Chapter 615 Chaos in the Southern Xinjiang

The emperor is dead

Silently

Because he had died once, it was impossible to have another mourning. The queen changed his clothes for him, clean from inside to outside. She cleaned his face and made up for him. It seemed that his face was better when he died than when he was alive. When he did these things, the queen never cried or spoke. Her expression was so dull that it made people unable to understand, but there was another kind of sadness that made people feel hampered.

The three ministers who were kneeling outside who were qualified to know that the emperor died this time were relieved. The prince before... No, it was Emperor Xinghuang Yang Chengqian who sent someone to transfer a thousand elite cavalry sent by Liu Enjing and then sent Yang Shun to lead troops to intercept the emperor. In fact, they all knew and worked hard for it. The emperor came back alive to see them. When they knelt in front of the emperor, they felt like an old dog with his teeth removed. Facing the lion who had no vitality on the sickbed, they could only tremble.

Except for General Xu Xiaogong, who led the troops, the other three were there.

Now the emperor is finally dead and no one is held responsible for them.

How can you not breathe a sigh of relief?

They occasionally glanced at each other, fearing that the Supreme of the Earth who was lying motionless on the bed stood up again. Their expressions were contrasted sharply with the queen's expressions, and the emperor Yang Chengqian, who was kneeling beside the bed, looked more complicated. As a son, he felt sad. As an emperor, he was panicked.

I don’t know why, but when he gave that order, he was not as scared as he was now. But when he saw his father lying in front of him, he suddenly became very scared, as if he had lost the pillar of the sky that supported him.

The scene of his father holding him in his arms to make him laugh appeared in his mind, feeding him and teaching him to read, pointing to the Tai Chi Palace and telling him that this is the place where the strongest man in the world can sit. These things have actually surpassed the cold words he told him, and finally, he burst into tears.

Crying unrestrainedly.

The queen glanced at her son with a hint of relief.

"After a while, find a few capable people to protect your father and enter the Taizu Emperor's Mausoleum... Your father is the only emperor who has not built an imperial tomb for himself since the founding of the Great Sui Kingdom, but you are his son. He can do this but you can't. Enter the Taizu Emperor's Mausoleum first. No matter how difficult the Great Sui Dynasty is now, you must start preparing for the construction of the imperial tomb immediately. When the imperial tomb is built, you will send your father over."

The queen said in a plain tone.

"My son knows!"

Yang Chengqian wiped away his tears and looked back at the three regents: "What do you have to say?"

The three auxiliary ministers looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time.

They knew that although it was quite difficult to build an imperial tomb with the financial resources of the Great Sui Dynasty, who dared to speak nonsense at this time? Although the emperor said before his death that he was sorry for the ancestors of the Great Sui Dynasty, so he did not enter the imperial tomb, and just found a place with good scenery outside Chang'an City to bury it. But he could say this himself, but his wife would never let such a thing happen.

"I won't pursue what you did before."

After changing the emperor's clothes and pretending, the queen still said to the three people in a plain tone: "But you can't forget that you are guilty! I can pretend to forget this for the sake of the Sui Dynasty, but if anyone among you dares to forget, even though I am a woman, I will have my own way to make you remember again."

"I'm waiting for death!"

Niu Huilun, Yang Shunhui, and Zong Lianghu kowtowed hard, and they didn't dare to show off.

"You are indeed all guilty of death."

The queen was silent for a while and continued, "But I can ignore it for the sake of the Great Sui Dynasty, because this is also the meaning of the late emperor. He said he would keep you to assist Cheng Qian, and I will listen to him. So you must remember the reasons for your survival and the purpose of your survival... The Great Sui Dynasty could not leave the Yang family, but it would be fine."

"I, please remember the Queen Mother's teachings!"

Several people lowered their heads, and no one dared to look at the queen's eyes.

"Give your faithfulness to sin."

The queen seemed a little tired, waved her hand and said, "Go to do whatever you should do. The court needs you to worry more. After all, you are still loyal to the Great Sui family and the Yang family. I know that, and the late emperor also knows, so I leave a decree to let me not punish you. The late emperor chose you to assist Cheng Qian, and it is precisely because of this."

"If you do your best, when the Sui Dynasty reorganized its territory, your achievements would also leave a lot of contributions in history books."

The three of them kowtowed again and thanked each other, then bowed and retreated. When they came out of the East Warehouse, all three of them were sweating profusely.

The three of them looked at each other outside, and saw in each other's eyes that they were still scared.

There is a big rebellious saying that they all thought in their hearts, but no one dared to say it.

The emperor died... It's such a good thing.

"Chengqian"

Looking at the three ministers leaving, the queen said to Yang Chengqian word by word: "Remember the words of the late emperor. He said that the Yang family can sacrifice themselves to maintain the Sui Dynasty, and other people can naturally sacrifice themselves. Don't believe anyone's words, and don't think that you can't live without anyone. For the sake of the Sui Dynasty, anyone can die and kill anyone... These people have experienced the assassination of the late emperor. They have surpassed the awe that they should have been closely guarded. Since this awe is gone, they can't use it anymore... Do you understand what I mean? Now the imperial court cannot live without them, but it is not always possible to live without them."

"My son understand!"

Yang Chengqian nodded vigorously and also glanced at the backs of the three people.

