Outside the city of Yanmen, the Turks Shibi Khan's tent, Shibi Khan lost his temper.

"Bastard, it's been so many days, and a lonely city hasn't been attacked yet, you must know that the Sui Dynasty will have more and more reinforcements, and if we work in vain this time, it will make our subordinates laugh shamefully."

"Great Khan! It's not that we don't work hard, it's that the city is well defended, we don't have enough siege equipment, and moreover, we find that the reinforcements of the Sui Dynasty are already dozens of miles away from our army, and we are afraid that if we press them all! What if they sneak attack? After saying that, he received a slap in the face.

"Bastard, stupid! Although they have so many people, they must not have many horses, we have this advantage, are we afraid to fight against them? The man covered his face and didn't say a word.

"Press it on me, I must go into the city and let that Yang child kneel in front of me." No one spoke. Here's what the guards have come into:

"Report! Sweat! Mobei Express! Shi Bi opened it and took a look.

"Bastard! Pass the order down. Withdraw troops! Everyone looked at Shi Bi suspiciously.

"Datou took advantage of our army's expedition and sent spies to infiltrate our camp, and my son is dead, so withdraw immediately. Withdraw troops! Seeing the retreat of the Turkic cavalry, Yang Guang sent people to follow, found that they were really gone, ordered people to open the four gates, normal entry and exit, a large number of troops entered the Yanmen, a large number of hungry poor people and merchants poured out of the city, Yang Guang ordered a banquet to reward the three armies, everywhere were vehicles transporting chickens, ducks, fish and meat, and drove towards the palace. At the banquet, Yang Guang was very happy and raised his glass to toast Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin brothers, Yuwen Chengdu and others.

"I was able to get out of danger today, on the one hand, because all Aiqing came to King Qin's meritorious service, and also thanks to Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanba, the two of you went deep into the enemy territory, so that the strategy was divided between the relationship between the head and the beginning. So, this first cup, I salute a few of you. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for the wine!" Li Jiancheng and the others drank it all. Yang Guangyi was still unfinished, and said to Li Yuan while he was happy.

"Hmmm! Li Yuan, you have a meritorious role in saving your son, I have made you a left-behind guard in Taiyuan, and I have taken over the military, political and civil affairs in the Hedong area of Shanxi, and have been crowned as the king of Tang, not hereditary, Li Jiancheng, I have named you the prince of Tang, and you will inherit the title of Duke of Tang in the future, Li Shimin, Li Yuanba, you have also saved the car, I have made you the Duke of Dunhuang and the Duke of Longxi, Yuwen Chengdu, you are responsible for the hard work of city defense, and you are crowned as the Duke of Kaifeng County, I also want Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanba to join my escort team and escort me, I don't know what Aiqing wants. As soon as Li Yuanba heard that he was leaving his father and mother, his face immediately felt a little unhappy, and he shouted directly in front of Yang Guang:

"Your Majesty, my mother is sick, please ask the emperor to let Yuanba stay with my mother to fulfill my filial piety." Hearing this, Yang Guang's face was a little unhappy, and Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng immediately knelt in front of Yang Guang.

"Your Majesty! The dog is still young and does not understand the rules. ”

"Your Majesty, the younger brother is young and ignorant, but the younger brother has been away from home for many years, and now he is finally reunited with his mother, and the minister is willing to follow the emperor and protect the left and right! Please forgive the third brother's sins! Li Jiancheng knocked his head full of blood, and Princess Jinyang saw the blood on Li Jiancheng's head, and her heart was very distressed. hurriedly came to Li Jiancheng's side and wiped his blood for him:

"Little brother, you're bleeding, wipe it quickly. Father! You see that Brother Cheng is bleeding, so you can forgive Brother Yuanba! ”

"Jinyang, you。。。。。。 You are a dignified royal princess, how can you be so inferior! Yang Guang was a little furious, and Yu Wenhua and took advantage of the situation to add fire to the side:

"Your Majesty, Li Yuanba is proud of his achievements, he has no king, he should be beheaded, Li Yuan's godson is not strict, he should ask for the crime together, and he should be right!" Seeing Yu Wenhua and adding fire to the side, Li Jiancheng's heart was even more annoyed. 'This traitor, Yuwenshu framed Zhongliang back then, and his son was even more hateful than his old son, what should I do? What to do? Li Jiancheng thought about how to impress Yang Guang's heart. At this time, his hand suddenly touched the jade pendant given to him by Queen Dugu when he was alive, thinking of the Dugu family, Li Jiancheng thought about it.

