As soon as Li Yuan sent off the refugees, he went non-stop to the prefectures and counties under his rule to inspect agricultural affairs.

He was full of hope that the people would be able to cultivate and produce more, work hard to generate income, and create a great harvest year.

But the following situation worried him, most of the young and strong laborers in the people's families were requisitioned by the imperial court to serve in the military and labor, and the labor that could cultivate the fields was extremely scarce.

Just as Li Yuan was about to recruit young people to engage in production, the smoke of Jinyang City suddenly rose, and Li Yuan, who was a left-behind adult, had the responsibility of guarding the land with the emperor's order.

He had to rush back to Jinyang City from the inspection site to arrange the city defense and prepare military supplies.

It turned out that a group of displaced people came from the border of Hebei, and along the way they searched the prefectures and counties they passed, burned, killed, prostituted and plundered, and did evil things. The leader of the leader, called Wu Duan'er, is a stunned person in the world.

Li Yuan knew very well that the fundamental reason why the displaced people gathered in the mountains and forests and made chaos everywhere was that they had no food and clothing.

So, he issued a notice outside the north gate of Jinyang City - you and others are in turmoil, all because of their livelihood. In the city of Jinyang, you can wait for three days of rations. After three days, they can stay in the Jinju territory to plow the fields and work, and be given rations; You can also leave on your own. It's just that the siege of the city is no longer necessary, and it is useless for both sides to die in vain!

When the hungry people saw that there was food to eat, they dared to be kind. Wu Du'er then ordered a truce, accepted the rations given by Li Yuan, and swallowed it heavily. Regardless of his three-seven-twenty-one, he will eat his full stomach first.

Three days later, this unscrupulous child was treacherous and wanted to take Jinyang City in one go while his stomach was full.

He knew that Li Yuan was the third generation of generals, and marching and fighting were his housekeeping skills.

After several battles, Li Yuan not only repelled the attack of the thieves, but also chased dozens of miles north.

During the fierce battle at Longmen, Li Yuan shot a bag of arrows, killing 88 people, and the remaining 12 were seriously injured and lightly injured.

Seeing that Li Yuan was so brave, the thieves didn't dare to fight anymore, and fled for their lives one after another.

It's just that this leader has never hurt his life, he saw that tens of thousands of disciples were scattered by Li Yuan, he was resentful, and he wanted revenge.

Therefore, within a few days, Wudu'er attracted a group of people, and the momentum was huge, with 100,000 people.

The leader of the leader is called Wei Dao'er, because of the good use of the flying knife, so he got this name, this person and Wu Du'er worshipped, determined to avenge Wu Du'er.

Li Yuan saw that the thieves were powerful and did not dare to underestimate the enemy, so he hung up the battle exemption card all day long, closed the city gate, and issued an order - those who dare to speak out to fight will be killed!

During the few days when the city was closed, Li Yuan carefully observed the scattered military appearance and mixed ranks on the other side, and expected that they must be a mixed team of displaced people. Such a team, they will not have enough food and grass, and they will not be able to last long. It won't be long before they scatter like a flock of crows......

For this reason, Li Yuan decided to use delaying tactics and wait and see how the times changed.

Sure enough, after a period of delay, the thieves had no food and clothing, and their military discipline was lax; In addition, sleeping in the wilderness, there is no shelter from the wind and rain; So many soldiers fled at night.

Within a few days, the number of thieves had been greatly reduced.

Fighters are about to mature!

At this time, Li Yuan's second son, Li Shimin, came to ask for battle. Here is twenty-nine years old, tall and powerful, and courageous, which is rare in the world. He is also unparalleled in riding and shooting, strong crossbows and arrows, and stepping down immediately, proficient in everything. He was especially good at using a boxwood bow, and his marksmanship was better than that of his father. His bow is tough and sharp, even a tiger, leopard, bear and lion will kill with one arrow!

Li Shimin is still young, so he has never been a leader. But with the influence of family education, it is really a rare all-round talent in civil and military affairs.

The reason why Li Yuan took him with him was because he had a high level of understanding and was very capable of doing things. In this way, Li Yuan basically doesn't need any personal attendants.

During the tenure of Li Yuan and Jinyang, Li Shimin once gathered 800 personal soldiers and appointed himself as the commander, following the example of the Turks. I've been training here for more than half a year, and I'm ready to go into battle.

Li Yuan knew that the fighter had arrived, and he also wanted to use this to let his son experience more, hoping that he would become a weapon as soon as possible. So, the father and son took advantage of the slight reduction in the strength of the thieves and led their troops to rush out together.

