As the imperial capital of the Li Tang Dynasty, there was the entry of the 'Beizhen Army' outside, and the internal forces of the Long nobles were plotting to cause chaos, and there was also a wave of refugees, which was not an exaggeration to say that it was a storm and a turbulent undersurge, and it also made the game between the imperial power of the Li Tang Dynasty and the Guanlong nobles develop in an unpredictable direction, and many accumulated contradictions also broke out in the Jingzhou area of the Li Tang Dynasty at once.

Just when Xiangyang was in chaos, Qin Qiong and Zhang Zhenzhou had a decisive water battle with the remnants of Lin Shihong in Poyang Lake, forcing the other party to a wide lake and mountain island, and then the army landed on the island and annihilated the other party in one fell swoop, so that the 'water thief' Lin Shihong, who had been entrenched in the south for nearly 20 years, finally became a thing of the past.

The second general destroyed Lin Shihong, then threw the aftermath to the military generals, led 100,000 troops from Poyang Lake, divided into small warships, along the Yishui south, directly to Yiyang County, Poyang County, and landed in Shangrao in the later generations to assemble, through the land into Dongyang Dingyang County, Chen soldiers in the later generations of Jiangshan/city boundary, to prepare for the pacification of Meng Haigong.

This place is located at the intersection of Poyang, Dongyang, Yongjia and Jian'an counties, Yongjia in the southeast and Jian'an in the south.

The upcoming battle to pacify Meng Haigong is in charge of Zhang Zhenzhou, Qin Qiong, and Fang Xuanling, but this time the main general is Zhang Zhenzhou, Fang Xuanling is the marching Sima, and Qin Qiong is the deputy general.

Fang Xuanling and Qin Qiong believed that Zhang Zhenzhou was familiar with the southern terrain and was the best candidate for the main general, and this proposition was agreed and approved by Yang Tong.

In this battle, the difference between the two sides was as much as one, and in terms of troops, the Sui army led by Zhang Zhenzhou had a naval army, cavalry and infantry, with a total strength of 100,000 people.

And Meng Haigong's army originally only had more than 50,000 people, because Li Mi destroyed Shen Faxing and Li Zitong, Meng Haigong, who was threatened by the Wei Dynasty, frantically expanded the army, making its total strength as high as 150,000, only two counties, but supporting so many troops, the pressure on the people under his rule can be imagined, to Li Mi's defeat, he will face a more powerful Sui army, it would be good not to expand the army, how could it be disarmed? However, although the grain produced by Yongjia and Jian'an was in short supply, Feng An, who was self-reliant in Jiaozhou (Lingnan), was a large grain producer, not only funded him, but also sent troops to fight, which made Meng Haigong happy.

The Feng clan led by Feng Ang has been working hard in Jiaozhou for several generations, and they have implemented the 'diplomatic' strategy of respecting the strong and abandoning the weak, so that Jiaozhou has been protected from the flames of war since the Northern and Southern Dynasties;

Feng Ang was originally the general of the Sui Dynasty's Zuo Wuwei, before the coup d'état in Jiangdu, Feng Ang ran back to Jiaozhou from Jiangdu under the pretext of gathering the people, appointed himself as the leader, and established himself in Jiaozhou.

This also made Jiaozhou not affected in the turbulent years, the people were stable and rich, and the stock of grain was like a mountain. In addition to training the army, Feng Ang has been paying attention to the general trend of the world, knowing that once Meng Haigong is destroyed, it will be his next.

If in the past, Feng Ang could follow the example of his ancestors and confront the Sui Dynasty with the help of Jiaozhou and the mountains and rivers of the Central Plains, even if Yang Tong wanted to use troops against Jiaozhou, he could only throw a mouse like Xiao Liang, Nan Chen, and the two emperors of the Sui Dynasty, and did not dare to move troops rashly. However, the Sui navy suddenly rose up and was able to transport 100,000 troops to Jiangdu at the same time, which directly opened the door to Li Mi's rout. This also made him know that Feng Ang knew that he could no longer blackmail the imperial court according to the Jiaozhou domain as before, forcing the imperial court to acquiesce in the fact that Feng established himself as king.

