, but it was written half a month ago. General An is building a city along the east of the Yalu River."

An Xiyu frowned and said, "Why did you build the city east of the Yalu River? Didn't the people of Tang already withdraw from Andong?"

Cheng Minglang said hastily: "General An sent a letter saying that there are still Tang troops stationed in Daxing City, and he dare not open a frontier easily, so he just built the city to confront the Tang army."

An Xiyu asked anxiously: "People from Tang Dynasty? Are there people from Tang Dynasty in Dahang City?"

I didn't expect my premonition to come true. Before crossing the Yalu River, I encountered the resistance of the people of Tang. Although the decline of Tang Dynasty is still not to be underestimated.

Cheng Minglang immediately said: "General An's letter said that there are only about thirty veterans of the Tang Dynasty in Daxing City, and the city was built along the Yajiang River just to intimidate these Tang soldiers and make them retreat voluntarily."

An Xiyu said to Cheng Minglang: "It's good for my son to be cautious, but just draft a letter to my son, don't be frightened by the Tang people's bluff, the army supplies are quite expensive, if you can't Bring out the results of the battle as soon as possible, and the opposition in the court will rise, and the father will not be able to suppress it."

After speaking, An Xiyu put on a fox fur coat and said, "Come on, let's go to Nanpu to have a look?"

"Administration, are you going now?"

Although Nanpu is not far from Pingcheng, it takes half a day to ride a carriage. It is already noon now, and it may be dark when we arrive in Nanpu.

Nanpu Port is also a key project after An Xiyu took office in Beidao.

There are many ships in Silla, but the ports are concentrated in the south.

The communication between Pingcheng and Jincheng still needs to rely on land roads, so the transmission of news and material transportation is very slow, and it also deepens the feeling of remoteness in the North Province.

In order to make the North Province and the Silla court closer, and to allow more talents to go to the North Province, An Xiyu presided over the construction of Nampo Port, and recruited a group of shipbuilders to Nampo.

An Xiyu came to Nanpu along the potholed road in a bullock cart, and it was getting dark at this time.

Seeing the increasingly large-scale port, An Xiyu was full of pride. This was built when he was in charge of North Province, and it will definitely have its place in the history books of Silla in the future.

At this time, the man at the pier suddenly shouted: "There is something in the sea!"

Something in the sea?
The Nanpu Wharf has not been built yet, so it is impossible for ships from the South Road to dock?

It's only the first month of the month, so there can't be fishing boats out to sea?

"Boat! It's a ship!"

All I saw was a fast boat with a white sail, breaking through the waves from the other side of the sea level, and galloping straight to Nanpu Wharf.

This boat is really fast!An Xiyu saw that the ship flew out on the wind and waves, and then landed steadily in front of the waves, which was even faster than the wind and waves on the sea!
Only to see this strange-looking fast boat soaring into the sky, the sails on the ship fell, and the fast boat began to slow down slowly and began to approach the shore.

Now An Xiyu realized that the ship was heading for Nanpu Port.

"Be on guard!" An Xiyu immediately asked Cheng Minglang to notify the port defenders to be on alert, and walked quickly to the pier wearing a cloak.

This long and narrow strange ship suddenly raised a red flag, and An Xiyu gasped again.

The banner of Datang!
The Tang Dynasty was still red. When Su Dingfang destroyed Baekje and Goguryeo, the red flag of the Tang Dynasty brought a deep memory to the people of the peninsula.

It turned out to be Datang's ship!
When the clipper ship docked, the dizzy An Shougui disembarked. He had already confirmed that this was Nanpu Port, which was a 30-day journey from Daxing City to and from Nanpu Port!The clipper ship arrived in half a day!
After being surprised, An Shou Kyu was deeply terrified.

It only takes half a day to go from Dahang City to Nanpu. According to the fellow captain Su Xing, this clipper ship is the smallest version, and he can build bigger and longer clipper ships.

If that's the case, Tang Jun can board the ship from Dahang City in the morning, land in Nanpu Port at night, and attack Pingcheng the next day!
With Datang's terrifying weapons, Pingcheng couldn't even defend for a day!

Not only Pingcheng, but if the clipper ship goes to Incheon Port, it is not far from Jincheng, the capital of Silla!

No, I must persuade my father not to oppose Datang, but to be Datang's dog honestly!

Ahn Soo Kyu had a firm idea:

Only by being Datang's dog can Silla be saved!

(End of this chapter)