In 618 A.D., the Great Sui Empire was full of beacon fires, wolf smoke everywhere, and the people were struggling to make a living. Seeing that the rivers are declining and the country will not be a country, Emperor Yang of Sui not only did not want to clean up the mountains and rivers and regroup, but instead sank negatively, becoming more and more desolate and chaotic, and ordered his subordinates to select a large number of Jianghuai folk beauties for his concubines. Le, drunk and dreaming of death in Jiangdu all day long. He knew that the Great Sui Dynasty was hopeless, so he had to use the voice of dogs and horses to anesthetize himself.

"Hmm...... Not...... Not! "In a luxurious and extravagant room, on a thick and gorgeous carpet, a delicate and sexy woman......

A man in his forties, handsome and handsome.

The woman opened her mouth slightly like a dream. Moan: "Ah...... Ahhh............h Ahh......hhh Oh ah......"

"Hahaha! Wu beauty, cool! "The beautiful man in his forties was bleeding and panting like a cow, and his handsome face was twisted with excitement......

At this time, a noble, beautiful, dignified and elegant middle-aged lady walked out of the door, and she listened to the sound of the maids in the house. Yu, couldn't help frowning, shook her head, sighed, turned around and left sullenly, originally she had something important to report to the beautiful man in his forties who was partying in the house today.

This lady is Empress Xiao, and she is in the house. Le's beautiful man in his forties is Yang Guang, the emperor of the Great Sui Empire. How much Empress Xiao misses the ambitious, high-spirited, and talented beautiful male husband in the past, and thinks that her husband fought in the south and the north, eliminated Nanchen, personally conquered Tuyuhun, and conquered Goguryeo three times, reformed the official system, created the imperial examination, built the eastern capital, moved the capital to Luoyang, and built the Grand ......Canal, how majestic it was! How talented are the poems written by her husband, such as "Drinking Horses in the Great Wall Cave", "Spring River Flower and Moon Night", "Wild Hope", "Jiangling Female Song", etc., and Queen Xiao's favorite is a poem written by her husband "Summer Linjiang":

"Xia Tan shades the bamboo, and the high bank sits on the long maple.

The sunset is quiet, and the clouds are scattered in the distant mountains.

The heron flies to the forest and is white, and the lotus is red on the water.

There is a lot of fun, and the hope never ends. ”

Beautiful but not glamorous, soft but not beautiful, with the wind of righteous words, elegant language, how beautiful it is. But now this husband is addicted to wine all day long, ignoring the government and politics, extravagant and depraved, like an ostrich who buries his head in the sand, blindly escaping from reality and deceiving himself.

Facing her husband Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of Sui, who is now determined to lose, how sad and disappointed Queen Xiao is! Yang Guang is so ridiculous. Le, Empress Xiao was powerless, seeing that Yang Guang was becoming more and more immoral and irretrievable, and she didn't dare to speak out, so she wrote a "Shu Zhifu" to send it to herself and relieve her depression. The main purpose of "Shu Zhifu" is to be in the depths of the depths, to be prepared for danger in times of peace, and the purpose of Empress Xiao is to admonish and persuade Yang Guang to restrain himself. Who knew that after Yang Guang read the Fu, he laughed and disagreed. Yang Guang said: "Life is short, if you don't have fun in time, how long will you stay? How is Yao Shun? What about the Gang Tree? It's not like it's the same fate in the end to Huangquan! "Still going my own way, addicted to women. Happy. Empress Xiao felt desperate, and it seemed that Yang Guang would not change at all. The disappointed and helpless Empress Xiao no longer advised.

She got a secret report today that someone in the Royal Forest Xiaoguo army wanted to rebel, and she originally wanted to report it to her husband, but she heard that her husband was still addicted to the slave all day long. In the midst of the wine, and I also remembered that last month, a palace maid heard the news that someone in the Xiaoguo army wanted to rebel, and the palace maid ran to report to Emperor Yang of Sui, but I didn't expect Emperor Yang of Sui, who only wanted to hear good news and didn't want to hear bad news, was furious after hearing what the palace maid said. He thought that this was not what the palace maid should say, so he killed the palace maid. Later, he was so frightened that no one dared to speak out anymore.

