Chapter 496: I'll Kill I'll Kill I'll Kill!

There is no winter in the south of the Yangtze River, flowers bloom in all seasons, that is, the imperial capital Chang'an City has warmed up in February, and the willow green in March and the flowers are red in April. However, in the northwest, the wind became less severe in March, and the grass came out of the ground in April, and in May it was barely able to take off the thick cotton clothes.

The grain in the south and north of the Yangtze River is two seasons a year, and the northwest is one season a year. In June, the wheat was ripe in the Central Plains, and it was just time to sow seeds in the Northwest.

It was the beginning of June, when it was rainy in the south of the Yangtze River.

The first rain of the year also fell in the northwest, and the rain was not very heavy but barely wet the ground, so it did not affect the fight between the two sides. Although the imperial court has a slightly smaller number of troops, it has always maintained a high fighting spirit, and since the beginning of the Luoshui period, there has only been an attack, a non-stop attack.

Although Li Yuanshan ordered the news that Meng Yuan and Gao Kaitai joined forces to defeat the left avant-garde, as the saying goes, good things don't go out and bad things spread thousands of miles, and this news can't be sealed at all, so the rebel camp is even more panicked. For two days in a row, the members of the law enforcement team killed people, and cut down 100 soldiers who had secretly spread the news, but to no avail. The more they cut like this, the more convinced the soldiers were that it was true.

In order to prevent the spread of this decline, Li Yuanshan ordered the mobilization of nearly 40,000 people from three armies to attack the imperial court barracks, but the imperial army did not even defend it, but took the initiative to meet it. General Jin Shixiong personally commanded, and the high-spirited brave men pressed back the discouraged rebels with only one charge, Jin Shixiong took the opportunity to wave his army straight forward, stuck behind the rebel rout and chased for more than ten miles, and killed the troops under Xiping City in one breath.

In this battle, the rebels lost eighty percent of their soldiers, of which forty percent were killed and captured, and forty percent fled by themselves.

This was the beginning, and from this day on, soldiers would flee every day in the rebel camp, at first a few people, then dozens, hundreds, and then at most two battalions escaped by patrolling. Immediately after another unfavorable news began to spread, it was said that the imperial court sailors had docked and transported at least 500,000 reinforcements, and Luo Yao's troops were defeated and retreated to the south of Mangdang Mountain, losing most of their troops.

As soon as the news broke, it immediately covered the already fragile hearts of the rebel soldiers like wild weeds, and they began to count the days of their deaths. If the 500,000 reinforcements were true, it would only take more than a month at most from crossing the river to the time they came to Xiping City, and many rebel soldiers were thinking that if they didn't escape, their lives would only be thirty or forty days.

Li Yuanshan knew that the so-called dispatch of 500,000 reinforcements by the imperial court must be false, because the imperial court could not transfer so many soldiers and horses now. The imperial court sailors have been patrolling back and forth in the waters from Luoshui to the Yangtze River, and now it seems that its purpose is to prevent Luo Yao from taking the opportunity to cross the river to the east, which shows that the emperor has anticipated all possible events, and nothing can hide from his eyes.

Li Yuanshan also knew that this false news must have been spread by Emperor Yang Yi. This kind of news is sometimes more lethal than directly slashing with a knife, killing at most one person with a single knife, but a single piece of fake news can make hundreds of thousands of people panic.

At this moment, Li Yuanshan had to admit that he had indeed underestimated Yang Yi.

An emperor who does everything to the point of being able to join forces with the Mengyuan people, an emperor who has given up all scruples and all ties, is undoubtedly terrifying. He doesn't care about the name behind him anymore, what is he afraid of?

It was also at this time that Li Yuanshan knew that his situation had really reached the realm of the abyss. The saddest thing is that not only is there an abyss in front, but also in the back.

In just a few days, Li Yuanshan seemed to be ten years old.

