Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 836

Hedong.

Taiyuan, under Tianlong Mountain.

The palace city of Jinyang is splendid and majestic, the east city is the palace city, the city is seven miles around, and the wall is four feet high.The west city is Cangcheng, with a circumference of eight miles and a height of four feet, connected by east and west walls.

Luo Chengcheng was amazed by this huge palace fifty miles away from Taiyuan City.

"The first person to build Jinyang Palace here was Gao Huan, who built a palace here to escape the summer heat. In the ninth year of the Sui Dynasty, King Yang Guang of Jin expanded Jinyang Palace. At the beginning, only the palace city was built. It was named Gongcheng at first, and later Emperor Wen changed its name to it. New City, to distinguish Gao Huan from Daming City. In the 16th year of Emperor Kaihuang, Cang City was built. In the 12rd year of Daye, Yang Guang traveled through Jinyang in the north and issued an edict to rebuild the Jinyang Palace of the Eastern Wei Dynasty. In the [-]th year of Daye, Yan At the siege of the gate, all the soldiers and horses from all over the world gathered for Prince Qin of Taiyuan, and countless money, food and military equipment were ordered to arrive."

According to what Xiao Yu told Luo Cheng, before the siege of Yanmen, Jinyang Palace was actually the same as the three cities of Taiyuan [-] miles to the north, both of which were military fortresses of the imperial court in the northeast of the river.After the siege of Yanmen, the emperor recruited countless civilians to transport a lot of money, food and equipment to the north, and finally hoarded them in Jinyang Palace City.

"There are 40 collars for the armor alone!"

Hearing this number is indeed amazing.

40 collars of armor, private possession of a set of armor is a felony, but the emperor stored 40 collars here in one place.There are countless other swords, spears, bows and crossbows.

It is precisely because of this large amount of ordnance storage that Yang Yichen was able to stay in Taiyuan and live in Hedong. Otherwise, this place would have been the same as other places, and I don’t know how many times it has been in chaos.

"How much money and food are there for military equipment?" Luo Cheng asked Xiao Yu.

"Armors and weapons are almost useless, and they are all sealed in the arsenal of Jinyang Palace. The palace city originally stored about a million stone grains, but it has been used a lot, but there are still more than half of it."

Hearing this number, Luo Cheng was pleasantly surprised.

These ordnance can be said to have been built during the most powerful period of the Sui Dynasty, especially seven years before the founding of the emperor, the court built a large number of ordnance, which was built by recruiting countless craftsmen and spending countless people's efforts.

But now that the world is in turmoil and the Quartet is separatist, not to mention the serious loss of craftsmen, it is difficult for a powerful force like Daqin to gather such a powerful ordnance manufacturing capability for a while. Just 40 armors, I don’t know how much manpower and material resources it will cost .

"The strength accumulated during the Kaihuang period of Sui Dynasty and the first 30 years of Daye is the best among all dynasties, but..." Luo Cheng shook his head and sighed.

Xiao Yu couldn't help but sigh.

How much food and ordnance the Great Sui had hoarded in the world, the Great Sui had millions of soldiers, but in the end they collapsed within a few years.

Thinking about it makes people sigh.

Li Mi, Wang Shichong and other heroes fought in the Central Plains for several years, but in fact they all relied on the family foundation of the Sui Dynasty to fight.

Yang Yichen and Xiao Yu guarded Hedong for several years, relying on the savings left over from those years.

Even Luo Cheng's success outside the pass was actually based on the elite soldiers who conquered Liao.

"Your Majesty, the noble officials and generals in Taiyuan are all seeking an audience outside the palace."

Luo Cheng was not interested, he just waved his hand.

"I know that everyone wants to see me sooner, just to calm down, but I don't have time to see them right now, and Minister Lao Xiao and Bachelor Wen will comfort them on my behalf."

"Oh, by the way, the Taiyuan Wang family insisted on going their own way and resisted to the end. I don't think we should be too lenient towards these recalcitrants who claim to be the leaders of the Hedong gentry, otherwise we don't know what prestige is!"

The corner of Xiao Yu's mouth twitched, unexpectedly, the emperor had just taken Taiyuan, and he was going to attack the Taiyuan Wang family. This Taiyuan Wang family is one of the five surnames and seven families, and the largest noble family in Hedong.

