In the Wude Hall of Taiji Palace in Chang'an, Li Yuanzheng and the five Xiangguo and Li Shimin, the king of Qin, urgently discussed the attack that occurred in Xiyang County. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Like Zhongdu, the Tang Dynasty also implemented a multi-phase system, but the Tang Dynasty was a five-phase system, Pei Lian, Liu Wenjing, Chen Shuda, Tang Jian, Dou Jin, but plus the same voting prince Li Jiancheng and Qin King Li Shimin, there was no difference in the number of decision-makers between the Sui and Tang dynasties.

In the past few months, a large amount of pig iron and blister copper from Jiangxia County was transported to Chang'an, which not only quickly enhanced the military strength of the Tang army, but also made the Tang Dynasty open a new money method and began to mint Kaiyuan Tongbao to replace the old money.

The crown prince Li Jiancheng also fought like a rainbow in Bingzhou, repeatedly defeated Liu Wuzhou since the beginning of the year, and in early June, he defeated Liu Wuzhou's 100,000 army in one fell swoop with 50,000 troops in Jingle County, Loufan County, Liu Wuzhou almost completely wiped out, and only led thousands of remnants of the army to flee back to Loufu Pass.

At present, Li Jiancheng is concentrating his forces to attack Loufu Pass, and he is deeply relieved to see that the cancer of Bingzhou for several years will be completely cut off.

But before Li Yuan's joy was over, news came from Xiyang County that was difficult for him to accept.

The attack in Xiyang County caused the Tang Dynasty to lose not only 100 cargo ships, but also 800,000 catties of blister copper, which was a heavy blow to the fledgling new money law.

This made Li Yuan furious, and immediately ordered his second son Li Shimin to lead 10,000 troops to kill Xiyang County.

There was silence in the Wude side hall, and Li Shimin was telling the ministers about the causes and consequences of the attack, and he was well aware of the military background of the attack.

"The Sui army that attacked the fleet this time should be the same group of people as the attackers in Junyang County and Zigui County, they are the Fenglei Army established by the Sui Army half a year ago, composed of a thousand elite cavalry, the leader is called Liu Lancheng, and the two lieutenant generals are one named Li Keshi and the other is Zhang Li, this is all the information I have."

"May I ask Your Highness, where is this Wind Thunder Sui Army hiding? How did they get through Wang Shichong's territory? Could it be that Wang Shichong intended to let them cross? Pei Lin asked three questions in a row.

Li Shimin asked the guards to bring in a map hanging on a wooden frame, he picked up the wooden pole and pointed to the map and said: "If Wang Shichong really intends to let the Sui army cross the border, then the attack site will definitely be in the north of Xiyang County, so that Wang Shichong can clear up the relationship, but from the point of view of the location of the attack, it is located between Danshui County and Nanxiang County, and both counties have Zheng troops stationed, which makes Wang Shichong very passive and embarrassed, basically it can be ruled out that Wang Shichong knew in advance, as for how they passed through Wang Shichong's territory, I don't know, But judging from the scope of their attack, this army should have come from Ye County, and they would also return the same way. ”

"I don't want to hear any explanation!"

Li Yuan said coldly: "I just want to know, what about our pig iron and copper?" Do we want to mint Kaiyuan Tongbao? ”

At this time, Chen Shuda got up and said, "His Royal Highness King Qin, can you let the old minister also say a few words." ”

"Chen Xiangguo, please!"

Li Shimin stepped aside, Chen Shuda stepped forward and said slowly: "In fact, all the contradictions are concentrated on one issue, that is, the ownership of Xiyang County, if Xiyang County is in the hands of others, then our Nanxiang Passage will not be safe for a day, there will be a second and third attack, in fact, this is already the second time, after Junyang County was attacked, Wang Shichong promised to strengthen security along the way, but is it useful?" Still being attacked, still so close to their garrison, I think we have to do something, either we take Xiyang County directly, or Wang Shichong must allow the Tang army to garrison in Xiyang County. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Shuda said with a smile: "From this point of view, the Danshui incident just gave us an excuse to send troops to Xiyang County. ”

On the side, Tang Jian said: "If Wang Shichong promises to strengthen the defense of Danshui again, how should we respond? ”

"Wang Shichong's promise has no meaning, does he really dare to gather a large army to annihilate the wind and thunder army of the Northern Sui?"

Chen Shuda has always advocated peace, but this time his attitude is very decisive, and the reason is very simple, he is responsible for the casting of Kaiyuan Tongbao, and now when he is preparing for large-scale casting, the urgently needed copper material was sunk into Danshui by the Sui army, so how can he not be annoyed and anxious, but on the other hand, he feels that this is a great opportunity to completely take Xiyang County.

At this time, Li Shimin stepped forward again and said: "Enlighten my father, my sons agree with Chen Xiangguo's opinion, Wang Shichong will never offend the Sui army, as long as Wang Shichong's attitude is ambiguous, the attack will definitely happen, but it is not appropriate to send troops directly, we should salute first and then send an envoy to Luoyang to negotiate, the minimum condition is that Wang Shichong allows us to station troops on both sides of the Danshui in Xiyang County, if Wang Shichong refuses, then we will directly send troops to occupy Xiyang County, no matter what, we must ensure the absolute safety of the Nanxiang Passage."

