Yang Su flashed a glance at Yang Guang and replied: "Yu Servant shot Shu, the King of Qin still pasted the northwest, and the King of Shu asked the emperor for war, these things were only learned after the Taoist master returned to Beijing, and the prince returned to Beijing for only one day, no wonder he didn't know about it." ”

When Yang Guang heard this, he became more and more convinced that his father Yang Jian was testing the reaction of all forces in the DPRK and China by granting him the military power of the world, and he did not really want to hand over the military power to one person.

Yang Su saw Yang Guang sitting there without saying a word, thoughtfully, and had guessed a few of his thoughts, so he pulled the topic back to the few messengers that Yang Guang entrusted him to do, and said: "Before the Guangling class, the prince had assigned two messengers: the prince ordered the Taoist to present the chapter to the emperor, and the emperor adopted the prince's suggestion and planned to canonize Xiao's uncle and nephew to Jiangnan, but to tell the prince that Xiao's uncle and nephew need to be strictly supervised, beware of the two of them secretly colluding with the remnants loyal to Nan Chen, this is the first thing; Regarding another messenger entrusted by the prince, Chu Dao went to the prison to investigate and learned that Xian Hua'er was still alive and was still detained in the prison, and as long as the prince asked the emperor for permission, he could take her back to Jiangnan, but the Great Wall Prince, although he visited the door twice, the Great Wall Duke was drunk and had not yet handed over the prince's letter to him. ”

Although Yang Guang was disappointed that his father was even on guard against himself, because he did not have greater ambitions and wanted to compete with others for power, he naturally shifted his attention to matters related to Fusui Jiangnan, and after listening to Yang Su's report, he nodded with satisfaction, hugged his fists and thanked him: "Thank you so much to Duke Yueguo, Chen Shubao will go to persuade the king himself." In addition, there is another matter that needs to be consulted by the Duke of Yue: when he entered the palace yesterday, the king had already sought the permission of his father, and selected a few old generals from the south who had surrendered to the imperial court to return to Jiangnan to unify the army. General Shi Wansui is still in Chang'an, right? ”

Yang Su avoided answering the first question raised by Yang Guang, and answered the second question he raised: "I haven't reported to the prince yet, the Taiping Duke has gone north with the high servants to patrol the border and left Chang'an. ”

Yang Guang heard that Shi Wansui had gone north with Gao Ying to patrol the border, and he was very disappointed, so he continued to ask Yang Sudao: "I heard that Emperor Xuan of Southern Chen had four famous generals in the first dynasty: Xiao Maha, Zhou Luoyu, Ren Zhong, and Lu Guangda, all of whom surrendered to the imperial court in the battle of Chen. ”

Yang Su was unavoidable, and knew that if he lost his words for a while, he would cause him big trouble if he didn't recommend people properly, so he had an idea, and said to Yang Guang with a smile: "If the prince wants to go to see the Great Wall Prince, why don't you ask him what he thinks of these generals?" When he was in Guangling, he heard Pei Yun mention that the prince was quite suspicious of the Great Wall Duke deliberately concealing an old relationship between him and Gu Paner, and he could take this opportunity to test him a little, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone. Although Chu Dao had twice commanded troops to conquer Jiangnan, his understanding of these generals in Nanchen was far inferior to that of the Great Wall Duke. ”

Yang Guang saw that Yang Su was playing tricks with him, and insisted on refusing to recommend the old generals of the south who could be used to him, so he had a look of concern on his face, and responded with a mocking tone: "It is really a wonderful idea to ask the Duke of the Great Wall to recommend the generals of the south of the Yangtze River to this king." In this way, the king will not disturb the Duke of Yue Guo much and take his leave. "With that, get up and walk away.

Yang Su returned to Chang'an more than ten days earlier than Yang Guang, and he had heard of the emperor's and empress's intention to urgently edict Yang Guang to return to Chang'an, how dare he easily offend the next prince Yang Guang, who may replace the current crown prince Yang Yong at any time, saw that Yang Guang's attitude towards himself became cold, and hurriedly got up and persuaded Yang Guang to stay: "Lord Wang, please stay, there is still one thing to explain to the prince." ”

Yang Guang stopped when he heard this, but he refused to turn around and sit down, so he stood in the hall, looking at Yang Su with inquiring eyes, wanting to hear what else he had to report to him.

"Ahem." Yang Su coughed dryly, lowered his voice and asked Yang Guangdao, "Since the prince has met the emperor and his mother yesterday, he should understand the reason for the second sage's urgent edict for the prince to return to Beijing, but I don't know what the prince plans to do about this matter?" is not talented, and is willing to serve the prince as a dog and horse. ”

When Yang Guang heard this, he only smiled coldly and replied, "I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint Yue Guogong, I don't have the kind of mind you mean." In addition, before returning to Beijing, this king had heard Pei Yun mention that the Duke of Yue helped him persuade Feng Xiaoxi, and he thanked him today. As he spoke, he hugged his fist at Yang Su, turned around and walked away.

Yang Su led the army to Jiangnan to quell the rebellion this time, and returned triumphantly, Yang Jian has appointed him as the internal history order, compared with the original subordinates, the official position can be said to be a step forward, but at the same time, he also because he is in the central position, more deeply than ordinary ministers feel the fierceness and cruelty of the power struggle between the DPRK and China, and have to think about their future future, fate and make a move in advance.

Based on his observation and judgment of the situation in the DPRK and China, he believes that even if the crown prince Yang Yong escaped the current catastrophe because of Gao Ying's strong support, he has since lost the favor of the queen Dugu Jialuo, which is tantamount to digging his own grave, and sooner or later he will not be able to escape the fate of being deposed. Yang Liang, the king of the Han Dynasty, also expressed a strong desire to covet the position of the crown prince, and Yang Jian deliberately put Yang Guang on the cusp of the storm, but refused to actually grant him the power that the crown prince should have, which made Yang Su, who was well-eyed and eloquent, keenly aware that Yang Jian's attitude was still wavering in the matter of the crown prince's candidate, and he did not regard Yang Guang as the only candidate to replace Yang Yong.

It is based on this judgment that Yang Su neither dared to offend Yang Guang, nor did he dare to get too close, and he also harbored an ambivalent mentality.

For Yang Guang, this time he returned to Chang'an with Xiao E's edict, in order to show his father Yang Jian in person that he had no intention of becoming the crown prince, so he didn't take Yang Su, the first civil and military talent of the dynasty, to take his initiative to show goodwill, but he was not used to him playing tricks in front of him and deliberately coldly indifferent to him for a while.

After leaving the Yue Guo Mansion with dissatisfaction with Yang Su in his heart, Yang Guang hesitated slightly, and finally took Guo Yan and walked towards the mansion of Chen Shubao, the Great Wall Duke: although Yang Su's advice was difficult to make him get a truly usable general from Chen Shubao's mouth, he could test him personally, and at the same time, he also needed him to come forward to recruit the barbarians of Anling to submit to the imperial court, and sooner or later he would always have to meet him.