Zhuo County.

Emperor Yang Guang's car drove into the customs and arrived at the Linshuo Palace in Zhuo County.

At this time, the six armies of Xiaoguo all retreated into the pass, and the six armies of Yuwenshu and Yang Yichen also retreated from Liaodong, and were on the way to accelerate the retreat in western Liaoning.

The retreats of the armies were orderly, and even Yuwen Shu and their six armies had almost no casualties, which was also thanks to the fact that they had captured the two major fortresses of Liaodong and Xincheng, and with Luo Yi and their palaces left behind, the Goguryeo people did not dare to pursue.

Although Hu Sizheng's defection to Goguryeo made the Goguryeo people have a clear understanding of the sudden retreat of the Sui army, they still refused Hu Sizheng's request for pursuit.

At this time, the domestic city was temporarily relieved, and the Sui army evacuated, how could they have the heart to chase it, because they were now facing a more serious problem.

That is, when the Second Eastern Crusade of the Sui Dynasty came to an abrupt end and the army returned to the west, the Goguryeo people had to face a new fact, that is, the contradiction between the eastern group of Yuan Taizuo and the royal family supported by Eulji Wendeok.

At present, the two sides can endure each other for the time being, but as soon as the external enemy leaves, internal strife will inevitably arise.

When Yang Guanggang crossed the Liao River and Yuwen Shu had just withdrawn to the area of Xincheng, Yuan Gai Suwen, the former lord of Liaodong City, had already gathered troops and horses in Fuyu City.

The purpose of gathering soldiers and horses is not to pursue the Sui army, fight back, and recover the lost cities.

He wanted to gather all the troops and horses of the Eastern Alliance, and he wanted to lead his troops to the domestic city, preparing to force Gao Jianwu and Yizhi Wende to hand over Yuan Taizuo.

Gathering soldiers and horses over there, Yizhi Wende here naturally began to prepare immediately, and the two sides were tense, and they couldn't fight for the time being, but it was because the Sui army had not completely withdrawn.

No matter how Hu Sizheng, a traitor, jumps up and down, the Goguryeo people don't have time to pay attention.

Linshuo Palace.

"Your Majesty, good news!"

"Qi Guogong is a success!"

The waiter happily entered the temple to report it.

"Luo Cheng has won again?" The emperor was in a good mood, although he retreated in a hurry, but after all, the retreat was also smooth, and he received good news just after passing the Linyu Pass, Luo Cheng brothers returned to the division quickly, and they had even leveled the rebels on both sides of the army, first surrendering Wang Bo and then defeating Wang Yong, and capturing 100,000 rebels.

And Zhang Xutuo and Pei Renji were under the Tiger Prison, and they also repelled Yang Xuangan's attacks again and again.

Yang Shanhui and Du Ruhui also stopped Li Mi from going north.

"Tell me what a big victory we have fought again!"

"Your Majesty, the Duke of Qi sent a quick report of 800 miles from Nanyang, and on May 13, he captured and beheaded the puppet Chu Emperor Yang Xuangan in Nanyang Xinye, and captured Yang Xuanzong, the brother of Yang Thief, and other five people, captured more than 50,000 rebels, and killed more than 8,000 people."

As soon as he heard the news, Yang Guang couldn't help but stand up.

"Yang Xuangan was captured?"

"Back to Your Majesty, there is a detailed process of exterminating the rebels behind this, Yang Xuangan fled all the way west, attacked the city under Nanyang City for three days, wanted to break the city and seize food, Pei Renji and Wei Wensheng led 60,000 soldiers and horses to arrive, ten battles in one day, all ten battles were won, the rebels collapsed, and fled all the way south. And Luo Shuai had already led 8,000 light cavalry to Xinye in the south of Nanyang to intercept the rout, capturing tens of thousands of thieves day and night. ”

"Luo Shuai personally stopped Yang Xuangan and fought with him, picked Yang Xuangan and beheaded him under the horse."

"Zhuang, I didn't expect Luo Cheng to be able to kill Yang Xuangan alone, it's really amazing."

"Hahaha."

The Emperor laughed, and his heart was filled with joy.

He gritted his teeth with hatred for Yang Xuan, if it weren't for him, he was afraid that the Eastern Expeditionary Army would have besieged the domestic city at this time, and the Second Eastern Expedition would be victorious, and Goguryeo would have perished.

It was this Yang Xuangan who caused him to fail in his crusade again.

