Chapter 286: Preemptive Strike
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When Yi Feng entered the Xinghua Square on the West Second Street of Zhuque Street, he found that there were workshops in the city, and the squares were still planned as residential areas. Xinghuafang is surrounded by a square wall, and the cross street in Xinghuafang is facing the main door. This cross street divides Xinghuafang into four neat blocks, and there is a small cross street in each block, which is further divided into four pieces. The entire Xinghuafang is divided into 16 pieces by this big cross street and four small cross streets. The Yuan Mansion occupies one-sixteenth of Xinghuafang and occupies the northeast corner. Although the Yuan family has fallen in the middle of the road over the years, only by the scale of the mansion that occupies one-sixteenth of Xinghuafang, you can see at a glance that the Yuan family was prosperous when it was prosperous. This huge Yuan Mansion is composed of hundreds of houses and courtyards, and there are also several gardens, rockery pavilions, lotus ponds, and water pavilions.
The arrival of Yi Feng made the whole family of Yuanfu go out to greet them. Not only did the Yuan Wuqian family go out to greet them, but also the three-room Yuan Ya and the four-room Yuan Bao who lived in Beijing also came out.
The four brothers of Yuan Xiaoju, the father of Yuan Concubine, were all crowned county princes in the Sui Dynasty, and the eldest Yuan and the old two Yuan Xiaoju were deceased, and the two houses were inherited by Yuan Wendu and Yuan Wuji respectively, inheriting the title. The old Sanyuanya is nearly seventy years old, and he has served as the left and right generals of the Great Sui Left Leader. Ji, Qin Erzhou Thorn History, Feng Shunyang County Gong. However, it has been Zhishi for many years, although it is too old. His beard and hair are white, but his body is tough and his face is full of red. He is nearly seven feet tall, wearing a leather fur with arrow sleeves, a jade belt around his waist, looking forward to his might, but there is a bit of elegance in the middle of his fierceness. Yi Feng was a little surprised. Seeing Yi Feng and his party coming from afar, Yuan Ya, who is now the highest in the Yuan family, immediately strode over, and the big fan-like slap directly slapped Yi Feng's shoulder and back. "Good boy, I'm finally back." As he spoke, the old man's eyes couldn't help but turn red. After crying silently, the old man suddenly laughed again: "It's good to be alive." Just come back. It's a pity that your aunt didn't see this day. I won't be blind until I die. ”
Yi Feng's four foreign officials saw that the more his brother talked, the more he didn't open the door, and hurriedly interrupted in a low voice: "Third brother, how do you say those words when you are happy." "Yuan Bao is not young, just now Yuan Wen introduced to Yi Feng, saying that he is fifty-nine this year, almost a sixtieth birthday. However, the body is not old, and his parents died when he was ten years old, and he was raised by several brothers and sisters-in-law. And when it comes to ability. In fact, he is also the most capable of the brothers, and he can lead troops to fight. Wen Neng governed the government and the people, served as a assassin and a general, quelled the rebellion, crusaded against the rebellious army, and was already the chief of the Great Sui more than ten years ago, whether it was the rebellion of the three general managers of the Great Sui before the founding of the country, or several major wars with the Turks after the establishment of the Sui and later battles such as the Pingchen Pingjiang Rebellion, etc., they were all personally involved. In this year's Eastern Expedition to Goguryeo, Yuan Baodu led his troops to participate as the general of the Zhu State and the head of the marching army. However, the Eastern Expedition did not meet the enemy and was close to the annihilation of the whole army, and Yuan Bao was also unlucky, although he was not held responsible, but he was also idle at home. But now that Yi Feng has finally returned to Beijing, Yuan Bao, as Yi Feng's grandfather, will obviously follow, and it will not be a problem to regain his official position. Even if he doesn't come out to serve anymore, with the title of the Pillar Country, the title of the Duke of Hejian County, and the two thousand households of food, he can live a very comfortable life.
