After listening to Li Mi's suggestion, Zhai Rang would not refute Li Mi, but Zhai Rang was extremely satisfied with his current achievements, and what he wanted to do most now was to enjoy all the wealth and honor now, and he didn't want to take any more risks.

So Zhai Rang said to Li Mi: "Your words are all heroic strategies, not something I can bear, I just obey your orders and do my best, please go first, I will be the queen of the palace." ”

On February 14, the thirteenth year of the Great Cause, Li Mi led 7,000 elite soldiers out of the north of Yangcheng, crossed Fangshan, attacked and broke through Luokou Cang from Luokou, opened the granary and let the people take grain, and the old and weak women and children who took grain continued on the road, and the Wagang army won 200,000 people, and the world was shaken.

Yang Tong, the king of Yue, sent Liu Changgong, the general of Hu Benlang, and Guanglu Shaoqingfang to lead 25,000 infantry and cavalry to attack Li Mi.

At that time, the people of Dongdu thought that Li Mi was a hungry rice thief, just a rabble, easy to break, and they all rushed to recruit, Guozi, Taixue, bachelors of the four doors and three halls, and nobles and relatives all came to join the army, the official and military equipment was complete and neat, the clothes were bright and gorgeous, and the flags and cymbals and drums were extremely spectacular.

Liu Changgong and others led their troops in front, and asked Pei Renjijun, the ambassador of Henan, to lead his troops to enter Luokoucang from Bishui to cover the rear of Li Mi's army, and made an appointment to meet in the south of Luokoucang City on the 11th.

Li Mi and Zhai Rang fully understood their intentions. The officers and soldiers of the eastern capital arrived first, and before the soldiers had breakfast, Liu Changgong and others drove them across Luoshui and lined up in the west of the Shizi River, which was more than ten miles long from north to south.

Li Mi and Zhai Rang selected brave and strong men to divide them into ten teams, and ordered four of them to wait for Pei Renji in ambush under the Hengling, and the remaining six teams lined up east of the Shizi River.

When Liu Changgong and the others saw that Li Mi's army was small, they despised them very much. Zhai Rang first led his troops to engage the Sui army, the battle was unfavorable, Li Mi immediately led his troops to cross the Sui army, the Sui soldiers were hungry and tired, so they were defeated. Liu Changgong and others took off their clothes and absconded to escape to the eastern capital, and the Sui soldiers were killed and wounded five or six out of ten.

Due to the defeat of this war, there were too many nobles and relatives involved, so Yang Tong, the king of Yue, pardoned the sins of Liu Changgong and others, and sent people to comfort and appease them.

Li Mi captured all the baggage, equipment, and armor of the Sui army, so his prestige was greatly enhanced. So Zhai Rang elected Li Mi as the lord of the Wagang Army and gave Li Mi the title of Duke of Wei.

On February 19, Li Mi set up an altar and succeeded him as the Duke of Wei, called the first year, and granted amnesty to the world. The official documents and letters issued by Li Mi to the lower level were signed as the Marshal's Office of the March. The Duke of Wei's Mansion set up three divisions and six guards, and the Marshal's Mansion set up officials below the long history.

Li Mi granted Zhai Rang the title of Shangzhu State, Situ, and Dongjun Gong, and the Dongjun Mansion also set up officials below the length of history, and the number was reduced by half compared with the Marshal's Mansion. Shan Xiongxin was appointed as the general of the left military hou and Xu Shiji as the general of the right military candidate, each commanding his own troops. Fang Yanzao was appointed as the marshal of the left long history, Bing Yuanzhen, a native of Dongjun, was the right long history, Yang Defang was the left Sima, Zheng Detao was the right Sima, Zu Junyan was the secretary, and the rest of the people were knighted and worshipped.

So the bandits south of the land of Zhao and Wei, and the north of the Jiang and Huai regions, did not respond.

Meng Rang, Hao Xiaode, Wang Deren of Hebei and Fang Xianbo of Jiyin, Li Shicai of Changping, Wei Liuer and Li Deqian of Huaiyang, Zhang Qian of Qiaojun, Li Wenxiang of Wei County, Heishe and Baishe of Qiaojun, Zhang Qingte of Jibei, Zhou Bitao of Shangluo, and Hu Donkey Thief all belonged to Li Mi.

Li Mi conferred knighthood on all of them, let them each lead the headquarters of the people, and set up a hundred camp books to manage them. The people who came to surrender were like flowing water, and Li Mi's troops numbered hundreds of thousands.

So Li Mi ordered the protector Tian Maoguang to build Luokou City, a radius of forty miles, and Li Mi lived in the city. He sent Fang Yanzao to lead his troops to the east to capture the city, and took Anlu, Runan, Huai'an, Jiyang, Henan and other counties were mostly captured by Li Mi.

Taichang Cheng Yuan Shanda began to spy on the intelligence of the eastern capital when Li Mi first began to spy on the eastern capital, and began to send envoys to Jiangdu, all the way south, almost not long after arriving at a place, that place was soon owned by Li Mi, it can be said that he had experienced life and death several times, so after arriving in Jiangdu, seeing Yang Guang and telling a person about Yang Tong, the king of Yue, he couldn't help crying.

Yu Shiji said: "King Yue is young, these people deceive him, if the thieves are as powerful as he said, how can Yuan Shanda himself come to Jiangdu safely?" ”

Yang Guang was furious when he heard this, and scolded: "Yuan Shanda, this villain, dares to insult me in the court!" ”

So Yang Guang sent Yuan Shanda to Dongyang to urge the transportation of grain, and Yuan Shanda was killed by a group of thieves on the way to transport grain. After that, everyone stopped talking and did not dare to report the thief to Yang Guang.

Yu Shiji has a deep and steady appearance, and most of his words cater to Yang Guang's wishes, and he is especially favored by Yang Guang.

Yu Shiji's relatives and friends relied on his power to sell their officials and buy prisons, bribe public banks, and his family was in the market, so many people in the government and the opposition hated Yu Shiji extremely bitterly and resentfully.

Of course, there are more people who want to be promoted and make a fortune, and the outstanding representative of these people is Feng Deyi, a native of Neishishe.

Because Yu Shiji was not familiar with the important tasks of being an official, Feng Deyi secretly planned for him, such as how to spread and implement the emperor's edict, how to meet and obey Yang Guang's wishes, and if the ministers' performances deviated from the emperor's will, they were all abandoned and not reported; In the trial of cases and the implementation of criminal laws, most of them cite severe and harsh provisions and deliberately slander them; Whenever meritorious deeds are rewarded, they will try their best to suppress debasement.

With Feng Deyi's help, Yu Shiji was increasingly favored by Yang Guang, and the Sui Dynasty was increasingly crumbling, but there were no effective measures to deal with it.

Yu Shiji also often asked Jiang Dutong Wang Shichong for bribes, although Wang Shichong generously agreed every time, but he was indignant in his heart, and after he learned about the situation in the Central Plains at this time, he suddenly had other ideas in his heart.

Luoyang, the eastern capital, has millions of people, more than 200,000 soldiers, and countless kinds of property, in Wang Shichong's view, it is a treasure-like place, if he Wang Shichong can be transferred to Luoyang from Jiangdu, which is now constrained everywhere, it will be a great thing.

As for the powerful Li Mi rebels, he was not too worried, he now had tens of thousands of Jianghuai troops in his hands who had been fighting with him for many years, which was enough for him to protect himself in this troubled era.

After making up his mind, Wang Shichong began to make friends with Yu Shiji, hoping that through Yu Shiji, Yang Guang could send him to guard Luoyang......