"Your Royal Highness, the humble post has already asked people to investigate, and found that this person is indeed a little weird, he should have a plan when he came to Chang'an, but which side he is on, I don't know!"

The scribe on the side was Liu Wenjing, who entered Beijing with Li Shimin, but the two did not go all the way, but in separate order, and came to the intelligence point of this Shengye Fang at this time to meet. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Liu Wenjing saw Li Shimin's eyebrows tightly locked, obviously having some opinions on this issue, he didn't know who the two were talking about, so he glanced at the slightly chubby shopkeeper.

Hu Kai hurriedly came to his side and whispered: "It's a traveler that His Highness met when he entered Beijing, but the details of this person are not clear, so His Highness asked me to send someone to investigate, but the other party acted cautiously, and the spies sent did not find any useful information." ”

Liu Wenjing nodded, I see, that's not a big deal.

"Does Your Highness think that person is the person arranged by the prince?"

Liu Wenjing actually didn't think so in his heart, after listening to the news of that person, he felt that this thing should be impossible, how could anyone want to lurk over and drag his family with him, since ancient times, undercover meticulous work was found to be beaten to death with a stick, and brought a seven or eight-year-old child over, that is, he was cocooned and bound himself, no one would be so stupid.

Li Shimin laughed, didn't mention this matter, bypassed the two and walked straight to the inner room.

That Hu Kai made a gesture of please and let Liu Wenjing walk in front, he knew that His Royal Highness the King of Qin attached great importance to this strategist beside him, and there were many things around His Royal Highness that were handled by this strategist, so his attitude towards him was very polite, and he did not dare to slack off at all.

This is one of the secret strongholds of Li Shimin, the king of Qin, in the capital, Li Shimin has a powerful army in his hands, and the army marches and fights, all need accurate intelligence support, on the battle array, an excellent fine work can often play a role in changing the entire battle situation, and he not only planted his own eyeliner in other armies, but also specially organized strong and capable people, and set up a spy agency in the capital responsible for exploring the inside of the Tang Dynasty, named Mo Yu!

The armor of the Tang army is black, with two grades of armor in the majority, although the Mingguang armor has appeared in the Sui Dynasty, but the production process is more complicated, so the number of equipment is not much.

And King Qin's big silk is black on a red background, a big "Qin", and it is not even the military flag with black characters on a red background of the Tang Army.

And the meaning of the ink feather is a black arrow, piercing the heart of the enemy, judging by what they do, the name is also in line with what they do.

"Isn't there any movement in the south?"

Li Shimin has his own office here, which is said to be an office, but in fact, it is a study room with only half of it, and the other half is a large number of files and documents, which are information collected by Mo Yu from all over the country, and a huge map is hung on the wall.

At this time, there is no sand table, so when studying the details of the march and deployment, you need to carry out the map, but the map on this wall is inevitably too huge, and it is obviously impossible to deploy the battle on such a large scale of the map, but here the war games can still be deduced and the situation in the world can be analyzed.

Generally speaking, the south is the place south of the Yangtze River, which is called the south, but they are currently in Guanlong, and the south is likely to refer to the Bashu area.

At this time, the situation in the south is not clear, the Western Liang army that occupies the Bashu area of Xiao Milling is actually a little internal contradictions, and gradually some are difficult to eliminate, the Western Liang army has not launched an attack on the Tang army or the Sui army for a period of time, and the generals in various places are deployed very frequently, and it is a situation of internal problems at a glance.

And in the area south of the Yangtze River, since Yu Wenhua and the army were defeated and died, Du Fuwei in the Jianghuai area led his troops south and occupied most of the area south of the Yangtze River, and after Du Fuwei left, the Jianghuai he vacated became a vacuum of power, and for a time both Li Mi and Dou Jiande wanted to occupy here, but neither side did anything, because they were still allies at this time, and Dou Jiande was also a vassal to the Sui Dynasty after all.