"Your Majesty, the minister just made a poem recently, called You Ziyu, no matter if it is good or not, please ask the emperor to comment on it." Yang Guang is an emperor and a poet, and when he heard that Li Jiancheng was going to recite a poem, he became competitive in his heart:

"You read it out!"

"The line in the mother's hand, the wanderer's shirt. Before leaving, I am afraid that I will return late. Whoever says an inch is careless, and he will be rewarded with three springs. The poems of the subordinates are coarse, please comment on them. Li Jiancheng lowered his head and secretly looked at Yang Guang's face. Yang Guang gently squeezed the line in his mother's hand, and the wanderer's shirt. remembered a hand-sewn robe given to him by Queen Dugu when he went to Jiangnan to take office, and when he read who was careless and repaid Sanchunhui, he thought that if his mother had not made a meritorious comment for him in front of his father, how could he have the crown prince, or even the glory of later ascending the throne as the emperor.

Empress Xiao saw it in her eyes, and hurriedly persuaded her:

"Your Majesty, Li Yuanba is extremely filial to his mother, he is a model in the world, and the emperor should fulfill his filial piety!" After listening to Empress Xiao's persuasion, Yang Guangni narrowed his eyes. Although he was a little unhappy with Li Yuanba's resistance in his heart, his ultimate goal was to keep a few chess pieces by his side to contain Li Yuan, and now that the goal has been achieved, he doesn't care about anything.

"Forget it, Li Yuanba, you are filial to your mother, you are really a filial son, in fact, I miss my mother very much, okay! Stay with your mother and do your filial piety. In addition, Li Yuan, after you stay in Taiyuan, your affairs must be very busy, I will arrange two deputies for you, where are Wang Wei and Gao Junya? ”

"The minister is here!" Two officers walked out of the crowd.

"The two of you have followed me for many years, you were my old subordinates when I was in the East Palace, you worked diligently and conscientiously on weekdays, in order to reward your performance, now I have crowned you as the deputy guard of Taiyuan, and you will assist Master Li well, and if there is anything, you can write and tell me directly!" Hearing Yang Guang's words, a trace of cold sweat broke out on Li Yuan's forehead. At night, Empress Xiao looked at her daughter:

"Jinyang, have you always liked that Li Jiancheng." Jin Yang listened silently and nodded. Empress Xiao looked at her daughter, held him in her arms, and didn't say a word.

The next morning, Mrs. Dou brought Li Xiuning, Zheng Wanzhen and Li Yuanba to see Li Jiancheng off.

"Built! When you go out, especially when you wait directly by the emperor's side, you must be careful in everything, as the saying goes, accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger! Mrs. Dou said cordially.

"Mother, rest assured, the child will be very careful. Xiuning, Wanzhen, I'm not at home, and Yuanba is a rough person, you can help me take care of my mother. ”

"Big brother! Don't worry! I will definitely take good care of my mother. ”

"Husband, you must take care!" Li Jiancheng took Zheng Wanzhen in his arms, comforted him in a whisper, and took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Mrs. Dou, telling him to hand it over to Li Yuan himself. Then he got on his horse and followed Yang Guang's parade away. Mrs. Dou looked at Li Jiancheng's distant figure, and two crystal tears flowed from Mrs. Dou's eyes. In the evening, Li Yuan opened Li Jiancheng's letter, which read:

"Father, Mingjian, the child followed the emperor to escort this time, Mingli is the emperor's favor to our Li family, secretly it is not the emperor who is wary of our Li family, but the father should not worry too much, in the child's humble opinion, when the chaos has appeared today, the situation of the group of heroes will soon unfold, the father can be negligent in government affairs on the surface, let the king and Gao deal with it, and secretly can slowly accumulate strength, so as to achieve great things when the world changes radically in the future. The child will do everything possible to behave deferentially by the emperor's side, inquire about the news, and the child Li Jiancheng will be on board. After Li Yuan read the letter, he put the letter on a candle and burned it, and as the letter was burned by the fire, Li Yuan sighed softly:

"Built, you've grown up. For the sake of our family, it's really gratifying to be a father! Yang Guang paraded through Zhuo County, and after giving pre-war encouragement to General Laihu'er for the third time to conquer Goguryeo, he came to Luoyang, and Yang Tong, the king of Yue who stayed in Luoyang, came to see him:

"The grandson of the minister sees the emperor's grandfather."

