With Sun Yan coming forward, the defenders in Suzhou opened the city gate and surrendered that day. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

And Yang Wu also proposed to the whole army that after entering the city, they must pay attention to discipline, and it is strictly forbidden to disturb the people, etc., and personally led people to inspect around to maintain discipline. And the people in the city gradually became relieved by the arrival of the Huainan army.

On the same day, Zhou Ben quickly sent someone to report the news of the capture of Suzhou to Yang Xingmi.

When receiving the good news, Guangling was in a grand welcome ceremony, and Yang Xingmi personally led his generals out of the city to greet them, and the object they greeted was the canonization envoy sent by the Son of Heaven.

As early as March this year, Li Maozhen, the king of Qi, kidnapped the Son of Heaven to Fengxiang and was besieged by Zhu Quanzhong; In order to relieve his own pressure, under the persecution of Li Maozhen, the Son of Heaven had no choice but to issue an edict to grant Yang Xingmi the title of King of Wu and let him crusade against Zhu Quanzhong.

However, although the content of this canonization decree had already reached Huainan, and Yang Xingmi had long regarded himself as the king of Wu, the official canonization envoys sent by the imperial court had not arrived in Yangzhou because of Zhu Quanzhong's obstruction.

Li Yan's original surname was Zhang, and his father Zhang Jun was once the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, because of his father's merits, Li Yan was given the surname Li by the emperor. This time, the envoys who went south to canonize Yang Xingmi were not sent by him at the beginning, but the first batch of envoys were detained by Zhu Quanzhong's generals when they passed through Zhu Quanzhong's territory, so Li Yan set off from Fengxiang as the second batch of envoys, sneaked all the way, and did not arrive in Yangzhou until October now.

For the envoy sent by the Son of Heaven, Yang Xingmi, who has always regarded himself as a loyal minister, naturally respectfully led the Huainan civil and military officials out of the city to greet him.

"The king, now that General Zhou and the eldest son have captured Suzhou, and Tian Yan has not been able to make progress in Hangzhou, this is a great joy for me in Huainan, plus the arrival of the messenger of the Son of Heaven, the king has to celebrate well!" Taking advantage of Li Yan's arrival, Dai Yougui said to Yang Xingmi with a smile.

"Hehe, now is not the time to celebrate, then Lone is going to attack Huzhou with Wu'er as the main general, if he can successfully capture Huzhou before Tian Yan takes Hangzhou, then it will be the time to celebrate!"

"The king can rest assured that the eldest son is resourceful, and the Huzhou garrison has 8,000 people who were sent to reinforce Hangzhou, and the entire army has been wiped out, and now the Huzhou garrison has been greatly reduced, and the eldest son can still do it if he captures Huzhou."

"I hope it will be as you say!"

Yang Xingmi said with a smile, anyway, he is already satisfied if he can capture Suzhou this time, and it is naturally better if he can further capture Huzhou, even if he can't, it's nothing.

"The establishment of the eldest prince is so great that it is enough to convince many officials. Next, the king can gradually let the eldest son ascend to the throne. Dai Yougui said with a smile, and then suddenly sighed, "It's just that his subordinates are also going to retire!" ”

"Retirement? Now that the situation is so good, why retreat? Is there any dissatisfaction with Lonely? Yang Xingmi was taken aback and hurriedly asked.

He thought that he was very courteous to Dai Yougui, and he had been friends for so many years, but he didn't expect him to suddenly say that he wanted to retire, how not to surprise him.

"The king treats his subordinates so politely, and his subordinates are only grateful to the king, how can they be dissatisfied. It's just ...... in the future," Dai Yougui said with a smile.

He is deeply trusted by Yang Xingmi, and he controls Yang Xingmi's secret agent agency "Long Sword Capital", but this position is too critical, it doesn't matter when Yang Xingmi is in power now, when Yang Wu comes to power in the future, will he still trust him so much?

