Prison Dragon

Chapter 175

In the eyes of the Turkic people, Yang You is just a little boy who knows how to play tricks. Although the Central Plains people are very good at playing tricks, it is the fierce generals like the Fourth Prince Yang Shi who are really worthy of respect.

Yang You is just a person who killed Yang Shi by despicable means, so there is nothing to be afraid of.The Turks admire warriors, so although Yang Shi is their enemy, he is also praised for his bravery.

As for Yang You, they had never heard of the name of the new emperor.

Yang You made a quick decision and resisted the ministers' plan to abandon the capital and go to the safer south to temporarily avoid disasters in the court.

He saw the moment that was enough to fight back in the frequent crises, "Instead of taking advantage of the trend to occupy the land, he gave up the defense and led the army to go south at full speed. It is obvious that Ashinamodo does not want to expand the territory, he is here to rob Whether it's going around in circles or bypassing the Great Wall, it's all for the purpose of plundering the affluent Central Plains, and it's impossible to really do anything."

Of course they can escape the disaster in the south and wait for Yang Yuchun and Wang Zhong to conquer and repel the Turks.

Maybe they don't even need to come, the Turkic people will leave when they rob enough.

Once the decision was made to back down, those people who could not migrate would be exposed under the iron hooves of the Turks without any protection. Shuozhou's city gates were destroyed because of the negligence of the guards, and most of the people in the city were slaughtered.

This is intolerable to Yang You, as a father, he must protect his people.

He wanted the courtiers to explain the reason clearly. Not only would he not leave, but he would seize the time to recruit troops to resist, trying to delay the footsteps of the Turks in the Shuozhou area.

The righteousness of the Son of Heaven is difficult for people to refuse. No one dares to say something that violates loyalty at this juncture, but when it comes to conscription and war, everyone is hesitant to shirk.Those who are willing to go will only talk on paper, and those who know a little bit about military affairs will look forward and backward.

After quarreling in the court for a long time, only Cui Jue was going, but the Cui family didn't want to take the risk. They had already been punished by Yang You because of the assassination case.

Yang You watched the conversation in the hall coldly, without saying anything, directly ordered all the officials who said they wanted to flee south to be put in front of the main hall to fight ten battles alone, leaving only those young officials who advocated resistance with him.

Then he took Cui Jue and mobilized all the troops in Gyeonggi Province, Jinzhou, and Shangzhou to march in person.

In that battle, without foreign aid, Yang You set up an ambush in Puzhou, with [-] against [-], which severely defeated Ashinamodo. Remain.

Seeing that Ashinamo couldn't get a bargain from Yang You, he had already robbed a lot of places, especially such a fat city as Shuozhou, and quickly retreated wrapped in gold, silver, food and grass.

Until many years later, many veteran officials who followed Yang You through this period still could not forget the heroic figure of the young emperor sitting in the military tent calmly issuing orders and retreating the barbarians.It was also in that battle that Lu Shanjian finally realized that Yang You's dragon aura was never a proof of his selection, but a manifestation of his personal ability.

No matter when, he has been working hard and believes that his efforts can change everything.

With the great victory in Shuozhou, Liu Heng, who conquered Xixia, also achieved very successful results. He made Xixia a subsidiary state of Qi State again, and Liu Heng also became one of the few powerful generals in Qi State. The price, but in terms of its results, it seems to be acceptable.

They all thought that the Battle of Shuozhou proved that Yang You could indeed change the destiny with manpower, and he could restore the dynasty's decline by himself, but they didn't know that human power was always too small in front of the trend of history.In their eyes, the turning point of Qi's fate is just the last light before falling into the abyss.

Turkic foreign troubles are still eyeing, and internal troubles have emerged again.

There have been all kinds of troublemakers all over the country for a long time. These people just gathered together to rob, and then fled to the mountains to avoid the tracking of the government like Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty. At most, they killed the county magistrate and county lieutenant, and then Waiting to be wiped out by the regular army sent by Yang You.

From the third year of Guangde, everything is a little different.

First came the plague of locusts, military disasters, and Turkic invasions in the north.

Then came successive years of severe drought and the bursting of the Yellow River's embankments. Hundreds of thousands of people along the banks of the Yellow River became refugees in Hebei, Henan, Shandong and other places.

In the year of famine, there will be no harvest, followed by famine and plague. If there is no food, people will eat people.

As a result, all parts of the north, especially in the northwest, exchanged sons to eat each other, and even a market for buying and selling human flesh appeared.

The national treasury has long been exhausted by Yang Ting. Yang You managed to improve his business, and spent all of it, which is far from enough. If the imperial court wants to provide disaster relief, it has to reach out to other places, and the south with slightly better conditions cannot afford it. Not burdened with heavy taxes.

To tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall, Yang You was always worried and sad. If the west wall can be repaired, then all will be well. If not.

There will be no follow-up.

In the fifth year of Guangde, the corruption case of Zhang Ji, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, who was in charge of building the Yellow River dams broke out, triggering another civil uprising in various parts of Shandong.

