Great Sui Guoshi

In the night, thousands of lights are lit up. Compared with the bustling and lively night market, in the imperial city, after reading the memorial in his hand, the emperor threw it to the ground, swept it away with one hand, and knocked over the lamp holder on the table.

"I want to fulfill the late emperor's last wish, why did Yang Su stop me! This won't work, that won't work, doesn't it just rely on my own merits?! I'm so mad!!"

Yang Guang waved his palm and slammed the table, frightening the maids and eunuchs who were waiting around to lower their faces and dare not show their anger. For a moment, the emperor, who was walking back and forth with his hands behind his back, stopped.

"Don't you just bully me when I am young, not as dazzling as the first emperor?"

There was a pause in the words, and the face illuminated by the lights turned to the eunuch Xuanzhi who was waiting on the side of the dragon case, "In that case, then I will go to the imperial conquest and show my prestige!"

The tone was decisive, and every word echoed in the empty hall.

"Just call Tuyuhun—"

Volume No.11 The Son of Heaven Conquers the Gate of the Country, Sends the Stars to the Clouds Outside the Sky

Chapter 595 The Great War Will Begin

The night wind ran across the eaves of the palace, and the high-hanging red lanterns swayed gently with the candles flickering. In the paper windows and above the main hall, Yang Guang issued a series of edicts.

"Prepare an order for the Ministry of Zhongshu, and send people to imprison Prince Murong Shun of Tuyuhun, and prepare the food and fodder for the three armies."

"...Let them bypass the Duke of Yue Yang Su, whoever dares to reveal half a word in advance, I will kill him!"

"By the way, let the scholars outside publicize the power of the Sui Kingdom more, arouse public opinion, and help me conquer the West!"

The bronze lampposts on both sides of the main hall were flickering flames. In the flickering light, two figures knelt down and listened quietly to the holy will above. When they heard the west march Tuyuhun, the two trembled.

"That's all for now, go down." Yang Guang waved away the eunuch who led the order, got up and went out of the dragon case, walked down the imperial steps step by step, came to the kneeling two people, and waved his dragon sleeves: "King Gaochang, Yi My Messenger, get up, both of you."

"Yes!"

The two responded in unison, wiped the cold sweat off their faces without any trace, and got up respectfully, among them, Qu Boya, the king of Gaochang, spoke in a low voice.

"Your Majesty, Gaochang has always been bullied by Tuyuhun. Your Majesty wants to conquer, and Gaochang Kingdom should respond naturally. It's just..."

With a flick of his sleeve, Yang Guangda interrupted King Gaochang who was speaking with his head down, turned around and walked to the imperial steps, and turned around again after walking up a section, "Tuyuhun brought the national teachers of the Turkic and Yiwu kingdoms to our Great Sui Dynasty for tribute. If I didn't rush back to the national teacher in time, wouldn't I let them succeed?! How can I swallow this breath."

The hand slammed on the handrail, and the emperor standing on the imperial steps swelled angrily, and the sound shook the hall.

"When did my Great Sui fall to the point of being bullied by a western barbarian country? If I don't fight back, I will be the emperor in vain!"

Below, the Yiwu envoy who was standing on the side of King Gaochang suddenly knelt down on the ground, trembling.

"Your Majesty, I, Yiwu, did not intend to fall into the heavenly court, but was coerced by Tuyuhun, so I came here as a last resort. I, the king of Yiwu, was worried about angering the heavenly kingdom, so I sent an ordinary stranger disguised as a national teacher... ..."

Hahaha!

Watching him, Yang Guang laughed, walked back in front of the two of them, and helped the Yiwu envoy to stand up with his own hands, "Don't be afraid, the envoy, I know the difficulties of King Yiwu, you see, this time you and I still have Gaochang, the Three Kingdoms join hands , you can take revenge, I can vent my anger, why not do it, right?"

He stretched out his hand to tidy up the opponent's collar, and patted his trembling shoulders: "Also, even if Yiwu sent the real national teacher of your family, he is not my opponent Lu Guoshi."

With that said, Yang Guang withdrew his shoulders and turned his back to Longting, with his back to the two of them and said, "The two of you will send people back to the country to discuss this matter when you go back tonight."

