"Can't guess!" The three words naturally expose Pei Lian's cautiousness in dealing with the world. But these three words can also have many interpretations.

Li Yuan was silent for a moment.

Pei Lin asked, "If he is ambitious, why should he refuse Liu Zhongzhi?" ”

Li Yuan instantly understood.

Although Liu Zhongzhi's appetite is not small, it is not worth mentioning at all compared with Jiangshan Sheji. Moreover, the northwest is bitterly cold, although there is a lot of land, but it is very barren, Li Yuan assigned Chen Ying nominally under the jurisdiction of the place, equivalent to the Han Dynasty Lingwu County, but even in the strong Han period, the population of Lingwu County is only more than 200,000, with the principle of ten households for one ding, Chen Ying controls that little population, raising 5,000 soldiers is the limit, even if there is ambition, no matter how big the ambition is, what can it be?

At this time, Pei Lin said again: "Even if Chen Ying is ambitious, his age is too young!" ”

Hearing this, Li Yuan was completely relieved.

Chen Ying is now weak, and in this era, there is a saying that he has no hair on his mouth and is not able to do things well. Even if there are heroes and heroes, they will not serve Chen Ying, there are no soldiers and generals, there are no capable ministers and strategists to help, Chen Ying wants to do the sky to stab, even if he has the heart, he will be powerless.

Li Yuan boarded the jade wheel and walked towards the East Palace.

Looking at Li Yuan's back, Pei Lin smiled bitterly.

Li Yuan was very suspicious, but Pei Lin knew that Datang didn't have the strength to toss at the moment. Stability is overwhelming, not to mention that Chen Ying is not opposed, even if it is really reversed, he must pinch his nose and admit it, because Datang really has no way to establish a person who is helpless even for a powerful Turk.

Although Pei Lin and Li Yuan have a very good personal relationship, it does not mean that their ideas and thoughts are the same.

As the saying goes, the ass determines the head, because the two are in different positions, and the angle of thinking about the problem is naturally different. Li Yuan is the emperor, and the starting point for his consideration of things has always been the Jiangshan Sheji of the Li family. As long as it threatens his dominance, he will not hesitate to get rid of this person.

In the process of competing for the world with Dou Jiande and Wang Shichong, Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande were defeated and surrendered to Li Tang one after another. However, the treatment of the two is very different. Although Dou Jiande was defeated and surrendered, Li Yuan beheaded Dou Jiande without hesitation, because Dou Jiande was benevolent and won the hearts of the people. This is a time bomb for Li Tang.

After Wang Shichong was escorted down to Chang'an, Li Yuan let him go, although he was killed by Dugu Xiude in the end, in fact it was a personal vendetta and had nothing to do with Li Yuan. Li Yuan only let Wang Shichong go, mainly because Wang Shichong abused torture and lost people's hearts. Even if Wang Shichong is allowed to return to the Eastern Capital, he will not even be able to recruit the old department. There is no threat to Li Tang, so he can live.

But Pei Lian is thinking about different issues from Li Yuan, he is thinking about the problems of the society and people's livelihood, Chen Ying is a good general, if he is forced to rebel by Li Yuan, it will definitely serve as a bad example. Who will dare to surrender to Li Tang in the future?

Therefore, even if Chen Ying really has anti-intentions, as long as he does not officially raise the anti-flag, Pei Lin does not agree to strangle Chen Ying in the cradle. Because in this way, it will aggravate the process of Li Tang's unification of the world. If it really came time for Chen Ying to rebel, Li Tang's army would be justified and restrained in suppressing Chen Ying, and the righteousness would not be lost, and the people of the world would have nothing to say.

If you want to say the biggest difference between Li Yuan and Pei Lian, Pei Lian is only black-bellied, while Li Yuan is black from the heart to the outside.

