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Chapter 256: Retreat to advance

This time, Yang Xiao went to Ganyang Palace for the second time. This time he came here was naturally different from the last time. Last time, he hid alone in a dark corner and closed his eyes to rest until he was called out by Gao Ping. This time, he was as His Highness Changsun and led several people to stand in front.

Just as I was about to find a stool to rest for a while, I heard a familiar voice in my ear: "I have met His Highness Changsun."

Yang Xiao turned around and was surprised to find that the owner of this familiar voice was actually Hui Yatou's father Xu Xiaode.

Seeing him bent and looked quite respectful, Yang Xiao couldn't help but feel silent. When he was scolding him in Wangjiang Tower that day, he was seen by the girl Hui who was hiding beside him. He had wiped out his face as a father. Didn't he hold a grudge against him? Or did he want to play some tricks?

"Mr. Xu, are you?" Yang asked with a smile, and quickly helped him up with both hands.

"With the guidance of Your Highness, I have thought about a lot of things in the past few days. I feel that I have lived in vain in the past few years, so I think..." Xu Xiaode was next to Yang Xiao with the voice that only two people heard, as if he was awake, but he was interrupted by a sharp voice.

"The prince is here, please discuss it later"

Yang Xiao looked up and saw Gao Ping coming to the hall with the whisk at some point.

Xu Xiaode originally wanted to say something private to Yang Xiao, but this time he had to give up and stand back in the queue of the morning shift.

"Dingdeng--" A burst of rapid footsteps came from behind the screen in the Golden Palace. The footsteps were very different in weight, as if the same person stepped on it.

Just when everyone was confused, two people came from behind the screen, one big and one small, and the one small came. The leader was the current crown prince Yang Cheng, and the next one was His Highness Yang Li.

When the Cui Dang and others saw His Royal Highness bringing Yang Li with him today, they were all happy. However, the "Yuan Xu Dang" was not sure why, but Xu Xiaode narrowed his eyes and occasionally revealed the one or two of them when the light of the light swept across Cui Yixuan.

As soon as Yang Cheng came out of the screen, he saw Yang Xiao below, and quickly waved to him and said, "Yang Xiao, come to Gu's side with Li'er."

Yang Xiao was stunned when he heard this. What did he say? Comparing me with what Yang Li called me. I recognized Taoist Qingyun as my mother and the old emperor as my grandfather, but from the bottom of my heart, I did not regard Old Zhu as my "father".

Seeing Yang Xiao stunned, Gao Ping quickly ran down and smiled flatteringly at Yang Xiao, "Your Highness Changsun - Your Highness Changsun, I will help you up."

Yang Xiao came back to his senses and looked at Gao Ping. He saw that Gao Ping was even more respectful and still whispered: "The prince ordered the servant last night to ask his master to invite his highness. I was afraid that I would affect your highness, you should rest last night. I thought that I would not know how to go to your highness's bedroom this morning and heard from the servant that you have left the palace. I had to come here. Before the servant finished speaking, the prince came here alone."

Yang Xiao thought about it and discussed with Mr. Zhu late last night, so he rested in Daxing Palace. Later, he thought that he would persuade all civil and military officials to support him in running a new school today, so he came out to find Li Shiyin early in the morning. Dad Song originally wanted to find some food-growing and textiles and other folk masters, but his circle in the Sui Dynasty was so big that he knew not many people, so he had to bring Dad Song, the blacksmith, and Li Shiyin, the gunpowder king. Could it be that he couldn't find him?

After looking at the old man pig above, seeing him nodding slightly, Yang Xiao raised his foot and followed Gao Ping, standing on the lower head with his younger brother named Yang Li.

Yang Xiao turned his head and looked at the cheap brother named Yang Li. He saw that he was fifteen or sixteen years old, with beautiful eyes and beautiful eyes. He looked a little similar to Mr. Pig between his eyebrows.

At this moment, Yang Xiao found that while he was looking at him, he found that Yang Li, the cheap brother, was also looking at him secretly. When the two eyes met, Yang Xiao smiled at him, but he lowered his head in panic like a frightened deer, and his hands were at a loss, like a little girl who was angry.

Seeing his appearance, rumors about him flashed through Yang Xiao's mind. When King Long fought for the throne that day, the "Yuan Xu Party" advocated that His Highness Li, who became the prince, was timid and afraid of trouble, was cowardly by nature, could not bear heavy responsibilities, and what Yang Xiao heard the most was from Shangguan Dress.

Seeing the third generation of the second prince standing still, Yang Cheng put away his smile and started his morning court for the whole day.

"My dear friends, since the Huainan army retreated, these things have been worked hard day and night, but found that everything has been abandoned. Since the country was isolated, the Sui Dynasty has fallen to this point, and I am ashamed of my father and Taizu——"

When the civil and military officials saw that the prince said this, they did not even let him stop his sins. Before Mr. Pig finished speaking, they all knelt down and sang loudly: "It is useless for me to be afraid of me."

King Long's throne was abolished and he couldn't blame others. Old Zhu sighed inwardly, but said, "Let's be content with all my dear work. I know that everyone is diligent and hardworking for the Great Sui Dynasty. I have thought a lot of time. I also know that Huainan Chu Ni has become an example in the world. All states and prefectures are ready to move you. Do you have any good plans?"

"For these rebel officials, the party officials believed that the soldiers would be directed to Huainan as soon as possible, and the emperor's power would be ruthless." A middle-aged man from Cui Dangzhong said with an indignant look on Bai Yu.

