Chen Changde stood up and bowed, bowed with his fists and said, "I can only hurry back to the capital and report to the emperor and the informant of the left prime minister. As for how to make a decision, it is not my ability to respond."

"Tell the left prime minister." Li Guorui said tiredly: "The Northern Barbarians are not afraid of it. Without Donghu, they dare not go deep into our Great Wei territory. There are thousands of people on the border, and they open up their flags. When they see the Northern Barbarians, they bombard the cavalry to make a strong sense. The Northern Barbarians do not know the reality and the reality, and they dare not go deep into our Great Wei. Now at a critical moment, the Donghu is the enemy of our Great Wei's life and death. If he hesitates, a hundred years of opportunities will be fleeting."

Chen Chang no longer spoke too much. He could only make a decision, but he could only keep saying a word, and then said goodbye directly, without stopping, and set off directly. It took him two days to go from Ningyuan to Yuguan and four days to go from Yuguan to the capital. This is based on a normal itinerary of about a hundred miles a day. If you change horses at the post station along the way, you can travel 200 or even 300 miles a day, and you will arrive at the capital in two or three days. Then the big figures in the capital will expedite the 400 miles. Within one day, you can send the reply to the army.

In other words, within a maximum of five or six days, it will be known whether the court will allow Li Guorui's request to agree to Li Guorui's request.

"Will the emperor and the two governments agree?" Li Youde said frankly and said directly: "At that time, he divided the three left, middle and right routes, recruited envoys to lead the middle route, Li Taiwei led the left route as the general manager of the left route, and Brother Yue led the right route as the general manager of the right route. The court understood that the middle route and the right route were the main forces of the decisive battle, and the left route was said to be guarding against the northern enemy. In fact, according to Pingzhou and Yuguan, he was responsible for stifling the rear route of the army. The court handed over half of the troops to the envoys to recruit envoys. Although the observer was sent to the army, the general managers also had observations in the army, and each wing capital also sent an envoy to observe the army, but the whole country's strength was put in the hands of Li Shumi alone, how could the emperor and the two governments be completely relieved?"

Li Youde paused and did not continue to say anything.

It is very simple. Li Jian led a large army to guard against the Northern Barbarians only a secondary task. He controlled Pingzhou and Yuguan to prevent Li Guorui from winning a great victory. He suddenly put a yellow robe in front of the formation, and then led the army to occupy the land outside the pass and directly entered the capital through Yuguan.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, there were many vassal states, and there were once a powerful vassal governor openly proclaiming: "The emperor, the strong soldiers and horses are for it."

Although in a broad sense, Li Guorui has no hope for the emperor, and all the nobles, officials, gentry, and people will not be convinced. But if the emperor is a strong man, the soldiers and horses can do it. As long as Li Guorui can give a generous reward of 300,000 imperial guards, who said that he could not stand firm and really became the founding monarch? The Great Wei has been suffering by the Donghu people over the years, the north is defeated and the south is withered, and the emperor is unpopular. Many people are watching the stars in the sky to see if the Great Wei has reached the verge of destruction and whether it has changed every three hundred years. If Li Guorui really seizes the opportunity, it is impossible to succeed.

Li Jian led his troops to Pingzhou and Yuguan. More than 60,000 troops did not enter Yuguan because these troops certainly had to defend against the north wall to prevent the northern enemy from entering the country by taking advantage of the situation and causing uncontrollable trouble. Half of the reason was to control Yuguan to prevent Li Guorui from suddenly turning against him.

If Li Jian leads a large army into Yuguan, and goes to Ningyuan to Song, Ta, and wait for Zhushan military forts to be deployed, although the food routes on the rear of the army can be safe and worry-free, the risk of the court will be increased.

If Li Guorui defeated the main force of Donghu in one battle, his prestige would be so high that it would be unrivalled.

