The new branches of the trees brushed the eaves of the restaurant, the second floor was noisy, the literati and elegant guests sat on the fence and whispered softly looking at the endless houses and lively streets outside, and there were also heroes in the rivers and lakes who pushed their cups and drank and laughed loudly.

The staircase separated by the screen of the rising sun, the sound of footsteps kicked up, and a man in green clothes walked quickly around the screen with the hem of his robe, and waved his hand to a table of friends who were invited.

“..... Hey, haven't you heard!!"

The rest of the guests who were drinking and eating around glanced at the man, and then withdrew their eyes from him, and the man didn't care, and walked to the empty seats next to the two friends and sat down.

One of them poured him a drink: "What makes you so happy?" ”

The other nodded, thought for a moment and asked.

"Could it be that my sister-in-law is happy again?"

"What a joy, there is a lively watch. The man who had just come to sit down took a sip of the wine and poured it directly: "I also just heard that Tuyuhun in the west wants to send an envoy to Beijing to face the saint, and he also asks for the princess." ”

As soon as these words came out, the surrounding guests cast their own glances, and some people were aroused and arched their hands in their seats.

"This brother, is this serious?"

"Harm! There can be fakes. ”

The man didn't want to lose face, put down the wine glass, and gestured with his hand hanging in the air, "You can't talk nonsense about this, since you said that it must be ironclad, it was revealed by my second cousin, a brother-in-law who was on an errand in Honglu Temple." ”

Seeing that everyone was listening to him, he pressed the table with satisfaction, leaned forward slightly and said softly:

"Not only Tuyuhun, but also envoys from Gaochang, Yiwu, and the Turks came together, bringing a large number of people, and heard about the way to the west..... As you know, the road in the northwest is small and narrow, and it is full of people, so many people walk together, I am afraid that the ground will be worn away. ”

"Ouch, in this way, the capital is finally lively again, and the past few years have been too dull. ”

Someone clapped his palms excitedly, picked up the wine glass and took a sip, and a voice nearby choked him: "It's only been a few years of solid life, and your skin is itchy? If the world is in chaos, you still have the opportunity to say this here? ”

Around, everyone nodded in agreement.

"If there is no Emperor Wen, the north and the south have not been unified, there are no big battles, and there are constant small battles, who can stand it?"

"That is, after the first emperor left, His Majesty is also virtuous now, and my Great Sui Kingdom is peaceful and peaceful, and foreign countries will have trouble sleeping and eating, and it is even more reasonable to come and pay tribute to the saints. ”

Among the people, there were many well-informed literati and elegant people, who took over the words and said the Tao, but some people disagreed.

"Although His Majesty is wise and ambitious today, what about the future? Last year, we will prepare to trim the Grand Canal, and we will build it from this side to the land of Suzhou and Hangzhou...... How much people's power does that take?"

The man who started talking before hurriedly waved his hand and asked everyone to stop talking.

"Don't talk about this, let's just talk about the gossip of foreign tributaries, it's a bit inappropriate to talk too much about political affairs. ”

"What Brother Tai said is very true, don't say it..... By the way, which clan princess is Tuyuhun going to marry this time?"

In the April breeze, the willow branches fluttered to the water, and in the ripples, in the deep palace of the imperial city, Yang Guang sat in the Wenzhao Hall and listened to the reports of the courtiers below.

"Your Majesty, the Tugu Hun Bu Sabo Khan has always been close to my court, and his son Murong Shun came to see him, and I ask Your Majesty to decide what kind of etiquette should be performed. ”

On the golden steps, the tip of the pen stopped, Yang Guang raised his face, and now two years have passed, and he has grown a beard, which looks quite majestic.

After a moment, he reached out and took the paper pressed under the candlestick and looked through it, and said with a smile: "I still need to ask me about this matter? ”

"Yes!"

The Honglu Temple official was about to leave, when the emperor's voice sounded behind him: "Wait. ”

"What else is your majesty?"

Yang Guang looked at the minister who turned around and gave his hand again, narrowed his eyes, turned the paper over and over with his fingers, and then, beckoned the other party to come closer, standing in front of the golden steps, he leaned forward slightly.