If Li Mi made the first move, most of them would give Dou Jiande a truth, saying that the imperial court suppressed people like him who intended to serve the imperial court, this hat was buttoned relatively large, and Li Mi didn't want to be detained such a hat, so he didn't do it first, and Dou Jiande's side was actually quite difficult, he occupied Shandong, an area that was previously controlled by the Sui army, which bordered Jianghuai, if he continued to march south, it would be a little too much, and there would definitely be many people dissatisfied within the Sui Dynasty, which he also knew very well in his heart, On the other hand, if he really occupies the Jianghuai area, then his territory will become a sickle shape, many people may not have seen a sickle, in fact, its shape is similar to the Arabic numeral 7.

In this way, his front is really too wide, from Hedong to Jianghuai, he has almost exposed the softest part of himself under the nose of the Sui army, once the honeymoon relationship between him and the Sui army is over in the future, then when the sword and soldiers face each other, it will be difficult for him to defend.

Therefore, Dou Jiande's side was still hesitating, and he didn't dare to send troops over at all.

And when neither of these forces sent troops to occupy this place, another mysterious force came. They are different from Du Fuwei who left before and Dou Jiande and Sui Jun who are ready to come over, they have no idea of wanting to control here, they have taken the population away, and the captive population has been transported away by sea, if this kind of thing is in peacetime, it is estimated that it will make the world in an uproar, but at this time in the troubled times, everyone can't take care of this matter, not to mention that this is still a three-way zone, after Du Fuwei left, a large number of green forests rang horses uninvited, making this place a miasma, it was a mess, and many people who couldn't live their lives either chose to flee, or were taken out to sea by this mysterious force.

Who is this mysterious force? None of them could answer.

After listening to Hu Kai's report, Li Shimin nodded, he actually had some understanding of the situation in the south, although it was not as detailed as what Mo Yu knew, but this did not affect his judgment in the general direction.

According to the open and secret struggle between the Sui army and the Xia army over the ownership of Jianghuai, the cooperative relationship between the two forces is afraid that it will end soon.

At this time, the world is like the situation during the Three Kingdoms period, although the Tang army is not Cao Wei, but the Sui army and the Xia army have played the role of Eastern Wu and Western Shu, united to crusade against the Tang army, and even forced the Tang army to go east out of Tongguan, originally in his plan, he wanted to quickly capture Luoyang, but now it seems that if he wants to attack Luoyang, he is afraid that it will take a while to do it, there is no such condition at present, but if the contradictions between the two sides of this cooperation are stimulated, resulting in the breakdown of their cooperative relationship, Then the situation will be different, and when the time comes, maybe he will be able to lead his troops east out of Tongguan and advance in the direction of Luoyang.

For this reason, he needs to plan well, it just so happens that Liu Wenjing is also here at this time, so after Li Shimin said what he thought in his heart, Liu Wenjing immediately agreed, and then the two of them referred to it together for a long time, and finally decided to adopt a divisive plan, the first thing to do is to spread rumors, so he decided to send people to Hedong and Henan for a trip, so that the members of Moyu in these places can be mobilized, as long as the rumors are together, even if they themselves are not fooled, but the atmosphere of the people will make many people fooled, And this atmosphere will also affect the decision-making above, and then they will send people to the Jianghuai area, and take the opportunity to provoke contradictions between the two sides, and it is better for them to break out into conflicts, so that most of this thing will be done.

The general direction is like this, but of course this plan is not at night, there are still many aspects that need to be improved, whether it is Li Mi or Dou Jiande, these two are not fools, and there are many talented people under their hands, if things are done too simply, most of them will be seen through at a glance, then it will be useless to do these things at that time.

However, Li Shimin and Liu Wenjing are very interested in this mysterious force that suddenly appeared in the Jianghuai area.

"Who are those people who are the captives in the Jianghuai area? Do you have any clues? ”

Li Shimin is more interested in this matter, the main reason is that the other party only needs the population and does not want the territory, what does this mean? It shows that the other party has a large amount of land in his hands, but lacks a population, or a lack of slaves and labor, so he will think of using the method of plundering to solve the problem.

