Chapter 488: Using Troops to the Western Frontier
Yang Guang sat on the side, and saw the photo run out of the pavilion angrily, and walked towards the paddock, first, out of curiosity, wanting to watch the photo hunting deer from a close distance, and secondly, he was also worried about the safety of the photo, so he got up and hurriedly said to Yang Jian: "Erchen went to take a look, and the beast in the paddock hurt him." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info" took Zhang Xutuo and Xian Yuluo to follow behind the picture and ran out.
Seeing that the photograph ran to a place dozens of steps away from the fence set up in the paddock and stopped, Yang Guang quickened his pace, came to his side, and half-jokingly said to the photogram: "The words of the Great Khan are serious, shoot down an elk, and contribute a hundred war horses?" ”
Hearing this, he turned his head and saw that it was Yang Guang who followed with two guards, and complained to Yang Guang: "When I was in the annexation of the state, His Royal Highness the King of Jin promised me that the Son of Heaven of the Great Sui would help me to destroy the Abo Division, and I didn't want to take the picture today and ask for it again and again, but the Son of Heaven of the Great Sui ignored it, what else does His Highness have to say about this?" ”
Yang Guang deliberately teased him: "But my father didn't say that he wouldn't send troops?" Hey, why don't I make a bet with the Great Khan, as long as the Great Khan can shoot down more than ten elks in a row today, I am willing to help the Great Khan and persuade my father to send troops to the west to help you destroy the Apo Division, how about it? ”
He only said that he had just heard Changsun Sheng say in the pavilion that with his ability, he could only shoot ten arrows in a row and shoot down ten elks, and if he was to shoot with a photograph, he was afraid that even five or six would be difficult to shoot down, so he said such a thing to the photograph.
Unexpectedly, the picture was taken seriously, and when he looked back, he saw that Gu Hezhen and Yu Qingze followed each other and ran to him, so he said to the two: "Just ask the two of you to be a witness for me and the King of Jin, as long as I shoot eleven elk in a row and persuade the Son of Heaven of the Great Sui to send troops to the Western Frontier, it will fall on His Royal Highness the King of Jin." His Royal Highness the King of Jin, you are not allowed to regret it. ”
Yu Qing knew that Yang Guang's move was quite inappropriate, but because his words had already been spoken, it was irreparable, so he had to reluctantly nod his head, which could be regarded as a matter of acceptance.
However, seeing that the picture was taken from the hands of the accompanying sergeant, he asked for three quivers, carried them on his body on the left and right, and walked more than a dozen steps in the direction of the fence in the center of the paddock, and turned back to the guards in the paddock and ordered: "You can drive the deer out." ”
A paddock officer with broad shoulders and a round waist listened to Yang Guangtong's instructions to take pictures, and raised a whip about two zhang long and short in the air, so that he could use all his strength to throw out a series of crisp whips in mid-air one after another.
The elk, which were gathering in the depths of the enclosure, were disturbed by the sound of whips and began to run in groups throughout the enclosure.
"His Royal Highness the King of Jin, take a good look." With a loud shout, he quickly drew an arrow, aimed at the nearest elk, and shot an arrow with a "whoosh", and the poor elk was hit by the arrow, fell to the ground, and never got up again.
"The Great Khan shoots a deer." Yang Guang shouted nervously and excitedly.
"Two heads, three heads...... Eleven heads...... Twenty-three heads ......"
A scene that made Yang Guang unbelievable finally appeared unfortunately, the photo actually fired arrows one after another, shooting down as many as twenty-eight sturdy elk in one go!
Not only Yang Guang alone, but even the company commander Sun Sheng was also stunned by the steep divine power of the photograph: he used to send Yuwen Panruo to make peace with the photograph, and when he was left by the photograph to Dujin Mountain, he had seen the archery technique of the photograph many times, but how could he know that after a few years, the photograph could actually fire twenty-eight arrows in a row without interruption, and shot down as many as twenty-eight elk in one go. Although Sun Sheng, the chief of the party, was out of self-humility and deliberately underreported the number of elk he could shoot in a row, but at this time, he thought to himself, it was difficult to shoot twenty-eight arrows in a row, and the arrows could shoot an elk weighing one or two hundred catties to the ground!
