As if nothing had happened in Shu Kai, life returned to peace.

Yang Ming didn't ask for it again, and Yang Yong didn't send anyone to Yuehua Hall to harass Chen Shuyi, and everyone was fine.

Even Yang Jian and his wife didn't say a word about this matter, and Dugu even exempted Yang Ming from asking for peace every day, because she was afraid that her grandson would come to pester her and ask for Shu armor.

And she and Yang Jian both knew that the prince regarded that Shu armor as his life, even if the couple spoke, it would be useless.

The days are passing day by day, and the annual spring outing is about to begin.

After the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty, the tradition of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was continued, and two major events were held every year: spring outing and autumn hunting.

Spring is the time when all things are born, the ice and snow melt, and people come out of the fatigue of winter, which is the time to lift the spirit and sprout the spring heart.

And the spring outing is actually a large-scale blind date event endorsed by the royal family.

The participants are all young ladies from the families of the major wealthy families, and the scene is extremely large and unprecedented.

It is no exaggeration to say that the annual spring outing can even affect the pattern of the court, because it involves a Chinese nation's thousand-year-old tradition: marriage.

Although Yang Ming already has a designated princess, he can still participate, and he is also eager to participate.

Because through the spring outing, he can have a more comprehensive understanding of the gate valve pattern of the Great Sui Dynasty, which is very important.

March has just arrived, Yang Ming's Yuehua Hall is already actively preparing, and all the necessities of life must be prepared, after all, this spring outing will last for more than 20 days.

"I didn't participate in last year's spring outing, which families went? By the way, what about the second brother, when will it arrive? ”

At this moment, Yang Ming was with his hands in his sleeves, watching the palace maids in the courtyard to clean up.

He was wearing a vermilion cotton robe decorated with golden moires, with a dragon on his shoulders and a coiled dragon on his chest, not a Jiao, but a golden dragon, but his dragon was different from that of the emperor and the crown prince.

His, thin, looked malnourished, and a little darker.

In the face of Yang Ming's inquiry, Xu Jing said on the side:

"Last year's spring outing was presided over by His Royal Highness the Prince, I heard that this year the eldest princess is in charge, the six major gates and the family that can get on the table will send their children of appropriate age to participate, the second master has set off from Jiangdu a month ago, counting the days, it should be a few days of hard work to Daxing."

Yang Ming let out an "oh".

The second master in Xu Jing's mouth refers to Yang Ming's second brother Yang Xuan, who was named the king of Yuzhang the year before last, and the fief is in Yuzhang County, that is, in the northern part of Jiangxi, and the territory is not small, but there is no way to compare it with Hedong County in all aspects.

Yang Jin's family affairs have not yet been decided, and this time he went north in order to find a suitable gate valve for marriage between major families.

With an identity like Yang Yin, what the future Princess Yuzhang looks like is only secondary, and the primary consideration is the other party's background.

is the so-called right family, the small gate valve is from a small family, or an ordinary local family, which is not within Yang Jun's consideration at all.

At present, many big families from all over the world have set off to the destination of this spring outing: Nanshan, which is the Zhongnan Mountain in later generations.

A blind date meeting for the children of nobles in the world is about to kick off.

On the fifth day of the first month of March, Yang Ming, the king of Yuzhang, arrived at the Daxing Jin Palace, and Yang Ming, escorted by two hundred forbidden troops, took Xu Jing and Chen Shuyi to the Jin Palace, where he had not met for a long time.

On this spring outing, he brought a very special person by his side.

Mama Lou, that is, Dugu Jialuo's personal maid.

In order to ensure Yang Ming's personal safety outside, Queen Dugu made this arrangement.

And Yang Ming didn't know the true details of Ah Lou until now, but he once privately heard Lou silently call Queen Dugu Sister A.

"Third brother!"

As soon as he entered the palace, a handsome and extremely luxuriously dressed young man greeted him and put his arm around Yang Ming's shoulders:

"I haven't seen you grow taller again in two years, and you're about to catch up with me."

Yang Ming has been to Jiangdu, so he naturally knows the half-father and half-mother brother in front of him.

"I heard that the second brother has arrived, and the younger brother came without stopping."

After the brothers exchanged pleasantries for a while, they put each other's shoulders on each other and walked in the direction of the inner courtyard.

"This time it's not just me, Chan'er is also here."

In fact, in addition to Yang Yin and Yang Chan, there are two: Yang Qing and Yang He.

