The time gradually came to the middle of January, according to tradition, the New Year officially came to an end after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, but this year is different from usual, last year's summer and autumn drought has brought a great impact on agriculture in the north.

Fortunately, this year's winter is old, three heavy snows in a row, completely lifted the drought, coupled with this year's warm climate, the frozen river water began to thaw around the Midyear Festival, many farmers began to loosen the soil and plough the fields, fertilize and repair canals in the seventh and eighth days of the first month, and the entire northern land was busy early.

On the seventeenth day of the first month, on the official road west of Luhe Port in Hejian County, a group of hundreds of cavalry entered the wind and lightning, and the leader was Yang Yuanqing, the king of Chu.

Luhe Port is the port of the Sui army, more than 1,500 ships are moored in this vast seaport, Luhe Port is an ice-free port, and you can also sail in winter, but since the end of the attack on Goryeo, more than 1,000 warships have been moored in the harbor for repair, and have not gone to sea again.

When Yang Yuanqing ran to ten miles away from the harbor, they approached the first sentry post, the harbor was heavily guarded, it was a secret place of the Sui Dynasty, there were 3,000 garrisons, and it was strictly forbidden for any idle entrants to approach, even if it was a craftsman and crew working in the harbor, they must have a special entry and exit bronze medal, and they were not allowed to go out.

At this time, a team of sentries rushed to block their way to Bailao, and a personal soldier stepped forward and shouted: "His Royal Highness the King of Chu has come down to inspect the harbor, please give way!" ”

The sentry team led by him stepped forward, and when he saw that it was Yang Yuanqing, he was so frightened that he hurriedly saluted, turned around and waved his hand, "Get out of the way!" ”

The sentries got out of the way, Yang Yuanqing led the crowd to speed up the speed of the horse towards the harbor, still a few miles away from the harbor, and saw the sea ships like city walls in the distance, the black warships were next to each other, row after row, the mast was like a forest, and it was discharged dozens of miles away.

At this time, there was a team of cavalry in front of him, about more than 100 into, but the leader was Zhou Guangyao, the commander of Luhe Port, with the expansion of the territory of the Sui army, the establishment of the army also began to change, divided into two kinds of Kyoto army and local army, the Kyoto army has not changed much, for the general, general, general, Lang general four levels, Lang General and below the lieutenant, brigade commander, team and other middle and low-level officers.

The local army is divided into three levels: commander, commander, and captain, and below the lieutenant are also middle and low-level officers such as captain, brigade commander, and team leader, which is basically in the same vein as the Sui Dynasty, but the original small commander was changed to a commander.

Luhe Port because of the jurisdiction of the small number of troops, only 3,000 in, so the main general is only the commander, from the third rank, equivalent to the second general of the Kyoto Army, the commander Zhou Guangyao is also a veteran who has followed Yang Yuanqing for many years, Lingwu County entered, joined the Fengzhou Army in the first year of the Great Cause, and was promoted to commander step by step.

He rode his horse and galloped over, bowed and saluted, "See Your Highness!" ”

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "General Zhou has worked hard, what is abnormal recently?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, it has been very quiet in the past few months, because the river is frozen, and there are no ships coming over for Caoyun."

Zhou Guangyao said again: "The humble post has already packed up the camp tent and prepared the meal, please ask His Highness and the brothers to go to rest and eat first." ”

Yang Yuanqing saw that it was noon, so he turned back to the crowd and smiled: "Go eat and rest first!" ”

Zhongjin was already hungry, and when they heard this, they were overjoyed, and they urged their horses one after another, and followed Zhou Guangyao towards the camp......

After lunch, Yang Yuanqing stood in front of the big tent while drinking hot tea, while looking at the vast fleet on the sea in the distance, his mood was a little not very quiet, in fact, he could build the largest fleet in the world, with the strong combat effectiveness of the Sui army, he could sweep away, and even hit Byzantium.

Since ancient times, the obstacle that hinders the conquest of the Central Plains Dynasty is not technology, but the concept, is the idea of agricultural civilization, from the beginning of the construction of the Great Wall by Qin Shi Huang, it is destined that the Han nation is not a nation to open up to the outside world, to change this concept, it takes all aspects of efforts, more importantly, interests, as long as there are enough interests, there is a willingness to open up to the West, to the overseas.

At this time, a sound of footsteps interrupted Yang Yuanqing's train of thought, and as soon as he turned around, he saw the commander Zhou Guangyao walking quickly, Zhou Guangyao stepped forward and knelt down on one knee, "It has been arranged, please inspect Your Highness!" ”

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "Then go to the warehouse first!" ”

The military port warehouse is located behind a hill, is a warehouse group composed of 20 large warehouses, since October last year, the Sui army from Liyang warehouse and Youzhou by waterway to transport a large amount of grain and military supplies, the warehouse is surrounded by a wall, there are 1,000 troops guarded, the security is very tight, no one can approach.

Yang Yuanqing, under the escort of Zhou Guangyao and more than 100 personal soldiers, came to the military port warehouse, the warehouse was ready, the gate was opened, and a Cangcao military officer came out.

"He Yuan, who is a lowly cang, can participate in the military, see His Highness!"

"Youlao He joined the army."

Yang Yuanqing looked at the warehouse, the warehouse was several miles away, he pointed to the nearest warehouse from him, and asked, "What kind of warehouse is that?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, that's the granary."

"Then let's look at the grain depot first!"

Yang Yuanqing turned over and dismounted, and walked towards the grain depot surrounded by the crowd......

