In the summer of the ninth year of the emperor, Chang'an was very hot.

On the summer and June of this year, Yang Gaozu of Sui resolutely went out to patrol and annex the state, leaving the crown prince Yang Yong to supervise the country in Chang'an.

As soon as the edict was issued, there was a lot of discussion between the government and the opposition.

A group of courtiers who supported the crown prince Yang Yong were overjoyed by the issuance of this edict, and unanimously agreed that after two years of neglect, the crown prince Yang Yong finally regained the emperor's approval and was able to stay in the court as the crown prince and temporarily take charge of the government. This also means that although Yang Guang, the king of Jin, was endowed with military power in the world, it was still not enough to pose a threat to Yang Yong's position as prince.

At the same time, there are also some courtiers who don't think so, most of them are high-ranking and powerful ministers in the Chang'an Dynasty, and they have heard of the queen's repeated requests for Yang Jian to replace Yang Guang with Yang Guang in the past two months.

Only a handful of prime ministers in the court, including Shangshu's left servant Gao Ying and his subordinate Yang Su, carefully noticed that the emperor had made special adjustments to the guards around the crown prince Yang Yong and Jin king Yang Guang before deciding to go on this tour, revealing that Yang Jian was actually wary of these two sons, and neither of them was completely at ease.

First of all, although the sixth rate of the East Palace of the crown prince Yang Yong was able to restore the establishment scale of 3,000 people, Yang Jian personally named Li Yuantong from Puzhou to serve as the leader of the prince's left army, and actually took charge of the East Palace guards. This move is tantamount to putting the emperor's every move under the supervision of the emperor himself.

Secondly, the guards Liu Fang, Xue Shixiong, Xian Yuluo and others around Yang Guang, the king of Jin, were recruited to join the forbidden army, and Yu Xiaoren, Li Hun and other Yang Guang's cronies were transferred from the hussar camp of the king of Jin to serve in the sixth rate of the East Palace, and Guo Yan and Li Jing were sent to Yang Guang as guards (Guo Yan also served as the assistant leader of the hussar battalion of the king of Jin), and Shi Xiang, a fierce general who was originally under the command of Yang Jun, was transferred to the hussar battalion of the king of Jin.

Compared with the six rates of the East Palace, it is obvious that Yang Guang, the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses who holds military power, has been deliberately arranged by the emperor with more monitoring forces.

Yang Guangda was satisfied with the transfer of Guo Yan and Li Jing to his side as guards, and at the same time, he also accepted his father's large-scale replacement of the generals of his hussar battalion, and privately believed that his father's move would help him better avoid the suspicion of competing for the crown prince.

In addition to making adjustments to the escort generals around Yang Yong and Yang Guang before the patrol, Yang Jian also ordered Yang Guang to issue a military order to transfer 100,000 troops from Jianghuai to the north, as the emperor's personal patrol of the northern border, so as to form a shock to the re-emerging Eastern Turks.

After receiving the news that his father Yang Jian would personally inspect the state, Yang Liang, the king of Han who went out of the town, led a group of subordinates from Xingtai in Hebei Province early, and sent people out of the customs to Zihe Town to inform the Eastern Turkic capital Lan Khan Yongyu Lu, and asked him to follow him to the bank of Fenshui to meet Yang Jian and his party.

Although Yongyu Lu had been sluggish with Yang Liang who was still in Chong Nian due to Yang Shangxi's illness before, as soon as he heard that Yang Jian, the ancestor of the Sui Dynasty, led his old opponent Yang Guang, the king of Jin, and Gao Ying and other important ministers of the Sui Dynasty to inspect and annex the state, he did not dare to have the slightest slackness. He personally entered the customs and rushed to the bank of Fenshui to greet Luan.

Just after the day of Bingyin in the autumn and July, Yang Liang, Yong Yulu and others, who had been waiting on the bank of Fenshui early in the morning, received a report that Yang Jian's Luan had left Fenzhou City and was coming towards the bank of Fenshui.

Cui Zhongfang, the right servant of the Hebei Road Terrace standing behind Yang Liang, heard the news, and was about to open his mouth to persuade Yang Liang to return to the tent temporarily erected not far behind him to rest for a while, and wait for Luan to get closer before going out of the tent to greet him, when he suddenly heard the Taiping Gongshi standing next to him pointing to Yang Liang and saying: "Lord, look, there seems to be a team of soldiers and horses coming ahead. ”

When Yang Liang heard this, he raised his head and looked at the south bank of Fenshui, and sure enough, he saw dust in the distance, as if a cavalry team was galloping towards his location, so he turned back to Shi Wansui and ordered: "General Lao Shi stepped forward to ask to see if it was the forerunner of my father." ”

Shi Wansui replied, turned on his horse, and rode alone across the river via the stone arch bridge not far away, and met the group of men and horses.

When Shi Wansui rode a horse and approached the oncoming group of centaurs, Fang was surprised to find that the three war horses galloping at the forefront of the group were sitting three people: a black-faced man about forty years old was sitting on the far right war horse, and a handsome young man riding on the left war horse, and the two escorted the old man riding on a jujube red war horse in the center.

Shi Wansui stared intently, looked the old man up and down, and saw that he was born with five pillars to the sky, his face was like the sunset, and he was sitting on a horse and his figure was taller than the two guards on the left and right, and he was more than one on the top of his head, just like a god descending to earth.

"It's a subordinate of King Han on the other side?"

Shi Wansui was secretly surprised when he suddenly saw the black-faced man pointing at him with a horsewhip in his hand and asked.

"Long live in the next history. Dare to ask what the honorable driver is? Shi Wansui rushed at the three people opposite him on horseback and hugged his fist, and replied loudly.

"You are the Dunhuang soldier who once slashed Apo Khan, long live? Why don't you dismount and salute when you see me? The old man in the middle heard the three words Shi Wansui, and couldn't help blurting out asking.

"You are?"

"Taiping Gong, do you still know this king?" The handsome young man on horseback on the left greeted Shi Wanzai with a smile.

"It's His Royal Highness the King of Jin who has arrived!" After being reminded by Yang Guang, Shi Wansui Huo Di recognized him, and he didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly turned over and dismounted, threw himself down in front of Yang Jian's horse, and bowed his head.

"Hehe, Ah Zong, you commanded the army to attack Chen before, and you haven't brought him with you, if Shi Wansui arrives in Jiangnan, Xiao Maha and Zhou Luoyu and others may hardly be his opponents." Yang Jian has heard the name of Shi Wansui for a long time, and now he sees that he is born like an iron tower, and he can't help but turn his head and praise Yang Guang.

Shi Wansui was in front of the guide, and took Yang Jian and his party to cross the river from the stone arch bridge to meet Yang Liang and the others, Yang Liang asked the Yuan Gu who came from Yang Jian in private, Yang Jian was impatient to ride slowly in Luan, so he asked Yang Guang to ride a horse with him, and came to the Fenshui in advance. So, they hurriedly introduced Yongyu Lu and Yang Jian to meet, and the group surrounded Yang Jian like a moon and returned to Bingzhou City.