At the end of October, Li Shimin and Guanyin arrived in Jinyang and lived in the consolation embassy.

The Jinyang government office is not large, the front yard is where Li Yuan handles official business, and the back is the inner courtyard.

In the inner courtyard, there is an upper room on the east side, and two small courtyards with two entrances on the west side.

There is also a small garden behind the inner courtyard.

Li Yuan lived in the upper room.

Li Shimin and Guanyin lived in a small courtyard to the south of the west.

Guanyin and the maids and slaves brought by Guanyin were assigned to the two courtyards.

Ding Niangzi and Qin Lan, Shiqin, Hsinchu, and Zhanhua, the four personal slaves, still follow Li Shimin, Guanyin, Zifu, and Qingyan to serve Li Yuan.

Because the courtyard is not big, Ding Niangzi lives in the east chamber, and the four maids live in the west chamber.

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Li Shimin and Guanyin saw Li Yuan, reported to him the situation in the past six months, and talked about the rescue of Yanmen, Li Yuan repeatedly praised Li Shimin for offering a clever plan to Yun Dingxing.

He smiled and said to Li Shimin: "If Yun Dingxing gets Yang Guang's favor in the future, he should thank you in this life."

Li Shimin didn't think so, he said to Li Yuan,

"Grandpa, do you think Yang Guang's good days are still long? Whoever gains his favor may be affected."

Li Yuan smiled and nodded, agreeing with Li Shimin's idea,

"The people of the world are right, and it is very likely that you said so."

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Then Li Yuan told Li Shimin and Guanyin about the Longmen bandits.

In April, Yang Guang issued an edict to worship Li Yuan as the ambassador of Hedong and Shanxi.

Li Yuan went to Hedong to recruit troops and horses, and after forming an army to suppress bandits, he marched into Longmen in July.

After discovering the nest of the thief's mother, Li Yuan led the army to smash the thief's lair.

The head of the thief, Duan'er, gathered tens of thousands of people, and seeing that Li Yuan only brought 3,000 people to suppress him, he thought that he was too strong and not very afraid of the army.

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Mu Duan'er led the thieves to confront Li Yuan by relying on the solidity of the wall, and insulted Li Yuan on the wall.

Li Yuan took advantage of his mother's unpreparedness and shot him to death with an arrow.

Then he fired seventy arrows in succession, and the arrows killed the enemy.

When the thieves saw that the head of the thief was dead, Li Yuan was extremely brave, and all of them were frightened in their hearts, and they all had the intention of cowardice.

Li Yuan ordered the officers and troops led by him to break into the village, and these thieves who got together temporarily were a rabble, and they could rob houses and houses, but they really started a war, but they had no combat power. When the thieves saw that the head of the thief was dead and the gate of the fortress had been broken, they had no intention of fighting, and fled one after another.

Li Yuan won the first battle in Shanxi and easily won the first battle of Longmen to suppress bandits.

At the end of the war, in order to deter the fleeing thieves, Li Yuan piled the corpses of the thieves who had been shot to death and displayed them together.

Since then, there have been no thieves gathering in Longmen County.

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Li Shimin asked Li Yuan about the expansion of the army.

Li Yuan lamented that it was difficult to recruit soldiers, and even the Great Sui Emperor Yang Guang was unable to recruit enough soldiers to conquer Liaodong, which shows the difficulty of recruitment.

The people would rather be thieves than be drafted.

Now that the household registration is chaotic, there are many evaders of military service, and the government cannot investigate them one by one.

The investigation is too great, and the fear that the government is persecuted too quickly, and more people rebel.

Therefore, there has been no great progress in expanding the army, and it is still an army of 3,000 people formed in Hedong.

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Seeing that Li Yuan was having trouble expanding the army, Guanyin looked at Li Shimin and Li Yuan, and suggested,

"I have an idea, I don't know if it's possible?"

Today's Li Yuan no longer dares to underestimate this teenage wife, she can always come up with unexpected ideas at critical times.

Li Yuan looked at Guanyin with a smile, as if he was looking forward to it, "What does Ah Wan think?"

Guanyin didn't have much confidence in her own thoughts, and it was only a flash of inspiration that she had this idea, and he asked Li Yuan,

"Can we take in the thieves and expand our army?"

