The Scholars were very disappointed with the content of the Divine Decree. With his face as a horse governor and such a generous gift, he couldn't get a first-level promotion for his friend! How could such an unreasonable thing happen! If it is a child of a family who has made the same contribution, even if he is from a third-rate family like Li Yuan and Xue Shixiong, I am afraid that the meritorious person has already been made a marquis and an uncle, and even led a guard and horse alone. However, apart from a few good words, Li Xu has not gotten anything so far. Not only has there been no change in his official position, but even the imperial court has not made a single turn in the merits specially set up to reward military merits. (Note 1)

'It turns out that without the face of the Yuwen family, I am nothing! Disappointed, Yu Wenshi began to feel sorry for himself. 'If the father or eldest brother comes forward at this moment, the officials of the imperial court who rely on the Yuwen family will not say good things about Xuzi in unison? But in my case, the same proposal is insignificant! ’

He patronized and complained, forgetting the fact that Xuzi's military position was already half a level higher than him at this time. In this case, if the imperial court promotes Xuzi again, or gives Xuzi the title of viscount, he will always want to take Xuzi under his command in the future. Yu Wenshu once used this method to successfully get Xuzi out of Li Yuan's grasp, and with the same setback, he certainly couldn't tolerate the appearance of his son. Therefore, the old general Yuwenshu spared no effort to praise Li Xu's martial arts in front of the emperor and described him as a brave thug. In order to create an opportunity for his son, he even hinted to his henchmen that no one was allowed to speak for the poor wild boy until the merits of Yu Wenshiji were confirmed. But this kind of wishful thinking has been resisted by other families, and in Yu Wenshu's eyes, it is only one of his sons who has received meritorious awards. But in the eyes of others, it means that the strength of the Yuwen family has grown again, and it has threatened the balance of the power of several major families in the imperial court.

At present, it is not only the Yuwen family who wants to suppress Xuzi in the imperial court. As expected by Yu Wenshu that day, the big families of Gao, Yang, Wang, Yu, and Dou did not expect a reckless descendant of unknown origin and uncertain position to suddenly emerge among them. Since the moment when the army attacked the Liaodong class, every day the impeachment of Xiongwulang and Li Xu took the opportunity of refining the army to exclude dissidents, and the twists and turns of the mutilation of the soldiers could appear in the emperor's imperial account in two or three copies. As for the impeachment of Xu Zi for conniving at his subordinates to kill people and set fires on the way to the east, and deliberately ruining the image of the Celestial Empire, it is even more common.

To the surprise of several major families, some officials from second-rate families in the court began to support Li Xu. They believe that now that the imperial court is at the time of employing people, the rewards and punishments are unclear, which is not conducive to encouraging heroes to dedicate themselves to the country. And the state should pay attention to their ability rather than their origin, the Great Sui since the reign of the emperor began to emphasize this principle, whenever it is implemented, but there are often people to elbow. At present, the encounter of Li Xu, the general of Xiongwulang, is a living example. He did not commit any wrong, and twice rescued his robe before the horse. This kind of miraculous feats of the imperial court not only did not seal or reward, but also allowed some guys with ulterior motives to suppress the heroes, which really made the heroes of the world chill.

Although there were important ministers left behind in the east and west, some important matters that the courtiers did not dare to make decisions on their own were sent to Yang Guang's line every day by fast horses. In the past year or so, because of the failure of the Eastern Crusade, the tribes on the border of the Great Sui that had been subjugated were ready to move one by one, and the bandits and rogues in various places were also inexterminated. Watching these twists and turns every day has made Yang Guang look like a fight. Therefore, the boring behavior of various factions in the DPRK and China throwing dirty water on an unknown junior in the past few days really does not arouse his desire to interfere.

But the ministers couldn't understand his tolerance, and just the day before yesterday, Pei Yun, the imperial historian from the Pei family in Guanlong, proposed again that in order to encourage the soldiers to serve the country, the imperial court should reward those soldiers who made great contributions to the country during this year's Eastern Crusade. And Pei Ju, the squire of the Yellow Gate, who had always known how to perceive the holy will, also recklessly agreed with this point of view and suggested that His Majesty the Emperor should immediately confer a knighthood on General Li. As soon as the Pei brothers' proposal came out, the entire court was in chaos in an instant! Zhongwen and Wu put aside how to mobilize the strength of the whole country and quickly extinguish Yang Xuangan and rebellions in various places, and other major events, and fought over the contradiction of sesame mung beans. Yang Guang was so angry that he trembled, according to his temperament, it was not an unreasonable decision to quickly promote Li Xu by two levels and make him an earl. But years of experience in power made him press the oracle that rushed to his lips back into his stomach.

Pei Yun and his fellow officials have never been outspoken people, if they don't have any intentions, they won't stand up for a junior who has no name. Besides, Li Xu was not born in a famous family, so he has nothing to do with the Pei family. In order to give him credit, Pei Yun did not hesitate to offend several other wealthy families, and the sacrifice he made was too great.

Thinking of this, Yang Guang once again postponed his decision. As a result, just as he hesitated, someone brought up the old matter of Li Xu's unknown teacher again. "Jingchen secretly sent someone to visit, Li Xu and the late thief Sun Anzu had a close relationship. Someone in Liaodong once heard that Sun Anzu had a master-apprentice friendship with him!"

