Chapter 11: The Road Ahead

Li Chengzong calculated and calculated, and found that there was only one way to go, that is, to mix and enter this chaos, and try to save some people, otherwise as soon as the Tang Dynasty was established, his identity would be placed there, and he would die as a prince, if he lived to the ninth year of Wude, he would not be able to be clicked by Li Eryi's knife, how cost-effective it is, if you want not to be bullied, you must have your own basic plate, Li Chengzong put his goal on the land of Yan Zhao, in his opinion, in such a troubled world, he can only kill by killing, the land of Hebei is fertile for thousands of miles, It is a rich land of the Great Sui and is densely populated, if you can save a few of them, and then put them under your own rule, as long as you work hard, why worry about not succeeding in big things?

In such an ancient time and space, the size of the population means whether the combat power is strong or not. When His Majesty Yang Er first ascended the throne, a national census was conducted, and there were 8.9 million households and more than 46 million people in Dasui at that time, but His Majesty Yang Er's hard tossing, after a big chaos, and so on in the Wude period, there were only 2 million households left, more than 10 million people, and more than 30 million lives in the Tang Dynasty were lost in this chaos.

Maybe in their hearts, the dead are a few civilians, not worthy of a big man like them, what they want is the emperor's hegemony, glory and wealth, but, but, these big people have never thought that if the civilians who worked for them as cattle and horses died, their pursuit was not the moon in the mirror?

It is precisely because Li Chengzong is a traverser that he can realize the importance of population better than these big shots, so after he met Su Lie, he tried his best to persuade Su Lie to protect himself from the territory, recruit more displaced people, instead of coercing the displaced people, and at the same time they also established a relatively elite armed force, and under the banner of protecting the territory and the people, there was no head-on conflict with the orthodox Great Sui in the world, in order to provide enough strategic space for themselves, and also for more and more people under their rule to have food to eat and live. Lee Seung-jong and Su Lie are doing their best, working hard to develop, trying to solve the problem on their own.

But if you don't take the initiative to provoke others, it doesn't mean that others won't provoke you, just when Li Chengzong and Su Lie were working hard, Zhang Jincheng, who had just broken through Ping'en, looked at Wuyi with greedy eyes, he first sent people to intimidate and try to co-opt, but was sternly rejected by Li Chengzong and Su Lie, after learning of the rejection, the narrow-minded Zhang Jincheng was furious, he thought that Li Chengzong and Su Lie didn't give him face, well, he had to give Ya a little color to see.

At the end of the eleventh year of the Great Cause, Zhang Jin said that he sent troops to attack Wuyi, they were strongly resisted in Sujiawu, Zhang Jin said that the department suffered a big loss in front of the fortress designed by Li Chengzong, Zhang Jin said that he personally supervised the battle, but to no avail, what made him extremely angry was that there were a lot of women soldiers on the opposite side of the fortress, such a group of old, weak, sick and disabled, stubbornly blocked them, Zhang Jin said that he had no choice but to return to Pingen.

When Zhang Jin said that he returned to Ping'en, Yang Yichen, the servant of the Great Sui, was ordered by His Majesty Yang Er to lead the officers and soldiers to attack Zhang Jin. Zhang Jin said that the camp was set up in the northeast of Ping'en, and Yang Yichen led his troops to the west of the Qing Dynasty, according to the Yongji Canal as the camp, forty miles away from Zhang's camp. Lao Yang adopted the tactic of strangling the troops without fighting, and Zhang Jin said that he thought that the officers and soldiers were timid, so they did not take precautions. At this time, Lao Yang selected more than 2,000 elite cavalry, and attacked the Taoji River in the Daoguan overnight, Zhang Jin said that he left the camp to meet the battle, and Lao Yang attacked it from behind, and the two armies launched a fierce battle.

At this time, Yang Yichen took advantage of Zhang Jincheng's departure from the camp to attack Zhang Jincheng's baggage, and Zhang Jincheng was surprised when he heard it, so he led his troops to fight back. After Su Lie and Li Chengzong got this letter, they sent troops overnight to defeat and captured Zhang Jincheng alive, Zhang Jin said that he was escorted to Qinghe, "Standing in the city, hanging his head, opening his hands and feet, and making the enemy cut it." This is how a generation of heroes came to an end, and some of his subordinates were attached to Dou Jiande, the king of Leshou, and some were captured and recruited by Su Lie and Li Chengzong.

Comrade Lao Yang wanted to recruit Su Lie and Li Chengzong to his command, but both of them said that they had no intention of becoming a leader, and what they did was out of the plan to protect the territory and the people, Lao Yang could only express regret, but Lao Yang was dissatisfied with His Majesty Yang Er because of the limelight, and soon Lao Yang was dismissed, and when the news was transmitted back to Wuyi, Su Lie called his brother a demon, which was predicted.

"Brother, tell my brother what we should do next? Wuyi is too small, there are many people in these neighboring towns, this food is obviously not enough to eat..... "Su Lie is almost sad about food, this is also a matter of no choice, Sujiawu is famous, although the rebels dare not approach the state and county borders, the villagers rely on them for protection, but the problem is that there has been a drought recently, and food has become a big problem.

"Big brother, I have asked people to investigate, in the east of us, the original Fuyang County (Cangzhou in later generations) has become a ruin, now there are almost not many people there, it is a power vacuum, we can develop here, so I want to move us there, that is because we have more and more people, people eat horses and chew, there is not enough food to eat, this is relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and the water to eat, but the problem is that we have a flat river here, just a few small rivers, what do we eat?? We can't go to the west, not to mention giants like Dou Jiande and Gao Shida, the situation over there is also very chaotic, only by going to Fuyang, let's go to eat the sea, we can survive, as long as we build a capable water force there, we can not only feed ourselves, but also attack and retreat, no one can help us......" Li Chengzong said confidently.

"But, brother, who will design ships......

"Hahahaha, you forgot about me, I like the sea the most, designing a few boats, it's a piece of cake......."

"Damn, brother, is there anything you wouldn't?"

"Yes!"

"What is it?"

"I won't have a baby......"

"Hey, brother, your joke is so cold......."

In May of the twelfth year of the Great Cause (616), Su Lie and Li Chengzong persuaded the people who depended on them to start moving to Fuyang County, they built several docks by the sea, Li Chengzong recruited a lot of shipwrights and carpenters, with their assistance, a ship type that has never appeared in the history of East Asia, that is, the Bai Ze-class sea ship named after the legendary Rui Beast Bai Ze by Li Chengzong, but if later generations see it, they will complain, what Bai Ze-class, that is the Galen ship is good, and it is also a famous queen ship, But Li Chengzong, Mr. Li said, I said that it is Bai Ze level, then it is Bai Ze level, okay, Li Chengzong, Mr. Li, you won.