On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 455
The city of Suizhou changed hands, and the counties followed suit, opening the door to Eastern Han.

It's just that Cui Che didn't continue to march southeast to seize the land of Handong, but was arranging matters for staying behind and preparing for the class teacher.

Going farther, once Yang Guangdong goes out and Luoyang changes, it will definitely be too late to come back.

If Luoyang is lost, even if it captures Handong, it is tantamount to picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelon, and the gain outweighs the loss.

On March 606th, the first year of Zhenyuan (AD 27), Cui Che made a performance to Jinyang. With Dou Jiande as the governor of Suizhou and Liu Heita as the deputy general, he led [-] soldiers to guard Suizhou to guard against the enemies of Handong.

At the same time, according to the promise, Chen Ji was appointed as the governor of Xuanzhou (Zhiwuzhong County, Jizhou District, Tianjin today), and he was granted the title of Bo of Rangcheng County.

The rest of the surrendered generals also have their own rewards.

After dealing with these matters, Cui Che immediately led the class. The eldest grandson Wuji, the eldest grandson's wife Gao Shi, and Guanyin's servant also got into the carriage and followed Cui Che to leave.

As for Changsun Sheng's concubines who stayed in Suizhou City, they were rewarded by Cui Che to the meritorious generals.

Guanzhong, Daxing.

After Yang Guang learned that Cui Che left Luoyang and captured Suizhou, he wanted to take the opportunity to go east.

It's just that the exorcism of ghosts was not done smoothly.

No wonder Yang Guang was superstitious. His uncle Wei Wang Yang Shuang was haunted by evil spirits and died suddenly.

At that time, the wizard Xue Rongzong, who was sent by Yang Jian to exorcise ghosts, was also attacked by evil spirits in Prince Wei's mansion. He fell down the steps in panic and fell to the ground to die.

Although Yang Yong's ghost has never appeared, Yang Zhao's condition has not improved, but has a tendency to deteriorate.

Seeing this, Yang Guang didn't dare to stay in Daxing. When he was in a dilemma about leading the troops eastward or going to Renshou Palace to escape the summer heat, Yang Guang asked a fortune teller to give a divination about his fortune after his eastward departure.

The fortune teller's surname is Huang. In the second year of Emperor Kaihuang, Cui Che followed Li Chong to defeat the Turks in the Battle of Baidao, and returned to the court to reward him for his achievements. Huang Xiangshi was ordered by Yang Jian to meet Cui Che, and finally mixed Cui Che and Yang. Ah Wu's marriage.

Afterwards, Cui Che was worried that he would continue to spoil his own good deeds, so regardless of the past, he privately handed Huang Xiangshi a money bag.

Sure enough, when he met Cui Che again, Xiangshi Huang believed that he and Yang Lihua were a match made in heaven, so this marriage was born.

Now Yang Guang asked Huang Xiangshi to predict the good and bad of Dongchu for him.

Huang Xiangshi made a divination in front of the imperial court, and when he saw the hexagram, his face changed drastically, and he was frightened and dared not speak.

In fact, Yang Guang had been mentally prepared for a long time. Ever since he killed his father and brother, everything went wrong and his head was battered. He was not surprised to see Huang Xiangshi's expression. He said in a deep voice:
"What was the result?"

Huang Xiangshi said tremblingly:

"Reporting to Your Majesty, this ominous hexagram is also, please think twice about what happened in the east."

Hearing this, Yang Guang let out a long sigh, waved his hands and said:
"Okay, back off."

Not long after Huang Xiangshi left, Yang Guang immediately issued an edict to cancel the plan to go east. At the same time, he ordered Jiangzhou and other prefectural soldiers to rush to the east of Han and resist Cui Che's southward movement until Cui Che's class was in Jinyang.

As for Daxing City, Yang Guang didn't dare to stay any longer. Seeing that summer was approaching, Yang Guang led all the civil and military officials to Qizhou Renshou Palace to escape the summer heat.

Besides, Huang Xiangshi, when he returned home, he called his son to a secret room to teach him by example.

