After Li Jing listened to Li Yin's words, he was silent for a long time.

After a while, Li Yin looked at Li Jing and sighed: "Li Juncheng, there are many bandits on the road ahead, why take the risk of moving forward?" Why don't you follow me to Yanmen Pass? ”

Li Jing got up and stared at Li Yin and said, "If your Li family raises troops, how long will it take for peace to be restored in this world?" ”

Li Yin said proudly: "In less than ten years, my Li family will definitely return the world to a bright future!" ”

Li Jing's expression was resolute for a while, "In this case, I am willing to contribute my own strength to this, so that all the people in the world can be stable as soon as possible!" ”

Li Yin was immediately overjoyed, being able to get the help of Li Jing, the god of war, was undoubtedly better than getting thousands of troops, and the Li family's uprising, the odds of victory increased by a few points.

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Gangdu County, Gangdu City.

All parts of the Sui Dynasty are now in flames, but Jiangdu is a song and dance, which makes people have the illusion of returning to the prosperous era of the emperor ten or twenty years ago.

At this time, in the Jiangdu Palace, the dancing girls in the palace danced, swaying, and Yang Guang and the ministers sat upright in a piece to admire, commenting on a few words from time to time, and they couldn't see that it was a troubled time at this time.

The ministers sitting on the side included Yu Shiji, Pei Yun and other old people around Yang Guang, as well as Wang Shichong, Yu Wenhua and other upstarts in the imperial court.

Yu Wenhua and his father, Xu Guogong Yu Wenshu, passed away on the sixth day of October last year.

Yu Wenhua and once served Yang Guang in the East Palace, and Yang Guang favored him and was affectionate, so after Yang Guang ascended the throne, he appointed Yu Wenhua and as the servant Shaoqing.

After Yang Guangye's ten-year conquest of Liao, after worshipping the three emperors and five emperors in Chang'an, he went to Yulin County to inspect for a few days, where he found Yu Wenhua and Yu Wenzhi and violating the ban to trade with the Turks, Yang Guang was angry and wanted to kill them, and had already stripped off their clothes and hair and spread them out, but in the end, he still remembered Yuwenshu's merits, so he released them and gave them to Yuwenshu as slaves.

After Yuwenshu died, Yang Guang let Yu Wenhua inherit the title of Yu Wenshu, and appointed Yu Wenhua and as the general of the Right Tun Guard, and Yu Wenzhi and the general as the young eunuch, and the grace of the Yuwen family was not reduced at all, so Yu Wenhua was qualified to appear by Yang Guang's side at this time.

As for Wang Shichong, he had been promoted from Jiangdu County to Jiangdu Tongshou at this time.

After Yang Guang arrived in Jiangdu, where the officials of Jiang and Huai counties met, Yang Guangzhuan asked how many gifts he offered. Those with more courtesies were promoted to county officials and county guards, and those with less courtesies were arbitrarily dismissed from official positions.

At that time, Wang Shichong offered a precious bronze mirror screen, so he was promoted to Tongshou; Zhao Yuankai, the Cheng of Liyang County, presented rare delicacies and was promoted to Jiangdu County.

Therefore, the county officials competed with the people to exploit them wantonly in order to enrich the offerings. The people were robbed by thieves outside, persecuted by county officials and thieves inside, and had no livelihood, plus there was no food, and the people began to pick bark and leaves to satisfy their hunger, some people pounded straw stalks into pieces for food, and some boiled Guanyin soil to eat......

However, the grain in the government warehouses was still as abundant as ever, and the officials were afraid of the criminal law and did not dare to take food to help the hungry. Wang Shichong also secretly selected Jianghuai folk beauties for Yang Guang to offer, so he was even more favored by Yang Guang.

