Compared with the wind and the sound of Xiangyang, the atmosphere of Luoyang is very calm, and even a little deserted and depressed, in recent years, Luoyang has been suffering from natural disasters and man-made disasters for many years, a large number of people have fled, and they have long lost the prosperity of the first capital city in the world.

Yang Tong transferred grain from Hebei to help the victims, and the supply and marketing cooperatives opened the market to sell at a parity price, and the price fell rapidly, and three days later, the price of grain in Luoyang fell from the astonishing price of 1,000 yuan of doumi to about 35 yuan of doumi, which was basically the same as that of Yecheng.

At the same time, mobilizing the people to exchange old currency for the Great Sui Yan Huang Tongbao, officers and soldiers into the workshop to check the household registration and other fundamental 'business' is also being carried out in an orderly manner, because the Great Sui has been propagating the policies of the Great Sui in various parts of the Central Plains, the credibility of Yang Dong's dynasty is extremely high among the people, and the Sui army did not disturb the people, and really did things for the people, and was very supported by the people of Luoyang, these actions made the people who were poisoned by the Wang family as if they were living in a dream...... The Sui army and officials did practical things for the people, in fact, they were the 'business cards' of the Great Sui Dynasty that were honest and trustworthy and true for the people.

More importantly, the fact that 20,000 head of cultivated cattle were given to the people of Luoyang free of charge under the attention of the public caused a sensation in the whole city, and the 20,000 families who were distributed to the cultivated cattle were all grateful to Dade, and many people were really red-eyed, as for the second and third batches of cultivated cattle that had not yet been obtained, and some things and decrees that were about to be implemented were full of expectations. Completely forget that this world is like this because of what is the surname.

The people are so real, especially the people who live in the troubled times, as long as you can let everyone live a good life, they will really support you, although Yang Tong's reputation is still mixed in the south of the Yellow River, especially in the scholar class, it is more depreciating than praise, but in Jizhou, Youzhou, Bingzhou, Yongzhou, Liangzhou and other lands that have long been under the control of the Great Sui, this voice has long been extinct, if you dare to stand on the street and scold Yang Dong? Then don't wonder how you can drown in the spit around you, and expect to find a place to reason here. Yang Tong is now in the Central Plains, but the control of these places is very strong, and Li Yuan, Li Mi and other forces, Yang Tong is the rule of law society, from the beginning he consciously set up the government as a fair, just, honest, ruling for the people image, so the credibility of the government under Yang Tong's rule is far higher. The people are now more willing to believe in the government that brings them benefits, rather than the selfish clan elders, the important thing is that you slander Yang Dong on Yang Dong's territory, and you still expect Yang Dong's younger brother to support you?

Although Yang Tong did not engage in a personality cult, worship was everywhere, and Yang Tong was quite helpless.

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The stove was lit in the back garden of Luoyang and Qinwangfu, the hearth was burned red, and the copper kettle on the stove was gurgling and steaming. Yang Tong attacked the light yellow household clothes, leisurely holding the scroll in his hand, the rich bookish air between the gestures came to his face, saw the tea boiling, put down the scroll, got up from the chair and lifted the copper kettle.

Washing cups, washing tea, making tea, dividing tea, a whole set of actions are smooth, more elegant than the full study of Confucianism, which is like a human emperor who governs the army and governs the country with a horse, and orders the heads of the people to roll?

Sitting opposite him was only a Taoist aunt with a white complexion as jade, delicate and elegant, red lips and moist red lips, and high black hair, revealing a slender and white neck as elegant as the legendary Qingluan. The delicate face and eyebrows are picturesque, and a pair of clear and beautiful eyes are full of amazement.

