Yuan Xian suddenly opened his mouth to borrow money, and he didn't borrow half a star, but 500,000 taels of gold, what does this mean?

Xiao Cong couldn't understand it, and Xiao Ling couldn't understand what the purpose of the sudden borrowing was it.

The two brothers glanced at each other, and Xiao Cong said, "Yuan Xiang, did you borrow the money for the royal family or did you borrow it yourself?" ”

"Such an amount is naturally not for me to borrow from you alone."

Such a large amount, if Xiao Cong didn't open his mouth, even Xiao Ling would not have the right to lend, and now is the critical period for the peace talks between Nan Chen and Da Sui, at this time, he suddenly said that he wanted to borrow so much money, no matter how he thought about it, it made people feel a little unusual.

Xiao Cong said softly: "Yuan Xiang, I don't know why Da Chen borrowed this money?" As far as I know, Da Chen's royal family is not so short of money, and suddenly said that he wanted such a large amount of money, and we didn't know what to do for a while. ”

"Your Majesty Emperor Liang, our Da Chen and Da Sui are in peace talks, if this peace talks are successful, Da Sui will be the co-master of the world, I believe that Da Sui will make many rude demands on us, after all, it is we who propose surrender and peace talks."

"But ......"

"If the Great Sui wants to become the co-owner of the world without using soldiers, he will have to pay a certain price."

Xiao Cong saw that Yuan Xian was talking about peace talks with him, so he interrupted him: "Yuan Xiang, the peace talks are a matter between you and the Great Sui, and we, Xiliang, as a neutral country, only provide venues and do not participate in your peace talks, so you don't have to talk to me about these things." ”

"No, Your Majesty Emperor Liang, the foreign minister is just talking about a big premise, this loan is borrowed by our emperor and all the nobles of Nanchen, including me, these loans will bring a lot of interest to Xiliang Bank, no one will refuse such an interest."

Xiao Jue thought faster than Xiao Cong: "Yuan Xiang said this, I understand a little." ”

"Yuan Xiang wants to give you Da Chen's wang clan a guarantee, you are afraid that after the Great Sui annexes Da Chen, the Great Sui Emperor will rebel and deprive you of the power of the former ministers, and even suppress them, causing your family to weaken."

"So you have thought about lending a lot of money from Xiliang, as the saying goes, if you want to borrow a hundred taels of money, the village is your uncle, you have to provide it, but if you borrow him 100,000 taels, you are the uncle of the money village, and the money village has to provide for you, this is the reason, Yuan Xiang."

was exposed by Xiao Jue, and Yuan Xiang did not shy away from it: "Yes, it is true." ”

Xiao Jue snorted lightly: "Yuan Xiang, you don't take us too seriously, so you want to blackmail us?" ”

"Xin'an Wang, you misunderstood, I dare to admit that I have made up my mind to tell you directly, not to deceive and coax, we borrow from Xiliang Bank, we will give high interest, such a large amount of money and high interest can be earned, I believe that even Xiliang Bank has no reason to refuse."

Xiao Cong said: "Although there are high profits, it looks very considerable, but Yuan Xiang, we Daliang don't want to get involved in the affairs of Da Chen and Da Sui, and Yuan Xiang may have miscalculated, the matter between you and Da Sui will not change because you borrowed a lot of money from us, you want to use us to clamp down on Da Sui, you think too much." ”

"Your Majesty Emperor Liang, you still misunderstood, we don't want to clamp down on the Great Sui through the Western Liang, this is one of our attitudes."

Xiao Jue said: "I'm sorry Yuan Xiang, such a large amount of money is too risky, and we will not be able to obey it." ”

Yuan Xian seemed to have expected it a long time ago and said: "It's okay, Your Majesty Emperor Liang, I'm afraid it won't be a day or two for us to disturb Jiangling City, I just hope that you can secretly pass this news to His Royal Highness the Great Sui Prince, so that he can know, as for how His Royal Highness the Great Sui Crown Prince decides, it will not be a loss for you." ”

Xiao Cong didn't know what Yuan Xian meant for a while, and looked at Xiao Xuan, Xiao Xuan thought about it and said, "Yuan Xiang is relieved, we will convey this matter to His Royal Highness the Prince of Great Sui." ”

"Thank you both, please pass it on in secret, don't let anyone else know."

Yuan Xian left, and Xiao Ling sent Yuan Xian away and came back to discuss with Xiao Cong.

"Sixth, do you understand what Yuan Xian means?"

