In the court, Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng were in a tense situation.

The officials in the court all thought to themselves that it was coming again. It has been no longer like this, once or twice.

Most people look at their noses, their noses, and their heads lowered and pretended not to ask, but in fact they were observing their every move.

Li Yuan has always been tit-for-tat to the two sons and has not made any statement.

Li Shimin greeted Li Jiancheng's eyes and said loudly: "Since the prince wants to say it, I will say bluntly that Jingbei and Henan are in the four battles, and there is no danger of Hangu to cover the east, and there is no danger of the Yellow River in the north. As long as Li Chongjiu owns Luoyang, he can send troops from all sides to attack from the canal at any time. Therefore, it is not wise to move the capital to the north and Henan in the west of Jingbei and Henan.

'In my opinion, a large station can be set up in the north and west of Jingyu, and half of the Chang'an Prefecture troops will be stationed here. First, it will be divided into Chang'an population pressure, and second, it can also guard Henan, protect Jingxiang, serve as a barrier to Chang'an, and resist the Zhao army's advance westward. This is the best strategy!"

‘Well said!’

The voice came from the dragon throne. When Li Jiancheng heard Li Yuan speak, he could no longer refute Li Shimin's opinion. He could only smile and say, "The King of Qin's words are really insightful."

Li Shimin's opinion was adopted by Li Yuan, and when he saw that he was right, he stopped and took a step back: "I'm just throwing bricks and attracting jade. I still have to listen to the opinions of all the ministers, and Your Majesty will make a decision again."

Li Yuan nodded and said, "You are right, please discuss it."

After retreating from the court, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji left the hall. The two looked at Li Shimin and the ministers from afar, discussing the preparations for the Henan Daxingtai. Their faces were all bad. The court had already decided to let Wen Daya guard Panzhou. General Zhang Liang, the chariot and cavalry, lead more than a thousand men out of Wuguan, thinking that they would set up a large stall in northern and western Henan in the future to prepare for the establishment of a large station in northern and western Henan.

Wen Daya and Zhang Liang are both Li Shimin's confidants. Li Yuan did this because he intended to let Li Shimin take charge of Henan Daxingtai.

Li Yuanji said: "If the Henan Daxingtai is established, the Qin King will governor Henan, Li Xiaogong, Li Jing and others will all listen to his restraint. There will also be soldiers who have moved eastward to Guanzhong Mansion. Whenever he leaves Chang'an, there will be people and territory in his hands, we will have no choice but to deal with him."

Li Jiancheng nodded and looked at Li Shimin and said, "So you must not let the King of Qin go to Henan. In Henan, he is a dragon, and in Guanzhong he is just a husband."

Li Yuanji smiled and said, "His Prince's plan already exists?"

Li Jiancheng nodded slightly.

A moment later, in the palace harem, Li Yuan's favorite concubine, Concubine Zhang, was watching the secret letter handed to him by the eunuch. This secret letter was secretly given by Li Jiancheng.

After Li Yuan entered Chang'an, he took on many harems, because Empress Dou was not present and no one could dissuade him. Moreover, since ancient times, the founding emperors of all generations have many descendants. Li Yuan was no exception and was very powerful. From the first year of Wude to the fifth year of Wude, the harem actually gave birth to more than twenty children for him. With Li Yuan's age in his fifties, it was really not easy.

However, in the harem, Li Yuan liked Concubine Xue Jie, Zhang Jie, and Concubine Yin De. Among them, Concubine Yin De and Concubine Zhang gave birth to a prince for Li Yuan. Therefore, Li Yuan even favored him, and he was named King Feng and King Zhou.

It was also because of her child that Zhang Jieyu had to consider the future for her son's future. The last time she and Concubine Yin De said that Li Shimin had privately granted land and made friends with Li Shentong, she had already offended Li Shimin.

With Li Shimin's character, if he ascends the throne to the emperor in the future, he, Concubine Yin De and their son will definitely be dead and will not be buried.

Therefore, Zhang Jieyu was also extremely firmly standing on Li Jiancheng's side. The letter sent by Li Jiancheng in Zhang Jieyu said: "You can secretly tell Your Majesty that everyone around the King of Qin was happy to know that the King of Qin was going to Luoyang. Judging from the King of Qin's intention, I am afraid that he will not return to Chang'an in the future. It seems that the King of Qin went here to take over the Zhao army and left Henan. In fact, he planned to take over military power and be in love with the heart of King Liang during the reign of Emperor Jing of Han."

After reading the letter twice, Zhang Jieyu found a eunuch who had read books and asked what the allusion of Emperor Jing of Han, King Liang. After figuring out everything, Zhang Jieyu burned the secret letter. Soon Li Yuan's imperial carriage arrived outside Zhang Jieyu's palace. Zhang Jieyu sorted out his most beautiful makeup and quietly welcomed Li Yuan's arrival.

In Luoyang Palace.

Information from all parties has been summarized and presented to Li Chongjiu's table. On the side of Li Chongjiu's desk, Qu Yanran is grinding ink for Li Chongjiu and adding incense to the incense burner. After Li Chongjiu wrote a memorial, he raised his head and saw the scene of the beautiful woman adding incense with her bare hands. He always felt very pleasing to the eye.

Li Chongjiu put down his pen and smiled: "I remember you are from Jiangnan. Qu Kan, the former proofreader of Chen Dynasty, was your grandfather, right?"

Qu Yanran raised her head in surprise and looked at Li Chongjiu and said, "I just met His Majesty in a hurry that day, but I didn't expect His Majesty to remember."

Li Chongjiu smiled and said, "I remember all your words. You told me that when you went back to take revenge, your enemy had either died of death or died of illness. This is probably untrue."

