The secret letter of the Turki Khan asking for additional trade materials was delivered to Li Shimin, and Li Shimin did not get angry as before, but on the contrary, he knew the performance with the Turki Khan: 'Hmph! Sure enough, as the king expected, if Ashinash didn't sit on the ground and start the price, it wouldn't be a barbarian. However, the real thing to watch out for is the guard called the Wind Protector under the legend, if this guard is used by other hostile forces, then the king will probably die without a corpse. As soon as he thought of the eldest grandson Wuji's letter, only two people with the worst kung fu in the guard could cooperate with each other to shave a huge bull with the flesh of the belt, leaving nothing behind. Come to think of it. Li Shimin was shocked into a cold sweat:

"Someone! Inform Lord Chai Shao and ask Lord Chai Shao to follow what Lord Changsun said in the letter, and add twice as many supplies, which will be personally escorted by Lord Chai and sent to the Turks. ”

"Yes!" The green salt was successfully transported back from the Turks, and the salt shortage in the Guanzhong area was somewhat alleviated, but the fundamental contradiction was not resolved, the life of the people was still very hard, and there were many cases of poor people eating light salt, and an old man who lived in seclusion in the suburbs of Chang'an said to Chang'an City:

"It's time for me to get out of the mountains."

After the green salt was transported back to Chang'an, Li Yuan rewarded Li Shimin with a few words, but Li Yuan knew that the Turks would not let go, and they might jam Li Tang's neck again at any time, and only by regaining the well salt of Bashu and the sea salt of Shandong Jianghuai could it be completely solved. In the past few days, not only Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin brothers are thinking of a way, but Li Yuan is also thinking quietly. And posted the emperor's list outside the palace gate, offering a reward of 10,000 taels of silver for good advice.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!" Li Yuan was thinking about it, and the personal eunuch beside Li Yuan, Father-in-law Wanyue, shouted softly beside Li Yuan:

"What's the matter? Don't you see me thinking? ”

"Yes! The slave should die, but the slave saw that the emperor was so exhausted in order to solve the salt shortage in Guanzhong, the slave saw it in his eyes, and he didn't know how much pain it was, and today there happened to be someone outside the palace who said that he could help His Majesty solve his doubts, so the slave has already brought that person over, if Your Majesty is not happy, the slave will go and drive him away. "The Remnant Moon Father-in-law is going forward, Li Yuan called the Remnant Moon Father-in-law:

"Come back, did I tell you to get rid of that man? Call that person in and let me see! Father-in-law of the waning moon agreed:

"Yes! Your Majesty has a will, declare! Father-in-law called the man in, and the man walked in with his head bowed and bowed.

"Your Majesty!" Li Yuan felt familiar when he heard his voice:

"Hmmm! Looking at the way you walk, you can see that you have been an official, lift it up. ”

"Yes!" When the man raised his head, Li Yuan was shocked:

"Brother Shi Wen, it's you!" The name of the person who came is Xiao Yu, born in the family of the Later Liang Emperor, his great-grandfather is Xiao Yan, the Liang Wu Emperor of the Southern Dynasty, his great-grandfather is Xiao Tong, the prince of Zhaoming, his grandfather Xiao Jing, is the Emperor Xuan of the Later Liang, his father's name is Yue, he is the Emperor of the Later Liang Ming, Xiao Yu was nine years old, he was named the king of Xin'an County, and his sister was the concubine of Yang Guang, the king of the Jin Dynasty of the Sui Dynasty, and then followed his sister into Chang'an. As the prince Xiao Yu in the care of his parents, in the incomparably superior imperial city of Jiangling grew up, he was named the king of Xin'an County at the age of nine, seven years after the emperor, Xiao Yu with his brother Xiao Cong into Sui, and then settled in Chang'an. Later, Xiao Yu was entrusted with confidential affairs by the former Sui Emperor Yang Guang as the queen's younger brother, and the official was the servant of the inner history, and Queen Dugu also married a girl from her maiden brother to Xiao Yu, which added a layer of relationship between Xiao Yu and the Sui royal family. In other words, he is also related to Li Yuan. Later, when Yang Guangyanmen was besieged, the situation was very critical. Xiao Yu advised Emperor Yang to pardon Goguryeo's sins, but after the Turkic army withdrew, Emperor Yang of Sui regretted listening to Xiao Yu's suggestion to publicly announce the pardon of Goryeo, and immediately dismissed Xiao Yu from his post as a waiter in the history of Hechi (now northeast of Fengxian County, Shaanxi), and asked Xiao Yu to take up his post immediately. So later, Yang Guang toured the capital of Xingjiang, and Xiao Yu did not follow. Later, Yang Guangjiang was killed, and Xiao Yu found that the world was about to be in chaos, so he resigned and lived in seclusion at the foot of Lishan Mountain. When he found out about Li Yuan's posting of a list to solve the salt shortage, Xiao Yu felt that he would have a green dawn in his career, so he came to see Li Yuan with the mentality of giving it a try.

