But Emperor Sui actually blocked the news, and did not investigate the fault of the crown prince Yang Yong, but only used Guo Yan, the chief of staff of the crown prince, as a substitute for the dead ghost, which indirectly weakened some of the power cultivated by the prince in Beijing. Then he even issued an edict to send Yang Guang, the king of Jin who did not die, to Beijing, and the party of the king of Jin all sent Hedong County as officials, and there was no one from the king of Jin in Beijing. In this way, there is only one party left in the Sui court Jingshi, there is no dissident, and the situation of the two parties fighting each other no longer exists, so now the Sui court is safe. The man who spoke had a goatee and deep eye sockets was the Dalit who had made a detour back to the Turkic court after sending an envoy to the Great Sui, and the person who asked him was the famous Turkic Khan Shabalu Khan at this time.

"That's it, that's it! There were many traitors in the Sui Dynasty, and a little money could buy off its high-ranking officials, and it was not difficult to provoke internal strife. Moreover, Ben Khan already knew that this prince Yang Yong was a mediocre person, and he believed that his uncle Yang Su was also a traitor, so it would not be a bad thing for me to be Turkic after he ascended to the throne. Alas! The first snow of the winter fell on the grassland, earlier than usual, and it was getting colder and colder. The Great Sui Dynasty in the south was dry this year, and the harvest in the fields was not much. Originally, he wanted to take advantage of the civil strife of the Sui Dynasty to send troops to invade the south and plunder the grain and population, but he didn't want the Sui Dynasty to take precautions early. Seeing that the grain storage of our steppe people is insufficient this winter, once we enter the depths of winter, the snow will be covered with several feet, the temperature will plummet, the cattle and sheep of various tribes will freeze and starve to death countless times, and the horses will also face a lack of forage, and our Turks will face death at that time. Alas! Sha Bo Luo Khan said while chewing the mutton in his mouth, and finally thrust the knife in his hand into the sheep on the shelf, sighed, and closed his eyes slightly.

"Great Khan, the top priority should be to immediately send troops to attack the Sui Dynasty! I need to fight one or two military states to solve the danger of my grassland! Ordabashi, the prime minister of the Turkic royal court who participated in the deliberations on the sidelines, suggested anxiously. He was one of the chief officials in charge of the Turkic military and political affairs, and he was well aware of the current plight faced by the Turks, and he believed that the only way to keep the Turkic people through the winter was to attack the south at all costs and plunder more finances, which was also the common method used by successive Turkic Great Khans.

"Great Khan, now the Wuyuan City of Shuofang County of the Sui Dynasty and Yulin, Mayi and other places in Guannei Province are heavily guarded by Sui Dynasty troops, which is not conducive to the attack of our Turkic cavalry. The Great Khan can make an army feint to attack Wuyuan City, and the last general is willing to lead an army from the west valley of Wuyuan City to the south to attack Lingwu City, and then attack from the rear of Wuyuan City after success. With these two cities, the supplies are enough to allow our Turks to survive the winter. The Turkic general Takhan on the side said in a rough voice. He is a staunch southern invader, and since the beginning of autumn this year, he has led a small group of Turkic elite cavalry to attack the border areas of the Sui realm many times, but because the Sui army is strictly guarded, he has not gained much from each sortie. The discovery of the valley path that directly hit Lingwu City was also learned after a group of caravans were captured during a southern invasion. From the mouth of the merchant traveler, he knew that there were not many defenders of Lingwu City, and there were very few people who knew about the valley path, so he could use it as a surprise soldier, so he offered advice to Sha Bo Luo Khan at this time.

After listening to Takhan's words, Shabalu Khan's eyes immediately opened and shone brightly, and asked, "Can you send someone to investigate the path in the valley?" Can you pass my Turkic horse army? What is the strength of the Lingwu Sui army? Shabalyu Khan asked three questions in a row, and the question made Takhan open his mouth and stammered back: "Great, Great Khan, although the trail is difficult and dangerous, it --- should pass the horse army." Lingwu Sui army no, no more than 3 thousand. Seeing that Takhan's answer was inarticulate, Sha Bo Luo Khan knew that this rough man had not probed carefully, and he felt a little angry, so he said sharply: "General Takhan immediately ordered to go down and let the disguised merchants of the Han army in the army go to the Lingwu trail to investigate, and it must be verified clearly, and this Khan must also know the garrison of Lingwu." After hearing this, Takhan was about to get up and pay the bill, when he suddenly heard a voice: "General, slow!" Xia Guan has something to say. ”

Takhan turned to see that it was the Great Khan's advisor Dalit, who had called him, so he stopped and looked at Shabalyu Khan. Seeing that Sha Bo Luo Khan motioned for him to sit down first, he was no longer in a hurry to pay the bill, and turned back to sit down again.

