Yang Guang paced back and forth in the imperial study with his hands in his hands, although he was influenced by Zhang Qiu Taiyi, he decided to strengthen the army's defense of the power center in order to change the damaged celestial phenomena of the Ziwei center. ≤ 3rd ≤ Jiangge ≤ Xiao≤ said,

However, Yu Shiji's suggestion spoke to his heart, he has been implementing the army reform for three years, and the outline has gradually become clear, if the army that comes to Hu'er is divided again, it will inevitably cause unnecessary trouble and affect his military system reform.

Yang Guang's idea of army restructuring is very clear, the local dissolution of the Yingyang Mansion, with the ten major guards to sit in the four directions, under the direct jurisdiction of the imperial court, the general guards are appointed by him, so as to solve the control of the wealthy clan over the local government soldiers.

In addition, the Reserve Mansion controlled by the Guanlong nobles was disbanded and the Xiaoguo Military Mansion was established to defend the capital.

The three battles of Goguryeo enabled Yang Guang to successfully complete the military restructuring and completely cut off the control of the army by the two major tumors of the Guanlong aristocracy and the local nobles, which was of great significance.

Therefore, Yu Shiji knew very well the importance of the military restructuring to Yang Guang, and he strongly demanded the disbandment of the former army that came to protect his children, so he used the military restructuring as an excuse to finally poke at Yang Guang's key point.

Yang Guang pondered for a moment, and finally made up his mind, "According to what Qing said, disband the former army that came to protect your son!" ”

Yu Shiji took the opportunity to speak again: "Wechen thought about it repeatedly, in order to maintain Your Majesty's credibility, Wechen suggested that the reward for this Goguryeo battle should still be given to them, so that they can return to their hometown with the reward without complaint. ”

Yang Guang glanced at Yu Shiji strangely, the person who tried his best to persuade himself not to reward the army was Yu Shiji, but now he actually changed his words to persuade himself to fulfill his promise, what is the reason?

Yu Shiji was a little weak in his heart, and hurriedly explained: "At the beginning, Wei Chen advised His Majesty not to consider the matter of rewards for the time being, because the disposition of this army has not yet been decided. Now that His Majesty has decided to disband them, the reward can be honored, so that the dissatisfaction of the soldiers with the dissolution can be minimized, and the credibility of His Majesty can be maintained. Your Majesty, please be wise! ”

In fact, Yang Guang didn't care about the small amount of money, the treasury of the central government was still relatively abundant, and he also considered that the case of Laihu'er was still inconclusive, so he didn't consider the military merit reward, since the army decided to disband, then it was to cash the reward before it was disbanded. In case the army is unstable.

Yang Guang nodded, "I will hand over this matter to Yu Qing, let the Ministry of War draft a reward plan, Yu Qing will review it, and finally show it to me." and disbandment of the army! ”

"Wechen obeys!"

At this time, a eunuch was outside to report, "Your Majesty, Xiao Shilang has something urgent to see!" ”

"Announce him in!"

Yang Guang said to Yu Shiji again: "What I said just now must be implemented as soon as possible, and the disbandment of the army cannot be delayed any longer." ”

In fact, there is no need for Yang Guang's orders, and Yu Shiji will not delay, otherwise Yu Wenshu and others will inevitably come to agitate the saint, and then there will be changes again.

"Wechen obeys!" Yu Shiji bowed and hurriedly retreated.

At the door, I happened to meet Xiao Yu who walked in. The faces of the two sank at the same time, ignoring each other and passing by. The contradictions between the two of them have become public, and there is no even the least cover-up.

Yang Guang saw it in his eyes, he smiled faintly, the way of the emperor, the deeper the contradiction between Yu Shiji and Xiao Yu, the better. Otherwise, a good old man like Su Wei would give up all his power to Yu Shiji. That's not something he, Yang Guang, is willing to do.

Xiao Yu is the younger brother of Empress Xiao and is about fifty years old. Tall, elegant and stable temperament, he was born in the Western Liang aristocracy, loyal and upright, shrewd and capable, and deeply respected and trusted by Yang Guang, but sometimes some of his admonitions will also anger Yang Guang, and he wanted to kill him several times, but he was saved by Empress Xiao in time.

In the past two years, they escalated the contradiction over the restructuring of the army, Yu Shiji formulated a radical restructuring plan to curry favor with Yang Guang, but was resolutely opposed by Xiao Yu, who believed that the restructuring would lead to serious consequences, especially the establishment of a private army by the wealthy clans.

