Chapter 172: Double Blade
October golden autumn, Yangzhou, Jiangnan.
The night is already very deep, look down from the Linjiang Pavilion that rises from the clouds, the triple Yangzhou City is located at the intersection of the Yangtze River and the Hangou on the high Shugang, Yangzhou is all plains, only a highland in Shugang, standing on the Linjiang Pavilion of the Linjiang River, the whole city is like a courtier lying on the hill, sleeping in the night, and the streets and alleys in the distance reveal a faint light. The night was as cold as water, and the man in the wide robe overlooked the pavilion, and the wind pulled his wide robe and fluttered slowly.
The footsteps came from the bottom up, and the man in the bright light armor carried the steps up, and saluted behind the man in the wide robe and wide belt.
"The pigeon flew back from Chang'an, and Chen Guiren said that there are many rumors in Chang'an now, and the two saints in the palace have also heard about it." The man in armor said without any personal feelings.
"Did you know that Yangzhou is now the hub of north-south transportation, Jianghuai salt, tea, rice and light goods, all gathered here first, and then transferred to Guanzhong and all parts of the north. Since the ten-mile long street market has entered the company, since I have been pacifying and destroying Nanchen, and sitting alone here, the prosperity of Yangzhou's commerce and trade has now surpassed that of Guangzhou. And now, Yangzhou is not only a prosperous transshipment center, but also a thriving maritime terminal and starting point, over the years, more and more overseas people through the guò sea to Yangzhou, Taixi Persians, Romans, as well as Nanyang Tianzhu, Kunlun, Cham, Linyi, as well as the East China Sea Dongying, Silla, Goguryeo, Baekje merchants, look at this city, when I first town here, Yangzhou was not a big city, but now it has become the center of Jiangnan. The broad-robed man's answer was a little indecisive and a little careless.
The man in armor nodded. He is also a witness to the prosperity of this city, and now Yangzhou City is the throat of the southeast, which is really the world's key point. This city was originally a single city. Today's multiple layers have changed too much. Today's Yangzhou city is composed of three cities, Luocheng and Dongcheng, and the big city has two inside and outside, and the whole Yangzhou is located on the high Shugang, and the circumference reaches 24 miles wide. The number of households registered in Yangzhou is 115,524, and the number of taxpayers is more than 600,000, which does not count the hidden population of monks, slaves, monasteries, and powerful people. If you add those business travelers and customers who come and go in an endless stream, Yangzhou has already exceeded one million people, just the population of Yangzhou. With a population of more than four or five hundred thousand, it is well deserved to be the largest city in the south of the Yangtze River. And this qiē is the merit of the man in front of him.
"Lone's favorite thing is to look out here and look at his own city." The man in the wide robe said lightly.
"The view is really nice. Rise by the river. Yangzhou and the river are in sight. The man in armor finally couldn't help but say, "Your Highness is worried about leaving here?" ”
"Lone has been guarding Yangzhou for eight years."
"The King of Shu has been guarding Yizhou for eighteen years!" Duan Da replied.
There is one thing that very little is known. Yang Guang looked back at Duan Dadao, "You now know that Yi Feng is my illegitimate son, but do you know who Yi Feng's mother is?" ”
Duan Tou shook his head, he was the guard of Yang Jian, the Son of Heaven, in his early years, and later when the King of Jin was in Yangzhou, he served as the King of Jin to join the army. And the matter between King Jin and Yi Feng's mother was obviously eighteen or nineteen years ago. At that time, the Great Sui had not yet established a country, and he was still the governor of the guard of Yang Jian, the prime minister of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. But King Jin has never talked about Yi Feng's mother, and with Duan Da's guess, this woman's identity is definitely not simple.
After pondering for a long time, Yang Guang finally spoke again, "Yi Feng's mother is the daughter of the filial piety of the prince of Xunyang County. ”
Duan Da's heart was shocked, and his face showed an incredible look. Yuan Xiaoju is a royal family of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and his ancestor Yuan Xiuyi, father and son, are all Wei Shangshu servants. Yuan Xiaoju had a younger sister who was also married to Yuwen Hu, the Northern Zhou minister Yu Wenhu who poisoned several Northern Zhou emperors. The four brothers of Yuan Xiaoju, all of whom were named county dukes, elder brother Yuan Ze, second brother Yuan Ya, and Ji brother Yuan Bao, even after entering the Sui Dynasty, the Yuan family was also a first-class captive surnamed gate valve in the court, and the branch coefficient was overwhelming. Of course, what shocked Duan Da the most was because Yuan Xiaoju had a younger sister who married Yuwen Hu, the powerful minister of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and he also had a daughter who married Yang Yong, the crown prince of the Great Sui. The Yuan family is the crown princess of Sui, who died suddenly and violently a few years ago, and it is rumored that she was poisoned by the prince's favorite concubine Yun. If Yi Feng's mother is the daughter of Yuan Xiaoju, this is nothing, but Duan Da took his father's Duke of Xiangheng County at the age of three, he is also a member of the Guanlong aristocracy, and he is no stranger to the situation of the Yuan family, as far as he knows, Yuan Xiaoju has only one daughter, that is, the one who married the prince. Thinking about it like this, Duan Da was really speechless in shock. He calculated Yi Feng's age again, seventeen or eighteen looked, it seemed, it seemed that it was really possible. And I had never heard of King Jin having an illegitimate child in the past, but now that I think about it, the crown princess once gave birth to a son
"Your Highness doesn't seem to be very old at that time!" Duan Da said cautiously.
