Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 447

Chapter [-]: The Problem of the Root of Life

Chang'an, inside the Palace of Manna.

It was already late at night when Li Yuan received the news of Hangu Pass victory.There is no way, Hangu Pass is almost [-] miles away from Chang'an, and this is still in the territory of the Tang Dynasty. Due to the continuous supply of food for the army, the messenger has countless horses to replace.

Handed the battle report of Hangu Pass to Li Yuan as quickly as possible.Li Yuan looked at the battle report in disbelief: "Break Hangu Pass in half an hour? How is this possible?"

Pei Ji didn't see the battle report, and said with a leisurely smile, "Is there anything impossible? If Zheng Jun escapes without a fight, let alone half an hour, Hangu Pass can be taken down with a stick of incense!"

"Kill the enemy... kill 640 and four enemies, injure one thousand and eight hundred and sixty one. Capture two thousand and four hundred and four hundred and four people!" Li Yuan's voice trembled, and he said dumbfounded: "Self-damaging one person and slightly injuring one?... How is this?" possible?"

Pei Ji said solemnly: "These generals are getting more and more daring, falsely reporting their military exploits...they dare to be so crazy, do they really think we are fools? They should be punished and punished!"

Li Yuan shook his head and said, "This is not their battle report!"

"Not a battle report?"

"That is??"

"The secret report from the gate guard of the left prison!" Li Yuan raised the secret message in Yang's hand: "The secret report from the gate guard of the left prison is quite reliable. They really dare not lie to me!"

Hearing the secret report from the guard of the left prison, Pei Ji fell silent.The guards of the left prison are Li Yuan's ears and eyes. Even Pei Ji has never been indifferent to the affairs of the guards of the left prison. , at least the news that Li Yuan wants to hear, Li Yuan will definitely get it.

Of course, the Zuojianmen didn't need to show their merits to Li Yuan for Chen Ying, the news was naturally reliable.Pei Ji didn't know what to say at this time: "Hangu Pass, how could it be breached in half an hour?"

Li Yuan didn't answer, and handed the secret letter in his hand to Pei Ji. Pei Ji opened the secret letter, and the doubts on his face became more intense: "Sulphur, aconitum, flame nitrate, croton, wolf's poison, tung oil, charcoal, The old ministers know about arsenic, yellow wax, and these things, but what is this bitumen?"

Li Yuan shook his head and said, "I don't know, I think this asphalt is the direct reason why Chen Ying was able to capture Hangu Pass!" At this point, Li Yuan rushed to Yu Yanzhang, the general of the Zuojian Gate, and said, "Think of a way to get the above I can't feel at ease if I don't know how Chen Ying broke through the Hangu Pass in half an hour!"

In fact, Chen Ying used too much force. He broke through eighteen passes of Yanmen Pass in one day, broke through Yanmen Pass, the most important pass in the world, and then broke through Hangu Pass, the second most important pass in the world, within half an hour.Fortunately, Yanmen Pass has been breached several times in history, but Hangu Pass has only been conquered once since it was established in Qin Mugong's time, and that time was also because Qin State could not resist Qin State's large number of soldiers, and it lasted for a year and a half. Forced to admit defeat.

However, Chen Ying actually broke through Hangu Pass within half an hour, leaving more than one-third of Wang Renze's subordinates at Hangu Pass. This does not mean that Wang Renze had no intention of resisting, but simply couldn't resist.An army, even elite soldiers, would have absolutely no fighting power if it suffered one-third of the casualties.

Yanmen Pass and Hangu Pass were conquered by Chen Ying one after another, so is there any pass in the world that can stop Chen Ying?

Chen Ying, who was far away in Xin'an County, actually didn't know that Li Yuan was frightened by his breakthrough of Hangu Pass in such a short period of time.

Just when Yu Yanzhang was about to order the spies of the left prison gate guard to wait for the opportunity to steal Chen Ying's secret weapon to break through Hangu Pass, Pei Ji suddenly said, "Your Majesty, why don't you just order General Chen to use this secret weapon?" Dedicated to His Majesty? If such a powerful weapon is in hand, what other city in the world can't do it?"

Li Yuan was startled, and immediately understood Pei Ji's intentions.Pei Ji directly asked Li Yuan to directly order Chen Ying. In fact, outstanding payment is not a kind of temptation. As long as Chen Ying is willing to hand over this powerful weapon to Li Yuan, it means that Chen Ying has no dissent. At the same time, any city will no longer be in front of Li Yuan. An insurmountable problem.

However, if Chen Ying disagreed, or talked about other things, or prevaricated with other reasons, it showed that there was a problem with Chen Ying.

Li Yuan smiled and said: "Jian Pei is really unparalleled in wisdom and planning, alright, let's use Jian Pei... come here to draw up an order!"

"Your Majesty, in fact, it is better not to issue this imperial decree!" Pei Ji smiled and said: "Your Majesty only needs to send one person, and the old minister is sure that Chen Ying will definitely offer such a sharp weapon with both hands!"

"Oh!" Li Yuan was taken aback when he heard the words, and raised his eyebrows: "You mean Sanniang?"

"Exactly!" Pei Ji nodded and said, "Chai Shao's new funeral, the Hou Mo Chen family and the Longyou Li family are both families of the Eight Great Pillars of the Western Wei Dynasty, and they belong to the same family in Yemen. Besides, the Hou Mo Chen family in Lingnan is not small!"

