As soon as the Tang army withdrew from Luoyang, Yang Yuanqing led an army of 50,000 to Luoyang City.

A few miles north of Luoyang City, the Sui army set up a temporary camp on the south bank of Gushui, outside the camp gate, three thousand cavalry lined up neatly, the honor guard was mighty, Yang Yuanqing was in golden armor, holding a war knife, and his eyes were coldly looking at Hui'anmen a few miles away.

At this time, the north gate of Luoyang was wide open, the drum music was noisy, a team of drummers and honor guards came out, Wang Shichong's son Wang Yingxuan led dozens of civil and military ministers out of the city, but did not see Wang Shichong's shadow.

Wang Yingxuan was originally the crown prince of the Zheng Dynasty, and after Wang Shichong removed the title of emperor, he became the prince, but this did not affect his power in Luoyang, and he still held the government.

Wang Yingxuan, under the guidance of the soldiers, walked all the way to Yang Yuan, knelt down on his knees, and dozens of ministers behind him also knelt down, Wang Yingxuan said with tears: "Your Highness saved us from danger, this great kindness, we remember it in our hearts, and we should repay His Highness's kindness with loyalty." ”

Speaking of this, he raised a golden bottle filled with Luoyang soil high, and said loudly: "This is the soil of Luoyang, and I hereby dedicate this soil to His Royal Highness the King of Chu of the Great Sui to show King Zheng's loyalty to the Great Sui." ”

Yang Yuanqing's eyes became kind, he turned over and dismounted to take the golden bottle, handed it to his soldiers, helped Wang Yingxuan up, and said with a slight smile: "I can understand King Zheng's loyalty, I don't know why His Royal Highness King Zheng is missing?" ”

Wang Yingxuan sighed, "My father commanded the defenders to fight against the Tang army, and he didn't close his eyes for five days and five nights, and when the Tang army withdrew, he fell ill, and my father was too sick to meet him in person, so I asked him to convey his deep apologies to His Royal Highness the King of Chu." ”

Of course, Yang Yuanqing knew that Wang Shichong was just looking for an excuse not to see him, and he could also understand Wang Shichong's mood, demoted from emperor to king, this kind of shame is not something ordinary people can bear, Wang Shichong is worthy of being a hero, and he can accept it calmly.

But that's fine, it will be embarrassing for him and Wang Shichong to meet, and it will be good for both parties if they don't see it, so Yang Yuanqing nodded. "Please also greet His Royal Highness King Zheng on my behalf, I hope he recovers as soon as possible and goes to Taiyuan to meet His Majesty the Emperor!"

"I must convey His Royal Highness's greetings to my father, and in addition, the Tang army is retreating westward, I wonder if Your Highness needs us to send troops to help?"

This is the question that Wang Yingxuan is most concerned about, whether they can keep their military power, if Yang Yuanqing wants them to help. It would most likely be to seize their military power.

If you don't. That is, they can still maintain their independence, and now Yang Yuanqing is a sword, and they are fish and meat. They can't help themselves, it's a matter of survival, and Wang Yingxuan's heart is hanging at this time.

Yang Yuanqing understood his concerns. smiled faintly, "You don't have many troops, and they can't play a role, so stay and defend the city!" ”

Wang Yingxuan was overjoyed, this is Yang Yuanqing allowed them to continue to support the army, he gave a deep salute, "Thank you for the grace of Your Highness, we will definitely stick to Luoyang and never let Li Tangdong go further." ”……

Back to the big camp. Xie Sili sighed with some regret: "Why didn't Your Highness take the opportunity to capture Luoyang today, but let Wang Shichong continue to lead the troops, Wang Shichong is a heroic man and ambitious, and he is really loyal to the Great Sui?" ”

Yang Yuanqing smiled, "How could I not know?" Wang Shichong only has two counties, Luoyang and Hongnong, where can his power develop? Leave him behind. He will always be a nail in front of the Tang Dynasty, he can't go around, Wang Shichong is treacherous and cunning, he knows the way to survive better than anyone else, if he leaves me. He will immediately be pinched to death like a bedbug by the Tang Dynasty. ”

"But it's too rude for him not to come to see His Highness today." Xie Sili still has a little lingering in his heart.

