Chapter 263: King Linyi has arrived

The feast lasted nearly an hour. In the meantime, a jar of fine wine was sent to the wine table, from wine to rice wine made in the palace, and then to the "fairy drunk" brewed by natural residence, all entered the stomachs of several people.

It was the first time for Su Dingfang to drink this immortal drunk, and he picked up the wine-scented wine cup, couldn't help swallowing his saliva, and then raised his head and took a big sip. A violent spicy energy burst between his throats, causing Su Dingfang to drop his head and cough. When he raised his head, he found the teasing eyes of everyone.

When the banquet was over, Su Dingfang was still holding the unfinished wine in the jar, and said to everyone with a smile: "This belongs to me, don't rob any of you!" ”

When Yu Chi Baolin heard this, he said disdainfully: "Every time we come to Brother Zhang, we will go back with two jars of unopened wine, who cares about this!" ”

"Ahh Su Dingfang looked at the half jar of wine in his hand and was dumbfounded.

When Zhang Yunwen sent them out one by one, he really sent two jars of wine to each family. Yu Chi Baoqing suddenly said with a smile: "It's better to be here with Brother Zhang!" It seems that our brothers are going to come often, communicate their feelings! Yu Chi Baolin kept nodding his head in agreement.

Looking at the two brothers, who were only fifteen or sixteen years old, tall but tall adults, Zhang Yunwen gave a look of contempt.

Time slipped away like flowing water. Before you know it, October has passed like this.

At this time, the autumn harvest was almost complete. This year's climate can almost be called smooth wind and rain, so Li Shimin has great expectations for a bumper harvest this year.

I think that at the beginning, from the first year of Zhenguan to the third year of Zhenguan, this god seemed to be tossing people, and it never went well. In the first year of Zhenguan, there was a spring drought in Guanzhong; In the second year, the world was plagued by locusts; Three years, big water. It was not until this year, that is, the fourth year of Zhenguan, that the climate was considered to be better, and there were no natural disasters.

When the grain harvest reports from various places came up, Li Shimin breathed a sigh of relief. At the beginning, the continuous disasters caused a large number of displaced people, and countless farmers sold their land in exchange for food because there was no harvest in the land. When the food in exchange was eaten, they had to leave their homes and become homeless. It has brought a bit of instability to the entire Datang.

Nowadays, the world has a bumper harvest, and most of the displaced people have returned to their hometowns, although they have no land, they can be tenants, tenants of those families' fields to plant, and support their families to support the past. The displaced people gradually disappeared, and Datang gradually settled down.

However, another problem arose, and that was the annexation of land by the clans. Taking advantage of unfavourable years to annex land, this is a common way for them to acquire land. The Datang tax mainly comes from the vast number of yeoman farmers, and the family collects less. The actions of the big families are clearly competing with the country for tax sources. However, Li Shimin sighed in vain about this situation, and wanted to change it, but he was powerless to change it. Looking at the entire court officials, from the central prime minister to the local officials, almost all of them are scholars, and their relationships are overlapping and intertwined, almost constituting several large interest groups. Even if there are one or two officials who have been promoted from a poor family, what role can they play in such an environment?

Therefore, Li Shimin has been praying in his heart that the wind and rain will be smooth, and only when the wind and rain are smooth can there be no displaced people and slow down the family's annexation of land.

Unlike what Li Shimin was worried about, Zhang Yunwen was worried about Zhao Yi and a hundred scouts.

Since Zhao Yi led the scouts to set off in June, it had been almost four months by October, and even if you count the time for rushing and acting, these four months were more than enough. However, so far, there has been no news.

Zhang Yunwen's heart began to feel uneasy.

Standing at the gate of the investigation institute, Zhang Yunwen remembered that he hadn't been here for a long time, and focused on the reconnaissance battalion and the military academy. The operations here are almost entirely in the hands of a few leaders.

Entering the investigation institute, Zhang Yunwen first inspected the various government offices, but saw that the entire investigation institute was working in an orderly manner, and all the government departments performed their duties and worked together. The vast amount of information is well organized.

Subsequently, Zhang Yunwen came directly to Lin Ran's office. Lin Ran was in charge of civil intelligence, and the shops and caravans in his hands were all over Datang and the four realms. In contrast, Chen Quankang's military intelligence system was much narrower, and Zhang Yunwen only allowed them to concentrate their efforts on Tubo, Tuyuhun, Western Turks, and Goryeo, infiltrating these places, and ignoring small countries such as Linyi. So if Zhang Yunwen wanted to know the information over there, he had to go to Lin Ran.

As soon as he told Lin Ran about the matter, Lin Ran immediately called in a clerk and said, "The information you have sent to Lin Yi Country in the past two months has been sent!" ”

The clerk bowed and exited the room.

A moment later, the little official brought more than twenty thin sheets of paper. Zhang Yunwen took a look, it not only recorded the basic information of Linyi's topography, cities and villages, resource distribution, etc., but also recorded the basic situation of Linyi from the king to the officials, which can be described as extremely detailed.

However, these situations were useless to Zhang Yunwen, he directly opened them one by one. Finally, he found a clue.

