This year is definitely not a good year for the Central Plains, Li Mi and Wang Shichong are in the Xingyang area, the confrontation has been nearly half a year, since the beginning of the year, the two armies have been in Xingyang, from a small fight to a desperate struggle, all kinds of means are used to the extreme, pile up soil and arrows, dig tunnels, pile firewood under the city and burn ...... In short, everything that can be used has been used.

Although Wang Shichong has few soldiers, but the resilience is extremely strong, Li Mi's hundreds of thousands of troops took turns to fight, fought for more than half a year, but dragged themselves enough, not only Huang Junhan, Cheng Biting Jin, Xie Yingdeng and other dozens of generals were captured, the grain road was also attacked by Wang Shichong several times, so that Li Mi gritted his teeth, but there was nothing to be done, Xingyang Jindi Pass was operated by Wang Renze without leakage, like a turtle shell, several strong attacks were unsuccessful, Li Mi could only give up the idea of strong attacks in the end.

This is not the time when the Wagang army hastily entered the country and plundered the people, so that they were beaten away by Yang Tong, Wang Shichong was obviously prepared for this battle, and since he arrived in Luoyang, he has consciously strengthened the strength of Xingyang, whether it is defense or all kinds of defense equipment.

After several tragic battles, the two sides temporarily entered a period of reconciliation, but unfortunately, Wang Shichong could afford to wait, but Li Mi's military rations had begun to be unable to supply.

There are two root causes: one is the excessive war, from the twelfth year of Zhai Rang's uprising in the great cause to the present, the war continues, there is no opportunity to rest, and the civil and military officers who sit in the local area are extremely banditry, since they do not know how to govern the place, they do the way of plundering the people by exhausting the water and fishing; The second is to be reckless, after conquering Luokoucang, often maintain an army of 400,000, and the consumption of each day is an astronomical amount, which has become a heavy burden, so the loss of more than 100,000 troops has been less than three months, and the army has risen to 400,000, which is not what Li Mi meant, but the generals of various factions do it privately, Li Mi repeatedly prohibited, he feels that only when these warlord leaders are dead, can the military power be finally unified, but Li Mi started, because of the annexation of one or two small' The warlords' are okay, if the whole army is piled up, the generals of the various armies will definitely resist collectively.

This is also the hidden danger left behind when the grain was announced in Luokoucang, and the counties were strong and opposed to the king.

In the face of Wang Shichong, who was outnumbered, he fought to the death, and was able to fight until now, Li Mi felt that it was a miracle. It's ridiculous, but it also shows the difference between an army and an army.

After he was blackmailed by Wang Shichong and took away 600,000 quintals of grain, the grain stocks from the autumn harvest were almost gone, and if he didn't think of a way, the army's morale would be weakened because of the lack of food.

"King Wei!" Just when Li Mi was thinking about these things, Shan Xiongxin, Xu Shiji, Wang Bodang, and Fang Xuanzao walked into Li Mi's official room.

"Why are you all here?" Seeing the four of them, Li Mi barely squeezed out a smile on his face, and helped Xu Shiji, who had not recovered from his serious injury, to sit down.

Shan Xiongxin and Xu Shiji were originally die-hard supporters of Zhai Rang, but Zhai Rang was like a small common man who was a little rich and peaceful, which made the ambitious Shan Xiongxin and Xu Shiji very disappointed, and Li Mi's brought earth-shaking changes to Wagangzhai, and the two also admired his courage and vision, thinking that he Li Mi was a man who could do great things, in comparison, Zhai Rang was too inferior.

But when Zhai Rang and Li Mi competed, the two of them still favored Zhai Rang, at that time they thought that Zhai Rang was kinder than Li Mi, and there was no Li Mi's viciousness and cunning, Zhai Rang treated people with sincerity, and Li Mi treated people with envelopment, which is the biggest difference between the two.

After Zhai Rang was killed, the two who had no burden of righteousness, under Li Mi's strong pull, voted over as a matter of course, and after the identity changed, the two felt that Li Mi's 'viciousness and cunning' was a necessary posture for the hero, and it was a necessary quality for the superior. Now both of them have been valued by Li Mi. Together with Wang Bodang, he became Li Mi's descendant general.

