Du Fuwei had only taken a few hours to go from surrendering to going to Dongdu. But he had obviously thought about it for a long time, so he agreed to the conditions proposed to Li Jing.

Zhang Liang and Chen Xiaoyi were very surprised and never expected such a bizarre change in Jiangnan.

Li Zitong died and Wang Shichong suddenly occupied Jiangdu. These were only a few days of effort, but Du Fuwei, who had been fighting against Xiao Buyi for a long time, decided to surrender to Dongdu in just a few hours!

Zhang Liang and Chen Xiaoyi thought that if it were him, they would probably be wary of Du Fuwei's fraud. However, Li Jing, an extraordinary person, did extraordinary things. Not only did he agree with Du Fuwei's request, he immediately began to arrange personnel to escort Du Fuwei across the river and head north to the eastern capital.

Du Fuwei didn't even consider turning around Li Yang and directly agreed to Li Jing's arrangement.

However, the general of the Jianghuai Army went there. After all, it was a big deal. Du Fuwei did not turn back to the army, but ordered Ximen Junyi to turn back to Liyang and report to Fu Gong's own decision. Then he only took his adopted son Wang Xiongdan, and a total of two went to Dongdu.

Du Fuwei rebelled for many years and also cooperated with Fu Gong for many years. The two of them were both martial and literary, and they complemented each other. Fu Gong was the second-ranked figure in the Jianghuai Army. It is understandable that Du Fuwei gave some things to Fu Gong.

When the preparations were made, at noon, Li Jing had arranged for Du Fuwei to cross the river. This time, there were more than a thousand soldiers escorting Du Fuwei to the north, which shows Li Jing's importance to this trip.

After Du Fuwei left, Zhang Liang finally expressed his doubts, "General Li, I always feel that things are a little strange. Du Fuwei was in a hurry, not like surrendering. It was a bit like escaping!"

Chen Xiaoyi also said: "Even if he surrenders, he should have arranged the Jianghuai Army before departure. But looking at Ximen Junyi's expression, it seems that Du Fuwei surrenders something unspeakable."

Li Jing nodded, "You all have some truths. But the opportunity cannot be missed, and you will never come back. Du Fuwei was hesitating, and we should make a decision immediately. As for the rest of the matter, we will find a way to solve it."

Zhang Liang said, "General Li? I don't know whether to say it or not?" Zhang Liang, as a member of Wagang, has always been cautious and calm. Although Li Jing valued it, he is often cautious.

Li Jing smiled and said, "But it's okay to say it. General Zhang, many things are as long as they have nothing to do with Dayi, just say it."

Zhang Liang asked: "The King of Xiliang really predicted that Du Fuwei would surrender. So the official positions of reward were all decided?"

Li Jing shook his head, "The King of Xiliang did not give me rewards, as long as I adapt to the situation."

"When Du Fuwei arrives in Dongdu, if he does not have a reward, why don't he rebel?" Zhang Liang said worriedly.

Li Jing smiled and said, "What's the difficulty? Long before Du Fuwei set out, I had reported the news of Du Fuwei's surrender to the King of Xiliang..."

"General Li, I think I have a great contribution to the master, and I have always attracted suspicion. If you kill first and then report, aren't you afraid that the King of Xiliang will be suspicious?" Chen Xiaoyi asked worriedly.

Li Jing looked motionless, "Thank you for your reminder, I will pay attention to this in the future."

Zhang Liang asked, "Du Fuwei only brought two people here. I think the reward for him is too generous. In fact, as long as Du Fuwei is captured, the Jianghuai army will be defeated without fighting."

Li Jing shook his head and said, "This plan is absolutely not feasible. I want Du Fuwei to subdue the people with righteousness. If we betray our faith and capture and kill him, we are afraid that we will not achieve the opportunity if we are hasty, which will make the Jianghuai army angry and will be unfavorable to pacify Jiangnan. The King of Xiliang should be rewarded soon. If the Jianghuai generals are recruited, there will be no more trouble. Remember. Since Du Fuwei surrenders, we will temporarily hold our troops. We must not fight against the Jianghuai army. Everything can be temporarily retreated! As for how to deal with Fu Gong, Kan Ling and others, I have my own countermeasures!"

