Just as the Tang army evacuated Luoyang, Yang Yuanqing led an army of 50,000 to the city of Luoyang.

A few miles north of Luoyang City, the Sui army set up a temporary camp on the south bank of Gushui. Outside the camp gate, the three thousand cavalry were arranged in an orderly manner, with a mighty ceremonial guard. Yang Yuanqing held a golden helmet and iron armor, holding a sword in his hand, and stared at Hui'anmen several miles away with cold eyes.

At this time, the gate of Luoyang's north city opened with drums and music. Teams of drum musicians and guard of honor came out one after another. Wang Shichong's prince Wang Yingxuan led dozens of civil and military ministers out of the city, but he could not see Wang Shichong's shadow.

Wang Yingxuan was the prince of Zheng Chao. After Wang Shichong removed the title of emperor, he became the prince, but this did not affect his power in Luoyang. He still controlled the government affairs.

Under the guidance of the soldiers, Wang Yingxuan walked to Yang Yuan and knelt down on both knees. Dozens of ministers behind him also knelt down. Wang Yingxuan said with tears in his eyes: "Your Highness saves us from danger. We will remember this great kindness and virtue in our hearts. We should repay your kindness with loyalty."

Speaking of this, he raised a golden bottle filled with soil in Luoyang high and said loudly: "This is the soil of Luoyang. I specially presented this land to His Highness the King of Chu of the Great Sui to show the loyalty of King Zheng to the Great Sui."

Yang Yuanqing's eyes became kinder. He turned over and took the golden bottle, handed it to his personal soldiers, helped Wang Yingxuan up, and smiled and said, "I can understand the loyalty and righteousness of King Zheng. I wonder why His Highness of King Zheng disappeared?"

Wang Yingxuan sighed, "My father commanded the defenders to fight against the Tang army. He had not closed his eyes for five days and five nights. When the Tang army withdrew, he fell ill. His father was unable to maintain his illness and could not come out to greet him in person. Let me convey his deep apology to His Highness the King of Chu."

Of course, Yang Yuanqing knew that Wang Shichong was just looking for an excuse to not see him. He could understand Wang Shichong's mood and demoted himself from an emperor to a king. This kind of shame is not something that ordinary people can bear. Wang Shichong is worthy of being a hero and can accept it calmly.

But this is good. He will be embarrassed when he meets Wang Shichong. Not seeing each other will benefit both parties. Yang Yuanqing nodded. "Please also greet His Highness Zheng on my behalf. I hope he will recover soon and go to Taiyuan to meet His Majesty the Emperor!"

"I must tell my father about your greetings. In addition, the Tang army retreated west, I wonder if your highness needs our troops to help?"

This is the question that Wang Yingxuan is most concerned about. Can they still protect their military power? If Yang Yuanqing asks them to help, it is very likely that they will seize their military power.

If not, then they can still maintain it. Now Yang Yuanqing is the knife and they are fish. They are already in control, and it is related to whether they can survive. At this time, Wang Yingxuan's heart was hanging.

Yang Yuanqing understood his concerns and smiled faintly, "You don't have many troops and can't play any role, so stay and defend the city!"

Wang Yingxuan was overjoyed. This was Yang Yuanqing's permission to continue to support the troops. He bowed deeply, "Thank you for your kindness. We will stick to Luoyang and never let Li Tangdong go further."

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Back to the camp, Xie Sili sighed with regret: "Why didn't Your Highness take the opportunity to seize Luoyang today, but instead let Wang Shichong continue to lead his troops? Wang Shichong is a hero and ambitious. Will he be willing to be loyal to the Great Sui Dynasty?"

Yang Yuanqing smiled, "How could I not know? Wang Shichong only has Luoyang and Hongnong counties, where can his power develop? Leave him behind him. He will always be a nail in front of the Tang Dynasty's gate, and he can't even circumvent it. Wang Shichong is a treacherous and cunning person. He understands the way to survive better than anyone else. If he leaves me, he will be pinched to death by the Tang Dynasty like a bed bug."

