In the early morning of the next day, Li Jiancheng, under the leadership of several palace maids, arrived at Jiuzhou Pond in Ziwei City, which was the first time in his life that he entered the palace city of Ziwei City. By the pool, the palaces are hidden in the dense shade of the trees, and the creek is murmuring, making people feel as if they are in the jungle, and it seems that everything remains in the original state of the forest.

Walking through a winding path, in front of you is a semi-circular bluestone platform that stretches into the lake, surrounded by beautifully carved railings, and a group of red carp are tumbling up and down for food in the lake below the platform. At the end of the platform, a white jade arch bridge connects the island in the middle of the lake, and a magnificent three-story palace is presented in front of you, with three big characters written on it: 'Yaoguang Palace'.

At this time, the sky is dyed red with morning glow, a ray of dawn through the magnificent clouds, the whole Jiuzhou pond shines like a fairy palace, its pool bends abruptly like the nine continents of the East China Sea, the blue waves are shining brightly, the flowers are planted, and there are islands in the pool. Let Li Jiancheng feel as if he is in a wonderful fairyland, and his heart full of mortal dust seems to have been washed.

But the palace maid did not take him up to the arched bridge, but turned to a bluestone pavilion by the pool, behind which is a towering old locust, the tree is like a canopy, covering half of the pavilion, and a coffee table is placed on the stone table in the pavilion, on which is placed a set of glass cups.

At the edge of the pavilion, Yang Tong, who was wearing regular clothes, stood and waited for a long time, and Yang Tong arched his hand from afar: "Uncle, please." ”

"Benevolence." Li Jiancheng stepped forward quickly, looked at Yang Tong, who seemed to come out of the picture scroll under the rising sun, and smiled with some amazement: "I haven't seen you for many years, but the virtuous brother is still so beautiful, like an immortal." ”

"Awards, awards." Yang Tongru, a hospitable host, invited Li Jiancheng to sit down, and then personally made a cup of tea for him, and said with a smile: "I was supposed to meet yesterday, but I thought that your brothers and sisters had been separated for many years and had a lot to say, so I handed over the time to you." ”

"I really want to thank Brother Xian." Li Jiancheng said with a smile: "The third sister has a temperament, I was worried that she would not be a good wife and mother, but now she is relieved." ”

"No matter how active a woman is, once she has a child, she will change." Li Jiancheng's sincere happiness for his sister can be detected by Yang Tong.

"That's true."

Li Jiancheng took a sip of tea, which was fragrant and refreshing, and said: "I'm used to drinking your tea, and the previous sencha is really hard to swallow." ”

"If my brother likes it, bring some back, there will be a lot of tribute tea this year."

"Thank you so much." Li Jiancheng said with a smile: "The tea soup is refreshing, I have relied on this all these years." ”

"Is my brother busy?"

"Definitely."

"Actually, I don't understand, it's still good to sit down and drink tea and chat like now, why do you have to fight and kill?"

"You know." Li Jiancheng shook his head and sighed: "It's easy to pick up, but it's too difficult to put down." At this point, how can there be any turning back? ”

Yang Tong smiled and asked, "You prince, you are very tired, right?" ”

"What do you say?" Li Jiancheng asked angrily.

Yang Tong laughed and said: "Xiangyang City has become a storm center, there are many people who want your life, you have to be careful, the Guanlong nobles and their gang can do any evil means." ”

"Thank you for your concern, I'll definitely be careful." Li Jiancheng was grateful in his heart, and asked again: "I didn't know that someone wanted my life, how did you know?" ”

Yang Tong smiled slightly, "This is normal." I'm afraid you know more about the Great Sui side than I do, right? ”

Li Jiancheng nodded and said with a wry smile: "That's true, when I was in Xiangyang, I would even get lost, but if you talk about Zhuojun, Taiyuan, Yecheng, Daxing and Luoyang and other fortified cities, few people are more familiar with it than me......"

