Huainan, Jiangdu Palace.

The emperor asked Pei Yun, "How is the situation of thieves in various places recently?" ”

Pei Yun purple-robed jade belt, he secretly looked at the emperor's expression when he said this, seeing that the emperor's face was as usual, and there was nothing abnormal in his eyes, he quickly thought about it in his mind with a cautious attitude.

But his face remained silent.

"Your Majesty, the number of thieves in various places is decreasing, and the pacification envoys of various provinces have achieved good results."

The emperor nodded when he heard this, and the emperor at this time wore a golden crown of hair, but it was difficult to hide the fact that the meticulously combed hair was mixed with a lot of silver hair. The emperor's beard was still delicately trimmed, but his face was a little puffy. Especially those eyes, which have deep bags under their eyes.

The emperor's lower abdomen was also bulging, and the emperor gained a lot of weight.

"Hasn't Li Mi been caught yet?" The Emperor asked again.

"Li Thief is quite cunning, always hiding in Tibet, and always refuses to confront Wang Shichong head-on. Recently, however, his winged thieves have been exterminated in succession, and the thieves east of the canal have all been wiped out. ”

"Li Mi, this thief, when I first ascended the throne, he was a guard in the palace, and I felt that this person was a roe deer and a rat, and his brain was rebellious. Summoned Henan, be sure to capture Li Mi as soon as possible, send him to Jiangdu, I want to cut him with a thousand knives. ”

The emperor held his stomach up and walked in the garden.

After walking some distance, the emperor asked about the Turks in the north.

"The Turks were defeated and retreated after the last defeat, and now they have retreated to the north of the desert, and now there is no place for the Turks to stand in the south of the entire Yin Mountain, or even across the Yin Mountain to the edge of the desert." Pei Shiju also took the opportunity to talk to the emperor about the current 'Turkic situation'.

According to the latest news, after Shi Bi returned to Mobei, he was sluggish, and died of illness shortly after the year. Now on the Mobei grassland, Shibi's second brother Li Fosheh and the third brother are vying for the throne, and the Tiele people also take the opportunity to rebel, which can be described as chaos. Pei Shiju opened his mouth to tell these lies.

"After the ministers and others discussed, they felt that this was a good opportunity, just to divide the Turkic people, and asked His Majesty to give Li Fo the title of Chuluo Khan, and at the same time named Ashina Simo as the Turkic Ye Hu, and the son of Shibi as the little Turkic Khan, and canonized Tiele Xue Yantuo as the Zhenzhu Vika Khan, and allowed him to establish the Tiele Khanate."

Pei Shiju told the emperor that now the aggressiveness is big in Mobei, so we have to leave the strong and the weak, first canonize Li Foshe, and then let him marry Princess Yicheng as Kedun, so that the two brothers can fight each other, and then let the Tiele people who lost the bowl disrupt the situation, so that the muddier the water, the more peaceful the northern Xinjiang of the Great Sui.

These, in fact, are the results of Luo Cheng's treatment of the Turks after killing Shibi Khan and annihilating his southbound army, he finished the book and sent it to the imperial court, Pei Shiju and others replied to agree in the name of the emperor at that time, but in fact they never told the emperor.

Today, I found an opportunity to say this, but I took it as their credit.

The emperor listened very energetically.

"Okay, very good, in this way, the land of Monan will be restored to my Great Sui."

At this time, Pei Yun took the opportunity to speak again.

"Now that the Turks have gone to the north of the desert, and the infighting is continuous, the ministers think that the land of the south of the desert can be re-regulated. At present, Mo Nan, Dingxiang two sections and Yanmen a capital governor's office, the minister thinks, Yanmen, Dingxiang can be combined into one, led by the old marshal Wang Rengong. ”

Yang Guang turned his head and asked Su Wei, who had not spoken.

"Nayan, what do you think?"

Su Wei kept dozing off, his eyes half-open and half-closed, and the emperor didn't say a word without asking him. Hearing the emperor ask him, he said, "The Yanmen Governor's Mansion and the Dingxiang Jiedu Envoy's Mansion are combined into one, it's okay." ”

"How about I recall my heir back to lead the Xiaoguo army?"

