Hebei, Le Shou.

Kaneshiro Palace.

Dou Jiande, the emperor of the Xia Dynasty, sighed for a long time in the hall, and the air in the hall was solidified.

"Hasn't the princess come yet?"

Dou Jiande asked.

The waiter in a corner of the hall hurriedly whispered, "The princess has not arrived yet." ”

"Then urge again, a girl's family, but stay in the barracks all day, like something."

The gentle footsteps of the chamberlain went away, and Dou Jiande sat in front of the imperial case, supporting his head with one hand, but his face was sad.

In just one year, the situation has been completely different.

At the time of the New Year last year, he Dou Jiande had swept most of Hebei, and he was like a tiger, and even some attached literati wrote poems to praise him as Liu Jinu of the Southern Song Dynasty, who was also born at the bottom and joined the army, and then rose to power in the troubled times, saying that he would be able to unify the world in the future.

It's just that these hymns haven't been heard for long, he encountered the dilemma of Henan, and Li Mi fought for a long time, with many casualties, but let Luo Cheng take advantage of the situation, killed Dugu and usurped Fanyang in Beiping, and then swept Boling, Hengshan, Shanggu, and so he hurriedly retreated, although the situation was stabilized, but after more than a year, Dou Jiande had no more land to expand.

He fell into the swamp of thieves in Wei County and Xiangguo County.

For more than a year, the two counties have not been pacified, not only have they not been pacified, but the two thieves have frequently penetrated into the territory of his Xia Kingdom, burning, killing and looting, but they are more and more suppressed.

All kinds of signs show that he actually suppressed not only Song Jingang and Zhen Zhai'er, but also many soldiers and horses who went deep into the Xia Realm to plunder, which were originally disguised by the Qin army's light cavalry.

Coupled with Luo Cheng's entrapment in his north and south, there was a threat from the sea division and his marines from the east from time to time, which made Dou Jiande feel powerless.

Although he owned most of Hebei, he was completely surrounded by Luo Cheng and completely blocked.

Many literati and officials who used to praise him even secretly ran away to the territory of the Qin army.

On the one hand, he had to suppress bandits and deal with the threat of the Qin army surrounded on all sides, and Dou Jiande had to keep soldiers and horses stationed on the four sides all year round, which led to a great increase in military spending, a sharp increase in the consumption of military grain and grass, and at the same time, the shortage of labor in the territory and the cultivation of fields were greatly affected.

Nowadays, in the Xia country, prices are rising seriously, food is in short supply, and labor is insufficient.

A vicious circle that is getting worse and worse.

The flight of many scholars and officials made the local governance of the Xia Kingdom chaotic, and this spring's drought spread throughout Hebei. So far this summer, there have been very bad results.

This summer harvest was poor.

The harvest is less than one of the three.

Dou Jiande, who was already short of food, was facing an imminent famine.

Even if Luo Cheng doesn't lead the army to attack, as long as the current situation continues, Dou Jiande himself will collapse.

However, if he disbanded most of his 200,000 soldiers and horses and returned them to cultivate the fields, the military pressure would be greatly increased, and it would be difficult to defend against the possible attack of the Qin army on all sides.

Guard, the food is insufficient, and it can't be sustained.

If you don't defend it, the Qin army may kill you at any time.

In this case.

There were two missions that arrived in Le Shou one after another.

One is the envoy sent by Luo Cheng, this is no longer known how many times the envoy has been sent, Luo Cheng still hopes that Dou Jiande will be attached, and the old words will be repeated, saying that after the attachment, for the sake of the old feelings in the past, he can be given the title of Marquis of Changle, and he will be awarded the official use of the military strength under his command, and it will not hurt the people of Hebei for half a point.

What is different is that this time Luo Cheng's envoy also put forward a request, which is to let Dou Jiande dispel his doubts, and the emperor proposed that Dou Jiande's daughter be Zhaorong, which is the second of the nine concubines, second only to the queen's fourth concubine and Zhaoyi in the harem.

This proposal is not excessive, and even in the eyes of the Qin envoys, this is the emperor's benevolence and a guarantee to Dou Jiande and Xia Jun.

In terms of age, the emperor is only thirty years old, which is very compatible with the age of the red line.

It can be said that the monarchs and ministers of the Qin State spent a lot of brains in order to be able to solve the Hebei problem.

Dou Jiande was a little excited, but also a little unwilling.

Nearly ten years of fighting, only to get to this point, since he has ascended the throne and called the emperor, then this road is difficult to turn back, and now he will give up Hebei and take off the crown to return to Qin, he is unwilling.