Xiao Ling shook his head after thinking for a long time and said, "I always feel that he is planning something, but I don't understand." ”

After pacing back and forth, Xiao Jue said: "But if you lend them such a large amount of money at this time, the risk is too high, in case the peace talks fail, Da Sui still fights with Da Chen, and then all the money will be wasted, so much money, even we can't bear it, the risk is too high." ”

Xiao Cong frowned: "Yuan Xian is still a very smart person, he is so straightforward to talk to us about this matter, he is not worried that we understand his purpose, there must be other arrangements." ”

"You say, is it possible that what he just said to express an attitude means that their group of envoys to the peace talks surrendered to the Great Sui?"

Xiao Jue suddenly came back to his senses: "I asked him just now who wanted to borrow money, whether it was the Nanchen royal family, he didn't give a clear answer, maybe it can be understood that the royal family of Nanchen didn't know about these things, Chen Shubao didn't know, it was the people of their group of envoys who made the claims." ”

"Yuan Xian and the others don't care who is the emperor, as the elite class of the Southern Dynasty, they only care about themselves and whether their family can continue to enjoy the same rights and interests as before after the Sui Dynasty and the Southern Chen Dynasty are unified."

Xiao Cong asked: "But they don't seem to have enough chips to blackmail the Great Sui, so is it just that the Great Sui will give in?" ”

Xiao Jue said firmly: "No, they have, the imperial brother is now in the stage of peace talks between the two sides, and neither of them knows the bottom line of the other party, if Yuan Xian and others defect at this time and secretly inform the Great Sui of the bottom line of the negotiations discussed by Nan Chen, then the Great Sui can hold the bottom line and quickly suppress Nan Chen to complete the negotiations, and promote the completion of the peace talks with the minimum cost, and peacefully annex Nan Chen, and then Yuan Xian and others will also help the Great Sui to govern and pacify the original Nan Chen's land." ”

Xiao Jue smiled a little sarcastically and said, "So Yuan Xiancai said that this is an attitude of theirs, and it is also the attitude of looking at the Great Sui." ”

"Doctors of Nan Chen are like this, and it is reasonable that Nan Chen is inferior to Da Sui."

Listening to Xiao Jue's ridicule, Xiao Cong had a different opinion: "If the situation between Nan Chen and the Great Sui is reversed, I believe that there are such people among the scholars and doctors of the Great Sui, the Central Plains has been turbulent for hundreds of years, and how many people have the concept of family and country, courtesy, righteousness and shame?!" ”

"Brother Huang, what should we do then?"

"The secret letter has passed, we don't get involved, as for how to decide, your brother-in-law will judge for himself, if he needs us to do something, he will inform him."

At the beginning of the peace talks in Xiliang, Yang Guang, who was in Daxing City, received a message from Xiliang, and after opening the letter, he saw Xiao Cong's message about Yuan Xian's borrowing of money, as well as their own understanding.

Yang Guang understood that Yuan Xian didn't explain it because he didn't know if the thing could be done, in case he couldn't do it himself, he would leak the old bottom, and he would be slaughtered by others when the time came.

Yang Guang went to the palace with the letter and informed the emperor of the news.

Yang Jian laughed loudly: "Sure enough, since I am the mandate of heaven, Nan Chen's first assistant is actually such a person, and he sold Chen Shubao in disguise, which is really ridiculous." ”

"Father, do you think you should accept their surrender?"

Yang Jian's expression remained unchanged, but his tone revealed a little disdain: "A person like Yuan Xian is quite famous among the literati and has a great reputation, but this is such a person, who has secretly betrayed his country, I really don't look down on such a person, but in the current situation, Yuan Xian is very usable." ”

"It's a good thing that it can be used as a breakthrough point to end the joint talks more quickly, but what about the future? Prince, do you think I can use him? ”

Yang Guang thought about it and said: "Everyone has their usefulness, Yuan Xian looks down on him as a father, but put aside the despicability behind his back, he is still the helmsman of Nanchen's super nobles in front of people, and he is the indispensable backbone of Nanchen's court, even if Nanchen and we have completed the joint talks, and we have taken over Nanchen peacefully, we also need people like him to stabilize Nanchen." ”

"But people like Yuan Xian can betray Chen Shubao for the sake of profit, and they can betray me if they turn around, I don't like this kind of person."

"Father, use it for a while and not for a lifetime, and use it for a long time, and when we take over Nan Chen's cultivation forces and master the situation of Nan Chen, he will be useless, and he will still be useful before that."

Yang Jian smiled slightly: "It seems that you have already planned to use him, and you can use it as an expedient measure, but as you said, it is impossible for me to use him greatly." ”

"Father, if you say anything to this person, just do a good job on the surface."