"Since ancient times, we have waited for fortune-tellers to predict disasters and fortunes for the monarch. Most of them are lucky, but today my father told the sage that this battle will be fierce. Do you know what it means?"

The gentleman of the Huang family has inherited his father's career, and is now also studying physiognomy. Hearing his father's question, he pondered for a moment and said:
"The king of Yan is a well-known general in the world, he has not been defeated, and the emperor's personal conquest is probably not his opponent.

"If the father tells you with auspicious hexagrams that the emperor is defeated, the father will definitely be punished for the crime of deceiving the emperor.

"But today, my father told him that the hexagram is very ominous, and if the sage stopped fighting here, he would not be able to verify the authenticity of the hexagram.

"Even if the sage does not listen to dissuasion and insists on going east, if he wins the class teacher, it will naturally be a great joy.

"Father can call the sage the son of destiny, who can turn things around and turn bad luck into good fortune, so how can the sage blame his father.

"But if the father's words are unfortunate, the saint will trust his father even more."

Seeing his son clarifying the mystery, Xiangshi Huang was overjoyed, stroked his beard and praised:
"My son is smart, and my husband will have successors."

It cannot be said that all fortune-tellers are fraudulent, but many times, fortune-tellers do divination for the king, not looking at the divination, but trying to figure out the king's mind.

If the king has made up his mind and insists on sending troops, he can't openly sing the opposite tune. Even if it is a bad hexagram, he has to say it is an auspicious hexagram to motivate the army.

But Yang Guang's hesitation was already written on his face. He was physically and mentally exhausted because of Yang Zhao's illness and Yang Yong's ghost, so he couldn't be firm in his will to send troops.

So just because of Huang Xiangshi's ominous divination, he ignored how much food was consumed in the previous pre-war preparations, and gave up on the matter.

This kind of behavior may seem like a child's play, but in fact it is indeed a child's play.

However, when Yang Guang governed the country, there were always so many child's play. Otherwise, in the original time and space, the Sui Dynasty would not have brought a powerful empire to the brink of extinction under his rule.

On the second day of April, when Cui Che was still on his way back to Luoyang from Suizhou, Yang Guang set off and drove north to Renshou Palace. He also took the sick prince Yang Zhao away, and went to Renshou Palace to recuperate from the summer heat.

It's just that even if Yang Zhao's strange illness left Daxing, he still didn't get better, which made Empress Xiao cry all day long.

The news that Yang Guang dismissed the conscripted army and went to Renshou Palace to escape the summer finally reached Luoyang.

Cui Che did not continue to stay in Henan either. Now that finances are tight, it is really difficult for the Eastern Sui treasury to support him to continue to lead troops abroad.

Fortunately, Suizhou was handed over peacefully, and the treasury of each county was not looted. Cui Che emptied the treasury of Suizhou to reward the soldiers who went south.

Previously, Cui Che raided prostitutes in various places and confiscated all the assets of the prostitute owners. At least it returned a wave of blood to the national treasury, and he could barely pay the rewards of the soldiers.

Otherwise, Cui Che could only follow Yu Wentai's example and pay by installments.

Yu Wentai offered a reward of [-] bolts of cloth for the head of the Eastern Wei general Gao Aocao, but the Western Wei was poor at that time, and the payment was not completed in installments until the fall of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

Cui Che left Luoyang first, and returned to the imperial court.

Soon after Yu Wenshu received Yang Guang's edict, he immediately disbanded the conscripted Jingzhou army.

The troops in Jiangzhou and other places learned that Cui Che had left Henan when they were en route to the north, so they immediately turned around and headed south.

The crisis in the south of Luzhou and the east of Suizhou was lifted one after another. Cui Che transferred Liu Fang to lead [-] troops to the north. Li Jing, the governor of Luozhou, returned to Luoyang and continued to command the soldiers of Luozhou, Luzhou, and Yizhou to guard against Jingzhou. The enemy, as well as the soldiers of Guanlong, went east.

Watching and helping with Dou Jiande, the governor of Suizhou.

(End of this chapter)