"What, it's so fast?" Li Yan was shocked when he heard the news, and immediately stood up from his chair, walked back and forth in the cabin for a few steps, and suddenly turned around and said, "Zhou Kun, tell me the details!" In history, Yuan Gai Suwen did kill King Rongliu. Although Li Yan couldn't remember clearly, it was definitely not the eleventh year of Zhenguan.

"Yes! Although Goguryeo looks like a complete country on the surface, it is actually divided into two factions: the north and south. The north is a group of military generals led by the Yuan family, which controls most of the military and political affairs of Goguryeo, while the south is mainly civil officials who support King Rongliu. In the past, when the Yizhi Wende was alive, these civil officials in the south could still suppress the group of military generals in the north..."

With Zhou Kun's explanation, Li Yan slowly figured out the situation in Goguryeo. In general, the powerful minister of the Yuan family and the weak ruler of Rongliu, both sides have their own strengths. Among them, the Yuan family controls most of the military and a minister's political power in the country, with their main influence in the north, while Rongliu Wang controls a small part of the military and most of the political power, with their main influence in the south. When it comes to this force in Goguryeo, one person has to be mentioned, that is, the Yizhi Wende mentioned by Zhou Kun.

Yizhi Wende was praised by the sticks in later generations, saying that he led Goguryeo to repel the invasion of the former Sui Dynasty and was a great hero of Goguryeo. In fact, these are nonsense. The reason why the Sui army retreated at that time was because of logistics problems, and the generals underestimated the enemy, resulting in poor results, which made Yang Guang disheartened and ordered the withdrawal of the troops.

After Yuan Gaisuwen's father Yuan Taizuo died, he was preparing to pass his position of Mo Lizhi to his son Yuan Gaisuwen. The so-called Mo Lizhi is the prime minister of Goguryeo, and even more powerful than the prime minister. However, Yizhi Wende took over the position of Mo Lizhi with his military achievements and other civil officials' support. It is precisely because of this that Yizhi Wende had a feud with the Yuan family, so he and the Wenchen group suppressed the Yuan family and other generals.

Yizhi Wende was a great military achievement and had a high prestige in the army. Therefore, when he was alive, the Southern Civil Affairs Group still had a very effective control of the army. However, since Yizhi Wende died, Yuen Gaisuwen, who had endured for many years, began to make efforts, using the connections of the Yuan family and his prestige for many years. He gradually took 70% or 80% of the entire ** team into his own hands, and even began to intervene in politics. Now the influence of the Yuan family is not limited to the north, but the entire Goguryeo country is controlled by the Yuan family.

Faced with this situation, King Rongliu was naturally dissatisfied with it, but he was frightened by the power of the Yuan family and did not dare to act rashly. However, this situation was broken last year. After Li Yan offered Li Shimin a plan to distract Goguryeo, he immediately implemented it by Li Shimin and sent many detailed works to sneak into Goguryeo, bribed, threatened, assassinated, framed, etc. to do everything, making the relationship between the two groups extremely bad.

At the beginning of this year, King Rongliu finally couldn't help but want to plot to get rid of Yuan Gaisuwen and others. However, the news was learned by Zhou Kun and others' detailed works, and then leaked some clues to Yuan Gaisuwen and others.

When Yuan Gaisuwen knew that King Rongliu was going to get rid of him, he was naturally extremely angry. After agreeing with several other powerful generals, he was ready to take the initiative and launch a mutiny before this year's Spring Festival to eliminate King Rongliu and the forces around him in one fell swoop. Zhou Kun learned about the news that the Yuan family was preparing for a mutiny and was about to come back to report it, but unfortunately the people of the Yuan family noticed it, so he was reluctant to leave him, for fear that he would leak the news.

"What a great opportunity!" Li Yan walked back and forth in the house excitedly, thinking about the impact of this incident on the Tang Dynasty. If there was a civil strife in Goguryeo, it would be a good opportunity for the Tang Dynasty to launch an army. It would be easy to destroy this small Goguryeo with the strong military force of the Tang Dynasty. If Goguryeo was destroyed, then Silla and Baekje were next to him. Although Silla deliberately flattered the Tang Dynasty, with Li Shimin's ambition and appetite, coupled with Li Yan's urging, he would never leave any opportunity for these ancestors of the Kanzi.

At night, it was still a distance from Dengzhou, but the fleet did not dare to move forward in the dark. Li Yan used to think that the sea was so large that he could drive in which direction he wanted, but later he realized that it was not the case at all. Taking this Bohai Strait as an example, because there were many islands, the strait was divided into eight waterways of different widths. The deepest part of Li Yan and his team was only about ten feet, and the surrounding area was full of light and dark reefs. The tragedy of millions of ships being destroyed by accident, Li Yan and his team could only find an island to anchor, rest for a night, and return to Dengzhou the next morning.

