The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 912 Li Yuan was killed, the opportunity for a decisive battle

Luoyang is a city of water, even in the summer morning, it is a bit chilly, especially when there was a "summer rain" last night, the morning seemed to return to the early spring of the cold spring.When the sun rises in the east, the fog in Ziwei City under the sun makes the distant mountains and near water, the blue sky and the earth, the palaces and pavilions look like an ink painting with appropriate shades and complexity.

All kinds of precious plants present colorful colors, yellow and green, red and purple, with distinct colors and picturesque appearance.Two gigantic vultures fly across the sky, the big one is the one raised by Yang Tong, and the small one is the female vulture he seduced from nowhere. , they took the top of Qianyang Hall as their love nest.The two big eagles hover happily in the sky, up and down, as if they are guiding Yang Tong who is walking through the scroll.

After eating Yang Qinfang, who looked like a "children's daughter-in-law", Yang Tong was in a good mood, and walked briskly all the way to Tongming Hall.

In his dynasty, the system was more humane, and the court adopted a system of ten days off and one day. Today is just a day of rest and bathing, and the spacious Xuanzheng Hall is not used; whenever there is an urgent matter, the important ministers will spontaneously go to the smaller one next to it. Tong Ming hall is waiting for the audience.

When Yang Tong arrived at the Hall of Tongming, he glanced slightly, and saw that the chief officials of all ministries were present, he couldn't help but startled, no matter what, today's lineup is so neat, it shows that things will not be small.

All the ministers saluted: "My ministers see the Holy One."

"Exemption." Yang Tong entered the hall and sat down, and asked with a smile: "The people are quite neat, have you dug out a few more corrupt officials?"

"That's not true!" Seeing the emperor's face full of spring breeze, all the ministers were relieved.

In everyone's eyes, Yang Tong is an aristocrat who is least like an aristocrat, and an emperor who is least like an emperor, with a strong temper of a green forest hero.

During this period of time, he was devastated by corruption and embezzlement cases created by corrupt officials. He shouted and killed him all day long. Seeing his face getting uglier day by day, everyone suspected that if this continues, the emperor who has nothing to do will not be able to hold back. Starting from Liaodong with the Xuanjia Army, they went from place to place to take over the government offices in various places.

Of course Yang Tong would not do what the ministers were worried about.

Although he is saddened by the vile acts of some local officials colluding up and down, and he is even more determined to eradicate the evil, he also understands that grassroots officials are the foundation of a local government and cannot be completely wiped out with a hoe.What's more, some small officials and officials are "not upright at the top and uneven at the bottom". As long as the upper-level officials are clean, they dare not do evil. If the upper-level officials are greedy, then they will naturally lose their integrity.Another group of people still have this virtue, just because there are too few truly clean and honest officials. Otherwise, in the thousands of years of history, why are only a few clean and honest officials famous?

So from the very beginning, Yang Tong's plan was to catch the culprit, catch the big tiger, and temporarily let the little mouse go. These little mice with ghosts in their hearts have bad records, and will be trembling for a while, and work harder. Even if some of them want to make trouble, they can only do nothing.And during this gap, what the imperial court has to do is to improve the supervision system and use strict laws to forcibly correct the unhealthy trends.

The chaos in front of us, one is that the center is biased towards the military, the new land is biased, the supervision of the existing land is ineffective, and the transportation is inconvenient, the communication is not timely, and the reporting is ineffective. no return.

On the other hand, it is the world's gentry headed by the seven gentry clans who are at fault. They have controlled the court and the officialdom for nearly a thousand years. Manpower, if a certain important position belongs to one's own people, it can be used as foreign aid to strengthen its strength, even if it is a lowly or insignificant official, it can also indirectly expand its reputation.Faced with their beauty offensive and wealth offensive, some officials who are not determined can't hold back.

