Yang Guang didn't have the heart to ask the messenger anymore, but hurriedly opened the letterbox, and poured out a volume of express letters from it.

With a calm face, Yang Guang's slender hand quickly unfolded the letter, although the handwriting of the letter was quite neat, it could be seen, but it was a little hurried when it was written. A letter is not many words, only a few hundred words, but it clearly explains the recent situation in the Eastern Capital.

The more he looked at Yang Guang's face, the darker it became, and even his slender hands began to tremble in the end.

After reading the last line, Yang Guang angrily threw the letter on the ground and let out a long snort from his nostrils.

The ministers who were still holding cups and spoons all knew at once that something very bad must have happened. The letter came from the Eastern Capital, could it be that the Eastern Capital has already fallen? Thinking of this, even the close ministers of the Son of Heaven like Pei Yun felt a burst of shock.

Although Pei Yun used to be an old minister of Nan Chen, but now as a close minister of the Great Sui Emperor, his family members are naturally all in Luoyang, the eastern capital. At this time, when I thought that my family might have fallen into the hands of Yang Xuangan's rebels, I was really scared and anxious for a while.

"Your Majesty, what happened in the Eastern Capital?"

Although the letter was on the ground, he didn't dare to pick it up without Yang Guang's order.

Yang Guang turned his head and glanced at Pei Yun, but he didn't have half of his usual closeness, he just said coldly, "You can pick it up and see it yourself!" Look at your tutors, is this how you usually teach your children? Eat the king's luck, and be loyal to the king. Where has all this loyal and patriotic heart gone? ”

Pei Yun and the others were really shocked when they suddenly heard such brainless words, why did this urgent report from the Eastern Capital involve themselves and their children? At this time, he didn't have time to think about it, so he hurriedly bent down and reached out to pick up the letter that had been thrown on the ground, and looked at it at a glance.

After reading the letter, Pei Yun's face was much more exciting than Yang Guang's. When Yang Guang read the letter, the more he looked at his face, the more he sank, and finally he was angry, while Pei Yun looked at the letter, but the more he looked at his face, the paler he became, and finally his whole body trembled, and in the end, he even knelt down in front of Yang Guang.

said loudly, "Your Majesty, it is only the ministers who teach their sons to have no way to do it, so that the rebel son can do something that has no king and no father" Please Your Majesty to condemn the crime! ”

The ministers next to them were already confused at this time, just like watching pantomime. I don't understand at all, why suddenly this emergency report from the Eastern Capital is related to Pei Yun's teaching son. All of them wanted to see the letter, but they were afraid that the things in the letter were related to themselves, so they were really anxious and afraid.

"Take a look, I'm sure you'll be surprised, too." Yang Guangqing sat down again with a face and said to the restless ministers.

Ignoring the ministers who were in a hurry to deliver the letter, Yang Guang's own heart was turning upside down. The letter was indeed sent by Fan Zigai, who stayed in the Eastern Capital, and what was sent was not the good news he expected, but a bad news, a bad news that could not be worse for him.

After Yang Xuangan raised his troops, although he did not cut off his back road in Beiping County in the end, he did not choose to go to Daxing City, but went directly to Luoyang, the nearest eastern capital. It was the same thing he had expected, but things were going to be more than he expected.

Yang Xuangan and Li Mi continued to recruit troops, but on the other hand, they also let his younger brother Yang Xuantǐng lead the most elite two thousand anti-thieves and go straight to Luoyang. Fan Zigai, who stayed behind in the eastern capital, sent Pei Hongce to lead his troops out of the city to fight, and Pei Hongce brought enough 8,000 soldiers, and all of them were elite soldiers from the Inner Palace. Not only that, but in the eastern capital of Luoyang City, many noble children basically have military positions in the Praetorian Guard.

These positions are usually just a post for the emperor's palace or something, and the grade is high, and it can be a good background. This time, no one thought that Luoyang, the capital of the world, would also send troops to fight. Many of the nobles in the army had to follow with the army.

Eight thousand elite soldiers from the Inner Palace, plus a large number of noble children, went out of the city to fight against the rebels of 2,000 people, which would not have been lost no matter what. But the fact is that 8,000 people were defeated by 2,000 people, except for Pei Hongce, who fled back to the eastern capital with a few people, the rest were either killed in battle or captured, and those noble children were all captured.

As soon as Pei Hongce returned to the Eastern Capital, Fan Zigai, who stayed in the Eastern Capital, beheaded him as soon as possible, and as a result, as soon as the captured noble children saw such a result, everyone was afraid. They were all officers at all levels who sent troops this time, and even the main general was beheaded without saying a word, and they thought that they had no hope of being able to escape, and in the end, all the children of the nobles were reduced to Yang Xuangan. ,

The reason why Pei Yun's face turned pale when he saw the letter was because his son was also a member of the rebels who surrendered. In addition to Pei Yun's son, there are more than 40 people, including the son of the deceased Pingchen general Han Baohu, the son of Yang Xiong (the imperial family), the son of the minister Yu Shiji, the son of the commander of the Navy Marshal Lai Hu'er, and the son of Pei Yun.

