The empty imperial study was silent, so quiet that even the "crackling" sound of the charcoal fire was amazingly clear, and Li Yuan had already retired from the eunuchs and guards.

Leaning back in a chair alone, in the silence.

His current state seems to be a little poor, since he entered Chengdu, the breath in his heart has dissipated cleanly, as soon as people relax, the spirit is getting worse and worse, but the more so, the more sleepless it is every day.

He felt that his body was getting old day by day.

Speaking of which, Li Yuan is now very envious of Pei Ju's old man, since he arrived in Chengdu City, he couldn't stay for a few days, and he played in the mountains and rivers downstream of several entourage guards, either to visit Qingcheng Mountain, or to Emei Mountain to watch the sunrise, or to Dujiangyan to watch the historical traces, and the life was quite moist.

Suddenly, Li Yuan began to miss the scenery of Taiyuan, but he knew that he could never go back, he stared at Liang Ding and muttered to himself, "Taiyuan... Taiyuan ......"

Just as he was thinking about Daxing, he suddenly rubbed his wrinkled cheeks again and forcibly expelled these places from his mind.

Li Yuan knows that when a person misses old things and old things, it means that his heart is old, but the sluggish national power of the Tang Dynasty makes it impossible to grow old, let alone enjoy a comfortable life for the elderly.

Try to set your mind and focus on the current situation. Silently pondering the strength comparison of the Sui and Tang dynasties.

Although after the Sui Dynasty army occupied Jingzhou, it did not take advantage of the victory to pursue as he feared, but the two counties of Xicheng and Fangling in Yizhou had been occupied by the Sui army, even if Li Yuan had the intention to recapture it when the other party's foothold was not stable, but the army in his hands was inferior to the Sui army in terms of weapons and equipment, the elite level of the soldiers, and even the side troops, so how could he resist the Sui Dynasty's hundred battles?

Helpless.

I could only watch the Sui army deploy heavy troops around Yizhou with peace of mind and calmness, forcing him to transfer troops to deal with it.

As soon as he thought of Yang Tong's unscrupulousness and leisurely banquet for the kings and envoys of all countries in the world, Li Yuan gritted his teeth with hatred,

The Sui and Tang dynasties are now like two gamblers, after the gambling game was completed, neither side revealed the mystery, but kept putting their family property on the gambling game, and with the current family background of the Tang Dynasty, how could they fight the Sui Dynasty, which has eight or nine percent of the country?

Yang Tong, this is forcing himself to invest his entire national strength in the army, and then expropriating the people in the territory violently, step by step on the road of no return to lose the support of the people.

But the general trend is in the hands of Yang Dong, what can he do?

If he is given another two or three years to recuperate, with Yizhou's stable family background for hundreds of years, he can train 200,000 elite soldiers.

But Yang Tong obviously won't give him so much time, after the beginning of spring, he will definitely attack Yizhou, and after losing the constraints of Li Mi, Lin Shihong, and Meng Haigong, the next Sui and Tang Dynasty battles, the Sui Dynasty attacked the Tang Dynasty without any burden.

"Son-in-law, see father." At this time, Li Jiancheng walked into the imperial study and bowed respectfully.

"The emperor came just in time, sit down." Li Yuan sat upright, looked at the gentle eldest son, and showed a look of satisfaction. This son has been silently paying for himself and the Li family at a young age since he became a Sui, and has never caused trouble to himself; I thought that he would not be able to withstand the temptation of the throne, and mentioned the matter of 'Zen position' explicitly or implicitly, but who knew that after he entered Shu, not only did he not say a word, but also lived in a simple place, and even rarely interfered in government affairs, trying to reduce his existence. This kind of self-discipline made Li Yuan very relieved.

"Thank you, Father." Li Jiancheng sat down and asked, "I don't know what happened when my father urgently summoned his sons?" ”

Qin Qiong drew 40,000 people from the original Third Army and the Fifth Army to the north to Monan, and established the new Third Army of the Sui Dynasty, and the remaining forces of the original Three Armies were split into the Fourth Army and the Tenth Army of Liaodong, after that, Xue Wanche's Tenth Army and Wang Fubao's Ninth Army, and for the Ninth Army, the Sui Army in the direction of Jingzhou became the new Tenth Army, with a number of 60,000, the main general will be Li Jing, and the deputy will be Du Fuwei and Duan Decao. Now the Second Army is in Jiaozhou, the Third Army is in Monan, the Fourth Army is in Liaodong, the Fifth Army is in Daxing, and the Eighth Army is in the Western Regions. ”

Li Yuan glanced at Li Jiancheng and said with a smile: "Emperor, I and all the important ministers think that this is an opportunity, now we have obtained a lot of money, food and troops from the Yizhou wealthy family, and we can completely regain our strength, the only thing we lack is time, but Yang Tong actually used Wei as the system to make drastic improvements to the Sui army when the world was undecided." Emperor, do you think it's providence? ”

Li Jiancheng pondered for a moment and said, "Father, but the sons and daughters have different opinions. ”

"Tell me about it."

