Renshou Palace is located in the beautiful scenery of the upper reaches of Qizhou Sheshui, where the terrain is higher, the mountains are undulating, there are many ravines, the climate is cool, Renshou Palace is also Yang Xiong's summer palace, almost every summer, he will come to Renshou Palace to take refuge in the summer office, and stay here for nearly half a year.

But this time he fell ill in Renshou Palace, after the death of Queen Dugu, Yang Xiong suddenly lost his restraints, he began to indulge in wine, trying to make up for the lost imperial enjoyment in the past, but he was old after all, and in just two years, his body was hollowed out by wine, and this disease could no longer get up.

Yang Xiong also knew that his time had come, he wept and said goodbye to the ministers one by one, and repeatedly told the prince Yang Ye to be thrifty and treat the people of the world well, and Yang Ye also worshiped one by one with tears.

In the room, Yang Ye paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, he was very nervous, it was the most critical time, he was about to ascend the throne of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, the king of the world, this day he had been waiting for more than ten years, and finally it was time to wait, Yang Ye closed his eyes, his heart was full of expectations, he had too many ambitions to achieve.

During this time, his father was seriously ill, Yang Ye personally brought water and tasted medicine, and served him with clothes, in addition, there were many things that he needed to do.

On the one hand, he had to deal with state affairs on behalf of his father, and on the other hand, he had to prepare, plan, and plan his father's treatment and even the huge and complicated state funeral matters.

More importantly, he also had to weigh, analyze, and find out the internal strife and psychology of the ministers of various factions, especially the deployment of force in various places, so as to prevent any accidents and chaos at the time of the great national mourning.

And his youngest brother Yang Liang has been recruiting troops and horses for the past few years, just waiting for his father to die, these things make Yang Ye exhausted, worried, lack of sleep for more than a month, his face is rapidly emaciated, and his eyes are bloodshot.

Beside him, sat his crown princess Xiao Yinfeng, Xiao Yinfeng is the daughter of Emperor Xiao Yue of Western Liang Xiaoming, born in the Chinese nationality, with a graceful personality and both talents and appearances, although she is thirty-seven years old at this time, she is still plump and beautiful.

She has been married to Yang Ye since the third year of Jianyuan, the husband and wife have lived together for twenty-one years, and have two sons and a daughter, the husband and wife have a deep relationship, Yang Ye also loves his wife deeply, not close to other women, Xiao Yinfeng feels that her husband has too few heirs, unlike her brother Yang Chao who gave birth to ten sons, especially her husband is already the prince and is about to inherit the unification, and too few heirs are not good for the community.

Under Xiao Yinfeng's hard persuasion, Yang Ye finally accepted a concubine, and she is currently four months pregnant, which makes Xiao Yinfeng quite happy.

She saw that her husband was mentally exhausted and seemed very nervous, so she poured a bowl of ginseng tea and put it in front of him, and persuaded him softly: "Erlang, it is the will of heaven to ascend the throne and call the emperor, but it is human for the father to be dying. ”

Yang Ye was grateful for his wife's thoughtfulness, patted the back of her hand gently, and sighed: "Although it is like that, but when my father is dying, it is also the time when the young person is peeping, how can I not be careful." ”

At this time, a eunuch hurriedly walked over and bowed down, "His Royal Highness Holy Xuan is here!"

Yang Ye nodded, straightened his clothes, walked out of the room quickly, and walked to the door, he remembered something again, and asked the attendants beside him, "Has King Jin arrived?"

The attendant hurriedly replied: "His Royal Highness the King of Jin is in Luoyang, and he has already gone to inform him, and it is estimated that he will arrive in the next two days." ”

"Send someone to urge him, let him hurry up, and King Yuzhang, and let him come immediately. ”

King Yuzhang is Yang Ye's second son Yang Jun, he didn't arrive, which made Yang Ye very unhappy, the eldest son came from Luoyang, and it was understandable that he was late, but Yang Yong was in the capital, why didn't he come?

He was worried that his father was in a hurry, so he hurried to his father's bedroom, Yang Ye lived in the Beidou Palace, far away from the Datong Hall where Yang Xiong was, and his East Palace guards were all in the side hall at the foot of the mountain, and there were only four personal guards around him to protect his safety.

