"Donglou, what did you know about Qiuzi?"

Mo Shuyu thought to himself that since he was in Qiuzi Eyeliner, he would not be in a hurry to leave, and wait for Liu Donglou to come back and ask what the situation was.

"Lord Wang, now that the countries of the Western Regions have also learned the gunpowder formula, now is the time of the storm, I am afraid it is not safe near Qiuzi."

In fact, what Liu Donglou said was that Mo Shuyu had already known it, and it was estimated that the gunpowder formula had already been spread all over the world at this time, and the matter of destroying a scholar clan in anger for gunpowder would not have happened.

However, Mo Shuyu didn't think that gunpowder could be hidden for too long, after all, gunpowder is not too rare in Datang, he has long thought of this day, and he has long thought of a way to deal with it.

"It's okay, I plan to camp here, as long as I am friendly with Qiuzi at that time, plus our nearly a thousand people, the countries of the Western Regions will not be a big problem for us."

"What are the prince's plans? There are still nearly a thousand internal guards in the Western Regions, I wonder if they need to be summoned? ”

Liu Donglou listened to Mo Shuyu's words, and was somewhat moved, Mo Shuyu was planning to have his own power here, as the leader of the internal guards, he protected Mo Shuyu all the way, plus the previous life-saving grace, if he could bring nearly a thousand strong internal guards at this time, I am afraid that he would really be able to climb to a big position in time.

Mo Shuyu is a person who knows how to repay his kindness, and he will definitely not treat this group of soldiers who follow him badly when the time comes.

"There are still nearly a thousand internal guards here?"

Hearing this, Mo Shuyu was shocked, but a remnant of a defeated dynasty actually had nearly a thousand people in the Western Regions? Coupled with the personnel around Li Ke and the internal divisions of Datang, it is estimated that there are four or five thousand people, which is almost equivalent to the government army of a state in Datang.

"There are still nearly a thousand generals in the Western Regions? How many guards are there? How big is it? ”

"The internal guard was established by Emperor Yang in the great cause years, it should be said that the internal guard is actually divided into two guards, the Emperor Yang wanted the whole people to march north to Goguryeo, and established the internal guard to be responsible for finding people who practice martial arts to form troops, and never thought that the establishment was not completed in the Jiangdu Change."

Mo Shuyu also knew the beginning and end of the fall of the Sui Dynasty, after Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty ascended the throne, he was reckless and expropriated, and the burden of such endless conscription, military service and conscription almost harassed the peasant households across the country, and pushed the social economy to a desperate situation. History says: "The north of the Yellow River is smokeless for thousands of miles; Between the Jianghuai and the Huai, it is a lush grass". Class contradictions have seriously intensified, and the broad masses of the people "will not be able to live in peace, they will not be able to freeze and be discouraged, their death will be urgent, and their lives will be prolonged if they plunder." “

In the seventh year of the Great Cause (611), Wang Bo, a native of Zouping, unveiled the banner of righteousness at the head of Changbai Mountain, called himself "Zhishilang", and composed "Song of Death in Liaodong Waves" to call on the peasants to revolt. Peasants from all over the country responded, and the flames of the uprising soon spread throughout the north and south of the Yellow River, and then developed to the Huaishui and Yangtze River valleys. Around the thirteenth year of the Great Cause, the peasant rebel armies in various places gradually converged into three main forces, namely the Hebei Rebel Army led by Dou Jiande, the Wagang Rebel Army led by Zhai Rang and Li Mi, and the Jianghuai Rebel Army led by Du Fuwei and Fu Gongyi.

The surging peasant uprising fundamentally shook the rule of the Sui Dynasty. The bureaucrats and landlords in various localities also seized the opportunity to raise troops, and the whole country was in a state of separation. The area controlled by the Sui Dynasty was only the eastern capital Luoyang and a few other isolated cities in the north, and only a corner of Jiangdu in the southeast. There is an irreversible collapse in the Yang world.

In the twelfth year of the Great Cause (616), Emperor Yang of Sui drove the capital of the river for the third time. He was afraid of the development of the peasant uprising in the north and did not dare to return to the north, and the Sui Dynasty lost control of the north. In the following year, Li Yuan, who stayed behind in Taiyuan, raised troops to occupy the capital Chang'an, and established Yang Yu, the grandson of Emperor Yang of Sui, as the emperor, and respected Emperor Yang of Sui as Emperor Taishang. Jiangdu is even more panicked.