"Father, Yizhou is more than Guanshan, Shu Road is as difficult as climbing to the sky, the only place that can make tens of thousands of troops put up a position is the Chengdu Plain, and other places, the number of soldiers and the number of soldiers are actually the same, Erchen suspects that Yang Tong is deliberately paralyzing us by means of large-scale reorganization of the army." Li Jiancheng arched his hand and said: "Although Erchen can't guess where Yang Dong's eyes are, it must be unfavorable to my Datang." ”

Li Jiancheng's words were like a fire that had just been lit being splashed with cold water, Li Yuan Li Yuan's face sank slightly, and he sighed: "It's still the emperor who can see it thoroughly." ”

"Father, although Yang Tong must have a conspiracy, as long as we do two things well, we can still buy enough time."

"What?"

As early as the Cao Wei period, Liu Ye emphasized to Cao Cao that Liu Bei, who had seized Yizhou, seemed to be weak, but the potential was endless, and once he relaxed, he would inevitably let Liu Bei gain a firm foothold in Yizhou. As a result, Shu Han was really as Liu Ye expected, and killed the three generations of Cao Cao, Cao Pi, and Cao Rui, who owned most of the world, with the land of one state. Li Jiancheng glanced at Li Yuan, who was listening carefully, and continued: "I, the Tang Dynasty, are of one heart and one mind, as long as I send my henchmen to stick to the dangerous fortress, even if the Sui Dynasty has a million strong soldiers, it can't get in, isn't this recovery time just won?" Therefore, the key is to look at ourselves, and we cannot put our hopes on the restructuring of the Sui Dynasty. ”

Li Yuan's eyes lit up and became radiant: "What about the second thing?" ”

"Today's Datang, there are only Taihe Army and Dugu Wudu in internal troubles, as long as they are annihilated, my Datang can develop with peace of mind, and then point the soldiers to the internal discord of Nanzhao. To achieve the purpose of training elite soldiers and strong generals in actual combat, it can also supplement the Tang Dynasty with the land of several counties and millions of people in Nanzhao and increase tax revenue. Li Jiancheng said: "As far as Erchen knows, the climate in the south of Nanzhao is mild, and it is not a problem to grow three crops a year. ”

Li Yuan said excitedly: "Nanzhao can really be three crops a year? ”

"Exactly." Li Jiancheng nodded.

Li Yuan nodded, thinking carefully about Li Jiancheng's words, the Taihe army and Duguwu must be destroyed, and Nanzhao must be attacked, but the top priority is to prevent the Sui army from attacking, and send henchmen to guard the dangerous fortresses in Guanshan everywhere, so as not to let anyone collude with the enemy.

After thinking for a while, he asked again: "What about the wingmen, the emperor seems to have missed this enemy." ”

Speaking of this, Li Yuan was extremely angry.

It was the wingmen who hijacked him halfway, causing him heavy losses, not only sinking the money and grain wealth from Jingzhou into the Yangtze River, but also losing tens of thousands of troops.

Li Jiancheng said: "Although the bureaucrats do petty theft from time to time, most of the time they keep to themselves, and the attack on my father is also for a reason, which is really not the original intention. If the court treats everyone equally, treats them fairly, and appeases them with kindness, they will naturally obey. ”

Li Yuan was silent, originally he planned to use force to solve this bureaucracy that injured him inside and out, but after arriving in Chengdu, he chatted with some local elders and realized that this bureaucracy was not as easy to solve as the northern Hu people.

Although the Hu people in the north are more powerful than the wingmen, it is not difficult to kill the grassland if the national strength is at its peak.

But Yizhou and the north are completely different.

Unlike the Hu people, they are basically in a semi-closed state, can be self-sufficient, occasionally go out of the mountains and forests to trade with the Han people, neither submit to the Han dynasty, but also do not take the initiative to provoke, and even will sacrifice treasures to obtain Han support. And most of their enemies are jackals, tigers and leopards in the mountains, which is also the reason why the wingman is a large part of the wingman, but the population is not large.