Since the beginning of the army, he has never doubted that he cannot turn his dream of turning his family into a country. For the past three years, he feels like he's moving towards success every day. When he established himself as king, how many of his subordinates persuaded him to take advantage of the victory to either go east or south, and the northwest was not a place to raise troops for a long time. But he firmly followed his plan and never wavered, and now, he finally regretted it.

He knows that the northwest is tired and that the Central Plains and Jiangnan are prosperous.

The reason why he didn't enter the army was because he wanted to set the overall situation in the northwest. As long as the emperor is forced to drive the emperor to get rid of the emperor on this desolate land, then the splendid rivers and mountains south of the Central Plains will be damaged by war as little as possible. What he wants is the entire empire, not a corner, in his eyes, the tens of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains are his things, and he is reluctant to destroy them. But this dream is finally about to be shattered.

Li Yuanshan has always thought that the Yang family owes them the Li family, too much. During the reign of Taizong, Li Xiao led the troops to defeat more than half of the current Great Sui territory, such a feat has never been seen before, and the Yang family with infinite scenery was held by Li Xiao, if there was no Li Xiao, this empire would not be so powerful.

But later, in order to prevent Li Xiaogong from supporting his own troops, the emperor stationed him in the bitter cold and barren land in the northwest, saying that he was reusing the town to guard the door, but in fact he was isolated in this place far away from the bustling. Not only that, after depriving Li Xiao of most of his military power, he also sent two other guards to monitor the Li family, always guarding against Li Xiao's dissent.

Few people know that Li Xiao once looked up and sighed in his later years, regretting that he had made so many contributions to the Great Sui at the beginning, so that his descendants would be implicated.

Li Yuanshan hated, and he hated from beginning to end.

Why did the Yang family treat him like this?

Since half of the world of the Great Sui was brought down by the Li family, why can't the Li family take it back?

Standing on the wall of Xiping City, Li Yuanshan looked at the battlefield outside the city and was silent.

Or the wind and sand entered the eyes, and they burst into tears.

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In June, Li Yuanshan issued sixteen orders to transfer Meng Wansui and Yin Poshan's rebels to Xiping City to converge, but these sixteen military orders were sent out like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no news, not to mention that Meng Wansui and Yin Poshan did not come, and even the people sent out to send military orders did not come back.

When you are proud, you are admired, and when you are frustrated, the wall is pushed down.

After hesitating for a few days, Li Yuanshan finally made up his mind.

It can't be consumed like this anymore, the soldiers in the city are all his cronies, and although the people are uncertain, at least they still maintain military discipline. The men and horses outside the city have been fleeing in large numbers every day these days, and the generals have begun to plan a way back, where is there still the heart to restrain their subordinates. If this continues, there is no need for the imperial army to continue the attack, and those rumors can defeat Li Yuanshan, and there will be no return.

On June 28, the fifteenth year of the Great Sui Tianyou, on this day, Li Yuanshan ascended the throne and became the emperor in Xiping City.

He announced the founding of the Great Zhou, the capital of Xiping, and the beginning of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty.

In the cramped county guard yamen of Xiping City, Li Yuanshan, who wore a dragon robe, was a great feudal minister. Li Xiaoche is the crown prince, Song Qianhui is the prime minister, and Zhou Dingguo Wan Yansong is the general of the Zhu State. The rebel generals and civil officials inside and outside the city were rewarded, and there were more than a dozen first-rank officials alone, and hundreds of second- and third-rank officials. All of a sudden, an emperor was suddenly born in the city, dozens of princes, hundreds of marquises, and countless generals.

After Li Yuanshan ascended the throne, he began to designate food places for his subordinates. Some people were sealed in the water towns south of the Yangtze River, and some people were sealed in the northeast near the sea, in short, they are all rich and prosperous places. However, everyone also knows that they probably won't have the opportunity to go to their fiefdom in their lives.

