After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, it was gradually divided into two factions, one faction headed by Dugu clan, and the other faction headed by the Yuan family, with the decline of the Yuan clan, the prosperous Dou clan became the leader of this faction, and the faction of Guanlong forces was also renamed the Dou faction, and Li Yuan's Longxi Li clan also belonged to the members of the Dou faction.

However, both the Dugu faction and the Dou faction have experienced the purge of the two emperors of the Sui Dynasty, especially under the violent attack of Emperor Wu Yang Guang, the powerful Guanlong group has declined. In the past, the Guanlong group monopolized the senior positions of the Western Wei Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and then used the power in their hands to obtain countless assets, land and industry all over the world, but after they overthrew the decision of Sui Yang who 'betrayed' the Guanlong group, the industry was inevitably poisoned by the war, and they shrank the industry to Guanlong and Bashu, which has always been relatively stable, and more than ninety percent of the fertile land in Guanlong was occupied by the Guanlong magnates, and all kinds of money-making businesses were monopolized by them.

The Tang Dynasty can quickly take root in Guanlong, calm and turbulent, is the Guanlong group joint support, if there is no Yang Dong who was born out of nowhere, Li Yuan can rely on the strong family foundation of the Guanlong Group, will all the heroes of life and death, but it is a pity that the Tang army was repeatedly defeated by the Sui army, the hearts of the people were scattered, and the Guanlong group that lost its roots was only the last back garden of Bashu, many people had already been afraid, and heard that the Sui Dynasty had the intention of reconciliation with the family, and sent people to listen, when Yang Tong had not made any statement, I couldn't wait to take the initiative to promise a lot.

Dou Cong, the second person in the Dou clan, came to visit the Dugu clan because the interests of the Dou faction led by the Dou clan were seriously threatened.

Although they also sent representatives to contact the Sui Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty emperor never gave a certain commitment, and after several discussions, Dou Liang and Dou Cong and other core members of the Dou faction agreed that Yang Tong was not satisfied with the price given by the Dou family, so he never expressed his position. However, they were not willing to be blackmailed by Yang Tong, and compared with Yang Tong, Li Yuan was more able to guarantee their interests, so they had high hopes for the battle of Sui and Tang, and did not send people to Luoyang to 'negotiate' again.

But with the defeat of Li Shi's militia at Zhuyang Pass and Li Yuan's retreat to Xiangyang, the heads of the Dou faction finally couldn't hold it back.

The Dou faction felt that they could not sit idly by, and decided to reconcile with the Dugu faction, merge the two factions into one, and talk to the Sui Dynasty with a complete Guanlong group, which would be more powerful and persuasive.

Dou Liang, the head of the Dou family, followed Li Yuan's side, and he lacked skills, so Dou Cong, the number two person, came to visit. By the way, listen to the tone of the Dugu faction and see if Li Tang is still saved, after all, they have invested too many interests in Li Tang, and they are unwilling to give up Li Tang until the last moment.

The door of the Dugu clan opened, Dugu Cheng walked out quickly, followed by Dugu Huaien, who served as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, it can be said that the two major figures of the Dugu clan have come out, which made Dou Cong feel a little flattered, and he hurriedly bowed and saluted. "It's glorious to bother the two uncles to greet them in person!"

Dugu Cheng and Dugu Huaien are both the grandsons of Dugu Xin, and they are extremely senior among the powerful people in Guanlong, and Dou Cong is older, but he also has to call the Dugu brothers uncles.

"Gong Dou personally came to the door, it is my Dugu family's honor, please!" Dugu Cheng does not regard himself as an elder, and a 'Dou Gong' gave Dou Cong enough face.

"Please!"

After a few words of greeting, they entered the mansion together and came to the living room of Dugu Mansion to receive important people, and the three of them sat down separately.

Dou Cong got straight to the point and said: "The saint retreats to recuperate, I don't know what the two uncles think?" ”

Dugu Cheng felt the anxiety and anxiety in Dou Cong's tone, but he also understood, after all, everyone was facing the same problem, and muttered: "It's not a secret, we were also talking about this matter just now, we think that the saint has lived in the deep palace for a long time, and he has been away from the battlefield for too long, and he doesn't know the strength of the Sui army, and the consequence of misjudging the situation is a hasty imperial expedition, and he doesn't know a series of consequences caused by the failure of the imperial expedition." ”

