Xu Shiji stopped, unwilling to mention those sad years again. "From then on, I realized the responsibility of being a general. Since I joined the Tang Dynasty, I began to become the world's general, I led the troops to fight, not only to seek my own future, but more importantly, to help the country pacify the Quartet, so that the world stopped the war and no longer fought each other.

This war that has befallen our generation has never been seen since ancient times. Seven or eight out of every ten people in the world died...... Miserable! It's miserable! Only the army of the Tang Dynasty quickly dominates the world can completely end this war and let the common people of the world live a stable life.

So, Sixth Brother, when I say to you, 'I have dedicated my body to the country', I don't mean to say some high-sounding words to coax Sixth Brother, this is what I really think in my heart. ”

Shan Xiongxin listened, listened, and shed cold tears, he wiped away the tears, and turned to face Li Shi. "Third brother, I want to wish you a place to settle down - come!" He picked up the flask, drank three glasses of liquor in succession, grabbed a pinch of horse meat, and stuffed it into his mouth like a mad man.

"Forget it, I, Shan Xiongxin, have killed countless people in my life, and I deserve to die! Don't persuade everyone anymore, let's be brothers again in the next life! ”

Cheng Zhijie shook his head and said, "Sixth brother, you can go with confidence." Your wives and children, with me, will never let them lack food and clothing, tomorrow I will send them to the Great Demon Kingdom, treat your children as my own children, and let your family incense endlessly! ”

"Thank you, Fifth Brother! I toast you! Thank you in advance! Shan Xiongxin roared, laughing and drinking.

"Sixth brother, wait!" Xu Shiji pulled out his sword, lifted his robe, and cut a piece of flesh from his thigh with a sword, and blood kept pouring out. Xu Shiji unhurriedly grabbed a large handful of ashes from his side, sprinkled it on the wound to stop the bleeding, and then handed the piece of human flesh to Shan Xiongxin.

"Sixth Brother...... Eat this piece of meat with wine, and let it go down with your brother, so that I may show to heaven that we have not broken our old vows! ”

Everyone looked at each other in shock, Cheng Zhijie took Xu Shiji's wine glass, took out his waist knife and slashed it on his hand, and the blood fell into the cup dripping. Qin Qiong and Luo Shixin also did the same, and soon converged into a cup of blood wine.

Shan Xiongxin cried bitterly, and he yelled: "Shan can have so many good friends, this life is worth it!" Brothers, see you in the next life! He put Xu Shiji's human flesh in his mouth and chewed it a few times, and then poured the blood wine in the wine glass directly into his mouth, swallowing the human flesh into his stomach as if he were taking a pill. Then he twisted his head and cried.

In the afternoon, more than a dozen people, including Shan Xiongxin and Duan Da, were dragged to Luoshui by the Tang Army firing squad and beheaded. Xu Shiji collected Shan Xiongxin's body into the coffin, chose a cemetery in Beibi Mountain, and buried Shan Xiongxin. The next day, Cheng Zhijie asked Li Shimin for Shan Xiongxin's family and settled in his camp.

After Zhu Cang, who was famous for eating human flesh, was beheaded, the people of Luoyang rushed to throw rubble at his body, and in a short time, the rubble piled up as high as a tomb.

Li Shimin packed Wei Jie, Yang Xu, and Changsun An Shi and a dozen others in a prisoner car and sent them to Chang'an, where they were handed over to Emperor Li Yuan for personal disposal. He ordered the release of all the innocent people who had been imprisoned by Wang Shichong. All those who were unjustly killed were ordered to be responsible for sending people to set up sacrifices for them, and also wrote a sacrificial text and read it aloud in front of the main card to express mourning.

Pei Xingyan managed to find the bones of his family, collected them, and buried them on Beibi Mountain.

Li Shimin often took his guards and rode around the palace city of Luoyang. He saw the majesty of the palace and the thousands of turns of the West Garden, and couldn't help but sigh that Emperor Yang of Sui exhausted the people's strength to satisfy his extravagance, so that the people of the world fell into misery.

Xue Shu, the chief bookkeeper, took over the conversation and said: "I heard that the construction of the Gao Yu carved wall caused the destruction of King Yin; The rammed earth was paved with thatched floors, which made Emperor Yao prosperous. Qin Shi Huang overhauled the Afang Palace, but the second emperor was defeated; Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty abandoned the construction of the terrace because it cost money, so the Mandate of Heaven of the Han Dynasty lasted for 400 years.

Thrift prospers the country, luxury dies the country, this has been the case since ancient times. The queen of the Sui Dynasty did not pay attention to absorbing these historical lessons, and was finally killed by the puppet with the honor of ten thousand times, which caused the world to be ruined, caused the Sui family to fall apart, and made people of all generations laugh at him, because he was extravagant and tyrannical. ”

"Well said!" Li Shimin praised, "After you go back, you will write down these words, make some plays, and hand them in for me to read." ”

"Don't dare, don't dare!" Xue Shui hurriedly humbled, but couldn't help but smile.

In the sun, the majestic and magnificent palace shone with golden light, Li Shimin looked at it and subconsciously felt loved. But the thought of the hundreds of thousands of servants' bones buried beneath it made him feel a deep disgust.

A few days later, Li Shimin received an edict from his father, in which Li Yuan asked him to burn down all the Gaomen halls in Luoyang. Li Shimin felt that something was wrong, so he wrote back to his father and said that the tiles and wood of the palace could still be used by the people, and they could be dismantled but not burned.