And Yang Xuangan's betrayal, what made him extremely angry was that he used to trust him so much, but he stabbed him in the back, especially when he had a very bad head.

"Your Majesty, Wei Wensheng has already sentenced the Yang brothers to death."

"If you are cheap for them, you should arrest them back, let the hundred officials shoot them with arrows, and then punish them with car splitting, and then Ling Chi, and finally smash them, and then crush the bones and scatter ashes, and burn them."

Several of the chamberlains knelt down.

"Congratulations to Your Majesty, put down the rebellion."

Yang Xuangan made a mess, and it took only about two months before and after, and it was up and down.

But Yang Guang's face fell silent again, and the emperor was not happy.

Just because Yang Xuangan was such a clown, he was defeated in the Second Eastern Crusade.

"Your Majesty, Wei Wensheng also has a book, he impeached the Duke of Qi for tolerating and nurturing traitors and indulging against the party."

The waiter handed Wei Wensheng's recital, and Yang Guang read it.

"Those thieves, who actually responded to Yang Wei like this, should be killed."

"Your Majesty, the Duke of Qi also has another book."

Luo Cheng had expected that Wei Wensheng would impeach him, so he wrote another piece to explain the situation in detail, and made a request that all the rebels who had surrendered to be exiled to the four counties of Liaodong to enrich Liaodong and let them open up land to support military supplies.

Yang Guang, who was still very dissatisfied with Luo Cheng, couldn't help but be silent after seeing this recital.

Half a day later, Yang Guang sighed, "Although Luo Cheng is young, he really has the talent to enter and exit the general, you see that he has much better vision and means than Wei Wensheng in the disposal of this captive." Although killing light can relieve the anger for a while, it is indeed better to be exiled to Liaodong. ”

"Summoning Yu Shiji and them to come."

At the emperor's behest, several prime ministers with the rank of participating in the government came.

Yu Shiji and several people also heard the news of Nanyang's victory, and congratulated the emperor when they came in.

"Well, you Aiqing will take a look at this twist first."

The prime minister of the Great Sui was originally the governor of the three provinces, Shang Shu Ling, Nei Shi Ling and Na Yan. The three provinces were originally Menxia Province and Zhongshu Province and Menxia Province, but in order to avoid Yang Zhong's loyalty, the Yang family changed Zhongshu Province to the Inner History Province, changed the Zhongshu Order to the Inner History Order, and changed the Menxia Shizhong to Nayan, but the three provinces are still the three provinces, and these three high-ranking officials are the prime ministers of the dynasty.

However, after Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, in order to get rid of the constraints of those prestigious ministers, there is now only one Su Wei Ren Nayan, and neither the Neishi Ling nor the Shangshu Ling have been awarded, and even the two adjutants of Shangshu Province have not been awarded.

In addition to the three provinces, Shangshu Province is now only presided over by the left and right Cheng, and the Inner History Province is only presided over by Shilang, in order to allow his henchman Yu Shiji and others to exercise the real power of the prime minister, Yang Guang had to add a title to them to participate in political affairs.

Now there are only five people with this title, which are Su Wei, Pei Yun, Pei Shiju, Yu Shiji and Yu Wenshu, who are called the five nobles of the Great Cause.

Yuwenshu and Liaoxi, the other four nobles were all there at this time, and after they read the chapter, they were not in a hurry to speak.

"I don't know who is on this set?" Yu Shiji asked first.

"You don't care who goes on it first, just say how it's written, right?"

Yu Shiji secretly looked at the emperor's eyes and decided that the emperor agreed with this movement, so he said, "It's feasible, and it's very good." This is the reason why Yu Shiji has been favored all these years, his advice to the emperor is not based on facts at all, but completely based on the emperor's preferences, and is really blindly flattering.

The other three also nodded and said it was feasible.

"Well, since the four Aiqing have said that it is good, then Luo Cheng's recital is really good. Then deal with the rebels as they are intended. In addition, I sent a decree to Luo Cheng and summoned him to Luoyang to meet the saint to see the king, and I was already a little impatient to see this meritorious minister. ”

The Emperor laughed.

Only then did Yu Shiji and the others know that this piece of music was actually written by Luo Cheng, and they were secretly surprised.

Seeing the emperor's happy appearance, I don't know how Luo Cheng will be favored after facing the saint this time.

It seems that the five nobles of the great cause are about to become the six nobles of the great cause.