The second general ordered the order and waited to retreat. A soldier sent him a hurry. Li Jing opened it and suddenly laughed.

Li Jing has always been serious and smiled at Du Fuwei in a business and rare way, but at this time he actually looked very happy.

Chen Xiaoyi asked in confusion: "Why is the general laughing?"

"Wang Shichong is indeed extraordinary. He just occupied Jiangdu and couldn't wait to become emperor." Li Jing murmured to himself: "He is just like Yu Wenhua. It's good to be an emperor for one day. Enlightened? It's really interesting to him to call this year!"

Chen Xiaoyi and Zhang Liang took the military article and saw that it was written on it, Wang Shichong was named Emperor, the country was named Zheng, and the year was Kaiming! Chong was in charge of Yangzhou City, and was full of energy for a moment. He killed Li Zitong and replaced him, easily appeased Li Zitong's subordinates, captured Chen Lun again, defeated Chen Faxing's army, and forced the Jianghuai army to retreat. None of these things was easy, but he was still at ease when he did it.

There was no movement on Li Jing's side, which made Wang Shichong mistakenly think that Li Jing was also afraid of his plan and did not dare to directly defeat him.

But reality quickly awakened him. Wang Shichong warned himself not to be arrogant, because Xiao Buyi was not easy to deal with!

Xiao Buyi has occupied half of the territory of the Central Plains, and the rest of the anti-kings have only divided the other half. The territory occupied by Wang Shichong is not optimistic even compared to Xiao Buyi.

After enduring for several years, Wang Shichong had already targeted the land of Jiangdu after defeating Dongdu. This was his last chance.

Xiao Buyi is now strong, and all the heroes and heroes in the world look up to him. Even Li Yuan and Dou Jiande are difficult to compete with each other. Wang Shichong knew that Li Yuan and Dou Jiande would never be willing to sit there and wait for death, and they would definitely join forces secretly. He inserted his legs and joined in. Li Tang and the Hebei army had no possibility of reconciliation.

Although Xiao Buyi is strong, it cannot be said that he is strong enough to resist the joint efforts of the three families. As long as the three families can defeat Xiao Buyi and divide his territory, the rest of his life can only be said that everything is possible!

When Wang Shichong was making up his wishful thinking, he looked at his generals and listened to their reports on military affairs. Yang Gongqing, Le Botong, and Guo Shancai were all present, and Wang Xuanying also brought a group of clan relatives to the side. After all, Wang Shichong was the big brothers in Jiangnan. There were really many clan relatives.

He told Li Zitong that the tree fell and the money was scattered, leaving only the lonely man. Obviously, he was still lying to Li Zitong. In fact, except for Wang Bian and Wang Xuanshu, Wang Shisheng's foundation was not damaged.

Every time I think of the death of his son Wang Bian and his son Wang Xuanshu, Wang Shichong secretly hated him and only wanted to crush Xiao Buyi's bones and ashes.

He hated Xiao Buyi. Not only because Xiao Buyi killed his son, but also because Xiao Buyi blocked his way. If it weren't for Xiao Buyi, the lord of the Eastern Capital should have been his Wang Shichong!

He failed to join forces with Yuan Wen. Before Wang Shichong entered the city, he found something wrong and fled south in a hurry. He broke the soldiers into pieces, comforted them to Jiangnan, and then made plans. In fact, these Huainan troops were very loyal. When Wang Shichong called again, he quickly gathered 20,000 elite troops. Wang Shichong took this as the foundation and easily captured Chen Lun and controlled the overall situation.

