Chapter 703 (1/2)

The next morning, in addition to Yu Wenhua and his conviction, the court decided to establish a new emperor. At last, everyone unanimously decided to establish Yang Hao, the nephew of emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty, as emperor.

Then there is the reward of meritorious officials.

Wu Qizhe was granted the title of king of Wu directly. He was a great general and took charge of all the troops in the world.

Kou Zhong was directly promoted to general and general manager of Yangzhou, while Xu Ziling was granted the title of Hushi general and governor of Yangzhou.

Li Jing and Qin Shubao were promoted to the left and right guard generals respectively.

Both Hongfu girl and Yun Yuzhen were granted rewards. Yun Yuzhen was granted the title of commander of the water army of the imperial court, and also served as an official of the third grade.

As for Wu Xingyun and Li Qiushui, they were appointed as palace maids, commanding everything in the back palace.

As well as the original Sui court officials were promoted to a higher level, there were rewards.

Yu Shiji also recommended his younger brother Yu Shinan to Wu Qizhe.

After the first battle, although the whale shark Gang disappeared, its core members were already above the court and became the people who shocked the whole world.

Three days later, the first challenge of the new emperor's accession to the throne came. Li Zitong led tens of thousands of bandits to Jiangdu, but before the army reached Jiangdu, their leader Li Zitong disappeared quietly.

It's true that Wu Qizhe secretly assassinated all this, so Li Zitong's tens of thousands of troops fell without fighting.

Taking advantage of this great victory, tens of thousands of troops took the opportunity to go straight to Liyang, the hometown of the Jianghuai army. It was still Wu Qizhe who single choked his horse into the city and captured Du Fu Wei, the leader of the Jianghuai army.

In order to save his life, Du Fu Wei had to order the Jianghuai army to surrender to the imperial court, and once again recruited nearly 200000 Jianghuai army without blood.

It's just that the army of the Yangtze and Huaihe rivers is intermingled with the good and the bad. Naturally, it can't accept all of them. At the same time, we have to remove the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled. In addition, tens of thousands of Li Zi, who were demoted, were able to lead the army into chaos, and suddenly gained 100000 strong men.

Naturally, Wu Qizhe would not practice in person and arranged specific things for Li Jing. As a military God respected by later generations, he naturally took care of all this in good order.

It can be said that in a short period of half a month, Wu Qizhe expanded his power to the north of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, and the whole area of the south of the Yangtze River was also in his pocket.

Wu Qizhe continued to lead the army to march toward Lin Shihong's territory, and the place he passed was basically falling from the wind.

Because before the army attacked the city, the garrison generals were either killed or captured. Only ten days later, Lin Shihong's territory was completely occupied, and the leader Lin Shihong was also executed.

The Sui army marched all the way south until it was close to the song warlords in the south of the five ridges.

The rapid expansion of the power of the whole Sui court was almost tongue tied. Xiao MI, who was encroaching on the land of Jingchu, was even more frightened. He was afraid that when the imperial army would kill his own territory.

In a short time, the major forces in the North learned about the changes in the situation in the south through various channels.

What they know is that the Sui court was the most powerful family, and it was only a young man who led all this. Before, he was just a little-known gang leader of grass-roots bandits. However, in a short period of one month, he took control of the whole court and occupied a large area of Jiangnan.