"Pei Ju? You said that the culprit behind the drugging of Concubine De was Pei Ju? ”

At the same time that Pei Ju was furious and angrily reprimanded Pei Xuande. Zhanzhao, who followed Duan Yi to Pei's mansion and decided that Pei Ju was the mastermind behind the scenes, had already informed Bao Zheng and entered the palace together to explain the past to Yang Gao.

After listening to the narration of the two, Yang Gao was stunned and asked puzzledly: "Pei Ju is a dignified minister, although he is a little selfish about his family in dealing with things on weekdays, but he is still loyal to me in terms of major rights and wrongs, and he has always had no grievances with Concubine De, why did he do such a rebellious thing?" ”

Bao Zheng arched his hand and said: "Back to Your Majesty, as far as Wei Chen knows, Pei Xiangguo has always had a lot of complaints about General Xue, thinking that he was promoted to the secretary of the military department in just two or three years, and became the first general of the hot army in the Great Sui Dynasty, and the promotion speed was too fast. According to Chen's estimation, he should be worried that if Concubine Xue De gave birth to His Majesty's eldest son, His Majesty would definitely rely more on General Xue in the future, and he would definitely overpower him in the future, so he made this decision. ”

"Damn!"

Yang Gao was very angry and took the case, "The dignified Xiangguo of the Sui Dynasty actually did such a rebellious thing for his own selfish desires, and he did this to a child who had not yet been born, which is really disappointing to me. Zhanzhao! Order you to immediately lead the Jinyi guards under your command to arrest Pei Ju. ”

"Wechen obeys!"

Zhan Zhao arched his hand and immediately turned to leave, but unexpectedly, just after taking a few steps, a little eunuch hurriedly broke in, and happened to collide with Zhan Zhao who was walking out.

"Bastard, what are you doing recklessly, there are no rules at all! What happened? Yang Gao was angry because of Pei Ju's matter, and his attitude at the moment was also very rude.

The little eunuch was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt on the ground, and said tremblingly: "Your Majesty, Pei Xiangguo tied up his nephews Pei Xuande and Duan Yigong and kneeled outside the noon gate to ask for His Majesty, claiming that he came to ask His Majesty for his guilt!" ”

"Pei Ju!"

Yang Gao was stunned when he heard this, and after a pause, he waved his hand and said, "Announce him in!" ”

After a while, Pei Ju walked into the imperial study with Pei Xuande and Duan Yi, who were tied up with five flowers, and immediately bowed to Yang Gaona: "Your Majesty, the old minister is guilty, and the old minister's family education is not strict, which caused Pei Xuande, the son of the clan, to do a great rebellion, and the old minister is ashamed of his kindness to His Majesty." ”

As he spoke, he kowtowed a few times, and with tears in his eyes, he recounted in detail the matter of Pei Xuande instructing Duan Yi to drug Xue Baochai in his own name.

Zhanzhao was born as a martial artist, and he has always admired a famous general like Xue Rengui, but he naturally doesn't have much affection for Pei Ju, who slandered Xue Rengui behind his back. After listening to Pei Ju's narration, he immediately snorted disdainfully: "Lord Pei is really calculating, such a big crime as murdering the emperor's heir, you just casually push out a child of the clan to apologize and want to get away with it?" ”

Pei Ju glanced at Zhan Zhao dissatisfied, and then said with tears streaming down his face: "Your Majesty, Pei Xuande is the son of my brother Pei Yun, the son of Pei Yun's branch suffered heavy casualties in the Xiaoguo Mutiny that year, and Pei Xuande is now the only surviving son of the elder brother. If it weren't for the fact that the crime he committed today would not be punished, the old minister would never have tied him up to meet His Majesty! ”

The more Pei Ju spoke, the more sad he became, and suddenly he hit his head on the ground again, banging loudly, and cried: "Your Majesty, please believe the old minister!" Believe in the old minister! ”

Looking at Pei Ju, who had broken blood in front of him, the anger in Yang Gao's heart gradually subsided, and he began to think about this matter calmly.

