In the side hall of Wencheng of Ziwei Palace, the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Guang, was discussing military and national affairs with more than a dozen important officials. Gu Yi, the Minister of War, submitted a plan to praise military merits and disband the former army. The issue of rewarding military merits was not a big problem, but the amount of treasury expenditures. Everyone has reached a consensus and Yang Guang approved the reward plan.

After all, this is his promise. There is enough cloth, money and food in the treasury. He has always been generous in his work and is not stingy with money and food expenses. What's more, Yang Guang also knew that defeating the main force of Goguryeo and forcing the Goguryeo people to surrender was indeed a great military achievement and should be rewarded.

However, in terms of the dissolution plan, Yang Guang found that there were two small notes, the First Battalion and the Sixteenth Battalion were not disbanded, which made him a little puzzled.

"Mr. Bone, why are there two battalions not disbanded?"

Gu Yi, the Minister of War, quickly stood up and bowed and said, "Report to Your Majesty, these two armies have very strong combat effectiveness. The Ministry of War has repeatedly discussed it and believes that the loss of disbanding them is too great."

Yang Guang frowned, obviously not satisfied with Gu Yi's answer, and looked at Yu Shiji.

Yu Shiji secretly scolded Gu Yi for being useless. He stood up and explained: "Report to Your Majesty, the first battalion is the army of Yuwen Chengdu, with 3,000 people. It is a pity that it will be disbanded. I am considering restoring them to Xiaoguo Army. If Your Majesty thinks it is inappropriate, I can also disband them."

Yang Guang quickly glanced at Yuwen Shu, without saying anything, he asked again: "What about this 16th Battalion Army?"

"Your Majesty, the Sixteenth Battalion is the military camp led by Zhang Xuan, with about 1,500 people. Because they were besieged by tens of thousands of Zhang Jin on the way to Beijing, they remained calm in the face of danger, defeating the strong with their weak and severely damaged thousands of bandits. Therefore, the Ministry of War unanimously believed that it might be more meaningful to put them in Shandong to suppress the bandits, so they would leave them in the plan."

It turned out to be Zhang Xuan's army. Yang Guang pondered for a moment and nodded. He picked up his pen and drew a red note on the report, "I have approved both plans."

Yuwen Shu was a little restless. He knew very well what Yu Shiji referred to as Zhang Jin, but he was surprised that the Ministry of War had left Zhang Xuan's 16th Battalion. Of course, Yuwen Shu knew that this was not simple. With Yu Shiji's character, he actually left the 16th Battalion. He didn't know how many benefits he had gained from it.

Yuwen Shu did not stand up to object. After all, he was guilty of Zhang Jin's claim to this matter, and he also asked the Ministry of War. At this time, he stood up to object. It was undoubtedly digging his own grave, and keeping silent is the best choice.

At this time, Pei Yun stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I have the right to report it!"

"What do Pei Aiqing want to say?"

Pei Yun took out a volume of documents and submitted them respectfully, "Report to Your Majesty, the investigation of the Changhemen incident has ended. This is the official report submitted by Weichen. In addition, the report on the Lai Huer case was also submitted yesterday."

Yang Guang was excited, which was also something he was extremely concerned about. Pei Yun had already reported to him verbally yesterday. Cui Junsu's report was also submitted, proving that Lai Hu'er was not a rebellion, but was just eager to take revenge, which made Yang Guang's desire to kill Lai Hu'er was much weaker.

But Cui Junsu's report is not the real reason why he is weakened by his intention to kill. The real reason is that he cannot kill both Huer and Li Hun. That would have a great impact and would make the top military leaders uneasy. As the monarch, Yang Guang must have a balance. Either let Li Hun go or lightly come to protect him.

An eunuch took Pei Yun's report and presented it to Yang Guang, who slowly unfolded a thick investigation report on the imperial case.

Pei Yun also explained: "Bizhi has thoroughly investigated and the generals involved in the incident were bewitched by a man named Li Shanheng. After believing his rumors, they went to Changhemen to petition, and their confessions were attached to the report."

"Who is this Li Shanheng and what background is?" Yang Guang asked again.

"Report to Your Majesty, this Li Shanheng was originally the Xiongwu Lang General of Xiaoguo Guard. He is the nephew of Li Hun, the general of the Right Guard. He has been arrested and is now detained in the Censorate."

Yang Guang looked at Yuwen Shu with dissatisfaction. Yuwen Shu's face turned pale, not because of Yang Guang's dissatisfied eyes, but because of Li Shanheng, whom he could not arrest everywhere, turned out to have fallen into the hands of the Censorate.

