Ten years of the Great Cause, is the year when the Great Sui Dynasty officially began to collapse, since the seventh year of the Great Cause, the Great Sui world will be full of wolves, countless people who are overwhelmed by the burden of abandonment and fled, gathering in the mountains and forests, bandits are all over the place, the garrisons around the country racked their brains for the suppression of bandits, to the ninth year of the Great Cause, this contradiction was further intensified, not only the people were boiling, but even Yang Xuangan, the Duke of Chu, who was deeply favored by the emperor and supplied grain and grass for the emperor's army in the rear to conquer Goryeo, also openly erected an anti-flag in Luoyang.

However, at this time, Emperor Yang of Sui accumulated great power in the army, and most of the military and political power was still in his hands, after learning the news of Yang Xuangan's rebellion, Emperor Yang of Sui immediately made a decision, gave up attacking Goryeo, turned back to his home, and on the way back, he dispatched troops and defeated Yang Xuangan with a thunderous momentum.

Next, there is a large-scale purge, all the people who are involved in this reverse case are sentenced to death, and the bloody thunderbolt means shocked many people who are ready to move for a while, if Emperor Yang of Sui can take the opportunity to vigorously rectify the dynasty, while starting to recover the power in the hands of the various gate lords, while trying to resolve the sharp contradictions between the court and the people, no longer as good as before, and radical, maybe it can resolve the crisis of the Great Sui, so that the world of the Great Sui slowly turns to benign development.

But he thinks that he is talented, arrogant and arrogant Emperor Sui obviously can't calm down to do these things, the unhappiness of the national politics in recent years, so that his mood has become unprecedentedly irritable, he has no patience to go to the major lords to fight wits and courage, and at the same time can not accept the rebellion of the courtiers and the people, he believes that as long as he takes Goryeo in one fell swoop and solves the trouble next to the couch emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty, the ministers and people of the world will naturally bow down to him, and all the problems he is facing now will be solved.

For this reason, he did not listen to the persuasion of the courtiers, insisted on going his own way, not only did not want to find a way to appease the people, but while increasing taxes, he strictly ordered the local army to suppress bandits, and he himself reorganized hundreds of thousands of troops, and decided to conquer Goryeo again in March of the tenth year of the Great Cause.

For ordinary people, food and clothing are worry-free, and a stable life is the greatest pursuit of their lives, if they can have a full meal, no one wants to do the kind of rebellion against the court with their heads, but the people of the Great Sui Dynasty today, under the various extra taxes of the court, seven or eight out of ten people can't eat and can't cover their bodies.

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty did not think about reducing taxes and releasing grain to appease the people, but instead ordered the levy of Ding and additional taxes again regardless of it, which was completely not giving the people a way to live, once people found that their way of life was completely cut off, they could naturally do anything.

Don't talk about the people's hearts, but say that the Li family of the Tang Guogong Mansion, the ninth year of the great cause to the tenth year of the great cause, can be called the year of disaster in their house, the winter of the ninth year of the great cause, the Duchess of the country Dou died of illness, the whole house mourned, three days later, Tang Guogong Li Yuan rushed back from Fufeng to organize the funeral for his wife, after dealing with his wife's funeral, Emperor Yang of Sui dismissed his post of Taishou on the grounds that Li Yuan did not think about the emperor's grace in office, did not care for the people, and was bent on greedy pleasure.

In February of the tenth year of the great cause, Li Yuan's third son Xuanba suddenly died of illness, the white-haired man sent the black-haired man, Li Yuan was a few years old for a while, and the third son passed away a few days later, before he could come to his senses, Emperor Yang of Sui had decided to kiss Goryeo again, and his eldest son and second son were among the army......

Li Yuan, who has always been very well maintained, couldn't bear the blows one after another, and fell ill, Li Erlang and Li Jiancheng were in the army, Li Yuan fell ill, and he could only be the eldest grandson, the little lady and the two daughters-in-law of the Zheng family, who tried their best to take care of it, so sick for a few days, Emperor Yang of Sui suddenly issued a holy edict to the Guogong Mansion.

The content of the oracle is that the emperor personally marched this time, and the grain and grass in the rear were escorted and co-ordinated to Tang Guogong to be responsible, that is, let Li Yuan be the grain and grass officer in the rear of the Goryeo army of the Eastern Expedition, Li Yuan looked at the eunuch who read the oracle in a daze, and did not return to his senses for a long time, until the envoy shouted in a sharp voice: "Tang Guogong still doesn't accept the order to thank you?" ”

Li Yuan was drunk by him like this, suddenly a spirit, woke up, he first respectfully accepted the holy decree, and then kowtowed to thanksgiving, after the envoy left, Li Yuan looked at the holy decree in his hand for a while, then slowly got up, put it into a special box containing the holy decree, and summoned his cronies, let him go to the barracks, and inform the two Lang Jun that they must go back to the house tonight. (Since the emperor ordered another personal expedition, once the army and the central government should be in charge, they must not leave the barracks without anything.) ）

I don't know if it was stimulated a little bigger, Li Yuan, who has been sick and crooked these days, turned out to be much more energetic than before, and in the evening, after the two sons in the barracks came back, Li Yuan immediately summoned them to the study, Li Yuan's eyes turned on the two sons, and said: "Jiancheng, Erlang, today your father was appointed by His Majesty as the chief officer of grain and grass for this Eastern Expedition, you all know, right?" ”

"I heard." Li Jiancheng and Li Erlang nodded at the same time, the faces of the two brothers were quite haggard, especially Li Erlang, the whole person looked haggard and unpresentable, he and Li Xuanba had a deep relationship, and his mother entrusted him to take care of him before she died, but her mother was only gone for a few months, and the third brother was also ......

"What do you think about that?" Li Yuan said again.

"Father, Your Majesty took me and my second brother with him at the same time, and appointed my father as a grain and grass official. The second is that we are with the army, and we are not worried that our father will not do his best, according to the son, this is not a good thing, as long as the father does this errand well, even if His Majesty still can't let go of his suspicion of his father, it is not good to openly find trouble with his father in the temple. Li Jiancheng met his father's gaze and spoke.

"Erlang, what about you?" Li Yuan was noncommittal about his eldest son, and he turned his attention to the second son.

"Father, if in ordinary times, there is nothing wrong with the words of the eldest brother, but at this time it is obviously not an extraordinary period, at present, my Great Sui is full of bandits, and the people have long been burdened, Your Majesty ordered a personal levy at this time, and increased the burden again, I am afraid that it will exacerbate the public resentment that has been boiling, my father was appointed as a grain and grass official at this time, and he is really in a dilemma, and if he is not careful, he will be detained for incompetence, or pushed out as a scapegoat." Li Erlang was obviously not as optimistic as his brother, and he wrinkled his eyebrows and said.

Li Jiancheng frowned when he heard this, and subconsciously wanted to refute, but he was not incompetent, and thought carefully about the current situation of the court, although he was just a small city guard official, and he didn't have much time to deal with the people, and he didn't know the specific people's feelings, but he also knew that today, the people did have a lot of dissatisfaction with the court, and they complained everywhere, which led to banditry.

In this case, if the father forcibly requisitioned grain, it is easy to further aggravate the contradiction between the court and the people, thereby provoking the people's uprising, not forcibly requisitioning grain, it is unlikely that people will take the initiative to pay the tax, the people do not pay this new tax, the supply of grain and grass is insufficient, and the grain and grass fighter of the Eastern Expeditionary Army is missed, which is also a felony of killing the head.