"Great Khan, I think that the plan of the general Takhan is not feasible." Dalit finished speaking softly, glanced at Takhan, and then faced Shabalyu Khan again and continued: "The lowly envoy to the Sui Dynasty has investigated the military situation of the Sui army stationed in various places, and the Sui general stationed in Wuyuan is the famous general of the Sui Dynasty, Changsun Sheng, who is resourceful and very good at defense. That Lingwu City was behind him, how could he not be guarded? The valley trail is only dangerous for business travelers, it must be a mountain cliff trail, how can the Ma army pass lightly? Even the infantry army will not allow the passage of the large army, and once there is a garrison blocking it at the pass, our army will not be able to advance or retreat, and will die when the food is exhausted. Therefore, smuggling trails are not feasible. ”

"This, this --- alas!" After listening to Dalit's words, Takhan looked anxious, but he was speechless, and slapped his thigh in a hurry.

"What Lord Dalit said is that this plan is too dangerous, and it is better not to use it. It's just that the current situation is extremely unfavorable to our Turks, and we can't do nothing and sit back and wait for death, do you have a solution? In the end, Shabalio Khan decided that he could not use the Takhan plan, as a generation of Turkic heroes, after calming down a little, he also knew that the smuggling plan was not feasible. There are many Sui troops in Guanzhong, even if they capture Lingwu Town, it will alarm a large number of Sui troops to besiege, and then the Wuyuan defenders will also participate in the siege, and it is not clear who is flanking whom at that time. But as the lord of a country, he must come up with a solution to the dilemma at this time, otherwise the consequences are unpredictable, so he has to ask Dalit, a strategist who is proficient in the affairs of the Sui Dynasty.

"Great Khan, when he returned from his humble duties, he passed through Hedong County, and saw that the grain in the fields in Hedong was growing gratifyingly, presumably Hedong did not suffer from drought, and the autumn grain must be a bumper harvest. The land east of the river is now under the jurisdiction of Yang Guang, the king of the Jin Dynasty, after this son was driven out of Beijing, the army was greatly expanded, and horses, cowhides and other things were urgently needed, why not let the villain go to Hedong for a trip, and exchange the surplus things of my grassland for Hedong grain, and I can solve the dilemma of the Turks without using swords, I don't know what the Great Khan thinks? Dartley stood up and bowed to Shabali Khan. This solution to the dilemma on the way back to the Turks has been considered and mature, now the Turkic resources are nothing more than war horses and a variety of armor-made cowhides, there are many Turkic tribes, and there are many war horses in each department, which are used in exchange for grain storage in Hedong, which is a desirable complementary strategy for both sides, and should be able to negotiate with Yang Guangyou, the king of Jin.

After listening to Dalit's advice, Shabalu Khan did not speak, but silently shaved a piece of roasted oily leg of lamb with a hand-relieving knife.

After muttering for a long time, Sha Bo slightly sweated and said: "Then Hedong County and my Turk are separated by the territory of Li Yuan, the prince of the Sui Dynasty, and the war horses are urgently needed in the feudal towns of the Sui Dynasty, why don't you exchange with Li Yuan nearby, but do the thing of sacrificing the near and seeking the distance?" After speaking, Sha Bo Luo Khan put down the knife in his hand, picked up the wine glass, looked at Dalit and whispered. The prime ministers on the side, Ordabash and Takhan, nodded when they heard this, and also looked at Dalit with puzzled expressions.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Dalit also smiled slightly, and said unhurriedly with his right hand on his chin beard: "The Great Khan doesn't know, at the moment Li Yuan, the Tang Duke of Jinyang, is already taking care of himself, and he is also short of food in his hands, and my Turkic cavalry has been raiding his territory for several days, plundering a lot of his people's food, and the autumn grain in various parts of his country is not harvested, and the people everywhere have entered the three northern counties to become refugees, and the food in his hands is also received by the king of Hedong Jin, so the exchange has to go to the king of Hedong Jin." After Dutley finished speaking, he also sat down, raised his wine glass, and waited for Shabal Khan's decision.

"Anyway, my Turks have encountered natural disasters this year and need to recuperate and not be able to use troops, so I will exchange them with the surplus war horses of my Turkic tribes and the cowhides stored in the treasury and other things with the king of the Jin Dynasty, and the letter written by Ben Khan will be personally handed over to the king of the Jin Dynasty, telling him that if he does not agree to the exchange, my Turkic army of 300,000 will attack it in 5 ways." Sha Bo slightly sweated his thigh and said sharply.

