Chapter 79: Yongji Qucheng (2)
This somewhat made me feel a little different about Yang Guang's previous behavior. But what I think about the most is not this, but Yu Wenhua and what he said to me.
When I knew him a long time ago, I thought he should be about the same as me when he was young and vigorous, but I found that I was wrong, he was still a nosy person at heart, and I didn't bother to ask about anything that didn't concern me. When I think about it, I think I used to think highly of myself and thought I was some great character, but in fact I was nothing.
I'm even beginning to wonder why the people I've befriended look the other way around me, maybe just because my dad is Tang Guogong, or just out of politeness?
I don't know, but who really admires someone who doesn't do anything and doesn't have a big heart? I suddenly thought of Ruoxiu, and even began to wonder why she liked me.
No, of course not.
I've been worrying about these things, and I haven't paid much attention to other things, only one thing I have to pay attention to, when the Yongji Canal was about to be completed, the energetic Yang Guang inspected the Jiangdu and then turned north, and took a look at the construction of the Yongji Canal.
In fact, the Yongji Canal is not exactly a new river, it is also rebuilt on the existing river, mainly to dredge the previous river, bring in the tributaries of Zhangshui or Weishui, and build a canal from Luoyang to Zhuojun, mainly for the transportation of grain and rice. Because of the high load of boats on this channel, the river is dug very deep. Of course, this requires a lot of labor, and I am glad that because of Yu Wenhua's scheduling, there were no major mistakes during the entire construction period.
Until Yang Guang's northern tour passed.
This incident has nothing to do with Yongji Canal itself, Yang Guang was assassinated on the bank of Zhangshui.
The assassination almost succeeded, if it weren't for Yu Wenhua, who stood beside Yang Guang and flew the second arrow that shot at him for him. The first arrow hit him in the left shoulder, and if Ubunka didn't shoot, the second arrow would hit him in the neck.
Yang Guang is the emperor after all, and it is impossible to attack him at close range, but the assassin still took a risk, of course it was impossible to succeed, and the two men in black were killed, and when Yu Wenhua picked off the black scarf of the dead man, I was so frightened that I was stunned on the spot.
I've seen these two men in black before, they were there at the first meeting of the Drunken Hung Chi Teahouse to find traitors, and the reason why I still have an impression of them is because they have also appeared in the teahouse later.
The people of Qingyu Pavilion assassinated Yang Guang? Such a big thing, as the Lord of the Qingyu Pavilion, I don't even know it. If I had known, I would never have allowed this to happen. In my concept, all of them are outside the court, even if Ding Cheng is favored by Yang Guang, Zhang Wensu is concerned about the affairs of the court to the point of disgust, they are also outsiders, I definitely don't want them to have anything to do with the court.
But now the people of Qingyu Pavilion actually want to kill Yang Guang?
Of course, the assassination of the emperor is a big deal, and with my understanding of Yang Guang, I think he must investigate this matter thoroughly. Strangely, he didn't dig deeper. I don't know what the truth is.
Yang Guang stayed in Zhuojun for a short time, until the Yongji Canal was completely repaired, I thought about it carefully, and it took less than a year from the beginning of construction to the final repair. Yang Guang's interest was not affected by the assassination, he still wandered along the wide river of Yongji Canal as usual, not at all afraid that the person who wanted to assassinate him would not come again and again. The deterrent he made was only to make Yu Wenhua cut off the head of the assassin and hang it outside the city gate for three days, and the rest was not pursued.
I think with Yang Guang's mind, it is impossible for him not to know that these people who were sent are just chess pieces, and the people who really want his life are still hiding behind the scenes, but he doesn't care?
He only asked Yu Wenhua not long after the assassination incident, saying that he had made a meritorious contribution to saving the driver and what reward he wanted.
I thought about it, if Yu Wenhua didn't want anything, it was absolutely impossible, and it would be embarrassing for Yang Guang to be meritorious, but what did he want? I thought about it for him, but I couldn't.
Yu Wenhuaji's answer was beyond my expectations, and it also surprised Yang Guang - he wanted a woman, and hoped that Yang Guang could tell the world to help him find it.
…… He didn't know anything about this woman, only a portrait, which he painted himself after this woman left him, and it had been twenty years, and Yu Wenhua actually took it with him when he came to Zhuo County.
I glanced at it, and it looked pretty good. But with a portrait of the past, looking for an old man from 20 years ago is a headache just thinking about it.
Although I am more or less interested in Yu Wenhua and the matter with this woman, I can't ask him, and this matter actually has nothing to do with me, I ...... Thinking of this, I suddenly remembered Yu Wenhuaji's words again, "But what have you thought about?" What can you do? ”
Yes, I don't want to think about it anymore when I think that these things have nothing to do with me. Xun Yi was called by Boss Ding to deal with the matter of the "Qing No Return" dance workshop, Zhang Wensu told me that it has nothing to do with Qingyu Pavilion, not only do I not care about the matter itself, but I don't even care about Xun Yi's safety, how can I do this? Zhuojun's drunken Hongjian teahouse broke away from Qingyu Pavilion, and after thinking about it, I felt that I couldn't manage it, so I didn't ask anymore. Now that there are people from Qingyu Pavilion who are stabbing Yang Guang, I still don't bother to care......
I chose to ignore it, but these people, these things, are actually related to me.
It didn't take long for Yang Guang's true purpose to repair the Yongji Canal to be revealed. He asked me to do one thing, to transport all the grain stored in several granaries in Luoyang to Zhuojun. I thought about it, shouldn't it be the other way around? Luoyang has nothing to rely on, and can only rely on other places to transport grain to meet the demand, and there is no reason to come the other way around.
I quickly learned why, because he was not only transferring food, but also starting a nationwide conscription, which was about to prepare for war. However, the surrounding small tribes all submitted to him, and among the feudal states in the northeast, only Goguryeo was more bold and did not take him very seriously.
In fact, when the first emperor was alive, he had already sent troops to Goguryeo, but he did not win at that time, and because the first emperor was a very economical emperor, he probably felt that fighting a war was a waste of national strength, so someone persuaded him at that time that he would give up. Now his son is going to do it for him.
I don't know why, after I knew Yang Guang's true intentions, I had a very ominous premonition. It's as if you have a premonition of doom before you even start doing something.