Li Yuan wrote back that these signs of tyranny must be burned away, so that the world and future generations will always learn from them. Li Shimin carried out his father's will and ordered the Jinluan Palace-Qianyang Hall to be burned down, the Tianmen Gate and Tianque were burned down, the Duanmen Tower was demolished, and the demolished wood tiles were distributed to the civilians of Luoyang.

The fire was smearing and burning, with occasional explosions. At night, from a distance, half of the sky was burned red, as if the sky had been set on fire.

The people of Luoyang looked at the sky-high fire from a distance, they were excited and panicked, arguing with each other, some people said that only the Jinluan Hall was burned, and some people objected, saying that the fire was so big, it must have set all the pavilions in the palace city on fire.

At the celebration reception, Li Shimin declared to the generals: "In terms of merit, Xu Shiji's strategy to capture Dou Jiande at the beginning, and Huang Junhan's flight to capture Luokou and cut off the enemy's grain road, these two merits are above everyone. He then stood up and toasted the two of them, and the generals gave a warm cheer.

A few days later, Emperor Li Yuan issued an edict to confer on Xu Shiji the right general of Wuhou, changed the title of Cao Guogong, gave the surname Li, gave 50 hectares of good land, and the first first-class house. Named his father Li Gai as the king of Jiyin, Li Gai resolutely resigned as the prince, so he was renamed the Duke of Shu Guo, and awarded the scattered cavalry permanent attendant and Lingzhou Assassin History. Huang Junhan was appointed as the governor of Kuizhou, the prince of the country, 3,000 households, Guo Xiaoke was appointed as the Shangzhu State, and Xue Shui was appointed as the secretary of the Qin Palace. The other generals also had their own rewards.

At the same time, the reward for Li Shimin also came down, he was named the general of Tiance, led Situ, Shaanxi Dongdao Daxing Taishang Shuling, and was on the prince, and the number of food estates increased to 30,000. Li Yuan also issued an edict to allow the Tiance Mansion to purchase its own official subordinates.

Cheng Zhijie heard Li Shimin's reward, laughed and said to Qin Qiong and Duan Zhixuan: "Li Yuan is an old fool, and he actually caused a mess for himself. Is this Tiance Mansion obviously a small court? He did this, Li Shimin's power has increased greatly, and he is no longer inferior to the crown prince Li Jiancheng; Brothers are jealous, sooner or later there will be a battle. ”

Qin Qiong and Duan Zhixuan nodded silently in agreement. Cheng Zhijie was secretly funny in his heart, Li Yuan and Li Shimin, the father and son, were really weird. Li Yuan's actions caused his brothers to kill each other, and Li Shimin did not take it as a warning at all.

He took pity on his second son Li Ke who did not have the right to inherit the throne and directly let him manage the army; likes that the third son Li Taiwen is outstanding, and gives him the right to open a house; As a result, the brothers were suspicious, and all these people rebelled and were executed.

"Demon King, now that Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande have been extinguished, what should we do next? Beelzebub? ”

"Oh! What is the second brother talking about? ”

Qin Qiong had no choice but to ask again. Cheng Zhijie said with a smile: "The time for us to come out this time is not short, so we won't follow Li Tang to celebrate; It's still our Shandong! However, there is one thing that has to be done before this, the old general Pei Renji was killed by Wang Shichong, we can't let the murderer go unpunished, we have to discuss with Li Shimin, how to get rid of him unconsciously. ”

On July 9, Li Shimin, the king of Qin, led his army back to Chang'an. Emperor Li Yuan held a grand ceremony for the Tang army to enter the city.

Li Shimin is the general, Li Yuanji is the lieutenant general, Li Shiji is the general, all three of them are wearing gold armor, followed by Qu Tutong, Yin Kaishan, Liu Hongji, Wei Chi Jingde, etc., a total of 25 generals are at the forefront of the team; Then there were 10,000 iron horses, 30,000 armor soldiers, accompanied by the majestic "Qin King Breaking Array Music", escorted in the prisoner car Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande and others, as well as the emperor of the Sui Dynasty to take public opinion, royal utensils, to the Taimiao sacrifice. Emperor Li Yuan, in accordance with the grand etiquette, invited all the generals to participate in the reception banquet.

The next day, Emperor Li Yuan summoned Wang Shichong and counted the crimes of daring to resist the Tang Dynasty. Wang Shichong replied: "The crime of the minister is so great that he should be killed, but His Majesty's beloved son, King Qin, has promised to spare the minister's life. ”

On July 11, Li Yuan issued an edict pardoning Wang Shichong as a concubine, and exiled him to Bashu along with his wife, concubines, brothers, sons and nephews.

Dou Jiande was dragged to the market and beheaded, and the soul of a generation of heroes flew into the blue sky at the age of forty-nine.

Wang Shichong was about to leave for Bashu, but the officials of the Tang Dynasty deliberately delayed, claiming that the accompanying officers had not been dispatched.

Wang Shichong's family lived and waited in the Yongzhou house. Suddenly, one day, someone outside claimed to be on the emperor's orders to see King Zheng, Wang Shichong and his brother Wang Shiyun hurriedly ran out, but saw two tall men holding long knives and slashing at them fiercely.

Wang Shichong and his brother were busy parrying; But at this moment, an iron-masked general suddenly appeared behind him, with two short iron rods in his hands, which smashed Wang Shichong's head at once. Wang Shiyun screamed, turned his head and ran. The two tall men rushed up and slashed with a knife, Wang Shiyun couldn't dodge, he was stabbed dozens of times, and finally his head was cut off and thrown aside.