Yang Yuanqing smiled. "After all, he is a hero, it is not easy to have the courage to remove the emperor's name, you have to be a three-point person, and you can't force him too much, I should save him a little face." ……

Wang Shichong has moved out of the palace and lives in the palace of King Zheng, that is, the huge mansion of Yang Yong, the former king of Qi.

Although he was forced to agree to remove the emperor's title, since he agreed, he would do it very thoroughly and unequivocally, not only burning all the forbidden things, but also closing the palace gate and moving back to King Zheng's mansion, and even a few palace maids he loved did not bring back.

In the room, Wang Shichong half leaned on the soft couch, listening to the report of the prince Wang Yingxuan to see Yang Yuanqing, he was indeed a little sick because he was too tired to defend the city, but it was far from the extent that he couldn't see Yang Yuanqing, but he couldn't let go of his face.

He used to be the emperor, but now he has become King Zheng, how can he go to see Yang Yuanqing, let him be as respectful as a courtier, or be subservient to Yang Yuanqing, he can't do it, and it is the best way to see his illness.

"Father, the child thinks that Yang Yuanqing is also tolerant, not as aggressive as rumored." Wang Yingxuan had a good impression of Yang Yuanqing, which gave him a little confidence in the future.

"Tolerance?"

Wang Shichong sneered, "That's because you don't know him, you were deceived by his illusion, back then in Jiangdu, how did he deal with Zhang Yunyi, I know better than anyone else, the cruelty of the means is even ashamed of me, I have now become his watchdog, the watchdog naturally can't pull out his teeth, and when one day he doesn't need me, he will not hesitate to slaughter me, and give me a casual charge of rebellion, just like when he dealt with Zhang Jin, if you want to add to the crime, there is no excuse!" ”

Wang Yingxuan was silent, and said for a while: "According to what my father said, we will die at his hands sooner or later, is that so?" ”

"Not necessarily!"

Wang Shichong smiled gloomily, "When the situation is really not good, our Wang family can go overseas to build a country, such as Ryukyu, such as Linyi, now the key is that we have to cultivate a group of dead soldiers who are absolutely loyal to us, the number is not necessarily large, two or three thousand people are enough, this is what we will do in the future." ”……

There is a village about fifteen miles south of Luoyang from the city, called Luonan Village, this village is surrounded by mountains, it is not very found, and it has not encountered any rebellion, it has been relatively quiet, this village is also called Zhengjia Village by the locals.

A few years ago, due to Li Mi's occupation of Xingyang by the Wagang army, the Zheng clan of Xingyang moved to Luoyang, some of them lived in the city, and the other part lived in this Luonan village.

However, with the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the crown princess was the daughter of the Zheng family, and the head of the family, Zheng Yuanzhu, was named the Tang Dynasty Taichangqing, which made the Zheng family gradually biased towards Chang'an.

Especially in the past two years, Luoyang has been plagued by natural and man-made disasters, a large number of people have fled, and most of the Zheng family have fled to Chang'an. Even Wang Shichong's imperial historian Zheng Ying also abandoned his official position and went to Chang'an, and only Luonan Village still had more than a dozen Zheng clansmen.

In the afternoon, more than 1,000 Sui troops suddenly blocked the village, and Yang Yuanqing, escorted by hundreds of personal soldiers, came to one of the mansions.

At the gate of the mansion, more than a dozen children of the Zheng family have been waiting for a long time, these are the children of the Zheng family who are relatively out of the house, and their status is low. In front of Yang Yuanqing's coercion. They looked trembling and their legs trembling.

One of the elders stepped forward and bowed deeply, "Xiaomin Zheng Huan." See His Royal Highness the King of Chu! ”

Of course, Yang Yuanqing didn't come to find these children of the Zheng family, he said coldly: "I'm here to find Zheng Hong's wife Yang and ask her to come out." ”

A few Zheng children had already rushed into the house. In a moment, a young woman was invited out by the children of the Zheng family, she was holding a little lady about three years old in her hand, the young woman saw Yang Yuanqing, she was stunned for a moment, suddenly, she burst into tears, covered her mouth with her hand and turned her head to cry in a low voice, she was Yang Yuanqing's sister Yang Jianniang.

