Judging from the name, Yanyu Restaurant seemed to be a very proper place, but only those who had been there knew whether it was proper or not.
Li Yuanba was dressed in casual clothes and led a few soldiers into Yanyu Restaurant.
A slender figure with a fat waist appeared beside Li Yuanba. Even the soldiers that Li Yuanba had brought were surrounded by women with charming voices.
"You can leave now! Don't come in without my permission!"
Li Yuanba waved his hand and the soldiers all retreated.
At this moment, Guo Huailiang and a group of people walked in from outside.
"Your humble subject Guo Huailiang greets Your Highness."
Guo Huailiang and the group of people behind him immediately knelt down when they saw Li Yuanba. He bowed respectfully to Li Yuanba.
Li Yuanba didn't move aside, but sat cross-legged and accepted the bow.
Although he was a transmigrator, Li Yuanba knew that there was no such thing as kneeling in the Great Tang. And now, these people were kowtowing to him with another layer of meaning, which was to pledge their loyalty to him.
Of course, Li Yuanba didn't believe that they would be loyal to him.
"Governor Guo, what do you mean by this?"
Li Yuanba glanced at Guo Huailiang and said indifferently.
"Your Highness! You are the third son of His Majesty and the Prince of the Great Tang. You have 5,000 households and your favor is unprecedented. You deserve our respect!"
Guo Huailiang looked at Li Yuanba and said word by word.
Li Yuanba's eyes flashed slightly before he said softly,""Didn't you say that you were going to hold a banquet to welcome me? Why was it in this brothel? Or is Governor Guo trying to tell me something?”
"Crown Prince Jiancheng's death was innocent. Other than the eldest son, Li Chengdao, and the two daughters that His Highness saved, the rest of his sons died. Even the Crown Princess Consort Zheng was forced to commit suicide by taking poison. How could there be any brotherhood?
Today, I beg Your Highness to avenge Crown Prince Jiancheng and your four nephews. Revenge for the soldiers who died in the Black Tortoise Sect incident!”
After Guo Huailiang finished speaking, he bowed to the ground, covering the ground with his head. The others also knelt on the ground.
"Do you want us brothers to kill each other?”
Li Yuanba turned his head to look at Guo Huailiang and said softly. There was no expression in his words, no blame, and no other meaning.
Guo Huailiang couldn't figure out what Li Yuanba meant, but he knew that since he had already come this far, he had to say what he had to say.
"Your Highness, Li Shi Min was the first to act. He disregarded his brotherhood and launched a coup, killing his brothers and imprisoning the Emperor. This was a great crime.
Now that His Highness has returned and saved Crown Prince Jiancheng's son and two daughters, we all hope that His Highness will stand up and avenge Crown Prince Jiancheng.
At that time, the world will respond and follow His Highness!”
Guo Huailiang's words were so emotional that Li Yuanba almost believed him.
"Seeing that you are still loyal to Li Jiancheng, I can pretend that you didn't say anything today. If you don't repent, your head will fall to the ground one day!”
Li Yuanba looked at Guo Huailiang and said indifferently.
"Your Highness!"
Guo Huailiang raised his head and looked at Li Yuanba in shock.
"Do you want me to personally throw you out?”
Li Yuanba frowned.
"Yes, sir! This humble subject will take his leave!"
Guo Huailiang's eyes flashed with sadness, as if he was very regretful.
After Guo Huailiang left, Li Yuanba's lips curled into a cold smile.
"Looks like someone is restless!"
Li Yuanba stood up and looked at Guo Huailiang and the others through the window. He could not help but mutter to himself.
Guo Huailiang was a member of the Guo Clan of Taiyuan, but he was only a minor character. Otherwise, he wouldn't have come to this dangerous place as the governor.
This meant that those aristocratic families were testing him, or even inciting him. Li Jiancheng had been the Crown Prince for many years, and many aristocratic families in the Great Tang had sided with him.
Now that Li Jiancheng had been killed and Li Shiming was about to take over, it meant that all their previous efforts had been in vain. Li Shiming might even find trouble with them in the future, which was why they had such thoughts.
At the same time, Li Yuanba suspected that the Tuyuhun Family was behind this invasion.
"I hope you don't show up. Otherwise, I won't let you off!”
Li Yuanba muttered to himself as he looked at the departing figure.
.........
The next morning, while Li Yuanba was waiting impatiently, the scouts finally returned.
"Your Highness, according to the scouts, Tuyuhun is still plundering in Min Province. There were about 50,000 of them, all of them cavalry.”
Cheng Yaojin cupped his hands in front of Li Yuanba.
"Fifty thousand cavalrymen?"
Li Yuanba's eyes narrowed slightly. 50,000 cavalrymen just to rob Min Province? To Li Yuanba, using 50,000 cavalrymen to rob a poor Min Province was a little too much.
"Where are the 50,000 yuan distributed?”
Li Yuanba asked Cheng Yaojin.
"Your Highness, there are about twenty thousand Tuyuhun cavalry in Qiongying County in the southwest of Min Province, and about ten thousand cavalry in Huaiming County in the southeast. There were about 5,000 cavalrymen wandering in the northeast direction. There were about 10,000 cavalrymen in Min Province. The remaining 5,000 cavalrymen should be on their retreat path.”
It seemed that Cheng Yaojin was very concerned about this matter. He had actually obtained such accurate information.
"Qiongying County has twenty thousand? Haha! It seems that these Tuyuhun cavalrymen have long targeted us! A total of 50,000 cavalry, Qiongying County alone had 20,000.”
Li Yuanba said with a smile.
"Your Highness, what should we do now? Are you going to fight or not?"
Qin Qiong looked at Li Yuanba and asked.
"Of course it is."
Just as Li Yuanba was about to say that, he suddenly thought of something.
If he remembered correctly, the alliance at Weishui River happened after the event at Xuanwu Sect. He vaguely remembered that the Eastern Turkic Khagan had led two hundred thousand soldiers to the banks of the Wei River.
At that time, the Tang army only had tens of thousands of troops around Chang 'an. The rest of the troops were scattered in other areas of the Tang Empire to suppress the rebellion. Adding on the financial difficulties of the treasury, Li Shimin had no choice but to ally with the Eastern Turks and use a large amount of money to force them to retreat.
And now, he had led the Left Military Guards, Right Military Guards, and Left Yiwei to Dangzhou. If there was another war on Longyou Road, he would have to transfer troops from Chang 'an, and it would be the kind that he had no choice but to transfer.
Under such circumstances, would history still go the same way? Would the Weishui Alliance still appear?
Li Yuanba's expression became stern.
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