On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 455 The mystery of hexagrams

The city of Suizhou changed its owner, and all the counties followed suit, opening the doors to the east of Han Dynasty.

However, Cui Che did not continue to march to the southeast to seize the land of Handong, but was making arrangements to stay behind and prepare for the army.

If we go further, once Yang Guangdong leaves and changes occur in Luoyang, we will definitely not be able to come back in time.

If Luoyang is lost, even if Handong is captured, it will be like picking up sesame seeds and throwing away watermelons, and the gain outweighs the loss.

On March 27, the first year of Zhenyuan (AD 606), Cui Che reported to Jinyang that he appointed Dou Jiande as the governor of Suizhou and Liu Heitao as his deputy general, and led 10,000 soldiers to guard Suizhou and guard against enemies from the east of Han Dynasty.

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At the same time, in accordance with the promise, Chen Ji was appointed as the governor of Xuanzhou (governing Wuzhong County, today's Jizhou District of Jin) and granted the title of Bo of Rangcheng County.

The other surrendered generals also received rewards.

After handling these matters, Cui Che immediately returned to his class. Changsun Wuji, Changsun's wife Gao Shi, and Guanyin's maid also got into the carriage and followed Cui Che away.

As for the concubines that Changsun Sheng left in Suizhou City, Cui Che rewarded them all to the meritorious generals.

Guanzhong, Daxing.

After Yang Guang learned that Cui Che had left Luoyang and captured Suizhou, he wanted to take the opportunity to go eastward.

It's just that the ritual of exorcising ghosts was not done smoothly.

It's no wonder that Yang Guang was superstitious. His uncle, King Yang Shuang of Wei, was haunted by evil spirits and died suddenly and mysteriously.

At that time, the wizard Xue Rongzong, who was sent by Yang Jian to exorcise ghosts, was also attacked by evil spirits in Prince Wei's Mansion. In panic, he fell down the steps and fell to the ground dead.

Although Yang Yong's ghost has never appeared, Yang Zhao's condition has not improved, but has worsened.

Seeing this, Yang Guang did not dare to stay in Daxing anymore. When he was torn between leading his troops eastward and going to Renshou Palace to escape the summer heat, Yang Guang asked a fortune teller to predict his fortune after he left eastward.

The prime minister's surname was Huang. In the second year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign, Cui Che followed Li Chong and defeated the Turks in the Battle of Baidao. He returned to the court to discuss his merits and reward him. Huang prime minister had been ordered by Yang Jian to meet Cui Che, which eventually confused Cui Che and Yang.

Ah Wu’s marriage.

Afterwards, Cui Che was worried that he would continue to ruin his good deeds, so he secretly handed Huang Xiangshi a money bag regardless of the past grudges.

Sure enough, when he met Cui Che again, Huang Xiangshi was convinced that he and Yang Lihua were a match made in heaven, so this marriage came about.

Now Yang Guang asked Huang Xiangshi to predict for him the good or bad luck of the eastward journey.

Huang Xiangshi made a divination in front of the emperor. When he saw the divination, his face suddenly changed and he was frightened and dared not speak.

In fact, Yang Guang had been mentally prepared for a long time. Ever since he killed his father and brother, everything had gone wrong for him and he was very anxious. Seeing Huang Xiangshi's expression, he was not surprised. He said solemnly:

"What is the result?"

Huang Xiangshi trembled and said:

"Reporting to your majesty, this is an ominous hexagram. Please think twice about going east."

When Yang Guang heard this, he let out a long sigh, waved his hands and said:

"Okay, please step back."

Not long after Huang Xiangshi left, Yang Guang immediately issued an edict to cancel the plan to march eastward. At the same time, he ordered soldiers from Jiangzhou and other prefectures to rush to aid Handong and resist Cui Che's southward march until Cui Che's squadron was in Jinyang.

As for Daxing City, Yang Guang did not dare to stay any longer. Seeing that summer was approaching, Yang Guang led all the civil and military officials to Qizhou Renshou Palace to escape the summer heat.

As for Huang Xiangshi, when he returned home, he called his son into a secret room and taught him by words and deeds.

