Chapter 52 Please enter the ward

The changes in grain prices in Luoyang are very dramatic. When the grain prices are pushed to 700 yuan by pounds of rice, it is actually not a shortage of food, but more of a psychological impact. People are worried about the chaotic situation. At this time, although the grain prices have reached the highest level, many of the big merchants who have stored grain still refuse to give up their grain. (")

On the one hand, they have to look at Yao Ji Rice Store's attitude, and on the other hand, they believe that the price of grain will be higher. The reason is very simple. Changping's position has been snatched up and it is impossible to perform the task of stabilizing the price of grain. If Changping's position is supplemented, the emperor's approval is required. At this time, the emperor is not in the capital. Time goes by, at least it will take **day.

The merchants had full confidence in the price of grain to 800 yuan of rice. Unexpectedly, Yang Yuanqing and the Dugu family reached a settlement. The price of the Yao Ji Rice Store and Zhang Shengji Rice Store suddenly dropped from 700 yuan of rice to 400 yuan, and then plummeted to 200 yuan the next day. The price plummeted, and other large merchants were unexpectedly expected. Many people bought grain from nearby farms at a price of about 400 yuan per bull, preparing to make a fortune. The sudden plummeting of grain prices caused them to suffer heavy losses.

The 20,000 stones of the 30,000 stones of grain stored in Yang Yuanqing's manor were also sold to seven large grain merchants at a price of 350 yuan per bull, with 10,000 stones of grain left.

As the situation gradually became calm, Yang Yuanqing also took time to go to the manor in Yanshi County to handle some money and food matters.

Early in the morning, King Yang Hung of Qi received the news that Yang Yuanqing went to his manor. He waited for two days and finally arrived.

Yang Qing rushed to the Taoist temple in the backyard. As soon as he entered the room, he couldn't help but feel excited: "Master, as you expected, Yang Yuanqing left the capital and went to Yanshi Manor. There were only more than 200 people guarding him."

"very good!"

At this moment, he waited for two days and finally came. Pan Dan narrowed his eyes proudly, "As long as Yang Yuanqing leaves Luoyang and leaves the protection of the army, his death will come. Your Highness, it depends on you."

Yang Ming's eyes shot with extremely resentful eyes, "I have already made arrangements, so he can't escape from my palm this time."

The grudges between them will be completely resolved this time for many years.

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It is very close from Luoyang to Yanshi County, only a few dozen miles apart, and there is an old Luoyang city that has been destroyed for decades in the middle.

Yang Yuanqing's manor is located in the southwest of Yanshi County. It has a hundred hectares of land, a hill and a large forest. It is a villa with extremely beautiful scenery. It was originally an imperial village. Yang Guang, the world's Yang Guang rewarded it to Yang Yuanqing in the first year of Daye.

The entire hill is also covered with forests, and on the top of the mountain is a small villa covering only one acre of land, which is the owner's residence.

That afternoon, two cavalrymen rushed into the manor one after another and rushed towards the hills, bringing the latest information that Yang Yuanqing was waiting for.

Like Yang Ming, Yang Yuanqing was also waiting for the last moment to arrive. At this moment in the room, Yang Yuanqing and several iron guards were studying Yang Ming's march route in front of the map. In fact, Yang Yuanqing had already studied it many times, and he knew it early. It was precisely because he bribed the eunuch Li Zhongshun and asked him to give advice to the demon Taoist Pan Dan, so that the other party could take a dangerous move and send private troops to hunt himself. When they found that assassination was useless, they would definitely use the army to assassin. That demon Taoist would never know the consequences of mobilizing the army.

"General, Shaoshi Mountain, Chongsong Mountain and Baihua Valley have been trained in a front line, just blocking between Yique County and Yanshi County. Usually, they go to the south of Luoyang first and then penetrate into Yanshi County diagonally. But I am very familiar with the roads there. Although the mountains are high and steep and the slopes are difficult for the army to cross, there are also mountain paths in the middle. Will they pass through the valley?"

Yang Yuanqing stared at the map. After a while, he shook his head, "Although there is this possibility, Yang Hing's intention is to intercept me. Yanshi and Luoyang are very close, and they can go back and forth that day. If they pass through the valley, they will lose the opportunity to intercept me halfway. Therefore, the route Yang Hing arranged for them must be to go to Luoyang, and then take the official road to cut off my retreat. This must be the case!"

