A fireworks shone the south gate of Jiangdu City as daylight. Thousands of soldiers wearing armor lined up on both sides of the city gate, holding spears and swords in their hands, guarding the city gate area. The war in Jiangdu City has gradually subsided, and the war was not fierce. The Sui army only encountered small-scale resistance and captured some deserters who smashed the shops. Most of the Wei army became prisoners.

Under the light of the fire, Yang Yuanqing was surrounded by hundreds of personal guards and entered the southern city. General Xie Yingdeng hurriedly stepped forward to report: "Report to Your Highness, there are more than 9,400 surrendered Wei troops, and 320 people were killed. More than 200 people were arrested for looting the shops. How to deal with it? Please give instructions."

"Those who surrender to the Wei army and are willing to join the Sui army can change their military uniforms. Those who do not want to join the army will be given food and travel expenses, allowing them to return to their hometowns, loot shops and be treated as bandits, and they will be imprisoned and handed over to the Jiangdu government for disposal."

"As for the order!"

Xie Yingdeng hurried down. At this time, Fan Wenchao stepped forward to greet him. He knelt on one knee, "The criminal Fan Wenchao met His Highness the King of Chu!"

Yang Yuanqing turned over and dismounted, helped him up and smiled and said, "General Fan endured humiliation and stood up at a critical moment. It can be called righteousness. I think Ling Zun will be pleased with your actions under the 9th spring. I will grant you the General of the Right Martial Guard and stayed in Jiangdu for the time being. You will lead all the Wei soldiers surrendered to guard Jiangdu for me."

Fan Wenchao received a comment of enduring humiliation and was awarded a high-ranking official, with a bright future. He was very pleased and said in a deep voice: "The last general was originally a minister of the Sui Dynasty, but now he will return to Sui Dynasty again. There are no regrets in this life. Wenchao is willing to do his best to serve Your Highness!"

At this time, Bing Yuanzhen, behind Fan Wenchao, was envious and nervous. At this time, he no longer expected any career he could have. As long as Yang Yuanqing could spare his life and give him a way out, he would be satisfied.

Bing Yuanzhen knelt down, lowered her head and said, "Bing Yuanzhen, the criminal minister, is here to take the crime!"

Yang Yuanqing narrowed his eyes and smiled faintly: "Mr. Bing made a great contribution this time, which is enough to offset the crime of following the bandit. Please get up!"

But he did not support Bing Yuanzhen. Instead, he signaled his personal soldiers to help Bing Yuanzhen up. It was not that Yang Yuanqing did not have this kind of mind. Li Mi was the culprit of Zhang Xutuo's death. Bing Yuanzhen was just a counselor who provided advice. Cao Cao could also accommodate Zhang Xiu at that time. If he did not allow Bing Yuanzhen, it would be difficult for him to sit firmly in the world.

Since he had given the pardon, he would not regret it anymore. However, he had to pay attention to some things. He had to consider Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin and others' feelings and could not be too tolerant of Bing Yuanzhen.

Bing Yuanzhen was not treated by Fan Wenchao, and he was still a little frightened and hurriedly said, "I am willing to help Your Highness eliminate Li Mi."

Yang Yuanqing smiled and said, "Thank you Mr. Bing for his good intentions. I have written it down. Mr. Please go back to the house for a rest and wait for the war to end. I will give you an explanation."

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

Bing Yuanzhen retreated, and Yang Yuanqing said to Fan Wenchao again: "The families of General Li Mi should be in Jiangdu City. General Fan can send troops to protect him and no one is allowed to harass him."

"As for the order!"

Fan Wenchao bowed and Yang Yuanqing turned over again. Soon, the group came to Li Mi's palace.

Although Jiangdu Palace is also the palace of Li Mi, Li Mi also considered the possibility of being attacked in the west. So before leaving, Li Mi transferred his palace concubines and guards and all his property into the palace in Jiangdu City.

The palace covers an area of ​​about 200 acres and was also built by Yang Guang. It is surrounded by tall palace walls. Various strange trees, grasses, pavilions, towers, and fish in rockery, ponds and fish are all available. Li Mi's dozen of favorite concubines and several children live in the palace.

