In the court, Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng became tense.

The officials of the court are all heart-to-heart, and they are here again. King Qin and the crown prince have confronted each other like this, not once or twice.

Most people are looking at their noses and noses, and they hang their heads and pretend to ignore them, but in fact they are observing their every move.

And Li Yuan has always been-for-tat between the two sons and has not expressed his position.

Li Shimin met Li Jiancheng's gaze and said loudly: "Since the prince wants to say it, then Weichen will also say bluntly, Jingbei and western Henan are in the land of four wars, there is no danger of Hankun to strangle the east, and there is no danger of the Yellow River in the north." As long as Li Chongjiu has Luoyang, he can transfer troops from all sides on the canal to attack at any time, so it is really unwise to move the capital to Jingbei and western Henan. ‘

According to Weichen's opinion, a large line can be set up in the land of Jingbei and western Henan, and half of the troops of Chang'an Mansion will be stationed here, first, to divide the population pressure of Chang'an, and secondly, to guard Henan, shelter Jingxiang, as a barrier of Chang'an, to resist the westward advance of the Zhao army, this is the best policy! ”

'Well said! ‘

The voice came from the dragon chair, Li Jiancheng heard Li Yuan speak, and he couldn't refute Li Shimin's opinion at the moment, so he could only smile and say: "King Qin's words are really insightful. ‘

Seeing that Li Yuan's opinion was adopted, Li Shimin took a step back when he saw that it was good, and said: "I'm just throwing bricks and stones, I still have to listen to the opinions of the ministers, and then make a decision." ‘

Li Yuan bowed his head and said: "That's right, all the ministers should discuss it. ‘

After retiring from the dynasty, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji left the main hall. The two looked at Li Shimin and the ministers from a distance, discussing the preparation of Henan Daxingtai. The face is not good. It has been decided in the court to let Wen Daya guard Panzhou. Zhang Liang, a general of the chariot cavalry, led more than 1,000 men and horses out of Wuguan to prepare for the establishment of a large platform in northern and western Henan in the future.

And Wen Daya and Zhang Liang are both Li Shimin's cronies, and Li Yuan did this with the intention of letting Li Shimin take charge of Henan Daxingtai.

Li Yuanji said: "If Henan Daxingtai is established, the king of Qin will be the governor of Henan, Li Xiaogong, Li Jing and others will listen to his moderation, and there will be soldiers from Guanzhong who moved east, and he will be out of Chang'an when the time comes." We have people and turf in our hands, and we can't do anything about him. ‘

Li Jiancheng nodded, looked at Li Shimin and said: "So you must not let the King of Qin go to Henan, in Henan he is a dragon, and in Guanzhong he is just a horseman." ”

Li Yuanji smiled: "Has His Royal Highness the Crown Prince made a plan?" ”

Li Jiancheng nodded slightly.

A moment later, in the harem of the palace city, Li Yuan's favorite concubine Zhang Jieyu was looking at the secret letter that the eunuch quietly handed him, which was secretly given by Li Jiancheng.

After Li Yuan entered Chang'an, he accepted a lot of harems, because Queen Dou was not there and no one dissuaded him. Moreover, since ancient times, the founding emperors of the past generations have many descendants. Li Yuan is no exception, very fierce, from the first year of Wude to the fifth year of Wude now, more than 20 children were born to him in the harem, in terms of Li Yuan's fifties. It's not easy.

However, in the harem, Li Yuan's favorite is Xue Jieyu and Zhang Jieyu. Concubine Yin De is a few people. Among them, Concubine Yin De and Zhang Jieyu also gave birth to a prince to Li Yuan. Therefore, Li Yuan was even more favored, and he was crowned the king of Xu. One person was crowned King of Zhou.

is also because of the birth of a son, Zhang Jieyu has to think about the future for the sake of her son's future. The last time she and Concubine Yin De said that Li Shimin privately gave land property and befriended Li Shentong, she had already offended Li Shimin.

With Li Shimin's character, if he ascends the throne as the emperor in the future, he, Concubine Yin De and their son will definitely die without a place to be buried.

