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Chapter 573 Surrender (Part [-])
Hearing Li Chongjiu's words, the General Zhao Jun, who was a little smug at the scene, woke up.

Li Chongjiu said: "The capture of Luoyang is just the beginning. I want to use this city for a stone pill to block Li Tangtong Pass Road, making it hopeless for him to go west out of Guanzhong."

All the generals nodded together.

Li Chongjiu looked at the banner with the characters of Zhao waving on the palace city of Luoyang. The soldiers from the land of Yanzhao rushed to cheer at the top of the palace city of the eastern capital.

The former capital of the Sui Dynasty is now captured by me!

"Your Majesty, Luoyang Palace City has been captured by my old Qin! Haha!" Qin Qiong came to report to Li Chongjiu with a proud face.

Luo Shixin stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, Luoyang Palace City has come down, and I will invite Your Majesty to enter the palace to receive the congratulations from the soldiers of the three armies!"

Li Chongjiu nodded slightly and said, "Then go!"

At the moment when Li Chongjiu was going downstairs from the bell tower, Zhao Guoting's guards had already prepared a large cart as Li Chongjiu's car when he entered the city.

The big cart was dragged by four horses, the panels had been disassembled, and the sight was clear. Li Chongjiu was sitting on the cart, and two imperial husbands were driving in front of the cart. It was surrounded by court guards.On Shangchunmen Street, Li Chongjiu walked along the imperial road, and soldiers of the Zhao army stood on both sides of the imperial road.

On the left side of the royal road, the loess rammed square wall has long since peeled off and is in disrepair, exposing the houses of the common people behind the wall. Luoyang Beicheng used to be the residence of dignitaries, but today it is dilapidated.Going from the imperial road, there are Demaofang and Lixingfang on the left, Yucai and Shiyongfang on the right, and arrive at Luoyang Beishi.

Looking at Beishi in Luoyang, Li Chongjiu couldn't help remembering something and asked Shan Xiongxin beside him: "Is the famous flower under the moon in Beishi still there?"

Shan Xiongxin didn't expect that Li Chongjiu mentioned this place and said: "When Pu Shangong attacked Luoyang, he burned it once, and then reopened it, but his reputation is not as good as before. Later, when the Tang army attacked the city, the people in the city couldn't even eat enough. No one goes to the place of looking for flowers and willows.”

Li Chongjiu nodded, and a beautiful woman's face floated in his mind and said: "After I return to Youjing, people can rebuild this place."

Wei Zheng, who was accompanying the carriage, said: "Your Majesty is a man with a broad mind, why did you mention this land of smoke and willows?"

Li Chongjiu laughed and said: "I just remembered an old friend!"

After Li Zhiwan's death, Li Chongjiu recalled her confidante in her life, only Qu Yanran was left.Li Chongjiu also knew a thing or two about Qu Yanran's affection for him, but when he thought of her wandering around now, he couldn't help feeling a little bit sympathetic.

Li Chongjiu turned his head to look at Luoyang Beishi. Luoyang Beishi used to be full of traffic and horses, but now it has been battered by war, and it is no longer the same as yesterday.

Li Chongjiu collected his mood, at this time the majestic Luoyang palace city was in front of his eyes.When Yu Wenkai built the Eastern Capital, he followed the law of the sky and the earth, and built Luoyang Palace City in the northwest corner of Luoyang City as Ziweiyuan among the 28 constellations of the three walls.

On the Xuanren Gate, Zhao Jun's soldiers guarded the tower and the passage below the city with three steps and one post, and five steps and one sentry.

In front of the city gate, the generals of Zheng Jun who surrendered were all kneeling on the ground far away.When Li Chongjiu arrived, Zheng Jun's ministers all kowtowed and said, "I greet you, Your Majesty."

Li Chongjiu got out of the car and said calmly: "No, just raise your head!"

Li Chongjiu looked over everyone's faces and asked, "Report your history one by one!"

"Criminal Duan Da."

"Criminal Wang Long."

"Sinner Cui Hongdan."

"Criminal Xue Deyin."

"Criminal Yang Wang."

"Criminal Minister Meng Xiaoyi."

"The guilty minister Guo Shizhu."

"Criminal Dong Rui."

"Criminal Zhang Tonger."

"Criminal Zhu Can."

Hearing Zhu Can's name, Li Chongjiu stopped, looked at the square-faced man and asked, "Are you Zhu Can?"
After hearing Li Chongjiu's name, Zhu Can hurriedly said with a smile on his face: "Yes, I don't want a humble name to be heard by Your Majesty, and I feel very honored."

"The cannibal King Lou Luo, why haven't I heard of it?" Li Chongjiu said calmly.

Hearing what Li Chongjiu said, Zhu Can turned pale and said, "This is a rumor made by the world. This... the world is rebelling against the king. If anyone has no blood on their hands, blame the world!"

Li Chongjiu said: "Death is imminent, and you are still talking sophistry, I am really too lazy to talk nonsense with you."

"Your Majesty!" Zhu Can said with a pale face, "Killing surrenders is inhumane! If I hadn't persuaded everyone to surrender, how could you have captured Luoyang Palace?"

Speaking of this, Zhu Can said to the left and right: "Look, this King Zhao is going to kill the donkey. He treats me like this today, and he will treat you like this in the future. This man is a foolish king. If he had known this, he might as well have surrendered." Li Shimin."

The ministers of Zheng Jun who were kneeling on the ground all looked at Zhu Can with complicated eyes, Xue Deyin said: "King Loulan, when you plundered Huaisi, the city that was destroyed even ate children, women and children, now the retribution Now, at this moment, it’s useless to say more.”

Zhu Can's face was full of ferocity and he said: "You bastard, I hate scholars like you the most. When I was in Huaisi, I also liked to eat you scholars the most. Haha, believe it or not, I ate you."

