In the sixth year of the Sui Dynasty, the first month, the Shangyuan Festival.

Imperial capital, Daxing City.

Although the night is deep, but the capital is as bright as day, and the Jingshi Lamp Market is full of lanterns. Especially those aristocratic and wealthy families, there are lamp towers set up in front of every house, and all kinds of lamps compete for beauty and beauty.

Countless people in Beijing walked on the street to enjoy the lanterns, guess the lantern riddles, shoulder to shoulder.

Those Hu merchants and barbarians from other lands, who have never seen such a glorious city, who have never seen such a prosperous world, all of them are fools, only feel that their eyes are not enough, and they only feel that they have learned too few words of praise, and they cannot describe this beautiful and prosperous scene.

The northeast corner of the Jingshi, on the dragon's head.

This is a mountain plain that symbolizes the dragon vein, from the north of Fanchuan in the southwest of Daxing, across sixty miles, to here, just the head of the dragon.

The head of the dragon is 20 zhang high, standing on the high pavilion of the temple and looking south, the whole Daxing city is in full view.

A tall man stood quietly in the attic, letting the wind blow his cloak.

Footsteps came from afar, and a man in a wide robe climbed the stairs and finally stopped beside the tall man.

"It is said that Emperor Wen chose to build a new capital according to the Book of Changes, corresponding to geography and celestial phenomena, symbolizing the purple microstar of the imperial palace Daxing Palace, was arranged in the center of the north of Daxing City, but I think this layout is flawed, although Daxing Palace is in the center of the north of the city, but it is the lowest depression in Daxing City, humid and hot in summer, what does this mean?"

"It shows that Yang Sui is destined to be short-lived."

The tall man said slowly.

"This is where the head of the dragon is, where the essence of the dragon veins is, if he is determined to conquer the world, you can build a new palace here, and the dragon qi of Yongzhen can protect the world for three hundred years." The man in the wide robe said with a smile.

"Dragon energy, Yang Guang's dragon energy is exhausted, and the world is about to move."

The tall man smiled, and there was a kind of domineering in his smile, "But the faint king sitting on the dragon chair is still wantonly squandering the luck of this world." Let him toss again, the world that has just been unified from the three-hundred-year division is afraid that it will be chaotic again. ”

"Master, we have to stop him."

"Please wait a little longer, the faint monarch has not done enough evil, and the impact is not bad enough. For example, people today are still grateful for the stability brought by the unification of the Sui Dynasty, and they are still nostalgic for the wealth when the emperor was opened, and it is not the most appropriate time to start an army now. ”

"How long will it take? I'm tired of waiting. ”

"Duke Chu, the faint monarch has gone farther and farther, and this day will come soon."

After Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, his brother Yang Liang, the king of Han, rebelled, and almost the entire Kwantung region rebelled at that time, although Yang Guang sent Yang Su as the commander, and finally defeated the rebels, beheaded the brother, and pacified the Kwantung region.

However, this rebellion also once again shook the rule of the Sui Dynasty in the Kwantung region. The powerful clans in the Kanto region, who had been subjugated for not many years after the destruction of Qi, once again turned away from the emperor.

And Yang Guang kept dying.

In the first year of the Great Cause, he sent troops to the south to attack the city and conquer the city, although he captured the king of the city and captured the king. But the Sui army was intolerant of the weather in the south, and the plague broke out at the time of the class, and nearly half of the people died. As soon as the Sui army left, the people of Zhancheng restored the country in the three counties of Bijing, Haiyin, and Linyi set up by Sui.

In addition to grabbing some gold and silver treasures, the Sui army wasted all their efforts, and even the coach Liu Fang died of illness on the way to the class.

In the same year, Yang Guang sent Wei Yunqi to conquer the Khitan, although the Khitan was defeated, but Wei Yunqi was fighting with Turkic soldiers, and after the war, the Turks took the opportunity to annex many Khitan tribes, and their power increased greatly.