At this time, Li Mi sighed: "The four of you are here, but to persuade me not to use troops against Dou Jiande?" ”

The four of them looked at each other, they all shook their heads, and Fang Xuanzao frowned and said, "How could Your Highness have such a strange idea?" At this time, although our army is tired, but it is more than enough to deal with Dou Jiande, our army is now not as strong as before, if Dou Jiande is allowed to attack the city and seize the land, some generals are afraid that there will be two hearts, if Dou Jiande is allowed to develop, our rear is unstable, the army is turbulent, once defeated for a while, only Dou Jiande needs to send people to rush, I am afraid it will immediately become a rout. ”

"It's just that there is not enough food in the army right now, and if we continue to fight, I'm afraid that within a month, our army will mutiny on its own!" Li Mi smiled helplessly: "The army is too expensive to fight. It's not that I don't want to fight, it's that my strength doesn't allow it. Excessive warfare is the use of military force, which will cause great harm to the country and the people. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty made great achievements externally, but internally it was 'wasted in the sea, and the household registration was halved', and the land under our rule was originally the richest area in the world, but the world was in turmoil, first there was the tyranny of Emperor Wu of Sui, the people were not able to make a living, and then there were chaotic people, the heroes were divided, attacked each other, the people were killed and injured countless times, in order to survive, all fled to the north, although now it is not commonly said that it is ten rooms and nine empty, but it has almost become a hundred miles of no people. ”

Fang Xuanzao is reasonable, and Li Mi is also good here.

In fact, this is the case, the Lord can develop the economy and make the country strong, but it makes the country's combat power low; The main battle can be powerful all over the world and open up the country's territory, but because of the war, the consumption is too huge, so that the economy cannot keep up, and there are advantages and disadvantages for both sides of the war.

Li Mi had a struggling expression on his face, he wanted to fight, but he was also worried about bringing harm to Baixin and trauma to the economy of Wei.

"Your Highness, there may be a way to solve the danger of grain and grass!" A fierce look flashed in Wang Bodang's eyes: "Just give me 1,000 elite soldiers, and within three days, I will be able to gather food." ”

Li Mi turned his head to look at Wang Bodang, he naturally knew where the food Wang Bodang said came from, it was nothing more than exploiting the domestic family valves, and frowned: "This is not good." ”

Uncle Wang said: "Those who achieve great things should be informal!" ”

"I'm for it!" Xu Shiji coughed a few times and said: "Our soldiers were forced to have no way to live by the Sui Dynasty and the family, so they were forced to revolt, and it is our original intention to ask for the people's lives, and it is also the foundation of our world, but now with the influx of the family, we have become farther and farther away from the ordinary people." Without the support of the people, how long can we hold out? ”

Xu Shiji is not aimed at Li Mi personally, because although Li Mi has many problems, he is quite simple and thrifty. It's just that he is a descendant of the 'Eight Pillars of the Northern Zhou Dynasty', and his bias towards the family is too serious, causing many people to say that he forgot his roots. What's more serious is that the children of the famous family are above the top and look down on them as reckless heroes, thus laying the groundwork for hidden dangers.

As soon as the words were spoken, Xu Shiji had no worries, he said solemnly: "Luoyang's original family power is intertwined, and Wang Shichong also compromised with the family, but the result is notorious and unpopular, but now, he is poor and white, and he needs the interests of the family gate valve to enrich himself, and the family gate valve and the scholar clan in Luoyang were almost slaughtered by him, and the rest have fled to the realm of my Wei country." Wang Shichong then faithfully implemented the Sui Dynasty's set of policies to benefit the people, and in just a few months, Luoyang was stabilized, and now it is the desire of all the people. And the family is extinct, but Wang Shichong's money bag is bulging a lot, and he has become one of the few princes with potential today. Why was his army willing to die for him? Because the army not only fought for Wang Shichong, but also fought to protect his homeland, he would rather die than surrender. When he passes this pass, he will inevitably burst out with terrifying potential! How can we deal with the disalignment of our hearts? ”

