At this time, Zhao Cijing, a waiter of the military department, said: "Chen Xiangguo's raft plan can be considered by the military department, but the Yangtze River in the gorge area is turbulent and there are many reefs, and the raft is easy to be torn apart by the reefs, so I am afraid it is not suitable for shipping on the Yangtze River." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Chen Shuda said with a smile: "Zhao Shilang only knows one, but he doesn't know the other, although the Yangtze River in the gorge area is turbulent, there are many reefs, but basically there are bright reefs, there are no reefs, but the wooden boats sailing on the river have a great impact, easy to hit the reef and smash, but on the other hand, the long-term water erosion makes the reef become very round, there is no sharp angle, there is no need to worry about the raft being torn, and the raft itself has good elasticity, if we add cowhide covering, there is no need to worry about hitting the reef and sinking, I think it can be applied to the Yangtze River." ”

Speaking of which, everyone is not good at refutating anymore, all eyes are on Li Yuan, the son of heaven, Li Yuan pondered for a moment and said: "It is difficult to quench the thirst of the distant water, the civilian ships in Shu have been requisitioned, and the small boats in Guanzhong cannot be sent to Bashu, but the front does need to transport food, I think we can give it a try, if it doesn't work, we will think of other ways, this matter will be carried out by the Ministry of War, we must hurry up!" ”

Zhao Cijing hurriedly bowed down and saluted, "Weichen obeys the order!" ”

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Li Yuan returned to the imperial study, and not long after, the crown prince Li Jiancheng also followed, "Is there something wrong with my father looking for his son?" ”

"You sit down first!"

The father and son sat down, Li Yuan took a sip of tea, and said to Li Jiancheng: "What do you think of the current situation of the Eastern Crusade?" ”

Li Jiancheng was silent for a moment and said: "Erchen thinks that controlling Jingzhou and Jiangxia County is the key, and it doesn't matter whether Xiao Mo is exterminated or not, leaving him will give us an extra buffer between us and the Sui army." ”

"You say this because it's no longer realistic for us to defeat Xiao Mo?"

"There is a little reason for this, but Erchen still thinks that the mines in Jiangxia County are more important."

Li Yuan nodded, "I will order your second brother to deal with this matter properly, and I came to you today for another important matter." ”

"Please advise the Emperor!"

Li Yuan was very satisfied with the modest attitude of his eldest son, so he smiled and said: "This matter is not big, and it is not small to say that it is small, so let's say it!" I want you to go to Taiyuan. ”

"Sons obey orders!"

Li Yuan looked at the eldest son a little strangely, he knew that the eldest son must have misunderstood, thinking that he was letting him Taiyuan sacrifice the army, Li Yuan shook his head, "You don't understand what I mean, I am asking you to deal with Liu Wuzhou and exchange your fourth brother back." ”

Li Jiancheng was stunned for a moment, it turned out that he wanted to beat Liu Wuzhou, and he was not mentally prepared at all.

Li Yuan sighed and said: "Liu Wuzhou has dragged us for too long, recently I saw a few performances of the Imperial History Platform, of course, it was very subtle, saying that what Yuan Ji did in Taiyuan did not conform to his identity, what does it mean that it does not conform to his identity, it must be that he is doing nonsense in Taiyuan, if it is nonsense, it is simple, I suspect that Liu Wuzhou's delay is not because of how strong he is, but because your fourth brother is not powerful." ”

Li Jiancheng was silent, in fact, he also suspected that Liu Wuzhou's delay in extinguishing was that the fourth brother was deliberately indulgent, in order not to transfer back to Chang'an, last year his father wanted Xiaogong to replace the fourth brother, but the fourth brother secretly instructed the state scholars to jointly write a letter, asking him to stay, and the father seemed to be persuaded to cancel the order, Li Jiancheng knew that his father was not confused, but his father had already intended to go out of the Bashu Eastern Expedition, so he temporarily gave up the transfer.

But why did my father think of transferring himself to the state now?

Li Yuan seemed to understand Li Jiancheng's incomprehension, and said slowly: "If Zhang Xuan wants to attack Xiao Miao, it is another matter, if he doesn't attack Xiao Miao, then the war in the south will gradually subside, and I am worried that there will be a dispute on the side of Bingzhou, although it will not happen immediately, but we must take precautions, we must solve Liu Wuzhou, and we can't drag it out any longer." ”

Li Yuan walked to the window with his hands down, looking at the sky in the distance in a daze, for a long time, his voice became very distant, and there was an indescribable resentment.