Dugu Huaien next to him sighed slightly, "Since Li Xiaogong was wiped out in Xiangcheng, the savages of the Tang Dynasty were panicked, and the prices were higher day by day, the saint should try to stabilize the people's hearts and boost morale, but he was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, and he was stubborn about the royal conquest, I really don't understand what he thinks, now it's okay, he ran back without fighting, and lost the territory that Li Xiaogong fought so hard for." Do you have to lose your fighting spirit and rebel to give up? I heard that many families are secretly dealing with Yang Tong now, and it is no wonder that others are doing this, the saint is really disappointing, not only does not have a policy to calm people's hearts, but also fails step by step. ”

As soon as the Dugu brothers introduced, they led the topic to the depths, they first wanted to know what the Dou family thought, otherwise, it would be easy to fall into the hands of others.

But Dou Cong is not stupid, naturally he will not follow the rhythm of the Dugu brothers, but he also knows that the other party will not take the initiative to secretly unite with the Sui Dynasty, after all, the two factions have been fighting for too long, and there is a deep guard against each other, he thought about it for a while, decided to put aside this topic for the time being, and then talk about it when trust is established, sighed and said: "My brother asked people to spread the word from the front, saying that it was the Holy Lord who reduced his forces, adopted the policy of closing the country and closing the country, moved the capital to Shu, and joined Wei to resist the Sui." ”

"Moving the capital? Is this serious? Dugu Cheng said movingly

Dou Cong nodded and said solemnly: "This is what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said is to build a stable rear." However, Xiangyang is not safe now, and it is normal for the saint to have the intention of moving the capital, but he is afraid that the courtiers will oppose it, so he let the prince test his brother like this, if everyone lets it go, the saint who was afraid of the Sui army will really move the capital to Bashu. ”

Although Dugu Cheng was extremely shocked, he knew very well that Li Yuan was not thinking about moving the capital, it was not a hot head, there must be a reason for this, the Dou family and the Dugu family have been fighting secretly for a long time, and the two sides have been fighting for the dominance of the Guanlong nobles, the Dou family may use the Dugu family as a gunman, before it is completely clarified, naturally he can't be reckless, and asked quietly: "What does Duke Dou mean is to concentrate the entire Guanlong magnates to oppose the relocation of the capital?" ”

Dou Cong nodded solemnly: "Bashu is the little capital left of our Guanlong magnates, if the capital of the Tang Dynasty is located there, the war will soon sweep in, what should we do at that time?" Even if the Sui army can't get in for the time being, then how can the saint meet the requirements of the Kwantung clan and the Jiangnan nobles? Isn't it sacrificing us? So what we mean is that the two factions of Guanlong should unite and take a clear attitude against the relocation of the capital. ”

"If that day comes, my Dugu clan will definitely follow up." Dugu Cheng also expressed his attitude, pondered for a while, and said: "It's just that this is too passive." ”

"Uncle Shi has a good plan?"

"I think that before the saint proposes to move the capital, in the name of national righteousness, he proposes to defend Jingxiang!"

Dou Cong's eyes lit up and praised: "This method is very good!" ”

"So what's going to happen?"

"I'll see it!"

Dugu Cheng and Dou Cong looked at each other and smiled. I know that this cooperation seems to be insignificant, but it is actually of great significance, and it is the first step for the two factions of Guan Long to re-enter the cooperation, and it is the starting point for building trust.

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The imperial palace of Xiangyang was named Taiji Palace by Li Yuan, Taiji Palace, Wude Palace, Chengqian Palace are all available, and even the Xiangyang City Gate is the same as Daxing, which is the most obvious manifestation of his obsession with Daxing, and it also hints at the Guanlong magnates, he Li Yuan has always had the ambition to recover Guanzhong.

In the imperial study of the Wude Palace, Li Yuan sat on the imperial couch, his face was extremely gloomy, he never dreamed that he had only asked the prince to reveal a stable Bashu tone to Dou Liang yesterday, and today he responded as soon as he arrived in Xiangyang, and this response was so tough and strong.

On the imperial case in front of him, there are eighty-three books of songs, which are the eighty-three Guanlong aristocratic family heads collectively sparse, and the content is to ask the imperial court to concentrate all its forces to defend Jingxiang, one and two of them are impassioned, and all of them are iron-clad.

Staring at the tall stack of 'Ask for your life for the country' in front of him, Li Yuan's eyes flashed with irrepressible anger, of course he knew what these people meant, he was afraid that their interests in Bashu would be impacted, and he resolutely disagreed with moving the capital to Shu, and it was fake to defend Xiangyang.

