In Yuwen Chenglong's original nest, Jiangnan, the original aristocratic families were basically dealt with by Emperor Wen Yang Jian after the demise of Southern Chen. Those who were killed and exiled were basically surviving now, and those who survived were unable to cause much storm and waves to make people move.
It is very different north of the Yangtze River. From the Jianghuai River to Henan and Shandong, and then to Hebei, nearly half of the aristocratic tribes of the Sui Dynasty were entrenched. Many of them were real aristocratic tribes that had been passed down for hundreds or even thousands of years, such as: the Wang family of Langya, the Zheng family of Xingyang, the Cui family of Qinghe, the Kong family of Lu, etc.
Now that Yuwen Chenglong goes north to occupy territory, he naturally has to have friction with these aristocratic families!
Among them, the most important contradictions are concentrated in two aspects: one is the imperial examination system, and the other is the tax system based on acres.
There is no doubt that the two systems implemented by Yuwen Chenglong have greatly damaged the interests of all the aristocratic families! Therefore, it is natural for these aristocratic families to conspire to overthrow Yuwen Chenglong's rule.
Knowing that Yuwen Chenglong is powerful, these northern gentry did not intend to compete with Yuwen Chenglong with real swords and guns, but secretly conspired and sneaked in. While colluding with thieves from other places, arming private soldiers, and using various means to win over the soldiers under Yuwen Chenglong, intending to stab Yuwen Chenglong in the back at a critical moment, and bloom inside and outside!
When he received these news, Yuwen Chenglong was staying in Leshou City, calculating how to dig a hole to frame the rebirth of the soul of the Luo Yi army who was about to arrive.
"God! It's so bad! If you really dare to prick it, it will annoy me. I'll let you bastards cook them all in the pot!"
After slapped the table with hatred, Yuwen Chenglong was furious and slapped the iron pear wooden table in front of him into wood chips all over the ground.
Seeing this, Yuwen Sixiao, who was listening to the teachings in front of his father, couldn't help but hide his head and look like a frozen pheasant.
However, Yuwen Chenglong's two new staff officers, Xu Shiji and Su Lie, were a little surprised, but that was all.
"My lord, don't be fooled!" Chief adviser Xu Shiji took the lead in speaking. "Aristocratic families are the foundation of the country. Master must not kill easily, otherwise the country will be in chaos!"
"Oh? Why, is that possible? Maogong, do you think it's reasonable that those aristocratic families want to create a general's rebellion?"
"Xu Shiji dare not! But, now this matter involves all the hundreds of aristocratic families in Yanzhou, Qingzhou and Jizhou. If the lord acts rashly, he is afraid that the country will be unfavorable! Moreover, even if the lord can now use absolute force to quell the rebellion of these aristocratic families in one fell swoop, if the aristocratic families in Sili, Guanzhong, Youzhou, Bingzhou and other places learn the news, the lord will be more than twice as difficult as he wants to conquer various places in the future! Therefore, I would like to ask the lord to think twice!"
"Oh..., this statement makes sense. Well, Dingfang. What do you think about this?"
After a little hesitation, Su Lie stepped forward and intervened and said, "Reporting to Lord Shangshu, I will finally think that the disaster of the aristocratic family is a long-term consideration. At present, the most important thing is how to deal with Luo Yi's attack."
Su Lie's words are true at all. According to reliable information, Luo Yi's troops are only more than a hundred miles away from Leshou City.
Moreover, Luo Yi brought most of the Youzhou cavalry this time, and his attack ability was super strong!
If Luo Yitie was determined to attack Yuwen Chenglong, I was afraid that he would arrive at Leshou City tonight!
As for the disaster of the aristocratic family, it is of course quite troublesome, but it must be waited for Yuwen Chenglong to face it!
"Well, that's the case! Well, that's it, you have fought with Luo Yi many times, but what good strategies do you have to defeat the enemy?"
"Good plan?" Su Lie was stunned when he heard this, "If I had any good plan, my godfather Gao Yaxian and I would have beaten Luo Yi that dead old man crying and calling him mother long ago? Is it necessary for you, Shangshu Yuwen to take action?"
Of course, this was just something Su Lie complained about in his heart, but he did not say it in front of Yuwen Chenglong.
After glanced at Su Lie's very confused expression, Yuwen Chenglong knew that this little guy was probably not yet enlightened, and it was probably impossible to expect him to come up with any good ideas. So Yuwen Chenglong turned his gaze to Xu Shiji on the side.
"Well, that's right... I thought that for this Luo Yi, we can only be smart and cannot beat you!"
"Say the point!"
"Ahem! Well, this, if you go back to the lord, I will think that since ancient times, the weak defeated the strong, which is mostly just a sneak attack, a cut off food channels, a water attack, a fire attack and other strategies."
"According to Mo Jiang, Luo Yi is also a man of many battles. Using sneak attacks and food cuts on him is probably not very effective. Now it is the middle of winter, and the weather is cold and the water droplets turn into ice, and the water attack plan will not work. Therefore, Mo Jiang thought that if we want to defeat Luo Yi's 100,000 troops with our current less than 30,000 troops, the best choice should be fire attack. But how to implement it specifically, I don't have a charter in my heart."
Upon hearing this, Su Lie and Yuwen all curled their lips and said to himself, "You have been fooling you for a while, and it's all nonsense!"
“Um…”
In fact, at present, Yuwen Chenglong himself has no idea of being sure.
Because Luo Yike is different from Dou Jiande, Du Fuwei and others before. This guy stationed in Youzhou for decades and is truly a battle-hardened person. Even if he was originally a pig, after years of hardship, as long as he survives, he will become more cunning than a fox! A casual method naturally cannot fool him.
This time, when he entered Hejian County, he wanted to rush to play a raid. Yuwen Chenglong believed that the strongest killing weapon had not yet been transported.
But at this moment, although there are nearly 80,000 people and horses in Leshou City, more than 50,000 of them are the original Daxia army under Dou Jiande's troops!
Although Dou Jiande was captured by Yuwen Chenglong at this moment, who knew how many of the surrendered soldiers were Dou Jiande's close friends! If these reactionaries took advantage of the chaos and made some trouble, Yuwen Chenglong would be in a vain!
Besides, even if the surrendered soldiers would not make any trouble, more than half of the Daxia army are old, weak, sick and disabled!
It turns out that although Dou Jiande almost completely occupied the entire Jizhou, the world has been in chaos over the years and Jizhou has suffered a severe population reduction. Now, the total population of Jizhou is only a little over one million. Moreover, a large part of them are strong, and they control the hands of all the aristocratic tribes in various places. Dou Jiande can really control the population, which is less than 800,000.
Being able to raise an army of tens of thousands is already the result of Dou Jiande's piecing together and military force! So, if you want the comprehensive quality of these Xia troops, you have no hope!
After discussing with the generals for a while, he couldn't discuss any good plans. Yuwen Chenglong thought for a while and finally decided to take advantage of the four cities first and wait until the enemy arrives before adapting to the situation!
With a decision in his heart, Yuwen Chenglong waved his claws and announced the end of the meeting.
Seeing this, the generals quickly said goodbye and came out one after another. However, when a guy was about to walk out of the door of the study room, he suddenly turned his head and replied, "Dad, I have a love for you!"