When he arrived at the East Palace, Yang Yong put down Xiao Cong's entry into Beijing, and instructed the guards to bring the prey to the Weiwang Mansion, and the rest were sent to the kitchen.

Hearing this news, the various vassals and servants of the East Palace were immediately happy, and the East Palace was full of joy, as the Great Sui became richer and richer, the emperor's restrictions on various palaces were much looser, and some days that were not festivals were also allowed to drink wine and eat meat, but the days when ordinary servants could eat meat were too few after all, and they were of course very happy to have so many prey to eat.

Just as he commanded the guards to distribute the prey, a little boy stumbled out of it, opened his little hand, and shouted to Yang Yong with a smile: "Father, hug, hug." ”

The boy was about three or four years old, it was Yang Yong's eldest son, born to Yun Meier, after taking Yun Meier and Xing'er as concubines, the two daughters were pregnant at the same time in the second year, and gave birth to a son in August and September of the fourth year of Kaihuang, the son born to Yun Meier was born in January, named Yang Yan, and the son born to Xing'er was named Yang Ge, but the princess still did not move.

Yang Yan inherited the advantages of his mother, his facial features are exquisite, his lips are red and his teeth are white when he smiles, he is very cute, Yang Yong picked up Yang Yan who rushed over: "Okay, father hug you!" ”

Just hugged Yang Yan, another child's voice shouted: "Father, I want to hug me too." But when Yang Ge heard Yang Yong coming back, he hurriedly ran out to greet him.

Yang Yong had to pick up the two of them at the same time, and the two daughters, Yun Meier and Xing'er, followed out, and the two girls were beautiful. At this moment, the winter has passed, and the two girls have changed out of their bloated winter clothes, and the greenness on their faces has long been gone, not only showing the best style, but also adding a graceful and luxurious atmosphere.

Seeing Yang Yong, the two hurriedly shouted, "Husband is back." "I want to take over their respective sons from Yang Yong.

Deliver Younger into his mother's arms. Yang Yong still hugged Yang Yan tightly, his eyes fell on Yun Mei'er's slightly bulging belly, and he scolded softly: "Mei'er, you are pregnant again, watch out for your body, this kid is three years old, it's okay to hug him less." After speaking, he also slapped Yang Yan's little buttocks.

Yang Yan didn't cry. Instead, he laughed and looked at his younger brother Yang Ge triumphantly, Yang Ge was very unhappy, kicked his hands and feet in Xing'er's arms, and shouted: "Mother, I want my father to hug me, I want my father to hug me." ”

Yun Mei'er smiled slightly: "Husband, let's put Yan'er down, otherwise, the two of them will have trouble again." ”

Yang Yong had no choice but to put Yang Yan down with a wry smile, these two boys are only three years old now and know how to compete for favor. Fortunately, there are only two of them, if there are more Yang Yong, I am afraid that he will be annoyed to death, Yang Yong hopes that the child in Yun Meier's belly is not a son now.

Jiangling Liangguo, this is already the south, if Daxing City will still make people feel the slightest coolness, Jiangling is already a piece of spring. Unlike the wheat in the north, there are many varieties of rice, many of which have just begun to be ploughed, and it won't be long before the fields are covered with green rice.

Although Liang is small, it is located in the golden waterway, and the prosperity of Jiangling is no less than that of Daxing and Jiankang. Because it is sandwiched between the two powers, it has become the center of goods from the south to the north, and the best rice paper and ink in the south of the Yangtze River. Famous tea, cotton cloth from the north, cattle and horses can be easily bought in Gangneung, and pedestrians on the street are full of all kinds of cries and sales.

After dusk, the daytime hustle and bustle finally passed, but the cries of the street vendors seemed to be still unending, and if you listened carefully, you realized that it was the sound of all the big families in the city drinking and feasting.

A luxurious mansion that occupies almost half of the street in the east, there is also the sound of silk and bamboo, and occasionally the air can hear the crisp and crisp voice of a woman, and the main entrance of the mansion is written with three big characters of "Taifu Mansion" to show the identity of the owner.

The owner of this mansion is the Taifu of the Dynasty, where Xiao Yan, the uncle of the current Liang Lord, lives, and in the main hall of the Taifu Mansion at this moment, Xiao Yan, who is over sixty years old, and a middle-aged man is sitting opposite each other, their desks are full of various delicacies, and several women are dancing in the middle.

More than a dozen huge candles in the lobby made a peeling sound, illuminating the entire hall as bright as day, this kind of candles are made of fine grease, smokeless and colorless, a giant wax costs half a stone of grain, only a rich family like Xiao Yan would be so luxurious.

These women are beautiful, only wearing light yarn on their bodies, and their white and tender thighs and groins appear and disappear from time to time when they dance, and even the cherry red on their chests is not completely covered.