Qu Yanran looked at Li Chongjiu and said, "Your Majesty?"

Li Chongjiu took out a memorial from the case and said, "This is a secret report from the Xiao family in Jiangnan. One of them happened to be about you. It was said that after your grandfather Qu Kan retired, he forced his army to rebel against Sui and refused to be killed. The mastermind of the group is still living in Jiangnan well to this day, right?"

Qu Yanran bit her lips tightly and didn't say anything.

Li Chongjiu walked to Qu Yanran and said, "Why didn't you tell me when you were in Luoyang?"

Qu Yanran lowered her head and didn't speak for a long time. After a while, she said: "Yanran dares not deal with others in revenge."

Li Chongjiu asked back, "Is I someone else in your heart?"

Qu Yanran's tears had already slid down from her eyes and said, "Your Majesty, Yanran is afraid that she will say it. You will think that Yanran is in love with you to avenge yourself in order to pretend to deal with you."

When Li Chongjiu heard Qu Yanran say this, he immediately hugged the beauty in his arms and said, "Don't I still see if you are sincere to me?"

After hearing Li Chongjiu's words, Qu Yanran wet her clothes with tears. Li Chongjiu said softly: "Yanran tells me, the mastermind of your whole family is Lin Shihong Sikong Wang Rong, right?"

When Li Chongjiu heard this name, he could feel Qu Yanran's body trembling suddenly in his arms, and her palms were also tightly clenched.

Li Chongjiu said to Qu Yanran: "It seems that's true. I know this, so you don't have to worry."

Qu Yanran raised her head again, tears still remained in her eyes. Li Chongjiu patted Qu Yanran's shoulder and smiled and said, "If you want to be grateful to me, then grind the ink for me."

Qu Yanran burst into tears and laughed. She happily came to the desk to continue to grind the ink for Li Chongjiu. Li Chongjiu picked up the pen and was already outlining the territory of the Great Zhao in the world.

The Great Zhao territory has passed the Liaoshui River in the east, reached the territory of Liaodong, to the Songmo Protectorate in the north, into the desert, looking at the vast sea from afar, to Luoyang in the east, aiming at Chang'an, and to the south, the entire Huai River is occupied, with the danger of the great river, confronting Lin Shihong in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Now that Li Tang is in trouble, the situation of separation of Turkic people in the northern desert has been established, it is not to be afraid of it. As for Lin Shihong and Feng Ang, who are separating the country, they are dead bones in the tomb, and it will only be sooner or later.

However, the battle in Luoyang has been completed, and Zhao State and Li Tang have made every effort in this battle and fought hard. Now Li Tang and Zhao State are unable to launch another decisive battle of the same scale in a short period of time, so the two families are also maintaining their current situation, but they set up heavy troops in Henan, Luoyang and Hedong to confront each other.

At the same time, Li Tang now intends to take advantage of the Turkic civil strife to defeat Liang Shidu first, then go westward to consolidate Longyou, Hexi, and wait until the rear is stabilized before fighting with him.

Like Li Tang, Li Chongjiu was also ready to start cleaning the side bed. For Lin Shihong, Li Chongjiu no longer had to go to the battle himself like attacking Du Fuwei. In this way, Li Chongjiu was preparing to let Xiao Xian and Song Jingang complete the encirclement and attack Lin Shihong one north and one south.

With the forces of Xiao Xian and Song Jingang, it is more than enough to complete this battle.

Xiao Xian advanced from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and led the navy to follow the trend. Song King Kong could advance from the Jianghuai River. For example, Wenren Sui'an, Wang Hua, Wang Xiongdan, and Kan Ling were all generals of the Jianghuai Army. After they added Song King Gang's legion, Song King Gang's power increased greatly and surpassed the other five major prefectures in Zhao State in one fell swoop.

It is enough for Song Jingang and Xiao Xian to carry out this battle to pacify Lin Shihong.

Thinking of this, Li Chongjiu wrote an edict to Song Jingang and Xiao Xian, asking them to lead their troops to attack Jiangnan, and to be responsible for the specific matters of money, grain, and horses. It is necessary to send troops to attack Lin Shihong before winter. In the edict, Li Chongjiu also instructed that Lin Shihong must be captured, and if he cannot be captured alive, he must see the body.

Li Chongjiu was preparing to break through the stubborn forces like Lin Shihong, and Feng Ang from Lingnan had another plan.

Lingnan has many miasma, and most of the people are descendants of Baiyue, and not many Han people. Even in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, since the transit of her clothes, the land of Lingnan has been very barbaric. Whether it is the Tang Dynasty or even the Northern Song Dynasty, Lingnan can be regarded as a holy place for demotion. Generally, the emperor will send him directly to any minister who is worse than death.

For Lingnan, the Sui Dynasty was more of a conquering attitude and a laissez-faire attitude towards the local area.

Ouyang Xun advised Li Chongjiu that the court could send troops to attack Lin Shihong, but it did not mean that it would send troops to attack Feng Ang in Lingnan. Although it was not difficult for Zhao State to capture Lingnan, the traffic in Lingnan was congested. How significant is it to be after the capture? The economy was not as good as that of Jianghuai and Jiangnan, and the local people were mostly barbaric and difficult to recruit soldiers. After the capture, they had to send a team of troops to guard it, which was simply consumed by manpower and material resources.

Therefore, today, Ouyang Xun advised the court to continue the Sui Dynasty's policy towards Lingnan and focus on being gentle. As long as Feng Ang was not in the battle between Tang and Zhao, he could surrender to Li Yuan. If he really wanted to pacify the southern barbarians in Lingnan, it would not be too late to use troops after conquering Li Tang in the future.
Chapter completed!