Yuan Bao pulled Yi Feng's arm, "You can still vaguely see your mother's appearance between your eyebrows, but it is more inherited from the blood of the Heavenly Family." It's good to come back, it's good to come back, it's really Haotian God bless, after so many years, I didn't expect you to be alive and able to return to the capital. Speaking of which, Yuan Bao, the head of the march, couldn't help but sigh. The Northern Wei clan of the Yuan family was also the prime minister of the Wei Dynasty when his grandfather and father arrived, and after entering the Zhou and Sui dynasties, the Yuan family was still prosperous. At that time, Yang Jian proposed to the Yuan family especially for his eldest son, and later Yang Jian established the country as the emperor, Yang Yong became the crown prince, and the Yuan family also became the crown princess, and the Yuan family became even more prosperous, but who knew that this glory only lasted for a few years. Then the eldest grandson of the emperor born to the Yuan family died in a car accident, followed by the discord between the Yuan family and the prince, and then the relationship between the East Palace and the Yuan family broke down, and the days were sad day by day. In the end, the niece was poisoned in the palace and died blindly, which was really a great sorrow for the Yuan family.
No one could have imagined that Yi Feng, who had died early for more than ten years, would actually come back, and he would return with such glory.
"Yes, yes!" The uncles and nephews of the Yuan family kept reading good words, and the Yuan family finally pulled out the dark clouds and saw the light of day again. The Wendu of the long room has been newly promoted to the important position of Shangshu Zuocheng, and the inexhaustibility of the second room has also been appointed to the important position of Taifu Shaoqing, the deputy head of the royal family, after the year. Although Yuan Ya is old, it seems that he may be able to go out of the mountain again to serve as a senior general in the Twelve Wei Mansion after the next year, and Yuan Bao, who is only fifty-nine years old, is not to mention, it is possible that he will be the head of a general administration in eight or nine years from now, or directly take up the important position of a marching chief in the war against the Turks next year. In addition to the head of the fourth room, the other children of the second and third generations will definitely be able to get the qualification of Yin Bu this time.
After meeting these grandfathers, uncles, cousins, and cousins one by one, Yi Feng entered the Yuan Mansion with everyone. This mansion is only the mansion of the two-room Yuan Xiaoju, the long house is in Luoyang, and the Yuan Ya and Yuan Bao have their own houses in other squares in Beijing, but today the three rooms in Beijing are gathered in the Xinghuafang Yuan Mansion. After letting Wei Chigong and other flag guards bring a large number of gifts into the mansion, Yi Feng first followed Yuan Wuji and others into the back hall to meet the elders and daughters of the Yuan Mansion, maternal grandmother, aunt, sister-in-law, and even cousins and cousins, as well as aunts who married out and rushed back today. When a group of female dependents saw Yi Feng come in, they all cried one after another, Yuan Wuji's mother, Yi Feng's grandmother even hugged Yi Feng's crying liver and intestines, and even the maids and maids who were waiting on the side also cried together, and Yi Feng finally persuaded these female dependents. Everyone began to constantly recall the past events of the Yuan Crown Princess, and everyone did not sigh again and again.
"My son. Do you know how your mother died? The old lady took Yi Feng's hand and wiped her tears.
Yi Feng's aunt was busy saying on the side, "Girl, beware of sudden illness." ”
"What kind of heart disease died suddenly? What about liars! The old lady was furious, "Who doesn't know this Chang'an City." My girl's death is unknown. My girl, I don't know, I've always been healthy, and I haven't had any heart disease at all. She was poisoned by that cloud slut, and there was no one in the entire Chang'an City who didn't know about it. You don't have to persuade me, I've been putting up with this old woman for a long time. Now that my grandson is back, can't I tell him the truth? My son, you must promise me. In the future, I will kill that slut to avenge your mother! ”
For this request, Yi Feng vaguely agreed. Anyway, although he is not the real Yang Lin, it is a fact that the prince chased and killed him several times. There is no real rapprochement between them. He has now stood on the boat of Yang Guang again, and sooner or later he will pull Yang Yong down, and at that time, as long as Yang Yong's position as the crown prince is abolished, as the crown prince concubine and only the prince's concubines, the very low status is only the Yun family, who has the title of internal wife Qipin Zhaoxun. She's not going to end well. Something like her. There is only one result, that is, it is not admitted to Shaofu Temple as a lowly status. Dealing with the Yun clan is just a rabbit with grass.
When the old lady saw that Yi Feng agreed, her face became very happy.
