Ling Jing's eagle letter to Yang Dong was not a big deal, it just said that the armor and weapons had been received, and said his next move, generally speaking, Yang Dong didn't care much about this kind of thing, but Ling Jing, as a courtier, naturally had to abide by the way of a minister, and wrote to Yang Tong out of the least respect.

As Ling Jing expected, Yang Tong really simply replied to him with the words 'improvisation', which was also in line with Yang Tong's usual style, he thought that he was far away from Bohai County, and it was impossible to know more about the situation of the Wheel Sect than Ling Jing.

Not long after Ling Jing received the eagle letter, there was a movement in the warehouse that had been silent in the world, Ling Jing got the report, and hurried to the third floor of the winery opposite the warehouse, this elegant room that is conducive to observation has been chartered by Shen Cong for half a month, when he entered, Shen Cong said: "Shangshu, just now more than 20 guards escorted a carriage in, it seems that they are planning to transport the goods away. ”

"What's on the carriage?"

"The carriage was airtight, drove directly into the warehouse, and never got out of the car." Shen Cong replied.

"It should be an important leader."

"Since he is an important leader in transporting weapons and equipment, this person naturally knows the lair of the Wheel Sect, so wouldn't it be more convenient for us to just arrest people?" Shen Cong's deputy, Sun An, asked.

"We're here to monitor the warehouses that travel the world, and it's possible that the Wheel Sect will arrange secret sentinels around it, and if we arrest people, these secret sentinels will notify the people of the nest to evacuate first. However, there are no loopholes in our plan, and it is better to implement it according to the original plan, so as not to startle the snake and eventually fail. Ling Jing flatly refused.

"The last will be ashamed." Sun An said embarrassedly.

"It's okay!" Ling Jing shook his head, and he whispered to Shen Cong, "To find Zhu Xiong, we need accurate intelligence. ”

"The last general will go and arrange it, Sun An, come with me." Shen Cong stood up and hurried away with Sun An.

The two left the winery, drove a carriage to the mouth of another alley, and waited for about an hour, when they saw Zhu Xiong coming briskly from a distance.

Shen Cong's combination of soft and hard means played a very good role in Zhu Neng, and he had become the internal response of the Sui army in the warehouse of the world, always keeping an eye on those armors and weapons for them.

Zhu Xiong knew this carriage, and without saying a word, he sat up, and the carriage started slowly, and Zhu Xiong said: "They use the goods you care about using one hundred and twenty horses to transport them under the cover of transporting tea, silk, and porcelain, and they will go out within an hour." ”

"Where are you going? And where is the destination? ”

Zhu Xiong groaned for a moment and replied: "After crossing the Yongji Canal and Zhangshui, and heading north, I don't know where to go." ”

Shen Cong and Sun An were shocked, they had always thought that the old nest of the Wheel Sect was in the territory of the Bohai Sea, but now, this batch of weapons and equipment actually went north, which showed that the vigorous Wheel Sect was just a tool for them to hide people's eyes. Shen Cong felt that leaving Zhu Xiong's life was really the most accurate decision.

"Is your information reliable?"

"Absolutely reliable!"

Shen Cong took out a bag of gold coins and handed it to him, "The poison I gave you is fake, I have worked hard for you in the past few days, and our people will continue to contact you." ”

"You, who the hell are you?" Zhu Xiong didn't take the bag, and asked boldly.

"We are members of the imperial court, and we have been ordered to investigate the Wheel Sect that is plotting to rebel."

Zhu Xiong's face turned white: "I don't want this money, I just ask the court to forgive my sins." ”

"You're just a fellow, what's the crime?" Shen Cong threw the bag into his arms and solemnly instructed: "Traveling the world is the secret base of the Wheel Sect, if there is anything abnormal, you must report it truthfully, remember, don't tell anyone, the more one person knows, the more dangerous you are, you know?" ”

"The little one understands." Zhu Xiong nodded hurriedly.

"Go ahead."

"Thank you, general, villain!" Zhu Xiong thought for a while, took ten gold coins from his bag, got out of the carriage without saying a word, and walked back quickly.

Sun An was surprised: "This guy is not greedy? ”

"He is afraid of a windfall from heaven, and his life is not at stake, and he has the remaining forty gold coins for us."

Sun An laughed: "This guy also underestimates us too much." ”

"He doesn't underestimate us, but the cleverness of the little people, and the helpless way of the little people, but as people in the court, we must not lose our trust in a small person, let alone covet this money, and wait until the Wheel Wheel Sect is destroyed and then give it to him." Shen Cong sighed, and then ordered: "Let's go, go back to the winery." Notify Shangshu and re-deploy manpower. ”

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About an hour, a caravan composed of more than 100 mules and horses left the warehouse and went out of the north gate. Their goods were tea, silk, and porcelain, creating the appearance of going to the grassland to trade, and deceived the checkpoints.