"Yes, I was really not old at that time" Yang Guang said slowly, it turned out that Yang Guang went out hunting once, and happened to meet Yuan Xiaoju's daughter and maid secretly went out, but was intercepted and teased by gangsters. Afterwards, the Yuan family called himself Yuan Ziyan, and Yang Guang called himself Yi Feng, but neither of them revealed their true identities. Later, the two met outside the city several times, until there was a breakthrough in the last relationship. Afterwards, Yang Guang originally planned to tell Sù Yuan's true identity and said that he was the son of the Duke of Sui, but at this time, his father announced that his brother had set the daughter of Sima Xiaoju, the governor of Yizhou, and Yuan Xiaoju, the chief doctor of Sixian, as the fiancée of his brother Yang Yong. Since this day, Yang Guang has never seen Yuan Ziyan again, and several appointments have been fruitless, so he went to the door, but found that the family was not surnamed Yuan at all, and there was no girl named Yuan Ziyan. It wasn't until soon after that his father became the prime minister of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and Yuan Xiaoju also entered the Zhu Kingdom, worshiped Shaozuka Zai, and gave Xunyang County Gong, and then the two families married their children, and at the wedding banquet hall, Yang Guang saw Yuan Ziyan again, but at this time she was no longer called Yuan Ziyan, but Yuan's daughter, who was his new sister-in-law.
When he said this, Yang Guang's eyes were gloomy.
That incident hit him very hard, and it was also the beginning of his first jealousy of his brother Yang Yong. Afterward. He found an opportunity to talk to Yuan alone, and that conversation was very short, and Yuan said that he could not see each other again. Then the two never met selflessly. After that, the Great Sui was established, the Yuan family gave birth, and not long after, the Son of Heaven and the queen proposed to Xiliang for Yang Guang, and finally selected Xiao as the princess of Jin, just after Yang Guang made a marriage contract with Xiao. Yuan sent him a letter accusing him of something that her child was not actually born to the crown prince. It's his. also said that the prince already knew about it, and not long after, it happened that the concubine went home to save her relatives and overturned the emperor's grandson and died.
Concubine Yuan originally planned to bring the child back to the Yuan family, and then find a way to replace Li Dai Taozhuang. In this way, the child escaped the prince's poisonous hands. Who knew that in the end, there was a rollover.
"It wasn't an accident, it was done by the prince." Duan Da's voice was cold, knowing the truth that the child was the son of King Jin, then looking at the overturned car again, he would never think it was an accident again.
But this matter is still too exciting, who would have thought that there would be such a tortuous fact in this. King Jin actually had a relationship with the crown princess for a long time, and even the crown princess was pregnant with the son of King Jin. Originally, if there was no accident in this matter. It was also a good ending for the king of Jin to marry the Yuan family, but in the end, the Duke of Sui wanted to consolidate his power in the court. Wooed Yuan Xiaoju and married the Yuan family, he didn't know about Yang Guang and the Yuan family, but asked for the eldest son to marry the daughter of the Yuan family, and Yuan Xiaoju also agreed. Under the mistake, the matter is irreparable. This marriage was extremely important to both families, and the Yuan family finally succumbed to the family's arrangement, until they saw that their lover had become a little uncle at the wedding, and there was no possibility of things changing. The wedding has already taken place, and if the truth is told at that time, both families will not be able to bear this scandal. Yuan's is likely to "die violently", and the fetus in that womb is even less likely to survive.
It's just that paper can't contain fire after all, others may not know these truths, but Yang Yong, who gets along with the Yuan family day and night, finally realized that his son is not his own species. Yang Yong didn't have any definite evidence, but he didn't need any evidence for this kind of thing, and when he doubted it, it was impossible to endure raising a wild seed. Just like the barbaric custom of killing the eldest son that was popular in some tribes in ancient times, Yang Yong would rather kill this son than let him live. And he didn't sue others, including the emperor and empress, the eldest son of the crown prince and the princess was actually a wild species, and Yang Yong didn't dare to sue the two saints as a result.
"How did Yi Feng survive?" Duan Da asked a little puzzled. If it was the accidental car accident caused by the prince in the first place, it would be impossible for Yi Feng to survive.