Yang Xiao was stunned when he heard the soldiers pointing to Huainan. Who is this man? Could it be that his head was rust? On that day, Meng Yao's soldiers forced Luoyang City to force him to defend Luoyang City, but he didn't even have 50,000 troops to target Huainan. If it weren't for the new gunpowder intimidation, the soldiers of the government in various places would have raised their flags early to declare independence.

Old Mr. Pig's face did not change, just nodded, and then said to the following: "Dear friends, Master Cheng of the Ministry of Revenue suggests what do you think?"

Thinking about the fact that when the soldiers were forcing Luoyang City that day, Erlipu was in a dark place, and the other officials in the hall were silent. The Huainan Army besieged the city 100,000 on that day, with such a momentum, now they are going to reach their hometown. The Huainan Army is a elite soldier known as one million, and attacking him is nothing short of a day.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Mr. Zhu named him: "Xu Aiqing, you are in charge of money. The first thing you need is money when fighting is the first thing you need is people. Tell me how much silver there is in the treasury now."

Xu Xiaode pondered for a moment and said, "In less than three million taels?"

"Not three million, less than three million?" Mr. Pig said with pain, "A great Sui treasury actually has so much silver. How to fight this battle? How to establish authority in the Sui treasury? Dear friends, think about it and come up with an idea for the orphans."

The old man Cheng was originally in a state of great momentum, but this time he was speechless by so much silver in the treasury, and lowered his head in shame.

At this time, the hall was as quiet as mist. The civil and military officials in the field were all traitors. The national treasury was empty and it was not enough to send troops to Huainan to deal with these broken state affairs. The local prefectures were much richer than the Daxing Palace. If the tax and silver could not be collected from Jiuzhou, it would have become a separatist scene of separatist rule in the feudal states.

"Cui Aiqing, you are the Minister of War. Tell me what to fight in this battle?" Old Mr. Zhu changed his tone and naturally turned to the topic.

Cui Yixuan pondered for a moment, stood up, and said, "I think the battle is not possible at present."

"Oh," Old Pig's eyes narrowed into slits and said, "Huainan rebels and bullies the orphans without anyone. Shouldn't we punish them?"

When Yang Xiao saw the two of them performing, he couldn't help but secretly admire that Mr. Zhu is worthy of being the prince. The person who doesn't want to fight in this hall is probably the one who is on the high-ranking golden chair. At this moment, in order to convince all officials to successfully implement his new policy, he was in a hurry at the beginning, and then he served the treasury and made the ministers give up the current decision to force Huainan with conscience.

"Your Highness, I think it's not that I should not punish them, but that the timing is wrong. Thanks to His Highness Changsun's gunpowder and earth bombs, I was forced to get rid of the crisis of the army trapped in Luoyang. But even so, these bombs were manufactured very short, the process was not exquisite, and the quantity was not large, not to mention that the sulfur ore required for gunpowder and the pig iron in the Zhujinfang were already exhausted. I thought I would send someone to collect these ores first, and then wait for our elite soldiers to train them before attacking."

In addition to the "Yuan Xu Party" who remained silent, Cui Yixuan, who was headed by Cui Yixuan, naturally nodded and agreed to this statement.

"Yes," Mr. Pig looked at the lower left head with emotion, and his waist was straight and straight, and said with a smile, "If it weren't for His Highness Changsun, I wouldn't know what Luoyang would have become now?"

When Mr. Zhu said this, he suddenly said "Huh": "Cui Aiqing, you just said that His Highness Changsun's earth bomb craftsmanship is not good? Do you know what's better?"

Cui Yixuan smiled and said, "Your Highness, you are too proud of me. I don't have this ability to do less than one tenth of the company commander Sun?"

"What do you mean?"

"Your Highness, Your Highness Changsun is here today. Why not let Your Highness Changsun tell us? The old ministers are all eyes open."

"Yes, yes, yes," all the civil and military officials in the hall agreed, "I had to bang that day, and the sky and the earth were trembling, and all the old ministers wanted to know."

"Yang Xiao, then tell me, how are you good?" Old Mr. Pig said with a smile.

Yang Xiao turned around and nodded to the old man Zhu on the chair in the Golden Palace, then turned around and said loudly: "I believe everyone knows that this time the Huainan army forces Luoyang, not only lost the face of the Yang family, but also the face of everyone. Of course, if someone among you rebels from the Huainan army, that's another matter?"

"This bald man is talking nonsense," Xu Xiaode looked at him with a narrow eye and sighed inwardly, "This scene is indeed performed well, at least these officials have all joined the prince's throne."

This was like a rebellion. When the officials heard this, they knelt down in panic and said loudly in panic: "I dare not."

"Okay, you all get up," Yang Xiaoxiao said, "Since everyone is interested, you all come with me, I will demonstrate it to you when you are outside." After that, he walked towards the steps.

Seeing this, Gao Ping hurried over and helped Yang Xiao walk down with him.

A group of people followed Yang Xiao to the outside of Qianyang Hall. At this time, the fog outside the hall dissipated, revealing the bright and dazzling sunlight, making people feel warm.

Yang Xiao came to an open space, took out a small bag of gunpowder from his arms and spread it out, and said, "Do you guys see clearly what this black thing is?"

"Is this gunpowder?" an official asked in confusion.

"Just this can force 100,000 Huainan troops?"

“…”

"Of course not," Yang smiled, "You can take a look first, I'll demonstrate for you." As he said that, he took out the flint from his arms and knocked on the gunpowder.

Everyone heard a "sourcing" sound, and a stream of blue smoke rose, and the small pinch of black powder disappeared immediately, and then there was a pungent smell in the air.

Everyone present was surprised and inexplicably. Even Yang Li, who had always been timid and cowardly, showed a surprised look, his face was filled with strange brilliance, and he was eager to try...
Chapter completed!