Sometimes, things are so wonderful, in the Yongji Canal in history, Yu Wenkai, the first engineer of the Great Sui, did not participate.

And this time, Yang Guang hoped that he would still dig the river, but after the court meeting, Yu Wenkai had already changed from the previous interest to unhappiness.

Because there is one more Yang Jun and Yu Wenshu, he doesn't want to cooperate with these two people.

Since ancient times, the figures in charge of super projects have left their names in history, such as Li Bing in Dujiangyan and Zheng Guo in Zheng Guoqu.

Of course, Yu Wenkai also hopes that he can be listed in the same history books as these two predecessors and will be famous for a hundred years, but the problem is that once Yang Jian intervenes, Yu Wenkai is worried that he will be stinking for 10,000 years.

A Guangtong canal, sixty or seventy thousand dead, this is still after Yang Yong was transferred back to Beijing, he and Yang Yue presided over the later period, and the results were obtained under the compassion for the people.

If Yang Jin hadn't been transferred away at that time, he estimated that the canal would have died at least 200,000, at least.

So Yu Wenkai, who returned home, urgently convened the children of the clan to start discussing, how to push off this errand, he didn't want half a lifetime of wisdom to be ruined on a river.

Malinger? It's unrealistic, it's not easy to pretend to be sick, it's definitely not okay to push hard, with the character of His Majesty today, if he dares to push, people will dare to dismiss his official.

While Yu Wenkai pondered how to push off this errand, Chen Shuyi, the concubine of Qin, took the prince into the palace.

Yang Rui, the king of Hedong, lived in Empress Xiao's Yong'an Palace, and will be raised by Empress Xiao herself in the future.

Earlier, Empress Xiao's favorite grandson was Yang Zhao's sister-in-law Yang Yu, followed by the eldest son Yang Yu, but now, Empress Xiao knows very well that she should give more favor to her eldest grandson Yang Rui.

Between mother and son, sometimes it's not just family affection, some small calculations are inevitable.

Yang Ming is now in full prestige, and he is the most likely to become the prince, and Empress Xiao's kindness to Yang Ming's eldest son is also a way to get closer to his son, or rather, to please his son.

Don't think that the queen doesn't have to please others, in the people's family, the grandson who is most distressed by the grandmother has the inevitable reason for her distress, either the grandson's father gives money to spend, or the grandson's father gives the old-age pension, or the grandson who is the most capable, and the grandson who has nothing is often not welcomed.

Of course, there is also a kind of grandmother, which is to be seen by all grandchildren, which is very rare, and can be called a great woman.

Since Yang Rui was born, the number of times he has entered the palace is actually not much, especially the opportunity to be alone with Yang Guang, ten fingers can be counted.

But the most amazing thing is that Yang Rui, who was originally born with his mother, is now more and more like Yang Guang.

Yang Guang was in Yong'an Palace, carefully looking at the strange and familiar grandson in front of him, only to feel that the other party's eyebrows were very similar to his own, especially a few casual facial movements, which were almost the same as himself.

This is special, absolutely pro-grandson.

Yang Guang was in a good mood and smiled at his grandson:

"Do you have a book?"

"No," Yang Rui said honestly, definitely not, he was only able to speak neatly this year, and so far, he knows no more than twenty words.

Yang Guang smiled and nodded, he felt that the royal children needed early education, and three years old was just right, so he found two teachers for Yang Rui.

One is Wei Cheng, the priest of the country, and the other is Xue Daoheng, the doctor of Silitai.

Yang Guang also knew in his heart who had real talent to learn, so these two teachers were both top-notch university scholars in the Great Sui.

Xue Daoheng, Yang Guang originally wanted to die, but the report given to him by the Yushitai said that Xue Daoheng has been very low-key since he returned to Beijing, and almost has no intersection with the courtiers, except for Yang Ming, the king of Qin.

Xue Daoheng's daughter, Xue Chi, often comes and goes back to the Qin Palace, as if she and her son are still childhood playmates, and Yang Guang's murderous intentions towards Xue Daoheng are temporarily suppressed in the face of Yang Ming.

Yang Rui could have been playing well for a few years, but as soon as he entered the palace, he entered a hard study career.

Yang Jian did not attach importance to the education of his children, but Yang Guang paid special attention to it, because he intended to improve the status of Confucianism, and the orthodoxy of Confucianism was in the south, in fact, it was also to enhance the status of the southern clans.

"How are you doing?" Empress Xiao asked with a smile.

Yang Rui shook his head: "I don't know, A-Niang doesn't live with me now." ”

He is talking nonsense, Yang Yinjiang taught him, their mother and son are still as usual, and they usually sleep in a bed, but Yang Yinjiang guessed that the father and queen mother would definitely ask this, so it took a lot of effort to teach his son how to reply.

In the public's mind, it seems that children should not be taught to tell lies, but in fact, in the gate valve of the Great Sui, lying is almost a compulsory course.

This is the class difference.

All the doctrines of Confucianism are teaching people, but those with real vested interests will see a deeper meaning from them, so in their eyes, learning is a tool for people to use.

No matter how good you are, it doesn't allow you to cross classes, only by thoroughly understanding the Confucian system.

That's why many middle-class people have been painstakingly studying "Thick Black Studies", "The Letters of Zeng Guofan" and "38 Letters from Rockefeller to His Son", and they want to change their fate.

Wei Cheng and Xue Daoheng are just Yang Rui's academic mentors, and Yang Rui's real life mentors are Yang Guang and Yang Ming.

Guozijian is the highest institution of learning in the Great Sui, and those who can study in it must have at least one candidate at home.

