After crossing the Yellow River, he entered the garrison of Pei Renji, a famous general of the Great Sui Dynasty.

The army braved the wind and snow all the way to the Eagle Great Wall Pass, where Pei Renji's 5,000 soldiers were stationed, and they didn't see the Turkic or Tang army coming from the north, but they waited for the Sui army to come from the south, and then took a closer look, and recognized that this was the army of the King of Jin in Hedong, and there were a lot of them. The general guarding the pass didn't say that he blocked it, and when he saw that it was Yuwen Chengdu, the general who led the troops, he was so frightened that he personally opened the gate and let the Jin army pass. The defenders along the way looked at the Jin army in the past in a daze, and kept praising it, their eyes were full of envy, and the heavily armed Jin army was enough to make ordinary Sui soldiers feel envious.

After successfully passing Eagle County, it was only a day's journey to Shuofang City. Yuwen Chengdu led his soldiers into the city to visit Pei Renji, a veteran of the Great Sui. Pei Renji was not surprised to see Yuwen Chengdu's arrival, because the Hedong Army had brought too many surprises to the imperial court. After the two met, they simply asked the whereabouts of the Jin army in Hedong, and Pei Renji let him go.

In this way, the 100,000 Hedong Jin army led by Yuwen Chengdu occupied all the Hetao areas from Shuofang City to the north, and completed the task assigned by Yang Er.

It's just that this move without the permission of Emperor Sui has caused criticism from all over the court. It even made the princelings restless, and they felt that the threat of the entire Hetao being occupied by Yang Guang, the king of Jin, was far greater than that of Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the King of Jin privately occupies the land of the Hetao, and this wind cannot rise, which is no different from Li Yuan's invasion!" Yang Su, the king of Yue, was not easy to say, but asked the right prime minister Han Hong to enter the palace and go to the imperial study to see Emperor Wen.

"How is it the same? Li Yuan's private occupation of land is ill-intentioned, that is rebellion! My prince went to occupy it, and that was to guard the border for me. Who could have reassured me more than my son to go and guard the town? When Emperor Wen saw that Han Hong had compared his son with the rebellious Li Yuan, his face suddenly changed.

"Even King Chitose of Jin should act according to orders! Your Majesty. Han Hong said unrelentingly.

"Okay, my son I know how to discipline, on the contrary, I now think that it is a foolproof strategy to let Ji'er guard the Hetao and Wuyuan City for me, and there is no possibility of being occupied by outsiders." After Emperor Wen said this to Han Hong, he had an epiphany, and left behind the entanglement and unhappiness caused by his son's rash dispatch of troops. After Li Yuan withdrew from the land of the Hetao, he always had to send his generals to guard it again, so thinking about it, it would be more appropriate and reassuring for his son to guard it.

Han Hong saw that Emperor Wen had made up his mind, and his persuasion was useless, so he left the imperial study depressed and went to discuss with Yang Su, the king of Yue.

After the bargaining between Chai Shao and Hedong Sima Pei Shiju, they finally reached a compromise with each other. Li Yuan's Tang army all withdrew from the Hetao area, and Luzhou, Hedong, provided Jinyang with a total of 2.2 million stone of grain for wintering and spring planting in the next year, plus hundreds of thousands of stone of grain existing in the Jinyang treasury, which was just enough for the Jinyang army and people to spend the winter. It's just that this result made everyone in Jinyang, including Li Yuan, extremely aggrieved, and Li Yuan was even more seriously ill, and he didn't go to the palace for more than ten consecutive days.

"Shimin, is your father feeling better today?" Chai Shao asked Li Shimin, who had just come to the mansion to play with him.

"My father is better, and the doctor said that it is fine, but he is just angry." Li Shimin, as a witness to a small incident, has already learned the whole process and reason why his father was sick from his brother-in-law and sister, and he seems to be a little older.

