In July of the first year of Zhenlong, King Li Jing of Qin passed Jingxing from Taiyuan, returned to Zhenzhou, Hebei, and then went straight to Daming Prefecture in Weizhou along the North Canal. After a short rest, he entered Heyang Town and passed through Wei, Huai and Yuzhou. On July 9, Li Jing met Li Hanzhi and Zhang Quanyi in Heyang City, Mengzhou, and was awarded the rank of brigade general Li Hanzhi and was appointed as the commander of the Left Commander of Hebei Province. Zhang Quanyi was appointed as the third-rank Yin Qingguanglu Dafu and was the Minister of Agriculture. He also rewarded the Heyang Army that had surrendered. Some elite troops were reorganized into the Qin army, and the rest of the troops were dismissed and returned home.

On July 9, Li Jing led 50,000 troops, under the escort of four generals Zhou Dewei, Guo Chongtao, Li Hanzhi and Zhang Quanyi, crossed the Heyang Bridge, arrived at the south bank of the Yellow River, and entered Jinyong to the north of Luoyang. Wang Chucun and Yang Shouliang of Luoyang City, etc., went out of the city to welcome the surrendered generals in Luoyang. The defenders of Jinyong City surrendered in the sight of the wind.

In Jinyong City, Wang Chucun and Yang Shouliang knelt down to greet him. Although Li Jing was not ashamed of these fence-skinned widows, he did not show his face. He did a great job of superficial skills. He gave rewards to the 50,000 Luoyang soldiers who surrendered, and read out a reward for the surrendered generals in Luoyang in public. Basically, although the new official positions each received were not as good as before, they also knew that the official positions of Qin Fan were much more valuable than those in Chang'an. After receiving the reward, everyone finally felt at ease. Before they came, they were worried that Li Jing would come across the river and destroy the bridge, keep the birds hidden, and turn the tables on their faces.

The successive surrender of Luoyang and Heyang made Li Jing's southward situation very good. Especially the surrender of Heyang made Li Jing break the encirclement of four towns outside Luoyang, and directly bypassed Fengling Pass in the river, Huguan in Zhaoyi, Wulao Pass in Tianjin, Wulao Pass in Luoyang. From Heyang directly connects Luoyang. The two water and land passages are opened. Luoyang is completely obtained. Even the fall of Heyang made the Qin army encircle Zhaoyi Town on three sides, and formed a four-sided surround against Xuanwu Town.

On July 10, Li Jing entered Luoyang City.

Just like entering Taiyuan, on the day of entering Luoyang, Li Jing also let the Qin army conduct a majestic military force into the city.

The Qin army troops, which were decorated with clean military robes and shiny armor, were riding clean and clean, with bright fur colors, and were all tall horses with the same fur colors of each team, entering the city with a stern and graceful spirit.

Luoyang, the Eastern Capital of the Tang Dynasty, the capitals of several dynasties, the Shang, Western Zhou, Eastern Zhou, Eastern Han, Cao Wei, Western Jin, Northern Wei, Sui, Tang thirteen dynasties, and even the Zheng State of Wang Shichong and many other heroes who had separatist imperial capitals.

Luoyang, the imperial capital of the thirteen dynasties, is located north of Luoshui. It is called Yang because the north of the water is called Yang. Therefore, it is called Luoyang, also known as Luoyi and Shendu. The mountains and rivers in the territory are crisscrossed. It is surrounded by Qinling Mountains in the west, Songyue in the east, and Taihang in the north. It is also based on the danger of the Yellow River. It looks at Funiu Mountain in the south. Since ancient times, there have been eight gate capitals, surrounded by mountains on all sides and five rivers around Luocheng. It has the arch of rivers and mountains, and is better than the world. It is called the crossroads of ten provinces and is called the Central Plains Center.

There is no place in the world, and there is no hero in the world.

Luoyang is the place with the most capitals of the entire Middle-earth dynasty. More than 100 emperors have given guidance here. It is called the thousand-year imperial capital, especially the Han Dynasty and Luoyang of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. It is even more popular. The Silk Road and the Grand Canal of the Sui and Tang Dynasties meet here. Luoyang is standing between Heluo and Luoyang, and lives in the world.

Now, this great and prosperous capital has completely opened its doors to Li Jing.

