The sixth year of the Great Cause, winter, December.

Yang Guang, the son of heaven of the Great Sui, sat in the tooth tent of the Khan of Shibi with great ambition. This time, he patrolled the north and had a good heart. In the past year, Yang Guang once again used troops to annex Ryukyu, which was another addition to the territory of the Great Sui Dynasty and further strengthened the control of Liaodong.

At the beginning of the year, he set up a hundred operas in Luoyang to promote national prestige.

In February, he captured Ryukyu, beheaded the king of Ryukyu, and captured more than 17,000 people.

At this point, the Great Sui has spread all over the world, and Yang Guang has become more complacent.

In fact, during his six-year reign, he dug canals, built the Great Wall, opened up the Western Regions, eliminated the Linyi Kingdom, defeated the Khitan, and annexed Ryukyu.

One pile and one piece is worthy of the name of Emperor Yang of Sui: Great Cause.

If it is said that the 20-year reign of Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian laid a solid foundation for the Great Sui Dynasty.

Then Yang Guang used six years to make the territory of the Great Sui vast and the country to reach the point of extreme prosperity. This time, he stationed 500,000 troops in Saibei, so that the khans of all countries came one after another. He has the intention to build a larger foundation and incorporate the thousands of miles of grassland into the territory of the Great Sui.

Overall, Yang Guang is moving in this direction.

After the death of the Qimin Khan, the first Khan was obedient and humble as always.

He gave up the tooth tent for Yang Guang to live in. To a certain extent, it also represents his willingness to succumb to Yang Guang and be a minister forever.

In the tooth tent, singing and dancing continued.

Yang Guang raised his glass and kept inviting wine to the kings of various countries, and when he saw that happy place, he would laugh out loud.

The atmosphere was extremely harmonious, and the guests and hosts were very happy. After the banquet was over, Yang Guang was a little tired and ready to go to bed, and at this time, he listened to Yuwen Chengdu, who was waiting outside the tent, and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, Wenxi County Gong Pei Shiju, there is an urgent matter, please see Your Majesty." ”

"If there's anything, let him talk about it tomorrow. I'm tired! ”

"Your Majesty, Duke Pei said that this matter is urgent, and it must be reported to Your Majesty immediately."

Yang Guang drank some wine at the banquet, so he couldn't help but be a little smoky. But hearing Yuwen Chengdu say this, he didn't dare to slack off anymore.

Pei Shiju is his minister of the humerus, and he knows Yang Guang's surname well.

At this time, he begged to see him overnight, presumably there was really something important to report. Although Yang Guang is a little tired, he is quite diligent in official duties. So he asked the chamberlain to bring a wet towel and put it on his face to sober himself up, and then Xuan Pei Shiju entered the account and spoke.

Pei Shiju hurriedly walked into the tooth tent and first saluted Yang Guang as a monarch and minister.

Yang Guang waved his hand, motioned for Pei Shiju to sit down and speak, and then asked with concern: "Aiqing, it's so late, what's the important thing?" ”

Pei Shiju got up again.

"Sit down and talk, sit down and talk."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Pei Shiju sat down again and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the minister was drinking with the envoys of various countries just now, and by chance, he found that the envoys of Goguryeo were in and out of the tent of King Shibi Khan. Moreover, the Turks behaved strangely and behaved in a very panicked manner. The minister then asked tentatively: Why is the envoy of Goguryeo here? Since you're here, why don't you go and see my emperor? What is the purpose of the Khan? ”

When Yang Guang heard this, he suddenly came to his senses and no longer felt tired.

"Then how did the sudden man answer?"

He said that the minister had misunderstood...... There's no way Kechen could be mistaken. The envoy was the nephew of the Goguryeo Prime Minister Ulji Moondeok, Ulji Jaeyong. In the eighteenth year of the emperor's reign, the first emperor used troops against Goguryeo, but the king of Han was not good, and the division was fruitless, but it made the Goguryeo king Gao Yuan extremely frightened, so he sent the prime minister Eulzhi Wende to submit the surrender letter...... That Echiji Yayong was among them, and the minister remembered it very clearly. ”

Yang Guang sat up straight, his eyes flashing with scorching brilliance.

