Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 495
Three years later

Yangong 260 five years summer (475 years)
After more than ten years of hygienic cleanups and high-cost rodent and insect extermination campaigns, the black plague in Yan State has finally come to an end, and there is no longer a single black plague patient.

This black plague lasted from Yangong 220 to Yangong 260, a full 40 years!
These 40 years are the most painful 40 years for all Yan people. They live in fear of disease every day, social order collapses, and turmoil is everywhere.

The losses caused by the black plague were heavy. The number of people who died directly due to the black plague was as high as 500 million, and the number of people who were indirectly killed by the black plague was as high as 200 million. The total population of Yan State was originally 700 million. After ten years of such ups and downs, although there was an increase in births during the period, there are only 90 people left today.

After the black epidemic was completely eradicated, the government of Yan State canceled the blockade order, restarted commercial trade, and allowed free movement of the population.

The first is to restore social order, then to resume production, and finally to reintroduce population from the Central Plains and grasslands.

Fortunately, the black plague only killed people and did not destroy the means of production, so the losses caused by the black plague were relatively easier to recover.

Such as water conservancy facilities, roads and bridges are still relatively well preserved, and there is ready-made farmland and infrastructure that can be used, so there is no need to reclaim wasteland from scratch.

Last winter, Duke Yan, who was almost 80 years old, died of illness. Since he had no heirs and no designated heir, everyone followed the previous practice and elected a highly respected person from the Jiuqing to become the new Duke Yan. Li elected one person to become Jiuqing.

The new Duke Yan is named Lu, and he is 51 years old this year.

Less than half a year after he ascended the throne as Duke Yan, Fuyu Kingdom in the north sent a request for help to Yan Kingdom.

It turned out that in recent years, because the Yan Kingdom has been tortured by the black plague, it has no time to take care of the north, and has no ability to use the barbarians to control the barbarians. Therefore, Goguryeo took the opportunity to grow and gradually encroach on the Fuyu country. A few years ago, it annexed more than half of the Fuyu country. land.

Today's Fuyu Kingdom is only left with the capital Fuyu City and its surrounding territories, with Yan Kingdom at its back, struggling to survive.

In the past few years, they kept asking Yan Guo for help, but they were all rejected by Yan Guo.

Compared with the balance of the situation in the north, it is definitely more important to eliminate the black plague in the country.

Now, as soon as he took office as Duke Yan, Yan Lu planned to use Goguryeo's blood to celebrate Yan's great victory in the war of "Elimination of Black Plague".

Taking advantage of the melting ice of the Whale Sea in summer, a thousand Imperial Guards of the Yan Kingdom brought a thousand Heishui Tusi soldiers to the Goguryeo capital "Woju Port".

Due to the decline of Yan's national strength in the black plague, those tribes such as Sushen and Wuji who had originally surrendered to Yan no longer surrendered, so they could not recruit servants from them.

That is to say, the Heishui chieftains in the Pimao Island area gathered a thousand chieftain soldiers, and followed the Yan Kingdom Guards to attack Goguryeo.

Wojugang was built by the Goguryeo people into an iron wall, which is not much worse than Hu Xia's "Tongwan City".

The city wall of Woju Port is made of hard stones on the outside and soft soil on the inside, so when the catapults hit this kind of city wall, it will make the city wall stronger. It can be said to be a special city wall that restrains catapults.

Dang Yan was also prepared, and this time he specially brought the latest catapult - Flint catapult.

Wrap the stone with gunpowder, ignite it and throw it out to ignite the houses and facilities in the city. This kind of stone is called "outer flint".

There is also a kind of stuffing gunpowder into the inside of the stone, igniting the gunpowder and throwing it out. It is mainly used in rainy days to prevent the rain from extinguishing the gunpowder. This is the "inner flint".

This is the first time Yan has used gunpowder in the military field since it invented gunpowder.

From the invention of gunpowder at the end of the Han Dynasty to the present, nearly 300 years have passed, and it took nearly 300 years for the Wang family to reluctantly put gunpowder into actual combat.

However, even with the help of gunpowder, the Imperial Guards of the Yan Kingdom were still unable to smash through the walls of Woju City. In the end, they could only capture more than 1000 Goguryeo people as slaves nearby, and put these more than 1000 Goguryeo slaves on board. Go, and finally leave Woju Port.

Looking at the back of the imperial guards of the Yan Kingdom who had no choice but to leave, the King of Goguryeo "Gao Lian" couldn't help but shed tears.

"60 years! 60 years!"

"It has been 60 years since my father rebuilt Goguryeo, and we Goguryeo people finally have the strength to resist the Yan people's aggression head-on."

"The era when the people of Yan State came to just a few ships, and they could occupy our Goguryeo land at will, is gone forever!"

"This is the great revival of our Goguryeo people!"

"Over the past 60 years, the selfless dedication of countless Goguryeo sons and daughters has given us the dignity we have today!"

"Goguryeo people, stand up from now on!"

Although more than 1000 people were grandiosely plundered and taken away as slaves, at least the city and the country were preserved. This is already a great improvement. Dare to resist.

At this moment, although the Yan State still maintains an advantage over Goguryeo, it has no ability to eliminate it. Restoration delays time.

The nobles of Fuyu felt that their country would not last long, so many Fuyu migrated to Yan to enrich the population of Yan.

In order to cover up the embarrassment of not being able to capture Wojugang, Yanlu could only make people brag about the capture of more than 1000 Goguryeo slaves, as if it was a great victory.

After confirming that Koguryo, which was developing rapidly, could not be contained in a short period of time, Yan State chose to change its national policy. While recuperating and restoring people's livelihood, it established a siege network to isolate the Goguryeo people, and brought Wuji and Sushen back into the alliance. It is no longer the status of the younger brother before, but the status of an equal ally.

Yan State in the south, Buyeo in the west, Wuji in the north, and Sushen in the east formed a comprehensive encirclement of Goguryeo in the southeast and northwest, completely sealing Goguryeo in the encircled island chain.

The first is the trade ban, especially the prohibition of arms trade and ironware trade. At the same time, increase arms trade to Buyeo to enhance the strength of the Buyeo people, lest they be annexed by the Goguryeo people.

And encourage the common people to spontaneously enter the territory of Goguryeo to capture slaves, and increase the purchase price of Goguryeo slaves, so as to increase the enthusiasm of hunting teams to capture Goguryeo.

Instill the Confucian values ​​of Yan State into the nobles of Goguryeo, and use luxury goods to corrupt the noble class of Goguryeo people, especially the five stone powder. Spirit.

(End of this chapter)