Emperor Sui Yang

Chapter 362 Open and Destroy

Chapter 362 Open and Destroy
Civil chaos is not scary, Yang Ming is not afraid, and everyone in the capital is not afraid.

Since ancient times, there has been no successful precedent for civilian rebellion, but Yang Ming knew that if Dad continued to do this, it would not be just a civilian rebellion.

The Hebei clan suffered heavy losses during the construction of the Grand Canal. In order to raise food, Yang Wei did whatever it took to raise food. On the surface, it was borrowing, but in fact it was almost the same as robbery.

Cui Fuli of the Cui family in Qinghe has already written many letters to Yang Ming, hoping that Yang Ming can help him, and persuade the king of Qi not to catch their family's fleece.

Their family is the most powerful, richest, and has the most grain storage in Hebei, so how could Yang Hao not make up his mind.

Yang Ming also wrote back, promising to help persuade him, but he couldn't guarantee whether it would be useful or not.

At the beginning, Yang Ming borrowed food from the Cui family, and it gave them a lot of benefits. It was a fair transaction, but Yang Hao didn't have the patience to talk to the Cui family. Would you like to borrow it?If I don't borrow it, I will move it myself.

Like Qinghe Cui's family, there are also Boling Cui and Fan Yanglu.

Cui Hongdu, Duke of Wuxiang County, and Lu Chu, Minister Yousilang, have been waiting in the front yard of the palace all morning.

Cui Hongdu was carried in, and he could no longer go to the ground. He was in the state of approaching the end of his life. Yang Yinjiang sent someone to take care of him first. People still refused to leave.

After all, my hometown in Hebei sent one letter after another complaining. They don't want to deal with this matter, so I don't feel at ease.

Yang Ming was really sick. He couldn't sleep all night long. He was lying on the couch and let Yan Xiaotang rub the top of his head non-stop.

He has a splitting headache now, and the feeling of wanting to sleep but not being able to sleep is very tormenting.

"People still don't want to leave," Yang Yinjiang said helplessly: "It seems that the second child has caused a lot of harm to their two families. Cui Hongdu is like that, so he wants to come here in person."

Yang Ming's eyes were bloodshot, and he said calmly, "Let them in."

"No, you're sick, so you don't have the time to waste time with them." Yang Yinjiang felt sorry for her husband, and frowned, "I'll drive them away."

"No need," said Yang Ming, straightened up a little, leaned into Yan Xiaotang's arms, and said, "Let them in."

Yang Yinjiang sighed and didn't persuade her any more.

Cui Hongdu was carried in by his eldest son Cui Fengxian and nephew Cui Churen. Looking at his condition, Yang Ming knew that the other party's time was numbered, basically one leg had already passed.

So Yang Ming hurriedly asked Nuan Dongliang Xia to help him get up, and wanted to visit him, but Cui Fengxian hurried forward to persuade him when he saw this:
"Your Highness is ill, please don't move around, please cherish your precious body."

If they thought that Yang Ming was pretending to be sick at first, they definitely don't think so now, because Yang Ming's current appearance can tell at a glance that he is really sick.

Yang Yinjiang also came over, helped her husband with an ugly face, and said coldly:
"Your Highness has been ill for several days and has not recovered a little bit so far. You are also pushing people too hard."

Lu Chu and the Cui brothers hurriedly pleaded guilty, with expressions of apology on their faces. As for Cui Hongdu, they were so speechless.

You said you can't even talk, what are you doing here?

Yang Ming sat cross-legged, Yan Xiaotang put on a smock, and said lightly:
"I know what you are looking for me for."

After finishing speaking, Yang Ming pointed to the large stack of envelopes on the table. These letters were the ones he had asked Yan Xiaotang to prepare just now.

"You are not the only ones who complained. These letters are all complaints. I also wrote letters to King Qi. As for whether it is useful or not, maybe you all know it in your heart."

Lu Chu sighed: "The king of Qi is too evil. Now there are not many grain merchants in the Hebei market. Every family is protecting themselves. A letter from the clan said that the king of Qi forcibly sent officers and soldiers to take away the family's grain. They have all moved away, so there is no way for people to survive."

There must be some exaggeration in his words. For a family as big as Fan Yanglu, there are too many places to store grain. Yang Hao just started collecting grain, and he has already prepared, and most of the grain has actually been hidden long ago.

Yang Hao is evil, but Fan Yanglu is not a good person either.

In the current Shangshu Province, in addition to Shangshu Zuopushe, Shangshu Zuocheng and Shangshu Zuosilang, Lu Chu's rank is not high, but he has great power. After all, he is Pushe's assistant official.

This person is also one of the best in the Lu family now.

Yang Ming ignored him, but looked at the Cui brothers and said:

"You are in the same situation as him?"

The Cui brothers nodded.

That's strange. It stands to reason that your family should be fine, right?

Isn't Cui Hongjun's daughter, Cui Lingzi, Yang Wei's concubine?He doesn't recognize his father-in-law?

Yang Ming couldn't help laughing and said, "Then you should go to Cui Hongjun, not me."

"To tell you the truth, our Cui family is not only the third uncle's family," Cui Fengxian said with a bitter face, "the third uncle's family did not lack a grain of food, and everything else suffered. We also greeted the third uncle, but he I don’t even have the guts to write a letter to King Qi.”

As soon as he spoke, Cui Hongdu, who was lying on the chair, began to cough crazily, obviously out of anger, because the youngest Cui Hongjun was currently in Xindu County, Hebei, and he was watching Yang Hao move away the food in the clan.