Li Yuan nodded.

Hou Mo and Chen Ying used to be the general manager of Guizhou in the Sui Dynasty, and also in charge of the military affairs of the [-] prefectures.Although the Lingdi states are vast and sparsely populated, their output is limited.But it is undeniable that the Hou Mochen clan is the local tyrant.Hundreds of Liao people, Yue people, and fan seedlings in the seventeen prefectures are all servants of the Hou Mochen family, and the marriage with the Hou Mochen family can be said to be a win-win situation.

In the past, if Li Yuan looked down on Chen Ying, it was because of Chen Ying's humble background. If he married the dignified emperor's daughter to a commoner, it would be the laughing stock of the world.

But now, who dares to say that Chen Ying's background is low?
Hou Mochen's family has been a general for many generations, and has many generals.Especially the four brothers Hou Mo Chen Chong, two sons, including the current grandson Hou Mo Chen Ying and Hou Mo Chen Qianhui, Hou Mo Chen Qianhui also shined brilliantly in the Battle of Pingchen.When he was young, Hou Mo Chen Qianhui was also a rare tiger general, even if this tiger was already old, who would dare to underestimate him?

More importantly, Hou Mo Chen's family now has a Chen Ying, whose courage is far inferior to that of his ancestor Hou Mo Chen Chong, but his resourcefulness and military training skills are much stronger than Hou Mo Chen Chong.

With Chen Ying as his son-in-law, he will definitely not wrong Princess Pingyang, so it is a rare good thing for Li Yuan.After all, having one more general in Datang can stand alone against one general, and it can also make Datang open up its borders and make it smoother.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan said to Chen Qi, the regular attendant beside him: "Send someone to pass on my oral order, and Princess Xuan Pingyang will see you!"

"The slaves obey!"

……

Chen Ying sent four people to seize the fifteen cities under Henan's rule, and Chen Ying had already ordered that no army or general should cross the border.Although Li Shimin is relatively magnanimous, but this piece of fat in Luoyang belongs to Li Shimin, if he robs Li Shimin of his meat, the result will definitely not be good.

Chen Ying also knows that after the elimination of Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande, Li Tang will be invincible in the Central Plains. At the same time, the internal struggle will become fierce. Li Jiancheng's subordinates are not useless. If they don't have enough interests, it is difficult for those people to follow Li Jiancheng.

Chen Ying founded a steel factory, built horse-drawn carriages, and all kinds of new things. It seems that the profits are very rich, but there is no way to divide them.Although the plate of this cake is big, once it is divided, there is not much benefit.

Chen Ying decided to take advantage of the opportunity to appease Henan and try his best to develop Henan's economy so that Chen Ying could become Li Jiancheng's pocketbook. As long as he had money and benefits to distribute, Li Jiancheng would have a greater chance of winning.

Chen Ying is now surrounded by Shan Xiongxin wearing a golden tiger-striped mask. After Shangyuan Day, farmers have already started to prepare for spring plowing. Plows should be repaired, and hoes should be added.

Chen Ying took Shan Xiongxin to the fields in Xin'an County, and found some people in shabby clothes squatting in the fields, frowning.

Chen Ying got off his horse and went to the ridges of the fields, only to see these peasants squatting at the top of the fields looking sadly at the fields with a thin layer of snow on the ground.

Chen Ying asked an old farmer: "Dare to ask the old man, why are you squatting in the field and worrying about it in such a cold day? What should I do if I freeze?"

The old farmer's face was as wrinkled as an old tree's, with a look of unresolved sadness on his face: "If you freeze, you will die..."

The old farmer's tone was filled with unspeakable sadness and helplessness.

Chen Yingchong waved to Shan Xiongxin, and Shan Xiongxin took out a large handful of copper coins from the horse's chain.Of course gold and silver things can be more valuable, but Chen Ying knows that if he gives gold to an ordinary old farmer, it is not helping him, but hurting him, and maybe someone will take the risk at night and kill him at home.Chen Yingdao: "Old man, there are no hurdles that cannot be overcome in this world. It doesn't matter if the seeds and food have been eaten. There is still some money for these. Go back and buy some seeds. After a while, wait for the spring snow to melt and prepare for spring!"

"There are still some seed grains, but the fields are gone, so what's the use of seed grains!" Looking at the field in front of him, the old farmer knelt down on the snow with a plop and cried loudly: "I'm useless, I'm ashamed Ah, I didn't keep these tens of acres of ancestral land, I am ashamed of my ancestors..."

Chen Ying suddenly felt that the problem was serious. It seemed that there were quite a lot of people like this old farmer. Looking around, there were people indistinctly. Almost all the fields, there were old or young, light or weak people squatting on the ground. Fields.

Chen Ying patted the old farmer on the shoulder, and said in relief: "Old man, tell me, what's going on?"

The old farmer looked at Chen Ying with tears in his eyes: "My lord, you are not from Xin'an, are you?"

"no……"

"That……"

"I'm from Chang'an!"

"Oh!" The old farmer heard that Chen Ying was not from Xin'an, and he was unprepared. He choked up and touched his tears: "The fields are not good, you can't live."

Upon hearing this, Chen Ying's face became serious.People depend on food, and of course food mainly comes from the land. A farmer without land is not even a human being. In the eyes of farmers, a farmer must have land.Chen Ying asked cautiously: "Old man, your field is fine, why is it gone?"

(End of this chapter)