Chapter 86

The sky suddenly darkened, and then golden light exploded.

The sky screen that spanned ancient and modern times unfolded again, and amidst the clouds and mist, the familiar majestic voice rolled in:

【At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the tyrant Yang Guang was mediocre and incompetent, imposing heavy taxes and levies, the people of the world were in dire straits, and various rebel armies rose up】

Sui Imperial Palace.

Yang Jian stared fixedly at the sky screen images—those skinny commoners carrying huge stones to build luxurious palaces, digging canals in the cold winter, with corpses piled up along the riverbanks.

His face turned livid, his chest heaved violently, and he suddenly grabbed the jade Ruyi on the desk and smashed it hard on the ground!

"Bastard! Bastard thing!"

Dugu Qieluo held his hand, her voice also trembling:

"Your Majesty, please calm down, what the sky screen shows is a future event, Guang'er is still young, there is still time to teach him..."

"Teach him?"

Yang Jian laughed in extreme anger.

"Look at this picture! Is this something a human can do?!"

"Building palaces, digging canals, how many years have I been dead? He has ruined the Great Sui like this?!"

He stood up abruptly and roared: "Someone, drag Yang Guang here for me!"

Not long after, the teenage Yang Guang was brought into the hall, not knowing what had happened, his face full of confusion.

"Father, Mother..."

【The sky screen continues to speak: At this moment, the Hu people at the border have gone south again, and the Central Plains have fallen into the flames of war again】

The scene switches:

Turkic cavalry trampled the Great Wall, beacon fires burned across the northern border, Han people were slaughtered and looted, and villages turned into scorched earth.

Yang Jian's eyes turned red.

He walked step by step to Yang Guang, and the young Yang Guang was scared and retreated: "Fa, Father..."

"Kneel down."

"Father, I don't know..."

"I told you to kneel!"

Yang Guang knelt down with a thud.

Yang Jian stared at him for a long time, his eyes filled with anger, sorrow, and more importantly, deep disappointment.

He spoke slowly, every word squeezed out from between his teeth:

"Drag Yang Guang out and give him forty strokes of the cane."

"Father! What crime did I commit, Father!" Yang Guang panicked and kowtowed desperately.

Dugu Qieluo also knelt down.

"Your Majesty! Guang'er is young, future events have not happened yet, why go to this extent!"

Yang Jian closed his eyes and waved his hand.

Two guards stepped forward to drag him away.

Yang Guang's crying and shouting faded away, eventually replaced by the sound of the cane and screams.

Yang Jian looked at the sky screen and muttered:

"The empire I worked so hard to build... I unified the north and south, ended three hundred years of chaos... and I raised such a thing?"

Dugu Qieluo helped him sit down with tears in her eyes.

At this time, the sky screen image changed again—

【In the end, Li Shimin persuaded Li Yuan to rebel, seized this Sui empire, and established the Great Tang】

Yang Jian opened his eyes abruptly.

In the picture, a heroic young man was persuading a middle-aged general to rebel, the general was hesitant, and the young man spoke eloquently.

Then the Taiyuan uprising, banners fluttering, the army went south.

"Li Yuan... Li Shimin..."

Yang Jian read these two names and suddenly laughed, a desolate laugh.

"Good, good, my empire, it was finally seized after all."

"Yang Guang, look, because of you, my Great Sui perished in the second generation! You have failed your ancestors!"

The sound of the cane was still ringing, and Dugu Qieluo was already in tears.

Great Han, Weiyang Palace.

Liu Bang was sitting with his legs crossed eating grapes, and laughed when he saw this.

"This Yang Jian is also miserable, worked hard for a lifetime, and his son ruined it all. But having said that..."

He looked at Lv Zhi: "Empress, do you think after I die, our Great Han will also..."

Lv Zhi said coldly: "If Your Majesty is worried, why not teach Ying'er well and go to Lady Qi's place less often."

"Cough, I'm just asking, just asking."

Liu Bang said sheepishly, quickly changing the subject.

"But this Li Shimin is interesting, persuading his father to rebel? Has courage!"

