Time gradually reached mid-January. According to tradition, the New Year was officially over after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. However, this year is different from usual. Even the drought in the summer and autumn of last year brought great results to agriculture in various parts of the north.

Influence.

Fortunately, God opened his eyes this winter, and three heavy snowfalls fell in a row, completely lifting the drought. In addition, the climate this year is relatively warm, and the frozen river water began to thaw around the Zhongyuan Festival. Many farmers on the seventh day of the lunar calendar

On the eighth day of the lunar month, I began to go to the ground to loosen the soil and plow the fields, fertilize and build canals, and the entire northern land became busy early.

On the 17th day of the first lunar month, on the official road west of Luhe Port in Hejian County, a team of hundreds of cavalry arrived at lightning. The leader was King Yang Yuanqing of Chu.

Luhe Port is the port of the Sui army to go to sea. More than 1,500 sea boats are parked in this vast harbor. Luhe Port is a port that is not frozen and can also sail in winter. However, since the attack on Goryeo,

More than a thousand warships were moored in the harbor for repair and did not go out to sea again.

When Yang Yuanqing ran to the harbor ten miles away, they approached the first post. The harbor was heavily guarded and was a confidential place of the Sui Dynasty. There were 3,000 garrison troops. It was strictly forbidden for any idle personnel to approach, even in the harbor.

The craftsmen and crew members who work must also have special bronze medals for entry and exit, and are not allowed to go out easily.

At this time, a group of sentries rushed over and blocked their way. A personal soldier stepped forward and shouted, "Chu King came down to inspect the harbor, please give way!"

The leader's sentry team was approaching and seeing that it was indeed Yang Yuanqing, he was so scared that he quickly bowed and turned around and waved, "Doway!"

The sentry made way, and Yang Yuanqing led everyone to speed up the horse and run towards the harbor. It was still several miles away from the harbor, and he saw a large sea ship like a city wall from a distance. The dark warships were next to each other, and the rows of companies were connected.

There was a row of masts like a forest, and they were sailing dozens of miles away.

At this time, another team of cavalry came in front of him. About a hundred people, but the leader was Zhou Guangyao, the commander of Luhe Port. As the territory of the Sui army expanded larger and larger, the organization of the army began to change. It was divided into Kyoto.

The two types of military and local army were not changed much, and the Kyoto Army was the fourth level of general, general, general, and general Lang. Under the general, there were also middle and low-level officers such as the captain, brigade commander, and team commander.

The local army is divided into three levels: general manager, commander, and commander. The commander is also a middle- and low-level officer under the commander, brigade commander, and team leader. This is actually basically in line with the Sui Dynasty, but the original small commander was changed to

Commander.

Because Luhe Port has fewer troops and only three thousand people, the main general is only the commander, from the third rank, equivalent to the sub-general of the Kyoto Army. The commander Zhou Guangyao was also a veteran who followed Yang Yuanqing for many years, a native of Lingwu County, and joined in the first year of Daye.

The Fengzhou Army gradually became the commander.

He rode his horse and rushed over and bowed and said, "See Your Highness!"

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "Thank you for your hard work, General Zhou, what's wrong with you recently?"

"Report to Your Highness. It has been very peaceful these months, because the river water is frozen and there are no ships coming to the canal transportation."

Zhou Guangyao said again: "I have already packed up the tent and prepared food. Please ask Your Highness and all brothers to go and have a rest first."

Seeing that it was already noon, Yang Yuanqing turned around and smiled at everyone, "Go to have a meal first!"

Everyone was already hungry, and was overjoyed when they heard this. They rushed to the camp with Zhou Guangyao...

After lunch, Yang Yuanqing stood in front of the tent while drinking hot tea. While looking at the vast fleet on the sea in the distance, his mood was a little uneasy. In fact, he could build the largest fleet in the world.

With the powerful combat power of the Sui army, he could sweep the world and even fight to Byzantium.

Since ancient times, the obstacle that blocked the conquest of the Central Plains dynasty was not technology, but concept, and the longing for the agricultural civilization. Since Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall, the Han people were destined to be not a nation that explored the outside world. If we want to change this concept,

, all aspects of effort are required, and more importantly, interests are interests. As long as there are sufficient interests, some people are willing to explore the West and overseas.

At this time, a sound of footsteps interrupted Yang Yuanqing's thoughts. When he turned around, he saw the commander Zhou Guangyao walking quickly. Zhou Guangyao stepped forward and knelt on one knee, "It's already arranged, please inspect your highness!"

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "Then go to the warehouse first!"

The military port warehouse is located behind a hill, and is a warehouse group composed of twenty large warehouses. Since October last year, the Sui army has transported a large amount of food and military supplies from Liyang Cang and Youzhou by water. The warehouse is surrounded by a wall.

One thousand troops are guarding, with a very tight guard and no one is allowed to approach.

Under the escort of Zhou Guangyao and more than 100 personal soldiers, Yang Yuanqing arrived at the military port warehouse. The warehouse was ready and the gate was opened. A warehouse manager met with the military.

"He Jiong, the military officer of the Cangcao, please see Your Highness!"

"Why join the army if you have any luck?"

Yang Yuanqing looked at the warehouse. The warehouse was several miles away. He pointed to the closest warehouse to him and asked, "What kind of warehouse is that?"

"Report to Your Highness, that's the grain warehouse."