The Turks and Goguryeo, one east and one west, have always been a major problem in the Central Plains. However, now that the Turks are no longer in power, Emperor Yang of Sui skillfully used a series of diplomatic tactics in six years, divided the Turks into two, and concentrated the elite soldiers of famous generals to carry out ferocious strikes.

The submission of the Khan of Qimin represented the decline of the Turks.

Now that the Khan of Qimin has passed away, Yang Guang is very friendly to the new Turkic Khan Duji on the surface, but in his heart, he is quite worried about him.

Duji is ambitious, not as weak as the Khan of Qimin.

Now, Yang Guang is sitting in this tent, but he secretly meets with the Goguryeo envoy? Moreover, if the Goguryeo envoy didn't come to meet the emperor of the Celestial Empire, how could he make Yang Guang happy.

For the country of Goguryeo, Yang Guang has never had a good impression.

In particular, they took advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains to collude with the Khitan and the Yan people to plunder the land of eastern Liaodong.

After the Great Sui Dynasty stood up, they never stopped...... Emperor Wen of Sui tried to conquer Goguryeo in the eighteenth year of the emperor's reign, but he had to suspend the operation because of the heavy rain and plague. After that use of troops, Goguryeo expressed its submission to the Great Sui and claimed to be the minister of dung in Liaodong.

However, on the surface they no longer expanded westward, but in reality, they continued to use troops in southern Korea.

After trying to dominate the entire peninsula, he secretly amassed power.

In this regard, Yang Guang opened one eye and closed one eye.

He did not have a favorable impression of Goguryeo, and likewise had a bad impression of Baekje and Silla in the southern part of the peninsula. The reason is that in the war in the eighteenth year of the emperor's reign, Baekje tried to kill people with a sword, secretly sent envoys, contacted the Great Sui Dynasty, and was willing to guide the Great Sui Dynasty and destroy Goguryeo. However, when Emperor Wen of Sui began to use troops, Baekje secretly sent a message to Goguryeo, wanting to provoke a full-scale war between the two sides. Fortunately, the king of Goguryeo at that time, Gao Yuan, took the first step to see through Baekje's strategy and submitted a surrender to the Sui Dynasty.

The clumsy strategy is still fresh in Yang Guang's memory.

So when Goguryeo attacked Baekje, he also ignored it.

In the 18 years since the opening of the emperor, the Sui Dynasty and Goguryeo have maintained peace for ten years. Whether this peace is real or not, on the surface, no one has bothered to break the problem.

Today, however, Goguryeo is ...... If they unite with the Turks, one east and one west, they will definitely form a flanking attack on the Central Plains.

Pei Shiju said: "That Goguryeo is the land of the canonization of the Son of Heaven, and since the Han Dynasty, it has been a county under the rule of the Celestial Empire.

Taking advantage of the weakness of the Central Plains, it was divided into a country, and the real crime is unforgivable. When the first emperor was in power, he had the intention to conquer and bring it back under the rule of the imperial court. Your Majesty is a wise monarch now, how can you allow the civilized land of my Celestial Empire to become the homeland of the barbarians, and it should be conquered and taken. ”

Yang Guang nodded, "What Aiqing said is extremely true. ”

In fact, he didn't understand why Goguryeo sent envoys to the Turks at this time.

The reason is very simple, that is, in February, Ryukyu was included in the rule of the Great Sui, which made the Goguryeo king Gao Yuan feel an inexplicable panic.

It's normal for you to panic, though.

Since you are panicking, you will obediently bow down and obey, and I may not embarrass you.

However, you are secretly colluding with the Turks, which is not something I can tolerate.

What's more, Goguryeo occupied Liaodong and colluded with the Ya people, and in the past, it repeatedly raised troops. If it weren't for the first year of the Great Cause, Wei Yunqi defeated the Khitans, making the Khitans surrender and the Goguryeo people having to stop fighting. Yang Guang couldn't catch their pigtails again, and he had no excuse to clean up these guys.

Now, the excuse is here...... Yang Guang thought for a while, "Pei Qing, it is not the best policy to conquer and surrender without a fight."

Now, my king is in the north, Shibi Khan has surrendered the whole country, and all the countries in the Western Regions are under the prestige of my Great Sui, and they are all subservient. When he took advantage of this momentum, he first forced the Goguryeo people to be terrified and afraid, and forced Gao Yuan to come to the audience. If Gao Yuan doesn't listen to the edict......"