The three of them participated in the interception and killing of the emperor, and they had indeed crossed the bottom line of awe. Because of this, their awe of the emperor would be much lower. Moreover, the prince ordered the interception and killing of the emperor, once it spread...

There are so many factors that even without the queen, how could this new emperor, who had inherited the sinister and cruelty from his father, still tolerate those people to survive?

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The Southern Xinjiang of Great Sui Dynasty

Border town Baishui City

Although the Great Sui Dynasty was in civil turmoil, the border army still held its responsibilities. This was the most awe-inspiring thing in the hearts of all countries outside the Great Sui Dynasty. Except for Li Yuanshan in the northwest, no one who had raised the flag to rebel did not disturb the Great Sui Dynasty's border army. Whether it was the eastern border or the northern border, the southern border, the place was still calm.

This is exactly what people in the Central Plains think are terrible. They know that no matter how fierce the civil strife is, they cannot let the border fall.

No one would have the idea of ​​attacking the border army, but since last month, the supply in Baishui City has become less and less. The imperial court's government orders are difficult to implement, and all regions have become independent, and money and food are used to expand their respective forces, so that routine supply to border soldiers has been reduced in various places.

Especially in southern Xinjiang

After Luo Yao led his troops away, he took away a large number of food and supplies. Because he did not send capable generals to stay, the Yongzhou area has become a homeless land. Luo Qiu, the governor of Ping Shangdao, was the highest official in southern Xinjiang after Luo Yao left, but he had already rushed to Yongbei Road to discuss important matters with several other governors, so it was even more chaotic. The people he left behind would not remember to supplement the border army, and just recruit troops to expand their arms.

The border general Niu Zhenyuan of Baishui City has sent people to the county seat for supplies four times in a row, but two months have passed but no one has sent food. Fortunately, not far from Baishui City is the village of Heren, and Niu Zhenyuan sent people to the village of Heren to ask for some food and grass, so he would not have to come out.

After sending a team of people to ask for food in the morning, Niu Zhenyuan stood on the wall of Baishui City and stared outside in a daze. He found that he was thinking more and more and more, and he felt more and more panic. He didn't know how long he could do his job in this border town. If there were no supplies to send him over, he was afraid that he would be soft-hearted and take all the border troops away.

There are nine hundred border troops in Baishui City. This is the southernmost border city of the Great Sui Dynasty. It is not much closer to the county city than to the Dali City of Nanyan. Niu Zhenyuan felt more and more that he and his soldiers were abandoned children, and sooner or later he would starve to death in the border city where they were guarding with all their hearts.

Just when he was in a daze, his personal soldiers suddenly came to report that a team of merchants in the south of the city was about to come in, and they had the clearance certificate issued by the Yongzhou Yamen. Since the civil strife of the Great Sui Dynasty, the merchants in Nanyan have rarely left goods. They have not seen merchants in Nanyan come in for several months, so Niu Zhenyuan was stunned for a moment.

"Don't open the city gate and send someone to check it out"

He gave an order, but didn't care too much.

The people of Nanyan are as timid as mice.

The border troops knew that the people of Nanyan were afraid of being beaten by the Great Sui Dynasty, and were afraid to the core. The reason why this small country that is still alive was not completely destroyed was because the Emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty kept Murong Moe like a clown. If the Great Sui Dynasty was willing, he could razed Nanyan to the ground at any time.

But that was before, when Luo Yao was still there.

When he was stunned, he suddenly thought of something and hurriedly called the personal soldiers who returned: "What is that caravan leading?"

"It is said to be Nanyan's specialty taro and Dali rice wine."

Personal soldiers answered.

"hey-hey!"

Niu Zhenyuan smiled and said, "I really want to come to you whatever I want. Ask a team of brothers to gather with me to go out. Now we can barely have a full meal a day. How can the people from Nanyan beg for food to be sent away?"

"General... Isn't it good to rob the caravan?"

"Ph, do you want to starve to death?"

"In no mood!"

"Then fuck it!"

Niu Zhenyuan cursed, not expecting what a wrong decision he made.

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November of the first year of Xinghuang of the Great Sui Dynasty

The Southern Yan Emperor Murong Meng sent general Murong Yongduo as the commander and selected elite soldiers to pretend to be a caravan and deceived the gate of Baishui City, the border city of the Sui Dynasty. During the battle that day, all 900 defenders of Baishui City were killed in battle except for the fifty soldiers sent out to seek food. But even so, the troops lost by the Yan army was still above the border army of the Sui Dynasty.

After Baishui City was destroyed, Murong Yongduo led 30,000 troops to march straight into and captured four county towns in one go. After that, the Southern Yan Emperor Murong Meng announced that he would start a war against the Sui Dynasty and avenge his previous shame. In the manifesto, he said that the reason why he changed his name to Murong Meng was to keep the shame of the Great Yan Kingdom in mind, claiming that the war against the Great Sui Dynasty was to restore the lost territory of the Great Yan Kingdom and recreate the former glory of the Great Yan Kingdom.

This was the first enemy country to announce war against the Great Sui Dynasty after the civil strife of the Great Sui Dynasty.

The land of the southwest Tianfu is not just a person coveting it.

Luo Qiu, the governor of Pingshang Road, who was discussing important matters with several other prominent people, was shocked after receiving the news and immediately took people back to Pingshang Road. But by the time he returned, at least three hundred miles of land had been lost to the south. The weak Nanyan people and the He people who were beaten into turtles were united and killed people everywhere.

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