So will Li Shanheng betray him? Yuwen Shu looked at Pei Ju who was sitting aside uneasy and saw him glance at him with a smile.

Although Yuwen Shu was a little bit of a soldier at this time, he understood Pei Ju's gaze. There was a hint of mockery in his smile. He sighed secretly. How could Li Shanheng not betray him? His handle was caught by Pei Ju.

Just when Yuwen Shu was extremely uneasy, Yang Guang was carefully looking at the confession attached to the report. Li Shanheng's confession did not have any statement about Yuwen Shu, all of which were about Li Hun, the General of the Right Guard.

Li Shanheng was instructed by Li Hun to incite the generals to cause trouble outside the Changhe Gate. Once the situation is out of control, Li Hun will take the opportunity to launch a mutiny, with Li Shanheng's conspiracy below.

Yang Guang took out another memorial presented by Yu Shiji, and Dong Chun, the Tongshou of Jingzhou, wanted to lead troops into the capital.

Yu Shiji's memorial was undoubtedly a decisive victory. Tu Wanxu and Dong Chun were both confidants promoted by Li Hun's father, Li Mu, to the time. Tu Wanxu and Dong Chun led their troops to Beijing to support Li Hun's rebellion.

Yang Guang's eyes slowly narrowed into a slit, murderous intent burst out in his eyes, and the prophecy was revealed.

Emperor Yang Guang determined that the prophecy case had nothing to do with Li Yuan, the left-behind Taiyuan, but instead referred to Li Hun, the general of the Right Guard.

Yang Guang immediately issued an order, and Dong Chun, Tongshou of Shuzhou, was transferred to the reign of the Western Capital, and Tu Wanxu, Tongshou of Jingzhou, was appointed as the general of the Left Guard, and immediately entered the capital.

A few days later, Zhang Jin, the general of the Imperial Guard, arrested General Li Hun and his family overnight. Yang Guang issued an order to execute 32 others including Li Hun and his nephew Li Min. At the same time, he ordered Dong Chun and Tu Wanxu, who were on the way to transfer, to commit suicide by taking poison.

The prophecy case that took place in the decade of Daye finally came to an end after a series of complex behind-the-scenes political struggles.

Although Lai Hu'er got rid of the bad luck of being killed, he was also demoted to the people and returned to his hometown to retire in disgrace.

After Li Yuan was punished, he continued to serve as the remnant of Taiyuan, which helped him escape the crisis of prophecy. However, Wuchuan Prefecture also suffered a severe blow in this case. The Yuan family, Yu family, and Houmo Chen family also announced their withdrawal from Wuchuan Prefecture, which means that the Guanlong nobles have since become divided.

But unexpectedly, Lai Hu'er's army, who had already decided to disband, was stopped by Yang Guang at the last moment of disbanding. He seemed to have a new idea about this army.

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In the room on the third floor of Tiansi Pavilion Restaurant, Zhang Xuan specially set up two tables of banquets, and all the generals above the brigade commander attended to celebrate the continued existence of the Sixteenth Battalion.

In the reward plan issued by the Ministry of War this time, the soldiers of the 16th Battalion received generous rewards. Each soldier who participated in the war was rewarded with 100 pieces of silk, 50 stagnant of money, three transfers of merit, and the land at home was exempted for five years, and the generals were even more rewarded. The fallen soldiers were also given twice the pension, and everyone was very happy.

Zhang Xuan was the first achievement in the Battle of Goguryeo and was promoted to the next level. He was promoted from Wuyong Lang to Xiongwu Lang, and the scattered officer was also promoted from guerrilla general to Ningyuan. He rewarded two thousand pieces of silk and three hundred taels of gold, but Zhang Xuan did not take it and dispersed all the rewards he received to the families of the fallen soldiers.

At this time, the room was very lively, and everyone toasted each other, chatted and laughed, celebrating the rewards they received.

Although Yuchi Gong did not participate in the Battle of Goguryeo, he made contributions in the fight against Zhang Jin. Zhang Xuan submitted a report to the Ministry of War, and Yuchi Gong was named the captain. This made him both happy and ashamed.

At this time, Yuchi Gong walked up to Zhang Xuan with a bowl of wine and said sincerely: "General, I wish you this bowl of wine. Thank you for your extraordinary promotion to me!"