"Lonely is not puzzled." Yang Guang shook his head, after the incident happened, the crown princess and Yang Guang both thought that the child died at the hands of the prince, but no one thought that the child would appear again sixteen years later. However, the truth of the matter can no longer be known, Yi Feng has lost his memory twice, and he doesn't remember what happened back then. But now it seems that at the beginning, it was likely that someone rescued Yi Feng.
Yang Guang smiled, laughing a little crazy, "Yi Feng appeared again after sixteen years, and now even the father and queen mother already know, paper can't contain fire after all, and thunder is coming, what kind of fate do you say will happen to Gu and the prince?" ”
Once the Son of Heaven and the Empress know the truth of this evil relationship and know Yi Feng's true identity, I am afraid that neither the prince nor Yang Guang will end well.
"Maybe Your Highness has been overly concerned." In the silence, Duan Da suddenly spoke. "The three people involved, the crown princess has been dead for several years, and the prince and His Royal Highness are left, as long as His Royal Highness does not take the initiative to tell the truth about this matter, the prince will never say it."
"You mean?" Yang Guang was shocked.
Duan Dadao: "I thought that as long as His Highness didn't tell the truth, the prince would never take the initiative to say it first, Your Highness think about it, what good will it do him to shake out the things of the past?" ”
"Are you saying that when you see the land, you will recognize Yi Feng as your son?" Yang Guang said coldly.
"Yes, he will definitely stick to the truth of what happened back then, and only pretend to be as if his own son has been lost and recovered. Your Highness, if you think about it, it is harmful to him that things are shaken out, and now that the status of the crown prince is declining, and he is becoming less and less favored by the two saints, he may be able to take advantage of the sudden appearance of the eldest grandson of the emperor to regain some impression in front of the two saints. ”
Yang Guang shook his head, "He's not worthy!" ”
"But the subordinates feel that this matter should not be pressed first, Yi Feng's identity is a double-edged sword, bursting out, although it is a fatal blow to the prince, but it is also a fatal thing for His Royal Highness, Your Highness Don't forget, today's Supreme has five sons-in-law. Don't lose both with the crown prince, and let the other three kings, especially the king of Han, get the benefit of the fisherman. Anyway, even if we don't make trouble in this matter, our current shape is also superior to the crown prince, replacing the prince, sooner or later, why bother with complications? Duan Da admonished.
"Please make a decision sooner!" Duan Da bowed his hand for a long time.
"Duan Da, do you think Lone wants to tell these to Yifeng?"
"The subordinates think that Yi Feng will know these things sooner or later, and it is better to know these things from His Highness than from other places. Moreover, the flying pigeon biography from Chang'an also said that the Son of Heaven had awarded Yi Feng the title of governor of Wuzhou, Thorn Shi, general and Duke of Changning County. This shows that His Majesty admires Yi Feng very much, and is happy for the appearance of this grandson. Otherwise, how could Yi Feng have been awarded the title of Duke of Assassin and County all at once? This is a good thing, the king should get closer to Yi Feng and deal with it well, Yi Feng can become a favorable killing move for the king to deal with the prince. Moreover, now that Yi Feng has people in the city, and he is valued by His Majesty, he will definitely be able to gain more power in Huaihuang in the future, if the king can get Yi Feng's full help, this can also become a killing move against the King of Han. Don't forget the king, now that the prince has fallen out of favor, it is a matter of time before he is deposed, but after the abolition of the prince, it is difficult to say whether the king of Jin or the king of Han will inherit the throne of the prince. ”
Yang Guang didn't speak, turned around and looked into the distance, letting the cold wind of the night blow his robe.
After a long time, he asked in a low voice, "Duan Da, Gu has never gotten along with Yang Lin well, you say, does he really recognize me as a father in his heart?" ”
"He has the blood of the king in his veins, this is a fact that will never change, you are his biological father!"
"Gao Ying and the King of Han were defeated in the Eastern Expedition, and the way of even defeat was already expected by Yi Feng." Yang Guanghe chuckled, "Before he went north last time, he told Gu that the Eastern Expedition would be defeated, and then the war between the imperial court and the northern Turks would definitely start again." ”
"Yi Feng expects that the Eastern Crusade will be defeated, so what does he think of the upcoming battle in the north?" Duan Da had also personally heard the argument that Yi Feng's Eastern Expedition would be defeated.
Yi Feng said that the Great Sui will win the battle with the Turks, and after this battle, the stability of the northern Xinjiang of the Great Sui will be guaranteed for ten years. He also built yì, asked a certain Shangshu to ask Ying to take command of the expedition, and recommended that Yang Su, Shi Wansui and others unify the road soldiers and horses. ”
Duan Da nodded, "Maybe the king can consider this mention of his!" ”
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