Everyone came to the main hall of Jinyang Palace, divided into two compartments, and stood still according to the shift, Yang Jiandu said to Yongyu Lu: "I and my father have been saying goodbye to Chang'an since four years ago, and I don't want to be separated by yin and yang now, and they will become strangers forever." Dulan Khan is a guest from afar, please sit down and talk. ”

Yongyu Lu saw that Yang Jian was over fifty years old, and he could still come across the horse and whip, so he didn't dare to be so arrogant as he treated Yang Liang before, so he hurriedly bowed down and thanked him: "The Son of Heaven of the Great Sui is sitting, and Du Lan, as the Khan of the vassal country, how dare he be disrespectful to the Son of Heaven and sit disrespectfully?" Du Lan still stood and returned to the words of the Son of Heaven. ”

"Sha Boluo, Mo He two khans have died one after another, I want to come early to pay respects, but the southern army is not finished, it is not convenient for a while, this time to patrol the north, I will personally go to the two khans in front of the mausoleum to salute, a little expression of the friendship of the deceased. When it comes to fashion, there will be Raudlan Khan to lead the way. Yang Jian was not reluctant to Yongyu Lu, let him stand in front of him, and Su Su pulled with him.

Yongyu Lu didn't expect Yang Jian to dismount in Bingzhou, so he proposed to go to the tomb of his father and uncle to mourn, his head was hot, and he made a request to Yang Jian with his fists: "The Holy Son of Heaven, my father Khan died under the arrows of the Khitans, and this Khan had made a request to His Royal Highness the King of Han to ask the Khitans to hand over the murderer who shot my father and cut off his head to pay tribute to my father Khan. Now that I am fortunate to welcome the northern tour of the Holy World, I ask Your Majesty to pass on the decree and order the Khitan to hand over the murderer, so that the younger generation can get what he wants. ”

"The Khan's words are wrong." Yang Jian unhurriedly corrected Du Lan Dao, "As far as I know, the death of Sha Bolu Khan was purely instigated by the Goguryeo king Gao Tang and led his troops to invade the east, and it has nothing to do with the Khitans. The Khan wanted to avenge your father, so he went to find the originator of the matter, Gao Soup. Not Qi (Cui Zhongfang's words), this time I visited the northern border, did I summon the Goguryeo king Goguryeo to enter the customs to welcome him? ”

When Cui Zhongfang heard this, he stepped out of the queue and bowed his hand: "Back to Your Majesty, the King of Han once wrote a letter to recruit Gao Tang to enter the customs to welcome him, Gao Tang said that he could not afford to be ill, and only sent his prime minister to come to pay tribute to many things, and now on the order of the King of Han, he will be placed in the pavilion. ”

When Yang Jian heard that Gao Tang refused to be greeted, he frowned slightly, and then instructed Yang Liang, the king of Han, to "And transfer all the tributes from Goguryeo to Dulan Khan, which can be regarded as a little bit of my heart for the old man." ”

When Yongyu Lu heard Yang Jian open his mouth, he blamed the death of his father Sha Bolu Khan on Gao Tang, and transferred many things that Goguryeo paid tribute to the Sui Dynasty to himself, so he forcibly endured not to argue with Yang Jian in court, and only bowed down and thanked him: "Thank you for the generous gift." However, the arrow that shot the father Khan, after all, came from the bow of the Khitans, and if this revenge is not avenged, the father Khan will not be able to rest for a day, and he will look forward to the Holy Son of Heaven. ”

Yang Jian no longer took his words, smiled and asked him instead: "When I was in Chang'an, I heard that you had married my righteous daughter, Princess Dayi, why didn't she come to see me today?" Before I left Beijing on this northern tour, I specially asked the queen to personally carefully select a gold lacquered rosewood screen from the treasures seized from the Nanchen Palace as a gift for the marriage of your husband and wife. ”

Yongyu Lu had to bow down again to thank Yang Jian and his wife for the reward, and naturally it was inconvenient to mention the matter of sending troops to the Khitan to avenge his father Sha Boluo.

That night, Yang Jian was stationed in the Jinyang Palace, and when he came to greet the ministers and foreign vassal khans, the envoys met and drank happily, Yang Jian left his two sons alone, Yang Guang and Yang Liang, and asked the two: "Do you know why my father came on this northern tour?" ”

Yang Liang was young, and he witnessed his father's encirclement of the Eastern Turkic Dulan Khan during the day, so he took the lead in replying: "The son knows that his father and the emperor are really here to shock the Turks. ”

"Ah Zong, you took the initiative to ask to replace Ah Liang and then merge the state, do you think so too?" Yang Jian was noncommittal to Yang Liang's answer, and turned to Yang Guang to ask.

"Ah Liang's answer is not bad. As far as the ministers know, the Eastern Turks have been recovering their domestic military strength since Mohe Khan succeeded to the throne, and his father's northern tour did have the intention of threatening the Turks. However, Erchen still thought that his father seemed to have the intention of using troops against Goguryeo, otherwise he would not have asked Yongyu Lu to find Gaoyu to seek revenge during the day. Yang Guang added.

"Well, nothing else? If your eldest brother were here, he wouldn't have only thought about war. Yang Jian intentionally or unintentionally mentioned Yang Yong, the crown prince who was far away in Chang'an, and glanced at Yang Guang and asked.

Yang Guang seriously lowered his head and thought about it, then replied with his fists clenched again: "Erchen recalled that when he was in Guangling to unify the army and attack Chen, he was personally visited by his father and the emperor to supervise the grain and stabilize the eastern part of the country, so he dared to speculate about the holy will. ”

Yang Liang was still in the position of governor of the state, and he had never heard of any actions by Hebei Shijiahao to turn his back on the imperial court, so he immediately questioned Yang Guangdao: "Second brother is serious." The family in Hebei has been loyal to the imperial court in recent years, and there is no deviant behavior. ”

Yang Jian threw a glance of appreciation to Yang Guang, and said to his two sons in a didactic tone: "Among my five princes, only you two are the most talented, and I and your mother have the most far-reaching hopes for you. Therefore, for my father to dismount in Bingzhou today, I specially left the two of you behind to ask me about the deep meaning of this northern tour. For the father, I ask you two, if you go back 20 years, how much should the land of China be demarcated? ”

"Three points. Two points for the north and one point for the south. Yang Liang didn't think about it, and blurted out.

"Like, it should be four points. The area of Guandong and the Central Plains was originally the Tuoba clan of the Northern Wei Dynasty as a place for seeking sinicization and moving south, which is different from that of Hebei and Yanzhao, and the two should not be confused. Yang Guang groaned and corrected Yang Liangdao.

Twenty years ago, Hebei and Guandong were both the land of Northern Qi and should be regarded as one point, and what Ah Zong said was more able to start from the evolution of dynasties and customs in the past hundred years, and divide Hebei and Kandong into them, just saying that the deep meaning of Zhongzhen's northern tour is to truly unify Guanzhong, Kandong, Hebei, and Jiangnan, which were originally divided into four parts of the world, and restore the territory of the Han Dynasty." Yang Jian's eyes flashed with a fine light, and he taught his two sons earnestly.

"Guanzhong is the foundation of our dynasty, the Kanto and Central Plains areas uphold the Han Dynasty legacy is the strongest, Hebei Hu and Han are mixed, and it is the hometown of the former Qi, and Jiangnan has recently been able to seek peace. Father, please forgive the son's bluntness, if you want to unify this book that makes a quarter of the world, I am afraid it will not be a day's work. Yang Guang muttered.