Yangzhou, once world-renowned for its nightlife, now seems particularly deserted at night.
As soon as night fell, the streets were deserted, not even a pedestrian.
This is naturally related to the fact that Yang Guang issued a curfew a month ago, prohibiting all people from going out at night.
This is because Yu Shiji and Pei Shiju suddenly entered the palace more than a month ago and reported to Yang Guang that many ministers had secretly contacted each other at night recently. There was an undercurrent in the Forbidden Army, and there was a fear that some unscrupulous people were going to do evil things.
This news shocked Yang Guang. While he was filled with hatred, he was naturally also extremely uneasy. He wanted to use the power of thunder to find the unruly people and then exterminate them all just like he did when he was young.
But after he tried it, he suddenly discovered that at some point, his control over the imperial army had reached an extremely dangerous level. Even the defense of the guards in the palace was not as good as before. He no longer even dared to kill the eunuchs in the palace at will like he did before.
and the palace maid, worried about causing some bad consequences.
He thought about it carefully and realized that this situation seemed to have started after he dismissed Yuwen Chengdu from his official position, took over Yuwen Chengdu's military power, and placed him under house arrest.
After much thought, Yang Guang found that the only thing he could do was to order a curfew in Yangzhou City. This was somewhat useful, at least it was a comfort to Yang Guang, because under the curfew, no one could go out at night.
, naturally it will be difficult to do evil things at night.
But he had never thought about it, or the despair and fear in his subconscious prevented him from thinking about how someone who was truly capable of rebellion would obey the curfew order. Whether the soldiers patrolling at night were loyal to him or not was up to him.
Two things to say.
However, because of this incident, Yang Guang believed that Yu Shiji and Pei Shiju were true loyal ministers. If they had not entered the palace to remind them of the secret report, he would have been drunk and dreaming about death all day long, without knowing that the disaster was coming.
What Yang Guang didn't know was that Yu Shiji and Pei Shiju received a secret letter from Wang Junlin at the same time, asking them to enter the palace to tell Yang Guang the news, so that he would be alert, at least not to let Yuwen Zhiji's rebellion go as smoothly. Of course,
This in itself is part of Wang Junlin's comprehensive plan in Yangzhou.
In the palace, it was rare that Yang Guang was not in a state of intoxication. He stood
He had been sitting in front of the window of the main hall for a long time.
The clear moonlight poured in from the window, covering the ground with silvery white, and dragged out a long figure in the moonlight, looking lonely and desperate.
Yang Guang stood in front of the window with his hands folded, staring at the moonlight, his heart filled with sadness and despair.
"The Great Sui Dynasty is coming to an end... My last place of enjoyment is gone. There are thieves who want to kill me and take away my throne."
Yang Guang suddenly turned around and slowly walked to the imperial case and sat down. There was a memorial on the case. He didn't even know when the memorial appeared here. He only knew that the memorial came from Wang Junlin and was written by Wang Junlin himself.
Write.
Therefore, regardless of the contents of this secret letter memorial, just thinking about how this memorial appeared made Yang Guang so angry that he was about to explode, and at the same time he felt very insecure.
He even had no doubt that if Wang Junlin wanted to kill him, it would probably be as easy as killing a chicken.
The content of Wang Junlin's letter was very simple. He first told Yang Guang that there was a rebellion, and stated that Yang Guang should be dying soon. However, if Yang Guang did not want his grandson, daughter, granddaughter and other relatives in Yangzhou to die with him, he would follow Wang Junlin's instructions.
Do what you say.
What to do? Wang Junlin also made it very clear.
Wang Junlin said that he would use his manpower and strength to help Yang Guang deal with those who wanted to rebel and kill him. In the end, if Yang Guang had the ability to survive, he would have no objection and let Yang Guang continue to be the leader in this troubled place of Yangzhou.
The emperor of the Sui Dynasty until the next person came to kill Yang Guang.
But if Yang Guang was not lucky enough to be killed, his people would support his second grandson Yang Tong, who had always been by Yang Guang's side, as the emperor of the Sui Dynasty in Yangzhou. Of course, everyone knew that Yang Tong was just a puppet, and Wang Junlin was just using the Sui Dynasty.
As the last remaining member of the imperial court's orthodoxy, he established his own power in the south of the Yangtze River at the lowest cost, and then continued to expand outwards with Yangzhou as the center.
Of course, with Wang Junlin's relationship with Yang Tong and his father Yang Zhao, coupled with Wang Junlin's domineering and majestic attitude, he would not let Yang Tong die inexplicably like some people in history did.
In his letter, he promised Yang Guang that all the royal families in Yangzhou, including Yang Tong, would have a good outcome, and at least they would be prosperous and wealthy, and their lives would be saved.
If it were someone else's guarantee, Yang Guang would definitely not believe it, but Wang Junlin's guarantee was different.
Everyone in the world knows that King Qin An promised a thousand pieces of gold and kept his word.
Besides, Yang Guang also knew that Wang Junlin had an irreconcilable relationship with his eldest son Yang Zhao. He even sometimes thought that if Yang Zhao had not died of illness, he would have passed the throne to Yang Zhao early. With the relationship between his eldest son and Wang Junlin, Wang Junlin
With the support of the Sui Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty would never be in the state of survival now.
Of course, given Yang Guang's character, Wang Junlin's secret letter in the form of a memorial was a great insult to him. Wang Junlin naturally knew this, so he seemed to have deliberately given Yang Guang such an insult.
Yang Guang was indeed very angry at this time, but he soon lost his anger because he no longer had the strength to be angry, especially when facing Wang Junlin, he had almost no bargaining chips.
At the same time, Wang Junlin told Yang Guang that he was going to fight Li Yuan, and by the way, he would rescue his other grandson, Yang You, who had fallen into the hands of Li Yuan, otherwise Li Yuan would make Yang You a puppet and use Li Yuan as his puppet.
With the urinary nature of such a well-established family, Wang Junlin didn't need to remind him that Yang You's ending would be tragic.
Wang Junlin even promised that if he had a chance, he would find a way to save Luoyang Emperor Sun Yang Tan, who had become Wang Shichong's puppet.
Although Yang Guang was filled with reluctance, he also knew that the Great Sui Dynasty was now in dire straits. Unless Wang Junlin and Li Yuan were loyal to Yang Guang and were willing to use their own strength to turn the tide and revive the Great Sui Dynasty, how could this be possible?
Therefore, in despair, these may have been Yang Guang's last expectations and thoughts about being able to keep his bloodline alive and enjoy glory and wealth.
Therefore, Wang Junlin's secret letter has actually captured Yang Guang's thoughts, and he is not afraid that he will not agree.
Yang Guang took a deep breath and turned back to the plan with tears streaming down his face. Using the light, Yang Guang slowly picked up his pen and drew a mark on Wang Junlin's secret letter with trembling hands.
He agreed to Wang Junlin's "memorial request". Of course, this was actually a deal between two people, and it was a request that Yang Guang had to agree to. As for Wang Junlin's use of the memorial form, it was to maintain Yang Guang's last pitiful imperial self-esteem.