"Who are these loyal ministers, all of them are clearly rebellious ministers and thieves, and they dare to hold public opinion hostage to threaten me, and they don't want to live anymore?" Li Yuan's anger could no longer be suppressed, he suddenly got up, pulled out the giant sword, slashed at the stack of songs, and roared angrily: "Do they really think how great they are? With a little support, you can ride on my head and be powerful? I am the lord of the world, have they figured it out? ”

Li Yuan was angry in his heart, but at the same time he felt panicked, Li Tang's foundation was Guan Long's magnates, and it was precisely because of the full support of the relevant Long magnates that Li Tang could grow rapidly and coexist with Yang Dong's Sui Dynasty to this day.

Although Guanzhong has been lost now, Bashu is still a Guanlong magnate, and more importantly, most of the generals and colonels in the army are the children of Guanlong magnates, so the importance of Guanlong magnates to the Li Tang Dynasty is self-evident.

Li Yuan knew that moving the capital to Bashu must be supported by the Guanlong magnates, but now he did not move the capital, and he didn't even mention the word moving the capital, just saying that he stabilized Bashu and ran it into an iron bucket, which actually led to the Guanlong nobles to be held hostage by the righteousness of the soldiers' deaths, and their return was not only these eighty-three books, but also encouraged the people of Xiangyang to discuss this retreat, and the rolling public opinion directly smeared him Li Yuan as a timid man.

"Could it be that the Guanlong magnates have decided to abandon the Tang Dynasty?"

This flash of thought made Li Yuan fall into a cold cave, and then thought of the fact that various families sent representatives to Luoyang, and most of his anger suddenly disappeared at once, and cold sweat rolled down.

Feeling Li Yuan's rising killing intent, Li Jiancheng on the side said in a low voice: "Father, the two factions of Guanlong and the powerful are working together to make trouble, and the power is huge, if you want to weaken it, you need to think about it in the long run." The reason why Yang Guang made the people betray their relatives is that they are in a hurry and are in a hurry, and they are the so-called lessons from the past and the future, and we must learn from Yang Guang's lesson. ”

With a 'bang', Li Yuan kicked down the imperial case, and for a long time, he said hatefully: "Of course I know that I can't rush for quick success, so I have been tolerating piles of waste and mediocre people stealing high positions, but they have gone too far this time, and they have come to hijack public opinion and interfere in my army deployment, if they continue to condone them, they may overthrow me as the emperor next time." ”

Li Jiancheng sighed: "It should be that they were forced by the Sui army's step-by-step advance, causing them to be disappointed in the imperial court, and at the same time they were afraid that the Sui army would enter Shu, which would cause their interests to be damaged, so they used this tough way to warn us." ”

Li Yuan's face sank like water, he knew that the power of the Guanlong magnates was extremely powerful in the military, the court, and the locality, especially after the loss of Guanzhong, the annual payment of money and grain by the Guanlong magnates had accounted for seventy or eighty percent of the annual taxes of the imperial court, and they had the strength and confidence to call the table.

After a long time, he said slowly: "It's not that Yang Guang can't eliminate the Guanlong magnates, but Yang Guang knows that the middle and high-level generals of the army are the children, protégés, and former officials of the Guanlong magnates, only then did he have the order of the extremely desolate hall, if he really wanted to destroy Goguryeo, which would be Yang Tong's turn to become famous. In the same way, I can also kill these Guanlong magnates, but I can't eliminate their influence in the army, and my Tang Dynasty has only been established for a few years, and the foundation is still very weak, plus we are in a bad situation, if we forcibly eliminate it, the price is too great, we can't afford the slightest risk of civil strife, and at least more than seventy percent of the county guards, county officials, county orders, and county officials are their people, once they are strongly suppressed, I am afraid that a civil war will break out immediately. Even they will throw themselves into the Sui Dynasty, which lifted the ban on the family, so that we will be completely finished. ”

Li Jiancheng nodded and said, "Father, what should we do?" ”

"As you said, weakening the Guanlong magnates must be considered in the long run, but the policy of going south cannot be implemented, you personally go to the Dou family to announce the decree, I want to canonize Dou Liang as the Yizhou Dao Xingtai Shangshu Order, let him be in charge of Bashu government affairs,"

"Erchen understands!" Li Jiancheng praised in his heart, in this way, the two factions of Guanlong will break up because of the interests of Bashu. I was amazed by my father's power tricks.

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