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Chapter Thirteen Rainy Night

In the mourning hall, the lights were brightly lit, and the large and small lanterns were shaking by the strong wind, and the rain was getting heavier and heavier.

Everyone sat around the mourning hall, because no one came to mourn, and it seemed very deserted.

The funeral will be held tomorrow, and according to custom, we have to watch all night today, so the five siblings and some surviving relatives did not leave. Seeing the trees and weeds in the yard change more and more, everyone was thinking differently and worried.

Time passed by your words and I, and everyone with thoughts was not sleepy and became more and more frowning.

"Crackling..."

The thunder and lightning were getting faster and faster, as if the Thunder God was angry, the earth was trembling slightly!

The strong wind became even stronger, and even the candles placed in the leeward were extinguished one by one, leaving only a few lanterns swaying and breathing.

Zhu'er leaned against the young master tightly, and her petite body shrank into Li Yuanba's arms, obviously a little scared.

Everyone was silent for a while, and Li Shimin suddenly spoke, "Sister, brother, Yuanba, Yuanji, what will happen to Your Majesty now? I don't know what chaos will be like in Daxing City? There is also a population of millions there, and Your Majesty even took 80% of the "Xiaoguo Army" out of the capital, if..."

Until Li Shimin mentioned it, he won’t say more.

Everyone was shocked and their hearts were a little confused.

In the past few days, Li Yuanba also inquired about the general situation of this world: the Great Sui Empire in this time and space was very prosperous, and Emperor Yang of Sui was completely different from the tyrant monarchs in historical rumors, and he was a master of talent and strategy.

Through some hearsays, Yang Guang's personality can be roughly judged: First of all, he has few children, and his sons and daughters are less than ten, which is unimaginable compared to an emperor who has been in charge of the Sui Dynasty for nearly twenty years. Compared with those emperors who often have dozens or even hundreds of children, Yang Guang is already considered to be dedicated.

At least throughout her life, Yang Guang's relationship with Queen Xiao has never changed.

The second is to build the Grand Canal, which will benefit the country and the future. Even China, more than a thousand years later, cannot help but thank its great achievements, promoted exchanges between the north and the south, and its contributions to economy, politics, culture and military.

Moreover, it is the first to set up the imperial examinations and establish three provinces and six ministries to govern the world. Its unique talents cannot be described by writing and ink!

In addition, except for the past two years, the Great Sui Empire had serious internal and external troubles. However, before, the Great Sui Empire was in a state of attacking and expanding outwards, and had been harassing and looting the nomadic peoples in the Central Plains. They were beaten to no aura and the Hu people did not dare to go south.

It can be said that the empire he created is no less than the Tang Dynasty, which was recognized and sung by the world, and its reputation is even greater.

The biggest saying of Emperor Yang Guang of Sui in the historical books of his previous life is cruel and indecent and licentious, but what about the real situation? The facts have been drowned in history.

The main reason why Li Shimin later founded the Tang Dynasty and entered the prosperous era in such a short period of time was the huge amount of materials left by the Great Sui Dynasty. The supplies from several large warehouses left by the Great Sui Dynasty were not used up until the Tang Dynasty entered the prosperous era. It is conceivable how abundant and huge these materials were!

If Yang Guang was really a lewd and indecent king, when the dynasty was in decline, the warehouse would probably have disappeared?

"History is written by successful people. If you want to know the truth, you must see it with your own eyes and be immersed in the scene." Li Yuanba sighed deeply.

According to the brief exchange between Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng in the past two days, the failure of the first battle against Goguryeo was not because Emperor Yang Guang was very happy with the achievements, but because in the Sui Empire, the country was rich and the people were strong, the power of the aristocratic families was becoming increasingly powerful and could hardly be controlled. In the helpless Emperor Yang of Sui had to use the name of national war to draw soldiers from various aristocratic families to go to war, and use war to consume the core force of the aristocratic families.

Just like the current second expedition to Goguryeo, the same is true. Most of the million-dollar army recruited were composed of private armies of various aristocratic families. The Great Sui Empire is now very rich and cannot be regarded as a far-reaching extortion and intensive taxes, which is damaged.

As for how the Great Sui Empire in history perished, it is not something Li Yuanba could know.

But one thing is certain: the eighteen rebel kings and seventy-two rebels who rebelled were almost all controlled by the great families behind the back. The extremely powerful Sui Empire collapsed, which was caused by the wrong backlog of court systems in previous dynasties and could not be done by manpower.

Although the Li family in Jinyang is also a family, Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng are very clear about the truth of the matter. In addition to Emperor Yang of Sui for many years, he has not even had a disrespectful word now.

"Haha!" Li Yuanji chuckled and answered the question irrelevantly. "I don't know how many millions of troops are left in the Dongcheng District of Jinyang? At dusk, they were besieged by a large number of zombies."

"Yuan Ji, don't talk nonsense!" Li Shimin hurriedly stopped and looked around before breathing a sigh of relief.

"Hmph! There is no good thing in those five gates and seven hopes!" Li Yuanji slapped the table and said, "Second brother, aren't you intentionally saying that you don't lead your troops to attack Dongcheng?"

"Yuan Ji! You... you two are not the same!" Li Shimin's face turned blue and he fought back furiously.

It’s good that everyone knows this kind of thing and cannot be said at all. Therefore, it is understandable that Li Shimin is furious, but this third brother is too polite. Can such things be said?

"Hey! I said you two brothers, you two are going to be in trouble just now?" Li Xiuning suddenly stood up and scolded at the two brothers.

Li Yuanba shook his head slightly: It was because of his father's death that no one suppressed these three brothers, so they became ambitious. Even their strong rise was consciously left behind by them, and the four brothers had already parted ways.

Obviously, because the army that was exchanged was definitely unable to be divided, it put too much pressure on the three ambitious brothers that the current situation of the Li family being divided into three.

The scene suddenly became silent, leaving only the sound of a storm that seemed to be storm.

Time slipped away unconsciously, and I don’t know when the rainstorm slowly became sparse and then stopped completely.

Another hour passed, dawn came, and everyone had breakfast in a hurry. It was already bright. When they opened the mahogany door in the hall, the scene in front of them shocked everyone:

The trees in the yard, which were originally only four or five feet tall, were all as high as more than ten feet tall! The weeds in the yard were actually about two feet tall!

Looking into the distance, the green mountains in the distance became taller and greener. Birds in the sky were hovering and flying around Jinyang City. The roars of countless birds and beasts came faintly, making people thrilled!

"Wow! Fei Chicken!" Zhu'er suddenly pointed his little finger at the sky and shouted.

"Airplane? What plane?" Li Yuanba was startled. Looking along Zhu'er's gaze, he saw a large group of birds flying from afar. After a closer look, he was leading a big rooster with a wingspan of more than ten meters!

Behind the big rooster, there are countless flying ducks and flying geese... However, most of them are only a little bigger than before, but they have recovered their powerful flying ability.

"I'll go! I finally know where so many poultry in Jinyang City went before. It turns out that after the arrival of the end of the world, their intelligence increased greatly and they all flew outside the city after they could fly!"

Li Yuanba suddenly realized, and then saw the birds circling in the sky for a week, suddenly falling towards the southern city area. Flashes of chirping came, making people change their color.

"I know, because they were hard to find food after the heavy rain, so they returned to the city to find food." Zhu'er guessed.

"Well...it should be."

Everyone could not find a reason to refute this conclusion, and nodded and agreed.

"Yuanba, we must seize the time, otherwise what will happen is unknown." Li Shimin did not dare to delay the time and urged everyone to say.
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