Luo Cheng didn't care about Taiyuan Wang's family at all. His attitude towards those gentry tyrants and those aristocratic officials was that he was willing to join them, and he hired them according to their ability and gave them some preferential treatment.But it's not to the point where he wants to kneel and lick these people. He Luo Cheng relied on the country that was brought down with a knife and a gun. From the beginning of the Liaodong army, he relied on his Liaodong military group, and those people were mainly from Shandong. birth.

Therefore, whether the nobles support it or not is actually not that serious.He also has conditions for preferential treatment of the gentry, and of course he must show those who resist.

The Wang family of Taiyuan resisted very resolutely this time. Although Taiyuan City was captured, one-third of it was burned down, and more than [-] soldiers and civilians died.Although the Qin army did not suffer many casualties and only lost more than a thousand, Luo Cheng still resented Wang for not cooperating.

Since they don't cooperate, they are no longer qualified to occupy the position of the first gentry in Hedong.

Taiyuan Wen's is very cooperative and can completely replace Wang's.

In fact, the so-called five surnames and seven families are also vulnerable to the power of the imperial court.

Just like Cui Hao in the Northern Wei Dynasty, an important minister of the Daowu, Mingyuan, and Taiwu dynasties in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the most important adviser of Emperor Taiwu, he made great contributions to the unification of the North in the Northern Wei Dynasty. Bad words, the result is not sitting in the prison of national history, and finally being wiped out of the nine clans. At that time, he was [-] years old, and he was still not let go. He also implicated the Fanyang Lu family, who also had five surnames, and Hedong Liu, a top gentry. and Taiyuan Guo.

Cui Hao is also a veteran and important minister, and also a top-notch noble family with five surnames Cui, and married with five surnames. It's like killing a chicken.

Of course, some people said that the revision of national history was just an introduction, and the real reason for being killed was because he was too powerful, which caused the dissatisfaction and worry of the Tuoba nobles in the Northern Wei Dynasty, so Cui Hao, who was the leader of the Han clan at that time, was killed. Returning the barbarians to other nine clans, and implicating his in-laws and noble clans.

But in the final analysis, whether it is the five surnames and seven families, or the Guanzhong gentry, although the gentry is strong, it is the whole, not the individual, that is strong, and no individual can resist the imperial power.

For Luo Cheng, there is a legitimate reason to get rid of the Wang family in Taiyuan now, and as the founding emperor, he is at the time when the imperial power is at its strongest. He wants to get rid of the Wang family, the Wen family in Taiyuan, and the Xiao family in Lanling. These people who have been with Wang for many years can't speak for them.

As long as Luo Cheng doesn't open the map gun, doesn't target all the gentry, and just kills the Wang family who resists him, then no one has anything to say.

"I suggest that Your Majesty should only pursue the Wang family who resisted the might of God, and not care about other people." Xiao Yu repeatedly asked.

Luo Cheng laughed.

"Since Xiao Shilang, you are so admonishing, then I will accept advice like a stream. How about it, I also know that there are many branches of the Wang family in Taiyuan, among which there are two major branches, the Jinyang Wang family and the Qixian Wang family. The Wang family has another branch of the four-room royal family and the Zhongshan Wang family. The Wang family who took the lead in rebelling this time is Wang Yu, the patriarch of the Wang family in Qi County. He is Li Yuan's brother-in-law. Situ, but even so, he should not resist."

After all, the Taiyuan Wang family has been a big family for hundreds of years, and it has developed to this day with many branches.For example, among the Wang family in Qi County, there is a son who is also an important minister in the Luocheng court, and he is the Wang Gui who voted for Luocheng before.There is also a very famous person, Wang Tong, a great Confucian who taught at Longmen, who has thousands of disciples, Du Yan, Fang Xuanling and others are all his disciples.

Therefore, Luo Cheng followed suit, regardless of the two Wang families, Wang Gui and Wang Tong, the rest of the Wang family in Qi County would be implicated. Who told them to follow Wang Yu and his son's loyalty to Li Yuan, and even the Jinyang Wang family would also be implicated. .

Being able to preserve the two Wang clans, Wang Gui and Wang Tong, Luo Cheng was considered an extrajudicial favor.

"Father Wang Yu and his son knew that they were beheaded outside Jinyang City, and the rest of Wang's children were exiled to Lelang and Daifang counties of Andong Road as Tuntian people."

(End of this chapter)