Fang Xuanling thought for a long time, but still shook his head, "Your Highness, I can't figure it out. I can only infer that the Sui army's attack on Qingzhou was a skeptical plan, but what is their real purpose? I can't imagine."

"Will this be the Sui Dynasty's plan to lure troops?"

Changsun Wuji pondered for a moment and said, "Maybe the Sui army deliberately took the initiative to attack Qingzhou and lure us to attack the Sui Dynasty?"

"It shouldn't be a trick to lure troops. Yang Yuanqing had completed the negotiations with us. He also needed time to recuperate and would not deal with us again. This matter must have nothing to do with us."

Fang Xuanling rejected Changsun Wuji's idea, but he could not come up with a reasonable statement. The inner hall was silent. After a while, Li Shimin said: "I must report this matter to my father. No matter what, I cannot hide it from my father. And no matter what the purpose of the Sui army was, we should seize this opportunity... In the imperial study, Li Yuan was comforting Yu Wenshi. He had been with Yu Wenshi for many years and had always had a good personal relationship. Moreover, Yu Wenshi and his sister were Li Yuan's Zhaoyi, who was very favored by Li Yuan. The personal relationship and marriage made Li Yuan favor Yu Wenshi.

This time, Yu Wenshi and his envoy to the Sui Dynasty wanted to reunite with their wife and children again, but his wife, Princess Nanyang, had already broken off his affection for him and resolutely became a monk.

His son, Zen Master Yuwen, was unwilling to bear the shame of killing the king, changed his mother's surname and changed his name to Zen Master Yang, and he was unwilling to serve the Tang Dynasty. He refused to return to Chang'an with his father. In the end, Shi Wen and his wife and children separated and returned to Chang'an sadly.

When he returned to Chang'an, he was impeached by Xiao Yu, saying that he used state affairs to seek personal gain, which insulted the Tang envoy Fengyi, and suggested that the court remove him from his official position. This made Yu Wenshi even more decadent. The Political Affairs Hall summoned him to testify, but he did not go. He left the order, and a letter of dismissal was handed over to Li Yuan's imperial case.

The emperor's comfort made Yu Wenshi and could no longer suppress the sorrow in his heart. He knelt on the ground and cried, "My family has been destroyed, and even if there are high-ranking officials in the prime minister, what is the use of it for the minister? It is better to serve the people, find a remote mountain and no one, build a hut and fishing fisherman. He will live his life."

Li Yuan knew that Yu Wenshi and Princess Nanyang had a deep relationship with Princess Nanyang. However, Princess Nanyang had become a monk, and it was difficult to get rid of the mirror and could not stop the water. He also sympathized with Yu Wenshi, and the Political Affairs Hall did not take him seriously in his impeachment against Yu Wenshi.

"Yuwen Aiqing, since the princess is already heartless, you should also be more open-minded. In fact, even if she promises to reunite with you, you will not be able to live together again. You must understand this."

"I also understand in my heart that I am alone and cannot sleep at night. This kind of pain of losing my wife in a middle-aged family makes it difficult for me to face. I beg your Majesty to let me give my husband aside for the people."

"You don't need to explain anymore. I understand in my heart. Why don't a real man have no wives? Since the princess of the Sui Dynasty do not want to marry you. I will let the princess of the Tang Dynasty marry you. This matter is decided. I will make arrangements as soon as possible. You can be at ease and don't make trouble for yourself."

Li Yuan's attitude was very firm. Although Yu Wenshi did not want to remarry at this time, he had no choice but to thank him for his gratitude.

As soon as Yu Wenshi and Li Yuan left, he asked the eunuch who wanted to speak but stopped, "Is there anything wrong?"

"Report to Your Majesty, the King of Qin has an urgent matter."

Li Yuan nodded, "Please give him an audience."

"Your Majesty has an order to announce the King of Qin's visit... Your Majesty has an order to announce the King of Qin's visit!"

He shouted loudly and after a moment, Li Shimin walked in quickly with a eunuch. He walked into the imperial study room and bowed, "Son Master, please see the father!"

Li Yuan was quite satisfied with Li Shimin during this period. The reason was that Li Yuan planned to let Li Shimin serve as the general manager of Guan Neidao, but Li Shimin politely declined and instead strongly recommended Chai Shao as the general manager of Guan Neidao, which was far beyond Li Yuan's expectations.

This humility made Li Yuan very pleased. His second son Shimin's position in his heart became a little more intense. Li Yuan asked with a smile: "What urgent matter should I report to me if the emperor has?"

"Report to my father, Tang Feng sent an emergency information today that the Sui army was going to attack Dou Jiande, Qingzhou."

Then, Li Shimin presented Tang Feng's information to Li Yuan. The smile on Li Yuan's face disappeared and became extremely serious. He hurriedly looked at Tang Feng, and his thick eyebrows were twisted into a 'one' shape. The Sui army actually wanted to attack Dou Jiande, Qingzhou.

But even so, Li Yuan did not have the courage to take the opportunity to attack the Sui Dynasty. The negotiations just ended, and he really didn't want to make trouble anymore.

Li Yuan sighed, "What do you think of this matter by the emperor?"

"I report to my father and son ministers, and my old opinions. Regardless of whether the Sui Dynasty really attacked Dou Jiande, it is actually a chance for us."

"no!"

Li Yuan decisively rejected Li Shimin's idea, "I need time to work hard now and don't want to go to war with the Sui Dynasty again."

"Father, I am not saying that I am going to war with the Sui Dynasty. I am saying that I am going to do something wrong with the Sui army, and I am trying to continue to expand the advantages of the south."

