The sudden return of tens of thousands of elite troops led by Yang Guang made the crown prince Yang Yong feel like a great enemy!

It has been five days since Yang Guang came back, and Yang Yong has sent people to keep an eye on Yang Guang's every move.

Compared with Yang Guang, who is light and breezy, Yang Yong seems to be much worse, and even seems a little childish, although Yang Guang was not bad before, but he was not much worse than Yang Yong, but this time he was trained out after he was almost alive.

The day after returning, Yang Guang fasted, bathed, changed clothes, and incense early in the morning, and then led Princess Xiao and her children to Tailing, one hundred and ten miles west of Xianyang City, under the leadership of the palace people sent by Yang Jian, to worship in Tailing, which is the mausoleum where Queen Dugu is buried, and it is also the mausoleum where Yang Jian will be buried in the future.

In front of Tailing, Yang Guang exerted his performance talent beyond ordinary people, of course, it is not excluded that he has a true relationship with Queen Dugu, crying miserably in front of Tailing, if it were not for the many enlightenments of Princess Xiao and the palace people, he even almost fainted in front of the tombstone.

In this way, Yang Guang did not return to Chang'an until the next day.

Yang Yong felt very indifferent when he got this news, but Gao Ying, who was Yang Yong's first think tank, was very worried, as Yang Jian's close comrade-in-arms and loyal subordinate in the past, he knew how deep the relationship between Yang Jian and Queen Dugu was.

Therefore, he persuaded Yang Yong many times, and asked him to get closer to Yang Jian to exchange feelings, even if the Son of Heaven has always been called a lonely person, he also needs family affection.

However, Yang Yong disagreed with Gao Ying's advice, although he was Yang Jian's eldest son, but Yang Jian grew up in a nunnery since he was a child, so he was more serious and rigid.

In addition, Yang Jian has been living a precepted and simple life for decades under the supervision of Queen Dugu, which makes Yang Yong, who has always liked beauty, gorgeous clothes, and luxury life, really have no common language with his father.

After Yang Yong's first son was born, out of love for his grandson, Yang Jian once proposed to take the child to the palace to raise him personally, which is said to make up for the relationship between the two fathers and sons, and can also add a lot of points to Yang Yong.

But I don't know what's going on, Yang Yong actually refused Yang Jian's request without thinking about it, which made Yang Jian, who had always been very suspicious, very dissatisfied, although many people didn't care about this matter, but no matter what the reason, it had a great impact on the future relationship between the two fathers and sons.

Compared with Yang Yong, Yang Guang is different, he is playing the family card with Yang Jian and Queen Dugu all the time, even during his expedition, there is a virtuous Concubine Xiao who helps him take care of the sick Queen Dugu, and after he comes back, he is **** to take care of Yang Jian in front of his bed.

This situation lasted for nearly half a month, and it was not until this time that Yang Yong finally made up his mind under the persuasion of many subordinates, and prepared to go into the palace to take care of his father.

But at this time, Yang Jian suddenly issued an order, saying that because he was seriously ill, he could not handle the government affairs, so Yang Yong, the prince of Zhuo, temporarily handled the government affairs, and six important ministers such as Gao Ying, Yang Su, and Su Wei assisted him.

At this time, Yang Yong was suddenly excited, Ah Mo spent a lot of effort pretending to be filial in front of his father every day, but his father didn't value me in the end? What's the use of being at the bedside every day?

Under such thoughts, Yang Yong's original intention to enter the palace to take care of Yang Jian disappeared at once, and even Gao Ying's repeated admonitions could not shake Yang Yong's decision in the slightest.

The front of the Prince's East Palace was once again crowded with a crowd of volunteers, and Yang Yong was extremely satisfied at this moment, but the situation of the Sui Empire was really too corrupt at this time.

Jiangdong and other places have almost lost contact with Chang'an in Guanzhong, the entire coastal area of Fujian and Zhejiang in the southeast has been ruined under the attack of the Xia army, and the counties in the Xiangshui and Ganshui basins have almost all fallen into the hands of large and small rebel armies, which means that Lingnan has been disconnected from the Sui Empire.

In this way, the places that the Sui Empire could barely control were Guanzhong, Bashu, Jingxiang, and the places north and south of the Yellow River and Hedong and Hebei south of Taiyuan.

If the Sui Empire had no internal and external troubles at this time, Yang Yong would have been able to handle all kinds of political affairs safely and steadily, but there is no if in this world, in the face of such a situation, Yang Yong actually handled things in a mess, even if there were six important ministers to assist.

Of course, except for Gao Ying, one of these six important ministers, who really supports Yang Yong, the other Yang Su and Su Wei all support Yang Guang, and the other few people fell to Yang Guang under the pull of Yang Su and the others, how could these people let Yang Yong perform too well.

Under such circumstances, Yang Jian was soon completely disappointed in Yang Yong, and he finally made a terrible decision for the future of the empire.

At the end of the autumn and July of the forty-first year of the summer calendar, suddenly a subordinate official of Yang Yong's East Palace reported to Dali Temple that the prince Yang Yong wanted to rebel, not only in the prince's mansion to perform witchcraft, but even made dragon robes and other transcendent things.

After learning the news, Yang Yong was immediately stunned, now that his father Yang Jian is seriously ill and he is dealing with political affairs in the Linchao, he will be able to ascend the throne as an emperor in a few years, how can he be in a hurry?

After Gao Ying knew about it, he immediately guessed that this must have been framed by someone else, and the biggest suspect was Yang Guang, the king of Jin who had been serving Yang Jian, so he immediately took the crown prince Yang Yong to see Yang Jian and defend himself in front of Yang Jian.