Yang Ming frowned and said: "Letter, I have already written to King Qi, and there is no news so far. It's not that I don't want to help. King Qi is my elder brother, and I can only persuade him, but I don't have the power to order him. If you think If I am lying to you, then you should jointly write a letter to King Qi, stamp my seal, and I will send it to King Qi."

What is this called?We want you to persuade us, what letter do you want us to write?
Lu Chu frowned and said, "We are humble, and the King of Qi might not care about us."

"King Qi disdains you, so you come to persecute King Qin?" Yang Yinjiang was already agitated:
"King Qin Renyi, you just let you enter this door today, but you still don't know what to do. You only think about yourself, but you don't understand the difficulties of King Qin. It's not that we took your food, and whoever took it, you go to whoever it is."

Then, Yang Ming who was sitting on the couch also started to cough.

Seeing this, Yang Yinjiang scolded them angrily, "What are you guys doing still here? Please go back."

Lu Chu and the others looked at each other, and left helplessly.

"These dogs are usually nothing but grass. They were killed today, and I just thought of asking you for help. What did they do?" Yang Yinjiang took off her boots and got on the couch, laying Yang Ming's head on her lap On, knead the acupoints for her husband.

Yang Ming smiled: "When it comes to my own interests, I can't sit still one by one. Let's not say that I really can't help, even if I can, I won't help right now."

"That's right, right now we want them to form an enmity with the second child. The bigger the enmity, the better," Yang Yinjiang said frowning, "Don't think about it, no one can change the situation in Hebei, but you can't fall down. Nothing is more important than your body right now."

Yang Ming smiled wryly and said, "I drank the medicine and got the needle, but I still can't sleep."

"Sigh..." Yang Yinjiang sighed, and looked at Yan Xiaotang at the side: "Chao Yuanfang said, you should keep rubbing His Highness's body to soothe him, and you told them not to stop in the warm winter and cool summer."

Yan Xiaotang nodded quickly.

At this time, Xu Jing knocked on the door, saying that there was a decree from outside the Great Wall.

Yang Ming couldn't accept the order, so he had to let the servant come in and read it out.

When the eunuch who read out the imperial decree saw Yang Ming's appearance, he was shocked:
"What's the matter, Your Highness?"

Yang Ming raised his hand and said, "It's okay, you read the will."

"Your Highness is worried about the situation in Hebei, and now he is sick and has not improved in seven days," Yang Yinjiang said intentionally.

The internal servant is dedicated to serving the emperor and empress. She just wanted the other party to tell the emperor that the king of Qin fell ill because of the incident in Hebei.

Yang Ming also snorted coldly, as if he was blaming his wife for talking nonsense, but he was actually posing for the servant.

The servant nodded anxiously, and left after reading out Yang Guang's will. He still needs to send someone to report Yang Guang outside the Great Wall about King Qin's illness.

If Yang Guang was in the capital, it wouldn't matter if Yang Ming was ill, but right now Yang Ming was on guard in the capital, so his illness was a big deal.

Next, Yang Ming called Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, and told them to inform the Ministry of Officials, with Qiao Zhongkui as the commander of the army, to temporarily lead the troops of Linfen, Shangdang, Jiangjun, and the three counties, and go to Shangdang to wipe out the rebels.

In addition, Shi Huaiyi, the general of Zuo Tunwei Zhonglang, took up the post of Shangdang prefect and went to his post immediately.

As for Lu Yongji, he was escorted back to Beijing and questioned by the Ministry of Punishment.

In Linfen County, Qiao Zhongkui, who received a letter from the Ministry of Officials, directly led [-] military guards into the territory of Shangdang without saying a word, and at the same time delivered the letter from the Ministry of Officials to Shangdang County urgently, ordering Hussar General Xue Anguo and Che Cavalry general Zhang Junmou led his troops northward and joined forces with him to attack Tongda County.

Lu Yongji, the former prefect, was escorted back to Beijing by Duan Zhilan, the county lieutenant.

After Xue Anguo and the others received the news, they were immediately overjoyed, knowing that the letter of complaint from the three of them had been successfully delivered to King Qin, otherwise it would not be Shi Huaiyi who would take over as the prefect.

After Shi Wansui was made the Duke of Lu, his title of Duke of Taiping County had already been seized by his eldest son, Huaiyi.

It stands to reason that a person is not dead yet, so he cannot become a prince, but there is a precedent in the Sui Dynasty. Yang Su's earliest Duke of Linzhen County was attacked by his younger brother Yang Yue. The fourth son, Yang Xuan, was attacked.

When Zhang Kai of Tongda County received the news, Qiao Zhongkui was about to approach the city, and it was too late to run now, not to mention that Taiyuan County to the north was the number one military town in Shanxi, so he had no courage to go.

So he summoned his subordinates and planned to have a head-to-head confrontation.

This period of time was quite smooth, which made him somewhat inflated. He thought that with his current strength, he could fight the officers and soldiers. If he won, he could continue to enjoy himself in the Shangdang area for a while.

Who is Qiao Zhongkui? He had already grasped the specific movement of Zhang Kai, so when he came, he pulled two catapults from Linfen.

Zhang Kai stood on the city wall, staring dumbfounded at the officers and soldiers outside. He was assembling two strangely shaped gadgets. When the catapult stood up, he knew it was over.

The rammed-earth city wall couldn't hold up to the catapults. Two hours later, a gap was smashed into the city wall. Qiao Zhongkui personally led [-] cavalry troops and entered through the gap.

On the same day, Zhang Kai surrendered, but he and his son Zhang Shun were still beheaded, and the heads of the father and son were sent to the capital.

But their father and son should die in peace, because in the past few months, they have enjoyed things that they never dared to expect before.

It took only six days for Qiao Zhongkui to dispatch troops to wipe out the rebels.

(End of this chapter)

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