Yang Tong is the grandson of Emperor Yang Guang of Sui, the second son of Yang Zhao, the prince of Yuande, who is only ten years old this year, but he is different from his father, although he is not very old, but he already has the mind of an adult, but at this time, he feels very anxious, because Yang Xuangan's army has been killed from Liyang to the suburbs of Luoyang, and he will soon launch an attack on Luoyang City. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, the number of defenders in Luoyang City was less than 30,000, and according to the spy report, it was said that after Yang Xuangan's army passed through Luoshui, the number of people who came to defect every day was not less than thousands, he was originally in charge of logistics in Liyang, and there was no shortage of grain and grass at all, so a large amount of grain was taken out along the road to recruit soldiers, and Yang Xuangan's father was Yang Su, the former Shangshu Ling, who was the founding minister of the Sui Dynasty, and he himself was also the Duke of Chu in Shangzhu State, His army soon grew from only 350,000 to more than 100,000 people, and the momentum is getting stronger and stronger day by day, which makes Yang Tong worried, when Yang Guang went out on the expedition, he left Fan Zigai, the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, to assist him, but Fan Zigai is a timid person, and he has not led the army, at this time, he saw Yang Xuangan's army rolling bigger and bigger like a snowball, and his heart was already half scared to death, and he was expected to resist stubbornly, it was simply impossible, he strongly persuaded Yang Dong at this time, persuaded him to give up Luoyang, and retreat west to Chang'an, Chang'an is the old capital, and there is Tongguan as a barrier, which can be said to be much easier to defend than Luoyang, after the army withdraws to Chang'an, it will join forces with the army of Chang'an, and then wait for the return of the imperial army from Youzhou, it will be able to attack from both sides and exterminate Yang Xuangan.

But Yang Tong did not agree with his suggestion, he knew what kind of character his grandfather was, he put Luoyang, the capital of the Great Sui into his own hands, if he lost Luoyang City, it would definitely make his grandfather angry, so Yang Tong rejected Fan Zigai's suggestion, while convening the generals in the army to discuss the battle plan, while began to recruit people and villagers in Luoyang City, preparing to defend Luoyang.

At this moment, one person whispered in Yang Tong's ear for a while.

Yang Tong was surprised after hearing this, and said, "Where is this person?" Bring him to me! ”

Fan Zigai on the side asked puzzledly: "Your Highness, what surprised you so much?" ”

Yang Tong said to Fan Zigai: "There is a person outside the palace who claims to have a way to crack Yang Xuangan's rebels, and wants to offer me advice in person. ”

Fan Zigai didn't want to stick to Luoyang City, but he couldn't resist Yang Tong's insistence, so he could only stay, at this time he heard that someone claimed to be able to deal with the rebels, although he was suspicious, but he was still very happy, if this person really had a way to deal with Yang Xuangan, then his own safety would be guaranteed.

The person who asked to see Yang Tong was Liu Zhi, who was outside Yingtianmen at this time, riding on a horse and looking at the palace in the distance.

The palace of the Sui Dynasty was built very neatly, from the heavenly street straight into, until the side of Yingtianmen, its architectural style is different from the two Han Dynasty periods, mainly the purple gold glazed tiles replaced the gray bricks and tiles, the palace is still magnificent, but not as magnificent as the two Han Dynasty, but a little more luxurious, no wonder Li Shimin after defeating Wang Shichong, will be because Luoyang City is too luxurious, and set fire to the eastern capital Qianyang Palace, Yingtianmen, there is indeed a drunken gold fan, the image of the destruction of the country and the nation, The funny thing is that the Sui Dynasty sent troops to destroy Nanchen because of the extravagant life of Emperor Nanchen, the government was in chaos, and the people were bored, but before thirty years, they themselves began to corrupt and degenerate, becoming the same as the original Nan Chen, or even more excessive than Nan Chen. It's not the same to be destroyed, but it's a pity that Emperor Wen of Sui was frugal all his life, saving money and creating the best situation in three hundred years, and the strong foundation of the Great Sui that has almost been established was buried by his own unsuccessful son, but it is a pity, it is a pity.

At this time, several Yulin soldiers walked out of the palace and came to Liu Zhi's side, and after confirming his identity, they confiscated all the weapons on his body, and then brought him into the palace.

Liu Zhi had already felt that the Ziwei Palace behind Yingtianmen was grand and extraordinary when he was looking at it from a distance outside, and he was even more surprised when he walked into the palace at this time.

Ziwei Palace has a total of three palaces, Qianyang Palace, Daye Palace, and Huiyou Palace.

The outermost is the Qianyang Palace, which is the palace of the civil and military officials after the Great Sui moved the capital to Luoyang, and the Qianqing Palace and the Taihe Hall in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the scale of the Qianyang Palace is much larger. The height of the Qianyang Hall is very high, the base is nine feet high, the height from the ground to the tail of the owl is 270 feet, the difference is only seventy-five meters high, equivalent to more than 20 floors of the later generations, this is built in 605 AD, there are no tools like the later generations, not even the tower crane, the difficulty of building such a height and scale of the palace is almost unimaginable, it can be seen that the ancient Chinese building technology is actually a very high level, it can be said that it is the world's top.

Liu Zhi was taken into the side hall of the Qianyang Palace, and outside the hall, he was searched by the Yulin Army again, and the guards of the palace looked very vigilant!

Walking into the side hall, Liu Zhi saw a young man in a yellow robe and a golden crown in front of him, who looked to be about ten years old, this person should be Yang Tong, the king of Yue.

"Grass people Liu Zhi, see His Royal Highness King Yue!"

Liu Zhi bowed to Yang Tong, before the Qing Dynasty, courtiers and people went to worship the emperor, in fact, there was no need to kneel three times and bow nine times.

In ancient times, the Chinese sat on the ground, sitting like Japan and South Korea today, sitting on their laps. In this way, whether it is a monarch or a minister, no matter whether the mat is good or bad, everyone is roughly equal, and it doesn't matter who kneels to whom. Because they are to kneel together.

So what to do if you want to show the difference, down to up, that is, when you sit on the ground, your head bends down, this is worship, and if you say that you are serious, you stand up straight, that is, the so-called "long kneeling".

In the Sui and Tang dynasties, as things like chairs gradually spread from the Western Regions into Middle-earth, and were promoted, everyone gradually sat on chairs. Because the Sui and Tang dynasties were more integrated with the monarchs and ministers, everyone basically sat on the chairs. The minister wanted to show his respect, and he got up from his chair.

But with the demise of the Tang Dynasty, the traditional Chinese aristocracy began to withdraw from the stage of history, the reason for this is mainly because the melee between the feudal towns at the end of the Tang Dynasty was very frequent, and the big families tended to die out, and the newly rising families did not have a deep culture as an accumulation, often a little childish, unlike the ministers who were born in the early Tang Dynasty and had a big surname, and felt that it was normal to sit on an equal footing with the emperor. So in the Song Dynasty, the minister was not sitting on a chair, but standing.

The Song Dynasty was still standing, but when it came to the Mengyuan Dynasty, because it was a foreign race living in the Central Plains, so they treated the Han people and asked to kneel and worship, and it was popular to pull the Han slaves to accompany the burial after death, called human martyrdom, and in the Ming Dynasty, the Han culture was seriously damaged, so the Ming Dynasty also followed the practice of the Yuan Dynasty, and the same kneeling etiquette was implemented, but it was not three kneeling and nine knocking, but four or five knocking.

Until the emergence of the Qing Dynasty, the last feudal dynasty in China, their Manchu subordinates called themselves slaves, and the Han people called themselves ministers, which means that even the slaves are not comparable.