Chapter 109 belongs to you

Yang Kai is a smart person, a very smart and smart person.

When he saw that Mou Liangbi and Zong Lianghu were also waiting outside the door, he knew that these two people were only afraid that they would come to work in time. Although he ignores the government, it does not mean that he is ignorant. Yu Donglai was first demoted to a squire, and then had to submit his resignation by himself, and the positions of the secretary of the military department and the squire could still be insisted on if one was empty, but it was obviously unreasonable for both to be empty.

After Hou Junci, the former squire of the military department, was beheaded, Yu Donglai struggled to support himself, and now that he has also fallen, it is impossible for His Majesty to leave the military department empty and no one to take care of it.

At this juncture, Er Liangchen appeared in Changchun Garden, and the intention of His Majesty is actually self-evident.

Two good ministers.

This title has been around for a long time.

Mou Liangbi, Zong Lianghu.

The two of them were thrown into prison eleven and a half years ago, and they were punished for their crimes, but it was precisely because His Majesty took pity on them that they were only locked up and not executed. You must know that Lu Dao was far less than the two of them who were cut off for their own crimes, and the immortality of the two of them was already a great grace of heaven.

Their sin lies in the fact that they were all assisting the third prince Yang Ji at the beginning.

At that time, the sons seized the heirs, and the third prince Yang Ji had the highest voice, and even when the first emperor was dying, he did want to make him the crown prince, but at the last moment, the fourth prince Yang Yi was now under His Majesty, and with the help of the seventh prince Yang Qi, he led the army straight into Chang'an City, and entered the Taiji Palace with armor and swords.

After the fourth prince Yang Yi ascended the throne, he seemed to be gentle, but in the quiet over the years, he had almost killed everyone under the third prince and the eldest prince. This is the method of the emperor today, he has killed so many people, but when it comes to it, people still stubbornly believe that he is the mildest emperor after the founding of the Great Sui. It is difficult to do this, but His Majesty is able to do it with ease.

At the beginning, the reason why the third prince Yang Ji was the most promising to become the ruler of the Great Sui. is because of the guidance of two virtuous people behind him, these two people are Mou Liangbi and Zong Lianghu. The three princes are good at friendship and righteous deeds, and the hundreds of officials in the court are inclined to him, and the means are all planned by these two people.

It's a pity that it fell short.

Back then, the third prince pretended to be clever and asked the fourth prince Yang Yi to lead troops out of the city to intercept the eldest prince who returned to Chang'an from Dongjiang. Mou Liangbi and Zong Lianghu tried hard to persuade him, but the third prince stubbornly believed that the fourth prince was of the same mind with him and would never betray him. He even said to Mou Liangbi that if you say bad things about the fourth child again, Gu will drag you out of the city and skin you alive now.

This is not a serious matter, so much so that Mou Liangbi sighed that the big thing was gone.

However, this can also be seen how deep the scheming of the city government under His Majesty is today. can make the ambitious third prince have no defense against him, and even think that he is his most confidant. The status is still above the two good ministers, which shows how deep the three princes were deceived by His Majesty at that time.

Mou Liangbi and Zong Lianghu couldn't persuade the third prince Yang Ji to get rid of the fourth prince, but they still thought of a way to make up for it. They also offered to ask the third prince to get rid of Yang Qi, the seventh prince who had the best relationship with the fourth prince Yang Yi. Yang Ji rejected them after thinking about it for a long time, and Yang Ji's reason was that if Yang Qi was eliminated, it would inevitably force Yang Yi, the originally loyal fourth prince, to rebel. This is a thing that does not outweigh the benefits, and it is not beneficial.

Later, when the Seventh Prince Yang Qi took hundreds of slaves to guard a city gate. It was also Zong Lianghu who led his troops to kill him, trying to slaughter all the people guarding the door. But it's a pity that he didn't expect Yang Qi, the Seventh Prince, to be such a hidden person. He is one of the few people who are still alive and have seen Yang Qi's shot, and Yang Qi's domineering spirit in that battle still makes him unable to let go.

Thousands of elites, besieging hundreds of house slaves, are invincible!