In fact, the war caused great damage to the population of the whole country, the population of the Sui Dynasty has always been very large, and the expenditure for the establishment of the country has been more than 6 million households, and by the fifth year of the great cause of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty (609 years), the population has increased to 8,907,536 lakes, with 4,6019,956 people, and when the Tang Dynasty was founded, the population decreased sharply, and in the sixth year of Wude, the population statistics of the Tang Dynasty found that there were only more than 200,000 households in the country. More than three-quarters of the population was lost in the war.

According to historians' speculation, the peak period of the Sui Dynasty, that is, between the five years of the Great Cause, its population was as high as 69 million, which was more than the highest population of the Tang Dynasty. The population of the Tang Dynasty had not yet recovered.

This is associated with a problem, the same from the prosperity and decline, and is a sharp turn, the warlord melee in the late Eastern Han Dynasty caused a sharp decline in population, so that when the Western Jin Dynasty unified the country, its population was less than one-seventh of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the national population was only more than 8 million, the population was small and the national strength was naturally weak, and the large land in the north was uninhabited, which led to the internal migration of the nomads outside the Guan, which eventually led to the Wuhu Chaohua, speaking of which the direct cause of the Wuhu Chaohua was the Eight Kings Rebellion, It is more likely to be the great decline in the country's strength caused by the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the chaos of the Three Kingdoms.

"Your Royal Highness Qiqi, Mo Yu's fine work in Jianghuai has also explored the situation, and found that these people seem to be from somewhere overseas, they speak a standard official language, but they claim to be from Penglai Xiandao overseas, saying that they have a large area of fertile land waiting to be cultivated, as long as people are willing to go over, they will provide farm tools and houses, and even provide cattle, and also preach that they have a rich life there, there is no war, and there is no need to worry about the harassment of the green forest and bandits, It is a paradise-like place (when I wrote Xanadu, I remembered a story, someone played the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, saying that Dong Zhuo was happy in Luoyang, hehe, I quickly thought about it, Tao Yuanming was indeed from the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and appeared earlier than the Tang Dynasty). ”

"Penglai Immortal Island?"

Li Shimin and Liu Wenjing glanced at each other, and each other's eyes were very strange, does this kind of place really exist?

"And what about later? Have you arranged for men to go out to sea with those who have been taken captive? ”

Hu Kai smiled bitterly and said: "Your Highness Mingjian, the humble position did let them do this, but those who sent the past have not been heard from since they went to sea, but I don't know if their whereabouts were discovered by the other party or if these people are really on a very remote island, and even the carrier pigeon is difficult to cross the sea!" ”

Hu Kai said this, the three people in the room were silent for a while, the carrier pigeon is one of the few tools that can transmit information remotely at this time, and the other is the fast horse that takes the land route, this transmission path must be a safe path, at this time everyone's strength is crisscrossed, from the enemy-occupied area to transport intelligence back, this way is obviously not possible, and the carrier pigeon has become the only way.

The pigeon is not very difficult to train, and it transmits information very far, the farthest can reach more than 600 kilometers, and in later generations, the farthest ultra-long-distance carrier pigeon can even exceed 1500 kilometers!

There are people inside the Moyu who specialize in training carrier pigeons, and in order to ensure the smooth communication of various places, they will establish relay points in some places, so that the carrier pigeon stops here, and then pass on new pigeons, and the main reason for the work of the carrier pigeon is that they will recognize the nest, but also be able to identify the direction, if you want to let the information of Chang'an City pass to Luoyang, then a very simple way is to catch the pigeon of Luoyang City, take it to Chang'an City, and when you want to use it, put the pigeon back with the information, and the pigeon recognizes the nest, Naturally, he would fly back to Luoyang, and in this way, the people stationed in Luoyang would be able to see the information from Chang'an, and if they wanted to reply to the people in Chang'an, they only needed to put a carrier pigeon from Chang'an. (To be continued.) )