Wang Shichong relied on the gourd to turn the scoop and quickly stabilized Luoyang, during which it was only four months at most, and the speed was not expected by everyone, and seeing that Luoyang was faintly restored, Li Mi couldn't help but move his mind, so he also bought a detailed governance plan from Yang Tong, but he was forced to give up after a period of implementation, and now seeing Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande, and Du Fuwei are all thriving, Li Mi also feels that he should implement it: "The world performance is to say, we should also use Yang Tong's strategy to govern the world?" ”

"The general trend is like this, and I have to do it. Otherwise, the people under his rule would have to run away. Xu Shiji is very clear about Yang Tong's foresight, the reason why he threw all kinds of governance strategies to the major princes is to let the family gate valve understand that even without their support, the world will still operate as usual, and when all the princes have used his set, when he rules the world, the resistance from the family gate valve and the scholar family will be much smaller, and the anger of the family gate valve will be borne by the princes. But what if you know that you have been used by Yang Tong? In order to retain the people and stabilize the foundation, can't we just bang on the ground?

Now several major princes around Wei are implementing Yang Dong's statecraft, and have achieved a lot of results, Wei is the head of the rat at both ends, resulting in the loss of a large number of people every day and soldiers who do not want to live a life of exile, in the long run must be sucked dry by the surrounding forces.

"Sir, what do you think of the world's achievements?" Li Mi thought about it and looked at his mastermind Fang Xuanzao.

If the Sui Dynasty could follow the example, the people would settle down, but they would also lose many talents.

"It's up to His Highness's determination!" Fang Xuanzao sighed, bowed to Li Mi, and said in a deep voice: "Now under His Royal Highness, there are already many children of the family, and the five surnames and seven sects have poured in, if Your Highness is like this, I am afraid that these talents will be lost." ”

"If you don't do it, the people will run away! Moreover, the reuse of the children of the family will cause dissatisfaction among the generals. Xu Shiji said.

"That's true." Fang Xuanzao agreed very much, he thought for a while, and said: "We might as well set aside a few counties to reuse and resettle the people, implement the governance policy of the Sui Dynasty, and then promote it to the whole territory step by step." ”

"Wonderful!" Li Mi's eyes lit up.

Xu Shiji, who had been thinking hard to no avail, also grinned, and they all fell into a misunderstanding. I felt that if I wanted to implement it, it would be implemented in the whole territory, but I didn't expect that in addition to the promotion of the whole territory, it could also be divided and dissolved, and there were many almost empty counties under the rule, and the people were filled in one by one, and it did not hurt the interests of the family!

Li Mi's eyes fell on Fang Xuanzao, and said, "Mr. Youlao sorted out the adjacent counties with convenient irrigation, fertile land, and safe locations, and distributed the land to the people!" ”

"Whoa!" Fang Xuanzao responded, and said, "There is also a piece of information about Guanzhong." ”

"Could it be that the Sui and Tang dynasties went to war?" Li Mi raised his eyebrows when he heard this.

"Yes yes and no!"

"What is it? Be honest. Li Mi looked serious and said angrily.

Fang Xuanzao said with a smile: "Yang Tong, the king of Qin, led a light cavalry to sneak into the pass from Pingliang County, and a fire burned the Daxing Palace and the palace city clean, if it wasn't for Li Yuan's early opportunity, I am afraid that he would be captured alive, but in this way, his sons and daughters, favorite concubines and daughters-in-law were all captured alive and taken to Hedong." ”

"Shhh

Li Mi gasped and said, "It's so ruthless! ”

"It's really ruthless!" Fang Xuanzao smiled and said, "Is Your Highness still fighting Dou Jiande now?" ”

Li Mi was stunned for a moment, and understood that Fang Xuanzao saw that he was hesitant on the issue of Dou Jiande, and deliberately used this matter to stimulate himself, so he smiled and said: "If you don't even dare to fight a little Dou Jiande, how will you face this tiger in the future." Wait for me to break Dou Jiande first, and then compete with this tiger. ”

There was no hesitation in Li Mi's eyes, but instead there was a strong fighting spirit, Yang Tong burned Daxing Palace, but it aroused Li Mi's infinite fighting spirit.

Uncle Wang said loudly: "Your Highness, do you still want to take grain from the family?" ”

"How can you fight a war without food?" Li Mi Senran ordered, "Pick those who have a bad reputation!" Then, it is derived to a family that has something to do with it. ”

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