"It's surprising, it's been so long, and no one has asked about Wei Zheng's affairs," Du Yan found Yang Ming and reported: "I've been making people stare at Wei Yan, but he didn't react, is the Wei family willing to let go of this opportunity?" ”

Wei Yan is Wei Tong's younger brother, the third uncle of Du Ruhui's wife, and serves as the secretary of the Criminal Department.

Yang Ming frowned and was silent, it stands to reason that there should be a reaction, the person who dares to insult the two princes at the same time will not be able to meet it in the future, and he will not grasp such a good opportunity?

After a while, Yang Ming felt that he suddenly asked Du Yan to be reinstated this time, which was a little too obvious, maybe it was exposed.

"You continue to star, remember, no one is allowed to take Wei Zheng away, and don't let the Criminal Department retry it."

"The minister understands," Du Yan said goodbye and left.

Then, Yang Ming took the confession of Wei Zheng from the Criminal Department, read it again, and couldn't laugh or cry.

This kid may feel that he is dead, and he dares to scold anything, if such a confession is known to his father, Wei Zheng will definitely die, because if you scold like this, it is tantamount to satirizing the emperor's godson and teaching two bastards.

The next day's meeting,

Yang Ming deliberately mentioned Wei Zheng's matter during the period, and then asked the ministers what to do with this person.

Wei Jin said directly: "Insulting the prince is a big rebellion, and it should be cut with a thousand cuts." ”

Good guy, it's really not a trick, Yang Ming said with a smile: "It's not appropriate for this king to deal with it, after all, it's me who is scolded, and if I kill someone, I will be suspected of favoritism." ”

Hehe, you really don't want to kill, Wei Jin continued to general: "This kind of small people don't work for the King of Qin, and the criminal department submits it to Dali Temple, but it can be directly sentenced to death. ”

"You can't kill!" Huang Fenglin of Yushitai got up and said: "The matter has been reported to Your Majesty ten days ago, and it needs to wait for Your Majesty's decree before it can be decided." ”

Wei Jin was stunned for a moment, good guys, your Yushitai gang are really fast-mouthed, and all such trivial matters have been reported?

Yang Ming was also stunned, now it's okay, Wei Zheng's life is hanging in the balance.

Yushitai, he can't manage it, this department only serves the emperor.

Huang Fenglin didn't know that Wei Zheng's matter was Yang Ming's troublemaker, otherwise, he would have informed him one step in advance.

At this moment, Wei Jin has nothing to say, and when the matter is stabbed to the emperor, it will not be his turn to give advice.

"Your Majesty should be about to arrive in Jinyang," Guan Wang Yang Xiong diverted the topic and said: "Yuwenshu personally led his troops to Hebei, then the rebels will soon be exterminated, and the canal will become, although this year is not good, but we can barely get through, so starting next year, should Hebei have some peaceful policies?" ”

"Guanwang Zhuguoye," Yang Ming nodded and said: "Hebei has experienced this difficulty, it is imperative to exempt from taxes, everyone has their own opinions, let's draw up a recital together, send someone to Jinyang Palace, and present it to Your Majesty." ”

No one objected to this proposal, after all, everyone also knew that Hebei was a miserable fortune this time, with the most requisitioned people, the most grain, and the most rebellions.

The four words of life and misery, only those who don't want to die dare to say it.

At present, Hebei really needs a pair of tonic to strengthen the foundation and nourish the body.

Canal Yicheng, according to Yang Guang's rhythm, the first attack on Goguryeo should be on the agenda.

Yang Ming must be hard this time to disrupt his father's rhythm, at least three or five years will have to be delayed, and even if he uses troops against Goguryeo in the future, he will not be able to recruit and transfer from Hebei.

You can't let a 60-year-old man carry a steel pipe, and you can't let a young man work 72 hours overtime, and he will die.

As for Goguryeo, it had to be fought, and in history, Yang Guang's three expeditions to Goguryeo were not all for the sake of face, but because this place was very important.

Since ancient times, the Central Plains Dynasty has not allowed the minority regimes in the north to sit big, because once they sit big, they will fight the idea of the Central Plains, which has always been the case and has never changed.