At this time, the Yuanya brothers sent someone to ask Yi Feng to go back to the front, and there were many relatives in the Yuan family who were rushing to see Yi Feng.
In the past, when the Yuan family fell, everyone inevitably rarely interacted, but now that Yi Feng has returned to Beijing, the Yuan family has regained the favor of the heavenly family. Immediately, there was a lot of traffic in front of the door, and there were endless guests. Not only did the real in-laws rush over. Even those cousins who were turning around and the like took the opportunity to come over. For these people, although the Yuan family and Yi Feng also felt a little ashamed in their hearts, they would not really show it. A hero and three gangs, although the status of the Yuan family has changed again, it is not possible to snub those people at will. Flower sedan chairs carry people, and anyone will.
After dealing with many guests in a row, Yi Feng didn't feel tired.
After sending off the last guest, he was about to go back to the house arranged by the Yuan family to rest, but he heard a report from outside that someone was visiting.
"Which one? If they are not particularly close, they will say that the county prince of Changning is poor today, and ask them to come back tomorrow. Yuan Wuji said to his subordinates.
"It's Shi Yuanhong, the prince of Yuyang County and the governor of Youzhou, and his wife Liu who brought the two sons of the Yuan family to see him." Jia Ding handed over the sticker and said.
Hearing this name, Yuan Wuyi couldn't help frowning. "Why are they here again, I already know what she said last time, but I am also powerless in this matter, and I can't help it. You go and tell Mrs. Liu, and say that this matter can't help him. ”
When Yi Feng heard the identity of the wife of the governor of Youzhou, Shi, he couldn't help but take it to heart, and asked aloud: "What is this Mrs. Liu looking for her uncle?" "Although the Youzhou Governor's Mansion is not Yi Feng's direct boss, its position is extremely important to Huaihuang. Therefore, when it came to the history of the governor of Youzhou, he couldn't help but have a lot of thoughts. If you can have some relationship with the governor of Youzhou, it will definitely be beneficial to Huaihuang in the future.
Unexpectedly, Yuan Wuji sighed helplessly: "A troublesome thing." ”
Listening to him speak slowly, Yi Feng knew why he sighed. The main reason why the Liu family came to find Yuan Wuji was because Yuan Hongsi was also a descendant of the Northern Wei clan, and it was the same family as the Yuan Wuji family a hundred years ago. However, the Liu family came to the door with the child, not simply to visit relatives, he came to ask the Yuan family for help, or wanted to use Yi Feng's relationship to help her husband.
Yuan Hongsi has been having a hard time recently, after the Northern Wei Dynasty, he inherited his father's title in his early years and was awarded the title of Duke of Yuyang County of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Later, he served as the governor of Guanzhou, and now the governor of Youzhou. He is in the court, and he is a person from Yang Guang's side, and Yan Rong, the governor of Youzhou, is also a person from Yang Guang's side.
Yuan Hongsi has a rough personality, but Yan Rong has a more stern and cruel personality, and he is a rather domineering person. In this way, it is difficult for two people to reconcile yin and yang, but instead rub a lot of fierce contradictory sparks.
Yuan Xian Hei was the successor of the Northern Wei Dynasty, because the Sui usurped the Zhou. And Zhou usurped Wei, so after the Wei Dynasty clan arrived in the Sui Dynasty, life was better than in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. High-ranking officials have to do it, and the lord is sealed, compared to those Northern Zhou Yuwen clans who were ruthlessly eradicated by Yang Jian and his wife, the treatment is quite good. And Yan Rong's background is also good, he was born in Hongnong, which is Yang Jian's hometown, they are considered fellow villagers, and Yan Rong's grandfather and father are military generals. He was also a subordinate of Yang Jian's father, Yang Zhong. Therefore, when Yang insisted on being the emperor, he promoted Yan Rong to the rank of general. He was also promoted from the Duke of Gaoyi County to the Duke of Luocong County and appointed as the Assassin of Jinju. Later, he followed Yang Hong, the king of Hejian, to attack the Turks and made meritorious contributions, and was promoted to the Shangzhu State and moved to the governor of Qingzhou.
