After Ling Jing left, Yang Tong, who had eaten half of it, was no longer hungry and took care of government affairs. Yang Qinfang looked at the silent Yang Tong quite apprehensively, and asked softly, "Is it really a fight?" ”

"Guess?" Yang Tong did not raise his head and continued to deal with official business.

Yang Qinfangyao snorted slightly: "So make a fool of yourself and pretend to be a ghost." ”

Yang Tong smiled and said indifferently: "What is Langri Zampu?" It is a tactical fraud that is strong on the outside and strong on the inside. It's just that he's looking for the wrong person. ”

"Really? I think you're the best outsider. Yang Qinfang said disdainfully, thinking that the person was going to marry Yang Tong's beautiful imperial aunt of Tubo, and his heart was unhappy for a while. Yang Tong said angrily: "Although Tubo is crisscrossing the plateau, compared to the Great Sui, it is still not a level of opponent, and Langri Zampu actually doesn't want to start a full-scale war with my Great Sui." However, the opposition forces within Tibet were ready to move, and if they did not go to war, they could only become a family with the Great Sui through the means of harmony, and use the power and prestige of the Great Sui to enhance his deterrent power in Tibet. In short, it's a fox and a fake tiger. ”

"What if he really fights with all his country?" Yang Qinfang asked again.

"I'm not afraid of Tibet, I'm not afraid of anyone now, the growing national strength of the Great Sui is enough to arm a huge army, and it is not a problem to open up several battlefields at the same time, Tubo is willing to fight, you can try."

Yang Tong smiled faintly and said: "Although Tubo occupies the advantage of the plateau, the Sui army will inevitably go against the trend if it wants to attack Tubo, and most people will have symptoms such as dizziness, headache, palpitation, diarrhea, and fatigue. And Wang Fubao's army has been active in Lintao and Heyuan counties for a long time, and they are not afraid of this kind of water and soil adaptation at all. As long as the officers and soldiers of the First Army have the necessary time to adapt to the plateau environment, this series of water and soil adaptation diseases will also disappear, which is also the reason why I let Pei Xingyan and Niu Jinda go to the plateau first. As long as Langri Zampu's elite division was severely damaged in the war, there was no need for our army to attack at that time, and the various opposing forces would inevitably attack him, and the entire Tibet would fall into a situation of fragmentation in an instant. ”

"As for Tuyuhun." Yang Tong analyzed: "Murong Fuyun is no longer undoubted, but after all, he has been a khan for decades, and he has many loyal cronies, which also means that Murong Xiaojun who killed him cannot be convincing, and the tribes loyal to Murong Fuyun will be out of his control, and the tribes who are afraid of my Great Sui will also do their own thing; The Tubo Secret Qiang people have a feud, and not long ago they killed many of Tuyuhun's troops, and Murong Xiaojun's cooperation with Tubo made some people feel cold and disgusted, and they had different dreams in the same bed. If Murong Xiaojun loses the battle, it will be the end of Tuyuhun. In the final analysis, both Tubo and Tuyuhun are gambling on national fortunes. ”

Yang Tong said lightly, but he heard Yang Qinfang's long eyelashes jumping wildly.

This guy is just too insidious.

"By the way, how is Xiao Wu's training?"

Yang Tong felt sorry for his daughter-in-law and couldn't bear to watch it, but he knew that Yin Mingyue and Shui Tianji did not reduce their training because Wei Fengwu was the queen.

"It's okay, it's all persevered." Yang Qinfang replied and couldn't help asking, "You won't really let her go too, will you?" ”

"If she likes to go, what's this?" Yang Tong said indifferently: "When the imperial grandfather was fighting, which time didn't he take the imperial grandmother with him?" ”

This is really true, whether Yang Guang is on patrol or fighting, he takes his wife and son with him. His eldest sister Yang Lihua has been depressed because her husband's male son was killed by her father Yang Jian, and Yang Guang has been depressed in order to relieve the depression in her eldest sister's heart, and she also brings it with her every time she goes out on an expedition and inspects.

