After figuring out Yuan Ziyan's intentions, Shen Guang asked her to take her to the guest room to rest, while he went to find Yang Guang, reported the situation to him, and came up with the idea of sneaking up on the fleet.

Yang Guang did not comment on Shen Guang's battle plan, but pondered. According to the information they obtained, none of Li Yuan's three sons were good; If Li Yuan dies, the Li brothers will clash over the throne. This chaos was originally beneficial and harmless.

But he just got an eagle letter from Yang Tong, saying that he was going to fight Tibet on a high level.

Yang Guang did not doubt the combat strength of the Sui army, but he almost froze to death on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau back then, and now he is especially apprehensive about the strange weather.

Some people may say that Yang Tong does not do his job, and does not do the right thing to dominate the world, but goes to fight outside the territory, but this definitely does not include Yang Guang, who was the emperor.

As an emperor, whether Yang Tong is to maintain the prestige of the shock Sisai or to clamp down on the Tubo in full swing, this should put the Tubo in the first place. Otherwise, Tubo Langri Zampu will not only successfully annex Tuyuhun, but also step on the prestige of the Great Sui, and integrate the interior without a single soldier, and finally turn a fragmented tribal state into a unified state. This has a far-reaching impact on the future of the Great Sui. Therefore, it was a wise decision to fight Tibet for the long-term development of the Great Sui. Now it can only be said that Lang Ri Zamp is too shrewd, and the timing of the dispatch of troops is too subtle and tricky.

And during this period of time, if Li Yuan died, it would be divided into three pseudo-Tang Ji to complete the integration. This posed a great trouble to the great cause of the unification of the Sui Dynasty, so Li Yuan could not die before Yang Tong won a great victory.

Thinking of this, Yang Guang said: "If Li Yuan dies, the pseudo-Tang Dynasty will definitely fall into splitting. ”

"This is a great thing for my Great Sui." Shen Guang said with a smile.

Yang Guang said in a deep voice: "But the time is not right. ”

Shen Guang was very puzzled, "What's wrong?" ”

"I just got the eagle letter, and I went to Tubo ......" Yang Guang said the information he had gotten and his worries.

"I see, so ......" After listening to Yang Guang's statement, Yang Yichen, who also participated in the battle of Tuyuhun in the Sui Dynasty, nodded thoughtfully, and said to Shen Guang: "General Shen, it is normal for the plateau to snow in August, and the Tubo and Tuyuhun people are used to the weather there, but we can't. ”

"The last general thinks that Yuan Ziyan's plan is very good, and he really wants to say that he has lowered all the wingmen, maybe we can destroy the pseudo-Tang by ourselves." Shen Guang said regretfully.

As the so-called listener is intentional, and the speaker is unintentional, Shen Guang's words made Yang Guang suddenly have a new idea, and said with a smile: "What you said reminded me." Although we do not have many troops, if we say that we have reduced our wingmen, we will have at least tens of thousands of more soldiers, or even 100,000. Moreover, the Sui army is not only Renjin's way, now there are almost all large armies on the Sui and Tang borders, if the various armies can contain Li Yuan's large number of troops, then we will be much easier. If everything is victorious, it can occupy the southern part of Yizhou in one fell swoop, and fight against Li Yuan's division, even if it can't destroy the puppet Tang, it can also lead the army from Jingzhou into the country. ”

"The head of the family is saying that we don't have to worry about outside affairs, just fight the Tang Army?" Shen Guang understood Yang Guang's meaning, and his heart was extremely excited,

"Not bad." Yang Guang nodded and said, "I made a mistake in thinking just now, and I always linked us with Sui Jun. Now that you have woken up, you have realized that we can do a lot of things ourselves. ”

In fact, it's no wonder that Yang Guang is related to his personal experience, so when thinking about problems, he often thinks about the overall situation and ignores the things in front of him.

He is not a self-made man, he used to have the strong and rich Sui Jiangshan as the backing, so he fought all the dignified battles, and he was crushed by the superior forces at every turn, and there was no need to engage in any small and bold tactics, which also made him always like to start from the overall situation when considering the tactics, thus ignoring his own strength and unexpected combat methods.

Now after enlightenment, everything suddenly became clear, when he was the emperor before, even if he lost, it would be a huge blow to his prestige, and it was difficult to maintain the image of the emperor. But now, he is just a strange soldier, even if he loses everything, he will not lose the interests of the court, and it will not affect the battle situation of the Great Sui Dynasty. If you win, the harvest is unimaginable.

