Luoyang, the eastern capital, the first snow of the 14th year of the Great Cause, came earlier than before, it was the early morning of the first day of the first lunar month, and the sky was sprinkled with goose feathers and heavy snow, which soon turned the large-scale eastern capital Luoyang into a silver-white world.

New Year, Ruixue Zhaofeng Year, but there is no festive atmosphere in the eastern capital, whether it is the palace city or the people, all are shrouded in a tense and worried atmosphere, even Yang Tong, who is already fifteen years old, refused Yuan Wendu and Duan Da and others to hold a banquet to celebrate the New Year, just to give each official a bowl of noodle soup to save the growing shortage of food.

The food situation in the eastern capital is becoming more and more tense, if it weren't for the fact that before the Zhai and Li coalition forces surrounded Shangluocang, Yang Dong took precautions and let the sergeants rush back a batch of grain to the city, and the eastern capital must have run out of grain before the Chinese New Year, and now although Shangluocang is still under Wang Shichong's control, the grain road has been cut off by the Zhai and Li coalition forces, and Wang Shichong's army and the defenders of the eastern capital have tried to transport grain to the city several times, but they have been robbed or burned by more and more Zhai Li coalition forces, and they have not succeeded once.

The price of grain in the city soared, and the ordinary people and the soldiers defending the city suffered from lack of food, and Yuan Wendu, the deputy left-behind Yuan Wen, who had a poor relationship with Chen Yingliang but was loyal to the court of the Great Sui, had to build a Yang Dong to give the grain merchants the rank of Erpinsan, although the rich merchants in the city donated grain to help the army, but they also led the merchants who held wat boards to the court every day to crowd the hall. Yang Tong is still a competent imperial grandson, so he naturally has to consider whether the current situation is to save face or face.

The situation of the battle is worse than the food situation, even if Wang Shichong still firmly holds Shangluocang, but the more than 20,000 troops in his hands are at an absolute disadvantage in front of the Zhai and Li coalition forces, and they are extremely tired from successive battles, and they can barely keep Shangluocang from losing, and they have no power to fight back. Although there are still more than 100,000 defenders in the eastern capital who have been expanded again, they have no unscrupulous generals to command, lack of experience and training, and their combat effectiveness is low.

In addition, the contradiction between Wang Shichong and Yuan Wendu also weakened the overall combat effectiveness of the Sui army in the eastern capital, Wang Shichong asked Yang Tong several times to supplement the army to him to expand the military power, but Yuan Wendu felt that Wang Shichong was ambitious, good for profit and light righteousness, worried that the military power of the eastern capital would be given to him too much, and he came forward to oppose and dissuade him several times, and the result was that Wang Shichong, who was indeed not a good thing, failed to master more military power, and the Sui army in the eastern capital also lost Wang Shichong, a fairly good commander, and could not quickly form a ball to form combat effectiveness.

On the first day of the new year, there was also bad news, first I heard that Yang Qing, the king of Xingyang Taishou and Yang Wang of Liangcheng, both surrendered to Li Mi, and then Huang Taoshu, who guarded Heyang, also fled back to the eastern capital with less than a hundred soldiers, wolf bèi, and the reason for the sudden defeat was that on Chinese New Year's Eve, he only cared about eating a full meal and neglected the defense, and was attacked by Pei Renji by sneak attack, and once again defeated his former colleague Huang Taoshu's pit father professional household Pei Renji took advantage of the situation to seize the Heyang pontoon bridge, crossed the Yellow River in the early morning of the first day of the new year and forced back to Luocang, and arrived in Shangluocang in the evening of the same day for the New Year, and the Zhai and Li coalition forces were even more vigorous, Wang Shichong, who has weak troops in his hands, is even more embarrassed. The Eastern Capital Imperial Court and Wang Shichong had the same desire to cry without tears, but they were just as helpless.

In the early morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year, the defenders of the eleventh gate of the Eastern Capital found a text on the city gate at the same time, a document promulgated in the name of Chen Yingliang, the general of the right military guard, Xuchang Gong, declaring that Emperor Yang of Sui had no way and no virtue, and Chen Yingliang no longer planned to follow Emperor Yang of Sui, and decided to join forces with the two precious sons of Li Yuan's family to abolish Emperor Yang of Sui, a great tyrant who was full of crimes. Support Yang Xingji, a member of the royal family who is in Daxing City, as the emperor and rebuild the Great Sui River and Mountain!

