Chapter 18 Chapter Eighteen

Yang Guang's death led to a series of chain reactions, one of which was Xiao Mian's accession to the throne. When Emperor Xiao came to the throne, he first killed a group of ministers who played with power, and the next thing to do was to win over heroes.Communication in ancient China was not that slow, but when wars broke out, various forces strengthened their defenses, and vehicles and horses were impassable, resulting in a very slow spread of information.The news of Yang Guang's death first spread to the Jiangnan area, which is very close to Jiangdu. Naturally, Xiao Xian was the first to know the news.By the time Emperor Xiao wanted to win over the defenders of the cities of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Guang had been dead for more than half a month.

However, the guards did not know that Yang Guang was dead. Li Xizhi, the Prime Minister of Shi'an County (Guilin), is a rare talent with both wisdom and courage. Although the place he guards is also in the south of the Yangtze River, it is far away from the river.The leaders of the rebel army Lin Shihong, Cao Wuche and others successively sent him letters to persuade him to surrender, but he refused to surrender.If you don't surrender, you will fight, so an army of tens of thousands of people will attack Shi'an alone. Among these leaders, Emperor Xiao was also among them. Li Xizhi's defenders are not government troops, but 3,000 warriors raised by him from all his family wealth.Under repeated attacks, these three thousand people were unscathed.Xiao Xian felt more and more that this person was a talent, so he got on his horse and came to Shi'an to persuade him to surrender.Emperor Xiao is here, Li Xizhi has to say something, isn't he?So, he greeted Xiao Mian's holy driver with a curse.Xiao Mian was not angry, he shouted to Li Xizhi:

"The general should surrender, it's not good for anyone to stick to it." Li Xizhi said: "I, Li Xizhi, will be loyal to the king all my life. If a man dies, he will die. What are you doing with such nonsense!" Xiao Xian heard some very important information from Li Xizhi's words: he didn't know that Yang Guang was dead, and he kept saying that he was loyal to him. So, clearing his throat, Xiao Mian shouted: "Your king was killed by Yu Wenhuaji!" Li Xizhi laughed loudly and said, "You still want to deceive my Dharma eyes with such a small trick? You go home and practice for a few years before talking about it!"

Li Xizhi refused to open the door and surrender, and the matter stalemate again.However, sooner or later the news of Yang Guang's death reached Li Xizhi's ears, and Xiao Xian did not lie to him.So, he led 3,000 people and the people in the city, dressed in sackcloth and filial piety, wailed for three days and three nights, climbed up the city wall, and analyzed the situation.Then he opened the door and rushed out with a large army (or a small army) to fight Xiao Xian, vowing to defend the only remaining dignity of the Sui Dynasty to the death.Li Xizhi was finally outnumbered and was taken into Xiao Mian's pocket.

With a look from Li Xizhi, guards from all over the south of the Yangtze River threw themselves into Xiao Xian's arms.This made Xiao Mian's power extremely expanded, and he became even more bold to swallow the world with arrogance. Now that he has become a prisoner of Liang Guo, he naturally has to behave first.After Li Xizhi learned of Yang Guang's death, he was no longer foolish and loyal. The first task he received was to help Xiao Mian take down Cao Wuche's rebel army.Li Xizhi lived up to expectations and quickly completed the task.Speaking of it, Xiao Xian is really a corporal of courtesy and virtuousness, and he has no sympathy for Li Xizhi.

The situation in the south of the Yangtze River is turbulent, and the Jiangbei area is not so peaceful.In particular, the subtle changes in the two forces of Li Yuan and Li Mi are the focus of people's attention.When the news of Yang Guang's death reached Chang'an, Li Yuan was having a meeting in the conference room.When the courier reported this to him, he fell into a daze, squatted on the ground, patted the ground with trembling hands, and suddenly burst into tears. Next, we see Li Yuan writhing on the ground, rolling all over the floor, and crying loudly. Next, Li Yuan cried: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, look at you, I am so far away from you, if you are in trouble, I can't help you!"

This scene was really horrible, Pei Ji and others who were following beside him couldn't hold back for a moment, and started crying too.After crying, get down to business.Like Xiao Xian, Li Yuan believes that the most important task at the moment is to win over talented people.At this point, Li Yuan did the best.Among all the talents, Pei Ji received the greatest favor and was also the most unacceptable. Pei Ji is a man of great ambition and talent, except for a little support at the beginning of the uprising, the rest of the time, except for coming up with a very inconspicuous idea, is to fight a very useless defeat.The reason why Li Yuan was kind to him was entirely because of his friendliness.Li Yuan likes to chat with Pei Ji, and others can't say it.Even after he became emperor, Pei Ji's treatment was not bad at all.