But the most eye-catching thing is the treasures of the palace, which contain tens of thousands of boxes of various rare treasures, which were all the treasures and calligraphy and paintings that Yang Yuanqing brought from Luoyang to Jiangdu. They were first possessed by Yu Culture and then fell into Li Mi's hands. At this time, they changed their masters again and fell into Yang Yuanqing's hands.

The battle for the palace was over. Three thousand Sui troops and one thousand guards fought fiercely, and finally ended with the surrender of the guards.

The Sui army had occupied the palace, and the palace was full of three steps and one whistle and one whistle in five steps. It was very vigilant, especially the warehouse behind it, which was guarded by a thousand Sui soldiers, and no one was allowed to approach.

Yang Yuanqing walked into the palace under the escort of hundreds of people. Zhang Qisheng, the general in charge of attacking the palace, stepped forward and knelt down on one knee, reporting: "Your Highness, all the items in the palace are well preserved and have not been damaged?"

"Where is Li Mi's family?" Yang Yuanqing was concerned about Li Mi's children first.

"He is now locked up in the harem, with a total of three sons and two daughters, and fifteen palace concubines and wives and concubines, who are closely guarded by brothers."

At this time, Wei Yunqi whispered from the side: "Your Highness, the remnants of the bandits should be eliminated, and you should not leave it to cause disaster."

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "No hurry for the time being, wait until Li Mi is destroyed, and then we will deal with it together."

He immediately ordered Zhang Qisheng: "Take them all on the boat and take strict supervision, but you should not abuse them."

"As for the order!"

Zhang Qisheng hurriedly ordered the soldiers to escort Li Mi's family onto the ship, and Yang Yuanqing came directly to the warehouse behind.

The palace warehouse covers an area of ​​five acres and has a special wall. The entire warehouse consists of three buildings, and there is also an underground palace underground. An old eunuch is responsible for managing the warehouse.

The old eunuch was named Wang Xiaoyi. He was over fifty years old. He entered the palace during the Northern Zhou Dynasty and gradually promoted from a young eunuch to the chief supervisor of the inner treasury.

He has been responsible for the treasures in the inner warehouse since Yang Guang's era. He has worked diligently for more than ten years and did not dare to make any mistakes. It is precisely because his irreplaceable that both Yu Wenhua and Li Mi continued to hand over these property to him for management.

Wang Xiaoyi was brought up by the soldiers. He knelt down tremblingly and gave a big gift, "The palace slave King Xiaoyi met His Highness the King of Chu!"

Yang Yuanqing tried his best to comfort him with whispers: "You don't have to be afraid, do your best, I won't make things difficult for you. Now take me to see the items in the warehouse."

"Old slave obeys the order!"

Wang Xiaoyi stood up and said, "Please follow me!"

He took Yang Yuanqing into the warehouse, "Your Highness, the inner warehouse consists of three warehouses. We are now in the main warehouse, with more than 4,200 boxes of various property. On the east is the library, which mainly houses books compiled by the late emperor and calligraphy and paintings of the previous dynasty, and on the west is the clothing hall, which mainly houses skirts and clothes of palace ladies."

Yang Yuanqing smiled, "That's not all rare treasures, right!"

Wang Xiaoyi smiled bitterly, "Those are all speculations among the people, and there may be treasures everywhere. However, even the treasures are only 40% left. In order to win over Guoxiao in Guanzhong, the late emperor gave a lot of rewards. Later, Yu Wenji also took away some of them, and Li Mi also took away some of them to his subordinates. The old slave had detailed accounts here."

Yang Yuanqing nodded. He remembered that Yu Wenhua and Dou Jiande had given more than a dozen cars of treasures, and Dou Jiande transferred them to him, which should have been taken from it.

Yang Yuanqing remembered again that Yang Guang built Luoyang, which actually sucked the world's wealth into Luoyang City, but now Luoyang is in ruins. Where has that wealth gone?

