Two days later, Yang Jian, the ancestor of the Sui Dynasty, came to Bashang in person, and made a trip for Yang Guang and Gao Ying, who left Beijing and went south, and told Yang Guang Yinyin to discuss everything with Gao Ying and Wang Shao, and not to act hastily, so he hugged his fists and said goodbye to the two.

Yang Guang and Gao Ying parted ways in accordance with the previously agreed strategy: Gao Ying led people to secretly rush to Guangling to prepare for the construction of the Generalissimo's Mansion, and discussed with He Ruobi and Han Baohu about the first capture of Jiankang, the capital of Emperor Nanchen; Yang Guang was full of the prestige of the generalissimo of Chen's soldiers and horses, and led his people to Shouchun, the location of the Huainan Daoxingtai, so that the Southern Chen Junchen mistakenly thought that the Sui Dynasty had stationed the headquarters of the former enemy commander of the three-way army against Chen in Shouchun, which was closer to the upper reaches of the river, and would not take the lead in launching an attack on Jiankang to slow down his heart.

Leaving Yang Guang and Gao Ying to leave Beijing for the time being, let's first say that Yang Jian, the ancestor of Sui, went out of the city to Yang Guang and Gao Ying, the generals who had high hopes for themselves, and just returned to the Linde Hall of Daxing Palace to sit down, I saw Li Yu'er, the personal eunuch Li Yu'er (Yang Jian often linked his surname and first name together, and called him a donkey) who had personally selected to replace Su Yi'er, hurriedly walked in from outside the palace, and held a military newspaper sealed with fire paint above his head with both hands, presented it to himself, and reported in his mouth: "Your Majesty, the King of Han has sent an urgent military report." ”

Hearing that it was an urgent military report sent by Yang Liang, the youngest son of Han Wang, who had left the town and the state, Yang Jian's heart sank sharply, and he hurriedly took the military report from Li Yu'er's hand and opened it to take a look.

It turned out that this was an urgent military report sent by Yang Liang, the king of the Han Dynasty, to report to his father, Emperor Yang Jian, that the Eastern Turkic Mohe Khan had suddenly died of a disease, and that the position of the Great Khan had been passed on to Yongyu Lu, the son of Shabalu Khan, before his death. The military report also contained a funeral letter sent to Yang Liang in the name of the Turkic predecessor Shabalu Khan, asking the Sui Dynasty to approve the succession of Yongyu Khan to the position of Great Khan of Mohe Khan, and to be called Dulan Khan.

Yang Jian knew that since Mohe Khan inherited the throne of the Eastern Turkic Khan, because he had already married a wife and had children, he insisted on refusing to follow the customs of the Turkic tribe and marry the wife of the previous Great Khan. Therefore, Yang Jian was not surprised that after the unfortunate death of Luo Yu, Yuwen Panruo came forward to write to Yang Liang to report the funeral.

However, a great khan who was friendly to the Sui dynasty died suddenly within a year of his succession, and on his deathbed passed the throne to a Turkic prince whose attitude towards the Sui dynasty was not clear. Yang Jian read this military report, and had a vague sense of foreboding in his heart: he had previously transferred most of the troops stationed in Hebei to prevent the Turks to the south, and he had just issued an edict to attack Chen, and almost poured the country's military strength into a large-scale attack on Chen, and there was such a big change in the Eastern Turks, did he need to suspend the attack on Chen first, beware of the Turks suddenly rebelling against the imperial court, attacking from the north, and making the imperial court fall into the predicament of being attacked from the north and south again in the first year of the emperor's reign?

"Urgently pass on the eldest Sun Sheng to enter the palace to see the driver." Yang Jian hesitated in his heart, and suddenly remembered that after Changsun Sheng sent the Turkic prince to return to China, he was still left in the Chang'an court, so he ordered Li Yu'er to quickly recruit him into the palace to discuss countermeasures.