She was Yuan Ziyan, who had not appeared for a long time, and she only heard her say in amazement: "The holy hand tea ceremony has fulfilled the natural way advocated by my Taoists, and I deeply cherish the charm of random nature, and I admire and admire." ”

Yang Tong raised his hand to indicate that the tea was ready to drink, and said with a smile: "I am a layman, and I can't afford to be a fairy, but I am just a vassal and elegant." ”

Yuan Ziyan said solemnly: "Why did the Holy Lord say this? You were originally the grandson of the emperor, but you were forced to put on armor and face the cruel battlefield, and the most admired thing by Ziyan was that when the Holy Lord was able to lead the Great Sui soldiers to face the Shibi Khan at the most difficult time of the country, and obtained brilliant results, so that hundreds of people in the north were protected from the poison of foreign races. If a hero like you were a layman, there would be no more heroes in the world. ”

These words did come from Yuan Ziyan's heart.

No matter what era, the Central Plains and the Turks are incompatible, the Turks have repeatedly invaded the Central Plains, so that the people of Bingzhou and Yongzhou have been humiliated, but anyone with a little conscience regards them as enemies.

Regardless of Yang Tong's purpose, he was able to face the Turks with a weak strength under the subservience of Li Yuan, Xue Ju, Liang Shidu, Liu Wuzhou and other heroes to the Turks, which in itself was a very remarkable decision, which was a supreme great cause, not to mention that he was still not optimistic about the whole world, and he easily won a brilliant victory, which is even more remarkable.

Maybe Yang Tong is fighting to win the hearts of the people in the north, or maybe he is fighting to change the impression of the people of Sui Yang, but then again, who doesn't have such a thing as interests?

A son of the emperor who holds the two states of Youji and has hundreds of thousands of soldiers, if there is no ambition in the era when the heroes rise together and the wolf smoke is everywhere, then it is called an anomaly!

And Yang Tong only spent a few years, not only defeated the northern heroes and alien wolves, but also let tens of millions of people in the northern land live a stable and prosperous life again, what a great person must be this?

"Hahaha...... To be able to get such praise from Fairy Yuan, my previous efforts were not in vain. Come on, come on, drink tea! ”

Yuan Ziyan took a sip of fragrant tea and said, "The tea brewing method invented by the saint is very different from the previous sencha. The smell is refreshing, and it is slightly bitter when cooking, but then it is very sweet, and I heard that now the people under the rule of the Holy Lord are drinking this kind of fried tea, and no one has drunk the sencha anymore. ”

"Tea is a fetish, who doesn't like it?"

"Fetish?"

"Yes!" Yang Tong paused, stared at the teacup in his hand, and said slowly: "Tea absorbs the aura of heaven and earth, the essence of the sun and the moon, and occupies all the gossip of the five elements." Gold, wood, water, fire and earth, there is nothing it does not occupy, but it has also suffered from the world, wind, sun and rain, and finally fried in an iron pot and blistered in boiling water, so that its aroma can be brewed, do you think how much it suffered, how much gas it suffered to send the fragrance to our mouths? Do you know what it wants to tell us? In fact, it is not only tea, but also life, if a person has a small pattern, trivial things must be taken care of, he can't hide his fragrance; If a person has a small pattern, he will not be able to do much in this life! Therefore, tea tasting is an attitude towards life. ”

"The saint is so perceptive, but it's a pity that he is not a Taoist!" Yuan Ziyan took another sip of tea, her feeling was completely different from just now, and she actually had a feeling of 'being tall', although there was no such thing as 'tall' now, but her feeling was undoubtedly that feeling.

"Haha...... If the fairy thinks about Taoism, maybe I will hang a Taoist layman. ”

"The Holy One has gone too far!" Yuan Ziyanyu's face turned red.

"Jokes, jokes." Although Yuan Ziyan is beautiful, Yang Tong does not mean to be included in the palace, not that he is of high moral character, after all, people who are nobler than him in these years are not only not ashamed to take concubines, but they are fashionable and trendy.

Yang Tong is also a normal man, his ability in that area is even stronger than most men, and he also likes beautiful women, but maybe he watched too many palace fighting dramas before, and when he reached this height, the sequelae of watching dramas before came up, to be honest, he was not afraid of the enemies of Mingli at all, but he was really scared of the scene of fighting for his wife and concubine, robbing everything, and hiding a knife in every sentence.

