Chapter 187 Luoyang Morning
Luoyang.

Since ancient times, Luoyang has been the capital of many dynasties.

Eight dynasties, namely Xia, Shang, Eastern Zhou, Eastern Han, Cao Wei, Western Jin, Northern Wei and Sui, chose this place as their capital.

The reason is Luoyang's geographical location.

Luoyang is located on the south bank of the Yellow River, with Mang Mountain in the north, Luo River in the south, Hulao River in the east, and Hangu Pass in the west. It is surrounded by mountains on all sides, with the Luoyang Plain in the middle and the Yi, Luo, Chan and Jian rivers flowing through it. It is a place of strategic location, beautiful scenery, fertile soil, moderate climate and convenient water transport.

It can be said to be a place to establish one's rule over the world. It is located in the Central Plains and responds to all directions. Luoyang is the world's transportation hub and a military fortress.

Emperor Wen of Sui, Yang Jian, named his country "Sui" and established its capital in Daxing City.

After Yang Guang ascended the throne, he selected another capital site in Luoyang and established a new capital.

The New Imperial City is located between the Zhou Royal City and the Han and Wei Ancient City. It crosses the Chan River in the east, straddles the Luo River in the south, is adjacent to the Jian River in the west, and is backed by the Mang Mountain in the north. The city is more than 50 miles in circumference and is magnificent.

Yang Guang also dug a Grand Canal with Luoyang as the center, reaching Hangzhou in the south and Zhuojun in the north, running across the north and south, connecting the five major water systems of the Haihe River, Yellow River, Huaihe River, Yangtze River and Qiantang River. Luoyang became the central hub of transportation and commerce in the world.

It can be said that Luoyang at that time was a battleground for the world.

Imperial City.

A few days ago,
Wang Ming, together with the people of the Dugu clan, and the ministers who were still loyal to Yang Guang, sailed to the eastern capital Luoyang on the dragon boat.

early morning.

With the help of eunuchs and palace maids, Wang Ming put on the complicated imperial crown and robes.

then,

Go to Guande Hall.

Open a court meeting.

Wang Ming has been back in Luoyang for many days, and this is his first time to attend court.

It would be hard to justify not attending court again.

Arriving at Guande Hall,
Wang Ming sat directly on the golden dragon chair and looked down at the cultural relics and officials below.

but,

The officials below were obviously less than a hundred in number, and were sparsely distributed.

at this time,

One person stepped out of the line and began to play.

This man was a short and thin old man in his fifties, as thin as a monkey. However, his eyes, which seemed half open and half closed, were deep and bright, and his temples were bulging high, which made people know that he was no ordinary person.

Wang Ming found the information of this person from Yang Guang's memory.

This person is Dugu Sheng, the second most powerful person in the Dugu clan.

Dugu Sheng stepped out of the queue and said solemnly, "Your Majesty, I have just received local intelligence that Yu Wenzhi and his Yu Wen clan have recently rebelled in Jiangdu, claiming that Your Majesty came to power illegally, killed his father and brother, and is unworthy of the position. They have supported Yang Hao, the son of Qin Wang Yang Jun, as emperor and appointed themselves as prime minister."

After saying this, Dugu Sheng glanced at Wang Ming, who was sitting high on the throne in front of him, with a little trepidation in his heart, trying to guess Emperor Yang Guang's attitude when he heard the news.

In the past, Dugu Sheng would not report these military reports truthfully. He would basically downplay the seriousness of the matter or simply conceal it.

After the failure of his three expeditions to Goguryeo, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty became completely dissolute and indulged in women all day long. He became very forgetful and had an extremely irritable and quick-tempered temperament. When he heard bad news, the person who reported it would easily be in trouble.

But last night Dugu Ba and Dugu Feng talked about what they saw and heard in Siming Mountain, and they knew that the emperor was not stupid and was not really confused by wine and sex.

I was also shocked at that time. After all, I had been deceiving the emperor for a long time.

However, he was not overly afraid of receiving severe punishment.

This time, Dugu Clan had made great contributions in Siming Mountain, and he believed that Yang Guang would not delve too deeply into his mistakes.

Another reason why he was not panicked was that Yang Guang’s biological mother Dugu Qieluo was also from their Yuwen clan and was a relative of Yang Guang.

So Dugu Sheng reported the military report truthfully.

but.

Dugu Sheng couldn't help but feel a little nervous and uneasy. Although the people of their Dugu family would not be severely punished by Emperor Yang Guang, it would still make the emperor unhappy.

He looked up to observe Emperor Yang Guang's reaction, but unfortunately Dugu Sheng saw nothing.

Unlike Yang Guang, Wang Ming liked to wear a Tongtian crown. Wang Ming liked to wear a Pingtian crown.

