Chapter 44: The Good Prince Doesn't Get in the Way
Yang Guang took his team and went all the way to Luoyang, because the road was long and had to be surveyed, so the speed was slow, but within the plan, this was one of his next most important tasks, so he couldn't hurry.
On the seventh day, the group finally saw the Yellow River.
The Yellow River meanders, as the mother river of the land of China, the Yellow River in this section is not turbulent because of the flat terrain, but Yang Guang feels that there is still a difference from what he thinks.
"Yu Wenkai, the Guangtong Canal may have to continue to be extended to Luoyang."
"Why Your Highness?"
"The Yellow River is wide and long, the river is ruthless, since we want to build the canal, we must ensure the navigation of the whole year as much as possible, the first phase of the Yongtong Canal from Daxing City to Tongguan, the front is Tongguan, we enter the city first."
Tongguan is located on the Lintoe Plain, in this era to enter the Guanzhong Plain from the east, you must cross the Tongguan of the Lintoe Plain, it is the place where the soldiers want to rush, and the ancient times are heavily guarded.
Yang Guang's army marched through the forbidden ditch to Lintoe Plain, and has not yet entered the city to look east from Lintoe Plain, which is the Yellow River far away.
"Tongguan is a soldier to rush, because you have to cross the Lintoe Yuan to enter the pass, but Yu Wenkai, you see, in recent years, the Yellow River sediment is expected, in the bare riverbed below may not be many years after a few years may form a place that can be marched, then the Tongguan military function will be weakened."
Looking at the exposed riverbed below, Yu Wenkai couldn't help but sigh at the far-reaching view of Yang Guang.
"Wei Tong, the customs clearance guard, has seen His Royal Highness the King of Jin."
A general on horseback hurried over, turned over and dismounted in front of Yang Guang's team, and gave Yang Guang a military salute cleanly.
"General Wei doesn't have to be polite, this king is passing by, it's not early today, it is estimated that I have to spend the night in Tongguan, and I am tired of General Wei."
Wei Tong immediately got up, and the people in the army were able to do things, and there was no nonsense: "His Royal Highness the King of Jin, please." ”
Yang Guang entered Tongguan with the army, as a pass-type city, its main function determines that its residents are mainly soldiers and military families, with simple facilities and simple layout, and there are not so many bells and whistles.
Wei Tong took Yang Guang to introduce the facilities in Tongguan, including all the facilities such as the granary, and introduced everything in detail.
Staying in Tongguan for one night, he didn't plan to stay for a long time, Yang Guang planned to leave early the next morning.
Wei Tong wanted to send Yang Guang, but he didn't expect an uninvited guest to come to Tongguan early in the morning.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince finally caught up with Yang Guang's itinerary and arrived at the city gate of Tongguan at this time.
One wants to come out from this end, and the other wants to enter from that end, and Wei Tong didn't know what to do for a while.
Yang Guang saw his embarrassment and said: "General Wei will go to pick up His Royal Highness the Crown Prince first, I am embarrassed to have a lot of disturbances yesterday, and today we can go out of the city by ourselves." ”
Wei Tong glanced at Yang Guang gratefully, clasped his fists and said, "Thank you, His Royal Highness King Jin." ”
Watching Wei Tong ride away, Yang Guang continued his journey, out of Tongguan, and continued all the way to the east, along the big river.
In the early morning, the haze of twilight gradually receded, the river first woke up, the rising sun shy like the morning star to illuminate the sky, and the lime water-like river exudes a bit of poignant and old luster under the caress of the morning light.
The Yellow River is an old man, shrouded in a faint mist, like an ancient palace, but like a poet endowed with life, slowly telling the past and the future.
The mist spreads above the Yellow River, like a bed of light veil, covering the clarity and turbidity of the river softly, leaving only the eternal desolation, the breeze blows, the fog spreads, like a silent sad song, telling the ancient and distant Yellow River.
Yang Guang looked at the big river in the early morning and sighed in his heart, such a big river is the real witness of history, people are just a drop in the ocean, and everything seems to have become small in front of it.
"Yu Wenkai, you said that the river is rolling, can manpower overcome it?"
Yu Wenkai thought about it and said, "I didn't believe it before, but when I saw His Highness, I began to believe. ”
"Oh?"
Yu Wenkai's words brought Yang Guang, who was still feeling small, back to reality, as if the previous insignificance was because he was too inferior, and Yu Wenkai actually thought so highly of himself.
"Weichen doesn't know why, this is not flattery, I always feel that it is possible to follow His Highness for anything, and maybe it is not impossible to build a bridge over the Yellow River."
"Open the road in the mountains, build bridges in the water, manpower should be able to win the sky, manpower will win the sky, hahahaha."
Yang Guang's sense of insignificance was swept away, how could he feel small when he had seen the power of human beings? Yang Guang suddenly brightened up for a while.
The sound of horses' hooves came from behind them, and Yang Guang and the others turned around to see a team of people rushing towards them.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Feng, the captain of the guard, immediately surrounded Yang Guang in the middle, put on a posture and shouted: "All draw their swords." ”
Butlerium
There was a clear sound of unsheathing.
The Imperial City Guards on horseback surrounded Yang Guang's team.
The slow carriage was finally good, and slowly came to Yang Guang's face, the curtain opened, and Yang Yong walked out.
