The wind in the north is bitterly cold. The wind blew across the river, which was still thick with ice, through the dry branches of the trees with ice sticks, and finally to the edge of the city walls.

The soldiers guarding the city wall shuddered, wrapped in sackcloth and cold leather armor, and seemed to be even colder.

This damn winter! The soldier couldn't help but complain angrily.

This is Zhuo County. The northernmost point of the Grand Canal. The former Sui Yang Guang's three expeditions to Goryeo were all based in Youzhou. Moreover, the people of Youzhou are fierce, and it is an excellent source of soldiers.

The former Sui has passed, and now the Tang Dynasty dominates the world. However, the person sitting in Youzhou has not changed, and it has always been the person named Luo Yi. Now, Luo Yi, who has been named the king of Yanjun, is leaving here and taking office in Jingzhou.

Youzhou is located in the north, far from Chang'an. Nowadays, the transportation is not developed and the means of communication are backward, and often a major event occurs in Beijing, and it has been more than half a month since it reached Youzhou. For example, the Xuanwumen Incident, when Luo Yi knew that the Xuanwumen was bleeding, it was already the end of May. Of course, the news blockade of some of them is also one of the reasons.

Although Luo Yi once had the idea of raising troops to take revenge, but he was on his way to Jingzhou at the moment, and he had no troops around him except for a few hundred personal soldiers.

Therefore, he pressed this impulse and presented Li Shimin on the table, and did not express any opinion on the Xuanwumen incident, but only expressed his loyalty to the Tang Dynasty.

In fact, he realized a long time ago that the atrium might change. And since Prince Yin Jiancheng transferred five hundred elite horsemen to his place, Zhuo County, which originally had a small flow of people, has actually come to many new faces. Although they spoke Henan dialect and said that it was a caravan in Henan, Luo Yi didn't believe it at all. Looking at the way they walked, except for a few people who looked natural, the rest were all looking left and right, staring cautiously in every direction. As a result, Luo Yi made people keep an eye on this group of people.

These people soon opened a warehouse in Youzhou City, saying that this place was the center of commodity transshipment. The goods transported from the south were sold to the Turks, and the Turkic goods were sold to the south of the Yangtze River, changing hands several times, and the profits were not calculated.

Although everything seemed normal, when a person in charge of surveillance reported a detail to Luo Yi, Luo Yi was almost certain that these people were scouts under Li Shimin.

At the beginning, Luo Yi had contact with Li Shimin, and he had also humiliated Li Shimin's left and right, so he always regarded Li Shimin as a potential enemy in his heart, and his research has never stopped. Compared with other armies, the scouts of the Qin Wangfu are influenced by a hairy guy named Zhang Yunwen, who likes to use a dagger with a strange shape, although this dagger has many uses, but it is not suitable for frontal battlefield use, and can only be used as a good auxiliary tool.

Finally, one day, Luo Yi dispatched troops to raid this place, arrested all the people inside, and charged them with "colluding with the Turks and plotting against them". Then after some interrogation, Luo Yi successfully pried open the mouth of the leader of the group.

This person's name is Du Sheng. According to his confession, they were originally scouts of the Qin Palace, but they were later assigned to a department called the Investigation Institute, and the head of that department was also Zhang Yunwen. This organization has extremely powerful intelligence collection and sorting capabilities, especially those scouts who have been trained by Zhang Yunwen, and they are no different from ordinary people when they walk.

When Du Sheng told the organization system of the investigation institute, Luo Yi even regretted catching these people. The more you know, the more dangerous it becomes.

As a result, he secretly detained Du Sheng and more than 30 other members of the investigation institute and announced that he had been executed.

Just when Luo Yi was a little panicked, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan came with an order, saying that the Turkic invasion of the south was serious and threatened Gyeonggi, and he was named the general of Tianjie and guarded Jingzhou.

Luo Yi had no choice but to take his relatives and family members to Jingzhou to take office. At that time, not long after the Xuanwumen incident, the news had not yet reached Youzhou.

However, shortly after arriving in Jingzhou, a woman claiming to be the Li family of Jiyin came to the door.

"Jiyin Li Clan?" Luo Yi's wife, Luo Mengshi, repeated the name, and suddenly remembered that this Li family was a strange person, who said that he could understand ghosts and gods and distinguish between the poor and the noble, so he hurriedly said to the porter: "Go, go and invite that Li family in!" ”

A moment later, Lee entered.

This Li is only thirty or forty years old, wearing silk and satin, and wearing a golden hairpin and hosta, so gorgeous. When he saw Luo Meng's, he first saluted, and then stared at Luo Meng's without hesitation.

Seeing that Luo Mengshi was a little embarrassed, he asked, "Why is Mrs. Li staring at the slave family?" ”

The Li family smiled slightly, and praised it: "The princess's face is really expensive, maybe she will be the mother of the world in the future!" ”

When Luo Mengshi heard this, he was suddenly overjoyed. Mother's honor in the world, isn't it just to be a queen?

When the Li family saw Luo Meng's expression, he immediately smiled and said: "I'm afraid it's not enough to just look at the princess, if you can look at the face of the princess again, then you can clearly calculate when the princess will be able to marry the world!" ”

Luo Mengshi didn't know what to do, so he really invited Luo Yi to let the Li family see.

Li glanced at Luo Yi twice, and then said to Luo Mengshi: "I said how did the princess's wealth come about, it turns out that it is all from the prince!" And the princess can prosper the prince and help his fortune! ”

Luo Mengshi was silent when he heard this. Seeing this, Luo Yi glanced at Li Shi and went straight out.

After Luo Mengshi paid the Li family a lot of money and sent her out, he came to Luo Yi's study and said to Luo Yi: "Master, did you hear the words of the Li family?" ”

Luo Yi said disdainfully: "What is the woman's words to believe!" ”

Luo Mengshi said: "Master, you don't want to think about it, we have trained soldiers in Youzhou for so many years, and now they are all given to Li Shimin, and now, I am afraid that it is also Li Shimin's idea to edict you to come to Jingzhou." He clearly wants to separate the master from the soldiers, so that it will be easier for him to do it! Maybe at this moment, he is sending someone to pick up the master to Chang'an. At that time, whether it was life or death was all up to him, Li Shimin! ”

Luo Yi was speechless for a moment, but he admitted it in his heart.

Luo Mengshi, who has been a husband and wife for decades, couldn't understand Luo Yi's thoughts at the moment, and suddenly took the opportunity to say: "Since this is the case, it is better for us to strike first, so we will pull out the banner in Jingzhou and say that we are edicted to rebel!" This place is not far from Chang'an, if it is a large army, won't it capture Chang'an! ”

Luo Yi pondered for a moment, and said dejectedly: "But in this Jingzhou City, the soldiers I can command are only my own soldiers!" ”

"That's not simple, in a few days, the lord will invite the officials in the city to a banquet, and when the time comes, force them to hand over their military power!" Luo Mengshi had fully entered the role of a military advisor at this moment, and a trace of viciousness flashed in his eyes, "If you don't surrender, kill it!" ”

Luo Yi nodded suddenly.

In February of the first year of Zhenguan of the Tang Dynasty, Luo Yi feasted guests in Jingzhou City, during which he suddenly launched a campaign to control the military and political power of Jingzhou in one fell swoop, and raised troops in the name of rebellion.