It gradually reached mid-January. According to tradition, the New Year was officially over after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. However, this year is different from usual. Even the drought in the summer and autumn of last year had a great impact on agriculture in various parts of the north.

Fortunately, God opened his eyes this winter, and three heavy snowfalls fell in a row, completely eliminating the drought. In addition, the climate this year is relatively warm, and the frozen river water began to thaw around the Zhongyuan Festival. Many farmers began to go to the ground to loosen the soil and plow the fields, fertilize and build canals on the seventh and eighth day of the lunar month, and the entire northern land became busy early.

On the 17th day of the first lunar month, on the official road west of Luhe Port in Hejian County, a team of hundreds of cavalry arrived at lightning. The leader was King Yang Yuanqing of Chu.

Luhe Port is the Sui army's port to sea. More than 1,500 sea ships were moored in this vast harbor. Luhe Port is a freezing port and can also sail in winter. However, since the attack on Goryeo, more than 1,000 warships were moored in the harbor for repair and did not go to sea again.

When Yang Yuanqing ran to the harbor ten miles away, they approached the first post. The harbor was heavily guarded and was a confidential place of the Sui Dynasty. There were 3,000 garrisons and no idle personnel were allowed to approach. Even craftsmen and crew members who worked in the harbor must have special bronze medals for entry and exit, and they are not allowed to go out easily.

At this time, a group of sentries rushed over and blocked their way. A personal soldier stepped forward and shouted, "Chu King came down to inspect the harbor, please give way!"

The leader's sentry team was approaching and seeing that it was indeed Yang Yuanqing, he was so scared that he quickly bowed and turned around and waved, "Doway!"

The sentry made way. Yang Yuanqing led everyone to speed up the horse and run towards the harbor. It was still several miles away from the harbor. Then he saw a large sea ship like a city wall from afar. The dark warships were one by one, one by one, one by one, and the masts were like forests, and they were sailing dozens of miles away.

At this time, another team of cavalry came in front of him. About a hundred people, but the leader was Zhou Guangyao, the commander of Luhe Port. As the territory of the Sui army expanded larger and larger, the army's organization began to change. It was divided into two types: Kyoto Army and local army. The Kyoto Army did not change much. It was the four levels of general, general, general, and general Lang. Under the general, there were also middle and low-level officers such as the lieutenant, brigade commander, and team commander.

The local army is divided into three levels: chief commander, commander, and commander. The captain is also a middle- and low-level officer below the captain, brigade commander, and team leader. This is actually basically in line with the Sui Dynasty, and it is just that the original small commander is changed to the commander.

Because Luhe Port has fewer troops and only three thousand people, the main general is only the commander, from the third rank, equivalent to the sub-general of the Kyoto Army. Commander Zhou Guangyao was also a veteran who had followed Yang Yuanqing for many years. He was from Lingwu County. He joined the Fengzhou Army in the first year of Daye and gradually became commander.

He rode his horse and rushed over and bowed and said, "See Your Highness!"

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "Thank you for your hard work, General Zhou, what's wrong with you recently?"

"Report to Your Highness. It has been very peaceful these months, because the river water is frozen and there are no ships coming to the canal transportation."

Zhou Guangyao said again: "I have already packed up the tent and prepared food. Please ask Your Highness and all brothers to go and have a rest first."

Seeing that it was already noon, Yang Yuanqing turned around and smiled at everyone, "Go to have a meal first!"

Everyone was already hungry, and they were overjoyed when they heard this. They rushed to the camp with Zhou Guangyao...

After lunch, Yang Yuanqing stood in front of the tent while drinking hot tea. While looking at the vast fleet on the sea in the distance, his mood was a little uneasy. In fact, he could build the largest fleet in the world. With the powerful combat power of the Sui army, he could sweep the world and even fight to Byzantium.

Since ancient times, the obstacle that blocked the conquest of the Central Plains dynasty was not technology, but concept, and the longing for the agricultural civilization. Since Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall, the Han people were destined to be not a nation that explored the outside world. To change this concept, efforts from all aspects are required, and more importantly, interests are interests. As long as there are sufficient interests, some people are willing to explore the west and overseas.

At this time, a sound of footsteps interrupted Yang Yuanqing's thoughts. When he turned around, he saw the commander Zhou Guangyao walking quickly. Zhou Guangyao stepped forward and knelt on one knee, "It's already arranged, please inspect your highness!"

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "Then go to the warehouse first!"

The military port warehouse is located behind a hill, and is a warehouse group composed of twenty large warehouses. Since October last year, the Sui army has transported a large amount of food and military supplies from Liyang Cang and Youzhou by water. The warehouse is surrounded by a wall and is guarded by a thousand troops. It is very guarded and no one is allowed to approach it.

Under the escort of Zhou Guangyao and more than 100 personal soldiers, Yang Yuanqing arrived at the military port warehouse. The warehouse was ready and the gate was opened. A warehouse manager came out.

"He Jiong, the military officer of the Cangcao, please see Your Highness!"

"Why join the army if you have any luck?"

Yang Yuanqing looked at the warehouse. The warehouse was several miles away. He pointed to the closest warehouse to him and asked, "What kind of warehouse is that?"

"Report to Your Highness, that's the grain warehouse."

"Then let's look at the grain warehouse first!"