Even if he would not be the emperor in a yellow robe, he would spread his troops along the border, control a large area of ​​territory and half of the imperial guards of the Wei Dynasty, and just ask the court to provide money and food, and be independent, it would also cause a headache for the emperor and the two palaces to be equal.

"If you are suspicious of everything, there is nothing to do in the world." Li Guorui smiled bitterly and said, "Although this dynasty has not ordered the soldiers to send all their families to the capital, the military and above are under control, and my family is kept in the capital. Am I a person like Hou Jing who ignores his wife and children for the so-called great cause? Besides, I

Since I was six years old, I read books by a child. From ancient times to the present, there has never been any rebellion by scholars. If the court really refuses, I can only resign from the position of recruiting envoys."

With Li Guorui's status, he could express his heart in such straightforward words. If he could tell his heart out and show it to others, everyone who listened to him was moved and then moved.

Li Guorui's words were also quite convincing. From recruiting commanders to military-level generals, all of them were controlled. The imperial guards have always been at different levels. The soldiers only knew how to abide by the military orders of the Privy Council. If Li Guorui really wanted to rebel, there would probably not be many generals who were really willing to take the risk of extermination of the clan, except for a few direct generals.

Li Guorui no longer spoke much, and opened the central army's tent and stared at the situation outside the tent.

The sun is very dim, like a light white disc, with chilly spring and ice and snow not melting. Although it is already March, it seems that it is still very far away from spring.

There are 200 miles of plains from Yuguan to Tashan and Jinzhou, which is enough to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people to open up land and farm. Before this, this was a buffer zone between the Great Wei and Donghu, and neither side garrisoned here. Some people from Yuguan secretly sneaked out to open up land and farm. Since it was an unregistered wasteland and did not require tax payments, even if they were risking being discovered by the Donghu Light Cavalry, the people of Yuguan secretly sneaked out and ceased out.

In the years when land was opened, there were not many people who died under the strong bow of the Donghu cavalry. The Donghu people did not want to cross the Liaohe River and Yushui to build cities. They even placed a small number of troops and horses in the nearest Yingzhou to maintain control over Yingzhou. They only occasionally sent cavalry to Yuguan for reconnaissance. When they saw the Wei people who had farming, they would kill them. Over the years, there were quite a lot of people who died under the Donghu cavalry.

Even so, there are still people who risk their lives to come out to farm, because the wasteland they opened does not require a penny of tax, and they only need to pay a small amount of money to bribe the soldiers guarding the pass and let them enter and exit normally.

Every middle-aged man cannot use cattle, horse and other animal powers. He can open about twenty acres of land near the water outside Yuguan. This is already the limit of manpower. After all, secretly leaving the customs, at most he can bring a sickle and a hoe. Without too many tools and animal power to help him, about twenty acres is the limit.

Even if you open five acres or ten acres, it is a pure profit for the people because you don’t need to pay a share of the tax. Even if you only collect one stone of grain per acre, ten acres of land will have a net income of about ten stone of grain. For ordinary people, it will at least double the net income. With these secretly opened land, every ordinary people’s life will be much better. At least they can feed their children and make a warm cotton jacket for their wives in winter to resist the severe cold. This is enough.

When Li Guorui heard the people of Yuguan speak like this, he could only remain silent and did not know what it is good to say. Is it better to say harsh policies than tigers? The court, government, taxes, what does these things mean to the people? If there is no emperor and the court, everyone farms and harvests by themselves, a small country has few people, and the sound of chickens and dogs is heard and not interacting with each other, wouldn’t it be even better?

But Li Guorui still shook his head and denied his thoughts.

