Since the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Central Plains Empire has been in flames, and no place can be spared, the scale of the war, the wide range of affected areas, the number of people who have died, and the fierce internal and external troubles are second to none in the history of cold weapons and wars in the Central Plains.

It was only in this year, that is, the third year of Li Tang Wude, that the sphere of influence of the princes gradually became clear, and the intensity of mutual attacks also decreased.

This is almost a thing that does not depend on the will of everyone, since the beginning of the Great Cause years, more than ten years of turmoil have greatly damaged the vitality of the Central Plains.

Wang Shichong has eaten up the grain and rice in Luoyang, Dou Jiande's Hebei and Shandong are in a depression, and the southern barbarians in Shuzhong have repeatedly risen, coupled with the wars of Xiao Mo and Li Tang, this country of abundance has quickly collapsed in blood and fire.

The situation of Lianghuai was slightly better, but the Jingxiang land occupied by Xiao Mo was also devastated after Zhu Cang ravaged it.

The gate valve family in the south of the Yangtze River was seriously injured, and there was almost no choice between Lin Shihong and Xiao Mill, and they all took refuge in Xiao Mill, and Lin Shihong, who started with the peasant uprising, had an invincible image, but the war continued, and the rich counties in Jiangnan were now already yesterday's yellow flowers.

Li Liang in Liangzhou in the northwest didn't move much, in fact, he was facing the attack of the Tuyuhun tribes and the party departments that were constantly rebelling.

Li Liang has to mention more here that the highland ethnic group of the Tuyuhun tribes reached its peak during the Western Wei Dynasty, and repeatedly neglected the northwestern counties.

As a result, during the Western Wei Dynasty, the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and the Great Sui Dynasty, the Tuyuhun tribes were the most important enemies in the northwest of each dynasty.

The Central Plains were unified, and the Great Sui finally freed up his hands and feet, and at the same time as the Northern Turks, he gave Tuyuhun a few blows, which seriously weakened the strength of the Tuyuhun tribes.

In the year of the Great Cause, Yang Guang was interested in running the Western Regions, and the nail of Tuyuhun was particularly eye-catching, so at the beginning of the Great Cause, Yang Guang sent troops to completely drive the Tuyuhun tribes back to the highlands, and by the way, many party tribes became slaves of the Great Sui.

In the last years of the great cause, Bai Yusao, who turned the northwest upside down, rebelled against the army, and when he first started to make trouble, he was a party slave rebellion, and later many people called him a slave or a white slave.

At this time, the situation in the northwest was very complicated, and some of the entire Dangxiang tribes that had broken away from the rule of the Great Sui Dynasty fell under Li Liang's command, and some of them began to make a living by plundering, so that Li Liang had to repeatedly send troops to quell the rebellion.

And Tuyuhun in the highlands also came to join in the fun, completely slowing down the pace of Li Liang's expansion, and failed to pick up the cheap in time when Xue Ju's father and son were defeated.

But at this time, on the high grounds, another powerful tribe finally appeared, they were the Tubo people in the south of the highlands, after a long tribal vendetta, the Tubo people were finally unified under one banner, and their power expanded rapidly from the south of the highlands.

Originally, the Tuyuhun tribes were a powerful enemy that they could hardly defeat, but today, when the Tuyuhun tribes were dying, the Tubo people happily rode on highland ponies and dismembered the Tuyuhun tribes step by step.

As a result, some of the defeated Tuyuhun tribes became slaves of the Tubo people, and some were driven out of their homeland where they had been grazing for generations, and re-came to the northwest of the Central Plains Empire, where they became entangled with Li Liang.

The Tibetans seized the opportunity to become stronger, and the only problem they faced seemed to be that they were expanding too fast, which made them a little uncomfortable, and they had to digest the fruits of their victory, but also guard against the backlash of the Tuyuhun tribes who surrendered.

So it will take more time for them to look back into the distance......

In other words, the most comfortable person in the northwest now is probably Liang Shidu, because he still has the strength to attack Lingzhou.

It's just that in the vast and sparsely populated northwest, in Bai Yusao's anti-army split, and then to the defeat of Xue Ju's father and son, how much capital can be left for people to squander?

In fact, in the third year of Li Tang Wude, the only place where the vitality was not damaged too much was the hinterland of Kansai, because Li Xiuning, Li Shentong and others quickly extinguished the war in the hinterland of Kansai and helped Li Yuan capture Chang'an City.

Jingzhao County, which is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, has been quiet for nearly three years, but now, there are people who have opened warehouses to release grain and gather people to make trouble.

Not only did Li Shimin know what this meant, but his brother, the crown prince Li Jiancheng, also knew it clearly, and when Li Shimin was still hesitating to speak to his father at this time, the crown prince Li Jiancheng had already passed the book to Chang'an.

At this time, Li Yuan was naturally not alarmed by Jingzhao's two small rebellions, he was silently paying attention to the court situation, pondering which son to help wipe his ass.

At this time, the battle report of Li Shimin, the king of Qin, had also been placed on his side.

Dugu Yanyun was defeated and died, Pusaka was lost, and if he wanted to cross the river again, I am afraid it would not be so easy.

Of course, such a defeat was preceded by the fact that Li Shentong's army of more than 200,000 troops died in a battle, which is not so unacceptable.

