Xu Shiji did not dare to delay the fighter, and immediately ordered Fan Yuan to go south and cooperate with Luo Shixin to conquer Licheng; After consulting with Song Jingang and Liu Heimin, Liu Heimin's general Zhang Junli led 3,000 elite soldiers in Shenzhou, and Liu Heimin recruited and trained troops in Weizhou to complete the establishment of the right military guard; Xu Shiji and Song Jingang led the left imperial guard and the right Xiaowei to return to Liyang for training. Li Shimin learned that Licheng was lost, and also decided to temporarily suspend the army, Hebei was already full of famine, and the food problem was still left to Chang'an.

This battle was thrilling, the losses of troops on both sides were as high as 100,000, and Li Shimin captured the three counties of Changshan, Julu and Boling; The Hexi Army advanced the front from Liyang to Shenzhou in Hebei and occupied the three counties of Wuyang, Hejian and Qinghe, but Luo Shixin, Wang Bo, Xu Yuanlang, Wang Yaohan and other men and horses under the command of Li Jing took the opportunity to occupy the eight counties of Qi County, Beihai, Jibei, Jiyin, Langya, Xiapi County, Gaozhou and Dongzhou in Shandong.

In the direction of the south of the Yangtze River, Li Yuan personally commanded the Tang army to attack Yuzhang County, Nanjun, Jiujiang, Linchuan, Luling, Nankang, Yichun and other counties.

Du Fuwei took Wang Xiongdan as his general and attacked Li Zitong. Li Zitong led the elite soldiers to guard Dusongling, and the Hexi army held on, Wang Xiongdan saw that Li Zitong was very strong, sent more people to make more flags, and set up false lights at night, trying his best to create the illusion of hundreds of thousands of troops. It may be that the last night attack left a shadow on Li Zitong, and under the grass and trees, Li Zitong actually burned the camp tent by himself and retreated the whole army overnight.

Wang Xiongdan and Chen Ling formed a coalition army and pursued to the city of Hangzhou, but without the cooperation of the Huiji clan, Li Zitong surrendered and was captured by Du Fuwei in Chang'an. The Hexi Army and Li Tang also had full contact in the south, separated only by Wang Hua of Xuanzhou, Lin Shihong of Nanchang, and Lu Zushang of Gwangju; Lin Shihong only had Nanchang, Qianzhou, Xunzhou, Chaozhou and other places, and he was worried that he would be completely wiped out by Li Tang, so he sent a letter to Hangzhou to ask for surrender.

The nursery rhyme of "Yang Blossom Falls, Plum Blossom Blossoms" sounded on the streets of Chang'an, which made people have countless reveries; Yang Hua fell and Li Hua bloomed, Yang Chong was also surnamed Yang, and Li Yuan was still surnamed Li. The common people love to see the fireworks set off at night in Chang'an City, colorful, beautiful, I heard the government say that today is to celebrate the recovery of the south of the Yangtze River by the Great Sui, and when the New Year is celebrated in a few days, it will be released again.

The old grandson saw the swordsman and the high roller again, and the two were driving a donkey cart, and they were in the dust; The old grandson opened the gate, let the donkey cart into the courtyard, after closing the door, the three of them carried the box on the cart into the secret room, and the old grandson asked after counting: "Why is there only three thousand taels, doesn't the palace master want five thousand taels?" ”

The high roller smiled bitterly and said: "Li Shimin relied on the Turks to stabilize his position, and the five thousand taels of gold originally prepared were deducted by Liu Zhenghui for two thousand taels, and these three thousand li were still agreed to be taken out only when Li Shimin knew about Chang'an's plan." In order to prevent the two of us from escaping halfway, Li Shimin also sent twenty masters to follow us until Chang'an; We were afraid that someone would follow us in the dark, so we went around for a long time to make sure that there was no tail before coming. ”

Old Sun Tou nodded and said, "Then you will go out and dispose of the donkey cart later, and then come in quietly after dark." ”

Lao Sun Tou runs a grocery store, and makes a donkey cart to put at home, which is not in line with the practice of small businessmen, and is too conspicuous; The high roller nodded, took the money bag given by the old grandson, drove the donkey cart, and left scolding. In the evening, the high roller and the knife man changed into the clothes of a local guy in Chang'an, carried a big bag into the rail lane, and took advantage of the fact that there was no one on the road to enter the old grandson's house. There is no need to worry about the food at home, the old grandson has a perennial reserve of enough food for himself to eat for three months, and the cellar is stocked with rice wine and salted meat.

