Wang Bo's attack on Li Chengzong did not make too many waves, Li Chengzong's Han army easily repelled Wang Bo's attack without accident, Wang Bo ran back to his nest Qizhou, he thought that Li Chengzong would take Qizhou in one go, but he never thought that Li Chengzong just expelled Wang Bo.

At the same time that Li Chengzong expelled Wang Bo, the situation in the land of China also changed dramatically, starting from the siege of the Eastern Capital by the Wagang Army in March and April of the thirteenth year of the Great Cause, and the peasant rebel army with the Wagang Army as the backbone and Dou Jiande and Du Fuwei as the two wings carried out a devastating blow to the Sui Dynasty. In June, the Wagang army defeated the Sui army, and the eastern capital was in danger. In July, His Majesty Yang Er dispatched the "Jianghuai Elite Soldiers" and "Yan Dijing Soldiers" to the Eastern Capital, and Xue Shixiong, who stayed behind in Zhuo County, led 30,000 Yan Dijing soldiers to attack the Wagang Army in the south, and the troops went to Hejian (now Hebei), and camped in Qilijing, preparing to meet the soldiers of Hejian counties to suppress the Dou Jiande rebel army first.

Dou Jiande commanded the troops to withdraw from the cities and move southward, and then took advantage of Xue Shixiong's unguarded selection of thousands of elite soldiers as ambushes, and personally led 280 people who dared to die to attack at night. The 30,000 Sui army was scattered. Xue Shixiong fled back to Zhuo County with dozens of horsemen. Dou Jiande's rebel army regained control of most of Hebei. In August, the Wagang army occupied Liyangcang, opened a warehouse to help the hungry, and coerced the displaced people to expand the ranks, and the Wagang army reached hundreds of thousands. His Majesty Yang Er also ordered Wang Shichong to lead more than 100,000 soldiers from the counties near Luoyang and the remaining soldiers in the eastern capital to fight fiercely with the Wagang army on both sides of Luoshui. Wang Shichong was defeated repeatedly, and some Sui generals, such as Li Chengzong's cheap cousin Pei Renji, simply surrendered to Li Mi.

At this time, there was a shortage of food in Luoyang City, and many people starved to death. Hebei, Shandong, Henan, and the Jianghuai valley were all occupied by the rebels, and most of the elite military forces of the Great Sui were wiped out by the rebel army, and the areas directly controlled by the Great Sui Dynasty became smaller and smaller. The situation was very favorable for the Wagang Army. However, due to the deepening internal contradictions of the Wagang army, Li Mi was always unwilling to change his erroneous strategy of fighting a long-term fierce battle with the main force of the Sui army under the city of Luoyang, so he did not achieve a decisive victory.

At the same time that the peasant rebel army launched an all-out attack on the Sui Dynasty from all fronts, careerists and well-intentioned people could not hold back, first Shuofang (now Baichengzi, Inner Mongolia) Liang Shidu, Mayi (now Shuozhou City, Shanxi) Liu Wuzhou, Jincheng (now Lanzhou, Gansu) Xue Ju and other landlords and bureaucrats and local tycoons also raised troops one after another, seizing the localities, and calling them lonely and widowed.

In May of the thirteenth year of the Great Cause, Taiyuan of the Great Sui stayed behind, and Li Chengzong's grandfather Li Yuan also raised troops from Taiyuan, and in July, he took advantage of the opportunity of the great battle between the Sui army and the Wagang army to enter Guanzhong. In November, Daxing was conquered. Li Yuan changed Daxing to Chang'an, established Yang Yu as the emperor, and respected His Majesty Yang Er as the emperor........

And our Second Majesty Yang Er no longer has the heroic and heroic appearance of his early years at this time, but he is becoming more and more desolate and comatose in Jiangdu, selecting Jianghuai folk beauties to enrich the harem, and drinking and having fun every day; He often took a self-portrait in the mirror again, premoniting that the end was coming, and he often took a self-portrait in the mirror in his later years, and said to Empress Xiao and his subordinates: "Good head and neck, who should cut it!" "He didn't act like Empress Chen as the Great Wall Duke, nor did he put the poison he brought with him to use. In March of the fourteenth year of the Great Cause (618), His Majesty Yang Er saw the chaos in the world, was disheartened, and had no intention of returning to the north, so he ordered someone to repair the Danyang Palace (now Nanjing) and prepare to move there.

Since the Imperial Forest Army who drove them were all Guanzhong guards, they missed their hometown and fled back one after another. At this time, Hu Benlang conspired with Yuanli and others with Pei Qiantong of the Zhige, taking advantage of the resentment of the guards who missed their hometown, and pushed Yu Wenshu's son Yu Wenhua and as the leader, and launched a mutiny. Captured by the rebel generals Pei Qiantong, Yuan Li, Ma Wenju, etc., he wanted to commit suicide by drinking poisonous wine, but the rebels did not allow it, so he ordered Hu Xingda to hang him at the age of 50. The chaos caused by this difficult monarch caused a sharp decline in the population of China........