"Then let's look at the grain warehouse first!"

Yang Yuanqing turned over and dismounted, surrounded by everyone and walked towards the grain warehouse......

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Just as Yang Yuanqing inspected the military port, Emperor Wei Li Mi also inspected the warehouse in Jiangyang County.

The warehouse is less than one mile from the Yangtze River, and there are special canals and Yangtze Rivers to understand. The wind blowing from the Yangtze River is very strong, and the flag on the flagpole is snapping. Although the Zhongyuan Festival has just passed, the river is

The wind has turned into the south wind, and there is a hint of warmth in the wind.

The warehouse located in Jiangyang County is also the largest warehouse in Wei State. It consists of more than a hundred large warehouses. It is actually a warehouse city with a circumference of about fifteen miles. The warehouse contains as much as 500,000 stones of grain alone.

There are a large number of soldiers, armored tents and other supplies.

Li Mi, the leader of Wei, wearing golden armor, a golden helmet and a waist-wearing sword, inspected the largest Jiangyang warehouse in the Wei Kingdom, surrounded by hundreds of guards and generals.

Li Mi's face was as deep as water, and she seemed extremely unhappy. In fact, he had never been happy since he went south to Jiangdu. Although he annexed Chen Ling and Li Zitong's army, annihilated Shen Faxing, and won military victories.

But he was not politically successful.

He never received the support of the Jiangnan gentry, and the people of Jiangnan did not support his army, and regarded him as an alien invader. The officials he sent were either killed or fled, which made him only possess five counties in his hands.

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What made him even more angry was that he was not even as good as Li Zitong. Li Zitong was supported by some people in Jiangnan, not to mention Shen Faxing. He destroyed Li Zitong and Shen Faxing and incorporated nearly 60,000 troops, but for three days

Within, most of them escaped, and even killed nearly a thousand people, they could not stop running away.

Li Mi was a little doubtful that he was in Jiangnan to develop correctly, but he didn't have much time to think about what to do next? He didn't even have time to win the support of the Jiangnan gentry. He never stopped since he set foot on the land of Jiangnan.

The south is not a quiet land. He has only destroyed the three weaker families so far, including Du Fuwei of the Jianghuai Dynasty and Xiao Xian of Yuzhang, which threatened his survival.

Li Mi also had to admit that the Du and Xiao families were much more difficult to deal with than the other three. A few months ago, he sent Shan Xiongxin to lead a 100,000 army to attack Du Fuwei first. After capturing Liyang County and defeating Du Fuwei,

However, he encountered a joint counterattack between Du Xiao and his family. His army was defeated and the 100,000 troops lost nearly half.

Since then, Li Mi has focused all his efforts against Du Xiao’s two families. He received information yesterday that Xiao Liang’s army and Du Fuwei’s army were carrying out large-scale mobilization at the same time, and deploying troops to the east.

Advance, even the idiotic people could guess that these two families would join forces to deal with Li Mi's Wei army at the same time. This news made Li Mi extremely annoyed.

Li Miyin walked into a grain warehouse with a calm face, and bags of grain were neatly placed. A warehouse manager introduced him in fear: "There are 30,000 stones of grain in this warehouse, and one bag of grain weighs one stone, all

There are 30,000 bags in total."

"Is there any regular supervision?" Li Mi asked coldly.

The warehouse manager was even more frightened, "Report to Your Majesty, there is supervision, every six months."

"Half a year?"

Li Mi turned around and was extremely unhappy at Changshi Fang Xuanzao and said, "It's too long, it's time to check it once a month."

"Yes, I understand." Fang Xuanzao had no choice but to answer helplessly.

Everyone looked around and walked towards the warehouse next door. At this time, Wang Bodang, the general of the Youtun Guard, stepped forward and said, "Your Highness, should we consider defending against the threat from the north this time against Du Xiao's coalition?"

"You mean Yang Yuanqing?" Li Mi understood what the threat he was referring to.

"Your Majesty, Du Fuwei is actually Yang Yuanqing's man. If we use the army too much to deal with Du Xiao and the others, once the Sui army goes south from Qiao County, Jiangdu will threaten it. Beizhi recommends a little deployment in Pengcheng County.

Jing soldiers were used to defend against the Sui army in the Central Plains."

Li Mi thought about it and asked Fang Xuanzao again, "What about the Changshi's thoughts?" Later, the Sui army will inevitably attack Guanzhong on a large scale. Now there is no time to take care of us, but it is best to be careful. I agree with General Wang's suggestion."

Shan Xiongxin also said: "Now Qingzhou has not been destroyed. If Yang Yuanqing wants to attack us, he should destroy Qingzhou first. He left Qingzhou and did not fight. It is obvious that he did not want to directly border our territory, so that he had no worries when attacking the Tang Dynasty. From this point

, it can be seen that the Sui army really wanted to destroy the Tang Dynasty first."

Li Mi sighed slightly, "I think so too, but there is not much time left for us. We must destroy Du Fuwei and Xiao Xian as soon as possible, consolidate our power in the south, and if we do not take advantage of the Sui army's opportunity to attack Guanzhong.

Jiangnan, when Yang Yuanqing finished fighting Guanzhong and turned around, we really had no chance."

Everyone felt Li Mi's strong sense of distress and began to understand why he was so depressed.
Chapter completed!