In the third year of the great cause, Yang Guang sent Zhu Kuan to Liuqiu, asking Liuqiu to call the minister Nagong, but Liuqiu did not obey, so he sent troops to conscript, but several times he sent troops, all of them were lost soldiers and generals, and there was no big result.

Then in the fourth year of the Great Cause, Yang Guang instructed the Gaoche Department to attack Tuyuhun, Tuyuhun was forced to ask Sui for help, Yang Guang took the opportunity to send troops, and destroyed Tuyuhun in the next year.

In the end, he still only sent Fu Shunyun, the prince of Tuyuhun, to manage it, but as a result, Fu Shun was driven back by the Tuyuhun people. On the surface, Sui expanded its territory for thousands of miles, but in fact, it did not get real results after working hard and losing money. After that, the Tuyuhun tribes returned to their hometowns and attacked the right side of the river of the Great Sui, but the imperial court was powerless to defend.

Behind this victory, the counties of Guanzhong, Da'an and the counties in the northwest will all be transferred to the outside of the country, and hundreds of millions of dollars will be lost every year. The county will raid the families of those who are often robbed and plundered, and who die but do not arrive in transit.

Because of the four counties of Qinghai, a large number of people in Hexi and Longyou are unemployed, and the western half of the imperial court has been impoverished, and the people are in dire straits.

But Yang Guang was still intoxicated with his fanaticism of opening up the territory and expanding the territory, fantasizing that all nations would come to the dynasty and become the center of the Celestial Empire.

On the other hand, while conquering the east and the west, Yang Guang ordered the conscription of civilian servants to serve, and the project continued.

In the first year of the Great Cause, the construction of the Eastern Capital lasted for ten months, and 2 million people were recruited every month. But after spending so much manpower and material resources, Luoyang City still only has an inner city wall, and even the outer city wall has not been built.

At the same time as the construction of the eastern capital, he ordered the construction of the canal, and millions of servants.

In the second year of the Great Cause, Yang Guangbei patrolled the fortress and summoned the Turkic Khan.

In the four years of the great cause, the Great Wall of Yulin was repaired, millions of people were recruited, the construction period was tight and the task was heavy, and more than half of the people were killed and injured.

In the fifth year of the great cause, he went out to patrol Hexi and Longyou, and took 200,000 officers and soldiers, officials, and palace maids through Qilian Mountain to reach Zhangye, but encountered a snowstorm along the way, and nearly half of them died of freezing and starvation.

"Next year, the Emperor will personally conquer Goguryeo, and then he will levy a million troops and recruit millions of people, and the whole world will move for this campaign. I expect that the faint king will lose this battle. The man in the wide robe said.

"How so?" The tall man asked, "Sending a million troops, this is something that has never happened since ancient times, although Goguryeo is barbaric and strong, it is impossible to stop the million army." ”

"Duke Chu, if Yang Guang just chooses a general as the commander and commands 300,000 troops to conquer Liao, I dare to say that he will win. But if he wants to drive the expedition in person and send a million troops, then this battle will be lost. The more troops were sent, the faster and worse Yang Guang's defeat became. When the time comes, the opportunity for the Duke of Chu will come. ”

"But I'm afraid he may not be defeated."

"Duke Chu, even if Yang Guang is undefeated, but he mobilizes a million troops to go to battle, how many soldiers are there in this Central Plains? My Great Sui has only 700 military governments in the world, and the total number of 12 guards is only 700,000, and if you want to send millions of troops, you have to sweep the state capitals as soldiers, and even the state and county soldiers will have to be transferred away, and the world will be empty. The man in the wide robe smiled meaningfully.

"The world is empty." The tall man finally nodded.

"Then let's wait."

"Duke Chu, Wang Bo is still in the capital, and he will be out of Beijing in a few days, do you want to see him?" The man in the wide robe asked.

"It's useless, what's the use of seeing it, you just soothe him for me a few words."

The man in the wide robe stopped talking, finally nodded in response, and turned to leave.