Even if he is powerful and rich in the whole country, if he lives in hypocrisy all the time, what fun is there in those days?

But I don't know when it began, the folk actually rumored that he, the son of heaven, had a 'widow's disease', and the most obvious evidence is that every time he travels, he is always surrounded by a group of warblers and Yanyan, and the number of people is not dozens or hundreds, but thousands of followers. This also led to Yang Tong having nowhere to redress his grievances and nowhere to say his suffering.

"Holy Lord, take the liberty of asking." Yuan Ziyan looked at Yang Tong with a little curiosity.

The corners of Yang Tong's mouth raised, and he said: "As far as I know, fairies are not ordinary characters, and there is nothing I don't know about the subset of history, the art of war, and astronomy and geography...... You can count when it rains and when it snows. Stargazing and divination are the strengths of fairies, is there anything that fairies don't know? ”

"The stars of the saint are dazzling, and I am shallow, so I can't count." Yuan Ziyan said with a serious face.

"Hahaha!" Yang Tong couldn't help laughing, she was talking nonsense in the so-called serious, and after a long time, she said: "You ask, I don't dare to guarantee that I can tell you, I hope you can understand." ”

"Shengshang has obviously recovered many counties in the Central Plains, and the overall situation has been decided, but why not take advantage of the victory to pursue and defeat Hongnong's Tang army? Also, there was no pre-war tension in the Holy Lord, and I was curious. ”

"Do I need to be nervous?"

Although Yang Tong sits firmly in Luoyang City, he knows the front line well, he has the strongest heroic division in the world, and he also has the most outstanding commanders and generals, as long as the commanders and generals of the army cooperate with the tacit understanding and steadily advance, the Great Sui will win and not lose, and he really has nothing to worry about.

The reason why the Tang Army headed by Li Shimin has not yet been resolved is that the situation in the world has fallen into a delicate situation.

With Xingyang, Henan, Xiangcheng, Shuyang and other counties were annexed by Yang Tong, this land of constant disputes unexpectedly returned to calm, whether it was Li Yuan, who had just suffered a big defeat, or Li Mi and others who went south to Jianghuai, with Yang Tong stopping in Luoyang, they actually began to settle down, one by two entered the stage of recuperation, either enjoying the fruits of victory, or silently licking the wounds, as if looking at him, a tiger entrenched in the Central Plains.

People often say that the general trend of the world is in the hands of the Great Sui, and this is also the case, but there are countless historical facts about the overturned ship in the gutter, and the most typical examples of war are undoubtedly the battle of Guandu and the battle of Chibi that occurred in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. So the more time came, Yang Tong's mind became more sober and cautious. He can succeed now as long as he steadily encroaches on the world, so why risk a fiasco and do such a quick success?

Besides, among the princes in the world, he Yang Tong is the youngest one, and he is far from the age of establishment, so he can boil Li Yuan, Li Mi, Dou Jiande and others to death! Li Yuan certainly has a better heir than himself, but he has two.

Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin are both dragons and phoenixes among people, and they have the ability to do things far better than others. But they have different temperaments, the former son is gentle, comprehensive, reasonable, and benevolent; The latter has a strong temperament, although he is both wise and brave, but he is competitive, ambitious, and unwilling to be left behind.

If the order of birth of the two is reversed, Li Jiancheng, who is the 'second', should not compete for the supreme position, and I believe that the 'boss' Li Shimin can also tolerate Li Jiancheng, who has no ambition, but the reality cannot be changed, once Li Yuan dies unexpectedly, the two people with comparable ambition, talent, and power will have ghosts if they don't touch each other.

The situation has developed to this point for them, even if the two do not want to kill each other, the subordinates of their respective factions will use light and dark means to separate the two brothers in order to seek greater political interests, or to avoid their own liquidation after the fact, and push the Li brothers, who are the 'spokesmen of the group', to the extreme.

