When Su Dingfang controlled all parts of the palace, Fang Xuanling first entered Zhongshu Province and Menxia Province, collected the map of the Sui Dynasty, made the edict, and sent people to seal the Sui warehouse, confiscated a lot of money and cloth, and waited for Li Yin to give it to the soldiers.

When Li Shimin's vanguard arrived at the palace and saw that most of the valuable things had been seized by Li Yin's generals, they were immediately angry and wanted to rob them, but Li Yin's army immediately formed a battle formation and did not give in at all, and for a while, the palace became tense.

"What are you arguing about?" At this time, two majestic voices suddenly sounded in the east and west at the same time, and then, Li Yin and Li Shimin appeared in front of the lieutenant general.

"See King Jin!" "See King Qin!" Soldiers belonging to different factions immediately meet their respective commanders.

"Second brother, your people can move fast enough!" Li Shimin rode forward.

Li Yin said with a smile: "Everyone has never seen what this palace of the Great Sui looks like, as soon as they say that they want to come here, they are all in a hurry, it is really useless, which makes the third brother laugh." ”

Li Shimin didn't say anything more, turned his horse's head to his soldiers, and said awe-inspiringly: "Let's go!" ”

Soon, the Luoyang Palace was completely controlled by Li Yin and Li Shimin's people. However, Li Yin and Li Shimin did not stay in the palace, so as not to offend the emperor's secrets, Li Yin handled government affairs in the Chang Gate, and Li Shimin's office was in the Shangchun Gate in the north of the city.

The next day, Li Shiji hurriedly came from the Tiger Prison, found Li Yin, and begged Li Yin to save Shan Xiongxin's life.

It turned out that on this day, Li Shimin actually wanted to execute a cadre captured by him on the shore of Luoshui, and the officials and generals who originally belonged to Wang Shichong included Wang Long, Cui Hongdan, Xue Deyin, Yang Wang, Meng Xiaoyi and other former high-ranking officials in the Eastern Capital, and Shan Xiongxin was also among them.

When he was in Wagangzhai, Li Shiji and Shan Xiongxin were very good, and they swore to live and die together.

After hearing Li Shiji's plea, Li Yin immediately quickly wrote a letter to Shan Xiongxin asking for his life, and handed it to Li Shiji, Li Shiji cast a grateful look at Li Yin, and then hurriedly walked out of the gate, patting the horse and feeling the shore of Luoshui.

At this time, Wang Long, Cui Hongdan, Xue Deyin and others had already landed on the ground, and seeing that the knife and axe man was about to kill Shan Xiongxin, Li Shiji shouted: "Keep people under the knife!" ”

The knife and axe hand looked at Li Shimin, and Li Shimin waved his hand at him.

Li Shiji hurriedly walked in front of Li Shimin, knelt down and said, "King Qin, please spare my eldest brother's life." ”

After Li Shimin heard this, his face showed hesitation. Seeing this, Li Shiji said that Shan Xiongxin was extremely strong and beneficial to the country, and asked to use all his officials to redeem Shan Xiongxin, but Li Shimin still did not speak.

Li Shiji then took out Li Yin's handwritten letter from his arms, but after Li Shimin read the letter, his face suddenly became unhappy, and he brushed his sleeves and said: "Shan Xiongxin assassinated the king yesterday, the crime is extremely heinous, and it cannot be forgiven!" ”

Li Shiji asked again and again, Li Shimin still did not change his words, Li Shiji had to cry and retreat, Shan Xiongxin said to him: "I knew you couldn't do it, the eldest husband will die if he dies, it's not a big deal." ”

Li Shiji said: "I will not hesitate to die with you for the rest of my life, but since I have dedicated this life to the country, things cannot be both." Besides, after I die, who will take care of thy wife and children, brother? ”

So he cut off a small piece of meat from the thigh, let Shan Xiongxin eat it, and said, "Let this piece of meat turn to dust with my brother." ”

Shan Xiongxin laughed and said: "If I can have you as a brother, I have no regrets in this life!" In the laughter, the head was cut off by the knife and axeman, and this Wagang hero who crisscrossed the Central Plains was killed, and only the laughter before death still echoed in the valley in the distance......

On the third day of October, Wang Shichong's Xuzhou Xingtai and Qi Wang Shibi went to Henan Province to pacify the ambassador's office, and asked for surrender in 38 states such as Xu and Song.

When Dou Jiande was captured in front of the Tiger Pass, his wife Cao Shi and Zuo servant Qi Shanxing fled back to the capital of China with hundreds of cavalry.

And when Dou Jiande's fleeing troops ran back to Zhaozhou one after another, some of the generals planned to establish Dou Jiande's adopted son as king (Dou Jiande had no parents), and then recruit troops to continue to resist the Tang army, while some wanted to return to the sea as robbers.

Only Qi Shanxing did not approve of this, he said: "The end of the Sui Dynasty was in turmoil, so we gathered among the people to survive for the time being. With a heroic man like King Xia, he pacified the Heshuo region, and the soldiers were strong and strong, but he was defeated and captured by the Tang army in a battle, and it was so easy that it was easy to do so.

Now that we have been defeated to such an extent, it is useless to defend, and we cannot escape from destruction, and it is also a ruined country, how can we bring disaster to the people again! It's better to surrender to Tang, if you want to be paid, you will divide the goods in the warehouse, and stop killing the people! ”

So Qi Shanxing transported hundreds of thousands of pieces of silk in the warehouse to the east street of the Wanchun Palace of the Imperial Palace, and distributed them to the soldiers, and it took three days and three nights to finish, Qi Shanxing deployed soldiers to guard the streets and alleys, and those who had been allocated cloth left immediately, and were not allowed to enter the people's homes again.

On October 15, after the soldiers were gone, Qi Shanxing and the servants of the Xia State shot Pei Ju and Xingtai Cao Dan, and led the hundred officials to serve Dou Jiande's wife Cao Shi and the Eight Seals of the Chuan Kingdom, as well as the treasures obtained in time after defeating Yu Wenhua, and asked Li Shentong, the king of Huai'an, to surrender to Li Shentong, the king of Huai'an, in more than 30 states such as Wei, Xiang, and Wei in Hebei.

Li Shentong was originally imprisoned in Bozhou by Dou Jiande, but after the news of Dou Jiande's capture came, Feng Shixian, the assassin of Bozhou, recommended Li Shentong as the envoy to comfort Shandong.

Li Shentong was ecstatic when he saw that he had picked up such a great merit out of thin air and reported the matter to the imperial court, but he did not say that the more than 30 states in Hebei were surrendered by Qi Shanxing on his own initiative, and lied that he led the troops to attack and defeat them.

In any case, Dou Jiande's vast territory has also been pacified, and the north of the river has basically been owned by Datang. Li Yuan appointed Qi Shanxing as the second protector of the left of the king of Qin, and gave him a very generous reward.

In November, Li Yuan issued an edict to Li Yin and Li Shimin to lead the army to escort Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande back to Chang'an.

Before leaving, Li Yin looked at the palace of the Sui Dynasty and sighed: "If you are so poor and extravagant, can you not lose the country!" ”

So he ordered the demolition of the Duanmen Tower, burned the Qianyang Temple, destroyed the Zetianmen Gate and its front tower, abolished the Buddha Temple, and received tens of thousands of monks and nuns in the city, leaving only 30 virtuous people each, and the rest were ordered to return to the vulgar.