But Gao Ying guessed the beginning but not the end, how could Yang Jian meet Gao Ying and Yang Yong, even if Yang Yong, who was blocked outside the palace by the Praetorian Guards, climbed on a tall willow tree unconvinced and yelled at the palace, Yang Jian did not agree to see him, and no one spoke for him at all.

At the same time, the Prince's East Palace was completely raided by the Praetorian Guards, and a large number of dragon robes, soldiers, bows and crossbows and armor that were searched out became Yang Yong's crime of attempting rebellion, and Yang Yong was also put under house arrest as a madman because he yelled on the big tree outside the palace wall before.

Almost all the high-ranking officials in the entire Chang'an City quickly understood what had happened after all, and this time it was not Yang Guang, the king of Jin, but the emperor Yang Jian, who shot at Yang Yong, otherwise the case involving the prince would not have been handled so neatly at all.

At the same time, everyone also shuddered at Yang Jian's ruthless methods, Yang Yong was his own flesh and blood after all, but looking at Yang Jian's series of methods to investigate Yang Yong this time, each of them was a major crime of killing the head, and it was clear that Yang Yong was going to die.

Soon Dali Temple was cut off, and the prince Yang Yong was bewitched by the villain with the intention of rebelling, and this villain was naturally Yang Yong's father-in-law, Gao Ying, so hundreds of people in Gao Ying's family were killed.

Also killed were many officials in Yang Yong's East Palace, in order to pave the way for Yang Guang, Yang Jian once again showed his ruthless methods to the world, tens of thousands of people were killed in just a few days, and even Yang Yong's family was almost killed.

It is said that it was because Yang Guang, the king of Jin, knelt on the ground and begged out of brotherhood, and finally Yang Jian finally let Yang Yong's family go, but they were all demoted to concubines and sent to Shuzhong to serve hard labor.

After the case of Prince Yang Yong's witch Gu, Yang Jian ordered Yang Guang, the king of Jin, to deal with political affairs, and he was still assisted by six ministers, but he went to Gao Ying and added a Yuwenshu, who was also a minister with outstanding ability in the Sui Empire.

In the face of the power at his fingertips, Yang Guang asked to let the other younger brothers supervise the country, he just wanted to serve his father respectfully in front of his father, although Yang Jian reprimanded Yang Guang fiercely for this idea, but he was very satisfied in his heart.

After being reprimanded by Yang Jian, Yang Guang reluctantly began to deal with the accumulation of government affairs, but after dealing with politics every day, he would still go to Yang Jian to help Concubine Xiao take care of Yang Jian, Yang Guang lost a lot of weight in just one month, and even Yang Jian felt distressed when he saw it.

Yang Guang's performance was praised by the ministers inside and outside the court, and they all felt that Yang Guang was really a promising true monarch, not only loving his brother and Xiao Jing's parents, but even handling the government in an orderly manner with the assistance of several ministers.

Although the overall situation faced by the Sui Empire has not been improved, the rebellions of Shangdang and Changping, which were relatively close to Guanzhong, have been put down one after another, and the people of Guanzhong have gradually calmed down.

Yang Guang also put forward a proposition that 'if you fight outside, you must first settle inside', suggesting that you should first make peace with the Xia State and then quickly quell the rebellion within the Sui Empire, recuperate and recuperate while recovering the number of troops, and then regain everything lost after having a strong force.

Knowing Yang Guang's series of performances, Yang Jian finally nodded with satisfaction, before he was afraid that Yang Guang would be in a hurry to take revenge on Xia Guo after his death, but now seeing Yang Guang's mature performance, he finally doesn't have to worry anymore.

At the beginning of November of this year, Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian finally died of serious illness, and was buried with Queen Dugu in Tailing, more than 100 miles west of Xianyang City.

In history, Yang Jian died a few years after Dugu's death, but this time the two died almost at the same time, which can be regarded as the complete friendship between the two.

After Yang Jian's death, Yang Guang ascended the throne and became emperor, and Yang Guang was only about thirty years old this year, five years earlier than the historical accession to the throne and emperor.

However, after Yang Guang experienced many wars, it was not comparable to the same period in the original history, and just a few days after he ascended the throne, he sent an envoy headed by Pei Ju to the Xia State, preparing to sue for peace with the Xia State.

Yang Guang's determination to make peace was so strong, he knew that if the war with the Xia State continued, then the collapse of the entire Sui Empire was imminent, so he privately instructed Pei Ju to negotiate peace even if he paid more this time.

Of course, he also has a bottom line, that is, he will no longer cede the remaining counties in the Guannai without being a vassal, but he can give a large amount of gold and silver to the Xia State every year.

At the same time as the peace mission set off, Yang Guang also began to recruit and train more troops, and the rich treasury left by Yang Jian laid a solid foundation for Yang Guang's actions, and hundreds of large granaries in various places provided abundant food for these large armies.

These armies were not only to defend against further invasions by the Xia Kingdom, but also to quell various rebellions within the Sui Empire.

What Yang Guang didn't expect was that the peace mission he sent surprised Wang Ze, after all, in his impression, Yang Guang was a very strong person, and he didn't expect that he would actually send a mission to negotiate peace for the continuation of the regime.

However, Wang Ze attached great importance to this peace negotiation, although he did not show it to Pei Ju and others, but he also felt that the results of this time had been great, the Xia army's offensive had come to an end here, and the peace envoy sent by the Sui Empire came at the right time.