Yang Tong's henchmen are suffering from the signs of civil strife, and infighting is always the main reason for the weakness of a country and a family.

After this calculation, Yang Tong doesn't have to worry anymore.

Nowadays, after the hard work of the Great Sui officials, the Central Plains counties such as Xingyang, Henan, Xiangcheng, and Shuyang with Luoyang as the center have gradually settled down, and there is no threat in the north, while the Western Regions are guarded by Su Dingfang, and the eastern part of Liaodong only needs to guard the Great Wall. As for the Turks, they are also in a state of separation! The vast land south of the Great Wall and north of the Yellow River has also become a stable rear.

Nowadays, Yang Tong is mainly a porter, shifting the focus to the Central Plains, countless warships and merchant ships go back and forth to both sides of the Yellow River every day, and the grain, armament and other war resources are transported to Luoyang in an endless stream, all of which are hoarded in Xingluocang, Hanjiacang, and Changping.

As the pre-war command center of Luoyang has bordered Guanzhong, but Hongnong's Li Shimin is still between Luoyang and Chang'an, but Yang Tong has appointed Yang Shanhui as the commander of the main force of the Great Sui, stationed troops in Xiong'er, guarding against Li Shimin, and standby to fight, Luo Shixin was transferred to the area of Santu Mountain in the upper reaches of Yishui, once the river into Hongnong Lushi County, can cut off Li Shimin's way back to the south, as for Xue Wanjun in Shangluo, he also received a combat order, his main opponent is Li Jiancheng's 40,000 cavalry who rushed to aid Li Shimin. As for the opportunity of the decisive battle, it is up to everyone to explore and discover it by themselves, and they can also create their own fighters.

Steady and steady, step by step, and devouring step by step is the consensus reached by the monarchs and ministers of the Great Sui, and they are really not in a hurry at all because they have an absolute advantage.

However, Yang Tong knew that Li Shimin gambled very much, and was worried that he would make a surprise attack on Tongguan with a false shot, and once the gate of Guanzhong was lost, the Tang army would be able to jump out of the encirclement of the Great Sui, and then plague the Yongliang land with Guanzhong as the center, if the Tang army played guerrilla tactics in Guanzhong, it would be a fatal blow to the people's livelihood and economy in Guanzhong, which Yang Tong could not tolerate, so he also sent heavy troops to be stationed in Tongguan and other strategic places.

To sum it up like this, what is Yang Tong anxious about?

"Holy Lord, can you reveal a little ......" Unconsciously, Yuan Ziyan's voice carried a hint of feminine softness.

"I'm really not in a hurry! Why don't you believe it? Yang Tong was helpless.

"Why? Where does faith come from? ”

"The Central Plains land we have recovered has not yet been fully eaten, and blindly attacking other places in this era will produce a series of evil consequences. Taking a land, governing a land, and deeply cultivating a land is my national policy of the Great Sui, and it will not change at any time. However, in this battle, the progress of our Great Sui soldiers was too fast and the fighting was too ferocious, resulting in too many new territories for me, and talents are needed to govern these places, and there are not many natural dangers to defend in the Central Plains, all relying on the army, and I have to find a way to do this. To be honest, I have a headache too! … There are also a lot of problems caused by too many new sites, and it's all tears when I talk about it, hey...... I should have known that the soldiers should have been a little more reserved, in short, you don't understand my troubles! ”

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When Yang Tong said this, his face still showed sincere sadness, and he didn't have the excitement he should have after the big victory, as if he was not at all happy as an emperor.

For a moment, Yuan Ziyan's mind was blank, she didn't know what she should say, let alone what she should say.

Yuan Xianzi's Dao Heart, which had been cultivated for many years, was instantly broken, and the important things that Chen said by his father Yuan Tiangang's order were completely forgotten.

She only had one strong urge now, and that was to pin this guy to the ground and beat him badly.

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