Now that Qimin, with the support of the Great Sui, has become a big seat in the north, then there can be no more powerful regime in the northeast.

The issue of Goguryeo is more complicated.

During the Northern Wei Dynasty, Goguryeo took advantage of the civil strife in the Central Plains to further expand.

After years of conquest, the northern provinces of Gyeo (eastern Jilin in Heilongjiang, east to the Sea of Japan, including Vladivostok) and Murowei (western Jilin in Heilongjiang and eastern Inner Mongolia) became vassal states of Goguryeo.

The Khitan and Xi in the west also began to pay tribute to Goguryeo, and in this way, Goguryeo spared effort and continued to use troops against Silla and Baekje (sticks) in the south, intending to unify the Korean Peninsula.

It was during this critical period that the Northern Zhou Dynasty successfully unified the north, and then Yang Jian usurped the Zhou, and the Khitan, Xi, and Murwei ministries that were originally subordinated to Goguryeo began to send envoys to make good friends with the Great Sui, and the situation in Goguryeo was instantly embarrassed.

As a last resort, Gao Yangcheng, the king of Goguryeo at that time, also sent an envoy to befriend the Great Sui, accepted Yang Jian's canonization, and was named the general of the king of the plains, the prince of Liaodong County, and he sent envoys to make good friends with Nan Chen, and was named the general of the plain king Ningdong by the Chen Dynasty.

Until the Great Sui successfully destroyed Chen and unified the world, Gao Yangcheng was frightened and hurriedly moved the capital to Chang'an City (Pyongyang).

Yes, the capital of Goguryeo is also called Chang'an City.

The rise of the Great Sui Dynasty directly affected the strategic policy of Goguryeo, and at that time, in Northeast Asia, because of historical inheritance, only Goguryeo was a feudal dynasty with a political, cultural and economic system, and farming and smelting technology, which was no different from the Central Plains, but it was slightly backward.

Moreover, the geographical conditions are unfavorable to the Great Sui, first there is the Liaoxi Corridor, which can threaten Hebei, and can also ascend the Jiaodong Peninsula from the Bohai Sea to directly threaten Shandong.

If the Great Sui and the Turks turned their backs, Goguryeo would inevitably invade the border, and then it would be an unfavorable situation for both sides to be attacked by the enemy.

The Central Plains resisted the outside of the fortress and built a complete defense line of the Great Wall, but for Goguryeo, no, the most carried was only Linyu Pass, and it could not be carried for long.

The side of the couch does not allow others to sleep soundly, which is why, in history, Yang Jian, Yang Guang, Li Shimin, and Li Zhi successively used troops against Goguryeo.

Even Li Shimin said: Today's decision is made, but Liaodong is not a guest, and I will take it for myself, and I will not leave behind the worries of future generations.

It can be seen that this place can not be beaten.

.......

After Pei Shuying waited in Jinyang for seven days, Emperor Yang Guang finally came.

As soon as he arrived in Jinyang, he felt that Jinyang Palace was too small and wanted to rebuild it, but fortunately, the ministers opposed it one after another, and Yang Guang was forced to give up for the time being.

Jinyang Palace, originally built by the Eastern Wei Dynasty, opened the emperor nine years, was expanded once, sixteen years, and added Cangcheng, the area is not small, but Yang Guang still can't look down.

Since there is a word "palace", it is not a place where others can live, Jingshi Daxing Palace, Luoyang Ziwei Palace, Yangzhou Jiangdu Palace, plus Jinyang Palace, this is where the emperor lives, and the eunuchs and slaves inside, the magistrates can't manage it at all.

The news of the pacification of the Hebei rebellion has been urgently sent to Jinyang, and Yang Guangda was very happy, so he set up a banquet in Jinyang Palace that night.

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Pei Shuying, as a first-class foreign woman, took Yang Jin, the king of Xingyang, who was from the first grade, wearing a dress, and was admitted to the palace to meet the emperor.

"Let my grandson come forward," Yang Guang laughed.