The Sui Dynasty unified the north and south, and Yang Guang vigorously managed Luoyang and built the Luoyang city. After the establishment of the Li Tang Dynasty, especially when Wu Zetian was in power, he vigorously expanded the Eastern Capital and changed Luoyang to the Shendu. After ascending the throne, he was also designated as the capital of Wuzhou, Emperor Ming of Tang, and lived in Luoyang for a long time. The Tang Dynasty lasted for more than 20 years, and half of the emperors were often in Luoyang, and the total time reached more than 100 years.

Similarly, after the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty was weakened and Chang'an was captured several times. Although Luoyang was successively trapped in the hands of the Anshi Rebellion and Huang Chao, Luoyang suffered much better damage than Chang'an. Whether it was the Tianbao Rebellion or the Huangchao Rebellion, there was no major war in Luoyang City, especially in the Huangchao Rebellion that ended not long ago, Huang Chao took Luoyang without bloodshed. Later, the court recovered Luoyang, and the robbery of the riots was not as powerful as Chang'an.

When Li Jing rode a horse into Luoyang City, he found that the thousand-year-old imperial capital was really well preserved. Although after war, the population of this Central Plains city has dropped sharply, and it is no longer as much as the million-dollar home as it was back then. However, it is far beyond the ordinary vassal towns, and Luoyang City still maintains a population of nearly 400,000 at this time.

Especially after hearing that Heyang Town surrendered to the Qin vassal states and the Qin army finally arrived in Luoyang, many nearby prefectures and counties, who fled in the mountains and fields to avoid the war, also brought their families to Luoyang City. After the grand entry ceremony, Li Jing's first order was to Zhang Bang Anmin.

While posting notices, he promoted the Qin army's orders and laws, and sent people to open warehouses and release grain to help the people. While taking over the defenses of Luoyang City and nearby, he quickly arranged a large number of officials transferred from Yanjing, Hebei, Shandong and other places to Luoyang's yamen to let them take over Luoyang City. As for the original officials, they would temporarily retain them to assist the new officials, help them quickly clear the criminal prisons and appease the people.

In short, on the first day of the arrival of the Qin army, the number of tubes was sent down, and all the Luoyang military and civilians immediately felt a new atmosphere, a new atmosphere that made everyone happy. The grain ships entered Luokou from the Yellow River, and then followed the Luoshui to Luoyang City. Seeing the loads of grain transported into the warehouse, bags of salt were unloaded from the ship, the east and west cities in the city opened quickly, and all kinds of goods were placed on the list, and the most prosperous grain, salt, fish, oil, and noodles began to be released, and everyone cheered. No matter who became the owner of this Luoyang City, it was not very important for many people. What was important was that there must be grain, oil, rice, flour, sauce, vinegar, and firewood, and charcoal on the market, and the prices must be stable and cheap.

As soon as the Qin army arrived, the urgent food supply was opened, and the food price was more than ten times cheaper than in the past. Moreover, the benefits of the Qin army arrived were more than these. It turned out that many Luoyang people were summoned to the army, soldiers and civilians, and now, when the Qin army arrived, most of them were sent home. Before leaving, they also received a severance fee, two silver coins of Tianlang, twenty kilograms of corn, and one of them gave away a pair of shoes. With these things, the soldiers with various names on their faces were stabbed on their faces, and the young men who were old, weak or young, could not believe it.

The 50,000 surrendered troops in Luoyang, plus 80,000 civilians and strong men. In one night, they were dismissed by the Qin army and 80,000. In the end, only 5,000 soldiers and horses were left, and 15,000 civilians were left. Even those who stayed, the treatment was very different from the past. The soldiers and civilians had formal numbers and stable food and salary. Even those who stayed as civilians had a very good salary. On the first day, the soldiers and civilians had to get two new sets of clothes, shoes and socks for one person, and they also received a month's food and salary in advance.

Luoyang City. Guiyifang.

Yang Fuguang's mansion has now become Yang Fuguang's imprisonment.

Yang Shouliang passed through numerous guards and stepped into the innermost courtyard.

Yang Fuguang, the former general of the world's military and horse capital, was haggard at this time, and was so thin that he was lying on the bed and coughing constantly, but there was not even a person who poured water beside him. His eyes were full of turbidity and his face was pale. He heard the footsteps, and he turned his head hard and saw that it was his adopted son Yang Shouliang. He snorted weakly. He thought he was not bad at this adopted son, even far more than those "adopted sons" such as Li Keyong and Zhu Wen. However, he did not expect that he was stabbed hard in the back by him in the end.

