In the Wude Hall of Chang'an Taiji Palace, an extremely important political hall meeting has just ended, and the decision to seize Luoyang was officially made at this meeting, which is also the inevitability of the general trend of the world.

The Central Plains is the land of four wars, the Tang Dynasty wants to fight for the world, it is impossible to avoid the Central Plains, the Sui Dynasty has captured Hebei, the next step must be to seize the Central Plains, rather than fighting for the Central Plains from the hands of the powerful Sui Dynasty, it is better to take the initiative to send troops and take Luoyang before the Sui Dynasty.

This is also the reason why all the important ministers reached a consensus at this military meeting, those who win the Central Plains win the world, and they cannot passively wait for the Sui army to strike first.

Li Yuan returned to the imperial study from the main hall, and he came back with him, as well as Li Shimin, the king of Qin, and Feng Deyi, who had just been promoted to the waiter of the inner history, Feng Deyi came to Chang'an for half a month to join Li Yuan, in his words, he did not want to humiliate himself as a thief, and was willing to serve the Tang Dynasty.

The relationship between Li Yuan and Feng Deyi was very good in the past, and Feng Deyi was known as the first imperial pen of the Sui Dynasty, and he had extremely rich experience in writing holy decrees, so his arrival was deeply valued by Li Yuan, and he was named the Inner History Squire, and together with several Inner History Sheren, he was in charge of the drafting of the Holy Decree.

The reason why Feng Deyi was also called to the imperial study today was because Li Yuan had something to ask him.

Walking into the imperial study, Li Shimin stepped forward and bowed to his father and said: "Father, this attack on Luoyang, the Sui army is very likely to send troops south, and it is likely to evolve into a big war between the Sui and Tang dynasties. ”

Li Yuan nodded, "This I also understand that if we want to capture Luoyang, it is inevitable to form an alliance with Li Mi, but this is also our wishful thinking, and Li Mi may not be willing to go according to our wishes." ”

"Father. It's not a question of whether Li Mi wants to or not. Instead, he had to think about his own survival, and if the Sui army took Luoyang, Li Mi would face the encirclement of the Sui army. The next one is him, and even if he thinks about himself, he wants to ally with us. Jointly dealing with the southward movement of the Sui army, Erchen was very confident. ”

Feng Deyi next to him did not hesitate to praise, "His Royal Highness the King of Qin is very knowledgeable, and Li Mi has indeed said more than once that Yang Yuanqing is his number one enemy. The reason why he tolerated Dou Jiande's destruction of Xu Yuanlang was largely to prevent Yang Yuanqing from going south, and if the Tang Dynasty was willing to form an alliance with him and jointly deal with the Sui army, he would definitely not be able to ask for it. His Royal Highness King Qin said a few words, and then he explained Li Mi thoroughly. ”

The reason why Li Yuan brought Feng Deyi here was to learn about Li Mi from him. to consider how to form an alliance with Li Mi. Li Yuan pondered for a moment and asked him again. "I want to ask Feng Shilang, what will be Li Mi's attitude if the Tang army attacks Luoyang?"

"Your Majesty, this question is really difficult to answer, as far as the minister knows, Li Mi has always been angry about Wang Shichong's occupation of Luokou City, he wants to destroy Wang Shichong and recapture Luoyang as the capital, but now he has moved the capital to Chenliu and abandoned Xingyang, indicating that he no longer wants to fight Luoyang, unless there is a God-given opportunity, the Tiger Prison Pass is suddenly seized by him, then he will make a comeback, in fact, in the attitude of capturing Luoyang, Li Mi is more contradictory, mainly affected by the two factions under him."

Li Yuan was quite interested, and hurriedly asked, "Which two factions?" ”

Feng Deyi smiled and said: "Li Mi's two factions, one faction is headed by Shan Xiongxin and Fang Xuanzao, that is, the former Wagang faction, they are unwilling to attack Luoyang, and advocate moving the capital to Chenliu County, while the other faction is headed by Wang Bodang and Bing Yuanzhen, because Wang Bodang lost Luokou City, he strongly advocated attacking Hujiao Pass and recapturing Luokou City, and they opposed moving the capital to Chenliu. ”

Li Shimin had a very good impression of Feng Deyi, and Feng Deyi flattered him from the bottom of his bones, which made Li Shimin feel that Feng Deyi had the heart to make friends with him, and Feng Deyi's status was important, and Li Shimin also felt that he was very important to him.

Li Shimin asked with a smile on the side: "In this way, it should be the Shan Xiongxin faction that has the upper hand!"

"That's true, the main thing is that Li Mi needs to get Shan Xiongxin's support in removing the Wagang Army's name, removing the Wagang Army is very dangerous, and a little carelessness will cause Li Mi's army to split, it is precisely because of Shan Xiongxin's full support that Li Mi has survived the difficulty of changing the country's name, so on the big issue of whether to fight Luoyang, Li Mi also accepted the suggestion of Shan Xiongxin's faction, gave up Xingyang, and moved the capital to Chenliu."

Li Yuan understood Feng Deyi's analysis, nodded and said: "I understand what Feng Aiqing meant, I have to communicate with Shan Xiongxin and Fang Xuanzao first, and then talk to Li Mi, so that the alliance will be foolproof, is that so?" ”

Feng Deyi shook his head, "Your Majesty, in fact, if you want to deal with Yang Yuanqing, you actually have to talk to Bing Yuanzhen, he and Yang Yuanqing have a grudge against the teacher, and this person is extremely greedy for bribes, it is easy to buy, as long as he buys him, don't let Li Mi deal with Yang Yuanqing, even if he deals with Li Mi in the future, he will become an internal response." ”

Li Yuan sighed slightly, "I have to love Qing, it's like having one eye!" ”

He immediately said to Li Shimin: "I will immediately send an envoy to negotiate with Li Mi, you can order Tang Feng to buy Bing Yuanzhen first, as long as you can buy him, you will not be stingy with generous coins." ”

"Erchen understands, go do it immediately!" ……

At the same time that the Tang Dynasty Political Affairs Hall decided to launch the Battle of Luoyang, Taiyuan Ziwei Pavilion was also holding an important military and political meeting.