The whole Jindi was lost, this is the thing that makes Li Yuan extremely sad, that is where he started, but now he has fallen into the hands of the enemy, emotionally bruised, and even more defeated in military strategy.

Once the land of Jin is based on Li Po, then the more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in Tongguan will be unnecessary, if it weren't for Tang Jian and others to have documents delivered, detailing the beginning and end of the war, Li Yuan was even wondering, did Li Shimin deliberately give Pusaka to Li Po, so as to ask for soldiers and horses, in order to divide the prince's military power?

His two sons were fighting so fiercely that they were already in trouble for him.

Li Shimin killed Dugu Huaien quietly, that is his cousin, he is really getting bolder, is he going to kill his brother one day?

Li Yuan, who is a close member of the Su family, has reached a new height of dissatisfaction with his second son.

This is also the reason why he acquiesced to the Dugu clan and the people attacked the King of Qin, Dugu Huaien had bad intentions, he really deserved to die, but if you killed him directly, what was the matter......

It doesn't matter if the second son doesn't make people worry, the actions of the eldest son actually make Li Yuan quite unhappy.

At such a time, if you don't want to help King Qin recover Jindi, you still have to gather everyone at this time, and you want to cut off your brother's military power, it seems that you don't care much about brotherhood, so won't you miss any father-son love in the future?

Li Yuan himself came all the way from the reign of Emperor Wen, and in the last years of Emperor Wen, he saw the waves of battles between Yang Yong and Yang Guang brothers for the throne, and at the same time took it as a warning.

But at this time, his mind was still shaken, the prince disregarded the overall situation, he was lacking in measurement, and it was difficult to compare with King Qin in terms of martial arts, but the ability to gang up was not small......

And his fourth son, Li Yuanji, is a typical negative teaching material, he is too impatient to do anything, ruthless, and jealous and jealous.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan also looked up to the sky and sighed, thinking that everyone said at the beginning that the sons of the Li family were grandiose, and they would not be in the pool in the future, but now it seems like a joke.

But looking back, Li Yuan still had to face the reality and began to balance the court struggle between his two sons, and Li Shimin, who was obviously lagging behind, wanted to pull up.

The prince's henchmen are increasing in the court, and there are people everywhere who praise the prince's wisdom, and they need to be suppressed.

In addition, Li Ding'an's wings are gradually growing, will he rush across the Yellow River under the strength of the army? Therefore, the defenders of Tongguan must divide their troops and garrison them along the Yellow River.

In fact, it is still an old routine, let the two sons restrain each other, whichever side sits bigger, it will make Li Yuan uncomfortable, and the ruthlessness of the heavenly family is very specific to Li Yuan's father and son.

It was at this time that Li Yuan received a letter from the crown prince Li Jiancheng.

This time Li Yuan was more satisfied, the prince's worries and anxieties were all on the paper, and with such a big picture, Li Yuan was naturally very pleased.

But such a problem, even if Li Yuan's father and son saw it, it would be useless.

Li Tang now has three or four hundred thousand soldiers and horses, and there are enemies everywhere, and he can't ignore any side, even so, the troops are still stretched, and if he wants to reduce the burden on the people, how can it be so easy?

Li Yuan is squeezing out the last bit of potential in Kansai to maintain the situation, his situation is even more precarious than when Yuwentai founded the Western Wei Dynasty, but he is still unable to condense the internal people into one like Yuwentai to resist foreign enemies.

Li Po can be said to be in a word, the tricks made by Chang'an, which has a lot of talents, are not comparable to Jindi, and Li Yuan's father and son are also very unhappy.

Just when Li Yuan's father and son were anxious, Jinyang, thousands of miles away, was lively, and Li Po was finally going to be king.

First of all, Chen Xiaoyi and others were summoned, and at this time, Wen Yanbo finally returned to the governor's mansion, and everyone was definitely dissatisfied with such a king as King Han, but when Li Po had made up his mind, he could only accept it helplessly.

It is very easy to say that the king's gift is very easy to do, and in the end Li Po asked Wen Yanbo to take over the past, in fact, it is Li Po, otherwise, you guys who have just finished the funeral want to take over this matter, how unlucky it is.

Wen Yanbo pushed himself again and again, and Chen Xiaoyi and the others also felt that it was inappropriate and helped on the side, but Li Po still handed over the matter to Wen Yanbo.

is not on the side, just because Wen Yanbo has done things in the mansion of King Yang Jun of Qin and is more familiar with Wang Li, and others, including Chen Xiaoyi, are a little blind.

And in order to avoid omissions, Li Po also asked Wang Cong, the former lord of the Wang family, and He Chou's old guy to help beside him, and there is still a Queen Xiao living in the Jinyang Palace, who can give you some pointers.

In this way, it is almost the same.

Immediately, Li Po ordered someone to pass an order to the Taishou of each county under his jurisdiction, and during the royal ceremony, everyone was not allowed to leave their posts without permission, in other words, what should be done, there is nothing to do with you.

Li Po said that he was trying to be simple and not so extravagant, but when it came to preparations, everyone was not very obedient, what they asked for was formal, and they must be solemn, otherwise how could they show that the throne was justified? And how to tell the people the dignity of the Han king?

Fortunately, no one dared to toss Li Po, otherwise, Li Po would probably be like he did when he married his wife, so that everyone could see what it means to be "simple and trouble-free".