Others expressed their stance one after another, agreeing with the plan of Li Shimin, the king of Qin, to salute first and then to soldier, and to apply both soft and hard.

Li Yuan nodded, "I also agree with this plan, you Aiqing said, who is more appropriate to send in this matter?" ”

Chen Shuda said: "Your Majesty, Dugu Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry and Wang Shichong have a very good personal relationship, and the minister suggested that he be the envoy." ”

Li Yuan hesitated slightly, but still readily agreed, "Quasi-play, Xuandugu Huai'en will see you!" ”

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Although the Danshui attack caused great anger in Chang'an, it did not cause any waves in Luoyang, on the one hand, although this incident did not cause Luoyang's losses, and the government and the opposition generally did not care, on the other hand, it was also because Luoyang was sandwiched between the Sui and Tang dynasties, and both sides were not easy to offend, so they could only respond in silence.

But silence did not solve the problem, Wang Shichong also knew that this matter had a great impact on the Tang Dynasty, so he ordered the organization of manpower to salvage the sunken ship cargo on the Dan River, and at the same time, Wang Shichong sent an envoy to Zhongdu to send Zhang Xuan a letter of his own handwriting, he did not interfere with the actions of the Sui army against the Tang army, but hoped that it would not happen in his territory.

A few days later, news came from Kunguan that the envoy sent by the Tang Emperor, Dugu Huai'en, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Works, had arrived in Kunguan, and Wang Shichong immediately sent the crown prince Wang Xuanying to greet the arrival of the Tang Dynasty envoy on his behalf.

In the imperial study, Wang Shichong was discussing countermeasures with his brother Wang Shiyun, Neishi Ling Duan Da, and Shangshu Yun Dingxing of the Ministry of War.

Duan Dadao: "I heard that the Tang Dynasty lost 800,000 catties of blister copper this time, and they happened to be minting new money, and the loss of this batch of copper materials had a great impact on the Tang Dynasty, Weichen can understand that Li Yuan has become angry. ”

Wang Shichong snorted dissatisfied, turned around and asked Yun Dingxing, "Since there is a garrison in Danshui, why is something happening?" ”

Yun Dingxing was sweating profusely, and scolded in his heart, although he was the secretary of the military department, where could he command the army, and the army would not report to him, how did he know that this kind of thing would happen, it was obvious that Wang Shichong put the responsibility on him.

But Yun Dingxing didn't dare to say that this matter had nothing to do with him, so he had to squeak and whine: "At the beginning, Junyang County still had its own garrison of the Tang Dynasty, the grain was burned like the ships, the fleet sailed in the river, and the Sui army was cavalry, how could it be attacked if it sailed normally, Weichen suspected that there was an internal response of the Sui army in the fleet guard, they colluded inside and outside, and the garrison was beyond the reach of the whip. ”

Yun Dingxing pushed the responsibility to the Tang army again, it was they who landed without authorization, and it had nothing to do with Zheng Jun, Duan Da hurriedly said: "Yun Shangshu is reasonable, we have six military camps along the way, they can completely rest at our garrison, if they are attacked in Nanxiang County or Danshui County, then we have a certain responsibility, but the problem is, they docked without authorization, how can they put the responsibility on to us?" ”

Yun Dingxing and Duan Da mean very clearly, this incident was caused by the unauthorized docking of the Tang army's fleet, and the responsibility is not Zheng Jun, having said that, but the right or wrong of this kind of thing only depends on the strength of the army, and it has nothing to do with who occupies the reason, and now the Tang Dynasty has sent an envoy to Xingshi to ask for the guilt, Wang Shichong can't always splash the other party back with a basin of cold water.

Wang Shichong turned back to look at Wang Shiyun, who had been silent, "The salvage over there in Danshui should be over!" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the salvage has ended this morning, but in the end, only about 80,000 catties of copper ingots were salvaged, and the rest of the copper ingots could not be found." After speaking, Wang Shiyun quickly gave Wang Shichong a look.

Wang Shichong is such a shrewd person, he immediately understood the meaning of this look, the salvaged copper ingots should be far more than 80,000 catties, there should be more copper ingots, but they also need copper ingots, so they will not say anything.

"Alright! The 80,000 catties of copper were transported to Luoyang as soon as possible and returned to the Tang envoy. ”

At this time, Duan Da said again: "Your Majesty, this time the Tang envoy arrived, it should be to discuss with us the ownership of Xiyang County-"

Before he could finish speaking, Wang Shichong slapped the table and shouted angrily: "Is there still a need to discuss the ownership of Xiyang County?" ”

Duan Da was so frightened that he didn't dare to speak, Wang Shichong's face was cloudy, his eyes were full of fierce light, and he said coldly to Duan Da after a while: "You go on!" ”

Duan Da said cautiously: "The Nanxiang Passage is very important to the Tang Dynasty, before they put forward a request to garrison troops in Xiyang County, but was rejected by His Majesty, this time the Tang envoy arrived, it should still be this request, of course, we will not agree, but if we don't agree, what means will the Tang Dynasty take, this is the focus of our attention." ”

Duan Da said very implicitly, but everyone in the room knew what he was talking about, if they did not agree to the Tang Dynasty's request for garrisons, the Tang Dynasty would definitely send troops to capture Xiyang County.

Wang Shichong didn't say anything, and only said after a while: "I'll talk about it when they come!" (To be continued.) )