A succession of distress letters from the fortress made Tang Duke Li Yuan extremely worried, and when he had just received the holy decree of being promoted to Shanxi and Hedong to comfort the ambassador, and was about to leave for Taiyuan to take up his post, the Turks came to harass him, which could not help but make people in a dilemma. Ignoring the emergency situation on the side plug and walking away, it is difficult for the court to explain. His Majesty the Emperor still wanted to trouble the Li family when he was fine, and this time he was able to suddenly give him a grace to comfort Shanxi, because the Li family sent twenty Dawan good horses as a congratulatory gift for the "triumph" of the Liao expedition, and the gifts to Pei Ju, Yu Shiji and others were also rich enough. In other words, Li Yuan's official position of comforting ambassador was bought, and if some people with ulterior motives found out that the thirteen counties of Guanyou were a mess, I am afraid that before his car drove to Taiyuan, the holy decree of condemnation would be chased to the horse that went to work!

Can you stay in Honghua and then leave after quelling the war on the side plug? Li Yuan asked himself if he couldn't do it in a short period of time. Since last autumn, many of the herdsman tribes under the wings of the Great Sui have begun to move. To let them settle down again, Da Sui needs to be able to show his strength. And the current Great Sui, how can there be any power to show?

While facing the joint letter for help from the various ministries, and facing the holy decree of the imperial court, Li Yuan was so anxious that he turned around in the conference hall. For so many years, he has been hiding from right and wrong, but right and wrong are always with him. Chase him when he is in the middle of the court, and chase him when he is in Liaodong. When I came to this poor bird, I didn't and turned off the right, and there were still a lot of troubles. How can he live a stable life for two days, he looked at a few henchmen, but found that the eyes of his henchmen were staring at him, and their faces were full of surprise.

"Is Tang Gong afraid of another war on the side?" Chen Yanshou, known as the first strategist of the Tang Mansion, asked puzzled when he saw Li Yuan's worried appearance.

"If our Great Sui has decided to start a war with the Turks, why should I regret it!" Li Yuan didn't understand what his subordinates meant, thinking that the other party said that he was cowardly, he waved his fist and replied hatefully.

If the imperial court really made up its mind to start a war with the Turks, Li Yuan didn't care about leading his troops to the fortress for a walk. After all, he was the queen of the general, and when he was young, he was also known as an all-round talent. But at present, the imperial court does not have the capital to deal with a large-scale war at all, and it is simply self-defeating to deal with the entire Turkic with the power of Honghua County.

"The imperial court, the imperial court is probably dreaming of being good brothers with the Turks now!" Listening to Li Yuan's words, there was a sense of anticipation for the imperial court, and the eldest grandson Shunde sneered from his nostrils.

Among the staff of the Li Mansion, he is the most disdainful of the imperial court. In his eyes, the once glorious Great Sui Dynasty was like a sick man with tuberculosis, and on the surface it still had a sturdy bone frame, but in fact, he might fall down one day when it was blown by the wind. At present, even if Yang Su, the former Duke of Chu, and Wang Yang Shuang, the great general, are alive at the same time, all they can do is to make the Great Sui Dynasty linger, and there may still be as many fights as they did back then, which will terrify the Turks.

It's just that the situation has eroded to such an extent, and the ministers are still dreaming of a prosperous world. Last year, the king of Goguryeo begged for mercy, and everyone agreed without thinking about it. As a result, the king of Goguryeo neither sent a letter of submission as promised, nor did he fulfill his promise to come to Luoyang in person to ask for sin. Just after the first month of this year, His Majesty the Emperor, who consciously could not get off Taiwan, began to plan for the fourth expedition to Liao. Before the ministers could come up with a specific strategy for sending troops, there were already more heroes in the local area who rebelled on this ground. They attacked the prefectures and counties, divided the land and became the king, and did not pay attention to the county soldiers who came to conquer and suppress at all. And the officials of those counties were not angry, and they were defeated repeatedly, and "sent" batches of armor and weapons to the hands of the thieves. In order to evade the responsibility of defeat, these guys simply took off their official uniforms and ran to the anti-thieves to become officials.

"Shunde, the imperial court also has the difficulties of the imperial court!" Hearing the deep resentment towards the court in his henchman's mouth, Li Yuan turned his head and stopped loudly.

It was an eventful time, and he didn't want to get himself in trouble because of a few complaints. Moreover, from the perspective of a military general, he did not want to blame all the responsibility for the decline of the country on the occasional decision-making mistake of the imperial court. The Great Sui did not collapse because of the failure of the conquest of Liaodong, and the result of the failure of the three conquests of Liaodong only accelerated the process of its collapse. Li Yuan had personally been to Liaodong and knew about the threat of Goguryeo to the Central Plains. He firmly believed that no matter who became the Great Sui Emperor, the conquest of Liao was a necessary decision.