The middle-aged man held the wine, drooling and looking at the woman dancing in the middle with his eyes, and even forgot to drink the wine, Xiao Yan smiled and looked at the ugliness of the middle-aged man, not caring at all.

"If these women and nephews like it, how about the old man give them to the nephews?"

The middle-aged man came back to his senses, and he was overjoyed, but he said hesitantly: "These women are still carefully cultivated by their uncles, how can their nephews win people's love." This middle-aged man is none other than Xiao Cong, the king of Liang, Xiao Xian, who was the assassin of Jingzhou at the time.

Xiao Yan sighed: "Uncle is already old, even if he has a heart, he is powerless, but the virtuous nephew is young and strong, and it is just right to send them to the virtuous nephew, not to mention that even this family business does not know how long it can be kept, how can the uncle be reluctant to a few singers." ”

The singer in the middle was still dancing, as if what the two were talking about had nothing to do with them at all, Xiao Xian swallowed his saliva and took his gaze back from the singer: "What does the last sentence of uncle mean?" ”

Xiao Yan glanced around, waved his hand, and said, "You guys stand down!" ”

"Yes!" The dancing singers, musicians, and servants all came out, and after a while, only Xiao Yan and Xiao Xian were left in the lobby.

"The virtuous nephew knows why Yang Jian sent the king to Daxing, and after the king left, he ordered Cui Hongdu, the marquis of Wuxiang of Sui, to lead the army south and stationed on the side of Jiangling."

"This, didn't the Emperor of the Great Sui say that he hadn't seen the king for many years, and he missed it very much, so he ordered the king to enter Beijing, as for Cui Hongdu leading the army south, the king agreed, and the Great Sui Emperor was afraid that the king would leave. The Chen Dynasty will send troops to attack, and Cui Hongdu is only here to assist in the defense. Xiao Xian said in an uncertain tone.

"Hey, hey, is it just a defense?" A chill escaped Xiao Yan's mouth

Xiao Xian suddenly panicked: "Could it be that the Sui army wants to attack us, no, no." Over the years, Liang has been attached to Sui, and Yang Jian has never had the intention of annexing, uncle, are you too worried? ”

"Stupid, Yang Jian has not annexed us over the years, that is, he has not been able to spare his hands, in the past two years, Yang Su, the governor of Xinzhou, has built warships in Yong'an. Cui Zhongfang built a warship in Hanshui, and Han captured Hu and He Ruobi every year in the south when they harvested grain in the summer and autumn, and attacked Jiangnan, so that Chen Guo had to gather soldiers to fight, and countless wheat and rice in the south were rotten in the fields because of lack of labor, and Chen Guo's national strength was greatly affected, and most of the troops mobilized by Sui belonged to the north and wheat. The rice harvest was a month late, and once the Chen State was ready to stop, the Sui Dynasty just stopped the war and let the soldiers go back to harvest the grain, so the Sui Dynasty was not affected, and now the gap between the national strength of the two sides is getting bigger and bigger. Yang Jian has long had the intention of annexing Chen Guo, so how could he keep Liang Guo. ”

Xiao Xian blinked, was completely led by Xiao Yan's nose, and jumped up from the ground: "Isn't it dangerous for the king to arrive in Daxing." ”

"The king and Yang Jian have known each other for decades, and they have formed a family, if Daliang is annexed, maybe they can still enjoy the high-ranking officials, what danger will there be. He must have understood in his heart that the Liang Kingdom was too small to compete with the Sui Dynasty, and maybe the king would take the initiative to offer the map population. To win Yang Jian's favor, you didn't see that the king and his son Xiao Yu were also brought to the capital of the Great Sui. Xiao Yan said disdainfully.

Xiao Xian breathed a sigh of relief: "Since this is the case, Liang Guo can't keep it anyway, so it's good to get a glory and wealth." ”

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"Stupid, stupid." Xiao Yan pointed at Xiao Xian and scolded: "Your life is going to be gone, you still want to be prosperous and rich, you don't want to enjoy glory and wealth in the underworld." ”

If someone else dared to scold him like this, Xiao Xian asked someone to pull him around and cut him, but Xiao Yan was his uncle and the prince of the dynasty, Xiao Xian couldn't bear it, but asked suspiciously: "Didn't uncle say that the king can enjoy the high-ranking officials, and how can he not be prosperous and rich?" ”

Xiao Yan looked at Xiao Xian with a look of hatred: "That's just in front of me, let me ask you, how many kings of the dead country can get a good death, the king and Yang Jian are related and may be barely guaranteed, but because Yang Jian is embarrassed to kill the king, he has to cut off the wings of the king, you are the assassin of Jingzhou, and you control half of the Liang, if the Liang State is incorporated into the Sui Dynasty, you and I are the first people Yang Jian will cut off." ”

Xiao Xian suddenly broke out in a cold sweat: "Uncle, how is that good?" ”

Seeing that Xiao Xian was frightened, Xiao Yan showed a smile and stretched out his hand to point to the south.

