Chapter 13: Yang Jian's Theft of the Country (1)

Yang Jian made a decision after hearing the news, he announced to the public that he was sick and could not go on the expedition, and needed to recuperate at home. Normally, at this time, a powerful minister like Yang Jian would be suspected of disobeying the emperor's orders, and would even be imprisoned by many royalists. But it's a pity that all the kings of the Yuwen family are guarding outside, and the royalist ministers who support the Yuwen family have been cut down one by one by Yuwen Yun, so at this moment, there are no courtiers in the imperial city who know what kind of disease the emperor has, and the outside world still thinks that the emperor is just a common cold, so although some people have some doubts about Yang Jian's actions, they don't care. Just when Yang Jian was thinking about what to do, an edict came ordering Yang Jian to enter the palace.

Yang Jian was in a cold sweat again, why? Because he couldn't figure out what the emperor was calling him into the palace for at this time. Although Yu Wenyun's son is still young, it can't be Tuogu, and even if Tuogu Na, he won't look for him Yang Jian. You must know that since ancient times, the objects of Gu have often been people in their own families, not to mention far away, just talk about this era, such as Yuwen Taituo Gu Yuwen Hu, Gao Cheng of the Northern Qi Dynasty entrusted to Gao Yan, although these are not good people, but they are indeed looking for people in their own family. Even the so-called ministers of later generations are mainly based on the prince and supplemented by ministers. We know, and Yang Jian also knows, so in his cognition, he feels that the probability of Yuwen Yuntuo Gu is almost zero. Then if it's not Tuogu, there is only one possibility left, and that is to kill him. He wondered if his actions had aroused Yu Wenyun's suspicions, and Yu Wenyun had always looked at him unpleasantly, so he wanted to kill himself while he was still there. But when he thought about it, it was impossible, Zheng Yi and Liu Fang had said so many good things to himself, the emperor had obviously improved his attitude towards himself recently, and Zheng Yi and Liu Fang had not sent out dangerous information, Yang Jian was really puzzled at the moment. But the edict has come, Yang Jian's original plan was to wait for the emperor to die and then plan step by step, this summons disrupted his plan, he thought about it, at this time, Dugu Jialuo said to him, "It's hard to ride a tiger."

After Yang Jian heard this, he immediately made a choice - to enter the palace. As Dugu Jialuo said, he is really difficult to ride a tiger now, he has stayed in the imperial city for some reason, if he does not enter the palace at this moment, after the death of the emperor in the future, no matter what the reason is not in the palace, this will be a fatal point for him. He had no choice but to take power into his own hands so that he could ensure that no one would trouble him in the future. So he tidied up his clothes, put on his court clothes, and walked into the palace together accompanied by the summoned guards, and Yang Jian's road to stealing the country began here.

Yang Jian entered the palace with apprehension and waited for Yu Wenyun's summons. After getting the news that he was inside, he pushed open the door and walked in. But he was greeted by neither the sword and axe men who were ambushed on both sides, nor Yu Wenyun's deathbed entrustment, in fact, Yu Wenyun was already dead before he entered the palace, and what was waiting for him in the emperor's room was Zheng Yi Liu Fang, and this so-called edict was also forged by Zheng Yi Liu Fang, Yang Jian was a little confused, but he was also relieved, because he knew that he would not die.

Let's move back in time to the moment when Yu Wenyun was seriously ill and dying. In other words, Yu Wenyun is indeed worthy of being a faint gentleman, no matter how he asks Gu to come before he dies, he has to call his family to come, but Yu Wenyun is different, he called Zheng Yi Liu Fang. Then Yu Wenyun died without saying a few words, but he felt that with what these two people knew about him, they knew what they wanted to say. Zheng Yi Liu Fang did know what Yuwen Yun meant, and Yu Wenyun hoped that they would call back the king of the Yuwen family after his death, give power to the people of the Yuwen family, and then assist the little emperor. But they are not reconciled, they now have the opportunity to obtain that supreme power, but do they dare? They don't dare, the two of them just got their current status by eating, drinking, and having fun with Yuwen Yun, their own family is not a pillar clan, and they are not qualified to become powerful ministers like Yuwen Hu. And they know that their reputation is not good, in order to curry favor with Yuwen Yun before, they supported Yu Wenyun to kill Wang Liang and Yuwen Xiaobo, who have a great reputation in the court, so the civil and military ministers have a very bad sense of them. And the little emperor Yu Wenyan doesn't have much affection for them, the most important thing is that this little emperor is actually not a son-in-law, his mother is just Yu Wenyun's maid before, it stands to reason that Yu Wenyan can't be the emperor, but Yu Wenyun's body is too overdrawn, just such a son, so it can only be Yu Wenyan as the emperor. Therefore, Yu Wenyan has no background behind him, his power is destined to be divided by his uncles and uncles, and if these people are put on the throne, Zheng Yi and Liu Fang will not talk about being promoted and getting rich, and even their lives will be gone.

But in the face of this temptation, they were not willing to give up like this, so Zheng Yi and Liu Fang summed it up and made a decision, they decided to hide the news of Yu Wenyun's death first, and summoned Yang Jian into the palace by summons. They are not qualified, but Yang Jian is qualified, looking at the entire court, only Yang Jian, who is the head of the dynasty and the head of the Yang family, can be suppressed, and Yang Lihua is the nominal mother of the little emperor, so Yang Jian is qualified. And Yang Jian has a good relationship with himself, when the time comes, the three of us will divide the power and contain each other, Yang Jian will not only not be able to kill himself, but also have to help them resist the anger from the Yuwen family. I have to say it's really a good idea.

So Yang Jian saw Zheng Yi and Liu Fang in Yu Wenyun's hospital room like this, and after Yang Jian listened to their thoughts, as a well-educated nobleman, it was naturally impossible for Yang Jian to be too thick-skinned to agree. So he said, let me think about it again, this matter is too big, and if you don't do it well, it will be a big crime to punish the nine clans. Zheng Yi said, "This matter can't be hidden for too long, we must make a decision immediately, if you don't do it, we will do it ourselves." Yang Jian thought in his heart, with me here, it will be the turn of the two of you? So he slapped his hand and it.

Then Zheng Yi Liu Fang forged a holy decree to let the little emperor ascend the throne, and then declared Yang Jian as the minister of Gu Ming, commanding all the soldiers and horses of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Although Yu Wenyun's official position to Yang Jian before had the power to manage the world's soldiers and horses, everyone knows that as long as the emperor is still there, then Yang Jian is only in name only, and the actual military power is still Yu Wenyun's. But this time it's not, the emperor is dead, the little emperor is still young, as soon as this holy decree comes out, as long as Yang Jian is given time, it is only a matter of time before he really controls the power of soldiers and horses. Yang Jian was very happy, really happy, he recalled the experience of the past few days, it was like a dream, especially since he almost didn't do anything, he became the minister of the Northern Zhou Dynasty so easily, and became a minister like Yuwen Hu, and everything was in his own hands from then on, how could this not make Yang Jian happy?