Therefore, Zhang Jieyu is also very firmly on Li Jiancheng's side. The letter sent by Li Jiancheng in Zhang Jieyu's hand read: "You can secretly tell Your Majesty that the people around King Qin are all overjoyed when they learn that King Qin is going to Luoyang. Judging by King Qin's intentions, I am afraid that he will not return to Chang'an in the future. It seems that the King of Qin went here under the pretense of resisting the Zhao army, and went out of Henan, in fact, he planned to take over the military power and cherish the heart of the King of Liang when Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty. ”

After Zhang Jieyu read the letter twice, she found a eunuch who had read the book and asked what the allusion to Emperor Liang of the Han Jing Emperor was. After figuring it out, Zhang Jieyu burned the secret letter. Soon, Li Yuan's royal car arrived outside Zhang Jieyu's palace. Zhang Jieyu combed the most beautiful makeup and quietly waited for Li Yuan's arrival.

Inside the Luoyang Palace.

The information from all sides was constantly summarized and presented to Li Chongjiu's desk, and on the side of Li Chongjiu's table, Qu Yanran was studying ink for Li Chongjiu and adding incense to the incense burner. After Li Chongjiu finished writing a letter, he raised his head and saw the scene of the beautiful woman adding fragrance with her hands, and he always felt very pleasing to the eye.

Li Chongjiu put down his pen and said with a smile: "I remember that you are from Jiangnan, the former Chen Dynasty's school secretary Lang Qu Kan is your grandfather, right?" ”

Qu Yanran raised her head in surprise, looked at Li Chongjiu and said, "I met with His Majesty in a hurry that day, but I didn't expect His Majesty to remember." ”

Li Chongjiu smiled and said: "I remember all your words, when you sued me and you went back to take revenge, your enemy was either dead or sick and died, I'm afraid this is not true." ”

Qu Yanran looked at Li Chongjiu and said, "Your Majesty?" ”

Li Chongjiu took out a letter from the case and said, "This is a secret report sent to me by the Xiao family's forces in Jiangnan. One of them happened to be written about you, which said that after your grandfather Qu Kan returned to seclusion, he was forced to raise an army against the Sui and was killed, and the mastermind is still living well in Jiangnan, right? ”

Qu Yanran bit her lip tightly and did not speak.

Li Chongjiu walked up to Qu Yanran and said, "When you were in Luoyang, why didn't you sue me?" ”

Qu Yanran lowered her head and didn't speak for a long time, and then said half-loudly: "Revenge, Yanran doesn't dare to fake others." ”

Li Chongjiu asked rhetorically: "Am I someone else in your heart?" ”

Qu Yanran's tears had already slipped down from her eyes and said: "Your Majesty, Yanran is afraid to say it, you will think that Yanran is friendly with you in order to fake your hand and avenge yourself." ”

When Li Chongjiu heard Qu Yanran say this, he immediately hugged the beautiful woman in his arms and said, "Whether you are sincere to me, I still can't see it?" ”

Qu Yanran listened to Li Chongjiu's words, tears wet Li Chongjiu's clothes, Li Chongjiu said softly: "Yanran sues me, the mastermind of this harm to your whole family is Lin Shihong Sikong Wang Rong, right?" ”

Hearing this name, Li Chongjiu could feel Qu Yanran's body tremble suddenly in her arms, and her palms were clenched tightly.

Li Chongjiu said to Qu Yanran: "It seems that it is, I know about this matter, you don't have to worry." ”

Qu Yanran raised her head again, and there were still tears in her eyes. Li Chongjiu patted Qu Yanran on the shoulder and said with a smile: "If you want to be grateful to me, you can study ink for me." ”

Qu Yanran burst into tears and laughed, and then happily came to the bookcase to continue to study ink for Li Chongjiu. Li Chongjiu picked up the pen, and his heart was already outlining the territory of Da Zhao in the world.

