Chapter 305: The Imperial Driver's Expedition
Yang Guang is not at ease with others, but he is very at ease with Li Yuan. This reassurance is not just because Li Yuan is his cousin, it is related to the world, not to mention a cousin, even if Li Yuan is his own brother, he will not be relieved of him because of this.
What really reassured Yang Guang was that Yang Guang thought that he had seen through Li Yuan earlier. Li Yuan took the title of Duke of Tang at the age of seven, and when he was young, he was also a famous son in Chang'an City. is extremely handsome, and is also very romantic. But later he was released as an official, and he was a foreign official for almost 20 years, but his political performance was very mediocre, and he even belonged to the lower middle category. Later, he was transferred to Beijing and successively served as the young eunuch in the palace and the secretary of the palace, which can be said to be very mediocre.
Even later, due to Yang Xuangan's rebellion, he temporarily gave Li Yuan great power and let him control the soldiers and horses of the eleven counties of Guanlong. It was a huge right, and he was also wary of Li Yuan at that time, but Li Yuan's later performance reassured him. With the soldiers and horses of the eleven counties in hand, the result is only a whole day, not to mention the whole armament, but the time to sit in the office is very small.
Now Li Yuan is serving as the ambassador of Hedong, but he is just helping him supervise hundreds of officials in Hedong.
Li Yuan was born in the Guanlong aristocracy and was a relative of the emperor, but he had little ability, and Yang Guang valued such conditions very much. In his opinion, Li Yuan has no ability or ambition, but his own identity and the power of his family can grow to the point of counterbalancing Yuwen Valve and Pei Valve in a short period of time. What he wants is just a person who takes away the power in the hands of Yuwen Valve and Pei Valve, and he doesn't really want to support an ambitious person.
With Yang Guang's order, the Praetorian Guard, Dali Temple, and Jingzhao Mansion were all quickly dispatched to close the city gates, close the palace gates, and close the doors of each square and city.
And Chen Kefu and the others quickly defeated those black-clothed people after Jin Wuwei arrived.
However, these people are very ruthless, and they all committed suicide by poisoning when they saw the failure. Although their identities can be found through corpses in the end, it is impossible to trace the person behind them and their identities after death.
"Your Majesty, Dali Temple has preliminarily ascertained that the three hundred assassins who participated in the assassination of Lord Chen were all Praetorian Guards, and they came from all the forces of the Praetorian Guard, including the Xiaoguo Army and the Yulin Army, as well as the Xiaocai Army, and even the soldiers of the Waifu Fanshangfu in the camp outside the city. All but three of the 300 were killed on the spot, and all the rest committed suicide by poisoning. The identities of all of them have been confirmed that the top officer is no more than the commander of the gang, and most of these 300 people are from ordinary people from all over the world. ”
In the Liangyi Palace of Ziwei Palace, dozens of ministers have been summoned into the palace Yang Guang sat on the platform. At this time, Shaoqing of Dali Temple, an old minister Xu Lang, who was over the age of Huājia, was reporting the latest situation to the emperor.
Chen Kefu, Su Wei, Yu Wenshu, Pei Yun, Pei Shiju, and Yu Shiji, the six ministers who were in charge of the government, were all here, and they were sitting on the cushion in front of Yang Guang at this time. Chen Kefu sat there safely after an assassination but nothing happened.
In fact, when Jin Wuwei arrived quickly, Chen Kefu had already judged that this was definitely not Yang Guang trying to kill him. If Yang Guang wanted to kill him, Jin Wuwei couldn't have arrived so quickly. After deducing that it was not Yang Guang who wanted to kill him, Chen Kefu became a little happy.
If it wasn't Yang Guang who assassinated him, then the result would have been very simple. It's not Yuwenshu or Pei Yun or Pei Shiju, but no matter which one it is, anyway, he Chen Kefu has nothing to do. And after this incident, he dared to believe that their assassination of dissidents would definitely anger Yang Guang. Next, it is definitely not him who suffers. Perhaps, his trip to the Eastern Capital will be quite safe in the future.
"The Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and Henan Prefecture will jointly investigate this case, and the truth of the matter must be investigated clearly within a month." Yang Guang glanced at the ministers below and said coldly.
Several ministers who were named also had some numbers in their hearts, and it was estimated that in the end, they could only find some unlucky ghosts to replace their deaths. How could it be easy to investigate the people who could dispatch so many guards to assassinate Chen Pojun.
Yang Guang glanced at them and had already seen their thoughts, but he didn't say half a word, all he wanted was to make a fuss about this matter. As for what the truth of the matter was, he didn't need to know. He is the Son of Heaven, and his actions are neither the law nor justice. He is talking about potential, the way of checks and balances. Even if this matter really has nothing to do with Yuwen Valve and Pei Valve,
Yang Guang will not let them go because of this. ,
"The Praetorian Guards are my personal guards, but they have done such an assassination of important ministers in the court, which is really very disappointing to me. From now on, the Janissaries must conduct a thorough investigation. "After a thunderous wrath, the proclamator went to the temple to announce the decree.
