After the emperor met Yi Feng, he had a very good impression of this grandson. And Queen Dugu, who was listening behind the screen at that time, also put her mind at ease, feeling that although this grandson had been living in the folk for many years, he had not really become a grassy green forest. On the same day, the Supreme and the queen dined together, and even ate an extra bowl of rice, and later the two saints sent the inner servants out of the palace to the Yuan Mansion, and specially gave the Yuan family a thousand brocades and a hundred slaves. When the news came out, all kinds of people in Beijing who had been watching had understood a lot inside and outside. The rumors about Yi Feng that were originally flying all over the sky also disappeared in a blink of an eye, and there was no trace.

Yang Jian's happy mood did not last long, an urgent document was quickly delivered into the palace, Kaifu Yi and the three divisions, hussar general Changsun Sheng sent back a secret report from the grassland, the envoy of the Eastern Turkic Dulan Khan has reached an agreement with the Datou Khan who now controls the Western Turks, and concluded an alliance, agreeing to join forces to attack the Sui Dynasty after the beginning of spring. Changsun Sheng's preliminary investigation of the situation was that the Eastern and Western Turkic armies would invade the Great Sui in three ways, one route was the Datou Khan from Hexi to Longyou, attacking Liangzhou, an important town in western Xinjiang, and all the way to the east to attack Lintao and Tianshui, and going straight to Chang'an. The other road crossed the Wolf Mountain, entered the Houtao Plain, and attacked Lingzhou along the Yellow River. One route is from Dulan's pro-unification, and the east of the Purple River is to attack Datong in Yunzhou, and these three routes are the routes of the Turkic invasion of the Great Sui in the early years. Both the Sui and the Turks were super powers that controlled thousands of miles of land, and their soldiers were no less than a million people, so it was impossible to concentrate their troops and horses in one place during every full-scale war. Hundreds of thousands of horses are scattered across the border for thousands of miles. Split into multiple clusters to attack. Although in this way, the forces are scattered. But the difficulties of the Sui Dynasty's defense also increased greatly, and the Turkic troops were divided. Not only did the Great Sui also divide troops to intercept and meet the battle, but in this way, the logistical pressure of the Turks was greatly reduced, and they could even rely on plundering operations to support the war and maintain supplies. On the other hand, the three-way march is extremely threatening. The west road along the Hexi corridor increased, first attacked Longyou, Longyou lost. It is directly the capital of the Great Sui Dynasty. And the first line of Lingwu after attacking in the middle is also directly in the Guanlong area. Although the Eastern Route Army seemed to be far away from Guanzhong, it was close to the center of the two important northern towns of Taiyuan and Youzhou, once the two important towns of Taiyuan and Youzhou were lost, the entire northern region would be destroyed to ashes, and the children of wealth and silk would be captured by the Turks. In three directions, no one can afford to lose anything.

Yang Jian had long known that after the Eastern Turkic vitality gradually recovered, he became more and more unruly, and he also knew that Du Lan was born secretly in Hedatou. But when he heard that the union of the Eastern and Western Turks was a fact, and even that a full-scale war was about to come again, he was still full of shock. "The Turks have joined forces!" He walked around Daxing Palace, pausing and sighing from time to time. "Alas. How could Changsun Sheng let the Turks join forces, it was too disappointing! He said in his heart, filled with resentment and insecurity. All pushed on Changsun Sheng's head. I wanted to make a holy decree to remove Changsun Sheng from his position, but I couldn't think of a better replacement for a while. Years. Changsun Sheng has always served as an envoy to the Turks and other positions, and he can't do it in this regard. Then there is no better candidate.

The war was imminent, and a deep uneasiness began to rise in Yang Jian's heart. He was even a little afraid, especially after the 300,000-strong army of Chinese New Year's Eve was almost completely wiped out in Goguryeo, and he had little confidence in Dasui's army. Over the years, the imperial court has deeply implemented the government military system, the soldiers have been disarmed and returned to the field, and the horses have been released in Nanshan, from the original training and conquest to the current perennial cultivation and occasional training.

The all-out war between the Great Sui and the Turks is a headache to think about, according to the prediction of the Ministry of War, the Turks can at least invest more than 300,000 troops to attack this time. And if the Great Sui wants to face the Turks, it must at least mobilize 300,000 or even 500,000 troops. With so many troops, just the people who provide logistics will be a huge number. If it's just the army, the people, the grain and grass, Yang Jian is not worried, the Great Sui has also been recuperating in recent years, and it is no problem to take out 500,000 troops, hundreds of thousands of people, and even millions of stones of grain and grass. But the question is, did the Great Sui block this joint attack of the Turks and beat them?

