Li Jing, who had just quelled the rebellion of the Shandong clan in Shandong and hurried back, rushed back to the capital two days before New Year's Day to attend the Yuan meeting.

Originally, after preparing for the Yuan Meeting, he was going to hurry south to return to Shandong again, but he didn't expect that on the day of the Yuan Meeting, he was first awarded the title of Duke of Wei County, and he also got 6,000 households of Zhenfeng Shiyi and 6,000 acres of Yongye Field.

Rao was born in the Guanlong family and was noble, and he was superior since he was a child, and he couldn't help but be moved in the face of such a heavy reward. This time, the imperial court only rewarded four princes, among which Mao Xi and Li Benlei, who were the elders of the Liaodong Army, have always ranked first in civil and military affairs. Although the other two Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui entered the Liaodong Army late and were Wenchen, the two of them were valued by King Chen.

And he is not the minister of Yuan Rong of the Liaodong Army, a military general who joined halfway, as soon as he enters the Liaodong Army, he can get unprecedented trust, and he has always been able to lead an army outside, which shows the depth of this trust.

This time, in addition to the addition of four dukes, the second-level county dukedom, a total of eighteen county dukes, he was not a Guanlong nobleman who was not a general of King Chen's lineage, and he was able to obtain one of the eighteen county dukes, and this generous reward made him suddenly feel that he was a confidant in the world.

The excitement of the knighthood has not passed, and the imperial court issued an edict again, and he entered the political hall for the first time with the title of secretary of the military department and the title of governor of the government, becoming one of the nine ministers of the imperial court. When he was in the main hall, he felt the congratulatory and envious eyes of his colleagues, which made him both excited and stressed. The Liaodong army has more Wenchen generals than his highly qualified, and in terms of it, whether it is the old ministers of Chenjiazhuang when King Chen, or the courtiers who followed him all the way in Liaodong, as well as the descendants of Chen such as the eldest grandson and the Gao family, each of them is more qualified than him.

Now he has not only become one of the eighteen county princes, but also one of the nine ministers.

This heavy reward is related to the fact that although he was born in a famous and noble family in the Great Sui Dynasty, he became famous in the court early when he was a teenager, but he was in his early fifties. But it's still just a small Cong Wupin Juncheng. If it weren't for that mistake by the Luoshui River, maybe by now, he would still be just a small Mayi Juncheng.

Comparing the two, I felt more and more that King Chen was so kind to him.

Li Jing's heart was stirring and churning, he had passed the year of knowing the destiny of heaven, although he had been lamenting in his early years that he had not met Huai Cai, but then his ambition gradually faded. I even thought about spending my life in peace.

But he never thought of it, just when he wanted to be bland. His life is changing so dramatically, is this a late bloomer, or is it bitter? Thinking of King Chen's kindness, the ambition that he had gradually buried in his heart over the years suddenly broke through the ground and quickly sprouted and grew. Grow into a towering tree in your heart.

He sat on the soft cushion on one side, listening to King Chen and Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Wei Zheng, Gao Shilian and others discussing the reform of the county system, the discussion was so enthusiastic, but he couldn't interject at all.

He has millions of soldiers in his chest, but he has no way to rule a county.

Let him command a million troops and attack the city and conquer the country. He was not afraid, but he didn't know how to start when he was asked to deal with these cases. He listened diligently to their discussions, trying to sink himself in. Even if you put forward one or two suggestions, you can't waste His Highness's attention and recommend him to the political hall as a minister.

But the harder he listened, the more he felt that his thoughts were drifting away, and after a while, he was immersed in his own war strategy. In a moment, he was already immersed in the grand battle in his mind, and he was enjoying himself, and he was actually discussing it in the political hall. Deserted.

"Wei Jungong, what do you think?" …,

"Wei Jun Gong" Fang Xuanling turned around and wanted to ask for the opinion of Li Jing, the prime minister. After all, he is also one of the prime ministers. And although everyone calls him the prime minister, he is called Du Ruhui. But this is just a traditional title, in fact, in today's political hall nine-phase system, there is no distinction between superior and inferior, only the person who governs the affairs is the highest one among the nine phases. But the political pen is in turn to be in charge, every seven days.

However, when Fang Xuanling called out and didn't respond, and when he called again, he was surprised to find that Master Li Jing, the pharmacist Li Jing, who had just been promoted to the Duke of Weijun and the prime minister, was actually sitting there, his eyes slightly closed, and his spirit flew thousands of miles.

The anomaly here was soon discovered by the rest of the political affairs hall.

Even the chamberlain on the side almost couldn't help laughing, in front of His Royal Highness King Chen, in such a solemn political hall, he could still be in a daze, and the eunuch didn't know how to admire this General Li.

"General Li, Shandong military situation emergency!" Chen Kefu looked at Li Jing's distracted appearance, couldn't help but laugh, took a few steps forward, and suddenly shouted loudly at Li Jing.

Sure enough, Fang Xuanling called Li Jing a few times, but Li Jing didn't respond. As soon as he said that the Shandong military situation was urgent, this Xiangguo lord suddenly jumped up, "Submit it quickly." ‘

When Li Jing found out that he was standing in the political hall at this time, surrounded by the prime minister of the imperial court and the regent Chen Wang, he couldn't help but blush, not knowing what to do.

