Chapter 190 Dongdu is in crisis

Yang Guang no longer had the intention to ask the messenger, but hurriedly opened the message tube and poured out a quick message from it. Like the message tube, the letter was not sealed with a fire paint.

With a calm face, Yang Guang quickly unfolded the letter with his slender hand. Although the handwriting of the letter was quite neat, it could be seen, but it was a bit hasty when writing. A letter had a small number of words, with only a few hundred words, but it clearly explained the recent situation in Dongdu.

The more he looked at Yang Guang's face became darker, and at the end even his slender hands began to tremble. After reading the last line, Yang Guang angrily threw the letter to the ground and let out a long hum from his nostrils.

The ministers who were originally holding cups and chopsticks all knew that something very bad must have happened. The letter came from Dongdu. Has Dongdu been lost? When they thought of this, even the ministers like Pei Yun felt shocked.

Although Pei Yun was once an old minister in the Southern Chen Dynasty, now as a close minister of the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty, his family is naturally all in Luoyang, the eastern capital. At this time, when he thought that his family might have fallen into the hands of Yang Xuangan's rebels, he was really afraid and anxious.

"Your Majesty, what happened to Dongdu?"

Although the letter was on the ground, he did not dare to pick it up and read it without Yang Guang's order.

Yang Guang turned his head and looked at Pei Yun, but he was not as close as usual. He just said coldly, "Pick it up and see it yourself! Look at your tutor. Do you usually teach your children like this? Eat the king's fortune and be loyal to the king. Where is this loyalty and patriotism?"

Pei Yun and others were shocked when they suddenly heard such stupid words. Why did the Dongdu’s urgent report bring himself and their children in? At this time, they didn’t have time to think about those things, so they bent over and reached out to pick up the letter that was thrown on the ground, and looked at it with all their eyes.

After reading the letter, Pei Yun's face was much more exciting than Yang Guang's. When Yang Guang read the letter, his face became more gloomy and angry. When Pei Yun looked at the letter, his face became paler the more he looked. Finally, his whole body trembled. At the end, he even knelt in front of Yang Guang and said loudly, "Your Majesty, I am the one who is not good at teaching his children on weekdays, so I let the rebellious son do something without a king or a father. Please give up the crime!"

The ministers next to them were already confused as if they were watching a pantomime. They didn't understand why the urgent report from Dongdu suddenly became related to Pei Yun's teaching son. They all wanted to go and see the letter, but they were afraid that the matter in the letter was also related to themselves. They were really anxious and afraid.

"Look at it all, I believe you will be surprised." Yang Guangqing sat down again with a face and said to the uneasy ministers.

Ignoring those ministers who were eager to pass on the letter, Yang Guang's heart was in a state of uproar. The letter was indeed sent by Fan Zigai, the one he had expected, and what he had sent was not the good news he had expected, but a bad news, a news that was bad for him could not be worse.

After Yang Xuangan raised his army, although Beiping County did not cut off his retreat in the end, he did not choose to go to Daxing City, but went directly to the nearest eastern capital Luoyang. This was the same as he had expected before, but the development of things was beyond his expectations.

While Yang Xuangan and Li Mi were constantly recruiting troops, they also asked his younger brother Yang Xuanting to lead the two thousand most elite rebels and attack Luoyang. Fan Zigai, the left-behind guard of the Eastern Capital, sent Pei Hongce to lead his troops out of the city to fight. Pei Hongce led a total of eight thousand soldiers, all of which were elite soldiers from the inner palace. Not only that, in the Eastern Capital, Luoyang City, many noble children basically had military positions in the Imperial Guards.

These positions are usually just for the emperor's palace city, which is of high rank and can be a good background. This time no one expected that Luoyang, the capital of the world, would also send troops to fight. Many noble children in the army had to follow the army.

Eight thousand elite soldiers in the inner palace, plus a large number of noble children, went out of the city to fight against the rebels with two thousand people, and they would not lose anyway. But the fact is that eight thousand people were defeated by two thousand people. Except for Pei Hongce who fled back to the Eastern Capital, the rest were either killed or captured. All the noble children were captured.

When Pei Hongce returned to Dongdu, Fan Zigai, the Dongdu stayed behind, killed him as soon as possible. As a result, when the captured nobles saw such a result, everyone was scared. They were all officers at all levels who sent troops this time, and even the chief general was killed without saying a word. They thought they had no hope of avoiding it. In the end, all the nobles surrendered Yang Xuangan.

