In the Battle of Guanzhong, the news of Li Yuan's defeat and retreat to the south soon spread all over the world, and the wolf of the north once again showed its sharp fangs to the world.

The Guanlong elite group that nearly 100 years of Panhuan Guanzhong, which caused the Northern Zhou Dynasty to perish, made the two emperors of the Sui Dynasty Wenwu unable to sleep and eat, and then pushed Li Yuan to replace the Sui in Guanzhong, was defeated by Yang Dong, and the power in Guanzhong also collapsed, and the tenants, private soldiers, slaves, and domestic servants of the Guanlong magnates were registered in the official register by the Sui Dynasty. The statistics made the world collectively silent. Because the population of Guanzhong after registration, on the basis of the official records of the Tang Dynasty, there is a shocking data of more than 6.8 million people.

In other words, the population of the Great Sui at its peak was not more than 56 million ding, but more than 65 million, because in addition to the Guanlong elite group, large and small families in Guandong, Bashu, Jingyang, Jiangnan and other places all hid the population and sought to seize the 'ding tax' that originally belonged to the imperial court. If all of them were clarified, it would be an unimaginably large amount.

At this point, the princes of all walks of life finally knew the composition and source of the more than 20 million people under the rule of Yang Tong, and accepted the displaced people from all over the world as a part, and the people who were already living in Ji, You, He, and Yong were the main body, but they were hidden by the big families and were not recorded in the official register before.

The large increase in population has invisibly made Yang Dong's prestige even worse, not only Li Yuan, who was bitten and beaten by Yang Tong, felt the pressure, but also Wang Shichong, Li Mi, and Dou Jiande, who bordered Yang Tong, also felt the great pressure from Yang Dong at the same time.

The rapid increase in population and territory has made Yang Dong a veritable number one prince in the world, because before Guanzhong, the population and territory controlled by Li Yuan were not weaker than Yang Dong, so the theory of the first prince in the world has been oscillating between Yang Dong and Li Yuan, and because Yang Dong has no family advocacy, he has been sung down.

What about Li Yuan? Awesome, very powerful. He has more than 50 counties, except for a few counties in Liangzhou and Hehuang, which have been repeatedly beaten, the rest have hardly been affected by the war, and the population under his rule is not less than that of Yang Dong, and he also has the support of the Longquan group, the Kwantung Shi clan, and the Southern Shi clan, and in terms of momentum, he is only stronger than Yang Dong.

And the end of the Battle of Guanzhong made the first prince in the world no longer disputed, Li Yuan lost seventeen counties and more than 10 million people, and his strength was seriously reduced, but the position of the second prince was still retained.

As for the third, it oscillated between Xiao Mi and Li Mi.

Why? Xiao Mill's sphere of influence extends to Jiujiang in the east, the Three Gorges in the west, Jiaozhi in the south, and the Hanshui in the north, with 400,000 elite soldiers, dominating the south, but his power is pieced together from a number of anti-kings with different surnames. In addition, Xiao Mian is narrow-minded, intolerant, and extremely suspicious. first sent Zhang Xiu to kill Dong Jingzhen, who was loyal to him. Xiao Milling promoted Zhang Xiu to Shang Shuling, and not long after, Xiao Milling killed Zhang Xiu again. His generals who have made great contributions will definitely die, and how many of his subordinates are willing to serve him for such a monarch? The ministers and old generals were all suspicious and afraid, and they used moderation to protect themselves, and Xiao Mo was getting weaker and weaker.

Although Li Mi said that the territory, population, and wealth are not as good as Xiao Mi, his army is also a trilogy system, many generals have their own armies, like Zuo Xiaoyou, Meng Rang, He Xiaode, Chai Xiaohe, Chen Zhiluo, Li Wenxiang and others have their own troops, more like Meng Rang has more than 20,000 people, and less like Chen Zhiluo has 5,000 people, but Li Mi has the prestige to deter these people, as long as he is alive, these people will not be able to jump out of the palm of his hand, and Li Mi is not like Xiao Mi who is in a hurry to take back military power, therefore, the Wei army can basically be of one heart and one mind, Therefore, in terms of cohesion, it is by no means comparable to Xiao Milling.