Because there was no plan before, the emperor's enthronement ceremony in Xiping City was simple and ridiculous. Li Yuanshan's dragon robe is still his black embroidered dragon king robe, and some yellow satin is temporarily sewn on the collar and cuffs. Li Yuanshan had already thought about the name of Da Zhou, because a hundred years ago, Li Xiao's title was Zhou Guogong. Because he couldn't make up the number of civil officials, he had to arrange for the guards to wear the clothes of the literati and pretend to be. And because there was no jade seal, the seal stamped on the hundreds of decrees promulgated by Emperor Li Yuanshan of the Great Zhou Dynasty was engraved with a city brick.

It's also interesting to imagine that His Majesty, the founding emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, held a city brick and solemnly covered it on the so-called holy decree again and again.

As for those officials who were divided, it didn't matter if they didn't have a suitable crown and uniform, and no one cared anyway, even the emperor's dragon robe was so improvised, what else could they not do?

That night, the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty guarded the yamen in the county...... No, it is a big banquet in the palace of the Great Zhou Dynasty, because the grain and grass in the city are limited, so there are only two meat dishes on each table, a bowl of pork and cabbage, and a local chicken stewed mushroom is the most luxurious main dish. A group of old men from Guogong County sat on the edge of the table, shaking their heads and smiling bitterly at the meal.

Of course, this is not the most troublesome thing in their hearts, during the meal, His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty asked dozens of wills to be read out, and gave an emperor title to Li Xiao, especially Li Xiao, whose nickname has sixty-four words, and I don't know how much hair the person who thought about these words lost his hair before making it up. Then the will was given to the descendants of the Li family, Li Yuanshan sealed more than a dozen princes and more than thirty county kings in one go, and for a while, the princes and county marquis in the county guard yamen were immediately eclipsed.

Everyone hung their heads, and there was no joy on their faces.

but

Li Yuanshan didn't seem to be affected.

He sat on a makeshift platform, raised his glass and spoke impassionedly, reminiscing about the past and looking forward to the future. After talking for half an hour, he hadn't finished speaking when the pork and cabbage were already cold, and the hands of the hundreds of officials below holding the wine glass were already sore.

Li Yuanshan kept smiling and looked really happy.

It was not until the end of the banquet that the Great Zhou Emperor was supported by the chamberlain to go back to the "sleeping palace" to rest. The crown prince Li Xiaoche followed behind, walking with his head hanging all the time, as if he didn't want people to see the embarrassed look on his face.

Back at the residence, Li Xiaoche served Li Yuanshan, took off his clothes and covered him with a quilt. Looking at this drunk unconscious man, this father who once regarded himself as the whole sky, Li Xiaoche's mouth was bitter. He knew how ridiculous his father's decision was, and how ridiculous this so-called enthronement ceremony was. But all the while he tried to make himself look solemn, just to comfort his father's broken heart.

Emperor......

My father ended up being emperor, and that's enough, isn't it?

Li Xiaozong stood on the side of the bed and stared at Li Yuanshan for a long, long time, and his heart hurt as if he had been cut by a knife.

I don't know how long I stood like this, Li Xiaoche let out a long sigh and prepared to leave. Just as he walked to the door, he suddenly heard a low sobbing sound from behind him. He turned his head sharply, only to find his father lying on the bed, although his eyes were still closed, but the tears could not stop flowing.

Li Xiaoche walked back quickly, opened his mouth but couldn't find words to comfort him.

"Che'er......"

"Father"

"My father owes you a crown prince canonization ceremony, and my father will pay it back to you."

Li Yuanshan muttered, and Li Xiaoche couldn't tell whether he was awake or drunk.

"The people of the Li family...... The people of the Li family will never admit defeat! ”

Li Yuanshan suddenly stretched out his arm and waved it, his fists clenched so tightly: "This is just the beginning...... Just the beginning! Sooner or later, one day I will sit on the Nine Dragons Golden Chair in the Taiji Hall of Chang'an City to see who ...... Look who dares to ridicule and ridicule! Whoever dares to laugh at me, who dares to stop me, I will kill! I'll kill! I'll kill! ”