"I, Shen Guang, can have today, all because of your trust and attention! If you let me deal with Li Yuan and Li Mi, even if I die! But if you want me to deal with Emperor Shengwu, please forgive Shen Guang for not being able to obey his fate. ”

Shen Guang did not hesitate and categorically rejected Yang Guang's proposal.

"Oh?"

But seeing Yang Guang's eyes narrowed suddenly, he snorted coldly: "Shen Guang, you have to think clearly......

Before he finished speaking, he saw Shen Guang say coldly: "No need, I will never agree." ”

Yang Guang said angrily: "Just say this word to you, I can kill you ten thousand times, including your wife and children, of course!" ”

Shen Guang was shocked when he heard Yang Guang threaten his relatives, but after thinking for a while, he breathed a long sigh of relief and said categorically: "I owe you too much, if you want to kill it, you can kill it, I will never fight back." I, Shen Guang, have never forgotten the grace of God, have always put loyalty first, have always been loyal to educate drunken children, and have always been loyal to the family! If I do this unfaithful and unrighteous thing, what right do I have to speak of loyalty? That's not as comfortable as the whole family dying. Let me turn against Sui? Delusion! ”

Yang Guang sneered: "Shen Guang, do you think that without you, I won't be able to regain power?" The strength I have accumulated over the years alone is enough for me to return to the government! ”

"You ......"

Shen Guang was furious, and he was about to say again, but suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he suddenly laughed and said, "Don't lie to people, you're obviously testing me, right?" ”

This time, Yang Guang was stunned, he re-examined Shen Guang for a while, and his cold face gradually turned into a smile: "Boy, how do you know that I am testing you?" ”

"Although I am friendly with the saint, but if I think about it carefully, I can't help you at all, just because the generals in the army respect the saint as sacred, even if I really control the defense of Duanmen and Yingtianmen, but if I say that I want to open the door and rebel, the first person to kill the Xiaoguo Army and the Xuanjia Army is me! And if I promise you, I am a disfaithful and unrighteous, and how dare you believe me? If I don't agree, whether you kill me or imprison me, it will arouse the vigilance of the saint, because I am the general of the right guard, the prince of Li Guo, and the chief general of the defense of Luoyang City, as long as I disappear for half a day, the saint will send someone to investigate. You are a resourceful person, how can you do such an unwise thing? ”

Speaking of this, Shen Guang patted his head fiercely and said, "Your sudden appearance shocked me too much and caused me to be in a state of confusion!" will be constrained everywhere, in fact, as long as you calm down, you will find that it is impossible. Because our reunion on the street is an accident in itself! If you're going to seize power, you're not going to go into the city with much fanfare, but you're going to come to your door quietly at the first opportunity. ”

"Hahaha!"

As soon as Shen Guang's words fell, he saw Yang Guang looking up to the sky and laughing, and after a long while, he saw this gentleman smiling and stroking his palms and said, "Brother, what you said is really good, this guy is not only loyal, but also very smart!" In terms of knowing people, I am not as good as my brother. ”

"If you know how to use people well, the Great Sui will not be like this." Yang Yichen, who had been silent, said with a smile.

"You're not as good as me!" Yang Guang said triumphantly: "The dynasty that came from the compromise of the Great Sui made it impossible for my father to completely change, and he could only compromise, compromise and compromise with the Guanlong magnates. For the throne, which of the powerful Guanlongmen valves is not a tiger's eye and delay, and which one does not want to replace the Great Sui? Do you think your father doesn't know? He knew, but he didn't dare to move, even to deal with a mere Yu Qingze, he also endured for 18 years, before he dared to get rid of it, the Northern Zhou Dynasty Bazhu Kingdom and other generals, all of them were above the courtiers, but he was stunned that no one dared to move, and it was my father who laid the foundation for me, and I was able to cut them off one by one later. ”