Today's Yang Dong is the first in terms of population, territory, and the number of troops, as long as he destroys Li Rail, who is still breathing, then he is the lord of the north, and after that, he will develop the interior without worries and strengthen himself, at that time, who is his opponent among the princes of the south? Also because of the huge pressure of Yang Tong's arrival, all the princes worked hard, hoping that the south would be unified in their own hands, and then with a complete 'Southern Dynasty' and Yang Dong to decide the lord of the world.

Geographically, Yang Tong is equivalent to cutting off the princes of the Central Plains from the grassland, which doesn't sound too serious, and even a good thing, after all, the grassland alien race has always been the confidant of the Central Plains, and now someone has attracted firepower, isn't it good?

No, of course not.

First, the Eastern Turks led by Jieli Khan have been defeated by Yang Tong and have no strength to threaten the Central Plains.

The second is that Yang Tong's tall, sturdy Great Wall from the east of Nanshan City on the coast of Liaodong Sea has been repaired to Wuwei County, and the next time it will be repaired to Juyanze in Dunhuang, because this is still the territory of Li Rail, so it has not been started, but the materials used in the new Great Wall are built in Yinshan, once Li Rail is eliminated, then, the Great Wall will extend to the west. The new Great Wall is six zhang high and three zhang wide, all made of stones, extremely strong, how can the Turks who have no large siege equipment get in?

Third, it is also the most unfavorable aspect of the Central Plains, because they have no strong enemy in the grassland, but they have to face the threat of Yang Dong, and they have lost the connection with the grassland, and the high-quality war horse is equivalent to being directly monopolized by Yang Dong, as long as Yang Tong cuts off the output of the war horse, in the future world war, it will be difficult for the princes to form cavalry.

However, it is not this that really worries Li Yuan, Li Mi and other princes, if Yang Tong is desperate and actively preparing for war at this time, Li Yuan and they will not be too worried. If Yang Tong continues to fight, firstly, it will attract the princes of the world to join forces to attack, and secondly, it will also have great pressure on his internal economy.

Because Yang Tong is not the little person who was bombed to Jizhou in the past, but the overlord who dominates the north, to put it mildly, the next war is equivalent to a contest between several countries, and at this level, it is not just the army that fights.

At this time, what is fighting is the comprehensive national strength such as territory, population, economy, logistics, army, weapons, and culture, rather than a single army struggle. Therefore, if Yang Tong continues to actively prepare for war at this moment, preparing to fight a war to dominate the world in the coming year, everyone will be very happy, because in that case, Yang Tong will be the enemy of the princes of the world, if Yang Tong is defeated by everyone, the biggest beneficiary is undoubtedly Li Yuan, with Li Yuan's current strength, he can completely pocket all Yang Tong's previous efforts.

However, it backfired, after Yang Tong captured Guanzhong, he not only made a defensive posture, but also disarmed a lot, and made a situation of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, that is to say, everyone was not disabled, and Yang Tong would not go south. In the end, even if someone dominates the South, will a broken South be an opponent of a recuperated North? The answer is frustrating. What's even more frustrating is that Yang Tong, the largest, is the youngest prince, who is less than twenty years old, at least has a lifespan of thirty years, and thirty years later, even if the princes are not killed, they will die of old age. Are his descendants comparable to Yang Tong? What's even more tragic is that there are still a few people who have no queen, such as Dou Jiande, Li Mi, and Du Fuwei, these three buddies have a lot of concubines, but they can't give birth to children, and what about Xiao Miao? There is only one daughter. Li Yuan has many sons, but there are many sons and many sons, and when he hangs up, infighting will be inevitable. Before dominating the world, infighting was undoubtedly the most fatal thing. The most typical Yuan Shao, with a huge foundation, was defeated by the infighting of his two sons, and then let Cao Cao take it away. In short, those who don't have sons feel anxious, and those who have sons are not much better.