"Come, come, come! Brother Shi Wen, we haven't seen each other for several years since Chang'an said goodbye back then, and today we don't talk about government politics, but about personal relationships. ”

"Yes! Your Majesty. Li Yuan warmly entertained Xiao Yu and constantly toasted Xiao Yu, not because Li Yuan had much affection for Xiao Yu, but because the former Sui Emperor Yang Guang was suspicious of Li Yuan, and in order to hold the lives of himself and his wife and children, Li Yuan sent a lot of money and property to Empress Xiao and Xiao Yu. Now, Li Yuan has become the Son of Heaven, and Xiao Yu is now unofficial and untitled, and the contrast in status has greatly satisfied Li Yuan's vanity. And Xiao Yu knew Li Yuan's thoughts, and flattered Li Yuan vigorously, as long as it was the wine that Li Yuan saluted, he drank it desperately, and Li Yuan didn't let Xiao Yu go until he was drunk. On the second day, after Xiao Yu woke up, Father-in-law Wanyue stood beside him:

"Sir is sober."

"Where is this?"

"This is the Imperial Palace!"

"Ahh As soon as Xiao Yu heard that this was the palace, he immediately spread his hair and said to the father-in-law of the waning moon:

"Please bring the sinners to see His Majesty the Emperor, the sinners want to ask His Majesty the Emperor for their guilt." Father-in-law Wanyue nodded and brought Xiao Yu to Li Yuan:

"Sinners Xiao Yu see His Majesty the Emperor!" Li Yuan deliberately pretended to be confused and asked Xiao Yu:

"Brother Shi Wen, why are you doing this?" Li Yuan said that he was going to help Xiao Yu up. Where did Xiao Yu dare to get up, he couldn't get up even if Li Yuan pulled him:

"The sinners are drunk and lie in the deep palace and commit the crime of defrauding the king, as long as His Majesty the Emperor does not condemn the sinners, the sinners will be satisfied." Li Yuan felt that he had done enough of his play, so he got off the donkey down the slope, pardoned Xiao Yu's disrespectful sin, and gave Xiao Yu a gold medal, saying that Xiao Yu could use this gold medal to meet Li Yuan in the palace in the future. Then we get back to the topic:

"Brother Shi Wen, you said that you have a solution to the salt shortage, now you can say it!" Xiao Yu nodded and said:

"Your Majesty! There are three places of salt in the world, one is Qilu salt in Shandong, one is Wuzhong salt in Jianghuai, and then it is the well salt of Bashu Salt Well. Nowadays, Qilu salt in Shandong is monopolized by Dou Jiande, and Wu Zhongyan in Jianghuai, hum! Because of Du Fuwei's death, Fu Gongtuo will definitely take advantage of the excuse not to let a grain of Wuzhong salt enter Guanzhong, so it is only the best policy to untie Bashu or find a new source of well salt. ”

"Oh! I am willing to listen to Brother Shiwen's good advice. ”

"When the Bashu barbarian chieftain Asguman, who established himself as the king of the Heavenly Sage, came to pay tribute, he had several connections with him. There are some friendships, but their ambitions are extremely great, and it can be seen from the title of their self-established Heavenly Sage King alone, so it is impossible to negotiate peace, but their people occupy a dangerous place with mountains and waters, and it is impossible to attack by force, and it will also damage innocent soldiers. Therefore, the only way to lead them to an open place is to surround and annihilate them. That's the best way to go. Li Yuan nodded when he heard this.

"Brother Shi Wen, do you have any good ideas?"