Li Yuan thought about it carefully, and he couldn't make up his mind, so he told Guanyin about his concerns,

"Co-opting thieves is indeed the best way to expand the army. But thieves are guilty of rebellion, and those who harbor thieves are guilty of the same crime as thieves. How can we take it back to its use?"

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Guanyin said with emotion, "The people want to live and work in peace and contentment, who wants to be a thief? If only the thieves are not appeased, it will be a capital crime for the thieves to be caught by the government, and those thieves who have been defeated will flee in one place and will be reunited in another place, so that the thieves will be more and more exterminated."

She asked Li Yuan again, "Yang Guang worships Grandpa as an ambassador of comfort, if he blindly kills him, wouldn't it be against the original intention of comfort?"

"Can Grandpa go to the court? Praise Yang Guang's policy of comfort, and then ask for a special pardon for the capital sins of the converts."

Li Yuan nodded, "It's a good idea to ask for a special purpose. I will draw up a recital today, and send someone to ride a fast horse back to the eastern capital to ask for a decree."

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On the same day, Li Yuan wrote a piece of music and sent someone to Luoyang, the eastern capital.

At the same time, Fan Zigai, the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, used improper methods to suppress bandits in Jiangzhou, which provoked a popular uprising, and the local officials impeached Fan Zigai.

It turned out that Fan Zigai, the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, issued an edict and requisitioned 30,000 soldiers in Guanzhong to encircle and suppress the Jiangzhou thieves Jing Pantuo.

However, in order to achieve results quickly, Fan Zigai burned all the villages and towns north of Fenshui, regardless of good or bad, and ordered all thieves who surrendered to be killed.

His harsh practices caused the people to boil over, and the people were all resentful, and the people of good families whose houses were burned down were homeless, and they could only gather together for theft.

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The magistrate is not ashamed of what Fan Zigai did, and the above table refers to the impeachment of Fan Zigai.

Yang Guangzheng was worried about how to deal with Fan Zigai, and seeing Li Yuan's twists and turns was exactly what he wanted.

So Yang Guang issued an edict to replace Fan Zigai with Li Yuan, who replaced him in Jiangzhou to suppress bandits, and agreed to Li Yuan's proposal to exempt the surrendered thieves from the death penalty.

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Li Yuan was also happy and worried when he received Yang Guang's edict.

Happily, 30,000 troops will soon be in charge of Fan Zigai's hands.

The worry is that it is a cold winter, the weather is cold, and it is difficult for soldiers and horses to travel, how can we suppress bandits?

Li Yuan and Xiahouduan, the deputy envoy of comfort, discussed for a day, and both of them felt that this season was not the time to use troops, so they had to go to Jiangzhou first to take over the army from Fan Zigai, and wait until the spring of next year to talk about the suppression of bandits.

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Li Yuan couldn't make up his mind, so he thought of Li Shimin and Guanyin, now the two of them have become Li Yuan's inseparable crutches, and without the two of them, Li Yuan always has a sense of being at a loss when he starts to do things.

In the past, when Mrs. Dou was alive, Li Yuan discussed with her when he encountered major events, but now Li Shimin and Guanyin have become his inseparable thinkers.

Before his death, Mrs. Dou explained to Li Shimin that although his father Li Yuan had great ambitions, he always loved to dream, and no one was behind him, so he would just think about not doing it, and he would always be unable to make up his mind to put it into practice. Before she died, she told Li Shimin to push Li Yuan forward from behind, so that it was possible to truly realize the Li family's dream of seizing the world.

Li Shimin and Guanyin knew Li Yuan's temperament very well, and after coming to Jinyang, if there was any major matter in the official office, he would discuss it in advance, and then consult Li Yuan.

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On the second day, Li Yuan asked Qingyan to call Li Shimin and Guanyin, and wanted to discuss with him how to act.

Li Shimin and Guanyin had already discussed the matter of suppressing bandits in Jiangzhou yesterday, and the two of them went to see Li Yuan with confidence.

When they arrived at the upper room, Qingyan lifted the felt curtain and let the two into the house.

The winter in Jinyang is much colder than in Xi'an, and the rich and noble families will burn a kang to keep warm in winter, and the house where Li Yuan lives is also burning a kang, and the whole room is warm.