The eleven texts were quickly removed and sent into the palace, and the hall of the Eastern Capital, which was crowded with the officials of Huwat Sanguan, was taken aback, Yang Tong and Duan Da and others were shocked, and Duan Da, who had formed a close political alliance with Chen Fuliang, blurted out after reading the text: "If this matter is true, the Great Sui River will be closed!" ”

Lu Yao knew the horsepower, and at the critical moment, he stood up to speak for Chen Fuliang, but it was Yuan Wendu, who had fought with Chen Fuliang many times before for power, and Yuan Wendu still said with confidence: "Your Highness, don't worry, don't worry, Chen Xiongqu has always been loyal to the Great Sui court, and it is impossible to do such a thing!" Besides, Li Yuan's rebel thief was still killed by Chen Xiongqu himself, how could he join hands with the Li family's thief Yu Xian to rebel? Weichen dared to assert that this must have been done by the thief army, and the purpose was to divide His Highness and Chen Xiongqu's master and servant, so that His Highness would cut off his arm and destroy the Great Wall. ”

Lu Chu, Huangfu Wuyi and others also stood up to help Yuan Wendu, pointing out that this must be a discord between the enemy, and Chen Fuliang would never do this—at least it was really impossible to do so now, so Yang Tong and Duan Da and the others were a little relieved. But the most disgusting thing about the discord plan is that you know that it is a plan, and you will definitely have a pimple in your heart, so soon another courtier admonished: "Your Highness, it is better to be cautious, Chen Xiongqu stayed in the eastern capital, and after the western aid Daxing defeated Li Yuan's rebels, he used the excuse that Guanzhong was surrounded by strong enemies, and the thieves in the territory were not cleared, and the troops did not return, this matter is quite suspicious, and please ask Your Highness to investigate it carefully." ”

Chen Fuliang did a very inauthentic job in this matter, and took the elite of the Eastern Capital to occupy the good territory of Guanzhong, not to mention, the Eastern Capital was in a hurry one after another, but he always refused to return to the army to save him, and the purpose was indeed a little suspicious. Therefore, Yang Tong inevitably had some wavering, and Duan Da said again: "Your Highness, in the opinion of the ministers, it is better to send reliable people to Daxing to listen to the rumors in the name of urging Chen to stay behind and return to the division to rescue the eastern capital, and check whether there is really such a thing. If there are others, His Highness can also deal with them as soon as possible. ”

When Yang Tong heard the great joy, he immediately nodded and said: "This plan is wonderful, Zhongqing, who is willing to go to Daxing to investigate the truth for this king?" ”

The hall suddenly became silent, and Duan Da suddenly realized that he had a bad idea-if Chen Fuliang really wanted to rebel, would the messenger who went come back? But fortunately, there are still a few loyal ministers in the court of the Eastern Capital who can finally survive Li Mi, Yuan Wendu came out of the queue after a little thought, and said loudly: "If Your Highness intends to do so, Weichen recommends the crown prince Yuanji to take this position." ”

"Yuan Taifu, do you recommend your eldest son?" Yang Tong asked in surprise.

"Your Royal Highness, this is the imperial court temple, there is no son of Weichen, only the prince and Yuanji." Yuan Wendu replied respectfully, and repeated: "Weichen recommended Yuan Ji as an envoy to go to Guanzhong to find out the truth and truth, and urge General Xiongqu to return to the Eastern Capital for His Royal Highness, and ask His Highness for permission." ”

Yuan Wendu stupidly took the eldest son and sister-in-law to take risks, tied his head to the waistband of his trousers to find out if the suspicious Chen Fuliang really had any objections, of course, there was no more stupid jump out of the court to rob him, Yang Tong was moved by his loyalty, and naturally did not object, at the moment Yuan Wendu personally took the pen, and prepared an order for Chen Fuliang to return to the Eastern Capital in the name of Yang Dong, and arranged for Yuan Wendu's eldest son Yuan Ji to be sent to Daxing without mentioning.