"Emperor Sui ordered that in addition to Yuwenshu's position as General Zuo Yiwei, he was transferred to the military department. Pei Lou removed the post of Imperial History Doctor and transferred the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Su Wei removed Liaodong to comfort the ambassador and Nayan, and added the left servant of Shangshu to shoot. In addition to Shanxi and Hedong, Li Yuan comforted the ambassadors, added the title of Taiyuan to stay behind, accept words, and participate in the government. In the land of Murowei, the four counties of Zhuoshan, Yaoshan, Shenmo, and Wanshui were newly built, in addition to Kefu Nayan and Liaodong were left behind, and Chen Kefu was crowned as the right servant of Shangshu, and the four counties of Shan, Yaoshan, Shenmo, and Wanshui were guarded, and the military of the eleven counties of Liaodong and Murowei were also known. Jin Fan Zi Gai Liaodong stayed behind, and Pei Renji, the general of Zuo Wuwei, was the deputy of Liaodong"
A long edict involved the transfer of nearly 100 people at one time. The last time is also a civil and military general above the fifth grade, and there is no rumor in advance about such a transfer, which makes all the ministers surprised.
For the ministers of the court, this is nothing short of an earthquake. The first one of the holy decrees was Yu Wenshu, who was dismissed from the post of General Zuo Yiwei and changed to the rear secretary. This is equivalent to directly removing him from the right to take charge of the army, and the Praetorian Guards in the capital will no longer be under his control in the future. Although he still has a title of participating in the government, everyone knows that this means that he has fallen out of favor in front of the emperor.
After Yuwen Shu listened to the order and thanked him, the whole person stepped down at once. A face was extremely pale, and his eyes were blank and he sat on the mat. Now his heart was full of regret and fear, and he didn't know what would await him next.
With the same expression as him, Pei Yun is the third grade, but the Ministry of Civil Affairs is only from the third grade. This is an extremely bad signal, in the past, he was in charge of the Yushitai, which was equivalent to a knife in Yang Guang's hand. If it doesn't please the eye, he will follow Yang Guang's wishes and instruct Yushi to impeach that official. He is Yang Guang's dog, and he will bite whichever he asks him to bite. Now Yang Guang didn't let him bite all of a sudden, he didn't know if it was the turn of the new Yushitai to bite him next.
Some people were sad and some were happy, and the white-haired Su Wei didn't expect that after he was sent to Liaodong, he would be able to return to the imperial court again. And he actually ascended to the position of the left servant, which is the real position of the prime minister. He has done the right servant shooting and accepting words of Shangshu, but he has never been the left servant shooting position of the head of the hundred officials. After nearly thirty years of crisscrossing the Great Sui Dynasty, he didn't expect that at this time, he would be able to ascend to this position. The jī movement in my heart was so great that I almost fainted.
And Li Yuan, who hurriedly entered the palace, also had a trembling mouth, and he didn't expect that he had been promoted one after another in the past few years, from the Taishou in a remote place to the center of the capital, and now he has directly added Nayan, and has also given the power to participate in the government and directly worship the prime minister. Even his three sons were given a lot of official positions. From today on, he is the seventh person in charge of the imperial court and the fourth prime minister with a phase.
Chen Kefu sat there and watched the crowd move or panic, but his heart was full of flavors. Yang Guang added a Shangshu right servant shot to him, which seemed to be promoted. However, he was dismissed from the post of Liaodong in his hands, although he still knew the military of Liaodong and the eleven counties of Murowei, but it was equivalent to being completely removed from Liaodong.
On the one hand, Hua finally stayed in Liaodong as he wished, but he was driven from Liaodong to Murowei, which was farther away. What made him even more vigilant was that Pei Renji, who was Pei Valve, was actually transferred to Liaodong to serve as Liaodong Band, which made him very worried. Liaodong already has several generals, and now there is another one, which is undoubtedly Yang Guang's desire to completely remove him from Liaodong.
Yang Guang stood up and asked the two Neishì to show the map on the table in front of the ministers.
"Can you know the reason why I let you stay in Murowei instead of being transferred to the capital immediately to assist me?"
Chen Kefu saluted: "Your Majesty's heart is to see the minister's article Chen, let the minister live in the north of the Eastern Turks, in order to contain the soldiers and horses of the Eastern Turks, so that they do not dare to go south in vain." ”
"Qing's recital, I am very relieved after reading it, there is Qing, even the Great Wall of my Great Sui."
"It is the duty of a minister to guard the land for Dachai and to guard the land for His Majesty."
Yang Guangfu laughed a few times, "The friendship between the monarch and the minister is the most important thing." Qing has this intention, and I am very relieved. If I let Qing take the initiative to attack the Eastern Turks after the next year, transfer his troops and horses to the north, and then I will personally lead the army to attack the Turks from the south, will Qing be willing to be my vanguard? ”
Chen Kefu was stunned for a moment, this Turkic steppe is boundless, stretching for thousands of miles, and it is even more powerful for the Turkic soldiers at this time. Giving up the advantages of his city fortress and the steepness of Mountain 11, but taking the initiative to go to the steppe to fight the Turks, isn't this? What's more, if the bandits are not peaceful today, but Yang Guang plans to conquer in person, wouldn't this be self-defeating? Could it be that Yang Guang is really addicted to fighting, and he still wants to recruit in person. As soon as he remembered the results of his two personal expeditions to Goguryeo, Chen Kefu frowned.
"Your Majesty, the Turks are not Goguryeo, if you want to fight the Turks, you must send people later, and you will not attack in defense!" Although Chen Kefu wished that Yang Guang would kill himself as soon as possible, he was not willing to watch countless Han people in the Central Plains die innocently in the grassland because of Yang Guang's wishes.