With Yang Guang's permission, Shen Guang went to find Yuan Ziyan again, and asked her to go to find Yuan Tiangang with the holy decree, saying that the subordinates would collect Sui. He ordered 3,000 elite soldiers to leave Taihe Village, disguised as a caravan and sailed eastward.

After a day and a night of driving, the group arrived at Luchuan County, which is the place where Dadu Water and Mianshui meet, this is the place where Li Yuan's fleet must pass, and it is necessary to go north along Mianshui from here to reach Chengdu, Shu County.

Shen Guang knew that Li Yuan's fleet was going to come here, so the local officials and county soldiers began to impose martial law.

After settling the army and making some arrangements, he led more than a dozen of his soldiers to the east along the official road for more than ten miles, and finally saw small warships such as boats and ships appearing on the river.

Shen Guang guessed that this should be the vanguard of the fleet. But what made him a little strange was that the official road was full of scholars with their families in tow, all of them rushing with tired faces.

"Hey! Where did you come from? Shen Guang asked.

But the men just looked at him with disgust and continued on their way.

"Boss, what's going on with these readers, it's as if we've provoked them." A guard said.

"Ignore them and find a place to rest." They also need to find a place to rest for a while, and find out the news by the way.

"Proprietor, there is a tea shed in front of you, you can rest for a while!"

"Go to the tea shed and rest!"

Everyone urged Zi to step off the donkey and follow Shen Guang to the tea shed.

Surprisingly, although there are many pedestrians on the road, the tea shed is deserted, many of the people who pass by the tea shed are sweating profusely and tired, but no one stops to rest, and the tea shed guys don't seem to bother to greet them, just sit and drink water and chat.

"You bastards!" The shopkeeper roared angrily, "Don't you greet the guests when they come?" ”

Only then did the man find that more than a dozen guests had walked into the tea shed, and they hurriedly stepped forward to lead the donkey and beckoned them to sit down and drink tea.

Shen Guang drank a bowl of herbal tea in one go, and suddenly felt that the heat subsided, he took a pu fan, fanned the wind hard, and said, "It seems that it is hotter here than our Meishan." ”

The shopkeeper was obviously a talkative person, and said with a smile: "Guest officer, Meishan is a backer, as long as the sun does not shine, it is very cool, and we are as hot as a steamer in summer." ”

"That's right, if you have any good wine and good food, just bring it." Shen Guang said heroically.

The shopkeeper smiled bitterly: "The imperial army swept away our wine and food, saying that it was for the emperor and the accompanying officials to eat, and there was basically nothing left to eat. Nowadays there are only some sauce lamb and pancakes. ”

Shen Guang took out a few golden beans and put them on the table: "Bring all the food, we want it all, and we will reward you with the rest." ”

When the shopkeeper saw the golden bean, he was overjoyed and shouted at the man to cut meat and make pancakes.

Shen Guang waited for him to make arrangements, and then called the shopkeeper over: "I have something to ask you!" ”

"Guest officer, please speak!"

"I am a lieutenant of Meishan County, and I was ordered to come to inquire about the news of the saint, so that Meishan will not miss the reception trip." After Shen Guang introduced himself, he asked, "Let me ask you, where is the holy car now?" ”

"Back to the general." Hearing that the other party was a military attaché, the shopkeeper was even more polite, "The holy driver is still at the intersection of Bajun and Luchuan, and I heard that the river is full of fleets, but they are all escorted by the army, except for the slender man, no outsiders are allowed to approach." ”

Looking at the sky, Shen Guang asked quietly: "Judging from your experience, when do you think the fleet will arrive in Hejiang?" ”

"If the general is in a hurry, I think I will see the convoy in the county tonight."

"What's going on with the people out there? Why is it so embarrassing? Shen Guang asked again.

The shopkeeper said disdainfully: "They are all from Jingzhou, after all, they are still a group of people who want to be officials, and they are going crazy. ”

"Of course you know, are they the ones who came to Yizhou to take the exam?"

"It's these people." The shopkeeper sighed and said: "The emperor originally planned to follow the example of the Sui Dynasty to open a branch of scholars, but Jingzhou was gone. So I plan to take the test again when I arrive in Chengdu. These are all students who are qualified to read the exam. It's just that after the Yizhou Purge, although there were some vacancies, Yizhou was so big, how could there be so many real vacancies to be allocated? These people are crazy. ”

"Are all Jingzhou scholars?" Shen Guang asked again.

