"Wo Kuotai and I have never met each other, how could he be willing to help me suppress Zhu Yuanzhang!" Li Yuanji frowned and said in a deep voice.
Pei Ji smiled slightly and said: "Most of the barbarians outside the Great Wall are those who covet the wealth of the Central Plains. As long as His Highness is willing to spend a lot of money, Wo Kuotai will definitely help His Highness!"
The flesh on Li Yuanji's face twitched, and he felt a little reluctant to give up his own private treasure. However, in order to get Wo Kuotai's support, he gritted his teeth and prepared a generous gift and entrusted Pei Ji to give it to Wo Kuotai.
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"Ten thousand taels of gold, a pair of white walls, and ten luminous pearls!"
Wokuotai sneered and slowly put down the gift list in his hand, glanced at Pei Ji at the foot of the stairs, and said lightly: "His Royal Highness King Qi and I have never met, why did you suddenly give me so many treasures?"
Pei Ji hurriedly raised his hands and replied: "Although the King of Qi and the prince have known each other for a long time, they have been friends for a long time. The prince led the Turkic army and shocked Hebei. His Highness the King of Qi already admired him when he was in Chang'an. Now that we meet, we should be friends with the prince!" "
"Hahahahaha!!!"
Under Wo Kuotai's tent, Pugu Huai'en, Gu Duolu and other generals laughed wildly. Mao Dun also raised the corners of his mouth and said: "I have heard for a long time that Lord Pei is the most favored minister of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Now it seems that Lord Pei is With such flattering skills, it’s really hard not to be trusted by Emperor Tang!”
When Pei Ji heard this, he felt as if he had swallowed a fly. His face was so ugly that he almost wanted to explode. But looking at the tall and strong Turkic men in front of him, he could only hold back his displeasure.
"Okay, Master Pei."
Wo Guotai glanced at Pei Ji with disdain and said: "The eagles on our grasslands are not as colorful as you Han people, so I won't tell you any more nonsense! I know your purpose of coming to me this time." Chu, if I want this prince to support Li Yuanji against Zhu Yuanzhang and his group of disobedient and arrogant generals, I have only one condition!"
Pei Ji quickly asked: "What are the conditions for His Highness?"
Wo Kuotai smiled coldly and glanced at Mao Dun next to him.
Maodun understood, and immediately stepped forward and said: "Xiangguo Pei, we and other Turkic warriors are assisting you, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, to conquer Yang Gao of the Sui Dynasty and conquer Hebei for him. Brothers, they risked their lives and fought bloody battles on the battlefield to get some gold. It is reasonable to reward soldiers with money and silk. However, Chai Rong, the former coach of your army, is unreasonable and does not take care of my Turkic warriors at all!"
Pei Ji's expression suddenly changed when he heard this. Mao Dun said nicely and took some gold, silver and silk to reward the three armies, but he just wanted to plunder Hebei. Although Pei Ji is incompetent, he still understands the importance of people's hearts.
"This matter is of great importance. I have to go back and discuss it with His Highness King Qi!"
"Master Pei, please!"
Wokuotai waved his hand unceremoniously. He also knew that Pei Ji had no right to agree to this kind of thing, so he immediately asked him to go back to discuss with Li Yuanji.
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"Promise him!"
What Pei Ji never expected was that when he came back and told Li Yuanji about Wokuotai's conditions, Li Yuanji immediately agreed without blinking an eyelid.
Gu Li Yuanji was greedy and easy to kill by nature, and his evil deeds of robbing the people were even worse than those of the Turks. In his eyes, the lives of ordinary people were not as important as his power.
"Your Highness, if the Turks are allowed to plunder in Hebei, I am afraid that the Tang Dynasty will lose all the people in Hebei!"
Pei Ji was a little worried and carefully reminded Li Yuanji.
Li Yuanji said unceremoniously: "These people are not my people of the Tang Dynasty. What do they want to do with their lives? If they are serious about the Tang Dynasty, why don't they leave Hebei and go to Hedong?"
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With Li Yuanji's consent, Wo Kuotai immediately came forward to build momentum for Li Yuanji. Li Yuanji used Wo Kuotai's power to not only refute Zhu Yuanzhang's face in several military discussions, but also suppressed many people promoted by Chai Rong. general.
At the same time, with Li Yuanji's approval, the Turkic troops were unscrupulous and looted the streets and villages. For a time, the people in northern Hebei were wailing.
Most of the Hebei residents who originally saw the impending war fled south, but later saw that the Turkic troops did not plunder. When Zhu Yuanzhang was in charge of Hebei, he also did a lot of good things to improve people's livelihood, and he had a certain prestige among the people of Hebei. Many people who fled south responded to Zhu Yuanzhang's call and returned home. But who would have expected that in just over a month, the nightmare would come.
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but became furious when he saw the Turkic army looting and killing endlessly. Many of these people came back because they valued Zhu Yuanzhang's call, but now they have become lambs under the sword of the Turks. When word spreads out, what prestige does Zhu Yuanzhang have to lead the people of Hebei? Will the people of Hebei still recognize him? Will the army under his command, which is mostly composed of people from Hebei, still listen to his orders?
Zhu Yuanzhang immediately lodged a fierce protest with Wo Kuotai and asked Wo Kuotai to severely punish his subordinates. But this time there was no team of Chai Rong and Guo Ziyi, and Li Yuanji, with the help of Wo Kuotai, suppressed Guan Yu, Lu Bu, Deng Zongbi and many other direct generals of Chai Rong. With the support of the emperor's uncle Li Keyong, he and Wo Kuotai united. Without giving Zhu Yuanzhang any face, Li Yuanji even personally led his soldiers to participate in the looting crowd, causing more harm to the people than the Turks.
In anger, Zhu Yuanzhang claimed that he was ill and his soldiers were even more indignant. No one wanted to fight the Sui army.
The Sui army on the other side of the Zhang River also knew about the atrocities committed by the Turks and Li Yuanji. Many Sui army generals came to Yue Fei to ask for a fight, vowing to show some shame to the Turks and Li Yuanji.
Yue Fei also hated the Turks and Li Yuanji deeply, and swore an oath in front of the three armies that he would chop off the heads of Wokuotai and Li Yuanji to commemorate the innocent people of Hebei.
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Eight hundred miles hastened, and the situation in Hebei was quickly delivered to Yang Gao.
After Yang Gao finished reading, he was also furious. He never expected that Li Yuanji would be so cruel and vicious. It was completely beyond his expectation. He couldn't help but feel a little regretful. After all, he was the one who caused the divorce between Chai Rong and Guo Ziyi, who was replaced by Li Yuan.
"Your Majesty, Lord Liu Bowen wants to see you!"
At this time, the chamberlain came to report to Liu Bowen for an audience, and Yang Gao did not hesitate to summon him.
Not long after, Liu Bowen arrived under the leadership of his chamberlain. After the salute, Liu Bowen said to Yang Gao: "Your Majesty, Li Yuanji and the Turks owe a lot of blood debt in Hebei. There is no place for such thieves in the world. I think that if they are not eliminated as soon as possible, they will The livelihood of the people in Hebei is uncertain and difficult to recover! I have a plan to destroy the Turks and the Tang army."
Yang Gao also eagerly hoped to eliminate Wokuotai and Li Yuanji as soon as possible. Otherwise, if these thieves plundered Hebei for one more day, the Sui Dynasty would have to spend ten times the energy, financial resources and time to recover in the future, so he immediately asked Liu Bowen for advice.