"What are you doing?"

Yang Shouliang looked at Yang Fuguang with a complicated expression. He did not deny that Yang Fuguang was very good to him, and he admired Yang Fuguang's ability. However, he also knew Yang Fuguang very well. This was a persistent or stubborn person. He only wanted to protect the Tang Dynasty, but he saw through the Tang Dynasty that it was corrupt and could no longer help him. Yang Fuguang wanted to be a loyal eunuch, but he didn't want to die with him. It was stupid to do it even though he knew it was impossible. Everyone could see that Li Jing would have the world, but Yang Fuguang insisted on holding Li Tang to the death. There was no way, and he had to do this in the end.

"The King of Qin has entered the city!" Yang Shouliang said.

Yang Fuguang coughed a few times with difficulty and said weakly: "Our family heard the shouts outside, the noise was soaring into the sky, the mountains were clamoring, and the earth was moving. He had long known that Li Jing was coming." As he said that, he sighed in his heart. He could tell how popular Li Jing was, or how good Li Jing was to win over the people. Without asking, he could also guess that Li Jing must be the old trick again, giving money and food to the officials, exempting from labor and taxes and taxes. Li Jing was rich and had money. As soon as he opened his mouth, how many people would not look at him after this set of silver bullet attack. "What official position did Li Jing give you?"

"The official doctor!" Yang Shouliang replied.

Yang Fuguang sneered, he guessed right. Even if Yang Shouliang surrendered to Li Jing, Li Jing would never give him much official position. The official doctor is a fourth-rank official, and can wear a deep-scarlet official robe, even give him a silverfish bag and hold an ivory tulle. But this is just a scattered rank. Except for indicating that he is a fourth-rank, he has no real position and power.

Yang Shouliang also understood Yang Fuguang's sneer, but he did not feel any shame or anger. Although he had the title of a general when he was under Yang Fuguang, it would be good to be able to save his life in the Qin vassal state. He was satisfied with the ability to get a fourth-rank rank. He also saw through it and did not ask for any high-ranking officials and generous salaries, but only wanted to save his own wealth, life and property in this other world. If it were someone else, he might ask for more. But he knew that he was facing Li Jing, so he had lost his heart.

"Are you here to kill our family?" Yang Fuguang asked in a cold tone. His illness was getting worse and worse. He stayed here without anyone to take care of him and could not live for a few days. He was not afraid of death, but was very calm.

Yang Shouliang said, "Mr. Yang, I have not received anyone's order, and no one is coming to kill Mr. Yang. I am here to tell Mr. Yang that the King of Qin attaches great importance to Mr. Yang and has already expressed his opinion that he will let you out soon. I came here, just thinking about the father and son fight between us. Those who know the current affairs are heroes. Mr. Yang, the general situation is clear, and Li Tang is corrupt and overturned is inevitable. The King of Qin is strong and will surely sweep the world. Especially you should know that Li Jing is not Huang Chao. Li Jing won the hearts of the people in the world and are deeply admired. Wherever he goes, the people and soldiers and people will support him. Today, Li Jing has created heroes in the times, and no one can stop him from replacing Li Jing and holding the world. Mr. Yang, why bother to stop the chariot? Isn't it better to follow the will of heaven and follow the will of the people?"

Yang Fuguang pondered for a long time, "You want to persuade him to surrender?"

"Mr. Yang, this is for everyone."

Yang Fuguang pondered and thought of something. "Is there any movement in Chang'an?"

"Indeed." Yang Shouliang nodded. "Chang'an doesn't know what conditions have been promised, and now he has successfully stopped fighting with Chengdu and Xuanwu. Now, Chengdu and Chang'an, the two families are united and are about to fight the Central Plains with the King of Qin."

Yang Fuguang was not happy when he heard this. Although he didn't know that Yang Fugong and Tian Lingzi had already joined forces again under the momentum of Li Jing. And they also made peace with Zhu Wen. It can be said that the entire northwest and southwest regions are now united. Yang Fugong has gathered the towns in Guanzhong and even used many means to force the four towns that were originally wanted to be neutral, Baoda, Zhennan, Zhenwu and Tiande finally sent 10,000 troops to join the imperial army.