Sighing, Yang Guang said in a deep voice: "Before my father died, he said that the imperial court has too many elbows, let me be cautious, don't be too anxious, treat the people leniently, it doesn't take more than ten years, the people's hearts are all in the hands of the Great Sui, and then it will be incomplete to clean up the Guanlong magnates." But when I first ascended to the throne, I was full of ambition, and I felt that treating me with kindness would only delay the crisis, and even if I was not chaotic when I was in power, what would happen to my children and grandchildren? So, he regarded the wisdom of his father as cowardice, and left his ancestors behind, especially if he was not fast, and he didn't have it, which led to today's troubled times. ”

Yang Guang didn't know these truths before, but after escaping death, Yang Guang seemed to have one more life, and some truths were slowly sorted out. He looked at the sky outside a little distractedly, a little nostalgia flashed in his eyes, and he muttered to himself: "Fortunately, I have a great grandson, after this war, the Great Sui, which was broken and reborn, is more prosperous than before." If the descendants of my Great Sui royal family are all so strong and superior to their ancestors, my Great Sui will inevitably be better than one generation after another. ”

Yang Yichen sighed with emotion: "It's far away, Emperor Shengwu will definitely be able to." ”

"Perhaps."

Yang Guang pandered to Yang Yichen and praised Yang Tong, and then said to Shen Guang: "Shen Guang, I am indeed tempting you, and the one who is tempted is loyalty, courage, and wisdom. I'm very happy with the first two, but I'll only give you three points for the wisdom one. ”

"You say I don't have an IQ?"

"Quite self-aware, plus one more point!"

"......" Shen Guang was stunned for a moment, and said curiously: "Why do you want to test the last general?" ”

Yang Guang said softly: "Because of the matter of dominating the world!" ”

"Dominating the world?" Shen Guang was puzzled.

"That's right!" Yang Guang nodded, and then said: "Dong'er, this kid, has a lot of means to deal with the big clans, which makes me ashamed of myself. And in terms of ending disputes and reunification, I didn't have so much courage, so I shrank back to Jiangdu and became emperor behind closed doors. Therefore, Dong Er is more suitable to be an emperor than me, and he is more capable of being an emperor. But this kid has more than enough scheming and insufficient conspiracy, and he underestimates the huge strength of the big family. ”

"It's all like this, what else can the family do?" Shen Guang scoffed.

"Look! It is because there are too many humanoid melons like you in the imperial court, so Dong Er underestimated the family. ”

"......" Shen Guang was speechless, feeling that Yang Guang was quite an old naughty boy.

"I'm not scolding you! It's a fact ... Don't be unconvinced. Yang Guang smiled and said: "Most of the civil and military people in the court are from the small scholar clan and local heroes who have been inherited for three or four generations. ”

"Are you saying that because everyone is not the core of the Great Family, they don't know how powerful the Great Family is?"

"You said this very well, I am not saying that the mind of the Chinese martial arts of the dynasty is insufficient, but that there is no experience in this area, so your real strength of the Great Family depends on guessing, and it all depends on specious dossier estimates!" The result of this speculation is not the truth after all. ”

"But until now, those great families have not made any substantive actions except for abuse and fighting? What can they do now besides supporting Li Yuan and others? As long as the big family that supports the rebellious ministers and thieves is swept away, won't it be over? Shen Guang was a little unconvinced.

"You know!"

Yang Guang couldn't bear to scold a foul word, he blushed and said very unhappily: "If it weren't for Lao Tzu's secret stare all these years, when the assassins had not yet been dispatched, he killed batch after batch, you things that don't know the height of the sky would have died a long time ago, and the grass on the grave would have grown three feet high." ”

Looking at Shen Guang's innocent appearance, Yang Guangteng stood up, knocked on Shen Guang's head a few times, and said, "Although Lao Tzu is not dead, he has lived as a dog leg for all of you." ”

"That's it, who let Lao Tzu make a mistake himself. But you bastards, you actually destroyed Pei Shiqing, who finally broke into Li Mi's core, and what is even more immoral is that before killing people, you also castrated Pei Shiqing. and Qiu Xinggong, who is also Lao Tzu's person, but you guys are good, you shot people into hedgehogs......"