"Twenty-eight?!" The photographer himself couldn't believe the final number reported by Yang Guang loudly, so he threw away his bow and arrow excitedly, turned around and ran to Yang Guang's side, opened his hands wide, and shouted at him, "Two thousand eight hundred, no, I would rather add two hundred, a total of three thousand war horses." His Royal Highness the King of Jin, when will you give me a definite answer to send troops to the Western Frontier? ”
Yang Guangyu was in disbelief at the astonishing scene in front of him, and hurriedly waited for the paddock guards to drive away the elk herd, insisting on entering the fence himself to check whether each of the elk that had fallen to the ground had been shot by a photographed arrow.
"Lord Wang, please stay. The Holy Lord decreed that three days later, he would invite Shabalu Khan to meet in the palace, and then he would give the Great Khan a definite answer on whether to send troops to the western frontier. Su Yi'er came in time to convey Yang Jian's message to the photograph, and dissuaded Yang Guang.
The picture was taken into the palace to meet the court, to Sui as a minister, and early the next morning after the deer hunting in Shayuan, Yang Guang was summoned to the Linde Hall of Daxing Palace to participate in the imperial meeting that decided whether to send troops to the western frontier. In addition to him, those who received a summons to attend the meeting were still limited to the two ministers of the court and China, the eldest grandson Sheng, and the crown prince Yang Yong, who went to Shayuan with Yang Jian yesterday to hunt. Yang Liang, the king of Han, was not summoned to the meeting due to his young age.
At this meeting, most of the people, led by the crown prince Yang Yong, including Gao Ying and Changsun Sheng, did not advocate the use of troops in the western frontier to help them destroy the Apo tribe at the request of the photograph, but among the three people, from the reasons given, they can be divided into two factions: Yang Yong and Gao Ying both advocated maintaining the stability of the domestic situation and not using troops abroad when a series of major measures of the imperial court were properly implemented and implemented; Changsun Sheng, on the other hand, considered from the perspective of mutual checks and balances between the Eastern and Western Turks, and did not approve of the destruction of the Apo tribe, and supported the Taketu tribe to sit on the throne again, which would bring hidden dangers to the peace of the northern border in the future.
On the contrary, it was Yu Qingze, the right servant, who stood with Yang Guang in this incident, and strongly persuaded Yang Jian to use troops in the western frontier to help the photo map to destroy the Apo tribe. The reasons put forward by Yu Qing are also quite convincing: Shabalu Khan took the picture, as the Great Khan before the Turks were officially split into the East and the West, since he had bowed down to the Great Sui, he had no intention of repenting for at least one or two years, and although the two Western Turkic Khans accepted the wolf's head and other tokens given by the imperial court, they did not bow down to the Great Sui, but instead took advantage of the opportunity of the attack on the Shetu tribe by the Tiele Abba tribe in the north of the desert to expand their territory to the west and south, which directly threatened the interests of the imperial court in the northwest region, and also made it possible to include Gaochang and Whether from the perspective of stabilizing relations with the Eastern Turkic monarchs and ministers, or from the perspective of preventing the further expansion of the Western Turks and safeguarding the vested interests of the imperial court in the northwest, the small states in the Western Regions including Qiuzi showed signs of secession from the Sui Dynasty and became dependent on the Western Turks.
After listening attentively to the respective propositions and reasons put forward by both sides, Yang Jian finally fixed his eyes on Yang Guang and asked him in a deep voice: "Ah Zong, you advocate sending troops to the Western Frontier at the request of the photograph, should it be just because you made a promise to the photograph when you merged the state, and agreed to help him destroy the Apo tribe without my consent?" ”