"Alas! If Senior Brother Yao had come to my Jinyang a month earlier, it would not have been possible for me Jinyang to swallow such a big bitter fruit now. Now that the land of Hetao has returned to the king of Hedong Jin, it is guarded by Yuwen Chengdu himself, and I have no chance to Jinyang. Chai Shao turned his head to look at Li Jing on the side, and said with a soft sigh.

"It's come to this, Brother Chai doesn't have to mind. Fortunately, Yang Guangshang, the king of the Jin Dynasty, knew the general situation, just to ask for the Hetao game. If he takes advantage of my food shortage in Jinyang to attack me, Jinyang will undoubtedly be defeated, and you and I will even give him a place to live at that time. Li Jing also softly comforted his friend.

"Huh! Listening to the words of the virtuous brother, isn't this situation the worst? Chai Shao smiled bitterly after listening to Li Jing's words.

"Brother-in-law, Brother Jing is right, that is, if the King of Jin doesn't come to attack me, there will be no food to eat, and we will all starve to death." Li Shimin interjected like a little adult on the side.

"Hehehehehe!" Li Shimin's words amused everyone in the room. The pent-up emotions dissipated suddenly.

On the Luzhou side, after Lu Zhaolin and Zheng Fengchi and others joined forces to complete the plan codenamed "Fur", they left Pei Shiju and other Luzhou officials, and returned to Zezhou with his entourage to continue to be his governor. It's just that the current state seat of Zezhou is Jiyuan City, not far from Wagang Mountain on the other side of the river, so Lu Zhaolin didn't enter the city first, and rode his horse across the river to Wagang Mountain to meet Yang Er to report on his work.

Yang Er saw Lu Zhaolin coming up the mountain to see him, and he was happy in his heart, he was worried that he was about to face the chaos of all parties and lacked a person who could be discussed, so it was just right for Lu Zhaolin to come up the mountain.

"Mr. Lu, it's really timely, this king is about to ask someone to invite you up the mountain!"

"Lord, the fur plan has been completed, and when the lower officials return to Jiyuan, they will go up the mountain to report in front of the lord first."

"Okay, don't say anything about the work, what this king values is the result, and from the result, Li Yuan finally gave in and let the king have a heart, and his father will have an explanation. Now that you have gone up the mountain, let us first be the king's wise man on this mountain! Seeing that these bigwigs of the feudal towns are like arrows, you can stay here and serve as a counselor for the king. ”

"Huh! Lord, the lower officials can't ask for it! After hearing Yang Er's words, Lu Zhaolin couldn't help laughing.

"Mr. Lu, now Ma Shumou and Li Chun presided over the excavation of the Yongji Canal is progressing quite smoothly, but two things are that the king has to face, one is to open the canal at the same time Jiao Fang and Wu Kuier will collect 300 miles of land along both sides of the canal as state-owned, and drive the original people of the land away, which has led to many tenant farmers living without support after losing their land, and the towns along the canal are too small to accommodate too many people, so that the displaced people are everywhere, during which many lawbreakers take the opportunity to cause trouble and become a source of chaos; In addition, Lord Yuwen of Hejian Prefecture opened a canal for the next stage, and forcibly expelled the family members from the planned land by means of forced demolition, which was too radical and led to the frequent occurrence of various unjust cases. And these families are mostly associated with Wang Shichong, Tang Bi, Shen Faxing, Liu Wuzhou and other large and small gate valves, and most of them are the owners of these gate valves. This moved the interests of the gate lords of the feudal town, and Wang Shichong and others gathered hundreds of thousands of troops to rebel. Alas! Although this king had expected these before opening the canal, he never wanted to implicate so many gate valve forces. It is even rumored that the king will dig a new canal next year, and the rumors are like tigers, which also leads to the gate valves everyone in danger and joins forces to fight against the king. And there were more than a million of the families of Macakah together. This king is also anxious about this! Yang Er finally said the crisis he was about to face in front of Lu Zhaolin, for many days, he was not good at revealing it in front of Wang Dai and Chuchen, Liang Shitai and other generals had limited knowledge, and they were not the ones they could talk to, this kind of boredom had nowhere to tell, and they were very aggrieved.

