There is news from Chang'an, there is news from Hebei, there is news from Shandong, and there is news from Jiangnan.

After Chu Tianxiu took advantage of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty being executed by Yu Wenhuaji, captured Jiangdu, and took control of the Sui Dynasty, it took only ten days for the world to change in an instant.

Even if Chu Tianxiu kept the cause of Yang Guang's death secret and only said that he died of a sudden illness, anyone with some knowledge would naturally know why the tyrant died.

Although his death did not immediately kick off the chaos in the world as it had in history, it did allow heroes from all over the country to smell the fall of the Sui Dynasty, and they were all driven by ambition and began to expand and develop.

Those who were already hegemonic and proclaimed themselves kings and emperors took advantage of the situation to expand their territory. Those who were originally Sui officials or were taking a wait-and-see attitude rose up one after another and became local forces to protect their urban and rural homes and make the entire world , gradually turned into a mess.

According to the information Chu Tianxiu learned, the ones who showed unusual movements were——

The Baling gang rebelled against Xiao Mian, quickly captured Baling County, and proclaimed themselves King of Liang.

Shen Fa, the governor of Wu County, rebelled, captured Wu County and Yuhang County, and established himself as King of Liang.

Luo Yi of Zhuo County originally intended to rebel and establish himself as king, but after receiving the imperial edict from Chu Tianxiu hastily sent to him, naming him the general manager of Youzhou, he gave up his thoughts of self-reliance.

Even Xingrong, who was entrenched in Zhuya County, gave Chu Tianxiu a big surprise. With his mediation and the secret support of the Song clan, Hepu County, Nanhai County, Longchuan County and other six or seven counties along the South China Sea coast All states and counties should also change their affiliations and allegiance to Chu Tianxiu.

After Chu Tianxiu captured Jiangdu, established King Zhao Yang Gao as emperor, took control of the Sui Dynasty court, and held the emperor in power to command the princes, he had become the most powerful princely force in the world.

Not only that, although the imperial edicts issued by Chu Tianxiu indiscriminately weakened the prestige of the Sui Dynasty a lot, they also made all forces in the world aware of the power of "legitimacy".

After Li Clan had obtained the full support of the Guanlong nobles, he had gained a huge and continuous talent pool from aristocratic families.

As long as Li Yuan needs it, then even if the Li clan swallows up the entire north, there will not be a shortage of talents.

Even though Chu Tianxiu is still a little worried, worried that the Li clan will be unstoppable, but those worries he has are actually happy worries——

However, after Chu Tianxiu took control of the Sui government and had great righteousness, he easily used personnel transfer, appointment, dismissal, exclusion and other means. He just asked Li Baiyao and Zuo Xiaoyou to lead 10,000 troops across the sea. Successfully captured the three counties of Donglai County, Beihai County, and Gaomi County in Shandong Province.

The righteousness of the world, especially the orthodox righteousness of a unified dynasty that has not yet completely exhausted its destiny, is really useful.

But there is no doubt that compared to the princes from all sides who worked hard to conquer the world on their own, Chu Tianxiu today is the one who eats the most cake.

Because of this, even though Chu Tianxiu was assisted by Xu Xingzhi, a national scholar, and after taking over Jiangdu County, he directly gained the allegiance of some Sui Dynasty officials headed by the great scholar Yu Shinan, he was still a little bit choked up. It feels like there is no way to digest these areas immediately.

This allowed Chu Tianxiu to expand his power and territory nearly ten times like a balloon without expending much effort this time.

Theoretically speaking, as long as the territory is not controlled by the rebels from all parties, it still belongs to the Great Sui Dynasty, or the territory that nominally belongs to the Great Sui Dynasty, including Luoyang, Jingxiang, Bashu, most of Shandong, most of Liaodong, The Jianghuai area, except for the part controlled by Du Fuwei, and the Jiangnan area, except for Wu County and Yuhang County, which were just controlled by Shen Faxing, can be regarded as Chu Tianxiu's sphere of influence.

Gui Xiliang, Qin Qiong, and Chen Changlin, who was transferred back from Yizhou, led their troops to occupy Piling County. While resisting Shen Faxing, who officially launched an army to rebel, they penetrated directly to the southwest and secretly captured Xuancheng. and Sui'an County, and if they advance smoothly and capture Shen Faxing's head, then Wu County, Kuaiji County and other more than ten states and counties south of the Yangtze River will also fall into Chu Tianxiu's bag.

Li Clan's situation is not bad. Even though Chu Tianxiu has the most designs on it and attacks it the most ruthlessly, because Li Clan is relatively thick-blooded and there is a fake emperor Yang You on the surface, he can still withstand it. , but the other princely forces that were severely targeted by Chu Tianxiu felt quite miserable.

To put it bluntly, with Chu Tianxiu's current territory and power, even without the bonus brought to him by the Sui royal family, he can still be ranked in the top three among the various princes in the world.

In addition, under Chu Tianxiu's several edicts, the Danyang thief Le Botong declared his allegiance to him, allowing Chu Tianxiu to successfully capture the barriers outside the two Jiangdus, Danyang County and Zhongli County.

This is actually an important reason why Chu Tianxiu is afraid of Li Clan.

Of course, as far as the specific situation is concerned, Chu Tianxiu's direct descendants do not have that much territory.

If we can wait until Li Jing's army returns and successfully annihilate Xu Yuanlang, then not only can we capture Langya and Dongping County, connecting the territories of Huainan and Shandong, but we can also capture Pengcheng, Liang County, and Huaihe River naturally. There are six or seven states and counties along the coast.

For example, Liu Wuzhou, who was obviously a Han but willingly became the godson of the Turks, had been having trouble with him recently. First, Song Jingang, the leader of another rebel army who had surrendered to him, was suddenly attacked by the Sui Dynasty. He was canonized and became the prefect of Mayi County. In turn, he became his enemy and directly rescued the Sui general Chen Xiaoyi who was besieged by him in Yanmen, causing him a lot of trouble.

Even more miserable was Xiao Mian of Baling, who had just launched an army against the Sui Dynasty. The Yingchuan thief Shen Liu, the Yuezhou captain Dong Jingzhen, Lei Shimeng, the brigade commander Zheng Wenxiu and other Sui generals all received letters from Jiangdu. According to the imperial edict, they would either be appointed to the positions of general manager, school captain, etc., and reward them lavishly. This would directly block Xiao Mian's roads from south to north, and directly trap him to death in Baling County.

Under the warning of so many bloody examples, some old Sui warlords who had already raised armies immediately changed their tune, at least stating that they would obey the Sui Dynasty in name only, and sent envoys to Jiangdu one after another, trying every possible means to get away from Chu Tianxiu. Ask for an edict.

For a time, guests from all over the country gathered in Jiangdu, making Chu Tianxiu immediately a hot commodity that everyone was vying for. Almost every day, gifts loaded in cars were delivered to Chu Tianxiu's mansion to please him.
Chapter completed!