The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 632
Ling Jing’s eagle letter to Yang Tong was nothing serious, it just said that the armor and weapons had been received, and told his next move. Generally speaking, Yang Tong didn’t care much about such things, but Ling Jing, as a courtier, naturally You must abide by the way of being a minister, and writing to Yang Tong is out of the most basic respect.

As expected by Ling Jing, Yang Tong really simply answered him with the word "adaptive", which is also in line with Yang Tong's usual style. He thinks that he is far away from Bohai County, and it is impossible for him to know more about the teaching of the Wheel than Ling Jing. The situation, if you are far away in Luoyang and direct blindly, you may do bad things with good intentions if you don't talk about it yourself.

Not long after Ling Jing received the Eagle letter, there was movement in the warehouse of Xingyou Tianxia, ​​which had been silent for a long time. Ling Jing got the report and hurried to the third floor of the winery opposite the warehouse. In the second half of the month, after he entered, Shen Cong said: "Shang Shu, more than 20 guards escorted a carriage into it just now, and it seems that they intend to transport the goods away."

"What does it look like in the carriage?"

"The carriage was airtight. It drove directly into the warehouse and never got out of the carriage." Shen Cong replied.

"Should be an important leader."

"Since he is an important leader in transporting weapons and equipment, he naturally knows the home of the Chakra Sect. Wouldn't it be more convenient for us to arrest people directly?" Shen Cong's deputy, Sun An, asked.

"We are here to monitor the warehouse of Xingyou Tianxia. The Lunlun Cult may also arrange secret sentries around. If we arrest people, these secret sentries will notify the people in the old lair to evacuate first. And there are no loopholes in our plan, and we will implement it according to the original plan." Alright, so as not to overwhelm the enemy, and eventually fail." Ling Jing flatly refused.

"The last general is ashamed." Sun An said with shame.

"No problem!" Ling Jing shook his head, he whispered to Shen Cong: "Go to Zhu Xiong, we need accurate information."

"The last general will go to arrange it, Sun An, come with me." Shen Cong stood up and hurried away with Sun An.

The two left the wine shop, drove a carriage to the entrance of another alley, waited for about an hour, and then saw Zhu Xiong walking quickly from a distance.

Shen Cong's soft and hard methods played a very good role on Zhu Neng, and he has become the internal support of the Sui army in the warehouse when they travel around the world, always keeping an eye on the armor and weapons for them.

Zhu Xiong knew this carriage, so he got into it without saying a word, and the carriage started slowly. Zhu Xiong said: "They used 120 poor horses to transport the goods you care about under the cover of transporting tea, silk, and porcelain. Within an hour will go out."

"Where are you going? Where is the destination?"

Zhu Xiong pondered for a moment, then replied: "Cross the Yongji Canal and the Zhangshui River, head north, I don't know exactly where to go."

Shen Cong and Sun An were horrified. They had always thought that the home of the Chakri Sect was in the Bohai Sea, but now, this batch of weapons and equipment went north.Shen Cong felt that it was the most accurate decision for him to save Zhu Xiong's life.

"Is your news reliable?"

"Absolutely reliable!"

Shen Cong took out a bag of gold coins and handed it to him, "The poison I gave you is fake. You have worked hard these few days, and our people will continue to contact you."

"You, who are you guys?" Zhu Xiong didn't take the bag, and asked boldly.

"We are members of the imperial court, and we are ordered to investigate the Chakri Sect who is plotting to rebel."

Zhu Xiong's face turned pale: "I don't want this money, I just ask the imperial court to forgive my crimes."

"You are just a buddy, what crime can you have?" Shen Cong threw the bag into his arms, and solemnly ordered: "Xingyou Tiantian is the secret base of the Chakram Sect. If there is anything abnormal, you must report it truthfully and remember it. Stop, don't tell anyone, if one more person knows, you will be more dangerous, you know?"

"I understand." Zhu Xiong nodded hastily.

"Go."

"Thank you, General!" Zhu Xiong thought for a while, took ten gold coins from the bag, got out of the carriage without saying a word, and walked back quickly.

Sun An was surprised: "This guy is not greedy?"

"He is afraid of a windfall, and his life will be lost. He gave us the remaining forty gold coins."

Sun An couldn't help but laugh: "This guy underestimates us too much."

"It's not that he underestimates us, it's the cleverness of the little man, and the helpless way of life of the little man. But as people in the court, we must not lose our promise to a little man, let alone covet this money, and wait until the Chakram sect is wiped out." Give it to him again." Shen Cong sighed, and then ordered: "Let's go, go back to the winery. Notify Shangshu, and redeploy the staff."

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About an hour later, a caravan consisting of more than 100 mules and horses left the Xingyou Tianxia Warehouse and left the north gate.Their goods are tea, silk, and porcelain, creating a look of going to the grassland to trade, and cheating the checkpoint.

