Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 576 Competing in the Central Plains

Chapter 576 Competing in the Central Plains (61)

The summer of the eighth year of Yan State 370 (588)
The situation in the world is becoming more and more tense. Although there is no direct war between the countries, the swords are already on the verge of breaking out.

On the Yangtze River waterway, Chen Guo planted a large number of iron spears at the bottom of the Yangtze River. Once a ship sailed into the river, these iron spears would pierce the bottom of the ship.

In addition, a large number of trenches were dug around Jiankang City, making the ground on Jiangzuo rough.

Khitan, Kumoxi, and Eastern Turks also equipped a large number of armored cavalry, and the generals of the armed cavalry from Yan State went to teach them and train them in the tactics of armored cavalry.

Yan Guo transferred all the population and wealth of Shandong to Liaodong. Once a war broke out, Shandong was too close to the hinterland of the Central Plains, so it would definitely not be able to keep it.

Since you can't keep it, then just give up, shrink the front line, and invest limited resources in Gwangju's defense.

The Sui Dynasty also produced a large number of ships, trained the navy day and night, and at the same time recruited Tuyuhun and Western Turkic cavalry into the Central Plains to help them train and improve their combat effectiveness.

Goguryeo sharpened its knives even more, and only waited for the decisive battle between the Yan State and the Central Plains to attack the Liaodong land of the Yan State.

The government of Yan State also issued an urgent notice telling Yan State businessmen not to go to the Central Plains to do business for the time being, because they might be arrested by the Central Plains court at any time.

The smelting workshops that produce agricultural tools were also told to temporarily stop the production of agricultural tools and focus on producing weapons and equipment.

Yan State also carried out military mobilization in the country, recruited soldiers on a large scale, and stepped up the training of recruits.

Yan State, which originally had no more than [-] soldiers, has expanded to [-] troops in just a few years.

With the population of Yan State, raising an army of [-] would consume a huge amount of national strength, and Yan State really had to do its best.

Peach Blossom Barracks
This used to be the old capital of Yan State, but now it has become the military training base of Yan State, where a large number of Yan State recruits receive training from veterans.

Bang bang bang!
Rows of firecrackers were fired, hitting the target ahead.

A year ago, with the further maturity of Yan Guo's iron smelting technology, the iron pipe firecracker was finally ready for actual combat.

However, due to the short time, within one year, Yan Guo only produced [-] iron tube firecrackers, and the other hundreds of firecrackers were still made of bronze barrels.

The firearms of this period were far inferior to bows and crossbows in combat effectiveness, so the firearms troops were only used as a novel deterrent weapon for Yan State, and the main operations still relied on armored cavalry and strong crossbows.

Not only is he equipped with a large number of crossbows, but he also sells a large number of crossbows to Chen Guo to improve Chen Guo's long-range strike capability.

In such a tense situation, all countries frantically send envoys to each other.

The State of Yan sent envoys to the State of Sui, hoping that the Sui Dynasty would give up the southern expedition and take the initiative to destroy the ships under construction.

Daxing City

Royal Palace
"Humph!"

"A small country in eastern Liaodong dares to interfere in our war in the Central Plains!"

"After I destroy Chen Yi, I will definitely destroy Yanlu again!"

Yang Jian's eyes became more and more fierce. Over the past few years, there have been people rebelling, and some of them were heroes who helped him usurp the throne.

Those partners who used to fight side by side with him now betrayed him one by one, which also made him lose the generosity he had when he founded the country, and became more and more ruthless.

Just today, the envoys of the Yan Kingdom came to Daxing City, and actually asked the Central Plains horses to release Nanshan in public, otherwise, they would have to fight to the death with the Sui Kingdom.

"The reason why the situation in the world is tense today is because your country is too ambitious. After annexing Qi, you want to annex Chen!"

"Our country of Yan is a peace-loving country, so naturally we will not sit idly by your country's aggression!"

The envoy of the Yan State spoke righteously above the main hall, rebuking the Sui State for being too ambitious and aggressive.

"If your country can free Nanshan and coexist peacefully with neighboring countries, Sui will still be our friend of Yan, and Sui and Yan can continue to trade."

"In order for the common people in the world not to suffer misfortune, please stop your country's military expansion!"

The Sui Dynasty fought south and north and annexed too many territories, which have already been expanded.