Li Chongjiu said: "Come here, knock out all this man's teeth!" At this point, Zhao Jun's soldiers stepped up from left to right and grabbed Zhu Can.

"Damn it, you dare to arrest me, I ate your whole family!" Zhu Can shouted.

Zhu Can was full of crimes, and none of the Zheng Jun ministers present pleaded with Li Chongjiu for him. As for Wei Zheng, Ji Chuan and other Zhao Guo ministers, no one spoke when they saw Zhu Can being taken.

A soldier sneered, picked up the hammer and threw it directly at Zhu Can's face.The screams rang out again and again. Zhu Can seemed fierce, but in the end his mouth was covered with blood, his white and yellow teeth spat all over the floor, and finally he begged Li Chongjiu vaguely.

Zhang Xuansu said on the side: "People who kill like hemp, in the final analysis, are the most greedy for life and afraid of death."
Seeing Zhu Can's end, Xue Deyin sneered and said, "It's a pleasure to see this person obey the law when he is dying, and I'm ashamed to be a courtier with him."

Li Chongjiu looked at the rest of Zheng Jun and said: "I am not a bloodthirsty person. Although you have followed Wang Shichong, it is not a big mistake!"

Li Chongjiu's words calmed down the panic-stricken people a little.

Then Li Chongjiu re-boarded the car and drove straight into Luoyang Palace City.The Luoyang palace city built by Yu Wenkai in the past is a rare brick city in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.It can be imagined that apart from the imperial palace, other cities in the Central Plains are rarely built with bricks. Otherwise, Yang Xuangan, Li Mi, and Li Shimin would not have been helpless against Luoyang Palace City when they had superior forces.

As the capital of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, although he rarely spent his life in Luoyang Palace City after he ascended the throne, it did not prevent him from making the Palace City magnificent in response to his taste for great success.The city wall of Luoyang Palace is four feet and eight feet high, two miles and 85 steps long from north to south, and four miles and 180 steps long from east to west. Its area is nearly three times the size of the Forbidden City in Beijing today.

Li Chongjiu entered the city from Xuanren Gate to the east city of Luoyang Palace City, where Si Nong Temple, Guanglu Temple, Taichang Temple, Shangshu Sheng, Shaofu Supervisor, Military Weapon Supervisor, Dali Temple and other official offices are located here.

The palace city of Luoyang is composed of six cities: Imperial City, Dongcheng City, Hanjia City, Yuanbi City, Yaoyi City, and Miyagi City.In order to guard Luoyang, Wang Shichong ordered Qi Wang Shiyun to inspect the southern city, Prince Wang Xuanying to guard the eastern city, Han Wang Xuanshu to guard Hanjia City, and Lu Wang Wangdao to guard Yaoyi City.

Now that the Luoyang palace city has been broken, the clansmen of the Wang family were all besieged by Song Jingang who had invaded the city, and all of them were besieged in the east city.

Li Chongjiu continued to move forward in the car, and entered the palace city through the imperial city through a diversion.Within the palace city, there are Zhenguan Hall, Huiyou Hall, Xuanzheng Hall, Hanzhang Hall, etc., as well as Zhongshu Sheng, Shiguan, Jixiandian Academy, and Menxia Province. There are 35 halls, platforms, and halls, all of which face the Northern Dynasty. South, well-ordered and patchwork.

Of course, in the palace city, the most important main hall is the Qianyang Hall, which has the same status as the Qianqing Palace in the Forbidden City today.The couplet building in Qianyang Hall is magnificent and magnificent.

Li Chongjiu got out of the car with all the ministers, and walked straight into the Qianyang Hall from the trail. On the corridors on both sides, soldiers of the Zhao army stood on both sides with guns. When everyone looked up, they saw the Qianyang Hall with triple eaves standing majestically.Between the pillars of the front eaves, each room has bead curtains hanging down, swaying with the wind.

Zhao Guo's ministers couldn't help but be dumbfounded when they saw this Qianyang Palace. Compared with the main hall of Linshuo Palace in Youjing, Qianyang Palace is like a lady from a great family and an earthy girl who has never seen the world.The gap between the two is simply a world of difference, the difference between cloud and mud.

Xue Wan said: "I heard that when the temple was built, the big trees near Luoyang had been felled long ago, so most of the big trees for the temple were picked from Yuzhang. At that time, 2000 people pulled a column, wrapped the wood with iron hoops, and rolled the wooden wheels. , only 10 to [-] miles a day. Just one palace took the effort of hundreds of thousands of people!"

Zhang Xuansu couldn't help sighing: "A Fangcheng, the people of Qin are scattered; Zhang Hua is here, and the people of Chu are separated; after the work of Qianyang is completed, the people of Sui disintegrate!"

Wei Zheng on the side showed a solemn expression, pinched his beard and said, "Emperor Yang, take this as a palace, how can the Great Sui Dynasty be endless."

Song Jingang said: "We waited for the anointing of the people to build this hall for the former emperor! It's better to burn it down."

All the generals said one after another: "Yes, let's set it on fire!"

"Burn it, relieve the hatred in my heart!"

The same is true for many people. Li Chongjiu turned around and said: "Back then Xiang Yu destroyed Qin, turned his hatred to things, and burned the Efang Palace to ashes. It is said that the fire has been burning for three months and has not been burnt out. You say this Qianyang How long will it take for the temple to be burned?"

Li Chongjiu paused and said to the ministers: "Qin spent countless generations of effort to build the Efang Palace. You say the fault lies with Qin or Efang. Is the palace built by these hundreds of thousands of people wrong?"

All the ministers were silent at the moment.

"Stay!" After saying this, Li Chongjiu immediately boarded the Qianyang Hall.

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