Empress Xiao knew that "a person who pretends to be asleep can't wake up!" The husband is now hopelessly depraved and happy in time, and he is now telling him this secret report, and it is estimated that Yang Guang will ignore it in the same way, and even be angry with himself.

"Alas, now I have to resign myself to fate!" Empress Xiao sighed and left silently.

In March 618, the fourteenth year of the Great Cause, the power of the Sui Dynasty had collapsed, and Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, who had been disheartened, had no intention of returning to the north, and ordered the Danyang Palace to be repaired and prepared to move there.

Although he is still living a desolate and rotten life, he is still looking for pleasure, but his heart is full of fear. Once, there was a fire in the Great Cause Palace, which was an ordinary fire, but Emperor Yang of Sui thought that someone had rebelled, so he hurriedly fled to Xiyuan, hid in the grass, and did not come back until the fire was extinguished. He often woke up at night, and when he went to bed, he had to be caressed by several women before he could fall asleep.

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was extremely frightened in Jiangdu, and asked for divination every day, borrowing wine to dispel his sorrows. However, the apparent debauchery can't hide the panic in the heart.

One day, Emperor Yang of Sui, who was drunk, looked at himself in the mirror, caressed his handsome face with dull eyes, Gu Ying felt self-pity, and said to Queen Xiao sadly: "I have such a noble and handsome head, who deserves to cut it off with a knife?" ”

Empress Xiao was shocked when she heard this, and asked him why he suddenly said such unlucky words, Emperor Yang of Sui smiled, and suddenly replied indifferently in an almost philosopher's tone: "There is also a cycle of happiness and happiness, and if you get it, you may lose it, and if you lose it, you may gain it." Even if someone's head is cut off, it's not a big deal, it's like that in this life, what's there to be sad about?" Then, fill your glass and drink until you're drunk.

The sky in Jiangdu is gloomy, and the wind and rain are coming. In the mansion of the Tiger Benlang General Sima Dejiao, a conspiracy is going on in secret.

"General Sima, Jiangdu's grain is almost finished. Most of the Xiaoguo troops who followed the emperor were from Guanzhong, who had been in the field for a long time and missed their hometown. Seeing that the emperor had no intention of returning to Chang'an, they all had the idea of fleeing back to their hometown. A few months earlier, the general Dou Xian had led his men to flee west, and the emperor sent cavalry to catch up with him and execute him. Despite this, there are still people who keep running away, and if the emperor finds out, a few of us will die! Huyalang General Zhao Xingshu's face was full of worry.

Sima Dejiao once followed Yang Su to conquer Yang Guang's brother Yang Liang, the king of Han, and followed Emperor Yang himself to conquer Liaozuo, was a celebrity in front of Emperor Yang, a cronie, and the most trusted person of Emperor Yang, commanding tens of thousands of Xiaoguo Janissaries at the core of Jiangdu, camping in the city. He frowned: "Yes, now everyone in the soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army wants to escape, I want to tell the emperor, but I am afraid of being killed." If you don't say it, things will happen eventually, and you can't escape the danger of being wiped out. What should I do? I also heard that Guannai had fallen, that Li Xiaochang had rebelled in Huayin, and that the emperor had imprisoned his two younger brothers and was ready to kill them. Our family members are also in the west, can we not worry about this? ”

Ying Yanglang said with a gloomy face: "If the soldiers all flee, then we will definitely be killed, we might as well run with them."

"Thirty-six plans are the best plan!" Waiter Yang Shilan also nodded in agreement.

Several of them agreed to flee together on the day of the full moon in March.