The reason why Pei Yun looked pale when he saw the letter was because his son was also a member of the rebels. In addition to Pei Yun's son, there were more than 40 people including the dead General Han Qinhu, the son of Yang Xiong (the royal family), the son of Minister Yu Shiji, the son of the navy commander Lai Hu'er, and Pei Yun's son.

This result was not only Pei Yun was afraid, but also Yang Guang was afraid. This was not a rich young man surrendering to the enemy, but the nobles of the Great Sui Dynasty surrendered to the rebels. Even the royal family surrendered, it was conceivable that the shock to Yang Guang.

The Yang family's throne was also usurped. Before that, their Yang family was just like the nobles' families, and even could not match some of them. Therefore, after Yang Jian became emperor, he had been weakening the rights of the nobles and the nobles' families. After Yang Guangyi ascended the throne, he did it very obviously.

As long as you are careful enough, you can notice such a situation. In addition to Yuwen Shu and Pei Shiju, the people Yang Guang valued after he ascended the throne were all newcomers, especially Pei Yun and Yu Shiji, who were even old officials in the south, including Yang Yichen, Li Jing, Xue Shixiong, Wang Rengong, Fan Zigai, Wei Wensheng, and Chen Kefu. Even Yuwen Shu and Pei Ju were originally just two insignificant small characters.

In other words, all the meritorious and old ministers of the Yang Jian era were not valued, and some were even killed, such as Gao Bing. Of course, Yang Guang's approach was understandable. However, because he has always been a fierce person, too urgent and too fierce, it brought very serious side effects. The Great Sui Dynasty gradually lost the support of some aristocratic families, especially the aristocratic families in the Guanlong area, and many of the meritorious and old ministers of the Great Sui Dynasty were mostly for this. The reason is very simple. Yang Guang's approach directly harmed their vital interests. Most of the old families were not valued and were even killed, such as Yu Zhongwen!

It is safe to say that the Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty has left this class, a class that has fully supported his rule in the past. The advantage is obvious, that is, he is becoming more and more centralized, more and more free, and less and less and less and less and no one dares to oppose him; as for the disadvantages, Yang Guang has never considered it much before!

However, the newcomers he valued and relied on did not have the sense of belonging and mission like the old ministers who were meritorious and old. They were a class that could easily become a class that would easily become a time bomb that destroyed the Great Sui Dynasty!

Now, it is the result of his continuous suppression of the old Guanlong military aristocratic group since he ascended the throne and vigorously promoting emerging aristocratic groups. At the critical moment, the old aristocratic groups were no longer willing to give up their hearts to protect the Yang family's world. Not only did Yang Xuangan rebel, but other aristocrats easily surrendered the rebels. However, those emerging aristocrats were even more unreliable.

For the first time, Yang Guang felt that his great cause was a bit dangerous. When he knew that Yang Xuangan rebelled, all he had was anger, the anger of being betrayed. At present, the collective rebellion of more than 40 nobles made him feel fear.

No matter how many farmers rebelled in the world, he was not worried about what could a group of farmers have caused. What could happen to a group of farmers? Daye has been rebelling for seven years, but now, which one can create something Mingtang? But the easy rebellion of the nobles at present made him feel scared.

The Yang family had received the support of many nobles and easily usurped the Northern Zhou dynasty. Now Yang Xuangan rebelled with his father's prestige back then, and so many nobles surrendered to him, which was dangerous. Aren't it good that his great cause and his Yang family might be insured.

Like Yang Guang, the Sui army ministers who had read the letter were all pale.

Many of them were like Pei Yun, whose children surrendered to the rebels. There were also many children in the clan who did not go to war, so no one surrendered to the rebels. But their faces were not much better. According to the last statement in the letter, after the defeat in the battle that day, Fan Zigai had sent dozens of messengers to Liaodong, but none of them received a response.

The urgent report of the current account is no longer known. Moreover, after Yang Xuangan won the first battle, he opened the granary along the way and distributed food to the farmers. In just a short time, when Yang Xuangan sent this letter, he had gathered 50,000 troops and gathered at the city of Luoyang. If the army in Liaodong did not return to support, Luoyang would be in danger.

"When did you leave from Dongdu?" Yang Guang had no time at this time but he settled the rebellion of the ministers and only focused on the situation in Luoyang.

The messenger said, "The youngest one sneaked out of the city at night from the Dongdu City half a month ago. As soon as he left the city, he went north along the Grand Canal. When he arrived in Zhuo County, he changed to a fast horse and rushed over. Today, it was exactly half a month."
Chapter completed!