Chapter 17 7. Clearing up obstacles: If you want to commit a crime, there is nothing to worry about

As an important town in the north, Taiyuan has always been a battleground for military strategists. After Li Yuan was ordered to garrison it, he felt mixed feelings.On the one hand, he felt that he could enjoy the advantageous geographical location of Taiyuan; on the other hand, he would definitely become the target of various rebels.After a period of deployment, Li Yuan found temporary peace in Taiyuan in the cracks, and he did not sit still, but actively accumulated strength for himself.Through conscription, Li Yuan's military power has been fully improved, but once he wants to make trouble, the first thing he has to face is the surrounding rebels who are staring at him. As for Sui Emperor Yang Guang who is far away in Yangzhou, he does not want to confront him too soon.

Although the sky is high and the emperor is far away, Taiyuan is not a quiet place.Wang Wei and Gao Junya were ordered to supervise Li Yuan. Once Li Yuan found any signs of rebellion, they had to report to Yang Guang in time so that they could quickly extinguish this sign.Therefore, they paid special attention to Li Yuan's every move. One day, Wang and Gao inspected the barracks and found that the barracks had expanded a lot.Wang Wei said: "In the past few days, Li Yuan has been recruiting troops everywhere, and Taiyuan's military strength is constantly growing." Gao Junya said: "The emperor has a decree, and there is nothing we can do about it. Now there are rebel armies everywhere, and the emperor wants to march eastward. Doesn't it require a large number of soldiers and horses?"

But Wang Wei didn't seem to think so, he said: "Accordingly speaking, conscription is no longer a secret thing. I don't know why, the emperor wants to make a secret decree to do this. It's really puzzling." Gao Junya still said disapprovingly: "General Wang, don't be confused. Our responsibility is to keep an eye on Li Yuan so that he doesn't dare to rebel. For the rest, let the emperor go." The two talked and walked while talking, when suddenly a group of soldiers walked by, saying something like "Elder Sun Shunde leads the army", Wang Wei grabbed a soldier and asked, "What did you just say led the army?"

The soldier was taken aback: "General, Changsun Shunde has just been appointed as the commander of the army. We have to rush to listen to the dispatch." Wang Wei said to Gao Junya: "Did you hear that? Changsun Shunde, a rebellious minister, has also been appointed as the commander of the army." Gao Junya was puzzled and said, "Didn't this person escape from Chang'an? Why did Li Yuan use him so much? Could it be that there is no one in the army?" Wang Wei said: "There is no one in the army? During this period of time, Tang Jian, Changsun Shunde, Liu Hongji and others have all gathered under Li Yuan's banner, and Pei Ji, the Jinyang palace supervisor, has often gathered with them. These Everyone is Li Yuan's confidant, how can there be no one? And these people are all in important positions now, don't you find it?"

Gao Junya hurriedly asked: "In General Gao's opinion, why did Li Yuan do this?" Wang Wei frowned tightly: "It seems that Li Yuan wants to exclude us in the army, and there is only one reason for him to exclude us, that is, he wants to rebel!" As soon as these words came out, Gao Junya was shocked.He grabbed Wang Wei, and the two hurried into the military tent, and began to secretly discuss countermeasures. While Gao and Wang were suspicious of Li Yuan, Li Yuan and Li Shimin were not idle, they were also discussing Gao Junya and Wang Wei.The role of these two people by Li Yuan's side is self-evident. Li Shimin has secretly intercepted a lot of secret letters they sent to Yang Guang for so long, because they haven't discovered Li Yuan's ulterior motives yet, and Li Yuan doesn't want to go too soon. Opposed to Yang Guang, that's why he has been trying to avoid them.But now, with the further development of conscription, Li Shimin feels that these two people can no longer stay.

Li Shimin said to Li Yuan: "Now we have started the second conscription, and the scope has expanded a lot. Gao Junya and Wang Wei are bound to doubt us, it is better to kill them directly, and we don't have to It was covered up, and it happened to be done with great fanfare." Li Yuan looked at the banner with the word "Li" fluttering in the barracks, and said to Li Shimin: "Now, your elder brother Jian Jiancheng and fourth younger brother Yuan Ji are all accompanying Yang Guang in Yangzhou. If we rashly attack him and alarm him, first There will be a large number of soldiers, and these troops who have not yet been on the battlefield will lose a lot, and your brother will also be in danger."

Li Shimin said: "If we kill Gao Junya and Wang Wei, it will take some time for the news to reach Yangzhou. During this time, we can send secret envoys to pick up my eldest brother and fourth brother, so that we can rest assured." Li Yuan shook his head and said, "It's still too risky." The two were talking, and Zhang Sun Shunde and Liu Hongji hurried in.Li Yuan smiled and said to grandson Shunde: "How does it feel to be the new Commander?" Eldest Sun Shunde didn't seem to be excited about taking office as a new official: "Stay behind, I heard from the soldiers that Gao Junya and Wang Wei seemed very dissatisfied when they learned that I was appointed as the commander of the army!"

Li Yuan said: "I have always been in charge of the appointments in the army, so why are they dissatisfied?" Chang Sun Shunde said: "I wouldn't care if they were dissatisfied in the past. It's just that this time, a big event is about to happen. If they become suspicious because of this, it would be bad." Before the words were finished, spies came to report: Wang Wei sent a messenger to Yangzhou, but it had been captured by the guards.Li Yuan opened the secret letter and was shocked. It turned out that Wang Wei had already started to doubt because he had greatly promoted his confidants to take over the military power.This letter was his secret to Yang: Li Yuan is about to rebel!

