Seeing that Shen Shi was coming, Gao Qiuniang reminded Changsun Sheng: "The uncle, the third uncle and the brother said that Shen Shi would come to the house, and it would be better for the husband to talk to them somewhere." ”

Changsun Sheng said: "It's in the study room in the outer courtyard, it's relatively quiet, I just want to learn from them about the abolition of the prince, so as not to be disturbed by outsiders." ”

Gao Qiuniang said: "Husband, wait a while, I will ask Shuxiang to tell San Lang and ask him to clean up the study in the outer courtyard and make a brazier." ”

After about a quarter of an hour, Shuxiang came back from the outer courtyard and said, "Lord Lang, master mother, the study room in the outer courtyard has been cleaned up. ”

Changsun Sheng stood up and said: "You take care of your wife, it is estimated that the end of the banquet will be very late, and you don't have to wait for me then, I will stay in the study of the outer courtyard tonight, and I will get up early tomorrow morning, and I will go to the court at the same time, and arrange for someone to send the court clothes to the study of the outer courtyard in the evening." ”

Out of the inner courtyard, the eldest grandson Wuxian was already waiting outside the second gate, and he accompanied the eldest grandson Sheng to the outer courtyard study.

The personal attendant standing in front of the door of the study saw Changsun Sheng coming, and hurriedly lifted the door curtain, and Changsun Sheng turned back to Changsun Wuxian and said: "Later, I have important matters to discuss with your uncle and uncle, and it is inconvenient for outsiders to disturb me, so you can ask the servant to prepare some buttermilk, and you will wait here at that time." ”

The eldest grandson Wuxian withdrew from the study after agreeing to the promise, and after explaining to the attendants, he went to the gate to greet his uncle and uncle.

The study room in the outer courtyard sits west and faces east, with three rooms in size, and an Arhat bed is placed in the middle of the door. There is a couch on the right hand side of the door, separated by a screen in the middle, and there are six screens, on which the landscape is painted. On the left hand side of the door, the two walls of the south and west sides are filled with bookcases, and half of the room is covered with felt mats on the floor, and a bookcase is placed on it.

Just after Shen Shi, the eldest grandson Wuxian successively led his uncle Changsun Chi, his uncle Changsun Chang and his uncle Gao Jian to the outer courtyard study, and his aunt Xian Yu was led by the maid to the inner courtyard to visit Gao Qiuniang.

The father of the eldest grandson of the eldest grandson is the royal family of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the ancestor is the eldest grandson of the Taiwu Emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty, so he gave the surname of the eldest grandson.

The eldest grandson has three sons, and the eldest son, the eldest grandson, is awarded the opening of the palace with the three divisions, and the actual official position is too often Shaoqing, and he is a four-grade official in the court. The second son, Sun Sheng, was awarded the Kaifu Yi and the three divisions, and the official position of "Zuoxun Wei Hussar General" was actually awarded, which was also the fourth grade. The eldest son of the third son, the eldest grandson, is a regular attendant in the official residence and is a five-grade official.

The Changsun clan has experienced more than 100 years of prosperity in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Western Wei Dynasty, the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and the Sui Dynasty, and there are still three brothers in the generation of Changsun Sheng who hold high-ranking positions at the same time.

Gao Qiuniang's brother Gao Jian, originally a member of the Northern Qi royal family, his father Gao Li was the king of Le'an of Northern Qi, and after entering the Sui Dynasty, he served as the assassin of Yangzhou, Chuzhou, Guangzhou, and Taozhou.

Because Gao Jian is a member of the Northern Qi royal family, in order to avoid suspicion, he lives in seclusion in Gao's manor at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain all the year round, dedicated to studying, well-read, but unwilling to make friends, and only a few people such as the famous poet Sili doctor Xue Daoheng are friends who forget the year.

Changsun Sheng and Changsun Chi, Changsun Chang, and Gao Jian sat on their knees on the Luohan bed, each with a cup of buttermilk on the case, drinking and talking, first telling each other about parting, and slowly turning the topic to the abolition of the prince.

The four people here have all experienced the change of dynasty and the changes of the world, and are accustomed to seeing the ebb and flow of the tide and the changes of the situation; Their judgments on the political situation and current affairs are often able to penetrate the obstacles of appearance and grasp the truth and essence of things.

To tell the truth, for the wealthy families, every dynasty and emperor they have experienced, they have no so-called loyalty or disloyalty, they are only loyal to their own families and clans, and what they value is the sacrifice of the ancestral hall and the reproduction of their descendants.

