The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 439
The second Li has already signed the alliance agreement, but what Li Tang cares about is not this, but when Li Mi will send troops to hunt Luoyang with Li Yuan.

However, Li Mi was ambiguous at this time. He verbally agreed to send troops, but it was not clear what kind of troops to send or how many troops to send. This made Wen Yanbo who was stationed in Pengcheng very anxious. If this matter is not handled well, it will be difficult for him to go back explain.

In the posthouse, Wen Yanbo paced back and forth uneasily. Wen Yanbo's uneasiness stemmed not only from Li Mi's ambiguous attitude, but also from Bing Yuanzhen's attitude.Bing Yuan is undoubtedly a mirror, from the changes before and after he can see the subtle changes of Li Mi, there must be something happening inside that he doesn't know, but he can't find out, which makes him very anxious.

He is now waiting for news from the imperial court or the King of Jin. As soon as the news of the official dispatch of troops by the imperial court comes, he will urge Li Mi to send troops.

At this time, there was a rush of footsteps outside, and a guard came in to report: "Master, King Jin has urgent information!"

Wen Yanbo hurriedly said, "Where is the letter?"

The guard presented a roll of information. "Master, this is the information I got an hour ago, and it's from Xiangyang County!"

Wen Yanbo spread out the information on the table, on which was a letter written by Li Yuan himself, only "My Tang army has occupied the whole territory of Hongnong, urging Li Mi to attack Luoyang!" '

Wen Yanbo immediately said: "Get ready for the carriage, I want to see King Wei immediately!"

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As Wen Yanbo expected, Li Mi's attitude has indeed changed. All this stems from Bing Yuanzhen. According to his slave, Bing Yuanzhen accepted a bribe of [-] taels of gold from others. Li Mi angrily questioned Bing Yuanzhen.

But even though Bing Yuanzhen categorically denied it.But the accidental killing of the house slave made Li Mi believe that Bing Yuan had really accepted bribes, because this person was extremely greedy, and it would be strange to say that he did not accept bribes.

Li Mi also knows that the handwriting of ten thousand taels of gold can only be done by a certain force, and judging from the time of accepting bribes and Bing Yuanzhen's performance, the ten thousand taels of gold is very likely to be done by the Tang Dynasty, so Bing Yuanzhen strongly persuades He formed an alliance with Li Yuan.

However, Li Mi did not punish Bing Yuanzhen. One is that Bing Yuanzhen was Wagang's military adviser from Zhai Rang's time. The country split, Li Mi couldn't bear the price, so he could only swallow the matter and keep it in his heart, but he no longer trusted Bing Yuanzhen.

It is for this reason that Li Mi has doubts about the alliance between Tang and Wei. He thinks that Li Yuan has other plans, so he will pay a lot of money to bribe Bing Yuanzhen. Otherwise, why not just discuss the matter frankly?Bing Yuanzhen avoided seeing Wen Yanbo because he had been informed.

In front of the map, Li Mi stared at Jiangdu City, his eyes full of eagerness. He has now accepted Fang Xuanzao's suggestion, and is going to move to the southeast, set his capital in Jiangdu, and establish his own Great Wei Dynasty in Jiangdong.

Now he can take advantage of the opportunity of Sui and Tang scrambling for the Central Plains to wipe out Du Fuwei and force-land Li Zitong and Shen Faxing.

Although Li Mi decided to shift his focus to the south, he was somewhat unwilling to give up the Central Plains. From the Wagang era to the present, the Central Plains has been the heart of their activities. There are too many ups and downs, and most of his troops are from the Central Plains. The Central Plains will definitely be resisted by soldiers.

Although Shan Xiongxin, Xu Shiji, Wang Bodang, Sun Changyue and other long-sighted generals all supported Fang Xuanzao's motion to go south, they were just like Li Mi, worried that their soldiers would not accept it.

Li Mi and Fang Xuanzao didn't know how to break the situation?I don't even know how to persuade the grassroots generals and ordinary soldiers.

At this moment, the guards reported at the door: "Report to Your Majesty, Wen Yanbo, the special envoy of the Tang Dynasty, is urgently seeking an audience!"

Li Mi frowned slightly, of course he knew that Wen Yanbo would not leave, and also knew that when Wen Yanbo came to look for him at this time, the Tang army must have sent troops, so he urged himself to send troops to help.

Although Li Mi didn't want to work for Li Tang, the supplies Li Tang promised hadn't arrived yet, so he couldn't refuse to see him.

"Please come in!"

"I will meet the king!" After a while, Wen Yanbo hurried in, and gave a deep salute when he entered the door.

"You don't have to be polite, please sit down!"

The two sat down as guests and hosts, and Li Mi asked with concern: "How is Mr. Wen doing in Pengcheng these few days? Did the guards take care of them?"

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your concern. The post office has done a good job, making the officials feel like they are home."

"I'm so busy these days, I don't have time to take care of your envoy. I'm really sorry."

"Where! Where! Your Majesty's kindness, the officials are very grateful."

The two exchanged a few words, then Wen Yanbo turned the topic to the serious business, leaned forward and said, "Your Majesty received an express letter from my Tang Dynasty, saying that the king of Jin led an army of 18 troops to Luoyang, and the king of Rencheng also sent troops to Luoyang." Entered Henan County from Yiqueguan. According to the agreement between Tang and Wei, the Wei army should also send troops to help, but I don’t know when the king will send troops? How many troops? I need to report to the court, I wonder if the king can give me an answer? "

Although Wen Yanbo was a bit embarrassed to say it, it was related to the overall situation of the world.He still said it very frankly, without any ambiguity in the process.