"It's not." The shopkeeper said with a speechless face: "There are also many Yizhou people, they first heard that Xiangyang opened a branch to take scholars, so nearly 10,000 Yizhou people ran to Xiangyang, but Jingzhou was gone, and the emperor wanted to take the exam in Chengdu, so they ran back." ”

"Isn't this a toss-up?" Shen Guang sneered.

"That's why they want to be officials and want to go crazy, they refuse to come in to rest, not because they are reluctant to make a little money, but because they hurry up and go to Chengdu to find a place to live and study, and want to study for a few more days than others. I'm afraid that if I'm one step slower, I'll learn a little less. I've heard that there are a lot of people who read books in the back. The shopkeeper sighed: "I have heard that many people have died of heat stroke, and these people are also sad." ”

"Doesn't the court care about them?" Shen Guang's heart moved.

The shopkeeper said: "The court must be in charge, but I don't know if the people below can execute it, and the emperor doesn't know anyway." ”

Shen Guang laughed, in the final analysis, it was still not well supervised, but these had nothing to do with him, maybe this was a good opportunity.

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At dusk, Li Yuan's fleet finally arrived in the area of Hejiang County, Luchuan, when the sun had not yet set, and the vast rivers and mountains shone brightly.

In the thin twilight, a fleet of more than 1,000 ships anchored on the surface of the Yangtze River, covering the entire river, looking from afar, like a mountain stretching for dozens of miles, the momentum is extremely magnificent.

At this time, the Yangtze River is turbulent, the fleet is upstream, and there is not much power in itself, which needs to be pulled by the slender man, because there are too many ships this time, and there are too many materials to be carried, so the slender man alone is as high as more than 50,000 people. In addition, there are 50,000 elite soldiers led by the Yuan Cong Forbidden Army.

Li Yuan's dragon boat is a five-toothed warship, three zhang and five feet high, about twenty zhang long, there are five layers on it, the carrying capacity can reach 10,000 stones, the hull is decorated with gold powder, loaded with gold and jade beads and emeralds, the carving is beautiful, and the luxury is incomparable.

At this time, Li Yuan stood in front of the fifth deck with his hands in his hands, silently looking at the riverside and unable to see the marginal camp at a glance.

Along the way, the Sui army he was worried about did not launch an attack from Nanjun, and obviously strictly abided by the truce agreement, but he did not dare to be careless, so until here, Li Yuan's nervous mood was finally relaxed, as long as he rested here for one night, he could go north from Mianshui tomorrow to Chengdu, Shu County; And with the presence of troops on this stretch of the road, and the wide open field, there will be no need to worry about the fleet being attacked.

However, although there is no Sui army in Yizhou, it does not mean that there will be peace in the territory, among them, there are still three major anti-Tang forces.

First of all, the remnants of the Dugu faction led by Dugu Wudu, led the Dugu faction's soldiers to rely on the danger of the mountain to cause chaos in the Chengdu Plain, and the Guanlong nobles operated in Yizhou for decades, and their connections among the people were extremely deep, so that Li Yuanji not only could not be annihilated, but because of the sluggishness of Li Tang's country, etc., his power had a spark and was out of control.

The second is the Taihe army, they wreaked havoc in Meishan, Qianwei, and Yueshan, blocking the connection between the southwest region and Chengdu, if they were not annihilated, then the three counties of Yizhou, which were flooded with bureaucrats, not only would not contribute taxes to the Li Tang Dynasty, but because they were not controlled by the imperial court for a long time, they slowly got out of control.

The other force is the various tribes of the wingmen with a population of up to one million. The wingmen were originally the mountain people in the southeast region, they started from the Han Dynasty, and moved into Yizhou one after another, the last large-scale entry into Shu was at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, when natural disasters and man-made disasters were rampant, Yizhou Shu County's Bayi leader Li Teh led the refugees to rise up against the Jin, leading hundreds of thousands of people from the Qi into Shu, enriching the barren towns due to the war, and placing them in Meishan, Qianwei, Yueshan, Luchuan and other fourteen counties, it is not an exaggeration to say that the south of Yizhou is the world of the wingmen, they have always been a great disaster in Shu. Most of the old things in Yizhou in the past dynasties were to appease the bureaucrats, generally showing their authority first, and then giving them grace, but there has never been a generation of emperors who really convinced them.

In the face of the chaotic Yizhou, Li Yuan realized that Yizhou was not a good place, and Li Yuanji's ineffective act of suppressing bandits also made him see the incompetence of the clan, and this kind of thing must be done in the future. It's just that most of the fierce generals in his hands are inextricably linked to Li Shimin, a rebel, which also makes Li Yuan worry that these generals will fight themselves in the name of suppressing bandits, and then attack Chengdu with Li Shimin in the south and in the north, so he must choose those generals who have nothing to do with Li Shimin to suppress the bandits.