At the same time, new news also came from the distant Guanzhong, that is, Li Yuan called the emperor, the Tang Dynasty of the Li family finally appeared, Li Yuan ascended the throne and called the emperor, built the capital Chang'an, changed the Yuan Wude, and at the same time established Li Jiancheng as the prince, Li Er as the king of Qin, Li Yuanji as the king of Qi, and at the same time posthumously named Li Xuanba as the king of Wei Huai, Li Zhiyun as the king of Chu Ai, but on the issue of Li Chengzong's division of the far east of Lu, the Tang court quarreled with the sky, and the Shandong Shi clan gate lord headed by Zheng Yuanshou advocated that Li Chengzong should only be given the title of a county king. Not only that, but Li Chengzong also had to hand over the territory and forces in his hands, to put it bluntly, he would give all the resources in Li Chengzong's hands to the Shandong Shi clan.

Although there are also Dou Wei and a group of people who close the Longmen valve and say to Li Yuan that your eldest grandson is a hero, don't spoil the relationship, it's not worth it, but Li Yuan thought about it again and again, and felt that in the land of Shandong (the Shandong mentioned here is not the Shandong of later generations, but the area east of Kunshan and Hangu Pass, which is much larger than the scope of Shandong in the future), the power of the Shandong gate valve is too great, and the piece occupied by Li Chengzong happens to be regarded as their forbidden place by the Shandong Shi gate valve, and he Li Yuan wants to take this world, so he is bound to win over these Shi gate valves, In his opinion, although his grandson is excellent, he has essentially lost the opportunity to sit on this Huaxia Supreme, so it is not impossible to sacrifice him.

Under the influence of such ideas, coupled with the instigation of the Zheng family, the old man Li Yuan took the newly released Tang Huai'an King Li Shentong as the ambassador of Shandong pacification, and the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty in Shandong accepted his command, and Cui Gan, the squire of the Yellow Gate, was the deputy envoy of Shandong pacification. Li Shentong and Cui Gan's task is to go to Qindao and incorporate the military forces in the hands of Li Chengzong, and the old man Li also thinks that he is smart enough to give Li Chengzong, who is far away in Jiaodong, a Taiyuan king, well, Taiyuan is the starting place of our Li family, little monkey, you see your grandfather and I am interesting enough.

After Li Chengzong saw Li Shentong and Cui Gan, he sneered: "Eighth Grandfather, this is a good thing done by those families led by the Zheng family, right?" Are you afraid that I will threaten Lee Chengdao? Do you think that just a Taiyuan king can let me obediently hand over everything I have......... Lord Cui, do I have to hand over the territory to you Shandong Shi clan gate valve, so that I can be regarded as a qualified royal disciple?? Eighth grandfather, you told my good grandfather, just a Taiyuan king, I really didn't pay attention to it......."

Li Chengzong's words made Li Shentong and Cui Gan speechless, yes, they are the princes of the five counties, and a mere Taiyuan king is indeed a bit low, but Li Chengzong is the former eldest grandson of the Tang royal family, and the prince of the clan, but now this kid has made it clear that he doesn't care about the clan, what can he do?

"Chengzong, cough cough ....." Li Shentong just wanted to say something, but was quickly interrupted by Li Chengzong, "Eighth grandfather, I am not called Li Chengzong now, my name is Li Wei now, I will tell you two clearly, no matter what Chang'an thinks, I don't do this Taiyuan king, don't tell me anything unfilial and unfilial, hmph, this Tang Dynasty has been established, and my cheap father has become the prince, hehehe, pity my aunt, a sentence Li Pei's family is sent away?" Not to mention that she used to be a wife, and her son is still there, is this ignoring my existence? It's all like this, don't still fantasize about taking away the military power and governing power from me, hum, Master Cui, you go back and tell Zheng Yuanshou and Zheng Jibo, don't go too far, if you annoy the master, be careful of their dog heads, what, if you are not convinced, you can come and beat me, see who has beaten whom..... "Li Chengzong is now a knife handle, a money bag in hand, and a waist pole is very strong. Li Shentong and Cui Gan touched Li Chengzong's nose and could only go back.

Since Chang'an repeatedly wanted to control himself, Li Chengzong didn't want Chang'an to look down on him, so in July of the first year of Wude (618), Li Chengzong proclaimed himself the King of Han in Qindao, and his Han military governor's mansion was also changed to the Han Governor's Mansion, and at the same time he arrested many representatives of the Zheng family's forces, and publicly tore his face with the Zheng family, anyway, the Zheng family has been smearing him, and he doesn't do it endlessly, Li Chengzong is angry, damn the five surnames and seven hopes, Ya really thinks that he is easy to handle? He let out the wind, if the Zheng family was presumptuous, he wouldn't mind letting the five surnames become the fourth surnames.