Yu Shiji was originally an old official in the Southern Chen Dynasty and the elder brother of the calligrapher Yu Shinan. He also wrote good calligraphy, was talented and good at writing poetry. In short, Yu Shiji was considered an old literary man! Therefore, he was very popular with Yang Guang!
In addition, Yu Shiji is quite good at managing the government, and his talent is not inferior to Old Man Su Wei.
More importantly, Yu Shiji is actually a treacherous villain. He knows how to flatter and flatter!
His writing is beautiful and he has so many specialties. Yu Shiji successfully became the Minister of Internal Affairs. All Yang Guang's edicts were written by Yu Shiji! In addition, any memorials below were handed over to Yang Guang by Yu Shiji!
Therefore, Yu Shiji became the person who was closest to and trusted among the "Seven Guis of Cao". Although his official rank was not the highest, he was specialized in the secret and had the right to be arbitrarily!
Relying on his identity as the Minister of Inner History, Yu Shiji asked his wife and son to come forward to pimp, sell official positions and prisons, and do many illegal things! Moreover, his family is also domineering, arrogant and extravagant! A typical example of the entire corrupt family!
Another incident also caused the little bit of the literati character that still existed in Yu Shiji's bones to completely disappear without a trace, and since then he has completely embarked on the road of no return of a treacherous minister!
More than five years ago, Yang Guang visited the Turks in the north. After arriving in the north, the barbarians outside the frontier sent Yang Guang a lot of cattle and sheep, including thousands of cattle and sheep! Of course, this amount of cattle and sheep is a lot, but in fact it is equivalent to the number of cattle and sheep in a medium-sized herder's family!
But Yang Guang was very happy. With Long Yan's joy, Yang Guang waved his claws and rewarded Qimin Khan's brocade with 20 million pieces!
Twenty million sections! That is enough to empty the wealth of the Great Sui treasury!
So, as the Taichang Old Man Gao Yang could not bear it anymore, so he was so angry that he stepped forward to advise.
However, Yang Guang was not a person who listened to others' advice. As he spoke, the two of them became a quarrel!
Old Man Gao was not a ignorant person who knew how to advance or retreat. Seeing that the advice was not successful, he retreated angrily and went back to find someone to drink.
Once the wine was drunk, Old Man Gao didn't keep the door open. He scolded Yang Guang for being a prodigal, saying that the Sui Dynasty would sooner or later make this prodigal son go to pieces!
Unfortunately, this old man Gao met someone wrong, and the words at the table were heard by someone who was interested and secretly told Yang Guang!
Yang Guang was furious and killed Old Man Gao! Not only that, even Duke He Ruobi, who came to plead for Old Man Gao, Yu Wenbi, the Minister of Rites, and others were also ordered by Yang Guang to behead him!
After this incident, the Inner History Minister Yu Shiji realized it! I understood that the secret to promotion is not whether you serve the people, but whether you will praise the emperor's stinky feet!
With this understanding, Yu Shiji, who is already a weak character, becomes even more unconventional!
One of its main manifestations is that, as Yang's chief confidant, Yu Shiji adopted a very pragmatic strategy in handling political affairs, that is, to report good news but not bad news!
Yu Shiji puts all the memorials that can make Yang Guang happy!
As for the memorials that made Yang Guang upset, most of them were suppressed by Yu Shiji! If they really couldn't suppress them, Yu Shiji would also think of turning them into small things!
For example, there were clearly tens of thousands or even more than 100,000 rebels in various places, and they conquered cities and landed all the way, causing the states and counties to rush and howl. But Yu Shiji insisted that the states and counties in various places were stepping up their encirclement and suppression of rebellion, which was no longer a concern!
He was coaxed by Yu Shiji every day, not knowing the east, south, west, and north, Yang Guang thought that the world was peaceful and peaceful. Every day, he was so painful with his good friends that Yang Guang started to make trouble in the Sui Dynasty again!
Just when Yang Guang was recruiting troops across the country again and planning to attack Goguryeo, the uprising troops in various places were surging, and it seemed to have set off a frenzy of rebellion!…
In March of that year, Lingwu Bai Yuso rebelled and colluded with the Turks, and the rebels once reached tens of thousands!
In the Meng Rang Uprising in Qizhou, he colluded with the King of Changbaishan, led 100,000 people to the south to attack Jianghuai!
Yanci Geqian's uprising was based on Douzihang, gathering 100,000 people, painting land as king, and calling himself the King of Yan!
The Sun Xuanya Uprising in Bohai also used Douzihang as the base, leading more than 100,000 people to claim to be the King of Qi!
In addition, there are the Pingyuan Hao Xiaode, the Jeju Meng Haigong Uprising, and the Beihai Guo Fangyu Uprising. These people also occupy prefectures and counties, with a minimum of 30,000 people and 50,000 people. They may join forces with others or start a small group of people and engage in anti-Sui activities!
Just as the country was in turmoil, Yang Guangbiao mobilized troops from all over the country to brazenly head north and launched the Second Battle of Goryeo!
