Not far away, Li Jiancheng was walking towards Pei Mansion's martial arts training ground. The explosion suddenly appeared, scaring him so much that he staggered and almost fell to the ground. His soldiers had already surrounded him, drawing their swords towards him.
Outside, he looked around cautiously.
"This is the gunpowder weapon of the Far East Army. Is it so loud?" Li Jiancheng looked surprised and turned a little pale, but then he remembered something and lost his voice: "The sound came from the direction of the Pei Mansion's martial arts training ground. Uncle is there.
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As he spoke, Li Jiancheng was about to run to the martial arts training ground, but the commander of the soldiers beside him immediately bowed and said: "Your Majesty, that place is not safe, Your Majesty cannot go there."
Li Jiancheng's expression changed several times, and finally he ordered: "Quickly go and see if your uncle is okay?"
Immediately, two soldiers agreed, saluted and ran quickly.
Li Jiancheng calmed down for a moment, and then ordered: "Go and call Pei Ji with two people. I want to ask what is going on and why there are gunpowder weapons of the Far Eastern Army in Pei's house."
Hearing this, the commander of Li Jiancheng's soldiers did not immediately carry out the order. Instead, he hesitated for a moment, looked around a few times, and whispered: "Your Majesty, the Pei family is already suspected of surrendering to the Far East Army. Please help me, Your Majesty."
Quickly left Pei Mansion under the escort of others."
Li Jiancheng's expression changed, and he was about to leave the Pei Mansion quickly. Unexpectedly, Pei Ji came staggering from behind alone, with a look of panic on his face. He shouted loudly from a distance: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the Pei Mansion has appeared.
The spies from the Far Eastern Army's Military Intelligence Office also asked the Crown Prince to leave the Pei Mansion as soon as possible."
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More than twenty miles east of Taiyuan City is the famous Jinyang Palace.
After Wang Junlin arrived at Taiyuan City, he was not in a hurry to attack the city. Instead, he took a group of counselors to visit Jinyang Palace leisurely.
To be honest, he only brought less than 50,000 troops, and there were more than 80,000 Li family soldiers in Taiyuan City.
You must know, "The method of using troops is to surround it with ten, attack it with five, divide it with twice the enemy. If the enemy is small, you can fight it, if it is small, you can escape from it, if it is weak, you can avoid it."
Although the Far Eastern Army is powerful and has sharp gunpowder weapons, after all, Wang Junlin only brought 50,000 troops this time. First of all, it cannot even besiege the city. Secondly, even if it can break the city, there are many buildings in the city, and the Far Eastern Army's battle formations
It is difficult to start. If we engage in street fighting with the Li Jiajun, we may not be able to defeat the more than 80,000 Li Jiajun.
What's more, the Li family's army can recruit troops in Taiyuan City at any time. With the support of the Taiyuan Wang family, it is not difficult to gather 20,000 to 30,000 capable troops on the city wall.
Therefore, Wang Junlin never expected to capture the center of the capital of Hedong, known as Dragon City, and Li Yuan's place of Longxing by attacking Taiyuan City.
Of course, we are not preparing to attack the city, but other things have quietly begun.
At this time, Wang Junlin had seen the intelligence sent by the military intelligence office in Taiyuan City via flying eagle, and thought that the Pei family's decisiveness was beyond his expectation, and they actually killed Li Shentong directly. He would not care about this great achievement later.
No matter what I say, I must write it down for Mrs. Pei.
But he was a little confused. After the Pei family bombed Li Shentong to death, weren't they afraid that Li Shentong's personal soldiers would kill all the Pei family members in Taiyuan City out of anger?
But then he thought of Li Jiancheng, the prince of Tang Dynasty who was already in the city.
When I thought that Li Jiancheng had always regarded the Pei family as his biggest supporter, he suddenly realized that with Li Jiancheng here, even if Li Shentong was killed in the bombing of Pei's house, perhaps the Pei family would not be in much trouble, because there are many people in Taiyuan City.
The Military Intelligence Bureau will stage a drama with the cooperation of the Pei family, making Li Jiancheng believe that the Pei family has been framed by the Far East Army, and the purpose of the Far East Army is to alienate the relationship between the Pei family and the Li family.
Li Jiancheng has always felt very good about himself. How could he be deceived by the Far Eastern Army's conspiracy? He would continue to trust Pei.
After Li Shentong's death, given Li Jiancheng's status as a prince in Li Yuan's group, it was not difficult to control the army in the city and prevent the soldiers from harming the Pei family.
Of course, this also shows that Pei's planning and control of this matter are really amazing, which is shocking.
However, this was Li Jiancheng. If it had been Li Shimin or Li Yuan, Pei Jijuan would not have dared to do this, because he knew that if things really came to that point, the two original Tang Gaozu and Tang Taizong would not hesitate.
The Pei family was exterminated, and no chickens or dogs were left alive.
With thoughts swirling in his mind, Wang Junlin looked at Jinyang, which was like a small city, and sighed: "Such a big palace is built in this mountain, and there are not many people living there. Every year, a lot of money and food are needed to repair it and support a group of people."
It is such a waste to guard this palace. There are nearly a hundred palaces like this in the world. Therefore, Yang Guang's death is really not a pity."