In the area of ​​Longxi, thieves are everywhere, running around and robbing, and some people are founding a country one after another, so various countries will appear on the handouts presented to Yang You every now and then, and the leaders are called Hunting Demon King, Black Whirlwind, and River Crossing Dragon.

It doesn't matter what the name is, the fire has already started, he first sent several groups of officials to recruit, because the food and grass could not be provided in time, the plan of recruiting was shattered, Yang You had no choice but to choose to meet with soldiers, and mobilized Liu Heng's troops to go Longxi put down the rebellion.And the booklet that Liu Heng handed over was even more shocking. Many soldiers who had not been paid due to corruption had also joined the ranks of thieves.

So fighting and fighting, the ranks of thieves became bigger and bigger, and more and more Qi soldiers fled.

In the seventh year of Guangde, under heavy pressure, not only the north rebelled, but even the south had faint signs of civil uprising.

Except for Yizhou, which was spared because of the terrain, other places in the world are facing terrible pressure. The Turks heard about the war in the Central Plains, and they were ready to go south at any time. Yang You didn't even dare to move Yang Yuchun's army. We can only delegate power and let him prepare military expenses by himself.

The team of thieves traveled for dozens of miles, crossing streets and alleys, and everyone who saw them was intimidated. Liu Heng picked a few leaders to kill them, but he still couldn't stop the thieves that sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

In the eighth year of Guangde, Wang Zhong was killed, and his subordinate Zhao Rong rose up to stand on his own and occupied the front line of Liaodong.Zhao Rong is not a desperate civilian, but a general with official background. His behavior finally opened a small hole in the dam that was about to collapse in Qi State, and countless floods rolled in through the crack.

Aristocratic families and generals from all over the country raised their troops one after another, and they were all in the hinterland of the Central Plains. Gyeonggi Province instantly became precarious.

In August of the same year, Liu Wu, who had been living in Hanzhong for the elderly, convened the old ministry to rebel, claiming that Yang You went to Beijing and killed the fourth prince Yang Shi, who was supposed to inherit the throne, and poisoned the late emperor Yang Ting. Compassionate for the people, fought against the Turks for years, levied heavy taxes on the people, aroused the wrath of the heavens and the people, and even the heavens couldn't stand it, and sent down a famine as a punishment.

As an important minister of the first emperor, Liu Wu couldn't bear to see the world being taken by this despicable villain, so he raised troops to fight against Qi and crusade against Wudao.

Except for not accepting concubines and having no descendants, Yang You has nothing to criticize in terms of personal morality. However, if he wants to raise the banner of uprising, he has to find a high-sounding reason, so the warlords who ruled all over the country have set off one after another. disinformation campaign.Some people are more or less reasonable, saying that the corruption and oppression of the court officials were all instructed by Yang You, and unreasonable people created all kinds of unimaginable legends out of thin air, saying that Yang You was A licentious tyrant.

Liu Wu raised troops from Hanzhong, Liu Hui didn’t even reply to several letters, Liu Heng didn’t say anything on the surface, he was still suppressing the rogues, but judging from his letter, he said that the resistance of the rogues has intensified recently, So marching and fighting are a bit slow.

Liu Wu led the troops all the way to attack the city and received the bandits defeated by his son. When they reached Tianshui, hundreds of thousands of people had gathered. No small power.

Liu Hui personally wrote a letter asking Liu Heng to dissuade his father, but still did not reply.

At this time, anyone would suspect that their father and son would cooperate internally and externally, but Liu Heng did not rebel, Yang You did not dare to force him, and Liu Hui guaranteed that his younger brother would not do anything against the morals of his courtiers.Yang You feared that changing generals just before the battle might break the calm situation in Longxi again, so he just replaced Liu Heng's lieutenants with a few of his own.

The Turks took this opportunity to attack the Great Wall, and at this juncture they were bound to take down the pass that prevented them from going south.Yang You issued a death order to prevent them from relaxing the front line defense of Guangwu Pass, and he himself began to organize the soldiers to prepare for the war, and also notified the Shu soldiers to put pressure on Liu Wu from the rear.

Yang Yan, who was joining the army under Yang Yuchun, wanted to lead troops south to rescue the capital. Yang Yuchun squeezed 7 horses for him through his teeth, and asked Liao Xiang to lead the army. The two sides started a war near Longzhou. Yang Yan cut off Liu Wu first. They forced Liu Wu to return to the division to open up the transportation of grain and grass, and then Liao Xiang chased and interfered. When Liu Wu opened the grain road, Yang Yan and Liao Xiang hid. apply.It dragged on for two months, dragging Liu Wu down to only 3 horses, and finally launched a siege war in Tianshuiwei, beheading Liu Wu.

Just when Liu Wu was annoyed by Yang Yan's interference, Liu Heng wrote a letter to chase the bandits and lead his troops west.

Yang You has been suffering from heart and lung discomfort since the beginning of autumn in recent years, and the symptoms will not be relieved until spring.It was late at night when he received the news, and he sat up almost without feeling overwhelmed by the darkness in front of his eyes.

Liu Hui was in Zhongshu Province, and he brought the booklets he received. On a cold winter and snowy night, he knelt in the court with bare feet and disheveled hair, kowtowing to Yang You continuously.