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Daxing City, July, Yimao Day (21st), the main gate of Daxing Palace, Zhaoyang Gate, in Beijing civil and military officials and nobles rushed in.

This gate was called Guangyang Gate ten days ago, and now it has been changed to Zhaoyang Gate in order to avoid the new emperor's obscenity, and what remains unchanged is the majesty and solemnity of this imperial city.

The last time officials and nobles in Beijing were all able to pass through the gate as they do today was when the former crown prince Yang Yong was deposed more than four years ago.

And today, Yang Yong has turned into a corpse, his face is covered with a white cloth, and he is lying quietly on the wide square in front of the main hall of Daxing Palace in Daxing Palace.

Yang Guang was like Yang Jian when Yang Yong was abolished, sitting high on the high steps in front of the Daxing Palace. His face was gloomy, his eyebrows were twisted into a stream of words, and he looked vigilantly at the civil and military officials kneeling in the square, without a trace of the joy and excitement that he had when he first ascended to the throne.

In the past eight days, Yang Guang sent Changsun Sheng to lead the army of Youtun Guard, turning the entire Daxing City upside down, trying to find out those who gathered inside and outside Daxing on the day of the Renshou Palace Revolution to plot against them.

It's just strange to say that those people outside the city suddenly disappeared from outside the twelve city gates after the end of the day, and even Yuwen Shu didn't touch them when he left the city that day.

As for the tracking operation that began the next day, no suspicious person was caught, and tens of thousands of strong men came and went without a trace, evaporating directly from the world. It's like no one knows where they come from.

In the past few days, Yang Guang has not found much fun with Chen Guiren. Every time Chen Guiren is at the mercy of him in bed. Motionless, even wiping tears from tears.

Since Yang Guang tasted it on the first day, he has completely got rid of Yang Jian's shadow for decades psychologically, and he is really lackluster in terms of male and female love, and even feels that it is not as happy as the tacit understanding with Princess Xiao for decades.

During this period, Yang Guang also asked Chen Guiren several times why he betrayed him, Chen Guiren just cried and said that his mother and younger brother were accused by the person behind Chunfu and were forced to serve that person, while Wang Shichong did enough work in Jincheng early. When Yang Guang's envoy arrived there, there was no Shi mother and son in Zhengjia Village, and he only said that he had been forcibly picked up by someone of unknown origin.

When Yang Guang asked who Chen Guiren's person was, Chen Guiren insisted that this person must be Yang Yong, because since Chunfu threatened him, all the requests were for her to speak to Yang Jian and persuade him to release Yang Yong as soon as possible.

But Yang Yong became a dead man on the night of the Renshou Palace, and all the clues were interrupted here, Yang Guang was not a fool, and knew that Yang Yong could never be fighting alone. Otherwise, those strong men who came and went without a trace would not have been able to watch him die.

It's just who this black hand is, with the death of Yang Yong and Chunfu. has become a difficult mystery to solve.

Yang Guang has been very unhappy by these troubles in the past few days, and even when he fights with Chen Guiren and Cai Guiren in turn, he always feels that there is a gust of wind on his back, and he always feels that there is a malicious eye staring at him.

Since that day, he has not dared to return to Daxing, until Yuwenshu and Changsun Sheng said that Daxing City was absolutely safe, and then reluctantly agreed to return to Beijing to take the throne and officially announce Yang Jian's death.

Now, in front of this Daxing Palace, although Yang Guang was escorted by tens of thousands of Xiaoguo guards by his side, there was still an inexplicable chill in his heart, and even Yang Yong's corpse, which was lying quietly under the steps, seemed to jump up at any time in his eyes and choke his neck fiercely.

Yang Xuangan also stood in the group of generals on the right, today before the official funeral, both civil officials and military generals must wear court clothes, Wang Shichong wore a red court dress of a five-grade official today, and looked at Yang Su beside Yang Guang on the high platform.

Yang Su stood high on the steps in front of the palace, his two sword eyebrows were deeply locked, and his face was strict, looking at the courtiers who were trembling and not daring to speak much at the bottom of the steps, he slowly unfolded the holy decree in his hand, and read it out with full anger.

