After scaring Li Yuan in Taiyuan County, Yang Guang led the patrol team to continue north. After resting for three days in Fenyang Palace, in mid-August, a hundred thousand patrol troops arrived at the border of Yulin County.
This is already the border pass. Going north through Yulin County will lead to the Great Sui Dynasty. Two hundred miles to the north is the towering Great Wall. It stretches from Zihe to Mayi County and is more than 400 miles long. Walk westward along the Great Wall.
You can reach Mayi County in two days.
The Great Wall here is not the ancient Great Wall of Qin and Han Dynasties. It was built in the second year after Yang Guang became emperor. It is said that in order to build this section of the Great Wall, tens of thousands of people from several northern counties buried their bones under the Great Wall, so the local people knew that the Great Wall could defend against Turks.
People went south, but they still hated the Great Wall deeply, because the Great Wall may have played a certain defensive role, but it had never really blocked the wolf-like nomads in the north since ancient times.
Going west is Mayi County, but Yang Guang could not go there because Mayi County had been occupied by the traitor Liu Wuzhou last year, which made Yang Guang extremely angry.
"Your Majesty, this place is less than a hundred miles away from Mayi County. We really cannot stay here for a long time. Legend has it that Liu Wuzhou was good at fighting and had a hundred thousand men and horses under his command. If he secretly colludes with the Turks again, he must be on guard!" Yu Shiji advised.
Yang Guang snorted coldly: "There are countless traitors in the world, but except for Wang Junlin, I have not paid attention to other thieves. If Liu Wuzhou doesn't come, forget it. If he dares to come, I will personally lead a hundred thousand imperial troops to destroy him."
, personally take back Mayi County."
"Your Majesty, Zhang Zibin, the governor of Yulin County, has just arrived and asked to see your Majesty." A chamberlain came forward to report.
"Let him come over!" Yang Guang said calmly.
Soon Zhang Zibin was led to Liuhe City. He saluted Yang Guang with a panicked look on his face and said, "The criminal Zhang Zibin pays homage to your majesty. Long live your majesty."
After Yang Guang snorted coldly, he said nothing and did not show any courtesy. He just let Zhang Zibin kneel and crawl like this.
Zhang Zibin is different from most of the eunuchs. He does not come from a wealthy family, but is a confidant brought by Yang Guang from Jiangnan. He is a famous Confucian and has a great reputation among scholars. He was sent to Yulin by Yang Guang seven years ago.
As the prefect of the county, he originally dominated the local area and lived a good life. However, after Liu Wuzhou rebelled in Mayi County next door, he was pushed to the forefront because Liu Wuzhou was not satisfied with a Mayi County and targeted him.
He left Yulin County. Now part of Yulin County has been occupied by Liu Wuzhou's troops. In addition, a major event has happened recently...
So Zhang Zibin was very nervous at this time. He lost two counties at the beginning of the year, and the court issued a notice and warning. However, Yang Guang thought that it would not be easy to support his confidants to become the prefect. Although he was angry, he did not deal with it.
Now Zhang Zibin didn't know how to explain to the emperor who had been kind to him, but he had to come.
Yang Guang didn't speak for a long time. Zhang Zibin lowered his head, not daring to look at Yang Guang's face. He waited tremblingly for Yang Guang's anger, but maybe thinking that he was his confidant after all, Yang Guang sighed deeply. He was not angry, but a kind of anger.
He said in a gentle tone and a little tiredly: "Zhang Aiqing got up without any courtesy."
Zhang Zibin was so ashamed that he did not dare to stand up immediately. Instead, he cried: "I am cowardly and incompetent. I failed to do a good job in pastoral care and guarding of this county for Your Majesty. I am guilty!"
Yang Guang wanted to push Zhang Zibin out and kill him, but he still needs Zhang Zibin now. Nowadays, all the counties in the world are either controlled by people from various powerful families, and they are either overt or covert against him, or they are occupied by rebels, such as Yulin.
There were not many times when Jun could listen to him like this, so he held back his anger, but Zhang Zibin took the initiative to kneel down and confess as soon as he came, which made his anger disappear a lot.
