At the beginning of the twelfth year of Daye, Yuwenshu died of illness in Dongdu. The last thing he did for the emperor was to build the dragon boat.`
This year, Li Mi, a man with a traitor in his head and nine lives left, defected to the Wagang Army. With his sharp tongue, he subdued many small groups of rebels, and was chased everywhere by Zhang Xutuo.
Zhai Rang, who was running around, officially started a confrontation with Zhang Xutuo.
Zhang Xutuo was also very angry. As increasingly severe orders came from the eastern capital, he had no choice but to abandon Shandong and ignore Hebei. He brought all his troops to Henan and was exhausted with the Wagang army.
The rebels in Shandong and Hebei were severely beaten by Zhang Xutuo. At first, the rebel leaders either died or fled, and gradually disappeared among the rebel ranks.
Dou Jiande gradually annexed various rebel armies, and his power expanded faster and faster.
At this time, Emperor Yang Guang popped out again and told people that he was still alive.
He ordered Piling Tongshou to gather tens of thousands of soldiers from the county to repair the Piling palace for him. It is said that the repairs were very good.
It is estimated that the people below are lying to him. At this time, who dares to gather the soldiers to build a palace?
Jiangnan has been in chaos, and people from all walks of life are revolting. Of course, the rebels in Jiangnan are very different from the rebels in the north.
The northerners had no enough food to eat, too many people died, and they had no way to survive, so they rose up to resist the tyranny.
The people of Jiangnan were different. They could still live. After all, they were a land of plenty. But after the chaos, the people of Jiangnan also began to revolt. What they targeted was not the rule of the Sui Dynasty, but the nobles of Jiangnan.
For a long time, the big clans in Jiangnan have closely guarded the rules of the Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System, and have been quite successful in doing so.
Because Emperor Wen was in power, the Jiangnan clans had somewhat restrained themselves. However, in the last years of Emperor Wen's reign, the clans gradually became stronger due to their friendship with Jin Wang Yang Guang.
By the Daye period, land annexation in Jiangnan had become very serious.
The oppression of the common people by the world's nobles has also reached a certain level. In addition, Emperor Yang Guang visited Jiangdu twice, with hundreds of thousands of people, and countless money and food were wasted. Where did all this come from?
The various nobles felt the hardship and could only pass it on to the common people.
As the emperor traveled here and there, and with the three conquests of Goguryeo, the taxes in Jiangnan gradually increased to a certain extent, and the people became increasingly miserable.
But the wealthy families are also maintaining their superior and luxurious life.
They are indeed not very afraid, and have no scruples. Because their roots have extended to every corner of Jiangnan, they are intertwined with each other, and they are so intricate that even the emperor cannot dig out their foundations at once, let alone some
What about mud legs?
But they thought wrong. After the chaos in the north, the bandits who came across the river quickly found allies here.
Almost with a wave of his hand, the responders gathered.
The first thing they have to do is to kill the officials stationed by the big bosses in the local area. It is not about opening granaries to release grain.
Then there are the constant fights against landlords. The people of the Jiangnan clan are different from the big clans in the north. They are accustomed to reciting poems and painting, and have produced many talents. However, when the war broke out, their proud talents and learning disappeared.
It was useless in front of the swarming insurgents.
They all started to kill each other, with almost no resistance.
The great nobles in the south of the Yangtze River were in mourning, so they remembered their savior again. The emperor who had protected their faith and treated Jiangdu as his hometown came.
As a result, they wrote to the emperor one after another, asking him to be lucky to Jiangnan again.
This time, what they wanted was not to show their talents in front of the emperor and let the emperor know that Jiangnan's articles were prosperous, but to ask the emperor to save their lives.
In fact, this also contributed to Emperor Yang Guang's third visit to Jiangdu in disguise.
It just so happened that Yu Wenshu died, and the emperor was very sad. In addition, he repeatedly issued edicts to conquer Goguryeo but failed, and his stay in Luoyang became even more uncomfortable.
In April and May of the twelfth year of Daye, a side palace in Luoyang caught fire. Emperor Yang Guang seemed to be quite aware of the chaos in the world. He thought that the rebel army had come in, so he hid with his people.
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But at this time, the emperor, who was surrounded by the wind and the sky, was completely insane. It was said that he had to be rocked like a baby to fall asleep.
In short, he had no nostalgia for Luoyang, the eastern capital. In June of the twelfth year of Daye, he finally boarded his newly built dragon boat and went to the south of the Yangtze River again.
Speaking of which, this emperor is also a king who has been on the throne for more than ten years since ancient times, but the total number of days he stayed in the capital was only one year.
At this point, no one can compare with him, he is unique.
For such an emperor who is like a friend, it is really difficult for him to govern the country to what extent you want him to.
At this moment, although the nobles of Kansai are not as miserable as the wealthy disciples of Jiangnan, they are still very anxious and their heads are about to be on fire.
Bai Yusuo disappeared, and the rebels in the northwest split.