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Just when Liu Zhongzhi left Lingzhou and returned to Chang'an, Chen Ying was still like a person who had nothing to do, and he could live as he pleased. But it worried Zhang Shigui, Zhang Huaiwei, Liu Tong, Duan Shigan, Ryazan and others, who dreamed that the imperial army would kill Lingzhou, or declare Chen Ying a rebel.

However, what scared everyone did not happen in the end.

Chen Ying still led the troops to exercise and train normally, and from time to time he led the cavalry to swing around Huaiyuan, where the Turkic sweat tent was located.

Although Chen Ying had not carried out a large-scale attack on Huaiyuan, Chu Luo Khan was frightened.

He made up his mind that as long as the spring was open and the weather became warmer, he would immediately lead the Turks to the north, even if he froze to death in Mobei, he would definitely not come to Huaiyuan.

It's scary.

Although the number of lancers led by Chen Ying was small, it was only a thousand and a half. However, no matter how many cavalry the Turks sent to drive them away, they were all meat buns and dogs, and there was no return. Now in the entire Huaiyuan City, the Turks are in panic.

The right guard of the East Palace led the generals He Yuejing, Gao Yunquan, Lu Decao, Wei Wenzhong and others, and Chen Ying did not let them return to Chang'an immediately, but took them for daily and nightly drills. Of course, Chen Ying is still quite grateful for Li Jiancheng's kindness. He also didn't want that eight years later, if the Tang Dynasty continued to operate according to the original historical trajectory, the Xuanwumen Revolution would eventually be irreversible, helping Li Jiancheng train a professional and regular army, so that Li Jiancheng would not lose too ugly.

Chen Ying has no conceit that he will become the winner or loser of this fate game, he just wants to do his best and obey the destiny of heaven. In fact, before the Xuanwu Gate, it was useless to remind Li Jiancheng. Wei Zheng also reminded Li Jiancheng more than once that if he wanted to be stable, he would kill King Qin, but unfortunately, Li Jiancheng didn't listen to it at all.

At this time, Chen Ying trained the generals led by the right guard of the East Palace as ordinary soldiers, and handed them some military skills in later generations, although this knowledge was only some microscopic and tactical things. But there's no denying that these things are very important.

On February 27 of the second year of Wude, Chen Ying was blocked in the governor's mansion by Ryazan, Zhang Huaiwei, Zhang Shigui, Liu Tong, Bi Xin and other core personnel.

Chen Ying looked at the people who looked uneasy, and said with a smile: "Why, I finally can't help it!" ”

Liu Tong really didn't understand Chen Ying's actions in this series of events, if he really wanted to stand on his own, he should kill Liu Zhongzhi, cut off the news of Chang'an, and then form an alliance with Liang Shidu and the Turks respectively to not invade each other. Then fully prepare to meet the Tang army. However, Chen Ying not only let Liu Zhongzhi return to Chang'an, but everything was as usual, neither preparing materials and equipment, nor preparing for war.

"General, are you ready to be killed?" Liu Tong couldn't help but ask.

"Hold back?" Chen Yingdao: "How do you say this? ”

"Liu Zhongzhi should have climbed to Chang'an even if he climbed at this time, with his character, he would definitely try his best to arrange the general!" Liu Tong said solemnly: "Li Tang is the lord of the country, ......"

Chen Ying coughed and said, "It's Your Majesty!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Liu Tong continued: "If Your Majesty mobilizes a large army to attack Lingzhou, will the general bear to watch the corpses of the brothers separate? ”

Chen Yingdao: "Why did the Tang army attack Lingzhou, are they full of food?" ”

Zhang Shigui said: "Is the general sure that the Tang army will not come to attack Lingzhou?" ”

"You guys...... It's all too much! Chen Ying sneered and said, "Fighting Lingzhou, is it just Liu Zhong's straightforward words?" If we really killed Liu Zhongzhi at the beginning, we would really tear our faces, but Liu Zhongzhi fled back to Chang'an, if General Ben had the intention to rebel, how could he be allowed to flee back to Chang'an? Not to mention...... Li Yuan is not confused yet! ”

Everyone looked at each other, and it was really difficult to understand the origin of Chen Ying's confidence.

