In the face of the huge number of reinforcements from all directions, many of the castle owners had the idea of retreating for a while.

Especially after the news that the imperial court was going to move the poor people they didn't want to Hedong Road, they all felt relieved.

If those poor people can be sent to Hedong Road, it will do them no harm.

However, the scholars of Hebei Province not only wanted to take advantage of this crisis to solve the actual crisis, but also wanted to take advantage of the contradiction between Li Chengqian and the eldest grandson Wuji to solve the problem of their inability to rise in the long run.

Therefore, their purpose is very clear, that is, to defeat Li Chengqian completely.

In order to observe Li Chengqian's response to this crisis more closely, representatives of several major Hebei Taoist clans came to a fort in Fanyang Lu's clan.

Lu Chengsi, the contemporary patriarch of the Fanyang Lu clan, was a tall and thin middle-aged man, and his yellow face was covered with wrinkles.

Except for a pair of sharp eyes, the whole body is like a piece of dead wood.

On this day, Lu Chengsi summoned Cui Rafter, the son of the Qinghe Cui clan, Cui Wenlan, the younger brother of the patriarch of the Boling Cui clan, Li Ying, the son of the Li clan of Zhao County, and Zhang Zhao, the second son of the Qinghe Zhang clan, as well as more than ten representative figures such as the Julu Wei clan, the Changli Han clan, and the Changli Dou Lu clan to study countermeasures.

"If Li Chengqian is defeated this time, Uncle Eldest Sun Guo will personally come to build Yandu, maybe it will be an opportunity for us." Lu Chengsi's words were as dry as he looked.

Opportunity?

The crowd didn't know why.

Lu Chengsi did not hide it from these people, and explained to them: "Today, when Your Majesty is alive, Uncle Changsun can sit back and relax, but if Li Chengqian ascends the throne-" Speaking of this, he looked at everyone and smiled and said: "There is no need for us to provoke, the eldest grandson's family will inevitably stand on its own in Yandu, who does the eldest grandson family rely on if they want to stand on their own in Yandu?"

Lu Chengsi said and looked at everyone with sharp eyes.

When everyone heard this, their hearts couldn't help but suddenly, and they all understood in an instant, what the so-called opportunity was.

About a hundred years ago, the Northern Wei Dynasty was divided, with Yecheng (Handan) as the capital, the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty were established successively, and the senior officials in the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi courts were the ancestors of these scholars in Hebei Province.

Later, the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Northern Qi Dynasty, and the imperial court in Chang'an was controlled by the Guanlong military group through the Northern Zhou, Sui, and the early years of the Tang Dynasty.

It was difficult for the Shi clansmen who went out directly from here to reach the decision-making level at the core of the imperial court.

Of course, these people have always had opinions about the imperial court established by the Guanlong military group, and culturally suppressed the Guanlong military group, creating all kinds of rumors to promote their identity.

But they forgot that after the Sui Dynasty destroyed the Southern Dynasty Chen, the literati of Jiangnan and Jiangzuo had entered the Chang'an court one after another, and the cultural level of these literati of the Southern Dynasty was much higher than theirs.

These people had heard about the benefits of being in charge of the country from their ancestors, and when they heard that there was still an opportunity to be the founding hero, their eyes were red with excitement.

"Hahaha"

Suddenly, they heard a burst of hearty laughter, and everyone turned their heads to see that it was no one else who was laughing, but Zhang Zhao, the second son of the Qinghe Zhang family.

Zhang Zhao saw that everyone didn't seem to have stage fright, and said with a high spirit: "This Li Chengqian is really our lucky star, so many of us didn't see that Youzhou could establish the capital, as far as he could see, it really gave us an excellent foundation place!" ”

Li Ying, the son of the Li clan of Zhaojun, was about the same age as him, and nodded when he heard this: "Indeed, Yandu is much more stable than Handan. ”

The people here are all smart people, and when they hear their words, they all feel a different taste, and it seems that whether the eldest grandson Wuji wants to come to Jianyan still needs to be discussed.

"With us alone, even if we build Yandu, we won't be able to hold it. The eldest grandson Wuji can continue to benefit from Chang'an during the lifetime of His Majesty, and we can only recruit Li Chengqian's army. Lu Chengsi saw that everyone had thoughts in their hearts that they shouldn't have at this time, so he analyzed coldly.

"Hmph, even if it doesn't work, it won't make Li Chengqian proud." Cui Rafter, the sect son of the Qinghe Cui clan, said ruthlessly.

"Now we just can't give Li Chengqian any more time, we have to crush him in the next few days and make a big mess in Hebei Province.

News came back from Youzhou City that Li Chengqian had been wandering and hunting everywhere these days, and Hao Chujun was unable to send these hundreds of thousands of poor people away. Once Li Chengqian returned to Youzhou City and began to transfer the poor to Hedong Province, it would be difficult for us to mess up Hebei Province again. ”

Lu Chengsi brought the topic back with an expressionless face.

"Li Chengqian is okay with other things, but he has a few generals under him. If we mess up Hebei Province, he will take the opportunity to send troops to quell the rebellion. At that time, it will be us who will suffer. Han Linqing, the patriarch of the Changli Han clan, said worriedly.

Lu Chengsi heard the words as if he hadn't heard them, and several other top families also ignored him, which made Han Linqing very embarrassed.

Dou Luqi, who was also born in Changli, spoke out for Han Linqing and said: "Brother Han, this is too worried, then Li Shiji also led troops to conquer Goguryeo in Liaodong, can the imperial court let Hebei Province be in chaos?" Besides, Uncle Sun Guo is also in the court, can he let Li Chengqian come to Hu?"

After Dou Luqi's analysis, everyone put their hearts in their stomachs.