But what made Wang Shichong depressed was that Liang Yanniang's woman fascinated the guards' soldiers, bribed his subordinates, easily escaped his control, and disappeared. Wang Shichong was defeated. In fact, he wanted to cut Liang Yanniang into pieces. Taipingdao people have always said that they knew the secrets of heaven, but they were cheating people to death. Wang Shichong had figured out these days that he was not the only one who was bewitched by Taipingdao! And Taipingdao didn't know what secrets of heaven at all! Believe that Taipingdao predicted that the people were either crazy or crazy!

He now doesn't believe in the so-called secrets of heaven. If he could see Liang Yanniang's words, he just wanted to kill her and eat meat. Now Wang Shichong only trusts his relatives and a group of subordinates, and needs to build up a new territory based on his own mind.

During these days of endurance, Wang Shichong was not in a hurry to join forces with the thieves. Instead, he spent a lot of effort to win over the three thieves and put undercover agents. Therefore, he could easily defeat the three thieves and take over Yangzhou.

Facts have proved that his strategy is now extremely successful!

A few days after entering Yangzhou, he couldn't wait to become emperor. It was not arrogant, but because of the indescribable hiddenness.

Because at present, he is the weakest, if he wants his subordinates to work hard, he can only be rewarded by emperors. Anyway, these official positions do not cost him a penny, so he can come out. Guo Shancai, Yang Gongqing, Le Botong and others were all named generals by him, and Wang Xuanying was made the crown prince by him, while his brothers Wang Shiyun, Wang Shiwei, sons and nephews Wang Honglie, Wang Xingben, Wang Tai and others were named kings and called Dukes of the commons.

Now everyone suddenly became officials, and for a moment, they were all full of energy and felt that nothing could be done in the world.

At this time, Wang Shichong suddenly received a secret letter and looked at it. His face was gloomy and he slapped the table heavily.

Everyone was shocked and didn't know what news was. Wang Shichong said for a long time: "This Du Fuwei is ungrateful!"

Wang Xuanying asked, "Father, I wonder what happened to Du Fuwei?"

Wang Shichong sighed and looked around the ministers and said, "I originally intended to regain Du Fuwei. After going to Yangzhou, I contacted him as soon as possible, and even wanted to give him a big official title."

"Did he refuse?" Wang Xuan asked.

"I heard that he... with his adopted son Wang Xiongdan, he actually defected to Dongdu!" Wang Shichong said hatefully.

Everyone was silent and their faces changed slightly. The world was quarrels, and the thieves were all arrogant and arrogant. They rarely surrendered to others when they were absolutely necessary. But even if they were either killed by their opponents or were thinking about planning their opponents, Zhai Rang of Wagang's fled to Dongdu could be said to be forced to do so. But Du Fuwei definitely has the ability to fight again, and the Jianghuai army can have 100,000. Such a person suddenly surrendered to Dongdu Xiao Buyi. Does this mean that the world's dispute has reached a turning point again?

Is it useless to fight for Du Fuwei in his eyes, and he is left to seek a way out early and surrender to Xiao Buyi's path?

Everyone was complicated and had a good idea, but they didn't notice that Wang Shichong's face turned pale and muttered to himself, "Du Fuwei, don't give you a face. Do you really think Xiao Buyi is your life-saving straw? I'm afraid that when you arrive in Dongdu, it will be the day you die!"

After a winter of bitter cold, the New Year's spring seemed to come a little early. Everything in the Eastern Capital revived, and the government was harmonious, and the people on the streets were filled with peaceful smiles.

They have experienced too many hardships, and now they have finally lived some peaceful life.

Today, Didongdu is not only the largest city in the Central Plains. It has a population of one million, but also admires it from all over the world. Merchants from all over the world come and go to trade early in the ice of early spring, with the remaining east wind. Of course, some people have gained a wealthy winter. They quietly left the Dongdu City, but before leaving, they still couldn't help looking back, hoping for the next arrival.