In fact, although Chen Ying is not proficient in the way of power. He just analyzes the problem from the perspective of human nature, Li Yuan is suspicious by nature, and he is good at selling his imperial power skills, so Chen Ying deliberately provoked Liu Zhongzhi, scared Liu Zhongzhi away, and then united Yang Ze and Du Shanguo.

To say that Yang Ze and Du Shanguo are both loyal ministers, but it is precisely because they are loyal ministers to the Li Tang court that they know more about Chen Ying's energy in Lingzhou, once Chen Ying rebels, Li Tang's northwest will be in chaos, and Chen Ying is like a sharp knife at this time, pressing on Li Tang's waist and eyes. As long as Chen Ying exerts his strength, Li Tang will definitely receive a fatal blow.

After receiving Chen Ying's assurance, Li Tang would not send troops to attack him, and he would never pull the flag to rebel, Yang Ze and Du Shanguo submitted a recital to Li Yuan in accordance with Chen Ying's intentions.

With Yang Ze and Du Shanguo as endorsements, Li Yuan had a preconceived idea that Liu Zhongzhi was unable to ask for bribes, so he became angry and framed Chen Ying. Hearing Chen Ying's explanation, Liu Tong was secretly delighted.

Although Chen Ying was young, he did not lose his mind. At this time, their power is still very weak, and now they occupy Lingzhou as long as they have a good life and business for a few years, and sit back and watch Li Tang compete with Dou Jiande of Hebei and Wang Shichong of Luoyang for the world.

Liu Tong seemed to be about to cry, he was not moved by Chen Ying's words, with his IQ, he was not like this, he felt that he had really met such a master! With such an unfavorable situation, it can be reversed in a blink of an eye, and in one fell swoop it has become a far-sighted plan to lay the foundation of the military and the country!

For a moment, he was full of confidence in the future of Lingzhou. is full of admiration for Chen Ying, but he feels that he can be a courtier under the wings of such a master, which is really a great blessing for his three lives!

Zhang Shigui said: "Now, what should we do next?" ”

Chen Yingdao: "Build a blast furnace and repair an iron workshop!" ”

Chen Ying deliberately put his roots in Lingzhou, and he was not too worried about arousing the vigilance and vigilance of others, mainly because Lingzhou was at the forefront of the Turkic invasion, and no one with a little ambition would set his sights on Lingzhou. Moreover, although Lingzhou is a large area, due to the scarcity of rainfall, the development of cultivated land has limited results.

Even if the restrictions of terrain and power conflicts are not considered, Lingzhou is in charge of six states, and the converted area is about 20,000 tons, but more than ninety percent is a thin field that can harvest seven buckets if one bucket is planted. With 20,000 dumps of land, it is already the limit to be able to produce more than one million stone of grain a year. The prerequisite is that Chen Ying should have a population of more than 100,000.

However, the population of Lingzhou is too small now, and Lingzhou has such a limited productive force, even if it is well developed, raising more than 200,000 people and organizing an army of more than 5,000 people is already the limit.

However, Chen Ying did not plan to build Lingzhou into a grain production base, but an industrial base. The surrounding area of Lingzhou is rich in coal and steel resources, and it can be built into an industrial town with coal and steel as the main industry and the three salt fields in Lingzhou as the foundation, forming coal, iron and salt as the first major industries.

Liu Tong and the others were stunned when they learned that Chen Ying actually had such a big plan. Bi Xin said: "But, manager, no matter how reclamation is made, we also build factories, but the population is too small, and we don't have so many people!" ”

"This? Chen Ying thought for a while and said: "Population, in this way, Liu Tong, you go to the Turks and tell them to release the Han slaves they plundered back to me, otherwise the chief will lead troops to ask for people!" ”