Not long after the caravan left, Shen Cong led dozens of Black Ice Terrace fighters to follow from a distance, and Ling Jing urgently dispatched manpower to closely monitor the officials of Nanpi County and Yanshan County, and then wrote to Yang Tong, explaining Condition.

Yang Tong received Ling Jing's urgent report, and at the suggestion of the important ministers in the court, he issued orders to the counties and counties of Jizhou and Youzhou to let the checkpoints release the passing caravans, so as to ensure that the goods arrived at the destination smoothly and prevent accidents. In addition, the secret order was given to the internal guards in Godadan, Yecheng, to act. Some secretly went north, and some entered the Bohai Sea, and obeyed Ling Jing's deployment; Battle of the Bohai Sea.

This was Yang Tong's first secret operation since the Sui Dynasty, and it was also a military operation carried out with the cooperation of various ministries, covering the entire territory of Jizhou and Youzhou, as well as Qijun and Beihai counties of Qingzhou.

Unexpectedly, the caravan did not go far. After leaving the city, it traveled northeast along the Yongji Canal. Not long after it arrived at Lucheng County in Hejian, it broke down the road along the coastline and went south overnight, and drove the goods into Yanshan, Bohai Sea. Xiashan in the county.

This made Shen Cong, who followed all the way, speechless, went around in circles, and finally returned to Bohai County.

The north slope of Xiashan Mountain is steep and rugged, and there is a canyon on the south slope that is sunken to the north, so it is called Xiashan Mountain.There are three villages in the Xiashan Gorge, no different from ordinary villages. When Shen Cong witnessed a package of goods break open and more than a dozen horizontal knives fell out, he was sure that this was the lair of the Chakra.

But then, the caravan hurriedly set off to the north again, but the sharp-eyed Shen Cong found that half of the vehicles were missing. In order to confirm his guess, he led the converging inner guards, twenty miles to the north of Xiashan Mountain. , The caravan was captured in one go, and there really was not a horizontal knife or a pair of armor among the goods.

Ling Jing, who received Ying's letter, immediately ordered the officers and men of the Black Ice Terrace to wipe out all the officials from Nanpi County and Yanshan County. In the Xiashan Valley, under the strong bow and crossbow of the Sui army, more than 2000 bandits and more than 500 Japanese slaves suffered heavy losses and surrendered one after another. The identity of the so-called runner leader was also verified. This person was named Dugu Han, who belonged to the Dugu family Afterwards, he was loyal to the Dugu clan, and because of his mysterious and unpredictable illusion skills, he was sent by Dugu to the Bohai Sea to develop secretly. The caravan of the Dugu family.

It is also Duguzhen's idea to use the wheel to develop. After the war in Jizhou is over, the common people are thinking about it. It is difficult to use them to rebel. Only by using religious beliefs can these villagers and foolish women be encouraged to follow.

As for the Japanese slaves, they are not pure Japanese slaves, but come from a race called the Einu people. They were originally the aborigines of the island of Hokkaido. There are mustache marks around the mouth.

The literal translation of "Yinu people" means "hair people, captives, and Tibetans". Even the Japanese slaves think that the other party is "hair people, Tibetans". One can imagine how ugly this is. .Today's Wa Kingdom occupies a large amount of territory of the Ainu people, and massacres and suppresses the hairy people like the Ainu people and the Tibetans.

They had business dealings with the well-developed Dugu family as early as in the Daye period. These hundreds of Ainu people were unable to return to the country during the turmoil of the Sui Dynasty. They were taken in by Dugu in a secret manor in Jiangdu. It is said that Dou Jiande was tortured by Japanese slaves in Qingzhou, so he transferred these people to Dugu Han's command.

Dugu Han didn't know whether the Dugu Clan wanted to seize the world. The order he got was to mess up the world in the Great Sui Dynasty. When the ice and snow melted, he would take advantage of the Sui army's opportunity to launch a war in the south and raise troops in Bohai County to capture Bohai County, after obtaining the money, food and military equipment in the treasury, then penetrated Hejian and Boling counties, and entered Hengshan County before the imperial army raised troops to clear up, and killed the defenders there, which will continue to expand Jingxing's more than 4 slaves Incorporated into the army, and then swept across the entire territory of Youzhou, took Youzhou as the foundation to capture Liaodong, and formed alliances with Turkic, Goguryeo and other alien races.

After receiving this confession, both Yang Tong and the important ministers of the Sui Dynasty felt horrified. Although they didn't know what Dugu was doing, his sinister intentions made the emperors and ministers of the Sui Dynasty hate Dugu deeply.