Xiao He said in a low voice on the side: "Your Majesty, this man can persuade his father to raise an army as a subject, he is definitely not an ordinary person."

"I know, I'm not blind."

"Keep watching, I want to see how capable this Li Shimin is to be ranked second."

The sky screen was full of golden light, and magnificent music sounded.

【And this second place of the eternal emperors is—】

Subtitles appeared line by line, each accompanied by a bell toll:

Senior Secretary of the Right Commandery, Junior Supervisor of the Palace, Grand Master of Splendid Happiness, Governor of Yongzhou, Great General of the Right Martial Guard, Secretariat Director, Grand Marshal, Minister of Education, Secretariat Director of the Great Administrative Office of the Shaanxi Road, Secretariat Director of the Great Administrative Office of the Yizhou Road, Secretariat Director, Great General of the Twelve Guards, plus Heavenly Strategy General, Governor of Asia, Speaker of the Eastern Hemisphere, Prince of Qin, Founder of the Xuanwu Gate Succession Law, Tang Taizong "Heavenly Khan" Li Shimin!

Boom—

Every dynasty exploded.

Great Qin, Xianyang Palace.

The bamboo slips in Ying Zheng's hand fell to the ground, he was stunned for a long time, and turned to look at Li Si.

"Li Si, did I read it wrong just now? Those titles... how many are there?"

Li Si counted with his fingers, got confused halfway, and smiled bitterly:

"Your Majesty, at least a dozen, and each one heavier than the last."

"Secretariat Director, Grand Marshal, Minister of Education, Secretariat Director... these are all chancellor positions, he holds them all alone?"

Meng Yi clicked his tongue: "And Heavenly Strategy General... what kind of official position is this? I've never heard of it."

Wang Jian narrowed his eyes: "Just looking at the name, I know it's a military position, and it ranks above all princes."

"This Li Shimin, I'm afraid his merits are so high they shake the master, and he cannot be enfeoffed further."

Ying Zheng stared at the words "Governor of Asia" and "Speaker of the Eastern Hemisphere," frowning.

"What do these titles mean? Later generations, are official appointments so childish?"

Li Si pondered: "Perhaps... it's a way of referring to territory in later generations?"

"Looking at the three characters (Heavenly Khan), this person should have conquered many foreign tribes."

Ying Zheng was silent for a moment, then suddenly said: "Does my Great Qin have such a person?"

The hall was silent.

Li Si, Meng Yi, and Wang Jian all lowered their heads.

Ying Zheng stopped talking, just staring at the sky screen, his eyes complex.

Great Han, Han Wudi period.

Liu Che was drinking, and when he saw the list of titles, he choked directly.

"Cough cough... how, how many? He holds so many positions alone, is his father crazy or what, not afraid of him rebelling?"

Wei Qing smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, looking at what the sky screen said later, he did rebel."

Huo Qubing's eyes lit up.

"But these titles... are really majestic!"

"Especially Heavenly Strategy General, it sounds powerful! Uncle, do you think I can also..."

"Qubing!" Wei Qing glared at him.

Liu Che laughed.

"You kid have ambition! But..."

He stroked his chin.

"This Li Shimin holds so many positions, can the court operate? Not afraid of being worked to death?"

Gongsun Hong stroked his beard: "Your Majesty, perhaps it is because of his extraordinary ability that he can hold multiple positions, but with such high merits, trouble will surely arise."

Sure enough, the sky screen began to explain.

【Li Shimin, born in 598 AD... he was born in the Li family's villa in Wugong County, and it is recorded that when he was born, "two dragons played outside the villa gate"—of course, this is a beautified version after he became emperor】

The emperors of various dynasties smiled knowingly.

Liu Bang: "Tsk, I'm familiar with this routine, I also said I beheaded a white snake back then."

Liu Bei, end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, living under someone else's roof: "I, I actually also..."

Zhang Fei: "Big Brother, stop it, who doesn't know you came from weaving straw sandals?"

Liu Bei: "Third Brother!"

Guan Yu stroked his beard: "Big Brother, weaving straw sandals is not shameful."