The lights shook, and the emperor raised his arm and stretched out a finger: "Remember, I am patient. No matter whether the two soldiers and horses arrive as promised, I will send troops to Tuyuhun!"

Yang Guang turned around, with a smile on his face again, and with a smile, he stretched his arms around the shoulders of the two and walked to the gate of the palace.

"Did you scare the two of you? I have only been on the throne for two years, and my foundation is not stable. There are enemies above and below. I need achievements, and I hope you two can help me a lot."

Seeing the different Sui emperors for a while, King Gaochang Qu Boya and the envoy of Yiwu were terrified when they heard this, they couldn't figure out the emperor's temperament at all, they went out of the palace gate and nodded repeatedly.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, after returning to the post house, I will send envoys back to the Western Regions overnight, and summon soldiers and horses to help Your Majesty!"

"With the words of the two of you, I am relieved."

"Your Majesty stay here."

The two bowed and bowed, and after a few steps back slowly, they turned around and went down the stone steps made of white rocks. Yang Guang watched them being led away by the guards, the smile on his face gradually cooled down, and he hummed, Walk back to the main hall, and then deal with the memorial.

Outside the slowly closed palace door, a pair of eyes watched in the dark. Soon, a piece of news quietly flowed out of the imperial city and was transmitted as fast as possible.

Baiguan Mansion Shechang Street, the most prominent and dazzling mansion, with red lanterns hanging high, soldiers guarding with weapons outside the gate, inside the painted red gate, brightly lit front yard wing rooms, and lights on, moths puffing Hitting against the paper lampshade, under the warm yellow light, the old man wrote a memorial of admonishment with a pen.

There were footsteps outside the door, and a servant's voice came from outside: "Sir, there is news from the palace."

"Come in."

Without raising his head, Yang Su stared at the handwriting drawn by the tip of the pen. The door over there opened with a creak, and the servant who reported came in, closed the door gently, held a folded piece of paper in both hands, and carefully put it away. corner of the table, he bowed and retreated outside.

Under the lamplight, the old man at the desk paused his pen tip, looked at the message lying on the side, "Your Majesty, what do you want to do again?"

With a low moan, he put the pen on the inkstone, took the paper in his hand and unfolded it, his half-closed eyes froze, crumpled up the message in his hand and threw it on the ground.

With a bang, the flames ignited and burned to ashes.

"Your Majesty, this is imitating the late emperor." Yang Su leaned against the back of the chair and murmured softly in the slowly rising green smoke, then laughed again, slapped his palms, and rolled the green smoke to the open window lattice.

"Alright, this old man will turn a blind eye and close his eyes this time, and let His Majesty show his talents. If he can hone his talents, this old man will be worthy of his brother."

After thinking about it, I looked at the memorial letter of remonstrance on the table, there was no need to write it down, so I gently closed it, threw it into the hall together, and lit a flame.

Walking out of the study room, the night sky had turned pale without knowing it, and Yang Su didn't feel sleepy, so he went back to the back house and changed into his official robes to prepare for today's morning court.

Not long after, the golden morning light pushed away the darkness of the streets and alleys, and extended to the west of the city, on the road leading to the Western Regions. In the distance, among the caravans, eight big men were walking side by side, looking towards the direction of the giant city.

ding ding ding ~~~

Behind the eight people, there was an old donkey walking slowly. On the shaky bookshelf, there was a ditty humming sometimes. It's not magic, but it has obvious benefits for Confucian Haoran.

"Go to Wujiang Mountain again when I have time, and move all the books in it back to Wanshou Temple. It's not bad to read books to pass the time when you have nothing to do, right, Master?"

He asked inquiringly to go to the bookshelf, but seeing no response, Lu Liangsheng leaned down and opened a small gap in the small door. Taoist Toad was sleeping soundly wrapped in a quilt, feeling the wind blowing in from outside, rubbing his outstretched flippers twice, shrinking Back under the quilt.

'It's not yet autumn time. '

Probably because he thought that fighting the monkey that day would take a lot of mana, so he came out of Wujiang Mountain and dozed off all the way.

'We are almost in Chang'an, and we should do what we promised the monkey, but I don't know if there will be trouble. '

Going along the official road, on the back of the swaying donkey, Lu Liangsheng looked at the outline of the city wall that was becoming clearer in front of him, and a long queue had already lined up to enter the city. Some have big heads.

