"This letter, when I'm gone, you can open it again."

After Zhen finished speaking, he stuffed a letter into her hand, and then, regardless of someone beside him, he held her face with both hands, and kissed her chapped but still sweet lips with a low head.

After a long time, Zhen Mingbitter let go of her, stood up, walked to Xing'er's side, and said solemnly: "Xing'er, your sister Zhang will please give it to you, don't let people bully her." ”

Xing'er cried and agreed, Zhen Mingku's heart was relieved, and two officials came over, chained his hands, took him to the prisoner car, and drove away......

Zhang shivered his hands at this time, tore open the envelope in his hand, and took out a letter of resignation signed by Zhen Ming's painstaking drawing from inside.

"In view of my inability to protect Zhang Ge and can't give her a happy future, I really don't deserve to be her husband, and I set up this letter of resignation as a basis, and Zhang Ge has since recovered his free body, and he has nothing to do with me.

Looking at this short letter of resignation, the words were deep, but the words were like knives, so that she couldn't help but hide her face and cry bitterly, desolate as mourning......

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Autumn goes and spring comes.

In the spring of the eleventh year of the Great Cause, the Shuofang Liang border guards mutinied, a frontier army brigade named Ding Shuo was taking more than a dozen border guards to break into the room of the concubine of Shuofang County to guard Liang Shidu, and cut off the head of Ding Haochang, the commander of the border guards who was on the bed of Liang Shidu's concubine, and hung it on the wall of Shuofang City.

After that, instead of dismissing and sentencing the rebellious brigade Zheng, the Shuofang County Shouliang Division made an exception and promoted him to the general of Yingyang Mansion to command the Shuofang border guards.

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In the autumn of the 11th year, Yang Guang inspected outside the Yanmen Pass in Mayi County, and the Turkic Shibi Khan heard the news and led 100,000 elite soldiers to surround Yang Guang outside the Yanmen Pass.

After returning to Chang'an, Yang Tong summoned the Yingyang Mansion General named Ding Shuo alone in the imperial study.

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In the spring of the twelfth year, Yang Guangyu personally conquered Goguryeo, and recruited millions of men in Hebei Province to enlist in the army.

I didn't think that Yang Xuangan, the governor of Liyang, took the opportunity to stagnate the grain and grass, recruited troops and horses, raised troops in Liyang, and soon the troops came to Luoyang City and besieged Luoyang.

Yang Guangwen heard that the troops were divided into two routes, one was that the general of Zhengdong continued to lead the troops north to attack Goguryeo, and he himself hastily withdrew his troops from the halfway road, returned to Luoyang, defeated Yang Xuangan in the following year, and sat on tens of thousands of Sui Dynasty officials and their relatives.

Yang Guang did not have hope for this general of Zhengdong, but gave him the biggest surprise, the general of Zhengdong led another army, went north to defeat Goguryeo, the king of Goguryeo surrendered out of the city, and declared himself a vassal to the Great Sui, Yang Guang immediately issued an edict, established the Secret Guard Mansion, the original General of Zhengdong moved to the General of the Secret Guard, sealed the Pillar State, received the first-class county duke, and served 1,000 households, becoming the first person in the history of the Great Sui to win such an honor in World War I.

In the winter of the twelfth year, the Turks once again pressed the border, the general of the secret guard returned to Shuofang, Shuofang became the most solid fortress in the southwest frontier, because of this general, the Turks did not dare to invade easily, the general opened the city defense, abolished the law that discriminated against ethnic minorities and forbade the Turks to enter, revised the law, many Turks from the Western Regions and barbarians from the Mongolian steppe in the north moved to Shuofang, and peaceful coexistence with the Han people, exchanges and commerce became more and more frequent, As a result, Shuofang gradually became a trading center for exchanges and transactions between the Western Regions and the Great Sui.

In just one year, Shuofang, which is located in the barren desert north, has shown unprecedented prosperity.

Later historians also called the abnormal prosperity of Shuofang during this period the "Shuofang Spring".

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In the blink of an eye, it has been thirteen years of great cause, and years of tyranny have changed the minds of people all over the world, and heroes from all walks of life have risen together.

In the north, Liu Wuzhou, the captain of Yingyang Mansion, and Song Jingang killed the guards of Mayi County, colluded with the Turks, and attacked the Hedong region.

In the east, Wagang Zhai asked Li Mi to gather a group of thieves to occupy the mountain as the king, and rob the house; Shandong Dou Jiande rebelled, captured Hejian Leshou County, built Dule County, called Hejian Wang, and the country name Daxia.

Jianghuai Du Fuwei raised troops, occupied Liyang, claimed to be the governor of Liyang, with Fu Gongyou as the long history, the army was huge, Li Zitong was based on Hailing, Shen Faxing was based on Biling, echoing with Du Fuwei from afar, rolling each other, standing on three legs.

In the south, there is the great-grandson of the former Southern Liang Emperor, and Luochuan County ordered Xiao Mill to support the army and stand, according to Jiangling; According to Yu Zhang, Lin Shihong was called the king of Nanyue, with 200,000 sailors, and he was extremely strong;

The Great Sui Dynasty was in internal and external difficulties, with frequent military incidents, weak people, full of complaints, and the country's fortunes gradually declined.

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Fearing that the war would burn them, the refugees fled to the eastern capital of Luoyang in order to find refuge at the feet of the Son of Heaven.

It's a pity that the years of conquest have made this imperial capital, which has always been known for its wealth and prosperity, also show a trace of decay, under the governance of Wang Shichong, the secretary of the Luoyang Military Department, prices have soared, profiteers are in charge, hoarding is strange, and the lives of the people are getting tighter and tighter.

Three years ago, a dozen copper coins and a bucket of rice are now hundreds of dollars a bucket.

Refugees from all over the country have become beggars, gathered in the slums in the south of Luoyang City, the old, weak, sick and disabled, every rainy day, all soaked in water, limbs rot and stink, and even give birth to maggots, every day dozens of corpses will starve to death and freeze to death on the side of the road, and no one will clean up.

Wang Shichong, the secretary of the military department, appointed his second son, Wang Xuanshu, who had reached the age of sixteen and is now the general of Zuo Lingweifu, as the imperial capital guard, responsible for the resettlement of these refugees in Luoyang.

In order to maintain the image of the imperial capital of Luoyang, Wang Xuanshu sent troops to drive these refugees and beggars to the embankment of the Luoshui River in the south of the city.

Later, the states and counties upstream began to follow suit, and from time to time corpses would drift down from the upper reaches of the Luo River, and the plague began to spread everywhere.

Although there are many good families who give porridge to the Luohe River every day to send porridge and clothes, but after all, food is limited, and it is impossible to ensure the food and clothing of these refugees and beggars for a long time.

Among them, the most porridge is the flower fairies in the Baihualou of the Red Apricot Courtyard.

However, since the incident that the ruffians and hooligans mixed with the refugees kidnapped the porridge maids of the Hongxing Courtyard, dragged them to the forest and were humiliated to death in turn, and no one dared to stop them, the flower fairy of Baihualou has never been to the refugee camp in the south of the city to distribute porridge.

In addition to hunger, rampant diseases and plagues are becoming the leading causes of death among refugees.