"What's more! Lao Tzu's hard-working base camp and Mu family in Jiangling were actually casually convicted of 'losing all conscience' by Li Jing, the old Wangba, and instigated the people to make trouble, and the army followed closely and arrested people to kill, if it weren't for Lao Tzu and his brother to be smart, they would have been slaughtered by Li Jing. What did you think you all did? ”

Looking at this chattering and furious tyrannosaurus, Shen Guang was aggrieved and miserable, and said in his heart: This is my business, why are you angry with me? Is it because they are acquaintances that they can do whatever they want? Am I a curse from heaven?

"You're not convinced?" Yang Guang knocked a few more times.

Shen Guang didn't dare to hide, he was knocked dizzy, his body was short, and he hurriedly said, "Take it!" ”

"This is also you Shen Guang, others want me to knock it, and I'm too lazy to do it." Yang Guang said in a tone that he could afford to look up to you.

"Thank you for the grace of the ...... general" After saying this, Shen Guang himself was also disgusted, as if he was very masochistic.

After a tantrum, Yang Guang felt much more comfortable.

"In my life, I have been deceived by many people! But the person who lied to me the longest and longest was Li Yuan...... He is the best person at disguise, and he has been lying to me since I was a child, treating me like a monkey. I used to pretend to be a generous elder, when I asked him to be the county guard of Lou Fu, he had a lot of complaints, I thought he was poor in Lou Fu County, and he was thinking about his aunt and cousin relationship, I let him be the Taishou of Xingyang, and he became a good wine and greedy for money, and forcibly occupied a good land and a beautiful house. I thought he was such a person, who would have thought that after one mask, there would be a second and third masks. So, I deceived him so stupidly. ”

Yang Guang and Li Yuan are cousins, their mothers are sisters, Li Yuan is a few years older than Yang Guang, and the two have studied together since childhood. Yang Guang is brilliant, reads books and never forgets, and has an unrestrained personality, while Li Yuan seems to be wooden and honest, and they are two completely different types of people.

But Yang Guang knew that he was a hypocrite, he would only sell his reputation all day long, he was obviously a greedy and lustful person, but he pretended not to be close to women, he was obviously greedy for a cup of good wine, and he deliberately did not drink alcohol at the banquet every time. When everyone praised Li Yuan for having the style of an elder, Yang Guang would only look at him coldly, so he was not surprised at all when Li Yuan gradually showed a difference in Xingyang.

In the final analysis, Yang Guang looked down on Li Yuan from the bottom of his bones, thinking that he was not a person who had achieved great things, and reused him, even when the mountains and rivers were broken, he trusted him and let him stay in Taiyuan.

Who would have thought that Li Yuan had been pretending since he was a child, and he also came to him in a series of outfits, the generous and benevolent and honest appearance was used to hide the lust of greedy flowers, and after being greedy for flowers and lustful, he hid his ambition to seize the Great Sui Dynasty.

Yang Guang could only guess the step of greedy flowers and lust, so in his heart, he had no defense against Li Yuan.

"It wasn't until Li Yuan rebelled and the Dugu clan jumped from behind the scenes to the front of the stage that I knew that my brother-in-law Dugu was Li Yuan's military advisor from childhood to adulthood, and it was because of his advice that Li Yuan walked very smoothly."

When Yang Guang said this, he sighed: "After escaping death, I learned from the pain!" I understood one thing, that is, if you want to deal with the great family, Yang Mou can only eradicate the big family on the surface, and after decades of lurking, they can support the next Li Yuan, so if you want to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, you can only use yin tricks, which is why I have been hiding in the shadows. ”

Speaking of this, but seeing Yang Guang's eyes, there was a sudden release of fine light: "Today, the Great Sui has the strength to destroy the two Li at the same time, as long as there is no fiasco similar to the Battle of Guandu and the Battle of Chibi, the new unification is not a problem, but the great family is now in Bashu and Jiangnan to seize the time to turn into zero, and some people even change their names and surnames, if these people are not eradicated, after the world is peaceful, they will be connected into a general trend, in Bashu, in Jiangnan continue to be powerful, in front of their soil emperor." Based on your understanding of the Great Family alone, you will definitely not be able to take these people! ”