The old grandson has to appear in the department store every day, and there are people in the secret room who are a little safer, and after the news is released, I don't know when the palace master will come to get the gold, and he needs to be prepared at all times. The next morning, Lao Sun Tou slipped to Yong'an Fang in the southwest corner of Chang'an City, bought some fabrics and other goods in the Xu Family Workshop, and left a mark on the wall by the way, telling the palace master that the gold had arrived. The mouth of the alley where the old grandson drew a mark to release the news is the house of Zhang Wen, a clerk of the Ministry of Works, Zhang Wen walked on time every night, saw the mark on this day, and drew another mark on the back wall of his house when he went back.

What Lao Sun Tou didn't expect was that Li Shimin sent to the masters didn't all go back, they were all regular customers of Chang'an, since they came, they looked for a chance to have fun, and one of them was recognized by Jiao Jun's eyeliner when he was lingering in the Qinglou. Jiao Jun immediately arranged for the arrest, arrested five in one go, interrogated for a day, and finally had an opening, and learned that three thousand gold had been brought in, Jiao Jun was startled and hurriedly reported.

It's a bit interesting, Yang Chong somehow remembered Wei Gui, and always felt that something was wrong, so he sent Jiao Jun and Wei Chixiao to investigate. Wei Chixiao waited for six days before he saw Wei Gui come out once, and the effect of the investigation was not good. On the contrary, it was Jiao Jun who made the rules of the guard to the bottom.

Wei Gui is already in his thirties, and according to the practice of the Great Sui, he should have come out to be an official a long time ago, but Wei Gui is not an unlearned and unskilled man, but he has always been by his grandfather Wei Xuan's side and refused to conquer twice. Jiao Jun continued to dig and found that Wei Gui had studied in Shandong; Meng Xuan carefully checked Xu Kang's search records of Wei Mansion and found that there were several books that were read by alchemists, and Wei Xuan's father and son did not do alchemy, so the people who read them should be Wei Gui.

Wei Gui must have another identity, Meng Chuan immediately carried out comprehensive surveillance of the Wei Mansion, and the housekeepers and servants of the Wei Mansion who were still in custody provided detailed information in the face of torture, one of the pieces of information made Meng Gui's eyes light up, the place where Wei Gui studied was Jiangdu, and there was a friend named Xu Hongke. In the information provided by Xu Shiren, there is a Fang Shi Xu Hongke from Qi County; This Xu Hongke once wrote to Li Mi, persuading Li Mi to capture Jiangdu and coerce the Son of Heaven to order the world, but when Li Mi sent someone to invite, Xu Hongke disappeared.

Zhang Liang and Zhang Liang were both in Chang'an, and recalled the process of the incident in detail, at that time, Xu Shiren and Zhang Liang were sent out to find Xu Hongke, but there were no clues at all; A person who offers advice and seeks to come out suddenly hides is nothing more than having a better place to go, or deliberately entertaining Li Mi. The possibility of the latter is not very large, Xu Hongke is still a little famous in Qi County, and Meng Rang also knows this person, and he has seen it twice; Then Xu Hongke chose a few companies that wanted to work, and someone expressed his stance before Li Mi and offered enough sincere bargaining chips.

Li Yuan, the people in the conference room have almost no second choice, when Xu Hongke was looking for Li Mi, it was when Li Yuan raised troops in Taiyuan, and only this incident would make Xu Hongke lose interest in Li Mi.

(End of chapter)