The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 85 Taiyuan Uprising
Taiyuan Li Mansion!

Li Yuan, who learned of the bitter battle between the Jizhou Army and the Turks, called his allies to discuss matters.

"We have an army of [-], and more than [-] house servants."

Dugu Huai'en, the representative of the Dugu family, immediately said: "The reason why the owner of the family did everything possible to get brother Shude to stay in Taiyuan, actually had a deep intention."

Li Yuan was stunned, looking at Dugu Huai'en in confusion, only to hear Dugu Huai'en laughing: "After the siege of Yanmen, the troops stationed in Hedong are basically Guanlong soldiers, at least half of the 10,000+ high-level officers in Hedong They are the old slaves of our Guanlong nobles. Whenever there is an incident, these people will rise together to support. Not only that, there are tens of thousands of Zhuang Ding and fake sons in our farm. food and money savings and armor, so we don’t have to worry at all.”

Dou Kang, the representative of the Dou family, smiled and said, "Guanzhong is also ready!"

Li Yuan cheered up, "The world has been split into separate pieces, Yang Guang has been completely isolated, the Central Plains has no time to care about others, and Yang Tong is restrained by the Turks in Mayi, it will not pose much threat! We have [-] soldiers Many, the time is ripe for an incident! Please tell the two Patriarchs that I, Li Yuan, will choose a day to launch an incident!"

Dou Kang said: "Brother Shude! My Dou family appointed Dou Cong to be in charge of Hedong affairs."

"I will assist on behalf of the Dugu family!" Dugu Wynn said.

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Dou Kang and Dugu Huai'en didn't stay in Li's residence for a long time. After they left, Li Yuan remained silent. The moonlight penetrated through the gap in the window and shone on Li Yuan's pale face. What was he thinking about?
"Father!"

Li Jiancheng said in a low voice: "Dou Kang said that 'at least half of the 10,000+ high-ranking military officers in Hedong are former slaves of Guanlong nobles', I think they want these people to infiltrate the army, and then use these people to restrict us. So the Dugu family and the Dou family have sinister intentions, they just regard us as a tool to seize power, once they succeed in seizing power, they may empty our Li family..."

Li Yuan sneered, "It's normal to have such thoughts. The nobles of Guanlong started their careers as soldiers, and they have come here from the Northern Zhou Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty. But how can I, Li Yuan, be at the mercy of them?" Speaking of this, Li Yuan said earnestly: " You have to learn to be patient, we need their support, we must not turn against them, we are using each other, it's just to see who can use it to the end."

"Guanzhong is certainly the chosen place, but the muddy water there is too deep! Therefore, the east of the river where various forces are intertwined is our foundation."

Li Jiancheng nodded, "Father, should we attack Yang Tong with the Turks first, or go south?"

"Naturally go south! Yang Tong asked Gao Junya to station at Xinkou, the fortress of war preparation, to guard against us. From this, it can be seen that Yang Tong has already noticed something! This is also the reason why I am eager to start an incident."

"Do you want to send someone to contact Shibi again?"

"No need, what needs to be discussed has already been discussed!" Li Yuan made up his mind, "Hurry up and invite me Pei Ji, Changsun Shunde, Samurai Xun, Tang Jian and others. I want to discuss with them the final issue of raising troops."

After a while, all the confidants arrived quickly.

Li Yuan first conspired with everyone to lure Wang Wei, the deputy left behind, to the government office on the grounds of an emergency meeting, and arrested them all with the soldiers who had ambushed beforehand. Finally, he publicly executed them for the crime of collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country.

This plan was successful in history, but unfortunately, Wang Wei, who had been told by Yang Tong earlier, was smarter. He didn't stare at Li Yuan, but only stared at Pei Ji, Liu Wenjing, Dugu Huai'en, and Samurai Xun, Li Yuan's confidantes!

When Li Yuan secretly summoned his confidants to discuss the matter, Wang Wei led the army to attack Li Yuan's horse farm and manor with lightning speed!Not only killed 1 Turkic people, but also snatched up more than [-] war horses that Li Yuan had worked so hard to hoard!Then withdraw to guard Xinkou.

What made Li Yuan most angry was that this bastard even burned more than 20 shi of grain that could not be taken away from the Taiyuan treasury.

Seeing that the situation did not go as expected, Li Yuan was also worried that this bastard would attract Yang Tong, a lunatic.

In order to avoid long nights and dreams, Li Yuan led the general himself and established the General's Mansion!Immediately recruited righteous soldiers from all counties, and the responders gathered at once. Within half a month, Li Yuan recruited more than 15 soldiers, plus the elite soldiers and slaves he had prepared, he had 20 soldiers at one time.
It was just because of Yang Tong's intrusion that the granary and arsenal of Jinyang Palace were completely removed, and the treasury of Taiyuan County was completely burned down. Therefore, Li Yuan's Taiyuan Uprising was much more embarrassing than in history, except for the descendants, government soldiers, and county soldiers. For equipment, most of the other subordinates are wearing temporary cloth armor, and they mainly use spears in their hands.Even many spears are just sharpened sticks.

There is no bow, no armor, most soldiers hold a single knife, or only a sharpened spear, and a wooden shield made of willow, or even a pot cover as a shield.

Before the rebellion, Li Yuan did not forget to mobilize to boost morale.

October twenty.

