Late at night! Snowflakes of goose feathers flutter down from the sky.

The winding corridor in the Ziwei Palace, occasionally the loyal Shura Guards pass by, except for the sound of soldiers stepping on the snow, there is only the sound of the north wind whistling, everything is very quiet.

At this time, Yang Tong, under the guidance of the hazy lantern, walked briskly from the Fengyi Hall to the Huiyou Palace.

Entering the palace gate, he untied the big coat on his body, handed it to Yin Mingyue, walked inside, and said with a smile: "It's a heavy snowfall, and I feel that Luoyang is actually a little colder than Yecheng." ”

"Luoshui passes through the city, there are streams and valleys in the west, and the Yellow River in the north, this night wind blows, of course, it is colder than Yecheng, and you will get used to it in a few days... Yecheng has the Taihang Mountains to block the wind! Wei Yunqi, who got up to greet him, pointed to Beibi Mountain, and said with a smile: "Beibi Mountain is in the north of the city, but the mountain is too low to block the wind. ”

"Rui Xue Zhaofeng year, good signs..."Ling Jing nodded in agreement.

Heavy snow can freeze the eggs hidden in the soil, and can also allow the soil layer to store a considerable amount of water, which is beneficial to spring planting and crop growth and development.

"In the past few days, the counties in various places have been guarding the table, and they have said that it has snowed heavily, which is indeed a good year for our Great Sui, but it may not be outside the territory." Yang Tong smiled and sat on the main seat, and then spoke: "Foreigners are not good at farming, they take livestock as their staple food, and very little barley and wheat are only auxiliary food, whenever a blizzard comes, some old and young will die in winter, and many cattle and sheep will freeze to death and starve to death, resulting in a large reduction in food in the coming year, and then there will be turmoil. ”

Wei Yunqi nodded in agreement, "What the Holy Lord said is extremely true, during the period of the Second Emperor of Wenwu and Wu, there were almost every year when foreign races committed crimes. Fortunately, the surrounding alien races are all scared, and with the new Great Wall guarding the border, it should be fine. ”

"I think we should pay special attention to it this year, especially in the north, recently, the Black Ice Observatory has been receiving news that it is said that Jieli Khan Ashina and Yi Nan have close contacts, and they are still trying their best to win over the Khan of the Tiele Khail Khagan He Li, and they have been looking for trouble with Ashina Simo in an attempt to reunify the East/Turks." Speaking of this, Ling Jing bowed his hand to Yang Tong and said, "This is also one thing that Wei Chen wants to say tonight. ”

Yang Tong nodded slightly, a trace of disdain flashed in his eyes, and he snorted coldly: "Ashina Simo is no longer a thing, and he is also the Eastern/Turkic Great Khan who I personally canonized. Want to unify the Eastern/Turkic? asked me if Da Sui had it, and I saw that he had healed the scars and forgot the pain, and he didn't need to clean up. ”

The current Great Sui is not the Great Sui of the past few years, and the Turks are not the beginning of the period with millions of people who control the strings, they are now divided, and there are many contradictions between them, and the four major forces of Ashina Simo, Ashina Dubi, Yi Nan, and Qi Bi He Li are all now all under the orders of the Great Sui, as long as Yang Tong says that he wants to fight a certain force, the other three forces, whether they are afraid of the Great Sui or not, for their own interests, they will definitely join forces to deal with the fourth force.

"Don't underestimate Jieli!" Ling Jing Zhengse said: "Jieli is an extremely ambitious and talented khan. In terms of talent, Ashina Simo, Yi Nan, and Qi Bi He Li are tied together, and they are not his opponents. This man is ambitious, ambitious, and has always had the intention of taking advantage of the Central Plains, and he is so anxious to regain the position of the Great Khan, it is estimated that one is for the sake of power, and the other is to be able to get a piece of the pie like his brother Shibi when I am in the civil strife of the Great Sui. Once he reunites the Eastern/Turkic Turks, the next step must be to go south, which must be guarded against. ”

"Now that we've said that, let's revisit the Eastern/Turkic issue." Yang Tong of course knows the power of Jieli, in history, he brought the Turks into their heyday, under his leadership, the Turks began to invade the Central Plains, if Ashina Simo and Yi Nan, Qi He Li were destroyed by him, then there was no containment within the Turks, at most two or three years, there will be a powerful East/Turk in the north of the Great Sui.