"But he actually made an excuse to not come to see Your Highness today, which is too rude." Xie Sili was still a little resentful.

Yang Yuanqing smiled with his hands behind his back. "He is a hero after all, and it is not easy to have the courage to remove the emperor's title. You must have three hearts and not force him too much. I just think it's for him to save some face."

.........

Wang Shichong has moved out of the palace and lives in the Zheng Palace, which is the giant house of the former King of Qi Yang Hung. Although Wang Shichong is sinister and cunning, he does have extraordinary features, at least he can do what he says.

Although he was forced to agree to remove the imperial title, since he agreed, he would do it thoroughly and unambiguously. Not only did he burn all the prohibited items, he also closed the palace gate and moved it back to the Zheng Palace, and even the few palace maids he loved did not bring them back.

In the room, Wang Shichong was half on the soft couch. He heard the report of the prince Wang Yingxuan when he went to see Yang Yuanqing. He was indeed sick because he was too tired to defend the city, but he was far from being unable to see Yang Yuanqing, but he couldn't let go of his face.

He was the emperor, but now he has become King Zheng. How should he meet Yang Yuanqing? Make him respectful like a minister, or be servile to Yang Yuanqing? He can't do it, and not be able to find an illness is the best way.

"Father, the child thinks that Yang Yuanqing is tolerant, not as aggressive as the rumors." Wang Yingxuan had a good impression of Yang Yuanqing, which gave him a little confidence in the future.

"tolerant?"

Wang Shichong sneered, "That's because you don't understand him and are deceived by his illusion. In Jiangdu, I know better than anyone else how he deals with Zhang Yunyi. The methods are so vicious that I even feel ashamed of myself. Now I have become his watchdog. Naturally, the watchdog cannot pull out their teeth. When one day he doesn't need me, he will kill me without hesitation and give me a charge of rebellion. Just like when he dealt with Zhang Jin, he would be guilty of being punished, so why not worry about it!"

Wang Yingxuan was silent and said for a while: "According to what my father said, we will die sooner or later at his hands, is that right?"

"That's not necessarily!"

Wang Shichong smiled sinisterly, "When the situation is really bad, our Wang family can go overseas to establish a country, such as Ryukyu, and Linyi. The key now is that we must cultivate a group of dead soldiers who are absolutely loyal to us. The number may not be large, two or three thousand people is enough. This is what we will do in the future."

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There is a village about fifteen miles south of Luoyang, called Luonan Village. This village is surrounded by mountains, not discovered, nor has it encountered military chaos, and has always been relatively quiet. This village is also called Zhengjia Village by locals.

A few years ago, because Li Mi led the Wagang army to occupy Xingyang, the Zheng family in Xingyang moved to Luoyang, part of which lived in the city and the other part lived in this Luonan village.

However, with the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the crown princess was the daughter of Zheng, and the head of the family Zheng Yuanzhu was named Taichangqing of the Tang Dynasty, which gradually led to the Zheng family's family turning to Chang'an.

Especially in the past two years, Luoyang suffered natural disasters and a large number of people fled, and most of the Zheng family members fled to Chang'an. Even Wang Shichong's censor Zheng Bing abandoned his post and went to Chang'an. Only Luonan Village still has more than a dozen Zheng clan members.

In the afternoon, more than a thousand Sui troops suddenly blocked the village. Yang Yuanqing, under the escort of hundreds of personal soldiers, came to one of the mansions.

At the door of the mansion, more than a dozen Zheng family members had been waiting for a long time. These were the Zheng family members who were relatively slutty and had a lower status. In the face of Yang Yuanqing's pressure, they seemed trembling and their legs were trembling.

One of the elderly stepped forward and gave a deep bow, "Xiaomin Zheng Huan. See Your Highness, King Chu!"

Of course, Yang Yuanqing was not here to find these side-family Zheng's children. He said coldly: "I'll come to find Zheng Hong's wife, Yang, and ask her to come out."