"People say that Doulu Gong's wisdom is unparalleled, and it really deserves its name." Lu Chengsi reciprocated and praised Dou Lu Qi.

"Where, where—"

"Since everyone has no opinion on this matter, let's arrange for someone to go to Youzhou as soon as possible! The people from the small fort also squeezed a little more and let them go more. ”

Dou Luqi was about to say a few words modestly, but was interrupted by Lu Chengsi, but not only did he not dare to have an opinion, but he also had to praise Lu Chengsi first: "Everything is based on Lu Gongma." ”

The representatives of the four top scholar clans of Cui Zhang and Li also stood up together and said, "I am willing to advance and retreat with Lu Gong." ”

The others also followed: "I am willing to advance and retreat with Lu Gong." ”

Seeing this, Lu Chengsi stood up and waved to the crowd and said, "Then there is labor." ”

Everyone walked out of the hall of the meeting, Zhang Zhao and Cui Rafter walked together because they were in Qinghe, and the two discussed privately.

In order to blast Li Chengqian away as soon as possible, he sent some powerful servants from some families to infiltrate the poor people of Youzhou together.

When the time comes, as long as Li Chengqian's food is slightly insufficient, they will provoke it and lead the poor people to rebel.

In this way, once the two sides start a war, it will be life and death, and Li Chengqian will try to buy the hearts of the people again, and it will be really difficult to build Yandu.

The two also discussed that the two of them could use this to control these hundreds of thousands of poor people, and whoever wanted to gain a firm foothold in Yandu at that time would be inseparable from the support of the two of them.

These scholars are also desperate, and in just four or five days after Lu Chengsi's meeting, they gathered more than 100,000 people to go to Youzhou.

……

……

After completing more than 20 days of investigation, Li Chengqian was finally going back to Youzhou City.

Li Chengqian rode on his horse and saw from a distance a large group of civil and military officials standing at the gate of Youcheng Prefecture to greet him.

There were still dozens of steps away from the city gate, Li Chengqian and the thousand cavalry behind him slowed down and slowly walked to the gate of Youzhou City.

"Ministers, see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Li Chengqian rode on the horse and raised the whip in his hand and said, "Zhongqing is flat." ”

Li Chengqian was tired for more than 20 days, and now he wanted to take a good bath and rest, but he didn't expect that all the ministers who greeted him would follow him to Youzhou Palace.

Li Chengqian knew that they were in such a hurry to follow because they had something to discuss, so he simply freshened up and came out to meet the ministers.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has a big incident."

As soon as Li Chengqian sat down and the ministers finished saluting, Hao Chujun was the first to jump out.

Li Chengqian waved his hand and said: "The affairs of the poor are basically known to the lonely king. ”

Hao Chujun said in disbelief: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince knows everything?"

"I've worked hard for you these days."

Li Chengqian knew that these days it was Hao Chujun who was raising and allocating grain and arranging supplies for more than 400,000 poor people.

"The minister doesn't dare to call it hard, but now the food in Youzhou City can only last for three days......" Hao Chujun didn't finish speaking, and Li Chengqian hurriedly waved his hand to prevent him from speaking.

Stopping Hao Chujun, Li Chengqian turned his head and asked Xu Jingzong: "Xu Qing's family, how is the spirit of the poor people who came to Youzhou?"

Xu Jingzong hurriedly got up and said: "Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, these days, according to His Royal Highness the Prince's orders, the ministers have arranged for the East Palace to provide them with acting every day, and now these people have more or less understood some truths."

Most of the poor people knew that the court was difficult, and they also knew that the scholars and the lord of the dock fort had brought them out, and in addition to giving problems to His Royal Highness the Prince, they had no intention of giving them a way to live. ”

People who know Li Chengqian were shocked when they heard this, and the best thing Li Chengqian did was to win the hearts of the people and borrow the people's strength. Back then, the disaster relief in Chang'an City was to win the hearts of the people, and later he struggled with all parties in Chang'an, and almost every time the people of Chang'an came out to help him.

Li Tai's rebellion and King Jing's rebellion were both empty alleys, and the people came out with farm tools to quell the rebellion for him.

This time, I unknowingly collected the hearts of hundreds of thousands of poor people who had nothing, and there was such a group of people who could snatch all the Taoist clans in Hebei at any time.

Li Chengqian nodded and said, "Very good." After a pause, he asked, "These poor people are all divided into insurance armor, right?"

"Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, the distribution of armor for the poor is presided over by Hao Shangshu of the Xingtai Household Department." Xu Jingzong said.

Hearing this, Hao Chujun hurriedly got up and said: "Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, the distribution of Baojia was done by the supervisor of the Xingtai scribe, but the minister looked at the roster they submitted, and it was indeed properly distributed, and the distribution of grain these days was according to Baojia. ”

Hao Chujun had already guessed that Li Chengqian had a way to deal with it, so he was not in a hurry.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, the minister thinks that it is really unkind for the Hebei Taoist clan to leave the tenants who have been farming for them for many years, and since the people have understood the truth, they should lead the people to counterattack them." Youzhou Governor Du Du Niu Jinda stood up and said murderously.

Li Chengqian knew that Niu Jinda was jealous and hateful, and smiled: "Now is not the time. ”

Speaking of this, Li Chengqian turned his head to look at Hao Chujun and said: "Hao Qing's family, you are the secretary of the household department of Youzhou Daxingtai, and now there is a batch of grain and rice seeds from the sea.

You immediately took the hundreds of thousands of poor people in Youzhou to the southeast, and found the estuary of the Haihe River more than 300 miles to the southeast, where Ren Yaxiang was already waiting.

Everything else has already been arranged. ”

"Obey."