In the imperial study of the Wude Palace, Li Yuan, whose face was pale, sat in front of the window in a daze, his right hand holding a large stack of letterheads, so hard that even the green tendons bulged out. This is a letter that his daughter Li Xiuning secretly took out from the Ziwei City Archive, and all of them were letters written by Dugu to Yang Tong in secret, and each letter represented a shameless betrayal.

In order to recapture Guanzhong, Li Yuan planned the change of Daxing Palace. That battle, he got the full support of the Guanlong nobles, in total, in addition to the more than 10,000 dead soldiers in Daxing, there were still 60,000 or 70,000 soldiers outside the city, the soldiers were divided into three roads, the strongest combat power of each dead soldier cooperated with the palace guard Chang He to capture and kill Yang Dong, the famous general Dou Kang led more than 30,000 people to hoard troops to help Taibai Mountain, its task was to slaughter the defenders of Dasan Pass, and let the Tang army enter the pass; The other was led by the general Feng Li, intercepting the northern Sui army in Beidi County, this is the closest Li Yuan has come to capturing Yang Tong, as long as Yang Dong is killed in Daxing Palace, the Li Tang Dynasty can recapture Guanzhong, and then recover Yongbei and Merge Zhou, and then advance step by step, annihilating the chaotic Great Sui forces, but the result is still defeated!

Li Yuan originally thought that the movement was too big, and someone was not secret, but Yang Tong knew in advance, but unexpectedly, this failure was actually the old thief Dugu Cheng betrayed Li Tang, causing him to suffer heavy losses, losing all the dark forces in Guanzhong, and finally losing the opportunity to slaughter Yang Dong.

And last year!

The secret agreement between him and Li Mi was also revealed by Dugu in advance, which caused Yang Tong to see through Li Tang's plan for the Eastern Expedition and all the deployments. In the end, the targeted arrangement of troops first annihilated the Eastern Route Army led by Li Xiaogong in Xiangcheng; If it weren't for Liu Wenjing to build a dam and threaten the people of Henan County with flooding, I am afraid that Li Shimin would also be wiped out, although he retreated to Zhuyang Pass as he wished, but the result was still for Xue Wanjun to take advantage of the victory to pursue and annihilate the main force in Zhuyang Pass, and finally pushed the battle line to the north of Hanshui.

Dugu, the old thief, saw that the Li Tang Dynasty was in danger, and even made a promise to donate eighty percent of the land, sixty percent of the family wealth, and take on the internal responsibility!

In addition, there are many Tang secrets, all of which were sold to Yang Tong by Dugu one by one, judging from the time of the payment of each letter, the secret letters written to Da Sui are more and more year by year, month by month, from which it can be seen that Dugu is eager to descend to Sui.

This old thief is going to put Li Tang to death.

If it weren't for Li Xiuning risking his life to send these secret letters, he wouldn't know where he was defeated and who betrayed him.

In the past, Li Yuan had doubted many people, even Li Jiancheng, who was exactly the same as Yang Tong, but he just didn't think that it was Dugu Cheng, just because everything he Li Yuan did today was promoted by Dugu Cheng.

Li Yuan was so hateful that his heart was dripping blood, and he gritted his teeth and said to Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin, who were silent: "I finally understand why I, Li Tang, have been defeated so badly, it turns out that it is Dugu, an old thief, who is betraying us. ”

"Father, could it be a letter forged by Yang Tong for the sake of separation? The third sister's handwriting is also easy to imitate. Erchen heard that the words written by Yang Shidao have the ability to confuse the real with falsehood. Li Jiancheng asked in a low voice, his face full of worry.

"Your third sister's words may be forged, but no one can pretend to be Dugu's words!" Li Yuan collapsed, like a frightened leopard, and the murderous aura quietly spread, and then said gloomily: "The quality of the words written by Dugu is determined by the piece of paper; He has always prided himself on being a master of calligraphy, and he is afraid that he will not be able to write well, so a paper workshop of Dugu's is dedicated to making paper according to his needs, and it is only for him to use. Speaking of this, he raised a large stack of letters in his hand and said, "These are the papers for his use, and except for a limited number of people, outsiders will not know about his habit at all." ”

After being silent for a long time, Li Jiancheng said in a low voice: "The matter has come to this, and my father should focus on the dragon body." ”

"What a lonely old thief."