Everyone burst into laughter. "Old lieutenant, you are not sincere enough to use a wine bowl. You have to drink at least one jar!"

Zhang Xuan smiled slightly, "I think it's better to use a jar!"

"Okay! Then I'll have a jar."

Yuchi Gong threw away the wine bowl and shouted: "Come on the wine jar!"

Someone had handed him a jar of wine. Yuchi Gong slapped off the sealing mud, picked up the jar and whispered. After a moment, he drank a jar of wine, which attracted everyone's cheers. Yuchi Gong wiped the wine stains at the corner of his mouth and threw the jar to the ground. With a 'bang!', he yelled: "Is my sincerity enough? If it's not enough, I'll drink another jar!"

Everyone applauded and exclaimed, "It's worthy of being the giant god, it's indeed a huge number. Zhang Xuan patted his shoulder and smiled, "Enough, I'm full of sincerity in understanding Yuchi. We won't be drunk tonight."

Yuchi Gong entered the table surrounded by everyone. At this time, Zhang Xuan picked up a bowl of wine and said to everyone: "Everyone, listen to me."

The room gradually became quiet, and Zhang Xuan said slowly: "I have received the exact information from the Ministry of War that we will expand our army to 3,000 people, and be under the jurisdiction of the ambassador Zhang Xutuo, the ambassador of the 12 counties of Henan Road. We will set off to rush to Qi County in three days."

"General, can we stationed in Qinghe County?" The generals petitioned one after another, and the battle with Zhang Jin said that they were extremely angry and wanted to find this Liangzi.

"I can't be sure of this. When I negotiate with Dashuai Zhang, I will never let Zhang Jincheng go, just like you guys!"

The room was filled with buzzing. At this time, a brigade coach walked in from outside the door and said a few words to Zhang Xuan. Zhang Xuan was stunned and asked everyone to continue drinking. He quickly walked out of the room.

A middle-aged man stood in the corridor wearing a veil hat and a robe, paced back and forth with his hands behind his back. It was Li Yuan, who was left by Taiyuan. Li Yuan escaped the prophecy case by chance and was about to return to Taiyuan immediately. Tonight he and a few colleagues came to the restaurant for dinner. It happened that Zhang Xuan was also on the third floor.

Li Yuan had already learned from Dou Qing that Zhang Xuan played the role of Zhang Xuan in this prophecy case. Although Zhang Xuan kidnapped Li Shanheng and caused some trouble to them, Zhang Xuan later kidnapped Yuan Jun and saved Dou Qing's plan in time at a critical moment, which made Yuan Min's destruction fail, and Li Yuan was also very grateful to Zhang Xuan.

"Is Mr. Li looking for me?"

When Li Yuan turned around, Zhang Xuan had already appeared behind him and was bowing to him with a smile.

Li Yuan quickly replied, "General, don't have to be too polite, hey! Thanks to General Zhang this time."

"It's nothing, it's just a little effort. I want to congratulate Mr. Li for not being affected by the prophecy case." Zhang Xuan said with a smile.

Li Yuan smiled awkwardly and asked in a low voice: "How could the general know about building the matter?"

Li Yuan learned from Dou Qing that Zhang Xuan actually knew that his eldest son Li Jiancheng was in Wagang, which surprised him and was also worried. He was very worried that the secret of Jiancheng in Wagang had spread.

"I have also explained this to Master Dou, but I just learned it by accident. Please don't worry, Mr. Li, I will never tell the third person about this."

"Then I would like to thank General Zhang. General Zhang will remember General Zhang's kindness to Li Yuan this time and will repay him!" After saying that, Li Yuan bowed deeply to Zhang Xuan.

Zhang Xuan suddenly had a strange feeling that since Yuan Min had broken up with Dou Qing, it would be easy for him to destroy Li Yuan.

Although Yuan Jun was a hostage, Yuan Min dared not say anything in the prophecy case, he could also secretly tell Yang Guang the truth afterwards, but Yuan Min didn't seem to have done so, which made Zhang Xuan a little puzzled. Could it be that the Yuan family still have any handle?

"Yuan Jun has been put back, so why don't Mr. Li worry about the Yuan family?" Zhang Xuan asked tentatively.

Li Yuan hesitated and said, "General Zhang's doubts do exist, but we all come from the same lineage. Some things can't be done just by wanting to do, and the Yuan family also needs to consider the consequences."

Zhang Xuan immediately understood that the Yuan family must have a handle in the other party's hands, so that they dare not act rashly anymore.
Chapter completed!