In September, the army of the Eastern Expedition was exhausted and was forced to return the troops. On the 21st, Gao Bing, Yang Liang and Wang Shiji led their troops back to Linyu, but at this time there were less than 30,000 troops and horses. In addition, almost all the navy troops were completely wiped out. 300,000 large army of waterways in the Eastern Expedition were returned in the last ten.

With the defeat of the Eastern Expedition Army, the entire capital Daxing City was shrouded in dark clouds. The emperor's gloomy expression for days has been brewing with thunderous anger. Since ascending the throne eighteen years ago, Yang Jian has pacified civil strife and conquered the world. Nanchen and Xiliang have surrendered one by one, and even the unparalleled Turkic Khanate was divided under his wrist. But Yang Jian never expected that he would have paid the defeat so quickly, and it was in the hands of a small Goguryeo.

Goguryeo is just a small country in Liaodong. Although it has been established for 500 years, it has recruited surrenders and rebels through the hundreds of years of civil strife in the Central Plains, and has expanded its strength from time to time. But in Yang Jian's view, it is still just a small barbarian country with hundreds of thousands of households and millions of people. Thinking about the fact that when he was appointed King Gao Tang, secretly joined forces with Chen after Qi was destroyed, he issued an edict to Gao Tang, saying that the king said that the vastness of the Liao River is like the Yangtze River, how many people from Goryeo, how many Chen countries are? If I do not have any merits, I blame the king for his mistakes and order a general, how can I wait for more strength! I tell you diligently that King Xu will be refreshed. It is better to have my heart and seek more blessings. A decree to Liaodong, which scared Gao Tang to be anxious all day long.

But now, the defeat of the 300,000 army is like a loud slap in the face.

Before this Eastern Expedition, many ministers opposed it, including Prime Minister Gao Yang, King Yang Guang of Jin, and Minister Yang Su, the Right Pushe of Jin, also vaguely stated that the expedition was too hasty. But at that time, Yang Jian did not expect that the 300,000 troops would go to the expedition. Before the war was taken over, the entire army was defeated. He insisted on launching this Eastern Expedition, but in fact he never thought that he would really destroy the Goryeo Kingdom. In his plan, this Eastern Expedition was actually more of a shocking action. The army went to the Liao River, captured one or two big cities by the Liao River, and then defeated one or two Goryeo troops. At that time, it would be enough to shock the new Goryeo King Gao Yuan and let Goryeo be honest for several years.

Yang Jian did not think about occupying the poor mountains and rivers of Changbai Mountain. At least in his opinion, it should not be now. At least he had to wait until he completely conquered the Turks.

The expedition to Goryeo was actually just a front-line battle for the northern expedition to the Turks. The purpose was to shock Goryeo and make the Great Sui fight against the Turks with all their might, so that they would not make small moves later. A simple expedition ended like this.

This time, he planned to let King Jin take charge. Then Yang Su took charge together. Gao Yang was the chief historian, and Shi Wansui was the vanguard, and He Ruobi was the navy. But in the end, he chose King Liang of Han to take charge, Gao Ying was the chief historian, King Shiji of Shangzhu was the land marshal, and Zhou Luohu was the navy. The result was so bad that Yang Jian began to think that maybe he insisted on letting Yang Guang, Yang Su, Shi Wansui, He Ruobi and others commanded the army. The result might be completely different. Once such thoughts took root in his mind, they would never be able to linger. Yang Jian couldn't help but feel disappointed with the most beloved man Wang Liang of Han, and even began to feel dissatisfied with Gao Yang, who had trusted for decades.

As soon as the Eastern Expedition Army was defeated and retreated to the country, Gao Yuan's envoy rushed to Chang'an and sent Gao Yuan's surrender stamp. Gao Yuan submitted a letter of guilt and claimed to be the minister of Liaodong dirt. Although this letter seemed to have barely resulted in this failure, in Yang Jian's eyes, this letter was more like a naked ridicule of that boy Gao Yuan.

Although she was extremely dissatisfied, Yang Jian could only suppress his plan to conquer Goryeo again and put it aside with this preface.

Compared to the small Goryeo, there is a more important enemy in front of you.

"The envoy of the Eastern Turkic capital Lan Khan went to the Western Regions and conspired to join forces with Datou Khan!"

The news that Yang Jian feared the most came after all, and what he feared the most often would appear. Since the founding of the Great Sui Kingdom, he has been entangled with the Turks. Over the years, through the strategy of combining the weak and leaving the strong, the Great Sui has adhered to a strategy against the Turks, that is, to divide the Turks and never let them unite. After successfully splitting the Turks into two in the third year of Kaihuang, the Great Sui has only one method against the Turks in recent years. He will fight against the Eastern Turks in all these years. He will fight against the Eastern Turks with the Western Turks. When the Eastern Turks are strong, they will join forces with the Western Turks to fight the Eastern Turks. But now, Du Lan of the Eastern Turks is actually going to join forces with the Western Turks to join the Datou of the Western Turks, which is the act that touched the sensitive nerves of the Great Sui.