Dugu Han doesn't have many subordinates, and his combat power is not much stronger, but those tens of thousands of slaves are all powerful people who survived the death and death. Once the ten thousand demons are released, one can imagine the devastation it will cause.Ling Jing, who also hated this group of people to the bone, beheaded all the prisoners according to Yang Tong's order.

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Dugu Han's rebellion was nipped in the bud, Yang Tong's heart disease was eliminated, and those who made contributions to this operation were rewarded; especially Ma Zhou, the whistleblower who risked his life to offend the Xuanjia Army and achieved the purpose of face saint, In this scientific examination, the champion of high school was promoted by Yang Tong to be the Minister of Zhongshu, and became Li Jing's deputy. Li Zhi, who spent half a year investigating, was promoted to General Huben of the Xiaoguo Army and became the commander in charge of five thousand soldiers. The elite division commanders, Shen Cong and Sun An, were promoted two ranks each.

After Dugu Han was exterminated, Yang Tong immediately ordered the large-scale eradication of the remnants of the Chakratism. He was worried that there would be some sects and forces with the same vicious ambitions as Duguzheng, hiding in places that the Great Sui Center could not see, and preparing to fight in the Sui Dynasty. When the army marched south, it suffered a heavy blow. After thinking twice, it was decided to suspend the grand plan of the south march, and mobilize the internal guards, black ice platform, Shura guards and military forces to carry out a big cleansing of the Sui Dynasty.

The county soldiers and armies in Jizhou, Youzhou, Bingzhou, Liaodong, Yongzhou, and Liangzhou were unified under the command of Yang Gongren and Wei Yunqi in Luoyang. Local officials bribed by enemy forces and aristocratic families were arrested one after another. In just one month, from Jizhou to Bingzhou, from Liaodong to Liangzhou, from Hebei to Hebei and Hexi, more than 500 shops were closed, and more than 200 officials They were arrested, and more than 3000 enemy spies and bribed people were arrested; as for the Buddha, Buddha's son, Buddha's grandson, Buddha's disciples and thousands of backbones of the Zhuanlun sect in Bohai County, they were also arrested.

Regarding the more than 6000 arrested criminals, Yang Tong was relentless and ordered these people and their families to be executed. The number of more than [-] heads shocked the world and shocked the official circles of the Sui Dynasty, making them realize that the military started Emperor Shengwu, the iron and blood wind in his heart is still there, and all of them have their tails tucked up to be officials and do practical things.

In this thunderous operation, tens of thousands of taels of gold, more than one hundred thousand taels of silver, more than half a million taels of money, and countless rare treasures were confiscated.

All the properties donated voluntarily by the followers of the Wheel of the Wheel will be confiscated, and they will be charged twice as much tax this year and next, and the local household registration will be added with "Shengwu has followed the cult for three years". Degraded to slavery as punishment for their cult.

In Yang Tong's view, there is no such thing as an innocent believer in a cult, and they are not worthy of anyone's sympathy. For such people, it is far more effective to let them lose real money and interests than to persuade them with earnest and hard-to-mouth good words. Only by taking away some of the money that made them heartbroken, will they learn the lesson and will not believe in other cults.

This punishment plan also flew to various parts of the Sui Dynasty with Xinying, passed through the mouths of local officials, and spread to the ears of people everywhere, so that they could know the consequences of believing in cults. The decree of the regular temples and Taoist temples has also been publicized. I believe that after hearing about this punishment incident, people everywhere will never go to those temples and Taoist temples without a 'license' to worship, so as not to be punished severely by the government in the name of believing in cults. .

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Time gradually arrived in February, and the Sui Army's combat preparations began to reach a climax. In this war, the Sui Army took Luoyang as the rear area, and Fuyang County as the logistics center. Ten thousand people, as the back-up of the frontline army, 20 shi have also been in place, and there are countless military supplies such as armor, bows, shields, war drums, and weapons.

When the Sui army was preparing for battle, Li Yuan, Li Mi, and Lin Shihong were all very nervous. They dispatched troops to strengthen the defense, employed civilians to strengthen the border defense line, and patrols patrolled day and night.

To the south of Huai'an County, where the Sui army was heavily stationed, is Li Yuan's Chongling, and to the east is Li Mi's Huaiyang; along the official road through Handong, Anlu, and Jiangxia, you can attack Lin Shihong's Jiujiang and Yuzhang, and Jiangxia still has a few Wan Shuijun was actively training, but Lin Shihong was not sure that the Sui army would not beat him.

Li Yuan was surrounded by Sui troops in the east, south, and north directions, and he was the most nervous.

Li Mi is not easy either, not to mention his army was cut in half by the Huai River, Du Fuwei in Liyang is still like a sharp dagger, piercing the heart of Jiangdu.

Therefore, when the target of the Sui army was not yet clear, no one knew whether Yang Tong was attacking himself or the other two major forces.

The atmosphere in the world suddenly tensed.

(End of this chapter)