Several Zheng's children had already rushed into the house. After a while, a young woman was invited by Zheng's children. She was holding a three-year-old girl in her hand. When the young woman saw Yang Yuanqing, she was stunned. Suddenly, she burst into tears. She covered her mouth with her hands and turned her head to cry in a low voice. She was Yang Yuanqing's sister, Yang Jiaoniang.

Yang Jiaoniang is the youngest daughter of Mrs. Zheng. But she did not inherit her mother's meanness and cruelty. On the contrary, she is kind to others. Everyone in the Yang family likes her very much, including Yang Yuanqing, who also likes this half-sister.

However, due to the bad relationship between Yang Yuanqing and Zheng, Yang Jiaoniang did not dare to have more contact with this brother and the brother-sister relationship between them faded. After Yang Yuanqing left the Yang Mansion, the two never met again.

In the ninth year of Daye, because Yang Xuangan rebelled, Zheng was afraid that his daughter would be implicated, so he hurriedly married her to his nephew Zheng Hong. Yang Jiaoniang was extremely dissatisfied with the marriage that her mother had forcibly arranged, and her relationship with her mother also broke up.

Although Yang Jiaoniang's husband is the legitimate son of the Zheng family, he is a ill. He unfortunately died of illness the previous year. She only had a daughter, so she took her daughter to stay in the Zheng family.

In the past two years, most of the Zheng family members have fled to Chang'an, but she refused to go. She didn't want to see her mother again. She took her daughter to farm a few acres of thin fields in Luonan Village, and lived a very hard life.

At this time, Yang Jiaoniang never dreamed that her brother Yang Yuanqing, who had not seen for more than ten years, would come to find her. She felt very sad. A few years of grievance suddenly surged out of her heart. She knelt on the ground and hugged her daughter and cried sadly.

Yang Yuanqing walked up to her and squatted down in front of her. He felt a little sad. Although he once hated Zheng extremely, this was his sister, with the same blood as him.

When Yang Yuanqing saw that the hairpin on her head turned out to be a wooden hairpin and her dress was old, he felt even more sad and whispered: "Follow me to Taiyuan, with my brother here, I will not let you suffer any more."

Yang Jiaoniang held her brother's hand and burst into tears.

"Mom, who is he?" the little girl asked timidly.

Yang Jiaoniang wiped away the tears in her eyes, and forced a smile on her face and said, "He is your uncle, Xiaomei, kowtow to her uncle!"

The little girl was very sensible and immediately knelt down, kowtowed to Yang Yuanqing, and said angrily: "Xiaomei pays me a blessing to my uncle!"

Yang Yuanqing held her in his arms, helped her sister's sweet girl up, and smiled at the little girl, "I'll take her to a fun place, and there are many brothers and sisters who will play with you. Do you want to go?"

The little girl was so happy that she clapped her face, "Xiaomei is going!"

At this time, Yang Yuanqing coldly glanced at a group of trembling Zheng's children next to him and asked his sister, "Good Girl, have they bullied you?"

Yang Jiaoni sighed, "Of course sarcasm is indispensable, but they are afraid that their mother will cause trouble for them, so they dare not do too much, but just ignore it."

Yang Yuanqing snorted heavily, "This is your luck. If you had bullied your sweet girl at all, I would kill all your Zheng family!"

A group of Zheng family children were so scared that their faces looked like earth, and they were trembling. No one dared to say a word. Yang Yuanqing ordered two female soldiers to help their sister onto the carriage and immediately ordered: "Go to Beimang Mountain!"

The large group of people turned their heads and rushed towards the Mangshan north of Luoyang.

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The road from Beim Mountain to the tomb area has been blocked, and thousands of Sui army have been on guard against the tomb area. In front of Yang Su's tomb, Yang Yuanqing, with Yang Wei and his sister Jiao Niang, respectfully kowtowed three times to his grandfather's tomb.

Yang Yuanqing inserted three incense sticks into the incense burner and said in a deep voice: "The grandson Yuanqing comforted his grandfather's spirit in heaven. Yuanqing did not disappoint his grandfather's expectations. His grandfather's lifelong wish will be realized in his grandson's hands. May his grandfather smile and rest in peace!"

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