Nan Chen treacherously accepted the rebellion, accepted 100,000 people from the Later Liang Dynasty to abandon Sui and surrender to Chen, and canonized the two Later Liang clans who led the people to take refuge: Xiao Yan, King of Anping and Xiao Chen, King of Yicheng, as the Assassins of Dongyang and Wuzhou respectively. When the news reached Chang'an, the capital of Sui, the government and the opposition were in an uproar, and the ministers of the Sui Dynasty wrote to Yang Jian, the ancestor of the Sui Dynasty, asking the righteous army to crusade against the untrustworthy and unrighteous Southern Chen, and realize the great cause of reunification between the north and the south in one fell swoop.

What is strange is that these Taoist petitions for the crusade against Nan Chen were passed into the Daxing Palace like snowflakes, and then there was no reply, until half a year passed after the rebellion of the Later Liang, and Yang Jian, the ancestor of the Sui Dynasty, never issued an official edict to raise troops to attack Chen.

How many ministers who knew the inside story of it privately discussed one after another, and some said that the reason why the imperial court had not issued the edict for a long time was because troops were successively dispatched from Hebei, Northwest and other places to Jianghuai, and the military strength had not yet been fully assembled; Some say that Yang Su, the prince of Qinghe County, supervised the construction of Chen warships in Xinzhou, and has not yet built a sufficient number of warships; Others said that the emperor was looking forward to asking Guan Zizai (Gao Liansheng), the great leader of the "Wild Goose's Nest" who had fled to Goguryeo, to return to China, and to use his head to sacrifice the flag to Chen ......

At a time when people were all talking about the delay in raising troops to attack Chen, Yang Jian, the ancestor of the Sui Dynasty, suddenly issued an edict of marriage: the eldest daughter of the crown prince Yang Yong was married to Gao Biaoren, the second son of Gao Ying, the left servant of Shangshu, as his wife.

This marriage edict made the ministers of the court and the central government place a glimmer of hope on Yang Yong, the crown prince who had been snubbed by the emperor for nearly a year, to replace Yang Guang, the king of Jin, who had been very popular before, as the commander of the war, and also made the court situation in Chang'an City, which had become clear again, become delicate again.

Since the opening of the Sui Dynasty, the Great Sui Dynasty has spent eight years, and in these eight years, the most dazzling star rising in today's political arena is Yang Guang, the king of Jin who left the town and merged with the state at the age of thirteen, subdued the Turks, and annihilated the "wild goose's nest" of Nanchen. At the same time that Yang Guang, a rising star in the political arena, the crown prince Yang Yong repeatedly made stupid moves, expanding the East Palace without authorization to six rates to 10,000 people, which triggered Emperor Yang Jian's high degree of defense against him.

The two brothers' very different performances and encounters naturally attracted all kinds of speculation between the government and the opposition, and the imperial court has not been able to raise troops to attack Chen, and the speculation about the political fate of Yang Yong and Yang Guang brothers is almost unanimous, thinking that Yang Guangru was appointed by Yang Jian as the marshal of Chen, and can level Nanchen in one fell swoop, and realize the great cause of the unification of the north and the south, then he will replace Yang Yong and become the new prince of the East Palace, and enter the unification.

And just when the government and the opposition were unanimously extremely optimistic about Yang Guang and pessimistic about the political future of the current crown prince Yang Yong, the edict of marriage between the prince and the head of the imperial court as sons and daughters issued by Yang Jian, the ancestor of the Sui Dynasty, unexpectedly caused people to have new speculations.

In fact, only Yang Yong and Gao Ying, who are both parties to this marriage edict, know in their hearts that the emperor issued this marriage edict at this time, which shows that in Yang Jian's mind, he has finally determined the team of generals who need to be appointed to raise the army and attack Chen, and ordered Yang Yong to marry Gao Ying in order to give him a comfort to the prince of a country who was excluded from the team of generals and commanders of Chen.

Speaking of Yang Yong's experience in the past year, it can only be described as bad luck. First of all, Yu Pang Xun and his favorite corruption case were found to be scapegoated by Yang Jian, and then the secret of the six rates of private expansion of the East Palace was revealed, causing him to fall into the cold palace and lose the right to participate in the government, and under the careful arrangement of Dugu Jialuo, Yang Yong was isolated from each other by many concubines of his Pang Ai, and lived alone with the crown princess Yuan in the Splendid Palace, so it was easy for the Yuan family to conceive a child, so he got Dugu Jialuo's personal promise, no matter whether the Yuan family was pregnant with a man or a woman, as long as the child was born, She immediately came forward to ask the emperor to restore the crown prince's status as a member of the government, but the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, and the Yuan family contracted a severe cold and miscarried in the second month after confirming that she was pregnant. In this way, until the edict of marriage was issued, Yang Yong only got two hours a day to go out of the palace to Xingshan Temple to listen to Master Hui Lin talk about Buddhism, and repent of repenting and renewing his temper.

Now, with this marriage edict, Yang Yong's fate will undoubtedly face a major turning point: no emperor will order the most important Shoufu to marry a prince who is about to be deposed. At least Yang Yong will not be deposed, which is a certainty.

As an important minister who assisted Sui Gaozu Yang Jian in founding the Great Sui Dynasty, Gao Ying naturally knew the true intention of Yang Jian to issue this marriage edict on the eve of the war against Chen: on the one hand, by asking himself and the prince to become sons and daughters, eliminate the adverse effects caused by the prince's loss of power and imprisonment, and stabilize the court situation; On the other hand, it also shows that the emperor is still not completely at ease with Yang Guang as the commander of the war and will have to play an important role in the battle of war and Chen.

Gao Ying obeyed the holy will, and immediately after the wedding ceremony of his son, he gave Yang Jian a strategy to fatigue the enemy, and personally went to Jianghuai to deploy, and used a small number of troops to constantly harass Nanchen, burned his crops and burned his houses, which made the army and people along the river in Nanchen annoying, and over time, energy and food were greatly consumed.

On the side of Jiangzuo Nan Chen, because he accepted as many as 100,000 Later Liang clans and Jiangnan people, he was once highly wary of the Sui Dynasty, and because the Sui Dynasty did not issue an edict to defeat Chen for a long time, and Gao Ying used the strategy of exhausting the enemy to use only a small number of troops to continuously attack and harass, for a long time, Nanchen Junchen thought that the Sui Dynasty's reaction to accepting 100,000 Hou Liang clans and people into Chen was nothing more than this, so he gradually relaxed his vigilance.

After Gao Ying personally went to Jianghuai to conduct an on-the-spot investigation of the situation of the former enemy, he returned to Chang'an and presented Yang Jian with a request to attack Chen, listing three major reasons for raising troops to attack Chen:

To cut down the partial state with Zhengshuo, it can ensure that the division is famous; To cut down the big and the small, you can ensure that the felling will win; With a way to cut down no way, you can ensure that victory will last forever.

Asked Yang Jian to formally issue an edict to attack Chen and raise troops to attack Chen.

On the day of October Bingyin in the winter of the eighth year of the emperor's reign, Yang Jian, the ancestor of the Sui Dynasty, held a great court meeting in the Daxing Hall of Daxing Palace, the imperial capital of Chang'an, convened the civil and military ministers, and officially issued the edict of Chen, counting the 20 major crimes of Chen Shubao, the queen of Southern Chen, and ordered 30,000 copies of the edict to be copied and widely distributed along the river, so as to shake the heart of the soldiers and civilians of Nanchen. 10