Not long after the caravan left, Shen Cong immediately led dozens of Black Ice Terrace soldiers to follow from afar, while Ling Jing urgently dispatched manpower to closely supervise the officials of Nanpi County and Yanshan County, and then wrote a letter to Yang Tong to explain the situation.

Yang Tong received an urgent report from Ling Jing, and at the suggestion of the important ministers of the court, he issued orders to the counties and counties of Jizhou and Youzhou to let each outpost release the passing caravan to ensure that the goods arrived at the destination smoothly and prevent accidents. To ensure that nothing goes wrong, he also secretly ordered Jia Wuben, the Taishou of Qi County, to take over the army of Qi County and Beihai, and go north to fight in the Bohai Sea at any time.

This was the first secret operation since Yang Tong arrived in the Sui Dynasty, and it was also a military operation carried out by various ministries in coordination, covering the entire territory of Jizhou and Youzhou, as well as Qi County and Beihai County of Qingzhou.

After leaving the city, it marched northeast along the Yongji Canal, and soon after it reached Lucheng County, it dismantled along the coastline and headed south overnight, and drove the goods into the Xiashan in Yanshan County of the Bohai Sea.

This made Shen Congxi, who had followed all the way, speechless, and went around in a circle, but he still returned to Bohai County.

The north slope of the gorge is steep and rugged, there is a canyon depression to the north on the south slope, so it is called the gorge mountain, the mountains here are stacked on top of each other, the valley is deep, the strange peaks stand in a forest, and the mountain is extremely rugged and precipitous. There were three villages scattered within the gorge, no different from ordinary villages, and when Shen Cong witnessed a bag of goods breaking open and dropping out more than a dozen horizontal knives, he was sure that this was the lair of the Wheel Turning Sect.

But then, the caravan hurriedly set off north, but the sharp-eyed Shen Cong found that half of the vehicles were missing, and in order to confirm his guess, he led the converging internal guards to capture the caravan twenty miles north of the gorge mountain, and there was really not a single horizontal knife or a pair of armor among the goods.

Ling Jing, who received the eagle letter, immediately ordered the soldiers of Heibingtai to wipe out the officials of Nanpi County and Yanshan County, and after verifying them one by one, he learned that Xiashan was indeed the lair of the Wheel Sect, and immediately mobilized 10,000 internal guards to kill in the Xiashan Valley, under the strong bow and crossbow of the Sui army, more than 2,000 thieves and more than 500 Japanese slaves suffered heavy losses, and they came out to surrender, and the identity of the so-called Wheel Sect leader was also verified, this person's name was Dugu Han, and he was loyal to the Dugu clan after the Dugu family, because he would have a mysterious illusion, And was sent by Dugu to the Bohai Sea to develop secretly, as for the warehouse that travels the world, it is actually one of the industries of the Dugu clan, and there are many caravans of the Dugu clan in the territory of the Great Sui.

After the end of the Jizhou War, everyone decided that it was difficult to use them to rebel, and only by using religious beliefs could these villagers and foolish women be encouraged to follow.

As for the Japanese slaves, they are not pure Japanese slaves, but come from a race called the Ezo people, who were originally indigenous people of Hokkaido Island, with short stature, light dark complexion, thick beards for men, and mustache-like marks along the mouths of women.

The literal translation of "Ezo people" is the meaning of "Mao people, prisoners, and Fan people", and even the Japanese slaves feel that the other party is "Mao people, Fan people", so you can imagine how ugly this is. Today's Wa State occupies a large amount of territory of the Ezo people, and wantonly slaughters and suppresses the Ezo people, such Mao people and Fan people, and the Ezo people hate the Wa people to the core, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they do not share the sky.

They had business dealings with the Dugu clan who were in business as early as the Great Cause years, and these hundreds of Ezo people were people who could not return to the country during the turbulent period of the Great Sui, and they were kept in a secret manor in Jiangdu by Dugu Quan, and later heard that Dou Jiande was poisoned by Japanese slaves in Qingzhou, so he transferred these people to Dugu Han.

Dugu clan is not going to seize the world, Dugu Han does not know, he got the order is to mess up the world of the Great Sui, and when the ice and snow melt, he will take advantage of the opportunity of the Sui army to launch a war in the south, raise troops in Bohai County, capture Bohai County, obtain the money, grain and armament in the treasury, and then penetrate the two counties of Hejian and Boling, before the imperial army raises troops to clear up, enter Hengshan County, kill the defenders there, and will continue to expand the more than 40,000 slaves of Jingcheng into the army, and then sweep the entire territory of Youzhou, and seize Liaodong and the Turks based on Youzhou, Goguryeo and other foreign races formed alliances.