The twelve rows of jade beads in front of the Pingtian crown made it impossible to see Wang Ming's expression unless you looked at him for a long time. But would anyone dare to look at him for a long time?
Dugu Sheng waited for a while, but he didn't get angry.

Instead,

Wang Ming said calmly without any fireworks: "Anything else?"

Dugu Sheng was stunned, and was very surprised: "Strange! How come His Majesty didn't get angry about such a big thing? Has he really changed his temper?"

In fact, Dugu Sheng had another selfish motive when reporting this matter, which was to annex the power and industries of the Yuwen clan around Luoyang.

When it comes to political strength among the Four Clan families, they are definitely number one, because their families have close relations with the emperor.

But in terms of military strength and wealth accumulation, the Dugu clan is the younger brother. It is also because the Dugu clan is too close to the emperor, so it is not easy to recruit troops.

Dugu Sheng was stunned for a short while before he immediately replied, "There is also news that Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang, has also raised an army in Taiyuan, Shanxi and is heading back to Guanzhong."

As soon as the news came out, everyone in the court was shocked and began to whisper to each other.

Some of these officials knew about it in advance, while others found out about it only after it actually happened. Needless to say, they were shocked when the two major clans rebelled at the same time.

but,

Wang Ming was not surprised at all. Wasn't it normal for these two to rebel?
One is Yu Wenzhi, who killed the original Yang Guang, and the other is Li Yuan, who took over the throne for the original Yang Guang.

correct!

There is also Li Shimin who mentioned that his original body Yang Guang kept a wife.

It is normal for them to rebel.

Wang Ming continued calmly, "Anything else? Tell me all at once."

Dugu Sheng was sweating coldly at this time. In his memory, Yang Guang's personality was very easy to get angry. If he didn't get angry, it meant that Yang Guang was extremely angry. If he laughed the next moment, someone would be killed immediately.

Dugu Sheng suppressed his uneasiness and continued to report: "The rebel Wagang Army, the Great Demonic Kingdom, the Demon King Cheng Yaojin, abdicated and handed over the throne to the former Left Guard General, the Eastern Palace Qianniu Beishen Li Mi."

Wang Ming was recalling in his heart and suddenly remembered.

Li Mi was the guy who said on the boat that there were only 50,000 troops ahead of Siming Mountain.

Wang Ming asked, "Li Mi? Ignore this clown. Has Song Que of the Song clan rebelled?"

Li Mi is a man of character, but in this world he is destined to be a clown.

With Li Shimin and the protagonist Kou Zhong around, does he still want to make trouble?
Dugu Sheng complained in his heart at this moment: "You are really careless! It's not enough to hear that there are three major forces against you, you want to make it even."

Dugu Sheng replied very respectfully: "Your Majesty, there is currently no news of any rebellion by the Song clan."

. . . . .

at this time,

Another official stepped forward. This man was handsome and elegant, about thirty-five or thirty-six years old. Wang Ming found his information in Yang Guang's memory. He was Yu Shiji, the internal minister and one of Yang Guang's favorite courtiers.

Yu Shiji said flatteringly: "Your Majesty, do you want to transfer the King of Kaoshan to quell the rebellion?"

Hearing this news, Wang Ming was also surprised that these guys seemed to be teaming up to rebel! Two of the four major clans rebelled in one go.

In fact, this is also related to Wang Ming.

Yuwen Huaji saw Wang Ming killing people everywhere, and his words and deeds did not seem like he was addicted to wine and sex. He was afraid that Yang Guang was trying to trick them, so he rebelled. The reason why Li Yuan of the Li family rebelled was largely related to Li Yuan's filial son, Li Shimin.

When Li Yuan saw that Wang Ming was surrounded and killed by the three great masters and was doomed to die, he took his two sons and ran away.

But when he found out that Wang Ming was not dead, he became a little nervous again.

Li Shimin added fuel to the fire and told Li Yuan that the account book of the Dongming Sect was lost and someone was going to hand it over to Yang Guang.

So Li Yuan decided to rebel.

That’s right, the person who stole the account book was Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, the two protagonists of this world and the two most powerful troublemakers.

They wanted to steal the account books and report Yu Wenzhi to Yang Guang for rebellion, so as to avenge their adopted mother Fu Jun'er.

unfortunately,

Halfway through the journey, they learned that Yu Wenzhi had rebelled, so these two guys did not come to Wang Ming.

Wang Ming said calmly: "No need."

Dugu Sheng and Yu Shiji were a little puzzled. Why was the emperor so good-tempered?

After a moment of silence,
Wang Ming said slowly: "Issue an order to abandon all prefectures and counties outside the vicinity of Luoyang, and let those officials bring food and military supplies to garrison around Luoyang. These rebels like to fight, so let them fight to their heart's content!"

Dugu Sheng and Yu Shiji were shocked when they heard this. Not only them, but everyone in the court was also very surprised.

