Chapter 4 Gancheng (5th Middle)

Yang Guang sat behind the imperial case, with the horizontal knife he had supervised during the southern expedition in front of him, and no longer spoke. He was also the emperor of the Great Sui, and he still remembered the glory of his more than 400,000 troops crossing the river. This memory belongs to him forever, and no one can take it away, not even illness and old age. In the beating candlelight, the hair on his temples could be seen in the obvious color of autumn frost, mixed between astringency and black hair, fragile and desperate.

The civil and military officials who stayed in the court did not dare to come out, and whoever provoked the emperor's displeasure at this time would definitely die without a place to be buried. Although Yang Guang rarely killed his courtiers, it did not mean that he would be merciful to those who betrayed him. Whether to kill a hundred or exterminate the nine clans, some people secretly speculate in their hearts. Occasionally raised his head and looked at Yuwenshu father and son with pity.

That's right, among the ministers, only Yuwen, Pei, Yu and others have the opportunity and courage to steal and sell military rations to the Turks. It is also possible that these companies colluded with each other. Other civil and military forces either did not have the opportunity to get close to the city gate, or they did not have the opportunity to get close to the official warehouse, even if they wanted to betray the country, they were not qualified. Combined with Yuwen's abnormal performance after hearing the news of the Turkic withdrawal just now, the identity of the sinner is about to be revealed.

That gaze was like countless long lances, stabbing the Yu Wenshi and his whole body was injured. He turned his head to look at his father, and found that his beard, shoulders, arms, and the backs of his hands, which usually spoke the same in the court, were trembling incessantly. The sky was already a little cold, especially at dawn, and the night wind that was unwilling to recede through the screen window blew a chill down people's spines. But Yu Wenshu was sweating, the roots of his hair, the tips of his eyebrows, and the end of his beard, and the fine and dense beads of sweat condensed a thick layer like autumn dew.

Yu Wenshi and know who did the bad thing. After several years of hard work by the family, his elder brother Yu Wenhua is now the deputy commander of the Chinese army, and his younger brother Yu Wenshi joined the army as Sicang. Since taking over the defense of Yanmen City, out of infinite trust in his compatriots, Yu Wenshi has never inspected the east gate controlled by the imperial camp of the Son of Heaven.

What to do? The scheming Yu Wenshi was so anxious that the back of his ears was on fire. A quarter of an hour ago, he was still worried about Li Xu's future, but a quarter of an hour later, he was about to watch his family disappear. Since he was a child, the memories left by the Yuwen family have not had many pleasant ingredients, but after all, this is the source of his family, his roots, and his bloodline inheritance!

"Your Majesty—" After thinking for a long time, Yu Wenshi begged Yang Guang in a trembling voice. There is another way for the family to escape this catastrophe, the only way. He felt that his heart was like ten thousand steel knives piercing, but he had to pretend to be pious.

"Is there anything going on with the pony?" Yang Guang pulled the horizontal knife out of its sheath, blew on the sharp blade, and then asked with a sneer.

"Please leave the palace by order to help Lord Fan Zigai stabilize the morale of the army. No matter who steals and sells military rations, the ministers will arrest them and bring them to justice, and they will never be protected! Yu Wenshi sighed in his heart and replied stubbornly. He knew that Yang Guang would not kill himself, after all, he was the relative of Weng's son-in-law, even if the entire Yuwen family was destroyed, for the sake of the princess, Yang Guang would also open up to him.

"You, hehe, the virtuous son-in-law is so anxious to share my worries, are you completely sure?" Yang Guang retracted the horizontal knife into the sheath with a "snort" and sneered. The reason why he ordered the gate of the palace to be closed was to beware of the Yuwen family's reckless move, the main force in the city at the moment is the Xiongwu battalion, if the Yuwen Shi and after going out, he will definitely be able to set off a big chaos with the military power in the hands of his two brothers and the influence of the family.

Leading the army to fight, Yang Guang admitted that he became more and more rusty as he grew older. But suddenly the ability to put people to death is difficult, and many people still have to learn a little from him. Whether it is Yang Su back then or Yu Wenshu now, as long as they don't die for a day, they won't be able to turn over the wind and waves for a day!

"Your Majesty, I am willing to vouch for you with your life and will not live up to Your Majesty's trust!" Without waiting for Yang Guang to say something more hurtful, Xu Guo Gongyu Wenshu suddenly came out of the ranks, "Plop!" He knelt down under the rhino.

"Your Majesty, the minister swore to him that he would never participate in the theft and sale of military rations. This matter began before the minister's soldiers and horses entered the city, if the minister colluded with the foreign invaders, it would be ten times more convenient outside the siege! When Yu Wenshi saw his father kneeling, he himself knelt straight and pleaded loudly.

This sentence was just right, not only to get rid of his own suspicion, but also to remind Yang Guang of who broke into the encirclement regardless of life and death to share the hardships with him. "Horse up, I didn't suspect you!" With a little guilt, Yang Guang sighed and said, "I have always known the horse's loyalty to me. But I have already sent Fan Shangshu to take over the defense, and the horse is waiting for news of him! ”

"Your Majesty, the Xiongwu battalion was brought out by the soldiers, Fan Shangshu is like a raging fire, there are no soldiers in the hands of the general, once the two of them are not handled properly, I am afraid it will arouse the suspicion of the soldiers. As for His Majesty's Chinese army, if the soldiers are gone, they can also spill less blood, and they can find out the troublemakers! The old minister has followed His Majesty for half his life, and if His Majesty is suspicious of the minister, even if the minister is pushed out and beheaded. Thunder, rain and dew are all Jun's grace, and the old minister does not dare to accept it. But if something happens to the Xiongwu camp, the reputation of my Yuwen father and son will be ruined. At that time, His Majesty's thoughts will be gracious, and my father and son will have no shame to live......" Yuwenshu heard the loosening of Yang Guang's tone, and shook his head on the ground, "Dong Dong" more than once. Qu Tutong's army could return to the division immediately, and Li Zhongjian's influence in the Xiongwu camp was no less than that of his second son. In any case, the Yuwen family does not have the capital to turn against the court at the moment, so he can only rely on years of monarchy and courtly affection to seek a way for his family to live.

After a while, Yu Wenshu saw blood on his forehead. Yu Wenshi and his distressed father reached out to help him, but he was pushed away by his father. "Your Majesty, the loyalty of the old minister to Your Majesty can be seen every day." Yu Wenshu continued to kowtow while crying. It caused a burst of sorrow from the hearts of the Yu scribes, and tears flowed down their faces.

Seeing the father and son of the Yuwen family hugging their heads and crying, Yang Guang couldn't be hard anymore in his heart. After reckoning that Hu'er had been out of town for a while, he decided to take another risk, "You fathers and sons get up." I agreed to Shiji's request! If your father and son wanted to be unfaithful to me, they should have done it a long time ago, so why delay until today. It's all those ignorant brutes, when they see the money, they don't have me as the emperor in their eyes! ”

"Old Minister Xie Your Majesty Longen. Shiji, don't hurry up and get rid of the traitor for Your Majesty! Yuwen Shu escaped death and lay on the ground to thank him.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your trust!" Yu Wenshi kowtowed again, then stood up and walked quickly to the palace gate. With Yang Guang's acquiescence, the guards of the forbidden palace opened a small crack in the gate and let Yu Wenshi out.

"Alas!" At the moment when the palace gate closed, someone let out a long sigh in his heart.

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