Yang Fuguang gathered the troops of the eight towns of Guanzhong in Tongguan. In addition, Henan is still under the control of the Chang'an court. There are a total of ten towns of troops, a total of 300,000 troops gathered in Tongguan. In Hedong, Wang Chongrong and Meng Lifang also gathered all the troops, a total of 100,000 troops, forming an alliance to fight against Li Jing.

Tian Lingzi of Chengdu sent General Gao Renhou as the commander of the commander-in-chief, commanding 80,000 troops in Sanchuan and arrived at Wuguan. Zhu Wen left behind a few troops and gathered 50,000 troops to Wuguan. Wuguan and the 20,000 nearby defenders had been transferred to Zhu Wen's command in accordance with the agreement between Chang'an and Chengdu.

In addition, Liu Jurong, the governor of Shandong East Road, was also appointed as the commander of Jingnan Xingying by the Emperor of Chengdu and the Emperor of Chang'an, and led the five towns of Shandong East Road, Jingnan, Eyue, Jiangxi and Hunan to gather in Xiangyang.

Yang Fugong personally took charge of Tongguan, with an army of 300,000 in ten towns. Gao Renhou led 80,000 troops from Sanchuan to gather at the city of Wuguan. Zhu Wen was the commander of the Jingdong camp, commanded Xuanwu and Wulao 70,000 defenders, and stationed troops in Wulao Pass east of Luoyang. Wang Chongrong and Meng Lifang led 100,000 troops from the two towns of Zhaoyi in Hedong. Liu Jurong was the commander of the south of Jingdong and led 80,000 troops from the five towns to gather in Xiangyang.

The five-way army gathered around Luoyang. This was a huge net, and the generals of the five-way army reached 630,000.

Although the 630,000 troops were very watery, and the Five Route Army also included all the civilians they carried in the soldiers, the actual force was still as high as 300,000. Even if these soldiers were not as good as the elite of the Qin vassal state, it was very amazing.

Yang Fuguang didn't know these, and he didn't want to know these at this time. He knew in his heart that no matter how the towns united due to Li Jing's ferocity, their alliance was too weak. Even if the towns united, there would not be a unified arrangement and command. They would definitely be divided into several routes and commanded them. Such an alliance, not to mention the alliance of more than a dozen vassal states, even if they call all the vassal states in the southeast, what's the use? What's more, he already knew that Li Jing had taken over Heyang.

If Li Jing did not get Heyang, then Luoyang might be able to fight, lure Li Jing into the siege and fight an inside front. But now that Heyang is lost, if you want to fight this battle in Luoyang, then this battle may be blooming by Li Jing's center and breaking through from all sides.

He sighed in his heart. Yang Fugong had never fought a war and would not fight at all. The situation had changed. However, he still acted with his plan before the captives. How could he not be defeated? If it were him, he would only gather the elite troops of each town at this time, and there would be no need to be many. He would have a decisive battle with the Qin army outside Luoyang, stationed troops in Mangshan, and fought field battles with Li Jing. Relying on the advantage of Mangshan and the advantage of military horses, he would fight quickly.

Yang Shouliang just advised him a few times, and then he left without success. Today he came just to think about the father and son's relationship and do his best to do his best.

After he left, Yang Fuguang turned around and couldn't sleep anymore. Looking at the quiet room, he couldn't help but shed tears. Li Jing really underestimated him at the beginning. He thought that Li Jing would not dare to take that step within ten years, but now, everything shows that Li Jing is impatient and has indeed had this strength. Li Jing, he finally tore off the mask of Tang that had been maintained for all the time, revealing his true thoughts. He wants to usurp the Tang and become the emperor!

In mid-July of the first year of Zhenlong, the Chang'an court issued an edict to grant Li Jing the regent, and the governor controlled the world's troops and added nine tiny. On the other hand, they joined forces with various towns and gathered five armies, totaling 350,000, known as a unit of one million. They did not publicly claim to attack Li Jing, but only sent troops under the name of attacking Wang Chucun and Yang Shouliang.

At this moment, in the Ziwei Palace in Luoyang, the civil and military officials who came from Taiyuan and Yanjing one after another in these days were shining with stars, and the purple breeze filled the palace.