Xiao Yu saw it very thoroughly, the world is full of bandits, if the wealthy scholars lose the protection of the government soldiers, in order to protect themselves, they will definitely form a private army, and will not rely on those unreliable guards, this is actually the reappearance of chaos in the late Han Dynasty, rather than letting the wealthy scholars establish a private army, it is better to maintain the existence of the local military government.

It's a pity that Yang Guang was stubborn and couldn't listen to Xiao Yu's advice at all, and Yu Shiji added fuel to the fire, which made Xiao Yu's opposition to the military restructuring fail, and Xiao Yu fell into deep melancholy during this time.

Xiao Yu stepped forward and bowed, "Your Majesty, Weichen just came from Tianjin Bridge and met a group of old men who came to Beijing to sue the emperor. ”

Yang Guang heard about this just now, and specially asked Liu Zhi, the servant of the imperial history, to inquire, he sat up and asked, "Where did you come from, and why did you sue you?" ”

"Your Majesty, a group of villagers from Taiyuan, they sued Tang Guogong and accused him of forcibly occupying people's land."

Xiao Yu presented the complaint to Yang Guang, "This is their complaint, please look at it." ”

Yang Guang read the complaint with a gloomy face, and he became more and more annoyed in his heart, and said to the eunuch who was waiting for the pen and ink next to him: "Quickly go and spread my will, and summon Li Yuan, who stayed in Taiyuan, to see me!" ”

The eunuch rushed out, Xiao Yu was startled, and hurriedly persuaded: "Your Majesty, the township farmers have hatred and tend to exaggerate the facts, Wechen feels that Tang Guogong may have some improper behavior, but it is by no means as serious as forcibly occupying the land, those villagers told Wechen that they are forcibly buying land, and the meaning of forcible purchase and forcible occupation is not the same." ”

Yang Guang snorted coldly, "He is the best at disguise, pretending to be a generous elder, does he think I can't see through him?" When I asked him to be the Taishou of Mayi County, he had a lot of complaints, nothing more than that Mayi County was poor and sparsely populated, and I asked him to stay in Taiyuan, and his true nature was gradually exposed. ”

Xiao Yu sighed secretly in his heart, in fact, he understood Li Yuan's difficulties in his heart, he was afraid that the saint would suspect him of dissent, so he followed the example of the ancients and ruined his reputation with greed for money and wine, why bother?

"Weichen has nothing else to do, retire first!"

"Go ahead!"

Xiao Yu bowed and slowly retreated.

At this time, Yang Guang looked at the complaint of the Taiyuan township farmer again. Slowly fell into deep thought.

Yang Guang and Li Yuan are actually cousins, their mothers are sisters, Li Yuan is a few years older than Yang Guang, and the two have been studying together since childhood.

Yang Guang is brilliant and never forgets to read. has an outgoing and unrestrained personality, while Li Yuan is a little wooden, honest and honest, and introverted, the two are completely different types of people.

But Yang Guang has always disliked Li Yuan and always thinks he is a hypocrite. sells his reputation all day long, obviously a lustful person, but pretends not to be close to women, and is obviously a greedy person for a cup of wine, but deliberately pretends not to like to drink at the banquet.

When the courtiers praised Li Yuan as a generous elder. Yang Guang looked at him coldly, so when Li Yuan gradually showed a difference in Taiyuan, Yang Guang was not surprised, he knew that this was Li Yuan's nature, but he gradually showed it in front of power.

In the final analysis, Yang Guang looked down on Li Yuan from the bottom of his bones, and with a heroic grandfather like Li Hu, he was so confused. actually ranked at the bottom of the Guanlong aristocracy, and no one in the family could come out.

Yang Guang pondered for a long time, and then took out a bunch of brocade books from the box beside him. Slowly spread the brocade book on the table, on which were the proverbs that had been circulated in Luoyang this month.

'Peach and plum, win the world, the queen around Yangzhou, like a garden. Don't talk to it, who will say it? ’

Although Zhang Qiu Taiyi did not admit that the proverb was related to Ziwei's disappearance. But Yang Guang always feels that there is still a little relationship between the two.

This proverb did not appear this time, as early as thirty years ago. His father dreamed that the plum tree was blooming and the city was besieged by great water. There was also a proverb in the palace about peaches and plums and winning the world, it was a prosperous era at the beginning, maybe you don't have to take it to heart, but now the world is unstable, and this proverb has appeared again, so that Yang Guang has to be vigilant.

The meaning of the proverb is very simple, Li replaced Yang, and the time happened when he went out on patrol to Yangzhou.