But the offensive suddenly became fierce. The most frightening thing is that they applied for the Turks one after another and received strong support from the East and West Turks.
The people of Guanxi were immediately upset, the treasury was empty, and rebellions were happening everywhere. Even in the vicinity of Chang'an, people began to gather to rebel.
As a result, the Kansai nobles no longer cared about staring at the emperor or the chair under the emperor's buttocks. In addition to sending people everywhere to ask for help, they finally began to send troops to quell the rebellion in earnest.
However, the rebel armies were rising one after another, and their strength was already huge. With their troops stretched thin, the sons of the Kansai clan finally felt the deep sense of powerlessness felt by the defenders in other places.
What they can do is to shrink their defenses as much as possible to prevent the rebels from rushing into the hinterland of Kansai.
As the leader of the clans in Kansai, and now the leader of the Taiyuan clan, the leader of the Li clan suddenly showed signs of gaining popularity in Kansai in the twelfth year of his great career.
There is no way, it's all forced.
If both Guanxi and Shuzhong are as quiet as before, even if the Li family has a deeper foundation in Guanxi, it won't be like this. There may be many people who can be ranked ahead of Li Yuan.
But now, both Li's in-laws and Li's friends very much hope that Li Yuan, who is left behind in Taiyuan, can lead his troops back to Kansai to calm down the chaos.
Yes, these nobles who started out with military exploits are somewhat unable to withstand it.
They did not place their hopes on Yang Guang, the prodigal son, but found Li Yuan.
In addition to the secret efforts of many people in Chang'an, this is also because they have always been a group full of rebellious spirit. If the Yang family cannot succeed, let's change it.
Among these families, there are many powerful families with surnames in Guanxi such as Dugu, Dou, Gao, Li, Yuwen, Yang, and Yuan.
Of course, at the beginning of Daye 12, these were still in their infancy.
Li Yuan, who stayed behind in Taiyuan, did receive some secret messages, but he put them on the shelf because the Jin region was also in chaos. If he led his troops back to Chang'an at this time, he would only be labeled as a traitor and traitor, and then... he would probably be punished by this label.
Crushed to death.
However, recruiting troops is a must. Relying on the alliance between the Li family and the Wang family, at the beginning of the twelfth year of Daye, Li Yuan was able to pacify some Jin rebels.
Then he did something more reliable, awarding officials and titles, allocating fields, appeasing the refugees, and began to work hard to suppress prices that were almost unattainable.
But the obstacles he encountered were not the slightest. He wanted the big families in Jin to use their savings to stabilize grain prices, but he met with firm resistance from the big families in Jin headed by the Wang family.
He wanted to recruit a large number of government soldiers, but found that food and grass were a bit scarce.
After checking, he almost got angry and twisted his nose. Needless to say, border counties like Yanmen, Mayi Loufan, were all waiting for relief.
But where did the food in Jinyangcang and Fenyang Dacang go?
The answer we waited for was to conquer Goguryeo in the north.
This is obviously unreasonable. The grain in these warehouses should be piled up like mountains, but now only a small half is left. Could it be that all of it was transported to Zhuojun?
It's unlikely when you think about it, so it's obvious that it was divided. Who divided it? Is there any need to ask?
Li Yuan thought about it over and over, but still swallowed his breath, but in his heart he made a note of the big clans of Jin.
In fact, even though he smiles so gently all day long, he still has a black list in his heart.
In other words, this person's kindness has its limits, and Li Yuan is definitely not a kind person. His decisiveness in killing and his various taboos are all deeply hidden behind his polite and polite manner.
Under the smile.
It's just that he has never been too powerful and has no chance to let it out.
Just when he was extremely depressed, he made a real friend in Jinyang, Pei Ji, the deputy eunuch of Jinyang Palace.
This guy has all Li Yuan's standards for making friends.
Born into the Pei family, a wealthy family in the Jin region, he was handsome in appearance, well-spoken, and unruly in etiquette. And the most important point was that he didn't have much ambition. He didn't have many political achievements when he was serving as a local official, and he didn't have much political achievements when he was serving as a capital official.
How to stand out.
In other words, this man didn't have much talent or ambition, and he stayed in the position of deputy eunuch of Jinyang Palace very honestly.
Therefore, when he has troubles, Li Yuan likes to drink and talk with this person, and he will feel much better afterwards. It can be said that this is a good close friend.
What made Li Yuan particularly grateful was that, unlike Mr. Wang, this person gave him a lot of support.
Under Pei Ji's lobbying, the Pei family in southern Shanxi provided a lot of grain to replenish the warehouses in Jinyang, and also persuaded some rebels to join Li Yuan.
This eased the situation in Jinnan. The most comforting thing was that Pei Ji never mentioned his contribution in front of him, showing his humble nature that stood out from the crowd.
Li Yuanyu trusted this person, but what he didn't know was that many years later, this person would be the one who liked to mention his achievements the most.
It can be seen that times have changed and no one can be sure about the human heart.
There is another person who comes to help in times of need, but this person's experience is completely different from that of Pei Ji...