Li Yuan led his army to swear an oath to the army at the Qianyang Gate in the east of Jinyang Palace City, and formally raised troops in the name of "abolishing the faint and establishing the Ming, supporting the generation of the king, and restoring the Sui Dynasty"!In the published proclamation, he reprimanded Yang Guang for listening to slander, killing Zhongliang, and resorting to military action, causing public grievances to boil... Wait!
The stagnation that had been accumulated for decades was finally able to swear clearly and plainly, and Li Yuan, who was very happy, saw that the atmosphere was almost gone.

Then he canonized Pei Ji as the chief history of the general's mansion, Yin Kaishan as the clerk, Tang Jian and Wen Daya joined the army as the record room, Wen Dayou as the clerk, the warrior Xun as the armor Cao joined the army, the eldest sun Shunde as the vassal, Wang Changxie, Liu Hongji , Dou Cong, Jiang Baoyi, Yang Tun, Zhang Pinggao, Li Sixing, and Li Gaoqian were left and right commanders and deputy commanders.Li Yuan almost came to send out a large number of officials, sending out thousands of official positions in one go, as long as anyone who followed Li Yuan had an official job.

In addition to winning people's hearts, another aspect is to tie the people who accept the official position to his chariot. If he fails, the people who accept the official position will be unlucky, so these people can only desperately help Li Yuan seize the world.

He also named the eldest son Li Jian as the Duke of Longxi and the governor of the left army, commanding the left army; the second son Li Shimin was the Duke of Dunhuang and the governor of the right army, commanding the right army.Taking Li Yuanji as Duke Guzang, General Zhenbei, and Taiyuan Taishou, he led an army of [-] to stay in Jinyang.

The next day, Li Yuan led his eldest son Li Jiancheng, his second son Li Shimin and 15 "righteous men" to the south from Taiyuan!

East Road suddenly boiled.

Local people along the road joined in one after another, and many powerful gentry followed suit.It's not that these powerful families don't understand, but they have other ideas.

Back then, Yang Jian won the world from Yuwen's family in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and Yuwen's family from Wei Chaoyuan's family. Therefore, they know better than ordinary people that the essence of power is that the strong are respected and the victor is dominant.

Now the Great Sui Dynasty is riddled with holes and is on the verge of collapse, but Tang Guogong Li Yuan doesn't think it's because of his personal prestige or the strength of his family. Those are all extremely powerful officials in Guanlong. Yang Jian.

From the power of the dragon is still very attractive.

However, there are also people who are not optimistic about Li Yuan, and think that the world is better than the Sui Dynasty.

For example, Gao Deru, the Prime Minister of Hexi County, when Li Yuan asked him to start an incident, he agreed face-to-face, and accompanied by Li Shimin, he recruited a large number of government soldiers and civilian husbands. is satisfied.

But as soon as Li Shimin left, he immediately sent people to inform Yang Gongren of Jizhou, Yang You, the acting king of Chang'an, Yang Tan, the left-behind king of Yan in Dongdu, and the governor of Hedong.At the same time, he also advised the prefect and Tongshou to mobilize the township bravery to prepare for war according to the wartime mechanism.He also retreated to Lingshi County with a heavy army on the grounds that there was no danger in Xihe County.

There was this senior spy who tipped off the news internally, Li Yuan hadn't started yet, and the princes and the governor of Hedong had already received the information.

The governor of Hedong immediately sent troops to arrest all the family members of Li Yuan, Pei Ji and others who had stayed in Hedong and took them to Chang'an.

After receiving the secret letter, Yang Tan, the king of Yan who stayed behind in Dongdu, urgently ordered Yang Qing, the king of Xun, to lead an army of [-] troops into Hedong, and recruit all the prefectures to guard Hedong County.

And in Xijing!

Wei Xuan, Gu Yi, Yin Shishi, Qu Tutong, Qu Tugai, Song Laosheng, and Yao Junsu were summoned into the palace, met the left-behind acting king Yang You, and together comforted the flustered grandson.

Then start researching countermeasures

Wei Xuan has experienced countless storms, and he has the most right to speak on major events such as Li Yuan's rebellion.

After thinking for a long time, Wei Xuan made the first arrangement, which was to order Qu Tugai and Yao Junsu to lead the Xiaoguo army to arrest Li Yuan's brothers and nephews in Xijing.

Immediately after, he issued the second order, and immediately praised Gao Deru, and promoted him to be the governor of Longquan County, and then let him take charge of the military affairs of Xihe County and blockade Lingshi County.

Lingshi County is located in the middle of Queshu Valley, which is more than [-] kilometers long, with rugged and steep terrain, with Mount Dai on the top and Jueyuan on the bottom.As the main throat of Taiyuan and Linfen, controlling Queshu Valley will undoubtedly cut off Li Yuan's way to the south.

The third order was to send Hu Yalang General Song Laosheng to garrison Huoyi with [-] elite soldiers, and another Qu Tutong to garrison Hedong with [-] Xiaoguo and tens of thousands of soldiers, echoing Song Laosheng to reject Li Yuan.

After doing this, Yin Shishi, Sang Xian and others followed Xiaoguo's example and selected warriors from the people to form two soldiers and horses, issued weapons, and stepped up training.

As for the evacuation of Xijing, he didn't think it was too busy to think about it.

After finishing all these, Wei Xuan could only quietly wait for the result.

(End of this chapter)