"Since ancient times, we fortune tellers have gone out on expeditions to predict fortune and misfortune for the monarch. Most of them bring good luck. But today, my father told the saint that this battle will be very bad. Do you know what that means?"

The young man of the Huang family inherited his father's legacy and is now studying physiognomy intensively. Hearing his father's question, he thought for a moment and said in deep thought:

"The King of Yan is a famous general in the world. He has never been defeated. The emperor is driving him to conquer personally, so he may not be his opponent.

"If my father tells me something auspicious and the emperor is defeated, my father will definitely be punished for deceiving the emperor.

"Today, my father informed me that the hexagram is very bad. If the sage stops here, he will not be able to verify the authenticity of this hexagram.

"Even if the saint refuses to listen to dissuasion and insists on going eastward, it will naturally be a great joy if he wins the battle.

"My father can call the saint the son of destiny, who can turn things around and turn disaster into good. How can the saint blame his father?

"But if unfortunately his father's words come true, the saint will trust his father even more."

Huang Xiangshi was overjoyed when his son revealed the secret. He stroked his beard and praised:

"My son is smart, and I have a good successor."

It cannot be said that all fortune tellers are deceitful, but many times, fortune tellers do not look at the divination for the king, but try to figure out the king's mind.

If the king has made up his mind and insists on sending troops, he cannot blatantly sing the opposite tune. Even if it is a bad hexagram, it must be said to be a good hexagram to stimulate the morale of the army.

But Yang Guang's hesitation was written on his face. He was exhausted physically and mentally due to Yang Zhao's illness and the ghost of Yang Yong, so naturally he could not strengthen his will to send troops.

So just because Huang Xiangshi had an evil divination, he ignored how much food had been consumed in the previous preparations for the war and gave up on the matter.

This kind of behavior may seem like child's play, but in fact it is indeed child's play.

But it happened that Yang Guang's governance often involved so many childish things. Otherwise, in the original time and space, the Sui Dynasty would not have brought a powerful empire to the edge of destruction under his governance.

On the second day of April, when Cui Che was still on his way back to Luoyang from Suizhou, Yang Guang drove north to Renshou Palace and took the sick prince Yang Zhao away to Renshou Palace to escape the summer heat and recuperate.

However, Yang Zhao's strange illness did not get better even after leaving Daxing, which made Empress Xiao shed tears all day long.

The news that Yang Guang dismissed his conscripted troops and went to Renshou Palace to escape the summer heat finally reached Luoyang.

Cui Che did not stay in Henan anymore. Nowadays, the finances are tight, and the Eastern Sui treasury can hardly support him to continue to lead troops outside.

Fortunately, there was a peaceful handover in Suizhou, and the county treasury was not looted. Cui Che emptied the Suizhou treasury and used it to reward the soldiers who went south. The remaining sum was supplemented from the national treasury.

Previously, Cui Che raided brothels in various places where girls were forced into prostitution, and confiscated all the assets of the brothel owners. At least, this brought a wave of blood back to the national treasury, and he could barely pay the rewards to the soldiers.

Otherwise Cui Che will have no choice but to follow Yu Wentai's example and engage in installment payments.

Yuwentai offered a reward of 10,000 pieces of cloth for the head of Gao Aocao, the general of the Eastern Wei Dynasty. However, the Western Wei Dynasty was poor at that time, and the payment was not paid in installments until the fall of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

Cui Che left Luoyang first and returned to the court with his troops.

Soon after receiving Yang Guang's edict, Yuwenshu also disbanded the conscripted Jingzhou army.

On the way to the north following the imperial edict, the troops from Jiangzhou and other places learned that Cui Che had left Henan and immediately turned around and headed south.

The crises in the south of Luzhou and in the east of Suizhou were gradually lifted. Cui Che transferred Liu Fang to lead 30,000 troops to the north. Li Jing, the governor of Luozhou, returned to Luoyang and continued to command the troops of Luozhou, Luzhou and Yizhou to guard against Jingzhou.

The enemy and the troops from Guanlong came out eastward.

Watch and help each other with Dou Jiande, the governor of Suizhou.

(End of chapter)