The rule of a son of heaven and a courtier has always been like this, and Dai Yougui has long been aware of this.

He was originally an idle man, and he didn't have much interest in his career, but when he saw the chaos in Jianghuai and the people were devastated, he went out of the mountain to help Yang Xingmi; Later, when Jianghuai calmed down, he had plans to retire, but Yang Xingmi was too polite to him, and he couldn't bear to leave, so he continued to be a staff member under Yang Xingmi.

Now that Yang Xingmi has planned to gradually hand over the power to his eldest son, he will naturally start to retire.

Yang Xingmi was stunned for a moment, and he had to say more, at this time, the guards in front came to report that Li Yan, the messenger of the Son of Heaven, had arrived, so Yang Xingmi had to stop the topic, looked at Dai Yougui deeply, and took all the officials to greet Li Yan.

"Messenger of the Son of Heaven, General Zuo Jinwu, Jianghuai Xuanzhi envoy Li Yan has arrived!"

With a chanting, Yang Xingmi hurriedly looked forward, only to see a few guards in front of him surrounded a young man dressed in an official mansion and rode towards everyone.

The young official had sword eyebrows and starry eyes, his nose was like a hanging gall, quite majestic, but the official uniform on his body had long been tattered, and there was no other entourage behind him except for a few guards who were also in tattered clothes, so a shabby appearance, if it weren't for the honor guard in the official's hand that symbolized the Son of Heaven, everyone would be afraid that everyone would wonder if the person in front of him was a fake messenger.

Yang Xingmi hurriedly led all the officials to meet him, and said: "The minister Huainan Jiedu made Yang Xingmi meet the envoy of the Son of Heaven!" ”

Although the Son of Heaven has long been less majestic at this time, and the envoys of various festivals have long since taken the emperor seriously, the necessary etiquette must still be observed.

Li Yan hurriedly jumped off the horse, stepped forward quickly and said, "The king, please get up quickly!" The last general was ordered by the emperor to come to deliver the decree, and asked the king to receive the decree! ”

When today's son is named Li Ye, this is the Tang Zhaozong in history.

In the late Tang Dynasty, the power of the eunuchs completely controlled the court, and the abolition of the Son of Heaven was completely controlled by the eunuchs. Li Ye was proclaimed emperor by the eunuch Yang Fugong and others after the death of his elder brother Tang Xizong, when he was only six years old.

However, Li Ye's means are good, after he ascended the throne, he did not rely on Yang Fugong and other eunuchs who supported him, but with the help of the strength of the envoys of various festivals to confront it, after a series of struggles, he initially grasped the power, and dealt a severe blow to the arrogant and domineering situation of the eunuchs for many years, so that the eunuch power suffered a heavy blow for the first time in many years.

However, the power of the eunuchs was suppressed, but the power of the local envoys was rapidly raised; Li Ye then decided to crusade against the local feudal forces, and he chose to deal with Li Keyong, the most unruly Hedong Jiedu envoy at that time. However, his idea was good, but the target of the attack was wrong, and the army sent by the imperial court was finally defeated, and Li Ye's prestige was immediately lost, and the imperial court no longer had any majesty, and gradually became the object of casual insults by the envoys of the festival.

In November last year, Zhu Quanzhong sent troops to attack Chang'an, intending to follow Cao Cao's "coercion of the Son of Heaven to order the princes", but the eunuch Han Quanzhu and Li Maozhen abducted Li Ye to Fengxiang, so Zhu Quanzhong continued to attack Li Maozhen on the grounds that Li Maozhen had kidnapped the Son of Heaven.

On the battlefield, Zhu Quanzhong's people scolded Li Maozhen as a "thief who robbed the heavens"; However, Li Maozhen's people in turn scolded Zhu Quanzhong as a "thief who seized the Son of Heaven", and actually wanted to command the world in the name of the Son of Heaven.

Therefore, in this era, none of the envoys are loyal to the emperor, but they all want to dress up as a loyal minister.

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