Yang Guang appointed Li Jing to lead a battalion of hussar battalions to fight bandits in eastern Zhejiang again, and at the same time he began to prepare for the holding of a thousand monks in Guangling, in order to use the influence of Master Zhiqi, the founder of the Fahua Sect, who enjoyed a high reputation in the Buddhist circles in the south of the Yangtze River, to win over the hearts of the people in Jiangnan through religion and achieve the effect of soothing Jiangnan.

However, only more than ten days after Li Jing was ordered to lead his men and horses to leave Guangling, an astonishing news came from Lingnan: Wang Zhongxuan, an old general of Nan Chen who was lucky enough to wander to the Lingnan area to hide in the Sui Dynasty's Xingbing Pingchen Campaign, tangled up tens of thousands of remnants of Nanchen, formed an alliance with the barbarian tribes in Lingnan, and openly rebelled. The rebels successively captured several state cities occupied by the Sui army, and the troops were directed at Huiji in eastern Zhejiang.

After Yang Guang received the report, on the one hand, he urgently ordered Wei Huang, the commander of Huiji County, to lead the soldiers and horses of the headquarters to strictly defend and block the rebels outside the city of Huiji, and on the other hand, he recalled Zhang Heng and Pei Yun from Jiankang to urgently discuss the counterinsurgency.

At that time, Yuwenshu had been transferred back to Beijing, in order to prevent the remnants of the "Wild Goose's Nest" hiding in the shadows from taking the opportunity to cause chaos, Yang Guang did not send an order to lead the army to garrison Jiankang General Liang Mo came to Guangling to discuss matters, and strictly ordered Liang Mo to strengthen the vigilance of Jiankang City and maintain a high degree of vigilance.

Since Zhang Heng joined forces with Yuwenshu and Duan Da and decided to help Yang Guang enter the East Palace, these days it can be said that he has been wholeheartedly soothing Suijiang for Yang Guang, and the construction of a foothold in Jiangnan has been constantly busy, and after receiving Yang Guang's summons at the construction site where Jiang Shan urged the reconstruction of the Xie ancestral hall, he couldn't return to the city, so he directly crossed the river and rushed to Guangling to see Yang Guang.

"Jianping, you must have heard about Wang Zhongxuan's rebellion. I want to take this opportunity to go south and level Lingnan in one fell swoop, what do you think? ”

When Zhang Heng walked into the meeting hall of the Guangling Governor's Mansion, he saw Yang Guangzheng leaning over in front of the map to examine the terrain of the Lingnan area, and asked himself without raising his head.

"Before the prince sends his troops, it is best to send someone to ask the progress of the imperial court's recruitment of the barbarian tribes in the south of the Lingnan. As far as I expected, Wang Zhongxuan's rebel army was so strong that most of them had formed an alliance with the barbarian tribes in Lingnan in advance. Zhang Heng walked up to Yang Guang and gave up his advice.

"Jianping reminded me that I only thought about sending troops to quell the rebellion, but I forgot about the previous incident of the imperial court sending personnel to recruit the barbarians in Lingnan." Yang Guang listened to Zhang Heng's words and suddenly realized.

"From the time estimate, if the envoy sent by the imperial court to Zhao'an in Lingnan has a smooth trip, he should arrive in Lingnan in the next few days and meet with Mrs. Xi. There will be news later, please wait patiently for a few days, as long as Wei Huang leads the army to defend Huiji, Jiangnan can be safe. Zhang Heng then reminded Yang Guangdao.

At the same time, in the city of Hongzhou, Lingnan, two thousand miles away from Guangling, Pei Juzheng, the envoy sent by the Sui Dynasty to Lingnan to recruit the barbarians, was having a meeting with the chief of the barbarian tribes in Lingnan, Mrs. Xi.

Lady Xi is a legendary figure within a radius of thousands of miles in Lingnan, she married into the Lingnan Feng family when she was young, and once helped her husband's family to leap from an ordinary toast to a large tribal leader with the most extensive land in Lingnan.

