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Chapter 127: Adjust to the wind
After the Battle of Sigaima, although Gudur successfully retreated back to his country, the trouble was not over.

After all, more than half of the 20,000-strong army was lost, and there was almost crying among the five tribes in Goguryeo.

There was also Bayer who died from a cold arrow, which made Gao Nanwu suspicious.

Therefore, since Gu Duer returned to the capital, there has been almost no peace in the Goguryeo court.

First, Gao Nanwu believed that it was Gu Duer who assassinated Bayer and tried to put all the blame for the defeat on him.

But the five veteran tribes behind Gu Duer were no pushovers. Their warriors had already suffered heavy casualties, and Gao Nanwu actually wanted to weaken them? No way!

So many powerful people said that Bayer should be held responsible for the defeat.

Of course, that's what he said, but Bayer is Gao Nanwu's trusted general.

A group of Goguryeo nobles targeted Bayer, and their implication was that the blame for this war lay with Gao Nanwu.

As the saying goes: One incompetent general can tire out the entire army.

Even if Bayer died on the battlefield, he must pay the price!

Some radical Goguryeo dignitaries even sent people to burn Bayer's entire family without waiting for the outcome of the court debate, allowing Bayer's family to be reunited directly.

As a result of this fire, the struggle in the domestic city suddenly became more intense.

Gao Nanwu wanted Gu Duer to take the blame, while Lao Wubu wanted to attack foreign generals in the country to weaken the military force controlled by Gao Nanwu.

As a result, Goguryeo, which already had the embryonic form of feudalism, suddenly fell into the crisis of division.

At the same time, two major defeats within three years also made the middle and lower classes of Goguryeo increasingly dissatisfied.

You have to know that Goguryeo had a total population of only 700,000 to 800,000, and there were only about 160,000 young and middle-aged people in the country.

It can be said that the two defeats have caused Goguryeo to lose one-fifth of its young and strong people.

Not to mention ordinary Goguryeo people, even the city lords and wealthy people began to feel dissatisfied with the Goguryeo court.

In the past, the government decrees that the city had to implement were now being watched and enforced.

In the past, domestic cities required as much supplies as possible to be handed over, but now they just ask for whatever they can.

As local cooperation declined, the Goguryeo royal capital was able to mobilize less and less manpower and material resources from the local areas, which made the situation even worse.

After all, the Goguryeo court was currently suffering a major defeat, and it was time for it to absorb local nutrients to restore its vitality.

Faced with such a dilemma, Gao Nanwu in the palace was in a panic.

To make matters worse, the Buyeo people also came to add to the trouble.

The marriage contract was finalized, and Goguryeo even sent out a wedding delegation, but Buyeo broke off the engagement.

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"Only one tenth of the Fuyu army remains. Jian's position as heir apparent is becoming unstable."

At Xiangping Ranch, Shi Yi explained softly, "I heard that Prince Qiu Tai of Buyeo wanted to establish his grandson as the heir, and that's why Jian broke off the engagement!"

If we were to ask who hates Gao Nanwu the most right now, it would undoubtedly be Jian Wei.

After all, if he hadn't instigated it, Jian Weiju wouldn't have ended up losing more than he gained.

So when he heard that Goguryeo was in turmoil and Gao Nanmu's throne was unstable, he simply broke off the engagement.

The old man Wei Choutai was as nonchalant as ever about this.

Living a long life means having this kind of confidence and not caring about temporary gains and losses.

However, Wei Zhe, who was feeding the horse, found it a little funny: "So... he remembered me?"

Shi Yi also smiled when he heard this.

"Who made you so powerful in Liaodong now?" After all, all the barbarians and foreigners in Liaodong were defeated by Wei Zhe.

For Jian Weiju, there is no better backer than Wei Zhe.

If he could gain Wei Zhe's support, his position as heir would be as secure as a rock!
In response to this, Wei Zhe could only chuckle: "He is quite confident!"

The reason why Shi Yi appears here today is actually because of Jian’s position.

As the news of "Liaodong Hu Market" spread throughout the Liaodong counties, not only did many Han Chinese tyrants become eager to make a move, but the barbarians around Liaodong also became a little itchy.

For example, he had just teamed up with Taishi Ci to beat up Suli's Mijia and Queji, and they came here just like a dog seeing a bun.

Perhaps it was because Wei Zhe's behavior of building a Jingguan after each battle was really scary, so Mijia and Queji were quite well-behaved this time, just wanting to occupy a place in the Liaodong Hu market.

Although they also wanted to take over all the Han people's supplies in Hu City, when they thought about the numerous Jingguans scattered around, their brains, which had been a little excited, suddenly calmed down.

As for the small nomadic tribes of miscellaneous Hu people around Liaodong, there is no need to mention them.

The people of Fuyu naturally also heard the news, so not long after Shi Yi arrived in Wangping County and the location of the market had not yet been finalized, Jian Weiju sent someone to visit him.

Originally, Shi Yi could have simply ignored this situation.

But what he didn't expect was that the delegation sent by Jian Weiju was actually a wedding envoy.

Yisi, a noblewoman of the Buyeo royal family who was about to become the queen of Goguryeo, was unexpectedly sent to the palace. And she came with a large dowry.

Seeing that there were no outsiders around, Shi Yi leaned over to Wei Zhe and whispered, "Lord, I've checked and found that the dowry that the Buyeo people brought with them this time is a full three thousand war horses."

Hearing this, Wei Zhe couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly.

You know, he had long coveted the Buyeo people's Subin horses.

Although a lot of spoils were captured this time, the loss rate of war horses was high, and no one would complain about having too many horses.

However, what Wei Zhe didn't expect was that Shi Yi hadn't finished speaking yet.

"In addition to the war horses, I also found two hundred uncastrated stallions!"

Having said that, even though Shi Yi was well-read, she still wanted to persuade her own prince to sell himself.

After all, that was the breed of horses from the Rubin region, and there were two hundred uncastrated stallions!
Just as the Han people had always prohibited the export of ironware, the Buyeo people also had always prohibited the export of stallions.

Nowadays in Liaodong, even the Xianbei people's war horses are slightly inferior to the Buyeo horses.

When he thought of this, Wei Zhe, who had always insisted on selling his art but not his body, couldn't help but be moved.

I didn’t expect that the sincerity of the Buyeo people this time was more than that.

Shi Yi took out a transaction list from his sleeve and handed it to Wei Zhe.

"I, Jian Weiju, also know that I have offended you before. I would like to offer a thousand war horses and over ten thousand ordinary cattle and horses every year as an apology!"

At this point, Shi Yi paused slightly and added, "The envoy who escorted the bride is Ma Yu, the son of Jian Weiju. He and Jian Weiju share weal and woe. This statement should be believed."

After hearing this, Wei Zhe actually had an idea in his mind.

Apart from anything else, the strategic value of the warhorse in the next few years is enough for him to sell himself.

If he were given another ten years, these bargaining chips of the Fuyu people would naturally be nothing.

But...it's almost the fifth year of Zhongping!

And if we analyze according to the secret method in "Mao's Dragon Slaying Technique", among the enemies that Wei Zhe currently has to deal with, the Buyeo people are not even in the third echelon.

Thinking of this, Wei Zhe finally nodded slightly.

Well, the deal was done!

(End of this chapter)