Yang Jianniang is the youngest daughter of Mrs. Zheng. But she did not inherit her mother's meanness and viciousness, on the contrary, she was kind to others, and everyone in the Yang family liked her very much, including Yang Yuanqing, who also liked this half-sister.

However, due to the bad relationship between Yang Yuanqing and the Zheng family, Yang Jianniang did not dare to have more contact with this brother, and the brother-sister relationship between them faded. After Yang Yuanqing left the Yang Mansion, the two never met again.

In the ninth year of the Great Cause, because of Yang Xuangan's rebellion, Zheng was afraid that his daughter would be implicated, so he hurriedly married her to his nephew Zheng Hong. Yang Jianniang was extremely dissatisfied with the marriage forcibly arranged by her mother, and her relationship with her mother fell out because of this.

Although Yang Jianniang's husband is the sister-in-law of the Zheng family. But it was a sick basket, unfortunately died of illness the year before last, she only had a daughter under her knees, so she took her daughter to be widowed in the Zheng family,

In the past two years, most of the Zheng family fled to Chang'an, but she refused to go, she didn't want to see her mother again, and took her daughter to farm a few acres of thin fields in Luonan Village to survive, and life was very difficult.

At this time, Yang Jianniang never dreamed that her brother Yang Yuanqing, who had not been seen for more than ten years, actually came to find her, she was very sad in her heart, and the grievances of several years suddenly poured out of her heart, kneeling on the ground and holding her daughter and crying bitterly.

Yang Yuanqing walked up to her and squatted down in front of her, he was also a little sad in his heart, although he used to hate the Zheng family extremely much, but this was his sister, and he had the same blood.

Yang Yuanqing saw that the hairpin on her head turned out to be a wooden hairpin, and the dress was old, his heart was even more sour, and he said in a low voice: "Follow me to Taiyuan, with my brother here, I won't let you suffer again." ”

Yang Jianniang took her brother's hand and cried bitterly.

"Mother, who is he?" The little girl asked timidly.

Yang Jianniang wiped away the tears in her eyes, and said with a smile on her face: "He is your uncle, Xiaomei, kowtow to your uncle!" ”

The little girl was very sensible, immediately knelt down, kowtowed to Yang Yuanqing, and said in a milky voice: "Xiaomei asks for peace to my uncle!" ”

Yang Yuanqing held her in his arms, helped his sister Jiaoniang up, and smiled at the little girl: "I took me to a very interesting place, there are many brothers and sisters to play with you, do you want to go?" ”

The little girl slapped her face with joy, "Xiaomei is going!" ”

At this time, Yang Yuanqing coldly glanced at the group of trembling Zheng family children next to him, and asked his sister, "Jiao Niang, did they insult you?" ”

Yang Jianniang sighed, "Of course, cynicism is indispensable, but they are afraid that their mother will trouble them, so they don't dare to go too far, so they just ignore it." ”

Yang Yuanqing snorted heavily, "This is your luck, if you have ever bullied Jiao Niang, I will kill your Zheng family!" ”

A group of Zheng family children were so frightened that their faces were like earth, their faces trembled, and no one dared to say a word, Yang Yuanqing ordered two female soldiers to help his sister into the carriage, and immediately ordered: "Go to Beibi Mountain!" ”

The brigade turned its horse and galloped towards the mountain north of Luoyang......

The road to the cemetery in Beibi Mountain has been blocked, and thousands of Sui troops have guarded the cemetery, and in front of Yang Su's tomb, Yang Yuanqing took Yang Wei and his sister Jianniang, and respectfully kowtowed to the tomb of his grandfather.

Yang Yuanqing inserted three sticks of incense into the incense burner, and said in a deep voice: "Grandson Yuanqing comforts his grandfather's spirit in the sky, Yuanqing has lived up to his grandfather's expectations, and his grandfather's long-cherished wish will be realized in the hands of his grandson. ”