In the first month of the third year of Tianze, the palace of the king of Zhou was decorated with lanterns, and it was said that a happy event was held inside, and it was even rumored that His Majesty the emperor personally presided over the wedding. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info It's a pity that there are very few civil and military officials who have been invited, and outsiders don't even know who the person who is married is, they just guess that the only one who is qualified to alarm His Majesty the Emperor should be King Zhou.

So the teahouses, restaurants, fireworks and willow alleys in Jiangdu City are full of talk about whose daughter is so lucky to be accepted as a concubine by His Royal Highness King Zhou. No one would think about it like an idiot: King Zhou already has a wife and a concubine, and his wife is still the princess of the Great Sui Dynasty, how can he take concubines again?

When Li Xuanba heard the rumors, the night of the candles in the cave room between the eldest grandson Wuji and Yang Yuan had passed for several days, and he thought about the torture that the eldest grandson Wuji might suffer with bad intentions, and his heart was much more comfortable, so he didn't take this matter to heart, and let the gossip outside the mansion spread.

The imperial court was determined to crusade against Shen Faxing, Li Xuanba was busy for a long time, and when the army went out, he was idle, and saw the eldest grandson Wuji and Yang Yuan in the mansion, respecting each other like guests, happy and a little regretful.

When he led the army to the south, he adopted the strategy of attacking the east and attacking the west, bypassing the county towns with heavy troops, attacking those places where the troops were weak, and when Shen Faxing sent troops to reinforce, he was often able to anticipate the enemy's opportunity and set up an ambush on the way to defeat the reinforcements.

In less than two months, Shen Faxing's army was defeated and retreated, and countless generals under his command died in the hands of Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin and others, so that wherever the army of Southern Sui attacked, the defenders fled from the wind, and finally only the whole county of Wu County and part of the county seat of Yuhang were still in the hands of Shen Faxing.

Basically every day in the south there is good news to Jiangdu, civil and military officials in the court repeated the words of compliment, listening to Yang Tong is very tired, but the court won the battle, he is always not good to put on a bad face, so he showed a happy appearance, many officials thought that Yang Tong to their compliments are extremely useful, so the compliments became louder and louder.

Compared with the war situation in the south, Li Xuanba is more concerned about the movement in the north.

At the same time that the Southern Sui sent troops to attack Shen Faxing, the Tang Dynasty began to send troops to attack the Northern Sui, and Wang Shichong knew that the Tang Dynasty was strong and difficult to shake, and the countermeasures were much better than Shen Faxing.

It's a pity that in the face of strong strength, the Northern Sui Dynasty is also losing and retreating, and in addition, there are very few talents who can be used in the Northern Sui court, like Pei Renji and Cheng Yanjin, who are good generals who can fight well, Yang Gao did not dare to put too many soldiers and horses into their hands.

Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, Qu Tutong and other soldiers divided into three routes, slowly encroaching on the cities of the Northern Sui, Wang Shichong had no choice but to choose to take back the elite of the imperial court to Luoyang, and at the same time asked Yang Gao to issue an edict and send Yuan Wendu to Dou Jiande, Xu Shiji and others for help.

A few months ago, the Northern Sui Dynasty and Xu Shiji turned against each other, and now how could Xu Shiji send troops to fight against the Tang Dynasty? As for Dou Jiande, he faced the threat of Luo Yi and Gao Kaidao, and he had no intention of going west, so Yuan Wen was worn out, and Dou Jiande and Xu Shiji were still unwilling to send a single soldier.

Yang Gao was unwilling, and sent a messenger to tell Xu Shiji and Dou Jiande about the truth of the cold lips and teeth, but Xu Shiji and Dou Jiande seemed to have discussed, and sent Yang Gao's messenger with a sentence of "The lips are afraid of the cold and the teeth are not afraid".

In April, Zhang Xutuo waved his army north, Xu Shiji, and Dou Jiande sent troops at the same time and began to fight for the city of Qilu......

The situation in the world seemed to be expected by Li Xuanba, but he didn't have time to be happy for a few days before bad news reached his ears.

Cai Xijiu is old and sick, and he has been sick in bed many years ago, but he finally survived, but he didn't expect him to survive the cold winter, but he died when he gradually warmed up.

Shizuka, as the righteous daughter of Cai Saijiu, naturally wants to go back to keep filial piety, after all, almost all of Cai's heirs died on the battlefield.

Putting aside the relationship between Shizuka, Li Xuanba respected Cai Saijiu very much, he heard the news of Cai Saijiu's death, and was sad for a long time, and later he personally organized the funeral for Cai Saijiu.

Cai Xijiu's only two grandsons, one followed Li Jing to the south to conquer, and the other followed Zhang Xutuo to attack the land of Qilu. As for his great-grandchildren, because they are too young, the eldest is only a teenager, and they are still studying in Guozijian.

The deceased is gone, the living are like this, Li Xuanba finally came out of his grief, only half a month later, another bad news came: Chen Ling, an important minister of the Three Dynasties, died of illness!

Chen Ling's age is similar to Cai Wei, but he is from a martial arts background, and he looks much tougher than Cai Wei, who would have thought that he would suddenly become seriously ill and die.

In fact, illness is just an introduction, they will die suddenly, because their time is up, no matter how good Sun Simiao's medical skills are, they will definitely not be able to snatch their lives back from the hands of Hades.

Chen Ling was loyal to the imperial court, although his temper was strange, but when Li Xuanba planned to persuade Du Fuwei to surrender, in addition to Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling and others agreed, almost all the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were opposed, and later Chen Ling took the lead in expressing his stance and supporting Li Xuanba's decision, which allowed things to go smoothly.

When Li Xuanba went to worship Chen Ling, he looked at Chen Ling's tablet, remembered Chen Ling's sentence "The world is yours after all", and he was stunned in his heart, bowed down, sighed, and left Chen Ling's mansion with a lonely expression.

"What an eventful time!" Li Xuanba walked a little farther, glanced back at Chen Ling's mansion, and saw a busy scene of people coming and going, and said with emotion: "Lord Sacrificial Wine and General Chen have done their best for the imperial court, but unfortunately before they died, they didn't have time to see the imperial court recover the mountains and rivers. ”

"But they saw the prosperity of Jiangdu, and they also saw the imperial court regain its vitality in such a short time." Li Gou bowed slightly and said softly: "Childe, you don't have to be too sad, Lord Sacrificial Wine and General Chen must be very calm when they leave." ”

"You don't have to comfort me, you don't know what General Chen said before he died." Li Xuanba's eyebrows showed a trace of unbearability, tightened his teeth, and said, "I hope they won't blame me." ”

Previously, Li Xuanba asked Chen Ling's widow what Chen Ling's last words were before he died, he thought that if Chen Ling had anything to worry about, the court could help, but he didn't expect Chen Ling's widow to tell Li Xuanba that before Chen Ling died, he often asked the court if it had sent troops to rescue Luoyang.

"Lord Saijiu and General Chen are both sensible people, otherwise they would have sent someone to the mansion to ask to see the prince." Li Gou was silent for a while, and persuaded with good words: "Childe, you don't think that they don't want you to be embarrassed, so they ......."

"Senior brother said that they have run out of oil, so I naturally won't think about it." Li Xuanba shook his head, smiled reluctantly, and said: "You go to Mr. Fang and ask him to find a way to transfer two of General Chen's heirs back, there must always be a man in charge of affairs in the Chen Mansion, although the story of General Yang is touching, it is more miserable." (To be continued.) )