Compared with Yang Tong's achievements in Guanzhong, what the family family cares about is Yang Tong's ruthless methods towards Guanlong's magnates, although Yang Tong is not the first time to do this, but compared to Guan Long, who has hundreds of families, those families in Bingzhou are really much smaller, and the top ones are the Taiyuan Wang family, Taiyuan Wen family, and Wenxi Pei family. The two are not at all the same grade.

It's just that when the clans were about to criticize Yang Tong again, they found speechlessly that their abuse and criticism had been used a long, long time ago, and they could not have even the slightest influence on Yang Tong. Because from the beginning to the end, people treat the family as a waste and abandon it.

No matter how happy they scolded, the people under Yang Tong's rule just don't bird you, they should support Yang Dong, or support as always, everyone takes the Yellow River as the boundary, as if they are living in two worlds, this cruel reality makes them ready to come to another wave of verbal criticism and writing against the family and the family is boring.

It seems that for so many years, they have been singing a one-man show, even if you scold your throat, people should still do something, the people's hearts are becoming more and more stable day by day, and the power is getting stronger day by day.

Before, there were still many clans clamoring to crusade against Yang Tong, but when Zhang Zhenzhou's sailors marched into the Yellow River to demonstrate and make a dry posture, these voices disappeared strangely, and the various clans were so frightened that they planned to move out of the Central Plains.

Since ancient times, the great families have not been afraid of war, because troubled times and war can allow them to strengthen themselves in investment, and can allow them to have more say after the establishment of the new dynasty, and the Guanlong magnates are the most typical example. But when the war turned against the family, these people coaxed it.

They feel that if they don't fight, they may not be better than they are now, but Yang Dong doesn't give them the opportunity to bet on both sides now, once they lose the battle, their fate may not be better than that of Guan Long's magnates, Yang Dong only needs one crime of rebellion, which is enough to make them bankrupt and ruined. After all, everyone is indeed against the Sui Dynasty, and they want to kill Yang Tong, and Yang Dong is against your whole family, which is reasonable and legal.

Up to now, the family family has reluctantly discovered a fact, Yang Tong is more ruthless than Yang Guang, when Yang Guang was alive, he just wanted to weaken the strength of the family to the point that it could not threaten the imperial court. And Yang Tong doesn't give everyone a way to live, and he is not afraid of the family's rebellion, because the world is already rotten, and no matter how rotten it is, it won't go anywhere.

When the family found that all their advantages were not advantages, they found that the means they relied on to survive and made the emperors of all dynasties helpless were invalid.

This kind of cognition, in exchange for the collective silence of the family, compared with the vital interests, the loss of the Guanlong magnates is insignificant, after all...... The loss is the Guanlong magnates, not themselves, isn't it?

But if Yang Tong dominates the world, where should he go? The families are worried about their future. You can't sit still, so what? It is best for everyone to unite to support a prince who can stand up to Yang Dong.

An eerie calm came over with the end of the battle of Guanzhong, and everyone paid vigilant attention to the movements of the major princes.

In addition to Li Yuan retreating to Fangling County to lick his wounds, Li Mi was busy cleaning up Dou Jiande, who was stubbornly resisting in Qingzhou, and Xiao Mi was also launching a counterattack against Lin Shihong. On the contrary, Yang Tong did not take the next step, but rectified the people's livelihood and operated Guanzhong, and all Turkic and Goguryeo slaves were transferred to Guanzhong to build roads.

Yang Tong didn't care about the reaction of the southern princes and families at all, he handled official business in Shenwu Palace every day, and played with a son and a daughter in his spare time, and his wrinkled little face was now pink and tender, like jelly, very cute.

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