People in Jinyang closed their doors and ushered in the transition of the old from the new in the wind and snow.
This year, a lot of things happened in the world.
In Henan, Li Mi and Wang Shichong fought one after another, and Yu Wenhuaji led his troops into the battlefield in Henan. Therefore, amid the dazzling intrigues, Li Mi and Wang Shichong resumed their confrontation.
In the western part of the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River, Zhu Can was stabbed to death, and one of the heroes in the world lost. Xiao Mian took the opportunity to wipe out the remnants of Zhu Can and became stronger in the western part of the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River.
Immediately, Xiao Mian took advantage of the slowdown of water flow in late autumn and early winter to move up the Shuo River and captured Kuizhou, thus making his move to Shu.
The Tang army was defeated in the middle of Shu, and as it retreated steadily, its control over the middle of Shu was greatly reduced. The rebellion of the southern barbarians revived, and chaos gradually emerged in the middle of Shu.
This was the heaviest blow to Li Tang after the fall of Jinyang.
A chaos in Shu would definitely shake Guanzhong, and the rise of Li and Tang almost came to an abrupt end after suffering repeated setbacks.
Dou Jiande in Hebei Province is also having a hard time. The lack of food has become his most fatal weakness. Wang Shichong and Li Mi are trying to win over him.
Dou Jiande, who had already proclaimed himself emperor, was in a dilemma. His subordinates crossed the river and went south, and the suggestion of capturing Luoyang was put on his desk.
At this time, the Turkic envoys arrived in Hebei.
Dou Jiande has developed the habit of bowing to others. Unfortunately, the heads of Yu Wenhua and his brothers have been sent to Luoyang. In order to conquer Wang Cong in Hejian, he also set up a sacrifice for Sui Emperor Yang Guang and surrendered Wang Cong and others.
In addition, he also obtained Yu Wenhua and the civil and military officials who were brought to Hebei.
There are more talents around Dou Jiande, but the internal battles are also getting more intense.
Wang Cong and others were almost incompatible with Dou Jiande's subordinates, and Dou Jiande's sacrifice for Sui Emperor Yang Guang also made his subordinates very dissatisfied.
If people in other places can still call Yang Guang the Emperor, then people in Shandong and Hebei all call Yang Guang the Dog Emperor.
If Dou Jiande could obtain Youzhou's food and grass, he could also use his prestige to suppress the complaints of his subordinates.
However, the grain and grass in Zhuo County were wiped out by the Daizhou Army, but at this time, the chaos within Dou Jiande's department was aggravated.
The arrival of the Turkic envoys seemed to make Dou Jiande see reinforcements. Although there was no gift of the heads of Yu Wenhua and his brothers, Empress Xiao was there.
Therefore, Dou Jiande reluctantly sent Empress Xiao to the envoy, reiterated his intention to surrender to the Turks, and after receiving some promises, he respectfully sent the envoy to the Taihang Pass.
The arrival of the Turkic envoys indeed brought good news to Dou Jiande.
When they heard that the Turkic Khan would become the growing princess of the Great Sui Dynasty, his old subordinates, most of whom were illiterate, finally admitted that their leader Dou was still very far-sighted.
It's just a pity for the beautiful lady Xiao...
How beautiful is Empress Xiao? People at that time called her the most beautiful woman in the world, but it was not just because she was the mother of the country. Even though she is now quite old, it is said that she is still very charming and has an extraordinary ability that makes people unable to move when they see her.
charm.
Dou Jiande breathed a sigh of relief and became more determined about distributing the land.
Obviously, this is a guy who doesn't have many big ambitions and just wants to have a full stomach. He is a bit similar to the previous Li Po, but the place he represents is a bit worse than the two states that he represented.
Population and food are the only two criteria to measure the strength of each family these days. According to this calculation, Dou Jiande is undoubtedly the weakest among the heroes in the world.
Shandong and Hebei have been in chaos for the longest time. Under natural disasters, there are literally bones everywhere, the land is desolate, and there are hundreds of thousands of troops, accounting for more than half of the population under his rule.
Of course, if he takes over the whole of Hebei next year, the population will increase a lot. Hebei and Shandong, which have no strong enemies, will not be weak persimmons if they work hard to improve them.
Overall, events in the world are still very intense.
Although the Central Plains has been plunged into darkness for several years, and it seems that the war will continue, it has to be said that for the Central Plains, this is actually a good thing.
Because the greater the chaos, the faster opportunities for unification will arise.
If everyone is truly stabilized and a Seven Heroes and Five Hegemons are created, or a situation in which the Three Kingdoms stand at the same level, the period of war will become even longer.
In other words, everyone has not yet established a firm foothold, and the separatist regime is not stable at all, and it will be easier to be eliminated in a fight.
Of course, this is just a black joke.
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At the end of the year, no matter what other people think, Li Po put aside military and political affairs and returned to the back house of the General Manager's Mansion to celebrate the New Year with his family.
The General Manager's Mansion in Jinyang was not decorated with lights and decorations, but there was still some joyful atmosphere.
After all, the mistress of the steward's house is pregnant.