"Your Majesty! Do you have a map of the area around Bashu Yizhou? ”

"Yes! Wanyue, quickly go to the imperial study and bring the map of the Bashu Yizhou area! ”

"Yes! Your Majesty! Slave obeys! After Wanyue took the map, Xiao Yu unfolded the map and explained to Li Yuan:

"Your Majesty, the chief of the Bashu barbarian tribe is a fierce tiger, the reason why the tiger is difficult to deal with is because it occupies the mountains and forests, and the Asguman occupies the flying mountain of Yueshan County, the mountain is high and the road is dangerous, and there are many cliffs, and the ancestors of the Asguman are the barbarians of the flying mountains of Yueshan County for six generations, and they repair houses in the mountains, and occupy salt wells, and operate for many years. If you want to recover the Asguman in one fell swoop, there is only one way. Talking about Yujuluo, Li Yuan admired it very much, that was a famous general appointed by the former Sui Emperor Yang Guang, eight feet tall, physical strength, extremely loud voice, usually speaking can be heard hundreds of steps away, at the beginning of the Praetorian Guard officer, and Li Yuan used to be a colleague, and then tired of managing to the metropolitan governor, and later followed Yang Guang to pacify Nan Chen, because of military merits and worship Kaifu, during the Kaihuang period, with the army to pacify the rebellion of Shen Xuanyi in the south of the Yangtze River, high wisdom, because of merit and awarded the Kaifu, Gaotang County Gong, Diezhou governor, after leaving the post due to the death of his mother and returning home to guard filial piety, to Fufeng time, and with Yang Su to go to the Turks, Yang Su saw that he was very happy, Shangjuan asked him to go with the army, because of the merit promoted to Shangzhu State, the governor of Fengzhou, since then the Turks are afraid of the fish and go, do not dare to herd horses on the plug. Later, the rebellion of Feishan in Yuejun County was also pacified by Yujuluo with troops. It's just that Li Yuan has already left the town, and he doesn't know much about the details of some things. Li Yuan asked Xiao Yu:

"Oh! What is Xiao Aiqing's good plan? The more Xiao Yu talked, the more he thought about Li Yuan, and he had changed from Brother Shi Wen, who was a little rusty, to Xiao Aiqing.

"Send a man of eloquence to make Asgu Barbarian an independent barbarian king, but he does not only care about a corner of the land, but the whole of Bashu, so according to his thoughts, he will definitely arrogantly detain or even kill the messenger. However, if it is below, I believe that it can be led out of the mountains and forests and here. Li Yuan followed Xiao Yu's finger and looked there.

"Aiqing is saying - Ziyang." Xiao Yu nodded.

"Your Majesty! Ziyang City is relatively flat, and there is another point, that is, the heavy place of the Sui army back then - Rongle Cang. ”

"Rong Le Cang?!" Li Yuan hurriedly searched for the location of Rong Le Cang on the map.

"Not bad! Since the ancient road, the soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first, and the military salaries and grass of the soldiers and horses of Jingchu have always been supplied by Guanzhong, and they are transshipped in Bashu, and the taxes in the Jingchu area are also transferred by Bashu to Guanzhong. The construction of Rongle warehouse will be a long distance for baggage transportation, which will be greatly shortened. By the two major rivers of Tsing Yi water and river water, the baggage of the northern area of Minshu is transported to Rongle City. Then it can be sent directly to Yangshan Town through the Dadu River. It was also the northernmost town in the county, and it was also an important place to use troops against the county. If Rongle Cang is attacked, or if it continues to attack Rongle Cang, the use of troops in Yuewang, and the transfer of grain and grass for Jingchu's soldiers and horses and Jingchu's tax materials will face an extremely embarrassing dilemma. If the Yue Wang barbarians kill the Rongle Cang, our dynasty will not only have to reallocate materials and build warehouses, but will also face the adjustment of strategic deployment and even postpone the use of troops. After all, the local barbarians could not defeat the flying mountains in Yueshan County, so they could retreat into the mountains and rely on hunting to supplement their supplies. There were still fields in the mountains that could be cultivated, which the officers and soldiers could not do...... Without grain and grass, not only the heart of the Bashu army is floating, the Jingchu area has just been recovered, the people's hearts are not attached, the Lingnan barbarians are also constantly harassing the Changsha area, and the Wu army of Fugongtuo is also ready to move, which is even more dangerous. Once Ziyang Rongle Cang is lost, my Li Tang's forces in Bashu and Jingchu will all collapse. If you don't sweep away the forces of the Feishan Barbarians in Yueshan County earlier, he is like a cancerous tumor, and he can contain the great cause of my Li Tang's unification. It's so poisonous! But Aiqing. The stakes are high, are you really sure? ”

"Your Majesty rest assured, the minister is sure!" Li Yuan thought for a moment.

"Alright! I'll rely on you to make such a bet. Xiao Yu knelt in front of Li Yuan:

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your trust."