The defense of Renshou Palace was extremely tight, and the guards of the prince and the prince were not allowed to enter, but it was only because Yang Ye had lived in Renshou Palace for a long time that Emperor Yang Xiong made an exception to allow four East Palace guards to protect his safety, and even so, these four guards were not allowed to leave the Beidou Palace.

The defense in the Renshou Palace is served by the left guard, and the six thousand left guard soldiers are on duty in six shifts, each shift is on duty for six hours, of course, there are tens of thousands of forbidden troops stationed outside the Renshou Palace, and the entire Renshou Palace area is defended like an iron bucket.

On the long corridor along the way, there were burly left guard soldiers, and people kept shouting, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is here!"

This is to remind the inner palace to avoid, Yang Ye walked to the steps of his father's bedroom, he stopped, at this time his father's concubines were all by the bedside, he had to wait for them to retreat, and only after getting permission could he go in, after a while, the eunuch Zhao Jinde came out and stepped forward to give Yang Ye a salute, "Your Highness, the Holy Lord announces your visit!"

"Father-in-law Zhao, how is the situation in the Holy Lord?"

Zhao Jinde's expression was gloomy, and he shook his head, "The imperial doctor said that it may only be these two days." ”

Yang Ye was embarrassed in his heart, and walked towards the palace with heavy steps.

In front of the dragon couch, Yang Xiong's concubines have all retreated, only a few eunuchs serve around, Yang Xiong is as thin as bones at this time, his face is like gold paper, and when the oil runs out and the lamp is dry, he doesn't even have the strength to speak, closes his eyes, and quietly waits for that moment to come.

People are dying, Yang Xiong's mind in the past two days is all about his relatives who have passed away, his parents, his Ajali, and his old wife who have lived with him for decades, but he is still not at ease, the Tianwu country he created has just been established, and there are too many major events that have not been dealt with, these major events are dangerous and abnormal, and a carelessness will destroy the country he created, he has been in power for more than 20 years, and has never been able to start, and finally can only hand over these things to his son.

"Your Majesty! The prince has arrived. A eunuch gently reminded him in his ears.

Yang Xiong opened his eyes weakly, and saw his son Yang Ye kneeling in front of him, his face full of tears, he raised his hand slightly, stroked his son's face, smiled lovingly, and said in a low voice: "Idiot, I want to go to see your mother, this is a good thing!"

Yang Ye held his father's hand, tears fell, and finally he cried bitterly, "Father!"

Yang Xiong's mind was unusually clear at this time, and he said in a low voice: "I still have a few words to explain to you, tell them to step down!"

Yang Ye nodded, and said to the eunuchs and palace maids around him: "You all retreat!"

More than a dozen eunuchs and palace maids retreated, and only Yang Ye was left in the dormitory, Yang Guang choked up and said: "Father, sons, listen to the admonition of the father." ”

Yang Xiong sighed and said slowly: "Since the Yongjia Rebellion, the Southern and Northern Dynasties have changed one after another, and none of them have a good beginning and an end, I thought that Wei could last for a long time, but only a hundred years and was replaced by Zhou Qi, the former Emperor Xiaowen also thought about reform, but went astray, so that the wind of the gate valve rose again, Yuwentai built the Guanlong Gate Valve, and finally established the country, but it was still destroyed in the hands of the Gate Valve, the world's poisonous tumor, nothing more than the Gate Valve, the poison of the Gate Valve is none other than Guan Long, I have been in power for 20 years, and I have never been able to help them, the emperor, the Guanlong Gate Valve is the first trouble of my court, remember!"

Yang Ye nodded silently, he knew this very well in his heart, "Erchen has decided that after Erchen takes power, he will move the capital as soon as possible and move the center of the court out of Guanlong." ”

"I also want to move the capital, but there are too many elbows, and the emperor must be cautious and not too hasty. ”

Sighing, Yang Xiong said in a low voice: "The second problem of Tianwu is the old land of Northern Qi, Hu and Han are mixed, most of them are the descendants of the six towns, the fierce wind is still there, these people do not obey the indoctrination, and they will rise up in an uprising when they encounter wind and rain, you must be extremely careful, treat them well, treat the people leniently, and don't give them an excuse to raise troops." ”

Yang Ye did not quite agree with his father's idea, in his opinion, leniency and benevolence only delayed the contradictions, even if he was not chaotic when he was in power, then what about his children and grandchildren? The six towns have passed a hundred years, and the strong wind is still the same, it can be seen that it is not education that can solve the problem, the best way is to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and kill these descendants of the six towns, leaving no trouble, but he dare not say this.