They have a relationship of exploitation and exploitation with everyone who ascends to the throne, the emperor wants to use them to consolidate imperial power, and they want to use the emperor to obtain family benefits.

As long as their family interests are not damaged in the change of dynasty, what does it matter to them who becomes the emperor? It's just that different people are emperors, and they take different ways to deal with it.

The eldest grandson, as Taichang Shaoqing, walks in the court every day, and his understanding of the abolition of the crown prince is the clearest among the four. He sighed: "Therefore, the crown prince Yang Yong was deposed, first of all, he blamed himself for misconduct, and secondly, he blamed the current prince Yang Guang's methods for being too ruthless." ”

Changsun Sheng asked: "So what kind of misconduct did the prince have?" ”

The eldest grandson Chi said: "Therefore, the crown prince Yang Yong has actually fallen out of favor with the emperor and queen a long time ago. ”

"First fell out of favor with the Supreme. Today's Supreme likes to be frugal, but he is gorgeously dressed and the palace is richly arranged, and the Supreme is very dissatisfied today. On the winter solstice of the year before last, the prince arranged for the band to accept the congratulations of hundreds of officials, which obviously violated the etiquette system and committed today's supreme taboo. ”

"Then there is falling out of favor with the queen. The queen dislikes her sons to indulge in women's sex the most, but Yang Yong has many concubines, and he is especially fond of the Zhaoxun Yun family. The concubine Yuan Shi chosen by the queen for him was very unfavorable, but he suddenly got a heart disease and died in two days. The queen thought that she was killed by Yang Yong and hated him. ”

"But the crown prince Yang Guang can do everything to the emperor and the queen's favor, and he is deeply loved by the two of them."

Changsun Sheng said: "The abolition of the crown prince is a major event of the country, and you can't abolish the eldest and youngest because of the preferences of the emperor and the queen, is there any other evidence of crime?" ”

The eldest grandson said: "I think Yang Su and Yang Yue brothers have colluded with the crown prince Yang Guang this time. ”

Yang Su took out a lot of incriminating evidence of the late prince. They planted an inside line in the East Palace and reported everything the late prince did to the emperor. There were three things that annoyed the emperor, so he decided to abolish the crown prince. ”

Changsun Sheng asked, "What are the three things?" ”

The eldest grandson Chi said: "The first thing, once the late prince pointed to the palace people around the emperor and said that these people will be his in the future. ”

"The second thing, so the crown prince raised more than a thousand horses, and said to his subordinates that the emperor often lives in Renshou Palace, let the cavalry go over to surround the palace gate, and the emperor will starve to death inside."

"The third thing, so the prince asked Fang Shi to calculate when the emperor would die."

These things were reported by Yang Su to the emperor and the queen. Yang Su and Yang Yue brothers have been rewarded by the Supreme Majesty today for their meritorious work in investigating the late prince. ”

Changsun Sheng was puzzled: "So could the prince really do these rebellious things?" I don't know if it's true or not. ”

The eldest grandson Chi said: "These things were said by the emperor to the ministers in person at the Wude Palace. ”

"On the ninth day of October, the emperor went to the Wude Hall in military uniform. The clan relatives stood in the west, and the ministers stood in the east, so the prince and his children knelt in the courtyard in front of the palace, and the emperor counted the crimes of the late prince. An edict was issued on the spot, demoting Yang Yong and his children to concubines. ”

"The worst thing is that Shi Wansui, the great hero of the conquest of the Turks, was beaten to death by the emperor because he advised not to abolish the crown prince Yang Yong."

Hearing this, Changsun Sheng couldn't help but feel cold, Shi Wansui and himself were both heroes of the conquest of the Turks.

Changsun Sheng is mainly to recruit people, and Shi Wansui is mainly to lead troops to recruit. Those who did not want to belong were exterminated by Shi Wansui, who could be said to be the first contributor to the pacification of the Turks.

Now that Shi Wansui has ended up like this, Changsun Sheng can't help but feel sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox.

Changsun Chi continued: "This time there are many people involved. ”

"On October 13, hundreds of officials were summoned outside the Guangyang Gate to read the edict, and the prince's left concubine, Tang Lingze, the prince's family order, Zou Wenteng, the left guard, led Sima Xiahou Fu, the food supervisor Yuan Yan, the former minister's servant Xiao Zibao, and the former chief seal corporal He Zhu were beheaded and executed on the spot, and their wives and concubines and descendants were not enslaved in the official mansion, and all their family property and fields were confiscated."