Part of it was destroyed by the war, and the other part was actually moved to Jiangdu. This is why Yang Xuangan burned thousands of dragon boats in one fire. With the destruction of national strength, Yang Guang ordered the rebuilding of the dragon boats. He wanted to move Luoyang's property to Jiangdu. Only by traveling water is the most convenient.

Although 60% of the treasures had been used up, there were still more than 4,200 boxes, which showed how much treasure Yang Guang brought from Luoyang back then. Yang Yuanqing sighed in his heart, and accompanied by Wang Xiaoyi, he walked into the warehouses where the treasures were placed.

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The next morning, Yang Yuanqing was inspecting the people's conditions in the city, and a soldier came to report, "Report to Your Highness, the former Prime Minister Pei and Minister Yu asked for a meeting!"

Yang Yuanqing nodded. He was also about to find these old Sui ministers, "Please wait in the county government!"

Yang Yuanqing also turned his head and ran towards Jiangdu County Yamen. Soon, Yang Yuanqing came to the County Yamen, turned over and dismounted. He went straight into the government Yamen, walked to the meeting hall, and a personal soldier pointed to the room, "Everyone was waiting inside."

Yang Yuanqing pushed open the door and there were three people sitting in the meeting hall. It was Pei Yun, Xiao Ju and Yu Shiji. Although they learned about the Sui army entering the city last night, the city was in chaos and there were scattered soldiers everywhere. They dared not go out until dawn. They made an appointment to see Yang Yuanqing together.

Although the three of them had a lot of plans, they also knew in their hearts that these plans were just their wishful thinking and could not get Yang Yuanqing's approval. Everything was empty talk. When they were nervous, the door opened. Yang Yuanqing walked in from outside and smiled and said, "Dear friends, don't be safe!"

Among the three, except Xiao Ju, they were not very familiar with Yang Yuanqing, one was a relative of the foreigners and the other was an old enemy. The three bowed to salute together, "See Your Highness the King of Chu!"

Yang Yuanqing patted Pei Yun's arm intimately, "Pei Gong is healthy, this is the most gratifying thing."

Yang Yuanqing's heartfelt concern moved Pei Yun, and he hurriedly said: "The old minister was extremely ashamed when he failed to serve His Highness over the years."

"In the future, some people will be troubled by Gong Pei."

Yang Yuanqing said, his eyes turned to Yu Shiji again. Yu Shiji felt even more uneasy and hurriedly stepped forward to bow deeply, "Shiji used to be rude to Your Highness, but he still regrets it. I especially admit my mistake to Your Highness and beg your Highness to a large number of people, so that he will not regret Shiji's rude mistakes."

Yu Shiji is of great use to Yang Yuanqing, so he naturally won’t hold a grudge from the past, so he smiled slightly, “But there is no life-and-death hatred in the fights in the officialdom. Thinking about it now, the past is still worth remembering. Besides, it seems that Yu Shilang has always suffered a loss between us, and I, Yang Yuanqing, have the upper hand.”

After saying that, Yang Yuanqing laughed loudly. With this smile, Yu Shiji's uneasiness disappeared. He secretly praised in his heart that he was worthy of being the king with a broad mind. Following him was a bright future. He saluted repeatedly and said ashamed.

Yang Yuanqing met Xiao Ju again and asked the three of them to sit down. Then he said earnestly to the three of them: "This time I came to Jiangdu not to destroy Li Mi, but to appease Jiangnan. Seizing Jiangnan is the top priority of the court. It is related to the recovery of national strength in the future and the long-term stability of the court. Therefore, I also have high hopes for you three. Now that Li Mi seizes Jiangdu and Jiangyangcang, although Li Mi has a large number of troops, it is actually no longer enough to worry about it. Our top priority is to appease Jiangnan, so I am going to appoint you three as the Great Sui pacifiers to appease the fourteen counties in Jiangnan for me, so that the scholars in Jiangnan will return to their hearts."

The three of them looked at each other and this was exactly what they expected. The three of them stood up and bowed at the same time, "I would like to serve Your Highness!" (To be continued)
Chapter completed!