"So, it's normal for me to know that someone wants your life." Yang Tong said: "The power structure on your side is quite complicated, like a mess, and I can't figure it out. ”

"The reason why the Guanlong nobles are so strong is because of the army. The Guanlong nobles have deep connections in the military, and more than half of the hundreds of thousands of standing troops during the Great Cause period were controlled by the Guanlong nobles. The reason why Emperor Wu of Sui established the Xiaoguo Army was, in the final analysis, that the existing army could not be trusted, so he had to set up his own door and create a royal guard. The same is true for us. Li Jiancheng didn't know what was going on with him, and felt that Yang Tong's enemy was more trustworthy than his own people. However, he was also more cautious, and what he said was well-known: "I won't tell you anything, in fact, we have wanted to move the capital for a long time, but the Guanlong nobles have strong opposition, and in such a situation, my father is helpless." ”

"Can you tell us about these divisions of power?" These things are extremely beneficial to Yang Tong's governance of the country, and even if the important ministers of the court and the central government know about it, they dare not say it thoroughly, because many civil and military ministers of the Great Sui are from the marginal families of the Guanlong group.

"The various clans of the Guanlong nobles are too complicated, even if they are hostile, the two clans have a relationship with each other, whether they are really hostile or not, only they know. So there's no way to break it down, I can only talk about it in general terms. ”

Li Jiancheng thought for a while and said with a wry smile: "The gate valve system flourished in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and after the Sui Dynasty unified the world, the large and small gate valves were therefore concentrated in the Great Sui Dynasty. But within the core power structure, in fact, there are three major systems, one is your Yang family's royal family, which is needless to say. Then there are the Guanlong nobles and scholars, and the Guanlong nobles are represented by the family, one is the Dugu clan, such as the Zhao family, the Yu family, the Yuwen family, the Hou Mo Chen family and other old Guanlong nobles are headed by the Dugu family; The second is the Dou family, which represents the interests of the emerging aristocracy, and the eldest grandson belongs here, of course, all families and clans are free, not that they have been firmly following anyone, just take the Dou Lu clan as an example, it was the core gate valve of the Dugu faction before, but in fact, it has already joined the Dou faction, and I also knew it because Dou Liang recommended Dou Lu Kuan as the phase. ”

Li Jiancheng saw that Yang Tong was listening very attentively, and continued: "During the period of Emperor Wen, the scholar clan was headed by the Hongnong Yang clan and the Wenxi Pei clan, Duling Wei clan, Duling Du clan, Xingyang Zheng clan, Fanyang Lu clan, Qinghe Cui clan, Boling Cui clan, Taiyuan Wang clan, Bohai Gao clan, Southern Xiao clan, Southern Chen clan, etc., respectively, attached to these two major scholar clans. However, after Yang Xuangan's rebellion ended, Pei Yun, the imperial historian, was ordered to liquidate, and took the opportunity to list those families related to the Yang family as the followers of Yang Xuangan's rebellion, and the number of people killed was as high as tens of thousands, and there were countless exterminated clans. Since then, the Pei faction has been dominant. ”

Yang Tong nodded silently, he roughly understood that he was not very interested in this intricate network of interests now, nor did he care too much, he just wanted to get a skeleton so that he could be classified in the future.

At this time, Li Jiancheng said: "In troubled times, it is all chaotic, many gate valves have been launched on behalf of the plot in the sky, like Lu Mingyue, Gao Shida, Gao Kaidao, Zhang Jincheng and others, there are door valves behind the push, but there seems to be some contradiction, Lu Lu Mingyue, Gao Shida, Zhang Jin said that they have broken with the door valve that presided over them, causing the situation in Hebei to get completely out of control, and in the end, you were cheapened in vain." ”

"Brother, I admit this." Yang Tong nodded and smiled: "If it weren't for the fact that dozens of large and small forces have successively made Jizhou and Youzhou devastated, even if various policies are implemented as desired, there will be all kinds of resistance and opposition internally." The various ethnic groups thought that we were in a civil strife and could not afford to look north, so the Khitan and Goguryeo and other foreign races were caught off guard by me. I really have to thank them for Koshida. ”

Yang Tong's calmness made Li Jiancheng secretly heartbroken. sighed secretly in his heart, it's a pity, if it weren't for being a hostile force, he would have become a member of his command, but what ......