The territory of Dazhao has crossed the Liaoshui in the east, arrived at the realm of Liaodong, reached the Songdesert Duhufu in the north, went deep into the desert, looked at the Hanhai in the distance, arrived at Luoyang in the east, pointed to Chang'an, and the south has possessed the entire territory of Huaishui, and the danger of the great river was confronted with Lin Shihong in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Now that Li Tang is newly defeated, it is difficult to make a move, the trend of Turkic separation in Mobei has been achieved, and there is no need to be afraid for the time being, as for Lin Shihong and Feng An, who are on the separating side, they are dry bones in the grave, and it is only a matter of time before they perish.

However, the battle in Luoyang has ended, Zhao and Li Tang went all out in this war, and they fought hard, and now Li Tang and Zhao Guo are unable to launch a decisive battle of the same scale in a short period of time, so the two families also maintain the current situation, but they are each in Henan, Luoyang, and Hedong to deploy heavy troops to confront each other.

At the same time, Li Tang now intends to take advantage of the Turkic civil strife to defeat Liang Shidu first, and then advance westward to consolidate the Longyou of Hexi, and then fight a decisive battle with himself after stabilizing the rear of Dìng.

Like Li Tang, Li Chongjiu was also ready to start cleaning the side couch. For Lin Shihong, Li Chongjiu no longer has to go out in person like the crusade against Du Fuwei. In this way, the small forces in the south of the Yangtze River were divided, and Li Chongjiu was ready to let Xiao Mo and Song Jingang complete the encirclement and attack on Lin Shihong in the north and south.

With the strength of Xiao Mo and Song Jingang, it is more than enough to complete this battle.

Xiao Milling marched from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and led the sailors down the river, while Song Jingang could march from Jianghuai, such as Wenren Sui'an, Wang Hua, Wang Xiongdan, Kan Ling were all generals of the Jianghuai Army, and after they were supplemented into Song Jingang's army, Song Jingang's power increased greatly, and in one fell swoop he had the potential to surpass the other five major armies of Zhao State.

It was enough for Song Jingang and Xiao Mo to carry out this battle to pacify Lin Shihong.

Thinking of this, Li Chongjiu wrote an edict to Song Jingang and Xiao Mian, asking them to lead their troops to attack Jiangnan, and each of them was responsible for the specific matters of money, food, soldiers and horses, and it was necessary to send troops to attack Lin Shihong before winter. In the edict, Li Chongjiu also instructed that Lin Shihong Sikong Wang Rong must be caught, and if he cannot be captured alive, he must also see the corpse.

For a stubborn force like Lin Shihong, Li Chongjiu is ready to break through by force, and Feng Ang in Lingnan has another plan.

Lingnan land is full of miasma, most of the people are descendants of Baiyue, there are not many Han people, even if the Eastern Jin Dynasty, since the clothes crossed to the south, the land of Lingnan is very barbaric. Whether it was the Tang Dynasty or even the Northern Song Dynasty, Lingnan was a holy place for degrading officials.

For Lingnan, the Great Sui was more of a gesture of conquest and a laissez-faire attitude towards the locality.

Ouyang Xun made a statement to Li Chongjiu, saying that the imperial court could send troops to attack Lin Shihong, but it did not mean that it would send troops to attack Feng Ang in Lingnan. Although it is not difficult for Zhao to capture Lingnan, but the traffic congestion in Lingnan is there, how meaningful is it after taking it? The economy is not as good as Jianghuai Jiangnan can supply the central government, and the local people are mostly barbaric, it is difficult to recruit troops, and after the capture, they have to send a team of men and horses to garrison, in vain it only consumes manpower and material resources.

Therefore, for Feng Ang in Lingnan today, Ouyang Xun advised the imperial court to continue the Sui Dynasty's policy towards Lingnan, focusing on Huairou. As long as Feng Ang is not in the Tang and Zhao Wars, he can take refuge in Li Yuan. If you really want to pacify the southern barbarians in Lingnan, it will not be too late to use troops after defeating Li Tang in the future.

For Ouyang Xun's words, Li Chongjiu still agreed, Lingnan is still different from the barbarians outside the Saiwai and Liaodong, since history, although there are barbarians in Lingnan, but they have never threatened the power of the central Han people, which is different from the barbarians outside the Saiwai and Liaodong, so Li Chongjiu can wait until the world is pacified, and then clean up Lingnan. (To be continued......)