The Tang army currently has a total of 300,000 troops, divided into six major factions, one is Li Shimin's Guanxi faction with about 100,000 people, the other is Li Xiaogong's Bashu and Jingxiang factions, and there are about 100,000 troops. These two factions constitute the main force of the Sui army and are called the Qin King faction by those who are familiar with the matter.

Secondly, there are four small factions, one is Li Jiancheng's Kanto faction, about 30,000 people, then Li Shentong's Guannei and Hexi factions, also 30,000 people, and then Li Yuanji's new army faction, also 30,000 people, and the last one is Chai Shao's Chang'an Jiucheng faction, about 20,000 people, responsible for maintaining Chang'an public security.

Among these four small factions, Chai Shao was removed from the Dragon Sect, and the other three factions were Li Jiancheng's forces, all of which were also called the Prince's Sect.

In addition to these six factions, the Tang army also had tens of thousands of Li Yuan’s imperial guards. This time, Li Shimin asked for a new army, so there could only be two sources, either to draw troops from Li Jiancheng’s faction or to recruit new recruits.

As night fell, a carriage stopped in front of the palace of King Li Yuanji of Qi. Since the Tongguan incident, Li Yuanji has been demoted to the people to calm the anger of the military.

But he was Li Yuan's legitimate son after all, and he was just a gesture of punishment. Not long after, he quietly recovered his title and was immediately sent to Bashang to train new recruits.

In the past two days, Li Yuanji happened to return to Chang'an and rest in the mansion.

The carriage was waiting at the door of the mansion for a while, a butler quickly stepped out and bowed and smiled in front of the carriage, "The prince asked the minister to come into the mansion and talk."

The car door opened, Feng Deyi, the Minister of the Inner History, walked out of the carriage and said with a smile: "Come uninvited, disturb your prince's rest."

"Where! Where! The prince has always been very hospitable and welcomes the minister to visit."

The butler waved his hand and said, "Please, Minister!"

Feng Deyi held his hands behind his back and followed the housekeeper to the royal mansion without panic, and walked to the guest hall. Li Yuanji personally greeted him in front of the steps.

Li Yuanji wore a brocade robe with white satin embroidered dragons. He wore a golden crown on his head and a jade belt on his waist, which looked quite as handsome as a handsome tree. Since Li Yuanji was dismissed from office as a citizen, Li Yuan handed him over to the prince Li Jiancheng for his supervision.

In the past year, Li Yuanji was very low-key and forced to steal the female girl. He did not happen in a bad situation of riding a horse and hurting people. Li Yuan was quite satisfied with his transformation and was appointed as the champion general and was responsible for the training of the Chang'an New Guard.

Li Yuanji had met Feng Deyi twice. He knew that his father favored the former Emperor's first imperial pen, and such a person was useful to him, so he waited on the steps. When he saw Feng Deyi coming, he hurried forward to salute. "Yuanji failed to go out of the palace to greet him, please forgive me."

Feng Deyi smiled and said, "Your Highness is so polite. I came here uninvited to disturb your highness's rest."

"It's too obvious to say this. I can't even invite guests like the Minister. How dare I say the word "disturbance"? Please come in!"

Li Yuanji invited Feng Deyi into the guest hall and ordered the maid to serve tea. The two of them exchanged a few greetings, and Feng Deyi turned to the main topic.

"Today, the emperor talked to me about the battle in Luoyang. The emperor is very worried about the battle in Luoyang!"

"snort!"

Li Yuanji snorted coldly, "That's someone who is incompetent. He can't conquer Luoyang even if he leads an army of 100,000 to fight. He disappoints his father's expectations and makes the entire Tang Dynasty shame. Since he is so incompetent, what should he still occupy a high position?"

Feng Deyi smiled a little embarrassedly, "Your Highness, after all, this battle is of great importance, and it is normal for the Emperor to worry about it. Now the King of Qin requested the Emperor to send reinforcements, and the Emperor felt very embarrassed."

"Reinforcements?"

Li Yuanji showed a disdainful look on his face, "He already has an army of 100,000, and Li Xiaogong still has an army of 80,000, which is far more than the Sui army's strength. He actually wants reinforcements, but he can say it out loud."

"But the Lord also mentioned His Highness."

Li Yuanji was stunned and his face immediately sank, "What did my father mention? "

Feng Deyi said without saying a word: "In fact, it was not the priest who mentioned His Highness, but the priest who said that there were no soldiers in Guanzhong to be sent, so Yu Wenji mentioned the new army!"

"Bad!"

Li Yuanji stood up and cursed: "It's not enough for him to have a hundred thousand troops. He has to plan my army again. I have never seen such a shameless person."

"His highness calms down."

Feng Deyi waved his hand quickly and explained to him: "The Lord did not agree to this matter. The Lord only said that he needed to consider it again. I only reminded Your Highness that if the Lord summoned Your Highness, please understand the difficulties of the Lord, so that he would not have to anger him too much. He is under great pressure now."

Li Yuanji suppressed the anger in his heart and bowed his hand and said, "Thank you, Minister Feng, for your reminder, I will not anger my father."

.........

Feng Deyi said goodbye and left. Li Yuanji sat alone on the couch, his face turned pale and his eyes were filled with anger. The second brother actually had the idea of ​​his new army, which made him unable to bear it.

Li Yuanji has had no evil with Li Shimin since he was a child, and his relationship has always been good, but the incident of Li Shimin shooting Li Zhiyun to death made him feel heartbroken. Even his brother can do this. This person is really cruel and ruthless. He is his younger brother. Will he attack him one day?