Such a result is not only Pei Yun is afraid, but even Yang Guang is also afraid. This is not some rich son surrendering to the enemy, this is the nobles of the Great Sui surrendering to the rebels. Even the royal family has surrendered, you can imagine the shock to Yang Guang.

The throne of the Yang family was also usurped, and before that, their Yang family was just the same as the families of some noble children, and even inferior to some of them. Therefore, after Yang insisted on becoming emperor, he has been weakening the rights of those noble lords.

After Yang Guangyi succeeded to the throne, what he did was even more obvious.

As long as you are careful enough, you can notice such a situation, except for Yuwenshu and Pei Shiju, the people who Yang Guang reused after succeeding to the throne are all newcomers, especially Pei Yun and Yu Shiji, they are also Nan Chen's old officials, and even include Yang Yichen, Li Jing, Xue Shixiong, Wang Rengong, Fan Zigai, Wei Wensheng, including Chen Kefu and others: even Yuwenshu and Pei Ju were originally just two insignificant little horns.

In other words, none of the meritorious veterans of Yang Jian's era were reused, and some were even killed, such as Gao Cheek. Of course, once a son of heaven and a courtier, Yang Guang's approach is understandable. However, because he has always been a fierce man, he is too eager and too fierce, and as a result, he has brought a very serious role as a brother, and the Great Sui gradually lost the support of some of the big families, especially the big families in the Guanlong area, and many of the meritorious veterans of the Great Sui are mostly from this. The reason is very simple, Yang Guang's actions directly damaged their vital interests, and most of the old lords were not taken seriously and even killed, such as Yu Zhongwen!

It is safe to say that the Great Sui Emperor Yang Guang has broken away from this class, the class that used to fully support his rule. The advantage is obvious, that is, more and more centralized, more and more free, and more and more no one dares to oppose him: as for the disadvantages, Yang Guang really didn't think much about it before!

However, the group of newcomers he reuses and relies on do not have the sense of belonging and mission like the meritorious veterans, and they are a class that can easily be shaken. Once the situation changes, these people will most likely become a time bomb to destroy the Great Sui Dynasty!

And now, it is the result of his continuous suppression of the old Guanlong military aristocracy since he succeeded to the throne, and vigorously promoted the emerging nobles. At the critical moment, the old aristocratic group was no longer willing to die to maintain the world of his Yang family, not only Yang Xuangan rebelled, but even the other nobles easily surrendered to the traitors. And the new aristocrats are even more unreliable.

For the first time, Yang Guang felt that his great cause was in some danger. When he knew that Yang Xuangan was rebelling, all he had was anger, the anger of being betrayed. And the collective rebellion of more than forty noble children at the moment made him feel fear.

No matter how many peasants in the world rebel, he is not worried, what can happen to a group of peasants? In the seven years of the great cause, there have been continuous rebellions, but now, who can make something Mingtang? But the fact that the nobles were so easily mutinous at the moment made him fearful.

The Yang family had the support of many nobles back then, and easily usurped the rivers and mountains of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Now Yang Xuangan just relied on his father's little prestige to rebel, and so many nobles surrendered to him, which is dangerous. If one is not good, his great cause and his Yang family may not be guaranteed.

Like Yang Guang, the ministers of the Sui army who read the letter were all pale.

Many of them are like Pei Yun, and some of the children in the family surrendered to the rebels. There were also many children of the clan who did not fight, so no one surrendered to the rebels. But their same face sè is not much better. According to the last statement in the letter, after the defeat in the first battle that day, Fan Zigai had sent dozens of batches of messengers to Liaodong, but none of them received a response.

I don't know how many urgent reports are now. And after Yang Xuangan won the first battle, he opened the granaries along the way and distributed grain to those farmers, and in a short period of time, Yang Xuangan had gathered 50,000 troops to gather under Luoyang City when he sent this letter, if the army of Liaodong did not return to help, then Luoyang would be in danger.

"When did you leave from the Eastern Capital?" Yang Guang didn't have time at this time to liquidate the rebellion of those ministers' children, and only paid attention to the situation in Luoyang.

The messenger said, "The little one sneaked out of the city at night from the eastern capital half a month ago, and as soon as he got out of the city, he went all the way north along the Grand Canal, and when he arrived at Zhuo County, he changed to a fast horse and rushed here. Today, it's just half a month. ”

What the messenger didn't say was that when he left the city that day, the Eastern Capital stayed behind and sent a total of ten messengers to sneak out of the city from different directions, and after Yang Xuangan's layers of encirclement and blockade, they finally arrived here. @。