In that battle, that one person showed his might and guarded the city gate alone, and no one could get close to the door of thousands of tigers. Yang Qi did not retreat in the bloody battle, and the fourth prince Yang Yi rushed back in time with his troops. In a pool of blood, Yang Yi ordered the slaughter of the forbidden soldiers besieging the city gate, and thousands of heads were cut off, just because they injured the Seventh Prince.

On the day His Majesty ascended the throne, he ordered that Mou Liangbi and Zong Lianghu Lingchi be executed. It was Prince Yang Qi who persuaded him bitterly, and His Majesty changed his mind and imprisoned the two in prison, which was eleven and a half years. When they come out again, they can even be described as unrecognizable.

Back then, these two people were both famous and romantic figures.

At that time, there were ten sons in Jinyi in Chang'an City, who were the most talented and graceful ten children of the ten families evaluated by the women in the Qinglou. Mou Liangbi and Zong Lianghu are among them, and there are even rumors that the two of them go to the Qinglou to have fun, and many Qinglou beauties will not accept money, and even give away their savings. The two of them are also the most special people among the ten sons of Jinyi, and Mou Liangbi is better, after all, the Mou family is still well-known in the southwest. Zong Lianghu's family has long been in decline, although he was born with a vacant position as a right attendant, he has always relied on relatives and friends to get by.

After getting to know Mou Liangbi, Zong Lianghu's life was better.

And the two of them threw themselves into the door of the three princes, which was also the most glorious time of their lives. Rumor has it that when they heard the news that Zong Gongzi was finally getting ahead and was about to enter the office, many Qinglou beauties cried with joy, and said again and again that they had a good eye for pearls, and the original bonus was not wasted.

Zong Lianghu's popularity in the Qinglou can be seen.

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Emperor Yang Yi looked at Er Liangchen, who was sitting on the stool opposite and looked a little unpleasant, pointed to the tea on the table and said, "Don't drink it?" ”

This question was a little abrupt, and even Yang Kai, the king of Xujun who was sitting next to the emperor, couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. In an instant, Yang Kai's heart suddenly tightened. His Majesty the Emperor asked Erliangchen if he drank it, it seemed simple, but in fact, where is such a simple thing as drinking tea, and if the two people can't understand the things hidden behind, I'm afraid that things will be bad.

It's just that he doesn't have much friendship with these two people, and in front of His Majesty, he can't make a look in his eyes, so he can only lower his head and pretend to taste his own tea.

After asking if he drank or not, the emperor looked at Mou Liangbi and Zong Lianghu and waited for their answers.

After a moment of silence, Mou Liangbi glanced at Zong Lianghu, who first sighed slightly, and then nodded.

"Drink!"

The two of them picked up the teacups, ignored the fact that the tea was still slightly hot, and drank it directly. Drinking tea is like drinking, drink it all. Because they drank it a little quickly, the tea drippeds on their gray cloth prison clothes and stained a piece of it. Because of this, the two of them looked a little more down.

The young man in brocade back then, even now Mou Liangbi is only thirty-eight or nineteen years old, and Zong Lianghu is only thirty-five years old, but no matter how they look now, they are almost fifty or sixty years old. The messy hair, the shabby clothes, the beard that reached the chest, and the mud between the fingernails was disgusting to look at.

The marks carved by the years on their faces are so heavy that people who are not yet forty years old are already wrinkled.

These eleven and a half years in prison have been extremely hard for them. The three princes are dead, they have no backer, and they have no relatives in the prison to help send some silver to the jailer's cell head, and it is actually not easy to survive until now. If it weren't for the lack of people in the military department, His Majesty might not have remembered the two of them. And if he died in the prison before this, he was afraid that His Majesty would not bother to blame anyone.

The two men drank the hot tea from their cups, then stood up and bowed to the emperor.

Refuse to sit again.

The corners of Emperor Yang Yi's mouth picked up slightly, and suddenly stretched out his finger to the plate with snacks on the table and asked, "Don't eat?" ”

Asked first if you didn't drink? Asked again if you don't eat?

If you've already drunk it, why don't you eat it?

"Eat!"

The two of them nodded at the same time, and then grabbed the snacks from the plate with their dirty black hands and stuffed them into their mouths.

"Finished eating?"

The Emperor asked a third sentence.

The two of them nodded again, eating faster and faster.

