After Yu Wenming returned home, he first met his mother Xiao Wanjun and his sister Yuwen Yuqing, and then went to visit Li Jing and his wife with Red Sleeves.

Li Jing's residence is in the east of the eastern capital, is a small area of the official residence, after he experienced this battle, but also because of some merits, was named the fourth grade of the eagle Yang Lang general, it is a small promotion. It's just that he has always lived a simple life, and there are only four maids in the mansion to take care of the red whisk girl and his children, and there are six or seven servants, and the whole mansion seems a little empty.

Yu Wenming and Red Sleeves came to the gate of Li Jing's mansion, and when the porter saw that he was coming, he hurriedly rushed in to report. After a while, Li Jing and the Red Whisk Girl both came out.

"Ahh Redsleeves, you're back so soon? Didn't you say you had to wait three years? The Red Whisk Girl was also very happy to see that her eldest apprentice had returned.

Red Sleeves and Master reunited after a long absence, remembering the sour dream of a woman disguised as a man in the past half a year, she couldn't help but have a sour nose, threw herself into the arms of the Red Whisk Girl, and sobbed: "Master, I have been pardoned for the crime of murder before, and now I am an official government soldier!" ”

"Pardoned? What's going on? Who is so kind? When the red-haired girl heard this, she was also surprised and delighted.

"It's junior brother! He used his exploits to redeem my sins......" Red Sleeves glanced at Yu Wenming affectionately, and then whispered about how she inadvertently became Yu Wenming's subordinate, and how he later discovered her identity, and then foiled the Goryeo army's sneak attack plot together.

Li Jing had already known what had happened, and he didn't think anything about it, but the Red Whisk Girl was overjoyed. I secretly thought that a piece of my heart disease was finally solved.

"Redsleeves, where are you going next? Do you just walk with Master, or go back to your hometown? The Redwried Girl asked.

Red Sleeves blushed slightly at this time, glanced at Yu Wenming and said, "I like life in the army, and I have made many friends in the army. And my identity is well disguised, and no one knows that I am a woman except for my junior brother. I am also one of the four lieutenants under my junior brother. If I leave, I'm afraid that my junior brother will not be able to command well if he joins the war again! ”

The Red Whisk Girl couldn't see what she was thinking about her precious apprentice, she could naturally guess that Red Sleeves was afraid that she had already planted a deep affection for Yu Wenming. It's just that she knows that Yu Wenming likes the eldest grandson Wujian. And the eldest grandson Wujian was born in a family, and his father was a member of the imperial court, and his apprentice was never as good as her. Even if Yu Wenming is willing to accept Red Sleeves, she is afraid that she can only be a concubine after marrying, such a result. Can the arrogant and fierce red sleeves accept it?

But she didn't dare to bring it up at this time, so as not to embarrass Yu Wenming and Li Jing. And the Red Whisk Girl is also worried that Red Sleeves will not be able to think about it for a while.

"Forget it, I'll find a suitable opportunity in the future, and knock on the side to remind the red sleeves!" The Red Whisk Girl thought secretly in her heart.

After the Red Whisk Girl and Red Sleeves went to the inner courtyard to study martial arts together, Li Jing and Yu Wenming went to the study together to discuss the battle of Goryeo.

Although both of them knew the course of the war very well, many words were difficult to talk about in the barracks, after all, there were many people, and if the wall had ears, the consequences would be unimaginable.

After the two entered the study, Li Jing took out a wine gourd, poured a glass of wine for Yu Wenming, and said with a smile: "Ming'er, you can't drink alcohol in the barracks." Master has been going crazy for half a year. Now that the war is over, you should have a drink with Master!" ”

Li Jing's biggest hobby is drinking, in the past, when his luck was bad, he often borrowed wine to drown his sorrows, and often got drunk in the tavern, I don't know how many times he was scolded by the red whisk girl for this matter.

Now that he has been promoted to the general of the Eagle Yang Lang, his affairs are much busier than the previous idle post of the right supervisor Zhizhai. If you don't have a few drinks, I'm afraid there won't be many opportunities to drink like today in the future.

After the two sat down in the study, the two maids brought them a few plates of appetizers and a pot of fine daughter Hong.

After Li Jing poured Yu Wenming a glass of wine, Fang Chang sighed and said, "This expedition to Goryeo, the preparation is not inadequate, but it is such a big defeat, which makes people's interest in drinking greatly reduced. ”

Yu Wenming picked up the wine glass, took a sip lightly, and then said lightly: "Master, have you ever thought about the reason for the big defeat?" ”

"The reason? On the surface, it was a plague, Yang Yichen and Laihu'er ventured into the enemy. Actually, this is not the root cause. The main reason is that there should not be a messenger of Narauszi at all. In particular, in the Yuezeng Province of our Zuoling Guard, as soon as they saw that the Goryeo had the intention of surrendering, they immediately ordered to stop the attack, and they also pretended to negotiate terms with others. In this way, any loopholes in the defense of the Koreans will be filled when he negotiates. And the morale of our army has been frustrated again and again. If you continue to fight like this, even if the gods come to fight, you will definitely lose! As soon as Li Jing talked about it, he was angry.

"Master, do you think that Your Majesty really regards Goryeo as the greatest enemy of the Great Sui?" Yu Wenming said quietly.

Li Jing was slightly stunned when he heard this, he obviously didn't expect Yu Wenming to ask this. However, with his wisdom, he naturally understood it after a little thought. Because today's saints, including the deceased emperor, have weakened the mind of the Guanlongmen valve, which is already well known to everyone.

