Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 733
Empress Xiao and the others waited for the rebels to leave before they were able to see the emperor and King Zhao.

The emperor was lying on the ground outside the hall, even wearing the eunuch's clothes, which was covered with dust.The eunuch cap on the emperor's head fell to the ground aside, but his hair was still neat, but the emperor's face was already blue and purple, his eyes were wide open and his eyeballs were protruding.

The mouth was wide open due to suffocation, and the tongue stuck out very long. She had never seen the emperor's tongue stick out so long.

Zhao Wang was even worse.

A sword was stabbed in his chest, and blood flowed all over his body.

Xiao Pin was originally standing behind Empress Xiao, trembling, but at this moment she suddenly saw the miserable condition of her own son King Zhao, she couldn't help howling, and staggered towards the corpse.

The palace eunuchs all wept.

Tears welled up in Empress Xiao's eyes. She married a man she had never seen before from the southern land of Jiangling to the north when she was a teenager.I lived with him in Chang'an, Jinyang, and Yangzhou for many years, and watched him go from the king of Jin to the prince, and finally became the king of this empire.

Now, the king is dead.

Her husband also died.

Died like a wild dog, without the dignity of an emperor.

Trying hard not to shed tears, Empress Xiao said to the palace eunuchs, "We have to restrain Your Majesty, we can't let him leave his corpse outside like this."

An old eunuch cried and said, there are no coffins in the palace.

Concubine Xiao and several concubines only knew how to cry bitterly there.

"There is no coffin, so let's make one ourselves."

"How?" asked the old eunuch.

Empress Xiao thought for a while, "Go and fold some beds and order one with the bed board."

The old eunuch was surprised and said that it was too simple and not enough for an emperor.

"What time is it, restrain yourself first, and talk about it later."

But at this time, Concubine Xiao cried for a long time, but took out a small bottle from her body, opened it and threw it up, "Gao'er, mother is here to accompany you."

"Pin Xiao!"

Many palace people exclaimed.

Someone said to Empress Xiao, "This is poisonous wine."

The emperor did ask the imperial doctor to prepare poisoned wine before, but it was not brewing a lot, nor was it to poison the soldiers of the Xiaoguo army in the north.On the contrary, the emperor prepared this poisonous wine for his own use.

He gave the prepared poisoned wine to the concubines and beauties around him, and said to them, "If Du Fuwei, Li Mi, Luo Cheng and other thieves are killed, it is inevitable, then you drink first, then I drink, we all drink Never fall into the hands of thieves and let them humiliate you."

It's just that when the real rebels entered the palace, the emperor didn't have any beautiful concubines by his side, so he didn't drink the poisoned wine.

At this time, Xiao Pin was in despair and committed suicide by taking poison.

Seeing Concubine Xiao vomit blood and die, many beauties took out the poisoned wine bestowed by the emperor one after another, and all had to take the poison.

Empress Xiao said, "If you really want to accompany Your Majesty, I will not stop you, but if you don't want to die, I will not force you. I will not take poison, I will restrain myself and mourn for Your Majesty."

Some beauties and concubines still took the poison. For them, the emperor died, the rebels entered the palace, and the sky has already collapsed. In the chaos last night, several beauties and many palace people were killed. The rebels insulted them, they didn't want to be in such panic, let alone be insulted by the rebels.

Looking at the concubines and beauties lying on the ground, Empress Xiao just said to the old eunuch, "We need to tear down some more beds, so let's restrain them together."

So Empress Xiao took the few remaining surviving concubines and a group of eunuchs and maids to dismantle all the beds in this side hall, and then used the bed boards to order a simple coffin for the emperor.

Then make small coffins for Zhao Wang, Xiao Bin, etc., and restrain them.

The old eunuch found white linen cloth for everyone to wear mourning.

"What should we do now?"

The old eunuch said that there are rebels guarding the outside of this side hall now, and they are not allowed to enter or leave.

