"Xue Shaoqing doesn't have to do this, please get up quickly!"

Yang Yuanqing quickly helped Xue Shou up and comforted him, "You can wake up and show your sincerity. I, Yang Yuanqing, have enough heart to forgive your mistakes. I will not blame you for your past events. I just hope that you will not let me down in the future."

Xue Shou felt grateful and ashamed in his heart, and sighed: "Please rest assured, your highness, the official will not let your highness down again."

He took out a silver medal from his arms and placed it in front of Yang Yuanqing, "This is what Your Highness gave to your father back then. He said that if one day your father was in danger, he could take this silver medal to Fengzhou. Although his father unfortunately died at the hands of Yang Guang later, he was always grateful to Your Highness."

Taking over the silver medal from Xue Shou was indeed what he gave to Xue Daoheng back then. This silver medal made Yang Yuanqing fall into memories of the past.

It was about the fourth year of Daye at that time. In order to deal with Zhang Jin, a backbone figure among the Guanlong nobles, he went to Jiangdu to start with Zhang Jin's son.

It was at that time that he met Xue Daoheng, a great scholar in the world who was very knowledgeable but had a mess of things.

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At that time, he was full of confidence in the future and believed that he would be appointed to Fengzhou. Unexpectedly, he had many twists and turns. When he was young, he always thought everything was too beautiful.

Yang Yuanqing closed his eyes, closed his hands in front of his chest, raised his head to face the roof, and pondered for a long time. Xue Shou did not dare to disturb Yang Yuanqing's contemplation. He had already said what he should have said, but Yang Yuanqing seemed not very anxious.

At this time, Yang Yuanqing slowly opened his eyes and saw Xue Shu looking at him with a worried look, and couldn't help but smile apologetically. "I'm a little distracted."

Xue Shou hurriedly said, "Your Highness, in fact, no one knows that Wang Xu has surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and he just thinks he is venting his dissatisfaction. I think if everyone knows about this, no one will help him again."

Yang Yuanqing raised his eyes and stared at him sharply, "What you mean is that if you didn't meet the Tang Dynasty envoy today, you wouldn't come to me, right?"

Yang Yuanqing made Xue Shou feel embarrassed for a moment. He didn't know how to answer, but Yang Qing smiled slightly: "You don't have to be embarrassed anymore. I have said just now. Let him go over what was gone, and we will only talk about the future."

Xue Shou bit his lips and said, "The officials did not want to plead for Liu Xuanmao and the others. They were not optimistic about the Tang Dynasty and would not betray the Sui Dynasty. They only helped him because of Wang Xu's favor. If Your Highness was willing to give them a chance, they would definitely wake up and be loyal to Your Highness!"

Yang Yuanqing shook his head, "I have given you two days, but you are the only one who comes here, and no one else comes to me to confess. I can give them a chance. But now, let them confess in prison!"

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Half an hour later, the city gates in Taiyuan were closed. No more people were allowed to enter and exit. Five thousand inner guards were dispatched again, and teams of fully armed soldiers ran on the street. Their armor was shining, their blades were sharp and murderous.

Pedestrians on the street were so scared that they dodged one after another. They looked at the actions of the inner guards in horror, but soon a notice was posted. The inner guards continued to investigate the private brewing case, which involved more than a dozen ministers, Wang Xu, the prefect of Zhao County, Wang Su, Sima of Boling County, Liu Xuanmao, the minister of Dali Temple, Xue Mingyi, the young Yin of Jingzhao, etc.

Five thousand inner guards divided into groups and surrounded Wang Xu's mansion and the mansions of the royal party members such as Liu Xuanmao and Xue Mingyi.

In front of the royal palace, hundreds of inner guards no longer treated him with courtesy this time. They broke open the gate of the royal palace and rushed towards the inner house. A butler ran desperately and ran towards the back house.

In the inner study room, Wang Xu was continuing to discuss the specific details of the next action with Wen Daya. At this moment, he heard footsteps coming, and the door knocked loudly.

"Master, no, the army has rushed into the mansion."

Wang Xu was shocked and stepped forward and opened the door two steps. He saw the butler standing outside with a panic on his face. Wang Xu shouted sternly: "What happened?"

"Master, hundreds of soldiers have come in, saying that they want to catch the main culprit of the Prohibition Case and the spy of the Tang Dynasty!" The butler said, and glanced nervously at Wen Daya sitting in the house.

Wang Xu's face changed. The main culprit of the ban on alcohol was either Wang Xuanzhi or himself, but a spy from the Tang Dynasty.

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Who leaked the secret?

He was panicked and hurriedly said to Wen Daya: "Mr. Wen may hide first when entering the basement!"

Wen Daya shook her head, "Since they know that I am here, they don't hide, so they might as well face it calmly. Moreover, my brother Wen Yanbo is the governor of Zhuo County, Yang Yuanqing will not kill me with this."

At this time, the sound of running footsteps came, and nearly a hundred Sui army's inner guards appeared. They also discovered Wang Xu, rushed up together, surrounding Wang Xu and Wen Daya.

A lieutenant stepped forward and said, "I was ordered to arrest Wang Xu, the main culprit of the ban on alcohol, and arrest the spies of the Tang Dynasty. If you want to be more decent, please follow us!"

Wang Xu and Wen Daya looked at each other and sighed secretly. They lost the game, but Yang Yuanqing actually used the ban on alcohol to deal with them.

The two had to walk outside the mansion under the surveillance of the soldiers' swords and walk out of the mansion. The two soldiers covered their eyes with black cloth and pushed a carriage. The carriage left the palace under the strict escort of hundreds of cavalrymen.