In fact, the children who were born in Houfu are unable to eat and have no status in the country.

All the teachers and students of Guozijian have a fixed number together, one thousand and twenty-one, except for the sacrificial wine, doctors, teaching assistants, priests, supervisors, etc., there are only seven or eight hundred and seventy-eight students, of which the royal family accounts for two hundred and twenty-one.

In this way, Yang Rui was ruthlessly thrown into the Guozijian by his own grandfather and grandmother, and every day, Xue Daoheng had to come to make up for him.

Most of the day was deprived, and Yang Rui felt that he had nothing to love.

......

Yu Wenkai came up with a brilliant plan that would allow the emperor to willingly dismiss him from directing the canal.

On the way back from Jiangdu, Yang Guang summoned Yu Wenkai several times and asked how to show the peak of our Great Sui's national strength and the majesty of the army in front of the Turks.

At that time, Yu Wenkai had already begun to ponder and sort out, and he understood what the emperor meant, that is, to show off his might in front of the Turks and deter Saibei.

To put it bluntly, it's pretending.

Pretending to be forced requires a face-saving project, so Yu Wenkai and the emperor figured out three things at that time.

The first is a large tent, a large tent that can accommodate 1,000 people.

The second is the palace, that is, the palace that can be walked.

The third is a walking city, a city that can be walked.

The emperor is about to tour the north, these three things, except for Yu Wenkai, no one else can do it in the entire Great Sui, this is undoubtedly the best excuse.

So in the afternoon of the same day, Yu Wenkai entered the palace with the drawings of these three top-level face projects, and then stated to Yang Guang that I can't use two things, if I go to repair the canal, I can't get these three things out in a hurry.

So Yang Guang pondered it and felt that face was more important, so Yu Wenkai's construction eunuch was handed over to Yan Bi safely.

And Yan Bi will, as recorded in history, superintendent Yongji Qu.

Yan Bi is a person with a very good background, and he has been constantly married to the Yuwen family of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and he has always been a relative.

The powerful minister Yuwen Hu is Yan Bi's cousin, Yan Bi's daughter-in-law, and the daughter of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yuwen Yong, the princess of Qingdu.

His two sons were also very good in the Tang Dynasty later, and one of them was super famous and contributed two masterpieces.

One is collected in the Palace Museum and is known as one of the "Top Ten Famous Paintings in China".

A famous "Thirteen Emperors", also known as "Pictures of Emperors", is now in the Boston Museum in the United States.

These two are top national treasures, the author Yan Liben, Yan Bi's second son.

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The Duke of Chu's Mansion, Yang Ming and Yang Youxuan felt them, first talked about some things that happened in Luoyangjiang, and then talked about the fight at the court meeting.

Yang Xuangan exclaimed happily, Yu Shiji and Yu Shinan brothers, don't look at the official to do a lot, but Xuangan is not in his eyes, in his opinion, these two people are called a courtier, that is, they are good at greeting, coaxing His Majesty today, the family does not have the strength and background to continue to maintain a high position.

Once he falls out of favor one day, Xuangan will find a way to collapse the Yu family directly, this is not a boast, people have this strength.

The people of Guanzhong look down on the southerners in their hearts, the world is unpredictable, thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, and a thousand years later, in turn, people look down on them.

In fact, hundreds of years later, Guanzhong will not work, especially after Jingbei replaced Chang'an and became the capital of China.

Yang Ming slowly sipped the wine in the glass, waved his hand, and motioned for the dancing girls to go down.

In the Chu Mansion, Maiko performances are a must-have repertoire, and the quality of their Maiko is higher than that of the Taile Department.

"In the future, you two don't target the second child again, wait for him to finish the canal, and then talk," Yang Ming said.

Yang Yue heard the meaning of the warning and nodded:

"Your Majesty cares about this river very much, and after the northern patrol outside the fortress, it will also go down the river from Zhuo County, so Yu Wenkai will inevitably need to rush the construction period, once the work is rushed, Hebei will be reversed, how can we pull his hind legs, and then see how Yang Jun ends."

"Why do you think that Hebei will definitely be opposed?" Yang Ming said curiously.

Yang Yue said: "Because of the lack of food supply, don't look at Your Majesty's transfer of two million stones from Jiangnan, this is far from enough, the major granaries in Henan are now half empty, and the rest need to be supplied to Guanzhong, and will not be given to the people, and Yan Bi is a native of Henan, and he must give priority to ensuring the food supply of the people in Henan, so that Shandong and Hebei will not be full, and this time, Hebei is the most, it is not against whom?" ”

"What Yang Zhongshu said is reasonable," Li Mi, who was standing behind Yang Yue, said: "Hebei is the hometown of the old Qi, and the people's hearts have not returned, coupled with the influence of the rebellion of the Han King, in fact, Hebei at the moment urgently needs to send a capable minister to pacify and govern. ”

"It's good to mess up," Yang Xuan said, "It's good for His Highness to mess up, and it's also an excellent opportunity to bring down King Qi." ”

Yang Ming pondered for a moment, frowned, and said, "If there is really chaos at that time, you need to help me pacify it quickly, so as not to expand the situation and spread it more widely." ”

"This is natural," Yang Yue said, "Although Your Highness cares, I will arrange everything." ”

Yang Yue and their relationship with Qinghe Cui's has always been very good, because the two families are in-laws, and the second Yang Xuanzong's wife is from Qinghe Cui's family.

In Hebei, Qinghe Cui, Boling Cui, Fanyang Lu, these are the three largest.