"Fork this guy out of here!" Yang Guang patted the royal case and ordered someone to fork the informant out of the royal tent for reflection. Sun Anzu has been dead in the chaos for almost a whole year, and some people still mention his name without opening their eyes. What can Li Xu do if he had a relationship with him back then, Li Xu entered Liaodong to serve the country first, and Sun Anzu rebelled later, and the two of them can't have anything to do with each other!

When the ministers saw that His Majesty the Emperor was angry, the arguments among themselves immediately became quieter. In the end, everyone came up with a compromise plan, and the imperial court immediately issued an order to reward the soldiers of the Xiongwu Battalion who have made great contributions to the country. The rewards for the commander of the Xiongwu battalion and the supervising army are too great because of their great merits, and they must be decided after the public discussion of the ministers.

"Is this what I want?" Yang Guang looked at the stack of recitals on the imperial case and sneered. The matters that needed to be decided by public agreement two days ago have not yet been discussed by the ministers. If the reward is not issued, it will be difficult for the military department to put the heroic and warlike heroic battalion in the key position of exterminating the rebels. The imperial court dragged its feet, and the lies concocted by Yang Xuangan to express the rationality of his rebellion spread more and more widely with the footsteps of displaced people everywhere.

It is rumored that when today's son was not properly enthroned, he relied on trickery to kill his own brother to obtain the right to inherit the throne. In order to consolidate his power, he killed one of his biological brothers and two biological brothers. Even his uncle, Yang Shuang, the once powerful general of the world, died of his conspiracy.

If he just attacked himself by unscrupulous means in order to obtain imperial power, Yang Guang would not feel very aggrieved. Whether the evidence of these things is conclusive, it is an indisputable fact that he seized the position of prince as a younger brother. But the rumors say that he is greedy for power and lustful, and he holds a grudge because he robbed the concubine of Empress Chen, and then killed the heroes without guilt, which is too unbearable for him.

Gao Ying was indeed executed by his order. But Gao Ying has always stood on Yang Yong's side in the struggle for the throne, and his own power in the army is intertwined, and any emperor who wins the throne will not tolerate such a thorn in the pan for a long time. said that he hated Gao Ying because he admired Zhang Lihua, the queen of the Southern Dynasty, and it was like a bloody mouth. Yang Guang asked himself how suave he was, he was only twenty years old when he destroyed Chen in the south, and he admired a half-old who was over forty years old as a twenty-year-old young hero, and a blind man would do such a boring thing!

"Except for Gao Ying, how can I treat anyone indifferently!" Looking at Yang Xuangan's inscription calling on the world's heroes to rise up and abolish the monarch, Yang Guang sighed aggrievedly. Shangshu Zuo servant Su Wei is his father's old face, and he appointed him as a servant and a man, and he has been in the position of a first-class civil servant for more than ten years. Nayan Yang Da began to serve during the reign of the first emperor, and he let him be re-elected until his death. There are also Xiao Cong, Yang Yue, Pei Ju, Pei Yun, and Yu Wenshu, who are not old ministers who have been in office for ten or twenty years, how can they treat them slowly. said that he likes to slaughter heroes, where is the evidence, where is the truth?

"If I don't covet beauty, I will definitely be in the top five among the emperors of the past who are pure and have few desires! If anyone doesn't kill heroes indiscriminately, I can also rank in the top ten among the emperors of all dynasties. When it comes to martial arts, which emperor has swallowed up an enemy country before the age of twenty? If you rule the country, which place is called the Heavenly Khan!" The more Yang Guang thought about it, the more aggrieved he became, and there was almost fire in his eyes.

But I am the king of a country, and I can't deign to debate with bandits. But those ignorant people take pleasure in spreading rumors, and never try to distinguish their authenticity. Flaming eyes roamed around, looking for something to vent his anger. Sweeping around, except for a lot of boring twists and turns, there is really no waste to throw down.

"Whoa!" Yang Guang swept all the folds in front of him to the ground. Several eunuchs who served him in the imperial tent hurriedly rushed forward and picked up the things that the courtiers had chewed and written. "Don't move!" Yang Guangsheng stopped, stepped forward, snatched the recital in the arms of the eunuchs, laughed and threw it into the air again.

"I'm not a faint king!" He shouted with a bit of madness, "They're all slandering, slandering!" The song flew in the air like goose feathers, and the eunuchs hid in the corners of the tents in fright, shivering.

"Come here, kick with me!" Yang Guang kicked the falling folds into the air again and again, and while venting, he sent invitations to the eunuchs. He suddenly understood why there were so many people who impeached General Li Lang these days, very simply, because he couldn't defend himself one by one.

"You can't defend yourself, and I can't defend myself!" Yang Guang laughed wildly, and found that his situation was no different from that of the young general. At this moment, he felt that he was even inferior to Li Xu. Li Xu still has an emperor to call the shots for him, and he has nothing but the throne.

Note 1: Cexun, a method of rewarding military exploits that arose during the Sui and Tang dynasties, is similar to the modern record of meritorious service. Taking the transfer as a unit, the transfer of the merit is equivalent to the first level of meritorious service. The highest is 12 turns, so there is a saying in Mulan's words "12 turns".

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