Zhu Wenwu rushed to Luoyang and persuaded Li Jing to become emperor for one thing.

At this time, the Qin army and civil and military officials who captured Heyang and Luoyang felt that the time was ripe. At this time, the Qin Fan no longer had to maintain the banner of respecting the Tang Dynasty on the surface. Hebei had been swept away, Hedong took most of it, and Heyang and Luoyang were captured, occupying the center of the world. At this time, the Qin Fan was indeed arrogant and could completely change the dynasty.

Although there are still many vassal states that have not yet been settled, the southeast is probably a subsidiary of the Qin vassal state. Hezhong and Zhaoyi in Hedong cannot hold on for long under the Qin army's offensive. Henan and Shannan have been broken by the Qin army and it is difficult to hold on for a long time. At this time, there is no need for the Qin army to take the banner of the Tang Dynasty. The sooner the banner is revealed, the sooner it will be legitimate to itself.

After the bell music rang, the first person who represented the civil and military officials was neither the prime minister nor the prime minister, but the governor of the Liaodong Province who came from outside the pass, and the grand tutor Cui Yunqing. This teacher of Li Jing once served as the prime minister of Qin vassal for many years. He had a very high prestige and even more qualifications. It was very appropriate that he was the first to come out to persuade him to enter.

Cui Yunqing's gray hair and beard were combed meticulously today. She wore a purple robe, jade belt, purple goldfish bag, and slowly stepped out with an ivory tablet, and said loudly: "I will start to listen to Your Highness. Now, the heroes from all directions have been eliminated, and everyone from far and near returned to their hearts. I sincerely see where the destiny is. I hope to be the right person early and give the hope of the subjects."

Facing the teacher personally came forward to persuade him to enter, Li Jing glanced at the ministers and said slowly: "The power of unification has not been achieved, and the path to all directions is still in trouble."

In just one sentence, Li Jing rejected Cui Yunqing's persuasion.

As soon as these words were said, many people in the hall couldn't help but feel disappointed, and many generals even sighed. However, Cui Yunqing, who was rejected, seemed not to feel any surprise. Even the cabinet scholars sitting below and the prime ministers of the Political Affairs Hall, the important officials with purple robes and jade belts, all just smiled slightly, without any surprise.

The ritual officer in the hall soon announced the resignation of the meeting. Li Jing left the Political Affairs Hall and the Cabinet members together to hold an extraordinary imperial meeting.

The rest of the civil and military officials left the hall. On the way, Li Cunxiao asked Gao Siji with a smile on his face in confusion, "What are you laughing so hard? Your Highness refuses to persuade him to come in, what's so happy about?"

Gao Siji smiled at the fourth junior brother, "Who said the King of Qin refused?"

"Didn't the King of Qin refuse in front of everyone just now?"

Gao Siji shook his head and felt a little funny about Li Cunxiao's ignorance, "If you have time, read more books, otherwise others will laugh at you in the future. Today, the King of Qin did refuse the Taifu's lead in persuasion, but in fact this is not a rejection."

"Why?"

"Because of the etiquette system, the new dynasty emperor can only ascend the throne after three refusals. You know, today is just the first time that all the ministers persuaded him to enter, how could the King of Qin accept it?"

Li Cunxiao opened his eyes wide and was stunned for a long time before slapping his thighs hard. He shouted, "I'm a mother, I'm not treating people to dinner when I become an emperor, why do you have to give in? "

His loud voice attracted a burst of chuckling from many civil and military officials next to him.

Under the ancient patriarchal system of monarchy in China, there was a three-refusal ceremony before the new emperor ascended the throne. Especially those emperors who established the new dynasty must perform a play before ascending the throne, saying that ascending the throne to become the emperor is not my wish, but my destiny, but the hearts of the people, for the sake of the overall situation and the result of everyone's joint recommendation, so I had no choice but to ascend to the emperor.

According to etiquette, it is not enough to give up once, nor is it enough to give up twice. You must persuade three times and three times before you finally accept everyone's support and become emperor with the support of the people.

The three pushes are a gesture, which is actually to use this to show the legitimacy of ascending the throne, and to promote the regime and the throne that God has given him, and is supported by the subjects, and is reasonable and legally obtained.

Although everyone knows that this is the most hypocritical one, no one can avoid it from ancient times.
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