on the hills,
Yang Ming closed his eyes to heal his wounds and waited for Feng Li to make a decision!
Yang Ming gave information about Tanzhou, Yanzhou, and various places in western Liaoning, and analyzed the problems existing in the country after the Xuanwumen incident in the Tang Dynasty and the surrounding foreign tribes who were ready to take action. Yang Ming boldly speculated that the Xuanwu Gate Incident in the Tang Dynasty might lead to the alienation of monarchs and ministers, the disintegration of the country, and the destruction of the nation!
Feng Li didn't care about his personal life or death, and he wasn't afraid of going north to fight the aliens!
On the one hand, he encouraged Li Jiancheng's brothers to kill each other, which was the culprit of Li Jiancheng's tragic death in Xuanwumen. On the other hand, he also assisted Li Jiancheng in seizing power, planting eyes and ears among officers and generals in various places, and forming factional disputes. As a result, after Li Jiancheng was beheaded, various places fell into turmoil, and foreigners had the opportunity to take advantage of him.
From ancient times to the present, factional disputes have been deliberately carried out by those in power in order to restrict and balance the power of the many noble families in the court.
However, Li Yuan never imagined that his two sons were so outstanding that after a round of suppression, he was thrown into the backyard of the palace and became the Supreme Emperor.
The great changes in the city of Chang'an caught the defenders everywhere by surprise. Li Yuan's faction and Li Jiancheng's faction were in panic all day long, fearing that one day an imperial edict would lead to the death of their own people.
Many of these thoughtful officials, in order to protect themselves, thought of Zhao Deyan of the Sui Dynasty who was in the Turks. As a result, the Turks moved south on a large scale and the Weishui River Alliance took place. . .
Many soldiers of the Yi Yu Guard knelt down one after another after learning about Yang Ming's thoughts and the general situation on the hill.
"General, lead us to conquer the Turks!"
"General, we are willing to die in battle, rather than die in a foreign country!"
"General, the way those refugees looked at us makes me extremely ashamed!"
"General, let us protect our country! We don't want to escape anymore!"
. . . . . .
The words that the soldiers of the Yiyu Guards said to each other deeply moved Feng Li's heart to escape from the Tang Dynasty.
"once having seen the best, the rest is not worthwhile looking."
"Brother Feng, the foundation of the Tang Dynasty is still very strong. For the sake of the righteousness of the world and to save the people from the dire straits, raise your flag and let's have a vigorous fight with the Turks!"
Seeing that the time was right, Yang Ming opened his eyes and started to hit the target!
Feng Li knew that he was guilty of serious crimes, causing countless people in the Tang Dynasty to die tragically under the iron hoof of the Turks, and also causing countless people to leave their homes and starve to death on the way south.
As Li Jiancheng's top thug, Feng Li's every move represents the future of Li Jiancheng's faction.
"Yiyu Guardsmen, listen to the order! Hold the flag high, get dressed, and take a good rest after a good meal. In a few days, this general will lead you back to the battlefield to annihilate the Turks and show off the prestige of our country!"
As soon as Feng Li said this, the soldiers below seemed to be reborn, their blood boiled, and they sharpened their swords to prepare for the next battle. As a well-equipped and extremely powerful Yi Yuwei, it is really frustrating to live in hiding every day.
"The general is mighty!"
"I am willing to die in a hundred battles with the general!"
"Kill! Kill! Kill~"
"Fight! Fight! Fight~"
"Woooooo~"
The horn of the Yiyu Guards sounded in the caravan. The Yiyu Guards who dared to attack Chang'an City with only two thousand men and horses, defeated many with less, and successfully killed two generals Li Shimin, are back!
The morale is high and the energy is high, like a phoenix rising from the ashes and reborn from the ashes!
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Liaoxi City,
Yang Miao took several followers to the granary for inspection.
Why the sudden inspection of the granary? Because Yang Miao received a tip that there was a problem with the Liaoxi granary!
Originally, there were not many guards in western Liaoning, and there were not many people, but there was a lot of food.
Now three thousand reinforcements came from Huairou and entered Liaoxi City to assist in the defense. Although these support troops are all veteran soldiers, they still send troops to help at critical moments.
However, Liaoxi City changed its food supply after the arrival of reinforcements.
The rations of three pancakes and three steamed cakes per soldier per day have been reduced to two pancakes and two steamed cakes per person per day.
The supply of food dropped by 33%, which made Yang Miao, who was in a high position and had nothing to do every day, very unhappy! So there was the matter of Yang Miao leading people to inspect the granary in Liaoxi City.
"Hey! Isn't this our young and promising Mr. Yang! What strong wind blew you here?"
Fatty Xie, the warehouse supervisor of Liaoxi City, had sharp eyes. When he saw Yang Miao coming from all the way, he stepped forward to talk to him.
Yang Miao saw that Supervisor Xie Cang was so fat and round, and couldn't help but joked:
"You'd better stop wandering around, be careful the oil on your body will leak out!"
Supervisor Xie Cang is speechless, I don’t seem to have offended you either! This is obviously a personal attack. The first level of officialdom is overwhelming, not to mention that Yang Miao is a Beijing official and comes to do business. Although Supervisor Xie Cang is a little dissatisfied, he still has to greet him with a smile!
"Sir, Lord Warehouse, the brothers in Liaoxi Post Station are starving to death. Are you deducting all the food provided to the brothers in the Post Station?"
Yang Miao took out the notebook she carried with her and was writing something while staring at Supervisor Xie Cang's big belly.