It was precisely because of the influx of these gentry that the already bottomless water became even more turbid, and finally a chaotic scene of demons dancing wildly occurred.As long as this stage passed, no matter whether the imperial court uprooted the power of the gentry, or they successfully controlled a group of officials, the officialdom of the Sui Dynasty would enter a stable period of officialdom management.But Yang Tong believes that the winner will be the Great Sui Dynasty. One is that the emperor is still very young; the other is that the laws of the world are formulated by him and the creatures of the world are ruled by him. As long as this is suppressed for decades, the nobles will slip through Zhiyu can no longer become a climate, and cannot influence the direction of the world.

"Oh!" Yang Tong responded lightly, and asked, "Since it's not a corrupt official, then what is it?"

When everyone heard this, they were all speechless. Since the emperor ceased his military service, he was first interested in the Ministry of Industry and ordered a series of major projects. Now it seems that he has fallen in love with corrupt officials again.

With the emperor as a human being, once he is concerned about something, the whole country will be moved by him, and all kinds of weird but effective methods will be followed one after another. Everyone feels silent mourning for the corrupt officials.

Yang Gongren cleared his throat and said, "Your Majesty, Yizhou sent a message that the Puppet Tang Dynasty had a Gongyan coup last night..."

"Okay! Is it the change of Xuanwumen?" Yang Tong became interested when he heard it, and he liked everything that happened to the enemy.

"Uh, so be it!"

The fire of gossip in Yang Tong's heart was blazing: "Then who wins?"

"Li Shimin!" Yang Gongren saluted and said, "Li Shimin took advantage of Li Yuan's suspicion and suspicion to concoct the illusion of joining hands with Li Jiancheng and Zhu Xiangguo to seize power, successfully transferred Li Yuan's army away from Chengdu City and Taiji Palace, and concocted chaos. Unprepared, Li Yuanji drenched himself with kerosene and burned him to death. Then Jing Junhong, who he had secretly bought, opened the Xuanwu Gate and successfully beheaded Li Yuan. Before dawn, "Li Yuan" issued an order Designate Li Yuanji as a rebel thief, dismiss Li Jian as the county king. Afterwards, Li Shimin canonized as Prince, Taiwei, Taishi, Taifu, Situ, Sikong, Da Sima, General, Prime Minister, Shang Shuling, Twelve Guards Shangda General, Generalissimo, Jing Zhaoyin, Yizhou Mu... There are many more, even our intelligence personnel can't remember, all in all, he now controls all military and political power."

"What?" Obviously this news has not been announced yet, so except for a few people who did not change their faces, the rest of them changed their faces after hearing these words.

"Killing brother and forcing father" seems to have been done by no one before. Although Yang Guang has such a bad reputation, in fact, some people are far-fetched to achieve political goals. Yang Jian was almost dead at that time, just wait a few more days At that time, Yang Guang, who was the prince at that time, was the justifiable emperor of the Sui Dynasty. How could he be so stupid as to kill his father?Compared with Yang Guang, who has been criticized, Li Shimin's actions are even more terrifying.

Yang Guang's position as prince is because he has enough military merits to deter the Guanlong nobles who are ready to move. As a prince, he not only complies with Yang Jian's national policy of weakening the Guanlong nobles, but also stabilizes the Sui Guozuo. He and Yang Yong are more secretly competing. However, Li Shimin's seizure of the crown prince was full of blood, and he directly slaughtered his own brother with a butcher knife.

"It really made Li Shimin succeed." Yang Yu was still shocked when the Xuanwu Gate incident happened, this Li Shimin, indeed that Li Shimin, could do anything for the throne.

"He even killed his own brother for the sake of the throne. This man is so ruthless and unsurpassed in the past and present! No wonder His Majesty always said not to underestimate this son." Li Jing sighed.

"It's more than that! In order to cut off future troubles and eradicate the roots, Li Shimin also asked Hou Junji to kill Li Yuanji's entire family in the name of 'Li Yuan', even children as young as he was. Princess Qi was also given to Li Shimin." At this point, Yang Gongren said again: "From this series of weird canonizations, I can feel Li Yuan's soaring resentment!"

"So what? What can be changed?" Fang Xuanling snorted coldly, and continued: "If Li Shimin had taken advantage of our Great Sui conquest to the south last year, and made such a ruthless move, maybe it would have caused great damage to my Great Sui." It must be troublesome, but now there is only an incomplete Yizhou in the puppet Tang Dynasty, and it is wishful thinking to want to be an enemy of the Sui Dynasty, which dominates the world."