"Holy Lord, now we should focus on the unification of the Great Sui, followed by foreign races!" Ling Jing arched his hand and said: "First stabilize the situation of the four Turkic countries, wait until I and I are unified by the Great Sui, and then turn the blade to the outside world, so that the foreign tribes can return to their hearts There are no more than three ways: one is to stabilize the position of Ashina Simo Great Khan, and then use Hu to control Hu; The second is to completely annihilate the Turks, but this is not a long-term solution, once our tribe is weakened, or a foreign tribe is born, it will still resurge; The third is assimilation, which is nothing more than moving them into the hinterland of the Central Plains, dividing and relocating, they live among thousands of Han people, in order to integrate into the public, they will have to give up their personal beliefs, take the initiative to accept our culture, get used to our customs, and thus transform them into Sui people step by step, so that the problem can be fundamentally solved, but the time will be very long. ”

"Since our internal problems have not been completely resolved, the third method cannot be implemented on a large scale, and if we take drastic measures now, we will only force the four departments into one, and one more big enemy will emerge out of thin air, which is not a good thing for our Great Sui. Therefore, they can only use the slave trade to devour their vitality, and can only use Sui nationality to attract their initiative to join, although the effect is slow, but it is steady. ”

"For the Turks, the minister thought that he would continue to implement the steady way, once Jieli moved, the saint would order other tribes to launch a fierce siege of Jieli with the respect of the saint Khan, in order to protect the coexistence of the four Turkic countries, if the other three jointly attack Jieli, it is also to order all departments to protect Jieli, so that the potential of the Turks can be consumed by killing, once they encounter a disobedient tribe, directly send the elite cavalry into the grassland, destroy their army, destroy their department, cast a great ferociousness, and for those who are loyal to the Great Sui, they can be rewarded heavily, so that grace and power are given, so that they can be in awe from the bottom of their hearts. As long as they continue to be so chaotic, the battle for the unification of our Great Sui and the stability of the border fortress will play a huge role. ”

Yang Tong and Wei Yun felt that Ling Jing's words had a strong smell of blood, but after all, they were aimed at foreign clans, so they nodded in agreement.

"Let all the border counties take precautions; Xue Wanshu and Zhou Shaofan led 30,000 soldiers of the Fourth Army to enter Pegasus County, and the headquarters of Siping City was led by Mai Zhongcai. At the same time, in the name of the sage Khan, he sent an order to the four Turkic tribes, asking them to give priority to disaster relief and reassuring the people, and those who dared to mobilize troops against other tribes would be conquered by the other tribes. Giving the order, Yang Tong couldn't help but instruct Ling Jing, "The contact with 007 can't be relaxed, and I have to know every move of Jieli." ”

"Whoa!" Ling Jing solemnly complied.

"Listening to Ling Shangshu's meaning, the Turks seem to be just incidental, so what is the staple food?" Yang Tong asked with a smile.

Ling Jing said in a deep voice: "According to the report from the Black Ice Terrace, Li Yuan sent Dou Liang as an envoy and has already gone to Jiangdu. ”

"Is the information reliable?"

"Absolutely reliable!" Ling Jing said with a smile: "Dou Liang is one of the people we focus on monitoring, although he is extremely cautious, he can't escape the eyes and ears of the Black Ice Platform, he left Xiangyang as a business traveler, and arrived in Jingling Changshou to enter Weiyang by boat, and the merchant ship he took was precisely from our Ministry of Commerce." ”

Yang Tong also felt ridiculous, thought for a moment, and said: "Li Yuan has always wanted to unite Li Mi and Lin Shihong to contain our army and form a trend of advancing hand in hand, no matter who the envoy is sent to meet him, it is not strange. I wonder why Li Yuan would send the so-called 'Six Nobles' as an envoy, which is a bit unusual. ”