"Lord, since the situation is already difficult, don't think about the matter of Mr. Yuwen and Jiao and Wu Erjun, he and other subordinates have a lot of people, and they will solve it, and they should do their best to deal with the chaos of the gate valve."

"Hmmm! That's right, you should grab the big head. Yang Er listened to Lu Zhaolin's persuasion and felt reasonable, Nayu Wenhua was originally a ruthless person, and he would solve it by himself, and he had more than 100,000 people under him, and he was afraid that it would not turn the sky upside down. Jiao and Wu Er's generals don't need to think much about dealing with landlords and tenant farmers, and it doesn't hurt the overall situation to make some folk complaints. But it's time to think about the biggest enemy, Wang Shichong and other gate valves, isn't he just going to take the opportunity to cut the domain? Cutting the feudal domain is the most important thing.

Yang Er walked back to the desk and looked at the map spread out, and fell into thought. Lu Zhaolin also came to the map and looked down.

"With the harsh winter approaching, it is estimated that Wang Shichong will not use troops this winter. However, it is very likely that the Tangbi side will take advantage of the Yellow River after it is frozen to cross the river to attack the two cities of Ande and Pingma, which are the closest to Jeju Licheng in Tangbi. But it could also come from somewhere else on the ice! The area to be defended is too large. With that, Yang Er threw the folding fan in his hand on the picture.

"Lord, in fact, it is not difficult to learn about Tang Bi's intention to enter the army, and the army is mobilized, then Li Taizhi, a thousand households in the Shandong Military Intelligence Department, will definitely be able to learn in time, that is, just put a few piles of firewood on the other side to warn, and my Weicheng army only needs to defend against each other." Lu Zhaolin said softly. Yang Er couldn't help but nod in recognition when he heard this.

"It's quite interesting to hear Lord Liu Wenjing mention it before the official came." Lu Zhaolin said with a smile.

"Oh? What did Mr. Zhaoren mention to Mr. Zhao Ren before leaving? Yang Er couldn't help asking. It must not be a big deal, but if it was a big event, I would have known it a long time ago.

"Lord Liu said to the lower officials that the spies who monitored Erxian Zhuang Shan Xiongxin and his gang found that Xu Maogong, Shan Xiongxin and others quietly left Zhuangzi on a snowy night, and they didn't know where they went."

"Oh! There is such a thing. Yang Er heard this and hurriedly re-checked the map, thinking to himself that this group of people took advantage of the chaos to go to Wagang Mountain in history and took Zhai Rang's foundation. Now that they are on Wagang Mountain, where are they going to run now? It seems that this group of people will not stop!

"This king originally planted a confidant beside Shan Xiongxin, but there was no letter to report, it seems that he has been in a hurry, and he has no time to send someone to report. Where are these people going? This king is especially annoyed by dealing with these feudal towns, and there is such a wave of difficult power. Yang Er's mood suddenly became irritable, these Green Forest heroes are more difficult to deal with than the Gate Valve Domain, because their strength and whereabouts are unpredictable, and there are more resourceful figures like Xu Maogong.

While deliberating, Zhong Jian entered the house and reported: "Brother Shi, a scribe who called himself Shen Yuan came to the mountain gate, saying that he wanted to see the lord of Liang Zhai. ”

"Inform Liang Shitai to see what the situation is, and then report to this king." Yang Ertou waved his hand and commanded without raising his head, and when Zhong Jian saw it, he hurriedly went to Liang Shitai, who was practicing soldiers and horses in the back mountain.