After seeing Tang Jian, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty, Dou Jiande's mind of returning to Qin was even more shaken.

Tang Jian is Li Yuan's Yuanmou hero, this person is neither good at commanding troops to fight, nor good at government affairs, but he is the most outstanding lobbyist, with a three-inch tongue, Li Yuan does not know how many local generals and officials have been persuaded and persuaded to surrender.

Even the last time he sent an envoy to the Turks, he successfully reached an alliance with Jieli Khan.

Now Tang Jian came to Hebei with great difficulty, but he took a great risk, Guanzhong and Hebei were blocked by the Qin army, Tang Jian and his party pretended to be a caravan to come over secretly, and spent a lot of gold and silver on the way, and even was once recognized by the Qin army, and lost a lot of manpower, but Tang Jian finally succeeded in reaching Leshou City.

Tang Jian painted an excellent prospect of an alliance to Dou Jiande.

Tang, Xia, and Turkic army alliance, 500,000 troops to attack Qin, after the destruction of Qin, Xia Dehebei, Guanwai, Tang De Hedong Henan, Turkic De Monan Hetao Daibei.

A win-win situation for all three.

Tang Jian also brought Tang Emperor Li Yuan's request for marriage, hoping to marry Princess Xia for the King of Qi to marry Tang Xia's good fortune.

"The three coalition forces broke Taiyuan first, then my Tang lord was in Chang'an, Guanzhong, and the Xia lord was in Fanyang, Hebei, and then the three coalition forces sent troops south from Taiyuan, and then the three coalition forces were one, swooping down, straight to Luoyang, and Luo Cheng was defeated."

Tang Jian said that the three coalition forces first broke Dingxiang, then entered the Northern Mayi, and then broke Taiyuan, and then the coalition helped Dou Jiande capture Fanyang for him, and then the coalition army went to Luoyang.

Three 500,000 coalition troops, the prospects are very good.

This is not counting the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of Li Yuan's Guanhe defense line at Tongguan and Wuguan.

"As long as the three join forces, no matter how powerful Luo Cheng is, he will be defeated!" Tang Jian said.

Long.

The sound of footsteps interrupted Dou Jiande's thoughts.

He looked up and saw that his daughter's red line was coming.

The red-line princess entered the palace, but she was still wearing a military uniform, Mingguang armor with a gold-woven cloak, and a phoenix-winged helmet in her hand.

Seeing him like this, Dou Jiande frowned.

"Line girl, what kind of system have you been like this all day?"

"Father, Luo Cheng once said that women are not allowed to have eyebrows, his wife Shan and concubine Li have all gone into battle in armor and made a lot of military achievements."

Dou Jiande shook his head, and didn't argue with his daughter about this, "Line Niang, my father summoned you because I wanted to discuss something with you." ”

"It's the matter of the envoys of the Tang and Qin families asking for marriage, right?"

Dou Jiande nodded, "I didn't expect you to hear about it." ”

"The daughter does not marry anyone, and the father wants to ally with the Tang or join the Qin State, which is the father's power, but the daughter does not want to be a bargaining chip."

"You..."

Dou Jiande sighed again, "When the officers and soldiers of the Sui Dynasty raided their homes, you and I were outside, and we escaped by luck, but unfortunately your mother and brothers all died tragically, if your mother is still there, it will not delay you to this day, and you must have already chosen a good son to marry." ”

"Father, don't talk about this."

The red line stopped the father from talking about these past events, "I have an opinion on whether my father will belong to the Qin Dynasty or form an alliance with Li Tang, but my daughter does not want her father to accept the canonization of the Turks." ”

Tang Jian came, not only bringing Li Tang's request for an alliance, but also bringing the canonization of Dou Jiande from the Turkic Jieli Khan.

Jieli Khan canonized Li Yuan as Dingyang Khan, and now he has come to canonize Dou Jiande as Pingyang Khan.

One Dingyang and one Pingyang, in fact, all mean to pacify the Yang family of the Sui Dynasty, but the essence is only a small vassal of the Turks, and Jieli's requirements for Dou Jiande are the same as Li Yuan, the land and population of Hebei are given to Dou Jiande, but the money and silk women want to give him.

"Father, you can compete for the hegemony of the world, but you can't be the son of the Turks!" Red Line said to her father.

Dou Jiande sighed, he didn't know Jieli's thoughts, but Li Yuan could accept the title of Dingyang Khan, and he didn't know what he wanted.

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