As a result, when the expedition to Tuyuhun, the army did not lose many people on the battlefield, but when the division was still in the court, when the Sui army passed by the Dadou Pull Valley, a blizzard suddenly fell in the midsummer of July, and the blizzard hit the triumphant division, and tens of thousands of people froze to death overnight, the horses and donkeys were frozen to death, and Yang Guang and his wife almost froze to death, and Yang Lihua, who was weak, unfortunately died of illness on the way, and after returning to Daxing, he ordered the officials to arrange a funeral, and in accordance with Yang Lihua's wishes, she and Yuwenyun were buried in Dingling.

But if it is replaced now, it will definitely not be a large area of soldiers frozen to death, because the Great Sui has planted a large area of "white stacks" (cotton), the low value of cotton cloth, excellent quality has entered thousands of households, although cotton cloth is not as gorgeous as satin, but light and close, wear more warm, the price is very cheap, ordinary people can also buy two or three pieces, even if they can't afford it, you can also plant it yourself, fill the cotton into the fabric, make cotton jackets, quilts to keep warm.

In the winter of these years, the northern part of the Great Sui Dynasty has not frozen to death as before, and cotton can be said to have made a great contribution.

Of course, this is also the credit of Yang Tong, before this, no one would have thought that this kind of "white stack" from the Western Regions, which can only be seen as a landscape, can become a good warm thing after being shelled and seeded.

This alone also made the people of the world worship Yang Dong, who discovered cotton, planted cotton, deseeded machines, organized people to spin cotton cloth by hand, and promoted it.

However, in order to prevent the people from occupying fertile land to plant cotton, Yang Tong also issued a special decree, requiring the people to only plant cotton in barren land such as mountains and barren slopes, and never encroach on fertile farmland, lest grain production plummet.

Hearing Yang Tong say this, Yang Qinfang breathed a sigh of relief, whether Wei Fengwu went or not, she didn't want to care, and she couldn't care about it.

What she was most afraid of was that when Yang Tong went on the expedition, he would throw her in Daxing, since the queen also went, she would definitely be indispensable to Shurawei, and immediately said with a smile: "I'm just asking." Sister Mingyue can kill a Mingyue County, and Xiao Wu may not be able to fight a Fengwu County. ”

"By the way, how is that Koji Boya doing? What can be wrong with words and deeds? Yang Tong suddenly thought of the former Gaochang King Lu Boya. The old guy wrote to Zongzheng Temple last year, asking to return to his hometown to worship his ancestors, but he happened to encounter the caravan on the Silk Road that Tuyuhun ransacked, Yang Tong suspected that he played an important role in it, not only did not agree, but also sent someone to secretly monitor, if it wasn't for Yang Qinfang to mention it, Yang Tong would have forgotten about Koji Boya.

"There is nothing wrong with being cautious in her words and deeds. There weren't many people in contact, and nothing unusual about him was found. Yang Qinfang replied.

"A smart man." Yang Tong said: "Since he has no problem, let's remove the people who are watching." ”

"That old guy is definitely not a good person, if he is not allowed to go back to worship his ancestors, the world will say that we have no heart, but once he is let go, he will definitely make noise for die-hard elements to make trouble. In my opinion, you just let him go back to worship his ancestors, in the name of filial piety in the whole Great Sui, and then send the 'bandits' to cut him in two and kill him halfway. Yang Qinfang suggested.

"......" Yang Tong had no choice but to say about this violent girl: "There is no need for this, because in the hearts of the people of the Great Sui, he is just a prisoner without human rights, and it is an extrajudicial mercy if I don't kill him, so naturally no one will say anything." ”

Yang Qinfang said: "'If it is not my race, its heart will be different'......"