Li Yuan was indignant in his heart, he yelled and kicked the wall, which frightened Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin to persuade each other.

After a long time, Li Yuan said again: "Actually, the Guanlong nobles originally had two choices, the Yuan family was the first choice, and our Li family was just an alternative. ”

Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin were stunned, it was the first time they had heard of this.

"At the beginning, Dugu Cheng and Dou Wei forced me to start an incident many times, the purpose was to let us act as Yuan Min's shield, withstand the attack of the army loyal to the Great Sui, and let us consume the last trace of vitality of the Sui Dynasty, and in order to introduce the power of the Turks to deal with Yang Dong, I made a promise that all the children in Guanzhong would belong to the Turks. Dugu Quan and Dou Wei took the opportunity to use Yuan Min and Sima Dejiao to launch the Jiangdu Mutiny, the reason why Liyu culture and puppet was actually to let him bear the name of killing the king, but people are not as good as heaven, Xiaoguo Army and Li Mi were both defeated, so that the plan of the Guanlong nobles to support the two forces and divide the world equally was shattered, and finally had to fully support our Li family. ”

"Why do you want to support two families to divide the world equally?" Li Shimin frowned.

Li Yuan said lightly: "At the beginning, they fully supported Yang Jian to usurp the Zhou Dynasty, but Yang Jian pressed forward step by step, cutting off their flesh one by one. In order to avoid suffering losses again, they supported the Li family and the Yuan family to divide the world equally, so that the world would fall into a protracted war, and the Guanlong nobles could seek to seize the fertile land and hide the population in the war, and finally empty the imperial power of both sides, relying on strong practical strength, so that the strength of the two forces would be equal, so that the old things would not be repeated. ”

A chill rose in the hearts of Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin. The two brothers never imagined that the Guanlong nobles would have a big plan, and in order to protect their own interests, they would not hesitate to divide the world and make the war endless.

But I don't know why my father told their brother these things, neither of them spoke, but continued to listen.

I heard Li Yuan say again: "The reason why I told you this is to let you know that the Guanlong nobles have never really wanted to support us. If they had focused on us in the first place, they would not have been defeated today. ”

Remembering that when he got the support of the Guanlong nobles, he was so high-spirited, his people gradually accumulated in the Sui Dynasty, and gradually gained the trust of Yang Guang, step by step to get involved in the military power, through the counterinsurgency training soldiers, hiding the young and strong population, he knew that as long as he had his own military power, then the Guanlong nobles could no longer have to lower their eyebrows and low their voices, so that they could become a real emperor. However, not long after entering Guanzhong, the Tang army was defeated so quickly and completely, although Li Shimin, Li Xiaogong and others also had a good performance on the battlefield, but they still could not reverse the situation of the rout, causing him Li Yuan to lose his popularity and the majesty of deterring the world. The people below are panicked, the hearts of the army and the people are unavailable, and now Li Yuan feels that he is almost exhausted.

Whose fault is all this?

Dugu Cheng, who supported him and betrayed him!

"The so-called success is also Xiao He is also Xiao He is nothing more than this!" Li Yuan said lightly: "Other Li Mi are also troubled by the Jiangnan Shi clan, but the influence of the Jiangnan Shi clan mainly lies in knowledge and county prestige. The influence of the Guanlong aristocracy lies in the land and the army, which is the biggest difference between the two, the influence of the scholars can be balanced by the imperial examination, and can be deterred by the army; And the Guanlong nobles with a strong private army can only be eliminated by violent means. ”

Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin were silent, they knew that their father was completely disappointed in the Guanlong nobles, and had decided to do it.