The only thing that made them feel a little bit bad is that Dongdu is going to war with Hebei. On that line, there are few soldiers and murderous auras everywhere, which is extremely dangerous. Hebei cannot pass by now!

Fortunately, by now, most of the Central Plains have approached peace. What makes people feel at ease is that the King of Xiliang personally led the expedition. Although he was unable to repel the invading Hebei army for the time being, Dou Jiande also failed to go further. Now the main battlefield is more concentrated in Liyang, Dongping and Changping. The first wave of attacks by the Hebei army has been successfully curbed by Xiliang King.

This reminds many people of the Battle of the Eastern Capital. At that time, Li Mi was also aggressive and his troops were at the city. However, under the defense of the King of Xiliang, the Wagang Army was stalemate and soon collapsed. Judging from the current situation, the Hebei Army was likely to repeat the same mistake.

More people believe that when they come again, the Sui Dynasty will restore the peace and prosperity of the country when Yang Jian was alive!

They were glad that the King of Xiliang was guarded by the Eastern Capital. They believed that since the King of Xiliang could turn the King of Dongdu into the world's largest trading capital, what else could he not do?

However, Xiao Buyi knew that he had not done much. Rather than saying that he would change Dongdu, he would restore Dongdu's old view.

Xiao Buyi is a modern man, so he values ​​trade very much. Only when the country is rich can the people be happy. He also knows that the country is rich can withstand the toss and consciences. When he developed national strength, he actually made reserves for future wars. He vigorously developed trade, not only in line with the borders, Bashu, but also intensified contact with the grasslands and overseas.

No matter where people like to fight, Xiao Buyi certainly understands this. Yang Guang has been in his career for more than ten years and actually emphasizes trade. Many channels have been developed by Yang Guang, but Yang Guang has always put face first. Today, Xiao Buyi has corrected this deviation. Dongdu’s foundation is still there, and the battle is gone, and it has brought unprecedented vitality and developed rapidly at an astonishing speed!

Sitting upright in the hall, Xiao Buyi discussed business matters with the ministers. When he saw the ministers' expressions of being either disappointed or excited, Xiao Buyi smiled slightly.

In the past, discussions on such matters were simply unpredictable, because when would the aristocratic families look down on merchants? But Dongdu has been fighting all year round. In order to save expenses, the salaries of the people have been reduced in the past few years. After the development of the land in recent years, the salaries of the people have gradually returned to their original state.

Everyone remembered the bitterness and thought about the sweetness, and finally understood the importance of commerce and trade. They were not as resistant as before. Therefore, although war seemed to be extremely destructive, sometimes it would have unexpected results without destruction.

The clan level was originally deeply rooted, but after Yang Guangdi was greatly weakened, and then after the war, the impact on the temple was far less than before. Of course, this phenomenon was limited to Xindu, Dongdu, and as for Guanlong, it was still deeply rooted.

Yang Guang was a very evil person to the world, but to Xiao Buyi, he was a very good person.

At least the canals, systems, systems, and economics and trade were all caused by Yang Guang. On these basis, Xiao Buyi achieved unprecedented development in the Sui Dynasty, and also won the officials of the Eastern Capital and praised the people of the world.

When Xiao Buyi summarized these principles, he listened to the ministers' reports.

The ministers in the palace stepped forward in sequence, and Du Cai, the Henan Daoxingtai, reported to the King of Xiliang, the population in Henan has gradually decreased, and there are too many counties. Some places are only a hundred miles apart, but several counties are set up; some places have sparse household registrations, but they are under the jurisdiction of two counties. As a result, there are many redundant officials in the county, the number of officials in the county has increased exponentially, the national expenditure has increased, the income from rent and transfer has decreased year by year, and nine out of ten sheep are shepherds. If this phenomenon is not eliminated, the national strength will be extremely wasteful."

Xiao Buyi asked, "What if you suggest?"

Du Cai said: "In the past, when Emperor Wen was still alive, he retained important official positions and abolished idle positions, merged small counties and counties. He also asked the King of Xiliang to abolish the county and become a prefecture to save expenses."