There were four plates of dim sum on the table, enough for the two burly men to eat according to the amount, and the dim sum was dry, and it was easy to choke when swallowed, but these two people were like hungry wolves, and it didn't take long to stuff the four plates of dim sum into their stomachs. Mou Liangbi puffed up his two cheeks and looked at His Majesty, burping one after another. Zong Lianghu kept stroking his chest with his hand, as if he was really choking.

Yang Kai couldn't help but laugh, he secretly looked at it, and His Majesty was also laughing.

These two unruly guys, who have been in prison for eleven and a half years, are finally smart, and they have seen things thoroughly, and they have no other way out than to obey the emperor's orders.

"Full?"

The Emperor asked again.

"I'm full."

The two men bowed their heads in reply.

The emperor waved his hand and said, "Su is not afraid, take the two of them down to take a bath and change into clean clothes." I'm afraid that the smell in my house won't be able to disperse for three days. ”

"Whoa"

Su Buxing hurriedly responded, smiled and led the two people out of the study. When Mou Liangbi walked out of the door, he took a deep breath and stretched his body with open arms. Zong Lianghu glanced at him, and suddenly couldn't help laughing, and his cloudy eyes were full of tears.

"The smell in this garden is so good!"

Mou Liangbi said.

"It's good outside"

Zong Lianghu said.

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"Your Majesty, how do you know that these two people will definitely be obedient?"

Yang Kai, the king of Xujun, asked the emperor with admiration.

The emperor smiled and said, "There are no outsiders here, you still call me Fourth Brother...... The reason why I knew that the two of them would be obedient and not beg for mercy as they did eleven years ago was actually simple...... Because they spent eleven and a half years in prison and did not die. ”

Yang Kai was stunned for a moment, and only after careful understanding did he understand what the emperor meant by this.

"yes......"

He sighed: "With the identities of the two criminals, it is really not easy to survive in the prison, and the two of them must have bothered to do so." They can survive with their status, status, and sins, but people with great perseverance and wisdom cannot do it. ”

"They don't have great wisdom, but it's barely enough."

The emperor smiled and said, "Since they are greedy for life, how dare they not listen to me?" If they weren't afraid of death, they would have died in eleven and a half years in prison and don't know how many times. But the fact that they are alive shows that they still have begging and expecting to live. ”

The emperor got up, stretched his body and said, "It's okay to leave the affairs of the military department to the two of them, but I didn't come to you just to chat. I know that you have been idle all these years, and you have been lazy, and you can't afford to go back to the court to help me...... But, from now on, you really have to bring up this thought, although I can not let you handle the affairs of the Ministry of War, there is something more difficult to do than the matter of the Ministry of War, and I will hand it over to you. ”

"The minister listens to His Majesty's orders."

Yang Kai hurriedly stood up and lowered his head and said.

"I secretly transferred grain from seven granaries north of the river, millions of stones. The weapons and armor in the three palaces of Jinyang Palace, Benin Palace, and Shuntian Palace were transferred, which were enough to equip 500,000 people, and all of them were transported to the northwest. In addition, 400,000 troops from the northeast, east and southwest have also been sent to the northwest. Most of the officials in the court did not know about this matter, and when it was time to say it, I would bring it up in the court...... Now, I need someone to rush to the northwest to preside over the overall situation. ”

He looked at Yang Kai and said, "Such a heavy responsibility belongs to you. ”

Yang Kai's heart shook violently, and his eyes widened in an instant.

"Your Majesty...... Are you really going to use troops against the Northwest? ”

The emperor nodded, and said firmly: "The emperors of the Great Sui Dynasty have to expand their territory, and the country is in my hands, how can I only keep what my ancestors left behind and not want to forge ahead?" Not only will I push the border of our Great Sui outward, but also to the west! I want the first emperor to see, and the Great Sui is in my hands...... He didn't choose the wrong person. ”

Yang Kai couldn't calm down in his heart, and subconsciously wanted to persuade the emperor not to easily move troops against Meng Yuan, but seeing the different look in His Majesty's eyes, he swallowed his words again.

"I have already selected a few young talents for you to help, and I will order them to be transferred to the northwest first. When you get there, they'll help you. ”

The emperor walked up to Yang Kai, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Old Twelve, don't let me down!" ”