Chapter 125: The Smoke Rises in the West
"Yang Guang didn't even return to the capital, and directly transferred to the Grand Canal to the south of the Yangtze River to tour the south?" Li Wenyuan had just returned to Wuwei County when he received news from the night owl.
"Yang Guangnan's tour, this is the real chaotic times at the end of the Sui Dynasty." After repeatedly confirming the information in his hand, Li Wenyuan said to Qiu Niang in front of him.
"Is there anything unusual about those forces around you?" Li Wenyuan flipped through the mountains of information in front of him, and asked Qiu Niang, Li Wenyuan was not in the Western Regions during this time, and a large amount of information accumulated was waiting for him to see, although the intelligence has a shelf life, but it is still possible to analyze the trend as a clue.
"The Eastern Turks in the north are now facing internal and external pressure because of the crushing defeat in Yanmen County, and will not be a threat for the time being. The Tuyuhun people in our territory have now stabilized because of the relatively relaxed ethnic policy, and we are very stable internally, and we are able to attack the outside world. The Western Turks in the west have been moving a little bit lately, and their cavalry has tried to cross the border into our hinterland, but they have been repelled by Zhang Juntai's troops. Xue Ju in the east has been a little louder recently, and a few days ago he began to build weapons on a large scale, openly recruiting strong men, and claiming to the outside world that he wanted to exterminate the bandits led by Zong Luohu in the territory, but our intelligence showed that there was a vague connection between Zong Luohu and Xue Ju. Qiu Niang said familiarly.
"Xue Ju should have an incident in the near future, the defense line on the eastern border should be properly strengthened, the Turks in the north can use the defense line of the Great Wall without investing too many troops, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the south has always been isolated from the world at this time, just block a few mountain passes, let's attack the Western Turks as soon as possible, and then turn back to pacify the Central Plains." Li Wenyuan knocked on a piece of information in his hand and said.
"By the way, has Li Liang had any recent movements?" Li Wenyuan suddenly remembered that Yiwu County was still occupied by Li Rail.
"Li Liang has stopped a lot recently, he didn't react when the chief manager took the army to the expedition, and the army used to defend against Cheng Yanjin is getting fewer and fewer, and he has been weakened to the extreme recently, if it weren't for the order of the general manager, Cheng Yanjin's Fifth Army would have already destroyed the remnants of Li Liang." Qiu Niang said with a smile.
"It wasn't time before, and now Li Liang has no use value, and it's time to take back Yiwu County." Li Wenyuan summoned a herald and asked him to inform Cheng Yanjin to take back Yiwu County as soon as possible, and escort the traitor Li Liang and others back to Dunhuang County to wait for execution.
As soon as the herald left, someone outside reported that the imperial historian had come to announce the decree. After listening to this, Li Wenyuan hurriedly put down the documents in his hand, changed into a dress under Qiu Niang's service, and hurriedly went out to receive the order. This time, the imperial historian came from Liyang all the way because of Yang Guang's whim, Li Wenyuan led more than 10,000 people to go deep into Yanmen County, where the Turks had fallen, to rescue him, which was indeed very moved by Yang Guang, but it also made Yang Guang have some jealous thoughts about the army in Li Wenyuan's hands.
But now he has no intention or ability to continue to balance these personally, so he thought of another way, Li Yuan is the Duke of Tang of the Northern Zhou Dynasty who has been enthroned since he was seven years old. This made Yang Guang very uncomfortable all the time, so this time he also crowned Li Wenyuan as the Duke of Tang Guo, although the Duke of Tang of the Great Sui and the Duke of Tang of the Northern Zhou Dynasty did not have a legal conflict, but it was enough to disgust Li Yuan, so that there was an unbridgeable gap between Li Yuan and Li Wenyuan. Although Li Wenyuan is not as deep as Li Yuan's city, his ambitions are only bigger than Li Yuan, not smaller than Li Yuan. These two people elbow each other, and at this time it is also a way to stall for time. So in the surprised eyes of the maids, Yang Guang, who was heading south, smiled for the first time and issued this holy decree.
After Li Wenyuan knelt down to accept the order, he asked the Dunhuang County Guard to accompany the officials of Yushitai to eat and drink a good meal, and then returned to the governor's mansion first under the pretext of being busy with official business.
"What does this Yang Guang mean? Li Yuan himself is Tang Guogong, and he took this Tang Guogong to reward me at this time, commending me for my contribution to saving the driver in Yanmen? Li Wenyuan handed the holy decree to Qiu Niang and said with a frown.
"This time, the governor's army is a little sharp, I'm afraid it caused the emperor to feel uneasy, so he found an opponent for the governor." Qiu Niang looked at it from beginning to end and said.
"The emperor's heart is unpredictable." Li Wenyuan said with a long sigh.
"However, this gives the chief a good legal claim." Qiu Niang said with relief to Li Wenyuan.
"Jurisprudence claims?" Li Wenyuan was confused.
"You haven't been here for a long time, and you may not feel anything, but I have lived in Dasui for almost ten years, and now Dasui is in the stage of transition from power from gate valve to Hanshi, and most people at this time still value their background. If it weren't for Cheng Biting Jin's eagerness to save his mother, it would be impossible to bring Qin Qiong to you, even Xue Renyue was just Xue Ju's helpless move to leave a bloodline for his family. This is also the reason why the manager can't win over celebrities here. Qiu Niang gave Li Wenyuan a detailed introduction to the current social outlook of people.
"No matter so much, if you are willing to come, we are welcome, and if you are not willing to come, we will not force it. Anyway, our power structure dictates that we don't need to deal with the so-called gate valves, we just let the people live and work in peace and contentment. Li Wenyuan nodded and said.
Before Qiu Niang could take over the conversation, the person in charge of a night owl directly broke into outside, handed a piece of information to Qiu Niang, and then turned around and went out. As the busiest department in the entire Western Regions, Qiu Niang has improved her work efficiency as much as possible, canceling all kinds of etiquette and other things, all for the sake of efficiency.
Qiu Niang opened the paper bag that encapsulated the information, and after opening it, she looked at it intently, and her face changed slightly, and she handed over the information in her hand to Li Wenyuan and said: "The Western Turks have begun to assemble on a large scale on the border, and at the same time, they have also issued conscription orders for the ruling vassal countries, and it seems that they are preparing to start war against us. ”
Li Wenyuan also frowned when he heard this, and took the information in Qiu Niang's hand and looked at it carefully, in order to prevent leakage, the information on it was written in simplified Chinese, and it probably briefly described the army movements of the Western Turks.
"How long does it usually take for the Turks to start gathering and attacking?" Li Wenyuan asked Qiu Niang.
"Generally speaking, it takes about a month for all the troops to be assembled before they start marching." Qiu Niang is like a treasure.
"That means we have at least a month to prepare?"
Seeing Qiu Niang nodded, Li Wenyuan was also relieved in his heart, after all, war is not something that can be fought, and now there is a month of pre-war warm-up time, which is enough.
(End of chapter)