Chapter 149 The Problem of the Root of Life

Chang'an, inside the Manna Temple. When Li Yuan received the good news from Hangu Pass, it was already late at night. There is no way, Hangu Pass is almost five hundred miles away from Chang'an, this is still the territory of the Tang Kingdom, due to the continuous grain roads of the army, the messenger has countless horses to change, all the way non-stop, horses and people do not stop, all the way to gallop.

As quickly as possible, he delivered the battle report of Hangu Pass to Li Yuan. Li Yuan looked at the battle report in front of him in disbelief: "Half an hour to break the Hangu Pass? How is this possible? ”

Pei Lin didn't see the battle report, and said with a leisurely smile: "What's impossible about this, if Zheng Jun flees without a fight, let alone half an hour, a pillar of incense can also take down Hangu Pass!" ”

"Kill the enemy...... 644 were killed and 1,861 were wounded. Two thousand four hundred and fourteen prisoners! Li Yuan's voice trembled, and he said dumbfoundedly: "Self-inflicted a light injury? …… How is this possible? ”

Pei Lin said solemnly: "These generals are getting more and more courageous, and they falsely report their exploits...... How dare they be so crazy that they really think we are stupid? It's time to punish them! ”

Li Yuan shook his head and said, "This is not their battle report!" ”

"Not a war report?"

"That's??"

"A secret report from the guards of the left prison!" Li Yuan raised the secret letter in his hand and said: "The secret report of the guards of the left prison is still quite credible, they really don't dare to deceive me!" ”

Hearing the secret report from the guard of the left prison, Pei Lin stopped talking. The left prison guard is Li Yuan's ears and eyes, even Pei Lin has never turned a blind eye to the affairs of the left prison guard, vaguely, Pei Lin knows that the left prison doorman is very capable and has a wide range of channels, although it is not said that it is pervasive, at least the news that Li Yuan wants to hear, Li Yuan will definitely be able to get it.

Of course, the left prison gate did not need to show credit to Li Yuan for Chen Ying, and the news was naturally reliable. Pei Lin didn't know what to say at this time: "Hangu Pass, how could it be broken in half an hour?" ”

Li Yuan didn't answer, and handed the secret letter in his hand to Pei Lian, Pei Lin unfolded the secret letter and looked at it, and the doubts on his face became even thicker: "Sulfur, aconitum grass, flame nitrate, croton, wolf poison, tung oil, charcoal, arsenic, yellow wax, these things are known to the ministers, but what is this asphalt?" ”

Li Yuan shook his head and said, "I don't know, I think this asphalt is the direct reason why Chen Ying can capture Hangu Guancheng!" Speaking of this, Li Yuan said to Yu Yanzhang, the general of the Left Prison Gate: "Find a way to get the things on this, and if you don't find out how Chen Ying broke the Hangu Pass in half an hour, I really can't feel at ease!" ”

In fact, Chen Ying used a bit too much force, breaking through the eighteen passes of Yanmen Pass in one day, breaking through the world's first male pass, Yanmen Pass, and then breaking through the world's second male pass, Hangu Pass, within half an hour. Yanmen Pass is good to say, it has been broken more or less in history, but since the establishment of Hangu Pass in the period of Qin Mugong, it has only been conquered once, and that time was also because Qin could not resist the Qin State has many generals and generals, and it has been attrition for a year and a half, and it was forced to admit defeat.

However, Chen Ying actually broke through Hangu Pass in half an hour and left more than one-third of Wang Renze's command in Hangu Pass, which does not mean that Wang Renze has no heart to resist, but cannot resist at all. An army, even if it is an elite soldier, as long as it suffers one-third casualties, it will definitely have no combat effectiveness.

Yanmen Pass and Hangu Pass were conquered by Chen Ying one after another, so is there still a Guancheng in the world that can stop Chen Ying?

Chen Ying, who was far away in Xin'an County, actually didn't know that he had already scared Li Yuan by breaking through Hangu Pass in such a short period of time.

Just when Yu Yanzhang was about to order the secret agents of the left prison guards to wait for the opportunity to steal Chen Ying's secret weapon to break through Hangu Guancheng, Pei Lin suddenly said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, why don't you directly issue an order and let General Chen dedicate this secret weapon to Your Majesty?" If this is the case, what other city in the world is not to be defeated? ”

Li Yuan was stunned, and immediately understood Pei Lian's intentions. Pei Lin directly asked Li Yuan to directly order Chen Ying, in fact, the unpaid is not a temptation, as long as Chen Ying is willing to hand over this Zhenguo weapon to Li Yuan, this shows that Chen Ying has no dissent, and at the same time, any city in front of Li Yuan will no longer be an insurmountable problem.

However, if Chen Ying disagrees, or takes care of other things, or perhaps prevaricates on other grounds, this shows that Chen Ying is very problematic.

Li Yuan said with a smile: "Supervisor Pei is really unparalleled in wisdom, so it's good, just use Supervisor Pei...... Someone is coming! ”

"Your Majesty, in fact, it is better not to give this holy decree!" Pei Lin smiled and said: "Your Majesty only needs to send one person, and the old minister is sure that Chen Ying will definitely present such a sharp weapon with both hands!" ”

"Oh!" Li Yuan was stunned when he heard this, and raised his eyebrows: "You mean Sanniang?" ”

"Exactly!" Pei Lin nodded and said: "Chai Shaoxin is mourning, the Hou Mo Chen clan and the Longyou Li clan are both the Eight Great Pillars of the Western Wei Dynasty, and they are the right ones in Yemen, besides, the power of the Lingnan Hou Mo Chen clan is not small!" ”

Li Yuan nodded.