Yang Tong and the Great Sui ministers who got this confession both had a sense of creepy, although they didn't know what Dugu was doing, but his sinister intentions made the Great Sui monarchs hate Dugu to the core.

Dugu Han does not have many subordinates, and his combat power is not much stronger, but those tens of thousands of slaves are all powerful people who died and survived, in addition, there are also 30,000 slaves in the military capital, and once these 70,000 demons are released, the destruction caused can be imagined. Ling Jing, who also hated this group of people, beheaded all the prisoners according to Yang Dong's order.

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Duguhan's rebellion was nipped in the bud, Yang Tong's heart disease was removed, and the meritorious heroes of this operation were rewarded; In particular, Ma Zhou, the whistleblower who risked his life to offend the Xuanjia Army and achieved the purpose of facing the saint, was promoted by Yang Tong to Zhongshu Shilang and became Li Jing's deputy, while Li Zhi, who spent half a year investigating, was promoted to General Huben of the Xiaoguo Army and became the division-level commander in charge of 5,000 elites, and Shen Cong and Sun An were promoted by two levels each.

After exterminating Dugu Han, Yang Tong immediately ordered a large-scale elimination of the remnants of the Wheel Sect, he was worried that there were still sects and forces with the same vicious ambition as Dugu Quan, hidden in the center of the Great Sui where they could not see, and were ready to deal a heavy blow when the army was marching south, thinking twice, he decided to postpone the southern expedition, and used the internal guard, the black ice platform, the Shura guard and the military forces to carry out a great purge of the Great Sui.

In a short period of one month, more than 500 shops were closed, more than 200 officials were arrested, and more than 3,000 enemy spies and people who were bought off were arrested. As for the Buddhas, Buddhas, Buddhas, Buddhas, Buddhas, and thousands of backbones of the Bohai County Wheel Sect, they were also arrested.

For more than 6,000 people who were arrested, Yang Tong was not merciless, and ordered these people and their families to be executed, which shocked the world with more than 50,000 heads, and also shocked the officialdom of the Great Sui, making them realize that the iron and blood wind in the heart of the Shengwu Emperor, who started in the military and martial arts, was always there, and they all clamped their tails and did practical things as officials.

In this thunderous action, tens of thousands of taels of gold, more than 100,000 taels of silver, more than 500,000 taels of money, and countless treasures of all kinds were confiscated.

All the property voluntarily donated by the followers of the Wheel Wheel Sect will be confiscated, and they will be charged double the tax this year and next, and an article will be added to the local household registration that 'Shengwu has followed the cult for three years', and if they commit another crime, their land will be taken back, and they will be reduced to slavery as punishment for believing in the cult.

In Yang Tong's view, cult followers have no innocent claims at all and do not deserve anyone's sympathy; for such people, it is far more effective to let them lose real money and interests than to persuade them with bitter words and good words, and only by taking away some of the money that makes them feel painful will they learn a lesson and will not believe in other cults.

At the same time, the decree that did not obtain the 'authorization card' of the imperial court, that is, that it was not a regular temple and Taoist temple, was also propagated, and it is believed that after hearing about this punishment incident, the people in various places will no longer go to those temples and Taoist temples without 'license plates' to worship, lest they be ruthlessly cleaned up by the government in the name of believing in cults.

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In this war, the Sui army took Luoyang as the rear area, Shuyang County as the logistics center, and Huai'an County, as the rear army of the war headquarters, stationed 200,000 troops as the support of the front army, and 300,000 stones were also in place, and there were countless military materials such as armor, bows, crossbows, shields, war drums, and military weapons.

Just when the Sui army was in full swing to prepare for war, Li Yuan, Li Mi, and Lin Shihong were all very nervous, and dispatched troops to strengthen defenses, mobilized people to strengthen the border defense line, and patrolled day and night.

To the south of Huai'an County, where the Sui army was heavily stationed, was Li Yuan's Lingling, and to the east was Li Mi's Huaiyang; Passing through Handong, Anlu, and Jiangxia along the official road, Lin Shihong's Jiujiang and Yuzhang could be attacked, and Jiangxia still had tens of thousands of sailors actively training, Lin Shihong was not sure that the Sui army would not fight himself.

Li Yuan's eastern, southern, and northern directions were full of Sui troops, and he was the most nervous.

Li Mi was not easy, his army was cut in half by Huaishui, not to mention, Du Fuwei of Liyang was still like a sharp dagger, against the heart of Jiangdu.

Therefore, when the goal of the Sui army was not yet clear, no one knew whether Yang Tong was fighting himself or the other two major forces.

The atmosphere in the world suddenly became tense.