The day after Yuan Ji went to Guanzhong with the book, and it was also the fourth day of the first month of the fourteenth year of the Great Cause, a news that surprised the Eastern Capital Imperial Court suddenly came - the main force of the Zhai and Li coalition army, which had been besieged back to Luocang for more than two months, unexpectedly lifted the siege of Huiluocang and returned to Luokoucang!

From top to bottom, the court of the Eastern Capital suspected that this was the trick of Li Mi, the fox of Wagang, and Wang Shichong, who had been exhausted from fighting with Li Mi, even more suspected that this was Li Mi's trick, and was so afraid that Wang Shichong did not dare to take the opportunity to transport grain to the eastern capital city that was in urgent need of grain, and Yang Dong, Yuan Wendu, Duan Da and others, who wanted to wear grain, were also afraid that the last granary would be lost-although the smaller Huiluocang was also not much grain, and Wang Shichong was strictly ordered not to open the gate of Cangcheng at will, so as to prevent the Zhai and Li coalition forces from launching a sneak attack.

It wasn't until two days later, repeatedly confirming that there were no ambushes around and that the main force of the Zhai and Li coalition forces was indeed gone, that Yang Tong and others happily organized the army and civilians to rush to the city to transport the grain and grass in Shangluocang. At the same time, the Eastern Capital Imperial Court and Wang Shichong were inevitably puzzled, "Why did Zhai Rang and Li Mi, the gang of traitors, suddenly lift the siege of Huiluocang and withdraw to Luokoucang?" ”

If the Eastern Capital Imperial Court and Wang Shichong and others knew the answer to this question, they would definitely be taken aback and even more puzzled - the Zhai and Li coalition forces suddenly lifted the encirclement and withdrew from Huiluocang, and it turned out to be the construction proposed by Pei Renji, a professional household of the pit father!

Of course, Pei Renji's doing this is not untargeted, Li Mi accepted Pei Renji's amazing construction, and it was not because he fell into Pei Renji's pit father aura and suddenly his head was in water. The reason is that when Pei Renji broke through the Heyang Bridge and went south to join the main force of the Zhai and Li coalition forces, he brought an important prisoner to Zhai Rang and Li Mi -- Yang Tong was only sent from the Eastern Capital to Heyang a few days ago to comfort Cui Shanfu, the Hongluqing of the Yellow Peach Tree Army, in order to survive, Cui Shanfu confessed a lot of internal information in the Eastern Capital to his former colleague Pei Renji, and also explained the important inside story that Wang Shichong asked Yang Dong to replenish his troops several times but was stopped by Yuan Wendu.

The contradiction between Wang Shichong and Yuan Wendu was suddenly placed in front of Pei Renji, and Pei Renji, who was very good at this aspect, immediately smelled the opportunity, and immediately after the meeting, Li Mi and Zhai Rang lifted the siege of Wang Shichong, temporarily withdrew to Luokoucang and waited for a better opportunity to appear, and pointed out sharply that Wang Shichong was good at using soldiers but was greedy for profit and light righteousness, and Yuan Wendu was loyal but upright, and the two could put aside their grievances and join hands to fight the enemy when facing a threat, and once the crisis was resolved, it would definitely be dog and dog.

Therefore, Pei Renji believes that in this case, instead of working hard to attack Jiancheng, it is better to take a step back and broaden the sky, so that Yuan Wendu and Wang Shichong can let go of each other.

After thinking for a long time, Li Mi accepted Pei Renji's construction and persuaded Zhai Rang to withdraw from the army with himself, although Zhai Rang did not understand the deep meaning of Pei Renji's construction, but he was also tired of the entangled battle with Wang Shichong in Huiluocang, and wanted to return to Luokoucang, where the grain was piled up, to enjoy happiness, so he also agreed to Pei Renji's construction, which led to the sudden relief of the siege and retreat of the Zhai and Li coalition forces.

Of course, Zhai Rang's little brain, he would never have expected that the reason why Li Mi agreed to Pei Renji's construction was not only because he felt that Pei Renji's words were indeed reasonable, but also to avoid one thing, to avoid the sudden civil strife and great changes in the Zhai and Li coalition forces at the time of the battle, and to cheapen the same treacherous Wang Shichong in vain............