After reading the letter, Li Yuan turned around and said to Li Shimin: "It seems that these two people really cannot stay." Li Shimin cupped his fists and said, "Leave this to me!" That night, the soldiers who had practiced for a whole day fell asleep, sleeping very soundly.Only Wang Wei has been tossing and turning worrying about whether the secret letter sent out during the day will be safe.He heard the watchman walking past several times before he began to fall asleep. Before falling asleep, he was suddenly awakened by the sound of footsteps. Wang Wei hurriedly sat up, and the voice of the guard came from outside the door: "General Wang, please stay behind and ask the general to come to the meeting hall, saying that there is an important military plan to discuss."

While agreeing, Wang Wei dressed in a hurry, ordered people to lead the way with lanterns in front, and walked through the quiet military camp to the meeting hall. Contrary to the darkness and silence outside, the meeting hall was brightly lit at this time, and soldiers from all walks of life gathered together. Li Yuan sat solemnly in front of the desk, flipping through a piece of paper.Wang Wei noticed that Gao Junya was also standing there at the moment, looking at a loss, he seemed to be the same as himself, and he didn't know what happened. Li Yuan looked up and saw that Wang Wei had arrived, he didn't signal to him as usual, but just looked down at the paper in his hand again.Although the hall was full of people, there was no sound.

After a while, Li Yuan said: "The emperor of the Sui Dynasty has shown great kindness to all of you. I really never imagined that someone would collude with foreign bandits and join forces with the Turks to plot against us, Da Sui Heshan!" As soon as these words came out, everyone looked sideways, not knowing who Li Yuan was talking about.Wang Wei and Gao Junya looked at each other with their eyes, and found that everyone was in a daze.Just when he was wondering, Li Shimin yelled: "Tie up Wang Wei and Gao Junya, the two rebels!" When Gao and Wang were stunned, many soldiers with knives rushed out and tied them up in the blink of an eye.Wang Wei hurriedly shouted: "Why is this? Why is this?" Li Yuan sneered, and said, "Why? See for yourself!" As he spoke, he threw the paper in his hand in front of Gao and Wang. I saw that on the paper, in very familiar handwriting, Gao and Wang asked Turkic Sibi Khan to surrender, and the last signature was Gao Junya and Wang Wei. After Wang Wei read the letter, he was taken aback. He looked back at Gao Junya and asked him, "You wrote this?" Gao Junya said angrily, "Where did I write this? Look at the handwriting yourself! You colluded with the Turks yourself, why did you write my name in it!" Wang Wei looked carefully again, and then he saw clearly that it was his own handwriting.For a moment, the secret letter he wrote to the emperor first appeared in his mind, but the letter in front of him was not the letter he wrote!He hurriedly said to Li Yuan: "Your Excellency, I did not write this, and I definitely did not collude with the Turks!" Li Yuan glanced at him coldly: "The evidence is right in front of your eyes, and you still say you didn't have it? Well, I'll let you meet someone, and then tell me whether you did it or not." As he spoke, a short soldier was tied up.Li Yuan asked him: "Do you know this person?" Wang Wei saw that this was not the confidant he sent to Yangzhou to deliver the letter?How could he appear here?For a moment, Wang Wei was speechless and speechless. Li Yuan said to the man, "Do you recognize this man in front of you?" The soldier trembled in fright: "I know...I know...it's General Wang..." Li Yuan said, "What task did he entrust to you?" The soldier said, "He...he asked me to deliver the letter." Li Yuan turned to Wang Wei, and said solemnly: "General Wang, there are all the witnesses and material evidence, do you have anything to say now?" Wang Wei was so angry that he jumped up violently, kicked the soldier who delivered the letter away, and shouted at Li Yuan: "Li Yuan, you framed me!" Li Yuan said calmly: "Whether I framed you or not, all the officers and men can see clearly. Whether you have betrayed your promise and framed Taiyuan, we can also see clearly! I have always been kind to you, but you have colluded with each other for nothing." Khan came to attack Taiyuan, fortunately I found out early, otherwise, the present Taiyuan might already belong to the Turks!" Wang Wei and Gao Junya couldn't argue with each other at this moment, they could only shout furiously: "This is a false accusation! This is a false accusation!" Li Shimin came up and said to the soldiers: "Everyone, how can we tolerate such treasonous and collaborating villains? Please stay behind and kill them, as a warning to others!" Li Yuan said, "Okay! If that's the case, I'll make an example and push these two traitors out!" Before Gao and Wang had time to expose Li Yuan's conspiracy, they were pushed out of the camp gate amidst the excited shouts of the crowd, and the blood-stained wandering soul could no longer tell the truth of the matter. Li Yuan's killing of Gao Junya and Wang Wei was the first time blood stained the blade at the beginning of the rebellion against the Sui Dynasty, and it was also the first time he was an enemy of Sui Emperor Yang Guang.Although the means used were cryptic and it didn't look like a direct conflict, but both sides knew very well that the blood of Gao and Wang was the flag for the battle between Li Yuan and Yang Guang!The two sides are about to tear off the veil at this point, and the real vigorous frontal conflict is about to begin!