"Chen Guo?" Xiao Xianda frowned, although he was stupid, he also knew that Sui was strong and Chen was weak, and he didn't vote for the Sui Dynasty if he put it well, but threw himself into Nan Chen, if Chen was broken, wouldn't it still fall into the hands of the Sui Dynasty, and then he would really die without a place to be buried.

"What are you afraid of, although the Sui Dynasty is strong, but Chen has the Yangtze River natural danger, the north and the south have been divided for three hundred years, Yang Jian wants to reunify, how easy is it to talk about, as long as we throw in the past, we will definitely be taken seriously, no matter what, it is much better than staying in the Sui Dynasty." Xiao Yan Liao Liao dispelled Xiao Xian's scruples in a few sentences, Qin led a million-strong army before that year, and he still hadn't crossed the Yangtze River.

"It's good, it's just uncle, how do we contact Nan Chen?"

Xiao Yan clapped his hands, walked out of the back hall, and gave Xiao Xian a bow: "Meet Lord Thorn Shi." ”

Xiao Xian was startled, pointed at the middle-aged scribe and said, "Uncle, who is this?" How dare you eavesdrop on our conversation? ”

"Don't be nervous, come, let me introduce you, this is the envoy of Lord Chen Chaoyi and Huang Hou Huiji, we are in the Chen Dynasty, and thank you Lord Huiji for the introduction."

Xiao Xian smiled bitterly, he knew that his uncle had arranged everything, although he was the assassin of Jingzhou and had mastered most of the soldiers and horses of the Liang State, but this was beyond the reach of the whip chief of the Taifu Mansion, if he didn't agree, I was afraid that his own uncle would turn his face immediately.

This time Xiao Cong entered Beijing to receive Yang Jian's edict to enter Beijing, took away most of the important ministers, and even the prince was taken away, leaving Xiao Yan and Xiao Xian to stay behind, Xiao Congman thought that one of the two was his own uncle, and the other was his own brother, and he would not betray himself, but he did not expect Xiao Cong to arrive in Daxing City five days later, Yang Jian received an urgent report from Cui Hongdu of Liang Guodi for 800 miles, and in January after Xiao Cong, the lord of Liang, Hui Ji, the general of the Chen Dynasty, suddenly led the army across the river, with the cooperation of Xiao Yan, the eunuch of the state and Xiao Xian, the assassin of Jingzhou, the Liang army did not resist, and opened the city gate, Welcome the army of the Chen Dynasty into the city.

After that, Cui Hongdu reacted immediately, and also led the army into the Liang State, but it was too late, Xiao Yan and Xiao Xian were coerced by Liang State's civil and military officials and more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians all entered the Chen State by boat, and the essence of Liang State was swept away by Xiao Yan and Xiao Xian, and set fire to the city, and many places became a scorched earth.

After receiving Cui Hongdu's report, the Great Sui monarchs and ministers were furious, and Xiao Cong was even more frightened, but fortunately, Yang Jian did not blame him, announced the abolition of the Liang State, and named the Liang lord Xiao Cong as the Shangzhu State, gave the duke, and sent Shangshu Zuo Servant to go to Jiangling in person to appease the remaining remnants of the Liang State, and prepare to launch a unified war.

When Xiao Yan secretly asked the Chen Dynasty to surrender, Ren Zhong, Zhou Luoyu, Xiao Maha and other generals of the Chen Dynasty were overjoyed and wanted to lead the troops to occupy the Liang land, so that the Liang land became a nail in the belly of the Sui Dynasty.

It's a pity that Chen Shubao is dedicated to pleasure, and has no intention of state affairs at all, and entrusts all the power to the close ministers Shi Wenqing and Shen Keqing, these two people have no talent, they will only slap the horse, they are afraid that the military generals will make meritorious contributions and squeeze their power, and they ignore the requirements of the military generals, and brazenly ask that all the people of Liang ** be involved in the south of the Yangtze River, leaving only empty space for the Sui Dynasty.

Although the Chen Dynasty got more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians, but the loss of Liang's geographical advantage was actually more than worth the loss, but Chen Shubao was superstitious about the Yangtze River, and no matter how the generals argued, Chen Shubao still agreed to Shi Wenqing's suggestion and gave Liang Dibai to the Sui Dynasty.

In April of the seventh year of the emperor's reign, just as the Great Sui State was preparing to launch a unified war to the south for the change of the Liang State, an incident interrupted the preparations for the Sui Dynasty to start a war.

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