Yu Shiji hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, recently, Longyou Dao has been restless, and Zhao Cai died suddenly of illness and many Qiang people have taken the opportunity to make trouble, so the minister thinks that he can send a brave and capable general to replace Zhao Cai as the envoy of Longyou Jiedu to suppress the Longyou Qiang rebellion." ”

The Emperor frowned.

"Zhao Cai is dead?"

"Zhao Shuai is old, he was half of his life in the early years of Rongwu and suffered a lot of injuries." Yu Shiji said this, but did not tell the emperor truthfully that Zhao Cai, the emperor's former minister, actually died in the rebellion of the Qiang people who led his troops.

"Give Zhao Cai's family more money." The emperor confessed.

The Emperor sighed.

"Now that the Turks have gone far away from Mobei, and the civil strife is not stopping, and the bandits in the Central Plains have almost been pacified, I think that we can conquer Goguryeo again, what do you think?"

The emperor's words made the four bold prime ministers a little unbearable.

At this time, why did the emperor still think about the Eastern Crusade?

"Your Majesty, Goguryeo has been usurped by Yuan Taizuo to kill the king, and now it has also been attached to my Great Sui, so there is no need to ask for it."

But the Eastern Expedition has always been a problem for the emperor, and he promised the Yuan clan to join him before, but it was only because there were no conditions at that time. But now that the internal strife has been pacified, and the external enemies have been eliminated, this is a good time to destroy the Yuan clan.

"The attachment of the Yuan clan cannot be believed. The soldiers and horses of my Great Sui cannot be fully in charge of the mountains and rivers of Liaodong in one day, and they cannot be called conquered in Liaodong in one day. The land, population, and cities must all be included in our Great Sui, which is called conquest. ”

The four prime ministers looked at each other, and they didn't know what reason to use to prevaricate the emperor.

It was Solvay who spoke.

"Your Majesty, it is enough to have Luo Cheng alone in Liaodong."

"Don't talk to me about Luo Cheng, I returned to Beijing from Yanmen before, and I ordered Luo Cheng to come to see me, why don't you come? What border areas are heavy on military affairs, and how heavy can they be? Earlier, I told me that I would be able to calm Liao in three years, but there has been no movement until now, and I feel that Luo Cheng is a little proud. ”

"Your Majesty, the bandits in the Central Plains have not yet been pacified." Su Wei had no choice but to say.

The Emperor stared at him, "What do you mean?" ”

Su Wei's eyes flickered, and his voice was a little hoarse, "The minister is not in charge of this aspect, the specific situation is not very clear, but I also know that the bandits have not been pacified, there are Li Mi on the side of Luoyang, Dou Jiande, Wang Xuba, Lu Mingyue in Hebei, Wei Dao'er, Jing Pantuo, Chai Baochang in Hedong, and Meng Rang, Zuo Caixiang, Li Zitong in Huaixi, etc., all of which have not yet been pacified." ”

Pei Yun and the others all stared at Su Wei.

But at this time, the old sleeping prime minister ignored their gaze, and just continued, "In the past, the thieves were just hiding in Taishan, Changbai Mountain, Gaojibo, Douzigang, Dayozawa and other places, but now they are attacking the county and breaking the county, in the past, the thieves were mostly hundreds of thousands, but now they are all claimed to be hundreds of thousands. Not only that, but now the canals in various places are blocked, and even the big warehouses of several countries such as Luokoucang and Liyangcang have fallen into the hands of thieves, and hundreds of people have become thieves. ”

"Now although the Turkic troubles are temporarily gone, but the civil strife in the Central Plains has not decreased but increased, if you go east again, I am afraid that it will add fuel to the fire, and the world will become more and more turbulent."

Su Wei has been the prime minister of the Great Sui for decades, with several ups and downs, and he was once the hero of Emperor Wen who relied on him to create a prosperous era, but now he has become a bastard.

In the final analysis, it's not that he is old and mediocre, but that the emperor doesn't really use him, so he can only be a signboard and a bastard.

But even if he was a bastard, even if he was already seventy or eighty, when he heard that the emperor was going to go east again, he couldn't help but finally tell the emperor a few words of truth.

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