Pei Shiju nodded: "Yes, our spies in Yingzhou have reported that even the servant tribes of Khitan, Xi and Beji have received the mobilization order of Goguryeo, and the whole country of Goguryeo has been urgently prepared, and all men over the age of fifteen will be concentrated in the state capitals for military training after harvesting the crops this year, and the servant tribes are also required to prepare for war, Goguryeo has paid a lot of gold and silver treasures to these tribes, and the treasury income for two or three years has been empty, requiring them to send more than 200,000 cavalry to help in the war." ”

Wang Shichong sighed: "Look at the Goguryeo, that is really willing to spend money, this knowledge is much higher than Yang Guang, I think this time Yang Guang is mobilized a million army, I am afraid that it will not be able to go down in one drum, such a large-scale army, in a month outside, can eat the entire Hebei for a year's grain reserves, no need to fight for a year, the old bottom left by the emperor will also make Yang Guang almost defeated." ”

Pei Shiju smiled slightly: "Isn't this exactly what you want to see?" Okay, if the Great Sui loses too badly in Goguryeo this time and traps the army, wouldn't it be more convenient for you to start an incident! ”

The corners of Wang Shichong's mouth hooked, and said: "Although I hope that Yang Guang will die by himself and defeat the country, I don't want the main force of the Great Sui to be lost all of a sudden, and become weak and powerless. Second, the surroundings of the Great Sui are not quiet now, Goguryeo, Turkic, and Tubo are all strong enemies, even the Wa Kingdom and Linyi should not be underestimated, if the strength of our Central Plains is too lost. These foreign invasions. Maybe we will repeat the mistakes of the five nonsense. ”

Pei Shiju's face changed slightly: "Is there still such a possibility?" Not really. At that time, the Wuhu Chaohua was because a large number of Hu people moved inward, lived together with the Han people, and the civil war of the eight kings at the end of the Jin Dynasty, which almost wiped out the entire army of the Western Jin Dynasty. There were no large number of Huns in the interior, how could they fall into the hands of foreign races? ”

Wang Shichong sighed softly: "This time the situation is different from before, first of all, in the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, there were not so many powerful foreign regimes around the empire, Goguryeo back then, it was not worth mentioning, and the Xianbei tribe was also divided at the beginning, and did not form a joint force, and the Xiongnu who were in chaos in the Central Plains. Di and other tribes, the number is insufficient. There was no unified leadership and lofty ambitions, and they were only satisfied with plundering and eating everywhere, so they were finally wiped out one after another, and they could not last long. ”

"But these foreign regimes are different now, since the reunification of the Qimin Khan, the Turks have reversed the previous decline and began to become powerful, and in the generation of Shibi Khan, they are even more ambitious, wanting to wash away the humiliation of these years. Goguryeo is encroaching on the land of our Han family on the northeast border, which has lasted for hundreds of years, and several heavy blows from the Central Plains Dynasty have not allowed them to turn back. ”

"What's even more worrying is that the fighting people in the west are in the emerging period of Tubo, to be honest, Hongdae, before going to Tuyuhun this time, I couldn't imagine that there is such a country in this snowy plateau, fierce, good at fighting, and there is no shortage of resourceful people, with their strength, it is only a matter of ten years to unify the plateau, Tuyuhun will not be their opponent whether they can successfully restore the country or not."

"When the time comes, if the power of Tubo goes down the plateau and enters the Hehuang, then it will be directly bordered by the Longyou land of the Great Sui and the Hexi Corridor, if China is unified and powerful, such as the current Great Sui, the emerging Tubo will not give birth to dissent, but if the troubled times continue for too long, the ambitions of the Tubo will continue to expand, and their expansiveness is stronger than that of the Turks, Goguryeo, and from the point of view of the means of attacking and destroying the Subi State, there is no faith at all, and it will definitely be the most terrible enemy in the Central Plains."

Pei Shiju's brows furrowed: "Is this Tubo person really so terrifying?" ”

Wang Shichong nodded: "I believe what Li Jing has seen with his own eyes, Li Jing has also traveled south and north, and all countries and ethnic groups have seen a lot, in his eyes, although the Turks and Goguryeo are strong, but they are just opponents who can be defeated with a little effort, only this Tubo, he has no certainty of victory, you and I have been to Tuyuhun, on such a plateau, it is very difficult to breathe, let alone fight." ”

Li Jing said that when he first went there, he couldn't even walk, and it took more than ten days to recover. Our Central Plains army is extremely dependent on logistics and supplies, and if we really want to climb the plateau to eliminate Tibet, it will be really difficult to climb to the sky, and we can still have the Great Wall to defend the Turks, but this land of rivers and rivers is thousands of miles of wasteland, and we can attack the Hexi Corridor everywhere, so what can we use to defend it? ”

"The sage of Tubo, named Bang Sai Seze, came back with Li Jing this time, pretended to be a horse merchant from Tuyuhun, and lived in my garden for a while, and I also talked to him a lot about the general trend of the world, this person's opinion is not trivial, and he sees the situation in the world clearly, and he asserts that as long as the Great Sui conquers Goguryeo with the strength of the whole country within three years, the country will perish."

Pei Shiju sneered: "Anyone will say that this Fanbang barbarian, who has only been in Dasui for a month, how can he know what the inside story is." I'm afraid that I know your details and talk about intimidation. I heard that the Tibetan people didn't even have a written word, so how could they be so smart? ”

Wang Shichong shook his head: "Absolutely not, this Bang Saise came all the way from Longxi, and saw a lot of the situation of Yang Guang's good deeds, dying to save face, and entertaining those envoys from the Western Regions for free, he said that although the Great Sui has strong national strength, but from the west of Guanzhong, after the Tuyuhun expedition and a wave of envoys from the Western Regions, it is now exhausted, even in Daxing City, there are groups of beggars, all of whom have fled from the Longxi area. ”

"If Yang Guang can turn back in time now, on the one hand, he will transfer the grain in Guandong to open a warehouse for relief, and on the other hand, he will organize young and middle-aged people to hurry up and farm the fields, and he can also recover, but if he starts a war with Goguryeo at this time, a large number of Guanlong heroes and young men will run to the army to fight, and then there will be no people in Guanzhong who can farm the land, and there will be thousands of miles of red land and no food."

Pei Shiju was dumbfounded when he heard this, and after a long time, he sighed: "I didn't expect that there are such talents in this wild place, but I underestimated Tubo." But just based on this corner of the pass, it cannot be asserted that the entire Great Sui will be finished because of the Goguryeo conquest. (To be continued......)