What's even more rare is that although Mrs. Xi is a woman, but she is very discerning, well aware of the overall situation, under her leadership, the Lingnan barbarian tribes have paid tribute to the Southern Dynasty, ending the situation of continuous disputes between the tribes for many years, for this reason, the two dynasties in the Southern Dynasties: Liang and Chen, have officially canonized Mrs. Xi as the county guard of Lingnan County, the big leader of the Lingnan barbarian tribes. To some extent, Madame Xi can be called the king of Lingnan.

After Yang Guang's army broke through Jiankang and defeated Nanchen, he immediately ordered Chen Shubao, the captured queen of Nanchen, to send a letter to Mrs. Shuxi, persuading her to change to the Sui Dynasty and lead the barbarian tribes to join the Sui Dynasty. After this incident, because Gao Qinglian ran back to Jiangnan from Goguryeo, she sent someone to make a hindrance from it.

This time, Pei Ju came to Lingnan Zhao'an again, not only carrying the canonization edict of Emperor Yang Jian of the Great Sui Dynasty, but also holding a Funan rhinoceros that Yang Guang obtained from Chen Shubao, the queen of Nan Chen, as a token, but also sent back the flower washing that was regarded as Nan Chen's fine work in Chang'an for ten years.

Before learning the news that the Sui Dynasty's envoy recruited Anqin arrived in Hongzhou, Mrs. Xi had actually heard about the fact that several tribes in the Lingnan Barbarian Tribal Alliance had formed an alliance with Wang Zhongxuan, an old general of Nan Chen, behind her back, to help him raise an army to rebel, but on the one hand, she did not know the details accurately, and on the other hand, considering that she was still the Lingnan county guard canonized by Nan Chen, she did not interfere.

At this meeting with Pei Ju, he saw with his own eyes that the Funan rhino staff that he had dedicated to him when Nan Chen succeeded to the throne was brought by the envoy of the Sui Dynasty and transferred to his own hands, and Mrs. Xi was convinced that Nan Chen had been destroyed by the Sui Dynasty, and the entire territory was now included in the territory of the Sui Dynasty.

Pei Ju's trip was a great success without a little effort, and he was overjoyed, and announced on the spot that he could canonize Mrs. Xi as the Longcheng County Monarch of the Sui Dynasty, and continue to lead the barbarian tribes in Lingnan, and especially explained to Mrs. Xi that Yang Guang, the king of Jin, was now ordered to be stationed in Guangling, and all the old places in the south were under his control, so Mrs. Xi took the initiative to send someone to Guangling to see Yang Guang, and he must follow his orders in the future.

After accepting the Sui Dynasty's recruitment, Mrs. Xi immediately thought that there were still several tribes under her command that had formed an alliance with Wang Zhongxuan's rebels, so she ordered people to go to these tribes to persuade their chiefs to break the alliance with the rebels, and on the other hand, she took the initiative to propose to Pei Ju that she was willing to send troops to help the imperial court quell the rebellion in Lingnan.

Because Mrs. Xi led the barbarian tribes of Lingnan to join the Sui Dynasty, she sent troops in time to cut off the retreat of Wang Zhongxuan's rebels, forcing Wang Zhongxuan, who was leading the army to storm Huiji in eastern Zhejiang, to withdraw his troops and return south, in a vain attempt to retreat to Lingnan and form a separatist with the Sui Dynasty.

After Yang Guang learned the news that Wang Zhongxuan's rebels had withdrawn in Guangling, he ordered Wei Huang to lead the army to pursue from behind, and drove the rebels back to Panyu in Lingnan.

In order to try to help Wang Zhongxuan's rebels lift the siege of Panyu and protect the only Nanchen army, a secret order signed Guan Zizai is quietly spreading from a mountain in eastern Zhejiang to all parts of Jiangnan: assassinate Yang Guang, the king of Jin.