At the same time that Yang Yuanqing was inspecting the military port, Emperor Li Mi of Wei was also inspecting the warehouse in Jiangyang County.

The warehouse is less than a mile away from the Yangtze River, there is a special Cao Canal and the Yangtze River to figure out, the river wind blowing from the Yangtze River is very strong, the flagpole on the big flag is snapping, although just after the Midyear Festival, but the river wind has turned to the south wind, and there is a trace of warmth in the wind.

The warehouse located in Jiangyang County is also the largest warehouse in the Wei State, consisting of more than 100 large warehouses, in fact, it is a warehouse city, with a circumference of about fifteen miles, and the warehouse alone stores as much as 500,000 stones, as well as a large number of armor tents and other materials.

Dressed in gold armor, wearing a golden helmet and wearing a sword at his waist, Li Mi, the lord of Wei, surrounded by hundreds of guards and generals, inspected the largest Jiangyang warehouse in the Wei State.

Li Mi's face sank like water, and he looked extremely unhappy, in fact, he had not been happy since he went south to Jiangdu, although he annexed the armies of Chen Ling and Li Zitong, annihilated Shen Faxing, and won successive military victories, but he did not go well politically.

He never got the support of the Jiangnan Shi clan, and the people of Jiangnan did not support his army, seeing him as a foreign invader, and the officials he sent were either killed or fled, so that he only had five counties in his hands.

What made him even more angry was that he was not even as good as Li Zitong, Li Zitong also got some Jiangnan support, not to mention Shen Faxing, he destroyed Li Zitong and Shen Faxing, and incorporated their nearly 60,000 troops, but within three years, he fled most of them, and he couldn't stop fleeing after killing nearly a thousand people.

Li Mi was a little skeptical that he had come to Jiangnan to develop correctly, but he didn't have much time to think about what to do next. He didn't even have time to win the support of the Jiangnan Shi clan, and he didn't stop since he set foot on the land of Jiangnan.

The south is not a quiet land, the five major forces in the south of the Yangtze River, he has only destroyed the weaker three so far, and the two major forces of Jianghuai, Du Fuwei and Yuzhang Xiao Miao, threaten his survival.

Li Mi also had to admit that Du and Xiao were much more difficult to deal with than the other three, a few months ago he sent Shan Xiongxin to lead an army of 100,000 to attack Du Fuwei first, and after capturing Liyang County and defeating Du Fuwei, he encountered a counterattack by Du Xiao and his army, his army was defeated, and nearly half of the 100,000 army was lost.

Since then, Li Mi has put all his jīng strength on dealing with Du Xiao's two families, he received information yesterday that Xiao Liangjun and Du Fuwei's army are carrying out large-scale transfers at the same time, and the deployment of troops is advancing to the east, no matter how idiotic you enter, you can guess that these two families are going to join forces at the same time to deal with Li Mi's Wei army, this news makes Li Mi extremely annoyed.

Li Miyīn walked into a grain warehouse with a calm face, bags of grain were neatly stacked, and a warehouse manager introduced him in a panic: "This warehouse has a total of 30,000 stone of grain, of which one bag of grain weighs one stone, and there are 30,000 bags in total. ”

"Is there a regular monitoring?" Li Mi asked coldly.

The warehouse manager was even more panicked, "Back to Your Majesty, there is supervision, once every six months." ”

"Half a year?"

Li Mi turned around and said to Changshi Fang Xuanzao extremely unhappy: "It's too long, I have to check it once a month." ”

"Yes, I understand." Fang Xuanzao had to answer helplessly.

The crowd looked around, and then walked to the warehouse next door, at this time, Wang Bodang, the general of the right guard, stepped forward and said: "Your Highness, we are facing the Du Xiao coalition army this time, do you want to consider defending against the threat from the north?" ”

"You mean Yang Yuanqing?" Li Mi understood what the threat he was referring to.

"Your Majesty, Du Fuwei is actually Yang Yuanqing's entry, if we use too much army to deal with Du Xiao's two advances, once the Sui army moves south from Qian County, Jiangdu will be threatened, and I suggest that a part of the Jīng army be deployed in Pengcheng County to defend against the surprise attack of the Sui army in the Central Plains."

Li Mi thought about it for a while, and then asked Fang Xuanzao, "What about Changshi's thoughts?" ”

Fang Xuanzao also thought about this problem, so he said: "Now that Yang Yuanqing is concentrating his forces to deal with the Tang Dynasty, he thinks that after opening the Tang Dynasty, the Sui army will inevitably attack Guanzhong on a large scale, and now he has no time to take care of us, but be careful, I agree with General Wang's suggestion." ”

Shan Xiongxin also said: "Now Qingzhou has not been destroyed, if Yang Yuanqing wants to attack us, he should also destroy Qingzhou first, he left Qingzhou not to fight, obviously he does not want to directly border our territory, so that he has no worries when attacking the Tang Dynasty, from this point, it can be seen that the Sui army is indeed going to destroy the Tang Dynasty first." ”

Li Mi sighed slightly, "I think the same way, but there is not much time left for us to do so, we must eliminate Du Fuwei and Xiao Mo as soon as possible, and consolidate our power in the south, if we don't take advantage of the opportunity of the Sui army to attack Guanzhong to pacify Jiangnan, and when Yang Yuanqing turns back after beating Guanzhong, we really have no chance." ”

Everyone felt Li Mi's strong sense of distress, and they all began to understand why he was so depressed.

(To be continued)