But since it was not because of the conquest of Goryeo, what was the reason for the decline of the Great Sui Dynasty? Li Yuan couldn't figure this out even after racking his brains. He once took this question to discuss privately with his confidant Chen Yanshou, but Chen Yanshou, who was known as the first wise man in the Tang Mansion, couldn't say why. He also used this question to teach Ma Yuangui, but Ma Yuangui couldn't tell a clear reason except for a bunch of theories of the Mandate of Heaven cycle that even the old ladies who sold silk wouldn't believe.

couldn't find a specific reason, but Li Yuan could deeply appreciate the panic and sorrow before the end of the world. As the head of the family who bears the responsibility for the safety of the family, he is almost overwhelmed. He rarely loses his temper in front of his subordinates, but when he looks at people, he has a begging smell that people can't bear to refuse.

"Okay, okay, Tang Gong doesn't like to hear it, so I won't say it!" The eldest grandson, Shunde, shrugged his shoulders and agreed.

"It's not that I don't like to hear it, but instead of complaining about the court here, we should think about how to get through the current difficulties!" Li Yuan knew that no one would understand the feeling in his heart, sighed, and changed the topic in another direction.

The Great Sui Dynasty is about to fall, and this process is irreversible, but the Li family cannot fall. In the years of changing the dynasty, Li Yuan had personally experienced it. The last time was peaceful, but it was the father-in-law who took the throne of his son-in-law, and there are still countless families that have stood for hundreds of years and have been wiped out. Now that the troubled times are coming, Li Yuan doesn't want the tragedy of breaking his family and destroying his family to befall him.

Wildfires have been raging in all corners of the Great Sui, and since last year, there have been more than just displaced people who can't survive. Influential local nobles, "heroes" who want to take advantage of the change of dynasty to establish meritorious deeds, all kinds of liars who claim to have boundless mana, and government soldiers who returned from Liaodong but were not properly resettled by the government were all involved. When the local county soldiers encounter anti-thieves, there are many who are defeated at the first touch, and there are few who can fight. In February of this year, I don't know which guy who had been blinded by lard gave His Majesty the Emperor an idea, and actually suggested that the local officials move all the people to live in the city, and only cultivate the fields near the cities, and give up all the fields in the countryside and remote areas, so that the rogues could starve to death. His Majesty the Emperor discussed with Pei Ju, Yu Shiji, Yu Wenshu and other ministers for a long time, and actually adopted this suggestion. As a result, local officials took advantage of the opportunity to build and relocate the city. It's just that when they finished fishing, many people who didn't want to be thieves also became thieves, so that at present, in many counties and counties in Henan and Hebei, the areas controlled by the imperial court are not as many as those controlled by thieves.

If he didn't want his family to be destroyed in the troubled times, Li Yuan had to seek good fortune and avoid evil. Spending tens of thousands of family resources up and down to find ambassadors from Shanxi and Hedong is one of the key steps. The terrain of the counties in Hedong is dangerous, facing the Taihang Mountains on one side and the Yellow River on the other. No matter how chaotic the world outside is, as long as the area between the mountains and rivers is settled, the flames of war will hardly be able to burn in. In addition, because it was not affected by Yang Xuangan's rebellion, there were few thieves in Hedong counties, and the people were relatively wealthy, so when they went to Hedong to become an official, they didn't have to worry about heroes erecting anti-flags under their noses all day long.

"In front of you, what's so difficult in front of you?" The eldest grandson Shunde didn't know which tendon was wrong today, and his tone of voice was always provocative. Obviously, Tang Gong was so anxious that his eyes were about to smoke, but he didn't say that he didn't see the problem.

"Shunde, can you make it clear?" was sneered at several times by the eldest grandson shunde, although li yuan's temper was good, he was also a little angry, stopped and stared at the other party's eyes to order.

On the face of the eldest grandson Shunde, he only saw a relaxed smile, as if he didn't care at all, the other party shrugged his shoulders and replied with a smile: "The things in front of you are indeed not difficult, isn't it just that there are Turks who have robbed a few tribes, dog eats dog, let them rob it." Guan Tanggong, what is the matter with you? ”

"You!" Li Yuan was so angry that he almost vomited blood, stomped his feet, and scolded hatefully: "Shunde, you are really crazy today!" Since I am the left-behind guard of the thirteen counties on the right of this pass, it is naturally my duty to protect the territory and the people! The Turks crossed the border and plundered, and you actually said that it was none of my business. Could it be that the court will ask the general, can I still put the blame on others? ”

"But that also has to be recognized by the tribes as our Great Sui people. Moreover, is it not certain whether the Turkic invasion is real or fake? What if they divide the spoils unevenly among themselves and play a black hand against each other? Can we still send people to watch over each tribe? If you don't believe me, ask everyone to see if they think the same way? "The eldest grandson Shunde has a very strange attitude, but the analysis is very incisive, and almost every sentence is on the point.