Pei Shiju said: "This is a great crime of disrespect, and it should be conquered." ”

The next day, the Goguryeo envoy Eokji Jaeyong received the holy decree of the Son of Heaven of the Sui Dynasty.

The Divine Decree said in an unusual tone in his eyes: "Because the Turks are sincere in their devotion to the country, I have come to inspect his tent." In the coming year, when I come to Zhuojun in person, you go back and tell Gao Yuan to let him enter the Hajj as soon as possible, and the court will treat each other with courtesy as if it were a Turk. Otherwise, I will personally lead the army of the Celestial Empire, ride on Goguryeo, and summon him in the palace of Pyongyang. I hope he will not be afraid anymore and make a decision sooner.

After receiving the decree, Otoshi Yayong left the Turkic territory in a gray manner.

On the same day, Yang Guang angrily reprimanded Du Ji and ordered Du Ji and other kings to return to Luoyang with him to inspect Xingzhuo County in the coming year.

In the seventh year of the Great Cause, Gao Yuan, the king of Goguryeo, refused to enter the court.

Yang Guang was immediately furious and ordered the whole country to mobilize and prepare to use troops against Goguryeo.

It's just that both Yang Guang and Pei Shiju inadvertently ignored a very critical issue: Great Sui, the people are tired!

In February of the seventh year of the Great Cause, when Yang Guang issued a conscription and mobilization order, Wang Bo, a native of Zouping County, claimed to be Zhishilang, and gathered people in Changbai Mountain to make trouble.

Since the beginning of the first year of the Great Cause, Yang Guangda has built construction and continuously used troops.

The Great Wall was repaired, the Grand Canal was dug and the territory was expanded...... Although he established an immortal career, it also greatly consumed the national strength of the Great Sui.

In particular, since the excavation of the Tongji Canal and the Yongji Canal, a large number of displaced people have appeared in many areas of the Central Plains.

Wang Bo is just one of the many homeless people.

He made "The Song of Death of the Waves of Liaodong Boundless" to call on the world, and the lyrics said: Changbai Mountain knows Shilang in front of it, and this red Luo gold cup is in spring. The spear invaded the sky and a half, and the wheel knife shone brightly. Go up the mountain to eat roe deer, and go down the mountain to eat cattle and sheep. Suddenly, when he heard the arrival of the official army, he raised his knife and swung forward. For example, if Liaodong died, he was injured by beheading.

Speaking of which, this is not such a well-known psalm.

But for the tired people of the Great Sui, Wang Bo's "Song of the Death of the Waves of Liaodong Wandering" poured out their hearts.

Anyway, military service is death, and non-military service is death. In that case, why not fight for riches?

For a while, the homeless people followed one after another, making Wang Bo Zhishilang's name suddenly extremely loud. And Wang Bo's rebellion is only a microcosm of the resistance to military service in various places. At the beginning of March, there was Zhai Rang, a native of Weicheng in Dongjun, who was the Facao of Dongjun, but he was beheaded when he violated the law and was saved by the jailers, so he gathered a crowd to resist the official army. In the same month, Shan Xiongxin, the owner of Luzhou Erxian Village, moved his family to Wagang.

This Shan Xiongxin was a famous man in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and he was also the queen of the gate.

His grandfather, Shan Deng, was a general of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and in the Battle of Pingqi, he made outstanding achievements, worshiped the general of the country, and guarded Dongchang Mansion. In the first year of the elephant, Shan Deng died of illness, and Shan Xiongxin's father Shan Yu took over Dongchang Mansion. However, in the first year of the emperor's reign, Yang Jian usurped Zhou, Shan Yu refused to surrender to Sui, and was besieged by Li Yuan, a Sui general and hereditary Duke of Tang. After the city was broken, Shan Yu still refused to surrender and was finally killed by Li Yuan.

The arrival of Shan Xiongxin suddenly strengthened Wagang's strength.

At the same time, Zhai Rang recruited Bing Yuanzhen, a native of Dongjun, and Jia Xiong, a fellow villager, as military advisers, and raided the surrounding counties, which was in the limelight for a while.

(To be continued)