This time the overall situation has been decided, unlike the last time Yang Yong was abolished, a large number of Yang Yong's henchmen were killed, this time it was the opposite, Yang Yong, the culprit, was dead, and it was only Liu Shu who publicly supported him, and then the disposal of his family was just an opportunity to show Yang Guang's magnanimity.

Yang Suyang read it for a long time, and Wang Shichong, who was kneeling under the steps, listened to it very clearly:

The traitor Yang Yong tried to take advantage of the emperor's return to heaven to plot misdeeds, the conspiracy was cracked on the spot, and the last will of the emperor before his death was to put this disobedient and unfilial son to death.

The new emperor ascended the throne, thinking of the brotherhood, and posthumously named him the king of Fangling, this throne did not allow Yang Yong's sons to succeed him.

Liu Shu, the former secretary of the military department, was favored by the former emperor Tiandi and the earth, and Xu Qishang Lanling was a princess, but did not want to repay Jun's kindness, but had been fornicating with Yang Yong for many years.

On the day of the emperor's return to heaven, Liu Shu tried to collude with the sinner Yang Yong inside and outside, set off turmoil, and was taken down on the spot, his crime was extremely heinous, and he should have been sentenced to death.

As for Yang Yong's wives and concubines, except for Gao Liangdi, the daughter of Gao Gong, the former Shangshu's left servant, who hanged herself after hearing about Yang Yong's death, Yun Zhaoxun, Wang Liangyuan, Cheng Ji, etc., all of whom were enslaved by confiscating the harem.

The eldest son of Yang Yong, the king of Fangling, Yang Yan, the king of Changning, begged in public to enter the palace four years ago.

When the emperor returned to heaven, the harem Chen Guiren and Cai Guiren worked tirelessly to serve the last journey of the emperor, loyally moved the heaven and earth, and the special Chen Guiren was Mrs. Xuanhua, and Cai Guiren was Mrs. Ronghua, according to the ancestral system out of the Xiandu Palace to pray for the Buddha for the first emperor.

In addition, the most important one is that the crown prince Yang Guang, according to the previous emperor's will, ascended the throne as the emperor, and from now on, the world will be amnesty, and the civil and military officials need to be loyal to the new emperor as loyal to the previous emperor, and they must not have two hearts.

In addition, the coffin of the former emperor is resting in Inshou Palace. It will be shipped back to Daxing in a few days. A state funeral was held. Before the death of the first emperor, he missed his sons, except for Yang Yong, the king of Fangling, who was extremely evil, and refused to forgive, he never forgot the other princes, especially hoping that Yang Liang, the governor of the state, could come back to see him for the last time.

The new emperor remembered the last wish of the emperor, and sent the general Qu Tutong to hold the seal book of the emperor and go to Taiyuan to recruit Yang Liang, the king of the Han Dynasty, to return to Beijing for the funeral of the emperor. In order to fulfill the last wish of the emperor.

Wang Shichong listened to this big pile, and it was not until the last sentence that his heart sank, the whole holy decree had no new meaning, it was nothing more than a normal routine of alternating power between the old and new emperors, but the last sentence was ten thousand sentences, and he sighed secretly: "Finally going to attack the King of Han!" And in his heart, he began to think about the next matter of merging states, and he didn't know how Wei Zheng, who was sent to contact the state a few days ago, was doing now.

At this moment, thousands of miles away in the city of Jinyang (now Taiyuan, Shanxi). In the meeting room of the Han Palace, both sides were full of advisers and generals who belonged to Yang Liang, the governor of the state. They all looked at each other.

Standing at the first place in the ranks of strategists on the left hand side is a civil official in his fifties, with gray hair, wrinkles on his face, and eyes like electricity, of medium height, wearing a green shirt, and a calm expression.

And standing on the right hand side of the military generals class of the first place, is a bearded eyebrows like snow, burly, the whole body of the red-faced veteran, the years of wind and frost has left a knife mark on his face, his eyes look at the sky, between the eyebrows is a rebellious color, it is the legendary Southern Dynasty first general, Xiao Maha, this year is seventy three.

Yang Liang, who was in his thirties, dressed in a yellow robe and full of anger, also held an edict in his hand, his eyes were staring at the words in the edict, and he trembled unconsciously, and an official in a dark crimson official uniform standing at the bottom of the steps was standing in the court with his head held high.