However, after entering the city, Lu Liangsheng hadn't gotten out of his promise to the monkey, but he could faintly feel the subtle atmosphere in the city.

On the street, one or two teams of imperial guards could be seen passing by.

Chapter 596 The Beauty of Chang'an

"Sparkling candied haws~~ delicious and beautiful candied haws~~~"

"Guest officer, please, today we have a new chef who is good at all kinds of Western Region flavors. Look, this is the menu..."

“Fragrant and crispy biscuits!!”

The city was bustling and noisy, and the peddler carrying the burden shouted loudly. Passing through the pedestrians in front of him, he saw a figure who looked like a scholar, his eyes lit up, and he ran up shaking the burden.

"Young master, do you still remember me?"

An old donkey dangling a brass bell stopped, and under its swaying mane, Lu Liangsheng let go of the rein and looked at the familiar peddler. He remembered that he had bought a few pancakes from the peddler when he returned to Chang'an a few days ago, and arched his head with a smile. Hand: "Remember, I don't know if my brother is blocking my way, is there something wrong?"

"It's all right." The peddler was in his 30s and was short and strong. Putting down his burden, he swiftly took out two pancakes from the load, wrapped them in oilcloth paper, and handed them to the scholar with both hands.

"Young master, don't be disgusted."

The long street was noisy, Lu Liangsheng looked at the pancakes handed over, he was polite in refusing to accept them, took it in his hand first, and asked, "Brother, what are you doing?"

"it's okay no problem."

When the peddler saw that the scholar had received the pancakes, a smile appeared on his rough and round face, and he rubbed his hands honestly: "This is a pancake style newly made by my wife, and the inside is filled with jujube paste. I bought the last few cakes in a low tone, and I might be reprimanded by my wife when I go home, but I met you today, why should I give it to the young master to taste."

The peddler was also a meek character, after talking so much, he didn't know what to say later, and nodded to Lu Liangsheng with a smile again: "Young master, you are busy, I will take a step first. "

"Thank you, brother!" Lu Liangsheng thanked him with his hand, seeing that there were still two pancakes that Yu Wen passed out through the oil paper in his hand, he smiled and put them on the bookshelf, led the old donkey who was looking around, and continued to disturb the crowd In the West Market, various flags and flags fluttered above the street, and the restaurant was full of people. The waiter carrying the dishes walked past the door, and the smell of wine and vegetables wafted to the street. Before he had passed the restaurant, the old donkey behind the scholar , There was a thunderous sound of "goo--" from the bookshelf.

Toad Taoist held the small door and looked at the restaurant through the gap, and sniffed hard.

"Liangsheng, we've been eating wild food outside for a few days, why should we go and rest our stomachs?"

Looking at the busy guys inside and the various dishes being delivered, Lu Liangsheng felt a little greedy, and the eight big men who followed behind him wished they could go in and sit down for a while, eating something warm.

"Liangsheng, how about this one, it smells really good."

"Actually, I'm hungry too, all uncles go in together."

Lu Liangsheng took the old donkey and turned around and walked to the restaurant. When the clerk at the door saw the guest, he put a rag on his shoulder and greeted him with a smile on his face.

"Hey, son, there are a few guest officers, hurry up and sit down inside. This small shop has a new Chef Zhu here today. His skills are exquisite. It doesn't matter whether it's Western Region cuisine or my Central Plains cuisine. Call it delicious."

"Then please, brother, introduce me to these eight uncles."

"Okay...eight...uncles?" The shop guy looked at a big courtyard wall in front of him, where eight big men stood around the table, swallowed his saliva, and hurriedly invited people Go inside and sit down at one of the big round tables.

Over there, Lu Liangsheng went out and took the old donkey to the backyard of the restaurant. When he tied the donkey to the shed, he took out a golden hair from his sleeve pocket with his other hand, and it fell lightly to the ground.

A white smoke rose, and the next moment, a monkey less than four feet jumped onto the donkey's back, scratched the hair on its cheek, and swept across the barn around the backyard, slapping its furry palm under its nose.

"It's here? It just smells..."