"Okay, you go and arrange it, I really don't feel at ease with so much money being lent out."

"Father, these nobles in Nanchen have more than just so much money, the worst and worst results, and the sons and daughters also know what to do."

Yang Jian nodded, picked up a written holy decree from the table and handed it to Yang Guang's hand: "The matter of the joint discussion, this is fine, you are going to Qufu immediately, this is my holy decree, and I will open it when I get to Qufu." ”

"Yes, father, son, remember."

Yang Guang returned home and opened the holy decree that night.

A man in his twenties is the time to disobey his father.

Li Yuan and Li Jing stood by the candle flame and looked at Yang Guang with a solemn face, and asked, "Your Highness, what's wrong?" ”

"Your Highness, Your Majesty just asked you to divide the descendants of the Kong family as a consecrated monarch, why are you so worried."

In the eyes of the two, this holy decree is very simple, because when the crown prince goes to canonize, one is to eliminate the estrangement caused by Kong Sheng Kong Bo before, and the other is to establish orthodoxy to reassure a group of Confucians.

Yes, it seems to be a very reasonable thing, and letting Yang Guang canonize it can also show Yang Guang's attitude, he only punished the person who assassinated him, not Confucianism.

Yang Guang was reluctant to look at the holy decree in front of him.

"What's the difference between that and asking me to apologize?"

"Your Highness, you can't think so, Confucianism is orthodox after all, many people are talking about it because of the previous Confucius victory, the students in the school, some radical directly smashed the statue of Confucius, I believe there should be a lot of old scholars to react to this matter with Your Majesty, if the matter goes on, it will not be good for the stability of the Great Sui."

It seemed to the two of them to be a very simple thing, but Yang Guang smashed his fist on the table: "But I don't want to." ”

Both of them rarely saw Yang Guang so angry.

Yang Guang has encountered many things, big and small, but he has never seen him so angry, which seems to have offended his scales.

"It seems simple, but my father is actually asking me to bow my head."

Yang Jian asked Yang Guang to make this will, the direction is very obvious, he wants to learn the Confucianism of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to depose the hundred schools of thought, Wang Long and others also persuaded him to do so, and he himself has seen over the years that Confucianism is the most helpful way for him to rule, and it is the most stable.

If he didn't make up his mind before, it should be Nan Chen's surrender this time that made him make up his mind.

A unified empire needed the most stable way to maintain the emperor's rule.

And only in this way can Yang Jian's dream of becoming an emperor of the ages be truly completed.

Judging from the results, Yang Jian was right in what he thought and did, first unified the whole country, and then implemented Confucianism and education, with the current school system and imperial examination system, an orderly and stable empire has begun to take shape.

But Yang Guang knows its shortcomings, stable but suppressive, the class will be more solidified, the imperial examination system looks like it has taken shape, but the people who come out of the imperial examination are not enough to fight against the now extremely powerful gate valve, even if it is himself, he can only use it now and find a way to weaken it.

In this way, it will eventually lead to the same path for all ancient dynasties.

There should be a golden mean in this world, but it should also tolerate people who take risks, people who have whimsical ideas, no matter which kind of thinking, only one of them and the others are wrong.

Yang Guang couldn't tell the two of them about his anger, and he couldn't tell anyone about it.

Now that the holy decree is in front of him, Yang Guang has to go, he has to go if he doesn't go, and he has to pretend that he hasn't seen the holy decree.

The emperor told Yang Guang that he only opened it after getting Qufu, just to prevent Yang Guang from being reluctant to go when he saw the holy decree, and thought of some crooked ways to not go.

Now if Yang Guang is unwilling to go, it is not obvious that he has peeked at the holy decree and violated the emperor's order.

The candle flame flickered on and off, Yang Guang waved his hand to let Li Jing and Li Yuan go out first, originally asking the two to find a way, but found that they couldn't even say the reason, so they could only let the two go first.

……

Early the next morning, Yang Guang was about to set off, he took Li Yuan, Li Jing and others, and was just about to go out of the city gate, when he saw a team of cavalry rushing from Suzaku Street.

The leader rolled the saddle and dismounted: "His Royal Highness the Prince, Your Majesty has an urgent order." ”

"What?"

"Yesterday night, His Majesty received the danger of floods in Shanxi accompanied by peasant rebellions, and decided to let Tang Guogong Li Yuan serve as the ambassador of Shanxi Hedong, and Taiyuan stayed behind to go to the flood site to calm the victims."

(End of chapter)