And in Yang Guang's heart, Wang Shichong is also the most capable of fighting among the officials he can trust at present, in the first month of this year, Lu Mingyue, who had been defeated by Zhang Xutuo many times, after learning that Zhang Xutuo was killed in battle, immediately led his troops to plunder Henan, and when he arrived in Huaibei, he had 400,000 troops, and claimed to be the supreme king, and threatened to go to Jiangdu to capture Yang Guang alive.

Yang Guang was frightened and ordered Jiangdu Tongshou Wang Shichong to lead his troops to crusade against Lu Mingyue, Wang Shichong fought with Lu Mingyue in Nanyang, broke Lu Mingyue's army, and killed the invincible Lu Mingyue, and returned with a great victory.

So far, Yang Guang has paid more and more attention to Wang Shichong, and Wang Shichong has become today's celebrity.

At this time, the great eunuch Ma Deru said: "Your Majesty, Taichang Cheng Yuan Shanda came from the Eastern Capital to ask for a meeting. ”

Yang Guang frowned and said, "What is he going to do, let him in!" ”

Ma Deru nodded to a little eunuch, and the little eunuch quickly brought in Taichang Cheng Yuan Shanda from outside, this Yuan Shanda came to Jiangdu at great risk and overcoming many difficulties, so he looked extremely embarrassed.

Yuan Shanda bowed to Yang Guang and said: "Li Mi has millions of people, surrounded and forced the eastern capital, occupied Luokoucang, there is no food in the eastern capital, the king of Yue sent his ministers to ask His Majesty to return to the eastern capital quickly, Li Mi's rabble will inevitably collapse, otherwise the eastern capital will definitely fall." ”

Yuan Shanda whimpered and cried as he spoke, and Yang Guang also changed his appearance.

It is true that at this time, the situation in Luoyang, the eastern capital, is already very grim.

Since the Battle of Dahai Temple, Zhai Rang began to let Li Mi establish his own camp and lead his subordinates alone, called "Pushan Gongying" because of Li Mi's contribution in this battle.

Li Mi was different from other rebels, he managed his subordinates with strict discipline, and he dressed simply, and whenever he was captured, he would give all the parts to his subordinates, so all the soldiers in the Pushan public camp worked for him, and became the strongest fighting force in the Wagang army.

After the Wagang army captured Xingyang County, the next goal was to occupy the first granary of the Sui Dynasty - Luokoucang, as long as the Luokoucang was occupied, then even if the Wagang army had hundreds of thousands of people, they would no longer have to worry about food.

Li Mi then persuaded Zhai Rang: "Now the eastern capital is empty, the army is not trained in peacetime, Yang Tong, the king of Yue, is young, and the officials who stayed behind have different decrees, and the people are centrifuged. Duan Da and Yuan Wen are both ignorant and have no strategy, and in my opinion, they are not the general's opponents. If the general can use my strategy, the world can wave his hand. ”

Zhai Rang was almost obedient to Li Mi at this time, so he agreed.

So Li Mi sent his henchman Pei Shufang to investigate the reality of the Eastern Capital, and the officials who stayed in the Eastern Capital noticed this situation and began to prepare for defense, and asked Taichang Cheng Yuan Shanda to gallop to Jiangdu to report to Yang Guang.

Li Mi said to Zhai: "The situation is like this, it must be done." The Art of War: 'The first is to control oneself, and then to others.' Now the people are hungry, but Luokoucang has a lot of accumulated grain, more than 100 miles away from the east, if the general personally leads the army, lightly cover the attack, they can't rescue because of the long road, and they are defenseless in advance, Luokoucang is like a gleaning, and when the other party knows the news, we have already succeeded. Then we will give bread to the poor people, but who will not come to us, near and far?

At that time, millions of people will be available at one time, and they will be able to wait for work at ease, even if the eastern capital sends troops, we will be prepared. Then we spread the text to call on the Quartet to respond, quote the heroes and wise men, listen to their strategies, select brave and strong generals, grant military power, overthrow the Sui Dynasty, and issue the general's decree. ”