Yang Yuanqing turned over and dismounted, surrounded by everyone and walked towards the grain warehouse......

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Just as Yang Yuanqing inspected the military port, Emperor Wei Li Mi also inspected the warehouse in Jiangyang County.

The warehouse is less than one mile from the Yangtze River, and there are special canals and Yangtze Rivers to understand. The wind blowing from the Yangtze River is very strong, slapping the flag on the flagpole. Although the Zhongyuan Festival has just passed, the wind has turned into a south wind, and there is a hint of warmth in the wind.

The warehouse located in Jiangyang County is also the largest warehouse in Wei State. It consists of more than a hundred large warehouses. It is actually a warehouse city with a circumference of about fifteen miles. The warehouse contains as much as 500,000 stones of grain alone, as well as a large number of military tents and other supplies.

Li Mi, the leader of Wei, wearing golden armor, a golden helmet and a waist-wearing sword, inspected the largest Jiangyang warehouse in the Wei Kingdom, surrounded by hundreds of guards and generals.

Li Mi's face was as gloomy as water, and she seemed extremely unhappy. In fact, he had never been happy since he went south to Jiangdu. Although he annexed Chen Len and Li Zitong's army, annihilated Shen Faxing, and won military victories, he was not successful in politics.

He never received the support of the Jiangnan gentry, and the people of Jiangnan did not support his army, and regarded him as an alien invader. The officials he sent were either killed or fled, which made him only control five counties.

What made him even more angry was that he was not even as good as Li Zitong. Li Zitong was supported by some people in Jiangnan, not to mention Shen Faxing. He destroyed Li Zitong and Shen Faxing and incorporated nearly 60,000 of their troops, but within three days, most of them escaped, and even killing nearly a thousand people could not stop the tide of escape.

Li Mi was a little doubtful that he was in Jiangnan to develop correctly, but he didn't have much time to think about what to do next? He didn't even have time to win the support of the Jiangnan gentry. He never stopped since he set foot on the land of Jiangnan.

The south is not a quiet land. He has only destroyed the three weaker families in the five major forces in Jiangnan. There are also two major forces in Jianghuai, Du Fuwei and Yuzhang Xiao Xian, who threatened his survival.

Li Mi also had to admit that the Du and Xiao families were much harder to deal with than the other three. A few months ago, he sent Shan Xiongxin to lead a 100,000 army to attack Du Fuwei first. After capturing Liyang County and defeating Du Fuwei, he encountered a joint counterattack between the Du Xiao families. His army was defeated, and the 100,000 army lost nearly half.

From then on, Li Mi focused all his energy on dealing with Du Xiao's two families. He received information yesterday that Xiao Liang's army and Du Fuwei's army were actually carrying out large-scale mobilization at the same time, and deploying troops to advance to the east. Even the idiotic people could guess that these two families would join forces to deal with Li Mi's Wei army at the same time. This news made Li Mi extremely annoyed.

Li Mi walked into a grain warehouse with a gloomy face, and bags of grain were neatly placed. A warehouse manager introduced to him in fear: "There are 30,000 stones of grain in this warehouse, one of which weighs one stone, and all have 30,000 bags."

"Is there any regular supervision?" Li Mi asked coldly.

The warehouse manager was even more frightened, "Report to Your Majesty, there is supervision, every six months."

"Half a year?"

Li Mi turned around and was extremely unhappy with Changshi Fang Xuanzao and said, "It's too long, it's time to check it once a month."

"Yes, I understand." Fang Xuanzao had no choice but to answer helplessly.

Everyone looked around and walked towards the warehouse next door. At this time, Wang Bodang, the general of the Youtun Guard, stepped forward and said, "Your Highness, should we consider defending against the threat from the north this time against Du Xiao's coalition?"

"You mean Yang Yuanqing?" Li Mi understood what the threat he was referring to.

"Your Majesty, Du Fuwei is actually Yang Yuanqing's man. If we use the army too much to deal with Du Xiao and the others, once the Sui army goes south from Qiao County, Jiangdu will threaten. Beizhi recommends deploying a little part of the elite troops in Pengcheng County to defend against the Sui army's raid in the Central Plains."

Li Mi thought about it and asked Fang Xuanzao again, "What about Changshi's thoughts?"

Fang Xuanzao also considered this issue and said, "Now Yang Yuanqing is concentrating on dealing with the Tang Dynasty. Bei Zhi believes that after the beginning of spring, the Sui army will inevitably attack Guanzhong on a large scale. Now there is no time to take care of us, but it is best to be careful. I agree with General Wang's suggestion."

Shan Xiongxin also said: "Now Qingzhou has not been destroyed. If Yang Yuanqing wants to attack us, he should destroy Qingzhou first. He left Qingzhou without fighting. It is obvious that he did not want to directly border our territory, so that he had no worries when attacking the Tang Dynasty. From this point, we can see that the Sui army really wanted to destroy the Tang Dynasty first."

Li Mi sighed slightly, "I think so too, but there is not much time left for us. We must eliminate Du Fuwei and Xiao Xian as soon as possible and consolidate our power in the south. If we do not take advantage of the Sui army's opportunity to attack Guanzhong and calm down Jiangnan, we will really have no chance when Yang Yuanqing finishes Guanzhong and fights Guanzhong and then turn around."

Everyone felt Li Mi's strong sense of distress and began to understand why he was so depressed.

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