Although he also has an army of more than 100,000 troops, they are all unbattled armies, and they are not the opponents of the Sui army who have been in battle. If the Sui army landed in Jiaozhou through the waterway, it would definitely be able to level Jiaozhou, and the hard work of several generations of the Feng family would naturally be wiped out, and Feng An, who was deeply disturbed, not only did his best to support Meng Haigong, but also personally led an army of 80,000 to participate in this upcoming battle.

This also made the 100,000 Sui army led by Zhang Zhenzhou face more than 200,000 allied soldiers of Meng Haigong and Feng An, and the other party has no worries about food. However, although Yang Tong did not send a large army, he asked a group of young generals to bring 10,000 Xiaoguo troops to help.

Zhang Zhenzhou, Qin Qiong, and Fang Xuanling also understood the reason why Yang Tong did not send additional troops, in the final analysis, the more than 200,000 coalition troops are still dominated by rabble, and after deducting this part of the people, there are not as many elite soldiers as them, so there is naturally no need to mobilize the army, if even this group of rabble can't be killed, it is better to simply give the command to other generals.

Zhang Zhenzhou's martial arts are average, but he is extremely resourceful, has high command ability, and is proficient in government affairs, and is an all-rounder who is proficient in military and political affairs.

He now has generals such as Fang Xuanling and Qin Qiong, as well as the Xiaoguo Army and the Modao Army, and the military food and armament are also very sufficient, and Pei Renji is still acting as their wings in Linchuan County, so he is not afraid of the enemy detouring in the back and stabbing them, so the three of them have almost nothing to worry about, they just need to break the enemy in a dignified manner.

How the three of them fought this battle, Yang Tong didn't want to care, and he didn't bother to ask, as long as they handed in a satisfactory answer.

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As for Yang Tong himself, he has already returned to the court with Yang Gongren, Du Ruhui and others from Huaiyang. On the second day after he returned to Luoyang, he rewarded the meritorious soldiers and promoted the first prince after ascending the throne, this person was Du Fuwei.

Since his surrender to the Sui, Du Fuwei has been loyal and outstanding, not only nailing Li Mi to the east of Liyang, so that it can not grow, at the same time, he has also continued to break Li Mi's army, consume Li Mi's vitality, and create a solid foundation for the final annihilation of the Wei Dynasty by the Great Sui.

This time, not a single county duke was born, and even a few county dukes were promoted from the county marquis. This is not to say that Yang Tong is stingy, but because there are many meritorious generals, after the credit is distributed, all of them cannot reach that height. As for all the wars launched after ascending the throne, they were all led by Yang Tong himself and the princes, and their titles had reached the top, and they could only be supplemented in terms of false positions, military officials, and martial honors, but relatively speaking, these three idle positions were far less famous than the titles, and the treatment was good, and the degree of envy and yearning was naturally not as high as the nine lords of the Great Sui.

In fact, in terms of titles, except for the beginning of the founding of the country, in order to win the hearts of the people, the founding emperor gave a big gift, and the emperors of all dynasties have strictly checked the title. Take the Li Tang Dynasty in history as an example, if you don't catch up with the founding period, you can't do it no matter how capable you are. Like Cen Wenwen is just a viscount, Ouyang Xun and Yan Liben are only mixed with a baron; Xu Jingzong was originally just a baron, because he helped Wu Zetian get rid of the eldest grandson Wuji and Chu Suiliang, so he could get mixed up with a county duke; As for Xue Rengui, Cheng Mingzhen, and Liang Jianfang, who have repeatedly made meritorious contributions, they are just county princes in the end. Qing Dynasty important ministers Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, Zuo Zongtang, etc., were all marquis in the end. These historical figures are all very capable, but if you want to be a national prince, it is really difficult.

Because of this, Du Fuwei, the twenty-sixth prince canonized by Emperor Shengwu, made ten people envious. But there is no way, the credit for the people after the Sui Dynasty is indeed there, and even the money, food and materials do not need to be provided by the imperial court, and they are named the princes of the country, which makes people have nothing to say. The only stain is that he is self-reliant and has fought with the Sui army in the Yang Guang era, but he is different from others in that he has never played any national name, and all the previous official positions were actually canonized by Yang Qi, and he also regarded himself as a Sui minister, so it cannot be said that he is a pure anti-king; Besides, there are many generals and subordinates of the Great Sui Dynasty, and their own foundations are not clean, so how can they be qualified to talk about others?

