The Great Sui Dynasty is located between the Imperial City of Zhou and the ancient city of Han and Wei Dynasty in Luoyang, surpassing the Qianshui River in the east, crossing the Luo River in the south, bordering the Jianhe River in the west, and relying on the Bishan Mountain in the north, the city circumference is more than 50 miles, which is magnificent and magnificent.

At this time, in the palace, Yang Guang, the great Sui emperor of the "beautiful posture", was looking at the map hanging on the wall.

At this time, in the Great Sui Dynasty, there were 190 counties and 1,255 counties in the country; There are more than 8.9 million households; The land is 9,300 miles long from east to west and 14,815 miles wide from north to south. The strength of the Sui Dynasty had reached its peak in the hands of Yang Guang at this time, and no country in the world could match it.

Yang Guang turned his eyes to the northeast of the map, where there was a country called Goryeo, which was not big, but Yang Guang felt that it was very eye-catching.

Goryeo was a little different from the traditional external enemies of the Central Plains Dynasty in that it was an agrarian state.

The characteristics of nomadic regimes that depend on the weather for food determine their limitations, and once the productive forces are not sustained, they are prone to civil strife.

As an agrarian country, the development of Goryeo's national strength is very stable, the political system is tight, and the logistics support is high, so from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty for more than 700 years, whenever there is turmoil in the Central Plains, it waits for an opportunity to move, and gradually encroaches westward to expand its strength, and now it has invaded many territories such as the Liaodong Peninsula, which has belonged to China since ancient times.

Therefore, Goryeo was a great potential threat to the Central Plains Dynasty.

The Sui Dynasty usurped the throne of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, when the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed the old enemy Northern Qi and unified the north, the royal family of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Gao Baoning, led the army to flee, and has been constantly fighting against the Northern Zhou, until Yang Jian replaced the Northern Zhou Dynasty to establish the Great Sui, this guy is constantly fighting against the Great Sui, and the remnants of the Northern Qi Dynasty have always been the heart of the Sui Dynasty.

Among them, Goryeo has always vigorously supported Gao Baoning, and even the king of Goryeo personally led troops, united with the Turks and Khitan to rescue Gao Baoning, and directly intervened in the civil war of the Central Plains Dynasty.

In June of the eighteenth year of the emperor's reign (598 AD), in the face of repeated provocations in Goryeo, Yang Jian, the emperor of Gaozuwen of the Great Sui Dynasty, finally issued an edict to depose the official title of King Gaoyuan of Goryeo, and with Yang Liang, King of Han, Wang Shiji as the marshal of the march, and Gao Gong, the left servant of Shangshu, as the long history of the Han king, and Zhou Luohu as the head of the naval army, sent more than 300,000 troops to crusade against Goryeo.

Although this crusade was complete with elite soldiers and generals, luck was not on the side of the Sui army, and natural disasters befell the Sui army one after another.

First of all, heavy rain fell on the army's side, which caused extremely logistical difficulties, and the soldiers of the army could not eat enough. The continuous torrential rains also caused the disease to spread among the army. When the army was trapped by heavy rain, the Sui Dynasty navy, which crossed the sea from Shandong to Pyongyang, also encountered strong winds, and most of the ships were blown away and sunk.

Faced with such a situation, the non-combat loss rate of the Sui army was staggering, and according to historical records, when the Sui army withdrew to the country in September, there was a chance that nine out of ten dead would be killed.

With such huge losses, it became clear that the war could not go on any longer.

Although God allowed Gao Yuan to escape this catastrophe, because the Sui army was extremely powerful, Gao Yuan was afraid of the strong strength of the Sui Empire and did not dare to continue to engage in confrontation strategies. So he immediately sent an envoy to the table, calling himself "Liaodong Dung Tuchen Yuan", and put his posture to the lowest.

With Gao Yuan's attitude of admitting guilt, Yang Jian was also a wise monarch, and he was unwilling to waste military strength and increase the burden on the people for this, so he quit the army.

However, since Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, Goryeo seems to be unstable again, not only the rituals to enter Hajj have become less and less, but in the fifth year of the Great Cause, there was also an incident that made Yang Guang feel fried.

At that time, when Yang Guang went to the camp of the Turkic Qimin Khan after patrolling to the north, he happened to see that the Goryeo envoy was also in the tent of Qimin, and Qimin did not dare to hide it, so he asked him to meet Yang Guang.

Naturally, the envoy of Goryeo would not secretly meet with the Turkic Khan for no reason, and this conspiracy directly made Yang Guang angry.

At that time, Pei Ju, the squire of the Yellow Gate, persuaded Yang Guang and said: "Goryeo was originally the fief of Jizi in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it was a county in China in the Han and Jin dynasties, but now it is not a minister and has become a country." The first emperor wanted to conquer Goryeo for a long time, but because Yang Liang could not succeed, the teacher was ineffective.

Your Majesty, when you reign over the world, how can you not conquer it and make the realm of civilization and etiquette a desolate and barbaric place? Today, the envoy of Goryeo saw with his own eyes that Qimin had naturalized the whole country into China, and he could coerce Goryeo to send an envoy to the court while he was afraid. ”

Yang Guang adopted this opinion, and asked the then Right Guanglu Doctor, Qizhang County Bull Hong, to read out the edict: "Because Qimin sincerely respects China, I personally came to his camp.