Ling Jing said: "This Weichen thought of this, this should be related to Xiangyang's recent relocation of the capital to Bashu, after Li Yuan returned to Xiangyang, he had the intention of moving the capital, but he was afraid of arousing the opposition of the courtiers, so he used the West Tour Bashu to test, who expected that the two factions of Guanlong and the powerful joined forces, they collectively played, saying that they would live and die with Xiangyang, and at the same time spread the news of moving the capital, using public opinion and military heart to threaten Li Yuan, forcing Li Yuan to issue an order to defend Xiangyang, if he left Xiangyang at this time, then the military spirit would collapse. Li Yuan was afraid that the two factions of Guan Long would twist into a rope and threaten his throne, so he asked Dou Rail to serve as the secretary of Yizhou Dao Xingtai, dividing the two factions of Guan and Long with his rights, but in order to show his determination to cooperate with the Dugu faction, Dou Rail said that he was sick and disobeyed. Li Yuan will definitely not trust Dou Rail, who spoils his plans, and sending him as an envoy is actually a kind of distribution. ”

Yang Tong nodded, he also knew about this matter, "Ling Shangshu is right, it should be this reason, but Li Yuan's alienation of Dou Liang is not entirely related to the relocation of the capital, but I think it has something to do with the army." ”

Ling Jing and Wei Yunqi glanced at each other and asked puzzledly, "Holy Lord, how is it related to the army?" ”

"How can it be okay?"

Yang Tong sneered and said: "Li Yuan has been defeated repeatedly, losing not only land, but also army and money and food, whenever Li Yuan has no way out, he will blackmail the Guanlong magnates, the latter has no way out, he can only swallow his anger and let Li Yuan blackmail!" When we released the news of the lifting of the ban on the family and released it to the children of the family, the Guanlong magnates thought that they had a new way out, and their resentment against Li Yuan suddenly broke out, and they were neither willing to give a grain of rice or a penny, nor willing to support Li Yuan and offend my Great Sui. Li Yuan now wants to expand the army, but the reality is that not only does he not have the money and food to support the army, but he can't even raise young people. It is a matter of life and death for the pseudo-Tang Dynasty, and Li Yuan, who has almost lost, can do everything now. ”

"What does the Holy Lord mean is that Li Yuan is ready to attack the Guanlong magnates?" Ling Jing's eyes lit up.

Yang Tong nodded and said, "The foundation of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty is the Guanlong magnates, and it is precisely because of the full support of the Guanlong magnates that he started to go so smoothly." Now that the foundation of the puppet Tang Dynasty is unstable, the joint pressure of the two factions of Guan Long on the matter of moving the capital has caused a serious rift between the two; Second, as a member of the Guanlong magnates, Li Yuan understands very well the family's virtue of forgetting righteousness for profit, and the alliance of the two factions of Guanlong makes him extremely insecure; Third, before this, Guan Long's magnates had been allowed to be slaughtered by him, giving as much as he wanted, but now, everyone suddenly stopped cooperating, and Li Yuan was even more suspicious and more worried that Guan Long's magnates would rebel against him. ”

"He doesn't want money and food, he doesn't want an army, but he doesn't want to be defeated, what should he do? Naturally, he attacked the Guanlong magnates who opposed him and were afraid of him. When I checked the files of Emperor Wen, I found that the Dugu clan had bought 20,000 hectares of fertile land in the Chengdu Plain as early as the tenth year of the emperor's reign, and the people who cultivated these fertile fields were all slaves who were not in the official register, and the Dugu clan did not hand over these populations and fertile land, Li Yuan would never give up, and cleaned up the Dugu faction headed by the Dugu clan, and the following is the Dou faction, so all the powerful people in Guanlong can't escape, this is what Li Yuan has long wanted to do, and the current situation makes him unable to drag it out anymore. ”

Wei Yunqi sighed and sneered: "He is now moving the interests of the Guanlong magnates, which is undoubtedly self-destructive. ”

"Li Yuan's biggest reliance is on Guan Long's magnates, but when these people no longer cooperate and may become deadly daggers, he can only strike first. Only by destroying these people, will there be money and food, land, youth and strength, and internal worries will disappear with one stone. If it were me, I would do the same. ”

"Then the saint watched Li Yuan easily obtain money, food, land, and soldiers, and was indifferent?"

Yang Tong smiled meaningfully, and said to Ling Jing: "Li Yuan is now weighing the gains and losses, and I am not triggered, and I, who is a son-in-law, should help my father-in-law to make him make up his mind in advance." ”

Ling Jing said with a smile: "001 also sent a secret report not long ago, saying that he has been undercover for three years and one year, and it has been almost five years, and if he doesn't act, he will be a puppet of the Tang Minbu squire." ”

Yang Tong laughed and said: "How can you be enough, 'help' Li Yuan, maybe you can still get a book." ”