If there is no court, it is still in ancient times, tribes fought endlessly for arable land, pastures, and herds. Human history is the history of the expansion of tribes. During the Shang Dynasty, people sacrificed their lives to heaven, and they killed hundreds, thousands or even thousands of people. If not our race, they could even kill women and children. Establish a country, perform Zhou rituals, respect the heaven and compassionate people. This is the case where there is China, civilization inheritance, and after the founding of the country, it can resist foreign races entering China to kill randomly, and there will be roads, posters, goods can be circulated, information talents can be exchanged, local people can be prosperous, and there will be Sales Bureau, Yangjiyuan, and Luze Garden. Before the Great Wei was harassed by the Donghu and pirates, the country was also strong and the people were rich, and the upper and lower levels were happy. Now that the country had a problem, it fantasized that there could be no country, and this was the cart before the cart.

Set it up.

Li Guorui learned a lot of details from the people of Yuguan. He knew that in about half a month it would be when spring was in western Liaoning. At that time, the willow trees on the roadside and on the hillside would pull out green leaves. When they saw the green, it was when spring was in full bloom in western Liaoning.

But at that time the land would also go from hard to muddy, from morning to noon, the ground was melted from morning to noon, and the remaining ice and snow and heat made the ground become sparse. Even if the grain transport road temporarily built by the Wei army would be compacted, it would still be in a muddy state.

As for the roads to Jinzhou, since they are all mountain roads, they will be even more slippery and difficult to walk.

It is necessary to wait for the end of the month, when the weather is clear, the water on the ground will not freeze again, and then it will return to normal state.

Li Guorui has read many historical books and knows that during the Qin and Han dynasties, the muddy swamps that could not be sailed or drove near the narrow coast of the western Liaoning Corridor were still not allowed to sail or drive. The situation mentioned by the people of Yuguan should be a fact.

Li Guorui looked worried. If the court made a decision, he must not delay it anymore. Otherwise, once the spring warms up and turns into ice, the military supplies needed for more than 200,000 troops will be at least 100,000 people in advance. Since the mountain road is difficult to move, at least tens of thousands of people must be mobilized first, and use the chicken bus to push out tens of thousands of stones of grain forward, thinking that the army will be in advance.

"How would the court decide?" Yue Zhi, who was wearing purple robe as Li Guorui, walked out. There were many high-ranking officials in the army, but those who were qualified to wear purple robes in the army were now only Li Guorui, the deputy envoy of Privy Councilor and Yue Zhi, who was the Grand Marshal. The other observers, transshipment envoys, military appearance envoys, etc., as well as the generals in charge of the army, the commanders of the wing, were all wearing red robes.

"The court will allow it." Li Guorui was keen to feel a hint of warmth in the cold wind. In early winter, when the cold wind blew, there was a continuous and continuous cold air following. In spring, although the spring was late in western Liaoning, there was still a kind of vitality in the cold wind. This warmth quickly became obvious until the weather warmed up.

"If the court can hold on for another half a year, it will be fine." Yue Zhi's face was firm, his expression was calm, and there was a clear regret in his eyes. Yue Zhi would not worry about the future war. He was a strange man born for war. Although he was not as aggressive as Li Youde, violent and fierce as he was, he was also the most outstanding soldier.

War, even if it is a war of hundreds of thousands of people, for a soldier like Yue Zhi who has been in the army for more than 20 years, it is as normal as eating and drinking. Even if he is at risk of death or worrying about death, pure soldiers will not consider themselves too much before the war. They will consider gains and losses from the overall situation. They will march and set up formations, just like the national player. Yue Zhi is strategically inferior to Li Guorui, but his tactical strength makes up for Li Guorui's shortcomings.

The previous plan and strategy of hoarding grain and silenced the enemy, slowly advancing and eroding the city in two years was completed by Yue Zhi and Li Guorui.

Such a strategy is too exhausting, but it can almost be invincible if it is steady and steady.

Yue Zhi sighed, but then cheered up again. The court insisted on doing this, so there must be a lasting reason. He thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid the situation in the south is not stable... Most of the bandits on Fujian Road were annihilated, but there were still quite a few elite troops from the old camp who ran to Jiangxi with Li Kaiming. The court was also worried that it was true."
Chapter completed!