Li Yuanji looked back at the carriage and went away, the greed in his eyes had not yet faded Li Yuanji's personal soldiers had already understood that the woman that His Royal Highness King Qi had taken a fancy to, how could she let her run away, two of them hurriedly inquired, and came back in a moment to report, "Your Highness, that woman is Su Wanchun, a famous prostitute in Luoyang, I heard that she has been accepted as a concubine by Huang Junhan, the deputy general of Li Xiaogong." ”

The brilliance in Li Yuanji's eyes was even hotter, it turned out to be her, I had heard of it a long time ago, it was said that a few years ago, someone had a daughter to buy her for a night, Li Yuanji didn't care about Huang Junhan's concubine, Huang Junhan was not a fart in his eyes, but this woman was born as a prostitute, if he accepted it, his father would inevitably be angry when he knew about it.

At this time, a personal soldier made an idea for him: "Your Highness can raise her in another house, and if you don't let her enter the mansion, the Holy Lord will not know." ”

Li Yuanji nodded, this is a good way, he immediately gave the guards a look, and more than 100 soldiers quickly turned their horses and chased after the carriage.

Li Yuanji smiled smugly and urged the horse to run towards the city.

From Li Yuanji to the woman to the soldiers to catch up, there is not much movement, these processes will not be noticed by ordinary people, but people with a heart are different, the second store on the left is called Zhang Ji Grocery Store, the shopkeeper surnamed Zhang, is a strong man in his thirties, he weighed the fruit to the guests, and at the same time saw Li Yuanji's every move in his eyes, he saw that Li Yuanji's personal soldiers had chased him, so he immediately found a guy, whispered a few words, the guy turned around and quickly left the store.

About half an hour later, the man came back and gave Shopkeeper Zhang a look, and Shopkeeper Zhang immediately followed him to the back of the shop, behind which was a small river, and a few small boats were parked in the small river.

"What do you see?"

"I saw that the woman had been snatched away by Li Yuanji's personal soldiers and went to the direction of Huayin County."

Yang Yuanqing's intelligence system has gradually formed a huge intelligence network after several years of construction, and the intelligence officials are subordinate to the Internal Guard Mansion, commanded by Wei Ben, the general of the Internal Guard Mansion, and the name of this Zhang shopkeeper is Zhang Shaohua. The military rank is a school captain, and he is the deputy of the Chang'an Intelligence Hall, responsible for collecting intelligence in the Tongguan and Pujin areas, and this Zhang Ji grocery store is their intelligence center. Today they were observing the reinforcements brought by Li Yuanji, but they inadvertently discovered the scene of Li Yuanji snatching women.

"Can you confirm the woman's identity?"

"I asked the woman's entourage, and the woman was indeed the concubine of Li Xiaogong's deputy general Huang Junhan, and it turned out to be a famous prostitute in Luoyang.

As soon as the man's voice fell, two people on horseback galloped on the official road in the distance, their faces were covered with blood, they were the entourage of the woman, and they were also Huang Junhan's personal soldiers. Originally, it was to escort the concubine back to Chang'an. Unexpectedly, he was robbed by Li Yuanji in Tongguan. He also killed two brothers, and the two soldiers were shocked and angry, and rushed back to report to the main general.

Zhang Shaohua watched the two enter Tongguan, and the sensitivity of his special profession made him immediately keenly grasp the importance of this information, and he immediately went back to the house to write a piece of information, and instructed the guys to "release the eagle to Hebei County!" ”

At night, Hebei County. Yang Yuanqing is meeting with Wang Shichong's special envoy Wang Renze for the second time, and the intention of the alliance and cooperation between the two sides has been reached.

"Your Highness. Although my uncle controls the ordnance superintendent, he can directly send three thousand military craftsmen across the Yellow River, but if he wants to send them to his family, he needs the cooperation of the household department and Jing Zhaoyin, and it may not be so fast, what my uncle means, please wait a little longer, someone will definitely send it, just hope to give us a little time. ”

Wang Ren said as he secretly glanced at Yang Shidao who was sitting on the side, he was shocked in his heart, how could Yang Shidao, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, appear in Yang Yuanqing's big tent? Could it be that Emperor Tai is also secretly in contact with Yang Yuanqing?

Thinking about it, it is impossible, it is impossible for Yang Yuanqing to talk about cooperation with them in front of the envoy of Emperor Tai, there is only one explanation, Yang Shidao has surrendered Yang Yuanqing.

Yang Yuanqing saw the uneasiness in Wang Renze's heart, so he smiled and said: "Yang Shangshu used to be the secretary of the military department in Luoyang, but now it is my marching history, General Wang doesn't have to worry too much." ”

Wang Renze suddenly realized this, and hurriedly saluted Yang Shidao: "Yang Changshi is a wise move. ”

Yang Shidao smiled faintly, but did not say much, now it is Yang Yuanqing who is talking to Wang Renze in person, he doesn't want to interject at will, Yang Yuanqing said again: "The matter of the military craftsman can be slowed down, as long as Wang Shangshu agrees, I believe that he will do it, as for the matter of food, I can give you 10,000 stone of grain first to solve the urgent need." ”

Yang Yuanqing learned from Yang Shidao that Wang Shichong's army only had less than 20,000 stone of grain left, and to support an army of 100,000 people, it was indeed a bit stretched, so he simply did it to the end, first gave them 10,000 stone of grain to hang Wang Shichong's heart, Wang Ren was overjoyed, and hurriedly thanked: "Thank you Your Highness for sending charcoal in the snow, we are really grateful!" ”

Yang Yuanqing smiled and said: "As for whether to send troops to Hongnong County, it is up to me to decide, but I can explain one thing first, I have no interest in Hongnong County, and I will not have much energy to pay attention to this small county in the future." Compared with the first time of nervousness and haste, this time Wang Ren was much calmer and more shrewd, he heard the meaning of Yang Yuanqing's words, the Northern Sui Army wanted to send troops to Hongnong, which made Wang Renze feel very helpless, Yang Yuanqing really wanted to send troops to Hongnong County, they couldn't stop it, they could only hope that Yang Yuanqing could keep his word and don't occupy Hongnong.