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It's time to take a look at the situation on Chen Fuliang's side, unlike the old man Wang Shichong and his boss Yang Tong and others who are in dire straits, Chen Fuliang's days in Daxing can definitely be regarded as a paradise, he has the final say in the city and outside the city, Qu Tutong is there in the north and Li Er is stupidly fighting hard there, in the east there is a good brother Liu Changgong in a pair of pants and a powerful cousin Pei Xingfang guarding, and cousin Li Jing is also cleaning up Bai Yupo and Li Hongzhi and other traitors in the west, and there is no need for Chen Fuliang to have half a heart. In addition to handling official affairs and rectifying internal affairs every day, as long as he has a little time, he can free up his hands to drink and chat with new and old subordinates, and do some things that the masses like to see, and do filial piety for the incense problem of the old Chen family.

Chen Fuliang is also a good courtier who is very obedient, even if Daxing Miyagi now has no owner, Chen Fuliang is still not as rebellious as Li Yuan's traitor, move the office into the palace, every day is still in the Daxing Imperial City of the right Wuwei General's mansion office, usually nothing to do and never step into the palace, a few months down, except for the first day of the first month when he had to be forced to enter, Chen Fuliang is the first day of the first month of the first month into the palace city, to Yang Yuer's mother Jiang Cairen headed by the Sui Yang Emperor concubines New Year's greetings, to do the courtier's etiquette, stayed for less than half an hour and left, without the suspicion of filthy harem.

Of course, if Chen Fuliang didn't go into the palace to find someone, it didn't mean that no one in the palace came out to look for Chen Fuliang, for example, Emperor Yang of Sui had a daughter who was not married, so he dressed up as a private woman and quietly ran out of the palace for three days, and ran to the backyard of General Youwuwei to meet Chen Fuliang, and stayed for a lot of time. But it doesn't matter, now the head of the Miyagi Imperial Forest Army is called Sangouzi, and the person in charge of the defense of the imperial city is Wei Chi Jingde, who is Chen Fuliang's own person, and he turns a blind eye to such a thing, and he doesn't see it at all.

If you go up the mountain more, you will always encounter ghosts, and there will always be a time of retribution for doing a lot of evil, no, at noon on the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, retribution is coming. When Chen Fuliang, who was diligent in state affairs, finished many official duties and returned to the backyard for a lunch break after noon as usual, in the lunch break bedroom where there was a maidservant, Miss Yu'er, who couldn't hurt enough for Chen Fuliang, was already waiting in the room, and obediently took the initiative to sit on the edge of the bed, lowering her head and not knowing what she was thinking. Chen Fuliang was overjoyed when he saw it, went up lightly, hugged Miss Yu'er, and said with a lewd smile: "Baby, I can't wait, right?" ”

What answered Chen Fuliang was Yang Yuer's face-to-face claw with upside down eyebrows, and directly left a few blood marks on Chen Fuliang's little face, and then Yang Yuer didn't seem to feel relieved, and scratched, bitten and pinched Chen Fuliang's body, Chen Fuliang, who was abused by Yang Yuer for the first time, was confused, and quickly asked: "Yu'er, what's wrong?" Did I mess with you? ”

"You've messed with me a lot!"

Yang Yu'er's pretty face looked very wrong, and when she was about to pull Chen Fuliang's ears again, her face suddenly changed, and she quickly bent down, covering her mouth and retching. Seeing this scene, Chen Fuliang was dumbfounded, and blurted out: "Yu'er, do you have it?" ”

Retching and glancing at Chen Fuliang with great anger, Yang Yu'er said even more angrily: "It's all your fault!" Since the second day of returning to Daxing, you have to bully me every day, I said that you didn't listen to the danger that day, but now it's okay, what do you say? No, not only my mother has already begun to doubt, but in a few days she will be even more unable to hide, I will see what you do! ”

"It's ......." Chen Fuliang really doesn't know what to do, adultery with the princess and pregnancy is not a small crime, at the moment, whether Emperor Yang of Sui is dead or not and whether the Jiangdu mutiny will happen Chen Fuliang doesn't know, once this matter is publicized, not only will there be an uproar in the Manchu Dynasty immediately, but Chen Fuliang and Yang Yuer are in danger of losing their heads.

