The main hall of the two ceremonial halls.

Yang Guanggao sat on the dragon chair, looked at the generals of the Xiaoguo Army who had a blue nose and swollen face and were at a loss at the bottom of the steps, sighed, and said, "What are you doing standing?" Have a seat. ”

After the words fell, a little eunuch immediately moved the stool to the hall, and asked the generals of the Xiaoguo army to do it in order of seating.

Yang Guang glanced at the generals and colonels of the Xiaoguo Army, sighed, and said earnestly: "I can still understand the feelings of the generals. Now that the world is in turmoil, the people's hearts are not ancient, the phenomenon of fleeing in the Xiaoguo army is repeatedly prohibited, and your family members are all in Kansai, you are worried about the safety of your family, and you are afraid that some relatives will defect to Li Tang and be blamed by me, all of which I can understand. ”

"But you shouldn't have planned this plot mutiny! Let's not talk about whether this is in line with morality and the courtesy of kings and ministers, just as far as the incident itself is concerned, it is a very wrong move! Do you think that if you kill me and seize the power of the central court, you can really go home? No, I can tell you for sure that you won't be able to return home! There is also a good chance that there will be no place to die! ”

"Don't think I'm alarmist, I'm going to teach you a lesson today! First of all, the world is already in turmoil, and the imperial court decrees do not go out of Jiangdu, but why are the largest princes as strong as Guanzhong Li Yuan, Hebei Dou Jiande, and Henan Li Mi never called emperors? Whether it is the rebel army or the rebel army, why is it that they are obviously self-reliant, and they still have to use the banner of the Great Sui, which is full of holes? ”

"The reason is simple, reputation, they all lack reputation! In the final analysis, everyone is a Sui person, no matter what the reason is, but they are against the imperial court, the local county government, not against the emperor! Because, I am the co-owner of this world's legal compliance! As long as I am in the day, none of these princes dare to trespass, and everyone competes under the same system. Whoever dares to take a step beyond this thunder pool, he is the enemy of the Sui people in the world, and he is an outlier in the eyes of everyone, and he is going to be attacked by the princes! ”

"The current situation is very similar to that of the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Although the Han family is in decline, as long as the world is not a monopoly, then the Han is still the orthodoxy of the world, and it is the hope of the people of the scholars. ”

"Like Huainan Yuan Shu, although he was born in a wealthy family of the fourth and third princes, although he has a wide land and many people, although he was one of the strongest princes in the world at that time, but because he usurped the throne without authorization, causing the dissatisfaction of the princes of the world, and losing the hearts of the people in the world, it is equivalent to the situation that the strength is not enough, and he has walked on the road against the sky, so its momentum is also its prosperity and prosperity, and its death is also sudden!"

"Therefore, the day when you raise up your army is the beginning of your destruction! If it weren't for the urgent measures I took in time to let you get away with it, you stupid pigs and reckless men would have really done the princes of the world a great favor, especially Li Yuan in Guanzhong, who is the one who wants me to hang up now! As long as I, the old emperor, returns to the west, then there will be no emperor in the world, and he can set up my grandson Yang Yu as the emperor, and then do the old thing of coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and finally stand on behalf of Sui and successfully obtain the legitimacy of the regime! ”

"But the princes of the world will not only not thank you for taking off the shackles on their heads for them, but will use this to regard you as a thief who kills the king and rebels that everyone in the world shouts and beats, especially Li Yuan in Guanzhong, and will drive you to extermination! Because his regime was inherited from the Sui court, the best way to gain legitimacy is to exterminate your group of traitors, wash away the stain of their seizure of power with your blood, and use your heads to build a Jingguan to show off the strength of the new dynasty, so as to warn the world that he, Li Yuan, is the co-master of the world, and those who betrayed him are like this! ”

"Let me ask, after your mutiny is successful, can you rely on your own strength to be the enemy of all the princes in the world and bring the world to peace in one fell swoop? If you can't, failure will be a matter of time or time, and when the time comes, your group of people will be the same as Yuan Shu, you will really become street rats, and everyone will shout and beat! The world is so big, there is nowhere to go! ”

Yang Guang said that the generals and colonels of the Xiaoguo Army present were silent and in a cold sweat, and Meng Bing even patted his chest, afraid for a while.

Under the leadership of Sima Dejiao, all the generals and colonels got up and knelt down and said: "The ministers were confused for a while, and they offended Tianwei under the ghosts' minds, but fortunately the saint woke up, so they didn't make a big mistake." This rumbling grace will be repaid by death! ”

Seeing this, Yang Guang sighed deeply and said, "You all want to go home, don't you want to?" Don't forget, I'm also from Kansai! My relatives, the society of the imperial court, and the temples of my ancestors are all flourishing! ”

This sentence instantly pierced the hearts of these men in Xiaoguojun, Sima Dejiao climbed two steps forward, grabbed the ground with his head, and cried: "Holy Lord, let's go back to Daxing!" The last general knows the difficulties and obstacles, but the last general is willing to be the pioneer, that is, to escort the saint to death, and return to Beijing smoothly! ”

As soon as the tears were poked, the generals and colonels of the Xiaoguo Army let go, and they all followed Sima Deji's example, knelt down in a large area, and cried and begged:

"Holy Lord, we are all Kansai people, the struggle of our ancestors for generations is there, although this Jiangnan is good, but it is not our hometown after all!"

"Yes, yes! Holy Lord, go home! The last general is death, and he will die on the way home! ”

"Holy Lord, there is a saying in the hometown of the last general, called the fallen leaves return to the roots, the soul returns to the hometown, and the last general really does not want to die in a foreign land!"

Yang Guang looked at these men in the army who showed their true feelings, and there was a trace of joy in his heart, touched by the fact that although they were reckless, they were not bad people, they were straight-hearted, what to say, it was their predecessors who did not make good use of them! Fortunately, after careful analysis, I decided to give them a way to live, and now it seems that this decision is so wise and wise!

Yang Guang helped up the people present one by one, slowly spoke, and said: "You, you are reckless, you don't think much before doing things, and you don't think about the consequences before acting, which will lead to today's situation." In fact, I had already ordered Pei Yun, the imperial historian, to be the ambassador of the Southeast Province, and Zhang Huishao, the magistrate of Jiangyang County, was his chief history, and took the Hu Ben Lang general Mai Mengcai, the Hu Yalang general Meng Fan, and Qian Jie to Pengcheng to collect grain and raise ships with 10,000 Xiaoguo! ”

As soon as these words came out, the generals of the Xiaoguo Army were shocked, their mouths were open enough to fit two eggs, and they asked with hopeful eyes: "What!?" Why don't we know about this, could it be that the Holy One has already intended to return to the West!? ”