Naturally, there are punishments for over-expansion. Therefore, the regimes around the Sui Dynasty are very wary of the Sui Dynasty. They had no choice but were forced to surrender to the Sui Dynasty. Now Yan Kingdom has taken the initiative to challenge the Sui Dynasty. They have a choice , Naturally, they resisted the expansion of the Sui Empire together.

These words of the envoy of Yan State naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of the civil and military ministers of the Sui Dynasty, so, naturally, the envoy of Yan State was expelled from the country.

The reason why they didn't kill them was that the Sui Dynasty didn't want to fight Yan Guo immediately, because the Sui's navy hadn't trained well yet, and it had to be delayed for a while.

Originally, Yang Jian was angry, but what made him even more angry was that the crown prince Yang Yong actually agreed with what the envoy of Yan State said.

"In the past, he won the Qin Dynasty and went out of Guanzhong, wiped out the kingdoms of the countries, so that he died in the second generation, Fu Qin came out of Guanzhong, wanted to unify the world, but was defeated in Feishui, and finally died and the country was destroyed."

"My great Sui Dynasty cannot follow the old path of defeating Qin Fuqin, and can no longer expand. I should immediately recuperate and restore good diplomatic relations with other countries. Only in this way can the Sui Dynasty enjoy long-term peace and stability!"

Yang Jian was furious that the dignified prince actually increased the ambition of others and destroyed his own prestige.

But the good news is that another son, Yang Guang, stood up and reprimanded the envoy of the Yan Kingdom, and even spoke at length in support of the unification war and the decisive battle.

"The first battle is the decisive battle, and the first battle will determine the world!"

"I am Da Sui, and I am about to wipe out the ugliness with an elite teacher!"

Yang Guang's words won Yang Jian's heart deeply, so Yang Jian has already begun to think about abolishing the elders and establishing the virtuous.

In his opinion, although Yang Yong is the eldest son, he is not wise enough, while Yang Guang is not the eldest son, but he is very wise, with the demeanor of the ancient Yao, Shun and Yu.

Therefore, Yang Jian decided to let Yang Guang serve as the nominal commander in chief of destroying Chen, and let Yang Guang earn a lot of credit for destroying Chen, which can be regarded as gilding Yang Guang.

After the relationship between Yan and Sui broke down, Yan Guo was not polite, hired many scholars, and created many jokes, jokes, novels, and comic strips mocking Yang Sui.

Yan Xu himself often told some "Sui country jokes" on diplomatic occasions, satirizing the Sui Dynasty in front of his allies.

"On the road to Huangquan, a group of ghosts gathered together, and they discussed with each other why they went to Huangquan."

"A ghost said that because I opposed Sui Lord's usurpation, I was killed by the usurper Yang Jian."

"Another ghost said that because I supported the Sui Lord's usurpation, I was considered an unfaithful and unrighteous villain, so I was killed."

"Another ghost said that because I neither supported nor opposed the usurpation, I was thought to have other motives and was killed."

"The last ghost said that I am the usurped Yuwen family, and the whole family was killed by the rebellious officials and thieves surnamed Yang according to the genealogy."

When Yan Xu visited Chen Guo, he said these words in public at Chen Guo's state banquet, which caused the Chen Guo's civil and military ministers to burst into laughter.

In addition to these jokes, there are also easy-to-understand comic strips. Yan Guo spent a lot of money and hired scholars who usually painted erotic pictures to draw comic strips mocking Yang Sui.

In the comic strips sold by Yan State, Yang Jian is a clown who does absurd things every day. The people under his rule can be said to be in dire straits.

There is also a Yan Guo scholar who writes small yellow texts on weekdays, and was hired by the Yan State government with a lot of money to write "The Secret History of Queen Dugu", "The Secret of Yang Lihua" and "The Secret of the Sui Palace". rulers, especially the vilification of the Yang Sui royal family.

While uglifying the royal family of the Sui Dynasty, the State of Yan made a special case for Yang Yong, vilifying Yang Yong’s parents, brothers and sisters, but also crazily advocating Yang Yong himself, praising the prince of the Sui State, Yang Yong, as a real Yao, Shun and Yu Reincarnated, but was suspected by his cruel parents.

After Yang Jian saw these things, he very doubted whether the crown prince Yang Yong had colluded with Yan State, so he asked people to investigate Yang Yong.

Then, he discovered that not long ago, Prince Yang Yong had indeed received many gifts from the envoy of Yan State in private. During that time, Prince Yang Yong often went to the brothel with the envoy of Yan State.

(End of this chapter)

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