Li Yuan is a very unassuming person, so everyone likes him very much. So is the samurai. The samurai Xun was originally a timber wholesaler, specializing in speculative business.Wood dealers were not very popular at first, but thanks to Yang Guang's fondness for building palaces, there was a gap in the wood.The samurai Xun is very business-minded, he takes advantage of the opportunity, buys and sells, and makes a fortune.Later, he saw the timing of the chaos in the world, took refuge in Li Yuan, and gave all his money to help him, so he got where he is today.At the beginning of the uprising, the samurai Xun became an armored cao and joined the army, taking charge of the armament of Li Yuan's hundreds of thousands of troops.

The reason why the samurai Xun is famous is not because he was born as a wood dealer and eventually became a high-ranking official.It was because he had a daughter named Wu, and this daughter became emperor in the end. Speaking of which, this is all Li Yuan's trouble. The samurai Yu was also a poor man when he was young. He carried a pole, sold tofu, and learned fortune-telling.He and his ex-wife gave birth to two boys, and when his ex-wife died, Li Yuan took it upon himself to marry him the daughter of the nobleman Yang Da.Later, the warrior Xun and Yang Shi gave birth to three daughters.

The samurai Xun can have this honor, all because Li Yuan is a person who knows how to repay his kindness.After Yang Guang finished crying, after a while, Pei Ji, the warrior Xun and others saw that the time was right, and they cried and clamored for Li Yuan to ascend the throne.Li Yuan was shocked, and said that it was absolutely impossible in this situation, otherwise he would be sorry to his ancestors, and even more sorry to the kings and ministers of the Sui Dynasty.Everyone cried and made noises again and again, but Li Yuan's expression was resolute, and he still refused to give in.

After going on for several months, Li Yuan seemed unable to bear the sincerity of these people in the end, and said helplessly, "It seems that if I don't ascend the throne, you will have to cry to death. Although I am ashamed, let's ascend the throne boldly!" Under all sorts of prevarications, Li Yuan ascended to the throne with difficulty, the location is Chang'an, the reign name is Wude, and the country name is Datang. Before he ascended the throne, there was a farce of some sort.Everyone in Chang'an city knew that Li Yuan was the boss and Yang You was just a puppet.Yang You also knew his situation, so he ran to Li Yuan almost every few days and said that he, the emperor, didn't want to do it anymore, and it was better for you, the prime minister.Whenever this happened, Li Yuan would say to Yang You earnestly: "Your Majesty, this is breaking the life of the guilty minister. You can take care of it at ease and don't need to think about it." On June 12, 618 AD, Emperor Gong of the Sui Dynasty Yang You abdicated and breathed a sigh of relief, but Li Yuan did not ascend the throne. The reason why he didn't ascend the throne was not because he was still pretending to be modest, but because Yang You's days of abdication were not very good.Six days later, on June 18, 618 AD, Li Yuan proclaimed himself emperor.When many people see two 618 years, their brains will light up and they will be fooled.Of course, this may be a coincidence, because ancient people only used the lunar calendar. This day is the 20th day of the fifth month in the first year of Wude. According to common sense, there is nothing special about this day, but this day is actually Jiazi Day.No matter what, Li Yuan chose this day to ascend to the throne of God.Many people were excited, but Yang Yoo was the happiest.He had been courteous for several months, and things finally worked out. It would be a lie to say he was unhappy.Four days after Li Yuan ascended the throne, there was also news from Luoyang, the eastern capital, that the Luoyang gang couldn't wait to support Yue Wang Yang Tong as the emperor. Mastermind: Wang Shichong. Being an emperor is different from the past. Many things have to be done according to etiquette.But Li Yuan didn't seem to be used to a high-ranking attitude. Even after becoming the emperor, he still called many people brothers and sisters, which made people snot and cry.It is indeed not easy to do this.Everyone worked under Li Yuan's hands, so naturally they worked hard.But working hard is not the same as being efficient. In the midst of everyone's intense and orderly work, one person annoyed the always magnanimous Li Yuan. This person's name is Xiao Yu, and he was a very good direct minister in the Sui Dynasty, so during Yang Guang's administration, this person was often bullied.Fortunately, Xiao Yu has a good family background, and the reason why he was able to become a court minister was also because of Empress Xiao.The difference with Xiao Xian is that Xiao Yu is the younger brother of Empress Xiao, so when it comes to honor, he is even better. But he doesn't care about his origin, he only cares about whether he is straightforward and tough enough. If nothing goes wrong, Xiao Yu will feel like a duck to water when he works under Li Yuan.In this case, the Chang'an media can still write some reports such as "Steel Face and Selflessness-Steel Face Xiao Qingtian's beautiful day".It's a pity that the things that Xiao Yu has done in the past few days can't be relieved by describing them as messy. Li Yuan: It's done, Ang, from now on our family can no longer swear. Li Yuanji: Damn.