This Datang is dangerous! ”

An old sigh came from behind him to Dou Wei's ears, making Dou Liang slightly stunned, and when he turned around, he saw two old men sitting on the seats behind him, both about sixty years old, asking for a few plates of side dishes and a pot of wine.

Both of them were neatly dressed, and it could be seen that they were honest people, and it was a white-bearded old man who spoke just now, he picked up his wine glass and sighed, "If the court doesn't make up its mind, I guess it won't be able to survive next year." ”

"Next year?" Another old man snorted, "If it weren't for the Turks going south, I don't think it would have survived this year." ”

Dou Liang picked up the wine glass and got up, walked to the two old men and said with a smile: "My surname is Liu, and I am also from the capital, I drink wine alone, can we fight and talk." ”

The two old men nodded happily, "It's okay, this brother just sits here." ”

Dou Liang hurriedly beckoned his man to bring his wine and food, he ordered a few more good dishes, and smiled at the two old men: "I don't have many friends here, and few people talk, I don't know the surnames of the two brothers?" ”

The two old men saw that Dou Liang was very good at being a person, and they also had a good impression of him, and the white-bearded old man pointed to himself and smiled: "My surname is Chen, and the surname Wei on the other side is from the capital." ”

When Dou Liang heard that another old man's surname was Wei, he couldn't help but take a second look, could it be the Wei family, but he knew all the important people of the Wei family, and it was estimated that even if this was the Wei family, he was also a concubine.

Dou Liang sat with them, he wanted to listen to the public opinion, listen to the views of the ordinary people in Chang'an on the current situation, generally the lowest people will not care about this kind of thing, the bottom people only care about firewood, rice, oil and salt, one rì three meals, as long as it is not a bandit calling, they don't care who sits in the world.

Most people with a little experience and a little family background will care about this kind of military affairs, and they can come to Lantian Restaurant to drink, at least they are small families, and such people. in order to represent the real public opinion.

Seeing that they no longer mentioned the topic just now, Dou Liang smiled and said, "I have a relative who is also a fourth-grade official in the imperial court, and I chatted with him last night. He said that now people in the court are panicking, many officials are no longer doing things, sitting together all day to discuss the current situation, and a series of current situations have happened recently, which is really very shocking, and now they are talking about it everywhere. ”

Dou Liang is telling the truth, and now the court is not at ease. He knew all these things about gathering in one place all day to discuss the current situation, but he wanted to hear the voices of the people, to hear the thoughts of ordinary people.

Dou Rail's throwing of bricks and jade aroused the topic of the two old men, and the old man surnamed Wei sighed and said: "I also told Brother Chen just now, in fact, there is still hope in the Tang Dynasty, but you have to break your arm to survive." ”

"Hope?" Old Man Chen sneered, "That's your idea. Where is the hope of a court that has been defeated repeatedly and even the capital has been broken by the other party? You go to Chang'an and ask around. Now who still says that there is hope in the Tang Dynasty, only knows that there is internal strife, fighting for power and profit all day long, and the life and death of the people, who cares? The price of grain has reached 120 Wen for rice, and Taiyuan is only 40 Wen for rice, when everyone is blind? ”

Old man Chen's words were full of anger, although there was some truth, but Dou Liang felt uncomfortable when he heard it, and he hurriedly asked the old man surnamed Wei: "Brother Wei said just now that there is still hope for the Tang Dynasty." What is the hope, can Brother Wei say it. ”

Seeing that Dou Liang was not interested in his words, the old man Chen was depressed, so he drank the stuffy wine in one gulp, and the old man surnamed Wei slowly tasted a glass of wine, and then slowly said: "Brother Ren knows." Where is the real crisis of the Tang Dynasty now? ”

"You say, I'll listen." Dou Liang picked up the wine jug and poured him a glass of wine, and said with a smile.

"Now the biggest crisis in the Tang Dynasty is in the land, the uniform field system has been said to be implemented since last year, but now it has been more than a year, there is no news, and as far as I know, now Hedong, Hebei and the Central Plains are implementing the uniform field system on a large scale, a family can get an average of one hectare of Yongye field, in Fengzhou, Lingwu County can even get three hectares, where is the reason for the Tang Dynasty? The reason is that there is no land to distribute in the hands of the government. "What about Bashu, what about Jingxiang, don't you have land?" The old man next to him was unconvinced.

"Don't say it, there's really no land."

The old man surnamed Wei said triumphantly: "Bashu and Jingxiang have not experienced large-scale rebellion and melee like Hebei and the Central Plains, there are too many dead, and there is ownerless land everywhere, so it is very well distributed, while Bashu and Jingxiang are relatively stable, the land is ownerless, and there are many big landlords in the local area, the imperial court can't take the land over there to the people of Guanzhong!" That's going to be a big mess. ”

Dou Liang drank silently, he was the prime minister of the dynasty, of course this question was very clear, in fact, he also knew that the Sui court had a large amount of ownerless land in his hands, which could be distributed to poor peasants to buy the hearts of the people, so that the soldiers would have sufficient resources and soldiers would use their lives.

On the contrary, the Tang court had no land in its hands, and the only bit of land was distributed to the royal family of the clan, resulting in the failure to implement the Juntian system, the people's disagreement, and low morale, how could they beat the Sui Dynasty?