The defeat of the Eastern Crusade greatly hit Yang Jian's confidence.

Early this morning, as usual, he got up before dawn and dressed for dinner. Under the service of a group of palace people, he freshened up, put on his regular crown clothes, and then burned incense to worship the heavens, and prayed silently for a while. Because he was in a depressed mood, he even preached that breakfast would be waived.

Changed into a dark dragon robe and wore a soft-footed head, he poured into the Daxing Palace to review the official documents in front of the imperial case. In this imperial case, he has been reviewing various chapters on various military affairs for more than ten years, and has personally written countless edicts, although it is rain or shine, but it is unhindered. Every morning when he came, the imperial table would be filled with a variety of pieces of music.

Today, he was so heavy that he didn't immediately review the recital, and looked down at the copper incense burner on the imperial case. Then he shouted, "Wang Hai, where is today's newspaper?" ”

A palace maid held a peony petal-type silver tire pile red tray with both hands, on which was placed a white porcelain bowl produced in Xingjiao, Hebei, holding a bowl of bird's nest soup, and a silver spoon on one side, and moved over gently. Another maid took the bowl and silver spoon from the tray and placed them in front of the emperor to remove the lid as she pleased.

Yang Jian glanced at the palace maid, then picked up the silver spoon and slowly drank the bird's nest soup.

The emperor had a habit of lately that few outsiders knew about, and that was the habit of reading the newspaper every morning. Newspapers are not a new thing in Huaihuang, but in Daxing City, Guanzhong, it is still a new thing that few people know. But such a gadget thousands of miles away, Yang Jian, the Ninth Five-Year Supreme in Daxing Palace, had already paid attention to it. At the beginning, the envoys of the Heavenly Family who were only sent to Huaihuang collected some of them as a special feature of Huaihuang and sent them back to Beijing, and then Yang Jian ordered a special person to be sent to Huaihuang after reading it, which was responsible for collecting the latest newspapers and magazines printed in Huaihuang, and then sent them back to Beijing with a stagecoach. Through the guò post station system, Huaihuang's newspapers could be delivered to Yang Jian's imperial case in the palace every five days.

Wang Hai came in and explained to the emperor in a low voice: "Heavy snow falls in Hedong, Hebei. The speed on the stagecoach has slowed down a bit, and today's newspaper has been delayed for some time. The old slave just brought it. ”

Yang Jian nodded, took the newspaper and began to look down and read. There are all kinds of advertising information in the business newspaper, and there is a lot of news about recruiting workers to work and recruiting farmers to reclaim the famine, of course, there are also a lot of news about current affairs, but Yang Jian doesn't read the newspaper very much, and the records about those are all at a glance, but he looks more seriously at all kinds of recruitment information, commercial advertisements, and various seasonal prices, etc., for Yang Jian. From the newspapers on this side, you can feel the life of the border pass more intuitively and know the living conditions of the people in Huaihuang. "Food prices have risen again, and this has been going up for a long time. Qingqi also said before that the new grain was harvested, and the grain was fought for five texts. Yang Jian saw the latest price of Huaihuang rice in the newspaper, the finest crystal fragrant rice has risen to 100 yuan for dou rice, even ordinary rice has reached 50 wen per bucket, and millet has also risen to 30 wen per bucket. Yang Jian remembered. Previously, there were local officials in Qingqi, and this year's harvest was a great harvest, and when Qingqi's new rice was on the market, the rice was only five yuan.

Wang Hai hurriedly bowed and replied, "Qi Qi Supreme." When Qingqi's new grain was listed, it was indeed five dollars of rice, but at that time, it was only the market when the new grain was listed, and the price of grain harvest rice did fall. But a large part of the reason is that whenever new grain is put on the market, grain merchants in various places will deliberately release a large amount of old grain. Greatly reduce the purchase price of new grain. The people were waiting to sell the new grain to repay the seed money and other loans, so they had no choice but to sell the new grain at a low price. But this time passed. When the grain merchants sell some of the old grain and eat most of the new grain, the price of grain will begin to recover. As far as the old slave knows, the rice in Qingzhou has now exceeded ten Wen, and even reached about fifteen. However, the grain transported into Beijing from Jianghuai and other places has to increase a lot of transportation costs, and the grain of Beijing is basically transported from abroad, and the transportation cost is not low. At present, the price of rice in Beijing is 30 wen for doumi, and if we wait until March and April next year when the green and yellow crops are not available, the grain in Beijing will often rise to 30 or 40 wen for doumi. Huai Huang is located outside the plug, and the grain is all dependent on foreign transportation, so it is normal for the price of grain to rise to 50 yuan for rice. ”

"Thirty or forty pieces of rice, this price is not cheap." Yang Jian shook his head, he didn't know much about the information about the people's biological resources in Jingshi, but he also knew that the rising price of food was not a good sign. "Huaihuang's various prices are more expensive than those of Jingshi, fifty wen for rice, and even more for thousands of silks, how much is the price of silk in Jingshi now?"

