Li Siyuan is over sixty years old, and he originally had no ambition to be an emperor, but after tasting the taste of power, he also knows the taste of marrow, and it is difficult to give it up again.

It's just that the crown prince ran back to Jinyang, and the two princes and Yongwang Cunba and Xue Wang Cunli are still alive, and his original plan to kill the descendants of Emperor Wu Li Keyong fell through, and it was not so easy to ascend the throne smoothly.

Li Siyuan moved into the palace and ordered Empress Liu to be imprisoned in the temple of the palace and ordered her to become a monk and practice repentance. He has just taken power now, and the ashes of the former emperor Li Cunqiao are still placed in the Zi Palace, waiting to be buried. There are too many miscellaneous things, and there are many notes waiting for him to review and deal with.

Due to his poor background, Li Siyuan couldn't read a few big words, and was basically illiterate, and his cronie An Chongzhi didn't read much, and sometimes he didn't know the words on the content, and many times he didn't understand what was said in it. So I found a few literate Wenchen and helped them review the folds.

Although he has never read a book, Li Siyuan belongs to the kind of talent who does not learn and has skills, and he is also self-taught and very clever in the use of many political methods. And he has one of the biggest advantages, he knows that he has no common sense, so for the ministers' suggestions, as long as they think they are reasonable, they are basically good and approve the implementation.

On this day, Li Siyuan was summoning the tenant envoy Kong Xun and Li Qi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to help him review the recital, but he saw An Chongzhi entering the palace and reported: "The news has been transmitted back from Jinyang, and the prince has indeed returned to the palace, and he wants to enter Jinyang from Ke, but he was blocked by Zhang Jingda and his army at Fenshui Pass, so he had to temporarily occupy the river. Jinyang is the land of Longxing, the soldiers and horses are strong, and the income from money and grain rent is the highest, so it must be guarded against. ”

Li Siyuan hesitated for a while, and then said: "In the past, the first emperor destroyed the Liang State with the land of Taiyuan, but now there is chaos in various places, but it is not the time to use troops, and the city of Jinyang is strong, and it is easy to take it, but it is helpless. ”

Kong Xun said: "The prison country should be the master of the Liang and stand on his own, otherwise the world will be unstable!" ”

Li Siyuan reprimanded when he heard this: "I served my ancestors at the age of thirteen, and I am still a relative of the same clan as Emperor Wu, and the foundation of the first emperor is my inheritance, so there is a reason for the same clan and a different country?" ”

Li Qi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, said: "If you change the name of the country, it will give those Jiedu envoys who are ready to make an excuse to openly rebel, which is definitely not a good policy. Now the first emperor is still in the Zi Palace, supervising the country to learn from Wei Wu, sending an envoy to Jinyang, welcoming the prince back to Beijing and taking the throne before the coffin, which can be said not to forget the grace of the first emperor III. ”

Li Siyuan was silent for a moment and said: "This is the best, who should be sent to Jinyang?" ”

Li Qi said: "Prime Minister Dou Luge is an important minister of the first emperor, and he can go to Jinyang to welcome the prince back to show his grandeur." ”

He wanted to climb to the position of prime minister, so he strongly recommended Douluge to envoy Jinyang, and the best result was that the prince was angry and beheaded Douluge, and it was done once and for all.

Li Siyuan shook his head and said: "Douluge has no friendship with the prince, I'm afraid I can't say that the prince will return to the court, or send Wei to say that he will go." ”

An Zhong said: "I'm afraid the prince won't return to Luoyang, so he should raise troops to fight, so as not to have many dreams at night." ”

Li Siyuan frowned and said: "Now that the treasury is empty, what to use to fight, I am afraid that the army will break up halfway when it leaves Luoyang." Besides, without a nominal teacher, the crusade against the prince confirmed the charge of rebellion. ”

Li Qi said: "There are still many subordinates of the former emperor in this army, and their hearts are towards the prince, so why don't you appease him first, slowly cut off his wings, start with the jiedu envoy who followed the prince, first transfer away from the military town where he is located, and cut off the military power, and finally only the prince is left alone, and the prison country can control him without much effort." ”

An Chongzhi sneered: "Although this plan is good, I'm afraid it will not be satisfactory." ”

The two argued, each with its own reasons, Li Siyuan couldn't make up his mind, and finally said: "First send Wei to welcome back the prince, and in addition, I heard that Yuan Xingqin is in Chang'an, send someone to win over Ren Yuan and ask him to hand over Yuan Xingqin, otherwise the old man wants to avenge the murder of his son, and he can be regarded as a famous teacher." ”

The strategy is set for the time being, and it depends on the results of implementation.

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In his previous life, Li Qi was relatively homely, going to work in the company from 9 to 6 every day, as a street fighter, he had to work hard to code words at night, and rarely dealt with people. Speaking of social experience, he is not particularly rich, and as a traverser, his understanding of the world is not half a star worse than those old and treacherous guys.

According to the experience of playing strategy games, it is the right way to survive in the early stage and bury your head in development. Otherwise, you will provoke a lot of enemies, and you won't be able to survive even if you want to develop.

The most important thing is to live, if a person dies, there is really nothing.

As long as you live, there will be hope.

Li Qi asked Zhang Shu to sell the five estates in the south of Jinyang City, which, although located on both sides of the Fen River, were on the route of marching from south to north. If Li Siyuan's army is overwhelmed, these granges will be destroyed first. Li Qi was not sure that he would be able to defend the Bird Mouse Valley Road.

The arrival of the veterans An Jinquan and Zhou Guangfu made Li Qi feel a lot more at ease, so after formulating a strategy of focusing on defense in the near future, he couldn't wait to take his entourage out of Jinyang City and go to Yuci County to inspect the two royal manors left by the former Tang Dynasty on the north bank of Dongguoshui.

The convoy out of the city had five carriages, and the wooden wheels kept jolting as they drove on the potholed road, so that Li Qi, who was riding in the car, was very worried about whether the fragile wooden wheels under him could withstand such violent vibrations.

In late April, the millet seedlings in the fields have just begun to pull out joints, and the outside of Jinyang City is also verdant, and the seedlings in the fields are like green waves, surging in the breeze.

The official road of more than 40 miles is more than 20 minutes by car in later generations, but in this era, it took nearly two hours. From morning to noon, the convoy arrived at the gate of the royal manor at the foot of Lutai Mountain, at the confluence of Tushui and Dongguoshui. The courtyard wall made of loess rammed outside the manor surrounds the surroundings, the wall is more than one zhang high, and there are six tall arrow towers in the middle of the four corners and the east and west walls, which is very similar to a small military fortress.

When Li Qi and his entourage came to the manor, it was already noon.

The carriage went straight to the gate of the manor and stopped in front of a vermilion-walled courtyard.

Li Huan reported loudly outside the car: "Prince Qiyu, the Huangzhuang has arrived." ”

A middle-aged man in the costume of an inner servant led more than a dozen villagers to greet the arrival of the new owner at the door, and there were many villagers standing on both sides of the road to watch the lively households, mostly women and children.

Seeing Li Qi get out of the car, the inner supervisor took the lead and led everyone to kneel on the ground, and said loudly: "Wang Cun, the river patrol officer of the Nudu Water Prison Cave, and others will knock on His Royal Highness the Prince!" The rest of the farmers who knelt down only bowed their heads and did not dare to speak.

"Get up! In the future, I will come here often, and I don't have to kneel and prostrate, but just prostrate. Li Qi said and walked towards the courtyard.

Wang Cun hurriedly got up, followed behind Li Huan, and also walked towards the main hall......