It's just that their brothers also know that this is by no means the impulse of their father, but the result of careful consideration, when their uncle and grandfather used the Li family as a pawn, it was Yuan Min, an outsider, who really supported him, and it was from then that that the father had a deep dissatisfaction with his uncle and grandfather; After the defeat of the Yuan family, his uncle and grandfather not only did not try to make up for it, but betrayed the Li Tang Dynasty inch by inch, resulting in the defeat of the Tang Dynasty again and again, which also prompted his father to make up his mind to completely cut off this family relationship.

The two brothers were a little confused for a while, and they were also very angry at Dugu Cheng's excess, but not to the point of killing him, with their brothers' thoughts, Dugu Cheng didn't have a few years to live, and it was a big deal to imprison him to death. After all, no matter how you say it, Dugu Cheng is also their uncle and grandfather, the emperor's own uncle... And he did help the Tang Dynasty a lot as the leader of the Guanlong aristocracy, otherwise there would be no existence of this country at all...

But they also knew that under the seemingly calm surface of their father, they were already angry to the extreme, and if they persuaded at this time, they were afraid that they would be scolded and roared like a storm. Especially Li Shimin, he didn't dare to persuade him, because his wife was Dugucheng's own granddaughter, and if he persuaded him at this time, he couldn't even get rid of himself.

In the silence, an old eunuch trotted in, bowed and saluted: "Qi Sheng, Xiao Xiangguo asks to see you." ”

"Oh!" Li Yuan's eyes flashed, and he locked the letterhead in his hand into a drawer, trying to calm the murderous intent and anger in his heart before he said, "Xuan! ”

After a while, Xiao Yu walked into the imperial study angrily and saluted: "Weichen greets the saint, the prince, and the king of Jin." ”

"Xiao Xiangguo doesn't have to be polite, please take a seat!" Li Yuan said softly.

"Thank you!" Xiao Yu sat down.

"Okay, now tell me, where did Fang Xuanling come from?" Li Yuan looked at Xiao Yu with some curiosity, no matter what, to be able to make Xiao Yu, who is polite and polite, like this, I am afraid that he was choked by Fang Xuanling's lion.

"Back to the saint, Fang Xuanling asked us to exchange the five counties of Jingzhou for a one-year truce, and Weichen saw that he was not sincere at all. In addition, Yang Tong also sent envoys to Jiangdu, on the condition that Li Mi take out the seven counties of Huaibei in exchange for a one-year truce. Xiao Yu angrily told the cause and effect of the matter.

The Li father and son were stunned.

Li Yuan's eyes flickered a few times, and he fell into a short period of contemplation, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Xiao Xiang means that if we don't agree to Yang Dong's conditions, we will attack Xiangyang first; If we agree, he will beat Li Mi. Vice versa? Li Jiancheng asked.

Xiao Yu smiled bitterly: "That's exactly what it means!" ”

"Blackmail! Shameless blackmail. Li Yuan suddenly became furious, slapped the table again and again, and roared angrily: "Xiangyang is the capital of the Tang Dynasty, he wants to take the five counties of Jingxiang without blood? Dreaming, I am not shamelessly threatened by Yang Tong, I am not afraid of him, and I have the ability to beat Hanshui. Let Fang Xuanling get out of here today, I don't welcome this kind of scoundrel! ”

"......" Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin looked at each other, neither of them expected that their father would be so angry and deny each other's plan without thinking. You must know that before retreating to Xiangyang a year ago, my father was bent on moving the capital to Shu, if it wasn't for being coerced by the Guanlong nobles, the Tang Dynasty would have moved to Chengdu a long time ago, how could it stay until now? And at that time, there were only more than 200,000 Sui troops at the border, and the Sui army had more than 200,000 at the border, and now it has expanded its army by 500,000. All the armies will disappear in Jingxiang, and when the time comes, they will not be able to last long if they hide in Bashu. On the contrary, if Fang Xuanling's conditions are agreed, Datang will have at least a year to eliminate dissidents and create an iron bucket-like Bashu. If Li Mi is a little more angry, they will have more time to prepare.