Speaking of this, Yang Guang looked at Shen Guang and said, "Boy, do you understand what I mean now?" ”

Shen Guang was silent for a long time before he said, "Do you want me to turn from light to dark?" ”

Yang Guang nodded and said, "Not bad!" If you want to eradicate the power of the great family, you must have a light and a dark, yin and yang, and complement each other in order to succeed! Dong Er is on the front, with Li Yuan and Zhou Xuan, who represent the great family, and I, as a strange soldier, lie in the shadows! Cut off the branches and leaves of the great family. ”

Shen Guang still didn't quite understand Yang Guang's intentions, so he asked, "Do you also know that there is such an assassin force in the imperial court......

"I know that, but an assassin is an assassin after all, and he can't make a big climate." Yang Guang interrupted Shen Guang's words and explained: "The dark force I am referring to is a force between the regular army and the assassins, in vain, it is a bandit and rogue who has nothing to do with the imperial court!" ”

Shen Guang suddenly said when he heard this: "The children of the great family have been reduced to pieces, changed their names and surnames and become common people, if the court is slaughtered for no reason in the future, the people who don't know the reason will sympathize with them, and mistakenly think that the saint is a tyrant, so it is not good for the reputation of the saint and the court, and it will even shake the foundation of the Great Sui, if you don't kill it, it will leave endless troubles." But if it is replaced by bandits, it is very normal, and it is normal for bandits to commit crimes, kill people and set fires. Isn't that what it means? ”

"Not bad! I've been hiding for so many years and making a lot of arrangements, but you can't let me do it myself, can you? Isn't that revealing oneself in vain? Yang Guang glanced at Shen Guang and said with a wry smile: "And my reputation is very bad, and I am regarded by the people as the bane of the chaos in the world. Some time ago, I discussed with my brother and felt that I should meet with Dong'er to avoid misunderstanding again, so I came to Luoyang. ”

Shen Guang nodded and said, "No wonder you want to test me?" It turned out to be for this! ”

"Originally, I planned to let Dong'er screen a suitable person to take over, but after meeting you, I thought about your previous status as a ranger, and your experience is undoubtedly the best candidate to be a bandit leader."

"I'm ......" Shen Guang's face darkened.

Yang Guang smiled: "You are loyal by nature, I can tell you all kinds of situations face-to-face, don't worry that you will expose my whereabouts, and don't worry that you will say that you are a member of the court; Second, after doing evil for a long time, some people will lose their nature, and will become real gangsters, causing unwarranted harm to innocent people. Third, you have the courage and resourcefulness to deal with all kinds of crises, and you don't have to worry about the total annihilation. Are you willing to take a huge risk to eliminate the future troubles for the Great Sui? ”

There is another reason that Yang Guang did not say, that is, Shen Guang values righteousness and loyalty, and he believes that if Shen Guang develops and grows within the enemy army, he will not take advantage of the situation to become independent and bring unnecessary trouble to the Great Sui.

"Of course the Admiral wills." Shen Guang nodded hurriedly, and after finishing speaking, he hesitated for a while: "But will the Holy Lord agree?" ”

"Dong Er is eclectic, he will agree."

"Are you going to enter the palace now? The last general can quietly take you into the palace. ”

Yang Guang pondered for a moment and said: "Ziwei City is heavily guarded, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, it is better for us to be careful, you go and talk to Dong'er first!" ”

"Whoa!"

"By the way, you'll have to make it clear to him. Except for Empress Xiao and Concubine Xiao, I don't want anyone else to know. ”

"Aren't the two princesses okay?" Shen Guang asked cautiously.

"Totally unnecessary!" Yang Guang shook his head and sighed: "This sadness of losing my father has finally faded away, if they see me, I will really die in the future, and I will have to be sad again, why bother?" ”

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Eighty-three years ago today, there was the 77 Incident.

Don't forget the national shame!