Lu Liangsheng gathered the reins, tidied up the bookshelves, walked out of the donkey shed with a smile, and just said: "Great Sage, you are just the backyard of the dining place..." When white smoke rose from the ground, a white The bearded and fat old man came out in a white robe, shook the hem of his robe, walked past the monkey, and snorted softly.

"I don't know."

"Hey, you old toad, beg to be beaten!" The donkey-backed monkey climbed up to the shed beam, stretched out its hand to pull its ear, and a stick appeared in its hand.

"Great Saint!"

Lu Liangsheng quickly cast a blind eye to cover up the scene, frowned and said softly, "Great Sage, have you forgotten what you promised me before?"

"Did my grandson promise?"

The monkey on the donkey shed scratched its forehead, looked at the frowning scholar, reluctantly shrunk the stick and stuffed it back into its ears, jumped down with its hips on its hips and raised its head: "Okay, okay, just take it as I said, let's go, then All the old toads have gone in."

After taking two steps, Lu Liangsheng realized that something was wrong, and stopped again: "The great sage might as well change his appearance."

"It's about you."

The monkey rolled his eyes, raised his fingers and nodded himself, and immediately turned into a thin, thin middle-aged man with sharp mouth monkey cheeks, stroked his short beard, and ran to the back door of the attic excitedly.

Lu Liangsheng sighed, followed closely, and walked through the corridor of the back kitchen. The sound of chopping kitchen knives on the chopping board gradually died down, and the voices of people in front became noisy.

Over there, Lu Pan's eight people had already ordered a full table, and when he came over, they saw a skinny man who suddenly appeared and sat down on one side. Taoist Toad, who was caught in the middle, suddenly said: "It's the monkey from that day." This made Lu Pan and others clear their minds.

"Hey, why is this smell so familiar?"

Taoist Toad ate a few mouthfuls of food first, then smacked his lips to reflect on it, "I seem to have eaten it somewhere."

Lu Pan and the others looked at each other, picked up chopsticks and tasted some dishes. Apart from the good taste, there were no other strange things. Lu Liangsheng looked at Master's thoughtful appearance, and tasted it curiously. , He didn't do much research, and he felt similar to Lu Pan and the other eight.

"Bah!" At this moment, the monkey sitting next to the scholar grabbed a few green vegetables, chewed them in his mouth a few times, and spit them out on the ground.

The monkey's voice was quite loud, so the diners around could naturally hear it clearly. At the nearest tables, when they saw the servant grabbing the food, they chuckled softly.

"This person has never used chopsticks..." "The chef here is a new chef hired by Cuiyun Building, and he is not used to good food!"

"That man is a barbarian!"

Lu Liangsheng's heart tightened when some small and broken words came here, and he subconsciously stretched out his hand to pull the monkey. Before the other party lost his temper, the eight big men who sat half a circle across the table slammed the table loudly, They all stood up in unison, staring at their big eyes, looking around fiercely.

"Who said that just now?"

"Come out and say it again!!" "Damn, I can't see if you can get rid of you!"

Looking around, he saw that the eight people were rude and savage, and their bodies were even more robust. They buried their faces and continued to talk and eat with their companions pretending to be okay.

The monkey pushed away Lu Liangsheng's hand, and looked at the eight stronger than ordinary men in front of him with interest. He spread his hands, showing eight hairs, and handed one to each of them.

"Haha, it's really nice to see someone who stands out for my old grandson. I accept this little gift, and if you encounter some monsters and ghosts blowing the hair on your hand, I will solve it for you."

Lu Liangsheng looked at the monkey dumbfounded. Although the monkey hair is indeed a treasure that can save an emergency for ordinary people, how can it be given away like this.

Just as he was about to ask the clerk if he had any melons and fruits, Toad, who was holding chopsticks in the opposite direction, suddenly put down his chopsticks and raised his face.

"For the teacher to know, whose meal is this!!"

Not long after, Lu Liangsheng took his master and asked his assistant to lead the way to the back kitchen. Hearing the sound of chopping vegetables inside, he gently pushed open the concealed door.

Looking past the kitchen assistant who was lighting the fire, he fell to the front of the kitchen counter. Lu Liangsheng laughed and called out the name of a fat, black-haired man.