At this moment, Yang Guang no longer has the courage to face setbacks, let alone boost his confidence and regain his strength. In the end, he chose to indulge in wine and beauty rather than sober up and face the cruelty of the world.
Yang Guang to Jiangdu, even more absurd, more than 100 rooms in the palace, each furnishing is extremely luxurious, living in the beauty, every day to a room of beauty as the master. Yang Guang, Empress Xiao and the pampered beauties ate all over the banquet, the wine glasses did not leave their mouths, and the more than 1,000 beauties in the entourage were often drunk. Yang Guang cherishes time very much every day, often wears a scarf on his head, wears short clothes, walks with a cane, walks all over the palace's buildings, does not stop at night, and keeps watching the surrounding scenery, always a feeling of looking at one less glance, lest he not see enough.
This is already a complete loser, both professionally and mentally, and has been defeated forever.
Yang Guang is proficient in divination and loves to speak Wu language; often held banquets at night, looked up at the changes of the stars, and once said to Empress Xiao: "There are many people outside who calculate Nong, but Nong is not a good Duke of the Great Wall (Empress Chen), and Qing is also Empress Shen (Empress Chen Shubao)." Let's just have fun and drink! After saying this, Yang Guang "drank and got drunk" again.
After drinking too much, he loved to look in the mirror, turned back to Xiao Hou and said, "What a head, who should cut it off?" Empress Xiao was shocked and asked why he said this, Yang Guang smiled and said: "Noble and lowly bitter and happy, cycle replacement, what is there to be sentimental!" ”
But Yang Guang is not completely dead-hearted, and occasionally when he is sober, he will still find a way to remedy it: Yang Guang saw that the Central Plains was in chaos and had no intention of returning to the north, so he planned to move the capital to Danyang and protect Jiangdong, and ordered the ministers to discuss the relocation of the capital in the court.
Danyang here refers to Danyang County, where Jiangning is located.
When Yu Shiji and others heard this, of course they applauded; Li Cai, the general of the right guard, tried his best to explain that it was not advisable, asked Yang Guangyu to drive back to Chang'an, and argued with Yu Shiji angrily and went down to the palace.
Li Tongke, the secretary of the door, said: "Jiangdong is humble and wet, the land is dangerous, and the court must be supported internally, and the three armies must be supported externally, and the people are unbearable, I am afraid that they will eventually rebel." ”
Li Tongke slandered the government, so the ministers all bent on Yang Guang's meaning and said: "The people of Jiangdong have been longing for Your Majesty to be fortunate for a long time, Your Majesty will cross the river and comfort the ruling people, and this Dayu thing is also." ”
Yang Guang was also very pleased, after all, there were still people who supported him so much! Then, he began to use his own methods to prepare for the division of the river and rule: so Yang Guang ordered the construction of Danyang Palace and prepared to move the capital to Danyang.
At that time, Jiangdu was running out of food, and most of the Xiaoguo from Yang Guangnan were from Guanzhong, who had been away for a long time, missing his hometown, and seeing that Yang Guang did not plan to go back and wanted to stay in Jiangdu, naturally no one was willing, and most of them planned to flee back to their hometowns. Lang general Dou Xian led his subordinates to flee west, and Yang Guang sent cavalry to chase him and kill him, but people still kept fleeing, which made Yang Guang have a headache.
So, in this way, an idea against Yang Guang began to appear in the Xiaoguo Army, and the Xiaoguo Army at this time was already like a pile of dry grass that had been dried for a long time, and it was only one spark away from igniting. It was not Yu Wenhua who lit this pile of hay, but Hu Benlang General Sima Deji.
Sima Dejiao has always been trusted by Yang Guang, Yang Guang sent him to lead Xiaoguo, stationed in Dongcheng, he heard that these soldiers are quite rebellious, on the one hand very worried, on the other hand, and want to take advantage of it, he and usually good Hu Ben Lang will Yuan Li, Zhige Pei Qiantong conspired, that Yang Guang is very jealous, if this situation is told to the truth, I am afraid that he will be killed first, but if he does not report it, he will also suffer the blessing of clan annihilation in the future. Therefore, as long as Xiaoguo fled, they would follow along.
After that, they went to their good friends separately, and a small group was formed to meet and flee north, and discussed the matter regardless of time and place.
A palace maid told Empress Xiao: "Everyone outside wants to rebel. Xiao Hou said: "It's up to you to report." The palace maid said to Yang Guang, Yang Guang was very angry, thinking that this was not something that the palace maid should ask about, and killed the palace maid.
Yang Guang is now an ostrich mentality, out of sight is pure, and the death of the palace maid has brought Yang Guang's ears to be quiet.
Later, someone said to Empress Xiao, and Empress Xiao said: "The situation in the world has reached this point today, there is no one to save it, what is the use of words, it is just to make the emperor worried!" Since then, no one has spoken of anything about the situation outside.
But the matter of plotting to return to the north continues, Zhao Xingshu and the general as a young eunuch Yu Wenzhi and have always been close, Zhao Xingshu told their plan to Yuwen Zhiji, and Yuwen Zhihe is a rather arrogant person, he feels that just fleeing to his hometown in a gang is not enough to shock the earth: "Although the emperor is absurd, but he still has a certain prestige, once he hears that we have defected, he will try his best to hunt him down, and then I am afraid that there will be no misfortune." In my opinion, if the heroes rise together today, the end of the Sui Dynasty is just around the corner. We might as well use the many people here who are willing to rebel to capture the palace and depose the faint king, wouldn't we be able to achieve the hegemony of the emperor? ”
Everyone discussed the matter of escaping north, and because of Yuwen Zhiji's words, it was pushed to a new height.