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Li Yuan was sitting on the kang waiting for Li Shimin and Guanyin.

He spread the edict on the table, slowly drinking the buttermilk while pondering every sentence of the edict.

Li Shimin and Guanyin took off their mink fur cloaks and handed them to Qingyan, and then saluted Li Yuan.

Li Yuan saw his son and son-in-law come in and asked them to sit on the kang.

Zifu poured a piece of buttermilk for Li Shimin and Guanyin and put it on the table.

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Li Yuan pushed the edict in front of the two of them, "You two take a closer look, how should we deal with it?"

Li Shimin replied to Li Yuan: "Yesterday, Grandpa let me read the edict, and after I went back, I discussed with Grandpa and felt that now is a good time to suppress bandits."

Li Yuan's face was surprised, "It's cold, icy and snowy, and the soldiers and horses are inconvenient, where can I find the thieves?" You two think it's a good time to crack down on bandits?"

Guanyin saw Li Yuan's surprised appearance, so she explained their reason to him,

"Grandpa doesn't need to send someone to find the thieves, but he can try to lure them to Shun."

"When Fan Zigai suppressed the bandits, he had already looted the grain and burned down most of the people's houses. In the cold of winter, the thieves must also have difficulty in supplying, with no food, no winter clothes, hunger and cold, and precariousness."

"If the government can provide food and winter clothes, someone will definitely risk their lives to vote."

"Thieves also want to live, rather than starve to death and freeze to death, it is better to trust the government and try their luck."

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Li Yuan pondered for a while, and said to Li Shimin and Guanyin,

"If this method is feasible, it is best, but in the past, Fan Zigai killed all the thieves who surrendered, and now who will believe the words of the government?"

Li Shimin saw that Li Yuan still didn't believe it, so he explained the idea of discussing with Guanyin to him in detail.

After Li Yuan heard this, he still had no confidence in Li Shimin and Guanyin's ideas, but he didn't have a good way, so he had to agree to give the two of them a try.

If it is really feasible, it will be a great achievement for the imperial court. If it doesn't work, there will be no loss, and then according to the plan agreed between him and Xiahouduan, wait until the beginning of next spring.

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The next day, Li Yuanliu comforted the deputy envoys Xiahouduan and Li Shimin in Jinyang, and he took a thousand cavalry to Jiangzhou and Fan Zigai for handover.

After Li Yuan left, Xiahou Duan and Li Shimin began to prepare grain and grass and winter clothes for the soldiers.

It took half a month to prepare the required grain and grass and tens of thousands of sets of winter clothes.

Subsequently, Xiahouduan and Li Shimin led 2,000 men and horses to escort these grains, grasses, and winter clothes to Jiangzhou.

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At this time, it has reached the end of December, and the New Year is coming, but there is no festive atmosphere in Jiangzhou to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.

The government still has a tight grip on bandits, and the bandits do not dare to gather in large groups, so they wander around the countryside in groups, and in order to save their stomachs and keep out the cold, the bandits raid houses and houses, occupy the houses of rich households, and make the chickens and dogs in the countryside restless.

In order to avoid bandits, the people closed their doors. The landlord is strong, self-trained Zhuang Ding, and closed the gate day and night to protect himself.

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When Li Shimin and Xiahouduan arrived in Jiangzhou, Li Yuan had already taken over the command of 30,000 troops from Fan Zigai.

Generals and guards at all levels are tired of chasing thieves, and they are reluctant to go out to the barracks to suppress bandits when the weather is cold.

Li Yuan had to appease Li Shimin and Guanyin according to his thoughts.

He ordered local officials and townships to post notices to publicize the court's appeasement policy.

Whoever brings troops to surrender with the leader of the thieves will be awarded different levels of official positions according to the number of people he brings, and the maximum number of grades can be awarded.

Everyone was treated as soldiers of the government, incorporated into the army, included in the military register, issued winter clothes, and supplied with food.

Whoever is coerced as a thief by the head of the thief shall be converted and forgiven the sins he has committed.

Those who are obsessed and continue to make chaos will be conscripted and suppressed by the army of the imperial court in the spring of tomorrow, and once captured, they will be killed.

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The notice was posted for several days, but no thieves came down at all.

Li Yuan didn't believe that some methods were feasible, so he had the idea of giving up.

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