Speaking from his heart, Yang Gao didn't believe that Pei Ju would instruct the eunuch to drug Xue Baochai, so he was surprised after listening to Zhan Zhao and Bao Zheng's report at the beginning. Because according to Yang Gao's understanding of Pei Ju, this person is cunning, cautious, left and right, can be called an officialdom tumbler, such a person is the least daring to do such a high-risk thing as murdering the emperor's heir.

After pondering for a long time, Yang Gao took a deep breath, slowly got up and said, "Pei Aiqing, I believe that the case of Concubine De was not instigated by you, but the evidence is conclusive that you bribed the palace attendants with a lot of money. In addition, Pei Xuande is a child of your Pei family after all, and you, as the head of the family, are still guilty of lax discipline. In view of this, I have decided to remove you from the post of Left Servant and the Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, and only retain your dispersion and title, do you have any objections? ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness!"

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Half an hour later, Yang Gao issued a holy decree, Pei Xuande, a son of the Pei family, colluded with Duan Yi, a servant, to plot to poison and try to kill the emperor's heir. Xiangguo Pei Ju, although he didn't know about it in advance, as the head of the family, he was not strict with the children of the clan, and he was dismissed from his position as the left servant of the Shangshu and the secretary of the ministry.

In the morning of the next day, Yang Gao issued a holy decree again, and Zhang Juzheng was replaced by Zhang Juzheng, the envoy of Qingtian, and the post of Pei Ju's left servant was replaced by Anshi, the county guard of Nanyang County.

In addition, the meritorious ministers of the Central Plains Campaign were rewarded, and Xue Rengui of the Central Plains Corps was appointed as the Duke of Dingguo. Chang Yuchun was crowned as the general of Zuotunwei and gave the title of Duke of Huaiyuan County. Yang Ye was promoted to the general of the town army. Li Jing was crowned as the general of the right marquis and gave the title of Duke of Fenyin County. Fang Xuanling was promoted to the Standing Attendant of the Left Scattered Cavalry, and Liu Bowen was crowned as the Zhongshu Attendant. The rest of Su Dingfang, Li Siye, Zhou Dewei, Zhang Dingbian, Xue Kui, Lu Junyi and others also rewarded meritorious deeds and became knights.

And Lin Chong, who was unfortunately killed in the battle by Gai Shixiong, was posthumously awarded the title of loyal general, given the title of Marquis of Anxiang, and ordered the officials to take care of Lin Chong's family, and never neglect it.

Yang Lin, Long Zhi and others on the Jingxiang battlefield captured the Tang Dynasty's horse Chai Shao alive, and wiped out 40,000 Tang troops. Yang Gao once again passed down the golden words and rewarded the king of the backer, Yang Lin, with thousands of hectares of good fields. Crowned Longzhi as the general of Guide and gave him the title of Marquis of Pavilion. Master Shang apprentice entered the jue for Boshan County. Guan Sheng was crowned a guerrilla general. Li Mi was crowned as a squire of the military department. Zhou Ben was the captain of Guoyi. Guan Ling, Wei Wentong, Shi Bao and others were all promoted to the next level.

Finally, Yang Gao set up the Military Aircraft Department on the grounds that there have been continuous wars in recent years. Led by Yu Yunwen, the commander of the Shangshu, assisted by Fang Xuanling, Liu Bowen, the waiter of the middle book, and Xu Wei, the waiter of the military department, he dealt with all urgent military and political affairs.

Although Yang Gao claimed that the Military Aircraft Department was a temporary wartime institution, it would be disbanded after the unification of the world. However, many discerning people have found that the members of the Military Aircraft Department are either the old men of Zhao Wangfu or the rising stars who have only been promoted in the past two years, and they secretly guess that it is very likely that it is because of Pei Ju's incident that Yang Gao began to distrust the old ministers of the Wu Emperor Yang Guang period, so it was decided to establish the power of the Military Aircraft Department to overhead the country.

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