Eight years of great cause, in mid-September, the autumn is high and cool.

On the Grand Canal, where the river is wide and the water is clear.

A large passenger ship is heading south along the river towards Yangzhou.

Chang Wei sat in the dining room, which could only be entered by VIPs who paid enough silver, and while eating, he listened to the chatter of a few people dressed as merchants.

"In the first month of this year, His Majesty mobilized an army of 1.13 million, known as 2 million, to advance by land and water, and swore to conquer Goguryeo. At that time, almost everyone thought that this battle would be won, and Goguryeo was vulnerable, but I was not very optimistic from the beginning.

"Why? Because I have been to Liaodong, I know what the hell it is, it is a vast and barren place, sparsely populated, and there are months of a year when the weather is cold, and the output of Liaodong alone cannot supply a million troops for a long time.

Therefore, almost all the grain, grass, and equipment had to be requisitioned and transported by the country. And to send the food and clothing for the millions of troops to Liaodong thousands of miles away, it is necessary to mobilize tens of millions of people! What kind of loss is this? Even if my Great Sui country is strong, I will greatly hurt my muscles and bones to do this labor expedition!

"Goguryeo has been established for a long time, the political system is stable, the grammar is like that, and there is the 'Yijian Grandmaster' Fu Cailin to protect it, although its country is small, its strength is not weak. I went on an expedition to solve Goguryeo once and for all within a year, but it was impossible!

"At that time, everyone laughed at me, saying that I was worried about nothing, and the million-strong army of Mount Tai was overwhelming, how could the little Goguryeo resist? and shall be reduced to powder by the blow of the great army. But the result? In February, Duan Wenzhen, the general of Zuohou Wei, such a veteran who had made great achievements in battle and won the emperor's heart, actually died of illness during the journey......

"Before the battle, the general was lost, this omen of defeat! In fact, as I expected, in March, Zuotun Wei's general Mai Tiecane was killed on the east bank of Liaoshui, and Hu Benlang's generals Qian Shixiong, Meng Cha and others were also killed in battle!

"On the water division, General Youyiwei came to protect his son, and 40,000 elite soldiers went straight to Pyongyang, and the middle ambush was defeated, and there were only a few thousand survivors......

"Lu Shi is even more miserable, in June, Yu Zhongwen and Yuwen Shu led 300,000 troops to Pyongyang, and actually fell into Goguryeo's plan to surrender, and when crossing the river, they were attacked by Goguryeo half-crossing, and the whole army was defeated, and the 300,000 army, those who escaped, were only 2,700 people!

"This battle was badly lost! How many elite soldiers in hundreds of battles, how many battlefield veterans and famous generals, died in this battle? Encountering such a heavy setback, even if there are still hundreds of thousands of troops stationed in Liaodong, there is no will to fight, and His Majesty the Emperor is helpless, so he can only return to the court......"

Listening to those few knowledgeable merchants, talking about the battle of Goguryeo, which began in the first month and ended at the end of July, Chang Wei was quite embarrassed in his heart.

The Great Sui Empire, which was as powerful as the noon sun, began to stride into the abyss of destruction with a jaw-dropping and incredible super-speed.

At this time, even if the first expedition to Goguryeo failed, hundreds of thousands of troops were lost, countless famous generals and generals were killed, and the people were also unable to be requisitioned, and the masses rebelled, and famous rebel leaders such as Wang Bo and Dou Jiande had emerged, but the people living in the Great Sui still would not believe that this powerful empire would collapse in just five years and six months.

"The first loser in the ages!"

Chang Wei sighed in his heart: "Just change to a slow sub-emperor who is calmer, with the family background left by Emperor Wen of Sui, the Great Sui will be strong for another fifty years, and it will exist for one or two hundred years, and there will be no problem."

"It's a pity that Yang Guang is such a wave-provoking guy who still doesn't repent. But as long as he has a little sense, after the failure of the expedition to Goguryeo, he honestly recuperates for a few years, and the Great Sui can still be saved. It's a pity ......"