This official is about forty-five or sixteen years old, and the two long scars on his forehead show that he is a battle-hardened general, and the slightly tight-fitting court clothes cannot hide his well-developed muscles, white skin, knife eyebrows, violent eyes, lion mouth, eagle nose, and inverted beard like a hedgehog.

This Qu Tutong is an outlier among the hundred officials of the Sui Dynasty, he is a Xianbei person, deep knowledge of the art of war, strong martial arts, brave and good at fighting, when he was young, he took his father's position and became the governor of the right guard, but unfortunately the repeated wars have not made enough to seal the shadow of the son, it is really a big regret in life.

In the seventeenth year of the emperor's reign, Qu Tutong was ordered to inspect the official horses raised by the local court in Longxi, and it was found that more than 20,000 horses were concealed and not reported, and became the private property of local ranch officials.

Yang Jian hated the corruption of his subordinates in his life, and even hated the courtiers for being disloyal to him and hiding something from him, so after listening to Qu Tutong's report, Long Yan was furious, and ordered on the spot to behead Murong Siddha, the servant of the prince, down to the ranch officials, and all the officials related to the Longxi Ma case, a total of more than 1,500 people, to be beheaded to set an example.

As a result, Qu Tutong couldn't bear it, and directly argued: "Human life is as big as the sky!" For the sake of 20,000 horses, I killed more than 1,000 people, and I just fought to the death, and I also had to advise the emperor not to do this. ”

Yang Jian was angry at the time, and when he heard that Qu Tutong dared to face him like this, he also roared: "Believe it or not, I'll kill you now?!" ”

Qu Tutong immediately took off his official hat, took off his official robe, knelt on the ground and said calmly: "Please kill me if you want to kill me, as long as you can spare more than a thousand lives, I am willing." ”

Yang Jian came to his senses and slapped his head suddenly: "I'm actually confused to this point, but fortunately I have Aiqing's advice." Then he ordered that the death penalty of those men be exonerated and that they should be punished according to the law.

Since then, everyone in the world knows Qu Tutong's toughness and loyalty, and Qu Tutong has also been promoted to the general of the right military guard chariot cavalry of the fifth grade, he does things like a mountain, and does not follow personal feelings, so this time the arduous task of envoying the King of Han, Yang Guang specially handed it over to Qu Tutong, who is not afraid of death.

When Qu Tutong came, Yang Guang concealed Yang Jian's death from him, only saying that the emperor was critically ill and wanted to see the king of Han for the last time, so he specially issued an edict asking Qu Tutong to summon the king of Han back to Beijing.

On the other hand, Yang Guang also had a vicious thought: if Yang Liang saw a flaw, this Qu Tutong, who was not afraid of death, could also provoke King Han to commit murder on the spot, and when the time came, he would find an excuse to clean up Yang Liang.

Qu Tutong looked at Yang Liang coldly. I was wondering in my heart: this youngest son who was most favored by the emperor. Why did he read his father's edict asking him to go back to Daxing for funeral. Want to put on that face?

Wang Fei on the side had been looking him up and down with bad intentions since Qu Tutong entered this meeting hall, and he was extremely unhappy in his heart, and it was not good to attack on the spot.

Qu Tutong was thinking about it, only to see Yang Liang suddenly throw the edict to the ground, his face was swollen and red, and the muscles on his face were beating, he pointed at Qu Tutong and shouted: "Qu Tutong." You are so bold that you dare to falsely preach the Holy Decree! ”

Qu Tutong replied in a deep voice: "Qu came by order, this edict is true, and there is a jade seal as proof, how can it be a false holy decree?" ”

As he spoke, he bent down and picked up the edict and handed it to Yang Liang: "His Royal Highness the King of Han, this is the emperor's holy decree, but you threw this to the ground in public, if this matter reaches the emperor's ears, it is really not good." I didn't see anything just now, so please do it yourself! ”

Yang Liang trembled with anger. Just as he was about to speak again, Wang Jun snatched the conversation and said coldly: "General Qu, may I ask if this edict was given to you by the emperor himself?" ”

Qu Tutong shook his head: "It's Shang Shuling, Yang Su, the Duke of Yueguo, gave it to me in person." ”

Wang Jun said "oh": "So you can't be sure that it is the emperor's holy decree for you?" ”

Qu Tutong's face was full of anger, and he protested: "Wang joined the army, do you think that when you gave a holy decree to exile Lingnan, did you also ask like this?" Does every courtier who receives the decree have to be issued by the emperor himself before he can receive it? ”

Wang Hao laughed: "Of course this is not necessary, it's just that His Royal Highness the King of Han has always been filial, and he wants to ask the emperor how the emperor's dragon body is now." ”

Qu Tutong's face softened slightly, and his voice became heavy: "Xiaguan had seen the emperor four days before receiving the order, and the emperor was dying at that time, holding the hands of our hundred officials and couldn't speak, King Han, let me say something rebellious, if you go slowly, maybe it will be really, really ......."