He sighed in his heart and saluted: "Then I will resign from my humble position, and I will definitely tell my uncle what His Highness said." ”

Yang Yuanqing took out a letter and gave it to him, "This letter is handed over to Wang Shangshu for me, and I wish him all the best as soon as possible." ”

Wang Ren received the letter and gave a deep salute: "Humble resignation!" ”

Yang Yuanqing immediately ordered the captain of the pro-soldier school: "Escort General Wang across the river!" ”

Wang Ren left, and Yang Yuanqing smiled at Yang Shidao: "Tell me what you think?" ”

He had already seen that Yang Shidao had something to say, but he had been holding back, Yang Shidao frowned lightly and said: "I just don't understand, why doesn't the governor want Hongnong County, Hongnong County also connects Guanzhong and Luoyang strategically." ”

Yang Yuanqing shook his head, "I don't want Hongnong County, just don't want it for the time being, Li Yuan's army is out of the customs, the first step is to set foot on the land of Hongnong County, they put much more pressure on Wang Shichong than me, the reason why I support Wang Shichong is to let him block Li Yuan for me, I occupy Hongnong County will become me guarding the door for him, Hongnong County will talk about it later." ”

Yang Shidao thought for a while and suggested: "The governor may be able to take only one county, Shaanxi County or Ruxiang County, just like Li Mi occupied Liyang County in Hebei, so as to ensure the existence of the Northern Sui Army in Henan." ”

Yang Yuanqing pondered for a moment, but still shook his head, "Li Mi takes Liyang City except to prove his existence in Hebei, in fact, it has no practical significance, if I take Shaanxi County, I will be kidnapped by Wang Shichong in the end, Li Yuan's eastward expansion will force me to have to save, sometimes I may also hope that Li Yuan will send troops to Hongnong, at that time, it will be difficult for me to do it, simply throw my hands empty, don't be held back by them, once I need it, I will not take only one Shaanxi County, I will seize the entire Hongnong County." ”

There are pros and cons to everything, and Yang Shidao also knows that he sees that Yang Yuanqing really doesn't want to insert his forces into Henan Dao for the time being, so he doesn't persuade him much.

At this time, a personal soldier reported at the door: "Chief Qiyu, Tongguan has sent urgent information!" ”

"Come in!"

A personal soldier walked into the room quickly and presented a tube of red intelligence, which means that the situation is urgent, Yang Yuanqing pulled out a volume of information, unfolded it and looked at it carefully, there are two contents in the information, Li Yuan urgently sent Li Yuanji to lead 20,000 troops to Tongguan, so that the defenders of Tongguan have reached 30,000, but the second information is very interesting, Li Yuanji robbed Huang Junhan's concubine in Tongguan.

The second piece of information made Yang Yuanqing very interested, and he handed the information to Yang Shi and said, "Look at this."

Yang Shidao read the information and said with a smile: "It seems that Li Yuan doesn't want to spit out the fat of Hongnong County." ”

"This is what I expected, but Li Yuan has appointed two coaches, don't you think it's a little strange?"

"Maybe he thinks that these are two battlefields, one is responsible for guarding Tongguan and the other is responsible for guarding Hongnong, or maybe there are differences of opinion within their group, and Li Yuan was forced to adopt a compromise plan."

Yang Yuanqing frowned, he seemed to be a little distracted, his eyes were fixed on the red letter tube on the table, trying his best to rule out the influence of Li Yuan's appointment of two coaches, but he was sober-minded and considered the second information, and he found that there was a lot to be done in the second information.

Yang Yuanqing's thinking made Yang Shidao also realize something, he carefully read the second information again, Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, robbed the woman of Li Xiaogong's deputy general Huang Junhan, he glanced at Yang Yuanqing, the two looked at each other, as if they had telepathy, and laughed at the same time, Yang Shidao couldn't help laughing: "But this requires the deployment of secret agents in the Tang army!" ”

"That's not a problem!"

Yang Yuanqing explained, his eyes narrowed, "Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one not be defeated in a hundred battles, how can I not place people in the Tang Army?" ”

At noon the next day, a news spread in the Tang army camp in Hangu Pass, their main general Huang Junhan's wife was favored by Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, and was snatched away in Tongguan, this kind of news is the most interesting, the news spread rapidly in the camp, and the content is out of shape, Huang Junhan's two sons are not his own sons, in fact, they are the sons of the king of Qi, because of this Huang Junhan was promoted, Huang Junhan willingly gave his wife to the king of Qi, and the more it spread, the darker it became.

In the big tent, Huang Junhan had already received a report from the entourage of the concubine, his heart was full of anger, and he was drinking stuffy wine cup by cup, although alcohol was not allowed in the army, but at this time he gradually couldn't control his emotions.

At this time, a large group of officers walked to the tent door and were stopped by Huang Junhan's own soldiers, and the officers were so angry that they shouted loudly: "We want to see the general!" ”