"Brother, I've heard about it." Yang Tong added tea to Li Jiancheng, and the tea was full of eight points.

Li Jiancheng's heart suddenly hung in the air.

"I promised."

"Huh?"

Li Jiancheng screamed out in faux puff, he was ready to be rejected, and he also prepared some words that could impress Yang Tong, who would have thought that Yang Tong would agree so simply.

"But I'm asking for something."

"Brother Xian, please speak." This is normal, no desire and no desire are not in line with the interests of the Sui Dynasty, there is no demand, Li Jiancheng is not at ease.

"My first request is to kill all the nobles of Guanlong."

"What kind of request is that?" Li Jiancheng smiled bitterly: "The Guanlong nobles have all rebelled, even if the virtuous brother doesn't say it, we will deal with the Guanlong nobles." ”

Yang Tong nodded and said, "But you haven't thought about it clearly, to what extent to deal with the Guanlong nobles, I'm here to help you make up your mind." ”

Li Jiancheng laughed: "What does this have to do with you?" ”

Yang Tong said: "The poison of the world is none other than the gate valve, and the poison of the gate valve is none other than the Guanlong nobles, who control the military and government, deceive the superiors and conceal the subordinates, and rebel at every turn, poisoning the world." The biggest problem of the two emperors of our dynasty is that for the stability of the world, they did not break the old forces in a bloody way, but repeatedly made concessions to the Guanlong nobles in the way of drinking water to quench their thirst, which led to the beginning of the Great Sui self-establishment of the country, there has not been a day of true peace, and I will never repeat the same mistakes. Yang Tong said very frankly: "As long as they are still there, no matter whether it is the Sui Dynasty or the Tang Dynasty that finally unifies the world, they will try their best to restore their former glory." Now that the Guanlong nobles have raised troops against the Tang Dynasty, it is an opportunity to eradicate the rebellion of later generations... As long as you are willing to completely annihilate it, for the sake of peace for hundreds of years to come, the Great Sui side can make a truce and give you time to rectify. My meaning is obvious, that is, the Sui and Tang dynasties joined forces to annihilate the Guanlong nobles. ”

"On the issue of the Guanlong aristocracy, the Sui and Tang dynasties have the same goal, and they are both anti-Tang, so we have no reason to leave trouble for ourselves." The more Li Jiancheng spoke, the more ridiculous and interesting he felt, took a sip of tea, and said happily: "I can't hide it, in fact, I also think that all the strategic materials of the Guanlong nobles must be confiscated, including land, food, armor, war horses, pig iron and other materials, and even gold and copper coins are confiscated as military expenses." This time is indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to annihilate the Guanlong nobles, if they are given vitality, they will inevitably retaliate in the future, for the sake of future generations, they must be completely defeated, and I Datang also have the capital to compete with you. If you are willing to make a truce, we will be more calm and thorough in cleaning up the Guanlong nobles. ”

Yang Tong nodded, "The second request, I want you to bring in more Tubo troops, and it is best to bring all their elite divisions." ”

"Don't underestimate people." Li Jiancheng was embarrassed, and said with a dark face: "My Tang army's army is not a waste, it may not be able to defeat you, and you can use the Tubo people?" ”

"Misunderstanding."

"That's pretty much it." When Li Jiancheng heard this, his face was slightly better.

I only heard Yang Tong continue: "It's not just the army that is a waste, but Li Tang's generals and ministers are all waste. A big waste, bringing out a bunch of waste, is actually quite normal. ”

"You ......" Li Jiancheng fired

"Okay, okay, just kidding... If you had faith, you wouldn't have agreed to an alliance. ”

"I've objected." Li Jiancheng deflated.

"It doesn't matter." Yang Tong smiled and asked, "Do you agree?" ”

Li Jiancheng groaned: "You are so confident? ”

Yang Tong said: "The strength is there, do I dare not be confident?" ”

Li Jiancheng asked disgustingly: "Has Tubo offended you?" ”

"That's not true, I just want to kill him, but the plateau environment is harsh, and it is difficult for our people to survive on it, since they sent it to the door themselves, it just happened to catch it all, and this is also for future generations."

