Sikong Xing asked, "Will the situation in the world change?" ”

Yang Chong said with certainty: "Regardless of Yang Xuangan's success or failure, in the next ten years, the situation of chaos in the Central Plains is doomed. If Yang Xuangan wins, will the Longyou Gate Valve and the Jiangnan Shi clan be willing? They will definitely give their full support to the comeback of the Holy Son of Heaven; Yang Xuangan is well versed in the art of war, and will definitely arrange a strange army in Jiangnan to contain the Jiangzuo Shi clan, even if Yang Xuangan fails, they will not be captured. The most important thing is that next year will be a natural disaster, an era when the people are not making a living, and the displaced people are everywhere. ”

If this is the case, Gaochang's opponents are only Li Jing, Liu Quan and other three county guards, but with the troops of the Western Turks and Tuyuhun, it would be good for them to protect themselves. In terms of strategic vision, there are really few people in the Great Sui who can be compared with Yang Chong, and Meng Tuo said understandingly: "If God helps, as long as you can get food, Gaochang can stand on its own; However, I believe that self-reliance is only a temporary means, and the center will not fail to settle accounts after the autumn. The head of the family, since he expects the chaos in the world, why not retreat and form a net, ready to chase the Central Plains? ”

Qin lost its deer, and the world chased it; Sui lost its deer, and the world must also chase it. Sikong Xing was taken aback, Meng Tuo was instigating Yang Chong to rebel, but Meng Tuo was right, Emperor Yang Guang of Sui and the gang in the center were not people who kept their promises, Yang Chongdu was ready to occupy Gaochang, and he still cared about rebelling? Yang Chong was silent for a moment and said: "To be honest, I am not prepared for this, occupying Gaochang County is a means of self-preservation, the Holy Son of Heaven is likely to compromise, but if he rebels, there is no turning back." ”

Meng Tuo is very satisfied with Yang Chong's pretense of being low-key, the most important thing for the superior is to have a sense of the overall situation, encourage the people around him to express their opinions, and listen to them. Yang Chong has been thinking about how to deal with Yang Xuangan's rebellion for a long time, and he has already considered the point of separating Gaochang County, to say that Yang Chong has not thought about entering the Central Plains, and he does not believe that he killed Meng Xuangan; Yang Chong's current low profile shows that Yang Chong is actually very confident in the evolution of the situation behind, and it is a strong posture, which by the way makes Sikong Xing resonate.

Meng Chuan explained: "The reason why the Holy Son of Heaven treats you differently and tolerates you in many things is because you are really capable, and on the other hand, because of the heavenly punishment of Handchuan Shu. In fact, there is a kind of Thunder Fire Pill in the Dao Gate, which can destroy all things, and the miracle of Handchuan Shu makes many people doubt that you can make such a lost thing. Someone has assassinated you again and again, and in my opinion, they want Lei Huodan to stop appearing; The Holy Son of Heaven's connivance with you is probably also out of worry, but he hopes that you will use the Thunder Fire Pill to deal with outsiders, he is afraid of death. ”

Sikong Xing was suddenly extremely nervous, he and Meng Chuan were also present in the battle of Hanchuan, and witnessed the destruction of thousands of Chijin Turks, if it was Yang Chong's means, then what else could he say, with this hand, he could lay down a country. Yang Chong understood that Meng Fu told him that Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty connived at him, because he was worried that the truth of Handchuan Shu was not a curse; If Yang Chong could make this thing, even if Yang Guang killed Yang Chong, Yang Chong's comrades would give him a beating, and Yang Guang would be dead.