Pei Renji nodded and said: "Yes, the political changes in the Puppet Tang Dynasty have no impact on the Sui Dynasty. Li Shimin needs to stabilize the situation in Yizhou and reach an agreement with all parties. Chaos. Even if he kills Li Yuan, it's just a dog jumping over the wall."

Du Ruhui said in a deep voice: "Wang Shizhuo can take the throne with someone who looks exactly like King Yan, so can Li Shimin. I think Li Yuan is very likely to be dead."

When Yang Tong heard this, he suddenly regained his spirits.

To be honest, Li Yuan and Xiao Xian are the big rebels who rebelled against the Sui Dynasty. According to the way of this world, even if you kill them, it is normal. Even Li Xiuning and Xiao Yuexian probably know that they are right, but those two After all, the big traitor is their father, so it is impossible to say that it is a grudge; the historical Nanyang Princess, because her husband Yuwen Shi and her younger brother who killed his father and enemy, simply used Dou Jiande to kill her son Yuwen Zen Master, which is enough to show a It is quite terrible for a woman to hate a man.

Xiao Yuexian's problem has been solved, but there is still Li Xiuning, this woman is not a cowardly Xiao Yuexian, she has led an army of nearly [-] to fight, if she launches a ruthless attack, her performance is probably no worse than that of the Nanyang princess in history.Even if they didn't kill their children, I'm afraid they wouldn't be as gentle and docile as they are now.

If according to Du Ruhui's statement, Li Shimin's "killing his brother and killing his father" is first published in the "Half Moon Talk", then Li Yuan will be killed if he is not dead. If it is true that Li Yuan died at the hands of the Sui army, he can also tell Li Xiuning that it is false Yes, this is good for your relationship between husband and wife and family stability.

Thinking of this, Yang Tong said solemnly: "This series of weird canonizations is very unusual. Since ancient times, how can there be such a canonization? After all, Li Yuan is the founding emperor of the puppet Tang Dynasty, so he still needs to show some face. How could it be possible? To issue such an absurd imperial decree? This must be a means concocted by Li Shimin in order to justify his name, monopolize power, and stabilize Yizhou. This guy even killed Li Yuanji, who had few soldiers, for the sake of power and the throne. How could he forgive him? He is the most threatening Li Yuan? In my opinion, in order to avoid the fire in the backyard of Li Shimin, I am afraid that he has already killed Li Yuan without stopping. I'm afraid it won't be long before Li Jiancheng is finished."

"The Holy Majesty is right," Kong Yingda said solemnly: ""Half Moon Talk" is not only the mouthpiece of the court, but also the carrier of punishing evil and promoting good, guiding people to be good, and promoting justice. I believe that the theme of the next issue will be Li Shimin's murder." brother killing his father' bestiality theme, and condemn it, to warn the world."

All the ministers responded together.

Yang Tong agreed without any objection, nodded and said: "Show."

"My lord, after this coup d'état, the puppet Tang Dynasty is bound to fall into a period of chaos, and this is a good opportunity for our Great Sui Dynasty. We must not sit back and watch Li Shimin take charge of the puppet Tang military affairs." Yang Shanhui, who is in charge of the Ministry of War, cupped his hands and said, "I think I Great Sui should send troops."

"The minister seconded the proposal, the time for a decisive battle has appeared."

"The minister also agrees."

"Pass down the order to make the Sui and Tang border troops mobilize... how to fight, everyone can figure it out."

Li Yuan used to be far away in the imperial capital, but intervening in the battle deployment of the generals in front was the most stupid way in the world. Naturally, Yang Tong would not make such a fatal mistake. Now that he is an emperor, he would not think about how to fight. Consider this war at a high level.

However, Luoyang was too far away from the battlefield. If he didn't take advantage of the timely response to some sudden changes, he needed to bring a team of staff to Daxing City, watch the development of the battle nearby, and make appropriate adjustments according to the needs of the battle.

"Here."

(End of this chapter)