After Yan Rong arrived in Qingzhou, he specially selected a group of people with great strength to serve as the chief of the punishment. and the officials came to him. They must be inspected and questioned, and they must be beaten often until the skin is open and the flesh is rotten, and the bones are seen. So the bad guys and thieves are gone, and there is nothing to do within the state. People from other states and counties passed through the boundary of Qingzhou, and they were afraid of Yan Rong as if they were afraid of enemies. Although the methods were rude, the effect was good, and he was encouraged and comforted by Yang Jian. During the Battle of Pingchen, he was appointed as the head of the march. led the naval army to attack Nanchen and made many meritorious contributions. He also briefly acted as the governor of Yangzhou, and later entered the dynasty as the general of the right military candidate, and then served as the governor of Youzhou, sitting in Youzhou for several years.
Yan Rong is as brutal as Youzhou, especially when he has been in Youzhou for a long time, and the longer he passes, the more domineering he becomes. Youzhou's Fan Yang Lu family, that is one of the top Kanto gate valves with five surnames. However, Yan Rong specially asked the children surnamed Lu to serve those miscellaneous servants to insult them. Even those who followed him around him were often beaten at every turn, and were often whipped a thousand times, and the blood of those who were beaten was all over the ground. This guy is good for wine, and once he went out on his patrol and saw a bush of thorns on the road, so he immediately took it and tried to beat someone. The person who was beaten confessed that he had not made a mistake, and Yan Rong actually said, "When you are guilty in the future, I can forgive you." But later, when this person made a mistake, Yan Rong still wanted to beat him, this man said, "I was beaten a few days ago, and you once said that you can forgive me if you are guilty." Who knew that Yan Rong said, "I will beat you if you are not guilty, let alone guilty?" The result, of course, was another beating.
This guy even likes to rape the wives and daughters of his subordinates, as long as he hears that the wife and daughter of a certain official are beautiful, he will live in that house and rape that woman. The longer you stay in Youzhou, the more cruel and tyrannical you become, and the more powerful it becomes day by day.
At the beginning of Yuan Hongsi's appointment as the governor of Youzhou, he already knew that Yan Rong was not a good partner, so he resolutely resigned. After Yang Jian heard Yuan Hongsi's worries at that time, he felt that he was exaggerating, and specially sent an edict to Yan Rong saying that if Yuan Hongsi committed the crime of more than ten lashes, he had to play it to him first. As a result, Yan Rong was very angry, and felt that Yuan Hongji deliberately sued him, and as soon as he arrived, the relationship between the two was naturally the same. Yan Rong thought of a way to deal with Yuan Honghe, and specially sent him to supervise the people to pay for grain, but if a little rice bran and a straw were found in the grain, they would be punished. In order to circumvent the will of the ten whips, Yan Rong was whipped less than ten times each time, but sometimes he had to be beaten several times a day. Yuan Hong, the second governor of the Youzhou Governor's Mansion, turned out to be tortured by Yan Rong and had no choice. But even if Yuan Hongji endured it, Yan Rong refused to let him go. Just before Yan Rong entered the capital and left Youzhou, he ordered Yuan Hongsi to be arrested and imprisoned, and also ordered that food should not be given to him.
Yuan Hongji couldn't stand the hunger in prison, so he could only pull out the silk wool in his clothes and swallow it with water. Finally, I begged a jailer to report to his wife and let her go to Beijing to sue the emperor.
Liu took his two sons all the way to Beijing, but after arriving in Beijing for a long time, he had no way to complain, and found a lot of people to help, but others were unwilling to offend Yan Rong. Yan Rong is not only one of the thirty-six governors of the imperial court, but also the governor of the states, especially he is faintly a person from the King of Jin, and he has already married Yang Xiong, the king of Qingzhang in the clan.
The Liu family had also come to the Yuan family before, after all, they were all after the Northern Wei clan, but unfortunately the Yuan family had no influence at all, and they didn't dare to offend Yan Rong, who was extremely powerful and blessed in Hebei and had many backers and allies in the court.
Liu also wanted to go directly to the emperor to rely on the imperial form, but her current situation was that she couldn't even see the face of the Son of Heaven.
I was already desperate, but today I heard that the emperor's grandson Yang Lin had entered Beijing, and I felt that it was an opportunity. Yang Lin is also the nephew of the Yuan family, and he is the current emperor's grandson, if he can ask him to help explain the truth to the Son of Heaven, that question will be easily solved.