"The general of the chariot cavalry, Yan Bi, a native of Yulin, Cui Junxuan, the prince of Dongjun, Shen Fubao, the ranger captain, and Zhang Qiu Taiyi, the warlock of Yingzhou, were pardoned to death, and each received a hundred rods, and he and his wife and children were not enslaved in the official mansion, and all their property and fields were confiscated."

"The deputy general Gao Longcha, the master craftsman, the rate of Jin Wenjian, and the straight and scattered cavalry Lang Yuanheng were all convicted and made him commit suicide."

When everyone heard that several families were confiscated into the government as slaves, everyone looked gloomy and lamented the vagaries of the family's fate.

As a court official, he was executed for his crimes, and if he died, he died, and he was a hundred. However, as wives and concubines, children and grandchildren are worse than death.

Think about it, it turns out that these people are dressed and fed all day long, white horses and mink, calling slaves and maids, and now they have become slaves and are driven by others.

The young son and weak girl can no longer be maintained by the elders, and they used to be Jiao'er palms, but now they are whipped and scolded by others, and they are simply falling from heaven to hell.

In that era of strict hierarchy, once you became a slave, you could only be a slave for generations, and it was almost impossible to get rid of your nationality and become a concubine, let alone revive your family. The family temple is destroyed, the ancestral hall is not worshipped, and the ancestors will become lonely ghosts.

Thinking about the scenes of old and young women and children crying in despair when their homes were raided, I can't help but sigh.

The eldest grandson Sheng took a sip of buttermilk and said to the eldest grandson Wuxian, who was sitting on the Hu bed on the side: "San Lang, you don't have to wait here, go and see how the banquet is prepared." ”

The eldest grandson Wuxian went away as promised.

The conversation was about to involve more sensitive content, and Changsun Sheng deliberately wanted to separate Changsun Wuxian, and then turned to Changsun Chi and said, "Big brother, in which direction do you think the situation will develop in the future?" ”

The eldest grandson glanced at the door of the study and whispered, "Sui's death is almost a foregone conclusion." Today's Supreme single-handedly caused today's crisis, and the trend of destruction is irreversible. ”

Seeing that the other three did not show a shocked expression, but looked at themselves quietly, it showed that everyone also felt the same way.

Eldest Sun Chi continued: "Today's Supreme only has five sons, all of whom were born to Queen Dugu, and they were all favored and rewarded when they were young. When he grew up, he was crowned a king and a fief, and he held heavy troops and stood on one side. ”

"The emperor and the queen both knew that the frequent changes of dynasties and imperial power in the past were because the Guanlong clan had too much power, so they coveted the artifact. After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, the current Supreme tried every means to suppress the forces of the Guanlong group, and was always on guard. When the five sons grow up, they will be given heavy power and will be the foundation of the Great Sui. ”

"But the five sons are all pampered and arrogant, constantly cultivating their own forces, and they all have the idea of inheriting the unification, resulting in a situation where today's tail is too big to fall."

The three of them nodded frequently when they listened, encouraging Changsun Chi to continue.

The eldest grandson Chi continued: "Now that the late crown prince Yang Yong has been deposed, the king of Qin has been claustrophobic and died by the current supreme, and the second of the five sons has gone. If the crown prince Yang Guang wants to sit on the throne in the future, he must cut off the king of Shu and the king of Han, otherwise these two kings will rebel in the future. Now, to get rid of the other two kings is to destroy the foundation, and not to get rid of the two kings will be the root of the curse in the future. ”

Eldest Sun Sheng sighed: "If today's Supreme had known that it was a carbuncle relic, he would not have let his sons sit up, and he would not have turned against each other and brothers killed each other. ”

The last few people agreed that the current situation is changing rapidly, and the whole family can only wait and see the changes before the situation is clear, and cannot rely on all forces because of the covetousness of the momentary scenery.

When the closed-door talk was about unitary, the banquet was prepared, and the eldest grandson Wuxian came over to invite everyone to the table.

The four eldest grandsons, the eldest grandson Wuxian's brothers, Wang Shao, and Zhang Cong were seated in the hall of the outer courtyard. Because the next day, Changsun Sheng and Changsun Chi had to get up in the morning, and they all had their own hearts, so the atmosphere was not warm, and everyone drank in moderation, and the banquet was dispersed.