Next year I will go to Zhuogun, and when you go back, tell the king of Goryeo: Don't be suspicious, just repay me for the etiquette of my nurturing, and I will treat you as I did with Kaimin. However, if you do not come to the court, I will lead the people of enlightenment to inspect your land. ”

Now, nearly a year has passed since this incident, but the king of Goryeo, Gao Yuan, still has not come to see Yang Guang, so Yang Guang has now made a decision: prepare to conquer Goryeo!

In the middle of December of the sixth year of the Great Cause, on this day, Yang Guang, the emperor of the Great Sui, officially issued an edict to prepare to conquer Goryeo. At the same time, he ordered the grain superintendent and quartermaster to transport grain, grass and ordnance to Zhuo County, and then issued an edict to summon the soldiers of the whole world, no matter how far or near, all of them must rush to Zhuo County within the specified time, and then requisitioned 70,000 sailors south of the Jianghuai River, and finally ordered a general amnesty for the world, as long as they are not those who conspire to rebel, all can be pardoned.

Cuiyun Peak, Lao Junguan.

Li Yin stood on the edge of the cliff at the top of the peak, blowing the February spring breeze, and his heart was full of emotion, yesterday he was still a nationally wanted death row prisoner, but now he suddenly became innocent, this life is really full of drama!

"Young master, everything is packed!" Zhou An came to Li Yin's side at this time and said to him.

"Then let's go!" Li Yin said and walked forward.

In front of the Laojun Temple, almost all the people in the cottage have arrived, and many people are carrying large bags and small bags, and the biggest difference since the opening of Cuiyun Village is coming.

Many people fled here after committing a crime, and now that they have all been amnesty to the world, they naturally do not want to continue to be a coward, some plan to return to their hometowns, some want to go to other places to beg for a living, and some choose to follow Li Yin down the mountain.

If it was before, Wang Junkuo, who was the owner of the village, would naturally not tolerate a huge cottage, so it fell apart, but a few days ago, a fellow of his Wuthering Mountains and Forests in Hedong County invited him to join in, Wang Junkuo didn't think much about it, so he agreed.

Wang Junkuo never planned to stay in this Cuiyun Village forever, because this is really not a good place to be a robber, he is bound everywhere, he has been the owner of the village for more than half a year, and the capital has been enough, and now it is time to leave.

"Come, let's do this bowl of wine, the green mountains will not change in the future, the green water will flow forever, see each other again in the future, we are still good brothers!" Wang Junkuo said, gurgling and drinking the wine in the bowl, and the others followed suit.

After Li Yin put down the bowl, he hugged his fist to Wang Junkuo and said, "Big brother, little brother is going now." After Wang Junkuo said all the way, Li Yin walked down Cuiyun Peak with everyone.

Li Yin's salute was much more than that of ordinary people, large and small boxes, carried by a few big men, and most of them were gold and silver obtained when they looted the inheritance of Liu Dihu and Liu Si.

There were about sixty people who were willing to follow Li Yin this time, and after they descended the mountain, they went straight to a nearby village, where Li Yin had bought a large village and some farmland, enough to accommodate those who followed him down the mountain.

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In the early morning of this day, as soon as the sky was bright, Li Yuan left the Guogong Mansion, ready to continue his tedious work of inspecting ordnance.

"Henan Yang Liu Xie, Hebei Li Huarong. Where did Yang Hua fly and land? Plum blossoms are strong and natural. Li Yuan, who was sitting in the carriage, suddenly heard someone singing such a song, and after he pondered the content of the lyrics for a while, his face suddenly changed.

"Stop!" Li Yuan shouted loudly.

After the carriage came to a sharp stop, Li Yuan said to the coachman: "You go and ask the person who sang the poem just now, whether the lyrics were written by himself or taught by others." ”

The coachman went for a while, and soon came back, "My lord, the man said that he learned it after listening to other people's singing, and many children are also singing!" ”

Li Yuan's face became very ugly, and he was cloudy for a while.

That poem, on the surface, means how the willow tree is and how the plum tree is, but when the son is surnamed Yang today, anyone who knows a little bit of literature and ink can understand the true meaning of the poem, which is to say that the surname Yang will decline, and the surname Li will prosper forever.

Li Yuan happened to be surnamed Li, so he reacted so much after listening to the poem, he wanted to go home immediately and think about a good way to deal with it, but after thinking for a while, he still chose to let the coachman move on.

"The more critical the situation, the more you can't panic, otherwise it will be easier for people to grab the handle." Li Yuan admonished himself.

No matter how uncalm his heart was, after Li Yuan went to the office, he still worked as diligently as usual, occasionally chatting and laughing with his colleagues, and when he returned to the Guogong Mansion in the evening, he already had a plan in his heart.

"Ah Fu!" Li Yuan shouted, and the old servant Ah Fu quickly came to him, "Go and call Jiancheng." ”

Soon after Ah Fu ordered him to go, Li Jiancheng hurried over, "Father, what are you looking for me?" ”

Li Yuan pondered for a while before he said, "Have you heard the poem that spread all over the streets and alleys today?" ”

Li Jiancheng nodded, "I'm afraid that someone wants to infringe on my Li family, does my father have a way to deal with it?" ”

Li Yuan sighed, "Those who have always been emperors have been the most taboo about this kind of proverb-like words, and now that we are stained, there is nothing we can do except defile ourselves to dispel the doubts of the Son of Heaven." ”

Li Jiancheng knew that his father had something to say, so he didn't speak, just listened quietly.