Li Yuan finally understood what Li Shimin meant, "What the emperor meant is to attack Xiao Xian?"

Li Shimin nodded and bowed, "Father, Xiao Xian and Lai Hu'er are fighting in internal conflicts. He destroyed the Great Wall by himself. The ministers are willing to lead 50,000 elite troops to Jingxiang. Taking advantage of the opportunity that the Sui Dynasty had no time to look south, annihilate Xiao Xian in one fell swoop, and no longer give him a chance to turn over."

Li Yuan pondered for a long time, but did not agree immediately, "I will discuss this matter with the Prime Ministers of the Political Affairs Hall... The Political Affairs Hall of the Tang Dynasty was still debating whether to take this opportunity to continue attacking Xiao Xian, but there was no result. However, the Sui army was mobilizing on a large scale, and 130,000 troops crossed Taihang Jingxing and headed for Hebei, and marched towards the southeast.

In the evening of that day, 130,000 troops arrived in Wuqiang County, Xindu County. Because it was getting late, the army set up a camp in a wilderness outside the county town.

Most of the soldiers were exhausted. After dinner, they fell asleep and rested. Chief Li Jing walked past several camp tents and hurried towards the central army's tent. However, he met Deputy General Qin Qiong at the entrance of the tent.

"Shubao, is there anything wrong with the manager?"

Li Jing didn't know what Yang Yuanqing asked him to discuss important matters. In fact, Li Jing did not agree with the attack on Qingzhou at this time. Li Jing believed that at this time, the main focus should be on recruiting and training troops and resting. Not long after the Battle of Central Plains was over, the Qingzhou Battle was launched, which would make the soldiers too tired.

Qin Qiong shook his head, "The manager didn't say anything, it's just that there is something important."

Qin Qiong had his own carefulness. He pulled Li Jing and whispered: "Changshi, I think it's a bit strange to attack Qingzhou this time!"

"What's wrong?"

"Since you are attacking Qingzhou, why is there no movement on Xu Shiji? I think his subordinates should cooperate from the west."

Qin Qiong’s suspicion is somewhat reasonable. In fact, Li Jing has long felt that there are some problems. The biggest question is that this battle in Qingzhou was actually approved by Ziweige, which is too unreasonable.

Secondly, the fleet that transported military supplies actually walked through the canal, and it should have been directly taken to the Yellow River, which was even more convenient, which made Li Jing puzzled. In addition, Yang Yuanqing was very mysterious along the way and never discussed military affairs with the generals, which was also very abnormal.

All kinds of abnormal things made Li Jing suspicious. Even if Yang Yuanqing did not summon them today, he would still ask the situation clearly.

"Let's go! Ask the general manager, what's going on?" The two of them walked quickly towards the central army's tent.

In the central army's tent, Yang Yuanqing was standing in front of the sand table to study Lai Hu'er's march route. He had already received news from Xie Sili that Lai Hu'er had agreed to return to the Sui Dynasty and led 5,000 confidant water army and fifty large ships to the Zhuojun military port at the mouth of the Lushui River.

They should take the Yangtze River waterway and then sail along the near-shore. The route is very clear. From the time point of view, they have been walking for twenty days and are almost at the military port.

This time, the military plan can be called the open construction of a plank road and secretly traveling to Chencang, and nominally attacking Qingzhou, but in fact, it is preparing to attack Goryeo and plunder supplies from Goryeo.

The plan was very hidden. Except for the suggestion Pei Ju, only the other prime ministers Du Ruhui and Cui Junsu knew about it. The second was the messenger Xie Sili. Except for the five people including Yang Yuanqing, no one knew about it anymore.

However, the army had arrived in Xindu County, and it was time to break up. At this time, a personal soldier outside the tent reported: "Report to the general manager, Li Changshi and Deputy General Qin are here."

"Please come in."

After a moment, the curtain was lifted, Li Jing and Qin Qiong walked in, and they bowed together, "See the general manager!"

"You two don't have to be polite, please come and talk."

The two walked forward and saw that Yang Yuanqing seemed to be studying the route. Li Jing and Qin Qiong looked at each other. Li Jing smiled and said, "We have many questions. Can you please ask the general manager to solve our doubts?"

Yang Yuanqing smiled slightly, "I know you have doubts. I'll call you here today to tell you something."

Li Jing and Qin Qiong did not say anything, waiting for Yang Yuanqing's explanation. Yang Yuanqing pointed at Pingyuan County with a wooden pole and said: "This time, Li Changshi led a 100,000 army to be stationed on the north bank of the Yellow River in Pingyuan County, maintaining a state of oppression against Dou Jiande's army, but there is no need to cross the Yellow River, just pressing but not fighting. Do you understand?"

Li Jing laughed, "I said it! It's not appropriate to attack Qingzhou now. As expected, I guessed it. Attacking Qingzhou is just pretending."

Qin Qiong asked curiously: "Master General, if we don't attack Qingzhou, then where is our goal?"

Yang Yuanqing pointed at Pyongyang with a wooden pole, "The attack on Qingzhou is just a cover-up. I will personally lead 30,000 troops to attack Pyongyang, Goryeo on the sea."

"Attack Goryeo!"

Li Jing and Qin Qiong both screamed in unison, which they could never have imagined.

Yang Yuanqing nodded solemnly, "This matter has been planned for a month and is extremely secretive. Now the army has arrived in Xindu County. It is time to break up. I will lead 30,000 troops north to the military port at the mouth of the Lushui River. You two continue to lead the army south, holding my flag, and stationed troops in the Yellow River North, creating a loud momentum and maintaining the momentum of pressure... To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.)

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