Starting from Luoyang, Yang Guang marched and traveled all the way. It was more than a month later when he arrived in Zhuo County!
It was almost May that Yang Guang sent the right Guanglu official Yuwen Shu and the superior general Yang Yichen to lead troops, leaving Liaodong, passing Xuantu, and going straight to the Yalu River!
Since when the troops were withdrawn in the previous period, Yuwen Xiaomaganer arranged for people to occupy strategic areas such as Liaodong City, Xuantu City, Heshenggu City and Marudu City. In addition, the knots north of the Yalu River have basically been cleaned up, so the Sui army did not encounter any resistance this time and arrived in Marudu City very smoothly!
Next, while waiting for logistics food and supplies, the Sui army raised warships of all sizes and prepared to cross the river!
Ten days later, everything was ready to stop, and the Sui army officially began to cross the river!
Because Yuwen Xiaomagan was cleaned too thoroughly last time, the Sui army did not find any trace of a stick on the south bank of the Yalu River to the north of Pyongyang City.
Seeing that in two days, we would arrive at the old capital of Goguryeo, Pyongyang City, suddenly bad news came, and Yang Xuangan, the Duke of Chu, rebelled!
What’s even more terrible is that before the rebellion, Yang Xuangan was in charge of transporting food and grass in Liyang!
In other words, the lifeline of the millions of troops who set out to fight against Goryeo this time is actually in Yang Xuangan's hands!
In view of this, Yang Guang's planner Li Mi gave Yang Xuan the advice. Now there are three strategies: the upper, middle and lower. The long strategy is to attack Jicheng north, the middle and lower, the middle strategy is to go west to take Guanzhong, and the worst strategy is to double the way to attack Luoyang, the eastern capital.
The reason given by Li Mi was that he could take the best strategy to protect the dangers of Linyu and cut off Yang Guang's way back! In this way, Yang Guang's grain route was cut off and he could not return to Central Earth. At that time, Goryeo Bangzi would follow him when he heard the news. Within a month, after Yang Guang's food and grass were completely gone, even if there were a million troops, they would collapse without fighting!
The reason for taking the Zhong strategy is that Guanzhong is the country of Tianfu, and there are four dangerous passes to guard it. If you get Guanzhong, you will receive heroes and talents. Even if Yang Guang comes back, we have a base and can slowly plan it!
As for the worst strategy, if you take the Eastern Capital, you can order all directions, but if you cannot conquer Luoyang within a hundred days, all the troops and horses in the world will come, and the number of victory or defeat will be hard to say!
After hearing this, Yang Xuangan said, "You are wrong! Now, the families of all civil and military officials are in Luoyang. As long as they capture Luoyang and control the families of court officials, even if those court officials do not surrender immediately, they will not have the intention to do the right thing with me! This is the best strategy!"
So, Yang Xuangan put forward the slogan "Thank you for the world's urgent need" and led the rebels all the way to Luoyang City!
Since Yang Guang had basically pulled all the troops from all over the country, Yang Xuangan did not encounter any major trouble at the beginning. The only thing that could be said to be a little unsatisfactory was that Yang Xuanting, the younger brother of Yang Xuanting, led his troops to attack the city of Hanoi County, did not attack!
On the other hand, Yang Xuangan's other younger brother Yang Jishan met a good man, Henan Ling and Da Xi Shanyi.
This Da Xi is a kind person, as his name suggests, and he has repaid great kindness to Yang Xuangan's rebels!...
By the way, Da Xi Shanyi led 5,000 troops to intercept Yang Xuangan. As a result, Pu Yi encountered 3,000 troops from Yang Jishan's troops. Da Xi Shanyi directly ordered people to throw down the armor and weapons, then turned around and ran away! It seemed that he was coming to send equipment to the rebels!
After picking up thousands of good equipment, Yang Xuangan's rebels finally had a little bit of the prototype of a regular army.
At this time, Yang Xuangan also realized that with these refugees, it was really whimsical to attack counties without any siege equipment!
So Yang Xuangan, whose IQ is obviously unstable, decided to bypass the cities of the counties along the way and lead the army straight to one of the most solid cities in the Sui Dynasty, Luoyang City!
At this time, Yang Zhao's second son, Yang Tong, King of Yue, and Fan Zigai, Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
King Yang Tong of Yue is only nine years old this year. Although he is smart, he basically doesn’t know anything about such military and national affairs. Naturally, everything is decided by Fan Zigai, the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Fan Zigai used to be the prefect in Wuwei, and was relatively honest in his official position and was relatively rigorous in the military. Therefore, Yang Guang entrusted an important task!
First, Fan Zigai's classmate and friend Pei Hongce, who was from Henan, led his army to reject Yang Xuangan. However, Pei Hongce was not a good source of leadership for war. He was defeated several times and finally returned to Luoyang City!
Later, Fan Zigai sent Pei Hongce to fight again, but this guy refused to come out. When Fan Zigai was angry, he ordered someone to cut off his classmate and friend Pei Hongce! Unexpectedly, it caused a lot of trouble!