Chapter 24: Li Yuan's Worries

Since the last hunt in Luoyang, a year and a half has passed, and Li Yuan, who was originally appointed as the Taishou of Xingyang, only worked for one year in Xingyang County, and then was transferred to Loufu County as the Taishou, and was transferred from the densely populated and developed agricultural Kuanxiang to the northern counties with a small population and low grain production, which is undoubtedly a disguised degradement. ()

Li Yuan was also a little sullen in his heart, he didn't do anything wrong, and he didn't have any shortcomings in political performance, he was transferred inexplicably, he also inquired about the reason through the relationship in the capital, but the news he got was the meaning of the saint.

This made Li Yuan secretly frightened, why did the saint belittle him, is there any reason hidden in this? He naturally thought of the Shengshang's suppression of the Guanlong Group, in recent years, the Shengshang has quietly suppressed the Guanlong Group, originally more than eighty percent of the important ministers of the imperial court were Guanlong Group, but now it has gradually dropped to less than fifty percent, on the contrary, the Shandong Shi clan began to gain power, Pei, Cui, Zheng, Wang, these big clans are all over the court and localities.

Li Yuan thought that he was also a member of the Guanlong Group, and his grandfather Li Hu was one of the Eight Pillars of Guanlong, could it be that the Holy Lord began to suppress him because of this?

In the past few months, Li Yuan was really a little uneasy in his heart, and his behavior was more restrained, lest he be caught by Yang Guang and belittle him again, until the news of the repair of Fenyang Palace came, he breathed a long sigh of relief, at least he had a chance to perform, when Yu Wenkai began to lead the craftsmen to survey the terrain, he began to carry out the recruitment of the people, once the holy decree was issued, he was the first to respond, and immediately put 30,000 people into the construction of the road.

The palace eunuch of Fenyang is Yang Yuanqing, which makes Li Yuan secretly happy in his heart, at least their relationship is not bad, Yang Yuanqing will take care of his difficulties, and will not give him some tasks that cannot be done.

Li Yuanzong immediately stepped forward and smiled: "General Yang, it has been a year and a half since Luoyang was farewell, but I didn't expect that we would see you again in Loufu County." ”

Yang Yuanqing also returned the salute and smiled: "I arrived yesterday, and I was going to visit Li Yuanjun tomorrow, but I was ashamed that Li Yuanjun came in person." ”

"Hey! This Fenyang Palace is only three months, if it can't be completed, General Yang is the first to be held accountable, and I, Li Yuan, am the second to ask for it, don't dare not be unreasonable! ”

Li Yuan spoke very implicitly, and the implication was to tell Yang Yuanqing that they were grasshoppers on a rope, and the fate of the two was closely related, which was also the purpose of his timely visit to Yang Yuanqing today, to establish a good cooperative relationship.

Yang Yuanqing smiled, he understood what Li Yuan meant, he also knew a little more detailed information from Feng Deyi on the way, although the palace supervisor has a great responsibility, but the power is also very great, he can mobilize the manpower and material resources of the surrounding five counties, and the career of the officials of the five counties is also in his hands, he can impeach the magistrate for a reason, this kind of impeachment of building a palace is extremely sharp, ten bullets and nine depreciations, Li Yuan, as a landlord, must try his best to maintain a good relationship with Yang Yuanqing. ()

At this time, Yang Yuanqing suddenly saw Chai Shao behind Li Yuan, Chai Shao was originally the guard of the crown prince Yang Zhaobei, why was he here?

"General Chai, it's been a long time."

Yang Yuanqing shouted 'General Chai' so that Chai Shao was very embarrassed, he bowed forward with a red face and saluted, "General Yang, I have been transferred to Loufu County to participate in the military." ”

Li Yuan also laughed and said: "Chai joins the army and is now my son-in-law, it turns out that General Yang knows him." ”

No wonder Chai Shao became Li Yuan's son-in-law, there is such a reason for being close to the water, Chai Shao is also the same as most of the young talents of the Sui Dynasty, he was also born in a family of generals, his father Chai Shen was the right inner rate of the East Palace when Yang Guang was the prince, and he was the prince of Julu County, and he was the general in charge of the East Palace, and he was the current general of the right prison guard, with a high position, so Li Yuan would give his third daughter to Chai Shao, which was actually a marriage of interests between the gate valves.

"I saw it in the Prince's Mansion back then, congratulations to Mrs. Li for being this good son-in-law."