In the past few days, Yang Guang has been thinking about this matter repeatedly, and there are four major families in the world's famous Li family, one is the Zhaojun Li family of the Hedong Shi clan, the other is the Li family of the Longxi Shi clan of the Hexi Shi clan, and then there is the Li Bi family and the Li Hu family, the two major generals of the Western Wei Dynasty.

Yang Guang used the elimination method to screen them one by one, the Li family of Zhao County is more than weak, and the force is insufficient, it can be ruled out, Li Bi's family is not prosperous, and there is a Li Mi, but he fled to Wagang and fell into the grass, how can the bandits win the world? Yang Guang excluded the Li Bi family again.

Now there are two names in front of him, one is Li Yuan, who stayed in Taiyuan, and the other is Li Hun, the general of the Right Xiaowei, but the names of these two people have the meaning of water, fulfilling the dream of his father's flood siege thirty years ago, Yang Guang is almost certain that the proverb is one of these two people.

One is a Guanlong nobleman, a No. 1 scholar family in Longxi, both families have military origins, and Li Hun's nephew will be the supervisor Li Min's nickname is called Hong'er, which seems to be more fulfillment of his father's dream of a flood siege thirty years ago, so who does this proverb refer to?

At this time, the eunuch reported outside the door, "Your Majesty, Tang Guogong has arrived, waiting outside the palace." ”

"Let him in!"

After a while, Li Yuan hurriedly walked into the imperial study, knelt down and pleaded guilty, "Weichen has a negative grace, and the crime deserves death!" ”

Although Li Yuan had changed into a new official uniform, he still had a strong smell of alcohol after entering the house, which made Yang Guang's brows furrowed, and he could see that Li Yuan's face was pale and the wine had not disappeared, which was obviously the result of forcibly sobering up, which made Yang Guang very unhappy in his heart.

'Wow! Yang Guang threw the complaint in front of Li Yuan and said coldly: "You explain to me, why did these villagers go to Beijing to sue the emperor?" ”

Li Yuan swallowed for a while before he said: "Your Majesty, Weichen did not forcibly occupy the land, but only bought it slightly below the market price, some of the ministers' behaviors are indeed inappropriate, but they went to Beijing to sue the emperor, it is a bit of a fuss, Weichen suspects that someone is secretly instigating, and Weichen has also offended many people in recent years." ”

"Hugh has to shirk responsibility, what you did in Taiyuan is clear!"

Yang Guang glared at him and scolded angrily: "Could it be that the money I gave you is not enough to support your family? Is there too little land left by your ancestors? ”

Li Yuan lowered his head with shame on his face, "Weichen is guilty!" ”

"Humph! I'm asking you, why do you want to do such a corrupt thing, you can't say a reason, don't blame me for not thinking about my mother's affection. ”

Li Yuan sighed, "Your Majesty, although the ancestors left some land, but the three generations were separated, the family background was thin, Weichen's father died early, and he was not able to buy land, the land under Weichen's name is only thirty hectares, and it can only be left to the eldest son, but Weichen has five sons, so Weichen always wants to leave some family property for the other four sons, the minister is nearly fifty years old, and his career has not been a few years, so the minister is a little anxious in his heart." ”

"So you forcibly buy shops, forcibly buy land, I heard that you still accept bribes, dignified parents and officials, not sympathetic to the people, but competing with the people for profit, you make me very pleased!"

Li Yuan wept and said: "The minister has failed the grace of the saint, and the minister is guilty!" ”

Yang Guang sneered in his heart, seeking family property for his son, it was reasonable, he knew what kind of person Li Yuan was since he was a child, hypocrisy, loyalty and traitor, but Li Yuan didn't show his true face until he was fifty years old, and it was really difficult for him.

Yang Guang slapped the table heavily, "I will consider how to punish you, but now you must deal with this matter well, the land should be returned, and the compensation should be paid, if I hear that you are corrupt and pervert the law again, then don't blame me for not thinking about family affection and cutting off your head!" ”

Li Yuan trembled with fright, kowtowed and cried: "Weichen must change his mind and never dare to do anything immoral again." ”

Yang Guang really couldn't stand Li Yuan's pungent smell of wine, and waved his hand, "Stand down!" ”

Li Yuan kowtowed a few times and slowly retreated, Yang Guang shook his head in disgust, "Can such a greedy person for money and wine, cowardly and incompetent compete for his own world?" ”

Yang Guang crossed out Li Yuan's name with a pen, and there was only one name left under the proverb, Li Hun, the general of the right Xiaowei. (To be continued)