It's just that the generals he trusts are all assigned to various governors' mansions, if they are withdrawn, will the other generals be able to resist the attacking Sui army? It's hard to estimate. This also means that he needs to promote some talented generals with different surnames.

Compared with Dugu Wudu and Taihe Army, it is easier to handle the large number of wingmen, because the most basic living resources that these people care about, as long as they copy the national policy of 'Qiang people rule by Qiang people' implemented by Yang Dong, so that the wingmen can become people of the Central Plains Dynasty and enjoy the same treatment as the Han people, then the wingmen will soon be able to settle down, after all

When people go to high places, compared to the precarious days in the mountains, where can compare to the comfort and stability of the town? For the Li Tang Dynasty, what is lacking now is the population and soldiers, if these people can go down the mountain to fight, it will be a powerful force that cannot be ignored.

While thinking about it, a eunuch reported outside the cabin: "Holy Lord, Xiao Xiangguo asks to see." ”

Li Yuan said: "Please let him in." ”

After a while, Xiao Yu came in a hurry and saluted: "Weichen see the saint." ”

"You may be seated!"

Li Yuan asked the attendant to bring a bowl of chilled sour plum soup, and said with a smile: "In the end, the weather is hot and humid, and Xiao Aiqing has to travel a long distance with me, which is really hard. ”

"Thank you for your concern, Weichen doesn't feel hard, but I heard that the saint handles official business very late every day, and I hope that the saint will focus on the dragon body."

Li Yuan smiled: "I have my own measure, is there anything wrong with Xiao Aiqing?" ”

Xiao Yu arched his hand and said: "Holy Lord, Weichen is here for those students who participate in the scientific examination. ”

"Why is that?" Li Yuan asked with some puzzlement, because the Yizhou officialdom was purged, so there were many vacancies, Li Yuan originally planned to open a branch to recruit scholars, but he entered Shu in a hurry, and it was too late in time, in order to balance the local forces in Yizhou, so he brought a group of accurate scribes from Xiangyang, ready to let them fill the vacancies.

"Shengshang, the imperial court originally decided to decide the winner by scientific examination after arriving in Chengdu, and then arrange positions for them according to their ability. It's just that these people drag their families with them, and it is extremely inconvenient for them to travel, eat and stay. They traveled all the way west and heard that many people had died of heat stroke. Xiao Yu said solemnly.

"And this kind of thing, how come I don't know." Li Yuan's expression became ugly, these alternate officials are not only future officials, but also role models for collecting Yizhou Hanshi, but Xiao Yu is now saying that someone died on the way, if this is not handled properly, I am afraid that a good thing will become a bad thing.

"The Holy One has all the opportunities, and everyone is on the water, so it is very inconvenient to communicate, so the Holy One naturally can't know about it at the first time." Speaking of this, Xiao Yu gave his own treatment plan, "Shengshang, after a big purge in Yizhou, almost all counties and counties have vacancies, according to Weichen's opinion, it is better to arrange some people nearby, so that the students can not only be satisfied, but also replenish local officials in time, and also avoid the chaos of unofficial governance in various counties and counties." ”

"Xiao Aiqing also knows that we are about to start the first imperial examination of the Tang Dynasty, if we don't take the exam now, what will the Yizhou scribes who are waiting for us think? And what do you think of the imperial court? Li Yuan frowned and said, "The key is that I don't know how high or low their abilities are, so how can they be appointed arbitrarily?" If there is a mess, how should the court explain to the local people? ”

"Wei Chen also knows that what the saint said has a point, but he can't sit idly by...... right," Xiao Yu said.

Li Yuan pondered for a moment, and finally shook his head: "It is precisely because the official position is not easy to obtain that these people will know how to cherish it. Aiqing can send someone to tell them that after arriving in Chengdu, the imperial court will open a department to recruit scholars. Let them work hard now, it will not hurt them to starve their bodies and skin and strain their muscles and bones. ”

Xiao Yu originally wanted to say that the positions in Yizhou were limited, and he could first divide a few county and county positions for these accompanying scribes to fight for, and only one day of the exam was enough, and those who failed the exam could be placed as a citizen nearby, so as to calm the grievances of the accompanying literati. But the emperor had made up his mind, so Xiao Yu could only take back the words that came to his mouth and go back to appease the accompanying scholars.