In the living room of the Yuan Mansion, Yi Feng looked at Liu's pleading gaze, and he was also thinking about it in his heart.
According to what Yuan Wuji and Yuan Wen mean, it is best not to meddle in this matter. Because Yan Rong himself has a very high status among the thirty-six governors, and the Youzhou Governor's Mansion is the first important town in Hebei, and Bingzhou is the two most important towns in the north of the Great Sui, Yan Rong has been in charge there for eight years, which is not a small strength. He didn't even buy the face of Yang Liang, the head of the state, which is enough to show how domineering this person is. What's more, Yan Rong is not a stupid person, he is on the side of the extremely virtuous King Jin among several princes, and he has also married Yang Xiong, the very famous King of Qingzhang in the clan. Besides, the Yan family is still the hometown of the Son of Heaven, and the Yan family used to be the general of the Yang family. In the past, it was not that no one had participated in Yan Rong, but the Son of Heaven had never punished Yan Rong, but the official became bigger and bigger, and even sat in such an extremely important position as the governor of Youzhou for eight years.
Yuan Ya and Yuan Bao also did not approve of Yi Feng's meddling in this matter, they were thinking more about this matter involving King Jin.
The Yuan family didn't know that Yang Lin was not actually born to Concubine Yuan and the crown prince, but to King Jin. Therefore, they thought about the problem, thinking about Yi Feng's return, then he was naturally a member of the East Palace family, and at this time, Yang Guang, who was now the most virtuous, was the natural enemy of the East Palace faction. Standing behind Yan Rong was the King of Jin, and Yi Feng intervened in this matter, which was likely to cause a fierce battle between the East Palace and the Jin Palace.
However, Yi Feng is not a person who is afraid of things.
Yi Feng is not afraid of things, but he is not the kind of person who likes to cause trouble at will. For Yi Feng, although he is young, his mind is very mature. There is nothing he is afraid of, but only something that is worth it and what needs to be done. If it's worth it, if it has to, then even if it's difficult, he won't be afraid. But if there is no benefit, if it is purely harmful, he will not bother to do it.
And in the matter of Yan Rong, he felt that he could make a move.
Youzhou is too important to Huaihuang, as important as Taiyuan. If Huaihuang wants to expand in the direction of the Central Plains to the south, it can't bypass these two important towns. Compared with Taiyuan, which has a more important position at this time, the direction of Youzhou is better developed. And Yan Rong, a domineering and brutal guy, is not a suitable collaborator.
Yi Feng also thought that it would be good if he could take down Yan Rong and replace him as the head of Youzhou. But this idea is a bit too wishful thinking, for the time being, even if Yan Rong is taken down, it is basically impossible for him to be in this position. But he can't do it, but he can change people, as long as it's not Yang Liang who has completely overturned people with him, he thinks they have a better chance of cooperating. Moreover, Yan Rong, as a person from Yang Guang's side, has been in Youzhou for eight years, and his control over Youzhou Mansion is undoubted, otherwise a second-in-command like Yuan Hongsi would not have lived so miserably. With Yan Rong in Youzhou, Yang Guang's indirect control over Hebei is also very strong.
Yi Feng neither wanted Yang Liang to control the Kanto region, nor did he want Yang Guang to control Hebei behind the scenes. This is not a good result for Yi Feng. Huaihuang is under these two strengths, too weak.
If Yan Rong can be won, then no matter who is replaced as the new head of Youzhou, this will be a new round of games, and Yi Feng will have the opportunity to gain some benefits in this new round of reshuffle.
After making up his mind, Yi Feng comforted Mrs. Liu and asked, "What Mrs. said, but is it the truth, or is there evidence?" For example, the history of the Yuan Dynasty can be carried into Beijing by Mrs. Tuo such as the handwritten chapter, if there is, I dare not say anything else, as the grandson of the Yuan family, I am willing to meet His Majesty in the era for the transfer. ”
Liu turned his sorrow into joy, and nodded busily, "This one has, the slave husband has a blood book of ten thousand words here." ”
"That's enough, please stay here for the time being, and pay homage to Jiayin." Yi Feng took the long blood book and said with a smile.
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