I couldn't help but wonder in my heart whether Yang Guang had completely given up on treatment.

If we withdraw our troops, we will be giving those places to them for nothing!

How could Wang Ming not know that this was handing over the country to people like Li Shimin?

But we have to retreat!
Can't be defended.

In fact, the mess left behind by Yang Guang was not too bad.

Strictly speaking, the power of the Sui Dynasty is still the most powerful force in the world.

However, Yang Guang's troops were too dispersed and spread out too wide.

Spreading out his power too widely has made Yang Guang the weakest force in the world today.

People like Du Fuwei and Zhu Can could bite off a piece of meat from the Sui Dynasty.

So Wang Ming simply abandoned those places and asked them all to come to Luoyang.

The troops that come together will become stronger, and others will no longer treat the government as a piece of fat meat.

The most important thing is food!
The Sui Dynasty accumulated a lot of grain. Even long after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, their granaries still had grain left over from the Sui Dynasty.

There are so many rebels in the world and this granary is also to blame.

When a famine occurs, local officials are unable to open their warehouses to provide relief. Doesn't this force them to rebel?

You can rebel just by killing the local officials.

They don't even need to know how to govern government affairs, they can create a force and survive for a long time by eating the granary's inventory.

Without this granary and without talents well versed in government affairs, the country would soon collapse into civil strife.

So Wang Ming asked these people to bring food to Luoyang, which was simply cutting off the source of the problem.

. . . . . .

Wang Ming suddenly gave another order, which surprised everyone.

"I will be in seclusion for training. During this time, the Crown Prince will be the regent. He can make all the decisions on government affairs. He doesn't need to come to me."

moment,

It was like a bomb was dropped on the crowd. They were horrified.
Some people were shocked when they heard this. Why are they still in seclusion at this critical moment? It's simply not doing their job properly.

Wang Ming didn't want to pay any attention to them and left the court directly.

This grandson was named Yang You, with the courtesy name Renfu. He was the grandson of Emperor Yang Guang, the third emperor of the Sui Dynasty, and the third son of Crown Prince Yuande Yang Zhao. His mother was Concubine Wei.

He was smart and magnanimous since childhood. He was first named King of Chen and later King of Dai.

When Emperor Yang of Sui led an expedition against Goguryeo, he stayed in Chang'an. (It is possible that he should have been in Chang'an, but don't think of him as being in Luoyang!)
Yang You had considerable administrative ability, so Wang Ming trusted him with the job.

King's hegemony!

The world!

Wang Ming actually doesn't care about any of this.

Wang Ming is a wanderer who can travel through the heavens, all of this is meaningless.

It cannot be taken to the next world at all.

So what if we unify the world?
There won't be any help in the next world either.

For a place that is not a beautiful paradise among all the heavens and the universe, on the contrary, it is a purgatory where people are eaten without leaving any bones.

The special thing is that these worlds are not real historical worlds, but film and television worlds.

The world of film and television is actually very dangerous.

There will always be heroes in the world of film and television.

Once the hero draws his sword, the people of this world will suffer another ten years of disaster.

Wherever there are heroes, there will be turmoil.

Ordinary people would die if they got involved.

Wang Ming had learned this lesson before. In the first world, "The Number One World in the World", he was involved in the struggle between his uncle Zhu Wusi, Emperor Zhu Houzhao, and Cao Zhengchun of the East Factory, and he simply evaporated.

For Wang Ming, a wanderer among the heavens, the real benefit is to become stronger.

Only when you become stronger can you live better in the next world and be more calm when facing danger.

and,

Wang Ming often wondered why his luck was so bad?
Every world is so terrible, and if you don’t handle it well, you will be doomed.

If Wang Ming had not fought hard in the "World of Number One" and acquired some powerful martial arts, he might have had a hard time surviving the attack on the mountain by the gangster masters in the "World of Smiling Proud Wanderer".

In Wang Ming's opinion, tools should be used when necessary.

Moreover, Wang Ming's strength has not yet recovered.

Originally, he absorbed a lot of people when he was in Siming Mountain, and his strength is almost recovering to the level of "Tianlong World".

As a result, the Martial Master Bi Xuan appeared, and he had no choice but to use [Dominate the World] and [Three Swords of Avici Path], and then sacrificed all his true energy in order to get rid of the influence of the evil spirit.

Although he absorbed some true energy later, he was only barely at the Grandmaster level.

Secondly, when using the [Method of Ascension], one not only sacrifices one's true Qi, but also the vitality of the physical body.

If he doesn't quickly cultivate the [I Am the Only One in the Eight Desolations and Six Directions], I'm afraid this body won't survive for many more years.

Therefore,
It’s not that Wang Ming wants to be lazy, it’s that he really doesn’t have the extra energy to take care of these things.

To equalize the chaos in this world is not something that can be done overnight.

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