Li Jiancheng didn't know what Li Shimin thought, anyway, when he was talking about it in Xiao Yu, he was a little tempted, in fact, he didn't have hope at all for the so-called Hanshui defense line, if the Sui army attacked Xicheng County from Hanshui Ferry, from Hanchuan, from Xiyang to Fangling County, from Handong to attack Lingling, from Anlu to Jingling, from Nanjun to Yiling and Jingling, and then from Hanyang to Wudu, from Lintao to attack Tangchang...... Then the Li Tang Dynasty lasted less than half a time.

These crises caused by the disparity in strength are actually an open secret, that is, Li Shimin, the main battle faction, does not dare to shout and kill now, because each of their soldiers is precious, and they can't consume the Great Sui at all.

"There's one more thing!" Xiao Yu's expression was very embarrassed, he didn't know whether to say anything about the visit of more than 30 Guanlong nobles to Fang Xuanling, what he said, the emperor was afraid that he would be even more angry, but if he didn't say it, it would be his dereliction of duty, and the emperor would probably know in half an hour, so Xiao Yu was a little entangled in his heart.

"Tell me, what's going on?" Li Yuan tried to calm the anger in his heart.

Xiao Yu told him in detail about the incident he encountered when the Guanlong nobles collectively visited Fang Xuanling, and sure enough, as he expected, Li Yuan's face became even more gloomy, and he said coldly for a long time: "More than 30 family heads visited Fang Xuanling collectively, thinking that the law does not blame the public, is there nothing I can do with them?" ”

"Wechen felt that they were not betraying the Holy One; Just ......"

"Just what?"

Xiao Yu saw the sweat on his forehead, and said cautiously: "Chasing interests is the instinct of the family's door valve, and there is no exception throughout the ages, Wei Chen thinks that Enwei and Shi Fang are the long-term way, and appropriate appeasement can stabilize their emotions, they are only in contact with the officials of the Sui Dynasty now, if the saint suppresses it, Wei Chen is worried that they will substantially support Yang Tong in the next step." ”

Li Yuan shook his head and said in a deep voice: "Xiao Xiang, this is wrong, the Guanlong nobles are completely different from the Guandong clan and the southern clan of the country. ”

"Please make it clear to the Holy Lord!"

"I am also a member of the Guanlong aristocracy, I know their thoughts very well, even if they have bred in Guanzhong for nearly a hundred years, but there is no substantial difference between their conduct and the Hu people, in the final analysis, they still believe in the strong in their bones, and there is always no loyal quality of the Han people, they are not ashamed to surrender to the strong, but proud, they used to surrender to Yuwentai, and then to Yang Jian, and then to the Tang Dynasty against Sui, and now seeing that the situation in my Tang Dynasty is unfavorable, they surrender to Yang Tong again for their own interests, it is not unusual."

Xiao Yu sighed, plucked up his courage and said: "Shengshang, the situation in my Tang Dynasty is not as good as before, and there is the rise of the Taihe Army in Bashu, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an internal and external trouble, if it is a punishment, I am afraid that they will really lead the Sui army into the city." ”

"Then Xiao Xiang said, what should I do?"

"Holy Lord, there are actually many ways, such as expanding the main matter palm to seven phases, so that the people of the Dugu clan can also obtain a phase, and they will be stabilized."

Most of the heads of the family that Xiao Yu saw in the post house were people from the Dugu faction, which showed that the Dugu family was obsessed with the last expansion, and the reason was that Dou Lukuan, who was recommended by the Dou faction, occupied the position of Xiangguo, which should have been Dugu. If the Dugu clan is given a position of Xiangguo, the Dugu clan can be appeased, as long as the Dugu clan is stable, the actual head of the Dugu faction will naturally not make trouble, and he will not be able to make trouble. It's a pity that the well-intentioned Xiao Yu didn't know that Li Yuan had a strong murderous intent against Dugu, and he no longer trusted the Dugu clan.

"Rong Zhen thinks about this matter, after all, the expansion is a big deal, and we can't rush it." Li Yuan felt that this was an opportunity to paralyze the Dugu clan, and said a word along the way, seeing that it was already very late, he said with a smile: "After the dynasty is dispersed tomorrow, we will discuss the conditions of the expansion phase and Yang Dong. ”

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