"That's what I said, but in fact, few emperors really did it, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used Jin Riyan and the famous general Hu Luguang of the Northern Qi Dynasty to be a high-speed car, and our family, except for the two Empress Dowagers, Qinghua, and Yuexian, none of them are pure Han people, what can I say? On the other hand, the Sima clan of the Jin Dynasty was not only of the same clan, but also of the same clan, and as a result, there was a rebellion of the eight kings, which shattered the great rivers and mountains, the people were not able to make a living, the national strength was exhausted, and the hidden contradictions broke out, which directly led to the collapse of the Western Jin Dynasty, and made the northern part of the Central Plains enter the five chaos of almost extinction. It can be seen that excessive racial discrimination is useless. It is true that the saying 'those who are not of my race will have different hearts', but many times, this phrase is often on the lips of some people in order to cover up their incompetence. ”

"What's the point of talking about it?" Yang Qinfang has liked Yang Tong's high-minded talk since she was a child.

"When he said, 'If it is not my race, its heart will be different', what is wrong is that the alien race has not been influenced by the Heavenly Empire, and the reason why the alien race is barbaric and cruel is that the influence of the court is insufficient. In this way, he not only escaped responsibility, but also said that he would increase the intensity of reform, use gentle tactics to influence his heart, appease his people, and not impose force, and finally become a 'benevolent, righteous, moral, and humble gentleman'. ”

Yang Tong said: "Our Great Sui is a great country standing in the world, and it is the royal way to look at the four seas and unite all the forces that can be united for their own use." Moreover, there are many loyal ethnic groups in my Great Sui, should we kill them cleanly? ”

"Of course not."

"Therefore, we have to give first salute to the people who do not obey us, defeat the reactionaries, and then include those who are afraid of us into the Great Sui, and then educate them and assimilate them with culture, which is much more effective than genocide. Excessive killing only increases hatred for each other. ”

At the end, Yang Tong added: "You are still young, read more books." ”

"......" Yang Qinfang was so angry that her face sank like water, and her good mood and sweet smile all ran out of the clouds. She stood up menacingly, drank the untouched teacup in front of Yang Tong in one gulp, and then grabbed the teapot and left.

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At the same time, there was another person who was in a more unhappy mood than Yang Qinfang, that is, Li Yuan, the Tang Emperor who was still in Xiangyang.

He was in Concubine Yin's bedroom at this time, the whole dormitory was very quiet, the incense burner at the corner of the house was curling with green smoke, the whole hall was filled with a faint sandalwood incense, the ground was covered with a carpet from the Western Regions, the colorful Shu brocade was filled with curtains, and the long silk curtain above the main hall was hung with a few fist-sized night pearls, and the faint and clear light sprinkled to every corner of the hall.

The thick curtain hanging in the middle of the main hall divides the main hall into two, and sixteen palace maids stand outside the curtain, holding various utensils, waiting for the saint and the mother to summon them.

On the jade steps inside the curtain, there was an ivory gold wire bed, on which was hung a summer hibiscus tent, Li Yuan lay on Yin Defei's half-hidden snow-white thighs, and Yin Defei gently pressed his temples for him, while Zhang Jieyu gently rubbed her legs.

The two of them were originally female officials of Jinyang Palace. At the beginning, Yang Guang liked to pay attention to pomp, practice the palace everywhere, and then select girls to enter the palace according to the etiquette system, but he himself was not lustful, and the emperor's life for more than ten years was either spent on the war or spent on the inspection, resulting in countless beautiful show girls reduced to decorations, Yin De and Zhang Jieyu are two of the many decorations.

And Li Yuan is an extremely lascivious person, when he is a courtier, he wants to use the Dou family as the background, and he does not dare to indulge himself, but after Queen Dou died of illness, his true nature was revealed, and when he raised troops and chose to become the emperor, he was even more unscrupulous to be a palace concubine, among which Zhang Jieyu and Yin Defei were the most favored.

Concubine Yin Defei and Zhang Jieyu are both extremely smart women, although they are left and right between Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, and Li Yuanji, and they make a lot of profits, but they know that their future is determined by Li Yuan's status, so many core secrets have not been revealed.

"Holy Lord, sleep for a while!" After a long time, Concubine Yin De saw Li Yuan's bloodshot eyes open, and persuaded him softly.