Yang Dalang said with some concern: "But there are only one hundred people around the young master. Although everyone is very skilled in martial arts, I still feel that it is a bit risky. If you really fight, there will definitely be casualties."

Yang Yuanqing looked at him strangely, "Do you think I want to fight him?"

"Isn't it?" Yang Dalang was stunned.

Yang Yuanqing smiled and shook his head, "Dalang, you still don't understand the real intention of my operation. I'm just a bait. Do you understand? Now the emperor already knows that his son has a private army, but what to do with a private army? The King of Qi has not shown it to his father. Maybe he has no chance to show it. This time, I want him to show it himself and let his father see with his own eyes what his son wants to do with the army?"

"General, both the messengers have arrived!" Yang Sanlang's voice came from outside the door.

Yang Yuanqing was excited and was waiting for news from the two informants. He quickly walked to the window. From the window, he could see two informants running towards the top of the mountain, one in front and one behind, one giving him the whereabouts of the emperor and the other giving him the news of Yique private army.

At this time, Yang Yuanqing felt that he was a master of Go nine dan, waiting for the final chance to win at the most accurate calculation.

"General, the scout has arrived!"

"Come in!"

The first person to come in was to investigate the scouts of Xue Shixiong's army. Last night, Yang Yuanqing received news that Emperor Yang Guang sent an army of 5,000 people, led by General Xue Shixiong of the Right Guard, to run quickly. He had arrived in Xingyang early this morning, so I don't know where I am now?

Yang Yuanqing inferred from time to time that Yun Dingxing should have reported to Yang Guang, so the army led by Xue Shixiong should be the army that went to Yique County to wipe out the private army of the King of Qi.

"Report to the general that Xue Shixiong's army has passed Hulao Pass and is coming quickly towards Yanshi County. In addition, Beizhi also found that the General Yuwen Chengdu led 3,000 Hub Guards in the north of Yanshi County, and is less than ten miles away from us."

The news made Yang Yuanqing stunned. He immediately realized that Yuwen Chengdu should be here to arrest the King of Qi. He suddenly became nervous and didn't know where Yique's private army was?

The second scout also walked in quickly and bowed, "Report to the general that the thousand troops from Yique were resting in a forest about twenty miles south of Luoyang, and did not continue to move forward."

Yang Yuanqing walked a few steps behind his back. It was obvious that although King Qi was stupid, the leader was not stupid. He did not want to pass by Luoyang during the day. He obviously wanted to march again after dark. He was still twenty miles away from the capital, but he did not achieve his expected goal of Yang Yuanqing ten miles away from the capital.

Yang Yuanqing pondered for a moment. If Zhou Zhong took action, it would be explained, but it would be better to let Yang Guang's own people take action, which would be more convincing. In order to get the great contribution of blocking the rebels' entry into the capital, Yuwen Chengdu and Xue Shixiong would inevitably exaggerate the serious consequences of the private army entering the capital, so that the King of Qi could end his journey and no chance to turn around.

At this time, Yang Yuanqing finally made up his mind and said to the scout: "Go and tell General Zhou Zhong that he should not act rashly and wait for my order."

Yang Yuanqing said to the left and right iron guards: "Pack up the weapons and follow me to see Yuwen Chengdu!"

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Just about ten miles north of Yang Yuanqing Manor, a cavalry team composed of three thousand Hu Ben Guards was running fast on the official road. The leader was Yang Guang's confidant guard, Yuwen Chengdu, the left guard general. He was ordered by Yang Guang to search the Qi Prince's Mansion.

At this time, there are still forty miles away from the capital. They can arrive at the capital at night. When passing by a small bridge, Yuwen Chengdu suddenly heard someone calling him from afar, "General Yuwen!"

Yuwen Chengdu stopped his war horses and looked at him. He saw a cavalry running towards this side on a small path to the south. A team of cavalry was coming along the path several miles away.

After a moment, the cavalry rushed over and bowed, "Please wait for a moment, and my general will arrive soon!"

"Who is your general?"

"My general is Yang Yuanqing."

Yuwen Chengdu laughed, how could Yang Yuanqing be here? He waved his hand, "The army paused!"