"At the beginning of the emperor, the silk was worth about two hundred dollars. Now a horse of silk in Beijing is worth 600 yuan, and in Qingqi, Hebei Province and other places where silk is produced, the silk is about 500 yuan. ”

Yang Jian shook his head, "The price of rice is expensive, the price of rice should be less than 20 yuan, and the price of silk should be less than 200 yuan." He continued to look through it, but found a newspaper he had never seen before, and when he looked closely, he found that this was the first issue of the inaugural issue. Yang Jian lowered his head and read it carefully, and found that this was a newspaper about the border military, but when he glanced at it, a happy smile immediately appeared on his face. Wang Hai looked at his face and immediately knew that something good had happened, and a smile appeared on his face.

The hall was silent for a moment, and then he heard Yang Jian slap his palm on the imperial case, and laughed happily: "The Wuzhou army is so bold, so bold!" ”

Long Yan was happy, and suddenly all the attendants and palace maids in the hall knelt down. Wang Hai secretly looked up, but saw a stack of newspapers fluttering down, and the page of newspaper that fell in front of him was impressively printed with a line of large characters with a bold and large headline: Those who commit the great Sui Tianwei will be punished even if they are far away, and they will be killed even if they are strong! He looked from right to left along this domineering title, but saw that there was another small headline that said Tiele reoffended the side, and the Wuzhou army fought back and annihilated Liang Chou!

Wang Hai was about to look at it, but he heard that the emperor had already shouted loudly: "Come on, summon Gao Gong and Yang Su!" ”

Wang Hai hurriedly responded: "Obey." While hurriedly exiting the palace, he took his horse and went to the imperial city of Shangshu Province to announce the decree to the two servants. He didn't get until he was halfway there, and when he saw that there was no one around, he waved behind him, and a small chamberlain hurriedly ran over.

"Do you know how to get to Yuanfu?"

"Yuan Inexhaustible Mansion? The little one went with the chamberlain once last time. ”

"Well, you go to the Yuan Mansion quietly now, don't be ostentatious, and tell the Duke of Changning that His Majesty already knows the victory that the Wuzhou Army has just won." Wang Hai commanded quietly. It is certainly not a trivial matter for the emperor to immediately convene the two prime ministers into the palace to discuss the victory after seeing it.

After sending someone to summon the two servants, Yang Jian finally put down the newspapers. Pick up the recital on the imperial case again. After reviewing a few pieces of music, he hesitated on one piece with a red pen. It was a resignation note. From one of the four major governors, the governor of Jingzhou, Da Xi Changru. The governor of Jingzhou was previously served by Wei Shikang, who had served as the secretary of the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Wei Shikang was the nephew of the famous general Wei Xiaokuan. The Wei family is also a top gatekeeper, and the Wei family is loyal to the imperial court, so they can sit in the position of the four chief managers with foreign surnames. However, Wei Shikang did a good job as the governor of Jingzhou, and he did not arouse his suspicion. It's a pity that Wei Shikang, an excellent minister, died of illness last year, and after Wei Shikang's death, Yang Jian also worked hard to select the governor of Jingzhou.

As one of the four major governors, the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion controls the land of the 36 prefectures, not only guarding the southeast area of Guanzhong's periphery, but also this governor's office is still sandwiched between the Yangzhou Governor's Mansion and the Yizhou Governor's Mansion. It can be said that part of the purpose of upgrading the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion to the Great Governor's Mansion was to contain the King of Jin, the Governor of Yangzhou, and the King of Shu, the Governor of Yizhou.

After Wei Shikang's death, Yang Jian chose left and right, and finally chose Daxi Changru to take over this important position.