Yang Xiong said: "The third is the grassland north, the Turks have always been the Central Plains' henchmen, the Yongjia Rebellion is also caused by the Beihu, once the grassland is cold, the Beihu will inevitably go south, at the beginning of my founding of the country, it was almost wiped out by the Turks, although the Qimin is supported by our dynasty, but the Hu people are changeable, not gullible, must be rigid and soft at the same time, strengthen the defense, Changsun Sheng and Pei Ju are Hu Liangchen, you can reuse it." ”

Yang Ye nodded, "Erchen takes it to heart." ”

Yang Xiong let out a long sigh, " I think about the shortness of Qin, and think about the four hundred years of the Han Dynasty, I feel a lot, Qin rule the country by law, rape and not benevolence, so that the world is in chaos, the early Han Dynasty to Lao Zhuang inaction and rule, after Emperor Wu respected Confucianism to be able to flourish, and finally achieve long-term peace and stability, the emperor, you have to remember, the law to govern people, Confucianism to govern the heart, this is the way of the Han rule of law, is the foundation of my Tianwu long-term stability, I rule as the beginning of the Han Dynasty, has made the country rich and the people strong, I hope you can become the Wu Emperor of the Han Dynasty, realize the prosperity of Tianwu, complete the unfinished business, drive out Hulu, restore the Han unity. ”

Yang Ye kowtowed to his father twice, "The words of my father's emperor Jin Yu are remembered by my sons." ”

Yang Xiong held Yang Guang's hand and gasped hard: "And your brothers, you have to treat them well, although your eldest brother is useless, you can give him wealth and old age, this is the only thing I ask you to do." ”

Yang Ye wept and said: "Erchen An dares to forget the love of brothers, without the instructions of his father, Erchen will treat them well." ”

After a pause, Yang Ye asked again: "Father, do you want to see your eldest brother?" I ordered someone to pick him up. ”

Yang Xiong smiled with relief, "You just have this heart, I have asked Liu Shu and Yuan Yan to pick him up, it should be almost there!"

Speaking of this, Yang Xiong suddenly coughed violently, Yang Ye hurriedly called the eunuch to come in to serve, Yang Xiong waved his hand, "You go! I'm tired and want to rest for a while." ”

"Yes!" ”

Yang Ye slowly retreated, at this time he saw the skirt under the screen flying, this is Chen Guiren walked in from the side door, he hurriedly accelerated to retreat, but gave a little eunuch a look, he retreated, soon, Chen Guiren walked in, Chen Guiren is also the sister of the queen of Chen, after the fall of the Chen Dynasty, she did not enter the palace, she looks like the country, quite Yang Xiong likes, but Queen Dugu is strict, Yang Xiong can not succeed, after the death of Queen Dugu, Chen Guiren immediately got favored, although she is in her early thirties at this time, but the charm still exists, Yang Xiong is seriously ill, she has been waiting by the side。

She saw that Yang Xiong was coughing badly, and hurriedly gently patted him on the back and smoothed his chest, Yang Xiong slowly calmed down, and she complained a little: "Your Majesty, why are you talking so much to the prince, you want to rest, doesn't he know?"

Yang Xiong liked this young wife very much, he smiled and said: "I want to say a few more words to the prince, he is very filial and considerate of me, not what you think." ”

Chen Guiren dislikes Yang Ye very much, she grew up in the deep palace of the Chen Dynasty since she was a child, and the education she received was all in an orderly manner, and the elders came first, she was extremely dissatisfied with the abolition of the second son of Changli, and more importantly, it was Yang Ye who led the army to destroy the Chen Dynasty, which made her have a trace of hostility towards Yang Guang in her heart.

"Your Majesty, the concubines feel that the eldest son is more generous and benevolent, and Your Majesty should not abolish the heir easily. ”

Yang Xiong sighed, "When is it, you still say such stupid things." ”

"But ..... concubine feels that as long as His Majesty has a heart, it will be too late at any time. ”

"Don't say it again!" Yang Xiong shook his head tiredly, "The crown prince is the foundation of the country, how can he move lightly, I just want to talk to the eldest son one last time, so as to make the best of father and son." ”

Yang Xiong didn't want to speak anymore, he closed his eyes, Chen Guiren had to sit on the side, she was worried, once the saint died, what should she do?