In the First Battle of Sui and Wei, Yang Tong not only annihilated Li Mi and completely recovered the Central Plains and Jianghuai region, but also gained a lot of talents. In addition to Bing Yuanzhen, who has been reused, it is commendable that Xu Shiji, a bull in history, this guy is talented, and very sleek, not as rigid as Fang Xuanzao, Wang Bodang, Sun Changle and others, after Li Mi killed himself, he buried Li Mi and others together with Bing Yuanzhen, Xie Yingdeng, Cheng Yanjin and others, he can also see that the unification of the Great Sui is an unchangeable trend, the thirteen states under the world, the Great Sui Dynasty completely occupied Kyushu, and Hanzhong in Guyi Prefecture was owned by the imperial court; Twenty-two counties of Jingzhou, Li Tang only four counties, still precarious, Jingzhou unification is just around the corner, Yangzhou except Yongjia and Jian'an two counties owned by Meng Haigong, the rest belong to the Great Sui, at present, only Jiaozhou has not yet had the existence of imperial power, the world is ten, the Great Sui monopolizes eight or nine, is a well-deserved overlord, the population under the rule of tens of millions, and the people are stable. As long as Yang Tong is not stupid or foolish, no one will compete with Da Sui anymore.

Xu Shiji didn't want to take the children of the family and his righteous brother Shan Xiongxin to change the situation, so he officially accepted the appointment of the imperial court and went to the south to assist Zhang Zhenzhou in the battle.

There are many people who have the same idea as Xu Shiji, when Li Mi was alive, no matter how difficult it was, they would not give up and be loyal to their duties, which can be said to be benevolent and righteous, and then they should think about themselves.

Of course, Yang Tong is not accepted by everyone, there are three types of people who have been brutally liquidated, one is to participate in the Jiangdu rebellion, and because of Yu culture and defeat, Li Mi's people have been demoted, and the fate of these people is naturally extermination;

The second is to accept Yu Wenhua and rewards, and follow Yu Wenhua and the old Sui courtiers to the defeat, Yang Tong was convicted according to their positions at the time, the petty officials were deposed as the people, never hired, and the big officials were beheaded, some people may say that they have no choice but to be thieves, but the problem is that Pei Ju can escape, Yu Shinan can escape from the world, and many people run away with their families to be Yang Qi's courtiers, why can't they come to you? So in the final analysis, I still want to get rich with Yu Wenhua, since ancient times, wealth and danger seeking, when you decide to follow Yu Wenhua, you should have the consciousness of failure and death, Yu Wenhua and unsuccessful, that only blame yourself for not looking, with the wrong object.

The last category is the capricious villain. Among them, the most typical representative is the famous calligrapher Ouyang Xun, speaking of which, he is also a second generation of officials and anti-second generations.

His father Ouyang Su is the general of Nan Chen, once supervised the military, Guang and other nineteen states, and later rebelled, after the failure, only Ouyang Xun in the whole family survived because of the escape, two months after the death of the Empress Dowager of Nan Chen, the emperor granted amnesty to the world, and Ouyang Xun was pardoned from death. During the reign of Yang Guang, Ouyang Xun served as Dr. Taichang; In the Jiangdu Rebellion, Ouyang Xun was also captured as a courtier, and because of his good handwriting, he was appointed by Yu Wenhua; Soon ran to Li Mi and became the Taichang Qing; seems to feel that Li Mi has no future, he can't be too Changqing for long, and he went to Luoyang to serve as Yang Qi's official, and after Yang Qi was ousted by Wang Shichong, he was the first batch of people loyal to Wang Shichong... Maybe fate was playing tricks on him, when he was fighting with the army, he was arrested by Li Mi because of failure, Li Mi cherished his calligraphy, and successfully became Li Mi's Taichangqing......

If he waited until the object of allegiance failed every time before surrendering, others could understand and not say much, but he abandoned the Lord every time. What made Yang Tong speechless was that when Ouyang Xun was in Jiangdu, he also begged Yu Shinan, who was also a famous calligrapher, hoping to be introduced, go out of the Great Sui, and enjoy the authentic works left by the famous calligraphers in the palace.