Supervisor Xie Cang nodded and hunched over, following Yang Miao like a dog. After confirming that Yang Miao was looking for nothing, he secretly signaled to his men to quickly move reinforcements, otherwise he would have to let the second-generation official who knew nothing else play to death.
"Returning to Mr. Yang, our brothers at the post station are provided with three steamed cakes and three pancakes per person every day. The war horses in the post station are also divided into grades, and are supplied with good fodder and beans. There are ten of them in the lower rank. You don’t have the guts to deduct food from the brothers at the post station for no reason!”
At this time, when they saw something happening, many melon-eating people gathered outside the granary. The people were very curious about Yang Miao's arrival, and they talked a lot. They stood outside and pointed, which scared Superintendent Xie Cang to the point of peeing.
Fortunately, Liao Xicheng County Magistrate Zhou Kang led a group of government officials to arrive in time. After dismissing the crowd of onlookers, he came to meet Yang Miao in person.
"I wonder what instructions Mr. Yang has when he comes to Liaoxi Granary?!"
When Zhou Kang saw Yang Miao, who was doing nothing every day as a recorder and joined the army, he almost asked him to stay wherever he could to cool off. You didn't come to Liaoxi for inspection under orders, so don't just try to increase your presence and cause trouble for others, okay? !
"Does Magistrate Zhou know that on the eve of the war, the daily meals of the soldiers defending the city have been reduced?! Even the Huairou reinforcements who came to support were given two pancakes and two steamed cakes a day?!"
Zhou Kang, who was furious, pulled up Yang Miao's sleeves and dragged him into the office wooden house of the granary without any explanation. He closed the door and asked:
"My Lord Yang, Mr. Yang, please do your best and don't bring trouble to Liaoxi City, can you?! Nowadays, Liaoxi Province is besieged on all sides, and the officials in my mansion are too busy to touch the ground. Can you please stop causing trouble?! "
Yang Miao ignored the matter, picked up the book, waved it in front of Zhou Kang and said:
"It's hard to disobey military orders! We need to ask Mr. Zhou to cooperate! We have been staying in western Liaoning for such a long time, so we can't just eat and not work! Besides, the big men in Chang'an City really want to know some things on the front line."
The soft ones are afraid of the hard ones, the hard ones are afraid of the horizontal ones, and the horizontal ones are afraid of the stupid ones!
When Zhou Kang encountered the difficult Yang Miao, he had no choice but to surrender. Who allows someone, as a Beijing official, to ignore responsibility and leave at any time? !
"Okay! Let's be honest, how can Mr. Yang need my cooperation?!"
Yang Miao raised her eyebrows, came over and asked with a smile:
"Master Zhou, what is the reason for this reduction in military expenditure? As far as I know, our granary in Liaoxi City has a lot of military rations to dispatch, so we are not going to reduce the distribution of supplies now!"
When Zhou Kang heard this, he almost couldn't breathe. If it weren't for the fact that this guy was actually appointed by the imperial court as a recorder to join the army, Zhou Kang would have suspected that Yang Miao was a spy sent by the Turks!
"Sir Yang, these are basic operations! The Turks are now invading on a large scale and their troops are approaching the city. We do not have the strength to go out to meet the enemy, so we can only control the military expenditure to ensure that there will be no turmoil in Liaoxi City so that the people in the city can Let’s survive this crisis safely until the Turks leave.”
"Routine operation?! No deductions happened?! So that means we still have enough food to supply in Liaoxi City?!"
Yang Miao was dumbfounded and glared at his entourage. He thought the wind was like rain and made random small reports, making himself mess around like a clown.
Since there was no news about Yang Ming and he could not return to Chang'an City, Yang Miao and his group were busy at the inn every day, looking for something to do. This visit to the granary for inspection was also due to some rumors that the entourage heard outside.
In order to end this farce quickly, Zhou Kang asked Xie Cang to supervise the granary and let Yang Miao check it in person, so that he could escape and return to the county government office to discuss with everyone the best plan to defend the enemy and the city in turn.
"Xie Cang Supervisor, quickly break the seal, open the granary door, and take Mr. Yang to check our granary in Liaoxi City. This will make Mr. Yang feel relieved and give us a nice word when he comes to Chang'an!"
Supervisor Xie Cang did not expect that County Magistrate Zhou would order Yang Miao to break the seal and open the door for inspection because of Yang Miao's fooling around. He was suddenly sweating profusely.
"Your Excellency, County Magistrate, isn't this good? No one from Youzhou came, so we broke the seal privately. If there are any problems later, I can't afford it!"
Yang Miao took a look and saw something was going on! There must be something wrong with this Supervisor Xie Cang, so he took out the imperial edict, waved it in front of him, and threatened:
"Those losers in Youzhou are probably squatting in prison now. Do you recognize the imperial edict or those rebels?! Now I am beginning to doubt your loyalty to the Holy One?!"
The fat Supervisor Xie Cang was frightened by Yang Miao and immediately knelt down and begged for mercy:
"Mr. Yang, my subordinates speak lightly and act according to the rules. I hope you will forgive me for any offense I have offended. I will tear off the seal and open the warehouse door for you to inspect!"
Zhou Kang had been in the officialdom for so long, and Supervisor Xie Cang's abnormal behavior alone made him notice something unusual.
So this time he was not in a hurry to return to the Yamen. He just stayed with Yang Miao and let Yang Miao take the lead. He could also inspect the granary in western Liaoning.
He also began to feel that there was a problem with the granary in western Liaoning. The Turks were just outside the city. If the problem with the granary was not solved, he would not be able to sleep!