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty knew that the general trend had gone, and the debauchery was even worse. He set up more than 100 rooms in the Jiangdu Palace, which were gorgeously furnished, and each room was home to a beautiful woman, who took turns to be the host. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was his own guest, taking Empress Xiao and all the concubines to travel to the west for a banquet, every day the wine glass did not leave his mouth, he was often drunk day and night, and more than 1,000 people from Ji were often drunk and unconscious. Despite this, Emperor Yang saw the chaos in the world and knew that time was running out. So when he retreated to the court, he wore a scarf and short clothes, and walked through the palaces and courtyards, not at night. He always felt that he couldn't get enough of the scenery everywhere.

It is rumored that Emperor Yang of Sui is familiar with divination, loves to speak Jiangsu and Zhejiang dialects, often sets wine in the middle of the night, looks up at the stars, and says to Empress Xiao: "There are many people outside who calculate Nong, but Nong is not a bad name for Chen Shubao, the Duke of the Great Wall, and you are also a Queen Shen." Let's just have fun and drink! Then he poured a full cup and got drunk. Emperor Yang also looked at it in a mirror, turned back to Empress Xiao and said, "What a head, who should cut it off?" Empress Xiao asked him in surprise why he said this, and Emperor Yang smiled and said: "The cycle of high and low bitterness and happiness changes, what is there to be sad about?" ”

In fact, I have to say that Emperor Yang of Sui is also an emperor with lofty ideals, but he is just an idealist, and he tosses the people under his rule for the sake of his ideals.

Because Emperor Yang of Sui visited every time, he often accompanied his fourth brother, Yang Xiu, the king of Shu, and imprisoned him in Xiaoguo Camp. Yu Wenhua and Emperor Yang were ready to serve Yang Xiu as the emperor, but public opinion thought it was not possible, so they killed Yang Xiu and his seven sons. He also killed the emperor's second son, Qi Wang Yang Xuan, his two sons and the emperor's eldest grandson, Yan Wang Yang Qi, and the clans and relatives of the Sui Dynasty, regardless of the old and young. Only Emperor Yang's nephew, King Yang Hao of Qin, usually had dealings with Yuwen Zhihe, and Yuwen Zhihe tried to protect him. Emperor Yang of Qi, the king of Qi, has always fallen out of favor with Emperor Yang, father and son have always been suspicious of each other, Emperor Yang of Sui heard about the turmoil, and said to Empress Xiao: "It won't be a child (Yang Ming's nickname) to make trouble, right?" Yu Wenhua sent people to Yang Xuan's mansion to kill people, Yang Xuan thought that Emperor Yang of Sui ordered him to arrest him, and said: "The edict will let go of the child for the time being, and the child is not sorry for the country!" The rebels dragged him into the street and killed him, but Yang Jian didn't know who was going to kill him in the end, and the estrangement between father and son could not be eliminated until death.

The dignified Sui royal family, except for Concubine Yang, who had already married him with Li Shimin's childhood sweetheart, was left with only one Empress Xiao and an unknown Yang Zhengdao who fled to the Turks.

"The internal guards originally had about 30,000 troops in various parts of the Central Plains, and after nearly ten years of rebellion, the troops died and walked away, and now there are about 8,000 people left, but the real internal guards are probably only around His Royal Highness King Wu, and my brother Liu Dongyu is in charge, and I am walking in the Central Plains to perform various tasks, and I am responsible for covering the foreign guards in various places."

"In other words, when the situation is serious, you can pull up a team of nearly 10,000 people in Datang?"

Mo Shuyu was somewhat unconvinced, everyone knew how powerful Li Shimin's Xuanjia Army was, but what the world didn't know was that Li Shimin also had a shadow guard in his hand that was more powerful than the Xuanjia Army, which was specifically responsible for dealing with various situations within the Tang Dynasty. To say that Datang still has nearly a thousand internal guards, Mo Shuyu doesn't believe it.

"How did you organize in Datang? Hasn't Your Majesty found out yet? ”