At the same time, Liu Xuanmao, Xue Mingyi and others were also arrested and taken to the Inner Guard Prison.

The arrest of officials in Taiyuan City was like wings, and it spread throughout Taiyuan in a short while, causing a sensation all over the city.

The so-called laymen watching the fun and the fermentation of the ban on alcohol has made the people of Taiyuan extremely excited. Every family is discussing this matter. The arrest of an official is the most talked about by the people. They are all looking forward to the final conviction and murder of this ban on alcohol.

But the experts are judging the tricks. All the arrested people were Wang Xu's sidekicks. This was obviously a matter of using the issue of the ban on alcohol. The ban on alcohol was just an excuse for being glamorous. In fact, Yang Yuanqing was purge of the ban on Wang.

But there are two statements about why the royal party was purged. One statement is that the purge itself was in Yang Yuanqing's plan. The last time it was just abolishing and devaluation, which was not cruel enough. It was just the first step. After a few months, the alcohol ban case was used to continue the second step of the cleanup and defeat the royal party in one go.

Another statement is that Wang Xu colluded with the Tang Dynasty to destroy the Central Plains Battle. Now the case has occurred, so he was completely cleaned. This statement has basis for the Tang Dynasty minister Wen Daya was arrested in the palace.

But no matter which statement it was, Yang Yuanqing didn't need to explain it. He had left Taiyuan and headed towards Yan'an County.

Outside Taiyuan City, five hundred elite cavalry guarding Yang Yuanqing's carriage was sailing west along the official road. At this time, a personal soldier rushed to the front of the horse and bowed his body and said, "Please give orders from the general manager!"

Yang Yuanqing opened the car window and handed him a note, "Send the eagle letter to Xu Shiji!"

"Abide by the order!"

The personal soldiers took the note and turned around and ran towards Taiyuan City.

Yang Yuanqing closed the car window, Wang Xu and others waited for him to come back to deal with it. Now he needs to rush to the inner road, and I wonder if he will gain something on this trip.

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The eagle flew thousands of miles a day. Two days later, a letter eagle flew to Yingchuan County, hovered over the county town twice, and slowly landed on the eagle tower. It has been a long time since the eagle letter came over. An eagle slave had seen the flying eagle and immediately ran up to the tower and took off a red letter tube from the eagle's legs.

Yingnu was shocked. This was actually the eagle letter sent by His Highness the King of Chu to General Xu. He did not dare to neglect and ran down the tower and ran towards the military yamen.

Xu Shiji was named the general manager of Xingying and led tens of thousands of troops to guard the Central Plains. At this time, the battle situation in the Central Plains had subsided. The Tang army built high walls to the west, defended strictly, and adopted a defensive move.

Wang Shichong began to station troops and raise soldiers. He only had 20,000 troops left. The areas under his jurisdiction were only Henan and Hongnong. The people were tired of war and it was difficult to recruit soldiers. Wang Shichong could only comfort the people first and then find a way to recruit soldiers.

The East is still in the confrontation between civil war. After destroying Song Jingang's troops, Dou Jiande's army began to advance southward to recruit Liu Heita's army. However, Liu Heita, who was stationed in Langya County, refused to be recruited and began to dispatch troops to fight Dou Jiande's army. The war in Qingzhou continued.

However, Xu Shiji's eyes were aimed at Li Mi's Liang County. After Li Mi moved the capital to Jiangdu City, he had gradually withdrawn from Liang County. His withdrawal was very regular and gradually evacuated. It can be seen that Li Mi was indeed preparing to give up Liang County.

It was precisely because he saw Li Mi's plan that Xu Shiji did not rush to send troops to Liangjun, but patiently waited for Li Mi to withdraw completely.

In the big tent, Xu Shiji was considering an action plan in front of the sand table. He just received news early this morning that the last Wei army withdrew from Chenliu County. There were no troops stationed in Chenliu County, so the Sui army must fill this gap in time.

Xu Shiji was discussing the number of troops entering the army with another general Niu Jinda. Suddenly, a soldier outside the tent reported: "Report to General, Taiyuan has emergency information, it is the general manager's order!"

Xu Shiji was stunned and quickly ordered: "Come on the order!"

A soldier entered the tent, knelt down on one knee, and presented a red message tube with a piece of urgent information. Xu Shiji quickly took out Yang Yuanqing's handwritten from the message tube. He hurriedly looked at Niu Jinda, who looked curious, and said bitterly: "The general manager ordered us to send troops immediately and capture Nanyang County!"

Niu Jinda was stunned for a moment, "Nanyang County and Xiyang County are not buffer zones. Can neither the Sui and Tang dynasties station troops? This is what the general manager wants. How did he change the plan?"

Xu Shiji sighed, "I don't know the reason, but since the general manager has an order, we will know it if we faithfully execute it. Chenliu sent out a thousand soldiers first to control the city."

Xu Shiji took a closer look at the sand table again. Nanyang County is in the south and Xiyang County is in the north. In fact, as long as Nanyang County is occupied, Xiyang County will be at your fingertips.

"In fact, we only need to send 10,000 troops to occupy Nanyang County, and Xiyang County can be ignored for the time being."

Niu Jinda generously clasped his fists and said, "Let Beizhi lead 10,000 troops to capture Nanyang County, and there will be good news in three days."

Xu Shiji pondered for a moment and finally nodded, "Okay! I'll leave it to you this time to capture Nanyang County."
Chapter completed!