In fact, Jinyang Palace was first built during the reign of Emperor Xiaojing of the Eastern Wei Dynasty. It is located in a quiet place in the north of Jinyang County. However, it was really just a palace used for summer escape at the beginning, and the area was not very large.
However, after Yang Guang came to the throne, he ordered a large-scale expansion of the palace, which eventually became a city with a wall four feet high and a circumference of seven miles.
Moreover, this place is said to be the palace 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 governor of Taiyuan Prefecture seven years ago, with the secret promotion of the Li Yuan Group, Yang Guang, an idiot, has repeatedly ordered the construction of a four-foot-high tower to the west of Jinyang Palace.
, Cangcheng, which is eight miles in circumference, stores a large number of important materials such as food, tents, and weapons in the city. It is said that it is to prevent the Turkic cavalry from going south one day. In the past few years, the food and grass have been enough to feed a hundred thousand troops for a year, and the ordnance is more
It is enough to arm an army of 100,000 people.
And these things naturally became the basis for Li Yuan's rebellion.
To Wang Junlin's surprise, their army had already reached the gates of Taiyuan City, but the officials and nearly a hundred soldiers under Li Yuan who were guarding the Jinyang Palace not far away did not evacuate.
Moreover, when Wang Junlin arrived with his people, the people inside Jinyang Palace did not put up any resistance and directly opened the city gate and welcomed Wang Junlin in.
The palace supervisor of Jinyang Palace is named Wang Shiqing. He is a native of Taiyuan and comes from the famous Wang family in Taiyuan. He is about thirty years old and looks very capable.
This Jinyang Palace Palace Supervisor is just a big housekeeper who guards the palace, a ninth-grade petty official. Normally, such a petty official would definitely not be looked down upon by the direct lineage of the Wang family. At most, he would be a down-and-out staff member or housekeeper in the collateral lineage or the palace.
Such servants would like such an official position.
But the fact is exactly the opposite. The Wang Shiqing in front of him is a direct descendant of the Wang family in Taiyuan, and is even a direct descendant of the Wang family.
The direct grandson of the current head of the family.
"I am the palace supervisor of Jinyang Palace, Wang Shiqing of Taiyuan Wang clan, who has met His Royal Highness King Qin An." After ordering people to open the city, Wang Shiqing led everyone to greet him respectfully, and they all knelt in front of Wang Junlin.
Wang Junlin was really surprised. He was riding on a blood-maned horse, looking at Wang Shiqing thoughtfully, and then at the more than a hundred people behind Wang Shiqing, and said lightly: "You, the Wang family, want to dedicate this Jinyang Palace to me."
king?"
Wang Junlin's words were both a question and a rhetorical sentence. There was no deliberate expression of sarcasm, but there was a sense of contempt.
The implication is that it only takes a matter of minutes for our Far Eastern Army to capture Jinyang Palace.
Wang Shiqing didn't seem to feel the contempt in Wang Junlin's words, and always maintained a very respectful look, saying: "Your Majesty, this Jinyang Palace originally belonged to the Prince, and what I, the Wang family, prepared for the Prince are the five items in the Jinyang Palace.
One hundred thousand shi of grain."
"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 Wang family in Taiyuan can be passed down for thousands of years and stand among the seven sects and five surnames. It has always been the top giant family in the world.
, it is indeed the reason.”
Although Wang Shiqing was kneeling on the ground with his head lowered, he was always paying attention to Wang Junlin's expression from the corner of his eye. Seeing the smile on Wang Junlin's face, he breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that as long as Wang Junlin accepted the five hundred thousand
Shi Liang, after Taiyuan was captured by the Far East Army, the Wang family should be able to survive.
However, with Wang Junlin's attitude towards the wealthy family, the Wang family will definitely have to bleed a lot, but compared to the disaster of genocide, 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 began, with the Far East Army's successive victories on three sides, some changes have quietly taken place in the minds of wealthy families and stubborn scholars who only pursue profit for survival.
After Pei's spies from the Taiyuan Branch of the Military Intelligence Agency came to his door, he decisively used the bomb provided by the Military Intelligence Agency to kill Li Shentong.
Without realizing it, Wang had prepared 500,000 shi of food for the Far Eastern Army outside Taiyuan City.
The Pei family and the Wang family are the two largest wealthy 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 changes in the thoughts of Pei and Wang were by no means accidental, nor an exception. This represented a change in the attitude of a considerable number of wealthy families in the world towards the Far East Army, and a turning point in their evaluation of Wang Junlin.
The change.
"Political power comes from the barrel of a gun, and everything else is just a fucking paper tiger!" Wang Junlin looked at Wang Shiqing and sighed in his heart that the words of future great men are indeed the true meaning of truth.
"I lack a civil servant to carry the message, so you should do it first!" After sighing in his heart, Wang Junlin said calmly to Wang Shiqing.
When Wang Shiqing heard this, he couldn't help being shocked, and then he was ecstatic, and he kowtowed to Wang Junlin with great respect. He suppressed the excitement in his heart, but his face had returned to calm, and he was only grateful: "Thank you for your cultivation.
, I will definitely serve the prince to the best of my ability, and will never do anything half-heartedly."
Wang Junlin nodded slightly. He was satisfied with Wang Shiqing's reaction and similar words of loyalty, but he couldn't help feeling a little emotional that the children cultivated by a thousand-year-old family are indeed extraordinary.