The crossing starts from the Datang Shuanglong

Chapter 216 Snowballing

There is news in Chang'an, there is news in Hebei, there is news in Shandong, and there is news in Jiangnan.

After Chu Tianxiu seized the opportunity of Emperor Sui Yang being killed by Yu Wenhuaji, took over Jiangdu, and mastered the Great Sui Dynasty Hall, in just ten days, the situation of the world changed instantly.

Even though Chu Tianxiu kept the cause of Yang Guang's death a secret and only said that he died of a sudden illness, anyone with a bit of knowledge would naturally know why the tyrant died.

Although his death did not immediately kick off the chaos in the world as in history, it made heroes all over the country smell the smell of the Sui Dynasty's collapse, and they were all driven by ambition and began to expand and develop continuously.

Those who already dominated the land and claimed to be kings and emperors took advantage of the situation to expand their territory. Those who were originally Sui officials or who were taking a wait-and-see attitude rose up one after another and became local forces to protect their own urban and rural homes and make the whole world , gradually became a mess.

According to the information that Chu Tianxiu has learned, those who have changed are——

Baling helped Xiao Mian to rebel, took Baling County quickly, and established himself as the King of Liang.

Shen Fa, the prefect of Wujun, raised his troops to rebel, took Wujun and Yuhang two counties, and established himself as the king of Liang.

Zhuojun Luo Yi originally intended to rebel and become king himself, but after receiving the imperial decree from Chu Tianxiu rushing him to be the governor of Youzhou, he extinguished the idea of ​​self-reliance.

But there is no doubt that, compared to those princes who worked hard to conquer the world by themselves, today's Chu Tianxiu is the one who eats the most cakes just now.

Even though Chu Tianxiu was still a little worried, worried that the Li Clan would be too difficult to control, but his troubles were actually troubles of happiness—

After Chu Tianxiu took Jiangdu, supported Zhao Wang Yang Gao as the emperor, controlled the court of the Sui Dynasty, and coerced the emperor to command the princes, he has become the most powerful princes in the world.

Theoretically speaking, as long as the territory is not controlled by the rebels from all sides, it still belongs to the Great Sui Dynasty, or belongs to the Great Sui Dynasty in name, including Luoyang, Jingxiang, Bashu, most of Shandong, most of Liaodong, Except for the part controlled by Du Fuwei in the Jianghuai region, except for the Wujun and Yuhang counties that have just been controlled by Shen Faxing, the Jianghuai region can be regarded as Chu Tianxiu's sphere of influence.

Of course, as far as the specific situation is concerned, Chu Tianxiu's direct descendants don't have that many territories.

However, after Chu Tianxiu held the Sui government in his hands and held righteousness in his hands, he easily used personnel transfers, appointments and dismissals, and crowding out. Successfully won the three counties of Donglai County, Beihai County, and Gaomi County in Shandong.

If we can wait for Li Jing's army to return and successfully wipe out Xu Yuanlang, then not only will we be able to take Langya and Dongping Commanderies, and connect Huainan and Shandong territories, but we will also be able to take Pengcheng, Liang Commanderies, and Huaihe River as a matter of course. The six or seven states and counties along the coast.

In addition, under Chu Tianxiu's several edicts, the Danyang thief Le Botong announced to join him, which made Chu Tianxiu successfully take down the barriers outside the two river capitals of Danyang County and Zhongli County.

Gui Xiliang, Qin Qiong, and Chen Changlin, who was transferred from Yizhou, led the army to entrenched in Piling County. While resisting Shen Faxing who formally rebelled, they penetrated directly to the southwest and secretly took down Xuancheng County and Suian County, and if they march smoothly and take Shen Faxing's head, then Wu County, Kuaiji County and more than a dozen counties south of the Yangtze River will also fall into Chu Tianxiu's pocket.

Even Xingrong, who was entrenched in Zhuya County, gave Chu Tianxiu quite a surprise.With his mediation and the secret support of the Song clan, Hepu County, Nanhai County, Longchuan County and other six or seven states and counties along the coast of the South China Sea should also change their families and pledge their allegiance to Chu Tianxiu.

To put it bluntly, with Chu Tianxiu's current territory and influence, even if the Sui imperial family did not count the bonuses he received from the Sui imperial family, he could still rank among the top three princes of all ages.

The righteousness of the world, especially the orthodox righteousness of a unified dynasty that has not yet completely exhausted its luck, is really easy to use.

As a result, Chu Tianxiu didn't expend much effort this time, and let his power and territory expand nearly ten times like blowing up a balloon.

Because of this, even though Chu Tianxiu was assisted by Xu Xingzhi, a national scholar, and after taking Jiangdu County, he directly won the allegiance of some Sui Dynasty officials headed by the great scholar Yu Shinan, he was a little choked It feels like there is no way to digest these sites immediately.

This is actually an important reason why Chu Tianxiu is afraid of the Li Clan.

After the Li Clan has obtained the full support of the Guanlong nobles, he has obtained a huge and continuous talent pool of the aristocratic family.

As long as Li Yuan needs it, even if the Li Clan swallows up the entire north, there will be no shortage of talents.

Not only that, although the imperial decrees issued by Chu Tianxiu indiscriminately weakened the prestige of the Sui Dynasty a lot, they also let all the forces in the world know the power of "orthodox names".

The situation of the Li family is not bad, even though Chu Tianxiu has the most designs on it, and his hands are the most ruthless, but because the Li family is relatively thick, and there is a false emperor Yang You on the surface, he can still bear it , but the other princes and forces that Chu Tianxiu has severely targeted are quite miserable.

For example, Liu Wuzhou, who was obviously a Han Chinese but willingly became the godson of the Turks, has had troubles recently. First, Song Jingang, the leader of another rebel army who had surrendered to him, was suddenly attacked by the Sui Dynasty. Canonized, became the prefect of Mayi County, turned against him, and directly rescued the Sui general Chen Xiaoyi who was besieged by him in Yanmen, which added a big trouble to him.

What was even more miserable was Xiao Xian of Baling, who had just launched an army against the Sui Dynasty. The Yingchuan thief Shen Liu, Yuezhou school lieutenant Dong Jingzhen, Lei Shimeng, brigade commander Zheng Wenxiu and other Sui generals all received letters from Jiangdu. According to the imperial decree, he should either be appointed as the general manager, school lieutenant, etc., and reward them generously, directly blocking Xiao Mian's roads going south and north, and directly trapping him to death in Baling County.

Under the warning of so many bloody examples, some old Sui warlords who had raised troops immediately changed their course, at least saying that they would obey the Great Sui in name, and sent envoys to Jiangdu one after another, trying every means to get them from Chu Tianxiu. Ask for an imperial edict.

All of a sudden, guests from all over the world gathered in Jiangdu, which made Chu Tianxiu immediately become a favorite for everyone. Almost every day, gifts loaded in cars were delivered to Chu Tianxiu's mansion to please him.

(End of this chapter)