"The old minister is rude, please punish His Highness!" Li Jing pleaded guilty.

Chen Kefu smiled, "What was Gong Wei thinking about just now, and he was thinking so much?" ”

Li Jing laughed a few times, "Just now, the old minister was also thinking about the matter that His Highness and the Prime Minister discussed, but he couldn't help but think about the art of war and the war, and he was fascinated for a while, please forgive me." ”

Chen Kefu waved his hand, "The elder Wei Gong is also a military officer, and he is a marshal of the imperial court, so let Wei Gong listen to these trivial political affairs, I am afraid that Wei Gong will be a little impatient." But this king really wants to know, what is the military that Wei Gong was obsessed with just now? ”

As soon as he talked about military affairs, Li Jing immediately came to his senses, and his eyes were much brighter.

"The old minister has just carefully considered the current strategic layout of the imperial court in his heart, and deduced the whole situation.

"What does Wei Gong think? But please know everything, there is no end to it. Although the strategic layout of the imperial court is also a decision made by the generals in the imperial court after thinking about it for a long time, it is inevitable that there will be some loopholes. ”

Li Jing smiled, if it was before today, Li Jing would definitely have another attitude. He already knew that most of the entire strategic layout of the imperial court was proposed by King Chen, and then perfected by the generals of the General Staff Headquarters. This plan is to immediately seize the passes of the Taihang Mountain after entering Hebei, and take all the passages between Hebei and Hedong in his hands. Then send troops to aid Jiangdu, and then send soldiers and horses to open up the first line of Huaibei in Shandong, and block the soldiers and horses south of the Yangtze River on the south bank of the Yangtze River. Then he sent troops to pacify the southern part of Hebei, and after recovering the whole of Hebei, he continued to move south and completely occupied Shandong. At the same time, another light cavalry was sent into Hedong, connecting Hedong, Longyou and other local powerful forces, and joining hands to suppress Li Yuan in Taiyuan, which not only consumed the strength of Li Yuan, Hedong and Longyou, but also ensured that Li Yuan in Hedong could not look north. When the imperial court recuperated in Hebei and Shandong, and recovered to a certain strength, it would attack Taiyuan in one fell swoop, and even attack Henan at the same time. In general, the plan of the imperial court was from north to south and finally from east to west.

This plan looks decent, there is nothing wrong with it, and it can even be said that it is an upper-medium plan.

But in the eyes of everyone in the art of war like Li Jing, this is just a middle-level strategy. If it weren't for the fact that the current situation was favorable to the imperial court, and because the imperial court had a wide range of soldiers, no one dared to go north to attack the imperial court first, then this plan would be a failure. …,

However, Li Jing sat on the cold bench in the Sui Dynasty for decades, and in the end he was just a county prince, which touched him a lot. Sometimes, it's right to follow your boss closely, and it's not the most important thing when it comes to whether your boss is right or wrong. After all, although Chen Kefu's plan is a little unsuccessful, after all, the strength of the Liaodong Army is there, and with this powerful strategy alone, although the strategy is a little worse, it can be made up for by reducing it by ten points. It's just that, in the eyes of everyone in the art of war like him, it is just a little too unimpressive.

If it was before today, Chen Kefu asked him, Li Jing would never say that your plan is terrible, I can come up with a better one by thinking about it. Because this has always been a taboo for those in power, how can a courtier be smarter than a king. If you run into a bad gentleman, you may get into trouble because of it.

However, at today's Yuan Hui, Chen Kefu valued him so much, was knighted as a county duke, and promoted to the prime minister, such a grace of knowing made him forget all the suspicious thoughts in his heart.

He carefully sorted out the thoughts in his mind and decided to say everything in his mind. Even if he provokes King Chen at that time, it can be regarded as repaying His Royal Highness King Chen's kindness to him.

"Your Highness, there is a game of Go in the world, or the art of war. and those who are above are far away from their sparseness, and they are surrounded by meetings, so that they become many and win the victory of the Tao; In the middle, it is necessary to cover up each other, and seek profit by fighting, so the victory or defeat is doubtful, and it must be counted; The lower ones will guard the corners of the border and tend to be in the corner, so that they can live on a small land, but they will not be as good. ”

"Your Highness, the current battle in the Central Plains is a chess-like situation. And Go players, pay attention to the pattern, the same, now the world, is inseparable from the geographical pattern of the Central Plains. Husband war, time, location, people, among them, location, that is, the pattern of geography, is very important. ”

"From the perspective of the military geography of warfare, the geographical pattern of the world is like an irregular Go board. On this non-standard Go board, Guanzhong, Hebei, Jianghuai and Minshu are its four corners, Hedong, Shandong, Jingxiang and Hanzhong are its four sides, and the Central Plains is its central hinterland. Although the Central Plains of China is vast, it is mainly the above nine regions that have played a decisive role in the wars of the past dynasties. ”

As soon as Li Jing exited, he immediately divided the Central Plains into nine major blocks, the four corners and the four sides and the Central Plains. There was only one beginning, which immediately made Chen Kefu's eyes light up, waiting for him to continue