The enemy army was tired and weak, unable to withstand the fierce attack of the defenders of Jinyang, and fled for his life after a short time.

After winning the battle, his son Li Shimin was elated, and he hoped to be able to drink and celebrate when he returned. But his father Li Yuan couldn't be happy, he faintly felt that this matter was not good......

Sure enough, Wei Dao'er attracted Lishan Fei again, and still claimed to take revenge, and the crowd was all over the mountains and fields, and the crowd spread to the skyline at a glance......

Regardless of whether this revenge is true or not, it is true that the countless homeless people in front of him want to snatch food. They are ragged, but they are high-spirited; They would rather die in battle than starve.

Li Yuan realized that if Lishanfei was destroyed again today, there would be another Ma Shanfei and Niu Shanfei.

In fact, they came to fight, they came to beg for food, but they didn't want to give it, so they had to rob it. They're just armed and called Hanako, but for the sake of survival, they can't care so much.

Li Yuan knew that blindly fighting like this was not the final solution to the problem. But if such a large number of displaced people were allowed to enter the city to eat, the situation would get out of control, and there would not be so much food at all.

There was no way, Li Yuan had no choice but to set up a cauldron outside the four gates of Jinyang City and cook gruel, so that the hungry people passing by could save themselves.

As for opening a warehouse to release grain, so that the hungry people could enter the city to eat, he would never dare to do it again.

The army of Jinyang City was also ordered to maintain only the order of food for the hungry, and was not allowed to fight.

However, there are many monks and few porridges, and the number of hungry people is increasing day by day, and the people who come to drink porridge every day line up in a long line, day and night. It's like a swarm of ants, I don't know how many.

Li Yuan couldn't help but fall into contemplation, and then changed from contemplation to anxiety. He called his close friend Pei Lian, the supervisor of Jinyang Palace, to drink wine to relieve his depression.

Looking at the current situation, it seems that it has become a dead end. Li Yuan was trapped in Jinyang City, unwilling to go out of the city to kill countless displaced people, in fact, they were just innocent people. All they want is a mouthful of food. Who is it that left them without food, and they have become bandits step by step from homeless people?

If we look into the fundamental reasons for today's situation, it is the ambition of Emperor Yang Guang himself.

Since his accession to the throne, he has often raised up conscription and military service, which is heavy and complicated, resulting in the exhaustion of the world's elite men. In the first year of the Great Cause, in order to build Luoyang Palace, he ordered three million people from all over the country to gather in Luoyang and built an unprecedentedly large Luoyang Palace in nine months; In order to excavate the Grand Canal, he ordered all the country's elite laborers to go to the canal, and it was difficult to find even a laborer who chopped wood and carried water in the homes of ordinary people; In order to conquer the Goryeo Kingdom, he conscripted one million soldiers in the country for three consecutive years, and three million people gathered in Zhuo County, and the scale of the war was unprecedented; In order to build the palace garden, in order to build the moat, in order to repair the Great Wall......

All this, after years of requisitioning and distributing the people, drained the marrow of the people, and forced the people to have no way to live.

After that, the homeless people became a huge number of displaced people, who rose up and gathered in the mountains and forests, and then became robbers and robbers, raiding all places.

The eighteenth road against the king, and the sixty-fourth road smoke and dust, have stirred up the Great Sui Dynasty unpeacefully. The Sui Dynasty Mansion was already in danger of collapse, and Yang Guang, as the emperor, was spending all day in Jiangdu at this time, drunk and dreaming of death......

The situation has been corrupted to this point, and the anti-kings from all walks of life, such as Dou Jiande of Hebei and Du Fuwei of Jianghuai, have gradually become the climate, and their wings are becoming fuller and fuller, and even the strong army of the empire can not help it.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan knew that the world of chaos was coming.

At that time, the hungry people in the world will repeatedly attack and kill each other in order to survive, and the heroes of all walks of life will continue to fight in order to conquer the city.

After that, the powerful will divide the territory, the world will be torn apart, and a large number of people will join the endless conquest. With the endless conquest, there will be countless people turned into corpses and bones, just to achieve the hegemony of the careerist.

In the troubled times, everyone will be involuntarily, everyone will be swept up in the torrent of this era, and this bizarre fate is really unpredictable......

Li Yuan knew that it was imperative to raise troops and save the country.

However, at this time, there were still hundreds of thousands of elite armor soldiers in the Great Sui, and it seemed that the time was not ripe to raise troops.