"Ahh Dong Er is exempt! Flat! ”

"Emperor Xie's grandfather!"

"Hmmm! Why didn't you see your teacher, Fan Zigai? ”

"Emperor Grandfather, Teacher Fan has been bedridden since he heard the news that Emperor Grandfather was besieged by Turkic barbarians, and now he has been recuperating at home, so he was unable to come to pick up the car, please forgive Emperor Grandfather!"

"Oh! Message! Swing the Fan family! After Yang Guang came to Fan's mansion, he came to the window of Fan Zigai. Fan Zigai heard that Yang Guang came to see him, and he desperately wanted to get up from the bed. Yang Guang saw it and immediately held him up. Fan Zigai stretched out one of his arms like rotten wood.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Yang Guang held his hand.

"Aiqing is not feeling well now! Let's rest more! ”

"Your Majesty! The minister is about to run out of oil and the lamp is dry, and now he still has a breath and does not leave because he has a sentence to say to His Majesty, please listen to Your Majesty's last words! If you offend Your Majesty, please ask Your Majesty not to implicate the minister's family for the sake of the minister's old age and terminally ill. Yang Guang nodded.

"Your Majesty! If the chaos has begun and the national strength has begun to decline, the minister asks His Majesty to give up the battle of Liaodong, recuperate, and conquer Liaodong again without false fame, and then conquer Goguryeo after the national strength is restored and the civil unrest subsides! If the conquest in Liaodong is not stopped, the civil unrest in the Central Plains and the barbarians in the north will attack from inside and outside, I am afraid that it will endanger the community! After Yang Guang heard Fan Zigai's words, he was already a little unhappy in his heart, because Fan Zigai was a patient, and he had a previous promise to him, so it was not good to have a seizure. Fan Zigai didn't notice Yang Guang's face and continued to say his words.

"Your Majesty! The old minister is leaving, and the old minister must pray to the gods below to bless China, bless the Great Sui, and punish the Turks. After saying that, he swallowed his last breath.

"Fan Shangshu! Fan Zhuguo! ”

"Teacher!"

"Father!" After Fan Zigai swallowed his breath, Yang Guangxia aimed to stop the dynasty in Luoyang for three days to guard his spirit, on Fan Zigai's mourning hall, Yang Guang thought about Fan Zigai's words, and slowly, he began to feel that Fan Zigai's words were still very reasonable. Should we follow his advice, stop the expedition in Liaodong, and withdraw the main force of the Sui army to consolidate the Central Plains? After the rebellion in the Central Plains was quelled, how about cultivating for decades and then conquering Goguryeo! No, I've already crusaded twice, and if I don't continue, I'll let the barbarians laugh at me. No way! At this time, a eunuch sent two military newspapers, and Yang Guang tore open one of them, which was sent by Wang Shichong, the envoy of Jiangnan, and it read:

"Your Majesty, the ministers are fortunate not to be dishonored, the Jiangnan rebellion has been quelled by the ministers, and the emperor's palace ministers in Jiangdu have ordered people to reorganize and expand, please move to Jiangnan. Trip. Yang Guang read Wang Shichong's report, and his heart was as sweet as honey.

"Hahaha! Wang Shichong is really a pillar of talent! Well! What a good thing that the rebellion has been put down! Someone came, passed the decree, and crowned Wang Shichong as the Taishou of Jiangdu. I opened another book, who knew that I was furious, a mouthful of blood spit out, and the eunuch and palace maid next to me hurriedly helped Yang Guang:

"Call the Imperial Doctor! Emperor! Emperor! Yang Guang waved his hand.

"Someone is coming, and the civil and military officials who are in Luoyang will come to see the driver quickly. Let's go! The eunuch who was waiting for Yang Guang saw Yang Guang's anger, and hurriedly ran out, and was mixed by the threshold at the door.