I saw a piece of information that read: "Since August 19, the king of Linyi, Fan Touli, has not opened a dynasty. Its northern border army was frequently dispatched, and it was suspected that something major had happened. ”

As soon as he saw this information, Zhang Yunwen knew that Zhao Yi and the others had succeeded. hurriedly flipped through a few sheets, but never saw a similar report again, so he had to put down the information in his hand stupidly.

However, judging from the newspaper, the king Fan Touli has been captured on August 17, and it is time to come back now!

Indeed, at this moment, Zhao Yi and other hundred people are taking Fan Touli to the direction of Guanzhong, and they can reach Chang'an in ten days at most.

At the beginning, they rode south, passed through Shuzhong along the way, passed by the Nanyi tribes, and fought two battles with several blind tribes before they arrived in Jiaozhou. By this time it was already August 12. The journey took them two months.

After arriving in Jiaozhou, Zhao Yi directly found the Jiaozhou Governor's Mansion, found the Jiaozhou Sima, and took out Li Shimin's edict, so that the Sima, who had never seen the edict of the Son of Heaven before, cooperated with him.

Then Zhao Yi thought about entering the country of Linyi like this, he was unfamiliar with the place, and the accent was not right, maybe he would be recognized by the people of Linyi at a glance, since this was the case, why not simply disguise it as a caravan.

So, a caravan of fifty people set off with goods bought from Jiaozhou. As for the other fifty people, they are lurking in the shadows, waiting for an opportunity to act.

After entering Linyi in the open, in the name of a caravan, he moved around, and felt the terrain and trails along the way clearly, where to hide soldiers, where it was easy to run, and where to hide, all of which were firmly in mind, and maybe it could be used in a few days.

In this way, I came all the way to the capital of Linyi Kingdom. When they saw this so-called capital, everyone couldn't help laughing disdainfully, this so-called capital city is inferior to many county towns in Datang, let alone any state cities and county towns.

After arriving in the capital, he spent another five days reconnoitering the terrain, finding the location of several major barracks, outlining the attack route and escape route, and formulating three sets of plans. When everything is ready, all you need is the east wind.

Finally, let them wait until an east wind. On the 18th day of August, Fan Touli, the king of Linyi, was going out of the city to hunt. The scouts who saw the emperor's guard of honor inside informed Zhao Yi immediately. Zhao Yi slapped the table and decided to act immediately.

Although the scale of the king of Linyi Kingdom out of the city to hunt is not as large as Li Shimin's, it is also a sealed mountain, and more than 300 palace guards guard the place within a radius of more than ten miles. Although it was a bit stretched, there were never any accidents.

As the king, accompanied by five guards, chased the monkeys into the depths of the forest, the scouts who had quietly followed him had no great effort to capture Fan Touli.

When the scouts asked Zhao Yi for instructions on how to deal with the five guards, Zhao Yi wanted to kill them on the spot, but suddenly remembered what Zhang Yunwen said about being rigid and easy to fold and soft for a long time, so he ordered to knock out these five people and quickly left with Fan Touli. His actions were extremely correct, and among the five guards, there was the brother of Fan Touli's concubine, that is, Fan Touli's brother-in-law. If you kill these people, the consequences will be serious.

Next, the reconnaissance battalion fell into the pursuit of the whole country of Linyi. The Northern Frontier Army, garrisons from all over the country joined the search and arrest. The scouts were able to escape, but it was not easy to escape with a king of Linyi. Zhao Yi had no choice but to adopt Zhang Yunwen's suggestion, find soldiers to disguise themselves as kings, divide troops into two ways, and lead away the pursuers.

In this way, after a virtual and real pursuit and counter-pursuit, Zhao Yi finally brought the king to Aizhou, and Aizhou has gathered more than 10,000 Tang soldiers to meet the scouts.

After Aizhou, Zhao Yi put his mind at ease and went all the way north to Jiaozhou, and he didn't need to be so worried. After waiting in Jiaozhou for a few days, the reconnaissance team responsible for confusing the enemy's sight also returned to Jiaozhou, and Zhao Yi ordered the sergeants to set off.

When he came back, there was one more king of Linyi Kingdom, and everyone didn't dare to sleep in the open like when they came, so they had to take good care of this King Fan Touli. And after this king learned that Zhao Yi was the Tang army, he let go, and said something to the scouts from time to time, without the consciousness of being a prisoner at all. Especially after entering Shuzhong, he asked questions and asked questions, and he didn't know the convergence at all. When he saw the majestic state capitals of Zhongzhou and Shangzhou in the Tang Dynasty, with an endless flow of people, the king suddenly exclaimed: "This must be the capital of your Tang Dynasty!" ”

As soon as these words came out, all the scouts burst into laughter, which made Fan Touli confused!

At this time, Zhao Yi explained: "Where is our national capital, this is just a small state capital. Our Chang'an City is ten or twenty times bigger than this state capital! ”

When Fan Touli heard this, a trace of disbelief and envy suddenly flashed in his eyes.

Zhao Yi didn't argue, and directly took the king all the way to Chang'an.

After a ten-day journey, the scout finally arrived outside Chang'an with the king.

On the official road that was still one mile away from Chang'an City, Fan Touli looked at the magnificent Chang'an City in front of him dumbfounded, pointed in the direction of Chang'an with incredulity, and asked Zhao Yi: "This, this is the Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty?" ”