Hou Mo Chen Ying was the governor of Guizhou in the Sui Dynasty and was also in charge of the military of 17 states. Although it is said that the Lingdi states are vast and sparsely populated, the output is limited. However, it is undeniable that Hou Mo Chen is the local overlord. Hundreds of large and small fangs, Yue people and feudal seedlings in seventeen states are all subordinate to the Hou Mo Chen clan, and the marriage with the Hou Mo Chen clan can be said to be a win-win situation.

If in the past, Li Yuan looked down on Chen Ying, it was because Chen Ying was from a humble background, and if he married the dignified emperor's daughter to a pariah, I am afraid that he would become the laughing stock of the world.

But now, who dares to say that Chen Ying is from a low background?

Hou Mo Chen is a long-term general, many generals. In particular, the four brothers and two sons of Hou Mo Chen Chong, including the current grandson Hou Mo Chen Ying and Hou Mo Chen Qianhui, Hou Mo Chen Qianhui also shined in the Pingchen Campaign. When he was old, Hou Mo Chen Qianhui was also a rare tiger general, even if this tiger was old, but who dared to underestimate him?

What's more critical is that the Hou Mo Chen clan now has a Chen Ying, Chen Ying's courage is far inferior to his ancestor Hou Mo Chen Chong, but his resourcefulness and training skills are much stronger than Hou Mo Chen Chong.

With Chen Ying as his son-in-law and Captain Duma, he will definitely not wronged Princess Pingyang, which is naturally a rare good thing for Li Yuan. After all, one more general in Datang can block one member alone, and it can also make Datang open up the territory and become more smooth.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan said to Chen Qi, the regular attendant beside him: "Send someone to spread my message, and Princess Xuanpingyang will meet you!" ”

"Slaves obey!"

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Chen Ying sent four places to seize the fifteen cities under the rule of Henan, and Chen Ying had already strictly ordered that all armies and generals should not cross the border. Although Li Shimin is relatively generous, the fat meat in Luoyang is Li Shimin's, and if he grabs Li Shimin's meat to eat, the result will definitely not be good.

Chen Ying also knew that after eliminating Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande, Li Tang would be invincible in the Central Plains, and at the same time, the internal struggle would be hot, the government and opposition parties would fight against each other, and the friends would compete fiercely, and it would be difficult to tie others to the boat without enough interests.

Chen Ying founded a steel mill, built a horse-drawn carriage, and all kinds of new things, which seemed to be very profitable, but there was no way to divide it. Although the plate of this cake is large, once the profit is divided, there is not much benefit.

Chen Ying decided to take advantage of the opportunity to appease Henan and do his best to develop Henan's economy, so that Chen Ying could become Li Jiancheng's money bag, as long as there is money and benefits to distribute, Li Jiancheng will have a greater chance of winning.

Chen Ying is now only left with Shan Xiongxin wearing a golden tiger stripe mask, after the Shangyuan Day, the farmers have begun to prepare for spring ploughing, the repair of the plough should be repaired, and the hoe should be added.

Chen Ying took Shan Xiongxin to walk in the fields of Xin'an County, and found that there were also some people in shabby clothes squatting in the fields, frowning.

Chen Ying got off the horse and walked to the fields, only to see these farmers squatting in the fields looking at the farmland with a thin layer of snow on the ground with a sad face.

Chen Ying asked an old farmer: "Dare to ask the old man, on such a cold day, why do you squat in the field and worry, what should I do if I freeze?" ”

The old farmer's face was wrinkled like an old tree, and his face was gloomy and unsolvable: "If you freeze, you will die......

The old peasant's tone was indescribably sad and helpless.

Chen Yingchong beckoned to Shan Xiongxin, and Shan Xiongxin took out a large handful of copper coins from the chain of the war horse. Of course, gold and silver can be more valuable, but Chen Ying knew that if he gave the gold to an ordinary old farmer, it was not helping him, but harming him, and maybe someone would take risks and kill his home at night. Chen Yingdao: "Old man, there is no hurdle in this world that cannot be passed, whether the seeds and grain have been eaten, it doesn't matter, there is still some money for these, go back and buy some seeds, after a while, wait for the spring snow to melt, and prepare for spring!" ”

"There are still some seed grains, but the fields are gone, what is the use of seed grains!" The old farmer looked at the field in front of him, knelt on the snow all his life, and cried: "I'm useless, I'm ashamed, I didn't keep these dozens of acres of ancestral land, and I am ashamed to ...... my ancestors."

Chen Ying suddenly felt that the problem was serious, it seemed that there were really a lot of people like this old farmer, looking around, there were many people, almost in the fields, there were old or young, light or weak people squatting in the fields.

Chen Ying patted the old farmer's shoulder and said with relief: "Old man, tell me, what is going on?" ”

The old farmer looked at Chen Ying with tears in his eyes: "This Langjun, you are not from Xin'an, right?" ”

"Not ......"

"That ......"

"I'm from Chang'an!"

"Oh!" When the old farmer heard that Chen Ying was not from Xin'an, he was defenseless, so he choked up and touched his tears: "Tian is not Lak, and he can't live." ”

When Chen Ying heard this, his face became solemn. The people take food as the sky, of course, food mainly comes from the land, the peasants without land are not even people, in the eyes of the peasants, the peasants must have land, without land is a second-rate person, inferior people. Chen Ying cautiously asked, "Old man, your field is fine, why is it gone!" Read the latest chapters, stay tuned