It's a pity that next year, Yang Guang will have to gather a large army and go on a thousand-mile expedition!

Shaking his head, Chang Wei stopped paying attention to everyone's discussions, ate and drank to his heart's content, returned to his cabin, opened a copy of the "Su Nu Sutra" bought in the port town, and studied and enlightened.

After studying for a while, he closed his eyes and pondered for a while, corroborating it with half of the Dafa of the Female Cultivator that he had obtained from Wen Caiting, trying to combine the Sutra of Plain Women with the Demon Dao Exercises to create a win-win situation for men and women.

Even with his comprehension, even if he has the Sutra of Plain Girls and half of the Dafa of the Female Cultivator as a reference, he is limited to the lack of accumulation on the path of double cultivation, and the progress of creating the exercises is quite slow. For more than ten days, it has just begun.

When he was thinking about it, Chang Wei picked up an iron gall in his hand, and his fingers unconsciously pressed it slowly, and with each press, he pressed the iron gall made of stainless steel into a few deep and clear fingerprints.

He didn't use his true qi, but purely used his muscles and bones to leave fingerprints on the iron gall - since refining the innate true qi, Chang Wei used all the true qi to strengthen his body and warm the Yuan Shen, so that his body became stronger and stronger, and the Yuan Shen grew stronger and stronger day by day.

After more than ten days, he can leave fingerprints on the iron block with a pinch of his hand, and I believe that he will work hard for a year at most, and when he is covered in muscles, bones, and skin membranes, all like iron and steel, he will be able to "hold iron into mud".

And the scope of the mirror in his heart has also expanded from one zhang at the beginning to two zhang. As long as his mind moves, within a radius of two zhang, in all directions, everything can be reflected more clearly in his mental mirror.

Compared with ordinary innate masters, who only react to hostility and murderous intentions, and can only detect the limited spiritual sense of the enemy's qi, Chang Wei's spiritual mirror in his heart is undoubtedly more comprehensive and powerful, and the things reflected in the mental mirror are almost as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

The reason why this is the case, Chang Wei estimated, should be because the "Mysterious Golden Light" developed the brain domain and changed the nature of his innate true qi.

Comprehend the exercises, exercise your fingers, and before you know it, half a day has passed. At dusk, the big ship finally arrived in Yangzhou, entered the city at the water gate, and anchored at a bustling wharf.

Chang Wei put away the book, picked up the package, and disembarked on the shore.

Yang Guang has been the general manager of Yangzhou for about ten years, so Yangzhou has a very special significance to Yang Guang. After ascending the throne, in the first year of the Great Cause, Yang Guang once toured Yangzhou. In the sixth year of the great cause, he visited Yangzhou for the second time and lived here for a whole year.

Favored by the emperor, the prosperity of Yangzhou is not inferior to the imperial capital Luoyang, which is a first-class city in the world.

Chang Wei walked in the city of Yangzhou, slightly appreciated the prosperity of the city, saw that the sky was not early, then found a luxury restaurant to stay, when eating, looking for the shop Xiao Er casually asked, you know where the Shilong Martial Arts Hall is.

Shi Long, the first master in Yangzhou, nicknamed the mountain pusher, has opened more than ten martial arts venues in Yangzhou City, and is very famous.

And the "Recipe for Longevity" that Chang Wei wanted, the clear whereabouts at the beginning were in Shi Long's hands.

It's just that Chang Wei doesn't know if Shi Long has obtained the longevity formula at this time.

"I'll have to watch for a while."

Chang Wei rummaged through the details from his memory, and secretly thought in his heart: "Shilong is a good cultivator, and after getting the recipe for longevity, he completely ignores foreign affairs and stays at home every day to study hard, or from this point, it can be inferred whether Shilong has obtained the recipe for longevity." ”

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