Qu Tutong thought of Yang Jian's kindness to him, and then thought of Yang Jian's dignity that day, Rao was his strong man, and his eyes were hot, and two lines of tears burst out of his eyes.

Wang Hao glanced at Yang Liang, turned around, and said to Qu Tu: "General Qu, you can go back first." ”

Qu Tutong was stunned for a moment, and then said in a deep voice: "The lower officials are here, and they must personally bring King Han back." ”

Wang Hao smiled slightly, and a murderous aura flashed in his eyes: "The King of Han is a nobleman, and Bingzhou is an important land, so you have to prepare before going to Beijing, please General Qu go back first and tell the emperor and the prince, and the King of Han will definitely meet them in Daxing in two days!" ”

Qu Tutong shook his head, didn't look at Wang Hao, turned directly to Yang Liang, and arched his hand: "His Royal Highness the King of Han, this edict is very clear, I want you to leave immediately, and the lower official also made it very clear just now, even if it is a moment late, it is possible that you will not be able to see the emperor's last face, whether it is a minister or a son, you can't delay it any longer." ”

Yang Liang said sharply: "General Qu, Wang joined the army just now and said very clearly, this king, as the governor of the annexed states, commanded the hometown of the former Northern Qi Dynasty, and was responsible for annexing the four major states of Youjiqing and Qingdao, how could he just say that he would leave?" ”

"At least the defense and personnel must be handed over, otherwise at this time, the Turks or Goguryeo people will take the opportunity to attack, and you will be responsible for this? Are you up to the task? ”

Qu Tutong opened his mouth wide all of a sudden, but he couldn't refute it.

Yang Liang sneered, and waved his sleeves: "General Qu, please go back to my father and brother Wang first, and say that this king should hurry up and deal with the handover affairs of the Han Palace, once it is dealt with, he will rush to Daxing in the starry night, just like what Wang said when he joined the army just now." ”

Qu Tutong said helplessly: "Okay, then the lower official will go back to resume his life first, and please return to Daxing as soon as possible as you said." He saluted again and turned to walk out.

Qu Tutong's footsteps became farther and farther away, until he could no longer hear it, the expression on Yang Liang's face became more and more ugly, and his eyes began to slowly fill with tears, and suddenly, Yang Liang threw the edict on the ground again, and cried loudly: "Father! Father! Why don't you leave the child behind and go first! ”

The subordinates of the civil and military classes standing in the audience all lost their words, only Wang Yan stepped forward unhurriedly and picked up the edict, unfolded it, and immediately frowned, and said: "Sure enough, it is a forged edict!" ”

An official beside Wang Fei who was about fifty years old and had a thin figure and a straight face asked in a deep voice: "Wang joined the army, why did you see that this edict was forged?" ”

Wang Jun looked at this person, it was Sima Huangfu's birthday in the Governor's Mansion of Bingzhou, and he suddenly had a headache.

This Huangfu birthday has always been known for loyalty and filial piety, Longxi Xidingren, his father is the Suizhou assassin of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and Huangfu himself in the opening of the emperor's years, has been in the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Crime, the Ministry of Civil Affairs have done.

Huangfu was born when he was to Dali Shaoqing, and also released as a state assassin and governor, during which he resigned because of the death of his mother, and after being reappointed, the last official position in the central court was Shangshu Zuocheng.

After Yang Liang, the king of the Han Dynasty, went out of the town and merged with the state, Yang Jian selected some very talented people in the world to assist the sons of the town, and sent Yuan Yan to Shuzhong to assist Yang Xiu, and later sent to the state to assist Yang Liang was the emperor who had always had the name of justice and uprightness. (To be continued......)