Daxi Changru is a member of the Shangzhu State and a generation of famous generals of the Great Sui. Many people know that the Great Sui Ping Chen Shuang generals Han Baohu and He Ruobi. At the beginning of the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty, the most powerful generals were Wei Xiaokuan and others. However, in a series of wars against the Turks in the Sui Dynasty, the most powerful generals were Shi Wansui, Yang Su, Yang Shuang and others. And there are two generals who are extremely feared by the Hu people, who are Da Xi Changru and He Lou Zigan. Daxi Changru once led 2,000 people out of the fortress and met with 100,000 Turks, Taixi Changru led 2,000 soldiers and horses to fight to the death for five days and five nights, and fought and retreated, and finally suffered casualties that almost the entire army was wiped out. In exchange for the result of killing and wounding more than 10,000 Turks, the Turks were finally shocked by the will of this Sui army, and Sui reinforcements arrived. Reluctant to retreat. In that battle, Da Xi Changru was injured all over his body. Aftermath. Because of this, he was crowned as a pillar country. After that, he was stationed in northern Xinjiang for many years, and the Hu people did not dare to offend it.

This is a real tiger general, but unfortunately he was too injured that year, and after accepting the appointment of the governor of Jingzhou, he was already seriously ill and difficult to stay before he could take up his post. By now, this tiger general has run out of oil, and he wrote to the Son of Heaven for the third time, asking for his resignation as the governor of Jingzhou.

The Jingzhou Grand Governor's Mansion can't always be absent and unsupervised, but the three provinces and six ministries have discussed several lists and reported them, and he is familiar with the names of those people, but none of them are what he wants. Gao Gong recommended the pillar king Shiji, but Yang Jian was not satisfied with Wang Shiji, this Wang Shiji and Gao Gong went too close, the previous Eastern Crusade, the King of Han was just in command, Gao Gong is a long history, Wang Shiji is the marshal of the march, but the result, defeated and returned, this Wang Shiji was recommended by Gao Gong at that time. Now that he has just thrown Wang Shiji to Liangzhou to be the governor, how can he immediately resume his heavy responsibility. Yang Guang, the king of Jin, recommended Shi Wansui to be the governor of Jingzhou, but he had heard that Shi Wansui had received a large bribe from the king of Jin, although there was no definite evidence, but the general and the prince in the army had private communication, which was extremely taboo for him.

He thought about it, doubted it, and finally had to put down the red pen in his hand.

Originally, he had five sons, one was the crown prince in Beijing, and the other four happened to be the fourth governor. It's a pity that Yang Jun, the king of Qin, is too unpresentable, he likes beauty and luxury, and in the locality, he built a luxurious palace, and also put usury to collect money, so that the local people complained, and he had to call the third child back to Beijing to let him close his door and teach him, and he was removed from his official position.

He originally had four brothers, but the second brother died in battle with Emperor Wu of Zhou in the early years, the fourth brother died early, although the third brother was with his mother, but with the Yuwen family of one heart, in the early years he also wanted to murder him and said that he wanted to protect the Yang family, and after Sui Liguo, this brother was imprisoned by him, and in the end the brothers still failed to reconcile, and he was given to death in the eleventh year of the emperor. The youngest half-brother was actually raised by him and his wife Dugu in the palace, and when he became an adult, this brother was also the most brave, twice the commander of the Northern Expedition to the Turks, and served as the governor of the state and other important positions. However, the bravery of this brother eventually caused a disaster, and the brave general Wang Yang Shuang was finally eliminated by him. A glass of poisoned wine will forever get rid of future troubles. By now, all four brothers have died, and among the remaining nephews, there is nothing to use. There are not many people in the clan, the father of Yang Xiong, the king of Qingzhang, and Yang Jian have the same grandfather, this is a very capable clan, and he is also humble and prestigious. There are a few other clan disciples who don't let Yang Jian be suspicious, but they don't have the ability.

Yang Jian is always like this, those who have the ability are always suspicious of him, Yang Shuang, the king of Wei back then, and Yang Xiong, the king of Qingzhang later. If you come out to do things, you are far stronger than the King of Shu, the King of Han, the King of Qin, etc.

At this moment, Yang Jian suddenly sounded a name. He couldn't help but turn out the newspaper just now, and the front page headline recorded in the border newspaper was the news of the victory of the Wuzhou Army in the battle with the Tiele people in Baiyun Fort a few days ago. A group of thousands of Tiele men and horses invaded the border, was ambushed and surrounded by the Wuzhou army, and annihilated its army, and none of them escaped the net.

"Yang Lin!" Yang Jian held the newspaper in his hand and read Yi Feng's name in his mouth. He suddenly felt that in fact, he had a good candidate for the vacancy of the general manager of Jingzhou. (To be continued......)