Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 368 The Upstart
In the end, Li Yuan still failed to capture Xincheng.

With the emperor's will to surrender, Li Yuan returned to the city of Liaodong.

Not far from Liaodong City, it is Liuhe City designed and built by Tai Fuqing.Liuhe City has two layers, the outer layer is an earthen wall, which is ten miles long, and the inner layer is a board city.

The square of the city is 120 steps, four feet two feet high, made of wood, six feet square, one side of the outside is a plank, made of clutches, painted in blue, six boards are built for the city, six thirty feet six feet, plus a six-foot-high girl The wall is therefore four feet two high.There are two gates in the north and south, and two enemy towers are erected at the four corners of the city.

This is actually a wheel palace with ingenious mechanisms that can be moved. There are many giant wheels under the whole wheel city, which can be moved by horse-drawn people.When Yang Guang went out to inspect the Great Wall, he built one.

When Li Yuan arrived in Liuhe City, he first went to the Lun Palace to meet the emperor.

In the end, he waited for four full hours, but finally did not see the emperor. It was his niece, Queen, who sent someone to tell him that the emperor was very angry with him now.

Sitting on the cold bench for four hours without even drinking hot tea, Li Yuan felt the heat of the world.After coming out, in the outer city of Liuhe, I met many accompanying officials, but they all avoided him from a distance, pretending not to see him.

The angry Li Yuan's face became more and more livid.

In the end, Li Yuan managed to find a yard arranged by the emperor. Originally, the emperor had arranged yards for all the officials accompanying him, and even sent civilian servants to serve him. The yard of Su Wei and other favored ministers was huge, with all the furniture and utensils. .But when Li Yuan looked for his own yard, he found that it was in a far corner, and the yard was very simple, except for a few basic furniture, there was nothing in it.

It can be seen that his next life will not be easy.

The young supervisor in the palace is the deputy chief of the palace department. Although the palace department is also called the province, compared with the three provinces under the Shangshumen, it can only be regarded as a marginal organization, but it is the emperor's service organization. Compared with Wei Wei Siqing, he is far inferior.

"A companion is like a tiger."

In the room, Li Yuan sat on the rough log couch, and couldn't help sighing.

"Father, all of this was caused by that little thief Luo Cheng. If it wasn't for him, my father wouldn't have been blamed by His Majesty one after another. Now that my father has been relegated to the position of a young prisoner in the palace, we don't need to talk to that little thief anymore."

Li Jiancheng looked at his father sitting on the couch, he seemed to have aged a lot overnight, and the wrinkles on his face had become more numerous.

Li Yuan turned his head to look at his eldest son, the severed arm was not yet fully healed, and it was still hanging.The eldest son grows tall, but the more he looks at Li Yuan, the more he frowns. He feels that his son is still too immature compared to Luo Cheng. He was very satisfied with this eldest son before, but now he realizes that his son still has too much immaturity. place.

"Dalang, you also know that there are many icing on the cake in this world, but there are few people who help in the snow. In particular, there are still many people who make trouble in the world. Father is not welcomed by the emperor. This time, he sat in the palace for four hours. I am afraid that tomorrow, it will spread throughout the Liaodong city, and everyone will know that the emperor is annoyed with me."

Li Yuan likes Jiancheng very much, and his mature atmosphere.

But now, he had to remind the prince that the position of the Li family was not stable.Although their home is an eight-pillar country, it sounds very loud.But I know everything about my family. In fact, his grandfather died early, and his father also died early, which led to the rapid decline of the Li family.

Why was Yang Jian able to usurp the Northern Zhou throne?

Because in the late Northern Zhou Dynasty, several of the eight-pillar kingdoms were already dead. On the contrary, Yang Zhong and Yang Jian’s family, which was originally only the twelve generals, have been lucky enough to escape several serious internal struggles in the dynasty, and their strength has not declined. anti-increase.

In particular, Yang Jian married Duguxin's daughter. When Duguxin failed in the internal struggle, most of the Dugu family's power was actually inherited by Yang Jian. For example, Gao Ying, the founding prime minister, was once Duguxin's family general.

The reason why the Li family lost power was that Li Hu died early, and Li Yuan's father didn't do much, and died early.

So by the end of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, in fact, only the Li Bi family, Li Mu family, and Yu Jin family were left with real strength in the eight-pillar country, but the Yang Jian family, which was only the twelve generals, succeeded in becoming the most powerful. By.

In the end, Yang Jian won the support of more people and replaced the Yuwen family of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

Like most of the nobles, the Li family has become a fool, because they are related to the Yang family, and the family does not have much power, so they still retain their titles in the new dynasty. It looks good, but in fact they are far away. center of politics.

It wasn't until Li Yuan became an adult and worked hard for so many years that the family regained some momentum, but there was still a big gap from the top family in the court.

Now, the emperor's anger towards him is undoubtedly a heavy blow to the Li family, which has been on the rise all these years.

The Li family is not only an eight-pillar country, but also the core of the Guanlong Group.

However, the power of the eight-pillar country is not always the same. The Guanlong nobles also struggle fiercely. How many families have fallen, how many families have been ruined, and how many families have emerged.

Li Yuan continued on his own, "Although our family is also a famous family in Guanlong, that is the glory of the past. Although your great-grandfather has many children and spreads out, so far, there has not been a decent person Come on, each family still holds a slightly higher position as a father."

"In comparison, although the Luo family was only the Yang family's former soldiers, they were the Yang family's confidantes. This Luo Yi has a bad temper and is not popular, but he is capable of fighting and fighting. Now he has Luo Yi again. Become such a fiercer stepson. Luo Yi is now the Duke of Yan, a general of the Sixth Army on the Right, Luo Cheng is the Marquis of Xiangyang, a general of the Fifth Army on the Left, two generals of one family, one Duke and one Marquis. Chao, there are not many people who are so favored."

Ever since the emperor changed his rank to honorary officer and title, the old nobles in the past have been greatly suppressed.

There are very few families with seven or eight noble titles in one family. Many of them used to be county princes, but now many of them are just marquises.

However, Luo Yi was originally only a county duke, but he was promoted to a state duke, and Luo Cheng was a young man, but he could also be conferred a marquis.

"This campaign against Liao, apart from Luo Cheng and Luo Yi's several big victories, the progress of the rest of the armies was not very good. The emperor personally commanded the attack on Liaodong City, and all lost troops, let alone the other generals. It can be said that, After the conquest of Liao this time, the Luo family will surely go further. Thinking back to the time when Mai Tiezhang was 35 years old and Lai Huer was 36 years old, Luo Cheng was probably 20 years old. Another upstart family was born in this dynasty."

Li Jiancheng was still very unconvinced, "So what, even if Mai Tiezhang came to protect the children and wait for the early title of Duke, our Li family has never flattered them."

"It's different." Li Yuan sighed.

"Father really wants to marry the third and fourth sisters to the Luo family?"

Li Yuan nodded.

(End of this chapter)