Xiao Buyi nodded, "The suggestion is good, but it is important. Please first ask Du Xingtai to report the details of the household registration of each county to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and let me consider the rest of the matter before giving a reply."

Du Cai bowed respectfully and felt a little happy. He thought to himself that Xiao Buyi and Emperor Wen seemed to be the blessing of the people and the joy of the country.

Another minister of the Ministry of Justice Xue Huaien came forward and said, "According to the King of Xiliang, as you ordered, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, Lord Yu, have reorganized the old laws and orders, and then abolished the 36 death penalty, 79 death penalty, 512 death penalty, and 512 death penalty. Only the provisions for the punishment of the crime were retained, totaling 480, totaling twelve volumes. Please also ask the King of Xiliang to review it."

Xiao Buyi nodded, "Thank you for your hard work, so the law can be handed over to the provincial government for review first."

Xue Huai'en retreated in response, and officials came forward to report the report, but many things were trivial matters. Xiao Buyi smiled bitterly in his heart, but he could only listen patiently. He used to hear that Yang Guang, a workaholic, only slept for one or two hours a day, and he was still a little unbelievable, but he saw that so many people reported the report, if they listened one by one, the day would pass soon, and it was really not easy to be a good emperor. This was just listening, not including reviewing the memorials, if they reviewed the dialect, I was afraid it would take a long time.

However, he also fought all year round and did not go to court every day, so many things accumulated.

Xiao Buyi was in power and the ministers were cautious, so he reported everything. After half an hour, Ma Zhou, the assistant minister of the Huangmen, came to report the matter.

Ma Zhou was promoted by Xiao Buyi, which was originally a record of the disciples' province, but it had been tested for several years. He had made remarkable achievements and had been promoted by Xiao Buyi to be promoted to Huangmen. He could be said to be an important official of the court.

Xiao Buyi is now promoting people without any restrictions. Anyway, it is ready to use. The smaller the resistance of the clan, the faster the development of the Dongdu will be.

Ma Zhou stepped forward and said, "I heard that the lords of the ancient sages were no better than those of Tang Yao and Yu Shun. Yu Shun appointed five ministers of Yu, Ji, Qi, Gao Yao and Bo Yi to handle government affairs. Tang Yao often asked the princes in charge of all directions for the country's governance. Both of them bowed their clothes and did nothing to govern the world. This is what is called hard work for seeking talents and easy governance. Recently, the weak ministers saw that the King of Xiliang was on a long expedition and had to pay attention to the way of governing the country and safeguarding the people. It was too hard."

Xiao Buyi sighed softly, "Mr. Ma's words are reasonable, I wonder if you have any solution?"

Others saw him lofty and glorious, but they didn't know that his time was almost cut and used in one day, and it was extremely painful. Conquest and governing the country took up a lot of his time, but the most serious point was that these things seemed to have no end.

Ma Zhou's words about Xiao Buyi's suffering can be said to be extremely concerned about him and has outstanding eyes.

After hearing Xiao Buyi's inquiry, Ma Zhou said respectfully: "I dare not say anything about the solution. However, when the Eastern Capital was initially decided, all the officials and ministers were in trouble. They were afraid of being punished and did not dare to decide on themselves when they were in trouble. They had to ask the King of Xiliang to make a decision. Too many requests, so that the King of Xiliang would also have to deal with matters such as construction and expenditure. In this way, the King of Xiliang would have to do things by himself, worrying about and recurring all day long, and the efficiency of handling affairs in the court was low. The King of Xiliang would only ask the King of Xiliang to issue an order to distinguish the severity of affairs. If it was a major matter of national security, it would naturally be decided by the King of Xiliang. The other trivial matters would be decided by the Chief of the Department. In this way, the King of Xiliang would not have to ask for the report in everything, and the King of Xiliang would not have to do everything personally."
To be continued...