Pei Shuying handed over her son to Gao Ye, who then led him to the emperor.

Yang Guang stretched out his hands from his sleeves, pinched Yang Jin's face, and frowned:

"How do you lose weight like this?"

Pei Shuying hurriedly knelt down: "The daughter-in-law is guilty." ”

Yang Guang frowned suddenly, and turned to look at Pei Ju, who spread his hands innocently, meaning I don't know?

"Get up and speak, no matter how big the sin is, for Yang Jin's sake, I won't blame you," Yang Guang said in a deep voice.

At this time, Taiyuan Tongshou Yu Zhongwen hurriedly stood up and saluted:

"Your Majesty, on the way to the north, the princess helped thousands of refugees, so that her own rations ran out, which is a dereliction of duty."

Yang Yue, who was sitting at the bottom, suddenly frowned, and subconsciously looked at Yang Xuangan, who pursed his lips.

"I see," Yang Guang said in a deep voice: "Princess Qin passed through the county, and she was fined for one year as the chief official." ”

He didn't say a word about the refugees, turned to look at his grandson, and said, "Go and find your brother, who has been by my side for the past few days, I can't let my grandson go without food." ”

As soon as these words came out, good fellows, hundreds of ministers stood up one after another to plead guilty.

Yang Guang snorted coldly, and said angrily: "My daughter-in-law, grandson, can uphold my intentions, be diligent and thrifty, and do what you want." ”

"Shame on you!" The ministers hurriedly agreed.

Subsequently, Yang Jin was brought to Yang Rui's side, and the brothers held hands and sat down honestly.

Pei Ju looked at his daughter with a smile and said, "Where did so many hungry people come from, it's just the good things that the princess has given all the way and attracted the people." ”

He is going to provoke trouble, the canal is about to be completed, and the time has come to calculate the general account, but Pei Ju only wants to point to the end.

Pei Shuying was still kneeling on the ground, her face was dark, and she said to Yang Guang:

"The daughter-in-law saw with her own eyes, along the way, the hungry people lost a few firewood, the young children were struggling, the homeless people passed, the only thing in the stomach was the bark of grass stems and trees, and the tragic images of changing children and eating abounded, and the daughter-in-law is Your Majesty's daughter-in-law, and she should uphold Your Majesty's virtue of loving the people and help the people from fire and water."

Yang Guang's face was expressionless, and his breathing gradually became heavier.

Yu Shiji said directly: "The princess's rhetoric was instructed by someone, right?" Rong Guogong was ordered by His Majesty to arrive in Jinyang first, why hadn't he seen the homeless and hungry people? ”

Pei Shuying raised her head and looked directly at the other party: "What do you mean, I'm bullying you?" ”

"No, no," Yu Shiji said: "The minister is just confused, you were originally in Daxing, and you are not familiar with the local situation when you first arrived in Shanxi, who taught the princess to say this?" ”

Pei Shuying sneered and said: "If I am instructed by someone, it is also the sky, the emperor, and my ancestor of the Great Sui. ”

After saying that, Pei Shuying bowed to Yang Guang.

The hall was instantly quiet, and many people realized that the decisive battle between the two kings of Qin and Qi was about to begin.

"Zhang Heng, Yang Da, Wei Zhen, and Xue Daoheng," Yang Guang said in a deep voice.

The four of them hurriedly came out of the ranks, knowing that this was going to be blamed, a doctor of the imperial history, a doctor of Sili, and two servants of the Huangmen of the province, all of whom were on the third grade.

Yang Guang continued: "Do you know whether there are hungry people in Shanxi, and how many there are? ”

We know, we also told you, you can rest assured, this pot we know how to back,

Zhang Heng took the lead and said:

"There are too many discrepancies in the news from all walks of life, and the minister can't verify it for a while, and it's difficult to distinguish the authenticity, so he didn't present His Majesty, which is a dereliction of duty."

"Then find out!" Yang Guang said angrily: "My daughter-in-law will never tell me, the people of Shanxi are all my people, whoever lets my people starve to death, will die." ”

The four of them hurriedly responded, good guys, it's really like a tiger.