Yang Yuanqing had just returned from Mayi County, and he had already arranged for the rest of Utu to be sent to the vicinity of Fuqibo, and exchanged grain and cloth for their cattle and sheep, and sent them salt and tea to support their settlement.

In the Ziwei Pavilion, more than a dozen important ministers gathered together, and in the middle of the seats there was a huge sand table, the sand table was a map of the twelve counties of Henan Province, Yang Yuanqing stood in front of the sand table, and said slowly to everyone: "Ministers, now that Hebei has been stabilized, the Turks have no time to take care of it for the time being, and our next plan should be to consider fighting for the Central Plains." ”

He took the long wooden pole and pointed to the sand table and said: "Among the three major forces in the Central Plains, Li Mi is the strongest, and Dou Jiande is the weakest, but Dou Jiande is actually one with Li Mi, so Wang Shichong is the isolation of the three, and more importantly, from a strategic point of view, taking Luoyang will block the road of the Central Plains in the eastern map of the Tang Dynasty, making it difficult for it to develop eastward." ”

Du Ruhui, one of the five prime ministers, said: "But has Your Highness thought about it, taking Luoyang is equivalent to being between Li Yuan and Li Mi, if the two of them form an alliance, we are very vulnerable to being attacked by the belly and back, and it is difficult to gain a foothold in Luoyang." ”

"Du Xiangguo's idea is very correct, but it is indeed a big problem, in order to contain Li Mi, we might as well consider forming an alliance with Jianghuai Du Fuwei, let Du Fuwei contain Li Mi from the south, and disperse Li Mi's forces, so that even if we take Luoyang, Li Mi will not be able to assist the Tang Dynasty, in fact, I have already sent an envoy to Du Fuwei to contact, and there will be results soon."

At this time, Cui Junsu asked: "But we still have an alliance with Wang Shichong now, if we attack him at this time, what will the world think?" ”

"The Covenant?"

Yang Yuanqing sneered disdainfully: "We have never had any written covenant with Wang Shichong, at that time, in order to deal with the Tang Dynasty's attack on Hongnong County, we reached a verbal agreement with him on mutual assistance, and to make it clear, it is the agreement reached between me Yang Yuanqing and Wang Shichong, which has nothing to do with the imperial court, and the imperial court can completely disagree that this agreement exists, and more importantly, we have sufficient reasons to go to war with him." ”

"Does Your Highness mean that Wang Shichong usurped the throne?" Cui Junsu understood what the King of Chu was referring to.

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "In any case, we are the same branch as the court in Luoyang, once Wang Shichong usurped the rebellion, he overthrew the Sui Dynasty, if we are indifferent, this will make the world criticize, so actively prepare for war, and wait patiently for the opportunity, is what we need to do, I hope the court can fully support the army to attack Luoyang in the south." ”……

Since the seizure of Luokou City, after getting a large amount of grain, Luoyang's food shortage has finally been lifted, with the abundance of food, the price of goods has subsided rapidly, and the public order has gradually improved, Wang Shichong has taken a series of effective measures to make people's hearts calm, and Wang Shichong himself has also greatly won the hearts of the people.

'Luoyang people only know the world and do not know the emperor, Shishu Liang and cheap knock to worship the world to charge the car, the mouth of the long live people are endless, there is a vision in the sky, the color of the omen, the turtle to offer the totem, sometimes heard. ’

This is a scholar's note, which truly records the harbinger of Luoyang's imminent ascension to the throne.

In fact, Wang Shichong can't wait, the reason why he did not ascend the throne immediately after the mutiny is to gain the support of the people and win the hearts of the people.

At this time, Wang Shichong was already impatiently waiting.

In the morning, Emperor Yang Tong was still sitting at the table reading as usual, he no longer had any real power, just a puppet, and all the power was monopolized by King Zheng and Wang Shichong.

At this time, the voice of the eunuch suddenly came from outside the door, "The Holy Lord is studying, what are you doing with so many people?" ”

"We have important things to tell the Holy One, you get out of the way!"

Immediately, the door opened, and more than a dozen ministers walked in, led by Duan Da and Yun Dingxing, they walked up to Yang Tong and knelt down, Yang Tong frowned, "Ladies and gentlemen, is there anything important?" ”

More than a dozen ministers glanced at each other, and Yun Dingxing said in a deep voice: "All kinds of auspicious signs have appeared. This is the will of heaven, now King Zheng is highly virtuous, should be the Son of Heaven, in response to the will of heaven, I hope that His Majesty can follow Tang Yao and Yu Shun's practice, the emperor Zen to King Zheng. ”

"What!"

Yang Tong changed color, his heart was furious, and he rebuked them: "The world, it is the world of Gaozu, if Sui Yun is not dead, this kind of words are a great rebellion, if it is really the will of God, then there is no need for any Zen concession, you just support him directly, you are all Sui ministers, and you have been responsible for Sui En for a long time, today you can say such words without a father and a king, do you still have the face to appear in front of me?" ”

Emperor Tai's expression was grim, and everyone present shed a cold sweat, and at this time, someone shouted, "His Royal Highness King Zheng has arrived!" ”