At this time, Li Jiancheng also stepped forward to give Yang Yuanqing a salute, "See General Yang!" ”

Li Jiancheng did not hold an official position, he worked for his father, he was a Zuoshi under the Taishou, responsible for the persuasion of Loufu County, and he was also his father's personal official.

"I heard that Brother Jiancheng has become a father, congratulations!"

Li Jiancheng gave birth to a son last year, which was a major event for the Li family, and the Manchu Dynasty spread all over the civil and military affairs, and Empress Xiao also specially sent people to send congratulatory gifts, and even Yang Yuanqing heard about it in Wuyuan County.

"I also wish General Yang an early marriage and an early birth of a noble son."

"Huh! Thank you, thank you! ”

After everyone finished greetings, Li Yuan stepped forward and said in a low voice: "General Yang, there are a few words, I want to talk to the general in private, is it convenient?" ”

"Li Yuanjun, please!"

Yang Yuanqing waved his hand, and the two walked slowly along the road of the construction site.

"Lou Fu County is sparsely populated, last year to build the Great Wall, Lou Fu County two households smoked a ding, out of 50,000 people, in the end only a little more than half back, the vitality is greatly damaged, this time the saint wants to repair the Fenyang Palace, to Lou Fu County is 30,000 people, this is an average of one household and a half out of a ding, is already the limit, I am very worried about the repetition of the misfortune of the Great Wall last year, if that is the case, Lou Fu County will be over, General Yang, I really hope that the Fenyang Palace can have ninety percent of the people survive."

Li Yuan sighed, in the past two years, the large-scale fortifications of the saint have continued, and at least three or four percent will die, if half of the people die in the Fenyang Palace this time, there will be no strong men in Loufu County.

Yang Yuanqing was also thinking about this matter, he listened to Feng Deyi on the road carefully said, a large number of dead people in the construction of fortifications, first, the time is too tight, no day and night, a day to do ten hours of hard work, at the same time the army and officials wantonly deduct food, the people can only eat one meal, hungry and cold tired, sick and still forced to do heavy work, so the death of laborers is particularly serious.

"Li Yuanjun, I estimate that there is no way to build the road, it will take at least a month to build the road, and then it will take me to build the palace on the mountain, and I am worried that it will not be enough for two months, so I can only try not to deduct food, so that the people can eat enough, and they can rest for two days if they are sick, so it is estimated that eight adults can survive."

Li Yuan smiled bitterly, the people's grain is generally distributed together with the army of the overseer, controlled by the army, and the local government can't control it, otherwise he wouldn't have come to Yang Yuanqing.

"What, what's the problem?" Yang Yuanqing saw the wry smile on Li Yuan's face.

"General Yang, do you remember Yuan Guan?"

Yang Yuanqing nodded, he remembered that he was the younger brother of Yuanshou of Taifu Temple, who was the general of the right guard, and was killed together with He Ruobi in the fourth year of Renshou, for this matter, the Yuan family has always regarded Yang Yuanqing as a mortal enemy, but Yang Yuanqing was holy, and the Yuan family was no longer as beautiful as before, they didn't dare to make any moves, but there were small movements in secret, such as the last time Xiahou Yan teased Pei Minqiu, it is said to be related to Yuanshou's two sons.

"What does it have to do with Yuanxuan?"

As soon as Yang Yuanqing's words fell, he heard a violent roar from the front, "You dare to pretend to be sick for Lao Tzu, drag it down and cut it down, and show your head to the public!" ”

I saw an officer dozens of paces ahead, about thirty-four or five years old, with a burly figure, eyebrows as rough as a brush, and an unusually fierce appearance, who was whipping several people with a horsewhip.

Li Yuan sighed, "It's him, Yuan Shangying, the son of Yuan Guan, and the general of Yingyanglang, who is responsible for the supervision of the construction of Fenyang Palace this time." ”

Although Yang Yuanqing also brought 2,000 overseers and soldiers, in fact, their responsibilities were more focused on supervision, supervising officials and craftsmen, and urging the local government to contribute money, personnel, and materials, while the local military government was responsible for supervising the work, and there were more than 6,000 people stationed in five military offices in Loufu County, and the military department transferred 3,000 of them to supervise the work.

On the ground lay a man, his clothes in tatters, his face sick, and dying, and dozens of people kneeling beside him, pleading bitterly.