The old man surnamed Wei said: "Now the only hope of the Tang Dynasty is to seize the land from the powerful and distribute it to the landless peasants, so as to stimulate the morale of the bottom peasants to protect their families and defend the country, then there is still hope for the Tang Dynasty, otherwise it makes no sense to expect the magnates to protect the Tang Dynasty, I am afraid that these magnates have surrendered in advance." ”

Dou Rail couldn't listen to it anymore, depriving the magnates of their land and distributing it to the peasants was a joke, the Tang Dynasty was about to end, at this time Dou Rail was not in the mood to eat, nor was he in the mood to chat with these two old men, he took out a small ingot of silver and put it on the table.

"Two brothers, there is still something going on at home, you use it slowly, I'll go first."

When the two old men saw that he had paid the bill, they were in a good mood and got up to thank each other, "My brother is a lover person, and we will have a chance to talk about it in the future." ”

Dou Liang arched his hand, turned around and went downstairs, his carriage stopped at the door of the wine shop, and as soon as he walked by the carriage, he heard someone shouting to him, "Master! The old man took a slow step. ”

As soon as Dou Rail turned around, he saw his butler riding a donkey running towards this side, Dou Rail stopped, and after a while, the butler rushed forward and said to Dou Rail: "Master, the general is back, please go back to the house immediately." ”

The general is the clan brother Dou Kang, the official is the general of Qianniu and the general of Yizhou Xingtai, Dou Liang was slightly stunned, how did Dou Kang come back, he is far away in Chengdu, the news should not be so fast.

Dou Liang immediately nodded, got into the carriage and ordered, "Go home immediately!" ”

The carriage started and galloped towards Dou Mansion......

Dou Rail's mansion is located in Chongrenfang, covering an area of about 80 acres, and is also a famous mansion in Chang'an, the Dou family is an important representative of the Guanlong aristocracy, and their ancestors are also Xianbei nobles, and they are extremely important imperial relatives in the Sui and Tang dynasties.

Queen Dou of the Tang Dynasty is the daughter of the Dou family, and Dou Kang's mother is Princess Wan'an, the eldest sister of Emperor Yang Jian of Sui Wen, so the Dou family has a very important position in both the Sui Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty.

In the outer study, Dou Kang was pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back, looking preoccupied, he heard a few days ago that Yang Yuanqing led the army to attack Chang'an, and he immediately realized that something was wrong.

If the Tang army was repeatedly defeated against the Sui army, it was only a military defeat, and there was room for redemption, then Yang Yuanqing led the army to attack Chang'an, which was a political turning point, which meant that the Tang Dynasty would fall into passivity in an all-round way.

As the number two person in the Dou family, at this critical moment, how could he stay in Chengdu and live a leisurely life.

In fact, Dou Kang's military power has been deprived, as the head of Yizhou Xingtai, Dou Kang is only in charge of Bashu's army, but less than a month after he took office, Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, also came to Bashu and took away all the military power, Dou Kang became an idler, he secretly rushed to Chang'an from Chengdu, and no one knew.

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and then the door opened, and Dou Liang walked in, "When did the second brother come back?" ”

"I just came back, aren't I in a hurry to find you?"

Seeing his solemn expression, Dou Liang understood a little in his heart, he closed the door, and asked, "You came back at this time, didn't Li Yuanji know?" ”

Dou Liang is very cautious, at this critical moment, Li Yuan will inevitably pay attention to the movements of important ministers in the imperial court, especially after Tang Feng's surveillance of Yin Guiping was exposed, everyone was more careful.

Dou Liang snorted disdainfully, "That person has no ability except to play with women and hunting, and in such a cold winter, he actually went to Hanzhong to hunt." ”

Dou Rail was stunned, Hanzhong? This place is very sensitive, recently the crown prince and the king of Qin are fighting for the military power in Hanzhong, Tang Feng secretly told Luo Yi, the governor of Hanzhong, to eat empty salaries, which caused Li Yuan to be angry, and ordered the supervision of the imperial history and the military department to jointly investigate.

Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, went to Hanzhong to hunt at this critical time, but did not come to Chang'an to worship his mother, which is really a bit unreasonable.

However, Dou Liang didn't care about this matter now, he sighed and said, "The second brother doesn't know about the big event in Huining County!" ”

Dou Liang told Dou Kang in detail about the surrender of Sheng Yanshi and the annihilation of Li Shenfu's entire army, and finally said with a wry smile: "The saint has been scared, and he wants to negotiate peace with Yang Yuanqing desperately, even Hexi, second brother, the situation is worrying now!" ”

Dou Kang gasped, is the situation already so serious? He asked again, "Third brother, how much time do you think you have left?" ”

Dou Kang means the time when the Sui Dynasty comprehensively attacked the Tang Dynasty, that is, how much time the Dou family still has, Dou Liang pondered: "I think the Sui Dynasty took Hexi, which means that Yang Yuanqing has turned his strategic attention to Guannei, although many people say that the next step of the Sui Dynasty is the six counties of Qingzhou, I think Dou Jiande is no longer worth mentioning, a general can lead the troops to sweep away, now the Sui and Tang Dynasty are negotiating, the Sui army may go back to recuperate for a while, but at the latest next summer, as soon as next year, Yang Yuanqing will inevitably fight the five counties of Guannan and the counties of Hehuang." To complete the strategic encirclement of Guanzhong, we have a few months left at most. ”

After a pause, Dou Liang sighed, "Speaking of which, it is still the old Jiān of the Dugu family, I just knew that Zhang Lei, the military superintendent of the Sui Dynasty, turned out to be Dugu Lei, the craftsman of the Dugu family in the past, Dugu Zhen had already arranged this move, and our Dou family was still one step slower." ”

Dou Kang stood up and said: "It's not too late to make up for the loss, I'll go to Huining County and talk to Yang Yuanqing in detail." ”