The cruel jungle life, the ruthless elimination of the people who cannot adapt to the environment, and the resources in this vast mountain can barely make these people worry about food and clothing, their crisis mainly comes from poisonous insects and beasts, and the lack of food is secondary.

Most of the bureaucrats are this way of life, among which such a large tribe as the wingman king, but also opened up their own farmland, and the living habits of the Han people are very close, in the process of hundreds of years of contact, many bureaucrats take the initiative to move closer to the Han people, and there are not a few bureaucrats who are sinicized or semi-sinicized.

However, this wingman, who was supposed to be a friend, was forced to become an enemy by Li Yuanji, instead of becoming Li Tangzhi's Meng Shu. In the face of the wingmen who were walking like flying in the mountains and forests, Li Yuan hated and was helpless, and he did not dare to fight with the wingmen with his limited strength.

Li Yuan waved his hand, "I have ordered the Luchuan County Guard to stop the blockade of the bureaucrats, the question is who can negotiate with the bureaucrats?" ”

Li Jiancheng suddenly realized, it turned out that his father had already had the heart to reconcile with the bureaucrats, and after saying so much, he actually let himself negotiate with the bureaucrats, although he didn't have any real power, but the title of prince still had a little effect.

At this time, Li Yuan's cold gaze made Li Jiancheng feel relieved, and sighed silently: "If my father can't find a candidate, my son is willing to go to Luchuan and talk to the king." ”

What Li Yuan wanted was this sentence, and it was Pei Lian's suggestion to let the prince negotiate with the wingman, which showed enough respect for the wingman, although he was a little wronged by the eldest son, but Li Yuan, who was eager to stabilize the rear, couldn't take care of it.

Seeing that Li Jiancheng had already expressed his position, he nodded and said, "The emperor is the main envoy, and Pei Xiang is the deputy envoy." ”

"The retainers obeyed." Li Jiancheng's heart suddenly burned with a trace of sadness, in fact, his father only needs an order, and he will go, so why bother to play tricks?

The title of "Prince" is useless, so it's better not to do it.

The indescribable tiredness in his heart, the Tang Dynasty has been dilapidated like this, and his father is still playing tricks on his heart, and he still wants to continue to fight for power and profit and dump each other.

……

"In addition, there is another thing, that is, the people of the world hope that the imperial court will support him with weapons and equipment, so that he can raise troops for the Northern Expedition and break through the current crisis, and I am undecided for a while; Emperor, what do you think? Although Li Yuan was annoyed that Li Shimin ran to Danchang to control the army without authorization, Li Shimin's move to garrison the army in Danchang County and retain 40,000 elite soldiers in Tubo also effectively ensured the security of the northwest of the Tang Dynasty.

In addition, Li Shimin has pointed out many times before that the strategy of the Sui Dynasty is to first Wei and then Tang, and the military pressure on the Tang Dynasty is just a move to cover up people's eyes, and it is recommended that the Tang Dynasty fully support Li Mi and Lin Shihong, otherwise the two will be destroyed, and the Tang Dynasty will have to face the powerful Sui army alone, and the situation will be even more precarious.

What's more important is that Li Shimin is the sister-in-law he brought up, and the relationship between father and son is very deep, and after the defection of the Guanlong nobles, Li Yuan feels the reliability of his relatives and the preciousness of family affection.

The combination of various factors turned Li Yuan's hatred and murderous intent towards Li Shimin into a father's anger towards his rebellious and disobedient son.

Although he was full of displeasure, Li Jiancheng still asked: "Shimin wants to fight Lintao, Hanyang, or Jiangyuan?" ”

Li Yuan shook his head and said: "The Tubo people are not good at mountain battles, and if they attack Lintao and Hanyang, they will not be able to exert their due combat power, and the people of the world plan that they are eager to go home and attack Jiangyuan County, where Pei Xingyan is seated." ”

looked at his father's moved face.

Li Jiancheng felt a strong sense of powerlessness in his heart, Datang had been defeated like this, and he didn't give up, did he have to lose Yizhou to be willing?

knew that it shouldn't, but at this moment, for some reason, he wanted to slap it over.

Wake up your father and recognize the fact that there is a huge gap in strength.

But since his father asked him, he was not good at expressing his position, and he didn't dare to wake up his father, Li Jiancheng could only say: "Yang Tong took the first army and the ninth army of the Sui Dynasty to wipe out the more than 100,000 or 200,000 Tubo elite soldiers. It is better to ask the ministers to discuss this matter together. ”

"What the emperor said is very true." A sentence reminded Li Yuan, he nodded, and ordered the eunuch who was waiting outside, "Send the prime minister to come and discuss the matter." ”

"Whoa."