Before Changsun Sheng was summoned to the palace, another piece of music from Jingyuan Erzhou was sent to Yang Jian by Xue Daoheng, a Chinese scholar.

This is a letter jointly sent by Taifuqing, who is inspecting the pasture situation in Jingyuan Erzhou, and Yu Qingze, the acting governor of Qinzhou, which says that in Jingyuan Erzhou recently, it has been repeatedly found that bandits with thousands of people have broken into the pasture to rob the war horses, and after investigation, it is not the new people who moved from the Kanto area to Guanzhong to graze horses as previously believed, but Tuguhun wants to make a comeback, and sent the vanguard to falsely claim that the bandits are grazing the Liangzhou horses grazing in the Jingyuan Erzhou pasture. Worried about the changes in the western Xinjiang, Yu Qing sent troops to Jingyuan and Erzhou to suppress the bandits, so he and the imperial servant Qing jointly signed the Shangzhang Emperor, asking Yang Jian to pay attention to and attach importance to the possible changes in the situation in the western Xinjiang.

At that time, the Western Turkic Datou Khan had been a vassal to the Great Sui for more than two years. The Sui Dynasty had already withdrawn its heavy troops stationed in the western frontier, and only deployed nearly 200,000 troops led by Yang Jun, the king of Qin, to deploy defenses in the northwest with Qinzhou as the center to prevent the Western Turks from invading southward. In the sixth year of the emperor's reign, Yang Jian received a report that Datou Khan led the main force of the Western Turkic army of about 300,000 people to start an expedition to the west, leaving only 40,000 or 50,000 troops to guard against the Sui Dynasty.

Unexpectedly, the threat from the Western Turks was eliminated, and the Sui Dynasty army was once defeated.

After reading this recital, Yang Jian's heart was pressed against a heavy stone, and his mood suddenly became heavy.

The western frontier and the northern border changed almost at the same time, which made Yang Jian hesitate to raise troops and attack Chen at this time.

Now among several prime ministers in the imperial court, Gao Ying and Wang Shao have been canonized as the generalissimo of the war Chen's generalissimo Shi and Sima, Yu Qing is now in Qinzhou, and his subordinate Nayan Su Wei is still in the eastern capital Luoyang, and the only remaining internal history in the Chang'an Dynasty makes Li Delin lose his trust in him because of his insistence on opposing his own punishment of the royal family of the previous dynasty in the early years, and he is not enough to seek military affairs.

When Yang Jian was groaning, he was about to send someone to spread the news that Yang Xiong, the king of Guangping, had entered the palace to discuss countermeasures, when he suddenly heard someone outside the palace sign up: "The minister Sun Sheng is ordered to see him." ”

Yang Jian's heart flashed, and he immediately thought that Changsun Sheng was not only familiar with Eastern Turkic affairs, but also went to Western Xinjiang to serve under Dou Rongding in his early years, and was no stranger to the Western Xinjiang countries and Tuyuhun.

Changsun Sheng took the two military reports from Yang Jian's hand, and read them, and did not rush to say what he thought, but asked Yang Jian: "But I don't know what the emperor is going to do?" ”

"I want to send orders to the soldiers and horses of the three routes, suspend the attack on Chen, first order Yu Qing to lead the army to annihilate the enemy of Tuyuhun, and then order Qing to send an envoy to the Eastern Turks, on behalf of me to mourn Mohe Khan, and at the same time strive to ask Dulan Khan to maintain the promise made by Mohe Khan during his lifetime, and then raise troops to attack Chen after the situation in the west and north is restored. I don't know what Qing thinks? Yang Jian looked at Changsun Sheng's reaction and said tentatively.

"The minister thought that there was nothing wrong with the order to go on an expedition to defeat Tuyuhun and extinguish the possible war in the western frontier as soon as possible, and to send the minister to the Eastern Turks to stabilize the situation in the north. It's just that the minister didn't agree with the emperor's plan to suspend Chen. Changsun Sheng clenched his fists and replied calmly.