"I can't sleep!" Li Yuan let out a low sigh.

Since he decided to move the capital, he tentatively withdrew the army on the Hanshui defense line, the army of Yunxiang in Xiyang County withdrew into Fengli County in the Western Regions, and the army of Wudang and Junyang in Xiyang withdrew into Yincheng in Xiangyang. The 15,000 soldiers of Wudang were also ambushed by the general, and if it were not for the timely rescue of Zhang Shigui, the commander of Junyang, it would be difficult to escape the annihilation of the whole army.

Li Yuan hadn't closed his eyes for three days, his eyes were bloodshot, and his hair was much whiter, he actually wanted to put down everything and take a big sleep, but the grim situation made him unable to sleep at all, and as soon as he closed his eyes, he would wake up from nightmares.

He now has a feeling of the end of the road, although Li Tang still has more than 200,000 troops, but these troops are mostly weak soldiers and recruits who have not been in battle formations, and the real elite division is only 60,000, and now they are all defending Yang Shanhui in Chungling, and it is even more fatal that Li Shimin's departure has made Li Tang spread rumors that Li Shimin is against Tang and Sui, and this rumor cannot be banned at all, because Li Shimin did not take a lot of troops to Danchang without the consent of the imperial court, and Li Shimin's move also shook Li Tang's confidence. After all, even the emperor's most important son is 'opposed', how can everyone have confidence in the half-dead Li Tang Dynasty?

The unfavorable situation and all kinds of uneasy news that came every day made Li Yuan feel that he was being sentenced to death row after the autumn, waiting day by day for the moment of betrayal and separation, and he was now depressed and decadent to the extreme.

If he had been able to heed the advice of Li Jiancheng and Liu Wenjing and concentrate his forces to attack the capital of Shuofang Liang instead of starting a full-scale war, he would have been able to unify Yongzhou with absolute strength, and at the beginning of the Battle of Bingzhou, he could have sent troops across the Yellow River in time to take advantage of the danger of the Bird Mouse Valley to hold the southern part of Bingzhou......

If he didn't engage in any imperial tricks and deliberately blurred the edict, so that Pei Lin would have seized the military power of Li Shenfu, and the annexed state with reasonable defense would not have been lost......

If......

If it weren't for too much military interference, Li Xiaogong would not have been wiped out in Shuyang, and the Eastern Crusade would not have been so miserable......

All the ifs represent one wrong decision after another by him Li Yuan, and even if he only takes any of them, then the Li Tang Dynasty will never be as passive as it is today, but unfortunately everything is irreparable.

Now, Li Yuan's ambition to unify the world has completely disappeared, he just wants to keep the glory and wealth of the rest of his life, and as for Li Tang's future, it is no longer something he can manage. But he is unwilling to let go of everything, he really doesn't care about everything, because after Li Shimin's 'rebellion', he no longer trusts anyone, even if Li Jiancheng is filial, he is worried that after he puts down power, Li Jiancheng will kill him. He wanted to bring some troops to Yizhou so that he could feel safe, but the situation was getting worse day by day, and he was restless and restless.

"Holy Lord, why don't we go to Chengdu sooner." Concubine Yin Defei plucked up her courage and said: "His Royal Highness the King of Jin's prestige in the army is far from comparable to that of the King of Qi, if the generals in the army are bewitched by him, Yizhou will soon fall into his hands." Yizhou is surrounded by mountains, as long as he guards a pass, even if there are millions of male soldiers, he will not be able to defeat it. ”

When Li Yuan heard this, his heart trembled.

yes, what else can't the rebel do now? If you really want to block the passage into Shu, you will die. And even if Jiancheng betrays, as long as Yizhou is in hand, he can't get in, so why be afraid? At this thought, Li Yuan's heart suddenly brightened, and an indescribable tiredness came up, and he fell asleep.

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Three days later, Li Yuan was forced to move the capital again, led a large group of men, left the prosperous Luoyang, traced the Yangtze River to the west, and headed towards Chengdu.

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