Seeing Chen Fuliang's overwhelmed appearance, Yang Yu'er, who was already in turmoil, was inevitably even more aggrieved and sad, threw herself into Chen Fuliang's arms and pinched and beaten, crying and said: "You said you wanted to marry me, what should I do now?" How do you marry me? I don't care if you have a wife, and I'm willing to be a partial house, but do you dare to marry? If you have the courage to accept me as a partial house, I will go and tell my mother today, you can get married whenever you want, but do you dare? Do you dare? ”

Chen Fuliang really didn't dare, because Chen Fuliang had always been swaggering and deceiving under the banner of loyalty to Yang Guangai Dasui, and now if Chen Fuliang dared to accept Yang Yuer as a partial house without the consent of Emperor Yang of Sui, it would be strange if he didn't fry the pot below! But if you want to get Emperor Yang of Sui's consent to officially accept Yang Yu'er as a partial house, don't say that you can't do it in terms of time and distance, even if you can catch up in time, distance is not a problem, how could Emperor Yang of Sui agree to let his daughter make a partial house for Chen Fuliang? If Chen Fuliang really dares to play this invitation, it must be played that day, and that day is the day when Chen Fuliang's head lands!

"There are only two choices, one is to gamble that the Jiangdu mutiny will happen as usual, in the near future." Chen Fu's conscience quickly made up his mind, "The second choice, don't want this child." ”

Don't want the child in Yang Yu'er's belly, for Chen Fuliang, who has lost his conscience, it may be just a matter of words, but for Yang Yuer, it is definitely not a simple choice. After thinking about it for a long time, Chen Fuliang thought of his words, and whispered to Yang Yu'er, who was crying: "Yu'er, I thought about ....... ”

"Brother Yingliang, get out of here! Get out! ”

The rude roar suddenly interrupted Chen Fuliang's whisper to Yang Yu'er, and when he heard Liu Changgong's familiar voice, Chen Fuliang was stunned at first, and then immediately remembered that in order to comfort Liu Changgong and Pei Xingfang and others who had been staying in Tongguan Yongfengcang, he had given them an order a few days ago, asking Liu Changgong and Pei Xingfang to temporarily hand over the army to He Yanyu, and let them return to Daxing to spend the Lantern Festival with him.

Then, Chen Fuliang immediately began to complain, because Chen Fuliang immediately guessed what Liu Changgong was going to do next, and the result was not surprising, Liu Changgong, who has never been big or small with Chen Fuliang, ignored the obstruction of the soldiers and maidservants in front of the door, directly kicked open the door, and rushed in stride, "Brother Yingliang, do you want to kill my brother and me!" ”

"Brother, my little brother wants to kill you too!" Pei Xingfang, who had not seen Chen Fuliang for a long time, also rushed in, and after Pei Xingfang, he was followed by an acquaintance of Chen Fuliang - Yuan Ji, the prince who had been an accomplice to Chen Fuliang in the eastern capital of Luoyang.

Chen Fuliang was surprised why Yuanji appeared at this time, Liu Changgong and Pei Xingfang also saw Yang Yu'er who was being held in Chen Fuliang's arms, although Liu Changgong and Pei Xingfang had never seen Yang Yu'er, and they didn't know her identity, Yang Yu'er also put on the clothes of ordinary folk girls and did not show flaws, but seeing the intimate appearance of Chen Fuliang and Yang Yu'er hugging tightly, Liu Changgong and Pei Xingfang immediately burst into laughter, Liu Changgong also said with a smile: "No wonder the people outside even dare to stop me, so it is." It's okay, I didn't take off my clothes, I didn't take off my clothes. ”

Chen Fuliang was embarrassed, Yang Yuer was even more ashamed, and when she quickly broke free from Chen Fuliang's embrace, Yang Yuer suddenly felt a tumble in her abdomen, and couldn't help bending over and retching again, and she couldn't help it. Then, Liu Changgong also laughed again, "Okay, good thing, it won't be long before I have more little nephews!" ”

"Congratulations to my brother, congratulations to my brother Tian Ding for importing, and the branches and leaves of the Chen family are luxuriant." Pei Xingfang also smiled and said hello to Chen Fuliang, smiling very sincerely.

Yuan Ji didn't smile, nervously observing Yang Yu'er's appearance, Yuan Ji was still full of suspicion, and said secretly in his heart: "Why is it so similar?" Could it be her? How can it be? ”