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Chapter 750 The Weakness of the Yang Family

Huang Baichuan first followed Liu Zhiheng, the leader of the White Turban Army, and was later successfully instigated by the court, killed his lord, and surrendered to the court.

After the White Turban Army was pacified, Zhao Zhi placed Huang Baichuan and the tens of thousands of remnants of the White Turban Army in his hands in Caizhou.

Although Caizhou has a large territory, it is poor and has few people. It cannot support Huang Baichuan and the tens of thousands of soldiers in his hands. He was in trouble in Caizhou for several years and most of the soldiers in his hands fled. Huang Baichuan became more and more resentful to the court.

Yue and the governor of the E Jie, Yang Liecheng, were extremely arrogant and despised the court and spread the land. In the fifth year of Chengping, they colluded with the governor of Yingzhou Liu Xiang to intercept taxes in the Jiangnan region and intend to cut off the important tax source of the court. Zhao Zhi could not tolerate this. Moreover, after five years, the country had slowly recovered from the great trauma of the White Turban Rebellion. After discussing with the ministers, and the situation in Anbei was still stable at that time, Zhao Zhi decided to reuse Huang Su, draw the elite forces of the imperial guards, and use troops in the Jiangnan region.

The court dispatched troops and generals, and the scale was huge. Yang Liecheng immediately felt a huge crisis. How could he wait for death? He immediately secretly joined forces with Liu Xiang, Zheng Ze, Xiangzhou, and Huang Baichuan, the governor of Caizhou, to join forces, and agreed to repel the imperial army and use the taxation land in Jiangnan to force the court to compromise and let it govern the land.

The rebellion led by Yang Lie was very powerful at that time. The forces from all directions united, with nearly 100,000 troops, and was known as 200,000 to the public.

The fifth year of Chengping, July 26th.

General Huang Sui of Anguo was appointed as the governor of Pingnan, leading 50,000 troops to fight for Yingzhou.

The troops on both sides were fewer in the court and more rebels.

At the beginning of the war, the imperial army led by Huang Qi was repeatedly frustrated and fell into a desperate situation. At the critical moment, the fledgling Li Xun stood up and fully supported Huang Qi, making him take the power to make military decisions. Huang Qi made a quick decision and fought bravely. He personally led a few elite cavalry to attack Yingzhou at night, successfully and completely reversed the initiative of the war.

The alliance between Yang Liecheng and others seemed to be huge and powerful, but in fact they had their own thoughts and were disorganized. As soon as the situation of the war changed, Huang Baichuan immediately became interested. At the beginning of the battle situation in a direction of continued deterioration, he made a quick decision and chose to betray and surrender again.

Huang Baichuan is capricious and has no loyalty or principle. Such a person cannot gain the trust of others. However, as an emperor, Zhao Zhi is a mature and good at scheming emperor. The pros and cons in his heart are not about the good or bad of this person. Zhao Zhi looks at the overall situation and the overall measurement. If Huang Baichuan has no value in use, then he naturally has no need to continue to exist. Zhao Zhi will eliminate it completely without hesitation.

At that time, the issue that needed to be considered was not just the internal. During that period, the external situation of the Jin Dynasty had begun to deteriorate. The Tubo Empire became stronger again, and its attitude towards the Jin Dynasty became stronger and more aggressive. The signs of its large-scale invasion of Longyou became more and more obvious. Once Longyou was in a loss, Anbei would be in danger. Anbei was the absolute core of the Jin Dynasty's external efforts. The gains and losses of Anbei were related to the fate of the entire Jin Dynasty and even all the Han people.

The top priority outside the Jin Dynasty was in Longyou and Anbei, while the top priority inside was in Jiangnan. Under this premise, Zhao Zhi would compromise and tolerate these two top priority and favorable people or things to a certain extent.

Wang Huaili, the governor of Chuzhou, was in charge of the local area for many years. His troops were strong and his strength was somewhat out of the control of the court. Under the overall situation at that time, since he had no energy to take care of it, he could only limit it. Huang Baichuan was undoubtedly a good candidate. This person was capable and had some troops in his hands. The overall military strength was not too strong, but it was not weak. Giving him a territory that could not be developed for a long time and let him restrain himself from the side and into his arms was a very good choice and decision at that time.

Huang Baichuan's letter to Yang Daolin stated that Caizhou Sima Yang Shicheng led 800 soldiers to Luojing secretly, preparing to sneak attack and kill King Zhao Shuo of Chu. One of his personal soldiers was unwilling to participate, so they secretly left the team and surrendered to a fellow townsman in Huang Baichuan's army, and told the matter out. The lieutenant immediately informed Huang Baichuan about the matter, and Huang Baichuan immediately wrote a letter in his letter and wrote it over to Yang Daolin.

Yang Daolin clapped his hands, and the sound of the official family quickly sounded outside the door.

"What are the instructions of the master?"

"Let Yang Run come to see me immediately."

"Yes, Master."

The official family left in response.

Yang Run is a very talented person. He is one of the best among the many tribes of the Yang family. He has been an official for many years and has always had a great reputation. When Yang Daosi was in power, he wanted to push Yang Run to the throne and got Zhao Zhi's approval. Unfortunately, he was only a concubine and his status within the Yang family was not high. Yang Daosi promoted him to the throne, and was strongly jealous of Yang Binglin and his sons. He made things difficult and attacked everywhere. Faced with strong pressure, Yang Run had to choose to give up and actively requested to be an official in the local area to stay away from the core of power in order to avoid disaster.

After Yang Daosi's death, the Yang family fell into internal strife and sected each other. Yang Run was discouraged. Fortunately, he resigned and returned to Beijing. He lived in seclusion and stopped inquiries about the disputes outside on the grounds of recuperation.

Yang Run's residence is not far from Yang Daolin's mansion, so not long after, Yang Run came to Yang Daolin.

"Uncle Six."

Yang Run entered the room, closed the door with his backhand, and then stepped forward and bowed to Yang Daolin.

Yang Daolin smiled and said, "Don't need to be too polite, just sit down."

Yang Run nodded and sat down opposite Yang Daolin.

"Uncle Six is ​​here to come to my nephew, but what's wrong?"

Yang Run asked for the reason.

"You can see it yourself."

Yang Daolin picked up Huang Baichuan's letter, Yang Run got up and took it, then turned around and sat down, and looked carefully. After reading it, Yang Run frowned slightly, pondered for a moment, and finally put the letter aside, looked at Yang Daolin, and said in a low voice: "Yang Shicheng has always been very close to Yang You'an. He dared to be so bold, probably because he was instructed by Yang You'an."

“I think so too.”

Yang Daolin sighed: "Since the eldest brother passed away, the Yang family has been getting worse every day."

Yang Daolin really sighed very much, thinking about how great a talented elder brother is. The sons he gave birth to, except for Yang Luwang who was adopted, were all mediocre. The fourth and third brother Yang Orji were quite self-aware, and they were low-key and dared not do anything randomly.

Yang Binglin and Yang You'an have great ambitions and desire for power, but they are full of ambitions and talent, arrogant and domineering, and act unruly, push the Yang family to dangerous places step by step. If it weren't for the solid foundation that Yang Daosi had laid, and the two old men Yang Daolin and Yang Daoan were still carrying it in front, I'm afraid the royal family would have joined forces with other factions to work together to eradicate the Yang family.
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