It is absolutely untolerable!

The power of a united Turkic is a major threat that everyone in the Sui Dynasty knew. At that time, the Turkic people were powerful, and the Northern Zhou and Northern Qi could only compete to please the Turkic people, and they would continue to pay tribute and marry each other. Turkic Khan Tubo even said proudly, "I am always filial in the southern two children, so why should I worry about poverty!" At that time, the powerful Turkic people were not only the nightmare in the hearts of the people of the Central Plains, but even the powerful Persia and Rome in the West were threatened by them."

Yang Jian saw clearly the Turks and Goryeo, and he was light and heavy. No matter how angry he was in his heart, Yang Jian had to let go of the arrogant and proud Goryeo people. The Great Sui Dynasty must make every effort to deal with the alliance between the East and West Turks, and must suppress them with a tough and merciless attitude.

"I specially appointed Yi Feng as the general in charge of the military affairs of Wuzhou, the governor of Wuzhou, and the governor of Wuzhou, and was granted the title of general and the Duke of Guangning County, with a fief of 3,000 households, and a real households with 800 households!"

Yang Jian urgently summoned the servant who had just set out to Huaihuang to pass the imperial edict and issued a new reward for Huaihuang Yifeng. This reward was unprecedented, but no one of the ministers in the Man Palace publicly stood up to oppose it. The defeat of the Eastern Army and the alliance between the East and West Turks made the atmosphere in the entire court extremely heavy. Everyone knew that the Great Sui Dynasty faced great challenges this time. At present, the Great Sui Dynasty had no spare energy but was in charge of the Goguryeo people. Even the Great Sui Dynasty had to give a heavy reward for Yifeng, which was originally just a green forest in the northern border, so that he had more than a dozen cities and more than 10,000 people in his hands. They could give them rewards, so that they could serve the court and defend the northwest gateway of Youzhou for the court. In the past, when the Turks invaded, they had invaded Youzhou many times from Huaihuang. What's more, there was a rumor in the capital now that some people

Legend has it that Yi Feng is actually the illegitimate son of the King of Jin, and he was able to rise in Yanshan, the northern border for a short time. In fact, the King of Jin was fully supported by the King of Jin. But some people say that Yi Feng was actually the legitimate son of the crown prince and the late princess Yuan. He was raped by the remnants of the Northern Qi Dynasty in his early years. Until now, he finally recognized each other. Although the rumors are different, Yi Feng is both the grandson of the emperor. The so-called groundless wind is absolutely impossible to have no trouble. Therefore, when the emperor announced that Yi Feng was appointed as the general manager of Wuzhou and the governor, no one opposed it. Yu Gong, the battle is imminent. Yi Feng has a city and a soldier in his hands, so he gave him an official and asked him to defend the dam for the court. It also had a great effect on blocking the Great Wall. For private matters, whether he was the legitimate son of the prince or the illegitimate son of the King of Jin, he was also the grandson of the emperor. There was no need for everyone to object.

"The new Guizhou was established in the two counties of Huairong and Huaian, and Qu Tutong was appointed as the general manager of Guizhou and the governor..."

Yang Jian's second decree was to change all the officials who were transferred to Wuzhou to Guizhou. From this decree, it can be seen that the emperor did not completely hand over the matter north of Yanshan to Yi Feng. He played a very beautiful strategy, using the Great Wall as the boundary, and the dam outside the Great Wall, a new Wuzhou was established. Yi Feng became the general manager and governor of Wuzhou, but from the other side, the territory under Yi Feng was still in Huaihuang, but he was promoted from the magistrate of Huaihuang County to Wu.

The governor of the state, Huaihuang Town will be promoted to the general manager of Wuzhou. The territory has not changed, and the official position has been promoted. Similarly, the land in the two Great Walls is still led by Qu Tutong and others sent by the court. This can be regarded as the court's support for Huaihuang or as a precaution. But no matter what, the court did advance the defense line forward, from the first Great Wall to the second Great Wall, and even let Yi Feng lead the Huaihuang people block the second Great Wall.

At the same time, Yang Jian issued a series of decrees and carried out large-scale personnel adjustments and appointments. Basically, they were the entire northern front line, from the Hexi region in the northwest to the Youying camp in the northeast, the court made every effort to prepare for the war and prepare to fight again with the Turks!

After going down the court, Yang Jian returned to the harem. Queen Dugu Jialuo was waiting for a long time, and when she saw him, she immediately rushed back without any rushing.

"There has been a rumor in the government and the public recently. I wonder if the Supreme One has heard it?"

"Yeah." Yang Jian nodded expressionlessly.