Before Li Yan and his fleet arrived at the port, the ships waiting along the way had already spread the news to Dengzhou. When their ships entered the port, the dock was filled with people who welcomed their return. Under Li Yan's special arrangement, the crew of the Tiger Shark Slave Catching Team disembarked the ship first. When they saw these scarred people, the atmosphere on the dock immediately surged to the top. While scolding Goguryeo for its barbarity, they loudly praised His Highness Qi's kindness.

When the huge whale appeared, the dock fell into silence for a short time, and then everyone began to whisper. When they knew that this was the whale shot to death by His Highness the King of Qi, everyone was silent. A god even dared to shoot the sea, and her origin was so noble. Coupled with the legendary color on Li Yan, they not only felt an unspeakable awe in their hearts while praising Li Yan's kindness.

When Li Yan walked down from the boat, the atmosphere of the people on the entire dock fell into a silent silence, and everyone knelt down at the same time, and welcomed His Highness the King of Qi with this highest etiquette.

Li Yan was also very excited when he saw everyone's reaction. After hurriedly supporting an old man closest to him, he said loudly: "Dear Dengzhou people, please come up quickly. As the governor of Dengzhou, I have just done what I should do, and I will not be so proud of everyone!"

"Your Highness is unparalleled and righteous. He even risked his life for the people of Dengzhou. Such a behavior of the people in mind will naturally be respected by us. Please accept the old man's betrayal again!" Hearing Li Yan's words, the old man who was helped up by him immediately said loudly. This old man was well-dressed and spoke in a very literary manner. He seemed to be a scholar.

The old man's words resonated with everyone on the dock, and they shouted loudly: "Your Highness is unparalleled in kindness, and I will be bowed to you!"

As he spoke, he kowtowed and bowed. Li Yan could not stop him at all. In the end, he could only accept this gift from the people. Then he made them stand up and said some words to protect the country and the people. Then he rode his horse and left the dock. As for the whale, he was pulled into Dengzhou City by several ox carts. Fortunately, the gates and streets of Dengzhou were wide enough, otherwise he would not be able to get in.

Although Dengzhou City is close to the sea and many people have seen whales, it is the first time they have seen a giant whale that was killed. And it was shot by His Highness King Qi himself. This strange thing naturally attracted countless people to watch. Almost the entire Dengzhou City people gathered on the main street, pointing and talking about the giant whale. Although this thing is a divine object in their eyes, since it was shot by His Highness King Qi whom they admired, naturally no one felt that there was anything wrong, and even felt that it was taken for granted.

When the giant whale was transported to the Qi Palace in the center of the city, Li Yan ordered that someone be divided in the square in front of the palace. Except for the part left by the palace, the rest were all distributed to the people present for free.

As soon as this order was issued, many people were worried. His Highness, King Qi, was a noble man of heaven and a god descended to the earth. He naturally dealt with the divine objects such as whales as they wanted, but they were just mortals. If they accepted this divine object, would it cause dissatisfaction from God and cause any disaster?

It is precisely because of this concern that most people are afraid to come forward to collect whales, blubber and other items that are cut like hills. However, there are still some bold people. These people are either poor or greedy for cheap things. Anyway, they all happily go up and receive a portion, and even some greedy people even get a few more portions. In addition, foreign merchants have no awe of whales. Therefore, in a short while, the three whales, the size of houses, were divided into cleansed, and even some of the remaining infested internal organs were eaten by wild dogs in the city.

"Husband, why are you so reckless? You took a risk to go to Goguryeo for a few businessmen. If something happens, what will happen to me, Xijun, Wen'er and the girls?" As soon as Li Yan came back, he was immediately invited to the inner house by Aunt Hu. When Wen Xin took Xijun and others to see Li Yan, they immediately scolded him in a series of anger. This was the first time she had become so angry since Wen Xin married Li Yan.

"Wenxin, don't worry, this sea is not as dangerous as we thought. Look, am I back now?" Li Yan said with a smile. He left without Wenxin's hiding it because Wenxin's concern for Li Yan would never agree to him take the risk.

"Hmph, how can we not worry? You didn't come back last night? Do you know how worried Wen Xin was. Not only did she not sleep all night, she even cried for half a night, and she didn't even drink saliva until now." Xijun immediately scolded Li Yan when she saw Li Yan's appearance, but she was just talking about Wen Xin, but she didn't pay attention to her and she looked haggard.

At this time, Li Yan also realized that Wen Xin and Xijun had swollen eyes and dry lips. It was obvious that they didn’t have a good rest last night. Looking at Wen Er and the others, they all looked similar. But what surprised him was that Wen Xin and Xijun had never had a very good relationship, so why did they suddenly become so intimate today?

Li Yan felt distressed when he saw it, and hurriedly stepped forward to comfort Wen Xin's slender waist, and apologized and finally made Wen Xin happy. As for Xijun, it would be much easier to make her happy. Li Yan said the idea he thought of at sea, and immediately turned this little money-loving fan into laughter. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!