The three thousand Hu Ben cavalry stopped. Soon, they rode their horses from the small road and ran to the official road, whipped and laughed: "Brother Yuwen, it's gone for a long time!"

Yuwen Chengdu bowed his hands and smiled, "Yuan Qing, why are you here?"

Yang Yuanqing pointed to a small hill five or six miles away from the distance, "Did you see that hill? It's my manor. I happened to be dealing with some private matters in the manor today. I heard from the soldiers that there was an army passing through, so I rushed over to take a look. I didn't expect it was Brother Yuwen. What a coincidence!"

"Yuanqing's manor turned out to be here."

Yuwen Chengdu's smile slowly disappeared, and he stepped forward and whispered: "The young Yin of Jingzhao Cui Bosu impeached the King of Qi for many illegal things. The emperor was furious and asked me to come and search the King of Qi's mansion. What did Yuan Qing hear about the King of Qi?"

Only then did Yang Yuanqing realize that Cui Bosu had also impeached the King of Qi, which was beyond his expectations, but now it was not the time to think about this. Yang Yuanqing immediately said: "I also have an emergency information. The King of Qi has a private army. Currently, a thousand soldiers wearing armor are heading from Yique County toward the capital!"

Yuwen Chengdu was stunned. He couldn't believe his ears. The King of Qi raised a private army and there were a thousand troops advancing towards the capital. What was the King of Qi trying to do?

"Yuanqing, is your news true?"

"There is absolutely no problem. I have sent someone to notify Zhou Zhong and ordered him to monitor this army. Now I am about to rush back to the capital. General Yuwen should deal with the private army first. I am very worried that the capital will also have his inner support."

Yuwen Chengdu's face was extremely serious. He felt that the situation was much more serious than he thought. If a private army really entered the capital, it was very likely that the King of Qi had heard some news and had already developed a desire to rebel.

"Let's go! Go and intercept this army first."

Yuwen Chengdu whipped a fierce whip, and the war horse rushed out quickly. Yang Yuanqing followed closely behind. The three thousand Tiger Ben Army accelerated the horse speed and ran wildly towards the capital.

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Night fell quietly. In a forest about twenty miles southeast of Luoyang, an army of more than a thousand armored soldiers had already walked out of the forest, quickly climbed to the official road, and marched northward.

This is an army that the King of Qi has been raising for four years, the earliest of which was his dead soldiers. Since last spring, they have armor and weapons, organization, officers and soldiers, and began to become an army.

The leader of the army was Sun Wei, who was a confidant guard of King Yang Hung of Qi. He was named General Yingyang Lang by the King of Qi and commanded this powerful army.

Sun Wei received an order to go to Yanshi County early tonight. There are two roads from Yique County to Yanshi County. One is to go to Luoyang, then turn east to Yanshi, and the other is to cross Shaoshi Mountain and Songgao Mountain, and enter Yanshi from the south. This road is much more hidden, but the King of Qi ordered him to take the Luoyang road because Yang Yuanqing would probably come back from the manor that day and could be intercepted halfway.

Seeing that it was not far from the capital, Sun Wei became a little nervous. They pretended to be regular troops to carry out their missions. The journey went smoothly, but they were too close to Luoyang, and Sun Wei was afraid of being seen through, so it would be difficult for him to explain what they were doing in Luoyang? This was the capital city, and the private army entered the capital, which was the crime of extermination of the nine clans.

He didn't dare to leave anymore, so he could only hide in the forest and wait until it was dark before setting off.

It was already dark at this time, and Sun Wei urged the soldiers to move quickly and walk up to the official road of Yanshi as soon as possible and leave the capital.

The official road to Yanshi is about ten miles away from the capital city. There is a fork called Sanguankou. You can go directly to Beijing to the north, and there is a fork to the northeast, which is to go to Yanshi.

There were not many pedestrians on the official road, and there were carriages coming and going, but no one dared to approach this army. The armor and weapons they wore were exactly the same as those of the Sui army, and they also had military signs like the Sui army. Unless they were interrogated by special troops, no one would have thought that this was actually a private army.

There was a fork in front of us, and there were also a towering capital city farther away. They were only ten miles away from the capital city.

At this moment, the sound of horse hooves as rapid as rainstorms suddenly came from behind, like a muffled thunder rising from the ground.
To be continued...