Turbulent Times Chapter 1200: Wang’s 500,000 shi of grain
Not far away, Li Jiancheng was walking towards the martial arts training ground of Pei Mansion, when the explosion sounded suddenly, making him stagger in fright, and almost fell to the ground, while his personal soldiers had already surrounded him, He drew his sword outward and looked around vigilantly.
"This is the gunpowder weapon of the Far Eastern Army. The sound is so loud?" Li Jiancheng was surprised and his face turned pale, but then he remembered something and lost his voice: "The sound came from the direction of the Peifu training ground. Uncle is there."
As he spoke, Li Jiancheng was about to run to the training ground, but the commander of the soldiers beside him immediately bowed and said, "My lord, that place is not safe, your lord can't go there."
Li Jiancheng's complexion changed several times, and finally he ordered: "Go and see two people, is uncle okay?"
Immediately, two soldiers agreed and ran quickly after saluting.
Li Jiancheng was shocked for a while, and then ordered: "Go and call Pei Ji, two people, I want to ask what's going on, why there are gunpowder weapons of the Far East Army in Pei's mansion."
Hearing the words, the commander of Li Jiancheng's personal army did not execute the order immediately, but hesitated for a while, glanced left and right, and said in a low voice: "My son, this Pei family is already suspected of defecting to the Far East Army, please The prince left Pei's mansion quickly under our escort."
Li Jiancheng's complexion changed, and he was about to leave Pei's mansion quickly. Unexpectedly, Pei Ji staggered from behind alone, with a panicked look on his face, and shouted loudly from a distance: "My son, my son, Pei There are spies from the Far Eastern Army’s military intelligence office in the mansion, and I ask the son to leave Pei’s mansion quickly."
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Twenty miles to the east of Taiyuan City is the famous Jinyang Palace.
After Wang Junlin approached the city of Taiyuan, he was not in a hurry to attack the city, but came to visit Jinyang Palace with a group of counselors.
To be honest, he only brought less than 50,000 horses, while there are more than 80,000 Li Family Army soldiers in Taiyuan City.
You must know, "The law of using troops is to encircle them if they are ten, to attack them when they are five, to divide them if they are twice as many, to fight them if they are few, to escape them if they are few, and to avoid them if they are not strong."
Although the Far Eastern Army is powerful and has the sharpness of gunpowder weapons, after all, Wang Junlin only brought 50,000 troops this time. First, he could not even siege the city. It is difficult to start a battle formation. If you fight the Li family army in a street fight, you may not be able to beat the 80,000 Li family army.
What's more, the Li family army can recruit troops in Taiyuan city at any time. With the support of Taiyuan Wang family, it is not difficult to gather 20,000 to 30,000 battle-ready soldiers on the city wall.
So, Wang Junlin never expected to take down the center of the capital of Hedong, which is known as the Dragon City, and Li Yuan's Longxing Land by attacking Taiyuan City.
Of course, without preparing to siege the city, other things have already started quietly.
At this time, Wang Junlin had seen the information sent by the Flying Eagle from the military intelligence office in Taiyuan City, and thought that the people from the Pei family had acted decisively beyond his expectations, and even directly killed Li Shentong. No matter what Dagong himself said, he had to write it down to Mrs. Pei.
It's just that he was a little puzzled. If the Pei family killed Li Shentong, wouldn't they be afraid that Li Shentong's confidantes would kill the entire Pei family in Taiyuan City in anger?
But then he thought of Li Jiancheng, the prince of the Tang Dynasty who was already in the city, and then
As soon as Li Jiancheng thought of the Pei family as his biggest supporter, it dawned on him that with Li Jiancheng, even if Li Shentong was killed in the Pei residence, perhaps the Pei family would not be in too much trouble. Because the Military Intelligence Office in Taiyuan City will stage a scene with the cooperation of the Pei family, making Li Jiancheng think that the Pei family was framed by the Far Eastern Army, and the purpose of the Far Eastern Army is to drive a wedge between the Pei family and the Li family.
And Li Jiancheng has always felt very good about himself, how could he be deceived by the tricks of the Far East Army, he will continue to trust Pei.
After the death of Li Shentong, with Li Jiancheng's status as a prince in the Li Yuan Group, it is not difficult to control the army in the city and prevent the soldiers from harming the Pei family.
Of course, it can also be seen that Mrs. Pei is really good at planning and grasping this matter, which is shocking.
However, this is also Li Jiancheng. If it were Li Shimin or Li Yuan, Pei Ji would not dare to do this, because he knew that if things really came to that point, the two original historical Tang Gaozu and Tang Taizong would not be able to do so. Without hesitation, they wiped out their Pei family, killing every dog and dog.
With thoughts turning in his mind, Wang Junlin looked at Jinyang, which looked like a small city, and said with emotion: "Such a big palace city is built in this mountain, and there are no people living there. It needs a lot of money and food every year to repair and support it. It is really a waste of a group of people guarding this palace. And there are nearly a hundred palaces like this in the world. Therefore, Yang Guang really deserves to die."
In fact, Jinyang Palace was first built by Emperor Xiaojing of the Eastern Wei Dynasty. It is located in a quiet place in the north of Jinyang County, but at first it was really just a palace for summer summer, and the area was not very large. .