Li Mi smiled, "Since the two sides have made a covenant, I will definitely do it in accordance with the covenant. I, Li Mi, am not a perfidious person, please don't worry about it, Mr. Wen."

"Then when will the king send troops? How many troops?" Wen Yanbo said this perfunctory words too many times, and Wen Yanbo didn't want to hear any more, so he chased after him with an aggressive posture.
Li Mi's face became ugly, how could he ask such a pressing question?Even Li Yuan couldn't do it, but Li Mi still suppressed the anger in his heart, and said indifferently: "I have already said, I, Dawei, will follow the covenant. Didn't Mr. Wen understand? How about you?"

Having said this, Wen Yanbo, who felt Li Mi's anger, knew that he couldn't continue asking, let alone ask any more, so he had to stand up and salute helplessly: "Okay! I hope that the king will send troops as soon as possible. The official also urged me."

"Okay!" Li Mi's dark face showed a smile. The covenant clearly stated that as long as the supplies were in place, Li Mi would send troops to attack Zheng. Good excuse.

Wen Yanbo finally left with anger and helplessness.

Li Mi let out a long sigh of relief, this annoying guy finally left.But he also knew that Wen Yanbo would come tomorrow, so he closed his eyes silently and thought about the countermeasures. After a while, another guard reported, "My lord, Shang Shuling is here!"

Li Mi hurriedly ordered, "Please hurry up."

Soon, Fang Xuanzao, who had just paid his official obeisance to Shang Shuling, walked quickly into Li Mi's study room, saluted and said, "Greetings, Your Majesty."

"Wen Yanbo came again just now." Li Mi trusted Fang Xuanzao very much, especially Fang Xuanzao's sincerity and sincerity in persuading him to take the strategy of conquering the south of the Yangtze River, which made him feel suddenly enlightened. On the contrary, Bing Yuanzhen was selfish Self-interest, actually betraying himself for the sake of gold ten thousand taels, made him even more vigilant about who is loyal and who is treacherous.

"Xiaozhi met him at the door, his face was quite ugly, did he come to urge the king to send troops again?" Fang Xuanzao took a seat beside him.

"Exactly!" Li Mi sighed for a long time, and said with a wry smile, "He has been urging me every day, not only is it difficult for me, but I'm also tired of him."

Fang Xuanzao smiled: "Your Majesty, are you sure you don't want to give up the Central Plains?"

Li Mi nodded, "You also know that our soldiers are all from the Central Plains, so we cannot abandon the Central Plains in the short term."

"If there is a way for the humble official to get the soldiers to agree to go south? Will your majesty give up the four counties north of Liang County?"

"What method, please tell me quickly!" Li Mi was overjoyed, he just wanted to know how to avoid the Tang Wei covenant.

Fang Xuanzao smiled slightly and said: "Your Majesty can send [-] to [-] troops, but not to attack Wang Shichong in Luoyang, but to attack the Sui Army in Xingyang. Your Majesty's attack on the Sui Army is also to share the pressure for Li Tang, so that it will not violate the covenant. Besides, why do we have to fight Wang Shichong? So many people in the Tang army are afraid that they won’t be able to take Luoyang?”

Li Mi stroked his beard and laughed, he also thought of this method, but he was worried that he would be self-defeating, get angry, play with fire and set himself on fire... If the Sui army watched him and fought, it would be really troublesome.

He told Fang Xuanzao about this worry, but Fang Xuanzao shook his head and said, "Let's contact Yang Tong first, so as to reach a verbal agreement that the Sui army will make a fake fight."

"Fake calling?" Li Mi probably understood what Fang Xuanzao meant.

Fang Xuanzao nodded and said, "Exactly."

Li Mi frowned and said, "Yang Tong is a ruthless person, I'm worried that he's playing for real."

"Your Majesty, it doesn't matter if you fight for real or not, at least the soldiers can leave the Central Plains with peace of mind," Fang Xuanzao said clearly. The only obstacle to leaving the Central Plains is the fact that the soldiers are unable to leave their homeland. Going south, the soldiers had nothing to say.In the future, the local plot can be used to stimulate the enthusiasm of the soldiers for training, and when they march into the Central Plains in the future, it can also stimulate the fighting spirit of the soldiers.

"My lord, in fact, we all know that the Sui Dynasty had a great influence on the people of Jibei, Dongping, Jiyin, and Dongjun. What about the trade? And in this way, the land of the Sui Dynasty was intertwined with Dou Jiande, Liu Heita, and Wang Xiaohu. Before the three were resolved, Yang Tong could not ignore the unstable rear. And when he competed with Li Tang for Luoyang, When we seized Qingzhou with Dou Jiande and others, it was time for us to develop south."

"I'm really not reconciled to giving up the great country like this."

Seeing Li Mi's hesitation, Fang Xuanzao persuaded him, "Your Majesty, we form an alliance with Li Yuan openly, and make friends with Yang Yu secretly. We can play between the two major forces and expand to the south at the same time. This is Sun Wu's strategy." , Fang Xuanzao continued: "The Central Plains is only the beginning of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The next step, the two will be a life-and-death battle. The time may be a year, or ten years, but no matter how long, the Central Plains will not have a foothold for us for the time being." If we don't seize the time to manage one side, we will still be a fish without water, and we can't even support a sufficient army. How can we compete with the Sui and Tang Dynasties?"

Li Mi nodded slowly. This sentence made sense, and it touched his heart. More importantly, he also planned to send some forces that did not obey him to fight against the Sui army, and took this opportunity to get rid of these moths. So as to achieve the effect of solidifying the army.But the matter is of great importance, and he still has to think about it carefully.

(End of this chapter)