"At the beginning, Dou Wei and Dugu Shun told me that although the world is united, there will be no big threat, the Tang Dynasty will smoothly merge all the princes, and finally unify the world, even Zhang Xuan will return to the Tang Dynasty and become my subordinates, but it turns out that they are wrong, and they are ridiculously wrong, Zhang Xuan has become our biggest threat, and it is still unknown who will kill the deer, I don't know if I can see the day when the world is unified."

Speaking of this, Li Yuan let out a long sigh, his eyes full of melancholy.

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To the west of Poyang Lake, at the junction of Yuzhang County and Jiujiang County, there is a narrow official road, from south to north, and it turns westward at 90 degrees, and the official road leads to Jianchang County, which is 100 miles away, but at the bend, there is another branch road, which extends to the Poyang Lake two miles away, where there is a natural wharf, and the ship of a thousand stones can also dock directly there.

Many fishermen who fish in Poyang Lake go ashore from this natural wharf and then take the branch road home, but this branch road was not built by the fishermen, but built by Lin Shihong to make it easier for him to go ashore from Poyang Lake.

In the afternoon of that day, several large ships were moored on the shore of the lake, more than 30 personal soldiers escorted Lin Shihong to the shore quickly, and dozens of war horses were brought down from the other two horse boats.

Lin Shihong's expression was extremely ugly, as if the anger in his chest was about to explode, the reason for his emotional instability was not that Peng Ze was lost, but that he got the news that his third son and second son-in-law died unexpectedly in the army, the reason was that they were killed by the assassins of the Sui army, Lin Shihong exploded when he heard it, it was just nonsense, where is the reason that the lord of the army will be assassinated, are those personal guards all eating dry food? If you want to kill him, you can also kill him, Lin Shihong.

The two were definitely not assassinated by the Sui army, and Lin Shihong became more and more suspicious that they were killed by the fourth son, the reason is very simple, the fourth son Lin Zhengbiao in order to seize military power, the more he thought about it, the more likely it became, the more he thought about it, the anger in Lin Shihong's heart was difficult to suppress, he must find out about this matter, if it was really done by the fourth son, then don't blame him for not thinking about the relationship between father and son.

Lin Shihong turned on his horse and, escorted by thirty personal cavalrymen, galloped away in the direction of Jianchang County in the west.

Because this area is the junction of two counties, it is sparsely populated and remote, and there are basically no villages to see all the way to the west, only a small fishing village near Poyang Lake.

The war horse galloped, rolling up the rolling yellow dust, on both sides were endless forests and rolling hills, Lin Shihong bit his lip and galloped the horse, he had to rush to the camp in Jianchang County before dark.

After thirty miles, they entered a valley road, flanked on either side by steep mountains, bushes, and rocks, and up there were large primeval forests.

The valley road was about three miles long, and when they had run for a mile, they had to stop their horses, and a large fallen tree in front of them blocked the way.

The big tree is about five or six zhang long, and the two people on the tree path can't hug each other, Lin Shihong couldn't help but look up at the mountain, this big tree should have rolled down from the mountain, at this moment, Lin Shihong suddenly found that there was a figure shaking in the bushes dozens of steps away.

Lin Shihong was suddenly shocked, "It's not good, there is an ambush!" He shouted, turned his horse's head, and fled.

But it was too late, only to hear the sound of a bang, at least two thousand crossbowmen appeared in the bushes on both sides, they fired arrows in unison, and the arrows shot at Lin Shihong and his guards like a storm, and the poor generation of heroes died under the random arrows, Lin Shihong was shot like a hedgehog by hundreds of arrows, and all his personal soldiers and war horses were all killed by random arrows.

The arrows stopped, and the figure of General Lu Fei appeared next to the big stone on the left, and Lu Ping walked out from behind the big tree on the right, and Lu Fei shouted left and right, "Go and see!" ”

A soldier rushed down the mountain, and after a while, he reported: "General Qiyu, all dead." ”

The two brothers exchanged glances, they completed the task assigned to them by the King of Qi, and Lu Ping immediately sent two henchmen to send Lin Shihong's head to Pengze County. (To be continued.) )