Yang Chong smiled: "I have long had this suspicion, that thing is not called Lei Huo Dan, it is called explosives." ”

Sikong Xing exhaled heavily, the secret of the explosives was almost no less than Yang Xuangan's rebellion, Yang Chong still told himself and Meng Xuan, it was definitely a kind of trust. Sikong Xing doesn't want to ask anything anymore, he is a slave in Yang Chong's mansion, no matter what Yang Chong does, he can't get out of it, even if he goes to the informant, he may not be able to survive, only by following Yang Chong, maybe he can still get out of a smooth road. Sikong Xing knelt down and said: "Whatever you say, the master of the family, we will do it, if Sikong Xing violates this word, ten thousand arrows will pierce his heart and die." ”

Meng Fu was unmoved and asked, "What if you join forces with Yang Xuangan?" ”

Yang Chong looked at Meng Fan with a smile and said: "How can others be allowed to sleep soundly under the couch, Yang Xuan feels that with the help of Pushan Gong Li Mi and others, we went to the past, not even the icing on the cake, but just to find ourselves uncomfortable." Yang Su helped the Holy Son of Heaven ascend the throne, there is a folk legend that Yang Su was forced to death by the Holy Son of Heaven, Yang Xuangan even if he supported Yang Hao as the emperor, it was just a temporary expedient measure, it was not true, I can't let the people who follow me become a stepping stone for others. ”

Who just said that it was not possible to conclude whether Yang Xuangan was preparing to usurp the throne, and in the blink of an eye, he analyzed Yang Xuangan's thoughts clearly. Yang Su changed the title of Duke of Chu because the Taishi official said that there would be a major funeral in the division to which Sui belonged, and Chu and Sui belonged to the same division, and Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of Sui, wanted to use Yang Su to block the luck of mourning; Yang Su knew in his heart, so when he was sick in bed, Yang Guang sent a famous doctor to treat and wait, and gave him a lot of good medicines, but Yang Su just refused to take medicine until he died.

Meng Tuo no longer hesitated, and immediately knelt down and swore: "Meng Tuo follows the head of the family in this life, if he disobeys, he will die with a thousand knives." ”

Yang Chong helped the two of them up and said: "I am a craftsman, and I don't know what the future holds, but I promise to share the glory and wealth with the two of you, and I will never swerve in this life." ”

After the two stood up, Yang Chong asked Meng to go out and find Jiang Duo and Kou Jiuxing, and he and Sikong Xing began to spread maps on the table; Jiang Duo and the two of them were smiling when they learned of Yang Chong's decision, and Zhang Guo sent the two to assist Yang Chong back then, saying that Yang Chong would definitely do a great career, and his dream came true. Yang Chong looked at the expressions of the two of them, pointed to the map and said, "My target is the generation of Yan'an County, including Diaoyin, Honghua, Yulin, Shuofang, Wuyuan and other places. This is the triangle of the Western Regions, Saibei and the Central Plains, where you can quietly observe the situation in the world. ”

Yang Chong's picture is Yan'an and other places, and Western Xia is Tuoba Sigong starting from Xiazhou in northern Shaanxi. Tuoba Sigong occupied the fertile pastures in the south of Ordos and the agricultural area at the junction of the Xia and Song dynasties, and provided a large number of cattle, sheep, grain and grass for the Western Xia every year.

After the gradual expansion of power, the Western Xia encroached step by step, occupying the lands of Yin, Sui, You, Jing, Ling, Hui, Sheng, Gan, Liang, Gua, Sha, and Sushuzhou, that is, the northern part of Ningxia, the small part of Gansu, the northern part of Shaanxi, the eastern part of Qinghai and parts of Inner Mongolia. The four counties of the Western Regions are located west of Western Xia, and if you control the territory of the four counties and Western Xia, you can take the entire territory of Longyou in the south, enter Taiyuan in the east, and then peep into Chang'an.

Yang Chong's purpose is very clear, that is, he can't let Li Yuan win the world, in history, Li Zitong and Xiao Mo surrendered the land, so that the Li family could gain a large area of the Jianghuai Lake without a fight, and finally ended up with a scene where the whole family was killed; As Li Yuan's opponent, if the Tang Dynasty is established, Yang Chong believes that he will never end well. Therefore, Yang Chong wants to lay nails in Longyou, Guanzhong and Bingzhou, and then act according to the opportunity.

(End of chapter)