Such a capricious and unethical person, no matter how high his literary achievements and good handwriting are, he will not be respected by others, including Yu Shinan, so not only did he not recommend, but he also used his brother as a negative teaching material and unceremoniously scolded him back. However, although Ouyang Xun was not appointed, Yang Tong finally appreciated his words, so that he was not liquidated and slipped away; Other people don't have such a good ending, those who should be killed, and those who should be punished. Therefore, people still have to have a specialty that can save their lives at critical moments.

On the third day after solving the problems of rewards and punishments, Yang Tong, who was a little idle, under the leadership of Empress Wei Fengwu, married Yin Mingyue into the palace and gave him the name of Concubine De, making his imperial concubine officially one more.

Now although there is a great turmoil in Li Yuan, he is not in a hurry to attack Jingxiang: first, he was also shocked by the rebellion of the Guanlong nobles, although Li Tang at this time was in civil strife, but there was no civil war, if the army is sent now, the army of the Guanlong nobles will probably remain, although he can unify the world, divided and settled, but most of these people are die-hard elements, as long as there is still one person alive in the Guanlong clan, they will come to contact, so that this force is always hidden in the Great Sui, Once the Guanlong nobles are a little unsatisfactory, they may not be like today, and the coalition army will rebel, so he needs to use Li Yuan's hand to annihilate them, and at the same time, it can also consume Li Tang's war strength and potential.

Second, according to the information sent by Han Zhi, it was said that since Li Mi was destroyed, Li Yuan, who was isolated and helpless in the country, had formed an alliance with Tubo, and Li Yuan not only made peace with Tubo, but also allowed the Tubo army to enter the country to fight. For this rising southwest country, Yang Tong has always been vigilant, otherwise he would not have let the Black Ice Platform try to poison the famous Songtsan Gampo, but he now finds that the reason why Songtsan Gampo is so powerful in the previous history is that his father Langri Zanpu is also a great British lord, and it is precisely because of Langri Zanpu that Songtsan Gampo laid a solid foundation for Songtsan Gampo, there was a powerful Tubo Empire later, such a person, such a foreign country full of potential, Yang Tong must be destroyed, but the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is not only vast and sparsely populated, There is also altitude sickness, if the Sui army enters the battle, I am afraid that their own casualties will be large, and they will be annihilated by the other party's use of guerrilla tactics, and now they send troops to participate in the battle of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, purely to give up their own advantages, to fight in an environment that is not conducive to themselves, which gives Yang Tong a God-given opportunity to consume his strength, as long as these Tubo elites are eliminated in the Tang realm, the Tubo country will fall into a situation of fragmentation.

He had to endure and wait, not only waiting for Guan Long's army and Li Tang to be defeated, but also waiting for the Tubo army to enter and die. Therefore, the current war of the Sui Dynasty is mainly concentrated in the south, and there are both Zhang Zhenzhou, Qin Qiong, Fang Xuanling, and Xu Shiji in the south, so there is nothing to worry about. With such a luxurious lineup fighting in the south, Yang Tong felt that it was more secure than personally leading the troops; So militarily, he doesn't have anything to worry about.

As for government affairs, because the interlocking cabinet system is on the right track, there are really not many major things that need to be handled by Yang Tong personally, even if he encounters some difficult things, there are also Yang Gongren, Wei Yunqi, Li Jing, Huangfu Wuyi, Du Ruhui and other powerful checks, and there are few things that need him to worry about.

Faced with the situation that everything was going well, Yang Tong, who thought that he had been running around for state affairs and was too tired, simply took the opportunity of marrying Yin Mingyue and arranged seven days of marriage leave for himself in one go.

Every day is to be turned over the meat waves, spoiled this to that, interested together, and come to him to sleep together, there is a great sign of 'the king will not be early in the morning'.

Of course, he is so relieved to be a faint monarch entirely because his court is all loyal ministers.

Generally speaking, in the early period of the founding emperor, most of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were loyal ministers, and it was only when the world was unified that internal fighting began. Yang Dong's important ministers were originally loyal ministers in history, and everyone is now fighting for the great cause of reunification, Yang Tong has nothing to worry about, besides, it is only seven days.

However, the career of the faint monarch only lasted for a short fourth day, and he was pulled out of the Fengyi Hall by the imposing Yang Gongren.

The reason is that something big is wrong.

It was not Li Yuan's side, but Yang Dong's imperial capital, Luoyang City, where there was a large-scale riot, and Yang Dong couldn't deal with it.