"What exactly?" Dugu asked. Now that rumors are spreading everywhere, Dugu has heard of them for a long time. If it were ordinary rumors, it would be fine. But this involves the royal family and the rumors of the two princes. Some people say that Yi Feng was the legitimate son of the crown prince and the Yuan concubine, and some people say that he was the illegitimate son born to Yang Guang in his early years. No one can figure out the truth. But Dugu must not ignore it. "When Yuan took Xumi back to the Yuan family to visit his relatives, he turned out to be a car in the snow. The two-year-old Sumi was killed by a car. I remember that the child was already crushed by the wheel when he found it, and his face was unrecognizable and bloody. Could it be that the child found was not Sumi, but was a person Li Daitaozhuo?"

"That thing was really strange at the beginning!"

Sumeru is the legitimate son of the crown prince Yang Yong and the crown prince concubine Yuan. The Diamond Sutra says that his body is like the king of Mount Sumeru. Mount Sumeru is the highest and largest sacred mountain in the world of India, Zhendan and even the three thousand great thousand worlds. According to the customs at that time, children from wealthy families all have a Buddha name, and Sumeru is the name of the Buddha that Yang Jian personally gave to his eldest grandson.

"If that child lived, he would be eighteen years old now." Dugu said. The day when Sumeru was born was the time when the Sui Dynasty was established. Because of this, Yang Jian and Dugu both liked the eldest grandson more and more. Sixteen years ago, the Yuan Concubine took her child to visit her relatives, and the child was gone halfway. The relationship between the prince and the Yuan Concubine was not harmonious since then. The princess no longer paid attention to the prince Yang Yong, and Yang Yong also took favored concubines because of this. In recent years, he had ten sons with many concubines. Even a few years ago, the princess suddenly died suddenly. There were rumors that he died of the prince's favorite concubine Yun.

Yang Jian took out a painting and opened it.

"This is a portrait of Yi Feng that I have asked the painter to come to Huaihuang in person and painted after I come back."

The scroll opened, and Dugu screamed in shock.

The characters in the painting are young, handsome, beautiful and beautiful. Dugu clearly understood at the first glance that this child does have royal blood. He looks very similar to Yang Jian when he was young, and even seems to be poured out of the same mold. Of course, he is also very similar to the former crown prince Yang Yong, but now Yang Yong is a little fat, so he looks more like the King of Jin.

Dugu couldn't help but think of another rumor, saying that Yi Feng was the illegitimate son of King Guang of Jin. However, Dugu calculated that Yi Feng's age looked about the same age as Xumi, and it was just eighteen years old. But eighteen years ago, King Guang of Jin was only thirteen years old. Moreover, if you look closely, you will find that in addition to looking very much like Yang Jian and his son, Yi Feng also had the appearance characteristics of Si Yuanfei between his eyebrows and eyes.

"This is Sumeru!" Dugu said affirmatively.

Yang Jian nodded as well. Since he heard the rumors, Yang Jian immediately secretly sent a painter to Huaihuang, secretly observed Yi Feng, and then drew the image and brought it back. At the first glance when he saw the image, he, like Queen Dugu, had already determined that Yi Feng should be Sumeru. "I sent someone to carefully investigate Yi Feng's situation. Yi Feng appeared in Daibei six years ago. At that time, he alone fought for the tiger, killed the tiger and was injured. The leader of the Yanshan Tiger Alliance

Murong Ke saved Yi Feng, but after Yi Feng recovered from his injury, he had no memory of what had happened before. Then Murong Ke took Yi Feng as his adopted son and became a member of the green forest of Yanshan Mountain. Until the beginning of the year, Yi Feng went south to Jianghuai, but was attacked again in Jiangnan and was rescued by the white-haired girl from the Gao family in the Northern Qi Dynasty. Yi Feng lost his memory of the previous six years again. Later, he married the girl of the Gao family in a confused manner, and later caught him when Erlang surrounded the Gao family..."

"Have Guang'er seen Yi Feng before?"

Dugu asked, if Yang Guang had seen Yi Feng, he would have discovered the problem long ago.

"I sent someone to ask the King of Jin. He replied that after he took the Gao sisters, he did not notice Yi Feng, the son-in-law of the Gao family. Later, the Gao sisters were recruited and Yi Feng sent him to recruit the remaining subordinates of the Gao family, so he did not find out about this."

"If Yi Feng is really Sumeru, then we are our legitimate grandson!" Dugu sighed. Crown Prince Yang Yong has never had a legitimate son since Sumeru's death. Although he gave birth to ten sons, he was all born with his concubine. What Dugu is even more unacceptable is that the eldest son of the prince is not only born with a illegitimate son, but also his eldest son's mother Yun is the daughter of a craftsman. This is not all. Yun is still the illegitimate daughter of the craftsman outside the room. What Dugu is most unacceptable is that the illegitimate daughter of this craftsman was given to the prince by the craftsman. At first, it was an unknown woman outside the palace, and then she was pregnant with the eldest son outside the palace. Such a low concubine, a illegitimate son born with a wild affair, Dugu and Yang Jian couldn't accept that he would become the prince of the Great Sui Dynasty, or even the emperor.
Chapter completed!