At this time, Yu Wenzhihe, the young eunuch, said: "Although the emperor is mediocre, his authority is still there, you run away now, and the end is the same as Dou Xian, you are looking for death." Now, the time has come for God to let the Sui Dynasty fall. Heroes are flocking up, and there are tens of thousands of people who are also rebellious like you, this is a great opportunity to achieve the cause of the emperor, we might as well do the opposite! ”

Rebel! It's kind of scary! Everyone was silent. There was a deathly silence in the room.

"I elect my elder brother Yu Wenhua as the leader of the rebellion, do you agree?" Yuwen Zhihe saw that everyone was a little scared, and he knew that they also wanted to rebel, because only in this way could they live, but they just didn't dare to pick their heads, so they moved out of their elder brother Yu Wenhua, the general of the Right Guard.

Yuwen brothers' father, Yuwen Shu, was one of the founding fathers of the Sui Dynasty, and he was originally a former minister of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and he contributed a lot to Yang Jian's usurpation of the Zhou Dynasty. In the battle of Wei Xiaokuan's captain Chi Jiong, who decided the fate of Sui's future, Yuwenshu charged into battle, captured many enemies, and made great achievements, thus becoming Yang Jian's confidant. After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, he led the troops in the Pingchen Campaign to unify the country. Yang Guang seized the crown prince's position, mainly relying on Yang Su's help, and Yang Su was drawn into Yang Guang's camp by Yuwenshu. After Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, Yuwenshu was one of Yang Guang's most trusted ministers, and he was good at pandering.

Yuwenshu has three sons, namely Yu Wenhua, Yuwen Zhiand, Yu Wenshi and, among which Yu Wenhua and, Yuwen Zhi and the most uneasy Yuwen Shu.

Yu culture and "sexual dangerous, do not follow the law", like to ride a horse with a slingshot in Chang'an City, see whose woman is good-looking, or dogs and horses are rare and strange, must do whatever it takes to get it. When he was a prince servant, he was dismissed for taking bribes, and he was reinstated by Yang Guang's many pleas, and after Yang Guang ascended the throne, he became more corrupt, and often interacted with merchants from all walks of life, through his protection. umbrella to make money.

Yuwen Zhiji is even worse, he has been stubborn and fierce since he was a child, he likes to fight cocks with people, play eagle dogs, and when he grows up, he "steam ugly and ugly, do everything", and even sleep with his father's concubine. disorderly activities, etc. His wife reported the incident to Yuwenshu, who was so angry that he had several seizures and almost beat him to death.

Yu Wenhua and, Yu Wenzhi and the two sons are the sons and daughters of the standard rich families of all dynasties, with simple minds and strong energy. Because I have lived in privilege since I was a child, I have no concept of rules and laws in my head, and there is nothing to fear - the same is true for the master, that is, the emperor. It has nothing to do with their character, it is the inevitable result of privileged upbringing. A person who never has to follow a rule will not have respect for any rule, and will not take it seriously, even if the times force him to follow it temporarily. When there is an opportunity to destroy, they will not have any psychological barriers.

Hearing that someone took the lead, and it was the "second generation of officials" Youtun Wei General Yu Wenhua, Sima Dejiao and others agreed to Yu Wen Zhiji's rebellion proposal after thinking about it. After discussion, Sima Dejiao, Zhao Xingshu, Xue Shiliang and others unanimously agreed to nominate Yu Wenzhihe's elder brother Yu Wenhua as the leader of the rebellion.

Yu Wenhua and cowardly by nature, no ability, after hearing that he was going to take the lead in rebellion, his face changed in fright, and he was covered in a cold sweat, Yu Wenzhi and hurriedly cheered up his brother, and finally, Yu Wenhua saw the general trend, "Escape is not a way, rebellion is a way out!" After being praised by his younger brother and everyone, he couldn't help but burst with self-confidence and ambition in an instant, and decided to take advantage of the chaos in the world and the opportunity to do a vigorous career.