"What did Yue Guogong say this time?"

The officer hesitated, bowing his upper body lower.

"Back to Your Majesty, Yue Guogong ...... He said let His Majesty call the shots. ”

Yang Guang kept a smile on his face, waved his cuffs, and said gently: "You go down." His eyes stared straight at the other party and walked out of the temple door, and the smile on his face gradually cooled.

Looking at the fold in front of him, he threw it on the ground and threw it far away, so frightened that the eunuch who was waiting close to him ran to pick it up, and called carefully: "Your Majesty." ”

Only then, he held it up with both hands and put it back on the dragon case.

"Pick up something, throw it back to me!"

Yang Guang flicked the sleeves of his robe, and threw the fold under the golden steps, and on the flipped page, the word 'Yang Su' was revealed, and the eunuch over there did not dare to come out, looking at the book on the ground, he quickly lowered his face.

After a while, the emperor after the dragon case spoke.

"Bring Yu culture and me to ...... By the way, send someone to Qixia Mountain, but you're back?"

The eunuch below naturally knew the meaning of the emperor's inquiry, the national teacher returned to Qixia Mountain, and it was two years to leave, and he also sent a few groups of people halfway, and the front was okay, the national teacher had replied, but in the past year, the news was no longer transmitted, and the people sent over said that the national teacher was in retreat and did not see outsiders.

What the emperor is asking about at the moment is exactly what he has just been sent this year.

As a confidant, the eunuch lowered his eyebrows and smiled, while persuading: "Your Majesty, that person has only been gone for half a month, we are not like the national teacher and Yue Guogong who can travel thousands of miles in a day." ”

While picking up the book on the ground, he blew the dust on it and put it away.

Ordinary people are indeed inferior to cultivators, Yang Guang looked at the bean-sized lamplight, was silent for a moment, with a smile on his face, took the book and put it aside, waved his robe and let the eunuch retreat to the side, his anger came and went quickly, calmed down, and took the Tuyuhun envoy team and the tribute gift list handed by Honglu Temple one by one.

That's a lot of people....... The gift is really good, and the Silk Road is really fat..... It seems that the money and grain for the construction of the Grand Canal have been settled. ’

Well?

Turning to the second page, when the number and name of the envoy team, Yang Guang frowned, in the above content, it was not the strange name of the people from the Western Regions, but the tributary envoy who came over, and there were some inexplicable people.

‘...... Master Gao Changguo...... Tuyuhun National Teacher...... Turkic Priests...... What are you sending these people to Chang'an for?'

wrote down the name and title, and came over in a dignified manner, which made Yang Guang a little puzzled, could it be that he still wanted to imitate the people in my Central Plains Cultivator's Fighting Method?

Mr. Lu is not in the city, but it doesn't mean that I have no one in the Great Sui, the East Palace Taishi Yuwen Tuo is the second apprentice of the national teacher, so it's so good, I heard that the eldest disciple is also here, and he wants to damage the face of my Sui country, how can Mr. and the disciple stand by and watch.

made up his mind, and Yang Guang recruited the previous eunuch again.

"Send someone to the Taishi's mansion to ask the Taishi about the great apprentice of the national teacher, if you can see it, please come to the palace to talk about it. ”

"Yes!"

The eunuch bowed down and quietly withdrew from the side hall, Yang Guang exhaled a breath of turbidity, looking at the table full of twists and turns, he felt a little annoyed, before he became the emperor, he could go wherever he wanted, and he could go to Qixia Mountain, but now he can't go if he wants to.

"That's all for today. ”

The emperor lowered his hand and wanted to hold the brush, got up and left the dragon chair, and took the palace maid to the outside of the Wenzhao Palace, where the sun was shining on his face from the top of the palace.

'Sir..... You said three or five days, but it's been two years. ’

Yang Guang looked at the sunshine and said softly.

At this time, the person he was thinking of in his mouth sat under an old pine to welcome guests, and the pitch-black big panax hanging in the air turned into a trace of mana, pulling it and flying into the scholar's body.

Beyond the cliff facing is a sea of clouds.