"It's hard to say. After all, Tubo is not my Tang Dynasty after all, and we don't count how many soldiers we send. ”

"As long as you promise to divide the world equally, the Tibetans should come to war."

"Do you want me to betray the name of the country?"

"As the saying goes, lice are not afraid of itching, debts are not afraid of worry, and dead pigs are not afraid of boiling water. It's not the first time you've sold it a few more times, so why not sell it a few more times? Anyway, with me here, I can't sell it if I want to, what are you afraid of? And one more support army, one more chance of winning, with the full help of the Tibetan army, maybe you can really unify the world. Looking at Li Jiancheng, whose face was indiscriminate, Yang Tong smiled and said: "History books have always been written by the victors, as long as you can seize the world, the history books will only say that I, Yang Tong, are absurd and ruthless, cruel and ruthless, who dares to say that your Li family is a traitor?" ”

Li Jiancheng said angrily: "Now that books are popular all over the world, you can't ban them if you want to, there will always be people who will record the events of this dynasty." And I'm not going to do the ugly thing of tampering with the history books,"

"You're too soft-hearted, so you can't do anything to others." Yang Tong shook his head and said.

Li Jiancheng asked curiously: "Who?" ”

"Me."

"You are indeed excellent, I am not as good as you." Li Jiancheng admitted it very shamefully, and said: "Regarding Tubo, I can only say that I will do my best. ”

Li Jiancheng knew that the Tang army was very scattered, and when it came to the time of the soldiers, there was no advantage at all, once the victory entered Shu, he would be able to twist the Tang army into a fist, but in any case, he could not deny that Yizhou alone could not raise so many troops, and still could not bear the Great Sui army that had eight or nine days to support, Yang Tong could consume Li Tang to death just by fighting for consumption, and the alliance between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo was an unchangeable fact, even so, he naturally hoped that Tubo would send more troops, after all, this was good for the Tang Dynasty.

"That being the case, the temporary truce has been reached, you withdraw the troops, I will not chase and kill, it will last for two months." Yang Tong said.

"It's too short, and it will take a year of truce, to say the least."

"Two months is a lot of time; A year, no point. ”

"......" Li Jiancheng was silent.

This truce is just a matter of taking what each needs and getting what he gets, maybe after the delivery is completed, the Sui army will immediately storm Yizhou, and if the Tang army has a fighter, it will not miss it, and the reason is the same.

"I'll leave these details to the deputy envoy to discuss."

"It's fine."

"It's rare for my brother to come to Luoyang, so let's stay for a while, Xiuning and I will take you around."

"As the Emperor of the Great Sui, can you travel with me?" Li Jiancheng smiled and said, "I saw a lot of foreign envoys waiting to pay a visit yesterday. ”

"It doesn't matter." Yang Tong waved his hand and said: "All my people, even ordinary people, are ten thousand times more noble than the king of Fanbang. What's more, the elder brother? ”

Although Yang Tong's words made people feel a little unreasonable, Li Jiancheng couldn't help but feel a warmth in his heart, shook his head and said: "Moving the capital involves many issues, and I really can't delay." ”

It's not that he doesn't want to, but he doesn't dare.

Li Jiancheng has been shocked too many times along the way, and he is worried that if he stays any longer, the fighting spirit in his heart will be wiped out.

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Although the truce between the Sui and Tang dynasties was finalized, there were many details involved, and Du Ruhui and Chen Shuda still talked for three days, and finally the two sides reached a compromise. Xiangyang, Chungling, Jingling, Yiling, and Qingjiang were assigned to the Sui Dynasty, and the Tang army completely withdrew from Jingzhou, and the Tang Dynasty was not allowed to forcibly relocate the people. In terms of the truce period, Chen Shuda asked for a one-year truce on the grounds that it would take time to quell the rebellion and relocate, but Du Ruhui only agreed to two months, and finally the two sides gave in to each other, and the truce lasted for half a year.