Chapter Eighty-Seven: Speculation
Li Yao asked the little maid to go out to inform the thin monkey, and asked the thin monkey to find Fuchuan, and after the little maid left, Li Yao and Qizhi were left in the room.
Li Yao said: "Qizhi, I will send a female guard to protect you later, until you return to Qi Country with me, there is nothing to do now, you tell me about Yangyun, let me think about how to deal with him later!" β
Qizhi thought for a while and said: "I've heard others say that when Yang Yun was fifteen or sixteen years old, he was castrated into the palace, probably because his family couldn't survive anymore, and he was forced to have no choice!" Yang Yun is very good at slapping horses, and also knows some Qi Huang techniques, once Yiwang had an emergency, the doctors tried their best to solve it, Yang Yun contributed a pill at this time, Yiwang ate it, and the medicine was eliminated, and since then Yang Yun has become the chief eunuch and waited for Yiwang, just two years ago, Yiwang's health became worse and worse, and then Yang Yun began to refine the elixir, but the treasury was almost swallowed by Yang Yun, and the matter of the elixir has not been traced! β
After listening to Qizhi's introduction to Yang Yun, Li Yao thought secretly: "I didn't expect that Yang Yun can also heal, it doesn't seem to be simple, even the imperial doctor can't solve things, Yang Yun can solve it with one pill, this is very suspicious!" β
But Li Yao thought about it: "Assuming that Yiwang's illness was caused by Yang Yun, then if you want to treat it, it should be very simple!" If this is really the case, then Yang Yun is at risk for the sake of the upper position! β
But there are too many doubts in it, if Yang Yun is a person from a poor family, how can he understand medical skills? Even if you know medical skills, how can you make a disease that even a doctor can't cure? If Yang Yun's medical skills are very powerful, why should he be castrated into the palace?
Yang Yun's identity is very suspicious! Li Yao shook his head, and didn't think about Yang Yun's identity for the time being!
Then he asked, "Qizhi, what do you think of the relationship between Yangyun and the Seventh Prince?" β
Qizhi said: "Is it Chen Fang, the seventh prince of Yiguo?" β
Li Yao nodded.
Qizhi said: "The seventh prince Chen Fang is King Yi's favorite little son, many times Chen Fang makes mistakes, King Yi does not punish him, as for the relationship between Yangyun and the seventh prince, I don't know very well, I think it should be similar to other princes!" β
"What about the eldest prince?" Li Yao then asked, "What is the relationship between the eldest prince and Yang Yun?" β
Qizhi smiled and said: "The relationship between the eldest prince and Yangyun is notoriously incompatible, you should have heard of it, Yangyun is biased towards civilian forces, and the eldest prince is biased towards military officials. β
Many ministers of the DPRK and China have been demoted from Yidu, among which there are many henchmen of the eldest prince, without these henchmen, the eldest prince cannot gain a foothold in the court, so he has to favor the military attachΓ©!
Military attachΓ©s cannot be demoted because of their military exploits, so many generals with outstanding military achievements can only be kept in the court to monitor them all the time.
Li Yao was surprised: "You mean to say that there are no capable generals on the border?" β
Qizhi nodded and said, "It's not just that there are no effective generals at the border gates, but the officers and soldiers who went to suppress bandits on this trip are basically straw bag generals!" β
"What? The officers and soldiers who suppressed the bandits on this trip are all straw bag generals? β
Well, this is indeed the case, so many ministers in the DPRK and China are worried about this, but Yang Yun said: "Do you still need to rely on the generals of a hundred battles for such a trivial matter as suppressing bandits, isn't that overkill?" β
Yang Yun did this, didn't there be a voice of opposition?
Qizhi shook his head: "There are voices of opposition, but they are soft-spoken, and no one cares, because the generals who went on this trip are all young sons and daughters of old families, and going to suppress bandits is just gilded!" β
This is obviously Yang Yun's move to curry favor with the old family, but think about it carefully, if it is purely to curry favor, why not send some generals to lead the team, if these sons and sisters lose the battle, who will be responsible for this mistake?
An idea suddenly appeared in Li Yao's head, what if Yang Yun specifically let Gongzi's buddies defeat the battle? But if Brother Gongzi loses the battle, who will benefit?
Yang Yun should not be regarded as a person who can get benefits, because Yang Yun tries his best not to let the generals of the hundred battles fight, if he loses the battle, then Yang Yun will definitely take some responsibility, followed by the old family of Yiguo, the son of each family represents each family, and no one will obey anyone, and the military spirit will definitely be slack, and it will not be able to twist a rope. The army is not aligned, and if you want to win the battle, it is difficult!
If they lose the battle, will the old families who are generals be punished?
Although it is said that King Yi is bewitched by Yangyun, but the eldest prince is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and he will definitely vigorously advise King Yi, even if King Yi is confused and unreasonable, he will not easily forgive!
If this is the case, the beneficiary will be the eldest prince, but if you think about it carefully, it is not so simple, first of all, Yang Yun should not know the virtue of those sons, even those generals who have fought hundreds of thousands of battles will be very tricky to deal with, and the generals who can conquer several cities overnight are by no means general!
And the old family has a strong control over the army, and the eldest prince is mainly a general in the army, if the eldest prince gets the benefit this time, it will definitely make the old family unhappy, if so, then the eldest prince will lose more than he gains!
But if so, who is the one who benefits?
Li Yao thought about it, if the bandit rebels expand their occupied territory and get more population and land, then the next step will definitely be to target Yidu, if the rebel Chen Jun Yidu, then whether it is the eldest prince or Yang Yun or the old family, the loss will definitely be the greatest!
Thinking of the loss, Li Yao suddenly thought of a little. "Money!"
Yiguo's Hubu Shangshu is Yangyun's person, Yangyun controls the money of the treasury in order to refine pills for Yiwang, so what is Yangyun doing with so much money?
If you make a bold guess, Yang Yun was sent to the Yi King Palace by another force, and the medicine given to Yang Yun also came from that force, and Yang Yun's money was provided to that force, and that force occupied many cities in a row through bandit riots, and finally Yang Yun pretended to let the son of the old force be the general to eat the defeat, so as to strengthen the bandit power, and finally annex the Yi country!
When you think about it, then everything makes sense. But these are all based on the situation that the bandit army is defeated, if the bandit army is really vulnerable and is killed by the bandit army, then the 'friendship' between Yang Yun and the old family will be deeper! Yang Yun will be more able to control the imperial court!
But no matter what kind of conjecture it is, Li Yao must act, first to investigate the combat strength of the bandit army, and then to investigate Yangyun's property.
The results of the investigation Li Yao definitely can't wait, only wait for himself to occupy the three counties of Yiguo first, and then try to force their attitude, Li Yao doesn't want there to be a bigger force behind Yangyun, Yiguo is already in chaos, if it is in chaos, the people of Yiguo will not be able to stand it!