"Stop at the Liuzhu Hall in the west courtyard!"

Empress Xiao leaned against the side of the coffin, looking at the emperor who had put on the emperor's robes again in the simple coffin.

"Your Majesty, this is all I can do for my concubine."

Everyone in the eunuch's palace wept, but only the scolding of the rebels outside was heard.

On the other side of the outer court hall.

Yu Wenhua and Gao sat on the dragon chair, which is usually reserved for emperors.

A famous rebel general gathered together. In addition, all the accompanying officials who were not killed last night were also notified and invited, and they were standing outside the hall.

Huben Lang told Yuan Li to Yu Wenhuaji that last night he killed Shangshu Youpushe Yuan Chong, Youyiwei General Yuwenxie, Zuotunwei General Dugusheng, Qianniu Yuwenyu, Qianniu Dugu Kaiyuan and others. Xiao Ju and his son were also killed.

"Li Yuan brought his son and several sons-in-law, and Qianniu Chai Shao and others took advantage of the chaos to escape from the city and went to the Jiangbei camp of Shen Guang and Chen Leng."

'This old thief! 'Yu Wenhuaji was a little flustered.

Next, the focus of everyone's discussion is two. One is that now that the emperor is killed, the next step is to embrace the culture of Yuyu and become the emperor, or what?The other is what about the tens of thousands of Xiaoguo troops in the Jiangbei camp not far from here?
When Li Yuan escaped from the city, he was the servant of the Huangmen and the prime minister, while Chen Leng was the appeasement envoy of Huainan, and Shen Guang was the general Zhechong of Xiaoguo Zuo Yijun.

Sima Dekan said that we will directly support Xu Guogong as emperor here.

"Impossible, Li Yuan and Chen Leng and his gang have not surrendered yet, so they cannot be declared emperor for the time being."

Yu Wenhuaji was still a little worried that Li Yuan and the others would kill them back, so he thought that there was no rush to become emperor now, but that he should find a way to subdue Li Yuan and the others first, and what he could think of was to establish a clan first, so as to borrow It is better to act in the name of the court than to proclaim the emperor right away, so that Li Yuan can have the name of rebellion.

So in the end Yu Wenhuaji decided to call himself the prime minister, the prime minister and all the officials, which was a copy of Yang Jian's usurpation of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

"Prime Minister, who should be appointed as emperor?" Sima Dekan asked.

Pei Qiantong said that the grandson of the emperor, Yang Tan, is still in custody.

"No, Yang Tan is the grandson of the emperor. He has always been smart and will definitely not cooperate." Yu Wenhuaji interrupted hastily. When Li Yuan was in a hurry, he still sent someone to inform him to escape, but he had to report to the palace first.

Fortunately, the Xuanwu Sect was already under their control.

Such a person is definitely not easy to control, even if it is just a puppet, you have to pick someone who is easy to control.

Emperor Yang Guang was killed, and Zhao Wang Yang Gao was also killed.

The only remaining prince, Yang Hao, had already been enthroned and proclaimed emperor by Luo Cheng in Liaodong.

Now there is only one emperor's grandson Yang Tan left in the palace, but Yu Wenhuaji refuses to appoint him.

So everyone can only find someone else.

"How about Yang Xiu, the King of Shu?" Yu Wenhuaji asked.

Yang Xiu, king of Shu, was the brother of Emperor Yang Guang. He had been out of town for a long time. Later, Yang Guang became the crown prince. Yang Xiu was very dissatisfied with this second elder brother.So Yang Guang conspired with Yang Su to falsely accuse Yang Xiu of using a witch cup to curse Emperor Wen and the emperor's favorite young son, King Han, and was decreed by Emperor Wen to deprive him of his official rank and demote him to a commoner and put him under house arrest in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Later, after Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, he continued to put Yang Xiu under house arrest, and put his seven sons under house arrest too. After that, the emperor must bring Yang Xiu and his son with him when he goes on tour.

(End of this chapter)