However, after Yang Guang came to the throne, he decreed to carry out large-scale expansion of this palace, and finally became the city in front of him with a wall four feet high and a circumference of seven miles.
Moreover, this place is said to be the residence of Sui Emperor Yang Guang, but in fact Yang Guang never lived here for a day.
However, due to Taiyuan's important strategic position, since Li Yuan became the prefect of Taiyuan prefecture seven years ago, with the secret support of Li Yuan Group, Yang Guang, an idiot, has ordered many times to build a building to the west of Jinyang Palace. Cangcheng, which is four feet high and has a circumference of eight miles, stores a large amount of important materials such as grain, tents, and weapons in the city. It is said that it is to prevent the Turkic cavalry from going south one day. And the ordnance is more than enough to arm an army of 100,000.
And these things naturally became the basis for Li Yuan to plot rebellion.
To Wang Junlin's surprise, their army had already reached the city of Taiyuan, but not far away from the Jinyang Palace, Li Yuan's officials guarding the Jinyang Palace and nearly a hundred soldiers did not evacuate.
Furthermore, when Wang Junlin brought people over, the people in Jinyang Palace didn't put up any resistance, they directly opened the city gate and welcomed Wang Junlin in.
The name of the supervisor of Jinyang Palace is Wang Shiqing, a native of Taiyuan, from a well-known Wang family in Taiyuan.
This Jinyang Palace Supervisor is just a big butler who guards the palace, a ninth-rank petty official, under normal circumstances, such a petty official is definitely not looked down upon by the direct lineage of the Wang family, at most it is a collateral lineage or a downcast in the palace Servants such as staff or stewards will take a fancy to such an official position.
But the fact is just the opposite. The Wang Shiqing in front of me is the direct descendant of the Taiyuan Wang family, even the Wang family
The grandson of the current Patriarch.
"The supervisor of Jinyang Palace, Taiyuan Wang Shiqing, has seen His Highness King Qin An." After ordering people to open the city, Wang Shiqing brought everyone out respectfully, and all of them knelt on Wang Junlin's side in front of you.
Wang Junlin was really surprised. Sitting on the blood-maned horse, he looked at Wang Shiqing thoughtfully, then at the hundred or so people behind Wang Shiqing, and said calmly, "Your Wang family wants to take this Jinyang Palace Dedicated to this king?"
Wang Junlin's words were both interrogative and rhetorical. They did not deliberately express sarcasm, but there was a sense of contempt.
The implication is that the Jinyang Palace and the Far East Army want to take it in minutes.
Wang Shiqing didn't seem to feel the contempt in Wang Junlin's words, and always maintained an extremely respectful expression, saying: "My lord, this Jinyang Palace originally belonged to my lord, and my surname Wang prepared this Jinyang Palace for my lord." There are half a million stones of grain inside."
"Hey!" What Wang Shiqing said made Wang Junlin's eyes light up slightly, he took a deep look at Wang Shiqing, and said with a smile: "The Taiyuan Wang family can be passed down for thousands of years and stands among the seven clans and five surnames, and has always been the top in the world. The giant family is indeed the reason."
Although Wang Shiqing knelt on the ground and lowered his head, he kept paying attention to Wang Junlin's expression from the corner of his eyes. Seeing the smile on Wang Junlin's face, he breathed a sigh of relief. Five hundred thousand shi of grain, after Taiyuan was breached by the Far East Army, their Wang family should be able to preserve it.
However, with Wang Junlin's attitude towards the aristocratic family, their Wang family will definitely bleed a lot, but compared to the disaster of extermination, taking out hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land is nothing.
Since the war between the Far East Army and the Li Yuan Group, with the victory of the Far East Army on three fronts, the thoughts of the powerful families and those stubborn scholars who only pursue profit and survival in the world have quietly undergone some changes.
After the spies from the Taiyuan Branch of the Military Intelligence Office came to the door, Mrs. Pei decisively used the bomb provided by the Military Intelligence Office to kill Li Shentong.
Unknowingly, the Wang family has prepared half a million shi of grain for the Far East Army outside Taiyuan City.
The Pei family and the Wang family are the two largest powerful families in Hedong. Even though Li Yuan and his son have been operating in Hedong for seven or eight years, they still cannot compare with the Wang family and the Pei family in terms of deep roots.
Wang Junlin knew that the change of some thoughts of the Pei family and the Wang family was by no means accidental, nor was it an isolated case. a turning point change.
"Government comes out of the barrel of a gun, and everything else is a **** paper tiger!" Looking at Wang Shiqing, Wang Junlin felt in his heart that the words of the great men of later generations were indeed the truth of the truth.
"I don't have a civil servant to pass the message by my side, so do it first!" Wang Junlin said calmly to Wang Shiqing after feeling emotional in his heart.
Wang Shiqing couldn't help being shocked when he heard the words, and then he was ecstatic, and respectfully kowtowed to Wang Junlin, suppressing the excitement in his heart, but his face had returned to calm, and only gratitude remained: "Humble job!" Thank you for the cultivation of the prince, I will definitely work hard for the prince, and there will never be half-hearted things."
Wang Junlin nodded slightly. He was satisfied with Wang Shiqing's reaction and his words of loyalty.