"You're just arguing with words!" Li Yuan paused again and again, there was nothing he could do about his own staff, he reluctantly turned his gaze to other henchmen, but found that everyone was on the side of the eldest grandson Shunde at this moment, and the smiles on their faces were more relaxed than one another.

Aren't they in a hurry? Li Yuan began to wonder where he had drilled the tip of the bull's horns. These subordinate staff members are all elites, and their accepted conclusions are the correct solution nine times out of ten. looked at the faces of the staff one by one, and finally, he returned his gaze to Chen Yanshou's face.

"Yan Shou, you come to teach me, where do I think crookedly?" Putting away the eagerness on his face, Li Yuan respectfully asked. Being good at listening to other people's advice is a necessary condition for being a good head of home. He's been doing an excellent job of that.

"Thanks to Tang Gong for asking!" Chen Yanshou hugged his fists, his face showed a look of 'you should have asked everyone a long time ago', took a few steps forward, pointed to the map of Guanyou and Hexi counties on the wall and asked, "Has Tang Gong seen clearly, where are the attacked tribes in the past month or so?" ”

"Ulanji, Tianshuyuan, Liangchuan, Zhumayi, Shaquan!" Li Yuan walked quickly to the map and replied like a treasure. In the past half month, every time an urgent document arrived, he was so anxious that he couldn't sleep. As a result, he could clearly find out the location of each attacked tribe on the map.

"Well, these places, from south to north, are scattered step by step, do they really look like Turkic wolves riding on them?" Chen Yanshou drew a circle on the map with his finger and summarized with a smile.

"Don't go around in circles with me?" Li Yuan obviously felt that there was something in the words of his henchmen, smiled bitterly, and asked. He was exhausted by the stress of troubled times, and he had little energy to guess what others were saying.

"Hey, these Turks are very timid, every time they kill, they are far away from the place where the second son refines his troops!" Another staff member, Ma Yuangui, stepped forward and reminded with a smile.

"Yuan Gui means ......?" Li Yuan was stunned for a moment, and his body suddenly froze in front of the map. The attack of the Turkic wolf rider seems to be elusive, but if you connect the locations of those attacked tribes with a line, it is almost an arc. And the center of the circle opposite this arc is precisely Mingsha City.

Regarding the skills of Liu Hongji, Li Shimin and others, Li Yuan asked himself very well. But no matter how great Liu Hongji and Shimin's ability is, it is impossible to scare the Turkic wolves to avoid them for nearly two hundred miles with the three thousand recruits in their hands. From a good point of view, with 3,000 recruits, they were able to protect the people of all ethnic groups within a radius of 200 miles from attack. But on the other hand, it is difficult to deny that the battle that took place two hundred miles away was related to the two of them.

"Congratulations to Tang Gong!" Ma Yuangui made a gesture and said solemnly.

"Congratulations to Tang Gong for receiving an elite army!" Chen Yanshou and eldest grandson Shunde also put away their smiles and solemnly congratulated Li Yuan.

The three of them had noticed a few days earlier that the "Turks" had come to a strange place. If the Ashina family had instigated the expulsion of the Han people from the top tribes last year, the Turks should not have just taken advantage of these wall-grass tribes and immediately killed chickens and eggs.

If it is said that the wolf cavalry that defeated the allied forces was the recruits trained by Li Shimin, Liu Hongji and others, it is really difficult for everyone to believe this conclusion. It may be simple to let a group of outcasts learn to use weapons. But letting them fight like real soldiers is not something that can be done overnight.

But a letter sent back by Li Shimin the day before yesterday made Chen Yanshou and others completely firm their speculation. In the letter, the second prince did not say a word about the noisy Turkic wolf rider, as if he, who was closest to the border, did not know about the appearance of the wolf rider.

Moreover, the second prince suggested that the Li family put the marriage between Ying'er and Brother Zhong Jian on the agenda again, "I personally practiced the army today, so that I know Zhong Jian's talent, which is rare in the world!" Everyone in the world is not in charge of the army, but those who kill but have a compassionate heart, but Zhong Jian also! In the letter, Li Shimin wrote with emotion.

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