So, he frowned and said, "Do you mean to say: Your Majesty regards our Guanlongmen valve as the biggest threat to the Great Sui?" ”

In his opinion, although Yang Guang kept suppressing the Guanlongmen valve and supporting the Shandong Shi clan, the Hedong Shi clan, and the Jiangnan Shi clan, he just didn't want to dominate the family and wanted to balance among the ministers. to better maintain his rule. But Li Jing never thought that the Holy Lord had already regarded the Guanlongmen valve as the biggest threat to the royal family.

It's just that when I think of the recent fact that the saint has rewarded the children of the Guanlongmen valve with greater meritorious service with very little reward, and the children of the non-Guanlongshi clan with less meritorious service have been rewarded more, it can also be seen.

"Master, Your Majesty is also a battle-hardened commander, and judging from the examples of battles such as the destruction of Nanchen, Tuyuhun, and the attack on the Turks, the Holy Lord is by no means a straw bag, and can even be said to be quite shrewd. Do you think he would make such a big mistake as setting up a surrender? Yu Wenming drank the wine in the cup and said in a deep voice.

Li Jing suddenly came to his senses. After thinking for a moment, Fang nodded and said slowly: "Actually, the reason why the Guanlongmen valve is big is because the Northern Wei Dynasty set up six towns. At that time, in order to ensure the security of the capital Pingcheng (now northeast of Datong, Shanxi), the Northern Wei Dynasty established six military towns along the border (today's northern Hebei and southern Inner Mongolia), collectively known as the Six Towns (Wuchuan Town is one of them). Most of the soldiers in the six towns were Xianbei nobles, and some were Han people. ”

And this group of military aristocrats took the soldiers of Wuchuan Town as the team, settled in Guanzhong, mixed Hu and Han, integrated civil and military, and intermarried with each other. At that time, in order to confront Gao Huan, the ruler of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, they elected Yuwentai as the commander. In order to maintain internal unity, Yuwentai perfected the government military system and set up the Eight Pillars State at the top of the government military system. And Yuan Xin, one of the Eight Pillars, was a royal family of the Northern Wei Dynasty and did not hold military power. The other six pillars are Dugu Xin, Li Hu, Zhao Gui, Li Bi, Yu Jin, Hou Mo and Chen Chong. There are two Kaifu generals under each of the six pillars, this is the twelve generals, Yang Zhong, the father of the first emperor, is one of them, and the eight pillars and the twelve Kaifu generals form the Guanlong nobles, all of whom are military households in Wuchuan Town, the six towns. At this time, Li Jing told the origin of the Guanlongmen valve in detail. Because his uncle Han Baohu was one of the twelve Kaifu generals.

Yu Wenming listened carefully to Li Jing's story, and his eyes also flashed. Now he has an understanding of the history of the Guanlongmen valve. It is known that in the war-torn state at that time, the Western Wei Dynasty implemented a system of integration of military and government.

These Eight Pillars and the Twelve Great Generals are all generals and ministers, not only the commanders of the army, but also the leadership core of the country, and the most prominent 20 families in the Guanzhong region at that time, and they are at the top of society in all aspects.

And the continuation of the Western Wei, Northern Zhou and Sui and Tang dynasties, the strength of the Guanlong aristocracy lies in the Eight Pillars and the Twelve Generals, who were equal to Yuwentai from the beginning. Although on the surface, everyone has to listen to Yuwentai's orders. But Yuwentai didn't dare to go too far with them. Because the establishment of the Western Wei, Northern Zhou, and Sui and Tang dynasties was itself the product of a compromise of interests.

The reform of the military system implemented by Yuwentai was nothing more than a restoration of the military clan tribal system at the beginning of the founding of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and all the soldiers followed the master's surname, re-entrenching the original Sinicized military household system. Later, Yuwentai's son Yuwenjue established the Northern Zhou Dynasty on behalf of Wei, and Yang Zhong's son Yang Jian established the Sui Dynasty on behalf of Zhou, all because some people within the Guanlong Group wanted to eat alone, and the cake was unevenly distributed.

And Yang Guang launched the Battle of Goryeo in order to completely eliminate these other partners of the Guanlong Group. In this way, can other families tolerate it?

Historically, it was precisely because Yang Guang touched the interests of most of the families of the Guanlong Group. So in the end, the Guanlong group also went on his opposite, and Li Yuan came forward to establish the Tang Dynasty. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan and Li Shimin fully restored the status of the Guanlong Group in the imperial court, and even the eldest grandson Wuji became the minister of Gu Ming. It was not until decades later that the emergence of Wu Zetian, coupled with the rise of the Lu clan in Hedong, the Cui clan, the Pei clan in Shandong, and the Wei clan in Henan, ended the monopoly of the Guanlong aristocracy on the Tang Dynasty politics.

At this time, Yu Wenming sighed and said, "Master, have you found it?" Now Da Sui has a feeling that the storm is coming? Needless to say, the Shandong civil uprising, Henan heard that there was also a bandit called the Wagang Army, the leader of which was called Zhai Rang, and the momentum was very huge. But at this time, the Holy Lord was still preparing for the second expedition to Goryeo. I'm afraid that someone will take this opportunity to rebel, and you also know that the rebellion of the nobles is no more powerful than those bandits, and it will greatly shake the foundation of the Great Sui, and I am afraid that the world will be in chaos at that time! ”