It's just that these two are concubines, and they are not in the royal roster of Zongzheng Temple, so the two of them are dressed very plainly, and they are not even qualified to dine with Yang Ming and them.

The second Yang Ming was born in the fifth year of Kaihuang, Yang Chan is the eldest daughter, born in the seventh year of Kaihuang, and the third Yang Ming was born in the eighth year of Kaihuang.

The three of them are on one production line.

In the main hall, a delicate girl dressed in a lake-green brocade cotton jacket was slim and elegant, staring at Yang Ming with a pair of bright big eyes and smiling.

Yang Chan's appearance is definitely superior, just because he and Yang Ming are eight points similar in appearance, you can imagine it.

After looking at it for a while, Yang Chan stepped forward affectionately and grabbed Yang Ming's arm, and said in an old-fashioned manner:

"This spring outing, you have to listen to your sister along the way, Daddy said that your grandmother has already booked you the sister of the Dugu family, then you have to pay attention, don't be seduced by those good-looking girls from the big family, otherwise your grandmother will be angry."

Yang Ming nodded in agreement.

Although the three of them have not seen each other for many years, perhaps because the princess Xiao of Jin often mentions Yang Ming in front of Yang Yun's brothers and sisters, so the two of them have no strangeness to Yang Ming.

And the age difference between the three is not much, and they are the same parents, plus Yang Ming deliberately set it close, so they quickly became a fight.

The siblings slept in the same bed tonight.

Yang Ming was in the middle, Yang Chan was leaning against the wall, and the eldest Yang Yan was beside the bed and said:

"Let's go with the team of the clan tomorrow, fortunately, it is the fifth uncle (Weiwang Yang Shuang) who leads the team, and the other uncles and the children of the clan, how much does it look at our Jin Wangfu, the third brother has had a hard time in Daxing these years, right?"

Am I having a hard time? Which one dares to make me feel bad?

Yang Ming said: "That's not it, I have been living in my grandmother's Yuehua Palace, and I rarely go out of the palace." ”

Yang Jun nodded:

"Originally, Cicada and I were going to the palace to meet the emperor's grandfather and grandmother, but the palace said that let's go to see you after the spring outing, so we will simply wait for you in the palace,"

"What about you, there is already a Dugu girl appointed by my grandmother, so don't worry about it during the spring outing, let's check the cicadas, don't let the girl look at which crooked melon and cracked dates."

"Is my vision that bad?" Yang Chan pretended to be dissatisfied.

Yes, your vision is very poor, Yang Ming said in his heart: Otherwise, he would not have taken a fancy to Yu Wenshi and the white-eyed wolf.

The three chatted for a long time, until Yang Chan became sleepy.

Yang Ming also had a general understanding of this year's spring outing.

The destination of the spring outing is a plain area at the northern foot of Nanshan Mountain, where the Weishui River winds from north to south, and the dense woods around it also provide favorable conditions for men and women to have private meetings.

Such gatherings were an effective means used by the ruling class of the Great Sui to consolidate their own family interests, so no family would not value it.

In addition to the most powerful Yang clan, the six major lords of the Great Sui: Longxi Li, Lanling Xiao, Luoyang Yuan, Jingzhao Wei, Hongnong Yang, and Xingyang Zheng are actively involved.

In addition, the first-class gate valves also have Taiyuan Wang's, Qinghe Cui's, Fanyang Lu's, Boling Cui's, Zhaojun Li's, Luoyang Dugu's, Langya Wang's, Hedong Liu's, Yuwen's and so on.

These high-ranking scholars spread all over the prefectures and counties in the world, carved up the Great Sui, and actually controlled the local administration, forming an unbreakable chain of interests.

This gate valve system began in the Western Jin Dynasty and reached its peak in the Great Sui Dynasty.

As the Guanlong Group gradually took control of the north, some seemingly solid but fragile interests were formed among the major families.

Compared with this spring outing, the major families have joined together, forming the four largest forces.

The Yang clan personally formed a faction.

The Guanlong aristocratic group led by the forces of the old dynasty of the Northern Zhou Dynasty,

Jiangnan Shi clan group headed by Lanling Xiao,

A group of local wang clans headed by the Qinghe Cui clan.

Among them, except for the natural closeness of the Yang clan and the Guanlong Group, the other three are well water and do not interfere with river water, and no one is scared of anyone.