It was Li Zhiyun's incident that made Li Yuanji wary of Li Shimin. In contrast, his elder brother Li Jian became generous and treated him with brotherhood, which moved Li Yuanji, who had always been indifferent to others.

More importantly, during the Tongguan incident, Li Shimin supported Li Xiaogong to attack him, which led to his final dismissal of office for the people. It was this incident that led to Li Yuanji and Li Shimin's hatred, and he began to fully support his eldest brother Jiancheng.

Li Yuanji pondered for a long time, and he stood up resolutely and said, "Prepare for the car, I'm going to Xianyang."

......

At this time, Li Jiancheng was not in the capital, but inspected Xia Zong in Xianyang. Li Jiancheng did not participate too much in this Central Plains War. On the one hand, he had heavy government affairs, and on the other hand, this Central Plains War was full of the Qin King's troops, so he did not want to participate too much.

The summer planting in Guanzhong area is a few days later than Henan Road. The paddy fields are filled with water, while farmers are busy planting rice seedlings in the fields, and the land of Guanzhong is very busy.

Li Jiancheng wore a hat on his head, a short jacket like a farmer, and his trousers were rolled up high. He had just planted half acre of seedlings and was sitting on the ground drinking water and chatting with several old farmers.

A guard filled his big bowl with herbal tea and handed it to him, "Your Highness, please drink water!"

Li Jiancheng took the tea bowl and asked a few old farmers with a smile. "How is the summer harvest in Xianyang today?"

Although Li Jiancheng is the prince, he is approachable and farms with farmers, so everyone is not afraid of him. An old farmer sighed and said, "This year is the Little New Year, and crops are generally not well harvested, and even the fruits on the trees are sparse. This year, wheat yields by 20% compared with last year. It is estimated that autumn rice will not be very good either. Your Highness, I don't know whether to say it or not."

Li Jiancheng nodded, "Just say it!"

"Your Highness, can you ask the court to make some changes in the land tax, such as when the production is reduced in the small year, can the land tax be reduced slightly?"

The old farmer made this suggestion, and the other old farmers agreed. When they were in their hearts, Li Jiancheng pondered and said, "You have made sense. I will go back to discuss this matter with the ministers. I will draft a reasonable plan and strive for the consent of the emperor."

The old farmers were overjoyed and thanked them all. At this time, another farmer finally couldn't help but say, "Your Highness, I have something I want to report."

Li Jiancheng smiled, "But it's okay!"

"I have a nephew who was captured in the Battle of Goryeo and has been working hard in Goryeo. He was rescued by the Sui army a few months ago. Later, when he returned home, he brought back a horse given to him by the Sui Dynasty. In this case, it was normal for him to be grateful to the Sui Dynasty. He accidentally thought about the benefits of the Sui Dynasty, but unexpectedly angered the government and insisted that he was a spy from the Sui Dynasty. He captured people from the government and confiscated the horses as an official. Now he is still locked up in the county government. I wonder if Your Highness can...

"It's outrageous!"

Li Jiancheng's face immediately sank, took out his gold medal and handed it to the guard behind him, "Just say it was my order, and let the county government release the people immediately and return the horse to others. No similar incidents are allowed to happen again."

The old farmer knelt down immediately, feeling very grateful, "Thank you for your kind help!"

Li Jiancheng quickly helped him up, "No need to be polite. I don't pay attention to this matter. I will order the local governments not to arrest soldiers released from Goryeo again. The Sui Dynasty saved people, but we arrested people. Will this make the hearts of the whole world cold?"

"Your Highness is a generous person. I hope that all the officials of the Tang Dynasty will be the same as your highness. That is the blessing of our common people."

As he was speaking, a guard ran over and reported: "Your Highness, the Prince of Qi is here and said there is something urgent."

Li Jiancheng saw a carriage parked on the official road not far away, and there were more than a hundred horse-riding guards next to him, so he stood up and walked towards the carriage. Soon he came to the carriage. Li Yuanqing had already walked out of the carriage. When he saw his eldest brother Jiancheng dressed in a rural farmer, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Why has his eldest brother become an old farmer?"

Li Jiancheng sighed and said, "If you don't work in farming, you don't know how to sympathize with farmers. If you sit in the temple every day, how can you know the sufferings of the people? Forget it, if you don't tell you this, what's the important thing?"

"Brother, please get on the carriage and talk in detail, it has something to do with my army."

The two brothers got on the carriage, and Li Yuanji explained in detail what Feng Deyi asked him last night. Li Jiancheng narrowed his eyes and suddenly asked, "Are you very familiar with Feng Deyi?"

"I have met me twice, and my relationship is very average. I don't have a good relationship with him and Yuwen An, but Yuwen An never told me either. I was also very surprised last night, why did he come to me and why did he tell me about this."

Li Jiancheng shook his head slowly, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "He was not looking for you, he was actually here for me, do you understand? He knew you would turn around and come to me."

Li Yuanji suddenly realized that he felt like he was being used, and said hatefully for a while: "I said why did he suddenly become enthusiastic about me? It turned out that he just asked me to bring a message, but he didn't say it clearly. This person was so scheming that it was displeasing."

Li Jiancheng smiled and said, "This is normal, don't blame him. He is deeply favored by his father. If he comes to me openly, it will make his father suspicious and affect his career. This person is very good at doing things."

"Okay! Even if I don't blame him, what should I do about this? How should I deal with the idea of ​​the second brother attacking me?"

Li Jiancheng sneered, "He wants to take advantage of this Central Plains Battle to seize all military power. Today is your new army. I will be transferred to my Kanto Army in a few days. I know what he is thinking, hum! He can't think of it."
Chapter completed!