"Zhang Aiqing, please wake up. I want to know about the situation in Mayi County now. I heard that Liu Wuzhou is behind Turks. Is this possible?"
Zhang Zibin stood up in a hurry and said respectfully: "Reporting to your majesty, this matter must be true. Less than a year after Liu Wuzhou rebelled, he had 100,000 horses and 50,000 cavalry under his command. I boldly guess that all his horses came from the Turks."
At the beginning of the year, Liu Wuzhou sent an army to attack Chengyi County and Yiliang County in Yulin County. Although there was an army wearing Han clothes, I observed that they looked like Turks."
"What, there are Turks in Liu Wu's Zhou army?"
Yang Guang sneered and scolded: "You said that Liu Wuzhou had Turks behind him and that the war horses were bought from Turks. I believe you. But you actually said that there were Turks in Liu Wuzhou's army. You are trying to find a solution for the loss of two counties for yourself."
Excuse!"
Zhang Zibin wanted to refute, but when he saw the look in Yang Guang's eyes and thought about Yang Guang's character, he dared to tell the truth again, so he panicked and said, "Yes! Your Majesty's eyes are as bright as fire. This is the excuse I made. Please forgive me."
Yang Guang glared at him fiercely, but he still suppressed the anger in his heart and asked: "How many counties do you control in Yulin County now? How many county soldiers and county soldiers are under your command?"
"Reporting to Your Majesty, I am now
I can only control the county and city, and I only have eight thousand county soldiers in my hands." When Zhang Zibin said this, he lowered his head in shame.
When Yang Guang heard this, he couldn't help being shocked and said: "Although your Yulin County is a lower county, it also has five counties. The rebel Liu Wuzhou took away two counties, leaving three counties!"
Zhang Zibin knelt down again with a thump and said: "Your Majesty, forgive me, but the other three counties were occupied by three groups of horse thieves half a month ago."
Yang Guang's expression changed and he shouted: "You trash, why didn't I hear the military intelligence report?"
Zhang Zibin said in a panic: "Horse thieves always leave after robbing things. The criminal thought that the horse thieves would leave before His Majesty's arrival, and was worried about His Majesty's punishment, so he did not tell His Majesty. Unexpectedly, this time the horse thieves occupied three counties and did not leave."
"You loser, then what's the use of letting you be the prefect?"
Yang Guang finally couldn't help but became furious, slammed the table and shouted: "Come here, drag this useless person out and kill him!"
Dozens of guards rushed in and dragged Zhang Zibin out. Zhang Zibin was so frightened that he begged loudly, "Your Majesty, spare your life! Spare your life! Your Majesty, I have one more thing to report..."
"Behead!" Yang Guang was furious. He didn't miss his old relationship at all. He vented all his anger on this useless prefect and didn't want to listen to anything Zhang Zibin said anymore.
"Your Majesty, those horse thieves may also be Turks! Your Majesty, be careful of Turks..."
Before these words were finished, a scream was heard, and the guard came in to report, "Your Majesty, the man has been beheaded."
"Your Majesty, you can't go to Yulin County anymore to prevent the Turks and the traitor Liu Wuzhou from harming your Majesty." Although Pei Shiju didn't have much loyalty to Yang Guang, he also knew that Yang Guang was surrounded by Turks and encountered unexpected consequences.
When hundreds of thousands of Turkic cavalry move south, the entire north of the Yellow River will inevitably be devastated, and the rebels from all over the world will inevitably start fighting for the throne. Not only will tens of millions of people in the world suffer countless casualties, but even a wealthy family like them will easily be affected.
After all, they heard that the Xi Pei family was in Taiyuan County, so they were likely to bear the brunt of the attack.
At this time, Yang Guang fell into a rage, with a livid face, and without much hesitation, he ordered: "According to my decree, the army is marching towards Yulin County. I will personally take charge of Yulin County and send the imperial army to take back the three counties from the horse thieves.
, send more troops to destroy Liu Wuzhou, the rebel!"