At dawn the next day, a touch of early winter sunshine lazily sprinkled on the early sunny grassland, the heavy snow had stopped overnight, leaving the grassland people with a white earth covered in silver. The Turkic herders of various tribes were sweeping their territories in the hope that their horses, cattle and sheep would be able to eat the dry grass under the snow. A troop of Turkic cavalry galloped past the tribe, led by Dalit, the advisor of Shabalio Khan and now the envoy to Hedong. Looking at the snow covering nearly half a foot deep along the way, he was anxious, he knew that soon the grassland would usher in an unprecedented disaster, the severe snow disaster on the vast grassland would make the entire winter grassland a dead land, as the disaster deepened, livestock would die in large numbers due to lack of food and extreme cold, followed by a shortage of food, a large number of Turkic people died, and how many people could survive this disaster until next spring.

Looking at the tribes passing along the way, Dalit was very depressed in his heart, feeling that the burden on his shoulders was extremely heavy, and he hoped that this trip could move his old acquaintance, King Yang Guang of Jin. Last time, he united with the princelings to murder him, and after he confessed everything freely after the defeat, the young prince did not make it too difficult for him, which left room for both parties to cooperate.

In this mission, Dalit still used the guard of honor of the envoys recognized by both countries, and when he entered Li Yuan's territory, he was not hindered in any way, and the defenders of the various passes were only regarded as his diplomatic business to the Sui capital. The journey was quite smooth, coupled with the urgency, it only took 4 days for Dalit and his entourage to enter Hedong County from the official road, and it took less than 2 days to arrive at Luzhou, where the Jin Wangfu is located. It's just that he didn't know that the secret letter that Yang Guang, the king of Jin, was reading at this time, which was the top-secret information that the Turkic Shabalu Khan sent Dalit and his party to Hedong, as well as the report that the entire Turkic territory was about to encounter a snow disaster that had not been encountered in a century.

Looking at this secret letter, Yang Er unconsciously showed a wicked smile on his face.

I really didn't expect that I had just arrived in Luzhou, Hedong, and before my ass was hot, things happened one after another in the north that made people feel headaches. On the table of Yang Er's case, there were still letters from Li Yuan and Chai Shao that had not been put away, but this hand was already looking at the secret letters sent back by the Turks of the Military Intelligence Department.

"It's all the first snow in this early winter!" Yang Er couldn't help but shiver when he thought of the snow at this time, and rubbed the tip of his nose, which was already frozen.

"It seems that everyone is having a hard time this winter!" Yang Er whispered to Zheng Xu, who was standing in the study, Zheng Xu came here for the fact that he had brought back the Hedong Turkic War Horse from several caravans and was detained by Li Yuan.

"Lord Wang, how should you solve the matter of this war horse being detained?" Zheng Xu thought of the war horse and felt tricky, now the war horse is an important material that is urgently needed by the gate lords everywhere, because the horses purchased from the Turkic tribes in the north have long been agreed, Tang Gong Li Yuan has always been released, but the military horse repurchased this time is the largest case in recent times, in order to ensure the safety of the road, several caravans have deliberately detoured from Li Yuan's territorial port back to Hedong, this time it was directly detained by Li Yuan. After Zheng Xu got the report of the subordinates who fled back, he came directly to the palace of King Jin.

"Huh! Zheng Xu! You are late, and the handwritten letters of Li Yuan and Chai Shao have been rushed to the top of this king's case for eight hundred miles. That Li Yuan's detention of my Hedong military horses is hateful, but it is not incomprehensible. That Li Yuan has always advertised that he loves the people like a son, and he also has a good reputation in Jinyang. It's just that this year's grain harvest in the fields is not good, and the Turks have frequently harassed me from the south for many years, so that the hungry people in the county capitals and cities are congested, and there are more people who open their mouths to eat. You see, this is a letter from my uncle Li Yuan and brother-in-law Chai Shao. With that, Yang Er handed Zheng Xu the two letters on the desk and beckoned him to the chair next to the desk. He also took the fur coat handed over by Chuchen and put it on his body casually, and sat down.

Compared with Li Yuan's situation, the affairs on the Turkic side are more tricky. The situation in the two places has the same place, that is, they are both fighting the idea of grain in their own hands, but their own solutions need to be treated carefully and differently, after all, Li Yuan is his uncle, a feudal official of the Sui Dynasty, and a Han Chinese. As long as you don't suffer losses when dealing with Li Yuan, you have to help when you need help, do you want to let yourself watch a large number of Han people in his territory starve to death and freeze to death? But if the Turks had to cooperate with themselves, the situation would be completely different. Cooperation is possible, this is the trend of the times, now is not to provoke the Turkic Great Khan Sha Bolu Khan, rashly provoked a great war between the Sui and Turks, not to mention that the Great Sui has no certainty of victory, and it will also interrupt the current rising momentum of development of our Great Sui, which is absolutely not advisable. However, cooperation must also make Shabalio Khan accept his own conditions, and it must be fair on the surface, but in fact let the Turks suffer a big loss, and only then can the Turkic strength be greatly damaged, which is the art of cooperation.

Although I, Yang Er, have a good temper, I also divide people, since ancient times, the Han and the Turks have not been separated, who cares about the life and death of your Turkic savages?