"Master Jun, Cao Wulang built the Great Wall last year and fell ill, and he has not been well, but this time he was recruited again, he really can't stand it, not pretending to be sick, begging the master to spare them."

Yuan Shangying was furious, and the horsewhip slashed his head and covered his face and whipped it on the heads of the people, "Whoever dares to intercede will be cut together!" ”

More than 20 soldiers behind him also beat the people with sticks, and dozens of people who pleaded for mercy were beaten and rolled all over the ground, and two soldiers dragged the sick people's feet into the grass, and one of the soldiers laughed fiercely, drew a knife, raised it high, and slashed at the people's neck.

At this moment, an arrow whizzed in, and an arrow pierced the wrist of the pro-soldier, and the pro-soldier screamed, "Pawn!" 'Landing.

The sudden change stunned Yuan Shangying's personal soldiers, they retreated one after another, surrounding Yuan Shangying, Yuan Shangying was furious at first, when he saw the archer clearly, his pupils suddenly contracted into a line, "It's you, Yang Yuanqing!" ”

The arrow was not shot by Yang Yuanqing, but by Yang Yuanqing's subordinate Yang Sanlang, if Yang Yuanqing shot it, there would be no life.

Yang Yuanqing urged him to step forward and smiled faintly: "General Yuan, do you know me?" ”

Yuan Shangying was once a Qianniu beside the King of Qi, and he had seen Yang Yuanqing many times, and he knew that Yang Yuanqing was directly related to his father's death, and it could be said that he was also his father's enemy.

"Palace Supervisor Yang, what do you mean by this?"

Yuan Shangying pointed at his wounded soldier and said coldly: "Have I offended you?" ”

Yang Yuanqing glanced back at Li Yuan, and pretended to be puzzled: "Li Taishou said that someone is killing people here, please come and stop it, but I didn't expect that it was General Yuan's people who were killing people, it seems that I misunderstood." ”

Li Yuan's face suddenly showed a trace of embarrassment, he didn't expect Yang Yuanqing to deal with the problem like this, to stop the violence with violence, and he didn't expect Yang Yuanqing to drag him in, making it difficult for him to stay out of the matter.

Although Yuan Shangying is also the garrison of Loufu County, he is directly under the military department, and he has nothing to do with him, the Taishou, and speaking of which, they are all Guanlong nobles, and they usually have a good relationship, he originally wanted to use Yang Yuanqing to deal with Yuan Shangying, but he didn't expect that Yang Yuanqing's understatement would put him in an embarrassing situation.

At this time, dozens of people recognized Li Yuan, and immediately stepped forward and knelt in front of him and begged bitterly, "Li Taishou, save us!" Cao Wulang didn't pretend to be sick, he was really in poor health, he couldn't stand it. ”

Hundreds of people around knelt down and cried, these are the people of Loufu County, Li Yuan is their parent official, Li Yuan had no choice but to step forward and say to Yuan Shangying: "General Yuan, give me a face, spare this people!" ”

Yuan Shangying is a martial artist, with a violent and fierce personality, he saw Li Yuan and Yang Yuanqing coming together, his heart was already uncomfortable, at this time Li Yuan begged him, his eyes rolled, why not take this opportunity to give Yang Yuanqing a dismount!

He sneered, pointed to his injured soldiers, and said viciously: "I'll give you face, but who will give me face?" ”

He pointed his whip at the man lying in the grass, and shouted to his subordinates: "Behead him, show the head!" ”

More than 20 pro-soldiers drew their swords and rushed towards the people lying in the grass, at this moment, Yang Yuanqing took off his bow and arrow, opened his bow and set up an arrow, and shot an arrow, the arrow was strong, and the pro-soldier screamed miserably, and the long arrow pierced into the brain, and died on the spot!

No one thought that Yang Yuanqing would dare to kill the soldiers, more than 20 pro-soldiers were stunned, even Yuan Shangying was stunned, looking at Yang Yuanqing in disbelief, no one had ever dared to kill the overseer soldiers.

Yang Yuanqing gave an order to the nine iron guards on the left and right, "Kill me!" ”

Nine iron guards drew their swords and pounced, all of them were strong in martial arts and unstoppable, and in an instant, seven or eight Yuan Shangying's personal soldiers were cut down, and there was a scream.

Yuan Shangying saw that the situation was not good, turned his horse's head and fled, and the remaining dozen or so pro-soldiers also ran wildly, Yang Yuanqing looked at his back and sneered, to see who gave whom to dismount?

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