Snowflakes were flying outside and the north wind was howling, but in a hall in the back house of the General Manager's Mansion, lights were flickering, wine and food were available, and the family gathered together, drinking and eating food happily.
As the night got darker, Li Po drove away Hong Yanzhu'er and Li Chun without hesitation.
Between the light and darkness, Li Po's smile gradually faded, revealing some sadness.
Seeing that his expression was different from before, Li Bi asked softly: "What worries you, husband? Are you worried about next year's war?"
Li Po shook his head slightly, pulled his wife to his side, and said, "Since I led the army to fight, who have you seen me be afraid of?"
Li Bi felt a little relieved, leaned against her husband, and murmured: "Does that mean you are thinking about political affairs again?"
Li Po smiled and hugged his wife tightly, but his voice sounded heavy.
"When we led the Heng'an Town Army...at that time, we just wanted to fight a few battles and seek peace. As for me, I didn't want to be a big official, as long as I could take you and my sister safely without any worries.
It doesn’t really matter what you eat, wear, or do.”
"But now it's a bit difficult. There are so many people following me, so I can only keep walking. It's become a luxury to have some leisure time."
"Moreover, I have thought about it for a long time. I am afraid that our children will not be able to grow up happily and worry-free..."
Li Bi looked up, as if she had a premonition of what her husband was going to say.
Li Po lowered his head and looked at it, smiled comfortingly, and then said: "No matter whether the child you give birth to is a boy or girl, we can't dote on them too much. These days, if you become soft-hearted, you may be eaten by others.
Teaching and training is for their own good."
"Moreover, you need to make some preparations... The bigger the foundation I have laid, the more outstanding the successors will be. In the future, it is inevitable that brothers will fight and fight against each other."
"When that time comes, don't blame them for not caring about brotherhood and sisterhood, and don't blame me for being ruthless and cruel... After all, you and I chose this path together. When the time comes when we are heartbroken, we can only blame us for being born at the wrong time...
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Li Bi was a little worried and a little frightened, and she grabbed Li Po's lapel tightly, then sat up straight and looked directly into her husband's eyes.
After a long time, she managed a smile and said: "In order to arouse my husband's ambition, I said a lot of words and did a lot of things... If the day comes when my husband really wants to say it, what can I say?"
Li Po nodded slightly and looked at her slightly bulging belly in a daze. What he said today was indeed an idea he had thought about for a long time after he was overjoyed.
So I also had some worries in my heart. Those words were not only for my wife, but also to warn myself not to be too soft-hearted towards my children.
Born in troubled times, they should not be too fragile. In fact, this was completely contrary to some of his thoughts back then, and when he thought about it, these little beasts were likely to stage a drama of cannibalism.
Li Po didn't dare to imagine it, and he felt a little unhappy.
After Li Bi finished speaking, she looked at her husband's face and said cautiously while being frightened: "That happened ten or twenty years later. Why did my husband mention it now? But what did someone say?"
Li Po twitched the corner of his mouth, "It is said that people who have no long-term worries will always have short-term worries. It is always right to think long-term. Some people have tried to make me the king recently... I thought about it here, and I thought of us.
The child..."
"After this battle, if one day it really reaches Chang'an or Luoyang, do you still want to stop and hand over the throne to others?"
Li Po took a breath, then leaned over and put his arm around his wife's shoulders, "Don't think too much. When a child is born, he will be more like you. When he grows up, he will be thrown into the army and he will be more like me. Haha.
, just let me teach it myself..."
Li Bi shook her shoulders and managed to regain her normalcy. She looked at her husband sideways and said, "Why, where can you have such a partial father? Humph, regardless of whether you are a man or a woman, whether you are successful or not, you must hire some talented people to teach you.
What happens in the future depends on their own destiny."
Li Po nodded and deliberately eased the atmosphere, "You must remember, don't give birth to a son like Yang Er, that would be extremely bad..."
"Does your husband really have... the intention of proclaiming himself emperor?"
"You think I am willing. It won't make any difference if we call ourselves king or emperor. Now that we have made it this far, there is no room for retreat for our husband and wife. When we were in the army at Heng'an, if we had surrendered to others, we would still have been able to do it.
Someone is keeping it."
"Whoever you bow your head to now is the fate of someone who was killed by someone else. Even if you don't die, how long can you and I endure the cowardly anger of that person under the low eaves?"
"I have been holding back my strength before, just because I don't want to get to this point, but that bastard Li Yuanji gave Jinyang to me, do you think I can take it?"
"The so-called Qin lost its deer and the whole world chased it away. Haha, now we are also one of the princes. Not to mention the children who need good fortune, we and my husband are about the same. If you take a step forward, the storm will be raging. If you take a step back, it will be like a storm."
Thousands of feet of cliff."
"Do you think you should move forward and face the wind, or retreat and be shattered into pieces?"
At this point, Li Bi had completely shaken off the previous heaviness, and she waved her fist vigorously.
"When you are an emperor, you are an emperor. First it is the Yuan family, then the Gao family, Yuwen, and then the Yang family. Now it should be our turn to be named Li."