Since Yang Er went up the mountain, Liang Shitai has led Lai Hu'er, Zuo Tiancheng, Luo Cheng, Luo Shixin and others to perform in the back mountain every day. Luo Cheng practiced with Luo Shixin every day, and both of them improved their martial arts unconsciously. Everything is exactly the opposite of these two people, Luo Cheng's strengths are Luo Shixin's weaknesses, Luo Cheng's weaknesses are Luo Shixin's strengths, when the two of them practiced, all the generals came to watch, and it was quite interesting to watch the two Luo fights, no matter what, they couldn't tell the height or short, but they often attracted bursts of laughter from the generals.

"When the heroes of the green forest come out of the mountain, they must occupy a treacherous mountain as their foundation, and benefit from it when the war between the king and the feudal town starts. This king has enmity against him, and I cannot count on him to come to me. Mr. Lu, you have been in Jiyuan, Zezhou for a long time, you should be familiar with this aspect for hundreds of miles, right? Is there a place around here where the heroes of the green forest can gather? ”

"Lord, there are two dangerous mountains in this territory that are easy to defend and difficult to attack, one is the Changye Ridge in the northwest of Licheng County, and the other is the Red Peach Mountain to which Heze Mansion belongs." Lu Zhaolin pointed out the two places on the map as he spoke.

"Huh! Changye Ridge is too close to Tang Bi's forces, and when Tang Bi is about to be tense, he will definitely not go to Changye Ridge. However, this mountain of hearts, the king once passed under its mountain, is a dangerous place, and it is stuck between Luoyang and Jeju Mansion. Mr. Lu told Li Taizhi to send someone to take a look to see if this group of green forest heroes had gone to the Red Peach Mountain. ”

"Hmmm! The lord analyzed it very much, and the lower official sent someone to find Master Li Taizhi. After Lu Zhaolin finished speaking, he was about to turn around and go to me to arrange an errand, but at this time, he saw Liang Shitai enter the house with a person.

"Lord, this person's surname is Shen Mingyuan, he is an official in charge of grain in the inner government under Li Yuan of Jinyang, because he lost 200,000 stone of grain and could not pay the order, so he abandoned Li Yuan and threw himself into my Wagang." Liang Shitai introduced, and saw Shen Yuan hurriedly stepped forward to greet Yang Er.

"Oh? Mr. Shen, this king heard that you are doing things for Li Yuan in Dingxiang City, and I don't want to come to the Central Plains, please sit down and talk. "Yang Er had heard Zheng Fengchi talk about this person, who was the chief official in Dingxiang City at that time who was in charge of the exchange of furs for grain, and he had dealt with the Zheng family caravan.

"Lord Wang, Xiaomin originally only wanted to be a warehouse official under the master of Liangzhai in Wagang Mountain, and he didn't want to see Chitose Lord here. Speaking of the small people going up the mountain, alas! It's all because the people are careless, they shouldn't have rested at the pavilion at the foot of the Changyeling Mountain, if they went directly to the ferry to get on the boat, there would be no food and they would be robbed. Now the small people of Flash can't face Tang Gong, and they can't go back to their homes. Shen Yuan couldn't help but shake his head and said in a low voice.

"Oh? When was your escorted grain taken away by the mountain bandits on the Long Leaf Ridge? Yang Er felt a little strange, from the point of view of time, it was a little wrong, if it was robbed, this Shen Yuan should have come to vote a long time ago.

"Don't hide it from Chitose Ye, the Xiaomin convoy was looted half a month ago, and the remaining nearly 100,000 stone grain should have been transported back to Jinyang a long time ago. Xiaomin suffered from this change, and the weather turned cold and suffered from wind cold, and he fell seriously ill, and recuperated in a small town in Laiwagang, until he was cured. ”

"Hmmm! Mr. suffered, however, it is not good for Mr. to vote for Wagang, it is better to vote for this king, this king is lacking effective manpower here, Mr. Shen will succumb to Mr. Lu to Zezhou Jiyuan as an official! This is none other than Mr. Yin Lu Zhaolin, the governor of Zezhou. Yang Er said and introduced Lu Zhaolin and Shen Yuan, and Shen Yuan hurriedly got up and bowed to Lu Zhaolin.