He pretended to tidy up his clothes, stood in front of the carriage and looked at Yang Guang in front of him condescendingly: "Who am I, a group of people suddenly appeared, and I thought it was a hostile force pretending to be my Great Sui soldiers, but I didn't expect it to be the second brother, why is the second brother here." ”
Yang Guang's eyes narrowed slightly, and then smiled lightly: "Weichen has seen His Royal Highness the Prince, I don't know what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is doing like this?" ”
"It's nothing, I just saw a group of sneaky people, come up and see, don't be where the bandits came from to pretend to be our army."
"Oh."
Yang Yong wanted to insult Yang Guang and provoke Yang Guang to speak out so that he could teach him a lesson, but he didn't expect Yang Guang to say oh, he didn't have anything to do, and he didn't know how to continue for a while.
On the contrary, Yang Guang spoke first: "Big brother, the good prince is not in the way, please let your subordinates give up a position, we are leaving." ”
"You!!"
Yang Yong was angry all of a sudden, compared with the two, Zhang Dayi, the strategist next to Yang Yong, sighed helplessly, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of his own family was too uncontrollable, and in front of King Jin, he was on his face in just two sentences, so happy and angry, he couldn't help but do things badly, and his emotions were child's play.
I had to say: "His Royal Highness the King of Jin, the courtiers of the Great Sui must not be rude when they meet the prince." ”
"Where are you from?"
"Below, the prince's mansion is Zhang Dayi."
This is the victory of this battle back to Beijing, Yang Yong asked him to the emperor for a title.
Hearing that it was a subordinate official of the Prince's Mansion, Yang Guang nodded and said, "Oh~, it turned out to be a subordinate official of the Prince's Mansion, so if you want to beat you, you really have to look at the eldest brother's face." ”
Under such a high-intensity foul-mouthed interaction, Zhang Dayi was a little surprised, this His Royal Highness the King of Jin seemed to be different from the legend, this proper one was not stingy, and he really didn't take the prince in his eyes.
"Yang Guang, you are presumptuous."
Yang Yong pointed at Yang Guang angrily.
"Big brother, you and I are brothers, you now let your soldiers surround my people, what does this mean, you let people disperse, I can say anything to you, you want to surround me, I am ready to fight with you at any time, you can't commit any crime and be killed by you for no reason."
"What nonsense are you talking about, how can I kill you?"
"Then you tell people to back out of the way."
The purpose of Yang Yong leading his troops around Yang Guang is actually very simple, that is, he wants to suppress Yang Guang and show off his might, but does he really dare to do it?
Apparently not daring.
Although this is a wilderness, he has slightly more soldiers than Yang Guang, but it is not necessarily good to really fight, and it will not be good for him, so if he kills Yang Guang in broad daylight, can his position as the crown prince be more stable? Obviously, he can't, but he can only be demoted to a concubine.
And the relationship between the two doesn't seem to be to the point of life and death.
Yang Yong waved his hand, the soldiers all retreated, beside the Yellow River, the two brothers confronted each other, Yang Yong said proudly: "Second brother, you are walking too slowly, a few days before I set off before I came here, it seems that I am going to enter the city of Luozhou before you, I will be in the land of the Northern Qi of the year of the governor of Luozhou, in Luozhou, I can count if I say it alone, then I will wait for you in Luozhou." ”
Yang Guang said quite deferentially: "Congratulations to the eldest brother for managing the land of Northern Qi, and I hope that under the governance of the eldest brother, it will be prosperous and the wind and rain will be smooth." ”
In the face of Yang Guang's compliments, Yang Yong didn't hear anything wrong, but he always felt that he was yin and yang again.
"Hmph, see you in Luozhou."
Yang Yong returned to the carriage, and when the curtain was lifted, Yang Guang noticed that the crown princess was also in the carriage.
Soon the prince's team took the lead.
After walking some way, Zhang Dayi rode close to the prince's carriage and said, "Your Royal Highness the prince, you should not remind the Jin King of Luozhou. ”
"What's the matter?"
"In this way, the King of Jin will be suspicious, and he will be more careful when he arrives in Luozhou."
Yang Yong didn't care at all, and said: "Yang Guang has no foundation in Luozhou, what's the use of being careful, when he arrives in Luozhou, he will suffer hardships." ”
Zhang Dayi was helpless, but he couldn't say anything, he could only say that his Royal Highness the Crown Prince was always too confident in doing things, as if the advantage was always in my attitude, and the advantage was that he was good, but it didn't mean that having an advantage was a victory, and there were many factors that determined the victory of a war, and it was not sloppy at all.
After Yang Guang saw the prince leave, Li Feng stepped forward and said: "Your Highness, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince went to Luozhou first, Yuan Xiaoju is the mound of Luozhou, I'm afraid that when His Highness arrives in Luozhou, things will not go well." ”
Yang Guang thought for a moment and said: "Continue to follow the original route, but before entering Luozhou, I will make a detour to Xingyang, and I will first go to Xingyang Zheng to visit Peiguo Gong Zheng Yi." ”
Yang Jian, the emperor, was led by Liu Fang, and Zheng Yi was postponed, both of them are now idle at home, and Liu Fang, the Duke of Shu, had a case before, and the emperor and queen were going to kill him, but now they are going to give up.
Zheng Yi and Liu Fang are very similar, but they are not like, like in the circumstances, both of them are national princes, both have great achievements, and they have both lost the favor of the emperor, unlike being a person, Zheng Yi has a door in his mouth, and he is not forced after being idle, so he has a good end.
Besides, Zheng Yi is our dear, and he can't be close anymore.
(End of chapter)