Li Yuan still failed to capture Xincheng in the end.

With the emperor's will to surrender, Li Yuan returned to the city of Liaodong.

Not far from Liaodong City, it is the Liuhe City designed and built by Taifuqing. Liuhe City has two layers, the outer one is an earthen wall, ten miles long, and the inner layer is a plate city.

The city is one hundred and twenty steps, four feet high and two feet high, with wood for it, six feet square, there is a board on the outside side, the clutch is for it, painted with cyan, and the six boards are the city, six and three feet are six feet, and the female wall is six feet high, so there are four feet and two high. Open the north and south two gates, and in the four corners of the city up two enemy towers, the door view, the gate tower threshold are all Dan Qingqi painting.

This is actually a wheel palace with clever mechanisms that can be moved, and there are many huge ships under the entire wheel city, which can be moved by the horse-drawn people. When Yang Guang went out to inspect the Great Wall, he built one.

When Li Yuan arrived in Liuhe City, he first went to the Wheel Palace to meet the emperor.

As a result, he waited for four hours, and finally did not see the emperor, but his nephew Queen sent someone to tell him that the emperor was very angry with him now.

After sitting on the cold bench for four hours, without even drinking hot tea, Li Yuan felt the heat of the warm and cold world. came out, in the outer city of Liuhe, I met many officials accompanying the car, but they all avoided him from a distance, pretending not to see him.

The angry Li Yuan's face became more and more pale.

In the end, Li Yuan finally found a courtyard arranged by the emperor for him, originally the emperor arranged a courtyard for all the officials accompanying him, and also sent a civilian envoy, Su Wei and other favored ministers The courtyard is very large, and there are all kinds of furniture and utensils. But Li Yuan looked for his yard, but found that it was in the far corner, and the yard was extremely simple, except for a few basic pieces of furniture, there was nothing in it.

It can be seen that his next days are not expected to be easy.

The young eunuch in the palace is the deputy governor of the palace province, although the palace province is also called the province, but compared to the three provinces of the internal history of Shangshumen, it can only be regarded as a marginal institution, but it is the emperor's service institution, to put it bluntly, it is miscellaneous, compared with Weiwei Siqing, it is far inferior.

"A companion is like a tiger."

In the room, Li Yuan sat on the rough log freshly made couch and couldn't help but sigh.

"Father, all of this was caused by Luo Cheng's little thief, if it weren't for him, Dad would not have been blamed by His Majesty one after another. Now that my father has been demoted to a young eunuch in the palace, there is no need for us to deal with that thief anymore. ”

Li Jiancheng looked at his father sitting on the couch, he seemed to have aged a lot overnight, and the wrinkles on his face were even more.

Li Yuan turned his head to look at his eldest son, his broken arm was not yet complete, and he was still hanging on his arm. The eldest son grew very tall, but the more he looked at Li Yuan, the more he frowned, he felt that his son was still too immature compared to Luo Cheng, he was very satisfied with this eldest son before, but now he found that his son still has too much immaturity.

"Da Lang, you also know that there are many icing on the cake in this world, but there are few charcoal in the snow. In particular, there are many people in the world who have fallen into the well, my father was not treated by the emperor in the first place, this time I sat on a cold bench in the palace for four hours, I am afraid that tomorrow, it will spread throughout the entire Liaodong city, and then everyone knows that the emperor is annoyed with me. ”

Li Yuan likes to build it very much, and likes his mature atmosphere.

But now, he had to remind this prince that the Li family's position was not stable. Although their home is an eight-pillar country, it sounds very loud. But his family knows that in fact, his grandfather died early, and his father also died early, so the Li family actually declined very quickly.

Why was Yang Jian able to usurp the throne of the Northern Zhou Dynasty back then?

On the contrary, the Yang Zhong and Yang Jian families, which were originally only the twelve generals, have been lucky to avoid several serious infighting in the dynasty, and their strength has increased instead of decreasing.

Especially when Yang Jian married Dugu Xin's daughter, when Dugu Xin's internal struggle failed, most of the power of the Dugu family was actually inherited by Yang Jian, for example, Gao Ying, the founding prime minister, was Dugu Xin's general.

The reason for the loss of power of the Li family is that Li Hu died early, and Li Yuan's father did not do anything big, and he died early.

So by the end of the Northern Week, in fact, only the Li Bi family, the Li Mu family, and the Yu Jin family were the only ones who really had the strength in the Eight Pillars Country, and the Yang Jian family, which was only one of the twelve generals, successfully became the strongest.

In the end, Yang Jian received the support of more people and replaced the Yuwen clan of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

The Li family, like most nobles, made a wall grass, because they were also related to the Yang family, and the family did not have much power, so they still retained the title in the new dynasty, which looked good, but in fact it was far from the center of politics.

It wasn't until he Li Yuan became an adult and worked hard for so many years that the family could be regarded as regaining some momentum, but there was still a big gap between him and the top gate valve in the court.

Now, the emperor's anger at him is undoubtedly a heavy blow to the Li family, which has been in the stage of re-ascending all these years.

The Li family was not only the country of the Eight Pillars, but also the core of the Guanlong Group.

However, the power of the Eight Pillars State is not always the same, and the internal struggle of the Guanlong nobles is fierce, how many families have fallen, how many families have been broken, and how many families have risen.

Li Yuan continued to himself, "Although our family is also a famous family, it is all the glory of the past. Although your great-grandfather and children are numerous, they have not produced a decent person until now, and each family still holds a slightly higher position as a father. ”

"In comparison, although the Luo family was just a pawn of the Yang family, they were originally the henchmen of the Yang family, this Luo Yi has a bad temper and is not popular, but he can fight and have a strong ability, and now he has a more fierce stepson like Luo Cheng. Luo Yi is now the Duke of Yan Guo, the general of the Sixth Army on the right, Luo Cheng is the Marquis of Xiangyang, the general of the Fifth Army on the left, one general of one family, one prince and one marquis, such glory, full of upstarts, looking at the Manchu Dynasty, there are not many people who are so favored. ”

Since the emperor changed the rank and title of the officer, the old nobles in the past have been greatly suppressed.

There are very few families with seven or eight dozen titles in one family, many of whom used to be county dukes and county dukes, but now many of them are just marquises, and many of them who have been marquis and below have not even kept their titles.

However, Luo Yi was originally just a county duke, but he was promoted to a national duke, and Luo Cheng was a young man, but he could also be awarded a marquis.

"This expedition to Liao, except for Luo Cheng and Luo Yi who won a few big battles, the rest of the armies did not progress very well, and the emperor personally commanded the attack on Liaodong City, and they all lost their troops, not to mention other generals. It can be said that after this expedition to Liao, the Luo family will definitely be able to go further. I think that Mai Tiezhu was crowned the Duke of the Kingdom at the age of thirty-five, and Laihu'er was crowned the Duke of the Kingdom at the age of thirty-six, and this Luo Cheng is very likely to be crowned the Duke of the Kingdom at the age of twenty, and the upstart family of this dynasty was born. ”

Li Jiancheng was still very unconvinced, "So what, even if the wheat iron cane comes to protect the children and waits for the early sealing of the country, our Li family has never patted them on the back." ”

"Different." Li Yuan sighed.

"Does my father really want to marry the third sister and the fourth sister to the Luo family?"

Li Yuan nodded.